Chapter 2
Ash & Brock walked inside, the door guards raising their eyebrows at the two of them, and looked around for a place to sit, finally choosing to sit near the stage with a beefy looking Soldier who introduced himself as Scorpion. "So, what's the show about.?" Ash wanted to know, Brock was busy drooling at the sight of some girls, I won't even go there...
"A kid from the audience is gonna sing." Scorpion replied "She was sitting right here, Spectre thinks she might have a good singing voice." Ash glanced around and said, to Brock "Hey Brock, I don't see...Brock? Uh, Brock?" (Brock ignores him) (Ash pulls out megaphone) "BROCK!!" "AAAAHHHHHH!!!! ASH!? WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM!?" (Ash puts away megaphone) "Brock, I was trying to say I don't see Misty here." before Brock could reply, Scorpion cut in "Misty? Is she a cute, 12-year old red-head with blue eys?" Ash was startled "Yeah, ya know her?" "Yeah, she was the one Spectre selected to sing, hey there she is now!" Ash & Brock looked to the stage, Spectre was back and Misty (Wearing the infamous Goldeen Outfit) was with him, Ash blushed.
Spectre began to speak "And here she is! Doesn't she look great!?" Ash joined in the chorus of "Sure does!" but once again there were a few "No way!"s, Spectre continued, only this time more to Misty. "Just sing what's in your heart, trust me, you'll do fine!" Spectre handed the microphone to Misty and walked backstage, a small band appeared and waited for Misty's signal. For about 30 seconds, Misty stared out at the crowd, then, suddenly, she relaxed and said into the microphone. "What's in my heart, he said, okay, here goes!" She signaled the band and they began playing in time to what Misty was singing, the words popped into her head and she sang them, in a sweet, melodious tune that melted Ash's heart.
He wanders off, he's just lost without me
Doesn't matter what I say
I try to give advice, I tell him twice
He won't listen, gotta do it
His own way
He drives me crazy, all of the time
He drives me crazy, he drives me
Out of my mind
So why do I worry 'bout him, why do I care?
I don't know why I let it faze me, but
He drives me crazy
He's here and there, everywhere
Just lookin'
Always findin' something new
I know he's kind of strange
He'll never change, oh tell me
What's a girl supposed to do?
He drives me crazy, all of the time
He drives me crazy, he drives me
Out of my mind
So why do I worry 'bout him, why do I care?
I don't know why I let it faze me, but
He drives me crazy
Just go off in your own direction
And see if anybody cares
Just don't come runnin' back to me, Ash Ketchum
He'll be wishin' he had listened then
'Cause I've told him time and time again
He drives me crazy, all of the time
He drives me crazy, he drives me
Out of my mind
So why do I worry 'bout him, why do I care?
I don't know why I let it faze me
He drives me crazy, all of the time
He drives me crazy, out of my mind
He drives me crazy, all of the, all of the time
He drives me crazy, out of my mind
He drives me crazy, all of the time
At the sound of his name, Ash jumped in surprise, he barely listened to the rest of the song, his face was red from embarressment, he was grateful that no one here he could see knew who he was, or who Ash Ketchum was, for that matter, he also felt a bit mad. "Well, she drives ME crazy too." He thought, but his love didn't melt. "Man, love does strange things to people." His thoughts were interupted as Misty began to speak, the audience had stopped clapping to listen. "Wow! That wasn't as hard as I thought, ya know, since we're on that subject, let me sing a little song I wrote in my spare time, it just came into my heart and I memorized it."
In the shadows, Bandit could barely restrain himself from laughing, the look on Ash's face was priceless. "And now, she'll sing that song I heard her singing before, the one that gave me this idea in the first place."
Misty signaled to the band, and they played a sweet tune to match Misty's now soft singing.
Out here in the quiet of the night
Beneath the stars, and the moon
We both know we've got something on our minds
We won't admit, but it's true
You look at me
I look away
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling
But I don't know how to start
I wanna tell you, but now I'm afraid
That you might break my heart
Oh, why should anything so easy ever
Be so hard to do?
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling,
And to say that...
I love you
I practice all the things that I could say
Line by line, every word
I tell myself, today could be the day
But every time, I lose my nerve
I look at you
You look away
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling
But I don't know how to start
I wanna tell you, but now I'm afraid
That you might break my heart
Oh, why should anything so easy ever
Be so hard to do?
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling,
And to say that...
I love you
Why?
Why do you turn away?
It must be, you're afraid like me
I try, but I can't pretend that I
Don't feel for you, the way I do
Can't you see?
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling
But I don't know how to start
I wanna tell you, but now I'm afraid
That you might break my heart
Oh, why should anything so easy ever
Be so hard to do?
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling,
And to say that...
I love you
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling (I wanna say...)
But I don't know how to start
I wanna tell you, but now I'm afraid (But I'm afraid...)
That you might break my heart
Oh, why should anything so easy ever (I love you...)
Be so hard to do?
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling,
And to say that...
I love you...
Was it fate? Or was it chance? Either way, as Misty whispered the last line, she suddenly noticed Ash and stared directly into his brown eyes with her blue ones, she turned beat red, as she had been staring into Ash's eyes as she whispered "I love you." Ash meanwhile had gone red as well, he had been staring directly into Misty's eyes as she whispered that final line, and he knew that she had looked into his eyes, did she know he had looked into hers? (Yes, she knew!)
In the shadows, Bandit did a victory jig "That worked better than I expected! Now, if these two can meet after the show, maybe they'll get together, so far, so- NO! I won't jinx it! C'mon you two, we have all tried so hard! Quit being so stubborn and admit how you feel!"
The audience roared, exept for Ash, who was still stunned, "More! More!" The crowd demanded "Sorry, folks, that's all for tonight!" Misty thrust the microphone at Spectre and rushed backstage, Spectre looked over at a shadowy corner, where Bandit gave him a double thumbs up. Grinning, Spectre spoke to the audience. "Well, folks, I've just received some bad news, we have to shut down early tonight, but tomorrow we'll stay open an extra hour!" Grumbling in disapointment, but thinking the deal was reasonable, as the cafe was closing an hour early, trickled out the door, until only Ash & Brock were left. The Soldiers had left to check the rest of town, Bandit & Spectre were backstage attempting to block off exits so Misty & Ash would have to confront one another. Ash rushed backstage, Brock hesitated, and then took off after him. Misty managed to locate the stage door and ran outside. Ash having already lost Brock, found the stage door and heard sounds coming from the other side
Misty screeched to a halt in the alley, 3 mean looking hombres were glaring at her, she turned to go back inside, but the door was closed already, she was cornered! One of the punks called Misty something that she actually had never been called before, she turned and walloped the guy, big mistake, she couldn't take on all three. She was thrown into the wall and she yelled in pain as her arm came out of the socket, she lay there helpless as the three punks closed in on her. The punk she had punched now had a black eye, and had whipped out a switchblade "She's mine!" He said, then the door slammed open and the next thing Misty knew, Ash was standing over her, shielding her with his body. "Ash! Get out of here!" Misty yelled, forgetting her own prediciment. "No, Misty." Ash said, glaring bravely at the Arnold sized punk who threatning him with a switchblade. "Get out of here, this doesn't concern you, it's between this brat and me!" The lead punk said. "If you want her, you'll have to go through me!" Ash said "Ash, please, just go, save yourself!" Misty pleaded, not wanting Ash to die because of her. "No, Misty, I'm not letting anything bad happen to you, NOTHING." Ash glanced over his shoulder at Misty, and she trembled at the compassion in his eyes, no, the LOVE in his eyes. "My God, does this mean he feels about me the way I feel about him!?" Misty wondered, taking his eyes off the punk proved a mistake, the guy lunged faster then Ash could dodge, but moving faster then the knave even, was Bandit, who charged through the door, blocked the switchblade, and knocked it into a nearby dumpster before knocking the hoodlum into a nearby wall. Spectre was out next, he was carrying two plasma rifles, he tossed one to Bandit, who ordered the three thugs out, all three complied, not wanting to incur the wrath of Bandit & Spectre, officers of the Dark Network.
"I thought these would come in handy!" Spectre said gleefully, Bandit started to agree, then noticed Ash bending over Misty "Woa, we'd better go!" He said, Spectre nodded his agreement, Brock started to come out, Bandit genstured for him to go back in, Brock did so, then Bandit & Spectre walked out of the alley, leaving Ash & Misty alone. Ash gently touched Misty's dislocated shoulder and she yelped. "Man, we'd better get you inside so someone can take care of that." Ash took off his jacket and wrapped it around Misty, shielding her from the breeze that was making her shiver, hurting the shoulder. Soon the two were in the backroom, but no one was there, Ash was trying to figure out how to set Misty's arm, but he clearly was hurting her, she didn't say anything but it was in her eyes. Although Ash's fingers against her bare shoulder made Misty blush. "I'm sorry, Misty, but I don't know how to help your arm." Ash said remorsefully. Misty smiled bravely. "Ash, you've done enough for me, you saved my life, thank you." Ash smiled. "I'd do anything for you, Mist." "Did he just call me Mist?" Misty thought, she found herself unable to speak. She finally figured out what to say. "Even thought I've probably ruined our friendship by revealing that I *Like* you?" Saying it made Misty blush, but Ash responded. "That wouldn't hurt our friendship, ever, even if I *Didn't* feel the same way." Misty's entire body was suddenly on pins and needles. "Did, did, did he just say what I thought he said?" Misty wondered to herself. She looked up at Ash with hope in her beautiful blue eyes, eyes that always made Ash feel like melting, and he wouldn't melt over just any girl, like Brock would. "A-sh, Ash, are you, saying, that, are you saying you *Like* me?" Ash raised his eyebrows. "Like? No." Misty felt her heart sinking, and breaking. "Love? Yes"
Misty gasped. "Ash! Are you telling the-no, I can see it, you are telling the truth!" she felt tears coming, Ash brushed Misty's tears and pressed them to his own cheek. "Ash, you love me?" Ash blushed and replied. "More than anything." Misty was shocked, and pleased. "More than food?" "Your support gives me more energy than food." "More than your Pokemon journey?" "I'd give it up in an instant." "More than life?" "Life without you would be no life at all." Misty's smile was wider than ever. "When did you become an expert on romance?" "I didn't, its just that whatever I do, I do with passion, if loving you is wrong, than I don't want to be right." Misty shook her head. "Ash, for so long, I've wanted to hear that from you, my parents died when I was little, my sisters were never nice, I had no friends. When I met you I knew there was something special about you, I just wish I had known it before the St. Anne." Ash's smile made Misty want to melt. "That's when I realized how much you meant to me, too, I wasn't fully aware though until Maiden's Peak, and then in Lavender Town when I realized for a fact that you don't hate me." Ash I could never hate you! I know I was mean to you at first, but that's because I was afraid that if we became friends that you'd be taken away from me! Then, before I realized what was going on, I fell for you!" Ash gently stroked Misty's face and stared into her eyes, with a confident smirk on his lips and a loving look in his eyes. Misty suddenly felt hypnotized. "I love you, Mist." Ash said gently. "I love you, Ashy." Misty whispered, she leaned forward and their lips met. "Alright!" Startled, Ash & Misty looked up to see Bandit & Spectre with a bottle of champagne. Bandit pulled out a notebook and said. "Get Ash & Misty together? Check. Hey! I filled my quota for today!"
Brock walked in. "What's going on?" Than he noticed Misty was clinging to Ash and Ash had his hand on top of Misty head. He grinned. "Did you two spill your feelings?" "They sure did!" Said spectre, opening the non-alcoholic champagne, sending the cork out the window, causing people in the alley to duck. "Alright! They're together! Tracey owes me 50 bucks!" Ash & Misty sweatdropped. "You made a bet about us getting together?" Misty demanded. "Sure did! And wait until Mrs. Ketchum finds out, she'll throw a party for sure! She's got everything ready!" Ash sweatdropped again. "You mean my mom knows how we feel!?" Brock grinned wider. "Oh, yeah! She's your mother, Ash! She knows everything she needs to about you! And who couldn't know about Misty's feelings!" Misty blushed. "Hey, Misty's shoulder is hurt!" Ash told Bandit, Bandit set her shoulder, she changed to her own clothes, and they all went to Pallet Town for the party
Tracey: (Grumbling) "Here's the stinking money." (Gives Brock 50 bucks)
Mrs. Ketchum: (Tearfully) "My baby's growing up and falling in love!"
Daisy: "This is like, so totally cool!"
Lily & Violet: (Sob uncontrollably)
Marhi: "You, mean, Misty LIKES Ash!?"
Rudy: "You couldn't tell? She LIKED me, but she LOVES Ash, she'd pick him over any other boy in the world! Like I said, he's a very lucky guy!" (Holds up a glass of something, probably grape juice) "To Ash & Misty!"
Marhi: (Hold up her milk) "To Ash & Misty!"
Bandit, Aeris, & Casey (Bandit's sis): "To Ash & Misty!"
Delia, Lily, Violet, Daisy, Brock, Tracey, Bandit, Spectre, Todd, Gary, Prof. Oak, Jeannette, Throttle, Casey, Duplica, Richie, Sakura, Mikey, Danny, Sissy, Luana, Drake, Erika, Sabrina, Lt. Surge, Blaine, Koga, Aiya, Samurai, Kay, Katrina, Joe, Gazelle, Jessie, James, Meowth: "To Ash & Misty!!"
Mr. Mime: (Holds up glass of Poke-Juice) "Mime mimey mime!"
Pikachu: (Also with Poke-Juice) "Pikaaa-Chu!"
Togepi: (With milk) "Togi togiiiiiiiii!!!!"
Charizard: (With tobasco sauce) "Grrrrrrr, rowrrrr!!"
Haunter: (No drink, he's a ghost!) "Haunt haunt haunter!"
Ash & Casey's Chikoritas: "Chiko!!" (Ash's with some jealousy)
Surge & Kay & Katrina's Raichus: "Raaaaaiiiiiiiichu!!"
Erika's Gloom: "Gloom Gloom!"
Rest of Ash, Misty, Brock, & Tracey's Pokemon: ::To Ash & Misty!!:: (Translated)
All other unmentioned Pokemon: ::To Ash & Misty!::
Giovanni: (In shadows, with wine, thinking) "To Ash & Misty, well done, my son."
Ash & Misty kiss, passionately.
Brock: "Hey Daisy, give you any ideas?" (Daisy smacks him.) "Hey, Lily, how about you?" (Lily smacks him) "Ummm, Violet?" (Violet smacks him) "Waaaaaaahhhhhh, how come I can't get a girl?"
Bandit & Aeris cuddle
Throttle & Jeannette cuddle
Casey (Bandit's sis): "Lucky girl, Misty, I'm not going to be jealous, since I can see how much you mean to each other."
Casey: (Johto) "Triple play, Ash! Home run Misty!"
The party continued, but Ash, Misty, Bandit, Aeris, Throttle, & Jeannette snuck off, while Casey (Bandit's sis) looked at Tracey with interest. All in all, everyone was happy.
Well, everyone, what did ya think? Tell me! I'm ready! (Listens hopefully for replies)
Ash & Brock walked inside, the door guards raising their eyebrows at the two of them, and looked around for a place to sit, finally choosing to sit near the stage with a beefy looking Soldier who introduced himself as Scorpion. "So, what's the show about.?" Ash wanted to know, Brock was busy drooling at the sight of some girls, I won't even go there...
"A kid from the audience is gonna sing." Scorpion replied "She was sitting right here, Spectre thinks she might have a good singing voice." Ash glanced around and said, to Brock "Hey Brock, I don't see...Brock? Uh, Brock?" (Brock ignores him) (Ash pulls out megaphone) "BROCK!!" "AAAAHHHHHH!!!! ASH!? WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM!?" (Ash puts away megaphone) "Brock, I was trying to say I don't see Misty here." before Brock could reply, Scorpion cut in "Misty? Is she a cute, 12-year old red-head with blue eys?" Ash was startled "Yeah, ya know her?" "Yeah, she was the one Spectre selected to sing, hey there she is now!" Ash & Brock looked to the stage, Spectre was back and Misty (Wearing the infamous Goldeen Outfit) was with him, Ash blushed.
Spectre began to speak "And here she is! Doesn't she look great!?" Ash joined in the chorus of "Sure does!" but once again there were a few "No way!"s, Spectre continued, only this time more to Misty. "Just sing what's in your heart, trust me, you'll do fine!" Spectre handed the microphone to Misty and walked backstage, a small band appeared and waited for Misty's signal. For about 30 seconds, Misty stared out at the crowd, then, suddenly, she relaxed and said into the microphone. "What's in my heart, he said, okay, here goes!" She signaled the band and they began playing in time to what Misty was singing, the words popped into her head and she sang them, in a sweet, melodious tune that melted Ash's heart.
He wanders off, he's just lost without me
Doesn't matter what I say
I try to give advice, I tell him twice
He won't listen, gotta do it
His own way
He drives me crazy, all of the time
He drives me crazy, he drives me
Out of my mind
So why do I worry 'bout him, why do I care?
I don't know why I let it faze me, but
He drives me crazy
He's here and there, everywhere
Just lookin'
Always findin' something new
I know he's kind of strange
He'll never change, oh tell me
What's a girl supposed to do?
He drives me crazy, all of the time
He drives me crazy, he drives me
Out of my mind
So why do I worry 'bout him, why do I care?
I don't know why I let it faze me, but
He drives me crazy
Just go off in your own direction
And see if anybody cares
Just don't come runnin' back to me, Ash Ketchum
He'll be wishin' he had listened then
'Cause I've told him time and time again
He drives me crazy, all of the time
He drives me crazy, he drives me
Out of my mind
So why do I worry 'bout him, why do I care?
I don't know why I let it faze me
He drives me crazy, all of the time
He drives me crazy, out of my mind
He drives me crazy, all of the, all of the time
He drives me crazy, out of my mind
He drives me crazy, all of the time
At the sound of his name, Ash jumped in surprise, he barely listened to the rest of the song, his face was red from embarressment, he was grateful that no one here he could see knew who he was, or who Ash Ketchum was, for that matter, he also felt a bit mad. "Well, she drives ME crazy too." He thought, but his love didn't melt. "Man, love does strange things to people." His thoughts were interupted as Misty began to speak, the audience had stopped clapping to listen. "Wow! That wasn't as hard as I thought, ya know, since we're on that subject, let me sing a little song I wrote in my spare time, it just came into my heart and I memorized it."
In the shadows, Bandit could barely restrain himself from laughing, the look on Ash's face was priceless. "And now, she'll sing that song I heard her singing before, the one that gave me this idea in the first place."
Misty signaled to the band, and they played a sweet tune to match Misty's now soft singing.
Out here in the quiet of the night
Beneath the stars, and the moon
We both know we've got something on our minds
We won't admit, but it's true
You look at me
I look away
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling
But I don't know how to start
I wanna tell you, but now I'm afraid
That you might break my heart
Oh, why should anything so easy ever
Be so hard to do?
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling,
And to say that...
I love you
I practice all the things that I could say
Line by line, every word
I tell myself, today could be the day
But every time, I lose my nerve
I look at you
You look away
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling
But I don't know how to start
I wanna tell you, but now I'm afraid
That you might break my heart
Oh, why should anything so easy ever
Be so hard to do?
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling,
And to say that...
I love you
Why?
Why do you turn away?
It must be, you're afraid like me
I try, but I can't pretend that I
Don't feel for you, the way I do
Can't you see?
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling
But I don't know how to start
I wanna tell you, but now I'm afraid
That you might break my heart
Oh, why should anything so easy ever
Be so hard to do?
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling,
And to say that...
I love you
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling (I wanna say...)
But I don't know how to start
I wanna tell you, but now I'm afraid (But I'm afraid...)
That you might break my heart
Oh, why should anything so easy ever (I love you...)
Be so hard to do?
I wanna tell you what I'm feeling,
And to say that...
I love you...
Was it fate? Or was it chance? Either way, as Misty whispered the last line, she suddenly noticed Ash and stared directly into his brown eyes with her blue ones, she turned beat red, as she had been staring into Ash's eyes as she whispered "I love you." Ash meanwhile had gone red as well, he had been staring directly into Misty's eyes as she whispered that final line, and he knew that she had looked into his eyes, did she know he had looked into hers? (Yes, she knew!)
In the shadows, Bandit did a victory jig "That worked better than I expected! Now, if these two can meet after the show, maybe they'll get together, so far, so- NO! I won't jinx it! C'mon you two, we have all tried so hard! Quit being so stubborn and admit how you feel!"
The audience roared, exept for Ash, who was still stunned, "More! More!" The crowd demanded "Sorry, folks, that's all for tonight!" Misty thrust the microphone at Spectre and rushed backstage, Spectre looked over at a shadowy corner, where Bandit gave him a double thumbs up. Grinning, Spectre spoke to the audience. "Well, folks, I've just received some bad news, we have to shut down early tonight, but tomorrow we'll stay open an extra hour!" Grumbling in disapointment, but thinking the deal was reasonable, as the cafe was closing an hour early, trickled out the door, until only Ash & Brock were left. The Soldiers had left to check the rest of town, Bandit & Spectre were backstage attempting to block off exits so Misty & Ash would have to confront one another. Ash rushed backstage, Brock hesitated, and then took off after him. Misty managed to locate the stage door and ran outside. Ash having already lost Brock, found the stage door and heard sounds coming from the other side
Misty screeched to a halt in the alley, 3 mean looking hombres were glaring at her, she turned to go back inside, but the door was closed already, she was cornered! One of the punks called Misty something that she actually had never been called before, she turned and walloped the guy, big mistake, she couldn't take on all three. She was thrown into the wall and she yelled in pain as her arm came out of the socket, she lay there helpless as the three punks closed in on her. The punk she had punched now had a black eye, and had whipped out a switchblade "She's mine!" He said, then the door slammed open and the next thing Misty knew, Ash was standing over her, shielding her with his body. "Ash! Get out of here!" Misty yelled, forgetting her own prediciment. "No, Misty." Ash said, glaring bravely at the Arnold sized punk who threatning him with a switchblade. "Get out of here, this doesn't concern you, it's between this brat and me!" The lead punk said. "If you want her, you'll have to go through me!" Ash said "Ash, please, just go, save yourself!" Misty pleaded, not wanting Ash to die because of her. "No, Misty, I'm not letting anything bad happen to you, NOTHING." Ash glanced over his shoulder at Misty, and she trembled at the compassion in his eyes, no, the LOVE in his eyes. "My God, does this mean he feels about me the way I feel about him!?" Misty wondered, taking his eyes off the punk proved a mistake, the guy lunged faster then Ash could dodge, but moving faster then the knave even, was Bandit, who charged through the door, blocked the switchblade, and knocked it into a nearby dumpster before knocking the hoodlum into a nearby wall. Spectre was out next, he was carrying two plasma rifles, he tossed one to Bandit, who ordered the three thugs out, all three complied, not wanting to incur the wrath of Bandit & Spectre, officers of the Dark Network.
"I thought these would come in handy!" Spectre said gleefully, Bandit started to agree, then noticed Ash bending over Misty "Woa, we'd better go!" He said, Spectre nodded his agreement, Brock started to come out, Bandit genstured for him to go back in, Brock did so, then Bandit & Spectre walked out of the alley, leaving Ash & Misty alone. Ash gently touched Misty's dislocated shoulder and she yelped. "Man, we'd better get you inside so someone can take care of that." Ash took off his jacket and wrapped it around Misty, shielding her from the breeze that was making her shiver, hurting the shoulder. Soon the two were in the backroom, but no one was there, Ash was trying to figure out how to set Misty's arm, but he clearly was hurting her, she didn't say anything but it was in her eyes. Although Ash's fingers against her bare shoulder made Misty blush. "I'm sorry, Misty, but I don't know how to help your arm." Ash said remorsefully. Misty smiled bravely. "Ash, you've done enough for me, you saved my life, thank you." Ash smiled. "I'd do anything for you, Mist." "Did he just call me Mist?" Misty thought, she found herself unable to speak. She finally figured out what to say. "Even thought I've probably ruined our friendship by revealing that I *Like* you?" Saying it made Misty blush, but Ash responded. "That wouldn't hurt our friendship, ever, even if I *Didn't* feel the same way." Misty's entire body was suddenly on pins and needles. "Did, did, did he just say what I thought he said?" Misty wondered to herself. She looked up at Ash with hope in her beautiful blue eyes, eyes that always made Ash feel like melting, and he wouldn't melt over just any girl, like Brock would. "A-sh, Ash, are you, saying, that, are you saying you *Like* me?" Ash raised his eyebrows. "Like? No." Misty felt her heart sinking, and breaking. "Love? Yes"
Misty gasped. "Ash! Are you telling the-no, I can see it, you are telling the truth!" she felt tears coming, Ash brushed Misty's tears and pressed them to his own cheek. "Ash, you love me?" Ash blushed and replied. "More than anything." Misty was shocked, and pleased. "More than food?" "Your support gives me more energy than food." "More than your Pokemon journey?" "I'd give it up in an instant." "More than life?" "Life without you would be no life at all." Misty's smile was wider than ever. "When did you become an expert on romance?" "I didn't, its just that whatever I do, I do with passion, if loving you is wrong, than I don't want to be right." Misty shook her head. "Ash, for so long, I've wanted to hear that from you, my parents died when I was little, my sisters were never nice, I had no friends. When I met you I knew there was something special about you, I just wish I had known it before the St. Anne." Ash's smile made Misty want to melt. "That's when I realized how much you meant to me, too, I wasn't fully aware though until Maiden's Peak, and then in Lavender Town when I realized for a fact that you don't hate me." Ash I could never hate you! I know I was mean to you at first, but that's because I was afraid that if we became friends that you'd be taken away from me! Then, before I realized what was going on, I fell for you!" Ash gently stroked Misty's face and stared into her eyes, with a confident smirk on his lips and a loving look in his eyes. Misty suddenly felt hypnotized. "I love you, Mist." Ash said gently. "I love you, Ashy." Misty whispered, she leaned forward and their lips met. "Alright!" Startled, Ash & Misty looked up to see Bandit & Spectre with a bottle of champagne. Bandit pulled out a notebook and said. "Get Ash & Misty together? Check. Hey! I filled my quota for today!"
Brock walked in. "What's going on?" Than he noticed Misty was clinging to Ash and Ash had his hand on top of Misty head. He grinned. "Did you two spill your feelings?" "They sure did!" Said spectre, opening the non-alcoholic champagne, sending the cork out the window, causing people in the alley to duck. "Alright! They're together! Tracey owes me 50 bucks!" Ash & Misty sweatdropped. "You made a bet about us getting together?" Misty demanded. "Sure did! And wait until Mrs. Ketchum finds out, she'll throw a party for sure! She's got everything ready!" Ash sweatdropped again. "You mean my mom knows how we feel!?" Brock grinned wider. "Oh, yeah! She's your mother, Ash! She knows everything she needs to about you! And who couldn't know about Misty's feelings!" Misty blushed. "Hey, Misty's shoulder is hurt!" Ash told Bandit, Bandit set her shoulder, she changed to her own clothes, and they all went to Pallet Town for the party
Tracey: (Grumbling) "Here's the stinking money." (Gives Brock 50 bucks)
Mrs. Ketchum: (Tearfully) "My baby's growing up and falling in love!"
Daisy: "This is like, so totally cool!"
Lily & Violet: (Sob uncontrollably)
Marhi: "You, mean, Misty LIKES Ash!?"
Rudy: "You couldn't tell? She LIKED me, but she LOVES Ash, she'd pick him over any other boy in the world! Like I said, he's a very lucky guy!" (Holds up a glass of something, probably grape juice) "To Ash & Misty!"
Marhi: (Hold up her milk) "To Ash & Misty!"
Bandit, Aeris, & Casey (Bandit's sis): "To Ash & Misty!"
Delia, Lily, Violet, Daisy, Brock, Tracey, Bandit, Spectre, Todd, Gary, Prof. Oak, Jeannette, Throttle, Casey, Duplica, Richie, Sakura, Mikey, Danny, Sissy, Luana, Drake, Erika, Sabrina, Lt. Surge, Blaine, Koga, Aiya, Samurai, Kay, Katrina, Joe, Gazelle, Jessie, James, Meowth: "To Ash & Misty!!"
Mr. Mime: (Holds up glass of Poke-Juice) "Mime mimey mime!"
Pikachu: (Also with Poke-Juice) "Pikaaa-Chu!"
Togepi: (With milk) "Togi togiiiiiiiii!!!!"
Charizard: (With tobasco sauce) "Grrrrrrr, rowrrrr!!"
Haunter: (No drink, he's a ghost!) "Haunt haunt haunter!"
Ash & Casey's Chikoritas: "Chiko!!" (Ash's with some jealousy)
Surge & Kay & Katrina's Raichus: "Raaaaaiiiiiiiichu!!"
Erika's Gloom: "Gloom Gloom!"
Rest of Ash, Misty, Brock, & Tracey's Pokemon: ::To Ash & Misty!!:: (Translated)
All other unmentioned Pokemon: ::To Ash & Misty!::
Giovanni: (In shadows, with wine, thinking) "To Ash & Misty, well done, my son."
Ash & Misty kiss, passionately.
Brock: "Hey Daisy, give you any ideas?" (Daisy smacks him.) "Hey, Lily, how about you?" (Lily smacks him) "Ummm, Violet?" (Violet smacks him) "Waaaaaaahhhhhh, how come I can't get a girl?"
Bandit & Aeris cuddle
Throttle & Jeannette cuddle
Casey (Bandit's sis): "Lucky girl, Misty, I'm not going to be jealous, since I can see how much you mean to each other."
Casey: (Johto) "Triple play, Ash! Home run Misty!"
The party continued, but Ash, Misty, Bandit, Aeris, Throttle, & Jeannette snuck off, while Casey (Bandit's sis) looked at Tracey with interest. All in all, everyone was happy.
Well, everyone, what did ya think? Tell me! I'm ready! (Listens hopefully for replies)