"Misty?"

The orange haired girl looked up, expecting another challenger, but what she saw almost made her fall in the pool.

"Ash! What are you doing here?" Misty exclaimed.

"Well, I'm back home for two weeks, so I figured I'd come see you." Ash said, blushing.

"Ash! You should be out training or something, not here with me!"

Misty knew, that with Ash being so close to becoming the Pokémon master, he needed every minute he could spare to be spent training.

"Um, well, there was something I wanted to ask you" he said nervously.

"What is it?"

"Uh, Misty Waterflower, will you go on a date with me?" By now Ash was blushing furiously.

A date. With Ash. The boy she had traveled with so long ago. The first boy who respected her. The one she had thought was cute from the day she fished him out of the river, then sworn not to fall in love with him, but she did anyway.

There was no doubt he was different now. Different in a good way. He had more maturity. He had also apparently had a growth spurt, so there was no longer the awkwardness of Misty being taller. She also noticed that he even made an attempt to keep his messy raven black hair down. Now that was not something he did for just anyone. So finally she said something she had hoped she would have to say since she realized she loved him

"Yes Ash, I think I will go on a date with you"

A/N: This is the first in a series of one-shots about Ash and Misty. Hope you like it.