A/N: I really want more readers on this story lol feels weird having low viewers. But I'm not complaining, I'm still writing this story and completing it. I've already completed six chapters, and updates will be coming in.
Umm I might also consider working on another story along with this one, but first I would like to get a few chapters of that story done first before I even start thinking about posting another fanfic on this website.
The story that I am really interested in working on is based off the movie/book Fifty Shades of Grey. No, I have not read or watched the movie Fifty Shades of Grey yet, but I read and seen a lot of information about it that it gave me enough interest on working on a fanfic. The fanfic would be titled Fifty Shades of Gary. Yes, and the characters that I will be using is Gary Oak as Christian Grey and Leaf as Anastasia Steele. I'm pretty sure that I don't have to say much about this story because I'm sure most of you are familiar with it… but it's going to be written in MY version. So stay tuned for this story coming up soon. (;
Anyway, now onto the next chapter of My Black Dahlia.
It's been a few days since she had last spoken to him and of course Paul felt some type of way about it. But even he, himself needed some space, so he decided to let things slide on its own.
But Paul couldn't help but see her at least. He didn't want to talk, he just wanted to see her, to check up on her and see how she is doing.
Paul stopped by the dance room, sure to not be seen by her. He looked through the door to watch her dance and saw that she was wearing a black tank top with black shorts and black and white Nike footwear. Dawn had her hair pulled up in a messy ponytail, pieces of her hair clinging onto her neck due to the sweat she had developed while dancing.
"There's something scary about the look that's in your eyes. There's hate and anger in your face… There had been trouble and it comes as no surprise. You say tonight someone has taken someone else's life."
Paul didn't recognize the song at all, but he really admired watching Dawn dance. She always seemed like she forgot about everything that was around her, as if the dancing compelled her to forget her surroundings. But Paul watched as she danced with the song, her eyes closed as she moved from here and there. The way she danced was lovely and Paul couldn't even deny that.
"She's a marvelous dancer, isn't she?" A voice said, causing Paul to flinch at the sound of the unexpected presence of someone next to him. Paul looked at the girl beside him, not recognizing the girl at all.
She had long dark brown hair and all black on with a tight leather jacket and all black jeans; her hair flowed against her jacket with all the waves throughout her hair. She looked like she got her hair done at a salon. What made her look even more exotic were the shoes she was wearing; she was wearing black pumps.
The girl wasn't immune to his reaction, her eyes was on Dawn as she continued to speak. "A lot of girls would kill to be her; A Blue Diamond." She licked her bottom lip. "Head captain of the Blue Diamonds to be exact."
Paul stared at the brunette beside him, wondering why she was speaking to him and why she was there in the first place. "I can tell that you'd do anything for that girl."
Paul furrowed his eyebrows together, taken aback. "What? How do you know that?"
The girl narrowed her brown eyes at him to stare back into his onyx eyes. "Well everybody knows about you and her. You guys are quite the couple around here." She flashed him a cocky smirk before shaking her head, her hair falling to her back. "So tell me, why aren't you guys on speaking terms anymore?"
"And how did you know that?" Paul raised his eyebrow. Who was this girl? And how come she knew these things about him and his relationship with Dawn?
"I'm a keen observer," she told him, now waiting for him to answer her question.
Paul stared at the girl for a bit before answering her question. "We're fine; we're just taking a break from each other."
"How come?" The girl asked, curious.
Paul's face immediately fell flat. She must be one of those kinds of girls that won't stay out of people's business. "It's none of your business," he snapped.
The girl laughed lightly at his comment and then responded, "I can help you with whatever is going on."
"I don't need your help," he spat, "And plus, I don't even know you." He pushed himself off the door he was leaning on and started walking down the hall.
"I can find out a lot about Ash if you let me help you."
Paul stopped in his tracks, and the girl smiled, knowing that she caught his immediate attention.
Paul's eyes narrowed toward the ground and his fists clenched at his side. He turned around and walked up to the girl, their bodies dangerously close, but he didn't care how close their bodies were at the moment. "Are you stalking me?" He raised his voice, his face dangerously close to hers.
The girl rolled her eyes. "No." She said bluntly, not afraid of his attempted way of scaring her. "I already told you, I am a keen observer." She placed her hand on his chest and pushed him back so he wouldn't be so close to her. The girl cocked her head to the side and folded her arms together before taking a breath. "Let me introduce myself first. I'm Giselle Ainsworth, and yes I admit, I can be a real bitch. But you know, a lot of people love me so." The girl smiled cockily as she said this, her smile now returning into a firm line. "Gee, now that we've met, let's get to the point. Obviously you want to fix things with your girlfriend because you love her right? Well, I'm willing to help you mend things with her unless you want to handle it your way." Giselle brought her fingers up to her face to analyze her nails. "You decide," she said.
Paul licked his lips, his glare hardening on the brown haired girl. Yes, he wanted so desperately to work things out with Dawn, but then again he was a bit curious on this Giselle girl that knew so much about him and even knew about the problem that he and Dawn were having right now, which indeed involved Ash. "How do you know Ash?" He asked her, wondering how she knew about him too. If she isn't stalking him, he at least wanted to have a good enough excuse of how she knew Ash was the problem in his relationship.
"I saw you punch him the other day," she dropped her hand back to her side as she took a step closer to him, the sound of her heels clacking onto the floor. "And I realized that your girlfriend instead stood by his side instead of rushing towards yours."
Paul groaned, annoyed with the fact that she witnessed that scene. But it did make sense of how she figured out that Ash might be the problem. He looked at her. "... I think she has feelings for him."
Giselle nodded her head, "That makes sense as to why you punched him."
"I could care less," Paul grumbled.
"So you're not certain if she has feelings for him? You're just... assuming she does?" Giselle raised her eyebrow.
Paul sighed. "Yeah, I think he has feelings for her too."
"Well, I could go talk to them both. Get to know them, just to see if I can get answers out of the both of them." Giselle suggested. "That is if you're willing to let me help you, unless you want to suffer finding out the hard way."
Paul glared at Giselle and Giselle smiled at him. "It's your choice Paul, not mine. You get to decide to trust me, it's your choice."
Paul stared at the girl for the longest moment possible, not knowing what he should do. He doesn't even know this girl at all, and suddenly he ironically finds someone who can give him all the answers he wanted? Paul found it ridiculous, but then again the girl did have a point. If he doesn't let her help him, he is going to find out the truth the hard way and he honestly wasn't prepared for that.
Paul sighed, shooting another glare towards her. "Fine," He grunted. And Giselle smiled, clearly satisfied with his answer.
As class started, Giselle's eyes immediately fell on Dawn who had been busy concentrating on her schoolwork. The people around her were busy talking instead of doing their work and the teacher was barely paying attention to the class. Giselle decided to take advantage of this opportunity and took a seat next to Dawn, though Dawn's eyes remained on the paper in front of her, not happening to see the girl whom had just sat next to her.
"Hi," Giselle said, trying her hardest to be extra friendly. She wasn't the type to be really friendly, that was never her style. But if she had to get answers out of the girl, she had to be easy on her.
Dawn looked up from her paper and looked at the person who just spoke to her. "Hi...?" She said, obviously confused since Giselle never really talked to her before.
"I know this seems weird and all, because I never really talked to you, but I really think that you're a great dancer." Giselle told her.
Dawn stared at the girl for a moment before smiling. "Really?"
"Yeah, you're the best band dancer I've seen to be honest." Giselle chuckled lightly as Dawn smiled at her comment. Giselle smiled back at the girl, trying to figure out something else to say. "... So, I hear you're into basketball, is that true?"
"Well, not really, I only really watch basketball because one of my friends really likes it." Dawn told her, dropping her pencil onto her paper. "Are you?"
"Totally," Giselle flashed a hard smile towards her. "Actually, I was wondering if you wanted to come to the game tonight. I don't exactly have anybody to go with, so how about we go together?"
Dawn's eyes lit up. "There's a game tonight?"
"Yeah," Giselle said.
"Sure, I would love to go!" She said, her voice sounding obviously happy.
Giselle kept smiling, "Okay," she said simply, narrowing her eyes towards her phone as she sent a quick text message to Paul.
She's going to the game with me tonight. I'll let you know what's up.
It wasn't until a second later he responded.
Get as much answers as you can out of her.
A whole bunch of people filled each and every seat of the stands inside the gym. Giselle couldn't believe it herself that the gym was this huge and had all of these people coming to attend the event. Was their schools basketball team really that big to have such a huge audience? Giselle looked toward the bottom to get a good view of the basketball field and the basketball players.
She sighed as the basketball game began, the people inside the gym screaming with excitement. Giselle looked over at all the people screaming and she even looked over at Dawn who had seemed to be screaming with them. Was she really a fan of basketball or was she just a fan because Ash is on the team?
"They got a hot crowd," Giselle shouted to Dawn, since everyone was pretty loud at the gym.
"Well they are considered the best basketball team in Sinnoh! Like how we are with the band." Dawn exclaimed. "It's actually cool because this school has many best things going on around here."
"I guess so." Giselle looked over at the game, seeing the game getting quite a bit intense.
"Ash!" Gary shouted as Ash whipped his head towards his spiky haired friend. Gary threw the ball towards him to his right so Ash could catch the ball. Ash quickly caught the ball and started dribbling the ball as he dodged most of the other basketball players that tried to get the ball from him.
He stood in the middle of the court; his black hair clung onto his forehead from all the sweat that left his body while playing the game. But Ash didn't really care about all that sweating, he was more concentrated on winning this game, especially since Basketball Season just started and their team has to win, it was no option.
He wanted to call the play, so he went toward the right side of the court, watching from the corner of his eyes that no defender would try and attempt stealing the ball from him.
Ash looked up at the clock and saw there was only 40 seconds left. It was now or never.
"With an amazing three pointer from Ash, the game has got even more intense!" The announcer shouted as the ball collided into the basket.
"Yay!" Dawn squealed in excitement, joy written all over her face. She looked over at Giselle. "He's amazing, isn't he?"
"Yeah," Giselle forced a small smile as Dawn returned to looking at the game. Giselle had to admit, Ash did a great job with that throw, but that really wasn't the focus right now. Dawn had just shown a sign of being interested in him, and Giselle needed to get more answers out of her for Paul. "So who's your favorite basketball player?"
"Ash," Dawn states, smiling hard as she continued to cheer for the boy and the team itself.
Giselle raised her eyebrow, pretending to be surprised. "Oh really?"
"He's amazing." Dawn said, her eyes still on the game. "Basketball is his dream and that's something he'll never let go of. He told me he wants to make it big, he wants a scholarship for basketball and he even wants to get into the NBA. Same as Gary and the rest of the team members, but Ash seems more serious about it than the rest of them."
Giselle nodded her head, taking in what the girl had just said. She looked down at her phone and decided to text Paul about this.
She's talking highly of him.
"That's great," Giselle mumbled, not sure of what to say in response to what Dawn had just said.
Her phone vibrated in her hand and she looked at the text message she just received from Paul.
Of course she is.
Giselle sighed as she tried to think of something else.
"How are you and Paul by the way?" She asked her, using this question as an advantage and to find out more information.
Giselle looked over at the girl and saw that the happiness on her face now fell to a more serious, unhappy kind of expression. She raised her eyebrow. Why did she look so unhappy after her bringing up her relationship with Paul?
"Um... We're fine I guess..." Dawn trailed off, not really in the mood to talk about him at all.
"What's going on? If you don't mind telling me," Giselle was even curious herself to find out why Dawn was feeling indifferent with Paul.
"Things change, I guess... He's just really confusing to read you know?" Dawn frowned, her attention not really focused on the game anymore. "I've been with him for almost two years, and I feel like he barely appreciates me. Whenever I'm happy, he seems so... unhappy. Whenever I'm unhappy, he seems so... careless. And whenever he's angry about something, he just... seems like he doesn't have a heart."
So that's what it is. Paul's personality—his tough guy personality, getting the best of him. Giselle sighed, understanding what is the real problem on Dawn's side of the story. It wasn't Ash, she probably just liked Ash as a friend and they've been friends for a while, but it looked like she cares more about Paul. She just felt like Paul barely shows that he cares.
Giselle grabbed her phone and sent a text to Paul.
I'll tell you everything later.
"Don't worry, darling. I'm sure he does care, he just has a hard way of showing it." Giselle smiled at her as she patted her on the shoulder. The girls returned to look at the game and Giselle let out a sigh.
Well, it was now time to go and see what's up with Ash.
Ash and Gary gave each other a fist bump for winning their first game at the start of Basketball Season. Football Season had just ended and now it was time for Basketball Season, so the boys were hyped.
"If we keep winning every game, we're most definitely gonna make it to nationals." Gary stated, grabbing his keys as the sound of his car made a loud beep noise after he pressed the unlock button.
Gary opened his car and pressed a button that opened the trunk to his car. Ash placed his basketball uniform along with his basketball in the trunk, as well as Gary. "I'm really pumped!" Ash said. "I'm getting better and better, and already I got noticed by one of the NBA players. Next thing we'll know, our basketball team is going to be noticed by all NBA teams!"
"And I can't wait for that," Gary laughed as he closed the trunk before heading to the front of his car.
Before the boys got in, a voice stopped them from doing so.
"You boys did amazing out there."
Gary looked over his car at the girl who called for them while Ash turned around from the other side of the car to look at the girl as well.
In a blink of an eye, Ash immediately became attracted to the girl before him.
Giselle smiled as she walked closer to them, her arms crossed over her chest and her heels clacking onto the ground as she took closer steps to them. Giselle stopped directly in front of Ash and stared at the bandage that was over his nose. "Ash Ketchum. The boy with amazing basketball skills got punched in the face? Ouch." Giselle said, smirking.
Ash scratched his head nervously, not knowing exactly what to say to the girl. Gary rolled his eyes, he knew Ash too well. Whenever he scratched his head, that obviously meant he was into the girl.
"Yeah, um..." Ash laughed nervously, quite embarrassed that a very attractive girl like her knew he got punched by Paul. He reminded himself to get back at Paul for this embarrassing moment. "Who are you?" He sheepishly asked.
"Let's skip the introductions." Giselle smiled purposely as she took a step forward and let her finger roam down his chest slowly and seductively.
Gary watched the scene, shocked that a girl like her was even flirting with Ash.
Giselle laughed lightly as she bit down on her bottom lip. "I want to..." She trailed off, her finger stopping at the top of his pants, causing Ash to get even more nervous than before. "Get to know you." She looked up at him as she said this.
Gary's jaw nearly dropped. There's no way in hell this girl was really interested in him. She had to be playing tricks on him just to get what she wants or something, but Gary knew for a fact that no sexy girl would randomly come up to Ash and seduce him without wanting something.
"I'm sorry; did you want me to get to know you too?" Giselle's eyes were now on Gary.
Gary just raised his hands in innocence. "Oh no," he shook his head, making a face. "I'm good."
Ash looked over at Gary, that surprised look still on his face.
"I'll let you two talk. Ash I'll be in the car." Gary forced a hard smile as he said this before getting inside his car and closing the door behind him. Though, that didn't stop him from looking at the two of them outside his car.
Giselle nodded her head in satisfaction, letting her eyes fall on Ash again.
Ash looked at her again, obviously at loss for words. "I don't even know you, but you are so..." He let his eyes devour her body from head to toe before he gulped. "Beautiful."
Giselle smiled, dropping her hand back to her side. "Thank you," she smiled. "Now tell me, are you currently interested in someone perhaps?"
Ash was obviously infatuated with her. "Yes," he said, sounding way too desperate. Giselle wanted to laugh on how nervous and how infatuated he was with her.
"And who is that?" She raised her eyebrow, folding her arms together.
"You," He told her. Giselle wanted to believe otherwise because of his obvious infatuation with her.
"No, I mean seriously." She laughed.
Ash scratched the back of his head nervously again. "Well I'm being serious... You,"
She nodded her head, still believing otherwise. "What about that Dawn girl? You guys seem to bond a lot."
Ash looked at her as if she was crazy. How did Dawn end up in this conversation? "She's my friend. I don't look at her that way."
"Are you sure?" Giselle raised her eyebrow.
Ash nodded his head, wondering why this girl brought up Dawn in the first place. "Yes... And besides Dawn has a boyfriend, I don't like girls that are in relationships."
"So if she was single you would like her?"
"No," Ash stared at Giselle for a short while, confused on how Dawn became a topic. "Why do you seem so certain that I have feelings for her?"
"Just curious, is all." Giselle answered simply. "So you say you don't have feelings for her?" Ash nodded in confirmation.
"Well okay," she nodded, not knowing what else to get out of him. Ash seemed so certain with his answer, so he must have been telling the truth.
"Can I take you out somewhere tomorrow?" Ash offered, surprising Giselle.
"What?" She stared at him in surprise.
"Can I take you out somewhere... tomorrow?" He repeated himself, hoping for her to say yes.
Giselle wanted to say no because she wasn't exactly the type that does romance, but then again she had agreed to help Paul as much as she can, so she sighed, not really wanting to take Ash up on that offer. "I would love that." She smiled, not knowing what else to say.
Giselle did find it weird that he hadn't flirted intimately with her. She was always so used to guys flirting with her that way when she began to flirt with them. Maybe Ash was different, but then again she hadn't known him at all, so she wasn't so sure if he was actually different. She had to see for herself.
"So what happened?" Paul asked, waiting for Giselle to tell him everything that went down that night. Giselle sighed before grabbing her glass of alcohol; she took a large sip of her alcohol before removing the glass from her lips.
"Dawn is unhappy with how you've been treating her." She took a seat on his bed, placing her right leg over the other.
Paul chuckled lightly. "I've been treating her good."
"According to her, she feels neglected." Giselle narrowed her eyes at him. "I think you should stop being a little prick and start giving the girl a little more attention."
"How much more attention does she want?" Paul rolled his eyes.
"Don't you get it?" The brown haired girl hardened her eyes on the purple haired senior. "I am a female. And us females all want the same thing. Attention, obviously. Enough attention to the point that we do not feel neglected. And if she feels neglected, then obviously you're not doing something right."
Paul opened his mouth to speak, but no words seemed to come out. He didn't exactly know what to say because that's exactly what he has been doing this whole time with Dawn. He loved her a lot; he was just never good at expressing his love to her. To him, he has no idea how to give her the attention that she wants. He did have ways of expressing his love for her; he just never really knew how to properly treat a girl he actually really cares about.
When Giselle noticed he had nothing to say, she chuckled lightly. "Exactly," she said before taking another sip of her drink.
Paul turned his back to her, now annoyed.
"If it bothers you that much, take her out on a date." Giselle suggested. "And I honestly think that you should because if you keep stressing over Ash, you are going to push her away by the anger held up in you."
Paul chuckled, as if to believe otherwise. He turned to face the girl, taking a few slow steps closer to her.
"And just to clear things up, I think you should stop worrying about him because he doesn't have a thing for her. He has a thing for me." Giselle stated, bringing her drink back up to her lips.
Paul stood in front of her, "A thing for you?" He raised his eyebrows, putting the emphasis on 'you' as if to insult her.
Giselle swallowed the alcohol resting on her tongue, pulling the drink away from her lip as she stared at Paul. Paul stared at her too. Giselle slowly got up from the bed and took a small step towards him; their faces dangerously close along with their lips.
Paul could smell the alcohol from her breath, and Giselle bit down on her bottom lip. Paul just watched her do that, remaining calm and showing no emotion to that action.
"You'd be surprise with how many guys want me." She whispered seductively, her hot breath passing over his mouth. "Who knows, you might want me too..."
Paul stared at her for a long moment and so did she, their lips still dangerously close. Paul grunted and turned his back to her once again, grabbing his beer bottle that was placed on his dresser.
Giselle watched as he walked away from her, holding her drink and watching him from the back.
Paul dropped his head back and chugged down a large amount of alcohol before removing the bottle from his lips. "Is that what you do when you're bored?" He asked, sounding not fazed with her attempted gesture.
Giselle took a seat on his bed again and crossed one leg over the other. "Maybe I wanted to see if you would actually make a move."
Paul chuckled at her statement. Giselle wasn't his type at all. Yeah, she was extremely sexy, and he would totally fuck the shit out of her, but she wasn't Dawn.
"Hn." He grunted, not sure of how to respond to Giselle's comment.
Dawn wanted attention, but how much attention? Paul chugged down another large amount of alcohol from his beer bottle as he thought of a place to take her. He never really liked taking her to common places where guys always take their girlfriends like the movies, or to dinner. He wanted to be different and also make her happy.
A thought soon popped up to his head and he pulled out his phone and soon called Dawn.
Giselle placed her drink down on the table beside his bed and laid back on his bed, her arms spread out as she stared up at the ceiling.
"Dawn? Hey."
Giselle slowly let her eyes fall back on Paul as soon as she realized who he had just called.
"I know I really haven't been the best boyfriend lately... But I want to make it up to you."
Giselle rolled her eyes, not fazed with his lame attempt on trying to fix things with Dawn. Guys always say that after screwing things up.
"Great, um... I'll pick you up tomorrow at 8."
Giselle let out a big sigh before speaking as soon as he hung up the phone. "You are so not original." She slowly sat up on the bed now, looking over at him. She began to deepen her voice as if to mimic him. "I know I really haven't been the best boyfriend lately… But I want to make it up to you."
"Fuck you," he grumbled.
Giselle laughed. "I'm honestly surprised that she's giving you a chance to make it up to her. If I were her, I would've made you work really hard."
"What so you think I could've said something better?" He argued.
"No shit. You sounded like a huge dick. Saying the same line all assholes say." She deepened her voice once again to mock him. "I want to make it up to you." She rolled her eyes.
Paul shook his head, letting out a sigh as he brought his beer bottle up to his lips. "You make it seem like you're my girlfriend."
Giselle laughed at his comment. "You've got to be joking,"
Paul raised an eyebrow at her, swallowing the alcohol that was sitting on his tongue.
"Just so you know, I'm not really into the whole… relationship thing. Because for one, guys say stupid shit like that." She pointed out, her hands placed down on the bed. "I like… mindless sex. You know, the ones without romantic commitment." Giselle let out a breath of air as her hair now fell to her back. "Relationships are so overrated to me. That's why I'm not in one."
Paul stared at the girl for a long moment and chuckled lightly. "You don't have no respect for yourself." He told her.
Giselle shrugged.
"That's why relationships don't work out for you." Paul brought his beer bottle up to his lips again.
Giselle hardened her eyes on him. "You don't know me."
After swallowing some of his alcohol, he pulled the beer bottle away from his lips. "And you don't know me." He retorted.
She let out a huff before speaking. "Enough about me, this isn't about me. I'm only here to help you save your relationship."
"Coming from someone who doesn't even know how to maintain a relationship," Paul chuckled, shaking his head.
Giselle's fists clenched at her side as she hardened her eyes on him twice as hard. "Just because I have a different way of viewing relationships doesn't mean I don't know how to maintain one."
Paul stared at her. She seemed so certain with her answer, but Paul felt like it was a bunch of bull. He turned his back to face her and went over to his dresser and placed his beer bottle on top of it. He would've said more, but he didn't want to make things bigger than it already was.
"So," she sighed, trying to calm herself down. "Where are you taking her?"
"Haven't decided yet," Paul answered.
"Well you better do your part." The girl mumbled, laying back down on his bed and closing her eyes.
Paul stared at the girl lying across his bed for a brief moment before closing his eyes, a small smirk forming on his face. "Hn."
That's exactly what he planned to do.
A/N: I love how this story is turning out. (:
For those of you that are still confused about who Giselle is, do you guys remember that one episode in the first generation of Pokémon? The episode is called "The School of Hard Knocks". It was the episode when Ash and Brock developed a huge attraction to the girl with a Cubone, though she was a huge bitch at first and turned out nice at the end of the episode lol.
Well, I really liked her character in that episode that I wanted to write about her because her personality seemed really awesome lol. I like her because she seemed like a bitch and I think I can really get her into character within this story.
Songs used in this chapter: Please Don't Go by Nayobe
I have a thing with sneak peeks so here's a small sneak peek for the next upcoming chapters.
"Dawn and I have been friends for years. I never once looked at her in a romantic way."
"Building a relationship with someone is not my style. I'd rather just fuck and that's it."
"Maybe it's time that you guys start having sex." Drew suggested.
"Sex doesn't define our relationship Paul."
"I'm not necessarily available."
"And you're not necessarily in a perfect relationship either, so what's the harm in having a little fun?"
The sneak peeks may seem like it's all sexual-like, but each quote goes with different voices in this story. You will see who says all these quotes, I already gave out one, which had been Drew saying the line "Maybe it's time that you guys start having sex."
Anyway, from these sneak peeks, what do you guys think is going to happen now? Let me know your predictions in the reviews!