So this is what heaven feels like... I'm drowning in pleasure... This is just too good... Oh, yeah, oh, look at you I want to just eat you all up... Come to me...

"Ash."

Ash was jerked out of his reviere by Brock, waving his sundae spoon in his face.

"Huh?"

"You were transfixed!" Brock exclaimed.

"But look at it, Brock," Ash said. He smiled dreamily at his ice cream. To be honest, to Brock it looked gorgeous, toffee and chocolate ice cream with whipped cream, strawberries, chocolate syrup and fudge squares all squashed on top of a melting chocolate brownie.

"I am looking at it."

"It's so beautiful," Ash moaned. "I don't want to eat it."

"I will," Misty commented, smiling at Brock and Ash from her side of the table. She spooned some vanilla icecream into Togepi's smiling mouth and grinned when it chirped happily.

"No!" Ash shrieked, earning himself some funny looks from surrounding diners.

He leapt on the sundae; demolishing half the brownie in one huge gulp.

"Gross," Misty said disdainfully, spooning strawberry icecream into her mouth delicately and dabbing at it with a napkin.

"Yeah, calm down, Ash," Brock said, whose eyes were glazed over as he stared at an attractive blonde girl standing with her mother by the counter.

"Shuddup," Ash said through a mouthful of brownie, splattering the table (and Misty) with huge lumps of chocolate.

Misty wiped her face, her expression disgusted. "Ash, that is... infantile."

"I know," Ash grinned, his teeth stained dark brown. Misty cringed.

"It's gross!" Misty shrieked.

"'snot," Ash grumbled, looking to Brock for back-up. Brock was still absorbed in his gazing at the blonde girl.

"Yes, it is," Misty snapped. "I'm serious, Ash, you're putting me off my ice cream!"

"Maybe I need to," Ash teased, "You don't need any more ice cream... You're getting chubby, Mist!"

Misty flung her spoon across the table. It struck Ash on the cheek, leaving a trail of strawberry sticking to it as the spoon slid slowly down his face and dropped into his lap.

"Hey!" Ash cried. "If I wasn't eating my ice cream right now, I would get up and leave."

Misty rolled her eyes and held out her hand for her spoon. Ash handed it to her with an angry mutter. He then picked up the sundae bowl and proceeded to down the remaining ice cream. Misty finished her own ice cream (with more elegance and ladylike-ness than Ash) and then they looked over to Brock.

He was gone.

"Oh, god, here we go," Misty sighed, getting up, stuffing Togepi back into her backpack and setting off to look for Brock.

She found him almost immediately. He was standing (or rather, crouching in a grovel-like manner) beside the blonde girl. Her mother had presumably gone somewhere because she was alone.

"If you don't mind me asking... oh great goddess... what is your name?" Brock asked, clasping one of the girl's hands and beaming up at her.

"Erm... I'm Melody," the girl said, pulling her hand out of Brock's grip.

"MELODY!" Brock shrieked, his voice suprisingly high and squeaky. "BEAUTY! RADIANCE!"

"...Yes..." Melody whispered, her eyes wide and frightened. She saw Misty approaching and smiled gratefully at her. "Oh, look, darling, your carer's here."

"Carer...?" Brock murmured, off guard. "Misty? No, no, no! She's just my friend."

"OK," Melody said understandingly.

"BROCK!" Misty hollered, storming over and grabbing his ear. Brock howled.

"Sorry about him," Misty smiled, sweatdropping.

"Oh, that's alright... I understand that he's... well, you know..." Melody gestured 'crazy' by screwing her finger into the side of her head. Misty skipped a beat, but nodded, grinning to herself.

"Yeah, yeah," she said, shaking her head in what she hoped was a noble way. "Looking after him is..." she pretended to wipe her eyes, "...the most rewarding thing I could do."

Melody nodded. She patted Misty's arm and walked away.

"WELL DONE BROCK!" Misty shouted in his ear. "SHE THINKS YOU'RE CRAZY!"

"I know," Brock murmured. Tears began to spill out from his (scary and slit-like) eyes. "She thinks I'm crazy!" He began to wail in ernest, causing Misty to almost fall over as he leaned on her, bawling helplessly.

"Now come on -" Misty started. She froze and dragged Brock in the opposite direction.

"So..." Melody whispered into Ash's hair. "You're a Pokemon trainer, huh?" Ash grinned and put his arms around her.

"Yep," he muttered. "And the best you're ever going to date."