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Misty wanted to scream, she wanted to hit them, she wanted to cry, she wanted to be anywhere but here. Instead she stood glued to the spot.
Dawn noticed they were no longer alone and took this as her time to make a move.
"Get off me!" Dawn cried out, pushing Ash off. "Misty's my friend."
"What?" Ash asked, confused. She'd pretty much thrown herself at him.
"Don't touch me ever again." She glared and pushed past him, she stopped in her tracks and pretended to look surprised. "Misty?"
At the sound of her name Ash turned round, he saw the hurt in her eyes, the betrayal. After all they'd been through he couldn't believe he was the cause of that look.
"Misty, I..."
She shook her head at him and walked off.
"Misty, wait!" Ash called out before chasing after her.
"Stay away from me Ash!" Misty yelled, not bothering to turn around, still trying to get away from him.
"I need to talk to you." Ash reached out and grabbed Misty arm. She stopped and turned to look at Ash.
"I don't want to talk to you right now, hell I don't even want to look at you! All I want to do is rip you to pieces so I suggest you leave me alone." She jerked out of his grasp with a glare and carried on walking.
Ash took a moment to recover from the look, he knew he should walk away, he knew he should let her calm down but instead he carried on his pursuit, he couldn't let her go.
"You okay?" Brock asked as an angry Misty collided with him.
"Yeah, I'm fine Brock." She glanced over her shoulder and saw Ash making his way over, the boy would not quit. "Can you just keep him as far away from me as possible?"
"Sure thing Mist." Brock said as she walked off.
Ash got closer and tried to get past Brock.
"Don't think so mate." He moved over, successfully blocking Ash's path.
"You serious right now?" Ash groaned.
"Look, I don't know what you've done to her but Misty is beyond pissed so I'm stopping you from making it any worse."
"I just need to talk to her, explain." Ash pleaded.
"Now is not the time."
"But I..."
"No!" Brock shouted, cutting him off.
"I'm sorry." Ash said.
"For what?" Brock asked, confused.
"For this."
Ash brought his knee up and got Brock right between his legs. Brock doubled over giving Ash the chance to get past him, only now he'd lost Misty, making his job so much harder.
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"What the fuck is the matter with you Dawn?" Gary asked, once Misty and Ash had left.
"What do you mean?" Dawn asked. "I was just out here minding my own business when he came over and stuck his tongue down my throat."
"Don't play dumb with me." Gary gave her a look. "I saw you chasing after him all night."
"Like you were any better with Misty." She crossed her arms.
"That's different."
"How is it any different?"
"Because you're her best friend! You're not meant to do things like that to her." He yelled.
"What does it matter what I did or didn't do? The fact is Misty is single again, ready for the taking." Dawn smirked at him.
"This is not how I wanted it to go down." Gary growled.
"Who cares? You've got what you wanted, who gives a shit how you got it?"
"I didn't want it like this, Misty shouldn't have got hurt."
"Oh, don't even try to play the nice guy Gary, it doesn't suit you. I know all you care about is number one. If anything, you should be thanking me right now. I did you a huge favour!" Dawn gestured to where her and Ash had been just a few minutes ago.
"Do you even realise how messed up you are?" Gary questioned.
"Whatever." Dawn rolled her eyes. "When you grow some balls Misty is most likely locked in your bathroom crying, waiting for a rebound. I suggest you go offer her some comfort before someone else does." Dawn pushed passed Gary and went back to the party.
Gary ran his fingers through his hair and thought about Misty. Right now she didn't need him or any other guy coming after her, more than anything she needed her best friend, but that wasn't an option.
He walked back into the party and went in search of May, hoping she could help.
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Misty stared at herself in the bathroom mirror, making attempts at sorting out her makeup, all were futile as tears were still pouring down her face.
"Misty!" Ash called from the other side of the door. "Are you in there?"
She remained silent, hoping he would leave.
"Misty, come on! Just talk to me."
"Why?" She squeaked, barely loud enough for him to hear her.
"Because I need to explain."
"There's nothing to explain." Misty took a deep breath. "Please Ash, just leave me alone."
"Not until you hear me out. Once you do that I'll go, I promise."
"Fine, say what you need to say."
"Misty, I never meant to hurt you, all that stuff with Dawn shouldn't have happened. I shouldn't have done that to you but I did and I'm so sorry. These past few weeks with you have been amazing and I just can't go back to what things were like before. I need you in my life, friends, maybe more, I don't care as long as it's something." Ash sighed. "Misty I... I care about you okay? A hell of a lot, you mean so much to me. And after what I just did you might not believe me but its true."
Misty cried harder, she didn't know what game Ash was playing with her but right now she just needed him to leave.
"And she kissed me, I know everyone says that but I truly mean it. I've known you for almost ten years and you know I could never lie to you."
Despite herself Misty smiled, Ash really was a terrible liar.
"I guess that's all I wanted to say, so I'll go now. Sorry Mist." He gave the door one last knock and went silent.
Misty slowly walked over to the door and unlocked it, she opened the door to reveal a disserted hallway. True to his word Ash had left after he'd said his piece. Misty felt slightly disappointed but knew it was for the best.
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Ash walked outside and patted his pockets, damn he must have left his phone in Misty's bag.
"K-Bone!" A very drunk Ritchie called out to him.
"Ritchie, mate, can I borrow your phone?" Ash asked walking over to him.
"Sure, here you go." He handed Ash his phone and watched as he began to text. "Where's Misty? I rarely see you without her hanging off you."
"Locked herself in the bathroom." Ash explained.
"Seriously?" Ritchie laughed. "Girls are such drama queens."
"Yeah, sure. Where's May?"
"God knows, Gary came out here saying there was some kind of emergency and dragged her off. But who's complaining? Gives me some time alone with these lovely ladies." He said with a wink in the direction of a group of girls.
"Really?" Ash asked, giving him his phone back.
"Oh don't give me that look. I saw you earlier with Dawn you sly dog." Ritchie held his hand up, Ash rolled his eyes but high fived him anyway. "I gotta say I'm impressed, the girl's best friend? Even I don't have the balls for something like that. Girls talk too much."
"Yeah okay, listen I got to go." Ash said trying to get away.
"Sure. You just text some other girl? She waiting for you back at your place? Seriously K-Bone, we have to go out some point, without the girlfriends, just guys."
"Sounds like a plan." Ash said walking away.
Satisfied Ritchie went to talk to the girls while Ash walked down the path from Gary's house and sat on the pavement.
He thought about everything he'd done tonight, he thought about kissing Dawn. His stomach began to turn. The alcohol and the guilt mixing together making him feel sick.
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"How could you do that?" Misty asked walking up to Dawn.
"Misty, sweetie, I didn't do anything."
"You kissing Ash doesn't count as doing anything?"
"He kissed me, I swear." Dawn gave Misty a small smile.
"Don't you dare tauros shit me! He may have kissed you but believe me I know you well enough to realise you manipulated him into it somehow." She crossed her arms.
"Alright fine." Dawn sighed. "I kissed him, but I was just testing him."
"What?"
"You're my best friend and I was worried that you were getting in too deep too quick. I always said from the start he wasn't good enough, if anything I did you a favour."
"These types of decisions are not up to you!" Misty shouted, a few people in the party going quiet and watching them. "If I like a guy that's it, end of discussion. You do not take it upon yourself to kiss him behind my back to see if he is worthy of me."
"I was just trying to help you." Dawn explained.
"No you weren't! You were miserable and you know what they say about misery loving company. You just didn't want to see my happy."
"Chill out drama queen." Dawn joked, trying to ease the tension. "It's not the end of the world."
Misty just shook her head at Dawn and walked off. Dawn sighed as she left, this is not what she had expected to happen.
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"Are you okay?" May asked, standing in front of Misty. Misty looked up, with tears in her eyes, from her spot on the steps in Gary's garden.
"I don't know." She said, looking to her feet again.
"Do you want to talk about it?" May asked, sitting next to her.
"She kissed him."
"I know honey." May put her arm around Misty. "Gary told me."
"But why do I care?" Misty put her head in her hands.
"Because he was your boyfriend."
"That's just the thing, he wasn't. We weren't serious, we definitely weren't exclusive, so why is this bothering me so much?" Misty removed her head from her hands and looked at May.
"Truth?" She asked.
"Truth." Misty nodded.
"You may not have been serious but you guys were seriously in love."
"Oh come on May, don't be stupid."
"I'm not. The way you guys were together, everyone could see it even if you two couldn't. Just the way he looked at you, the way he treated you. The way I wish Ritchie would treat me sometimes."
"Well look where it got me? Crying my eyes out over some boy, I'm pathetic."
"You're not Misty." May rubbed her back. "You're just human."
"I..." Misty sighed. "I just want to go home."
"Alright, wait here. I'm going to go get someone." Misty nodded while May stood up and walked back inside.
Misty looked down at her feet, trying to stop the tears but every time she remembered what she'd seen out here just an hour ago fresh tears would fall uncontrollably.
"Hey." Misty noticed another pair of feet in front of her.
"Hey you." She looked up and smiled at the boy.
"Let's get you home." Brock held his hand out and pulled Misty up.
"I don't want to ruin your night."
"Knowing that you're out here crying I wouldn't have a good night anyway." Brock put his arm around Misty's shoulders and gave her a squeeze.
"Thanks Brock." She smiled again as he led her through the party.
"What do you say to stopping off for some ice cream on the way back?" Misty laughed.
"I'm guessing May filled you in?"
"She may have told me what was going on." Brock said with a small smile in her direction. "So, ice cream?"
"Ice cream." Misty nodded with a smile.
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Ash was hunched over, staring down a drain on the side of the road. He was retching but refused to be sick.
He looked up and saw Misty, she had some guy with her, he had his arm around her.
After seeing that he couldn't stop himself, he threw up into the drain.
"I should probably go help him." He heard Misty's voice.
"Just leave it Mist." He heard they guy reply, now worked out to be Brock, a guy who Ash knew would never make a move on Misty.
But it was too late, more vomit made its way up and he continued as the pair walked away.
A car pulled up in front of him and Paul jumped out, camera at the ready as usual.
"Oh that's good!" Paul said filming him.
Ash tried to glare but soon felt more sick coming.
"That's right, let me see the pain." He got closer to Ash as he continually threw up down the drain.
"You texted?" Drew asked, getting out the car as well.
"Yeah I texted." Ash said, looking up and giving his face a wipe, finally finished.
"What happened to you?" Drew asked.
"I fucked up, that's what happened, and I lost her." He said attempting to stand up.
"Who? Misty?" Drew asked.
"You two split up?" Paul asked as well.
"Yeah, finished, ended. She left me." Ash walked towards Drew's car and let himself in.
"I'm staying." Paul said as Drew walked towards his car as well.
"You're staying?"
"Yeah, I like to party." Paul smirked holding up his camera.
Drew rolled his eyes and walked back to the car. Paul walked into the party while Drew drove off with Ash.
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