Chapter 1 - Heartbreak

It was a typical morning before college, and like most 17 year old teenagers in the morning, Ash Ketchum ended sleeping through his alarm after promising himself '5 more minutes'. He had just under twenty minutes to get ready for college and this started by throwing off his blankets and letting out a sigh. Once up, he raced around him room to get his bag ready and to get dressed. But of course, this was never easy when your eyes are still groggy and your mind was still asleep. His tiredness was due to the fact that he was up late texting Alice, his girlfriend about normal relationship things and for a moment he flashed a grin, signifying that he was happy and content with his life, but little did he know this was about to change.

Once getting downstairs he only had 5 minutes to get to college as he spent a long time trying to suppress the pain of stubbing his toe on his bed. Quickly grabbing an apple and picking up his car keys from the table near his door, he entered his car and saw he was definitely going to be late. "Crap"

Racing down the hallways and quickly grabbing a textbook from his locker for his first lesson, he entered the classroom. But was stopped in his tracks by the thunderous voice of his professor . "Mr Ketchum, what time do you call this?". Giving him an apology and a sheepish smile due to the embarrassment of being late, Ash made his way up to his seat to begin the torture which was called English. Sitting beside him was his long time friend Gary Oak, but if one were to ask Ash as to who Gary was to him, he would probably say he was a pest. Nevertheless he was one of Ash's long time friends ever since pre-school. "Hey Ashy-boy, talking to Alice again I presume?"

"Better than getting rejected by Dawn for the hundredth time. At least I have a girlfriend Gary, I don't see any girl wanting to text you about...well wanting to talk to you about anything actually" he shot back with a glare and and grinned from the corner of his mouth.

"Yeah Yeah very funny." replied Gary, understanding that he didn't stand much of a chance with Ash on this one. After getting his books out he noticed several people turning around to say hello to him or give him a good morning. Now every other person would've thought of this to be creepy, but to Ash it was the norm. He one one of the most popular, if not the most popular kid in school but he wasn't a jock or a person who had girls around his shoulders. He was friendly, smart and affectionate, which made him stand out as he was liked by almost everybody, but this didn't deter girls from jumping on him asking to be his girlfriend. However his relationship with Alice always pulled through and they had now been together for around a year. Speaking on the topic of Alice..

Ash P.O.V

"Oh yeah, Alice said she wanted to talk to me about something after school today". In his mind he thought of it as nothing but he could not help but feel as if something was ff by the way she said it. Her voice softened and cracked over the phone but Ash thought of it as nothing but poor signal coverage and left it as that, but it had a lasting effect on his heart and Ash forced himself not to ponder over it for too long.

During lunch Ash was joined by his usual band of friends which consisted of him, Gary, Drew, Shauna, May, Dawn and Misty. The six of them laughed at another one of Gary's impressions of his grandfather and in the process Misty began choking on her bottle of water. However, instead of helping, the group only laughed harder.

"That's what you get for slapping my head last week"

Once Misty recovered re retorted "You forgot to drop me off home after we came to your house last week, I had to wait three hours for your fat ass to wake up."

"In my defense, I was wasted after Gary brought over the alcohol and beers from his house"

"Only because you drank all of it!" Misty was now standing up and point her long dainty finger at my face. I made a mental note to myself that if I ever got into an argument with Misty, let her win. For God's sake let her win. After sitting back inwards into my chair and finishing my food I spoke about how I won't be there after school with everyone.

"I'm not going to be able to make it after school guys, Alice said she wanted to talk" Almost immediately Shauna and Dawn let out a chorus of 'awwws'. Damn I hate it when they do that. This was followed by the bell, leading everyone to pack up and head to their respective classes. I had math last, it wasn't too hard but I figured that the only way to get better at it was to practice but convincing myself that doing algebra would be more fun that playing PS4 was futile.

Lesson finished relatively quickly and before I knew it everyone was filtering out the class and the younger student were running and screaming outside the school gates. I chuckled but then thought that is was a Friday. I headed to my locker to grab my coat and noticed it was snowing slightly, putting my scarf on and gloves on my hands I headed out to the bench near the front gate and waited for Alice.

I couldn't put my finger on it but with each growing second I was getting more and more nervous, and I didn't know why. Maybe it was the tremble in her voice last night or the fact that the snow was making it hard to keep my fingers warm. Speaking of which, they were going slightly purple, while rolling my eyes I thought sarcastically "Its always good when that happens".

I looked down at my watch and noticed that I had been waiting for over 20 minutes and Alice was nowhere to be seen. But just at that moment I saw her walking towards me and held my breath. In that moment she looked perfect, her blonde hair gently blew with the wind and a strand blew on her cheek, but more beautiful than anything were her emerald green eyes which glistened in the light. As she got closer I couldn't help but notice that her gaze was directed at the floor and her pretty smile was replaced with a look of anguish. She stopped around a meter in front of me and I quickly glanced around to see that we were the only ones left. A long period of silence ensued and the air between us became a little awkward.

She finally broke the silence but spoke in a hushed tone, one which I couldn't figure out exactly. "Hey, sorry i'm late"

Sensing the atmosphere I decided to cheer her up and said "Hey no worries, I'd wait forever for you anywhere we go" and flashed a toothy grin at her but this had little to no effect. I walked closer and lifted her chin with my hand and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. I acted upon my gut feelings and finally asked what was wrong but by the time I did, the weird feeling I had been feeling as of late resurfaced.

"I'm sorry". I could barely hear her but she noticed the confusion shown on my face and spoke again.

"I'm so sorry". This time I picked up on what she said and she said it much more hoarsely which occurred because tears were freely flowing on her cheeks. Without a second glance I brought her into an embrace and lay her head on my shoulder.

"Why, what happened" I tentatively asked while still holding her but a second later she pushed my away and I had felt like all the wind had been taken out from me. So much so I failed to notice the snow getting heavier. "Ally?" I reached my hand out as I called but but she took a step back.

"I can't do this anymore to you, it's been eating me up inside and you don't deserve it". The confusion on my face grew but I didn't interrupt her. "Our relationship isn't real, it never was"

My voice rose slightly "What are you talking about? Ally tell me what happened, how can our relationship not be real?".

"I was with you only to get back at him, I wanted him to feel jealous"

"Who?" I instantly replied, with moisture forming in my eyes.

"Calem" After she had said that my brain had worked into gear. Calem was her ex, they broke up a week or so Alice and I got together and I saw her crying outside the park one day so I went and we talked. We laughed, we made fun of each other, we held each other close. That day was the day where it all started. But if what she was saying is true, then it never did truly start. We never did have anything special, we...that was just it... there was no 'we', there never was.

My voice trembling and my knees shaking, I managed to croak a word out while trying to stop myself from crying and fall to my knees.

"Why...?"

"I don't know, it was only meant to last a couple of days, but then you kept talking to me even when I didn't want you too and by the time you got serious, I knew I had gotten myself in too deep. I'm sorry Ash, our relationship was a lie."

At that moment my knees buckled and my head started spinning. I was so deep in thought that I didn't notice her hug me and walk away. I didn't notice that my knees were completely soaked by the snow, I didn't notice that my fingers had gone completely numb.

But then again, how can one feel pain when their heart has been ripped out.

I stayed there, I don't really know how long for. All I knew was that it was dark when I got home courtesy of Gary who said he had been looking for me for hours.

My heart had been broken, my soul had been shattered and my world had crumbled.

I had nothing left.

Author's Note

Hi guys, its my first fanfic so don't be too harsh. Tell me how you guys found the first chapter and things I could improve on. Thanks!