::MAY'S POV::

"May, would you mind doing a performance with another coordinator on the tour?" Mr. Contesta asked.

"No problem," I said. "What happened to the single performances I was supposed to do then?"

"I got the heads up that there's  someone else to do it. I think you would shine much better in the tag performances anyway," Mr. Contesta explained.

"Who's this other person?"

"She's a very fabulous person but I need to keep it a secret or who knows what will leak onto the web," Mr. Contesta said.

"Okay," I said as I walked away towards the stage.

It was my time to be training on stage for the performance. I decided to train separately while I waited for my partner to show up. "Azumarill! Take the stage!"

Azumarill appeared in a flash of white light and tiny sparkles. "Azumarill!" she said joyfully.

"Jump and use Aqua Tail followed up with Ice Beam!"

Azumarill jumped and started spouting water from its tail in circular patterns before shooting a freezing cold beam of energy to freeze the water into an intricate, spiraling slide.

"Now use Rollout!"

Azumarill dropped onto the spiraling slide in a ball shape before rolling around the slippery slide.

"Finish with Iron Tail!"

Azumarill's tail started to glow white while it rolled and once it was fully charged up and Azumarill was at the top of the slide once again, it popped out of it's ball form, jumped, rolled a little bit in the air before landing a clean hit on the slide which shattered into a million glistening bits.

"Not bad May," a voice said. It didn't belong to Mr. Contesta or anyone I've seen recently. Actually, it sounded more or less like a voice of someone I haven't seen in four years. It belonged to a certain someone with green hair and mesmerizing emerald eyes, the certain someone I kissed on the Lake Valor lakefront four years ago and haven't seen since.

"DREW!"

"Surprised to see me?" he asked with a flick of his hair.

I stood there speechless. This dude I haven't seen since I was fourteen suddenly reappears in my life and I have to do a PERFORMANCE with him? I did not sign up for this. I never expected to see him ever again in my life to be honest. I wanted to see him but I figured the chances were so slim that I probably wouldn't  see him in person ever again. Turns out I was wrong and he's here, on stage, with me.

"I was expecting someone different," I scoffed. That was a total lie. Well, not completely. I wasn't really expecting anyone in particular, but I wasn't expecting Drew either. To put it another way, I was expecting a total stranger.

"Well you're stuck with me so let's make the best of it," Drew said. "Which Pokemon are you planning to use?" he aksed.

"I don't know yet…" I said sheepishly. "I got an idea! Why don't I show you all of my Pokemon and you show me all of yours! Then we can decide!"

Drew agreed. "You're still just as happy-go-lucky and bubbly as you were four years ago," he remarked.

"And you're still as jerky and egotistical as you were four years ago," I said.

We both called out all of our Pokemon. I looked at all of Drew's Pokemon. He still had his Roserade (no surprise there), his Flygon, and his Masquerain on his team. He also has a new Arcanine, Hitmonlee, and Ninjask.

Then I compared them to mine. I had my Azumarill, Beautifly, Glaceon, a new Espeon, Meganium, and Rapidash. Beautifly seemed to remember Masquerain and was getting along well with Masquerain.

"Looks like Beautifly and Masquerain are getting along well," I commented. They were flying around like crazy, raining sparkles on the rest of us. "I say we use them, and since we both know them pretty well, it'll make our job easier."

"Sounds good to me," Drew said, watching the two Pokemon closely.

We returned the rest of our Pokemon to their Pokeballs and started working on the performance.

"What moves does your Masquerain know?" I asked.

"Everything it knew four years ago and it learned Air Cutter and Aerial Ace. It also knows Shadow Ball but we're working on it," Drew said. "What about your Beautifly?

"It knows all of the moves it knew four years ago along with Energy Ball, Solarbeam, and Protect," I replied. "I have an idea. Drew, I want your Masquerain to use Shadow Ball just to demonstrate my idea."

Drew nodded. "Use Shadow Ball, Masquerain!"

Masquerain tried to form the purple and black ball of energy and succeeded in creating a weak version of Shadow Ball and shot it into the sky.

"Now Beautifly! Use Silver Wind to support the Shadow Ball!"

Beautifly started flapping its wings and a stream of silvery wind was blown under the Shadow Ball pushing it higher and higher until it exploded into a shower of sparkles. With the open roof, the sparkles looked even more amazing.

"I was thinking we could do something like that but with Energy Ball because your Masquerain is still working on its Shadow Ball," I said.

"Sounds good," Drew said. "You've gotten a lot better since I last saw you," he remarked. "Your Pokemon have gotten better too. Your Beautifly looks better than ever."

"Thanks! So does your Masquerain," I said with a blush. Drew never really outright complimented me like that. It felt nice to be acknowledged by him instead of constantly getting critiqued by him.

After we put together our performance, which included several newly created combinations, we decided to go take a break and eat at a local chicken wings place.

"I see you're still as crazy about your food as ever," Drew remarked as he saw me devouring my honey BBQ wings.

"Well I'm hungry!" I said defensively. I realized how much of a Swinub I was at the moment, and with Drew being right there did not help at all. I felt kind of embarrassed. It was like having a cute boy watching you eat, only the cute boy was your longtime rival. Nonetheless, a cute boy.

Drew's gotten hot over these last four years. His hair looked shinier and softer than ever and his emerald eyes were deeper and had even more facets to them then they did four years ago. He's definitely gotten more buff and taller. If I hadn't known he was Drew, I would've thought he was a male model and not a coordinator.

"All done?" the waitress said as she came to our table after we finished.

"Yep," Drew replied.

She handed us the bill and I reached into my purse to grab my wallet but Drew stopped me.

"It's on me," he said with a charming smile.

Not only was he hotter, his manners also improved. The dude's got everything going for him now. He's hot. He's charismatic. He's famous. He's won the Grand Festival on multiple occasions. He's rich. What does he NOT have going for him? He probably has a really nice girlfriend as well.

Why am I paying so much attention to him? Why should I care if he has a girlfriend? He's just your rival! Besides, you have a boyfriend!

::DREW'S POV::

When Mr. Contesta asked if I would like to do a tag performance with someone else for the upcoming contest tour, I accepted. I didn't expect my partner to be May though. I haven't seen her in four years, since we had our first, and most likely last, kiss.

She's gotten hot. If she wasn't so intent on making our performance perfect and eating, she would've realized I was staring at her the entire time, sometimes in places I shouldn't have been staring at. I know I sound perverted but she's so HOT now! I just want to wrap my arm around that tiny waist of hers and kiss her soft, sweet lips.

She has everything going for her! She's so much more talented now; she probably could beat Solidad. She's hot, really hot. She's got a great personality and who wouldn't want her? With that being said, she probably has a boyfriend already, and I probably should keep my hands off her unless I want Lilly to blow up at me.

Now we were outside of the contest hall and May was working with her new Espeon while I sat on the sidelines watching her. She was so good with her Pokemon and she hasn't lost her touch yet.

All of a sudden, she stopped training with her Espeon and turned to me. "How many Ribbon Cups have you won so far?" she asked.

"Three," I replied.

"Hm. Funny. I've got three too," she said, pondering over this fact. "I guess that makes us even," she said as she walked over to me. She took a seat next to me with a smile.

"Espeon, return," she said, returning Espeon to its Pokeball. She turned to me and gave me a warm smile. "How's it been?" she asked. A simple question that involved a long explanation.

"Pretty good," I replied. "Like I said, I won three Ribbon Cups but they were really easy to win ever since we all split up." That pretty much summed up my victories. Without Solidad or May or even Harley to be there, it was kind of bland. I still loved coordinating but it would've been even better if May was there with me.

"Did you catch any new Pokemon?" she asked.

"A couple. Arcanine, Hitmonlee, Ninjask, and a few more," I replied. I wanted to ask her a question but it just didn't seem like a good time right now.

I looked over at her. She was gazing into the sunset. The contest hall in Cerulean City was on a hill overlooking the city so the sunset looked absolutely gorgeous. The mellow orange, yellow and purple tones looked great reflecting off May's sapphire-blue eyes. I couldn't help but wish she was mine.

"I remember about six years ago here in Kanto, we were trying to catch that Arcanine. That was fun," she said dreamily.

"Yeah." I took a small pause before I went on to ask May how it's been for her.

"It's been pretty good actually," she replied, still gazing into the sunset. "Three Ribbon Cups. I've either been traveling with Ash and Brock, Dawn, or this other guy I met while traveling with Ash and Brock. I've caught a couple more Pokemon while I've been traveling but nothing major."

I don't know why but I immediately felt a surge of jealousy rush over me. It was funny, I felt like I had claimed May to be mine even though she was just my rival.

"Who's this other guy?" I asked.

May sighed dreamily and replied, "Brendan." It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that she was crushing on him. She blushed at the very thought of him and her sapphire blue eyes sparkled with love.

I wanted to kill this Brendan guy. That sparkle in her eyes should be for me! She should be sighing my name! Not his! She was mine!

What am I thinking? She's just your rival! Bad Drew! You have a girlfriend already! She has a boyfriend already! Deal with it!

"I guess I'll see you tomorrow during practice," she said as she got up. "We can catch up more on what happened in those four years. Bye!"

I watched her walk away into the city, the sunset bringing out the highlights in her brown hair. She had to be at least a thousand times prettier than she was four years ago.

No. I am not in love with May. She's just your rival. She has a boyfriend. You are not in love with May. You love Brianna, not May. Get over her Drew.

::MAY::

I admit Drew was really hot now. Like really, really hot but I had Brendan and I am in love with him… I think. I don't know why but I felt more connected with Drew than I do with Brendan, despite being separated from him for four, long, lonely years. A weird part of me wanted to snuggle up with Drew and watch the sunset with him but the practical part of me held me back.

When I arrived back at the hotel (the committee managed to score the entire tour reservations at luxury hotels at all of our stops) I immediately went up to my room and flopped down on the plush, king-sized bed and let my stress melt into the bed.

After taking a nice, long, hot shower, I pulled on a decent outfit and walked over to Dawn's room.

"Hey, can I come in?" I asked as I knocked on the door.

"Sure!" Dawn said happily as she opened the door. As I took off my shoes, I saw her dash over to the video phone in her room. "I'll talk to you later Kenny!"

"Bye Dee-Dee!" Kenny said teasingly.

"STOP CALLING ME DEE-DEE!" Dawn said before the screen went blank.

"Are you and Kenny —"

"What? No! Kenny and I are NOT dating!" Dawn said defensively. "We were just having a chat about the tour. Kenny was going to be in it but he was too busy."

"Oh. Well then, how's everything going for your tag performance with Zoey?"

"It's going great! I heard you were moved to a tag performance as well. I also heard the person taking your spot is this amazing coordinator with three Ribbon Cups and she's only fourteen! So who's your partner?"

I laughed. "Remember Drew from four years ago?" I asked.

"The one with a Roserade?"

"Yep! That's the one. He's my partner."

"You're partnered up with your longtime rival from four years ago?" Dawn asked incredulously.

"Yep," I said. "And he got hot too."

"But you have Brendan!"

I sighed. It was time for the complicated stuff. "It's complicated. I have Brendan, and don't get me wrong, he's an amazing guy but there's something that just clicks between Drew and me."

Dawn came over and gave me a hug. "You'll figure this out," she said reassuringly.

"I hope so," I said quietly. I got up and put my shoes back on. "I'll see you tomorrow," I said as I closed the door.

Back in my room, I immediately dashed for my old fanny pack. I didn't wear it anymore but I kept it around for sentimental value. I also kept my old diaries inside along with old ribbons. I opened it up and pulled out an old diary. It was my second diary.

Ever since I first went to Johto, I've been keeping a diary, one for each region I traveled to. This one happened to have a leather cover with a gold, detailed map of Sinnoh embossed into it. The first page was blank except for a carefully written word written across the page in stylish calligraphy. It said "Sinnoh" and that's all it needed to say. The rest of the pages of the diary were filled with my writing.

I flipped to the very last entry in the diary and read it.

Dear Diary,

It's the last day of my Sinnoh adventure. Tomorrow I'm on my way back home. Solidad won the Sinnoh Grand Festival but I placed a close second. I loved battling against Solidad! Guess I still have a lot to learn. Next time I battle Solidad, I'm going to win.

And I did win against Solidad the next time I saw her in the Hoenn Grand Festival two years later in the semifinals. I lost that year to Dawn but I felt so accomplished to beat Solidad.

I also beat Drew in the semi-finals. It made me feel so proud to have finally beaten him. I know I beat him in the Kanto Grand Festival but to do it twice proves it wasn't just luck. And it felt good. It was me, my Glaceon, and my new Chikorita against him, his Absol, and his Roserade. Absol and Roserade had some killer combinations but in the end, time ran out and I beat Drew for the second time and it felt SO GOOD.

Then in the finals, I put up a good fight according to Solidad but she eventually beat me. She congratulated me and the Grand Festival was over.

I didn't plan on sticking around for the after party because I was going to attend the Grand Festival in Johto where Dawn was competing. I did stick around long enough to watch the sunset before my ferry came. That's when everything went all weird.

Drew decided to come and congratulate me on my performance. He gave me a rose like he always does and we chatted a little bit about what we were going to do next. Then, I don't know what I was thinking, what happened, but I leaned in and kissed Drew. It felt SO GOOD. We just instantly connected. It was deep and passionate with tongue and the whole deal. I never wanted to let go but something inside me knew I wasn't going to see Drew again for a long time, maybe never again, and if I just kept kissing him, I'd miss him more than I already do. In the end, that little part of me won over and I had to break away. I'm holding back tears as I write this. There's only one Drew and I probably won't ever see him again.

Heartbroken,

May

As soon as I finished reading those last words, the memory of that painful day came flooding back to me. Impulsively, I traced my lips with my fingertip as if it could reawaken the remnants of the kiss. I felt a single tear roll down my cheek and soon, a waterfall of tears was rolling down my cheeks, just like how they were four years ago.

He's probably forgotten about the kiss, I thought. With all those fan-girls, who has time to remember some lonely rival's goodbye kiss?

As I rolled into bed that night, all I could think about was that kiss on the lakefront and how badly I wanted Drew.

A/n
I know this is super super long, but I'm so excited for this story. I hope you liked it. Please vote and comment your thoughts. I love your feedback so much <3
Hay out!!