Well, here it is, an Ikari one-shot.

Requested by contestshipper2003

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Forced | Dawn x Paul

"I just don't know what I'm feeling right now."

I muttered and placed my hands on the table in front of me, lowering my head so that my purple bangs covered my swollen face. I couldn't believe that she did this to me!

"Paul, cheer up. She wasn't your type of girl, you know that." The Hedgehog in front of me sympathetically said. He brought his hands up and patted my head which I immediately brushed away.

"No. It is not like that!" I retorted, my voice getting a bit louder. "There must be some reason why she did this to me. And I know, it would have something which is forcing her to do this."

Gary sighed and looked beside him, at the Human Celery, Drew. The two had come here to help me out of this ridiculous situation but rather they chose to drive me away from her.

Drew too sighed and said, "Well, now whatever it is, we can only confirm by listening to Dawn's side of the story. If she says it truthfully that is."

I jerked my head up and looked at him, wide-eyed. Shaking my head as 'no' I spoke, "She won't tell anything truthfully if it is you guys asking her."

"Then how will ask her?" Gary questioned.

"I think," Drew began "Our girlfriends might help us in this." He immediately slipped his phone out and looked at Gary and me for permission to text May about this situation.

We agreed, and almost immediately Gary took his phone out and called Leaf. He and Drew both started explaining Leaf and May about the situation.

I sat quietly in my seat as the two chatted. Suddenly my phone buzzed, and I took it out to check.

A Message received from:
Burnt to ASH

I made a face as I clicked on the pop-up notification to further look at what the asshole has texted me.

Hy, Mist and I hve accidntaly hpnd to bmp into Dawn. Bt she din't look r8...

Is evrythn OK w/ her? Is evrythn OK b/w U 2?

My eyes widened as they immediately re-read the text to confirm that it was ASH who sent me that. When I finally believed that it would be him since he usually uses abbreviations and all that nonsense while texting.

"That dumbass..." I muttered, which immediately caught Gary and Drew's attention as they stopped for a while and looked at me. I slowly held the phone screen towards them and allowed them to read through the text which Ash had sent me.

"Uh..." The two muttered, as they quickly hung up their conversation with their girls.

"Well?" I asked. My anxiety taking me over as I began to grow anxious.

"How about we ask Ash to seek help from Misty? She and the other girls could have a chat with Dawn while we bring Ash over here..." Drew suggested. He now had his hands clasped, on the table while his phone was beside his hands.

Gary was thinking for a while. His silent behaviour slowly surfacing. I knew that by the looks of it, there might be something really big going on inside his giant of a brain.

"Gary?" I asked him, as he snapped his head up in attention.

"Well, Drew us right. And Leaf wouldn't mind helping," Gary spoke and then looked over to Drew before he continued, "What about your Bandana?"

"She is fine with it too. She just texted that she will be heading over to Leaf, and then the two will contact Misty." Drew replied as his hand went over to hold his phone while he slowly fiddled with it.

"Okay, now, all that is left is for us to drag that Loser over here!" Gary jumped from his seat as he punched the air in excitement.

"Paul, do it," Drew told me.

I nodded as I dialled the Loser's number and waited for him to receive the call.

The ringing went on and on and I grew impatient.

What is that Loser doing, after all!? Just fucking pick up the call!

"Uh... Hello?"

It was Misty. How come she had his phone?

"Uh, Misty? It's Paul. Where the heck is your baby-boyfriend?" I asked, my voice a little harsh.

"Ah... Ash. He actually went over to the food stall to buy himself ramen. And he still hasn't come back yet."

"How long is he be gone?"

"I'm... not sure you should know this but, he is been gone for about 15 minutes now."

"I swear, that dickhea-"

Before I could curse a series at him, Misty squeaked in surprise as she continued to speak to the Loser who just arrived.

"Eek! Ash! What happened!?"

I listened to their conversation and waited for them to complete. Gary and Drew were completely focused on their phones. They didn't even bother to look at my situation.

"Ah, Mist, sorry. The man over there accidentally dropped his curry rice on me, and it took a little more... By the way, who are you talking to?"

Finally, when he mentioned that, I snapped my attention back to the phone call.

"Oh yeah, it's Paul. Here, he wanted to talk to you."

After which, I heard a few shuffling over the other end of the call then Ash's voice rang.

"Hey, Paulie! How is it going!"

"The Fuck Loser!? I am not Paulie, and what the heck is with this girly cheerful voice!?" I snapped back.

"Oh well, sorry for that. Also, I think I know why you called me."

"Is that so? Tell me then." I replied sarcastically. I swear if that Loser is going to play a dad joke on me, then I might even end up murdering him over this phone call only.

I won't even regret that too.

"It is because you wanted to hear my melodious voice sing to you~ Aah~"

"JuSt sHuT tHe fUcK uP, yOu LoSeR!? I just cAllEd yOu sO tHaT i cOuLd tEll YoU tO cOmE ovEr hErE, bEcaUsE May and Leaf aRe gOnnA cOmE ovEr tHeRe tO piCk Misty aNd tHen tHeY will gO tO Dawn's place tO soRt the prObLeM!? GOT THAT, YOU FUCKING LOSER!?"

"Yeah, sure. Just text me the address where you at, and I'll be there in no time."

"Okay- HEY! YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO! I KNOW WHAT I WILL BE DOING NEXT!"

"Jeez. Okay, b-bye!"

"Yeah. Bye, the fuck out!" I slammed my phone on the table and told Drew to message Ash our address. He immediately did so and asked what was the matter that I had been on the edge while talking on the call.

I explained everything what exactly happened and how that Loser acted like a defective piece of biased and bipolar ass. [A/N: Nothing over here what Paul said *actually what I wrote* is intended in a way to offend anyone out there reading this.]

Just as I completed explaining, the two had already begun laughing their butt off as they clung onto each other for support.

"What the hell? Paul, seriously?" Gary asked in between his laughs.

"Yes. And now I doubt if that Loser is even straight or not."

And they laughed. Soon enough, I also unconsciously joined them in laughing. I don't how, but whenever I am with them, they seem to lessen the burden and the pain the I have been walking with, my whole life. They make me enjoy life with them.

I am really glad that I have friends like them.

***

We were actually in a cafe. And it was early morning, nearly 7:00 am. I had called Drew and Gary over right after I had entered the cafe and ordered my black coffee, at 7:07 am. They arrived pretty early that what I had thought they would take, almost at 7:17 am. And that was when I had explained to them about what had happened to me, yesterday and today in the early morning almost at 5:30 am.

They had tried to help and console me, from 7:25 am to 7:40 am. But what could I have done? Everything happened so quickly that I didn't even get the chance to process what exactly had happened.

Then at 7:43 am, Drew suggested the idea of asking Dawn themselves. But I rejected it because it is clear she would never admit her feelings and intentions (good intentions) to some boy who happened to be my friend.

And so, we ended up asking May and Leaf, at 7:55 am.

At that time, I had also received a text from Loser, which said that he and his girlfriend (more like, his babysitter) had happened to bump into Dawn and she wasn't in good mood.

When Drew and Gary read that, at 7:57 am, they had already asked May and Leaf to go and pick Misty then go to Dawn's place while we somehow drag that Loser over here. Which ended up in me asking him to come over quickly.

I had called him at 8:00 am, and the talk started with rubbish. Meaning, it was his babysitter Misty who accepted the call. The Loser was nowhere to be found so I somehow had to keep the conversation going on till 8:06 am.

The Loser arrived by then as he and his babysitter began chatting. I was about to hang up the call but the rightful owner of the phone on the other side had taken and answered the phone.

The Loser, at that time (8:08 am), was behaving like a defective piece of biased and bipolar ass. And I snapped.

At 8:10 am, I ended the call and told Drew to message our address to the Loser. As I explained why was I screaming during the call. At 8:11 am, the two had been laughing their ass off while I sat there waiting for the Loser to show up.

But I ended up laughing too.

And that was how we had been waiting for the Bipolar Loser Ass to show up. From 8:13 am.

***

It was 8:17 am, and the Asshole hasn't arrived yet. I was growing impatient as well as angry.

But just when I was about to snap at the table right under my hands, the door of the opened with a chime! And I turned my attention to see that the Bipolar Ass has arrived. At 8:18 am.

FINALLY [: Jeongguk's voice XD]

I waited for him to come and sit here with us so that I could practically, mentally, physically, chemically and biologically strangle, and kill him with my words and love towards the various varieties of curses which happened to cross my mind whenever I see him.

"Yo. How's it going? And beforetheDoodovertheresnapsatme,Iwannaconfesssomething." Ash rushed his words out so quickly that it took us almost 2 minutes to finally rephrase what he had said.

"What the fuck is it, now?" I asked totally annoyed by the way he had formed his face.

"I. Am. Not. Straight.-"

This had us all shook. [Jungshook XD] So after all I was right.

"Whoa!" "Oh, my gawd! Are you serious!?" Drew and Gary had their mouths dropped in surprised at they tried to question. I had a smirk plastered on my face, as my guess was true.

"Actually, you all got it wrong. I am straight. Perfectly. Mentally and Physically. Even Biologically too." Ash answered while waving his hands in front of his face. He was totally confused and flustered.

"Then why did you say that 'you were not straight'?" Gary asked and yanked Ash to sit on the seat beside me.

"I was saying, 'I am not straight' is not true. I AM Straight." He spoke while gesturing "s over 'I am not straight' part.

I sighed and whacked the back of his head as now the table went silent.

Then I asked, " Have May and Leaf took Misty to Dawn's house?"

He nodded.

"Okay, so now all we can do is wait and cheer this gloomy boy up." Gary punched the air in excitement.

"Yes, and wait for the good news to pop up!" And Drew joined in before him winked at me in a teasing way.

"Yeah, yeah. I hope so..." I replied sarcastically and felt Ash drape his hand over my shoulder, acting as if he was drunk this early in the morning.

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[2122 : Word Count]

You have to wait for the second part though, I am sorry for that. But the plot is a little big.

ARI