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For those who don't know, I'm planning to edit all the chapters I deem lousy, starting with my first chapter ever in fanfiction! This story was initially named 'Life is never happy all the time', but I changed it to 'Love ignites'. Anyone who can come up with better suggestions?

Also, I'll be naming all my chapters after I look through them!

"What's your level position?" Ash Ketchum asked while they were playing basketball after school.

"Uh…you first." May blinked at him curiously.

"48." The boy smirked.

"Whoa. I got 47." May grinned, catching the ball.

Ash gave May a look of pure shock.

"How…coincidental." He muttered under his breath. And then, seizing the opportunity, he snatched the ball away from May and dribbled on to the basket, where he promptly dunked in the ball.

"Uh, yeah…" May trailed off, and then she decided to concentrate on playing.

That was how May got to know Ash better.

Through countless talks and chats about alot of random things, everyone found everything about them...intriguing.

"Don't you think the geography teacher is a bit, well…young? I mean, MY geography teacher is at least 30 years older than her!"

Ash and May were apparently debating over their geography teachers. Over lunch.

May was diagonally opposite him to avoid leg contact (maybe it would be too stuffy, she thought when she was about to sit opposite him. And too couple-ish.) Ash was stuffing himself with some spaghetti with loads of ketchup while May was slurping on her Coke.

"Oh wow, Ash, I never really knew you had a girlfriend!" A rather sarcastic voice said from behind May. Ash's eyebrows twitched slightly in sheer annoyance.

"She is NOT my girlfriend. And aren't you supposed to be with YOUR girl, Brendan? Was her name, ah… MISTY?" Ash retorted back.

Brendan ignored the last comment. "What's your name, girl?"

"Uhh…" May stammered. Was he referring to her?

"Just ignore him." Ash murmured hastily to the brunette. He continued stuffing his spaghetti into his mouth in the relish of a machine.

The next day, May was dutifully walking up the stairs to her class when she received a rather rude shock.

"Hah, I got your name, May Maple!" A rather hyped-up Brendan jumped up and down eagerly like he was the starved monkey in a desert and suddenly found May the banana in the middle of nowhere. May widened her eyes in terror as the boy ran out yelling for the world to hear, "Ash likes May!" and other silly stuff like that. Like telling the world how you found a banana in a desert, May thought lamely.

But if that wasn't enough, when May passed by Ash's friends, they'd scream, "ASH! Come on out, May's here!" and that was when May would panic and run away in pure embarrassment.

Sometimes, May wondered what was so...interesting about their interaction. I mean, May had an existing social life; she had every right to talk to a guy that she found nice to talk to.

It wasn't everyday she'd find a nice, decent guy who could actually tolerate the nonsensical tauntings of his friends.

Hm. Maybe it was an opportunity for a nice, mutual friendship.

The two exchanged glances when they found a picture gallery of the two on the internet, courtesy of Drew. May was so furious that it had 2000 views that the next day, she caught a lizard and put it in Drew's overly conditioned hair and took a video of him screaming like a hyena with its butt on fire. She promptly posted it on YouTube, and it got 5000 views.

"Hey!" A voice snapped May out of her thoughts. It was Ash with Brendan and Drew, who snarled at May when they made eye contact.

"You…wanna eat lunch?" he asked meekly.

"Sure thing…"

Ash was, as usual, shoveling fries in his mouth hungrily. May was eating four spoons of her rice at a go. Brendan and Drew stared at the eating competition.

"I bet a dollar on Ash…"Brendan remarked.

"Ditto." Drew muttered.

May finished first anyway, so the two boys surrendered the money to May.

"Hey, Ash, you ARE going out with us later, right?" Drew asked. "Brendan scored a discount coupon for some random reason."

May raised her eyebrow. "Huh?"

Ash grinned widely. "McDonald's…"

"Oh." the brunette let it slide, and she continued to play with the utensils in her hand. It's so...shiny.

Hold on. What's that...cute fa- oh, crap, I did not say that Ash's reflection was cute.

"You wanna come?" Ash asked, slurping the remainder of his Sprite. May jumped out of her thoughts, again.

Brendan coughed. Drew's face turned very green. What if May put a lizard in his FOOD?

May sweatdropped at the boys' reaction. "Uh…if it's okay with your friends…"

Ash looked at Drew's green hair and face and grinned. "Ignore them. You can come along if you like. I'll TREAT you!" And then Ash watched as Drew widened his eyes in fear and ran to the toilet.

Brendan looked at Ash with an I-do-not-like-the-idea-of-this-and-neither-will-Drew face. Ash pouted sweetly at the older boy. "Puh-LEEEEEEZZZZ?" he asked. May started to laugh hilariously.

Brendan threw his hands up. "Fine, fine…but wait 'til Drew recovers from his...current state of shock…"

Ash cocked an eyebrow.

"Fine…" Brendan muttered. "Stupid pouts…"

May smiled.

Meanwhile, a certain blue-haired girl watched carefully. Her accomplice, a pink-haired girl looked on with wide eyes. "You sure that going to McDonald's and videotaping them for him just for 50 dollars is legal, Solana?" The pink-haired girl asked Solana.

"Of course. Have you heard of any rule in the United States that says 'No videotaping people for money', Whitney?" Solana replied in sarcasm.

"…No…"

"Good. And message Jasmine for me…tell her about this. Her fever has GOT to subside by Friday. Tell her to bring her video camera and whatever she needs to bring to get the video clear. Operation AaMayL begin!"

"Uh…are your friends still planning?" Ash asked as he eyed the wall concealing Whitney and Solana cautiously.

May didn't bother to reply. She dialed Solana's number and called her. Solana's ring tone was so loud, she actually shrieked in fright, thinking that Lunick called her to tell her that he was breaking up with her.

May laughed. She switched off her phone and blinked at Ash. "Got your answer?" May asked sweetly.

Ash and May exchanged glances, and stated to laugh uncontrollably at Solana, whose face was flushing with embarrassment.

Solana glared at May. "You're SO going to get it from me on Friday…" she muttered under her breath.

Done! Yay. Review!