Chapter 10- Brocks Idea Part 2

Back at the Ketchum household, they just finished writing the letters and now they are having a nice, much needed lunch break. There has been a lot of tension in the house ever since "the incident" happened. Delia has been doing her best to keep the tension down.

"This is very good Mrs. Ketchum." Brock said before taking a bite of his sandwich.

"Thank you Brock, go ahead and have as much as you want. There's plenty left to eat." Delia replied.

"So Brock, do you honestly think that this plan will work?" Cilan asked.

"Of course I do Cilan." Brock responded.

"Why do you have so much faith in this plan?" May asked.

"Well, no offense, I know Ash and Misty the most out of all of you, and I definitely know two things. One is that they can't stay mad at each other and two is they won't have a clue we did anything to do with them apologizing to each other." Brock said with so much confidence.

"How is that Brock?" Iris asked.

"Well, according the way we wrote our letters, if we give Misty's letter to Ash first, it would make more sense. Even though Misty doesn't like apologizing if she thinks she doesn't need too, she definitely will give this circumstance. And then we give Ash's letter to Misty letting her know that she will take that opportunity to talk." Brock replied.

"Wow Brock, I'm impressed. You have so much detail in this plan it's sure not to fail." Delia said.

"Thank you Mrs. Ketchum, but I can't take all of the credit. If you girls haven't written a good letter, then this may not be possible." Brock said.

"Um Brock, I still have one question." Dawn said.

"Are you concerned about being involved with the plan?" Brock asked.

"No it's not that, it's just, what if they recognize that it's our hand writing?" The blue haired woman asked.

"Well, that could be a problem, but I doubt that will be a problem at all." Brock replied to the concerned blue haired girl.

"Well, if you say so Brock. I completely trust you Brock." Dawn said with pure confidence.

"I know you do." Brock replied.

"Oh Brock, I have a question as well." Tracey said out of nowhere.

"Yeah, what is it?" Brock asked.

"When are we going to give them the letters?" Tracey asked.

"Well tonight obviously, why are you asking this?" Brock replied.

"Well, don't you think that we should put the letters with their personal stuff now?" Tracey asked.

"That does sound like a good idea, but we can't do both. We have to give Misty's letter to Ash first." Brock said.

"Okay that sounds smart." Tracey said.

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Before leaving lunch, Brock had to make sure that everyone was not only on board with this plan, but had total confidence with it as well, and he did. After lunch, Brock asked the girls to go put Misty's letter on Ash's desk. So the girls went upstairs and snuck into Ash's room even though he wasn't home. They saw the journal on the desk as well. As much they didn't want it to happen, they had that thought again. That thought of looking into his journal. It was so tempting, it was so easy. Now the good and evil sides of each of the girls were coming out, an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other.

"Come on, no one will ever know what you did." The devils said.

"No, don't do it. He will find out. Just put the letter down and walk away." The angels said.

"It's so easy though." The devils replied.

"It's so wrong, what will happen if you do it and he finds out again? How will you feel then?" The angels asked.

The girls thought for a second, and decided to just drop the letter on his desk and walk away.

"Were you thinking what I was thinking?" Iris asked the girls.

"Did you want to look into the journal too?" May asked.

"Yup, but we did the right thing by not doing it." Dawn said.

After the girls dropped the letter onto his desk, they were so stressed and tired, so they all decided to take a nap. Meanwhile Brock and Cilan were watching TV and Tracey decided to head back to Oaks lab. Brock didn't see the girls come back down so he decided to go up and see what happened. He checked to see if they were still in his room. He peeked in and saw the letter on the desk and the girls not in the room. Then he went to their room and peeked in there and saw them all sleeping.

"Okay good, they put the letter on the desk and now they are taking a nap. I guess they deserve one since they been through a lot." Brock thought to himself watching them sleep. Than he decided to head back downstairs and watch TV.

"Hey Cilan good news, the girls are okay." Brock told him.

"Of course they are, why wouldn't they be?" Cilan said with a very confused tone.

"They didn't head back downstairs right away and I decided to head upstairs to see what went on. The letter is on his desk and the girls didn't take or go through his journal." Brock told him.

"Oh okay, that's good then." Cilan said. "Did you really think the girls would look through his journal?"

"Honestly, I really did. I was a little nervous when they went up there." Brock admitted.

"I guess you had a right to be." Cilan said.

"So are you saying that you were not concerned about the girls even a little bit?" Brock asked.

"Well no, but I wasn't too concerned. I knew they would do the right thing even though they might have been tempted for whatever reason." Cilan told him.

"I guess that's true. Maybe I didn't believe in them enough I guess." Brock said while chuckling.

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After that brief conversation, they went back to watching TV. Next thing they knew, Misty came walking through the front door.

"Hey Misty, how was your walk?" Cilan and Brock asked.

"Hey guys, it was good. It was exactly what I needed. I feel a lot better." Misty responded.

"That's good to hear you're feeling better." Brock said.

"Is Ash home yet?" Misty asked.

"No not yet, from what we know, he's still at Oaks." Cilan said.

"Oh, okay then, I'll be upstairs then." Misty told them.

"Okay, you should be quiet. The girls are taking a nap in there." Brock told her.

"Thanks for the heads up." Misty said.

"Wait Misty," Cilan said to her, "are you going to forgive them yet?"

Misty was surprised to hear this question. She didn't really think about whether to forgive the girls yet or not. She was really focused on fixing her friendship with Ash.

"Well, I don't know yet. I guess it depends on if Ash and I can fix this." Misty said.

"Oh, okay then, I'll let you go then." Cilan said.

"I never thought about the girls. Maybe I should forgive them." Misty thought to herself as she was walking to the room where her stuff and all the girls where. When she walked into the room, the girls were up from their naps.

"Hey May, hey Dawn, hey Iris. How were your naps?" Misty asked them in a nice tone.

"This is strange; Misty is being nice to us. Is she going to forgive us?" All the girls thought.

"Hey Misty, it was good I guess." Dawn responded.

"Can we talk Misty?" May asked.

"Um sure May, what is it?" Misty responded.

"Look, I know you've heard it a thousand times from us, but we truly are sorry for putting you and Ash in this situation." May told her.

"Yeah, we truly are. We let our selfishness get in the way of what you wanted." Iris told her.

"So, are you still mad at us?" Dawn asked.

Misty had to think for a moment. She can hear the true sincerity in their apologies. She finally made her decision.

"Yes I do Dawn, I forgive all of you." Misty told the group.

Now there all in a huge group embrace. Each of them began to tear up a bit. It seemed like they all had a huge weight lifted off their shoulders.

"Thank you Misty." Iris, Dawn, and May said in unison while crying a little bit.

"It's no problem, but I still gotta fix everything with Ash." Misty told them.

Now there was another problem for the girls. They had to make an important decision. Do they tell Misty about the plan that the girls, Brock, and Cilan came up with or do they keep it to themselves. They had to tell Brock about this now.

"How about we go downstairs and tell Brock the good news?" Iris said.

"Sure why not." Misty said.

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Heading downstairs, the girls decided to join the two guys sitting on the couch. They were all happier, but had some concern on how the plan was going to turn out.

"Well, you all seemed to be in a better mood." Cilan said to the girls.

"Yup, we made up!" Misty said.

"That's great news." Brock said.

"It really is. Brock, can I talk to you in the kitchen?" Dawn asked.

"Um, sure Dawn." Brock replied.

They were walking into the kitchen and sat into seats at the table.

"So, what did you wanna talk about?" Brock asked.

"Well, since Misty made up with all of us, should we tell her about our plan?" Dawn asked in a serious tone.

"Wow that is a tough one." Brock began. "Well, I don't think we should. I know it's wrong not to but we can't let her know about it."

"That's what I thought. I just wanted to make sure it was the right thing to do." Dawn told him.

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They walked back into the living room and everyone was having a good time. Delia heard what happened and was overjoyed. All of the sudden, the door opened and it was Ash and Pikachu.

"Hey Ash, hey Pikachu." The group said to Ash.

"Hey guys, how's it going?" Ash said.

(Hey guys) Pikachu said.

"It's going good Ash, how about you?" Cilan asked.

"I'm doing a lot better now, how are you doing Misty?" Ash asked.

Misty was stunned that Ash spoke to her.

"Um I'm doing better too." Misty responded.

"Good, I'm going upstairs, I'll be back down." Ash said.

"Okay Ash." The group responded.

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As Ash and Pikachu entered the room, they saw a note on his desk. He was really curious about it, so he decided to open it and read it.

Dear Ash,

I know you're mad at me, and I understand why you are, but can we please talk about what happened? It's really important that we talk about this.

From,

Misty

"Huh, this is strange. I didn't see this before." Ash said to Pikachu.

(What's up Ash?) Pikachu said.

"Check this note out, it's from Misty." Ash said.

(Wow, she wants to talk. I think you should.) Pikachu said.

"Okay, I think you're right." Ash said.

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Meanwhile, Cilan decided to go upstairs. Then he decided to spy on Ash and saw that he read to the note. Now was the perfect time for him to put the other letter in Misty's room. So he went into the girl's room and put it on top of her sleeping bag. Now he left the room and went back downstairs and winked at Brock letting him know the letter one was read and letter two was in Misty's room.

"I gotta go upstairs and wash up." Misty said.

"Okay go ahead, I think dinner is almost ready." Brock said.

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Misty went into the room and saw a note on her sleeping bag. She was curious and looked at it.

Dear Misty,

I'm sorry for the way I've been acting lately. Obviously, I'm still upset about what happened that night, but I think I'm ready to talk about it. Meet me at the park.

From,

Ash

"Wow, he's ready to apologize." Misty said to herself.

So she washed up and went back downstairs. She had to come up with an excuse to leave the house.

"Hey guys, I think I forgot to get something while I was walking." Misty said.

"Okay, but what about dinner?" Delia asked.

"I'll eat later." Misty said as she walked out and headed to the park.

The guys and girls looked at each other in the living room and all had the same thought.

"She read the letter."

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Meanwhile, Ash was still checking out the letter. He was just staring at it. He wanted to talk to Misty, but was hesitant because she didn't know how she would act. So he decided that he had too. He went downstairs and saw everyone except Misty there.

"Hey guys, where's Misty?" Ash asked.

"I don't know, she was here a minute ago." Brock said.

"How about you check out the park?" May said.

"Um, okay then, I guess I'll see ya guys later." Ash told the group.

"Finally, there going to talk! Hope everything goes well. They all thought.

"Everyone, dinners ready!" Delia shouted.

"Coming!" They all shouted.

There's chapter 10. It was longer than I expected it to be. And unfortunately, this story is almost over , but there is good news, but you'll have to wait until the end of the book.