The Trip to Pallet

The next morning Dawn and Brock got up, and to their astonishment ash was up before them but looked terrible his eyes were puffy and red (A/N in general he looked like he got a terrible nights sleep) and he still looked depressed. When they got to the next town Brock called Delia, Hello? "Hi Ms. Ketchum how are you?" asked Brock "Please just call me Delia, and I'm good how are you Dawn and Ash?" "Well that's exactly why I called you ash has been acting very depressed for some unknown reason and I figured it would be a good idea for him to go back and get a taste of home, he's been away for a while". "Well I was already planning a Christmas party for all of you and Ash's friends so he should be coming home soon anyways". "Great I'll tell Ash and Dawn and we'll get on the next ferry to Pallet, see you there" "bye".

Brock then hung up, told Ash and Dawn the news, and they then caught the next ferry over to pallet. On the two day trip all Ash did was sit on his room bed, eat, sleep, he did write in a little note pad that he kept in his travel pack, and also cried for a while. This was completely out of Character for him so Dawn and Brock only got more concerned, even Ashes Pokémon tried to cheer him up but their efforts were wasted his mood was not changing.

As soon as the trio got to pallet they all went to the Ketchum residence this brought ashes mood up for while but before long he was just as sad as before. Delia joined the now trio of confused people as to why ash was so down. Soon after he was in his room with the door locked looking at pictures from his travels with May this brought on more fits of crying, once he was done with the pictures he moved on to writing another note in his note pad/journal. One day after having dinner he was going upstairs and without noticing it dropped two of his notes Brock and Dawn noticed them and decided to read the notes. Dear journal I guess the only reason why I'm writing in this thing is because it makes me feel a little better. I still can't believe that I let her go, I still don't understand how I could have been that dense to not realize that what I was thinking and feeling about her was LOVE! And since I let her go I can't tell her that because I still feel that way and miss her with every ounce of my loving heart every day. I was, no wait let me rephrase that AM so STUPID for letting her go, END. Brock fully understood his pain and realized the state of the situation; Dawn didn't understand exactly what he was feeling but knew the state of the situation also. They looked at each other in astonishment and Awe they didn't think ash would know love if it hit him straight in the face, but he did he understood what and why he was feeling that way and this was hard for Dawn and Brock to understand and digest they went to bed still surprised.

A/N well I'm happy I put up Chapter two and also re-did (and re-re-did) chapter one from advice I got from some reviews and thank you to all who did, this includes Pete the Rock and an Anonymous Reader thank you! You're reviews make it possible to make my story better.