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Chapter Four:

Delia heard the front door open and Ash call out his greeting. "I'm in here Ash." She said surprised when Gary followed her son into the house. "Gary how nice to see you."

"I'm going to take a shower Gary just wanted to use the phone to call his sister since his Dad blocked his mobile." Delia nodded she had finally managed to dig the truth out of May during one of their chats.

Ash said goodbye to Gary and headed up stairs. "Gary before you call May can I ask you something?" Delia said glancing at him she was nervous about this but she was curious.

"Yes Ms. Ketchum." Gary said curious what was going on Ash's mother rarely spoke to him directly usually just to Ash, his sister or his grandfather. He noticed how tense she looked and mentally cursed. [If she knows she's probably going to tell me to stay away from her normal son.]

"Are you interested in my son?" Delia said finally. "I know your gay and I don't care I'm just curious if you like Ash in that way." She watched him look away and sighed. "You do don't you."

"Yes I do." Gary said glancing away. "It started that night in the hotel despite his less than pleasant reaction to me coming out to him." Gary seemed to laugh. "That's why he got the bloody nose by the way." She nodded she had figured as much. "But after he apologized I wasn't sure if I should believe him." Gary smiled "But then he was nice to me and helped take my mind off the ordeal with Grandpa."

"You do know Ash is involved with Misty." Delia said hoping to head off a potential Crisis she took in the boy in front of her and noticed the angry look in his eyes. "Your not going to try to come between them are you."

Gary sighed. "No I wouldn't do that I'd be afraid Ash would hate me." Gary glanced at her. "Besides Misty is okay I guess and Ash seems to really care about her." Delia nodded and gestured for him to use the phone.

Pikachu who had watched this exchange silently seemed to think for a bit then she raced outside to find Misty.

Ash meanwhile stood in shock by the vent in his closet. He had learned long ago that vent would allow him to listen in on every room in the house. It had alerted him when his mother was angry at him and discussing his punishment with her friends on the telephone. [Gary is interested in me in that way.] Ash couldn't believe it. [I thought that time at the hotel was a one time thing.]

Ash got up and grabbed his clothes and headed to take the shower though he really wasn't in the mood to do so he knew if he didn't his mom might suspect he had over heard them.

Misty sighed she couldn't find Ash or Gary anywhere. [Gary better not have drug Ash off somewhere private to try to seduce him.] She was furious then she saw Brock walking along and headed up to him. "Hey Brock have you seen Ash."

"Misty Hi nope why are you looking for him?" Brock asked he couldn't help but wonder what Ash had done to deserve the scowl Misty had on her face. Brock glanced around past her.

"I need to talk to him." Misty was furious. "And I'm going to have to do something about Gary." She said glancing at Brock and noticing his quizzical expression. "Gary is gay and I'm sure he's going to try to take Ash from me."

Brock just stared. "Isn't that a bit paranoid Ash loves you Misty." He didn't like the fact she was fearful of loosing Ash to Gary of all people.

"It's just you know as well as I do how big Ash's heart is I'm afraid Gary will try to seduce him away by promising him he can stay a pokemon trainer for ever." She scowled. "Ash and I have been needing to talk for a while and I won't be a pokemon trainers widow."

Brock looked at her. "Misty this has been coming for a while hasn't it." When she nodded he continued. "You afraid he's just been trying to keep you happy by not showing any decisiveness like he's trying to make comfortable with his way of life."

"Yes." Misty said "I can't live this way with a boyfriend who won't tell me what he wants except for the fact he wants to waste his life traveling." Pikachu watched from her perch in the trees she wasn't very thrilled with this development.

Ash was laying on his bed thinking. [I still can't believe Gary has a crush on me.] Ash glanced at his ceiling and sighed. [I guess I should be flattered given how good he looks and how nice a personality he has.] Ash scowled. [I sound like some love struck school girl.] Ash froze at that [What the could I be attracted to Gary too, nonsense I am in love with Misty.]

Ash sighed and tried to devert his mind to other things but his rather uncooperative brain kept dragging him back to Gary Oak. "This is so frustrating." he said darkly.

"What is?" Ash set bolt upright to glance at his mother. "I wondered why you hadn't come downstairs after your shower." She had glanced into his room to see him deep in thought and then hear him utter those words.

"It's nothing important." Ash said turning to glance out the window. When he turned back she was just giving him her Motherly you can talk to me about anything stare. "I'm kind of confused about things."

"It wouldn't happen to do with a certain red head named Gary Oak." Delia Ketchum said sitting down on the bed. "I was hoping you'd got over your habit of eves dropping threw the vent."

Ash turned an interesting shade of red. "I didn't know you knew about that."

"Ash I'm your mother I know everything." She said with a laugh then sobered quickly. "Ash are you in love with Misty?" She looked at him with her sternest tell me the truth looks.

"Yes." Ash said "She's my best friend." He watched her look at him oddly. "What why do you seem so shocked."

"Ash do you really only love Misty cause she's your friend." She asked hesitantly. "If so then maybe you need to think about why you are with her?"

Ash seemed to think for a while what did his mother mean. "What do you mean Mom?" He glanced at her when she made an exasperated sigh.

"Ash Ketchum you are so clueless Misty intends to Marry you and have a family with you some day do you want the same thing?" Ash just stared at his mother slack jawed and open mouthed. "You should think about things."

Ash stared after his mother as she left him alone in his room to think about things and so he flopped back to do just that. Ash felt the bed impact slightly as Pikachu jumped up on it and made it's way over to him. He glanced at her and noticed how concerned she looked. "What's wrong Pikachu?"

Ash listened as Pikachu did a rather odd series and chirps that he guessed implied that Misty and Brock where talking about him. "I guess you worried about how me and Misty's relationship is going?" When his friend nodded he smiled sadly. "I don't have a clue either that's what I'm trying to figure out."

Ash resumed his thinking as he began to absentmindedly scratch Pikachu behind the ears. [Do I want to get married and raise a kids get a normal job?] He asked himself and immediately rejected the notion. [I plan to be a pokemon trainer as long as I am able I don't really care if I ever have kids I just want to do what I love doing.] Ash scowled [I don't think Misty understand that about me.] He grimaced [A Pokemon Trainer is who and what I am I can't be anything else.]

[I have to be true to myself just like Gary is being true to himself.] Ash sighed. [And now were back to Gary what do I really think about him?] he asked himself only to yawn causing Pikachu to look at him strangely. "All this thinking is tiring me out I think I'll take a nap and deal with it when I wake up."

"Pika pi." The small electric mouse said in annoyance her trainer was terrible about doing stuff like this.

Ash set up with a bit of a start panting. [What a dream!] He thought then scowled as he noticed the evidence of his dream a familiar squishy feeling in his jeans. [Damn you'd think since Misty and I started having sex these would stop.] He sighed and laid back trying to remember the details of his dream. [Lets see I was on a beach with Gary and then we got into an argument about me going soft and ...] Ash trailed off as he recalled exactly how he'd shown Gary he hadn't gone soft.

Ash sighed wondering what that ment before had time to think on it much there was a knock on his door. "Ash can I come in we need to talk about things?" Ash sighed he had been hoping to avoid Misty till he figured this all out.

"Yeah come on in Misty." Ash said as he watched her enter using a nearbye blanket to cover the evidence of his dream. [She's angry and scared about something.] Ash smiled despite what she and the others thought he was good at reading people when he choose to be. "What do you want to talk about?"

"About our relationship and where it's going I want to know what do you want out of it?" Misty asked hoping once again Brock was right about this approach.

"Not what you want I'm sure." Ash said watching her face falling he said. "You want a normal life I can't give you that we should break up." Ash found it hurt but only because he was hurting her.

"What how can you say that so calmly?" Misty yelled loosing her temper if she had something to hit him with she would probably have killed him.

Ash sighed "I've just been thinking I don't think we can last as lovers one of us would end up miserable I'm sorry." He said and then asked a question that he hoped the answer would be yes too. "Misty can we still be friends?" He elaborated trying to convince her. "We've been best friends for so long and I don't want to loose that."

"I don't know Ash." she said darkly her temper still causing her eyes to flash dangerously. "I just don't know goodbye Ash." She said heading downstairs.

Ash sighed and wondered if he should go after her or not. Glancing at Pikachu yielded no answer.

To Be continued...