Chapter 13..!
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Chapter 13: A Challenge
"Drew, stop it!"
"No way!"
A green haired boy was getting chased by a pink haired girl as he was desperately trying to snatch a little Roselia doll from her.
"Drew, you're going to leave soon!" the girl screamed and stopped, panting heavily.
"We'll use it as an excuse!" the boy protested.
"What do you mean..?"
"Just come with me, Amelia." the boy said, giving back the doll. "You can live with me and my mom!"
"I hear LaRousse is pretty nice.." Amelia whispered, sitting down on her bed. "But I can't come, my mom won't let me, she says that that town is full of jerks."
Drew's cellphone started to ring, but he didn't care to pick it up.
"You should answer that.." the girl whispered.
"What if I don't want to?"
Amelia shook her head before taking his cellphone, answering the call.
"Hello..?" she asked.
"Amelia?" a voice could be heard from the phone. "Where's Drew?"
Amelia looked up at Drew, who was shaking his head and hands.
"He's right here.." Amelia whispered.
"AMELIA!" Drew screamed.
"Dear, could you please hand him the phone..?" the voice said, probably Drew's mother.
Amelia sighed again before reaching out with her hand, motioning for Drew to take it. Drew gave the girl a disappointed look before snatching the phone.
"Yes, mother..?" he asked.
Drew nodded a few times and then flipped down his phone.
"I must go." Drew said and got himself up from the bed.
"I'll come with you." the girl said.
"To LaRousse..?"
"N-No, to the airport.."
Drew only shook his head once before leaving the room, and the pink haired soon followed suit. As they went out of the house, they could both see that there was a taxi waiting for them outside.
"So you're Drew and Amelia?" the driver asked as they entered.
Drew just nodded towards the driver and sat down next to him. Amelia frowned, did he do that on purpose..? It would be nice to sit with Drew on the way to the airport. The whole ride to the airport was dead silent, except for one time where the driver started singing to himself. When they arrived outside the airport, they could see Drew's mother and Solidad there, waiting for them.
"Drew, we must hurry!" his mother said and hugged the boy.
"What took you so long?" Solidad asked and hugged her sister. "Was the driver nice?"
"Yes, he was nice." Amelia replied and waved towards the driver as he drove away.
Drew's mother literally pulled her son into the airport, and the two pink haired girls soon followed. Drew's mother started running faster with her son as she saw that they were currently letting the passengers into the plane, and that the gate would soon close.
"Drew, I have to get us in before it's too late, wait with Amelia and Solidad, okay?"
Drew just nodded as he watched his mother get to a lady to show her the plane tickets. Solidad could feel that there was a strange atmosphere between her sister and her unofficial boyfriend, they kept on staring at Drew's mother but sometimes - or often - they would glance quickly at each other.
"I'm going to get something to eat, stay here, 'kay?" Solidad said and hugged her sister.
She and Drew watched as Solidad went around the corner, and could also hear Drew's mother get into "little" trouble with the receptionist. Drew sighed before grabbing Amelia's hands and stared into her green eyes.
"Amelia, come with me." the boy said and smiled. "It'll be awesome!"
"But my parents won't let-"
"Who cares..?" Drew interrupted her. "Amelia, please come with me."
"I.. I.."
"Drew! We have to go now!"
Amelia turned her head around to see that Drew's mother was waving towards the two of them. Drew however didn't turn around, he still had his eyes locked onto Amelia's.
"Are you coming or what?" Drew asked again, letting go of Amelia's left hand.
"I'll see you in two weeks.." the girl whispered with a frown.
Drew took a deep breath, and for the first time in his life felt the strange feeling of disappointment. He let go of the girl before turning around, walking towards his waving mother. Before he could reach his mother, the girl grabbed his wrist and stopped him. Drew didn't turn around, he felt so.. Hurt. The girl of his life found just like that, in one day. How could he be so stupid..?
"Drew.." the girl whispered.
Drew didn't turn around to respond, for some reason, he didn't want to. He just kept staring at his mother that was slowly starting to walk towards the plane, still waving. Suddenly, Amelia turned Drew around, not being able to stop herself. She kissed Drew sweetly, trying to make him respond. But he never did that. She broke the kiss and hoped to get a happy smile from the boy, but only found a cold, sad face expression. Drew closed his eyes and shoved his hands into his pockets before heading towards his mother. Amelia squeezed her arm and frowned as the boy entered the plane, not once looking back.
"That was cute."
Amelia turned around and saw her sister, who probably saw everything.
"It wasn't.." Amelia whispered.
"No? Why not..?" Solidad asked worried.
"I.. When am I going to see him again..?"
"2 weeks."
"That'll be too late.."
Amelia whispered those last words, making her sister even more worried.
"We should get going." Solidad said, watching the plane get ready for liftoff. "You could always call him."
"I don't have his number.."
"Amelia, wake up!"
The pink haired girl snapped her eyes open, surprised to see that the boy she was just dreaming about was standing in front of her.
"Amelia, are you alright?" the boy asked, worried.
"Yeah, I'm cool.."
The girl shook her head, trying to get the sad look of the boy's face out of her mind. She never knew that dreams could be so detailed.. So accurate.
"Here, take my coke." Drew said and handed the soda to the girl. "Are you sure you're alright?"
The girl nodded and stared at the screen together with the boy, waiting for the final battle to start.
"What were you dreaming about?" Drew suddenly asked.
Amelia was caught off guard and didn't know how to answer that, so she only stuttered a few strange words.
"Hm, you're some girl." Drew whispered and shook his head.
"Status?"
"We got them, ETA: 10 minutes."
Jens looked to his side and saw his companion who was about to doze off, a little slap to the face was more than enough to stop that.
"Excellent." the voice from the phone continued. "And the cat..?"
Jens turned around to confirm that his "package" was full.
"He's here." jens confirmed.
His boss only gave out a short laugh before ending the call. Jens flipped down the phone and sighed, he was seriously considering what the doctor said before. Get out of Team Rocket. Out of trouble. And back together. But how in the world would they be able to do that..?
"Hey, what are they going to do with us..?" the cat asked.
"You mean what are they going to do with YOU!" Jessie added and crossed her arms. "What does he need Meowth for?"
"I heard the boss was trying out some kind of new.. Um.." James started and thought about it. "Some kind of super magic stuff that makes pokémon powerful."
"You know everything, don't you?" Jessie bursted out. "How do you know that anyways?"
"I heard it from John." James replied.
"When did he tell you that?" Jens asked, about to pull over in frustration; he always hated driving in the rain.
"He told me about it in that hamburger bar or something.." James replied. "I think that that's the reason, us being in the hamburger bar. We we're supposed to serve other trainers pokémon that thing to try out the effects."
"Why would he give other pokémon a potion that makes them more powerful?" Jessie wondered.
"I don't think it works on captured pokémon.. Besides, they wouldn't want to try it on their own pokémon."
"And that's where you come in." Jessie added and glared the cat. "This is all your fault!"
"HOW CAN IT BE MY FAULT?" the cat whined. "I'M PROBABLY ABOUT TO GET POISONED!"
"Why does he want Meowth anyway?" Jessie muttered and crossed her arms. "And what do we have to do with this?"
"Maybe because you wanted to kill him..?" James started and chuckled.
"YOU WANTED TO DO THAT, TOO!"
"What..?"
Jens shook his head while his companion could only laugh quietly as they heard the trio complain about each other.
She loved doing that. She really did. Going into peoples' minds and dreams.. Knowing what they were thinking, feeling, wanting. It was so fun doing it.. But it was also a kind of an adrenaline kick at the same time. Sneaking in. Hiding. Revealing yourself, but in a way she never did. She giggled at the thought of the boy, he was so dense. And Aurora.. She really has to stop harassing that boy, it won't end so well.
She giggled again before standing up from the bench, inhaling the cold, almost icy wind that flew by together with the soft rain. She liked the rain. She didn't know why. Maybe because it felt like someone was stroking her cheek..? It's not like she liked stormy-like rain, she just loved it when it rained softly.. That kind of rain that never threatened to give you a cold. It was so romantic, in a way, and it would be even better to share it with someone else.
But she wondered.. She would never do that unless she found another boy like him.
"But there isn't.." she whispered.
She started walking towards the empty road, leaving the forest behind.
The brown haired girl started drumming on the table with her hand while her head was resting on the other one. She was sitting in the pokécenter café, trying to figure out something to do. Right now, she was looking outside through the windows, watching the empty streets.
"What to do.. What to do..?" the girl whispered and yawned.
She looked around in the café, finding it very boring. It wasn't really that bad.. Just that the nurses, or the designers, had been overusing the color pink. A few nice tables here and there, plus nice chairs to sit on. They weren't exactly chairs.. They were like benches with soft.. Soft.. Things, yeah, soft things on them.
She heard something break and looked at the pokécenter reception, seeing that Brock had once again dropped a few potions to the floor. She giggled when Brock got a Thunderbolt for forcing Pikachu to pick the stuff up.
"What to do now.." she thought out loud.
She stared out of the window again and saw a family walking by. A little boy and a girl holding cotton candies while their parents tried not to steal it. They had probably just been at the amusement park. The festival.. How many days were left? 5? 4? She didn't know, she didn't care. She just wanted Ash to get well and return to his normal self.
Ash..
She blushed as she remembered the little "incident" that happened a few minutes ago. She replayed the moment in her head, still being able to picture every split second and detail. She surprised herself for remembering it all, even though she fainted right after it. But she wondered, was it really Ash who kissed her? Or was it just because of his mood swings? She didn't know, but she had to find out the moment Ash woke up.
"He was so rough.." the girl whispered and smiled sweetly. "He's such a good kisser.."
"Who's a good kisser?"
May screeched and her head slipped off of her hand, making her head hit the table pretty hard.
"Ow.." the girl moaned. "WHAT THE, BROCK WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
"Ouch, sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." the breeder said as he sat down on the other side of the table. "So, who's a good kisser?"
May raised an eyebrow as Brock smirked, waiting for her to answer.
"I'm not thinking about you, Brock." the girl muttered and rubbed her forehead. "Ow.."
"I never thought you did." Brock said and smirked even more. "What happened before, are you sure you're alright? You should tell me next time instead of sneaking out of your room like that."
"Heh, it's funny that you noticed I was out here, now. I've been out here for like 10 minutes."
"Whatever." Brock said and sighed. "Man, those Thunderbolts Pikachu has been giving me.." They're, um, really "shocking", if you know what I mean."
"Pff, that one he gave me was even more shocking.. I mean, look at my clothes, where are they?"
"I threw them away."
"EXCUSE ME?"
"You want crisped clothes? I'm sorry, May, I didn't really know that." the breeder replied and chuckled sheepishly.
May opened her mouth to protest but instead hid her head between her arms on the table.
"Urgh.." the girl moaned, making Brock laugh again. "That's like, my only real clothes.."
"What do you mean?" Brock started. "If you don't have any other clothes, I'm afraid you'll have to walk around in those."
May sat up straight and stared at her body. Walking around in patient clothes? Hell no..
"N-No.. I have other clothes.." the girl whispered before crashing down on the table again.
"PIKA PIKA!"
May and Brock turned around to see an enraged Pikachu, holding several potions using its hands, tail and head.
"PIKACHU!" he screamed, glaring at the breeder. "PI PIKACHU!"
"Aw man, won't you let me rest for just 10 seconds..?" the breeder complained.
"He wants you to clean up the mess." May said and giggled.
"PIKACHU, PI PIKA!" Pikachu continued.
Brock turned around and stared at May who giggled.
"What..?" the breeder started and sighed.
"Or else.. He'll shock you."
Immediately, Brock stood up and rushed towards Pikachu, picked all of the potions and sprinted towards the reception, also picking up around 20 potions on the way. May giggled as she saw Brock desperately trying to sort the different kinds of potions. Pikachu shook his head before walking towards the breeder to help him.
After that, May sighed again, returning to complete boredom.
"How are you feeling..?"
"My head is about to blow up."
The raven haired boy rubbed his forehead for a bit before sitting down on the grass field.
"Why are we out here?" he asked, staring around him.
The boy was sitting on a large field, with nothing to see other than the grass, the strange black colored heaven and the girl with the parasol.
"I thought a change could be good." the girl said and giggled.
A strange silence started to emerge, and the girl with the parasol started to feel insecure for some reason.
"Why are you so happy..?" she asked, not turning around. "You remember what happened before, right..?"
"Um, no, I don't." the boy said and smirked. "I'm just thinking about you."
"Me..?"
The girl was now really starting to get suspicious, she closed her eyes and tried to sense the boy's feelings, or thoughts. The boy was very happy, that was pretty clear. But she didn't know why, his thoughts were blocked out for some reason. This was probably nothing serious, she would be able to read his mind again after the feelings are completely out of his body.
"Yup." the boy started and stared at the girl's behind. "Who are you?"
"I told you, you have to find out yourself." the girl answered and giggled.
That strange silence came back once again, and the boy just closed his eyes before dropping to the grass, staring at the black heaven filled with many stars. The girl turned around, but with her parasol covering her face, of course. She giggled, she could see the boy through the parasol, but he couldn't.
"I saw you."
The girl dropped her parasol and just stared at the boy. Ash's eyes went wide, his suspicions and thoughts finally confirmed.
"Sophia.." Ash whispered. "What are you.. How.."
"Hi Ash.." the girl whispered and stepped closer. "It's good to see you again, too."
The 16 year old boy stood and waited at the arena exit, waiting for his sister. Even though there were hundreds of people flooding through the exit to go home or to the amusement park, it still would be easy to spot his sister. He finally did, and as expected, she was followed by a few boys.
"Hey there." the girl said as she approached her brother. "Miss meeeee..?"
"Is this your boyfriend..?" one of the boys asked disappointed. "Naw.."
"No, this is my brother, John." Aurora replied and winked.
Every boy around Aurora, probably around 6 boys started to rabble a few stuff towards John, hoping to get his "permission" to be with his sister.
"Ugh.." John started and waved the boys off. "Let's get out of here, please?"
Aurora shrugged before leaving with her brother, also leaving the sad boys.
"You mind telling me what the hell you're doing here..?" John asked as they walked back towards his house.
"What..? I just wanted to win a contest, big deal." Aurora replied and flicked her hair that covered her face.
"Pff, yeah right." John said and shook his head. "I have a very hard time believing that."
"Well.. I wanted to win it! And show Ash and the others I can win!"
"There.. Was it that hard telling that? And why would you want to show that?"
"Cause I want Ash! Can't you realize that..?"
"Why him? He already has a girl, that.. May or something. There's other boys out there, you know."
"Yeah.. But he's so cute!" Aurora said and giggled. "I bet he's good in the bed.."
"Excuse me..?"
"Oops, forget that." Aurora said and giggled even more. "Last one to your house is a rotten jerk!"
John just stopped in his way and watched as his sister sprinted in the direction where his house were. He shook his head, his house was like.. 10 minutes away from there, would she run for 10 minutes..? He then started to smirk as he brought up his pink pokéball, calling out his Gardevoir.
"Hi again." John said and hugged his first pokémon. "You know what to do.. Right?"
His Gardevoir nodded with a wide smile before growing bright purple, also holding her master's hands.
The raven haired boy yawned, and this time, he noticed that he was awake. Or, whatever you now call it. He glanced around in the room and sighed when he saw his clothes.. Or what remained of them.
"Man.. What did I do..?" he boy whispered and sweatdropped.
He then smiled, lucky enough he had some extra pair of clothes and underwear. The headache from before was now slowly fading away, and for the first time in a little while he was able to just relax. His thoughts then wandered off to the girl in his dreams. Why was he starting to dream about her now..? He had stopped doing that since before he left on his pokémon journey. He shook his head, hearing a few footsteps get closer.
"Hey Ash!" the breeder said, going to the boy. "How are you..?"
"I'm fine, been better actually.." Ash said and sighed. "Did I do anything wrong lately?"
"Oh boy, you can say that." Brock said and nodded towards Ash's brown/black clothes.
"What did I do..?" Ash wondered and stood up. "Ow, I feel so.."
"Shocked?" Brock said and chuckled. "That's pretty much what happened."
"Oh." Ash replied and stretched a bit. "Where are all the others?"
"They went to the contest, but May is here."
"Why is she here?"
"I don't know, she hasn't told me yet. She's changing right now into her new clothes, Pikachu toasted her outfit."
Ash sighed, he had caused so much trouble.
"You mean Pikachu ruined her clothes..?" the boy asked and frowned.
"You.. You could say that." Brock said and chuckled.
Ash sighed once more before going towards Brock. He had to repay May for sure, or else he would be dead.
"You got some spare clothes?" Brock asked and went with the boy to the bathroom. "I can get your bag for you."
"Yeah that would be awesome, thanks." Ash said and smiled.
The breeder nodded before going back to the patient room to get Ash's big bag. Ash sighed and raised an eyebrow as he saw his Pikachu that was sorting out a few potions and medications. Pikachu dropped the potions he was currently holding as he noticed his trainer.
"Pikapi!" Pikachu screamed and sprinted towards his best friend.
"Pikachu!" Ash bursted out and hugged his friend. "How are you?"
"Pika pika!" Pikachu replied and smiled. "Pikapi, pi pika, kachu.."
"Um, yeah, I'm sorry for that.." Ash whispered and lowered his head in shame.
"Pika pika."
"Yeh, Brock told me."
"Pi pikachu!"
"What? Then what clothes is she gonna wear?"
"PIKACHU! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
Ash and Pikachu screeched as they heard the breeder scream. He was already back and handed over the large bag to the boy before glaring at the mouse.
"Why did you drop them? Do you know how expensive those are?" Brock stated and crossed his arms. "Let's do this."
Pikachu sighed before returning to his previous assignment together with the breeder. Ash sighed and chuckled before going into the bathroom to change into another pair of clothes, which were exactly same as his old ones. He smiled proudly as he put on the last part of his outfit, his awesome cap.
"Good as new." he said, staring at himself on the bathroom mirror. "Now, I'm starving.."
May blushed as she stared at herself in the mirror. She was currently in the ladies bathroom, trying out her only outfit that she brought with her besides the one that was toasted. She tried to pull down the red dress some more, but it was impossible. She sighed, she wasn't planning on wearing this until a special occasion were she and Ash would be out somewhere together..
She looked up again and stared at her clothes. Her pretty red sleeveless dress that was very short was revealing her slim legs until they reached her regular shoes.. That for some reason didn't get toasted together with her other clothes. Next to her heart on the dress there was a cute, pink bow. But it looked so boring, she thought. She wanted to replace it, or just remove it completely, but she had a hard time deciding what to do. Walking around in the city with this dress, and those shoes, would look a little bit strange.. But it's the festival, what can they say..?
She sighed again, why did she pick a dress that went to above her knees..? It was SO short. But she didn't have anything else! She shook her head before getting out of the bathroom. She glanced around in the center and could see that Pikachu and Brock were still trying to sort the potions for some reason. She raised an eyebrow and smiled before sneaking into her room, she didn't really want them to see her new dress, yet. She sat down on her patient bed, thinking of something to replace the cute but boring bow with. She suddenly got an idea and brought up her bag, searching through it like a maniac. After a while, she found what she was looking for.
Her half ribbon.
Meh, it would look stupid to have a half ribbon on your dress. But a whole ribbon..? She smirked before poking her head out of the room, seeing if the coast was clear. Every trainer that had taken rooms in the center were probably out in the festival, so there was no one else other than Ash, Pikachu, Brock and herself. She tip-toed to Ash's room and barely got in without getting spotted. She saw his strangely large bag and went to it, wondering why Ash was not in the room. Was he already awake..?
She shrugged it off before unzipping the bag, searching through all of his stuff. He had sooo much clothes, so many useless stuff.. She started to get frustrated as she didn't find the half ribbon, only a massive pile of clothes, underwear and trainer stuff. After 2 minutes of intense searching she finally gave up, and cursed herself for throwing all of his stuff out from the bag. Now she had to put them all in again..
"What are you doing?"
May screamed in surprise and accidentally fell on the bag with her head first. She opened her eyes and for some reason inhaled the strange smell off underwear. Her eyes went wide as she realized that she had fallen onto Ash's underwear and even inhaled their smell.
"OH MY GOD!" May screamed, falling on her butt. "Hey, they smell like candy.."
"What.. What are you doing, May?"
"Oh! Um.." May started and pointed her two index fingers against each other. "I was just looking through some.. Stuff."
"Like my underwear..?"
May could only blush as she watched her crush raising his eyebrow.
"Uhm.. I'm hungry, let's get something to eat!" May bursted out and jumped.
Ash blinked a few times and was about to ask her what she was looking for but got pulled by the hungry girl into the café instead.
"I want that, that, that, and.. THAT!" May said and pointed at various cakes and delicious stuff. "I'll be waiting over here!"
The brown haired girl jumped while she walked to a table in the café. Ash was still blinking, trying to remember what the girl had pointed at. He shook his head before grabbing around 3 plates to grab all the stuff May wanted.
May giggled as she watched Ash pick the stuff that she had pointed at. He even took a wrong cake, but she didn't care, he was so sweet trying to. After this, she would ask Ash to pay for all of them, too.
"Jeez.." Ash started as he put down the plates to the table. "How can you not be fat..?"
"Hmpf, I'll take that as a compliment!" May said and pulled a plate to her. "Yummy, cheesecake!"
As May was starting to devour the poor cheesecake piece, Ash could only stare at the girl. For some reason it was kind of hypnotizing, the boy thought.
"Ngh, Ash..?" May asked, still having a piece of the cake in her mouth. "Stop staring at me!"
May giggled as Ash started to explain why he stared at her, but out came only a few words that was impossible to know what they meant.
"Want some..?" May asked and smiled with her eyes closed.
She took a piece of the cake with her spoon and handed it over to the blushing boy. Ash blinked a few times before he slowly accepted the spoon and stared at it for a moment. He glanced at the girl once almost as he was asking for permission, but she only smiled sweetly and motioned for him to do it. The boy hesitated, he didn't really like to take stuff from other people. May rolled her eyes before taking back the spoon, staring at the boy.
"Are you on a diet?" May asked trying to sound serious, but she failed and smiled widely instead.
"No.. I just don't want to eat anything from you."
May raised an eyebrow and started to get irritated, and Ash quickly apologized as he realized what he had said.
"I-I don't mean it like that, I mean, I don't want to take anything from you." Ash started and sighed. "I mean, it's yours.."
"No, it's totally fine!" May stated, thinking of how sweet Ash was. "Here, have a bite!"
May, once again, handed over the spoon with the piece of cake that was waiting to get eaten. But Ash only shook his head.
"I'll get one cake later." he said and smiled.
May started get more and more irritated. Just asking him to do it wasn't going to be enough.
"Ash.." May started and leaned over the table, facing the boy. "You will eat this piece of cake, or I will kiss you."
Ash's eyes went wide as he stared at the girl. He could feel her breath hit his nose, and he inhaled the cheesecake smell. He gulped once before quickly grabbing the spoon and swallowed the whole piece. May sighed disappointed before sitting back down. She had thought that Ash would say no, and that would give her an excuse to kiss him. But he didn't want to.
'Does it really sound that bad..?' the girl thought and frowned. 'To kiss me..? I guess it wasn't him that kissed me last time then.'
"Was it good..?" May asked and tried to fake a smile.
"Yeah!" Ash said and smiled widely. "Um, are you going to.."
Ash glanced at the remaining piece of cake, making May sigh with a smile. May pushed the plate to Ash who happily started to eat the whole thing pretty quickly. May stared at the boy the whole time, what if he didn't like her..? Surprisingly enough, Ash was already done and was still smiling widely.
"Hey, May?" the boy started and felt like burping. "You seem dead, how about we-"
The boy stopped and stared at the girl. He had only just noticed that she wasn't wearing her usual outfit.
"Woah, you look pretty in that!" Ash bursted out and eyed the girl. "Why are you wearing that?"
May blushed before staring at the boy with a smile.
"Because somebody made my clothes toasted, that's why." she replied and winked.
Ash raised an eyebrow before quickly apologizing.
"May, I'm so sorry!" the boy started, leaning forwards a bit. "I promise you, I will repay you in any way I can, I'll buy you 2- no 3 new outfits, and-"
"No, Ash, it's fine." May interrupted him and giggled. "It's just clothes.."
"Y-Yeah, but I have to make it up to you."
The two of them only stared at each other for a moment, May being the only one blushing.
"Are you gonna eat all that..?" Ash asked and nodded towards the table.
On the table was 4 plates, and one of them empty. The rest of the plates were filled with either a piece of cake or a cupcake.
"No.." May started and pushed the plates to the boy's side with a grin. "You are."
Ash got a "WAAH" face, but before he could complain, May had already gotten out of the café, barely.
"And if you don't.." May screamed as she left the café room. "Then you know what I'll do."
"YOU CHEATED!"
"And you did what..?
"I.."
John shook his head and laughed before sitting down on his very comfortable couch, turning on the tv.
"You got here first, then that means you cheated." John stated and flipped through the hundreds of channels showing nothing but crap.
"I did not!" his sister got out, also sitting down on that couch. "I took a ride on Gallade here!"
"But you won, why are you complaining?"
"Hmpf, you cheated.."
John chuckled as he watched a channel that was showing a replay over the whole contest from before.
"Why did you lose?" John suddenly asked.
"Because Gallade didn't use his psychic attacks, duh."
"Exactly, you can't win without them."
"I can, too!"
"No, that's why you just lost." John said and shook his head.
His sister only grunted as the two of them continued to watch the battle between Aurora and May.
"Are you still going after that Ash boy?" John asked, remembering how he had almost killed that boy.
"Sure am." Aurora replied and smiled proudly. "And I'm getting him, whether he likes it or not."
"You're gonna hypnotize him..?"
"No you idiot." Aurora said and crossed her arms. "I'm gonna be sweet towards him."
"So all of this time you've been "normal"..?"
"Yup."
"Oh shit, I'd hate to see your "bad" side."
"Wanna see it?"
"I'd rather die."
A strange silence occurred before the two of them broke out with laughter. They then kept on watching the replays until the finals came, showing how Aurora lost against Solidad.
"Heh, you suck." John said as the replay ended. "You really do."
"Oh, shut up." the girl muttered.
Aurora raised her eyebrow as she could hear somebody talk in her mind.
"Hm, looks like she wants to meet." Aurora said and stood up. "I'm outta here, I'll be back before midnight."
"Who wants to meet you?" John asked and watched as his sister left the room.
"Who do you think?" Aurora said, taking on her shoes. "Gosh, you're stupid."
Aurora slammed the door shut, leaving the smirking John to watch a crappy show about legendary pokémon.
"May!" the pink haired girl said and smiled. "There you are!"
"Oh, hi Amelia!"
May and the pink haired girl embraced each other in the small patient room while Drew and Dawn also entered the room.
"Why are we in Ash's room?" Dawn asked and looked around.
"What the hell is that?" Drew asked and glared at a bag on the floor. "Is that his underwear..?"
Amelia broke the hug and raised an eyebrow as she saw that some of Ash's underwear were scattered and placed pretty badly in his bag.
"What are you doing, May?" Amelia asked. "And what's up with that dress..?"
"Ugh, I'm just seeing if Ash has some food with him!" May said and rubbed the back of her head with a smile.
"And what's wrong with him?" Dawn asked and looked out of the room. "Ash didn't even say hello to us, for some reason he's trying to eat cupcakes for 3 persons."
"Maybe he wants to get fat." Drew said and laughed shortly. "Why are you dressed like that..?"
"Uhm, let's get out of here, shall we?" May said and literally pushed everyone of the three teens out of the room.
"Oh, hi Solidad!" May said and greeted her friend. "How did the contest go?"
Dawn, Drew and Amelia left the room to get something to eat together with Ash while Solidad started to talk with May.
"Um, what is that, May?" Solidad asked and pointed at the bag.
"NOTHING, HEHE!" May bursted out and pushed Solidad out of the room. "Let's get to the others, shall we?"
Solidad blinked a few times but then gave in and left with May to go to the café.
Drew and Amelia was sitting together for some reason on a table behind Ash's, and Dawn was sitting in front of him, trying to snap him out of eating-mode.
"What's up with Ash?" Solidad asked as they took a seat next to Drew and Amelia. "Is he alright?"
"Yes, he's fine, he just got.. Let's say he got "challenged", shall we?" May replied and giggled at the boy.
Dawn had finally given up and also took a seat next to the teens.
"He's like a zombie!" Dawn said and shook her head. "What did you do to him, May?"
"I didn't do anything!" May defended herself and giggled. "I just.. Challenged him."
"What did you dare him to do, then?" Amelia asked.
"I told him that he would eat all of those desserts." May said and smiled.
"And if he didn't..?" Drew wondered.
"Then.. I would hug him!"
Every body stared at the girl, then at the boy, and then back at the girl again with weird face expressions.
"So he's eating himself to death just to not get a hug from you..?" Dawn asked.
"I have to admit that sounds funny." Solidad said and giggled. "Aw, look at Pikachu and Brock."
The teens redirected their eyes to see that the breeder and Pikachu was constantly getting new patients to take care of.
"I'm going to go help them, I'll be back later." Solidad said and stood up before walking to the breeder and the mouse who really, really needed an extra hand.
"So, did Solidad win?" May asked, staring at her pink haired friend.
"YUP!" Amelia stated proudly. "She's the best!"
"Why are you so happy..?" Drew wondered and stared at the girl. "You didn't even compete."
"That's because I didn't have enough ribbons, stupid!" Amelia muttered and crossed her arms. "Can't I be happy for my sister..?"
"Meh, I'm gonna go help her." Drew said and stood up. "Good luck, Ash."
Ash, however, didn't pay attention to that generous goodluck-wish and was still staring into deep nothing, shoving in the cupcakes and cheesecakes.
"I'm coming, too.." Amelia said and sighed.
Drew nodded and went together with Amelia to help Brock, Pikachu and Amelia. They regretted it afterwards, but found that backing off would be ruthless.
"Seriously, a hug..?" Dawn wondered and smiled towards her brunette friend. "Really..?"
Dawn forced herself to whisper, she didn't know if Ash was listening or not as he was a few meters from their table.
"No." May whispered back and leaned closer. "I told him that if he didn't eat it all up I would kiss him."
The two girls stared at each other for a moment before bursting out with huge laughter, drawing attention from everyone in the pokécenter except for the fighting boy.
"Oh my gosh, you think he'll make it..?" Dawn asked.
"Yeah.." May whispered and sighed. "But I'm hoping for that he won't."
"Why don't you just kiss him..?"
"Are you crazy?" May whispered back. "I can't do that!"
"Why not?" Dawn said and glanced at the boy. "If you don't, I will."
Dawn sighed with a smile as she watched her ex-crush. May didn't like this at all and grabbed Dawn's head before slowly pulling it back so it was facing her instead.
"Nononononoonono." May said, shaking her head. "He's mine."
"But I wanna-"
"DONE!"
The blue haired girl and May turned around to see that the raven haired boy had finished eating all of the cupcakes up and was now standing up proudly while holding the spoon tightly with his hand.
"YES!" Ash said and clenched his fist.
Dawn and May blinked a few times as they watched the boy. As fast as the smile on the boy's face had emerged, it quickly disappeared, and the boy started sprinting towards one of the bathrooms.
"Hm, looks like you made him throw up.." Dawn said and giggled.
May watched the boy as he entered the bathroom and closed the door, feeling very guilty.
"C'mon.." May started and stood up. "Let's check on him."
"Hmpf, you do that!" Dawn said and crossed her arms. "I'm not going into a bathroom after someone have just thrown up!"
May shook her head with a smile before walking towards the bathroom. She couldn't help but wonder why the bathrooms where so far into the center, it was almost hard to hear what Brock and the others were talking about because of the distance between the bathrooms and the reception.
"Ash..?" May started, listening for any sounds. "Are you okay?"
"YE.." May could hear. "I'M.. I'm lucky I didn't throw up!"
"C.. Can I come in..?" May wondered.
The bathroom door got unlocked, and May opened it and stepped inside.
"Oh my, you look sick, Ash.." May whispered and frowned.
She looked at the boy who was staring at himself on the mirror, he had clearly just cleaned his face for almost throwing up. May couldn't help herself but giggle as she saw that Ash's cheeks were almost green.
"What's so funny..?" Ash wondered and turned around to face the girl. "Do you know how much sugar I just ate..?"
"S.. Sorry.." May whispered, lowering her head in shame. "I'm so sorry, Ash.."
"Meh, it's fine."
May stared at the boy as he smiled sweetly. She couldn't help but lean closer to the boy for some reason.
"Soo.." she started, smiling towards the boy. "Did you finish everything?"
"Yup, except for that last piece, I just spit out."
"Well.. Do you know what the challenge was..?"
"That I would eat everything..?"
"Uhuh." May said and giggled. "And if you didn't?"
"Then you would.." Ash shivered at the thought. "But I finished it all!"
"No you didn't!" May said and giggled even more. "You just said you spit that last piece out!"
"OH COME ON!" Ash moaned and hid his face with his hands. "That.. That's not fair!"
"You have two choices.." May started and winked. "Either you eat that last piece, or.."
"Pff, noway I'm eating that thing that's in the garbage right now." Ash said and chuckled. "I'd rather get that kiss than eating that thing again."
Ash chuckled and expected to see May also do that, but she was only staring at him with a sweet smile. Ash then stopped laughing and realized what he had just said.
"N.. Hey, I didn't mean it like that, it was just a joke-"
"As you wish." May said and leaned closer.
May wrapped her arms around Ash's neck and pulled the boy closer before completely wrapping her lips around Ash's, starting the most intense kiss she had ever been through. She used her tongue, doing exactly as she had imagined in her dreams. And to her surprise, Ash responded to it.