Chapter five

"Azalea town?" I asked. "After that it's Goldenrod City?" I asked excitedly.

"Yeah." Paul nodded. "When we reach there I can finally do the battle frontier and get rid of you."

"I wonder where Ash and May are." I said out loud as I put my hand under my chin, thinking to myself where the two can be.

"You mean your pathetic friend is here?" Paul asked as he looked over his shoulder to me since he was in front of me as we walked on the dirt road leading to Azalea town.

"The name is Ash, Paul." I replied.

"And his travelling with his girlfriend?"

"Her name is May." I cleared up. "Get their names right, gee." I said as I crossed my arms and looked away. "You can't even get my name right or even say it." I muttered.

*~*~*~*

"Anyway." Paul began once more. "I…I have to go." Paul said as he walked past me, hitting my on my sh

oulder lightly. I turned around and saw him walking away into the night. "Paul wait!" I called as I chased after him. I saw him look at me. As I ran into his arms.

"What are you doing?!" Paul asked in his same old voice.

"I'm here for you Paul." I said as I tear fell down my face.

*~*~*~*

When Paul and I reached Azalea town we found that it was small like Cherrygrove City. As we both walk though the town I notice a small well with Slowpokes surrounding the area. I walked to the well to look at it more.

"What are you doing there?" Paul called out to me.

"Just looking at the well." I replied as a knelt down to a slowpoke. The water type pokemon looked at me. I just smiled. "Hey." I greeted. "Just woke up eh?"

"Slowpoke." Slowpoke yawned.

"Your talking to a useless pokemon you know." Paul replied. I stood up and saw him behind me with his arms crossed.

"Every pokemon are good at a few things and some are not. Its that simple and each pokemon are not useless not like you Paul." I replied as I walked past him with a grin on my face.

"That will make him quiet." Then I heard him say before I left. "I hate then woman." I just giggled at his response and walked myself through the town.

*~*~*~*

"Eat up guys." I replied as I fed my pokemon a few poffins I bought at the local poke mart. "I bought them just for you guys." I smiled.

"Looks like you haven't changed since I first met you." a young male voice called out to me.

I looked up and my face lit up with joy.

"Ash, May!" I said as I ran to my best friend and greeted May with a friendly hug. "What are you guys doing here?"

"Well Ash invited me to join him in Johto while he is doing the battle frontier." May explained to me.

"Then what are you doing here then?"

"Well I was looking for a pokemon to catch for my Sinnoh contests but I haven't found any that have interested me yet and I wanted to visit my best friend. I haven't travelled with him since Kanto" May replied.

"Wait." Ash added. "Are you travelling by yourself?"

"Unfortunately I'm not alone." I sighed. "I'm travelling with Paul."

"Don't you hate each other?" Ash asked.

"We both are looking for somebody in Goldenrod City." I replied. "So." I said, starting a new topic. "You got a battle symbol yet?" I asked.

"Yeah." Ash said as he showed me.

"That's impressive." I knew who that was as I turned around. "Looks like some people don't know when the best has arrived in front of them." I said.

"Oh great, its you." Paul replied.

"Yeah it's me." I replied, getting annoyed.

"So you past the first battle frontier brain." Paul said ignoring me as I wanted to hit him but all he did was put his hand on my forehead and I still was eager to hit him.

"Yeah." Ash sweat dropped as he saw me trying my best to get my hands on Paul. "You got any?"

"Not yet." Paul replied as he looked at me and saw me on the floor, nearly dead from trying to get my hands on him.

"Hey Ash." May interrupted as she grabbed his hand and he blushed. "I heard that there is a cafe around here with some great meals. Wanna come with me?"

"Ummm sure." Ash replied as his blushed slowly faded away. "I'm kinda getting hungry myself. Soon Ash turned towards Paul and I. "You two want to come?"

"No thanks." Paul replied as he started to make his move out of the poke center.

"It will be fun." May added. Trying to get Paul to join us which I didn't want. He would get make my food spoiled or worst rotten. "Let's make it a double date." She smiled.

"DATE?!" Ash and I said at the same time in shock.

"A date with the blue headed idiot it the last thing I want to do." Paul replied.

"A date it is!" I called out as I got off the floor of the pokecenter. "If it will keep Paul from calling me names then I date it is. And plus I won't have to hear him talk while he is eating!"

"Great." Paul sighed.

*~*~*~*

"This is all your fault." Paul said as I heard him from outside my room as I was fixing my hair. "I should be training my pokemon not on some stupid date."

"Give yourself a break will you?!" I said as I opened the door and I came out wearing my with my normal clothes on but the only difference was that I didn't have my hair clips on my hair. I just let my long navy blue hair down for once.

"I really don't see any difference letting you hair down. And it took you that long just to do a simply task." Paul said as he grabbed my wrist and dragged me out of the building.
"Hey let go!" I complained but Paul ignore my call. I sighed.

Sometimes I wonder if my words even get through his thick skull of his.

*~*~*~*

"What took you guys so long?" Ash asked as I took a seat next to Paul. Not like I wanted to, it was the only seat there.

"Ask your friend over here." Paul said as he pointed at me.

"We had to choose a table with four seat didn't we?" I asked, ignoring Ash question on why it took Paul and I some time to arrive.

"Sorry about that." May sweat dropped. "I didn't want to sit next to the door when each customer enters cold winds sweeps under you feet and you get cold. I really don't like that when I'm eating my food." She smiled.

A few minutes later Paul and I order. Soon a few more minutes pasted by.

"Look over there guys." Ash pointed out to the waiter. "Looks like we get to eat now."

"That great!" May cheered. "I'm staving."

"Your not alone." I added, I to was hungry from complaining with Paul.

Soon the waiter gave us the meals we ordered and soon May was digging into her food while Ash and I just sweat dropped. We both knew that she was enjoying her meal. Soon we both started to eat. As I was eating my sandwich I heard Paul muttered.

"Why me?"

"Just eat." I whispered back with my mouth full. "Enjoy yourself."

I saw Paul looked at me and soon sighed.

"Fine. Just make sure you stop looking at me with your mouth full."

"Okay." I said as I swallowed my food.

*~*~*~*

The sun had already sunset behind the hills of Johto. All of us, including Paul were outside the small café. We were ready to say our goodbyes.

"Too bad we didn't get to battle like we did back in Sinnoh, Paul." Ash said disappointedly.

"Well there was no point. I mean I would still beat you." Paul replied in his normal self, without a care in the world.

"Dawn I don't know how you can travel with someone like Paul." May replied, obviously not happy on what Paul said to her friend.

"I don't know either." I said as I looked at Paul and he looked back. Then put my attention back my best friend. "But we just have the same goal, after that I can get rid of him." I said.

"That's nice." Paul said sarcastically.

"Since when did you be nice to me, bully?!" I said as I turned back at Paul. I could feel my blood boil once again.

"Man." Paul sighed. "Out of all the people I had to travel with, it had to be you." Paul said as he shifted his eyes to me.

"Anyway." Ash said as he got between Paul and I. "May and I are going now."

"Where are you two going?" I asked as I soon calmed down.

"I'm going to see Max at Olivine city. He would be expecting me there. Of course Ash is coming to. There is a battle frontier brain over there." May explained as she looked at Ash. "I won't be surprised if Max was there to battle the frontier brain there." She added

"Well I can finally have the battle I promise Max." Ash replied in confidence. "Anyway were are you two heading?" Ash said as he looked at my direction.

"Goldenrod city but we think we have to go through Ilex forest first." I said as I looked at Paul, making sure he wasn't looking at me. "Right?"

"Yeah." Paul replied. "Let's go now Dawn." Paul replied as he started to walk towards Ilex forest.

I was still talking to Ash and May when I realised something that Paul said.

"Wait!" I said as a light blub appeared above my head. I turned around to Paul who was slightly ahead of me. "You said my name!" I looked back at my friends. "I have to go now, bye!" I called out as I chased after Paul.

"Bye!" Ash and May called out as I still was after Paul.

When I reached Paul I grabbed him by the arm, making him turned around to face me. I looked at him directly.

"You said my name." I said.

"What about it?" He asked.

"Does that mean we are friends?" I said. "I mean only people that I know quite well call me by Dawn except Kenny, who still calls me Dee Dee." I said as my head started to boil on how many times Kenny called me by that stupid nickname. I didn't realise that Paul was ahead of me once again. "Hey!" I called out to Paul.

"Hurry up Dee Dee." Paul replied as he still continue to walk to Ilex forest without turning back.

"That's just teasing me now." I called out. "And the name is Dawn, not Dee Dee!"

End of chapter

Author's notes

Sorry if i haven't been on for sometime. i felt lazy writing anyway i will try to be on more. and sorry with all the chit chat in the chapter. ^^ and also this chapter has minor advanceshipping. nothing to big. ^^

~midnight