cascade88
Being Evil Makes Me Pretty
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Chapter 1
Characters Included:
Ash, May, Dawn, Drew, Cynthia, Paul, Casey, Max, Vivy Winstrate, and Misty
Pairings Focused Upon:
(eventual) AshxMay
(eventual) DrewxDawn
MaxxVivy
PaulxCasey
Setting: Highschool
Freshmen: Max, Vivy
Sophomores: Ash, May, Dawn, Casey
Juniors: Paul, Misty, Drew
Seniors: Cynthia
(A/N: In this fic, Eevee is still unevolved. Sorry if that might bug some of you, and I have nothing against Glaceon, but I'd really rather write about Eevee than its evolution for this, for reasons that should become clearer as the story progresses.)
"So, have you picked out a dress yet?" Dawn asked, as she nervously chewed on her fingernails, her other arm helping to hold her binder in place beneath her arm.
"For the dance?" May replied, as she withdrew a book from her locker, and then swung the metal door closed. "Yes--I got mine yesterday afternoon. Have you?"
"Not yet," the blunette admitted, still chewing on her fingernails as she glanced up and down the crowded hallway of her high school.
"Well you better do it soon--the dance is only a few days away..." May said, turning to face her friend, and only then noticing the near-paranoid behavior that she was exhibiting. "Are you alright?"
"Of course I'm alright," Dawn answered, only then removing her fingers from her mouth. "Which, by the way, does my hair look alright?"
May arched an eyebrow, before answering in a lazy sort of tone,
"Yes, it looks fine. It looked fine an hour ago, and it looks fine now. What are you so fussed about-"
"Oh my God!" Dawn squealed suddenly, cutting May off as she suddenly spun around, so that she was facing the lockers. "Here he comes!"
"Here who--oh…I see…" May smirked to herself, lazily propping back against her locker as Drew approached her, his books under his arm.
"Hey May," he greeted her, before placing a hand on Dawn's shoulder, and adding, "Hey to you, too, Dawn."
"Hi," she squeaked back in response, continuing to remain turned away as she felt her face grow very red.
"Hey, Drew," May said, continuing to smirk at the state of her friend. "How was Biology?"
"Boring as all get out." he replied, sighing slightly, his hand continuing to rest upon Dawn's shoulder. "How was Honors English?"
"Well," May answered, pausing a second to blow her bangs out of her face. "Let's just say that it's beginning to make me wonder how I ever made into the honors program in the first place."
"Oh, come on--you can out-grammar all of us any day, and you know it."
"If you say so." May replied, rolling her eyes.
She jumped a second later, startled when she felt something brush past her ankle. She quickly glanced down to see that it was Pikachu who had brushed up against her, and who was now looking up at her, a grin on his little yellow face.
"Hey there, little buddy," she replied with a smile, squatting down as she petted him on the head. "Did you escape from Ash again?"
"Pikachu, where'd you go?!"
May quickly stood back up, her eyes wide as she glanced from one end of the hall to the other. She swallowed hard a few seconds later as Ash Ketchum came into view, a bit of a worried expression on his face.
"Oh," he said with a sigh, smiling immediately upon seeing Pikachu. "There you are--you just came over here to see the rest of the guys, huh?"
"Pi-ka!" the little electrical Pokemon replied, before nuzzling his cheek up against May's ankle.
"I know what you want from me…" the brunette girl said, smirking to herself as she reached inside her yellow fanny pack, which she kept around her waist.
A moment later her hand reappeared, this time with a Pokeball held within her grasp. May tapped the Pokeball with her forefinger, and then threw it up in the air.
"Ee-vee!"
"Pika-Pikachu!"
Pikachu smiled happily as he greeted May's Pokemon.
"Those two are always wanting to be together, huh?" Ash pointed out, only then drawing May's attention away from the conversing Pokemon at her feet.
"Huh?" she replied, a sudden nervous look in her eyes as she looked over at him. "Oh, y-yeah--they sure do."
"Are you alright, May?" Ash asked in a concerned tone, taking a step closer to her. "Your face is all red looking…"
"I'm fine." she answered, her eyes not meeting his as she took a hasty step backwards, eliciting a snort from Dawn, who was now watching the entire scene by craning her neck around.
"Well, its been real, its been fun," Drew said suddenly, squeezing Dawn's shoulder slightly and causing her eyes to grow wide. "It hasn't been real fun--either way, I gotta be heading out now. See you guys later."
"See you, Drew." Ash and May replied in unison.
The two of them quickly glanced at each other, a bit of a blush creeping across Ash's face, while the redness already present on May's only intensified. Dawn snorted again, earning herself a dirty glare from May. She smirked, finding great humor in May's embarrassment until a second later, when she heard her name being called out from down the hall.
"Dawn," Drew practically shouted, earning glances from passerby. "What--no goodbye? Now I'm heartbroken…"
Dawn quickly looked back at May, who was now laughing openly.
"I…" she called back to him, her heart feeling as though it would burst through her chest at any moment. "Goodbye!"
She then quickly spun back around, and marched away, not waiting to see how, or if, Drew would again respond. As she marched away, she took hold of May's arm, dragging her along, too.
"But what about Eevee?" she protested, feeling as though Dawn might tear her arm right from her socket at any second.
"Ash'll look after her for now," Dawn answered immediately, before calling back over her shoulder,
"Won't you, Ash?"
"Sure," he answered, a bit of a bewildered expression on his face as he watched one of his friends drag the other away.
"Girls…" he muttered under his breath. "Just as crazy as ever…"
He shook his head apathetically, only to be startled a moment later when the sounds of catcalling and whistling began to fill the hallway. Ash turned to see the source of the sudden ruckus, only to find that Cynthia Larson--the most popular girl in the entire school--was strutting down the hall, her books held gracefully in her arms as her long, blond hair cascaded down her back, nearly reaching her waist. Perhaps reflexively, Ash stared intently as she walked by.
"Hey, Ash," she said in a friendly tone, stopping for a split second to greet him, before heading on off down the hall.
"Hey…Cynthia," he replied several seconds later, long after she had already passed by him.
"Boo!"
Ash jumped up several inches from the ground when he felt himself get punched in the arm suddenly. He turned to see that it was Misty who had spooked him, her hair in collarbone-length, braided pigtails.
"Staring at Cynthia again, I see." she teased him, her hands hidden in the pockets of her faded overalls.
"Was not." he replied in a defensive voice, before looking down as he felt something pulling at the cuff of his pants.
"What is it, Pikachu?" he asked.
"Pika-Pikachu, Pikachu," the Pokemon replied.
"Well, alright then," Ash answered him. "You and Eevee can head over to the elementary school's playground--just be sure not to wander off. May would kill me if I lost track of you, Eevee."
"Pika, Pikachu!"
"Eevee, Eev!"
The Pokemon agreed, before heading off for the school's exit.
"So," Misty said, glancing around. "Where is May, anyway?"
"Dawn dragged her off somewhere," Ash answered. "Why?"
"Well, I was just wondering if you had, you know, asked her yet?"
"Shhh!" Ash said, frantically glancing around.
"What?" Misty replied, arching an eyebrow as she tried not to laugh. "You just said she wasn't around!"
"I know that," he retorted, continuing to glance over his shoulder. "But that doesn't mean that she won't walk up or something…"
"Oh, just ask her already!" Misty exclaimed, rolling her eyes. "Then you won't have to be worried about whether or not she over-hears you talking about it, because she'll already know."
Ash sighed heavily.
"Look, there's no guarantee that she'll say yes-"
"There's also no guarantee that she'll say no, either." Misty pointed out, cutting her friend off. "Now listen to me--there's only a few days left until the dance, so stop waiting around in hallways and gawking at Cynthia, and go on and ask May to the dance. Because, you know, she is pretty popular herself--there's a high possibility that someone else will ask her if you don't hurry up and do it."
"Okay, okay," Ash said. "I'll ask her tonight."
"You will?"
"Yes. I will."
"Well, that's good." Misty said, nodding her head approvingly. "Just make sure that you don't conveniently forget to do it, or something."
"Oh, and you already have a date?" Ash asked, hoping to change the subject.
"I sure do." Misty answered, grinning.
"Who is it, then?" Ash pressed on.
"Oh, you'll see the night of the dance," Misty answered dismissively, looking back at him as she began to walk away. "You know, when you show up with May."
"When you show up with May where?"
Ash jumped, as if he had been sprayed with freezing cold water.
"Well?" the person behind him continued.
He waved goodbye to Misty, and then spun around to see that it was Max who had seemingly snuck up behind him.
"Well," he repeated, a hand on his waist. "Where are you showing up at with my sister?"
"Has anyone ever told you you're too nosy?" Ash replied, before walking away from the lockers.
Max, however, simply walked along beside him as he walked away.
"So," he said. "Is this about the dance?"
"What?" Ash replied. "No!"
"Because, you know, even I already have a date. Wouldn't it be completely pathetic if I, a Freshman, can get a date to the Spring Formal, but you, a Sophomore, can't?"
"Look, I have to catch up with Eevee and Pikachu over at the playground…" Ash said, heading for the double doors that led to the outside of the school.
"Vivy's who I'm going with," Max continued on. "Not that you were thoughtful enough to ask, but she is."
"That's nice."
"Mhmm. Her face lit right up when I asked her."
"Cool."
"Yeah. Maybe my sister's face will light up, too, when you get around to asking her."
Ash stopped dead in his tracks, turning sideways to face the younger boy beside him.
"Look, I can only assume that Misty told you that I plan on taking your sister, but that doesn't mean that anyone else needs to know."
"Oh, agreed." Max said, putting his hands up in front of his face. "All I hope is that May can eventually find out herself--OW! Hey!"
"I'm gonna tell her." Ash insisted, lowering his fist after having just bonked Max on top of the head. "Tonight, in fact."
"Well, well…" the bespectacled boy said, his eyebrows raising slightly. "I stand corrected. Maybe you do have the guts to go through with this after all."
"That's right." Ash said in a determined voice, nodding his head once. "Come tomorrow, I will have asked May to the dance."
"And you're not still nervous about actually asking her?" Max questioned.
"Nope. I mean, I was before, but now I'm not--now I'm confident; determined."
"Here she comes now," Max said, pointing his finger at something over Ash's shoulder.
"Who?"
"May, along with Dawn."
"In fact," Max added a second later, as he walked past Ash, continuing to watch as his sister and her friend approached him. "You could just go ahead and pull her to the side and ask her right now, Ash. Right, Ash? ….Ash? Ash?"
Max turned to see that the raven-haired trainer he had just been conversing with was now nowhere to be seen.
"Coward," he said under his breath, before walking toward his sister and Dawn, meeting them halfway across the school parking lot.
"Hey Max," Dawn said as she approached him. "Where'd Ash go? Wasn't he just talking to you?"
"Yeah," Max replied. "I think he left for the playground--he said something about Pikachu and Eevee being over that way."
"Oh," Dawn said, turning to May. "Maybe you should head over that way, too, to, you know, pick up Eevee…"
"I…" May began, before sighing apathetically at the expression on Dawn's face. "Fine. I'll go see about Eevee. Catch you later, Dawn, and see you at home, Max."
"So…" Dawn said as she and Max watched May walk away. "Do you think he's ever gonna ask her?"
"He told me that he's going to tonight."
"Huh. Well, for May's sanity, I certainly hope so."
Dawn jumped suddenly, startled by the sound of a car horn as it beeped twice. She glanced back over her shoulder to see that it was Drew who had honked, as he sat smugly in the driver's seat of his brand new convertible.
"See you guys later," he called out, flashing a grin as he waved at Dawn and Max, before pulling on out of the school's parking lot.
"Cool car…" Max muttered, before glancing over at Dawn, who now had her eyes closed, one of her hands raised up to her mouth as she began to nervously chew at her fingernails again.
Max snorted, shaking his head.
"And to think, she's worried about my sister's sanity…"
Characters Included:
Ash, May, Dawn, Drew, Cynthia, Paul, Casey, Max, Vivy Winstrate, and Misty
Pairings Focused Upon:
(eventual) AshxMay
(eventual) DrewxDawn
MaxxVivy
PaulxCasey
Setting: Highschool
Freshmen: Max, Vivy
Sophomores: Ash, May, Dawn, Casey
Juniors: Paul, Misty, Drew
Seniors: Cynthia
(A/N: In this fic, Eevee is still unevolved. Sorry if that might bug some of you, and I have nothing against Glaceon, but I'd really rather write about Eevee than its evolution for this, for reasons that should become clearer as the story progresses.)
"So, have you picked out a dress yet?" Dawn asked, as she nervously chewed on her fingernails, her other arm helping to hold her binder in place beneath her arm.
"For the dance?" May replied, as she withdrew a book from her locker, and then swung the metal door closed. "Yes--I got mine yesterday afternoon. Have you?"
"Not yet," the blunette admitted, still chewing on her fingernails as she glanced up and down the crowded hallway of her high school.
"Well you better do it soon--the dance is only a few days away..." May said, turning to face her friend, and only then noticing the near-paranoid behavior that she was exhibiting. "Are you alright?"
"Of course I'm alright," Dawn answered, only then removing her fingers from her mouth. "Which, by the way, does my hair look alright?"
May arched an eyebrow, before answering in a lazy sort of tone,
"Yes, it looks fine. It looked fine an hour ago, and it looks fine now. What are you so fussed about-"
"Oh my God!" Dawn squealed suddenly, cutting May off as she suddenly spun around, so that she was facing the lockers. "Here he comes!"
"Here who--oh…I see…" May smirked to herself, lazily propping back against her locker as Drew approached her, his books under his arm.
"Hey May," he greeted her, before placing a hand on Dawn's shoulder, and adding, "Hey to you, too, Dawn."
"Hi," she squeaked back in response, continuing to remain turned away as she felt her face grow very red.
"Hey, Drew," May said, continuing to smirk at the state of her friend. "How was Biology?"
"Boring as all get out." he replied, sighing slightly, his hand continuing to rest upon Dawn's shoulder. "How was Honors English?"
"Well," May answered, pausing a second to blow her bangs out of her face. "Let's just say that it's beginning to make me wonder how I ever made into the honors program in the first place."
"Oh, come on--you can out-grammar all of us any day, and you know it."
"If you say so." May replied, rolling her eyes.
She jumped a second later, startled when she felt something brush past her ankle. She quickly glanced down to see that it was Pikachu who had brushed up against her, and who was now looking up at her, a grin on his little yellow face.
"Hey there, little buddy," she replied with a smile, squatting down as she petted him on the head. "Did you escape from Ash again?"
"Pikachu, where'd you go?!"
May quickly stood back up, her eyes wide as she glanced from one end of the hall to the other. She swallowed hard a few seconds later as Ash Ketchum came into view, a bit of a worried expression on his face.
"Oh," he said with a sigh, smiling immediately upon seeing Pikachu. "There you are--you just came over here to see the rest of the guys, huh?"
"Pi-ka!" the little electrical Pokemon replied, before nuzzling his cheek up against May's ankle.
"I know what you want from me…" the brunette girl said, smirking to herself as she reached inside her yellow fanny pack, which she kept around her waist.
A moment later her hand reappeared, this time with a Pokeball held within her grasp. May tapped the Pokeball with her forefinger, and then threw it up in the air.
"Ee-vee!"
"Pika-Pikachu!"
Pikachu smiled happily as he greeted May's Pokemon.
"Those two are always wanting to be together, huh?" Ash pointed out, only then drawing May's attention away from the conversing Pokemon at her feet.
"Huh?" she replied, a sudden nervous look in her eyes as she looked over at him. "Oh, y-yeah--they sure do."
"Are you alright, May?" Ash asked in a concerned tone, taking a step closer to her. "Your face is all red looking…"
"I'm fine." she answered, her eyes not meeting his as she took a hasty step backwards, eliciting a snort from Dawn, who was now watching the entire scene by craning her neck around.
"Well, its been real, its been fun," Drew said suddenly, squeezing Dawn's shoulder slightly and causing her eyes to grow wide. "It hasn't been real fun--either way, I gotta be heading out now. See you guys later."
"See you, Drew." Ash and May replied in unison.
The two of them quickly glanced at each other, a bit of a blush creeping across Ash's face, while the redness already present on May's only intensified. Dawn snorted again, earning herself a dirty glare from May. She smirked, finding great humor in May's embarrassment until a second later, when she heard her name being called out from down the hall.
"Dawn," Drew practically shouted, earning glances from passerby. "What--no goodbye? Now I'm heartbroken…"
Dawn quickly looked back at May, who was now laughing openly.
"I…" she called back to him, her heart feeling as though it would burst through her chest at any moment. "Goodbye!"
She then quickly spun back around, and marched away, not waiting to see how, or if, Drew would again respond. As she marched away, she took hold of May's arm, dragging her along, too.
"But what about Eevee?" she protested, feeling as though Dawn might tear her arm right from her socket at any second.
"Ash'll look after her for now," Dawn answered immediately, before calling back over her shoulder,
"Won't you, Ash?"
"Sure," he answered, a bit of a bewildered expression on his face as he watched one of his friends drag the other away.
"Girls…" he muttered under his breath. "Just as crazy as ever…"
He shook his head apathetically, only to be startled a moment later when the sounds of catcalling and whistling began to fill the hallway. Ash turned to see the source of the sudden ruckus, only to find that Cynthia Larson--the most popular girl in the entire school--was strutting down the hall, her books held gracefully in her arms as her long, blond hair cascaded down her back, nearly reaching her waist. Perhaps reflexively, Ash stared intently as she walked by.
"Hey, Ash," she said in a friendly tone, stopping for a split second to greet him, before heading on off down the hall.
"Hey…Cynthia," he replied several seconds later, long after she had already passed by him.
"Boo!"
Ash jumped up several inches from the ground when he felt himself get punched in the arm suddenly. He turned to see that it was Misty who had spooked him, her hair in collarbone-length, braided pigtails.
"Staring at Cynthia again, I see." she teased him, her hands hidden in the pockets of her faded overalls.
"Was not." he replied in a defensive voice, before looking down as he felt something pulling at the cuff of his pants.
"What is it, Pikachu?" he asked.
"Pika-Pikachu, Pikachu," the Pokemon replied.
"Well, alright then," Ash answered him. "You and Eevee can head over to the elementary school's playground--just be sure not to wander off. May would kill me if I lost track of you, Eevee."
"Pika, Pikachu!"
"Eevee, Eev!"
The Pokemon agreed, before heading off for the school's exit.
"So," Misty said, glancing around. "Where is May, anyway?"
"Dawn dragged her off somewhere," Ash answered. "Why?"
"Well, I was just wondering if you had, you know, asked her yet?"
"Shhh!" Ash said, frantically glancing around.
"What?" Misty replied, arching an eyebrow as she tried not to laugh. "You just said she wasn't around!"
"I know that," he retorted, continuing to glance over his shoulder. "But that doesn't mean that she won't walk up or something…"
"Oh, just ask her already!" Misty exclaimed, rolling her eyes. "Then you won't have to be worried about whether or not she over-hears you talking about it, because she'll already know."
Ash sighed heavily.
"Look, there's no guarantee that she'll say yes-"
"There's also no guarantee that she'll say no, either." Misty pointed out, cutting her friend off. "Now listen to me--there's only a few days left until the dance, so stop waiting around in hallways and gawking at Cynthia, and go on and ask May to the dance. Because, you know, she is pretty popular herself--there's a high possibility that someone else will ask her if you don't hurry up and do it."
"Okay, okay," Ash said. "I'll ask her tonight."
"You will?"
"Yes. I will."
"Well, that's good." Misty said, nodding her head approvingly. "Just make sure that you don't conveniently forget to do it, or something."
"Oh, and you already have a date?" Ash asked, hoping to change the subject.
"I sure do." Misty answered, grinning.
"Who is it, then?" Ash pressed on.
"Oh, you'll see the night of the dance," Misty answered dismissively, looking back at him as she began to walk away. "You know, when you show up with May."
"When you show up with May where?"
Ash jumped, as if he had been sprayed with freezing cold water.
"Well?" the person behind him continued.
He waved goodbye to Misty, and then spun around to see that it was Max who had seemingly snuck up behind him.
"Well," he repeated, a hand on his waist. "Where are you showing up at with my sister?"
"Has anyone ever told you you're too nosy?" Ash replied, before walking away from the lockers.
Max, however, simply walked along beside him as he walked away.
"So," he said. "Is this about the dance?"
"What?" Ash replied. "No!"
"Because, you know, even I already have a date. Wouldn't it be completely pathetic if I, a Freshman, can get a date to the Spring Formal, but you, a Sophomore, can't?"
"Look, I have to catch up with Eevee and Pikachu over at the playground…" Ash said, heading for the double doors that led to the outside of the school.
"Vivy's who I'm going with," Max continued on. "Not that you were thoughtful enough to ask, but she is."
"That's nice."
"Mhmm. Her face lit right up when I asked her."
"Cool."
"Yeah. Maybe my sister's face will light up, too, when you get around to asking her."
Ash stopped dead in his tracks, turning sideways to face the younger boy beside him.
"Look, I can only assume that Misty told you that I plan on taking your sister, but that doesn't mean that anyone else needs to know."
"Oh, agreed." Max said, putting his hands up in front of his face. "All I hope is that May can eventually find out herself--OW! Hey!"
"I'm gonna tell her." Ash insisted, lowering his fist after having just bonked Max on top of the head. "Tonight, in fact."
"Well, well…" the bespectacled boy said, his eyebrows raising slightly. "I stand corrected. Maybe you do have the guts to go through with this after all."
"That's right." Ash said in a determined voice, nodding his head once. "Come tomorrow, I will have asked May to the dance."
"And you're not still nervous about actually asking her?" Max questioned.
"Nope. I mean, I was before, but now I'm not--now I'm confident; determined."
"Here she comes now," Max said, pointing his finger at something over Ash's shoulder.
"Who?"
"May, along with Dawn."
"In fact," Max added a second later, as he walked past Ash, continuing to watch as his sister and her friend approached him. "You could just go ahead and pull her to the side and ask her right now, Ash. Right, Ash? ….Ash? Ash?"
Max turned to see that the raven-haired trainer he had just been conversing with was now nowhere to be seen.
"Coward," he said under his breath, before walking toward his sister and Dawn, meeting them halfway across the school parking lot.
"Hey Max," Dawn said as she approached him. "Where'd Ash go? Wasn't he just talking to you?"
"Yeah," Max replied. "I think he left for the playground--he said something about Pikachu and Eevee being over that way."
"Oh," Dawn said, turning to May. "Maybe you should head over that way, too, to, you know, pick up Eevee…"
"I…" May began, before sighing apathetically at the expression on Dawn's face. "Fine. I'll go see about Eevee. Catch you later, Dawn, and see you at home, Max."
"So…" Dawn said as she and Max watched May walk away. "Do you think he's ever gonna ask her?"
"He told me that he's going to tonight."
"Huh. Well, for May's sanity, I certainly hope so."
Dawn jumped suddenly, startled by the sound of a car horn as it beeped twice. She glanced back over her shoulder to see that it was Drew who had honked, as he sat smugly in the driver's seat of his brand new convertible.
"See you guys later," he called out, flashing a grin as he waved at Dawn and Max, before pulling on out of the school's parking lot.
"Cool car…" Max muttered, before glancing over at Dawn, who now had her eyes closed, one of her hands raised up to her mouth as she began to nervously chew at her fingernails again.
Max snorted, shaking his head.
"And to think, she's worried about my sister's sanity…"