Warning: A lot of swearing is in this chapter.

::MAY::

When I woke up the next morning, I could feel the dried up tears caked onto my face. My hair was an absolute mess and my breath smelled like morning. To make matters worse, practice for the tour was going to begin in about an hour and a half.

I stumbled into the shower and quickly washed myself down using a random set of shampoo, conditioner, and body wash. When I got out, I had about an hour and fifteen minutes left to get all ready, wake myself up, and eat breakfast.

I went straight to the closet and pulled out a pretty outfit. It was an off the shoulder cream colored top with a white tank top underneath. I also wore a short, dark blue skirt, not too short, just above the knee with a pair of white flip-flops.

As I blow-dried my hair, I realized I smelled like a field of flowers mixed with strawberries. I grabbed the set I used and read it carefully. "Roserade Aroma," I mumbled. "The sweet scent of Roserade infused with a hint of Meganium petals and strawberries," I mumbled as I read the rest of the description.

I'm going to smell like Roserade all day. Might as well complete the touch, I thought as I finished off my hair with an ivory rose from the hotel room. My hair looked pretty like this. I started growing it out ever since Kanto three years ago so it fell a little bit below my shoulders in light waves. Instead of a bandanna today, I wore a braid across the top of my head like a headband and ended it with a rose.

I walked over to the bathroom and put on some light makeup. I normally didn't wear any makeup but I wanted to look pretty for Drew.

What am I saying? Not Drew! Brendan! Yeah! Brendan! I'm going to video call Brendan today!

When I finished with that, I checked the clock and realized I still had a good thirty minutes to get breakfast and go. I brushed my teeth quickly before heading out the door.

For breakfast, I decided to go to my favorite café in Cerulean City. I found it the first time around when I was traveling with Ash and Brock and I just absolutely fell in love with the place. It was small yet strangely open feeling. They also had the best smoothies. And it was just a short walk away from the hotel and contest hall.

"I'll have an Açai Blueberry Pomegranate Smoothie with green tea please," I said to Maggie, the café owner.

"Sure thing May," Maggie said. Even though I didn't live in Cerulean City and I definitely was a regular customer, Maggie and I knew each other pretty well. Every time I happened to be close to Cerulean City, I'd always stop by and order a ton of smoothies.

"Here you go May," Maggie said.

I gave her the money and a sizeable and said, "Thanks," before dashing out the door to the contest hall.

"Excuse me," I said as I pushed my way through a crowd of people.

"Looks like someone's being pushy," a familiar, arrogant voice said tauntingly.

"Shut up Drew," I said through sips of smoothie.

"What are you drinking? Mud mixed with Geodude?" Drew asked when he saw my unusually colored smoothie. I'll admit it does look kind of disgusting. It was an icky gray-blue color but it tasted phenomenal.

"A really good smoothie," I replied before walking off.

Unfortunately, I just couldn't seem to shake him off, and strangely, I was actually sort of okay with that. "We still have plenty of time to get to the contest hall," Drew said.

"I don't know about you and your arriving 'fashionably late' but I'm arriving on time," I said before strutting off. However, like night follows day, Drew continued to keep up with me.

Suddenly, we heard a high-pitched squeal coming from behind us. We both turned around and saw a mob of Drew's fan girls following us, or should I say, him.

"Shit. I thought I lost them a couple of blocks ago," Drew mumbled under his breath.

"Drew I love you!" "What are you doing with that slut?" "Marry me Drew!" "Hey bitch! Get away from him! He's mine!" "No he's mine!" "Drew!"

"You really need to lay off the charm," I said to him. "And it's not nice to swear, Drew."

"Do you think that's what I'm worried about at the moment?" Drew asked.

The fan girls were closing in on us fast and there was no time to call out one of our Pokemon. So we did all we could do. We ran.

They pretty much chased us past the contest hall and straight into the heart of Cerulean City. We ended up running in circles around Cerulean City because after we passed the LeMocha Café for about the third time, I grabbed Drew's arm and pulled him into the safety of the café.

"Hey Maggie," I said breathlessly.

"Are you okay May?" Maggie asked worriedly.

"His," I said, jerking a thumb in Drew's direction, "idiotic fan girls decided to start chasing us around the city and we are SO LATE for the tour practice so I was wondering if we could borrow some stuff to get to the contest hall in one piece?"

"Sure!" Maggie said. "Come into the back room. We have some stuff here. Just return the stuff ASAP."

"Thanks Mags!" I said happily. The redhead walked back to the counter and we pulled on some hats and sunglasses for an adequate disguise and used Maggie's husband's motorcycle.

"I'll drive," I said as I grabbed the helmet. Before I could put it on, Drew grabbed it out of my hands and put it on.

"I'm driving," Drew said firmly. "I've drove motorcycles before and it'll also help with my disguise"

"Fine," I said with a pout.

We both hopped on the motorcycle and sped away to the contest hall. Maybe Drew was being smart when he refused to let me drive. Just being on the motorcycle terrified me so I pretty much clung to Drew like lint to a sock.

"May," Drew said, shaking my shoulder, "could I have my body back?"

I opened my eyes and realized we stopped and immediately I relinquished my iron hold on Drew. I don't want to admit it but it felt good squished up against Drew. He's got nice abs too. I can just tell.

Oh my God. What am I thinking? Stop thinking about Drew like that! You have Brendan for crying out loud! You have the most perfect guy on earth who will do anything for you! Just because Drew is an absolute dreamboat with charm, money, and talent doesn't mean he's better than your Brendan! Snap out of it May!

"Come on," I said, getting of the motorcycle. "We are SO LATE."

Drew didn't bother to contradict me as we both scurried inside the contest hall.

::DREW::

I should ride motorcycles more often. Not only does it scare those annoying fan girls away, it also gets May to get closer to me. During the entire ride, she was completely terrified, thus causing her to hug me from the back like I meant the world to her. I probably shouldn't ride them with Brianna though. She'd hug me until I couldn't breathe. Brianna is really nice to me and adores me but sometimes she can go a little overboard.

When we got inside the contest hall, rehearsals have already started and Mr. Contesta was looking for us.

"Sorry we're late," May said as we approached Mr. Contesta. "All of HIS fan girls started chasing us," she said, jerking a thumb, yet again, in my direction.

"That's fine," Mr. Contesta said. "But you're up next so I suggest you get ready. We're doing a run through today, then dress rehearsal tomorrow."

"Next up we have a tag performance from previous Ribbon Cup winners May and Drew! Both have won three Ribbon Cups each and have been in seven Grand Festivals. Both are heading for their respective Grand Festivals after this tour so give it up for May of Petaburg City and Drew of LaRousse City!"

We both stepped onto the stage and called out our Pokemon.

"Beautifly! Take the stage!"

"You too, Masquerain!"

The two Pokemon appeared in a white flash followed up with sparkles. They started to twirl around in mid-air before stopping and posing.

"Now Beautifly! Use Energy Ball!"

"Masquerain! Use Silver Wind!"

Beautifly launched a blue-green ball of swirling energy up into the sky while Masquerain flapped its wings and propelled the ball up with streams of silvery gusts of pulsing wind. When the ball finally had enough pushing from the Silver Wind, it exploded and the Silver Wind also stopped, showering the stadium in sparkles. The sunlight reflected off the multi-faceted sparkles like water droplets and made it seem like someone had just used a huge Sunny Day attack all over the Contest Hall.

"Now Beautifly! SolarBeam!"

Beautifly started to charge up its SolarBeam and it didn't take long in the gorgeous sunny weather. In a matter of seconds, Beautifly had produced a glowing white ball of solar energy.

"Spin and let her rip!" May said

"Use Bubble Masquerain!" Drew said.

Beautifly released the ball of energy in the form of a beam while spinning, making it spiral in the sky. Masquerain then started shooting clear bubbles into the sky as well, surrounding the spiral of solar energy. Pretty rainbows danced all across the contest hall along, mixing and mingling with the sparkles that were created earlier.

"Now Masquerain! Hidden Power!" I called out.

Masquerain started to form rings of the familiar glowing white balls of energy before shooting them out.

"Psychic Beautifly!" May called out.

Beautifly's eyes glowed light blue for a moment. Then Masquerain's Hidden Power attack became completely surrounded by a light blue glow, similar to the glow of Beautifly's eyes. Now Beautifly was making the little pieces of the Hidden Power attack spin in rings around them.

"Aerial Ace!" we both called out.

Beautifly stopped using Psychic and the white balls of energy, no longer surrounded by blue, started dropping to the ground. They didn't drop for long though. Beautifly and Masquerain soon charged up their Aerial Aces and started zooming around the Contest Hall, making loops and spirals with their fancy flying. While they were flying, their speed caused the balls of energy to spin and twirl around the stage as they fell so it looked like they were shooting stars. Beautifly and Masquerain finished with a twirl and a pose while underneath them, we made a similar pose.

"Nice job," May said to me with a smile.

"You too," I said back.

All of a sudden, May started to fall backwards. I naturally had pretty quick reflexes so I grabbed her and pulled her up. At one point, our faces were merely inches away from each other, close enough to kiss. Personally, I wouldn't mind getting another kiss from May but if this ever got out on the news, my Lily would kill me. Besides, I think she already has a boyfriend and Arceus knows if she still likes me or not.

Why her? Why did I have to get paired up with her? Why'd she have to come back into my life and mess everything up? I have a perfect relationship with Brianna and I'm stinking rich to top that off! No. Quit blaming everything on May. It's your fault you signed up for this stupid thing anyways.

"Thanks Drew," May said as she straightened herself up.

"No problem," I said with an involuntary flick of my hair.

Stop it! Stop flicking your damn hair!

I could see May smiling at me. She didn't look like she wanted hook up with me. The look on her face pretty much said "you're still doing that stupid hair flick-y thing? Wow Drew. You sure have changed a lot."

I smiled back at her. As long as we remained friends, everything was going to be okay. Right?

::MAY::

I almost kissed Drew. Stupid klutzy me! You have Brendan! Remember? Your boyfriend?

But on the other hand, he is kind of hot. Who wouldn't fall in love with those eyes? They're so deep and prismatic. I swear, you can see green-tinted rainbows in his eyes. His eyelashes are just so long! Whoever said eyes are the windows to the soul was probably looking at Drew. Do eyes get sexier than his?

HELLO? YOU HAVE A BOYFRIEND!

I wonder how in the world I manage to have such intense arguments in my head.

We both headed backstage in slightly awkward silence as the MC called out the next performer. This was going to be my performance slot but then Mr. Contesta moved me over to perform with Drew.

"After being the youngest Coordinator ever to win the Ribbon Cup at the age of eleven, she has continued to travel around the Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh regions and has secured numerous Grand Festival wins. Now at the age of twenty-two, she has secured a total of six Ribbon Cups and a place among the most elite coordinators of our time! Give it up for Chloe Sparks!"

"He can't be serious. THE Chloe Sparks?" Drew said, astounded.

"How in the world did they manage to get Chloe Sparks to sign up for this tour?" I asked in an equally astounded tone. Not only was Chloe Sparks one of the best coordinators ever, she was also a pretty decent PokeStylist. Unfortunately, Chloe was also a tabloid queen. Talented, but also a party-hard type of girl that ended up all over the tabloids... for all the wrong reasons. Getting Chloe on the tour would either bring major hits for her coordinating talents or major criticism for her party animal personality.

We both watched in awe as parts of the stage slid open, revealing a pool. Being Cerulean City, a water loving city, the contest hall HAD to have a pool. We chose not to use it because we didn't really need it.

Chloe looked up into the sky and took a deep breath before pulling out two Pokeballs. Then Chloe started spinning, with the two Pokeballs in her hands. As she spun, she started to raise them up. Once they were firmly above her head, she released the Pokemon from their Pokeballs.

"Vaporeon! Leafeon! Hit the stage!"

Vaporeon and Leafeon appeared from their spinning Pokeballs in a flash of white light and tiny sparkles. They were spinning just as their trainer has been.

"Leafeon! Use Aerial Ace! Vaporeon! Use Aqua Tail!"

Leafeon stopped spinning and started getting ready for an Aerial Ace while Vaporeon continued to spin while using Aqua Tail. Vaporeon's Aqua Tail started to spin webs of water, which were further spun by Leafeon's speedy Aerial Ace. The Aqua Tail also started forming a cocoon of water around Vaporeon.

As Vaporeon continued to fall, the webs of water dropped into tiny droplets and new ones took their place. The cocoon that was forming around Vaporeon started to get larger and tighter as Vaporeon made its descent.

Once Vaporeon was a couple of inches away from the ground, Chloe ordered another attack from Leafeon. "Use Magical Leaf Leafeon!"

Leafeon stopped using Aerial Ace and started spinning while using Magical Leaf. The glowing leaves created a spiraling vortex above the water. As Leafeon spun faster, the vortex started to suck in the water into twisting columns of green-glowing water.

"Now Vaporeon! Tuck in your tail! Leafeon use SolarBeam followed up with Energy Ball and keep it going!"

Leafeon was shooting Energy Balls and SolarBeam balls into the water around the web, creating geysers of water that splashed around it. And in the middle of it all, Vaporeon was still going.

Vaporeon had tucked in its mermaid-like tail and started finishing up the cocoon by spinning faster and faster, all while it was standing on water. The fast twirling motion created small waves of water around Vaporeon's feet, almost like a mini-whirlpool. Soon, all of Vaporeon was covered in a watery cocoon while the web was nearly gone now from the lack of new water.

"Now use Secret Power Vaporeon!"

Vaporeon glowed pink, illuminating the cocoon and the now crumbling web.

"So that's what Chloe was planning all along," Drew murmured.

Only someone like Chloe could've done something like that. But knowing the troubled coordinator, she'd probably go and get drunk after rehearsal.

Then Chloe said something softly to her Vaporeon but no one could really hear what she said. Then she smirked and said to her Leafeon, "SolarBeam."

In the bright sunlight, SolarBeam only took a mere handful of seconds to charge up before Leafeon direted the powerful attack at the cocoon where Vaporeon was wrapped up in. Vaporeon must've stopped its Secret Power Attack because the cocoon was no longer glowing but where else could Vaporeon have gone when it was all wrapped up in a cocoon of water without the cocoon collapsing?

I nearly fell over. What was she thinking? Was she trying to kill her Vaporeon? Why was she firing a SolarBeam at Vaporeon?

"Fire!" Chloe said.

Leafeon pulled her head back for extra appeal before unleashing an incredibly powerful SolarBeam. The beam of solar energy made contact with the cocoon and the cocoon exploded into a shower of water, thus destroying the web as well but Vaporeon was no where to be seen.

The entire contest hall hung in silence as Leafeon hung above the entire watery mess with Vaporeon nowhere to be seen. Mr. Contesta was about to go outside and brutally yell at Chloe but Chloe stopped him with one hand before looking up at the stage.

"Leafeon! Use Leaf Blade!"

The leaf on Leafeon's head glowed green before Leafeon dived down and made a searing cut in the water with its razor sharp leaf. Two ramps of water rose out of the water with a small gap in between.

Chloe smiled. "Now Vaporeon! Quick Attack!"

Vaporeon appeared out of nowhere behind Leafeon. She jumped over her sister before dashing onto one of the ramps with blistering fast speed while her sister treaded water. After Vaporeon ran over one ramp with its unique ability to walk on water, it jumped over to the next one and rolled down it.

"Surf!"

Vaporeon picked up its sister from the water and summoned a large wave of water and rode it towards Chloe.

"Now jump!"

Both Leafeon and Vaporeon fearlessly jumped off the wave. Leafeon jumped, spun, and went horizontal before going vertical again. She landed safely on the platform where Chloe was standing.

Meanwhile, Vaporeon jumped perfectly vertical while spinning and landed on top of the water.

Both Pokemon then struck a pose along with their trainer. The pose was carefully calculated so the sun hit Vaporeon and Leafeon at specific angles. Vaporeon looked like it was shimmering, like a clear blue lake on a sunny day. Leafeon on the other hand looked totally energized from the energy it took it from photosynthesis.

They held the pose for a little longer before bowing and going in.

While the announcer called out the next coordinator, a completely drenched Chloe came in with her equally drenched Pokemon. Immediately, adoring fans started flocking towards her but the troubled star brushed them off. She walked towards her assistant and took a water bottle from her.

"What's this?" she asked angrily after taking a swig. "I asked for hard lemonade! Not WATER!"

"Well," her assistant said sheepishly, "you said you had a killer hangover so I filled it up with water instead of hard lemonade."

"Can anybody do anything right around here?" Chloe asked angrily. She stormed out of the building with her Pokemon.

"I smell something bad brewing," Drew said.

"Should we follow her?" I asked.

We looked at each other and said nothing more. We followed Chloe out of the building where she was on her PokeNav, trying to find the nearest bar. Her Pokemon looked at her, begging for her to stop. They must've known what she was doing and were trying to stop her.

"Where the hell is the nearest fucking bar?" she asked to nobody in particular. Then she noticed us and glared. "Oh great, more fans. What do you want? My autograph? Here you go," she said, throwing us autographed pictures of her.

"No," I said. After traveling with Ash back when I was ten, I tended to be a little bit rash. Not as rash as he is but I did have a tendency to rush into things without fully thinking it out, only sometimes though. "We wanted to talk."

"So you're reporters? So where's your fucking cameraman?"

"No. We're not reporters. We're coordinators from this tour. We went right before you," I explained cautiously. It was clearly evident that talking to Chloe was like walking on eggshells.

"So what do you fucking want?"

"We want to talk to you... about your problem... Coordinator to coordinator," I said.

"What are you? My fucking therapist?" she said angrily.

"No, but we care about this tour and you signed up for this under the conditions you would do your best not to bring bad publicity to this tour," Mr. Contesta said, appearing out of nowhere.

"Do I care?" Chloe said snootily. "My publicist made me sign up because I've been getting so called 'bad publicity' lately."

"Behave yourself Chloe or else you might find yourself in big trouble with us," Mr. Contesta said warningly to Chloe.

As soon as Mr. Contesta was out of earshot, Chloe said, "I don't give a fuck about this fucking tour."

"You should," Drew said.

"Why should I listen to cabbage-dude and Roserade here?" Chloe said.

"Roserade?" I asked. Drew's Roserade was nowhere to be seen and I did not dress up like a Roserade.

"I mean you, bitch!" Chloe said, rolling her eyes.

That's when I remembered I completely reeked of Roserade since this morning's shower. It didn't help that I had a rose in my hair too.

I blushed and I swear Chloe's expression softened up.

"You two make a cute couple. An annoying, nosy couple but nonetheless, a cute couple."

"We're not dating!" I said defensively. I could feel the color rising to my cheeks even more.

Chloe smirked. "Don't try and pull anything over me," the twenty-two year old said. "You two have chemistry. It's so obvious." She looked up at us, her hangover appearing to be completely gone. "Call out your Beautifly and Masquerain if you will."

Why does she want our Pokemon? She's not affiliated with Team Rocket is she?

Despite my doubts, I called out Beautifly anyways and Drew, following my lead, called out his Masquerain. Then Chloe, with a smirk on her face, pulled out a small container of liquid PokeBlock mix. It was a tiny container, only big enough for one. Both Beautifly and Masquerain flocked over to it but after Masquerain saw Beautifly flying over, he let her take the treat. After finishing the treat, Beautifly flew up to Masquerain with a happy expression on its face and cuddled up with him. There was a deep blush on Masquerain's face as Beautifly snuggled up next to him.

"Looks like Beautifly and Masquerain like each other. My uncle told me that one of his colleagues said that Pokemon take after their trainers," Chloe said, looking full of life.

"WHAT?" we both said at the same time. I did not like LIKE Drew like that and I'm pretty sure he didn't either... I think.

"You both know you like each other so why not just say it?" Chloe said with a full flip of her long, blond hair.

We stared at each other in awkward silence.

"SAY IT ALREADY!"

"I-I l-l-ove..."

::DREW'S POV ::

I should've saw it coming. I mean, she's so hot! How could she not have a boyfriend?

"I love my girlfriend," I said. Even though I said it, it doesn't mean I meant it. Brianna's nice and all and she gives me all these pet names and stuff but she's so CLINGY!

Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Chloe looking at us with an unsatisfied frown.

::CHLOE'S POV::

It's so obvious they like each other.

I may have gone through more break ups than the average person but I know when I see a spark it's for real. I am like an expert on dating. I know the "I love my boyfriend/girlfriend" phrase they just said is not true. They love EACH OTHER. Now it's just my job to make them realize it.

A/N:
Brianna/Lily will be explained in the next chapter which will be up shortly. This is probably the most swearing I'll do in one chapter.