December 12th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)

(May's POV)

"May, are you sure you aren't gonna eat?" Dawn asked concerned from the table as I was making a mug of tea in the kitchen.

"No, I'm not that hungry," I said with my back turned to everyone.

"May, you should still eat something," Drew said concerned.

I turned around with the mug of tea in my hands as I put a small smile on my face, "A cup of tea will suit me fine," I said with a false cheeriness which I was hoping everyone would buy.

They did, but barely as I walked out of the kitchen and went into my room to sit on the bed.

I sighed, what's wrong with me?

To be honest, I've had a rough day, and somewhat a rough month. Since the whole poisoning incident, everyone was back to normal and not a lot happened….actually, that's a lie. For one thing, Team Galactic stole both orbs over the past week and a half which made me extremely worried. The other thing was that I noticed I was getting incredibly distracted by thinking about Drew.

We've gotten to know each other a lot more over the past few weeks and have gone on a few dates with no one around. None of them were interrupted by any missions which I was incredibly thankful for. The problem came to where he began to invade my thoughts almost all the time and it was hard for me to focus on anything whether it was during class or sparing off with my pokemon. I'm pretty sure that Blaziken and Lucario wanted to blast me last week when I wasn't focusing all that well.

I tried incredibly hard to focus, but I couldn't help it. Drew affected me that much which I suppose was good and bad. So in order to get myself back into shape, I broke the promise of not singing and recorded a song that described my feelings so that I had a secret way to let them out. The recorded song is now hidden in my electronic diary which I hope no one finds. After that, I was able to focus just fine and get back into the swing of things without being distracted.

Then I hit a low today when Brandi decided to act like a bold slut and kiss Drew in front of the whole cafeteria during lunch. I already felt a little crappy because I think I caught a cold or something, but Brandi kissing Drew in front of everyone didn't make my day any better. I didn't do anything or insult her because I couldn't. No one knew of our relationship so technically I was powerless at this point.

Afterwards, she strutted away and kept bragging that she got Drew's first kiss. First kiss my ass, Drew gave his first kiss to me you sleaze, so HA to you loser. The girls looked ready to kill as their respective boyfriends tried to calm them down. Drew looked terrible, he looked guilty and concerned and I hated to see him like that.

I just went back to eating my lunch as if nothing had happened which made everyone around the table look at me in concern because I didn't blow up in anger or show any emotion.

I didn't say anything for the rest of the day and couldn't focus on anything because of what Brandi did. Her actions had gotten me thinking; I wanted Drew's and mine relationship to be public so that Brandi and other fan girls would leave Drew alone. Though I also didn't want to make our relationship public because Drew and I would be flocked by everyone and Brandi would try to kill me, scratch that, she tries to kill me all the time.

The thing that made me think was that even if Drew and I did make our relationship public, we would have to pick which of my personalities for him to date. If word got round that he was dating two people at once, rumors and scandal would pop up like crazy creating a huge mess.

I finished my tea and fell back on my bed. Ugh, why does this have to be so difficult for me, curse me for being famous.

I heard a knock on the door, "Come in," I said tiredly as I looked up at the ceiling.

The person came in and shut the door, I looked down to see that it was Drew, "May, are you okay?" Drew asked as he walked up and sat on the edge of my bed.

"Is this a trick question?" I asked in a mumble as I sat up and hugged my knees.

"May," Drew said quietly but firmly. "Please answer my question."

I sighed, "No, I suppose I'm not," I answered quietly as I looked down.

I felt Drew's eyes on me, "May, what's wrong?" he asked gently.

I sighed again, "Team Galactic has been on my mind since they stole the second orb yesterday and I think I have a small cold," I said tiredly.

"May, that's half of it. I know you better than that to know that something else is bothering you a lot more than just that," Drew said gently causing me to smile a little.

"I think you know me a little too well," I teased softy causing him to smile a little as well as he waited for me to continue. "I guess the thing that is bothering me the most was what happened today."

Drew nodded slightly and stared straight ahead, "I figured that's what was bothering you," he said before he looked at me concerned. "I became worried when you didn't react in any shape or form."

I sighed, "The thing is Drew, I couldn't react even if I wanted to," I said sadly. "If I did, it would give Brandi the satisfaction knowing that I like you and to tease me for who knows how long, reacting might have also have led someone into guessing that we are in a relationship."

Drew nodded in agreement and frowned slightly seeing that I still had a sad look on my face, "May, is something else bothering you?" he asked.

I sighed looking miserable, "I guess, I've been doing a lot of thinking about our relationship, nothing bad," I said quickly before continuing. "I feel at war with myself because I kind of want our relationship to be made known and I kinda don't. If we didn't, people like Brandi can keep harassing us along with your fan girls. If we did reveal it, we'd have to pick which side of me to show publicly as your girlfriend. It would make things a little easier, but we would get harassed by paparazzi and fan clubs. We also risk the chances of being bait for the other's possible kidnappings."

I fell back on my bed and groaned, "Why us, why does love and society have to be complicated when famous? Screw being famous," I complained miserably as I felt tears appear in my eyes.

I felt Drew take my hand and help me sit up while guiding me to sit next to him, "Has this been bothering you for a while?" he asked as he looked at me while I stared at the floor.

I nodded slightly before staring straight ahead, "It comes to my mind every once in a while, but it has been plaguing me since Brandi kissed you earlier today," I said quietly. "I think it's why I'm sick. I've been stressing about this too much along with other things."

"May, look at me," Drew said gently causing me to look at him, "I love you whether our relationship is hidden or not, nothing is going to change that."

A small smile appeared on my face as a tear trickled down as he continued, "I would be lying if I said I wasn't thinking about the same thing. Whoever said love is easy May. All couples in love face challenges and take risks. But in the end, those turn out to be the best romances of all," he said while smiling softly causing me to do the same before I hugged him and to silently cry on his shoulder as he hugged me back.

"I don't know how I got an amazing guy as you to be my boyfriend. I feel like I don't deserve someone like you," I said with a small laugh as I broke out of the hug and looked at him.

"I don't know how I got an amazing girl as you to be my girlfriend. I feel like I don't deserve someone as caring, beautiful, and amazing as you," Drew said causing me to blush as he wiped the tears from my eyes before sticking a rose in my hair.

"You sure know how to cheer up and flatter your girlfriend," I teased.

"Of course I do," Drew said arrogantly with a smirk while flicking his hair before turning to look at me honestly with a gentle smile. "But everything I said was true."

I literarily glowed with happiness inside. I really didn't deserve someone like Drew.

There was a knock on the door, "Drew, Lance is on the video phone. You can make out with your girlfriend later," Gary teased as he walked away.

I rolled my eyes, "He's one to talk," I huffed before thinking out loud. "I wonder what Lance wants, he already talked to you guys about the orb yesterday."

"I'm wondering too," Drew said thoughtfully as he got off my bed.

"I'll stay in here so the area is somewhat secure," I said sarcastically as Drew left the room with a chuckle while leaving the door open a crack.

"We're all here Lance," Misty said as Drew came into the room.

"Good, I wanted to tell you that for the next few days, you're going to be training so that you'll be more prepared in the field," he said.

"Isn't that a little bit sudden?" Dawn asked.

"No and you'll be leaving in a few minutes actually for a secret location so be prepared to leave," Lance said sternly.

"What about school?" Leaf asked.

"I've spoken to Steven, you can make up a few days of school work easily. Good luck with your training," he said before ending the call.

After I heard that the call had ended, I walked into the common area to see that everyone was confused.

"What the heck? What kind of special training do we need to be more prepared in the field," Gary said annoyed.

"I don't know. But from the sound of it, it doesn't sound like fun," Dawn whined.

I wonder, Lance said to be more prepared in the field. Could that mean martial arts? "If my hunch is right, you probably won't," I said as I stood next to the comfy chair that Drew was sitting in.

"Care to enlighten us? We're kinda clueless here," Leaf said annoyed.

I tapped my pointer finger on my cheek while having a thoughtful look on my face, "Nah," I decided with a smirk.

I started to walk away but felt my hand being grabbed and I was pulled backward causing me to sit on Drew's lap and have his arms wrap around me so I couldn't escape.

"Drew, let me go," I complained as I struggled to get up.

"Let me think about that," Drew said with a thoughtful look before smirking at me. "Nah, not before you tell us your theory," he said teasingly.

"Drew, I swear," I complained annoyed. "Let me go or I'll hurt you."

"You wouldn't hurt me," Drew teased.

"How do you know that?" I asked threateningly.

"Because I know you won't," Drew whispered in silky tone that tickled my ear.

"Fine," I said in defeat causing Drew to smirk before I smirked back causing Drew to look at me suspiciously. "But I'm giving you a hint, not the answer. You're smart enough to figure it on your own annoying grasshead.

"Alright airhead, what's the hint?" Drew asked frowning since I wasn't gonna give a straight answer.

"The key words are 'more prepared', that's your answer," I said.

"That's not a good enough hint May," Drew said annoyed.

"Oh please," I teased. "You admit defeat already?"

"The great Drew Hayden never admits defeat," Drew said arrogantly.

"Only when it comes to May," Gary teased causing everyone to snicker.

"Can it Oak," Drew snapped. "Same goes to you when it comes to Leaf. Besides, like you know what May said in her hint."

"Of course I do," Gary bragged. "It wasn't that hard to decipher."

"Oh really," Leaf teased. "What is May's theory then oh smart one?"

"Uh…..,"Gary said hesitantly causing everyone to laugh.

"May, can you please give us an easier hint," Dawn whined.

"No can do, you aren't getting a peep out of me," I said firmly.

"Oh really," Drew said slyly with a smirk.

"Really," I said before I coughed into arm.

"You okay May?" Dawn asked.

"Yea," I said tiredly before mumbling. "Stupid stress, stupid cold."

"Care to tell us your theory?" Drew asked again as he still held me in place.

I then heard sound coming from outside causing me to smirk, "No, but I have two things for ya. One, think of it this way, what's something I do that you don't. Two, you're ride is here, have fun," I teased.

"That didn't help May," Drew complained as he released me allowing me to stand up.

"That's all you're gonna get. Besides, you've got to get going," I said as I kissed his cheek. "Have fun with training and soreness."

"What?" Drew asked confused.

"Dude, we have to get going or Lance is gonna come in here like the last time we were late and break the door down," Gary said as everyone left the dorm.

Drew sighed, "I'm coming," he shouted before turning to me. "Are you gonna be okay on your own?"

"I'll be fine, I'm a tough cookie," I said before putting on a smirk. "The question is are you?"

He smirked back at me, "Of course I will, I'm the great Drew Hayden," he said arrogantly with a smirk.

"Drew, I swear I will drag you out if you don't get out here in ten seconds!" Paul yelled.

"Bye Drew, have fun," I teased as I followed him to the door and watched everyone leave.

"Have fun you guys, you're gonna need it," I said to everyone with a smirk as I shut the door hearing muffled shouts of "what do you mean you're gonna need it?!".

I shook my head in amusement before I got attacked by a coughing spam, hope this cold isn't serious; I better go to bed early.

I looked at my poketch to see that it was 9:00 PM and felt sorry for everyone. Why in the world would Lance make them leave for secret training this late? He has official lost it.

I quickly got ready for bed and lay in bed thinking about what Drew and I talked about earlier and smiled to myself before falling asleep. I'm incredibly lucky to have Drew.

December 13th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)

I woke up feeling a little stuffed up with my throat killing me as I quickly got ready for school.

I went into the kitchen to feed my pokemon, "Nya," Skitty said as she popped out of her pokeball.

"Good morning Skitty," I said and realized that nothing came out of my throat which scared me.

"What the…," I tried to say out loud but nothing came out.

"Ruh?" Lucario asked concerned. (What's wrong?)

"I can't seem to talk. When I try, no sound comes out," I said telepathically in a panicky tone that Lucario relayed to the other pokemon.

"Glace glaceon," Glaceon said concerned. (You should go to the Pokemon Center.)

"I don't know if they can help me, but maybe they know someone who can," I said telepathically to Lucario who passed on what I said.

After everyone finished eating, I returned them and cleaned up while grabbing a pad of paper and a pen before leaving early to go to the Pokemon Center.

I entered to find Nurse Joy at the front desk, "Hi Lin, what can I do for you this morning?" she asked pleasantly.

I quickly wrote on the pad of paper that I woke up to find that I couldn't speak and asked if she could help me.

"I'm sorry to hear you can't speak Lin, let me check since I'm also the school's nurse," she said as she took me to the back to check me over.

After a few minutes, she was done, "From what I can tell from checking you over, you seem to have a small cold along with some sort of infection on your throat that is causing tissue to swell making you not able to talk," she said in a serious tone.

I quickly wrote on my notepad asking if this was serious.

"It shouldn't cause any damage as long as you don't try to talk at all for any reason or you could damage your voice," she said seriously before writing a note for my teachers and a note saying that I went to see her before handing me a vial. "Take this twice a day and it'll help somewhat with your cold along with your throat infection, but all you can do is wait it out on vocal rest."

I nodded in understanding before taking the notes along with the medicine and walked to English. I handed Mrs. Roberge my note from Nurse Joy and took my seat.

"Sorry to see you're unwell Miss Mason," she said before handing me a packet. "We are currently working in groups on this packet. Please work with Veronica and Brandi."

English teacher say what! Are you kidding me?! This day just keeps getting better and better.

I moved to their group and started to work on the packet silently. The nice thing was that both girls ignored me. The bad news was that Brandi wouldn't shut up about kissing Drew which was starting to tick me off.

Thankfully the bell rang and I bolted for history and gave Ms. Williams the note who nodded in understanding as I took my seat. Thankfully, Brandi wasn't able to talk at all this period because of Ms. Williams lecturing us. After class was over, I made my way to the cafeteria and to be honest, it felt weird and lonely as I sat at the table after grabbing my food. Wonder how everyone is doing with their training?

"Hey loser, where are the hotties, we haven't seen them all day?" Veronica asked annoyed.

I ignored her because it's what I always did and today, I really couldn't say anything anyways.

"Slut, she asked you a question, answer her!" Brandi demanded.

I just ignored her which made her incredibly mad before she smiled evilly, "Fine then, since you won't tell us, you get to suffer our wrath since you're all by yourself today," she said evilly as she took my smoothie and held it up.

Crap, I can't have her ruin another wig. I quickly put up my hood as she spilled the smoothie on me causing my hoodie to have smoothie all over it, but my wig was safe.

"Thanks for the fun loser," Brandi snickered as she and the drama queens left.

I sighed as I took off my hoodie and tried to get as much smoothie off of it as possible and left the cafeteria to stick it in my locker. Chemistry wasn't any better; Brandi kept harassing me saying that I was weak and pathetic for not talking. For free period, I decided to hang out and help at the Pokemon Center which made me feel a little better, key word being "little".

For contest class, I gave Solidad my note who looked at me worriedly, "Are you okay Lin? You look pale and sickish," she said concerned.

Brandi then looked over with a smirk, "So you're pathetic and sick," she said with a sick laugh.

"Brandi, please show me your appeal for your test grade," Solidad said sternly.

"But it's not done," Brandi stuttered.

Solidad gave her a stern look making Brandi shut up and call out her Rapidash and Mismagius.

"Mismagius use Lucky Chant and Rapidash use Ember," Brandi commanded.

Rapidash used Ember, but Lucky Chant didn't do so well. It hit the embers making them fly everywhere more or less at Brandi making a lot of burn holes appear on her clothes causing me to cover my mouth in silent laughter while everyone else snickered.

"Brandi, I would think you should practice more with your pokemon than harass your classmates," Solidad said sternly as she left to check someone else's appeal.

Brandi gave me an evil glare while I smirked at her and did the loser sign before walking away. Soon classes were over and I decided to help out at the Pokemon Center since I had nothing better to do. As I was helping, I could tell from the looks that Nurse Joy and Brock were giving me saying that I should be resting. To be honest, I felt fine besides my throat hurting and if I stayed at the dorm, I would have been bored otherwise.

I left around 8:00 with Nurse Joy and Brock really concerned, "I hope you don't overdo yourself Lin," Brock said worriedly.

I quickly wrote down that I would be fine and that I would eat a quick supper, take my medicine and go to bed early.

"Alright May," Nurse Joy said. "Hope you feel better."

I quickly wrote a "thanks" and "see you tomorrow" before leaving the Pokemon Center.

As I promised, I quickly made myself dinner, fed my pokemon, took my medicine and went to bed early. As I was doing all of this, my mind kept wandering to how everyone was doing with their training. Guess I'll find out when they come back.

December 14th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)

I woke up the next morning like I did yesterday, no better, no worse. I quickly changed before grabbing my pokeballs and backpack. I went into the kitchen to take my medicine and then made breakfast for my pokemon and myself.

"Ruh?" Lucario asked. (How do you feel?)

"The same, no better, no worse," I told him telepathically in a tired tone.

He looked concerned, "Ruh," (You should stay and rest.)

I shook my head, "I don't see the point in missing school for not being able to talk, I'll be fine," I said to him.

"Ruh" he asked suspiciously. (Are you sure?)

I nodded before I continued to eat while Lucario still looked at me suspiciously before continuing to eat as well.

Soon I finished eating along with my pokemon and I quickly cleaned up everything along with taking my medicine before heading to homeroom. I was finishing up my math homework that was assigned yesterday when Brandi stood in front of me.

"Alright loser, tell me where Drew is. I know you know where he is," she demanded.

I ignored her and continued working on my math homework. She slammed her hand on the table causing me to turn to look at her, "Where…is…Drew?" she asked menacingly.

Geez, possessive much? Again I didn't say anything because I couldn't and I didn't know where Drew was. Suddenly Brandi smirked evilly leaving me confused.

"I get it," she said slyly. "You aren't telling me where Drew is because you're holding him to yourself."

I gave her a 'what the hell' look, she has completely lost it.

"Yea, you're hiding him because you like him so much and want to protect him," she said haughtily as if she was proud of figuring out my plan.

I gave her the same 'what the hell' look as she turned to the classroom, "Hey everyone!" she shouted. "Linnea Mason has a crush on Drew, that's why she isn't talking. She's afraid she'll tell someone about her crush."

Soon the class started to snicker and laugh, it didn't help that the teacher wasn't around. To be honest, I didn't care, I just ignored her. When it got to lunch, I was ticked because she screamed out the stupid message to everyone in all my classes and now probably the whole school is talking about it.

I was trying to eat my lunch peaceably til Brandi walked up, "Hey loser, since you're in the Drew fan club now, I wanted to brag that I got Drew's first kiss," she said haughtily.

She was making me mad now to the point where I was making fists, "You know, he's a really great kisser, I wonder what he's like in….." she said.

She didn't finish because something snapped inside me causing me to stand up and punch her in the face causing a crunch sound to be heard and blood to be seen.

"Mason, report to Mr. Stone's office!" a teacher barked as she helped a weeping Brandi to Nurse Joy.

I huffed and grabbed my backpack before making my way to Mr. Stone's office. I walked inside the main office and sat in a chair near the secretary's desk.

"Mr. Stone will see you now," the secretary said before she went back to typing on her computer.

I stood up and made my way to his office and knocked on the door.

"Come in," he said before I walked in, shut the door, and took a seat.

After I sat down, I saw that he didn't look happy, "Out of all the students to get called to my office for throwing a punch, I never expected you May. You're one of the best students here, explain yourself," he said sternly.

I pulled out my notepad making him confused. I wrote down that I lost my voice, lost my temper at Brandi for her spreading rumors about me, and asked what my punishment was.

"I see that you get straight to the point," he said after reading what I wrote. "As for your punishment, being in after school detention for the rest of the week should be a good enough punishment."

I didn't argue with that, technically what I did should result in suspension because I think I broke Brandi's nose, served that sleaze right though.

I nodded in understanding as I got an excused pass from Mr. Stone and went off to Chemistry. I handed my note to the teacher and began to take notes once I sat down. It was uncomfortable because I felt everyone's eyes on me and did my best to ignore them. I was thankful when classes were over because now the rumors of me crushing on Drew AND punching Brandi in the face were circulating all around the school. I made my way to the room that was for after school detention and sat down.

"Whoa, what's a girl like her doing here in detention?" a guy asked in surprise.

"I think she got lost," another guy said.

"Wait, she's the girl who punched Brandi in the face," the first guy said in realization.

"Dang, that was some punch, I think you broke her nose," the other guy said amazed.

I wrote on my notepad saying that it wouldn't surprise me if I did.

"You got one heck of a punch. By the way, the name's Eddy, the other dude is Chris. Welcome to the ever so lovely after school detention," he said sarcastically.

"Mr. Weaver, I suggest you stop yapping and do your homework," the teacher barked.

"So is the rumor of you crushing on Drew true?" Chris asked curiously.

I gave him a 'what the hell' look and wrote on my notepad 'no'.

"So why aren't you talking?" Eddy asked.

Okay, it seems apparent that I'm not gonna get any homework done. I wrote on my notepad saying that I was sick and that I lost my voice.

"So that's why you haven't said anything," Chris said in a thoughtful tone.

"Dude, teachers asleep, wanna play black jack?" Eddy asked Chris.

"Duh dude," Chris told Eddy before looking at me. "You wanna play?"

I shrugged and wrote 'sure' on my notepad. For the rest of the period, we played black jack while gambling loose change, won ten bucks from that.

"Dang, you sure can hustle people," Eddy said amazed as we left detention with the teacher still asleep.

I shrugged and did a two finger salute before heading back to the dorm. I released my pokemon and went into the kitchen to wash off my hand of any remaining stains of Brandi's blood.

"Ruh?" Lucario asked suspiciously as he saw my hand with spots of blood. (What happened?)

"I punched Brandi in the face and broke her nose," I said shortly as I dried my hands.

"Ruh!" he said surprised. (What!)

I sighed, "She spread more rumors that I liked Drew and that's why I wasn't talking and since she wouldn't shut up, I decided to do it for her," I said tiredly with a twinge of annoyance.

"Ruh?" he said concerned. (You seem tired, you should rest.)

"I plan to go to bed early. Right now, I'm gonna finish my homework, eat, and then go to bed," I said firmly.

Lucario shook his head sadly, I put my hand on his shoulder while looking at him with a small smile, "I know you care and I appreciate it. Don't worry, I'll take it easy," I promised.

As I promised, I finished my homework, fed my pokemon, ate, and was ready for bed. Before I zonked out, I was checking my emails to find that Lizzy got back to me. She wrote that she was actually in Petalburg City visiting Max for a day or two before continuing around Hoenn to practice for the next contest.

I smirked while silently chuckling, those two have seemed to be hitting it off well. This will be good to tease them about.

I shut off my computer after replying to Lizzy's email and placed it on the desk chair. I crawled into bed with a smirk thinking about how to tease Lizzy and Max.

December 15th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)

I woke up feeling a little bit crappier than the past few days and then remembered that I forgot to take my medicine causing me to mental face palm at my stupidity. My throat was killing me and my nose along with my head were stuffed up. Did I stay in bed and skip school? Nope, I had detention to serve so why not just go to class, it's not like the day could get any worse.

I changed before grabbing my backpack and pokeballs. Suddenly, Lucario let himself out of his pokeball and looked at me angrily.

"Ruh?" he asked angrily. (What are you doing?)

"I'm getting ready for school. What's the matter with you?" I asked.

"Ruh," he said sternly. (You should be resting.)

"Lucario, I'll be fine. Yes, I do feel a little bit crappier today, but I have to go to school. I have to attend detention after school or I'll be at risk of suspension," I said firmly.

"Ruh," he said. (You should be the exception to the rule.)

"I don't want to be treated special Lucario. I want to be treated as a normal person even if it is to accept punishment. If you want to help, you can help me by getting everyone's breakfast," I said before walking out of the room to the kitchen.

Lucario followed me grudgingly and helped prepare everyone's breakfast while I did my own. I could sense his aura showing annoyance as he was still peeved by my decision.

He wasn't the only one, my other pokemon were concerned about my health as well. It didn't help that Lucario explained what was going on to Blaziken who agreed with Lucario that I should stay and rest.

I frowned at the alliance, but said nothing as I continued to eat. After I was done, I returned everyone, cleaned up, took my medicine, and left for homeroom. When I got there, I saw that everyone was on their iPod which made me curious. I didn't ask anyone because I couldn't and I didn't bring my iPod to class. Soon I became annoyed as to why everyone was on their iPods. It didn't help to see that in between classes everyone was either on their iPods, talking about a new song that came out last night, or both.

After I grabbed my lunch and sat at the table, someone decided to play the song out loud, "sparks fly, it's like electricity, I might die…". I dropped my fork in shock and became sick to my stomach. How in the world did that song get out?!

My day took a plunge into the worst. For one thing, the whole recorded song only existed in my diary so who freakin' hacked my diary. The second thing is that the vocals for this song are similar to the vocals of "Freak the Freakout", someone could figure out that I sang it as Linnea Mason.

As I was panicking in my thoughts, Brandi walked up to me with a smirk despite the huge bandage on her broken nose, "I know you wrote this song loser. The person singing this song sounds a lot like you," she said nasally causing the whole cafeteria to listen in. "This only proves that fact that you do have a crush on Drew and your secret is out all over the school along with all over the planet. What a loser. By the way, the song describes perfectly what I felt with Drew."

That remark felt like a stab in the heart. I wanted to break down and cry. I wanted to run away. Heck, I wanted to kill Brandi for saying that, but I didn't do anything. I just sat there as Brandi and her posse walked away laughing while I sat there staring at my salad holding back tears as I took the jeers, the laughs, the insults, and the comments from everyone in the room.

The rest of the day was the same of people making fun of me when I walked from Chem to just hanging outside during open hour and throughout contest class with Solidad. I had a stoic face during the whole class as everyone laughed at me. It got so bad to the point where Solidad looked ready to throttle everyone.

"That's enough!" she ordered loudly causing everyone to shut up. "I think we've had enough of your rumors and insults against Lin. As a consequence, I want a 2,000 word essay about the importance of caring and positive relationships between pokemon and people along with relationships between people and people in general. This essay will count as ten percent of your grade and it'll be due Monday."

"But that's impossible, what about Winter Formal this weekend?!" Brandi wailed nasally.

Solidad said nothing but raised an eyebrow, "You should have thought about that before you started making fun of Lin," she said sternly.

"Thanks a lot loser," Brandi hissed.

"Make that 2,500 words!" Solidad ordered. "If I hear any more complaints from anyone, I'll increase the word count again!"

Everyone shut up after that. Soon Solidad went to the phone in the room and began to whisper into it. Soon Mr. Richards appeared along with Mr. Stone and his battle class.

"Hey, there's the girl who can't speak and decided to write that gushy love song," a boy jeered causing everyone in the battle class to laugh while the contest class remained quiet because they feared Solidad.

Mr. Stone looked disappointed and angry causing his battle class to quiet down, "I think I'll follow Ms. Parkers' punishment and also make you write a 2,500 word essay about the importance of caring and positive relationships between pokemon and people along with the relationship between people and people," he said sternly causing everyone to almost protest loudly. "This'll count as ten percent of your grade and it'll be due Monday."

"Alright!" Mr. Richards yelled. "Let's get this group of people and pokemon into shape! Run three laps around this arena starting now!"

I was about to run with Glaceon who looked about ready to murder all the students in the room, but Solidad put a hand on my shoulder, "Mr. Stone and I would like to speak to you in his office," she said quietly.

I returned Glaceon giving her a look telling her that I would be okay and followed Solidad along with Mr. Stone to his office.

I took a seat in a chair in front of Mr. Stone's desk while Solidad took the other as Mr. Stone shut the door.

"You sure have caused an interesting week here," Mr. Stone said as he took to his seat behind his desk.

I gave a small nod in agreement, "May, what happened this week? You seem to be at the attention of everyone in your grade and then some," Solidad said concerned.

I took out my notepad and wrote of three equations:

1. Loss of voice from being sick + Drew and others being gone = Rumors of me being speechless to talk about my supposed crush on Drew.

2. Brandi annoying me + Brandi bad talking about Drew = Punch in the face and more rumors.

3. Someone hacking my diary to release a personal song = More rumors and my reputation being shot.

After I finished writing my equations, the bell rang and I tore off the page to give to Solidad before writing a note to Mr. Stone saying I had to leave for detention and gave it to him. I left the room before either person could say anything and made my way to the room where detention was being held. I was the only one their today so I finished my homework and laid my head on the desk in pain while thinking.

Why did Brandi have to push me to the point of fighting back and who hacked my diary, this is bad, really bad. As the detention teacher fell asleep, I started researching about the song from my poketch. So far from looking at many blogs, the song I wrote has become incredibly popular and the person who wrote and sang it is unknown.

Suddenly Brandi put up a message saying that the song was written and sung by me, a supposed fan girl who had a huge crush on Drew Hayden. The message was then copied and reposted all over the place faster than I could refresh the page. My poketch became dark as I laid my head on top of arms on the desk in defeat. I couldn't hold the tears back anymore and began to cry. I'm so sorry Drew.

I laid there and cried silently for the last forty-five minutes of detention. When it was time to leave, I grabbed my backpack before walking back to the dorm. I found the determination to find out who hacked my diary and quickly grabbed my computer before I started an IM window with Max.

SheCanDoAnything15: Max r u there?

I smiled at my username, I didn't really use IM much and it made me smile every time to see my username. Max came up with it as a joke because I was a Top Four Coordinator, a teen hero, and a person with many hidden/weird talents so Max always teased that I could do anything.

TechnoGeek12: I'm here, what's up?

SheCanDoAnything15: Nothing good, someone hacked into my diary and published a very personal song on the web. Can u figure out who did that?

Max didn't respond for a few minutes making me annoyed along with disappointment.

SheCanDoAnything15: Max

I paused before continuing.

SheCanDoAnything15: Did u hack my diary again?

TechnoGeek12: I didn't mean 2, Lizzy and I were messing around when we were both on a sugar high and she suggested we should do it for fun. We didn't know a song was attached in ur diary. We must have let it slip out somehow.

HaydenCoordinator#4: We are really sorry May. We didn't mean to, it just happened and when both of us are on a sugar high. We are so out of it though we did have a good time.

TechnoGeek12: It was hilarious :D

I sighed and felt ready to cry again.

SheCanDoAnything15: Do u know what u 2 did! Have u 2 even heard the song?!

TechnoGeek12: No, give us a sec.

After a few minutes, both Lizzy and Max got back to me.

HaydenCooridinator#4: Aww….that was such a romantic song! 3

TechnoGeek12: So it's a love song, what's the big deal?

SheCanDoAnything15: Let's see…Brandi knows that Lin wrote the song and has said so all over the web. She has also tied Drew to it saying that I wrote the song about him and that I'm a huge fan girl of his and now the whole world knows and Drew is gonna get bombarded by the press as to asking about me writing a song about him.

HaydenCooridinator#4: Ur overreacting May. If it bothers you so much, why not have Max take it off.

SheCanDoAnything15: Because it's on Poketunes and every single person on the freakin' planet has probably downloaded it making it impossible to get rid of and I'm incredibly upset that both of u hacked my diary.

HaydenCooridinator#4: May, we're really sorry L

SheCanDoAnything15: I'm sorry, but I don't think I can talk to either one of u right now.

TechnoGeek12: May

I closed my laptop. I was crushed that even two of my closet friends and family would do something like that. I then noticed that Max was trying to call me on my poketch.

I took it off and put it on my bed before putting on some shoes and left the dorm. I put my hood up and stuck my hands in the front pocket before I began to walk. I didn't have a set destination, I just wanted to think and get away from school.

As my mind wandered, I found myself at the park where the gang and I trained and sat on a swing on the playground as it began to pour rain like crazy and thunder loudly. I know it was a stupid move since I was sick to just sit in the rain, but it felt relaxing in a way. Suddenly, a flash of lightning appeared allowing a shadowy figure to appear a couple hundred feet away scaring me. Suddenly, there were two of them walking up towards me and I took a battle stance.

When they got close, I broke into a sprint and charged at one before jumping and sticking my foot out to hit him in the chest causing him to knock over. The other guy swung from behind and I ducked. I continued to do hand to hand combat with him til the first guy came up from behind and grabbed me.

The second guy had some rope and was gonna tie me up but I kicked him a few times causing him to knock over and bit the first guy in the hand causing him to release me.

"Why you little….." he said angrily as he got a knife in his hand and began to slash at me. I was getting fed up at these two guys. I kicked the knife out of the guy's hand and did a knife-hand strike on his neck causing him to go unconscious. I turned around and did a round kick on the other guy and flipped him over causing him to go unconscious as well. I rubbed my hands and was about to leave the park when something struck me in the arm causing me to cry out in pain with no sound coming out.