May never had good ideas.

That last sentence was an exaggeration.

But when May promptly scooped Max up onto her shoulders (literally) without explanation and barged out the door, meeting Dawn outside, Max chose that moment to spite his older sister.

"What the heck?!" Max shouted, having an urge to jab his sister in the ribs. May just laughs in response.

"We're going to Kalos, duh!" Dawn fills in for her. Max blinked twice before his face morphed into shock and just plain surprise.

"Huh?! I thought you two were going!"

"We are! We kinda just thought, 'why not?' and had you tag along. There wasn't any true reason behind it, but I guess the more the merrier?"

"Dawn, you are so not good at hiding things," May snorted, causing the blue-haired girl to blush in embarrassment and send a glare at her.

"Long story short, we're kidnapping you."

Max leans down to whisper in May's ear, "Is the only reason you're abducting me because you're too gay for your own good?" which understandably irks his older sister.

"On second thought, I'm chucking him full-force into a wall, be right back-"

"May nO-"

After that awkward exchange, and a full-on scuffle that almost broke out between the siblings that Dawn managed to barely break apart, they were in the airplane en route to Kalos.

May sat next to Dawn on the plane, taking a few more minutes to scroll through her phone in search of all the spots Serena and Miette planned to show them. Max sat at the window seat, and Dawn took the aisle.

When they took off, Max had resorted to staring at the screen on the seat in front of him, watching whatever movie was on it. May absentmindedly scrolled through the groupchat this time, reading messages sent this morning when she felt a weight press against her shoulder. She looks to her right and just sees a white beanie hat covering tufts of blue hair and hears soft, even breathing.

Oh no. Don't you dare, May.

May's body goes completely stiff, trying hard to stay as still as possible so she doesn't accidentally wake Dawn. She could feel herself growing redder and redder and even swears that Max could feel the heat radiating off his side with how hard she's blushing.

Speaking of. The little gremlin of a younger brother notices this, and watches as May tries not to stare at the sleeping girl next to her. May sees him smirking at her and has to resist the urge to whack him or something, instead settling for a death glare, as if to say "how dare you not help me from this dilemma". Something along those lines.

Okay, but seriously. May officially succumbed to staring at Dawn when Max finally got bored of watching her suffering and fell asleep against the window, listening to music. As she felt Dawn's hair that was splayed out against her arm, she wondered what would happen if, well...

If she were hanging out with Dawn. Alone. With nobody else tagging along.

Really, she's never felt this way towards anyone, not even Dawn. Until now.

And that's because she, in the time of internally screaming, is replaying all the times she's talked to Dawn before or seen her on TV.

Now that she's thinking about it, May realizes that after her visit to Sinnoh, she's gone and watched as many contests as possible on TV, hoping for a chance to see Dawn competing, or even scheduling occasional hangouts with her and some friends to share ideas.

Oh my god, how long was this going on?

Needless to say, May was very much hyperventilating the rest of the plane ride, and when Dawn woke up, she didn't know why May looked like she was about to combust.