Hey everyone,

Well. I know readers don't like to hear excuses so I'll let you take a guess where I've been for the past month.

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Here is the next chapter...

Chapter 3

New Developments

"Wow. This is incredible." Leaf muttered to herself when she stepped into the school gardens. Vines hung from the pale green walls enclosing the space, flowers bloomed around her however her focus was on the large tree in the middle of the area. It was an oak tree, Leaf's favourite.

Ironically enough, the Oaks were known for the 150 year old oak tree which stood in the middle of their front lawn. Many would pore over it, as they walked past with their grocery in hand. However, Leaf had spent many days and nights with Gary – and sometimes Ash and Red, playing, resting, doing homework and just sitting underneath the tree. That was why when the thunderstorm had struck it down, it had taken a whole month for her and Gary to recover from the loss. She touched the trunk, and eventually sat underneath the tree.

The whole afternoon seemed to disappear as the sun slowly sunk down on the horizon. Leaf realised that she had just spent a whole hour staring into the distance, just like she used to under the oak tree. "Thanks buddy," she said patting the tree trunk before heading back to her dorm. She felt prepared for the change.

Room 204

Girls Dorm

"So what co-curricular activities are you choosing, Misty?" May asked, chewing on the end of her pen. Dawn, May and Misty were completing their club and activities form, and May especially was absolutely stumped on what to do.

"Well, I'm obviously doing swimming." Misty said rolling her eyes, before checking the box, "Then…maybe I'll do beach volleyball, and then I'll do water polo."

"So you're only doing sports?" Dawn asked, "I'm joining the fashion designing club, cooking club, cheerleading and gymnastics!"

May still felt unsure. Her roommates knew their strengths and weaknesses, but May had a sinking feeling that she wasn't good at anything. She looked through the list, trying to find something which didn't require skill or talent. "Hey! I'm done with my form, I'll take them down. Hurry up you guys!" Misty called out, folding her piece of paper.

May quickly ticked a few boxes without thinking and handed it to Misty. While Misty ran downstairs to the reception, May glanced over at her desk where a small pile of homework and assignments sat, despite the fact that it was only their first day. She was definitely not the most organised or smartest, which meant that she ignored the pile and chose to take out her journal instead.

"Just what on earth do you write in there, May?" Dawn questioned watching the brunette become completely absorbed in her writing. May looked up, "Just you know, my slice of life. It's no big deal."

"So what is your slice of life?" Dawn asked. May had a feeling Dawn wasn't going to let it go, so she tried to change the topic. "Speaking of slices of life…I wonder what's for dinner."

"I think they had lemon meringue on the dessert menu. Just my luck…" Dawn muttered.

Dining Hall

"You know. I could never get bored of watching you eat." Barry said, looking towards May. Much to Dawn's happiness, Barry had decided to sit with them for dinner once again. This time though, he'd brought his roommate, the one and only Drew Hayden who was also absolutely shocked at May's awful yet fascinating table manners. "Anyways, how were all of your first days?" Barry asked grinning sheepishly, before running his hand through his golden locks.

Drew grunted, May snorted, Dawn choked and Misty coughed. "Not too good, huh? Same here," Barry replied sighing. An extremely awkward silence hung over them for the following few minutes until squeals were heard from the table next to them. It seems that they'd finally come to the realisation that Drew was sitting with a bunch of 'losers' and 'unknowns', and many girls were wondering what they didn't have that was possessed by the bunch.

"It must be hectic for you. Opening every window…and hearing girls shouting like that," Misty said, her veins slightly popping out of her head. She would know the feeling. After all, the sensational sisters had their fair share of male fans who lined up in front of the gym to hopefully score an autograph or if they were lucky, a photo.

"I've never really paid attention to them." Drew established, flicking his fringe, "There are much more important things in life."

"Funny how all the famous people say that," Misty mumbled to herself, but it was loud enough for Drew to hear and raise his eyebrows at. "Anyways, I'm going to head off back to the dorm now." Dawn said rising up from her chair, "Are you guys coming?" she gestured towards May and Misty. They also stood up and joined her after saying quick goodbyes to the boys, however May turned back after a few steps to mouth 'see you tomorrow' to Drew, who curtly nodded his head.

** The Next Morning

Room 204

The next morning May woke up to shouting from the bathroom.

"Hey! WHO USED ALL MY MOISTURISER?!"

"YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE JUST LEFT IT OPEN THERE, WITHOUT EXPECTING SOMEONE TO USE IT!"

"THAT WAS A LIMITED EDITION!"

"IT'S JUST MOISTURISER…"

"Guys, it's six in the morning. Give me a break." May sleepily stated before stepping out of bed on to the warm carpet and flattening her chestnut hair down. She realised that she hadn't seen Brendan throughout all of yesterday so she made an effort to take out her PokeNav and message him. "The bathroom's free." Misty said stepping out with a blue towel wrapped around her body.

"Yeah, but my moisturiser wasn't," Dawn winged, before entering the bathroom and slamming the door shut.

"She frustrates me." Misty complained to May.

May just shrugged, she was never one to get involved in other people's squabbles. "Why don't you like Dawn?" she asked Misty.

"What do you mean?" Misty question ludicrously.

"Well, you seem to get really annoyed at her." May suggested.

"She's just such a princess. It's not like she's ever had to rough it in her life. It just annoys me, you know," Misty complained. May shrugged and went into their kitchenette to make a quick cup of coffee for all of them.

She saw Dawn's laptop sitting on her desk, and decided that it wouldn't hurt to borrow it, since she hadn't managed to unpack her own yet. The first thing which popped was a Facebook message, from someone named Ursula Urara, who she recognised as the pinkette who Dawn seemed to be on bad terms with. May didn't want to invade Dawn's privacy, however she still managed to read the message. "Don't think you can play it safe for long you mofo. I'll get you, and then you'll see…" it said in all capitalised letters.

May frowned. Just what was that sentence supposed to mean. Before she could decide, she heard the bathroom door unlock, so she quickly minimised it and logged on to her own Facebook.

As usual, there were no friend requests. She hadn't gotten too many likes on the last photo she posted either, but that was alright. She looked to the side where there were suggested pages, and one in particular caught her eye. It was called – The Grimy Goss, or The GG. She opened the page, and the first post she read made her jaw drop:

Seems like the famous Drew Hayden has already been cozying up to a lucky girl…As you can see in these photos, him and the girl were sitting in the School Gardens at about 7.30 PM at night, and they got pretty close if you ask me. Just who is she? And what does Hayden find so special about her? Stay tuned!

Following that were several snapshots of her and Drew, with their backs to the camera just talking, and there was a photo which was zoomed in on their hands touching. Is Drew Hayden officially off the market? Who knows. Don't like what you see? Leave a comment.

May angrily closed the page, before turning off the screen. She was lucky that they hadn't identified her; otherwise she would've been targeted by his mob of fans for sure. But she made a mental to find out who the administrator of the page was, because May wanted to catch him or her before he or she could do anymore harm to Drew and the other students.

Maths Extension Class

Session 3

"You are extremely frustrating. You know that?"

"Yeah, Leaf, Gary and Red tell me that all the time."

"Well now you can add me to your list."

Ash was sitting next to his roommate Richie, in Maths class, where Lucian had given them ten pages to complete in class. However, for the last five minutes Ash had crossed the line with his constant complaining about how the questions were too hard, and how he wished that he wasn't at the school. Richie wasn't sure how he would be able to manage rooming with the boy for the remainder of the year.

"Hey Richie!" Ash suddenly said, "You know the Pokemon Underwater Battle Tournament is on Saturday afternoon. Don't you think we should go watch it together?"

He took the tickets out of his pocket and waved them in front of Richie's face. Richie sighed. There was just no getting through to the guy. "I have a doctor's appointment in Oreburgh City, remember?"

"But I don't wanna go by myself!" Ash complained.

"Well ask your Pallet Town friends or something!" Richie said with extreme annoyance and blocked out Ash's constant whines for the rest of the lesson.

Ash ran out of the classroom in a hurry, when the bell finally rang. However, as he whizzed past the others he didn't realise that one of his tickets had fallen out of his pocket, only to be picked up by fiery redhead.

Geography

Session 5

Drew sat at the very back corner of the room, staring out the window. He ignored the people who attempted to make conversations with him, and watched as a butterfree flew past, it's wings shimmering in the afternoon sun. He wished he could do the same, and just fly away and escape from this place.

"Excuse me, Mr Drew, "a girl who appeared slightly younger than him said, "I was wondering if we could, um, uh, work on the task."

Drew looked up from his daze, to see that Bertha had allocated groups to a pointless mapmaking exercise on the Sinnoh region. He would much rather sleep however, he was too much of a gentleman to decline the girl's suggestion so he let her drag her chair up to his desk and place a piece of cardboard on it.

"My name is Brianna Wakana. You have no idea how long I've been waiting to meet you!" she squealed. Drew nodded, which made her burst into a huge smile, and continue, "You know. I've read every single article in Coordinators Weekly about you, and I even have the whole Drew and Roselia photo collection that came out in TeenRogue a few months ago."

"Oh, that…" Drew mumbled. He didn't care much for the media, but he only obliged to do those photoshoots because he was short on money. "Cool." Brianna just didn't seem to understand that the things she talked about were of minute interest to him. All he cared about was Pokemon, and Contests. His life had amounted to nothing else, and idle chitchat made him feel even more worthless. After all, he had things to prove.

Saved by the bell, Drew quickly grabbed his items and headed out the corridor much to Brianna's heartbreak. "Mr Drew!" she called, "You forgot your – " but he'd already run off towards the cafeteria. She looked at the book in her hand, 'A Life of Thorns' and opened the first page, which had a photo of Drew standing with a beautiful woman with chartreuse hair just like his. Comments were scribbled next to it, and she decided to keep it for a while. It would be an interesting read, and it makes it so much easier for her to get what she wanted.

Battle Strategies

Last Session

"Hey! Is this yours?" an annoyingly high-pitched female voice shouted in his ear. Ash turned to see the redhead girl with really nice hair looking at him with her stunning cerulean eyes. Then he looked at her hand and his eyes widened. "HEY! THAT'S MINE!" he shouted before trying to grab it from her grasp.

Unfortunately she was a good two centimetres taller than him. "Oh no you don't, you should have been responsible." She said snapping her fingers in his face.

Ash moaned, "C'mon miss. Give it back, please!"

Misty thought for a moment, "Wait. I bet it's for your girlfriend isn't it?" a mischievous smile crossed her face. Ash shook his head, but that didn't make Misty return it.

"I paid for it. You can't just take it from me!" Ash whined.

"Well, you should have been more careful!" she replied, before dancing and twirling around by herself. Poor Ash didn't know how to deal with this situation so he sat down and put his head in his hands.

Misty felt kinda bad for the guy, but she had been dying to go to the show but she'd missed out on the tickets. "Alright then, we'll solve this with a battle." Misty said standing with her feet planted firmly on the floor. She pointed to him and then to herself. "If I win I'm going to the Underwater Battles with you. If you win, then you get your stupid ticket back."
Ash agreed, and even if he did lose, it would mean that he'd have someone to go with.

Swimming Pool

"Hey! Hey Waterflower, how you doin'?"

"Look Ruth or whoever you are. I don't have time for your antics," Misty said waving him off. The boy just wouldn't leave her alone. He was constantly staring or winking at her and it always made her scrunch her face up and turn away.

When Coach Wake asked them all to line up behind the diving blocks, Rudy made sure to pick the one behind Misty. "So, I was thinking. Why don't we have a race?" Rudy asked, but Misty had already dived in to do her warm up lap and he felt frustrated. It would be impossible to capture Misty's attention at this rate.

When Misty touched the wall, Rudy dove in and completed his warm-up laps. By then Coach Wake had already assigned them sets to do. Misty dove into the pool and begun to intensely shift an arm, after the other while occasionally turning her head to the side, to breathe in between. Rudy was slightly enchanted at the grace and perfection with which he swam, that he missed Coach's whistle to dive in. When Misty got out of the water, it was a different story. Her face was glistening with the refreshing water droplets from the pool and his eyes widened…She then locked her cerulean orbs on to his and pointed to the water.

"Right…" Rudy muttered before diving in. That gave Misty enough time to quickly gather her gear and head to the changing rooms. "What a flirt," she mumbled to herself after she had slipped on her shorts and t-shirt and headed back to her dorm.

So yeah. Wierd Ending...I was going to write more but I thought I'd just end it this way.

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ILY from, Rupee!