A/N: Wheeyy I'm back ;D

It's 01:52AM and I'm frantically writing my ass off because I forgot to post this earlier D: That's dedication people :) I came close to giving up because my mouse is on the verge of destruction if it doesn't work properly. T_T

Anyhoo this chapter is kinda based on a true story.. (Mine, CRINGE! D:) but a cheezeh version ^_^

Just one thing.. I'm trying to write the story in an American English because I love reading it in the accent, plus since the characters are it makes sense to :) Since I'm from the UK I really don't mean to offend if you are American, you guys rock (: so if I say anything in the wrong slang please forgive me, or tell me lolz xD

Enjoyy :D

Gary and I raised an eyebrow and stared at her, expecting her next words.

"It's Ash..."

To which we both answered "Who?"

"Gary you remember Ash? From Pallet Town? It was only a few years ago you used torture him until somehow you become, friends..." She drifted off and stared at the phone, maybe she was remembering this Ash. Gary did the same, muttering a few words quietly while I sat there looking at them both baffled.

"So is anybody gonna tell me who this guy is?"

"OH, HIM!" Gary yelled before snapping his fingers.

"Ahem, are the noisy people in the second row doing any work?" Mr. Hanson interrupted.

"Yes sir." We all replied, picking up our pens.

"Yeah Ashy boy" Gary went on, and then went back to looking into space. "God I remember now."

"Well he was my best friend a few years ago Dawn and he's coming to town to live HERE!"

My head twitched back a few inches and my eyes widened as Misty screeched her last word out. Mr. Hanson looked up shook his head; we quickly reacted and pretended to write.

"I can't wait to see what he looks like now, wonder if he still lives in that stupid hat of his" Gary sniggered.

I couldn't even begin to imagine what this, Ash looked like but I could see Misty was happy, so I smiled and nodded along, Gary went back in his day dream mode trying to remember more things about this guy. I felt like I was in an episode of Scrubs.

The rest of the lesson flew by, Misty and Gary continued to tell me about Ash, I was beginning to think I'd like him, and I was looking forward to meeting him.

"So he's starting school here tomorrow? Isn't it weird to start on a Thursday?" Gary asked.

"Yeah, his mom isn't wasting any time; you remember what she's like" Misty replied rolling her eyes. Of course I didn't know the woman but it made my giggle, I imagine she's like my mom.

As the bell rang for lunch, Misty was still rambling on about him, all through lunch, in fact the rest of the school day, even Gary got sick of it. But everybody else in the group wanted to know more about this new guy that would be apart of us.

The next day when I arrived with Tracey and Kenny to home room, Misty was already sat there trying hard not to smile. It did look weird as she was sat there by herself grinning, but we all knew she was exited about her old friend starting today so we encouraged her and smiled along. As our form teacher Mrs. Claridge was calling the register, our Principal came in; all the students stood up like soldiers and straightened up.

"Good morning students." He said sharply, placing his arms behind his back.

"Good morning Principal Oak" we chanted back.

"You may be seated. Now. Starting today we have a new student at our school, I understand he may know a few of you in this class."

I could see Misty's eyes light up.

Our Principal turned to the door and whispered behind it, we couldn't see the newcomer yet until he stood aside and held his hand out as a sign to come in. The stranger's head appeared around the door for a second, before emerging the rest of his body and walked to the end of Mrs. Claridge's desk looking nervous.

Suddenly I felt the room stand still. My heart stopped for a fraction of a second before taking a few beats. I felt my palms go sweaty and I could hear my own pulse thump loudly in my ears.

Wow…

Principal Oak made a gesture for the dark eyed teenager to remove his red cap to reveal his wild spiked midnight hair. He ran his fingers through it and scanned the room to see Misty wave and smile, to which he smiled back, then his eyes flickered to mine. Suddenly his smile changed to a frozen stare then he looked away quickly, quicker than I could as his cheeks gathered color. For the first time I blinked at him, took a deep breath and relaxed back in my chair.

"This is Ash Ketchum, I'm sure you will all make him feel welcome, It's never easy starting a new life in a different town" The Principal went on to say, which made me snap back into reality.

"Nice to meet you Ash, why don't you take a seat there and we'll have a talk after registration" Mrs. Claridge suggested.

He nodded in agreement and turned to the Principal.

"Thanks for your help; I think I'll like it here" he smiled. His crystal deep voice sent shivers down my back; I exhaled sharply to insure I wouldn't go back into a daydream and closed my eyes for a minute. I felt his presence walking down the aisle to the empty seat in front of me. I opened my eyes again to examine his body as he sat down looking stiff.

"Excuse me class" Mrs. Claridge suspiciously said, then took Principal Oak outside the room to obviously talk about the new student.

"Wow Ash it's been so long!" Misty screeched as she leapt out her seat and wrapped her arms around his neck and startled him.

I looked away and felt a little, jealous I guess, over to Kenny and Tracey who were making lover gestures. Of course all of us knew by now Misty must have had a thing for the new guy. I giggled at the clowns and glanced back over to the arrival and Misty, I honestly have never seen her smile so much.

"Ash this is Dawn." I glared at her and cringed. Then looked at him, who was turned right around.

"Hey, nice to meet you" he smiled in an attractive voice, and looked at me from the chest until his eyes met mine, then changed his expression to ice.

"Hi." I whispered in a crooked voice, he made my throat so dry I could barely breathe!

I felt my heart sink and gallons of blood gush to my head as if I was going to faint any second.

I wanted to drag Misty out the room and scream at her for telling us everything, from his first word to his favorite food, everything apart from how unbelievably, breathtakingly gorgeous this stranger was.

He turned back around to Misty, who I heard introduce Kenny and Tracey to him in the background. I felt ridiculous, I've honestly never felt like this towards another guy before, it was new to me and it felt so right. It was… lust.

I wanted to do things and say things to him; I just wanted everybody else in the room to disappear while we did unspeakable things to each other.

I bit my bottom lip and fiddled with my pink scarf while I watched his smile, as he was having all these new people introduced to him. It was beautiful, how this smile of his could probably melt snow.

My heart was racing a hundred miles an hour, I felt dizzy; I needed air, just to be out this feeling for a second before I exploded!

Mrs. Claridge entered the room again and the slammed the door shut to make everybody hush, I took another deep breath and lowered my head to the desk.

She finished calling to register just in time for the bell to ring for first period, I gathered myself together and followed the rest of the class out the door, failing to resist looking at Misty's old friend who was stood in front of the teacher's desk along with her. I stopped and looked back to wait for her but she shooed me to walk on, I assumed as she's the only one Ash seems to know, she was assigned to help him around the school.

First was 12th grade English literature which was for higher junior students, my favorite subject. I loved English, so I knew it would definitely take my mind off you know who. I was one of the last to take my seat, the class was small, maybe about 11 of us, this wasn't a popular choice for this year group.

I didn't have any close friends in this class either, a senior guy named Brock would usually sit next to me on the 2 seated desk, I got along with him fine, but it looked like he was absent today.

I took my books and a pen out of my bag and looked up to see Misty and Ash, standing in the doorway looking around the room.

I hid behind my bag and hoped to God he wasn't in this class, I couldn't go through making an idiot of myself again, not until I had time to prepare being in the same room as him. I peeped up to see our teacher Mrs. Bell now talking to them and stepped aside for Ash to enter the room, he appeared to be looking for a seat. He turned to Mrs. Bell for assistance who was sending Misty to her own class, she pointed at only free seat.

Next to me. I felt like throwing the desk over and making a break for it out the nearest window. I imagined myself doing a few escape plans, maybe just simply screaming and running out the door – I rolled my eyes at the idea buried my head to desk again.

I watched Ash approaching the seat next to me from the corner of my eye, I had that feeling in my throat like after you dry swallow a huge pill, I felt like my stomach was in a corner of my body crying and rocking slowly back and forth.

He dragged the seat away from me and sat down. Sitting on the corner of the desk as far away from me as possible, I still didn't look up at him.

Why wouldn't he look or talk to me? Why was he sitting so far away from me? I wondered.

Does he hate me for some reason, or, do I smell bad?

I quickly raised my left elbow to the desk and hid behind my hand to make him invisible, and hopefully then I was invisible to him. Of course every now and again I couldn't stop myself from taking a peek by casually brushing back my hair to admire the strange boy next to me, who couldn't stop writing. I guess he did this topic at his old school.

I tilted my head and watched him join his words, he had beautiful writing, and I noticed he was left handed. I thought about what Misty was saying about him yesterday, describing him as not the sharpest tool in the box, he seemed pretty intelligent enough to me.

The class seemed to drag on forever which never happens. I couldn't pay any attention to what Mrs. Bell was saying, but I knew she was basically saying what was in the textbook in front of me. I tried concentrating on my work, but I felt that there was so much tension between us. Maybe I was just being paranoid. He was buried in his work, seemed in a normal mood and definitely knew what he was doing.

I flicked my hair back to look at him one more time and rested my hand on the desk, then wished I hadn't. His eyes moved across from his work to my left hand and slowly moved up to my face. He knew I'd been staring at him so I looked away quickly. At that moment, the bell rang, making me jump out of my skin. He broke our silence with a cough.

He grabbed his things, threw his bag over his shoulder and disappeared. I sat there, frozen. I wanted to burst into tears.

Why was a guy I just met having such an affect on me? When we were introduced he sort of seemed friendly enough, so what just happened?

I kept asking myself so many questions, I knew I had to snap out of this; Misty was obviously going to ask me what I think of him later.

I strolled out along with the rest of the class, and watched the back of the dark haired teenager disappear down the hall dodging the crowd. My heart dropped to see he'd gone, I had to cheer up as I turned the opposite direction to see May and Kenny waving at me, we'd always meet up to walk to biology together.

"Hey, Misty texted me and said you were in the same class as Ash, so, what's he like?" May asked as we avoided other students along the corridor.

I knew this was going to turn into an interrogation.

"I think you'll find what May's actually asking is, is this guy cute?" interrupted Kenny, with a proud smirk in his face. I giggled and rolled my eyes as he winked back at me.

"Urgh shut up! So anyway he's cute right?" she had a hopeful smile on her face.

"I don't know I mean..." I was trying my best to search for words that didn't make it obvious.

"Well he's not ugly; I guess whatever floats your boat, in your case Drew." I had to change the subject quickly; I knew May would forget anything in the conversation if Drew was involved. He was a guy that she'd had a huge crush on since middle school. He's the type who keeps himself to himself, kind of a loner. I didn't think much of him, what with his strange green hair for one thing, but I wanted to keep May happy so I'd agreed in the past I thought he was cute.

"Nuh uh! You are not getting out of this THAT easily Dawn, cummon tell me about this guy."

Dang. My plan failed. At least we'd got to class by now; the best part of the seating plan was avoiding situations like this. Also nobody ever said a word unless spoken to by the teacher, so I was safe throughout class.

We took our places and Mr. Bradfield took his, we already knew what to do as the objectives were already on the blackboard- to carry on work from the previous lesson. I saw May from the corner of my eye waving and whispering "Psst!" Attempting to get my attention and trying to pass notes along to me. I pretended I didn't notice and kept my head down all through class.

Before I knew it was recess, suddenly not a positive of school anymore, I knew Ash would be hanging out with us from now on so I wasn't looking forward to the awkwardness again.

I'd already left class before May and Kenny could notice and took the side door to the field, and headed for the tree where we'd always hang out. Only to find Misty, Candice and.. him already sat under it in a circle talking.

I nervously strolled towards them keeping my head down, avoiding any chance to look at Ash.

"Hey you guys."

"Hey Dawn" Candice replied with her innocent smile.

Misty didn't notice me; she was too interested in what Ash had to say. I fiercely dropped my bag next to her to grab her attention and knelt down beside her.

"Oh hey there you are, Ash was just telling us about English, you sat together huh?" Her jealous eyes were locked on me, Candice could tell too, who looked away to wave at Kenny, Tracey and May coming towards us.

"Um, yeah we did" I nodded back, stroking the back of my head looking at him for assistance; he didn't seem interested in me.

It turned into an awkward silence till Candice broke it.

"Over here!" The rest of the group waved and came to sit by us.

"So here's the guy we've all heard so much about" May stated as she bent over in Ash's face with her hands on her hips.

"Hi, I'm Ash." You could tell he looked uncomfortable, what with May invading his space, but he was still polite enough to hold his hand out with a smile to greet her.

She stood back up straight and winked at me while she sat beside him. Misty was giving her evils from the other side, she was being protective of him and didn't like May's unnecessary flirting one bit. Of course May wouldn't ever have a crush on him; she still thought he was cute.

"I'm May" She winked.

"Likewise."

"So how do you like it here so far?"

Ash sighed and smiled wryly, he was probably sick of being asked that question all morning, but replied anyway.

"It's great here, thanks." It was probably the shortest answer he'd given so far.

"OW!" We heard a yell behind us and all turned around to see it was Gary parting ways with an unsatisfied girl.

He approached us looking disappointed and holding the red mark on his cheek.

"Another epic fail from God's gift to women himself." Tracey laughed, we all laughed in agreement.

"Girls answer me this please, wouldn't you be grateful if a guy complimented your breasts?" Gary asked as he sat with us. We all looked at each other in disbelief.

"No!"All 4 of us yelled.

"What exactly did you say to Cynthia?" I asked, thinking I'm going to regret I said that.

"Well, I said how would you and the girls like to come out with me sometime? She said 'what do you mean? The girls aren't with me'. So then I said no, no. I meant those lovely ladies" he made claws on his chest and wriggled his eyebrows.

"Then she slapped me!"

"Well Gary I can't think WHY she would so such a thing, I mean every girl loves your outstanding charm." I mockingly replied, rolling my eyes.

"EXACTLY MY POINT, THANK YOU DAWN!"

We all gave up hope for him and sweat dropped.

He ignored us and noticed Ash.

"I don't believe it, how's it going Ashy boy." He laughed holding his hand out.

Ash took it to greet him. "Been a long time huh Gary, still not changed I see."

"Well you know me, I will find a girl one day who appreciates my good looks and charm" he boasted, giving a flashy grin.

May moved out the way for the old friends to catch up, and sat by me.

"He's not too bad is he?" She whispered, biting her lip looking over to Ash.

I cringed then hid it with a smile.

"He's alright I guess, but you know me, I'm never interested in boys."

"Oh come off it Dawn I mean look at him! You can't tell me you don't think he's hot."

"For your information there's nothing to tell, I'm NOT interested okay?" I was afraid I sounded too angry at her.

She smirked and shook her head; I obviously couldn't convince her I didn't think anything of the newcomer. "Alright, I hear ya."

"Can we drop it now?" I pleaded.

"Of course."

I sighed knowing she would never drop this.

"My, my. Who's this new face here then?" I hung my head and recognized the voice, hoping it wasn't that person, but looked up to find it was. Jessie.

She walked around our circle to get a better view of Ash.

"You certainly look like you shouldn't be hanging with these losers."

Misty's clenching fist caught my eye so I suddenly became aware, to make sure she wouldn't start anything.

Ash coughed nervously and looked up.

"And you are?" He asked, trying not to be rude.

"I'm Jessie, but you can call me whatever you like" she winked at him.

Misty was getting more worked up by the second, the rest of the group just sniggered at the fact Jessie, who'd been out with practically every guy in school was now hitting on Ash. This was no surprise as he's the only good looking guy she's not been with.

"Um, I'm Ash…"

As if this scenario couldn't get any more awkward for us all, Jessie was determined to know more about him.

"So, Ash. Have you seen any girls in the school you think are cute yet?" she ruthlessly asked.

Our jaws dropped, even her skanks behind her thought this was a bad idea from the look on their orange faces. I just wanted rag the extensions out of her hair and break her to the ground using her heels to crack her face open.

"Err.. Ummm…" He muttered as he stood up slowly.

Even he was embarrassed, his face was horrified, and it looked as if he wanted to run a mile away from her.

"No, I don't think so" he nervously replied scratching the back of his head.

Before she could say another word, I knew one of us had to stop this, so I let go of Misty to let her put an end to it. She rushed up and stood between the ridiculous situation.

"I'm sorry to burst your bubble Jessie but I really think he's is NOT interested in you." She turned to him.

"Do you want to sleep with this?"

"No thanks." He replied as if it was a game of 21 questions, then again, why would you even think of a question like that.

"So that's settled, why don't you go powder your face before I slap it with a make-up wipe, I'm sure it would be a shame for your skin to boil up from the oxygen."

"Oooooo cat fight!" Gary yelled.

We all gasped and giggled at them, Ash was still stood there not knowing where to look.

"Who do you think you are!" Jessie yelled as she raised her hand getting ready to strike Misty, but held it when she saw the Principal walking past; Misty smirked back and sat down, Ash followed.

Gary decided he should break the silence.

"I'd like to if the offers still open" he innocently suggested.

We all sweat dropped.

"Sorry, I don't DO virgins Oak." Jessie flicked her hair back and walked away, not without giving her killer look at Ash.

The group turned to look him; he looked relived but still embarrassed.

"Geez what's her problem?" he said exhaling heavily.

"Don't even get me started" Misty replied through her teeth, still furious.

"Are you crazy? Why didn't you say, HELL YEAH?" Gary yelled in shock. "Man you're never gonna get a girlfriend if you turn down the hottest girl in school."

"She actually looks like the biggest whore in school." He replied, we all giggled.

"WHO CARES? I mean you've not even had your first kiss!"

Everybody stared at Ash in disbelief.

"Look, Gary, calm down, I'm really not interested in girls."

Tracey and Kenny squinted suspiciously at each other and turned to Ash.

"So… You, like guys then?" Tracey wondered raising an eyebrow at him.

"What? Noooo of course not!" Ash laughed. "I just honestly don't know what the rush is to hurry and bed any random girl; I'm just waiting for the right one who stands out for me."

The guys jaws dropped, Gary already had his head in his hands.

"Yeah, I know it sounds stupid to you guys or whatever but, it just doesn't bother me right now" Ash smiled.

I looked up as he said that and felt my heart melt, but I was also disappointed, I obviously had no chance now. He then glanced over to me and looked away, I'm sure I saw a slight smile.

"Have I taught you NOTHING over these years?" Gary sobbed.

"Nope." He laughed; Gary dropped back and laid on the grass.

The bell rang to indicate recess was over. I went home for lunch that afternoon, so the rest of the day I didn't see Ash, I was relived but saddened. I saw him leave the gates alone after school to get the school bus home; he lived on the other side of town. Usually I'd wait everybody to walk home together, but I went on alone, I knew they'd be talking about him the whole way, I really couldn't handle it.

When I arrived home I slammed the door shut to let my mom know I'm home, dumped my bag and scurried up to my room. I saw mom's face peek from the kitchen but I was up the stairs before she could welcome me home. I quietly closed my bedroom door and leaned against it for a while; I couldn't get my head round today. I threw my iPod on the nightstand and relaxed my body to let it flop on my bed, and buried my face in my pillow. It was driving me crazy; every time I shut my eyes I had images of him. I turned over and grabbed my iPod to try and take my mind off him. Just my luck, first song that appeared was 'Hello - Beyonce.' I made a mental note to delete that and changed it over to Fall Out Boy, my favorite band, and closed my eyes again. I tried lip syncing to the words but my thoughts were too loud to even notice what song was playing. I had a flashback of when he entered the class and I saw him. And thought about holding him the way Misty did, but more delicate. I thought about resting beside him, moving my hands along his naturally tanned skin, and stroking his..

A/N: If you're wondering NO that last quote is not ending in a dirty one LOL XD

You'll see why I didn't finish the sentence in the next chapter (:

Can I just say thank you for everyone who reviewed the last chapter and fav/subbed to me, I'm really am touched :') I didn't expect anybody to read it. xD

(This is such a noob question) How do you separate paragraphs with a big gap please? o_O

I'll update tomorrow and try keep a routine of doing it everyday since you're all lovely people!

Untill then!