May Moves to town
(A/N this story is in Brendan’s POV.)
I was sitting at my desk while playing a game on the computer. I know I 
should be studying things for my Pokemon journey like my dad told me too but 
I’ll just do that later. My dad, Prof. Birch, is a Pokemon Scientist. He 
likes to study the Pokemon’s behavior through “life experience.” Enough 
about my dad. Like I was saying, I was playing a computer game when I heard 
something like I truck outside. I paused the game and looked out my window. 
A guy with black hair and a lady with brown chestnut hair that curled at the 
bottom stepped out of the car behind the moving van that was in front of the 
old house next door. Then a few movers appeared with some nice furniture. 
Then a short kid with black hair like that guys came out. He was carrying a 
book in his hand and had glasses that were a little smaller than my fist.
“I wonder if there’s anyone my age.”
After I said that, a girl who had hair like that lady came out of the car. 
She had a red bandanna with a white poke ball on it. She wore a red collar 
shirt that buttoned up with some sort of a white belt thing attached to it. 
She also had black shorts and red and black sneakers.
“She’s cute!” I said while looking out the window.
Apparently I said that too loud because my window was open and when I said 
that she was cute, she looked up and saw me. I blushed and frantically 
closed the window. I sat down underneath the window and crouched down so she 
wouldn’t see me.
“Nice going Brendan. She’ll probably never like you now.”
I was going to play my computer game again, but my mom called me from 
downstairs.
“Come on down Brendan! We’re going to meet the new neighbors.”
“What?!? I mean, okay hold on.”
I closed out of the computer game and shut off the monitor. I went down the 
stairs and my mother grabbed my hand and practically carried me all the way 
over there by my arm.

When we got there she let go of my arm and knocked on the door. My heart was 
pounding really loudly and was beating really fast. I heard footsteps 
through the door. When it opened, the girl who heard me call her cute 
answered it.
“Hi. My name is Lydia Birch and this is my son Brendan. We’re your new 
neighbors.”
“It’s nice to meet you. I’m May.”
May. That was a nice name.
Soon the lady that came out of the truck earlier appeared behind May.
“Hi. I see you met my daughter. I’m Caroline.”
“It’s a pleasure to meet you. I’m Lydia and this is my son Brendan. Come on 
Brendan say hi.”
“Hi.” I said nervously.
“May.” Caroline started. “Why don’t you show Brendan around the house. Maybe 
you’ll run into Max somewhere.”
“Okay mom.”
Max. That must have been that kid with the glasses.
May went back into the house and my mom pushed me in.
“I’ll introduce you to Max.”
May walked up the stairs and I followed her.
We were in the hallway and May knocked on the door.
“Who is it?”
“Max it’s May. Come out and meet the neighbors.”
Soon that little kid came out still holding that book in his hand.
“Max this is our new neighbor Brendan.”
Max adjusted his glasses and gave me a smile.
“Pleasure to meet you.” He said extending his hand.
“Uh pleasure is mine?”
This kid was a bit weird.
“Max is always trying to act grown up.”
“Shut up May!”
“Why don’t you?”
May pushed Max back into his room and shut the door.
“I guess we can go to my room next.” May said walking to the next door and 
opening it.
I followed her in. Her room wasn’t that bad. Her bedding had suns, moons, 
and stars on it. She had a cooler desk than mine. She had a flat screen 
computer, telephone AND a television.  She had a big shelf above her bed 
with a whole bunch of stuffed pokemon dolls.
“Nice room.”
“Thanks.”
Nice room? What kind of a line is that? I sound totally stupid.
“Um about what you said earlier.”
Oh god. She really did hear me! Oh man I’m toast.
She was going to say more but then our mom’s called us from downstairs.
Whew that was close.
When we got downstairs I saw my dad and the guy with black hair.
“Brendan this is May and Max’s dad Norman.”
“It’s nice to meet you Brendan.”
“Same here.”
“May, Max, this is Professor Birch. Brendan’s dad.”
“Why hello. It’s very nice to meet you.”
“Same here.” They both said.
“So May.” My dad says. “I hear you’re going to start a journey of your own.”
“Um yeah.”
“Well I’m going to give Brendan his starter pokemon now. You can choose one 
two if you’d like.”
“Okay. Sure.”
“Well then let’s go.”
May and I followed my dad back to the lab where we got to pick our starters.
“First up we have Treecko.”
“Treecko! (Hello)”
May stepped back a little and accidentally backed into me.
“Sorry Brendan. It just looks a little creepy.”
“Uh it’s okay.”
“Okay. Next up Mudkip.”
“Mudkip! (Hi!)
“Why hello Mudkip.”
May bent down to pet it but it sprayed her in the face.
“It’s very nice to meet you too.”
“Brendan do me a favor and go get May a towel.”
“Sure dad.”
I went to the back and got a towel. When I came back I saw May looking at 
the Torchic.
“Here you go May.”
“Thanks.”
She took the towel and dried her face. When she was done, my dad took the 
towel and put it away.
“So May. What do you think of Torchic?” I asked her.
“It's cute!But why do you ask?”
I pointed to her feet and Torchic was rubbing her legs.
“Aww how sweet. Okay then.”
She picked up the Torchic and looked at it.
“I choose Torchic!”
“That’s great.”
We turned around and saw my dad.
“Okay Brendan it’s your turn to choose.”
“Okay.”
I looked at the Mudkip and picked it up.
“I choose Mudkip!”
“Great!” My dad exclaimed.
“I have an idea. Why don’t you two go out for a walk so your pokemon can get 
to know you better. They can get to know each other too.”
“Okay dad. Do you want to May?”
“Okay sure.”
“Great. Have fun!”
We both walked out the door and started walking up route 101. We passed by a 
small pond and stopped for a break. May set Torchic down and took off her 
sneakers and socks. She stuck her feet in the cool water. I laughed a little 
and she turned around.
“What’s so funny?”
“Nothing.”
“Then why were you laughing? So I stuck my feet in the water. Big whoop.”
“Sorry.”
“No it’s okay. I’m only joking. I’m not mad.”
We stayed quiet for a while until she suddenly splashed me.
“Hey!”
She started laughing so I splashed her back.
Soon we started splashing each other and when I was about to tell Mudkip to 
use water gun, she dived into the water.
“Hey no fair!”
She came up and spit water at me. I took off my shoes and socks and dived in 
too.
We were playing a rousing game of under water tag and always took breaks for 
breaths.
“Oh man my mom’s gonna kill me.” May said as I helped her out of the water.
“We can stay out in the sun. Maybe we’ll get a little dryer.”
“Yeah.”
May walked away from me and stood still.
“Don’t come over here for a sec, okay?”
“Okay…”
I thought May was going to do something private but instead, she shook her 
hair and water started splashing out. I laughed again because even from a 
distance, I was still getting sprayed.
“Your hair looks like a frizzy mop.” I said teasingly.
“Ha, ha very funny Brendan.”
We sat there in the sun waiting for our clothes to dry.
(A/N Don’t worry they still have their clothes on.)
“I think our parents our wondering where we are.” May said turning to face 
me.
“Don’t worry I’m sure my dad told them where we were.”
“Yeah. I think so too.”
May kept her eyes locked on me.
“What? Do I have something on my face?”
“No.”
“Then why were you looking at me?”
“It’s nothing. I was just thinking bout things.”
“Oh.”
There was another awkward silence. I really have gotten to know May a lot 
better. She’s really nice. I’m growing to like her even more than when I 
first saw her.
“Brendan I think we should head back now.”
“Yeah we probably should.”
We both stood up and put our socks and shoes back on.
We went back to May’s house where we ate dinner and just talked.
“Hey mom. Do you think maybe I can show May and Max around our house?”
“It’s fine with me. What do you think Caroline?”
“Well Max has to take a bath, but May can if she wants to.”
I turned around to face May, who was sitting right next to me.
“Do you wanna May?”
“Okay.”
We both got up and went out the door and walked to my house.
“This is a nice house Brendan!”
“Thanks May.”
She looked up the stairs.
“Could I see your room?”
“Sure I guess.”
I walked over to the stairway and showed her up to my room. It wasn’t as 
nice as hers. It had a bed, a desk, a computer and a phone. It was nothing 
special. My bedding was navy blue and green plaid. My desk was old and I had 
an old computer. I mean it worked but it wasn’t a flat screen like May’s. I 
didn’t have a television, well not just yet and my phone is kinda old too.
“Not bad.”
“Thanks. I’ve been bugging my parents to re-do it but no luck yet.”
“We had my room redone before we moved.”
“Lucky. But I’ve lived here all my life so I couldn’t get my room redone.”
May nodded her head and sat down on my bed. I sat down next to her.
“So is there any other reason you wanted me to see your house?”
“Well it was basically the only place we could get away from our parents.”
“Yeah.”
Yet again, there was another awkward silence between us.
“Brendan what time is it?”
“It’s 8:15. Why?”
“I was just curious.”
“Oh.”
“Brendan?”
“Yeah May?”
“About this morning-”
“Oh yeah that. I’m sorry I said that out loud.”
“No, no it’s okay. Really.”
I stared at her for a moment. She turned around to face me.
“Anything wrong Brendan? Brendan?”
I don’t know what came over me at that very moment but I found myself 
holding May’s hand in my lap.
“Huh? Oh sorry May.”
I let go of her hand and looked down at my shoes. My hair was still a bit 
moist from our afternoon swim.
I felt the bed move a little but I kept looking down that my shoes. Soon I 
saw May’s foot right next to mine. She had moved even closer! But I was 
still to embarrassed to look up. I could feel her face moving closer to 
mine. I turned to look up but when I did our lips touched. We both sat there 
just staring at each other. We both had surprised looks on our faces. 
Eventually I pulled away.
“Sorry May. I didn’t mean to.”
“It’s okay. It was an accident. “
For some reason, it didn’t feel like an accident. It felt like it was meant 
to happen. I scooted a bit closer to May.I moved my face really close to 
hers.
“Do you believe in love and first site?”
She moved her a head a little. I moved mine too.
“Why do you wanna know?”
“I’m curious.”
“Well. I think that maybe whoever you thinklove you should try to get to 
know them before you do anything you might regret.”
“May?”
“Yeah?”
“I-I like you.”
May smiled a small smile. I put my arm around her and she looked up at me.
“I like you too.”
Once again we kissed. Only this time it wasn’t an accident. Soon after, we 
went back to May’s house until I had to leave with my family.
“It was really nice getting to know you May.”
“Thanks Brendan.”
I quickly kissed her cheek and followed my parents home.


The End