By: Enja
Ages: YOU KNOW THEM BY NOW, RIGHT?”
Part: 13
I took in a deep breath and knocked on Misty’s door. I had gone over everything I was to say with Kara and she said she was sure that Misty would forgive me. “Who is it?”
“Umm…Gligar Man.”
“Go away, Ash!”
“Please Misty, let me in. I want to talk to you.”
“No!”
“Please Misty?” I pleaded. “If you don’t let me come in, I’ll get Quilava to burn down the door.” This time there was no answer. I heard the creaking of the bed and the padding of feet on the floor. Slowly the door opened and I heard the padding of feet go back to the bed to lay down.
I pushed the door ajar. I saw Misty on the bed, face down. “Misty?”
“What?!?!” Her face shot up. Tear stains, dried, all over her face. She had big circles under her eyes and she had an extremely shaky voice.
“I want to talk to you.” Her eyes narrowed at me.
“So?”
“Look, I’m sorry. I never meant to hurt your feelings.”
“WELL YOU DID MR. ASH KETCUM!”
“I know I did. I was just sick of being tormented. I hated people when they told me I was a baby and couldn’t do anything right. Or when people told me all the gym leaders pitied me, and that’s how I got my badges.”
“So what! That was NO reason to leave!”
“YES IT WAS! DID YOU LISTEN TO YOURSELF?”
“Of course I did! I know what I said!”
“Yeah, but did you listen to yourself when you said it?”
“DUH!”
“’Ash, you stupid dork! You can’t do anything! Without me, you wouldn’t even be here! All the Gym leaders pitied you, you didn’t win! You aren’t dense, you’re just plain STUPID!” I mimicked her.
“HOW DARE YOU, ASH! I WOULD NEVER SAY THOSE THINGS!”
“YES YOU WOULD, NO EXCUSE ME, YOU DI— w-wha?” I fingered a sore spot on my cheek. Misty had slapped me, hard.
“You deserved that, you know?” Misty said. Her voice cruel and unsatisfying. Tears started to well up in my eyes.
“Y-you, y-you are…” I couldn’t finish my sentence. I ran off, tears streaming down my face. Particularly burning where Misty had slapped me. Depression pierced my soul along with anger. More and more tears ran out of my eyes. I ran in the room Brock, Alec, and I were staying. Brock and Alec were sitting across from each other.
“Hey Ash, I was going to talk to you. I am going with Brock now, you and Misty are welcome to come along.” I stood in my spot, wide eyed, and stared at Alec and Brock. Alec was facing Brock and Brock was staring at me with confusion all over his face.
“What?” Alec turned to face me. “Oh my god, what happened Ash?”
To this I didn’t answer. I just ran to my bed side and grabbed everything and stormed off.
When I came into the lobby I ran straight to Nurse Joy. “Nurse Joy, c-could-d I h-have P-pikachu?” She nodded when seeing my face. She returned a few minutes later with Pikachu in her hand. Pikachu jumped in my arms. “Chu!” (Ash!)
I didn’t answer to this either. I just pulled out my cap from my bag and set it on top of my head. I walked at a fast pace out of the door, continuing my journey.
To be continued… (Gee, don’t ya just hate those words?)
A/n- sorry this part of the story is so depressing and angsty in this part of the story. It should be getting happier later on. Who ever said 13 was a lucky number? This is chapter 13, so yeah. Poor, poor Ash.