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"Shit!" Misty called out once she woke up and realised she was in Ash's bed.

"Good morning to you too." He muttered without opening his eyes.

"Sorry, but we're meeting everyone in like half an hour." She said sitting up in bed.

"So we're a little late?" He asked pulling her back down. "It's not a big deal."

"We can't be a little late." She said detaching herself from him. "They're picking us up so we have to be ready." She got off the bed and opened the curtains.

"Damn it woman!" Ash groaned, covering his eyes.

"Get dressed!" She said reaching down for her bag and walking out the room.

Ash dragged himself out of bed and picked up the surf shorts Misty had purchased in his honour. He sighed at the sight of them but took them towards the bathroom.

He tried the door of the bathroom only to find it was locked, he knocked but there was no reply.

"Dad!" He called, knocking again.

"Yeah?" His dad replied walking out his bedroom.

"Why's the door locked?" Ash asked trying to turn the handle and get in.

"I'm assuming someone's in there." His dad said giving him a strange look.

"Who?" Ash asked knocking again.

"Give me a minute Ketchum!" Misty shouted, answering Ash's question. "Jesus!"

"Well she's a sweetie." Ash's dad said rolling his eyes.

"She's not good in the mornings." Ash defended her, not sure why he cared whether his dad liked her or not.

"Well maybe next time you'll remember to give her more space." He said looking down at Ash's hand which still gripped the handle.

"I thought she'd gone home." He called after his dad, who began walking down the stairs.

Ash let go of the handle when he felt it move and took a step back, the door swung open to reveal Misty stood in a red bikini. Ash let his eyes wander up and down her body, taking in every detail.

"Okay, it's all yours." She said, crossing her arms. Ash's gaze now fixed on her cleavage.

"Huh?" He asked, not having heard anything she just said.

"The bathroom." She moved to the side and gestured to the bathroom.

"Oh right." He nodded and walked in to change.

Once changed Ash walked back to his room to see Misty going through one of his drawers.

"What are you doing?" He asked.

"I'm decided which one of your shirts will work best as a cover up. Oh!" She said turning towards Ash with a smirk. "And I found these, very cute." She held up a pair of Pikachu underwear.

"Those aren't mine!" Ash called out, a blatant lie.

"If you say so, but if I'd have known these existed I would have made you wear them."

"Great. Good to know." He said snatching the underwear from her and stuffing them under his pillow.

No real point in hiding them now as she'd already seen them.

"Hey Mist? Why did you have a bikini in your bag?"

"I don't know." She shrugged, holding a shirt up against herself. "Never know when you might need it."

"Well you would need it if you were planning to spend the night with someone."

"What do you mean?" She asked, looking over her shoulder at him.

"I mean, you wanted to stay here last night. You blamed your mum for the condoms but it was you that put them in there, and you packed the bikini last night so you'd have something to change into this morning rather than having to do the walk of shame back to your own house." He smirked.

"And why would I do all that exactly?"

"Because you want me." He said walking up to her and wrapping his arms around her.

"Is that so?" Misty asked, trying to contain the blush that was threatening to come up once she felt his toned chest against her back.

"It's okay." He whispered in her ear. "I wouldn't have said no."

Misty turned around in his arms and looked up into his eyes. They were getting in too deep, the kissing was one thing but to take their relationship to another level was too much.

"That's not part of the plan." She said quietly.

"Forget the plan." He whispered, getting closer to her lips.

The sound of Misty's phone stopped Ash in his tracks. A phone again? God he hated technology!

"That will be Dawn, saying she's here." She moved out of Ash's arms and got the phone. "Hey babe... Yeah we'll be down in a second."

"Leaving?" Ash asked.

"Yeah." She smiled grabbing a shirt and throwing it on. "Ready?"

"As I'll ever be." He smiled, taking her hand and leading her out the house.

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The girls lay around in the lake in rings while the boys sat on a rock looking down on them. Misty smiled and made her way over to her friends leaving Ash alone. He looked up towards the rock and sighed inwardly.

"Get up here K-bone!" Ritchie called out. "Leave the missus alone for a bit." Ash fake laughed and walked over to them.

Ash sat down next to the guys and half listened to their conversation.

"Look at them down there, talking about us." Ritchie said cockily.

"Saying what exactly?" Asked Brock.

"The usual, he's cute, he's sweet, he's built."

"He primps." May complained. "Ritchie takes longer to get ready than I do. He gets mad at me for making him wait but I do my share of waiting too alright."

"How long are you going to make him wait?" Leaf asked.

"The key to pleasing a woman is sweet talk." Ritchie claimed.

"Says the guy who's not getting any." Mocked Gary. Ritchie ignored him and carried on.

"You're beautiful. Have you lost weight?" Brock rolled his eyes at him. "Then the three words that always seal the deal."

"Another tequila shot?" Ash asked. Brock and Gary laughed at Ritchie who just gave Ash a look.

"Come on Misty, we're bonding here." May said.

"Dish girl." Leaf encouraged.

"Ash Ketchum, big feet?" May asked.

"Big hands?" Leaf joined in. Dawn rolled her eyes at the girls' desperation to hear about Ash.

"Oh, very big hands and feet." Misty laughed.

"That's my girl." May approved.

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Ash was getting a drink out the cooler when May came up behind him, he stood up and noticed her.

"Hey Dragon." He smiled.

"It's May." She said reaching down for her own drink.

"Oh yeah, sorry about that."

"It never was Dragon."

"Really? I thought..."

"When you're 40 lbs overweight and your last name is Night, it doesn't take kids long to land on a nickname." She said sitting down on the cooler.

"Your parents name you May Night?" Ash asked, referring to the flower.

"No, it's short for Mabel. I changed it myself." She smiled.

"And people never said anything?" Ash sat down next to May on the cooler. "You should go into politics." May laughed.

"After I'd dropped the weight, dyed my hair and got contacts I just used to giggle and say oh yeah so and so started calling me May. I just used whoever wasn't around and now here I am."

"May Night." Ash nodded, impressed. "And now Miss Pokémon Academy. But why you sharing all this with me?"

"We're the same, K-Bone."

The thought of that shocked Ash, he looked towards everyone else. He watched them all laugh and mess around. Gary with Misty thrown over his shoulder running away from Brock with a water gun. Dawn screaming that the water had touched her and joining the chase. Ritchie joining in too, grabbing Dawn from behind and dragging her into the firing line. Leaf taking Dawn's other side trying to pull her out of the water.

"Do you think you're happier now?" May asked, pulling Ash's attention back.

"I don't know, you?"

"Jury's still out. It may have been a short list but least I knew who cared about me, you know, really cared."

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Dawn and Leaf sat sunbathing while everyone else was in the water.

"So Leaf, met Gary's family yet?"

"Yeah, they're nice." She smiled.

"Met Grandpa Oak?"

"Yeah, he's something." She laughed at the memory.

"They seem really normal don't they?" Dawn asked with a smirk.

"Yeah, why wouldn't they be?" Leaf asked.

"Just... No I probably shouldn't tell you."

"No tell me."

"Well, they belong to one of those doomsday cults."

"Are you serious?" Leaf asked with wide eyes.

Dawn nodded at Leaf then looked back out at the water. Leaf glanced towards Gary nervously.

"Hey Gar? Can we talk?" She called out to him.

"Yeah, sure." He said coming out the water and walking off with her.

Dawn smiled to herself. That would get rid of Leaf, one down only one to go. She looked towards Ash in the water. She scowled as he held Misty close and gave her small kisses on her neck when he thought nobody was looking. You're next Ketchum.

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"Where did Gary and Leaf disappear to?" Brock asked as they carried the stuff back to the car.

"Don't know, apparently they needed to talk. Sounded important." Dawn replied.

"Please." Ritchie scoffed. "In a setting like this Gary wouldn't be talking."

"Not all guys are like you." May rolled her eyes.

"Whatever." He said walking away from her.

Misty noticed and gave May a sympathetic smile.

"You might want to pick up lover boy." May said with a small smile.

"What do you mean?" Misty asked and May gestured behind her.

Misty turned around to see Ash having a water fight with some of the kids by the lake.

"I swear, I can't take him anywhere." Misty laughed walking towards him. "Come on Ash, we're leaving."

Ash reached out and grabbed her to use her as a shield.

"Can't get me now." Ash said sticking his tongue out at the kids.

"You can't hide behind a girl." One of the boys said.

"I can and I will."

"Is she your girlfriend?" Another of the boys mocked.

"Yeah, so what if she is?" Ash shrugged.

"That's gross dude." The boy said, Misty laughed at him. He reminded her of Ash at that age.

"You're beautiful." A little girl said with a gun almost as big as her.

"Thanks." Misty smiled. "You're beautiful too."

"No she's not, she's a runt." The boy from earlier said.

"Hey, treat the girl nicely." Ash warned, the little girl reminding him of Misty at that age.

"Are you in love?" The little girl asked causing the boy to moan.

"You're such a romantic Katie."

"Shut up Sam!" She snapped.

All the other children had left now leaving behind just the girl and the boy, Katie and Sam.

"So are you in love?" She asked again, her eyes going wide and shiny.

"Well... you see... actually." Ash stuttered.

"Yes we are." Misty said, giving the girl the answer she wanted.

"Are you going to get married and have a baby?" She gushed while Sam pretended to throw up.

"We'll see." Misty shrugged.

"Marriage is stupid." Sam declared.

"Someday you and I will be married too." Katie said. Admitting defeat Sam nodded.

"Huh?" He suddenly called out, realising what had been said.

"Don't reject the idea too soon kid." Ash said giving his hair a ruffle and walking off with Misty.

"As if I'd ever marry a kid like you!" Katie shouted.

"Well, like wise!" Sam called back.

Misty and Ash laughed to themselves as the argument carried on, they were defiantly like them.

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Ash got all the stuff out the back of the car and watched it drive away, he turned to see Misty sat on the grass outside her house.

"Sit." She said patting the ground next to her. Ash walked over and sat down with her. "You know I still have the letter you wrote to me in the 8th grade."

"Burn it." Ash stated.

"You said you hated me and there was something in there about the only way you'd ever touch me again was if you came down with leprosy."

"Sorry about that." He smiled.

"Don't be I deserved it. I'm the one that should be sorry. Ash when your mum got sick..."

"Please Mist, can we not do this?" Ash said, cutting her off.

"I want to, I've wanted to say this for four years now. When your mum got sick I couldn't go over to your house, it was too hard. I was too scared." She said looking down. "I just wanted to cry all the time, every time I saw her, every time I saw you. And even when we were together you'd just sit there, you wouldn't say anything. Then you started acting out in school, skipping, pulling fire alarms. I just pretended that I didn't know you."

"Well, I'm over it now." Ash shrugged.

"I guess but I still felt bad for what I did." Misty said finally looking back up.

He smiled at her which she soon returned. They just looked into each other's eyes without saying anything, not wanting to break the contact, ruin the moment.

"Ash I..." Misty spoke up. "I... I think I..." She took a deep breath and changed her mind. "I'm glad you're back, I missed you."

"I missed you too." He said with a hug.

"Well, night." Misty said getting up once they'd pulled back.

"Yeah, night." Ash said and watched her walk away.

He sighed once she'd stepped inside her house, there were so many things left unsaid between them, he refused to leave it like this. He walked up to her door and knocked.

"Yeah?" Misty asked once she'd opened the door.

"Misty, I need to say something." He said.

"Sure."

"I... I'm in..." He sighed, all the confidence from earlier gone. "I've got your towels."

"Oh right, thanks." She smiled, taking the towels. "Night." She said again.

"Goodnight." He said and walked away.

Misty closed the door and leaned her head against it. What she hoping he'd come back for? Would she really let herself think that there was something there? She slid down to the ground and hugged her knees, she was not meant to feel this way.

Ash walked back to his house and ran his fingers through his hair. What was he thinking going back there? He couldn't let himself think like that again. This was not what was meant to happen, he had to stick to the plan and ignore the beating of his heart.

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