Chapter 5

The Cerulean sisters, Gary, and Pikachu were still in the battling area. Gary was waiting 
to see Ash and Misty walk in ‘Probably while holding hands and kissing’ he thought.. He 
was planned on bragging about his accomplishment and how he single handily got them 
together. 
Pikachu knew what was going on, and how Pikapi was going to finally admit his feelings 
for Misty and he thought ‘Now maybe those two will stop fighting and I could stop 
getting a headache every single day, I was beginning to feel like Psyduck’
Daisy had seen Ash leave but she didn’t know why, she knew it had something to do with 
Misty, and she hoped things were getting  resolved so that they can continue rehearsing 
the play, but knowing their sister ‘ We’re never going to get this play rehearsed and done 
in time for Saturday ‘ Daisy thought as she watched her two sisters argue over costumes.
“A white suit with a bow tie? What is he Colonel Sanders?” Violet asked sarcastically.
“No, he is the hero, and heroes where white.” Lilly said in an annoyed tone as they both 
argued about a costume for Gary.
Meanwhile Gary heard this suggestion from Lilly and was beginning to get a little 
frightened. ‘ I wonder if its too late to back out now’ 
Back at the pool, Misty had given up crying and was now just sitting there in silence, 
spaced out. 
“Dewgong, gong” Dewgong was now getting a little worried about Misty’s appearance.
At this Misty snapped out of it. “I’m sorry to worry you Dewgong, really, I’m okay, well 
maybe not okay but better than I was before, now that I had a good cry” 
Dewgong’s expression seemed to lighten up and so did Misty’s.
“I better get back, we do have a play to put on and I’m not going to let a little thing like 
Ash not loving me bring me down.” At this Misty’s eyes began to water again but she 
refused to cry. ‘I’ve done enough of that today’ Misty thought as she walked back to 
where her sisters, Ash , and Gary were rehearsing.
 “Hey Misty, are you feeling better?” Daisy asked Misty in a caring voice as she walked 
into the room.
“ Yeah, I feel okay now,” she said, but still with a hint of sadness in her voice that was 
very noticeable.
“ All right then, lets rehearse the scene where Ash kidnaps you and brings you back to his 
castle.” Violet said.
“Hey where is Ash?” Daisy asked Misty.
“Ash? How should I know?” Misty was confused as to why they would be asking her that 
question.
“What do you mean, how should you know? You should know because...” Gary stopped 
as he saw the look of puzzlement on Misty’s face. ‘Ketchum must have chickened out’ 
Gary thought as he begun to get annoyed at the realization that he won’t be able to brag 
now.
“ Why should I know Gary?” Misty asked now intrigued by Gary’s outburst, but before 
he had a chance to come up with an excuse Ash walked into the room.
Pikachu was relieved at the site of his master, he had begun to worry where he had 
disappeared to, and why he didn’t tell Misty how he felt. At least Pikachu was relieved, 
until he saw Ash’s face.
Ash’s face was a mix of emotions, anger,  hatred, mistrust, betrayal. Those were all 
emotions that could be seen in Ash’s eyes. The question was, which emotion would be 
expressed with Ash’s mouth.
“Are we going to continue to rehearse the play or is everybody going to continue staring 
at me like they’d never seen a person before?” Ash said in a hoarse voice as if he had 
been crying.(looks like anger won)
They all watched in silence at Ash’s change in mood, as he walked over to the table and 
picked up his script.
“I’m waiting!” Ash said still angry.
At this Misty was beginning to get angry herself. ‘ What’s his problem, if he thinks he 
could talk to me like that, he’s got another thing coming ‘ Misty took this display of 
jerkiness as a opportunity to vent off some emotions of her own.
“What’s wrong Ash? Having a hard time memorizing your lines? Too many things to fit 
into your tiny brain?” Misty said in a voice she usually used to insult Ash. 
But what happened next was totally unexpected by Misty, Gary , Pikachu, even the 
Cerulean sisters. They all expected this to turn into a screaming match between Ash and 
Misty, but what they got was silence.
Misty was surprised to say the least, all Ash did was turn and look at her.
A look that no longer conveyed anger, but one of pure sadness, no, not sadness, hurt. This 
look made Misty feel like a thousand knives just stabbed her in the heart. She had never 
seen Ash so hurt before in her life, and it made her want to cry.
“Ash I....” Misty didn’t know what to say. She had said much worse to him before and 
never had gotten such a reaction.
“ Lets just rehearse.” Ash’s voice was totally devoid of emotion, and he now had an icy 
glare in his eyes.
Pikachu was now starting to get upset itself.
“ Pika ch chu pika pikachpika” it said as it worriedly scanned Ash’s face for any sigh of 
recognition.
Ash replied by tenderly petting him, but to Pikachu’s dismay, and everyone else’s, the icy 
glare still remained.
“Um, okay, Ash we were just going to rehearse the scene where you kidnap Misty and 
take her back to your castle, is that okay with you?” Lilly asked cautiously.
“Whatever” Ash replied.
“Okay Misty, Ash, you begin with Jake carrying Luna, David’s sister, over his shoulders, 
while Luna kicks and screams, trying to escape his grasp. Go.” Daisy gave a sign with 
her hands to begin.
Ash, at this command isn’t sure what to do, and gets flustered at the thought of grabbing 
Misty and carrying her anywhere. Luckily for him, his anger overrides his embarrassment 
so nobody notices.
Unfortunately Misty was not so lucky, as she turns bright red at the instructions given by 
her sister. She doesn’t have time to object though, as Ash grabs her and throws her over 
his shoulders, rather roughly, as Misty is now staring at his back side upside-down. 
“Hey, that hurt, you didn’t have to grab me so hard, you probably left a bruise 
somewhere,” Misty was beginning to get angry again.
“If he did, it probably wouldn’t be in any place you’d see it” Gary said, amused at Misty 
and Ash’s position.
Misty gave Gary a dirty look, as she realized that he was probably right.
Ash just basically ignored everyone and waited for further directions from Daisy.
“Misty, you are supposed to kick and scream and try to get away from Ash, remember” 
Daisy reminded her sister.
“Gladly,” and Misty began to do just that, and a few other things as well.
“Ow, she said kicking and screaming, she didn’t say anything about pinching, and 
smacking,” Ash said angrily.
“I was improvising,” Misty said with an innocent grin on her face.
“Okay, Ash, walk over to this spot and put Misty down,” Daisy instructed.
So Ash did as he was told, except he didn’t put Misty down, he just let her drop.
Misty fell right on her ass, hard. Now Misty was really angry as she got up and attacked 
Ash with her mallet, straight to the head.
“Stop it, both of you, you guys are ruining everything,” Lilly said.
“ Yeah, this is not suppose to be a violent scene,” Violet said as she desperately watched 
the two teens, in an anything goes, fight.
There was kicking, punching, hitting, pinching, hair-pulling, and even biting, going on 
between Ash and Misty.
“Ah, young love,” Gary whispered to himself in a fake dreamy voice.
Ash, unlike Misty had really not gone all out, because if he had, Misty would have been 
seriously injured. Ash had gotten significantly stronger the last couple of years, so he was 
trying his hardest to hold back, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t do his fair share of 
pinching, biting, and hair pulling.
Misty, on the other hand, did not hold back at all. She may love this guy but there is no 
way in hell she was going to let him beat her in a fight. She made sure he was getting just 
as bruised up as she felt she was.
There seemed like no end to the fight as the teens were now rolling around on the floor 
trying to pin each other down and claim victory. Every time Ash tried to pin Misty he 
realized he’d have to hurt her because she was struggling against him, so he would let her 
go. Every time Misty tried to pin Ash he would break free because he was too strong.
Pikachu sick of watching this little “lover’s spat”, and afraid that soon there won’t be that 
much left of them, decided to end it once and for all.
“PIKA CHUUUUUU”
As soon as the lightning stopped everyone looked around to see two smoking teenagers 
lying on the floor, with Ash on top of Misty, pinning her to the ground.
“I won,” Ash declared with a raised eyebrow as he grinned at her. 
Ash was finally able to pin Misty because the thundershock attack had stunned her and 
she was unable to move. Ash being more used to it than her, in fact, he would say he was 
practically immune to it, was able to pin her, without her struggling, winning the fight.
She pushed him off her as she got up and dusted herself off.
“You didn’t win anything, Pikachu intervened so it doesn’t count,” Misty said, very sure 
of herself.
“It does so count,” Ash was now getting angry and moving closer to Misty.
“Is it just me or does this sound familiar?” Violet asked her sisters in a moment of 
remembrance.
“It does not,” Misty said also moving closer.
“Does so,”  Ash repeated, still moving closer.
“Does not,” Misty continued, now even closer.
“Yes it .......does,” Ash said as he now realized there was nowhere else to move to.
Ash and Misty’s bodies were pressed against each other as their faces were a little more 
than an inch apart.
Misty looked into Ash’s eyes, she still saw a mixture of emotions but none of them were 
of that hurt look of before. She wanted this to happen, she wanted so bad she could 
practically taste his lips on hers. She continued to look at him longingly, wondering what 
he would do.
At this turn of events Ash didn’t know what to think. First they were fighting, but now 
they were face to face, staring into each others eyes. All Ash could see in Misty’s eyes 
was the girl who has been following him for 5 years. The girl who has been there with 
him through every battle, every challenge, every adventure, routing him on, and 
comforting him when he was upset. He saw his best friend, the girl he.....
Flashback
‘Jeez, Ash is so dense, hell he's not dense, he is just plain stupid. I'm surprised his 
pokemon haven't all run away from him, I know I would if I had him as a trainer. He'll 
never beat Gary because Ash is, and always will be a loser. I can't wait until he pays me 
back for my bike so that I can finally get away from that idiotic, egotistical, hardheaded, 
stupid jerk. I wish I never met him, in fact I wish he never existed, the world would be a 
better place without him dumbing things up. I HATE ASH KETCHUM and I would give 
anything just to have him out of my life FOREVER..’
End Flashback
Misty was sure he was going to kiss her, but all of a sudden, his eyes again turned to a 
look of hurt, and then to the icy glare he had held before, and he immediately pulled 
away and began to look at the ground.
Misty just stared at him as tears began to form in her eyes.
There was an awkward silence for a good five to ten minutes.
Daisy couldn’t take it anymore and decided to speak as she studied Ash and Misty’s 
appearance.” Do you think those bruises will go away by Saturday?” Daisy asked 
referring to both Ash and Misty, who had a significant amount of bruises on their hands, 
legs, faces ’And God knows where else’ Daisy thought.
“I doubt it,” Lilly said answering her sisters question.
“Do you think you could cover it up with makeup, Violet?” Daisy asked.
“I don’t think even I have that much makeup,” Violet answered as she looked hopelessly 
at Ash and Misty.