Hello :P It is the 28th so I am back to update this story. I can't believe me and my TT have known each other this long. It's almost four years now. I'm so lucky to have her in my life and her be so kind and understanding and make me laugh. I'm so grateful for her and she always helps me feel better and have a good laugh :) I hope you all enjoy this chapter but especially you, boo. I went through a weird patch with my writing and they weren't turning out quite right. This is one I'm unsure about but it's meant to be Ash as an awkward teen and knowing he likes Misty and trying really hard to make it seem like he doesn't. And also worrying that he seems too affectionate :P I hope you enjoy!
Ages:
Ash: 15
Misty: 15
Disclaimer: I own only the story :P By the way, it's set when Ash is travelling the decolore islands.
Dear Misty,
I don't even know why I'm writing to you. Well I guess I kind of do. But I also don't. To tell you the truth, I have probably written you a dozen letters since we went our separate ways ages back but I never sent them off to you for one reason or another. I feel too much pride. I guess I'm too stubborn. I think I would feel foolish contacting you after so much time out of the blue. I also don't want to hurt you. But maybe I couldn't do that. You're strong and independent and now running the Cerulean Gym. I'm proud of you, Mist.
A few days ago was both our birthdays. Yours on the 19th and mine on the 22nd. See? You call me dense but I remember when your birthday is. But in a way, how could I forget? After all the time we spent together, it's lodged in my brain. It's also three days before mine so that kind of helps. I don't know why I'm choosing to write to you now. I just am. I thought about you a lot on your birthday, ya know? Wondering how you spent it. If you think about me and Brock and our journeys. If you think about Team Rocket and if they're still annoying. Which they are.
I hope you had a good birthday. 15 seems quite old when you think we travelled together at ten. I can't believe we went our separate ways three years ago. I suppose they do say time flies when you're having fun. And I am having fun. But I still remember travelling with you.
I've been going through those brief stages where I can't stop thinking about past adventures. I don't know if it's the fact I'm also now fifteen or feeling more myself and one with my thoughts now I'm approaching Kanto from being in Unova for so long. I keep thinking to myself that maybe I should visit you. Well I guess if I send this letter off to you it won't exactly be a surprise so maybe I'll keep this writing for myself. Like I have the other letters. I kept them all, Mist. They are somewhere, they are.
They're either at home or in my backpack. I hope Pikachu hasn't eaten any of them. He has some strange habits but he wouldn't do that to me or to you. He says hi, by the way. He misses you very much and tells me all the time to write to you. He tells me to write to you and that he'll thank me for it one day. I'm not really sure what he's hinting. But he misses you, anyway. So much.
Sometimes when I look at Pikachu, I miss you and our adventures. Do you think that's strange? I do. But then again, perhaps not. You guys always had such a great bond that it made me jealous at times. I think if you came and visited me and you got along it still would. He's my best friend and you're my best friend. I love him.
This letter was meant to be a straight forward happy birthday but that went totally wrong. I don't know why. I'm feeling different. I'm feeling different and I'm feeling reflective and I'm feeling confused. I know who I am and I still want to be Pokémon Master, of course I do. I know that much. But I also feel like there's a part of me left out there to find. I'll find it. I know I will. If I decide to come and see you after travelling, maybe you can help me. And I mean actually help instead of throwing all those insults at me that actually end up encouraging me quite well. I know what you're like.
All these past memories are flashbacks are strange. Maybe it is turning 15. Yeah, I think it is. A whole new number and a whole new year of my life. I wonder how I will spend it? You're 15 now also. A whole new number and a whole new year for you too. I wonder how our years will differ? I wonder how they'll be the same?
For some strange reason I enjoyed my day on your birthday more than on my own. That's weird, isn't it? Maybe I just enjoyed the reflection and nostalgia and thinking of when I was ten and so excited to battle in the Pokémon league for the first time. Those were some good times. Maybe it's also because I got Top 8 again in the Unova League rather than doing better. I'm usually so excited on my birthday but this year I just felt really far away from home. That's odd because I'm nearer to home than normal.
Don't get me wrong, I have adored my adventures in Unova with my new good friends. And I'm still looking forward rather than backwards, always. But I felt so small in the universe that day and just wanted to reflect on the good old days, rather than eating cake on the battle field. I had cake still. And it was so good. Was yours?
Anyway, maybe I will finally achieve what I actually wanted to say in this letter now I have finished rambling about nonsense. You did always say rubbish comes out of my mouth sometimes.
I hope you had a really good birthday and I know you are running the Cerulean Gym amazingly and being the best gym leader you can be. I had a nice enough birthday despite my strange feelings and enjoyed it as a normal day. If your birthday was strange like mine then maybe we can make a deal. Both our sixteenth will be awesome and we will both be surrounded by great people, Pokémon and places. In a years' time we will be in a completely different place but life will be just as amazing as it was when we were travelling together five years ago. In one year's time I think we will be together. No, not like that! But we will see each other again. That's a promise. Here's to the future and another happy year. Happy Birthday, Mist. Keep making me proud.
From your always supportive friend, Ash.
PS: I miss you. I just can't deny it to myself anymore. I miss you a whole lot. And I will be re-writing this letter and taking out all the parts that make it seem like I like you. Because I do. But I'm not ready for you to find out.
There you go! Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed :3 Like I said I am not really sure how to feel about this one. I wrote it with a lot on my mind and it turned out differently than I expected but I hope it was okay anyway. It was fun going back to simplicity and Ash and Misty before children :P I hope you liked, especially you, boo. I'm so lucky to have you as my biffle :3 Thanks again and I'll be back on Wednesday so see you then!
AmyBieberKetchum signing out :3