The Only Exception

25.

"Hey, Serena. Let's sleep in one bed together." Ash said.

The group all looked at Ash — shocked and confused. It was usually the other way around and they'd always get in a fight over this but now? This. This was different.

"Really?" She asked excitedly.

Ash nodded his head at her, "you are my girlfriend."

Serena squealed at him as she gave him a hug and a kiss. Dawn rolled her eyes at the two as they began setting up their bed together. Clemont and Bonnie were surprised at Ash and his sudden change. They didn't really expect him to change just like that. What happened to him?

Dawn had put her bag down and walked out of the Pokémon center. Everyone watched as she walked out of the Pokémon center — except for Ash who had his hat covering his eyes. Clemont and Bonnie decided to leave the poor coordinator alone for awhile. Serena smirked, realizing she had won.

~•~•~

Dawn stormed out of the Pokémon center as she walked off somewhere, she didn't know where, she just didn't want to be anywhere near Ash.

What was that earlier? Just because I rejected him he's gonna do that sort of thing?

She stopped walking as she felt tears streaming down her face. She started crying and didn't care if anyone saw her. She felt so hurt by Ash. But, she couldn't put all the blame on him. It wasn't him that suggested they try and fix his relationship no matter what. She sighed, realizing how stupid she was.

"Dawn?"

Her eyes widened as she turned around to see a huge surprise.

"May?" She smiled as she ran up to the brown haired coordinator and embraced her into a hug. May smiled as she returned the hug.

"Nice to see you again, Dawnie."

Dawn pulled away from their hug as she looked around, "where's Drew?"

"He's coming a bit later. He had some things to handle at the other section of Coumarine." May said.

"Oh. Alright." She smiled lightly at her.

However, May did notice that she was crying a bit. She could tell from her puffy red eyes and tear streaked face. "Dawn, are you.. crying?" She asked.

"Huh? N-no! Of course not!" She lied.

May crossed her arms at her. "You can't lie to me, Dawn. You know that."

Dawn sighed as she looked away from her. She couldn't hide anything from May. She was really good at finding out the truth. She sighed as she nodded her head at her. May placed a hand on her shoulder and smiled lightly at her, "let's go talk."

Dawn nodded her head at her as they went towards a small bench and sat down. Dawn told May all about what happened with Ash and the deal they head made. She then told her about the kiss that happened and how Ash is just ignoring her.

May clenched her fists as she got up from the bench and started throwing a fit. "I'm gonna kill him when I see him!! Make my best friend cry!?! Wrong move, Ketchum! And when I tell Drew he'll—"

Dawn grabbed her arm and pulled her down on the bench. "May, you cannot tell Drew!"

"But, Dawn—"

"No! Drew can never know about this. He will literally hurt Ash."

May sighed because she knew it too. That Drew was really overprotective over her and Dawn. May looked over at her best friend with furrowed eyebrows. "Then what are you going to do?"

"Let Ash do what he wants." She said.

"And your deal?"

Dawn didn't exactly know what to do about that. If they weren't going to be talking then there would have to be another way. "I'm still gonna go on with our deal. But, if he won't talk then I'll just write him letters."

May smiled at her, "oh, Dawn... he's gonna realize how stupid he is one day."

Dawn smiled at her, "come on. Let's go back to the Pokémon center."

"Alright. Drew should be back by now."

They both got up from the bench as they made their way back to the Pokémon center.

Sorry for the late late late update. I've been so busy with lots of things like work. Not only that, I literally don't have much idea right now because of all this stress so I hope you guys understand that I'm really trying to finish this story up for you and not leave it on hiatus.

Thanks so much for reading my story! Hopefully I'll update as soon as I can!