Chapter 6:

Disclaimer: I do not own pokémon, just the story.

Iris's POV

It was dinner and we all sat in the cafeteria, waiting for Dawn and Paul.

"Can't we just eat now?" Ash was whining because he was hungry...like usual.

"No, we agreed at the beginning of the year; we don't eat until everyone is here." I told him, for the millionth time.

"But I'm hungry!" he continued whining.

"You're such a kid." I looked to see if Dawn and Paul were in the cafeteria yet because I was getting really hungry. Dawn said she was just going to get him.

They finally walked in. they came to the table and sat down in their spots. I noticed Paul's hair was messier than usual. I wasn't the only one, Gary noticed and said something.

"Okay, getting someone doesn't take all that long, and your hair is a mess. Explain yourselves." Well that's Gary being Gary; straight to the point.

"I fell asleep, sue me." Paul was still grouchy, great.

"And he wouldn't wake up." Dawn added grabbing her plate.

"Now, can we eat?" Ash was still going on about that. That kid.

"Yes Ash we can eat now!" Drew yelled at him, throwing a handful of potatoes at him, hoping to shut him up. It hit his face and he just looked at Drew. Grabbed some food and threw it at Drew.

Drew ducked and it hit a kid from another table. The kid threw some back our way. Oh this is going to be good. Ash ducked making the food hit a kid from yet another table.

"Damn it! This was my new outfit!" she said.

She threw food back our way. This time it hit Dawn. All the guys laughed, even Paul.

"Oh you think it's funny?" she asked as she got up and walked over to Paul.

Dawn picked up his plate and shoved his face into it. A bunch of people laughed at this even people not at our table.

"Hey guys, you know what this means?" Gary asked us. Leaf looked at him they both stood up and grabbed food.

"FOOD FIGHT!" They yelled together. They may hate each other sometimes, but Arceus do they think alike.

After the whole cafeteria was covered in food, May looked devastated. She hadn't joined the fight like she usually would.

"May, what's with you? Were in the middle of a food fight and you are just sitting there!" I yelled at her hoping she would join our team.

"People, wasting, so much, food." She was stuttering between words. May started to look angry. "That is so wasteful! People need to pay!" the flames were in her eyes like when she will kill someone. She grabbed food and started throwing it at people. That's the May I know.

At the end of dinner, we all had to clean the cafeteria. It took what seemed like forever. When we finally finished cleaning it was nine o'clock. Leaf, May, Drew and I needed to get back to the dorm to practice our lines once more before our drama presentations tomorrow.

"Alright guys we're gonna head back to the dorm, go over our lines some more. See you in the morning." I said as the others started walking away.

"Alright, I think we are going to head back soon." Misty waved goodbye.

I went back to the room with the others; Leaf went to the living room and played Xbox,

"Leaf, I thought you were going to go over lines. Not play Xbox." Drew asked.

"Are you kidding, I'm playing this while you guys aren't on it." she said. Drew shrugged at her comment.

"I'm going to my room, see you later." I said, I went to my room and found my script. I began practicing lines.

May's POV

"Drew I'll go to your room later, I'm just going to have a shower. Then we can rehearse lines." I told drew as I backed up towards the hall.

"Okay, just come in when you're ready." He told me as he shooed me off.

I walked to my room, deciding I would have a ten minute shower so I could get this food out of my hair. I turned on the water so it was the perfect mixture of hot and cold. I stepped in the shower and washed my hair.

Once I stepped out I threw a towel around my body and went into my bedroom. I choose to wear my pajamas, I red baggy shirt and an old pair of booty shorts. I decided to leave my hair the way it was.

I went out my door and walked across the hall to Drew's. He said to just go in so I guess I will. I opened his door. There stood Drew in boxers. Damn it he said just come in. "Sorry, you said come in so I did" I said trying to hide the blush on my face.

"Nah, I didn't think you would be that fast, it's fine." He assured me. He threw on a pair of black basketball shorts.

"You're not wearing a shirt?" I asked him, the blush had left my face.

"Um no, I'm going to bed after."

"Uh okay." I sat down on his bed and opened my script.

"Alright um, what haven't we practiced?"

"Uuuhhhhh," I looked through the script we had to read. "All we haven't practiced is the um, kiss"

"Oh I thought we had something other than that" he told me.

I was looking at the script that I had lied down on the bed. "Do you just wanna go over the script again?"

"Well I was actually thinking of something else."

"What does that mean?" I looked up to see Drew a few inches away from my face.

"Well, you know we didn't practice one thing." Drew leaned in to kiss me. But I pulled away. I couldn't take a kiss just like that.

"What's up?" he asked me.

"I-I can't kiss you, you know I've never kissed anyone before."

"So, it's practicing for school, does it really count?"

"Yes and that's why I can't do it! You are just my partner for a project. I would've switched back but Solidad said we couldn't. You don't care for me."

"Why do you assume I don't care for you, ive known you for almost a month? I've lived with you, I've put up with you."

"Because you yell at me and we've never really hung out." I got up off his bed and walked around the room.

I turned around and there he was right behind me. He grabbed my waist and pulled me close to him. Before I could do anything, his lips crashed with mine. It was only a second before he pulled away.

I stood there shocked, I really wasn't expecting that. "Now that you're quiet I can talk. Just because of that doesn't mean I don't care for you, you're my friend,"

"y-y-you, k-kissed me." I couldn't get over what he just did.

"Yes, to shut you up. And plus now we've practice everything." He smirked.

"Yay for us; but you will pay for this." I walked back over to the bed to grab my script.

"For what?" Drew was confused; I've never really seen him confused.

"For taking my first kiss, idiot. I wanted it with someone special but you had to go and take it." I stormed out of his room. I had to get my revenge now. He wasn't getting away with this. I'll talk to the girls later.

Leaf's POV

I finished up on Xbox and went to rehearse my lines once more before the performance tomorrow. Red was my partner, he is sweet; he didn't mind my mess ups when I made them. We had practiced a bunch and he said I had really gotten better. Tomorrow I knew I couldn't mess up.

Alright, I know every line. That should be enough practice before tomorrow. I decided to go have a shower so I didn't have to have one tomorrow morning.

I went into the bathroom and turned on the shower. I liked it somewhat cold; everyone thinks I'm strange for it. I took my clothes off and stepped in the shower. I washed my hair and washed the food off my body as well.

Once I finished I stepped out of the shower and looked for a towel. I couldn't find one. I threw my shirt and underwear looking and decided to search my room. I swear there were towels in there.

I went into my room and searched everywhere. I'm now sopping wet making everywhere I go wet as well. I went to my closet, damn nothing here either. I turned back around and saw Gary on my bed. My eyes widened and I filled with anger and embarrassment.

"Looking for this?" he held up a towel.

"You jack-ass!" I screamed as I bolted for the towel. He pulled it away just out of my reach.

"Ah, ah, ah. I don't see why you need it, you are already dressed. And might I add, a little hot and wet." He smirked and bolted out of the room, with the towel that I needed. How did he even get in here?

I chased after him. We ended up in the living room; I was chasing him when he just stopped. I tackled him to the ground and sat on top of him so he couldn't get up.

"Give it," I barked.

"Now why would I do that when I'm enjoying this so much?" he continued this smirk of his. I didn't know what he meant, then I realized. Holy shit. I'm still in my underwear and a sopping wet t-shirt that I have nothing underneath.

My faced flushed with red. "You fucking pervert! Just give me the fucking towel!" I started hitting him.

"Get a room would you!" I stopped and turned to see everyone who hadn't come back to the room early sitting in the living room. I blushed harder.

"You know, you're right Paul, we should" Gary said as he pushed me of because I was not focused. He picked me up and carried me towards his room.

"Put me down you bastard!" I said as he put my over his shoulder. I began hitting his back.

Once we got to Gary's room he threw me on his bed. Then he went back to the door and closed it. "What do you want?" I asked him as I sat up. I pulled my knees to my chest and hugged my legs trying to cover myself up.

"Sorry I had to get you alone somehow." He told me.

"I'll ask again, what do you want?"

"You know your partner for that drama thing you have tomorrow."

"Red? What about him?" I became confused to as how Red had anything to do with this.

"I need to know. Do you like him?"

"Well, ya he's a good friend."

"That's not what I meant. I mean, do you like him."

"I don't know. Plus why would I tell you?"

"Because he was talking to some kid in the hall, I overheard how all he wants to do with you is to make other girls jealous. He's just going to use you."

"You know Gary. You can be a lot of things, but to embarrass me in front of all my friends like that and just tell me a lie! Red is sweet, I'd rather date him than you!" I yelled. I got off his bed and began walking towards the door.

"He's an actor Leaf; he's been acting this whole time!" Gary tried to get me to understand but I didn't listen. I knew Red was nice and he wouldn't do that. I opened the door and slammed it on the way back to my room.

I had dried off enough I got changed out of my now wet clothes and into a baggy shirt and basketball shorts. I climbed under the covers of my bed. You will pay for that Gary. I will make sure of it. I slowly drifted off into a deep sleep.

The next morning I woke up at six o'clock, enough time to get ready slowly. I found my green skinny jeans, and my black Metallica muscle shirt. I put them on and had to choose what shoes to wear. Hmm, black heals or gold and black skate shoes...heals. I grabbed my black strappy heals. I packed my back and lime green laptop bag and put my drama script in it as well as my book, I just started reading the hunger games, and my sheet music for my classes today. We had Health today so I didn't need to bring gym clothes.

I walked out of my room and into the kitchen to get a glass of orange juice before I left to go to the cafeteria for breakfast. I poured a glass of orange juice and looked at the time. "Oh my Arceus it's seven thirty! Breakfast ends soon!" I gulped down my orange juice and ran to the cafeteria.

I got to the cafeteria in two minutes there was still twenty eight minutes left. One thing confused me; there was no one there. My iPhone was ringing in my pocket. I took it out and saw that Misty was calling me.

"Hello?" I answered Misty and I heard o bunch of talking in the background.

"Leaf where are you!" she screamed over the noise.

"In the caf what's going on!" I questioned her in panic.

"Get out to the forest now! And hurry, we'll meet you at the door!" the phone went dead and I did what Misty told me.

I opened the back door that lead to the forest.

"Leaf!" a heard the call of all my roommates.

"What's going on?" I was scared and at the same time confused.

"Someone's in the school rampaging. We were all told to come out here." Cilan told me.

"We need to get into the forest with everyone else. Now!" Iris said pulling me and Cilan by the wrist.

We all began to run to the forest, when Paul stopped. "Paul, come on." Dawn said as she began to pull him along.

"I can't I know who it is." He said and dropped his head. "It's my mother, my drug addict and alcoholic mother. She's looking for me."

"What!" the members of his band yelled.

"I thought she was locked up!" Ash stated

"She was; Reggie said she was looking for me. She escaped and he told her before he got to beaten. She wants me. She wants to finish what she started." He said as he threw Dawn off of him. "I'm going to finish this." He began walking towards the school.

Dawn got back up; she began walking to the school. "Dawn! What are you doing?" I screamed at her.

"I'm going to get Paul, he'll listen to me." She didn't turn around she just kept walking. I was going to run and get her but Gary stopped me.

"Let her go. She's right Paul might just listen to her." Drew said. "We don't want to be around when Paul and his mom meet up."

Gary picked me up because I wasn't moving and carried me deeper into the forest with the others.

Paul's POV

That bitch, she does all these things and gets put in jail. Then she escapes and goes back to her old ways. Of course, I had made my way back into the school and was looking for my mom.

"Paul, where are you?" I heard a voice it wasn't my mom's though. It was Troublesome`s. what was she doing here! If my mom found her she might get hurt. Damn it. I need to get her out of here. I heard a scream. Fuck, she found Troublesome!

I ran to the scream. There was troublesome being held hostage by my mother. "Let her go!" I growled. I could see the fear in Troublesome's eyes, she looked like she was about to cry.

"Paul!" she was relieved to see me I guess.

"Shut up girl!" my mother held a gun up to Troublesome. She began to cry and tried to get out of my mother's grip. "Paul, if you want your girlfriend to live you will come back home." She was blackmailing me. I needed to stay here but I can't let troublesome die.

I growled at her, "Fine, let the girl go." She threw Troublesome to the ground, she shrieked. I ran up to Troublesome. "You okay?" I asked in worry. She nodded her head, she was still in tears.

I turned to my mom, "You bitch!" smack! She slapped my face. Next thing I knew I was on the ground, being whipped with that same damn belt as when I was a kid. I didn't have the strength to get back up. I tried anyway.

"Don't try to run away! You little punk!" she kick me back down, and then whipped me more. This brought back the memories I hated, the memories that made me the way I am. This pain was even worse than before.

All of a sudden it stopped. I looked up to see a very, very pissed off Troublesome. This is going to be good, I've seen her angry but never this angry. My body was still in pain.

"You are a huge bitch. You can hurt people, you can be an alcoholic, you may be a drug addict, but that doesn't give you a reason to beat your own child! I don't care what he may have done! You don't have a reason to do any of that." Troublesome screamed at my mom. "And also, I'm not his girlfriend, he can't stand me! Another thing, you never, ever, ever hold a gun up to me!" she freaked out on my mom, apparently she knows Karate. Before I knew it my mother was on the ground and troublesome was on top of her, pinning her down.

We waited for five minutes without saying anything, the police came in. Officer Jenny came up to me. "Wait here, I'll have Nurse Joy for you in one minute!" she rushed off to find the Nurse.

Other officers had my mom in handcuffs and thanked Troublesome. After that she came up to me. "Are you okay?" she asked me in a sweet voice, trying to be caring. Why is it that she is always caring for me? I nodded to her question. "What was that all about anyway? I mean there has to be something behind all that."

"It's none of your business!" I snarled at her. She didn't need to know.

"Um, ya it is! I just saved you ass! I have a right to know what happened or at least why she was here!" She put her hands her hips and waited for me to explain.

"I said you don't need to know!" I snapped at her and stood up and was about to walk away, when she grabbed my wrist.

"You're bleeding. Sit down." I looked at my arm and saw a huge cut with blood flowing out of it. How didn't I notice this? I sat back down.

"Paul, tell me what happened." It was more of a command now, how did people put up with her.

"You don't need to know," I turned my head away in shame, only my band mates knew about what happened and my brother.

"Yes I do!" why must she argue with this.

"No you don't, it's not your life! I don't need to tell you!" just then Nurse Joy came over to me.

"Excuse me Paul, I need you to stop yelling at your girlfriend and let me take care of your wounds." She said

Troublesome looked at her. "He isn't my boyfriend, he never would be. He's an ass. He'll be lucky if some could ever love him." She turned to walk away, "no wonder your mom hates you." Was all she said before she walked away.

At that point I wanted to slap her. She doesn't know what I've been through. She better watch out, the only reason I didn't go after her is because Nurse Joy had a hold of my arm and was treating the cut.

Once Nurse Joy finished I began to walk back to my room. Because of the incident school was cancelled for the week. I don't get why it was a whole week. I saw my friends in the hall they looked like they were looking for me because once they saw me they ran up to me.

"Yo Paul, you okay?"

"You look pretty bad, what happened?"

"Is everything okay, you seemed upset?"

I was bombarded with questions. I didn't want to talk to anyone. I just shoved threw them and kept heading to the dorm. They didn't bother to follow me. They probably knew that I didn't want to talk.

Once I reached the dorm I went inside and they girls were there and they looked mad. "What did you do to Dawn!" Misty seemed angry. She grabbed my good arm. And I just threw her to the ground.

"Don't touch me!" I continued to me room. I opened the door and walked inside the dark room. I walked over to the dresser and opened the drawer. I took out the bottle I had in there and a needle. My only way to get away from this, ketamine. I took it when I felt like I screwed up or I don't deserve to live. Right now I feel both.

I injected the ketamine and placed the needle on my desk. I went to lie on my bed; I just wanted to lie there, in the dark with nothing to bug me.

I heard my door open. I looked over to see Gary. "What's your problem! Nurse Joy said that Dawn helped you and you just flipped on her. I thought you were okay, but I was clearly wrong! You are a bastard!" he looked around the room and rushed to my desk. Damn it, I knew I should've hid that needle. "You took it again; I thought you said you stopped." There was a worry in his voice. He knew that I did drugs a lot and I quit all of them. I always kept that bottle just in case I needed it. "Fuck man, what is wrong with you lately?" he left the room and slammed the door. I heard yelling coming from the living room. It sounded like a fight between two people but I couldn't tell who.

Gary's POV

What is wrong with him! I go in to yell at him and see that he's on drugs again. I stormed out of his room, he said he had stopped. He was best friend, and he lied to me, he hurt Dawn. I've never seen him like this before. I mean I've seen him angry, but never like this.

I went to the living room to see everyone there worried for our friends. Dawn hadn't come out from her room and the girls say she locked the door so no one could get in.

"What did Paul say?" Ash asked.

"Nothing! But you know what he's doing again!" I screamed at him, I didn't mean to I was just pissed at Paul.

"Just tell us! We don't have time to guess!" Misty yelled at me.

"He's on drugs again. He doesn't feel like he's worth anything. He said he had quit but he must feel bad about this whole thing." I told them.

"He did drugs before?" Iris asked.

This time Drew answered instead of me. "Ya, a couple years ago; he was really depressed and once he started he felt at ease. He stopped being so horrible and was one of the guys. After his mom went to jail and his brother took care of him, he had changed into what he is now. The pit of hate, emotionless; he had quit drugs but stayed the way he was." The boys and I all were looking towards the ground.

"I have a plan to fix this." Cilan said. "We just need to get Dawn out of her room, Iris that's where you come in." Cilan explained to us the plan.

Once Cilan finished Iris was up. She went to Dawn's door. "Axew, let's do this!" she called out her Axew. "Dragon rage!" Axew used dragon rage on the door to knock it down.

"My turn," I smirked and sneaked into Dawn's room. She seemed to be in the washroom, so I went and hid beside the door. I waited for her to come out.

I heard the door creaked open, as well as some sniffles. Here's my chance, I grabbed Dawn and threw her over my shoulder.

I walked towards the living room with her pounding my back. It wasn't as bad as Leaf's so it didn't affect me.

"Where am I supposed to put her?" I asked the group of people that were seated around the coffee table playing cards.

They all looked at me, "remember you were supposed to take her across the hall." May said.

"Oh yeah." I snapped my fingers and carried Dawn to Paul's room. I opened his door and walked to the bed where he was still lying. I threw dawn on the bed. She was still crying.

"Talk about it. Paul you make her feel better and Dawn you get Paul to stop using drugs." I ran out of the room and closed the door. "Scizor, watch the door!" I called out Scizor and went to the living room with the others.

"Alright Scizor is watching the door, now we wait." I said. I walked over to the coffee table. "Deal me in." Drew did as I said and gave me some cards.

And end of chapter. Ahh it feels good to finish this chapter, I was making it up as I went. I was going to do this later in the story but I felt it should be now in order to make the bond between Dawn and Paul stronger for ideas I have in the future.

I'm am going to start following the whole Wednesday and Saturday upload time now. This week and last week were an acceptation because of me going away and it just being published.