Beneath this endless sky,

...where are you right now?

Who did you meet today?

What did you talk about?

Where did you go?

What was the last time you thought about me?

Who are you in love with?

He was only 17 years old then.

But the reality that he had to constantly deal with...

...was even larger than him.

We Were There - Chapter One

It is always so bustling in the fall. Class swops, new textbooks, new friends.

"Hey, did you get to talk to Drew Hayden?"

"Not yet! How about you, Dawn?"

"Me neither."

"Hey everyone, have you heard? When Drew was in his first year, two out of three girls in his class fell for him."

"Unbelievable!"

The girls were totally absorbed talking about some guy in my class.

But what I was most concerned about then was...

"It's still an 8 no matter how you look at it.", I, May Maple, sighed as I stared at my math exam paper. I am currently in the rooftop, getting some air and hoping it might cheer me up from this hideous test result.

My thinking was interrupted when I saw a paper plane land beside my feet. I bent down and picked it up, and as I inspected it closely, it was a test paper. Our math test paper. I could see a 0 in one of the wings of the paper plane. I looked up at the platform above the entrance to the rooftop, and I saw a chartreuse-haired male sitting there.

Oh! He must be the owner of this paper! Maybe he's feeling bad about his zero, too. I might as well talk to him, too.

Deciding on that, I climbed the steel ladder to the platform. When I arrived, his attention went to me.

"What's up?", I awkwardly said. Nobody told me he was this good-looking!

"Oh, well. This...", I showed him the paper plane. "You shouldn't think too much about it. Look.", I said as I pulled out my own test paper. "It's just the first test of the semester."

He looked at me as if he was weirded out, then smirked. He took the paper plane from my hands and unfolded it. The paper revealed a 100.

So he didn't get a zero. This is so embarrassing!

"Sorry. I thought you were just like me.", I said sheepishly and blushed. I was about to turn and leave when he spoke.

"Sit down.", he said, tapping the space beside him.

"Eh?", I muttered. He smiled, and I blushed. And I felt a foreign sensation overcome me.

Even though I didn't notice his name on the test paper, I felt like I already knew who he was.

"You are Drew? You're smart, huh?", I said when he introduced himself to me.

He smirked. "Well, at least I don't get 8 points.", he snickered when I pouted. I giggled. It was true that I got an 8, anyway.

"So you're good at everything, and have no dislikes in particular?"

He smiled. "Me? That's not true."

I looked at him disbelievingly. "No way. You look so carefree." He laughed.

"I guess I hate being too popular with girls."

"What did you say?", I asked, surprised about his answer, and wanting to confirm if I heard right.

"I don't like...girls who are unfaithful."

I was stifling another laugh.

"What?", he asked me when I broke into laughter.

"Look who's talking. Don't you yourself have a lot of girls around you all the time?"

"Though I may not look like it, I will only love one person.", he said proudly.

I was about to laugh again. "There you go again.", he said.

I just giggled. "Okay then, let's say... Let's say, your girlfriend is unfaithful to you. What will you do?"

He moved near me and gently held my neck, as if in a gesture to choke me.

"I'll kill her."

My eyes widened. Was he going to choke me? I suddenly got scared. Until he laughed.

"Just kidding.", he said, getting his hands off my neck and standing up. He was leaving the rooftop.

I don't know why...I ended up saying those words then.

"Hey.", I called at him from above, since he already went down the ladder. He looked up. "You can tell me your worries."

"I don't have any.", he said. "Worries are what set the living apart from the dead, right?"

He smirked. "I can see your underwear."

I blushed and furiously covered my skirt. "You jerk!"

He laughed at my reaction. "See you later, May.", he waved and finally left the rooftop.

It was just that, if I were to just leave him alone, he looked as if he was about to fall apart.

"Drew has started his 100th round, yet his speed hasn't changed. Opposing him is Brendan who's speeding up!", my classmate, who decided to play as the commentator, announced.

We were currently at our PE class, and Drew and Brendan were sprinting on a race against each other. Our classmates hollered each of their names for support.

"May, are you cheering for Drew or Brendan?", my friend, Misty Waterflower, asked me. I was in the sidelines, clutching a clipboard. I was watching the whole thing, since I had to be the one to take note of the records. I ended up to be elected as the Class Representative when I messed up nominating Dawn Berlitz, our peppy friend, since I got her name wrong at the time.

I smiled. "I'm not really cheering for either of them."

Dawn smiled mischievously. "I know! It's Drew!" Misty joined her and snickered at me.

I frantically waved my hands and blushed. "What? No, no! That's just so childish, what they're doing. Just look at them, competing like that."

They looked at me disbelievingly. "Is Drew worthy of that much attention anyway?", I said and looked around to see if there is anyone to agree with me. I saw Brianna walking out. "Right, Brianna?"

She glared at me and said, "I hate him." Then she continued walking away.

I sweatdropped and turned back to Misty and Dawn. "See? See? Serious girls like her see nothing good in Drew."

"Oh yeah?" The pair still asked. They really won't believe me!

I sighed. "Well, to be fair," I started counting with my hands, "he's smart, good at sports... and handsome- huh?", I stared at my hands in shock. "He's got all 3 criteria? No way!"

"I just don't get what he's thinking sometimes. He also became all arrogant just because he got a little popular. Who can believe 2 out of 3 girls like him?", I stated. Misty and Dawn were having horrified looks and pointing behind me. I still kept talking. "Even if that's true, I definitely belong to the remaining third of the people."

And when I turned around, I saw a pissed Drew looking at me. Uh-oh.

"I see. You can do fractions huh?", he said. I swear I might've been seeing an imaginary vein pop on his head.

He took the clipboard from my hands and looked at it. "Take proper records, Ms Chore-Worker. That was my win.", he said and pushed the clipboard back to me.

"Drew! She's our class representative.", Brendan Birch, his best friend, scolded him.

"I happened to talk to her once and she got so eager.", Drew spat.

"I'm eager?", I asked, confused. That hurt.

"You'll listen to just about anyone telling you their worries?", he said. "You just want to look good in front of others, right?"

Hey, that seriously hurts. I can feel my tears start to well up in my eyes.

"Stop it, Drew!", Brendan said. But Drew still continued. "Don't make empty promises if you can't actually help with anything."

I was really pissed. This guy is getting on my nerves. I smacked his head with the clipboard in my hands.

"Ouch! Hey you!", Drew said angrily.

"You jerk." My tears start to fall. "I was really worried about you. You looked hurt, that's why..." Drew looked shocked and I furiously wiped my tears. I glared at him.

"I just hate the kind of you!", I said and walked out. I saw Brendan, Misty, and Dawn shake their heads at Drew.

"Everyone, hold on, hold on.", I said in attempt to call the attention of my classmates. We were back from our PE class, and I was asking them to stay to talk about our presentation due next week. "Let's decide on which song to do for the concert."

"That's so troublesome! You can do it alone.", my classmate answered.

"Let's go eat gyudon!", another one hollered. Some became eager to come.

I panicked. "Wait, wait! We have to decide on this together!"

"You can do a solo performance!", my classmate said, earning the laughter of the others.

I flushed in embarrassment. "What? I can't do that."

"Bye-bye.", the ones who called for gyudon said and exited the room.

"Hey guys, it's our first class event. Let's do this together.", I pleaded. "I'll make the score or something."

"Sorry, May! I already have plans. Bye-bye!", Dawn said in apology and left. Misty followed her with an apologetic look on her face. "Sorry, May!"

"Seriously..." I sighed. Then I saw Brianna get up from her seat. "Oh, wait! Brianna, you can play the piano, right?"

She glared at me for the second time that day. "I have cram school.", she said and left.

Drew stood up from his seat. He walked towards me, and I shut my eyes. I was expecting him to say painful things, but when I opened my eyes it never came. I saw him shut the door and leave the classroom.

I saw the small amount of people left inside the room with me. "Ms. Chore-Worker, huh?", I laughed sheepishly.

"May..", I heard Brendan say. He was about to stand and come near me when the door swooshed back open. I was surprised to see Drew leaning on the side of the door.

"Quickly come on in.", he said. Then our classmates slowly came back in.

"You're so pushy.", the person who told me to do a solo performance said sheepishly.

"He was like "we're all in this together." That coming from this tone-deaf guy.", gyudon guy said. Our classmates laughed.

Drew blushed. "Shut up."

"What, really? Drew's actually not good at something?", a female classmate asked.

"He's totally tone-deaf.", Brendan confirmed.

"Mr. Tone-Deaf!", our classmates teased.

Brendan laughed. "He's just horrible."

Drew glared at our male classmates, who ended up laughing more. Then he turned his attention to me. "Let's decide this quickly, Ms. Class Representative.", he said while smirking.

He did all that trouble to make our classmates go back here. Seriously.. this annoying, sweet, jerk.

Here he goes again. He's contradicting himself again.

I grinned. "Well then, I would like to discuss the song for the concert."

A/N: Hello! So yeah, shoot me for starting another story, but I can't take this anymore. Hahaha. This is based from Yuuki Obata's Bokura ga Ita. Starring our dear PokeAni characters. Hahaha. So! This actually follows the live action version of said series since I'm not blessed with time to follow the actual manga version. This won't have that many chapters, but every update would consist of more or less 2,000 words. I'm not promising swift updates, but I'll be doing my best. I hope you'll bear with me. :)
This ended up to be my first Pokemon fanfic, but I plan to write something better in the future. I hope you enjoyed chapter one. Reviews are much appreciated. Til next chapter! :D