[Flashback]

Drew walked into the Pokemon Center and logged into one of the video computers. A video call immediately came and he answered. It was Caroline, May's mother. "Hello, Drew," she greeted. "Sorry for the sudden call, but I would like to talk to you." Drew nodded, as if saying 'continue'. "Your mother just came to our house."

"My mother?" he said. It's rare for his mother to go to someone else's house.

"Yes," Caroline said. "We have been discussing something for a couple of weeks already. We finally made our decision."

Drew really had no idea what she was talking about. "What decision." He said bluntly, not asking it like a question.

"We made an arranged marriage," Caroline said.

"What?"

"You and May are engaged," she said slowly.

He rolled his eyes. "Sure."

"No really."

[End of Flashback]

"Because we're engaged," Drew said.

May burst out laughing. "Sure! I see the beautiful diamond ring on my left finger!" she looked at her left finger. "Yep! I see it!"

Drew took the ring that Caroline had gave him and tossed it to May. "There ya go."

"What?" she said. "You actually got me one?"

"Listen May," Drew said slowly. "Your mom and mine had made us an arranged marriage. Not my choice."

"What?" May shrieked. She ran back into the Pokemon Center with Drew running with her. The two didn't even notice Brendan sitting on one of the couches. She quickly video phoned her mom. "Mom! Is it really true?"

"What honey?" May's mom asked. May turned around to smirk at Drew whispering, 'Look she doesn't even get what I'm saying.' Caroline thought for a moment and said, "You mean the arranged marriage?" Drew smirked and May gasped.

"What? Mom, it's true?" May exclaimed. "Mom, are you kidding me?"

"Sorry honey, it's the best for you," she told her. "Besides, you'll never be able to get a boyfriend and you don't even like romance! Therefore you'll never get kids and won't be able to have a parent life!"

[May's Point of View]

I was actually secretly rolling my eyes at mom. This is such a dumb reason. I opened my mouth to protest but then some person came in front of me. "But ma'am, she's dating me." My eyes widened to see the person. Then again, it was pretty obvious who it was. Brendan.

"And who are you, young man?" Caroline said. My jaw just dropped.

"Brendan Birch. I'm the son of Professor Birch," he answered. "Now please allow me to date May and don't let Drew take her away from me because we love each other so much." If this was a joke, it's not so funny. My body was stiff and my jaw was still hanging. What the hell does Brendan think he's saying? Doesn't he know I'm still mad at him?

Drew pushed Brendan away and said, "Mrs. Maple, he's lying!"

"Am not!" Brendan argued, glaring at Drew.

"You guys just met yesterday! No way would you guys be dating!" Drew was also glaring and the two turned to look at me. Why isn't mom saying anything? "May, who's saying the truth? Me or Brendan?"

If I pick Drew, who is saying the truth, then I'll have to be engaged with him and we'll have to get married. Isn't that weird, marrying your best friend all of a sudden. But if I pick Brendan, who is lying, I won't have to marry Drew but I'll have to date Brendan. What is up with this? Should I say, 'Brendan is lying, but I don't want to marry Drew right now.' Besides, I'm mad at Brendan for giving me alcohol. I glared at Brendan. Drew smirked. "See, Mrs. Maple, I'm ri—"

"Brendan's right," I interrupted. "I don't want to marry Drew since I'm dating Brendan already," my voice was quivering. I do not want to date Brendan. I took my eyes off mom for a second to take a peek at Drew. Drew was turned away from my mom and was glaring at me. Drew never looks at me like this! I just glared at him back.

"I see," Mom said. "Go ahead. I'll go talk to Mrs. Hayden, she'll understand. I'll go speak with her immediately. Nice talking to you!" she smiled.

"Yup!" I replied. "Thanks a bunch for understanding! Bye mom!" we waved at each and I made my turned off the chat.

Drew glared at me again and yelled, "What the hell, May! I told you to not get close to Brendan and here you tell your mom that you two are dating? What is wrong with you? Now what are you going to do? Go tell your mom and say that you were lying?"

"No," Brendan cut in. "May and I will start dating, actually."

"What?" I shrieked. "Look, Brendan, I just told my mom that so I don't have to marry Drew, okay? I'll just keep this a secret for a while then next week I'm going to go call my mom and say that we broke up."

"Too bad," Brendan said. "I'm not letting you break up with me. You're going to date me and I'll make you fall in love with me."

Drew snorted and grabbed my hand. "Talk about corny. No way am I going to let you date May."

"Why do you care, Hayden?" Brendan said. "It's not like you like her or anything, right? You shouldn't care at all!" I blushed and looked at Drew. What if he really did like me?

"Ha!" Drew laughed. "I don't like May! Never!" I bit my lip. Why does it hurt so much? The way he said it… I withdrew my hand away from Drew.

"Actually Drew!" I yelled, my hands clenched. "I'm actually going to try dating Brendan! We might actually fall in love. Won't hurt to try, right?"

Drew hid his eyes with his bangs again and said, "Fine! Do whatever you want!" I banged the video phone and ran out of the Pokemon Center.

"Sir, please don't hit the video phone!" Nurse Joy called after him. I figured Drew just ignored her and continued to run. I rolled my eyes.

"Geez, Drew overreacted again," I said. "Scratch that, that's the first time he overreacted."

"So," Brendan said. "We're now a couple, right?"

I blushed at the word 'couple'. "S-sure. Well, no choice, right?"

"Y-yeah!" he said, scratching the back of his head. "So are we going to travel together then?"

"What?" I said. "T-together? I… I don't know."

"But we're a couple!" he argued.

"We're a no choice couple!" I argued back.

He glared at me. What's up with people glaring all the time? "So you don't want to travel with me?" Argh! Why do they always do this? So much stress today!

"Fine!" I said, throwing my hands in the air. "Just let me go eat out by myself!" I ran out of the Pokemon Center and to the café in the city. I took a seat and waited for a waiter or waitress to come. "I want cheesecake and some hot chocolate," I told the waitress bluntly. She nodded and walked off to get it. I wanted about 5 minutes and she came back. "Thanks," I mumbled. I ate it all quickly as if I was dying from hunger. I was glaring and people around me were giving me uneasy glances. How did I get myself into this mess?

"Ya done yet, May?" I heard a voice after spacing out. I looked down and my cheesecake was even half-eaten yet. Hold on… I looked up to see Brendan Birch, smiling at me.

"AAAH!" I yelled and threw my spoon at his face. "Why the hell are you here? I told you I want to eat my cheesecake alone!"

"Sorry," he said. "Sorry," he repeated.

"What is wrong with you?" I yelled. "Go get me another spoon."

"Ask yourself that question!" Brendan replied. He walked over to ask a waiter for a spoon. He tossed it to me and said, "I'll be waiting for you in the Pokemon Center's lounge."

I stared at Brendan when I got to the Pokemon Center, about 3 yards away. "I'm here," I stated.

"No, you're not," he said sarcastically. "Now let's go."

"Go?" I repeated.

"Yep!" he said. "To the next city, duh."

"Ummm… no," I told him, rolling my eyes. "I didn't get my ribbon yet. The contest is tomorrow. Besides, don't you need to get your badge? You're a trainer, right?"

"I already did," he said. Brendan took out his badge case and pointed to the badge that looked newer than the other ones. "See?"

I gave him a confused look. "When did you get that?"

Brendan gave me a silly grin and said, "When you were at the café."

"What?" I shrieked. "But I was only at the café for 10 minutes!"

"No you weren't," he said. "You were there for more than 1 hour."

I wanted to argue, but I somehow knew he was right since it was already 3:30 PM. "Okay… well, I'm going to go train. You should go train too."

"I'll just follow you," he said, walking to me. I backed away, obviously wanting to stay away from him.

"Nah, I like training by myself," I assured him.

He shook his head. "Really, I'll go with you."

"No! I want to go myself."

"You're so stubborn," he said. "Just let me go with you."

"I absolutely refuse!" I yell. "Gosh! How stubborn can you be?"

And that's how May's love life began…

I know what I am saying right now is a spoiler, but readers, this is not a Hoennshipping story. This is a Contestshipping story. It's pretty obvious since I love Contestshipping. Okay, at least 5 reviews for the next chapter!

~Citra