Dear Misty,
I'm really
glad to hear that you're doing fine. I guess I could say the same about me.
Although it has become very quiet here, and Pikachu seems to miss you and
Togepi a lot. He wanted me to include one of his finger-paint pictures he made just
for you. You will find it in the same envelope as the letter. I hope he never
gets such a crazy idea again!
You
wouldn't believe what a mess he created in the kitchen!
It was …
it's really hard to find words expressing half the destruction I've seen!
It looked
like he had tried about 8 different motives: 4 actually on his paper sheets,
the other 4 ones on the tiled floor!
Even Mr.
Mime was stunned when he saw that chaos, not to mention Mom.
Well,
actually she just stood there smiling like always, patting Pikachu on the head
to congratulate him for his great artwork!
Sometimes I
think I'll never understand her…
Well, after
5 hours of reeaaallllyyyy hard work, I finally finished cleaning, just to see
Pikachu waddling in with dirty feet!
I don't
know what has gotten into him, but I think it's just his way of coping with
your absence. At least I hope so…
Well, and
for the others, holiday season just started and people are rushing in to
sunbath and enjoy a swim in the sea. I think you can guess what that means for
Brock:
He has gone
into his regular
I'm-a-lovesick-teenager-who-drools-over-everything-that-is-female-and-walking-on-two-legs
mode. I'd be your mallets high time! (I
think of buying one myself, cuz it can get really annoy when he starts drooling
and flowing in the air every two seconds… that means if he at all comes down
except for at nighttime).
By the way,
I've resumed my Pokémon training. Though I'm still around Pallet, as there are
a lot more Pokémon around here than I thought.
Prof. Oak
gave me some pieces of advice and I even captured some new Pokémon on the way!
My favorite
is the baby Eevee I captured yesterday. Well, I didn't really capture it. One
of the travelers had an Eevee couple with him, and while he was crossing the
forest near Pallet, the female Eevee went into labor.
I helped
the traveler to get her to the next Pokémon center, where she gave birth to
four incredibly cute (I never thought I'd ever say something like this…) baby
Eevees. And guess what: to thank me for my help, he gave me one of the babies
as soon as he left town and the baby was old enough to be taken away from it's
mother.
Little
Eevee seems to like everybody a lot, and especially Pikachu seems to develop a
certain liking for it. I think he's glad to have a baby around againJ
I think I
could write like this for hours, I gotta stop now, cuz Mom wants to go shopping
and I promised to accompany her (why did I ever agree on that??J)
Bye,
Ash
P.S.:
Pikachu says I gotta say hi back to you for your saying hi in the last letter
(wow, that's lots of his).
P.P.S.:
You're lucky, I was just about to do some dense things when your letter arrivedJ No, really, I'll try to behave. (Though I
don't say I'll succeed in thatJ)
Misty stood
at the edge of the large pool, watching Staryu trying to get to know the
Starmie of another trainer.
The teenage
girl, smiling at her Pokémon's efforts, sat down at the edge and let her feet
dangle in the cool refreshing water.
Letting her
gaze wander over the water's trouble surface spotting several Pokémon belonging
to her fellow students, she let her mind drift away on the soft currents of the
transparent liquid.
Like so
often over the past few days, she had to think of Ash. Somehow, she wasn't able
to banish him from her mind, though it would help her a lot to improve her
ability to concentrate on her work.
Sure,
training her Pokémon and conversing with other trainers temporally distracted
her, but something always brought the memory back. Something in her
subconscious seemed to be wanting to rise to the surface, demanding for
attention.
After all,
her feelings for Ash were far too strong to simply be suppressed. And
seemingly, the great distance between her and the one who was driving her crazy
hadn't done anything but strengthen those feelings, tightening the emotional
bonds she would have wanted to loosen.
They had
just made so much precious experience together, had spent their everyday life
together, that it had become hard to even imagine a life without the other. Yet
now they had bare it.
Smiling,
she thought of Ash's last letter and the cute painting Pikachu had enclosed for
her. When she had looked at it for the first time, she hadn't recognized much
more than just a few lines, resembling an abstract piece of modern art. But
after studying it for several minutes, she recognized patterns in it, and
shortly after was able to see several simply drawn figures: two taller ones and
a pile of small ones.
The left of
the tall ones had a black spot at the top, and a small red one in it, the right
one had a red "head". Misty giggled as she noticed that those two figures
should be standing for Ash and Misty, who were holding hands, surrounded by all
their Pokémon (which were represented by the small piles of lines).
In that
moment, Misty had felt very homesick. Loneliness had crushed over her like a
wave rushing onto the shore, accompanied by regret and doubt.
With a
sigh, she had pushed these feelings aside and hung the picture onto the wall.
No every
time when Misty felt lonely, she looked at the picture and instantly, her state
improved, the nearly unrecognizable pile of lines and paw prints spending
consolation.
I have
to remind myself to tell Ash to thank Pikachu for that one, she wrote a mental note for
herself.
Thanks
Ash, and thanks Pikachu. Thank for all the love you two are giving me.
A/n: I'm
sorry it again took me that long to post something, and that I didn't post
more, but writing these lines (and the ones above), I was suffering from an
annoying and thickheaded headache. Plus my comp broke down two times, yet
luckily I had backup files of this. Somebody obviously wants me to stop writing
this… but for now, I won't! This is a fanfic I really wanna be finished before
summer break, or at least be finished at all! This should tell u it's not the
end now, though I don't think there's any hint about that. And by the way,
thanx everybody for their great reviews! They really keep me going! J ThankiesJ If you got any criticism – whether
positive or negative doesn't matter – then please review and tell me. I'd be
very grateful, really. So bye for now, hope to be able to post the next chapter
soon.
P.S: For
anybody who also read my FF7 or Breath of Fire 2 fanfics, please don't be mad
at me! I'm just working on them to post the next chapter tomorrow or the day
after, but I promise it won't take me that long this time. I apologize to
everybody on this way if I let you wait.