A/N: I thought this chapter would be appropriate for today since it's my sisters birthday.

Chapter 4- Birthday!

May's POV

We had returned the crutches, now we were headed to the beach.

"I'm just going to get changed," I told him as I headed towards the hut. I quickly changed, wearing a tank top and board short bottoms. Both were yellow with white trimmings. I rubbed sunscreen all over my body. I was really flexible and could easily reach my back. When I came back out, Drew was still sitting on the beach, reaching over his shoulder to his back. He had taken off his vest and t-shirt, both of them stuffed in his bag, exposing his bare chest.

"Need some help," I giggled.

"Yes please," he sighed, resting his arms by his side. I placed my bag next to his and knelt down behind him. I took the sunscreen and massaged it onto his back.

"There you go," I announced when I was done.

"Thanks. Race you in," he challenged, getting up and sprinting off.

"No fair!" I called after him as I ran behind him. I stopped as soon as I was knee deep.

"It's freezing!" I cried. Drew had gone straight under.

"It's not that bad when you get in," he grinned, wet hair falling over his face.

"Why are you grinning like that?" I asked.

"No reason," he answered, coming closer. He took my hands and slowly led me out deeper.

"Ok, this is far enough," I told him when the water came halfway up my thighs.

"We're not even in properly," he pouted, then grinned.

"What are you doing?" I asked again as he hugged me, his wet skin brushing against mine. I was trying so hard not to blush.

"This," he chuckled. He fell backwards, pulling me down into the water.

"Drew!" I exclaimed when I surfaced. He was laughing.

"That's it!" I yelled, "I'll get you." I splashed after him as he teasingly stayed out of reach.

Drew's POV

"Let's play a game with the waves!" May suggested once she had finished chasing me. The waves had picked up and were pretty big now.

"Alright," I agreed, "let's see who can last longer in waves this big." I was almost disappointed when May had decided she'd become bored of chasing me, but I think I could use this to my advantage.

"Yay!" she exclaimed, "What do we do?"

"We have to face the sand and try to keep standing as the waves wash over us," I explained. She nodded and I came up beside her. I knew there was no way she could do that. She turned to look back, but held pushed her face back.

"Another rule is there's no looking for the waves," I whispered, "you have to guess based on the sound." She pouted, but nodded. I could hear one coming. Soon it would come to us. I slipped my arm behind her, without touching her. When it came, she was knocked forwards and I jumped with her. I put my arms around her and rolled with her to the shore, pinning her to the sand.

"Looks like we get to finish this game after all," I whisper in her ear, causing her to giggle. She smirked and then I felt another small wave crash over me. I groaned and noticed that she wasn't there anymore. I blinked in surprise. I heard her giggling and looked up. May was all the way up on the sand. She had drawn an X in the sand. I tilted my head. She pointed behind me. I looked. I gasped as a huge wave tumbled over me, making me wash up on my back, to where May was standing. I noticed I had landed right next to her X.

"Very funny," I groaned as she cracked up laughing. I sat up, sand encrusted on my back.

"Maybe we should head back now," she gasped between giggles, "the others might be worried."

"Not yet," I said, shaking my head, "It's my turn for some fun." I had to keep her distracted still for another 3 hours. She giggled again. I picked her up and slung her over my right shoulder.

"Put me down," She squealed, pounding my back with her fists.

"No," I replied, running down the shore. I ran straight into the water, kicking and splashing water into her face with my feet.

"Ah Drew!" she giggled, "put me down."

"Fine," I sighed, dumping her straight in the water. I laughed as she came back up again, spluttering and coughing.

"Drew!" she lunged forwards and tackled me into the water, dunking me.

We spent a fair amount of time on the beach, before May decided she'd had enough of getting dunked. I'd then taken her to get Ice-cream and now we were walking in the park. I was running low on distractions, but luckily May found one for herself.

"Oh look swings!" she exclaimed, pointing to the set. I ran with her.

"Which one should I go on?" she asked me.

"Whichever you want," I shrugged. She sat down on a large round swing made out of a truck tire.

"Can you push me?" She asked. I nodded and obeyed, pushing her higher and higher.

"Stop Drew, I'm too high!" she yelled, but I kept on going.

"Drew! I'm almost diagonal, I'll fall off," she squealed. I jumped on the swing behind her.

"Alright then," I said, leaning over so she could see me.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"What does it look like?" I laughed, "I'm joining in." I leaned out and kicked the pole, sending us in circles. She squealed and giggled in delight as we spun in circles. I sat down now, I was almost sure I'd fall off otherwise. I kicked the swing on with my feet. She leaned back onto me.

"We're going so fast," she squealed, "I swear you're trying to make me fall off."

"Nah, you might dislocate something and then you'll be a real pain again," I teased. She looked up at me, her eyes sparkling.

"I wasn't that bad," she giggled again, "You secretly loved looking after me."

"Sure I did," I answered sarcastically, but she didn't hear it because she squealed again.

"Calm down, you're not gonna fall," I chuckled.

"No, I'm just dizzy now," she explained, "Can we stop?" I slowly stopped the swing and she tumbled off. I was going to laugh, but my Pokégear went off.

"Hang on a minute," I told her. I walked off a bit and answered.

"Hey Drew, how's your date going," asked Max.

"I told you, it's not a date. Please say you're done," I replied, "I'm running out of ideas."

"You could go somewhere romantic," he suggested.

"I'm not on a date," I growled lowly.

"Yeah whatever," he said, brushing it off, "anyway we're done. You can bring her home."

"Thank goodness!" I exclaimed and hung up.

"Who was that?" May asked.

"Just your brother," I said, "all crazy about how we're taking forever. Anyway we should head back before they get any ideas."

"Yeah, ok."

I sighed when we finally got to her door.

"Thanks Drew," she sighed, "I had fun."

"Yeah, who knew hanging out with your rival could be so much fun," I laughed.

"Yeah, I guess," she giggled, "anyway, I should probably correct my over obsessive brother."

"Mind if I join you?" I asked.

"What?"

"I figure you guys would probably be having dinner together and I wanted to join you. It's no fun eating alone," I explained.

"If you really want," she shrugged. She opened the door and we entered.

"Why's it so dark?" she asked, "I can't see a thing."

"I dunno," I lied, playing dumb.

"Drew?" she questioned, "where are you? I can't see." As my eyes adjusted to the dark I joined the others behind the table.

"Drew? Why aren't you answering?" she called, "where's that stupid light switch?" She finally found it and light filled the room.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAY!" We all yelled. She gasped.

May's POV

I had completely forgotten it was my birthday. The room was decorated with balloons, streamers and banners saying 'Happy Birthday'. In the middle of the room was a table full of snacks and a birthday cake which read 'Happy 16th May'. Behind the table were Max, Brock, Ash, Harley, Solidad and Drew all grinning at me.

"Thank you guys!" I cried, "How did you put this all together without me knowing?"

"It wasn't that hard," shrugged Brock, "we all pitched in to prepare while Drew was distracting you. And he did a really good job." I hugged everyone and soon we were all laughing, talking and eating the snacks and goodies. Brock lit the candles on fire.

"Happy birthday to May," he started. Soon everyone was singing the very out of tune song.

"Go May, make a wish," urged my brother. I thought about everything that I could wish for and finally decided on one. I took a deep breath and blew out the candles. Only one stayed lit.

"May has one boyfriend!" Yelled Max, making me blush.

"And we all know who that is," added Harley, winking at me and quickly looking to Drew. I put a hand to my forehead and blew out the last candle, not even bothering to correct him. I cut the cake.

"Ha the knife hit the bottom, you have to kiss the nearest boy!" yelled Max. Everyone pushed Drew forwards. He stumbled and glared at the other boys.

"Max, don't be immature," I sighed, blushing, "Drew is not my boyfriend and I'm not gonna kiss him."

"I'm not being immature," he complained, "it's the rules. You can't break the rules."

"Max, I'm too old for this," I reasoned.

"You're never too old for the birthday rules," Max shot back, "that's why they're there." I glared.

"Stop fighting you two," interrupted Drew, "This is meant to be happy. Look here." He leaned over and kissed my cheek. I blushed even more, if that was even possible.

"Happy now?" he asked Max. Max nodded enthusiastically.

"I say May opens her presents now," suggested Solidad. I nodded, a little too eagerly.

I sat down in the 'birthday chair' as was tradition with my family and accepted Max's present. I tore into the wrapping. It was a new pair of gloves and matching bandana. I grinned.

"Thanks Max," I said, hugging him.

"Yeah, yeah," he squirmed, "you don't have to get all soft on me." I let him go. I got a handwritten cookbook from Brock, full of his recipes.

"So you can learn too," he explained. Ash handed me a ball shaped present, wrapped with way too much sticky tape. After finally ripping off the layers of tape I found myself holding a Pokéball. I released the Pokémon inside. A Vulpix looked up at me.

"I thought you'd like to train a new fire Pokémon," he said, "and I think having a Ninetales would suit you." I grinned and nodded, returning my new Pokémon to its ball. Solidad had given me a full new outfit.

"I figured since we unconsciously dressed the same that night, you'd have a similar taste in clothes to mine. I'm a pretty good guess of size," she told me, "I think you should wear that for the Grand Festival. You'd look gorgeous in it."

"Thank you," I blushed.

"Open mine now!" exclaimed Harley, coming up. He handed me and white rose and a package.

"Happy birthday!" he said. I accepted both and opened the present. It was a pretty little charm bracelet.

"Thank you Harley," I said, trying it on. The metal felt cool against my skin.

"White roses mean purity and innocence," Drew whispered as he handed me his present. I smiled at him and I stared down at the present for a moment before I carefully unwrapped it. It was a box; I opened the lid and grinned as I pulled out a beautiful glass rose.

"That's not all," said Drew. I looked back in the box, realizing he was right. I gasped. There was a matching set of jewellery. A red ruby rose pendant hanging on a pure silver necklace. The rest of the set matched. Silver with ruby red roses. There was a necklace, a set of earrings and a ring. I pulled out the necklace, clipping it around my neck and grinning again as they gasped.

"Drew that is absolutely beautiful," Solidad gasped, looking mesmerized as I took out the dangling earrings. I took my plain studs out and exchanged them for the rose ones.

"I think you've outdone us all Drew," said Ash.

"What else would you expect from May's boyfriend," reasoned Brock. I stopped to correct them. I took out the ring and instantly the room was in an uproar.

"Drew got May a ring!" exclaimed Harley.

"He's proposing," sighed Solidad, looking at us dreamily.

"They're getting married already. Wow Drew's quick," whistled Brock. I gulped as more comments about marriage bounced around the room.

"With all of them in a May and Drew faze, I'm starting to think I shouldn't have gotten that for you. It was just the whole set looked good together," Drew groaned.

"It's ok Drew, I get it," I said, "They're just blowing it out of proportion. And it's really beautiful, thank you."

"Well I'm glad you like it," he smirked, "Giving you red roses is kinda traditional isn't it." I laughed and nodded.

"Yeah," I agreed.

Later that night everyone was still worked up over my ring. I had made a point of putting it on my middle finger in front of them, but they wouldn't stop teasing us about weddings and stuff. Drew and I didn't get any peace. I groaned as Max suggested that my wedding should take place in May. Drew came up beside me.

"Wanna get out of here?" he asked, "I've had enough for one night."

"Yeah, but if we leave they'll have even more to talk about," I answered.

"We have to get to the next town anyway," he shrugged.

"Alright, if you can somehow convince them of that," I sighed.

"Do you doubt me?" He challenged.

"When they're all like this?" I questioned, "oh yeah." Surprisingly Drew managed to calm them down, reasoning that we weren't even old enough to get married. Then he told them about the next contest. They nodded solemnly. I packed up all my presents in a small bag. I wanted to take them all with me. Drew caught my other hand in his and pulled me outside.

"How do you do that?" I asked.

"Easy," he replied, "it's called the Drew charm. Everyone falls for it." He winked to show me he was joking.

"Oh sure you're such a prince charming," I said sarcastically, "If you hadn't noticed, you haven't exactly swept me off my feet."

"Yes I have," he retaliated, "several times."

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah."

"Prove it," I challenged.

"Well, unless my memory needs correcting I've had to carry you several times. I've even swept you off your feet now." He flashed a grin and soon I found myself caught up in his arms. I laughed and put my arms around his neck, trying to secure my balance.

"This doesn't count," I continued to giggled.

"And why not? Aren't I prince charming enough for you? Look I even have my noble steed," he joked letting Flygon out of his Pokéball.

"You know, you aren't helping the whole 'we're not together' case. If the others saw this, you know we'd never hear the end of it."

"You don't want to ride on Flygon with me?" he teased. He had climbed up and I was sitting in front of him again.

"No I want to ride Flygon!" I exclaimed. He chuckled.

"Thought so."

Drew's POV

She sighed as she leaned against me when Flygon levelled out.

"Isn't the view beautiful," she sighed.

"Yeah," I agreed quietly, looking at the girl in my arms. She looked up at me and I was amazed. The stars were reflecting in her eyes. I looked away. If I looked at her like this, I might be tempted to kiss her. I had always had a crush on her, but over the past week, those feelings had evolved into something more. I was in love with her. She yawned and snuggled down more comfortably in my arms.

"Thank you for making this the best birthday ever," she murmured, closing her eyes.

"That's ok," I whispered gently in her ear. Her breathing steadied out and I knew she was asleep.

"Goodnight May," I said, kissing her forehead softly, "happy birthday." Her lips curled in a slight smile when she slept, looking really adorable. It was just dawning day when I reached the next town. I carried her off Flygon and checked in. I somehow managed to open the door to her room. I laid her down in her bed and tucked her in. I sighed and sat down in the chair next to her bed. I guess I would have to stay with her again.