Walking down the road that led to May's he smiled at the sun above, he had woken up considerably since his mid-day awakening. It had only been half an hour since he had woken up but still he felt much better.

Wandering down the road he watched as cars drove past him, some with people talking on the phone, some with people smoking and some with kids screaming in the back. If someone was to ask him which was the most dangerous, he'd go with the children. He'd been one of those obnoxious children at one time and knew just how dangerous the drivers were after a ten minute stint with them.

His mum had once been on the verge of strangling him after a day out. He could distinctly remember kicking the back of her seat while singing the same line of a song for over an hour.

Smirking at that memory he turned down a street, taking a short-cut to his friend's house. Why? He didn't know, why would he want to go to the house of a girl who has people after her for the pokemon she has? He shrugged his shoulders at his own question. He paused as he walked a thought hitting him.

"May best be up" he muttered as he scowled at the air. He'd kill her if she was still in bed.

The brown haired girl rolled in her sleep, her arms dropping over her eyes a soft snore coming from her open mouth. She was deep in sleep, exhaustion from the previous night having taken a serious toll on her. She wasn't thinking about anything that was going on. She didn't care that Ash was coming over, she didn't care that she had a creature that shouldn't even exist in her wardrobe. She didn't care about anything other than getting her sleep.

Rolling over once more she grabbed at the covers while simultaneously kicking them down. Her awkward movements made her open her eyes a fraction and stare up at the beams of light coming from her window.

"Oh, don't be morning" she moaned in annoyance as she turned in her bed and pushed herself up onto her hands. Yawning she scratched at her cheek and stretched in her bed kicking the covers fully off of her body.

Swinging her legs over the side of her bed she looked around for something she could wear for the day. She was half asleep but she wasn't going to be around Ash while in her pyjamas. They were quite childish. Light pink with a cat picture on the front.

Picking up her clothes from the floor she tried to see which were clean and which weren't. She was quite messy when it came to being in her room, everywhere else she was obsessive with cleanliness. In private however, she was a stark contrast. She couldn't be bothered in her own room. There was no point.

Shaking her clothes to keep the other garments from sticking to them she saw this was something clean. Smiling to herself she started to get changed. Pulling her shirt off she looked at the kitten face and smiled at it. True, it was childish but she loved this shirt. Placing it on her bed with care she pulled on her clean shirt. It was a simple red shirt with dark blue around the top. It was ever so slightly too big for her, but that wasn't a problem.

She quite liked clothes that were too big. Her friends at school believed it was because she felt thinner that way. But in truth, weight had never bothered her, bigger clothes were just miles more comfortable. As she searched for some trousers she glanced out the window and saw a tired boy slowly making his way to her house...in his pyjamas. And of course it was Ash.

Covering her mouth to prevent herself from laughing she stared at the boy who was dragging his feet. He looked tired and half asleep, but from the state of him she guessed he looked worse when he woke up. Quickly finishing getting dressed she didn't even care that they were what she had worn for school a few days back. She pulled open the window and shouted down to him.

"Oy, Ash, get up here" the boy seemed started and stared up at the window glaring at the girl.

"Don't shout May, it's your fault I'm like this. You and your freaky pet."

"He's not a pet. And get up here" she had been planning on shouting down that he wasn't complaining last night. But quickly realised the flaw in that comment; the flaw being he had complained, a lot. Grumbling to himself he started towards the door.

"Is it open?" He asked

"No idea. Just try it, if it opens tell my parents that I told you to come in. And if it's Max tell him to bring me a drink up"

"I'm not your slave"

"No you're my guest, and the guest should do things for their host."

"Pretty sure it's the other way around"

"Technicality. Now get up here" rolling his eyes at the stubborn girl he tried the door. Thankfully it was open and May could hear him inside now.

"Hi, May told me to come in. I'll go up to her. And Max, she wants a drink" smirking at her friend's voice she could hear him run up the stairs. As the door opened she smiled at him.

"Hi"

"Hi, your parents looked at me like I was insane when I came in."

"That may have something to do with the pyjamas" his face blanked for a moment before he looked down at himself. Annoyance a clear emotion on his face.

"Damn it, I forgot to get changed. No wonder I got so many odd looks from people as I came over." May laughed at him slightly before moving to her wardrobe.

"Well, it's time to wake him up" pulling open the door they saw a yellow creature curled up in himself, his tail over his eyes and his small black nose barely visible twitching slightly. They couldn't see his arms or his legs but they could see his ears. And they were twitching with his nose.

"Aww, he's dreaming" May smiled as she crouched down staring at his small face.

"Let's wake him up"

"No, we can't, he's dreaming, I hate being woken from a dream, especially if it's good"

"He might be having a nightmare" Ash argued

"Yeah, that's the face of a pokemon trapped in nightmares" she pointed to him as he stretched in his sleep and let out a long sound.

"Maybe they have nightmares different to us" he countered her though his argument was weak.

"You just want to see him awake don't you? Go on, admit it, you want to see him. You like him" a smirk was clear on May's face as she placed her hands on her hips.

"Yeah, maybe I do, he's weird, why wouldn't I?" He finally admitted as he scowled at her mildly, though it was quite a poor scowl thanks to the multiple bags under his eyes.

"Fair point, and I guess we should, he may be a baby but I don't want my family to come in on him" as she leant down to wake the pokemon up the door swung open and Max entered. The two span around and blocked the door, sticking closer to the other than comfortable. Max held a drink in his hand and was looking at the two bemused.

"Uh, May, what're you and Ash doing?" He asked as he placed the drink on the table she had in her room.

"Nothing" they both answered in unison, the speed of their answer proved their words to be lies. Raising an eyebrow he started at them suspicious.

"Alright" he answered, the word drawn out, clearly showing his scepticism. But the boy just shrugged, he'd come by later and see what was going on.

"Alright, bye Max" May waved bye to her brother stepping forwards and allowing Ash to cover the whole wardrobe she took her younger brothers shoulders and pushed him from the room, "thanks for the drink."

Without another word she pushed him out of the room and slammed the door shut.

"Well that was close" Ash muttered as he left the wardrobe door and turned to look at the small pokemon. As he had suspected the noise had cause him to awaken. The small mouse like creature opened one of its black eyes and blinked it a few times to rid it of sleep. With a long yawn he stretched himself out on the pile of clothes that were his bed. Looking somewhat like a cat.

He smiled down at the pokemon as it righted itself and stretched forwards.

"Pikka, Pikachu" it answered sleepily as he rubbed at his eyes.

"Aww" Ash made a weird face as he stared at the pokemon, seemingly unaware of the strange noise he'd made.

"Yeah, it's cute" May agreed as she came over to the two boys, her drink in hand

"Can I have some?" Ash asked as he pointed to the cup in her hand.

"Get your own" she retorted smirking at him as she took a sip.

"No, I walked all the way over here, in my pyjamas." Rolling her eyes May handed the boy her drink before bending down to smile at the awakening Pikachu.

"Morning" he stared up at her and reached out towards her face, trying to see just how close she was.

"Pikka" it answered, swaying slightly on his feet as he took a step off the make shift bed he had.

"Hi"

"Pikka" Ash rolled his eyes at the one sided conversation that was going on. Getting bored he cut in.

"Can we hurry this up?" May glared at the boy but placed her hands underneath the pokemon's arms.

"Come here little Pikachu. Are you hungry?" She asked as she lifted him up, he nodded to her and she nodded back. "Alright, we can sort that. I doubt you'll like what we usually eat, but we can try you with a little fruit." She mused slightly to herself as she turned to Ash. "If we can find him some fruit from downstairs we can test him. Hopefully something around here will be edible."

"Yeah, I get that, something must be, after all, they have humans where he's from, maybe they'll have fruit there too" Ash answered and she nodded at his reasoning. It was true, if they had humans then they had to have human food there. Unless, those humans didn't eat the same as them?

"Yeah, that makes sense, they must do. If not then those people that attacked him won't be able to survive here" Ash made an acknowledging noise and turned to the door.

"Alright, I'll go and get a bit of food. See if you can get him to sit quietly. Do you think he'll drink water?" As he reached the door he turned to ask that last question.

"Probably, bring him up a bowl of water. I doubt drinking my drink will do him any good" nodding at his friend he left the room and ran down the stairs. Leaving May alone with the small pokemon. Letting out a sigh she wandered around her room not knowing what to do.

"Pikka" he asked her as he reached out to her.

"Yeah, if only I knew what the hell you were saying" with a sigh she dropped onto her bed. It'd be a long wait till Ash came back.

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