Note:

Note: Yes, you weren't expecting one, were you? Well, here goes... I don't usually do these pre-fanfic notes, but this fanfic
just has to have one. I wrote this one, because I was thinking about Ash and Misty- as a couple. So, I've made this very
ironic fanfic. Read on, you curious little fellow.

It all seemed like a Dream... By Ariala [ariala_@hotmail.com]

It all seemed like a dream, an amazing wonderful dream come true. Ever since I was a little girl, I remember looking forward
to this day, like a fairytale, a fairytale come true. I'd meet a boy, I'd immediately fall madly, head over heels in love with him,
and he'd feel exactly the same way. We'd get married, and we have three children, and then things just fall into place, and of
course we'd be happy as hell.

We had just started going out, so, it didn't start out at all like I had planned, but things don't always turn out the way you
planned them to. That doesn't mean, they still won't work out in the future, right? Well, as I was saying, we had started going
out, he was still the same guy. I guess I thought that when we were together, he'd change for some reason. But, he was the
same, and I lknew everything else was the same too. I had nothing left, nothing left to think of, nothing to dream of, to cling
to, I was empty. He was the same. He thought the same, and I felt as if he was doing the whole thing out of pity. As if, he
didn't really want to, but if I did, then he'd do it. I went through some hard times, just hating myself, for ruining everything.
For not leaving it, for killing everything that once had life in it. I found myself talking to Brock, I don't think we understood
each other, but at some level, he knew me. A lot more than I thought he did. He seemed like a guardian, the best friend I
never had. He told me to leave, to leave everything, and when I return, things would be the different, the way I liked it. I
didn't know what to say, but I had no alternative- so, I left. I left without saying Good-bye to him. I don't know what Brock
told him, I don't even know if he cared or not.

I had been everywhere. Through every town, and island over and over, just for something to do. I had met people, that I can't
even remember now, people that are specks of smudges in the window of my life. People that I know, I'll never see again.
You don't tell them that though. I only thought of them, when I needed to. When nothing else apealed to me, and they just
seemed to pop into my head. Every secound of the day I regret leaving, and I regret what I did to screw everything up. If I
did return, things wouldn't be the same. Brock was wrong, how could they ever be the same again? I never did return, exactly
for that reason. I think I've heard somewhere about him, apparently, he's married to some Elite Trainer, some real pretty girl.
With all the skills and brains, that he couldn't resist. I feel so stupid thinking about it. Now he's leading the dream life, with the
dream wife and the three perfect children. Things will never be the same again, I know that now. I wish my dream of Ash
Ketchum had never come true, because dreams don't come true, but nightmares do.

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Bwa ha ha ha! like it? ^_^ Kinda of stupid, I know, but well a girl can dream, right?