For my best friend. Because all that matters for me is that you are happy :)
English is not my first language, enjoy!
All that matters
I'll be honest, from the moment when I joined the group, I always liked Misty. Really. Much more than any officer Jenny or Nurse Joy I ever met. I just never got the courage to say it out loud.
Every time I would try to get close to her, she would only talk about Ash. Not always about his good side, but still. She couldn't get him off her mind and I easily saw that. She would never see my feelings for her. Or she did saw them; she was just too kind to make a comment. The only times I had a tiny little hope she liked me back were when I would crush on a nurse or an officer and she would bring me back to them. I had a feeling she was jealous, that she wished I was crushing on her, but wasn't so sure of the sign I gave her. Even so, there was no way we would ever become an item.
It is hard being part of our group, even more when you are crushing on one of your best friend. Even with them by my side, I felt alone. When you grow up with 9 siblings, it is hard to be in such a small group. At home, I was the older figure, the authority since my father had left. I was always needed by one of my brother or sister. But here, no matter what their mood was, I would always be left behind. If they were happy, they would train their Pokémon against each other and I would be left to watch them, occasionally battling against one. I loved to watch the confident look in Misty's eyes. I made me fall every time.
But the worst moments where I would be left alone were when they were fighting. Most of the time, it was because of the bicycle. She wanted it back, she said, so she could finally go home and never see Ash again. He retorted that he would give her the damn bicycle. "The sooner, the better, so we don't have to be stuck with her for any longer" he would say to me later. But I knew they didn't mean any of the things they said. They need each other a lot more than they would like to show. It took a lot of time for them to realise that.
They finally revealed their feelings last week. They are together now. And I'm alone. Don't get me wrong, I am happy for them. Truly happy. They are soul mates, something I would never be with Misty, no matter how hard I would try. The looks they give each other, even if sometimes hateful, always hold some tenderness I only saw in old couples' eyes before. They are meant to be together and I am certainly not the one to separate them. No matter how annoying they can get sometimes, they still are my best friends and I would never change that for anything in the world.
They are happy, and it's all that matters.