I haven't written for Pokemon in forever :O I bringing back the TwinLeafShipping love~

This is supposed to take place 15 years later. Barry, as I am trying to suggest, has matured and noticed how reckless he used to be. I'm not trying to make him OOC, I'm trying to show that he has changed as time went on.

This concept has probably been used before, I'm sorry if you think I am copying you. It's just something I thought of on a Pokemon kick. I haven't checked the archives in forever, so if this has been done just tell me and I will take it down~ Thank you all.

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon.


I'm jealous, I won't deny it

In this store, watching you twirl about

While dresses of tulle and satin surround me

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But you look so pretty

And I can't deny the fact that you are so perfect in white

Maybe if days had passed differently, moments more slowly

Could I have won your heart then?

I'd like to think I would

.

If life had played out according to plan

But I was young and reckless

Running from A to B, never stopping for life

What I'd give for a second chance

A second chance to pause and stare at you

To hold you in my arms and whisper 'I'll be back'

I was too young and stupid to know it then

.

If only I had noticed that I had time, I had years

If only I could have seen that the top was a challenge not be rushed

If only I could have enjoyed the ride up

If only, if only

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A smile graces your lips

You cock your head and you ask

And I fight back the urge to pick you up and run out of the store

Far away, so far away

Nobody would catch us

And when we reached our destination

I would stop and halt my life

And right then and there, no matter where

I would make up for all those lost years.

.

Yet all I can do is hold back tears

Murmuring, every so slowly 'As perfect as always'

You laugh, tossing those blue curls back

How I wish you were mine

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Five years of youth were fleeting

Ten years of life gone too quickly

Mistakes were made

They cannot be undone

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I just pray

That in the years to come, no matter what

You'll always be as beautiful as ever, as happy as you are now

.

And me?

I will continue on

Rushing as always

A bump will come around again

Just as before, I will ignore it as always

This time, though, I won't let it slip away.