Hello lovely readers, I'm back! This chapter was actually finished earlier than I expected which I'm very happy about. Anyways on with the fic!
May's P.O.V.
"Mom, Dad, Max I'm home!" I said in a sing song voice as I busted through the front door glad to be back. I took a quick assessment of the house, and it seems to be exactly the way I left it. It's funny how the more things change the more they stay the same.
"May honey! You're finally home!" said Caroline, engulfing me in a huge hug. When she let go of me she looked around confused. "I thought you said that your boyfriend was coming home with you? Where is he?" oh my god! Parents are so embarrassing and I haven't even been here for more than five seconds. I mean really my boyfriend? I can only dream.
"Mom! I told you he's coming here later today. And he is NOT my boyfriend!" Better get that cleared up before Drew gets here and she accidently slips and says something really embarrassing. He would never let me live it down!
"Oh I'm sorry dear. I just really wanted to see your boyfriend again. He was so nice the last time I saw him." She looked lost in thought, probably thinking about the last time she saw Drew, which was the year before last. Does everyone in the world have to think he's the greatest person ever? Including my mother! And more importantly me! Ugh, my life loses.
"May has a boyfriend? Since when?" asked a certain little brother. He seems to pop out from nowhere. Aw Max! I missed him so much. I'm pretty sure I haven't seen him since Christmas. He's been following his dream trying to become a stronger trainer so he can become a gym leader like dad.
"Oh you know him Max! That boy with the green hair that gives May all the roses that are in her room. There are quite a lot of them in there now dear. Do you really have to keep them all? Ah, but it is cute how you saved each and every one of them. Now what was his name…" My mom's obsessed with my number one rival-who she thinks is my boyfriend- and yet she still can't remember the poor guy's name. Now that's what I call very sad or very funny depending how you look at it. I think it's a little of both.
"You mean Drew? I always knew they would get together. It's about time too. It's been what six years you've been crushing on each other?" said Max with a devilish grin. Dang he has a good memory. I really need to get him a girlfriend so he can butt out of my love life and I can butt into his instead.
"Max! He is not my boyfriend! Well, he is a boy and a friend but he's not my boyfriend! Is everyone clear?" Okay it's official. My family is totally going to embarrass me beyond belief when he gets here. But the question is will I be able to ever live it down? I already know the answer is no so there's no point in bringing it up.
"May has a boyfriend? Where is this young man?" asked Norman. Oh geez, my mom may be completely open to me having a boyfriend- and even pushing for me to have one- but my dad on the other hand… well let's just say that he might kill Drew without a second thought and bury him in the woods.
"Daddy!" I ran up to him and gave him a hug. "And I do not have a boyfriend! It seems that you all need to get that through your thick heads so I'm going out to the greenhouse to check on everyone." I stormed out the door I just walked through what seemed like minutes ago.
"I think she's in denial that Drew's not her boyfriend yet," said Max.
"I heard that!" I saw him flinch. Good he should be afraid. Crushes are a very delicate subject for girls because most of them end up the way they got their name, by crushing you. But I'm not sure, there's just something different about him that sets him apart from all the other guys I know.
I walked out back to the greenhouse and ran through the doors. Immediately the heat and humidity hit me like a face plant into the ground. I took a few steps in allowing the doors to close behind, and trying to adjust to the climate change. I took a deep breath. It was like I was drinking the air there was so much moisture in it. Yep! Just like the tropical climate of Hoenn!
"Hey everybody I'm back!" I smiled at the small mob of Pokémon who were running towards me. "Hey guys how have you been? Beautifly your wings look gorgeous! Munchlax I hope you haven't eaten everything in your path… at least not in front of anyone. Skitty wow your coat is so shiny! Bellossom your flowers are so pretty! Illumise you look so healthy! Spoink your pearl is glowing! You all look really well taken care of!" Aww my precious Pokémon! I've missed you all so much!
"Well I sure hope they do. After all I have been taking care of them," replied a voice from behind me. My first thought was shit some creeper just walked into the greenhouse and is now messing with my head. My second thought was that whoever this guy is he's going to get his ass kicked big time. No one interrupts my reunion with my Pokémon except for me! And maybe Drew. But hold on a minute, my Pokémon don't seem like they're staring at a total stranger, and the voice did seem a tiny bit familiar. Oh well, no harm in finding out whom it could be.
I turn to find none other than my childhood best friend. His white silver hair was slicked back and over his jeans and red t-shirt sat a white lab coat. Wow, looks like someone's hit puberty finally, and doesn't look half bad either. I bet he finally has a girlfriend by now. I wonder who she could be? Well, let's see… ahh I have no clue.
"Brendan Birch! What are you doing here? Last I heard from you, you wanted to be a Pokémon master." I remember when we were younger and we would go out to Petalburg Woods and play with all of the wild Pokémon. He would always pretend to be a Pokémon master and come and save me from all of the scary bug Pokémon that attacked me. Then he would walk me home and we would repeat everything the next day.
We had some fun times until the day he turned ten and left on his Pokémon journey. I can still recall the day I lost my best friend. I was standing at the edge of town waving him good bye way past the time he was out of sight. Finally my dad came and carried me home while I was balling my eyes out. When we finally got back I ran up to my room, slammed the door shut, and locked myself in. I cried myself to sleep that night with my face buried in my pillow. But that's all in the past now. The only person who could make me cry like that ever again would have to be Drew.
"Well, then it's been a long time since we've talked," he said laughing. "Awhile ago I decided to follow in my dad's footsteps and become a Pokémon researcher. I was already studying Pokémon that I met on my journey and after my third region I decided to stick with it. Your dad let's me come out here and help him with the Pokémon now that Max isn't home anymore." Wow, you can really tell which one of us had the brains way back when. If you haven't guessed yet it's the one with the lab coat. I always knew Brendan was a smarty pants.
"I'm so happy for you Brendan!" I took a step forward and closed the remaining space between us with a hug. I breathed in his sent. It was familiar yet comforting, but it was wrong.
Max's P.O.V. (Spying on May)
Ugh! No not Brendan! He could ruin May and Drew getting together. Hm… I'll just have to fix it myself. Now what to do about it? I'm going to need a plan and maybe a backup plan too since my first plan never seems to work out. Okay plan A; maybe get Team Aqua or Team Magma to kidnap Brendan and turn him into an evil commander. Nah, that wouldn't work, an evil Brendan might try and kill Drew to get May back. Plan B could be-
"Son, what are you doing spying on your sister?" Oh crap I'm so busted. I turned to face my doom.
"Well um you see dad…" Come on brain think of an excuse! Um… nope just coming up blank once again. Of course I can name off everything about any Pokémon there is, but I can't think of an excuse.
"Why didn't you invite me?" I let out a sigh of relief. Thank goodness I don't have normal parents or I could seriously get into some major trouble one of these days.
"I'll remember to invite you next time, okay?" I turned back to the greenhouse and my mouth fell open. May…and…Brendan… hugging… each other? Has the world gone officially mad or something and I just happened to miss the memo? What the hell is going on!
"Dad! Do you see that? May is hugging Brendan!" Will someone please gag me? Please someone erase that awful image from my memory. Yuck, there is no way I am going to let snow head become my future brother-in-law, not a chance. He's way too much of a goodie two shoes to be any fun. Plus given the choice between a researcher and a top coordinator for my brother-in-law, I would have to pick top coordinator. A researcher would just be so boring.
"I always did like Brendan more than that green haired player. Good thing she's over him now because I really do like Brendan more. Imagine it, if they got married and had kids they would have a gym leader and a researcher for their grandpas." I could picture it, but my day dream ended with Drew coming back into the picture and May leaving Brendan and running off with him into the sunset. May would do something like that anyway.
"Are you joking me? I may not like Drew all that much, but even I can tell that May is in love with him! Example one, she's kept every single one of the roses he's given her over the past six years." Take that kind of evidence and try and twist it!
"Well, I just hope she gets over him before she starts traveling with her new friend." Yah that's right don't even try and figure out how to bend the truth. Hey wait a second, who in the world does he think she's going to be traveling with? Because he isn't a new friend and is also the person you want to kill. I wonder if his hearing is really already going?
"Were you even paying attention when mom told us what May said? She's going to be traveling around with DREW!" He sweat dropped. Yah, his hearing is going, or maybe it's his brain. Then again it could be his whole selective hearing thing that he always does.
"Oh, I um knew that. Hey, could you go with your sister and keep an eye on her and Drew? There's something about that boy I don't like. Yah that's a great idea! You can spy on them for me." Ew! I don't want to have to tag along with my sister and her boyfriend! Gross! I mean it was bad before when they just ran into each other at the occasional contest or the Grand Festival. But them together all the time? Yah I would rather take on all of the legendary Pokémon at once by myself.
"DAD! The Rose Islands don't have gyms," Okay that was a lie, but no way in hell am I going! "and I already told you that I'm heading out to the Johto Region this year." Ah, the Johto Region. Headed by another weird person as region champion, I mean Lance is a cool guy and all but is there a need for a cape? It's not like he's a superhero even if he is a member of the Pokémon G-Men.
"Oh that's right, you just finished the Sinnoh Region." Ah, Cynthia is another weird champion. She may not have a cape, but come on dressing in all black is a little bit weird if you ask me. And what's with her hair things? What are they even supposed to be? I'll never understand why champions are all so weird.
"Yah that would account for me competing in the Pokémon League there," I sweat dropped. Why are my parents so clueless sometimes? I may never know. I hope that I won't become anything like my parents when I'm older or else I'm going to feel really bad for my children.
"I still like Brendan better." Ugh, must we really talk about him? No one likes him! At least no one that matters.
"Well, I like Drew better."
"Let's make a bet then." A bet? Now you're talking my language.
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