Chapter 25, isn't this exhilarating? I know I'm looking forward to writing this chapter! By the way none of you are close to my name. Here's a hint: My name starts with an 'A' and ends with an 'A'! It's VERY VERY uncommon to have my name by the way plus most people can't even pronounce it.


Chapter 25

May's POV

I don't know why Misty and Leaf were so worried about Marina trusting this Lisa girl, but I'm actually kind of excited to meet her. I hope Misty and Leaf get too crazy about this and freak her out. I grabbed my textbooks and got up.

I went to up to my locker. "Let's see, 42, 2, and 37." I opened my locker and didn't hesitate to throw my textbooks in there.

"Goodbye, stupid and heavy textbooks, hello, mall." I grabbed my thin black jacket and headed outside. A breeze engulfed me and I shivered in response. I hugged myself and looked around for anyone. A certain mop of green stood out.

"Drew." I sighed and walked up to the conceited jerk I refer to as a….friend? Actually I'm still not too sure about what we were, but for now he's my friend, just my friend.

"Hey, Drew." I said.

"'Sup, Maple." He smirked.

"Know where the rest of our friends are, Hayden?" I replied.

"If I knew, would I still be talking to you?" He flipped his hair. My anger rose.

"What's that supposed to mean?" I huffed.

"Nothing, just you know. You're denser than a rock." His smirk grew wider, while my anger grew.

"I dare you to say that again, Hayden." I retorted.

"You…Are...Denser...Than...A...Rock." He said pausing after each word.

"Hayden, I swear I'm going to kill you." I growled.

"We both know that you want me." He said.

"In your pathetic dreams." I spat.

"Oh, so now I'm pathetic?"

"Very, actually." I folded my arms.

"Whatever, Maple. You're just jealous that I'm so gorgeous."

"Take that back." I glared.

"No."

"Yes!"

"No, I'm still good."

"Take it back!"

"No."

"Yes!"

"Yes." Drew said.

"No! I mean ARGH! You make me so frustrated!" I huffed. Then a blood red rose was in front of my face. I took it and blushed.

"Well, I think I found our friends." He put his arms behind his back and walked off. I looked ahead of him and saw Dawn waving excitedly. Leaf and Misty were trying not to draw too much attention. Too late.

"May, ready to go?" She said.

"Yeah, where's Marina?" I looked around for the blue haired girl.

"She's getting Lisa, I think." Dawn said.

"Leaf, come with me. I'll go get her." Misty dragged a protesting Leaf away.

When Misty was far enough away I said, "Man, Misty's tense today, huh?"

"You think it has to do with Jake?" Dawn said.

"Who's Jake?" Ash interrupted.

"Misty's ex." I replied.

"Misty had a boyfriend?" Ash's eyes were wide.

"Yeah, are you jealous?" Dawn said innocently.

"N-no, why would you think that?" Ash flushed.

"No reason." My sweat dropped.

"Hey, guys, I'm here, sorry I was late. I couldn't find Lisa." Marina said popping up.

"I was looking for you, but I probably should've stayed in the same place, huh?" I said.

"Okay, let me introduce you guys. Lisa this is Misty, Dawn, Leaf, and May. The guys are Ash, Paul, Gary, and Drew." Marina said pointing to each person.

"Well, hi guys. I'm Lisa, like Marina just said." Lisa smiled.

"Hi, Lisa!" Dawn and I said in unison. They guys let out a muffled 'hi', Paul gave a grunt, and Misty pretended to ignore her.

"Well, now that we're all here let's go before I kick you there." Paul said getting into Dawn's how pink limo.

"Sheesh, no need to be dark. Oh my gosh, we're going in a limo!" Lisa squealed and ran into the limo. I had a feeling she's going to get along with Dawn just fine.

"…..Okay, let's go." Marina smiled a nervous smile. She walked into the limousine.

"Well, c'mon. We don't have all day." Misty said shoving everyone in. I saw Lisa whisper something in Marina's ear and she started giggling.

"No, I think they're just going to pretend to not love each other for a while, you know?" She winked.

"Well, if they're that oblivious then go for it." Lisa shrugged.

"Who the heck are you guys talking about?" I asked.

"Should we tell her?" Marina gave a questioning look to Lisa.

Lisa shook her head. "Nah, let's just let her figure it out."

"You know I'm right here right?" I said impatiently.

"Well, we were discussing if we should tell you who we were talking about. We decided that was a no." She said grinned.

"For god's sake! Either tell her or shut up!" Paul snarled.

"Who put a Chinchou in his pants this morning?" Lisa said quietly. Marina and I giggled at her.

"What'd I just say?" Paul gave us a glare. Lisa stuck out her tongue after he looked away. Misty and Leaf were rolling their eyes at us, while Dawn looked like she was going to pee her pants. I had a bad feeling my arms were going to be sore the next morning.

.d.d.d

When we were at the mall, Dawn rushed to the clothes aisles.

"Ooh, that's cute! I need to get that! Do you have this in pink? Oh, is this my size?" All sorts of excited banter could be heard from the excited shopaholic.

Lisa whispered into my ear. "Is she always like this?"

"Only when she's shopping." I said.

"Oh, then should we go help her with her bags then?" Lisa suggested.

"Are you sure about that?" I said nervously.

"Why not, she wants to help, right? Let her." Misty said giving Lisa a little push.

"Misty, that's not nice! Why are you being so mean to her?" Marina said with surprising anger.

"No, it's okay." Lisa said.

"If you think you can just be nice to me, good luck!" Misty retorted. Lisa didn't reply and went over to Dawn.

"Why are you so….tense today?"

I said pitying Lisa.

"Well, she can't just waltz into our group like it's nothing." Misty said stubbornly.

"Since when have we been picky about our friends?" I said a little ticked.

"Since, well, never! I just don't trust that girl, okay?" Misty argued back.

"Fine, but I'm helping her." I marched off toward Lisa, who was already helping Dawn carry 6 skirts, 10 tops, and 3 pairs of shoes.

"Me too." Marina said walking off.

"Fine, go!" Misty yelled.

"We will!" I screamed back. The guys weren't sure where they were supposed to go, so they just went to the food court, not wanting to deal with our 'girl drama.'

I angrily held the items in my hands that were slightly crumpled.

Misty, I get that you're upset about Jake, but don't take it out on Lisa!

Misty was acting like a serious prick today. If she was going to act like this for any longer I swear I was going to have to slap some sense into her. I looked Dawn who was piling things on Lisa and Marina like no tomorrow.

"Dawn, how do you even pay for this?" Lisa complained.

"Well, my mom's a model, you could say and my dad owns this company where I get design a dress once in a while, so I just go crazy at the mall monthly." Dawn said going to the cashier who looked like she was going to faint.

She plastered on a fake smile and started with me. I gladly dumped Dawn's future clothes on the counter. Next she got Marina who looked even happier than me and when she got to Lisa, let's just say I've never heard a happier muffled cry in my life.

After Dawn paid for everything she was left carrying 3 bags while the rest of us carried between 10 and 20. Lisa was probably going to cave out, since she had the most.

"Hey, can we dump this into your limo before we shop more?" Lisa said pleadingly.

"It's not called shop 'til you drop for nothing. I'm not even that tired, so no need to worry!" Dawn cheered. Marina went up to Dawn and dumped her bags into her arms.

"Are you tired yet?" Marina said giving an ominous smile. Lisa did the same and so did I.

"Okay, point taken. Let's go. Can you guys help-" Whatever she said next came out as a muffled cry because her arms and legs caved.

"Sure, Dawn." I sighed and grabbed 5 bags, 2 for each side, I think.

"Dawn, maybe you should shop less." Marina said taking 4 bags herself with 2 bags on each arm; maybe I did my math wrong.

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure I would've died if I had to carry those everywhere with me." Lisa said rubbing her shoulder. She grabbed 7 and had 3 on her left arm and 4 on her right.

"Let's go before I die!" Dawn still had about 15 bags. We rushed to the hot pink limo. Well, Dawn trudged. We didn't hesitate to shove the pile of evil Dawn calls 'clothes' into the trunk.

"Okay, let's go shop some more! I still need more shoes and accessories!" Dawn said running back in. The three of us sweat dropped and walked in regretfully. After 4 more trips to the limo-each one had more bags than the last-; Dawn finally decided we 'shopped 'til we dropped.'

"Can we please go find Misty and the guys or something?" I moaned.

"What do you think we're doing?" Dawn said energetically.

"Then let's go sheesh. I don't think I'm ever going to outlive this day!" Lisa complained.

"We're going. Look, they're right there." Dawn pointed a finger at a guilty looking Misty, a black hole for a stomach Ash, a Gary checking out other girls -Leaf was going to kill him for sure!-, a bored looking Paul, and a smirking Drew.

"Well, well, look who decided to go visit their boyfriends?" Gary said ignoring the glares he was getting from everyone except Lisa.

"Well, can I get a kiss?" Gary said welcoming his arms in Leaf's direction.

"I thought you were too busy checking out girls?" Leaf glared.

"Well, I was looking for the hottest one." Gary motioned toward Leaf. She was clearly blushing now.

"I would slap you for such a corny line, but I forgive you." Leaf said going into Gary's arms. Soon enough Leaf was sitting on Gary's lap.

"Well, not to spoil the cheesy moment, but where's Misty?" I asked.

"I don't know she went off somewhere else." Jimmy shrugged.

"Oh, umm should we go look for her; I mean she did just see Jake, today." I was already looking around for the red head.

"Sorry, this is my fault. I'll go look too." Lisa said sympathetically.

"Hey, don't blame this on yourself. We'll help too 'kay?" Marina said.

"I'll help too plus I didn't see you guys doing any shopping, so let's go. Leaf, you can stay with the guys if you want." Dawn smiled.

"I'm tired, so thanks!" Leaf said snuggling up to Gary.

"I'm helping. I really don't need to see a make-out scene with those two." Drew said getting up instantly.

"I don't want to either." Jimmy said jumping out of his chair causing it to crash on the floor.

"Me neither." Paul grunted and got up.

"What 'bout you, Ash?" Marina questioned.

"Sure, but I'll catch up with you guys as soon as I finish food." Ash said slurping his drink LOUDLY.

"Okay…." I said. We split up into groups, Dawn with Paul, Lisa with Marina and with Jimmy, and Drew with me, sadly.

"So, Drew, which way did Misty go?" I asked.

"Who? Oh, you mean your red haired friend, I don't know." Drew said playing dumb.

Why did I have to get paired up with him?


Drew's POV

I knew where the red head girl was, but teasing May was just too much fun.

"I know you know where Misty is, so where is she?" May said.

"I don't know where she is, like I told you." I made sure my voice sounded false.

"Wait, do you see that?" May said directing her stare to a red headed boy who was hiding behind some people and out of sight except from us. Why was May so interested in this guy? My glare turned as cold as stone due to jealousy?

"See what? Oh." My stare directed its way to the red head, who was now a white haired loser, named Brendan.

"He shapes shifts?" I heard May gasp.

"Well, what are we supposed to do?" May said.

"Shh." I said. He looked up and stared around, finally his eyes landed on us. I panicked and grabbed May and kissed her.


Ooh, Misty's missing and I have a feeling May's going to do more than slap Drew. Any way here's another hint to my name. It's only five letters and it doesn't have an 'L'. Now review and please vote for which story you like best!