Ash: 19YO

Misty: 19YO

Brock: 22YO

Cerulan's Gym

Misty couldn't focus on the battle. She was losing in front of a 12 years old boy, she couldn't believe it. She shooked her head and finally managed to concentrate herself to win.

She couldn't accept to give a badge without fighting and actually since she came back to the gym, Cerulan's gym was one of the most complicated to defeat. Once she won, she told the little boy to come back when he will more prepared, she also gave him few advice, precious advice for a young trainer. The boy looked at her, thanks her and left, letting a Misty lost in her thoughts.

She couldn't believe it, after 2 years and a half she was finally going to see him again. Last time she saw him for more than a minute, it was 3 years ago for his 16th birthday, 2 years and a half ago she missed him for Christmas, the last time she went to Pallet Town, she arrived when he had to leave and they saw each other just enough time to say "hi" and "goodbye".

She was so happy, she was going to see him, finally, she missed him so, so much, all their adventures, fights and more than anything else she missed him. She couldn't even remember how many times she thought about leaving the gym and her sisters just to be free again and be reunited with him, the love of her life. Even though, she never did it as she knew that all the work and efforts she put on the gym over the last 4 years, since she came back, would be destroyed in less time than a person needs to say "nothing".

She runs to her room which was actually upstairs, the same old apartment, even if the gym was going better, the debt of her sisters was so huge that the financial situation of the gym was now on a 0 but no minus anymore, as Misty uses to think to motivate her.

She opens her closet, looked at it and closed it after a long sigh. Her sisters were spending so much money on clothes, make-up, shoes when she doesn't even have a real pair of heels except the ones that Daisy bought her for Christmas few years ago, the first Christmas after her return.

She looked at herself in the mirror, her long red hair, her jean and basic white t-shirt and she started to laugh, why was she so nervous anyway, it was just Ash, her old friend Ash, who never saw her as a girl, so even if she would be wearing the sexiest dress on earth he wouldn't even care or notice it.

Life was so unfair sometimes, she fall in love about 5 seconds after she met him and he, well, she used to be her best friend but now she wasn't even sure about this, after all Ash wasn't a kid anymore and he has never been travelling alone, so who knows what Misty was for him now. Tears appear again, it has been like this for a week now, from laugh to tears, from tears to laugh.

Ash wasn't even here yet that he was already driving her crazy, would she find the courage to tell him that she loves him for years now.

About a week ago, when he called her to let her know that he will come to Pallet Town for the summer or at least few weeks, her sisters told her that she should tell him how she feels before she regrets it.

"You are not kids anymore, it's time for you to tell him what you feel before it would be too late", Lily told her

Even if Misty never really admitted it, everybody except Ash, knows how she feels about him.

Well actually, Delia, Ash's mother knows about it, Misty told her. Last time they had seen each other for minutes approx, after seeing Misty's sad face, Delia offered her to stay for few days.

Christmas period, 2 years and a half ago.

Misty was so sad that she missed him while she had been waiting for this moment for so long. She missed him one more time because of the gym, her sisters and their stupid Christmas's show. To comfort her, Delia told her that if 2 persons were meant to be together then they will find each other, right time will come. Misty blushed and asked Delia since when did she know about her feelings for Ash.

Delia laughed and replied:

"There is no 10 years old girl who hates bugs ready to travel around the world and sleeps outside just for a bike or any other stupid excuse you may had found during those years, there is only one reason which makes person do things like this and it is love"

To finish as she could read Misty's thoughts she added with a smile:

"no worries, he will see it too one day, for now he is just a 16 years old teenager who wants to be a Pokemon master, travel around the world and win titles but he will be done with that soon and then he will realize that something in his life is missing"

Misty smiled and thoughts, I hope that this something will be me and not another girl.

Her phone rings and called her back to reality, it was Brock.

-Misty, where are you, we were supposed to all meet at the pokemon center at 5pm and it is almost 6pm, everybody's here, even Ash is here.

-I am coming, she replied. Ash was there this is the only thing that she wanted to hear.

She looks at her one last time on the mirror, she wasn't that bad and she thinks and leaves after taking her mallet with a smile on her lips.