Chapter 6

After the Ash and Misty incident, everyone had been very quiet. Daisy thought it was 
best( and safer) to take another break. The Cerulean sisters were busy building the castle 
set, which is where most of the play will take place. Gary was relaxing and learning his 
lines, he wanted to go over and talk to Ash, but for some reason Ash seemed mad at him. 
Gary didn’t want to start anything after seeing what happened before. 
‘If Ash acted that way with the girl he loved, what the hell would he do to me’.
Misty was by herself in the corner of the room pretending to learn her lines, but she kept 
thinking about Ash and how he was acting, and what had almost happened.
Ash was sitting at the table with Pikachu. It looked like Ash was filling the little rodent in 
on what happened when he had gone to tell Misty how he felt. After Pikachu had heard 
about Misty’s confession, Pikachu began to share in Ash’s anger.
Meanwhile Gary was sick of Ash’s brooding,  plus curiosity had gotten the better of him, 
so he decided to find out what happened between Ash and Misty. 
Gary walked over to Ash. When Ash saw him coming he got up and walked out of the 
room.
“I am not in the mood to have Gary laugh in my face’
‘What the hell is Ketchum’s problem’ Gary thought as he followed Ash out of the room.
Ash saw Gary still following him and stopped in front of his room.
‘He wants a confrontation, he is going to get a confrontation’
Gary saw Ash stop so he began to speak “What is your problem Ketchum?”
“My problem? I’ll tell you what my problem is, YOU!”
“What? Didn’t you go talk to Misty about the way you feel?”
“You would have just loved that, wouldn’t you?”
“Okay you have totally lost it, did you tell her or not?”
“No I didn’t tell her”
“Well why not?” Gary said getting frustrated.
“Why should I, so you can all laugh in my face. So you can tell me what a big loser I am, 
how stupid I am for believing anybody could like me, let alone love me”
“What are you talking about?”
“You know very well what I am talking about. You knew Misty hated me and you just 
wanted to see her rip my heart out”
“Huh?”
“Or, you and her had this whole thing planned, and you both wanted to show me what a 
joke I am, is that it?” Ash didn’t realize that he began to cry, releasing all of his built up 
emotions on Gary.
“Well don’t worry, it worked, I am a joke. A joke , a idiot, and a fool for listening to you. 
I thought that  you were trying to help me, that maybe you were going to put all those 
years of rivalry behind us, so we could be friends again. Ever since we started our 
Pokemon journeys you have always tried to put me down and make me feel bad about 
myself. I’ve never let the things you say affect me, nor have I ever believed them. 
Nothing that you or Misty had ever said to me had destroyed my spirit to keep trying, 
stopped me from believing in myself, but now..., now with you and Misty teaming up, 
you have accomplished the task, congratulations.”
With that said, Ash went into his room and threw himself on the bed still sobbing from 
his outburst. Pikachu gave a dangerous look at Gary as electric sparks flew from his 
cheeks. Pikachu was angry at Gary and Misty for making Ash feel so hurt, and if anyone 
dared to hurt him again they will have to answer to him.
Gary, after listening to Ash and seeing Pikachu’s reaction, backed away from Ash’s 
room. He was a good 10 feet down the hallway when he saw Pikachu slam the door shut.
‘Well, that’s definitely not what I expected to hear. What did Misty say to him that would 
make him think that she hates him. Wait, he said that he didn’t tell her anything, so.....Oh 
this is to confusing, I am just going to ask her what happened and hope I get a straight 
answer’
Gary walked back into the battle arena and saw that the Cerulean sisters had gotten Misty 
to try on one of the costumes that they were working on.
“Owww, That hurt, stop trying to pull it down, I already told you it was too tight, “ Misty 
was aggravated because her sisters had try to get her in a dress that was two sizes to 
small.
“Stop complaining, its not our fault you grew so much, besides it looks fine to me, you 
look very lady-like,” Lilly said while examining Misty.
“I wont look like much of a lady if I pop out of this thing”
“Hey Misty can talk to you for a minute”
‘Gary, what does he want?’
“Um, I’m kind of busy at the moment, I’m helping my sisters with the costumes”
“It’s okay Misty, we’re done, you can go talk to Gary if you want, “ Misty glared at 
Daisy and then looked back at Gary and sighed.
“Fine, but first let me get out of this dress”(if she can)
“No its important, it can’t wait”
Misty was about to tell him that it will wait, when she heard Gary call out
“It’s about Ash”
Misty ran over as fast as she could without coming out of the dress.
‘stupid Lilly’ Misty thought as she finally reached Gary.
“ I thought that would get you over here,” Gary said with a grin as he watched Misty turn 
red with embarrassment 
‘Well she definitely likes him, what could have gone wrong?’ Gary’s thoughts were 
interrupted with the usual deny, deny, deny, strategy of Misty.
“I don’t know what your implying, I’m just worried about him that’s all, he hasn’t been 
himself,” Misty confessed.
“Wait what do you know, what did you do to him? You are such a jerk Gary, I swear that 
if you hurt Ash I..,” Misty said, as she took out her mallet and began to wave it around.
“Whoa, hold it, I didn’t do anything, at least I think I didn’t do anything, but apparently 
you did” Gary’s hands were up in protection as he watched Misty’s face change from 
anger to confusion.
“What? Me? I barely talked to Ash at all today, except when we were rehearsing the 
play”
“Well you did something because he is pretty upset with you, and with me for telling him 
to go talk to you”
“Go talk to me about what? When?”
Gary decided against telling Misty what Ash wanted to talk to her about. ‘ he’s mad at me 
enough already, no use making things worse’ Gary thought. But he figured telling her 
when couldn’t hurt. (yeah right)
“Well what he wanted to say wasn’t important, but when you ran out of here before Ash 
went after you, and when he came back, as you saw, he was upset”
Misty was trying to think about what she could have done that would make Ash upset.
“You must have said something”
Misty tried to recollect the events of the morning ‘Ash said he didn’t want to kiss me, my 
sisters said I should be happy he is going to kiss me at all, I felt rejected by Ash, I ran to 
the pool, I cried, I said I hate A...’
“NOOOO” Misty let out an agonizing yell of realization.
“What’s wrong” Gary asked worriedly.
“He heard me” Misty said barely above a whisper as she began to cry for the third time 
that day.
Gary watched Misty as she cried. He put his arms around her in an attempt to make her 
feel better.
She now had buried her face in Gary’s chest as he held her.
She continued to sob “I can’t believe it...., no....., he heard me.....,”  she repeated the 
words over and over again, but they were barely audible, since her tears had caused her 
voice to be muffled.
‘Of course he heard you. Heard you say what? What did you say that was so horrible? 
Why does it make anybody who knows these words turn into crying lunatics?’ Gary 
thought desperately, as he still was pretty much in the dark about this whole situation. 
(poor Gary)