Chapter 8

Love the support guys: D I needed to add Luckyshipping in this story, it will only be for a bit, and I'm not sure how long yet. I'm sorry, don't hate me. But it is a very crucial part of the story.

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

Drew's POV

A few months of school had passed. It was the finally October, next month we had finals. The year was going by so fast.

Everyone was sitting in the living room and Leaf and Gary were arguing again. I think it was about what to watch. Ugh, they get so annoying. I slouched sown into the couch, when I was nudged in the side. I looked over to see May; she looked as if she was scolding me. She began to speak; well it seemed like a lecture. "You know you shouldn't slouch, if you slouch it will ruin your posture. Posture is important, especially since you play keyboard." She kept going and I ignored her and just watched TV. SMACK. I felt her slap me upside the head.

"OW, what was that for?" I yelled at her while rubbing the back of my head. Man, did she hit me hard.

"For not listening to me!" she stood up and went to her room. All eyes in the room were on me except for Paul who had been lying in the chair, listening, well blasting his music through his headphones. Everyone looking at me gave me that 'you idiot' look. Leaf and Gary stopped arguing.

"You know Drew; you have to stop making her angry. Especially since we usually end up out of food when she's eating angry;" Misty raised an eye brow at me. She was sitting on one of the chairs and had her Azurill standing on her head.

Leaf's eye's widened, and she ran to her room. We heard her as she ran through the hall, "Oh my Arceus, I just remembered something!" then there was a loud thud. "I'm okay!" We all sweat dropped. About a minute later she appeared again with a brown leather jacket on and her black bag that was sort of like a purse. "I need to restock my stash; I only have a little left. Anybody want to come?" she smiled and rocked backed and forth on her feet.

"I was thinking of doing a little shopping later anyway. So sure," Dawn stood up. "Just let me get me stuff from my room." With that said she skipped off to her room to get a jacket and her purse.

"I'll come too, May will be even angrier if we don't bring her along so I'll get her from her room." Misty grabbed a pokéball from her waist and aimed it at Azurill. "Azurill, return, if you stay out you will get into trouble." A red beam shot from the pokéball and put Azurill in it. Misty walked to get her stuff and May.

"I think I'll stay behind, I need to get Axew to learn some new moves. He's been having trouble lately." Iris told Leaf well patting Axew on the head; Axew was sitting on her lap.

Gary had moved to sit on the couch, he got comfortable. Mind you his comfy involved lying across the couch with his feet on my legs. I sighed, "do you mind?" I was really hoping the he would move his legs.

He was on his iPhone playing some game and he looked up at me. "Nah, you can stay there." He went back to playing on his phone. I groaned and lifted his feet so I could stand. "Oh good you moving, I was going to say something but didn't want to be rude." I gave him a glare.

"Yes because what you did wasn't rude at all."

"Oh, is the rich, well-mannered boy upset?" he said it kind of mockingly.

"Don't start with me pretty boy!" I raised my fist. Arceus Gary was being more annoying than usual.

"I am not a pretty boy!" he stood up from the couch and started a stare down. "I am irresistible! Just ask the girls at this school, I believe I've had more dates than you this year."

That was just uncalled for, I didn't have any dates this year. I'd been asked out by a ton but always said no, I didn't like any of them. Gary was a player. "Whoa, whoa, just because I haven't dated any one this year doesn't mean anything, you are just a player!"

"I am not a player!" are faces were just inches away from each other.

"Yes you are! You have a date with a new girl every week!" I heard the clicking of heels; I guess that Misty and May were coming to the living room.

"I do not, I dated yellow for two weeks!" he held up two fingers to my face. I shoved his hand away.

"Oh and that makes a difference! You have dated more than tw-" I was cut off by being punched in the face. Gary was punched too.

"OW!" we yelled in unison. We rubbed our cheeks where we were hit and turned to see a pissed Leaf, her eye's literally had fire in them.

"IF EITHER OF YOU SAY ANOTHER WORD I WILL BEAT YOU TO PULP! GARY YOU ARE A PLAYER! DREW YOU ARE RICH AND WELL MANNERED SO YOU ARE EASY TO MAKE FUN OFF! SO JUST DROP IT BEFORE I DO SOMETHING YOU WILL WISH I HADEN'T!" I shut up. I did not need to beaten up; especially if I was beaten up by a girl. Plus she might ruin my perfect face. I saw Gary in the corner of my eye smiling. Oh Arceus, he's gonna get killed.

"You know Leaf; I don't think you could beat me up, you like me too much. Let's face it, you want to date me." And he's dead.

Leaf grabbed his neck, she began to strangle him. Gary tried to pull her off but she wasn't budging. I quickly went and grabbed her around the waist and pulled her away from Gary. Dawn grabbed her hands and attempted to pry them off of Gary's neck.

A minute later Leaf had finally been pulled off Gary; although, Gary was almost passed out on the floor. He was hugging Leaf ankles saying he was sorry. May and Misty came out and were confused as hell. Leaf had shaken Gary off and Dawn was explaining what happened. I decided I would go with the girls, check out the music store well we were out.

"Can I come with you guys too?" I was kind of shy about this. I rubbed the back of my neck waiting for a response.

The girls were shocked to hear this, their faces showed it. "Um, sure I guess." Dawn finally said. She was elbowed by May and May whispered something to her. They began fighting over something. In the end May pouted and crossed her arms. What's with her?

"If Drew's going I should come too," Gary said as he walked over to the girls. Leaf muttered something to herself, probably about Gary being stupid or something.

"Off we go!" Misty cried as she opened the door and began walking out. We all followed behind. I noticed that May was staying far away from me; she'd been acting weird since our fight. She'll be back to normal soon, knowing her.

We had finally reached the plaza after a twenty minute walk. Leaf ran off from the group to find the candy shop so she could restock her 'stash'. She was really childish when it came to her candy. She ate a lot of it too. After the first month she always had a sucker in her mouth, usually green, her favourite flavour.

"I'm going to make sure she doesn't buy everything in the store. Text me where you guys go so we can meet up after." Gary said as he waved bye to us and ran off to find Leaf. What was he planning this time? Every time he follows her he has a plan to get her to like him, or forgive him for being an ass. Whatever it is, he'd better not flirt; I mean after what happened in the dorm, he could get killed if he flirted.

Leaf's POV

Once we reached the plaza I ran off from the others to find my favourite story, the candy shop. I had been there so often they knew me there, we were pretty good friends too. I was running avoiding all the people I could then, BAM! I fell to the ground; I looked up to see that Red was there.

"Oh sorry Red," I stood back up and brushed the dirt off me. "I'm sort of in a rush." I gave him a small smile. I was a little embarrassed; here I am running into people. And of all People it had to be Red. Ever since we did our skit in drama at the beginning of the year I had slowly developed a crush on him.

"It's okay, where are you off to in such a rush anyway?" he laughed a little, he had his usual bright smile on his face.

"I'm going to the candy shop. I need to stock up. I only have about a weeks' worth of candy left." I told him.

He shook his head, "So you have a giant bag still." I giggled, he knew me so well. I nodded me head.

I could hear my name being called in the distance. It was Gary, damn it. I need to move fast, I'll get another lecture if he catches me with Red. "Alright Red, I've gotta run, I'll see you in drama tomorrow. Bye," I gave a wave as I sprinted to the candy shop.

I still heard Gary behind me. Damn, why is he following me! I finally reached the candy shop and all my anger was replaced with excitement. I was greeted by the workers and went to see what candy they had in stock today. I heard the bell ring signalling the door had opened. I turned to see that it was Gary. I quickly hid in one of the isles. I could hear him asking one of the employees something, "hey, has a girl with long chestnut hair come in here, she's wearing a brown leather jacket and she's really hot." I blushed slightly at the fact he called me really hot, I mean he's called me smoking, gorgeous, adorable, and irresistible plus everything else that a player calls a girl, but hot was never mentioned.

"Sounds like Leaf, if that's her name then ya. She went to the back of the store;" damnit why'd he have to tell Gary. I figured he'd find me someway so I went and started collecting what I needed.

I grabbed the last bag and filled it up with some gummy worms. I turned to go to buy my items and get the suckers that the store held for me, but I was scared half to death by Gary standing there with arms crossed. "Aaahh" I shrieked, I dropped the bags of candy in my hand.

"I came to make sure you didn't buy the whole store. I see I'm a little late for that though." I bent down and started collecting the bags of candy from the floor. Gary decided to help me out.

"I didn't buy near the whole store; I just bought enough to get me through next month." I stood up with half the bags and Gary stood with the other half. We began walking to the front of the store so I could by my things.

He muttered something to himself and I didn't bother with asking what he said. We had reached the front of the store and went to the check out. "Hi Leaf, would you like the suckers we've had them for a couple of days but we did save them for you." I smiled, the store workers know me so well.

"Of course I do!" I put all the candy I was buying on the counter so I could pay.

"Alright the total is less than last time, its $68.37" the clerk told me. I was digging through my bag for my wallet when I felt a hand on my shoulder. I looked up to see it was Gary.

"I'll pay, with the way you're going, you'll be broke by the end of the school year." He handed the clerk some bills and smiled at me. He had a nice smile, when he wasn't hitting on me or some other girl. So I never really saw this smile.

"Uh, thanks." I was confused why he did it. Might be a form of hitting on me again, "Gary, this isn't another way of you flirting again is it?" I crossed my arms and shifted my body weight onto my right leg. I gave him a suspicious look, I knew him way too well.

"How dare you accuse me of that!" we grabbed my bags and began walking out the door. "I'm just practicing."

I looked up to him, "Practicing for what?" I was scared yet relieved.

He responded without looking at me, "For when you are my girlfriend, I mean I will pay for things, so I'm just practicing."

I stopped dead in my tracks. "Gary, why are you so consistent at saying we will be dating some day?" he stopped and looked at me now. I tapped my foot waiting for answer.

"Uh, because I know that you want to date me?" he smiled trying to cover up his lie. That idiot, he knew better than to say that kind of stuff.

"Nice try. Now tell me the real reason." What was with him lately, he been acting weird since like mid-September.

"Damn you figured me out. The truth is," he took a deep breath, please tell me he was not about to tell me he has feelings for me. I was really praying here, "It's fun to bug you about it. Plus you should be honored I could think of you as my girlfriend. You haven't had a single date all year." I guess he realized what he said and my glare. Gary bolted away from me in fear; I smiled and skipped following the way he went.

After a while, I had skipped my way to Gary and the gang. Gary was hiding behind Drew, wimp. "Oh hey Leaf, got all your candy I see." Dawn smiled at me, she had a few shopping bags, so did May and Misty so I guess they bought some clothes.

"Oh Leaf we saw these bean bag chairs, they were a really good price, we figured we'd let you know because there are usually people sitting on the floor in the living room." Misty said as we began to walk through the plaza the guys behind us.

"OH YA, they had so many colours, we were thinking about buying one for each of us and Iris. But we wanted to show you first." May said excitedly. May got excited about the strangest things. She began to pull me to a store; I'm guessing the one where they saw the bean bag chairs.

We arrived at the store and I saw so many different colours of the chairs, they were perfect. "I think we should get them! Especially since they are only $15 each, so it's a total about $80 with tax," I smiled at them and was looking for a green one. I finally found one, lime green, perfect. May got red, Dawn got hot pink and Misty picked a cerulean one, she said it was the name of her home town so it was her favourite colour. We all picked out a purple one for Iris.

"Umm guys, how are we getting these back? I mean the covers (colour on the outside) are bought and you get the chair part separately." Dawn was making a really good point. We all thought for a minute and then turned to the guys. They saw us and we gave them the puppy dog pout.

"RUN, RUN NOW GARY!" Drew screamed as he tried to push past Gary to get out of carrying the chairs. Gary fell over and Drew tripped over him. We all burst out in a laughing fit. I went over and squatted down, and patted Gary on the head.

"Thanks for volunteering Gary," I stood back up and went to the check out with the girls.

Once we got back to the dorm only Paul was there, he was in the same spot as when we left to go shopping. Gary and Drew dropped the chairs then fell over into them. "I'm never getting up again." Drew mumbled into the chair.

"Well you need to if we can say thanks." Dawn told them as she put her hands on her hips.

Gary lifted his head up. "We don't need thanks." Gary said before dropping his head back down. Just then there was a knock on the door. We all looked at it.

"I'll get it since no one else is." I rolled my eyes and went to the door and opened it. I saw Red there, surprising because I didn't invite him. "Uhh, hi Red; what are you doing here?"

He looked away slightly, "well I wanted to ask you something." My eyes widened, Oh my Arceus, please ask me out, stay cool Leaf, stay cool.

"Alright, well I'm here so, ask away." I put on a friendly smile. I walked out of the room and closed the door so that we could have some privacy because I knew the girls were looking at me and Red.

"Well there's a Halloween dance coming up, and I was asked to deliver the news that your band needs to play a song." My face dropped in disappointment. I really thought he was going to ask me out. "But that wasn't what I needed to ask you." I had my face down looking at the floor, he put his hand on my chin and lifted my face, I never noticed how his eyes were red, I'd always thought they were brown. "I wanted to know if you wanted to go to the dance with me."

"Y-you mean like a d-date?"

"I mean a date." My eyes were getting watery, I hugged him and he hugged me back.

"Yes, I would love to go to the dance with you." We pulled away from our hug and he wave good bye before I went back in the dorm. The girls bombarded me wanting to know what happened and what he asked me. "Well, there is a Halloween dance and we are preforming a song. What am I forgetting...oh ya, RED ASKED ME TO THE DANCE!" they girls shrieked in excitement.

"What's with all the freaking yelling!" we stopped screaming and looked over to Paul, who was rubbing his eyes.

"Well mister grouchy pants," Dawn put her and on her hips. "Leaf was asked out." Gary seemed some what angered by this, whatever I have a date with Red!

Gary's POV

The day of the dance had finally arrived, which I was pretty happy about; we got the whole day off school, even though it didn't start until 9. The guys and I were sitting in the living room. Paul was strumming his guitar, Cilan was reading through his cookbook, Drew and I were playing through Halo 3 on legendary for the fifth time and Ash was eating a blue sucker; I didn't know where he got it but I figured he got it went he went to get some food yesterday.

"Who touched my candy?" Leaf came storming out screaming. She was furious, I realized she just said candy and Ash was eating a sucker. Well he's had a good life; maybe we should start looking for a new drummer tomorrow. Leaf was glaring at us. "I'm going to say it again. Who the hell touched my candy?" she was looking directly at me. She began stomping her way towards me. "It was you Oak; I told you when we met to not touch the bag or the candy! You idiot!" she was about to hit me when I pointed towards Ash.

"Sorry buddy, I was beaten down yesterday. I don't need that again today." I told Ash, Leaf whipped he head to look at him. Ash took the sucker out of his mouth, and formed an o with his mouth. She growled.

Paul nudged Ash in the arm, "as much as you piss me off, we need a drummer. So I suggest you get the hell out of here and fast." Ash listened to him for once. He got up and bolted out the door.

"Get back here Ketchum!" Leaf followed quickly behind, she was still wearing her PJs; a blue crop top that fell off her shoulder and blue and black plaid pants. Her hair was all tangled because she hadn't brushed it yet.

Something occurred to me, Leaf had her date with Red today... it was at the dance. Oh I can ruin this date. "I'm going to my room, don't need me." I stood up and threw the controller on the ground, since I was sitting in Misty's bean bag chair.

"But dude, we only need to beat a couple more levels!" Drew tried to convince me to stay. I just gave him the look of 'no`.

Drew was about to turn off the Xbox after saving it, when we heard a voice. "I could play with you." We turned to see May was standing there in her favourite outfit, or so she had told us a million times. It consisted of a white tank top covered by a red collared t-shirt, blue biker shorts and her usual red bandana (A/N: her advanced generation outfit).

"You would get killed right away," Drew told her in a cocky tone. May walked over and picked up the remote.

"Oh really let's put that to the test, shall we" she sat down in her chair and they began to play. I was interested so I leaned against the wall and watched.

About 20 minutes later, they finished the level because Drew kept dying. "I don't get it how can you be that good at a shooting game, you're a girl, in a band, that likes to shop and eat food." May patted his head.

"You should never under estimate a girl, especially a girl that has a bother." She got up of her seat and went to the kitchen. She came back with the Nutella and a spoon. "I'm going to pick my costume out for tonight." She began to walk to her room.

"We need costumes!" I yelled surprised and turned to her.

"It's a Halloween dance, you wear a costume." She put a scoop of Nutella in her mouth before turning on her heals and walking away.

It was 8:30 and we were just about ready, the guys and I were in our costumes ready to go. Ash was dressed as a Pikachu, wearing a yellow long sleeve shirt that had two brown lines on the back and a Pikachu hat Cilan had made for him, with a pair of yellow skinny jeans he went and bought today, he took his brown belt and created a Pikachu tail to put on it. Drew was dressed as a Flygon; wearing a dark green bandana folded up on his head covered by a pair of big red goggles, he had gelled his hair back to form the top of a Flygon's head. He wore a green jacket with red seems that had the collar up; he also had a pair of jean green shorts that had a dark green circle on the front of both legs. He wore black glove that didn't cover his finger and a green belt with a red pattern on it. Paul was dressed as a Weavile, he wore a black hoodie with the hood up, on the hood was the red crown like a real Weavile and red ears, also it had the yellow gem like Weavile had on its forehead, he had on white gloves and black jeans. He had white skate shoes. Cilan was dressed as Pansage; he was wearing a yellowish brown long sleeve with the same colour mittens, he wore green pants and green high tops. He made his hair somewhat bush like on the top with, and wore a pair of green circular ears. I was dressed as Umbreon; I had a black long sleeve and black skinny jeans with yellow circles around my elbows and knees. I wore a hat Cilan made for me with a yellow circle on the front on the part covering my forehead and two ears like Umbreon's.

By 8:45 the girls came out of their rooms; they all looked...sexy. May was dressed as a Blaziken; she wore red flared jeans that faded into yellow blow the knee and a light brown halter top that went down just past her...-cough-chest-cough- there was a light brown cape that looked like the feathers coming off of Blaziken's head. She had gray gloves on that went and flare out at her wrist, the flare was coloured red and orange. She wasn't wearing anything on her head; she never had done that this year. Misty was dressed as a Togetic. She wore a white spaghetti strap dress that was loss after the hips; it went just about her knees. The bottom of the dress had blue and red triangle on it. She wore a small, white crown that had three points and little wings on her back the looked just like Togetic's. She wore simple white ballet flats. Iris was wearing greyish-green long sleeve with a green bandana around her neck. She had her hair pulled back into a ponytail and had a flat horn like thing that Axew has on the back of her head. She wore grey jeans and a dragon tail, to make her an Axew. Dawn was wearing a brown halter top that went to about her mid stomach. With it she wore a fluffy cream mini skirt that had a brown stubby tail on her tail bone; she had a head band on that hand a set on Bunneary ears on it. She wore cream high heal boots that went to her knees. Last was Leaf, she was dressed as a Leafeon. Wearing a strapless dress that went loose at the hips like Misty's, although Leaf's was a solid light yellow colour, she wore a belt around her waist that had a long tail, made to look like Leafeon's. She had a set of Leafeon ears and wore a Leaf pendent around her neck. She wore a pair of golden heels.

"Are we heading out, we need to prepare for our performance." May said as she walked towards the door.

"Ya we've been waiting for you girls for like half hour. Let's go" Drew said as he followed May to the door. May opened up the door to see Red was there. I really did not like him; well actually I didn't trust him. I heard what he said in the hall, I will watch him to make sure Leaf doesn't get hurt again.

"Red!" Leaf ran up and hugged him. He was dressed as an Espeon. Wearing all light purple and a tail, he also wore a red pendent on his fore head and big purple ears. "Ahh, we're both evolved forms of Eevee." She smiled at him.

"You know Leaf, I'm dresses as Umbreon, another Eeveelution," I said as I pushed passed her and Red trying to get out the door.

"Ya, ya, whatever." She shooed me off, being too interested in her date for the night. Ugh I can't stand him! We all began to walk to the front of the school where the dance was being held.

There, done chapter 8. I had originally planned to make the dance in this chapter but it was getting too long thanks to the beginning of the chapter. So the next chapter is going to be based only on the dance.

Thank you to XMidnightprincesSX for the costume ideas for Dawn and Paul.

A little bit of a summary for the next chapter. The best I can that is.

The girls finishing preforming and head over towards their friends. Red asks Leaf to dance but Gary doesn't seem to like that all that much, Gary intrudes and puts his and Leaf's friendship at risk. What will happen? You'll have to wait and see :P

I will do my best to update, I've been getting really distracted by my TV lately. As well as trying to find new songs for this story.

Hope you like that chapter, tell me what you think. Remember if you have any suggestions just PM me.