Heyyy! I'm back with the third chapter! Hopefully, this will be as good as the first two chapters before it, but who knows I might get lazy with it at some point -.- And also I am so so sorry for not updating sooner. Like I've said been sick this month and my internet likes to crash on me a lot.

But finally the chapter is up! So enjoy reading!

~Miyu~

After my last period class, I rushed to my locker quickly after realizing that I don't have my science notes with me. I ran up to my locker and quickly opened it

"Come on where the heck is it?!" I muttered to myself as I began to shuffle through the stuff in my locker

"Hey Ash!" I heard a familiar voice greeted me.

"Hey Dawn!" I greeted back, my voice echoing in the locker

"Whatcha looking for?" Dawn asked curiously, her body leaning to the side to look into my locker.

"Nothing, I'm just looking for my science notebook. Ugh! Where in the world did I put it?!" I asked myself, completely frustrated.

I then decided to shuffle through the top self of my locker, with Dawn looking at me muttering to myself and making the top shelf a complete mess. After I shuffled through m whole locker AND backpack.. I finally gave up and sat down on the floor.

"Man that damn notebook probably ran off somewhere" I said to myself, not realizing that Dawn was still standing next to me.

"Do you mean this notebook?" Dawn finally asked innocently.

"Wha-" I said confused. I looked up, and right there in her hands was the science book that I spent 10 minutes looking for.

"Hey! How did you get it?" I asked completely annoyed at how she didn't give it to me earlier.

"Silly, you gave it to me to copy down some notes. Remember?" She asked.

"Man she looks so pretty…" I thought to myself staring into her pretty blue eyes.

"Ash! Earth to Ash!" Dawn said shaking me gently, snapping my out of my daydream. "Huh? What?" I asked a confused expression etched on my face.

"You okay? You seem…out of it."

"Hehehe…uh yeah. I'm fine, just fine." I nervously answered scratching the back of my head. "Umm…so" I began but then cut off my thoughts when Lucas approached us.

"Hi Lucas" Dawn smiled.

"Hi Dawn." Lucas smiled back. "How you doing Ash?"

"Doing great Lucas and you?"

"Great. Come on Dawn lets go catch the bus." Lucas beckoned.

"Okay. Bye Ash." She waved before running after Lucas.

"Bye Dawn." I whispered. "What was I thinking? I can't ask her out." I sighed "She's probably dating Lucas anyways" Slowly closing my locker. "Oh well, I gotta hurry home."

I was slowly walking home alone, when it began to rain. "Oh man I forgot my umbrella!" I muttered, but why does it matter anyways. It was like the sky was crying with my heart. I quickly lowered my head and continued my slow walk down the street staring down at my feet. Left, right, left, right one foot disappearing behind the other as I walked slowly in the pouring rain.

…

"Achoo!" I sneezed "Oh man why?!" I complained before sneezing a few more times. "Pika pika" Pikachu answered worriedly, looking at the tissues scattered around my bed. "Ash dear are you okay?" I heard my mother shout from down stairs. "Yeah mom! I'm just-a-a-Achoo!" I sneezed out into a tissue. Knowing that my mom just heard my sneeze, I waited to hear the sounds of her footsteps rushing up the stairs. But one minute, two minutes, three minutes had passed and I didn't hear a single thing. "Hmmm…where's mom?" I wondered.

A few seconds later I heard the sound of padded footsteps on the staircase. "Mom?" I sat up looking at the shadowed figure near my door. "No, it's me silly." A familiar voice sang. "Serena?!" I yelled out with a blocked nose. "Hi Ash" She greeted steeping into my room. "Your mom told me that you were sick so I thought that I'd bake your favorite cookies for you."

"Mmmm…chocolate chips." I smiled trying to sniff in the scent of the fresh batch of cookies on the tray that Serena was holding. I saw that she was about to say something until the sound of footsteps could be heard on the staircase once more. "Ash your mother told me to bring up some soup and-" Dawn trailed off. "Oh hi, Serena" Dawn nodded.

"Hi Dawn." Serena smiled. "Well I guess I better leave you guys alone." Dawn said quickly placing the soup and medicine on my nightstand. "Thanks Dawn." Dawn smiled weakly at me and walked out the door.

I looked back at Serena and saw that she was looking at Dawn, who was silently descending the stairs. "Serena" I began. "Ash I have to go now. Maybe I'll you tonight." Serena said quickly running out of my room and down the stairs, her footsteps echoing loudly in the hallway.

I sat there quietly shuttering at the thought of being caught into Serena's
next best thing trap again. "Pika pika." Pikachu said handing me the medicine that Dawn brought up to me. "Hmm." I said taking the cup from Pikachu's hands "In wonder why mom didn't bring this up." Pikachu shrugged and looked at me while I drank in the bitter medicine and started on eating my soup.

As I was eating I didn't notice a figure walking into my room. "Man nothing like some chicken soup to calm down this cold." mumbled to myself.

"You like it?" Dawn suddenly asked me, somehow sitting at the edge of my bed. I eyes quickly widened with surprise "Yeah its good." I said quickly scooping up another spoonful and popping it into my mouth. "But it tastes different from my mom's usual recipe." I said swallowing in. "Hehehe. I actually made it." Dawn giggled nervously.

"Really?"

"Yeah, it's my family's recipe."

"You sure really know how to cook."

"Awww. Thanks" Dawn blushed "I'm glad that you like it"

"No. I love it." I said kissing her on the cheek.

"Ash you are getting soup on me." Dawn laughed, her facing turning bright red.

"Awww…look at you two!" My mom cooed suddenly appearing at the door way. "Mom!" I blushed hoping that she didn't see the kiss. "Don't worry Ash I saw your little display." Mom giggled. "Don't you worry dear, Dawn would make a wonderful girlfriend for you." She continued, picking up the empty medicine cup and soup bowl.

"Don't worry Ms. Ketchum." Dawn giggled wrapping her arms around me "I'll take care of him." Mom beamed happily "That's great dear. I'll leave you guys alone now." I silently sat there hearing my mom's and Dawn's exchange. "But wait isn't Dawn dating Lucas?" I thought to myself. "She's going to make me her next best thing isn't she?" I frowned at that thought. "No way, Dawn's not like that." I shook my head mentally.

"Ash what's wrong?" Dawn looked up at me, her blue eyes filled with concerned. "Nothing." I lied. "Ash I can tell that you're lying." She said her blue eyes staring into mine's. "Please tell me." She whispered. "Okay I will." I sighed. Dawn smiled weakly at me as I stared into her eyes. "I just feel so sick of being the next best thing." I began, the images and quotes from Serena flowing into my mind. "If you are doing that to me, please stop." I whispered feeling tears filling up my eyes. "Ash…" Dawn said quietly lifting my chin up with her finger. "You're not my next best thing." My eyes widened in surprise. "You're my only thing." She said kissing me on the cheek. "So you're not dating Lucas?" I asked. "Ewww! No! He's my cousin." She said pretending to gag. I laughed at her and pulled her into a warm embrace. "You know that your going to get sick hanging out with me right?"

"Hmm…I'm fine with that." She answered snuggling closer to me. "Oh, really?" I leered. "As long as you promise to take care of me." She smiled. "Don't worry I will." I smiled back.

"I'm finally not the next best thing." I thought to myself embracing my first and probably only girlfriend.

Yayyy! Its done! *dances around happily* Gosh I'm never gonna write another story ever again…

JUST KIDDING!

I already have the plot laid out for a new story already so I guess I'll work on it when I have time.

And if you are tired of me writing stories for Pearlshipping then I have a few other ships that I can write for

-Orangeshipping (I have an idea for a story already)

-Lagomorphshipping

-Contestshipping (maybe I can)

-Geekchicshipping (I have no clue)

-Wishful shipping (not sure)

Or maybe I should just stick to Pearl?

Ummm… any Monster High or Ever After High fans out there? (Probably not .)

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