I'd Rather Be In Love
Romance/Action/Adventure-PG13
Summary: You can't help who you love no matter how hard it is. Feelings are revealed, discoveries are made, and lives are put on the line as Ash and co .have to go through the most difficult adventure they've faced yet. AAMRN with a little JAJR later on.
Ash-17.Misty-17.Brock-19.Jessie-21.James-21
PROLOUGE
--
I cannot help it I couldn't stop it if I tried
The same old heartbeat fills the emptiness I have inside
And I've heard that you can't fight love, so I won't complain
'Cause why would I stop the fire that keeps me going on?
--
You never know when it's going to happen, or why it does. You can never be prepared for it or even have an idea of how it will happen, where it'll happen, or who will make it happen to you. All you know is that moment. The moment when your legs turn to jelly and your throat turns to sand. The moment when you can't speak, can't move, can't blink, or can't even breathe. Your stomach drops and no matter how fast the pounding in your chest is you don't feel it. All you can feel is that spinning. That spinning into infinity, the headlong spiral that just wracks your brain and stops your heart.
At least that's what happened to me. When I first fell in love.
I didn't know what it was or why it happened, or even how one person could have such an effect on me. It wasn't even someone special; it wasn't someone who made me particularly feel good about myself or was nice to me even. It wasn't someone who was particularly polite when we met or someone I would choose as my friend. But as they say, you can't help who you love. You're not supposed to. And knowing that, I'm not afraid to admit to myself and myself only ... that I, Ash Ketchum, am and have been in love with Misty Waterflower from the second I saw her.
--
Now, a young, dense kid such as myself, it would have never been thought that I'd be one to fall for someone as hard as I have. especially her of all people. I had not known what my feelings were the first time I had met her and it took me years for me to understand and comprehend what my feelings for her actually were. She was a confusing girl in our early traveling years. Sometimes we'd be the best of friends and there'd even be times where I wondered if it was possible that she felt the same way about me that I did about her. The rest of the time she was the complete opposite. She'd yell at me, tease me, and criticize my every move. I soon came to learn, though, that without her pushing me to my limits, I never would have accomplished my goal of becoming a master.
Over our years of traveling there have been more than a plethora of the strange people and situations we ran across. Some of our occurrences had even been life threatening to such an extent. People came and went in and out of our lives. The only people that really stuck with me for a long amount of time were Misty, Brock, and Tracey. We never traveled together all at once. First it had been Misty and Brock who accompanied me, the infamous trio. Brock had gone away and Tracey joined us for some amount of time, but he soon rejoined us again and Tracey disbanded the group to pursue his own research.
I had always known that people would be constantly walking in and out of my lives. I was prepared for meeting someone once and then never seeing them again on my long embarking journey. It was amazing though, that the second Misty walked into my life... she was the one person I could never imagine life without.
It would be a lie to say that during all this time we were still the same immature pre-teenagers we started out as. The past seven years have been a time where Misty, Brock, and I have grown up more than redeemed possible. We all had gained maturity; I probably had been the one who gained the most out of all. I had finally learned to think before I act something Misty had desperately been trying to teach me. I was always a sensitive and caring guy and that hadn't changed much, neither did the fact that I was in love with Misty. The feelings I felt for did get a hell of a lot stronger, I'll say that, to the point where I had to leave the room unable to function with my heart beating a mile a minute just because she laughed.
She had changed along the way as well. She matured and became more understanding so that her teasing towards me had come down to just a joking matter which was taken lightly by both of us. She still had a temper at times and it was never a pretty sight when she was mad, but I have to admit, when she's mad I've never seen her more beautiful. Misty always had been pretty even when we were young, I would never let her know that, of course, but as of now, keeping my eyes off of her had become a nearly impossible task. She was utterly beautiful and I was not the only one who thought so. She had changed so much physically along with her maturity, her hair was longer and she rarely ever ventured in wearing it up anymore. She wore skirts and dresses at times, and tight clothing that showed off the beautiful figure that I desperately tried not to pay attention to. She was definitely not a tomboy anymore that's for sure, but the problem was I wasn't the only guy who thought she was pretty. She had dozens of guys practically crawling at her feet... and it drove me completely out of my mind.
It was not as if I did not have my own portion of female admirers as well. I had changed physically and mentally as she had, just maybe not to as much of an extreme. I had grown tall, nearly six feet which was only about an inch or two under Brock. I had become muscular and was considered pretty attractive if I did say so myself. I would admit though, that I was still pretty dense but I had grown wiser and now thought before I acted. Except, when it came to Misty... I never knew what I was saying when I was around her. If was as if she put a spell on me, taking away all the common sense and confidence I had in myself.
Throughout it all, we still remained the best of friends but the fact that she was completely comfortable with me while I could barley breathe in front of her was beginning to get out of hand. There were some times where she was just as embarrassed as I always around her all the time. People constantly made comments about how we should go out or how cute it was when we fought, and even though she tried to make light of the situation and joke about it, she was still blushing deeper than the color of her hair. She was stubborn, there was no denying that and she did have a hard time admitting anything. Which was why I was the most shocked I had ever been when she told me what she did.
I've heard the saying that the worst situations tend to bring out the best in people. We had been through several life-threatening occurrences and never had what I had wanted to come from Misty ever came. Although, it was pretty ironic, that during all my brushes with death, she was always the one who had saved me. Nearly dying more than once had a pretty big affect on me, I did try to be more careful but as Misty told me I was "a walking accident." I had been grateful for one thing mostly though, that it was always me and never her. I would rather face death a million times than have one ounce of harm come to her. It was me who mostly got us into the messes and I should be the one paying for the mistakes I made.
I never really forgave myself for what happened that one day. It truly was a day of new beginnings. A day of new discoveries, new feelings, new friends, and a new outlook on life. It was something seven years in the making that I never thought I'd have to run across and probably was the best and the worst day at the same time. And here is why...
--
'Cause when there's you I feel whole
And there's no better feeling in the world
But without you I'm alone
And I'd rather be in love with you
--
A/N: This is my first chapter fic, the whole story is in Ash's POV but the whole thing is not only AAMRN. It will have action/drama as the main events of the story with romance as well. Review please =) oh and someone please tell me how to do italics... thx.
Romance/Action/Adventure-PG13
Summary: You can't help who you love no matter how hard it is. Feelings are revealed, discoveries are made, and lives are put on the line as Ash and co .have to go through the most difficult adventure they've faced yet. AAMRN with a little JAJR later on.
Ash-17.Misty-17.Brock-19.Jessie-21.James-21
PROLOUGE
--
I cannot help it I couldn't stop it if I tried
The same old heartbeat fills the emptiness I have inside
And I've heard that you can't fight love, so I won't complain
'Cause why would I stop the fire that keeps me going on?
--
You never know when it's going to happen, or why it does. You can never be prepared for it or even have an idea of how it will happen, where it'll happen, or who will make it happen to you. All you know is that moment. The moment when your legs turn to jelly and your throat turns to sand. The moment when you can't speak, can't move, can't blink, or can't even breathe. Your stomach drops and no matter how fast the pounding in your chest is you don't feel it. All you can feel is that spinning. That spinning into infinity, the headlong spiral that just wracks your brain and stops your heart.
At least that's what happened to me. When I first fell in love.
I didn't know what it was or why it happened, or even how one person could have such an effect on me. It wasn't even someone special; it wasn't someone who made me particularly feel good about myself or was nice to me even. It wasn't someone who was particularly polite when we met or someone I would choose as my friend. But as they say, you can't help who you love. You're not supposed to. And knowing that, I'm not afraid to admit to myself and myself only ... that I, Ash Ketchum, am and have been in love with Misty Waterflower from the second I saw her.
--
Now, a young, dense kid such as myself, it would have never been thought that I'd be one to fall for someone as hard as I have. especially her of all people. I had not known what my feelings were the first time I had met her and it took me years for me to understand and comprehend what my feelings for her actually were. She was a confusing girl in our early traveling years. Sometimes we'd be the best of friends and there'd even be times where I wondered if it was possible that she felt the same way about me that I did about her. The rest of the time she was the complete opposite. She'd yell at me, tease me, and criticize my every move. I soon came to learn, though, that without her pushing me to my limits, I never would have accomplished my goal of becoming a master.
Over our years of traveling there have been more than a plethora of the strange people and situations we ran across. Some of our occurrences had even been life threatening to such an extent. People came and went in and out of our lives. The only people that really stuck with me for a long amount of time were Misty, Brock, and Tracey. We never traveled together all at once. First it had been Misty and Brock who accompanied me, the infamous trio. Brock had gone away and Tracey joined us for some amount of time, but he soon rejoined us again and Tracey disbanded the group to pursue his own research.
I had always known that people would be constantly walking in and out of my lives. I was prepared for meeting someone once and then never seeing them again on my long embarking journey. It was amazing though, that the second Misty walked into my life... she was the one person I could never imagine life without.
It would be a lie to say that during all this time we were still the same immature pre-teenagers we started out as. The past seven years have been a time where Misty, Brock, and I have grown up more than redeemed possible. We all had gained maturity; I probably had been the one who gained the most out of all. I had finally learned to think before I act something Misty had desperately been trying to teach me. I was always a sensitive and caring guy and that hadn't changed much, neither did the fact that I was in love with Misty. The feelings I felt for did get a hell of a lot stronger, I'll say that, to the point where I had to leave the room unable to function with my heart beating a mile a minute just because she laughed.
She had changed along the way as well. She matured and became more understanding so that her teasing towards me had come down to just a joking matter which was taken lightly by both of us. She still had a temper at times and it was never a pretty sight when she was mad, but I have to admit, when she's mad I've never seen her more beautiful. Misty always had been pretty even when we were young, I would never let her know that, of course, but as of now, keeping my eyes off of her had become a nearly impossible task. She was utterly beautiful and I was not the only one who thought so. She had changed so much physically along with her maturity, her hair was longer and she rarely ever ventured in wearing it up anymore. She wore skirts and dresses at times, and tight clothing that showed off the beautiful figure that I desperately tried not to pay attention to. She was definitely not a tomboy anymore that's for sure, but the problem was I wasn't the only guy who thought she was pretty. She had dozens of guys practically crawling at her feet... and it drove me completely out of my mind.
It was not as if I did not have my own portion of female admirers as well. I had changed physically and mentally as she had, just maybe not to as much of an extreme. I had grown tall, nearly six feet which was only about an inch or two under Brock. I had become muscular and was considered pretty attractive if I did say so myself. I would admit though, that I was still pretty dense but I had grown wiser and now thought before I acted. Except, when it came to Misty... I never knew what I was saying when I was around her. If was as if she put a spell on me, taking away all the common sense and confidence I had in myself.
Throughout it all, we still remained the best of friends but the fact that she was completely comfortable with me while I could barley breathe in front of her was beginning to get out of hand. There were some times where she was just as embarrassed as I always around her all the time. People constantly made comments about how we should go out or how cute it was when we fought, and even though she tried to make light of the situation and joke about it, she was still blushing deeper than the color of her hair. She was stubborn, there was no denying that and she did have a hard time admitting anything. Which was why I was the most shocked I had ever been when she told me what she did.
I've heard the saying that the worst situations tend to bring out the best in people. We had been through several life-threatening occurrences and never had what I had wanted to come from Misty ever came. Although, it was pretty ironic, that during all my brushes with death, she was always the one who had saved me. Nearly dying more than once had a pretty big affect on me, I did try to be more careful but as Misty told me I was "a walking accident." I had been grateful for one thing mostly though, that it was always me and never her. I would rather face death a million times than have one ounce of harm come to her. It was me who mostly got us into the messes and I should be the one paying for the mistakes I made.
I never really forgave myself for what happened that one day. It truly was a day of new beginnings. A day of new discoveries, new feelings, new friends, and a new outlook on life. It was something seven years in the making that I never thought I'd have to run across and probably was the best and the worst day at the same time. And here is why...
--
'Cause when there's you I feel whole
And there's no better feeling in the world
But without you I'm alone
And I'd rather be in love with you
--
A/N: This is my first chapter fic, the whole story is in Ash's POV but the whole thing is not only AAMRN. It will have action/drama as the main events of the story with romance as well. Review please =) oh and someone please tell me how to do italics... thx.