Title: When Ash Ran Away - Songfic Series
Author: Kari Anime Queen
Disclaimer: ...see part 1 for details. Plus, 'In The End' and it's components belong to 'Linkin Park' and I'm just borrowing the words.

~~~Ash's POV~~~

It starts with one thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try,
Keep that in mind,
I designed this rhyme, to explain in due time
All I know,
Time is a valuable thing, watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day, the clock ticks life away
It's so unreal,
Didn't look out below, watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on, but didn't even know
Wasted it all just to watch you go,
I kept everything inside and even though I tried,
It all fell apart,
What it meant to me, will eventually be a memory of a time when...

[Has it really been a week already? It only felt like a few hours, but then, I have been asleep most of the time. Man! what a waste of good time that could've been used training pokemon! Well, if I'd taken them with me at least. Misty really annoys me! She can't even be happy for me when I win a battle! Sure it was only against Team Rocket but still, she could've been nicer all the same...]

I tried so hard, and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall, to lose it all
But in the end, it doesn't even matter...

[I try to get along with her, I love her after all, but she never really accepted my hints. Who can blame her? For all I know she could love Gary! He is a better trainer than me, and besides, Misty's only following me until she gets a new bike after Pikachu flash-fried her first one. For a while, we got on quite well and I began to think she loved me back. I hoped and prayed that she was liking me for me and not cause I owed her a bike. Well, she has stayed with me all the while that I've been a trainer, she didn't leave me the way Brock and Tracey did, so maybe there was something to the idea of her liking me! Ah, who am I kidding? The way she yelled at me says it all, she hates me, plain and simple...]

One thing, I don't know why
It doesn't matter how hard you try,
Keep that in mind,
I designed this rhyme, to remind myself how
I tried so hard,
In spite of the way you were mocking me,
Acting like I was part of your property,
Remembering all those times you fought with me,
I'm surprised it got so (far),
Things aren't the way they were before,
You wouldn't recognize me anymore,
Not that you knew me back then, But it all comes back to me
In the end
You kept everything inside and even though I tried,
It all fell apart,
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when...

[I think about all the times I fought with her, they weren't always happy moments but there was one fight that really opened my eyes...]
*Begin Flashback*
Nurse Joy: Now that's enough!
Ash: She started it...
Nurse Joy: Remember this is a hospital... *see several trainers glaring at Ash and Misty* They say if two people fight, they really care about each other...
Ash & Misty: Me care about him/her! Hmph! *Ash and Misty turn away from each other*
*End Flashback*
[It wasn't until we reached the haunted tower that I realised how much I liked her, and how much I thought she liked me back. But then again, there were times when I wished she would be nicer, and there were others when I was glad that she was so blunt...]

I tried so hard, and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall, to lose it all
But in the end, it doesn't even matter.

I've put my trust in you,
Pushed as far as I can go,
And for all this,
There's only one thing you should know...

[I don't care if she doesn't love me back! I love her and that's all that matters! But still, I can't help thinking of what might happen if she really didn't love me. Maybe I should go back and check up on her at least, who knows, she might really be worried about me. And if she is then I can apologise for being such a hot head...]

"Misty, I'm coming back to see you..."

TO BE CONTINUED...