SHADOWS: YEAH! WE'RE BACK AND AT IT AGAIN!
EVER: HECK YEAH!
SHADOWS: ROMANCE ROCKX!
EVER: GO ADVENTURE!
SHADOWS: …
EVER: …
SHADOWS EYES GLITTER: I SEE THIS MAY BECOME QUITE BLOODY…
EVER: DAMN YOU'RE GONNA BE RIGHT…
EVER AND SHADOWS FIGHT!
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WHAT THE…?
Peace7
DON'T YOU THINK THAT WAS A BIT MEAN? JUST BECAUSE THERE ARE A FEW CHAPTERS WITHOUT HUMOUR DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE'RE TRYING…REMEMBER, WE'RE NOT THAT GOOD AT MAKING STORIES AND INSTEAD OF TREADING ON US WHILE WE'RE DOWN, HOW ABOUT GIVING US A FEW SUGGESTIONS? IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE PROS WHEN IT COMES TO HUMOR! THAT WAS A REALLY MEAN STATEMENT! C'MON, CUT US SOME SLACK:'(
Confession, Depression$!
Mystic dreaded the moment; she inched closer to Ash's room. All she had to do was apologize, that's all she needed to do, and it's not that big a deal, so why is she shaking all over?
She took a big breath, trying to relax herself, she just began to turn the knob when the door smacked right into her. The last thing she remembered was that white hot pain coming from her nose.
'I swear I heard someone- MYSTIC! OH GOOD LORD ARE YOU ALL RIGHT!' Ash cried out as he picked Mystic up from the ground, her nose was bleeding and she was completely knocked out with swirls in her eyes.
He placed her on his bed and ran to get Nurse Joy, but Mystic held onto his sleeve, making him trip and fall down.
'Ash, don't go…' Mystic pleaded, amazingly her bleeding nose stopped, but she still looked…hurt, 'I'm sorry…' she said.
'Huh? What for?' Ash asked, cocking his head to the other side.
'About, pushing you over…' Mystic managed, still ashamed of what had happened.
'Oh, that's ok…look at you…you're shaking…' Ash said, laughing a little at how nervous Mystic was. He stroked her hair lovingly, that beautiful hair, and also he lightly stroked her cheeks, and they were so soft.
'You're really nice Ash…' Mystic smiled at Ash, lifting her hand, he took hold of it, but her hand was almost frozen, 'It's almost strange…but it almost seems like I'm not complete, even with this touch, it's like I'm not really here with you…'
Ash didn't get it, 'But you are, I'm right next to you…Goodness, your hand is so cold…'
'I don't know…it's like there's this barrier separating me…from this world in general, but especially you… so cold…' Mystic began to drift off to sleep, 'Please Ash, please stay by my side…'
Ash felt her hand grow even colder, 'I won't leave your side, I promise…'
'Ash…you feel so distant…' She said, squeezing his hand, her eyes almost closing.
'I won't be for very much longer…' Ash said.
Mystic didn't really understand what he meant, but maybe the cold was getting to her, she fell deep asleep.
Ash slowly drew himself into the bed as well, hugging her, her body was like ice, and Ash was at an almost abnormal temperature, as his warmth left him, he felt tired too, and fell asleep as well.
AT THE POKEMON FESTIVAL!
'Gosh! Ayden, you ok? You look pale…' Alona asked, worriedly.
'I'm fine!' Ayden said, trying his best to put up a happy face. Truth was, the cast made her almost ten times heavier.
'I want to sit down.'
'What? But-'
'Ayden, stop it! I know you're in pain, don't hide it! It just hurts me even more when you do that!' Alona shouted, lots of people were looking at them now, Ayden gave up and sat himself down, but he made Alona sit on his lap. She looked like a doll. Truth was, he was sweating like a pig, 'Jeez, look at you…you're sweating everywhere!' Alona said angrily, but then came a playful smile, just like the old times, the old times that she has forgotten, she grabbed a handkerchief from her pocket and wiped his face clean.
It was an involuntary movement, he lifted her chin, yet kept his other hand tight around her waist, 'It's almost like you're her again…' he said, leaning closer.
They were almost a millimetre apart when, 'No.' He pulled back, he wouldn't rush her if she didn't want to be rushed, instead he pecked her cheek, 'Sorry…I just don't feel like I'm complete right now…'
'I understand…' he said, her memory still isn't back.
THE MEETING OF DREW AND MAY
'Well, you showed up,' Drew sneered, 'although you're an hour too late…' he said, pointing at his watch.
May used a hand to flick her hair over her shoulder, 'So? It's not like I need to leave a good impression on you.'
'Oh really?' Drew said, 'Well, I'd like to ask for this lady's hand for the night then.' He said bowing.
It's been a while since anyone treated her like a real princess, May enjoyed the feeling, 'Then I shall be obligated to please this prince tonight.'
It was about time she was treated like a princess, although her first priority was Ash, because she likes a good challenge, he hasn't really responded to her obvious hints, maybe she really was too good for him.
As they waited for their meal, Drew said something unexpected, 'You like Ash huh…?'
'Excuse me?'
'You like Ash huh?' Drew said, looking teasingly into her eyes.
'What are you talking about?' May asked, she didn't expect that question, rather, from a person like him. The best way was to play dumb.
'Don't need to lie, I see you crawling all over him. But he ain't worth your time, your challenge was set too high, he'll never see you in that way…'
'There's-'
'The only reason I brought you out was to let you see the truth, since you came out with me, if he cared about you enough, he would stay up until you came home, and once back will ask you over and over again, to make sure you were ok, that's what the normal hot-blooded man will do for a woman they love…correct?' Drews' tone was so precise, it was almost annoying. But true, what he said was true, and that was one of the reasons why she came out tonight.
'Another, if…say…on the front lawn tonight when I drop you back, you give me a goodnight kiss, if he loves you, wouldn't he run out, grab you by the hand, push you inside and come back out to bash the shit out of me?' It's almost funny that Drew can say these things in such a calm manner.
'Of course…' May said, almost sure that's going to happen tonight.
'So what if he doesn't?'
That seemed to have come out of no-where. What if he doesn't? May hasn't really asked herself that, because she never needed to. All the boys just come begging for her. She never needed to raise a finger to get what she wanted. But traveling with Ash, May wasn't so sure anymore, he didn't really do anything that the boys before would do, or any symptoms of it. May almost offered her body up to him and he didn't even notice.
'He will…' May said confidently, but inside she wasn't so sure anymore.
'My, what a confident young lady,' Drew sat back on his chair, 'let's play a game, say, tonight. On the doorstep, I'll kiss you, if he comes out and takes you away, so be it, then I'll get bashed willingly. If he doesn't, I will be the only one allowed to end the kiss. Do we have a deal? It's all good for you on your side of the deal…' Drew told her, May wasn't so sure about this, 'I mean, think about it, you either get the guy of your dreams, or you get one hell of a pash from me.' That smirk on his face, May almost wanted to reach over and chop it off with a knife. It was all just a game to him isn't it…?
'Why the hell are you even doing this?' she asked accusingly.
'Now that won't be revealed until you agree to the bet.' Drew gave a disarming smile, almost kidding, and almost making May's heart pound twice as fast, almost.
'Fine.' May looked at Drew expectantly for an answer.
'I like to see women like you suffer.' He said simply, with an evil grin, 'You deserve it, not all guys like chicks that are so up their ass.' He meant it.
May felt insulted, hey it wasn't her fault that guys always threw themselves at her, the only reason she's like this is because of that. May has had enough with him. She threw her napkin down on the table, stood up, and made her way to the exit. Until she felt something pulling her wrist.
'Goodness, I was joking! I'm doing this to help you, because I like you. You may be brought up to become a spoilt brat, and we both know that's true, but I know how to bring you back down to human terms. Now come on, your food is nearly here.'
May didn't know what made her do it, but she went back for some reason. While they were eating, 'You know, you put up with tough chick act outside, but inside you're just freaked aren't you?'
'Thanks genius.' May muttered as she dug deeper into her plate.
'I mean it, you're afraid of that rejection huh…?' He said, smiling and leaning his head on his hand, and of course, staring at her.
'Who isn't…?'
'But inside I know you're very beautiful. You put on those actor's eyes to see me, but you don't know it, somehow they're starting to come off slowly. Just be yourself,' he smiled something sweet, 'its ok to cry every once in a while you know?'
'…' May wasn't able to say anything, that sentence…no-one told her that for…so long…
FLASHBACK
As a child when she fell down, she kept thinking that she couldn't cry, or mama will only be more worried. No matter how deep the cuts were when she fell, she'd never cry. Her teacher taught them that they must always remain strong. But then one day coming home with a cut on her cheek from thorns while she went through a thorn bush her mother cried seeing her like that…
'Mama! Don't cry…what's wrong?'
'May, why is it that you never show how you feel? This really hurts me inside! Why are you hiding all these feelings inside like that? All you do is make me more-' but then, her mother fainted, it seemed she was really stressed. When she went to visit her mum, she could barely see her mum above the bed, so her mum pulled her up onto the bed as she told her.
'May, your feelings are in your heart, and believe it or not, your heart is really like a bottle!' She gave May that small toy drinking bottle.
'What? Really?' She asked, amused, cocking her head to one side.
'Yes honey and your feelings are like coke inside that bottle.' Apparently on the other side of the table was a cup of coke. She poured the cup of coke into the bottle. She closed the lid with a cork, 'Now shake it, and shake it as hard as you can.' So she shook it, suddenly came a pop, and the cork flew out and hit May on the forehead, the coke spilling onto her everywhere, soaking her clothes. That was it, that was all she could take, and so then, she cried like a baby, 'Honey, you need to remember its ok to cry every once in a while.' Her mother hugging her and announcing the first time May cried besides when she was born.
END FLASHBACK
It was inevitable that this was going to happen again. But this time, by someone else. Her tears had been pouring down since before the flashback, yet she didn't acknowledge it at all. It seemed Drew was worried too, 'Gosh, are you alright?' There seemed to be a genuine concern about his eyes. He had stood up and walked over to her side of the table to comfort her.
She threw herself into his arms, 'Truth is, truth is I know that Ash will never like me back…I knew I was defeated, but I just kept going, I wouldn't take no for an answer…I thought if I try hard enough, he will like me…but all he can talk about is Misty! I wish she was dead! Gosh! She's all he ever talks about! It's getting really annoying!' She cried into his arms.
'Oh, c'mon, it can't be that bad…' Drew said, stroking her hair while she cried into his arms.
'It is! Misty this, Misty that…always…' she complained like a little baby, she burst into tears all over again, 'sometimes I wish…although I've never seen her, sometimes I just wish she was dead. Dead and gone forever so Ash could more on and be with me instead.'
'I'm sorry May, forgive me.' Drew said, confusing May, what the hell was he on about? Goodness. She felt a little prick on her upper arm, 'It's ok, it's just so you'll be safe,' He pulled her deeper into his arms, she felt drunk, everything began to spin in and out of view.
'Drew…what the hell did you do…?' May wanted to scream, but only managed to whisper it.
'You'll be fine, just remember this…I won't do anything, I love you…' His eyes, his deceptive eyes, he lied to her, just like all the time…and she fell down, down into the pool of darkness.
EVER: WELP, THAT'S IT! ALL ROMANCE HAS FINALLY GONE! YAY!
SHADOWS: NUH-UH! THERE'S MORE CHAPTERS ON LOVE COMING SOON! YAY!
EVER: ARGH….!
SHADOWS: MHM!