This chapter is sooo effing hooottttt. why? read and i will explain at the end of this chapter. im still fangirling about it now. weeeee
~midnight
Shippings in this chapter: Advanceshipping
Rating: PG (K+)
Chapter twenty six
"And I now present you as husband and wife…" I grumbled to myself that I would hear does words soon tomorrow. "Why am I so worked up about the wedding I mean I'm not even-" but my train of thought was discontinued when I felt Ashlyn tugging down on my jacket.
"Daddy?" She asked. Her sweet soft voice always seemed to calm me down in times like now. "Why do I have two daddies?" She asked.
I knelt down to her height and patted her head. I knew that May hadn't thoroughly explained the fact that I was here real father and not Drew.
"Is it bad to have two daddies?" She asked once more. Adding another answer before I could reply to her first one.
"Of course not LynLyn." I replied. Giving her a new nickname at the same time. "You should be happy you have at least one." The thought of my own father came into my mind.
His face was already faded in my mind. I could barley remember what he wore that day when he left us for the job to become one of the Elite four in Unova. Mother always told me that his hair was similar to mine, my determination to win and help others was from him and every time I smiled she would see my father for just that moment.
I miss them so much.
"Daddy stop crying." She placed both of her small hands on my cheeks. I didn't notice that while thinking of my parents ended up with tears on my face.
"Daddy? A familiar voice asked from before. I held Ashlyn in my arms and stood up, turning to face my friends.
"Lyra, Misty and Gary. How nice to see you all again." I greeted with a smile. I felt happy to see them again. I haven't seen Lyra since I was in the hospital and Misty since Cerulean. But Gary, well even though we are friends he always found ways to annoy me.
"Wow. So I was right back then." Gary teased.
"Long story guys. But I can't be bothered to explain it all over again. I mean I did the same to Alex." I sighed.
"Alex, who is this Alex guy?" Lyra asked in confusion as she looked from left to right to find my older brother.
"I think that can wait. We have a wedding to attended remember." Misty reminded the group. She soon looked at me. "So that explains why she was so close to you. You were her real father after all." Misty giggled. "I never thought I would see the day Ash Ketchum will be a father. I mean you were so immature back then…"
"And still are." Gary bumped in. I growled at him.
"Am not!" I complained. The three of them chuckled. "Anyway." I paused and continued. "I have to bring Ashlyn home. See you guys at the pokecenter then?"
"You bet Ash!" Lyra winked. "And also I want to battle you when we get there. After beating Misty here I feel so confident to battle anyone!"
"Then I suggest you battle Alex then. The man you nearly beat on Mount Silver." I laughed as I made my way to the Maple's resident.
"Wait, his your brother?" Lyra complained. I could hear her continued to ramble on but Ashlyn and I were too far to listen what else she had to say.
Minutes later after my confrontation with Lyra, Misty and Gary once more, Ashlyn and I made back home. Everything seemed the same as we entered into the home. Caroline was cooking meals for dinner with Dawn helping out. Dawn noticed me looking at her. She did a cute smile at me and waved but was called back to cook as she nearly burnt tonight's roast. Ashlyn and I looked at each other and laughed. We walked past one of the windows and noticed Paul trained his old favorite, Torterra in the backyard. He knew we were watching him but he didn't seem to care. We also passed Drew in his room with his Roserade by his side, getting groomed by his trainer. I didn't bother to stay long and made my way. Soon we reached the living room where Max and Norman were watching the news. I dropped Ashlyn on her feet and Ashlyn went to greet her grandfather. Max jumped out of his seat and went to greet me.
"Ash, Ash!" He repeated my name twice cheerfully.
"What, what?" I called back in confusion. He seemed to still have that annoying charm he did back in Hoenn.
"I need to ask you a favor." He seemed be begging at me rather than a favor. "I want to ask May if I can take her place to finally be the gym leader. I've done my training and everything but I'm scared that she might not think I'm strong enough." He looked down on the carpet and straight back at me. "I've even asked Dad for permission and he said its best to ask May."
"But why are you so afraid of your own sister?" I asked. I could hear Raichu and Ashlyn playing together in the background.
"She really likes her job recently. I don't want to make her sad when I tell her I want to replace her. Also she seems really good at it. I'm afraid I won't be up to her standards." Max replied slightly depressed.
"And that's where you want to ask me to help you out by asking her instead of you?" Max nodded. Soon I heard Raichu calling out in pain. Max and I looked back and saw Raichu running away from Ashlyn. It looked like Ashlyn was pulling Raichu's tail a little too much causing Raichu to run away from her.
"No Ashlyn, don't chase after him!" Max panicked as he chased after her niece. Leaving me to go after May and ask if she would want to step down and let Max be the full time gym leader of Petalburg city.
I walked out of the room and walked passed many rooms but was stopped when I heard noises from a battle in the next room ahead of me. I slid the door to the left and saw May was battling a new opponent with her Beautifly.
"Arial Ace to finish him off Beautifly!" May called out.
"Zippo dodge it using Fly and then finish her off with Flamethrower!" Her opponent called out to his pokemon.
The Charizard used all the speed he had in him but Arial Ace was too quick for the flying and fire type pokemon. Charizard quickly fell back onto the ground but was able to get back onto his feet quickly. As soon May's opponent pokemon was back on his feet he called out to use Flamethrower at Beautifly once more. May had no time to response quick enough and Flamethrower was a critical hit. It did so much damage that it made her bug type to flutter to the ground.
"Here is our chance Zippo! Use Dragon claw to finish Beautifly off!" the brunette boy commanded his pokemon. Charizard roared in response on got to its wings and headed straight to Beautifly.
"Morning sun now!" May called out in desperation.
"Beautifly!" the bug and flying type pokemon called its own name out. She soon flew up in mid air and casted a bright morning sun. It was so bright that it made Charizard to stop its move and cover his eyes from the bright move.
"Now Solarbeam!" May added and her pokemon responded by unleashing a powerful grass type attack right at Charizard. I was shocked on how quickly Solarbeam was released.
"She must have used the light she got from Morning Sun to turn it into a Solarbeam attack. Impressive." I muttered to myself.
The Solarbeam was a direct hit on the fire type starter and KO the pokemon. May's Blaziken lifted his flag on May's side to announce she was the winner of the battle. The young boy sighed and returned his pokemon back to its ball. As the boy walked up to May I soon got a better view of him.
He wore a hat similar to Lyra's but the hat was light violet with a pale yellow strip wrapped around his hat with a small red and white pokeball design placed at the left side of his hat. He wore a sea green shirt with only two of his yellow buttons tied up showing a white singlet underneath. He had red arm warmers placed on both of his wrists. He had yellow pockets placed on his sea green shirt with a loose brown nap sack around his waist. His cargo pants were dipped in a deep sea blue with the left side of the pants slightly higher than the other. And his shoes were a mix of purple, black and red.
After looking at May's defeated challenger did his name came to my mind.
"Richie?" I asked as I entered into the room finally. Standing right beside May. She seemed surprised to find me right beside her. "Is that really you?" I asked.
"Wow, Ash. You still remember me?" He asked in a surprised manner. "And wow, look at you. You look so different since we last saw each other back in Kanto." Richie replied with a smile.
"Wait you two know each other? Just how many people did you meet on your travels?" May asked in confusion.
"Hehe. I have so many I've lost count." I laughed.
"Typical Ash." May giggled. I stared at her after laughing myself and watch her laugh at me. I never notice how cute her smiles were and how sweet her laughter was. I smiled at her slightly but I didn't think she noticed.
"So is she your girlfriend Ash?" Richie whispered to me. I felt my whole face go red.
"She isn't my girlfriend!" I complained. "Why does everyone ask that?" I muttered. Still having my bright red blush all over my face.
"Just teasing Ash." Richie laughed. He soon looked at May. "You really are a great gym leader May. I might have lost but it just tells me I have to be stronger to beat you to become a pokemon master." My mind flashed a string of disappointment when Richie had mentioned the words 'pokemon master' right in front of me.
"You still want to be a pokemon master Richie?" I asked. I tipped my hat over my face to hide the expression I suddenly felt.
"Don't you Ash?" My old rival asked me.
"Things have changed the last eight years Richie." I sighed. "Becoming a pokemon master. What was I thinking back then? I was such an idiot back then."
"And your giving up just like that?" Richie yelled at me. "I may not know what happened to you in the last eight years Ash but the last time we met, you wouldn't stop until you got what you worked so hard for. What happened to you?"
"It's too complicated for somebody like you to understand. Somebody who still keeps on dreaming something that doesn't exists!" I complained.
"How dare you Ash. You have changed so much in the past eight year that I don't think you're the same friend I made back then!" He gritted his teeth together and clutched his fists together. "You just now become a complete weakling and a coward. Giving up everything you work so hard for!" I suddenly felt like hurting Richie on what he had told me. I felt like just getting a huge mallet and hitting him with it many times. But we went through a lot and he was my friend. That was the reason I didn't try to hit him even though my feeling inside of me really wanted to.
"Stop it you two!" May quickly wrapped her arms around me. Somehow her holding me in her arms calmed me right down. But the way I felt to Richie didn't. "Please stop Ash. This isn't you. Don't let your past get you so worked up right now." I closed my eyes to relax even more and thought it was best to say sorry to Richie but by the time I opened my eyes once more. He was gone. I knew I should go and apologize but May was hugging me so tight that I couldn't. I soon looked back at May. I didn't notice how close I was to May.
Our eyes were looking right into each other. Our noses where touching. Our arms were wrapped around each other. And May's lips were locked onto mine. I could feel my face glow a brighter red and the fear that Drew or anyone could walk right in. soon the feeling of that night came back in me. That night before we broke up.
I started to make my hands up her back and to take her pink and white cap off and she ran her fingertips through my thick black hair. I began to start kissing from her lips down to her neck. We made our way to one of the back rooms of the gym that nobody seemed to come in. we continued our kissing as we laid our backs against the wall and slowly slid down it and onto sitting on the floor. May had already knocked off my hat was had already unzipped my sky blue jacket and was lying already on the ground. May's cap was lying right next to it. Then my hands knocked off May's pink bag that was always seemed to be with her all the time. My fingers soon started to take off her black vest and I threw it somewhere on the floor. Soon I was on top of her and she was making her hands underneath my shirt. Asking for me to take it off. Which somehow ended on the ground quiet quickly. I did the same by taking off her white singlet and ended upon the floor as well.
She was starting to kiss from my lips down to my neck and wrapped her arms around my chest, which had nothing on. Since my shirt was already on the floor. I began to kiss from her neckline down to her chest area and my hands were playing around with her black bra in the attempt to take it off until myself conscience came back in.
I didn't realize that I was having a passionate moment with May that if we continued we would have a lot of things to explain to each other and everyone else. But what happened next didn't make any of what had happened better.
"I…I love you." I quickly got off top of May and covered my face with my hat. Hoping and wishing my hat was so big it would hide my whole body away from May. But it didn't. Instead I felt May wrapped her arms around my body from behind.
"I…I…love you to Ash Ketchum" I could hear how scared and unconfident she was with saying those words. Like she was afraid that when she said those words something bad would happen.
"Whaaa?" I turned around to face her. "You still love me after all these years and what I've done to you?" I still realized that my blush was still all over my face.
"Well after what we been through right now. I realized that I still love you Ash. I'm sorry for everything." I could tell she was ready to cry. I soon kissed her on the lips softly.
"It's okay May. You don't have to say sorry anymore. I forgive you because I love you." I somehow felt more relaxed and confident to say those three words to May now that she admitted that she loved me to. Soon we heard knocking on the door and quickly panicked. May quickly grabbed her vest and singlet while I grabbed my jacket and shirt off the floor and hid under an old table with an old white tablecloth covering it that was in the room.
"Sis? Now where did she-" but was interrupted by an object.
May and I soon realized what that object was.
We forgot to get our hats.
I could see Max's shadow pick up our hats together. I could imagine him looking at them for a very long time. May and I hugged each other. Hoping that the worse wouldn't come.
"What are May's and Ash's hat doing in an old room like this?" he asked to himself. "Maybe Ash finally asked May if she could step down so I can become the gym leader now. And they must have talked in this old room for some privacy. And they must have left to do something else and forgot their hats. That's must be it!" Max said in his cheerful tone of voice. "I will give this back to them back at the house." We could hear Max already at the door ready to leave. "I wonder if May is happy about her stepping down for me. I hope she isn't mad at me." And those were the last words we heard from him as he left the room finally. May and I came out underneath of the table.
"Max wants to become the gym leader now? Is that why you came to see me?" she looked at me.
"Yeah I was until we got a little distracted." I laughed and May blushed a bright red and tried to hide it with her clothes. I laughed even more. Soon May stopped hiding her face from me and laughed with me as well. As soon we stopped May looked at me, smiling.
"I'm so happy to be with you again Ash." she grabbed my hand and held it tight.
"Same here May." I smiled back and held her hand tight as well. Finally able to be able to smile with the girl that I was able to convince myself I loved more.
End of chapter
Last minute authors notes.
Was that hot or not? a shirtless Ash with only his pants on and May with only a black bra and demin mini shorts on. oh god, someone draw it for me. so hot. 3 3 3
Anyway this isn't the last of Richie. he is coming back. the next chapter will be split into two parts and then the epilodge. yes, around three chapters to go. lets all get our tissues now shall we? lol.
~midnight