Well, here we are…again. So, I hope you like this chapter! Um…. I don’t know what else to say except on with the story!

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Ages ~

Ash ~ 14

Misty ~ 14

Brock ~ 17

Then and Now

~ Part 8: To love or not to love, that is the question~

Ash sat back down in front of his computer. He stared at it a moment. Almost as if a light bulb flashed in his head, he quickly began to type once again.

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I don’t know how she did it, but Misty managed to avoid me pretty much the rest of the rest of the next day. When I got back to the pokemon center that horrible night, Brock and Pikachu were already asleep. I knocked on Misty’s door and tried to open it, but I found that it just so happen to be locked. Apparently she had made it to the pokemon center. This wasn’t going to be easy.

  The next morning she got up way before me. Not that it is different from any other days…..

  Brock had said she left in a huff that morning, he asked me what was wrong, but respecting Misty’s privacy, I said nothing as to what happened that night. I was very tempted to tell Pikachu, my best Pokemon friend though. But, I knew that Misty’s didn’t want me to tell a soul, and I didn’t.

   All that day, I don’t’ know where she was. I looked EVERYWHERE, except of course the place she was, obviously.

  I still wore the different clothing I had bought with Sarah that day, so that no one recognized me. I did see Sarah, actually. I walked up to her first. I felt bad about just leaving her like that, but I had to talk to Misty. So I had to tell her why I had left her so abruptly last night.

  I catiously walked up to the girl. She was drinking her cu of tea so daintily, Which is also a reason I could never have gone out with her she was way to formal. I taped her on the shoulder. “Sarah?”

She quickly turned and I saw her face light up with excitement. “Hiya Ash! Come sit down!”

I bit my lip. “I’d love to, but I have to look for my friend, see, I was supposed to go with her to sign in but I totally forgot about her. And now I’m not exactly her favorite person in the world, ya know?”

She smiled weakly. “Yeah, I know. I’m sorry.”

“For?”

“For keeping you out. I should have known I wouldn’t have a chance with the pokemon master.”

I sighed. “Don’t worry Sarah. Look, someday your going to find this wonderful man and he’s going to love you dainty ways. For me, I like the scruffy type… The kind that can stand up on their own, kind of like… Misty…” Kind of made me think.

Sarah’s face lit up once again. “I can stand up for myself, I can be tough and independent!” She attempted to stick out her chest, and look tough, but she lost her breath and had to let it all out. I smiled at her attempt to impress me. “Don’t change yourself for me. You are you and some lucky guy is going to meet you someday and he is going to make you happy, just like I was yesterday with you. Just remember to be yourself. If he doesn’t like you for who you are, then he’s not worth it.”

“Thanks Ash! I’ll remember that. You’re friend must be pretty lucky to have, you! I bet it was love at first sight too!”

“Us? No we’re just friends.”

“Really? It certainly doesn’t sound like it.”

“But I don’t love Misty.” Do I?

“Sure. That’s what my brother said about his best friend, then they ended up getting married.”

I paused. Did I really love Misty? She loves me, I know that, but, do I return it? I thanked Sarah and turned to go.

I wandered around the rest of the day. Confusing thoughts whirled in my brain. Did I love Misty? What would life me like without Misty? Me and Misty? A couple?

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Ash stopped and gasped. He totally forgot what today was! He was a dead man if he forgot. He raced off the computer and out of the room.