Love Will Find A Way
VenusFlame2
Part 7: Obvious & Mutual
Ash looked for Misty for hours, every place he could think of and she wasn't there. Where could she be? He breathed heavily as he sat himself on the ground and leaned against a large tree, exhausted. He deeply sighed.
"That's it, I give up...! Maybe it just wasn't meant to be..." Just then two people walked over to Ash.
"Ash?" Asked a voice from above him. Ash cocked his head up to the person. It was April.
"Oh, hey, April." He spotted a guy beside her and gave a questionable look.
"Oh, this is Jeremy," intorduced April.
"Hi," greeted Ash with little enthusiasm.
"Hey," smiled Jeremy. April looked around Ash.
"Uh... Where's Misty?"
"I don't know," Ash shrugged, he put his head down and leaned himself more against the tree. "And I'm not sure I should care anymore."
"What? Ash, come on, I thought I had a deal, I'll return to Jeremy and you get Misty to be with you, what happened?"
"I don't know," Ash said defensivily, he lifted himself from the ground. "Nothing I do ever seemed to be good enough for her, I've been thinking maybe she's not worth this at all."
"Ash... Don't say that," demanded April.
"It's true, I've been looking all day and I still can't find her, I can't help it if she's starting to have doubts, but I'm tired of going through all of this."
"Ash, love is worth the wait," informed Jeremy as he placed his arm around April. April looked back at Jeremy and smiled.
"Sounds like something Misty would say," Ash thought out loud.
"I think it was, she probably told me sometime around when she was giving me advice about love and dating of course she had no idea the guy was you."
"Why didn't you tell her?" Asked Ash.
"Because... I..." April looked down ashamed and started fidgeting with her fingers. "I knew she'd stand in the way because I knew behind it all she really liked you, but that was back when I wasn't thinking straight. Now, I'm with Jeremy like I'm suppose to be and you... You should be with Misty, like you're suppose to be. What's stopping you?"
"The fact that I can't find her," Ash looked around one more time, "anywhere."
"Where could she be?" Wondered Jeremy.
"Ash knows," smiled April in much certainty.
"I do?" Asked Ash. April giggled.
"Cluelessly cute," she smiled, "Of course you know Ash, you're smarter than you give yourself credit for, just think... Close your eyes and listen to what your body's telling you."
"What my body's... Telling me?" Ash still remained clueless.
"Just do it!" Demanded April more annoyed, realizing how much she started to sound like Misty, she calmed herself down and added, "... Please?" Ash did as she said, he closed his eyes and tried listening as hard as he could.
"What is your body telling you?"
"All I hear are children playing and cars passing and... Pokemon!" Ash immedietly opened his eyes happily, April shook her head slowly and grabbed Ash's arm.
"Ash, please, stay with us... I mean... What are your instincts telling you... What is your heart saying?" Ash tried again and sighed out in a frustration.
"I can't see nothing, I can feel nothing, I'm just not the romantic type just like Misty always says."
"And don't you ALWAYS want to prove her wrong?" April pointed out.
"Well..."
"Fine, Ash, give up. Give up on having something beautiful and rare and great," she put her arms around Jeremy's waist and began to walk away. "Why should I care...! Funny though, I never knew you as a quitter." Ash ran to her and stood in their path angrily.
"I'm not a quitter," he protested.
"That's what I thought when I saw you battle, you're not afraid of taking chances when it comes to pokemon, battles and challenges but as soon as something comes along that's out of your leauge, you run away scared," assumed April. "You just can't handle a real challenge, something you can't control or demand or battle."
"No! I never give up, not on my pokemon, not on my friends, not on anything. No matter what it is."
"So why should love be any different?" Asked April.
"I don't want to give up on Misty, but I can't find her anywhere," explained Ash.
"Oh, so that means you're allowed to give in, if you're battling and you find yourself in a tough spot, do you just throw in the towel? Tell me, Ash, I wanna learn from the expert." She seemed to be getting hard on him.
"No, of course not, if it gets tough you hang in there, you keep faith inside of you through anything."
"Ex-actly."
"Oh," said Ash realizing what she was doing.
"What are your instincts telling you now?" Grinned April. Ash sighed looking at her.
"That I should go find Misty." April and Jeremy both nodded in agreement. Ash ran off and kept looking for her, he came back to April's house where of course April wasn't at anymore and ran to the door.
"I looked everywhere else, maybe she decided to come back," thought Ash out loud before he could reach the door knob and door opened and there stood Misty. They looked at each other surprised, before Ash could say anything Misty spoke.
"Ash," she said breathlessly.
"You seem... Happy to see me," noticed Ash feeling a bit confused.
"I had a talk with Brock, he made a lot of good points." She turned back around and took off her jacket, Ash followed her inside and closed the door behind him not taking his eyes off her. The couch was still folded out into a bed, Misty walked over and sat on it, Ash sat beside her waiting for her to continue.
"All this time waiting for you to come around, to realize the reason why I always got frustrated when you weren't as into romance as much as I wished, it felt like I've been waiting forever for you." Misty saw how Ash's face filled with guilt and part sadness too.
"No, but that's a good thing," Misty added. "It was worth the wait. I was just angry that it took you so long to realize and when you finally said those words I wanted to hear for so long, I couldn't help but... Hate you. I couldn't help but wonder why didn't you realize sooner."
"Misty... I..."
"But then I realized-well, actually Brock helped me see that I never said anything. I couldn't go around giving tiny signs and mixed signals in hopes you'd figure it out. That wasn't your job and if I wanted you to know how I felt about all this, I should have said something, I shouldn't have kept it to myself, this was my fault and it had nothing to with you and I'm sorry."
"I never understood why you liked that stuff, romance and love, it was always so predictable, it would always end in a kiss, through all they went through you'd know in the end 'love' would always come through, don't you ever get sick of the same thing sometimes?"
"Of course you would, you love adventures and changes and unpredictableness. But a kiss in the end, it's one of those things I never get tired of seeing," smiled Misty gazing into her own little world. "It just shows they could get through anything as long as those two people believed in each other. But love is just about kissy kissy mushy stuff that you stick your tounge at, Ash. It's really like a pokemon battle when you think about it."
"Really?" Ash questioned skeptical, "I would doubt it." Misty swung her head to him accepting the challenge he was giving her.
"Want me to prove it?" Ash nodded his answer and Misty continued for him. "All right then, the key to a battle is never giving up, uptaining strategies and strenght through everything. Well, love takes that too, it takes faith and trust and strenght of two people equal sides giving all they have to keep their love going strong."
"I guess you're right," considered Ash starting to believe her. Misty looked away from him and leaned foward.
"Course the kissing part's not so bad either." Ash studied Misty for a moment and smiled.
"Guess somethings never get old..." Misty looked over at Ash and leaned back to him.
"The obstycles, the feelings, the heartbreaks, the solutions and then finally the same ending kiss."
"Like in every fairy tale," mention Ash.
"Only no Fairy Godmother, just Brock," giggled Misty.
"And no prince charming," blushed Ash, "just me... Clueless, un- romantic me..."
"Where were you all these hours?"
"Looking for you," answered Ash. She leaned closer and looked him dead sqaure in the eye.
"That sounds pretty romantic to me."
"Really?" Asked Ash optimistically.
"Yeah, you just might be growing up, Ash Ketchum," Ash smiled at her compliment, Misty returned the smile, it slowly faded as she looked down. "You know, Ash, I was really close to giving up on you, on us, but something told me not to, something told me to just wait."
"I could understand you getting tired of waiting though," asured Ash falling back first to the bed. Misty looked over her shoulder to see him laying down there, he still kept his eye on her.
"Still I shouldn't have been so quick to do that."
"It's all right and I'm sorry too, for not being the kind of guy I know you'd want me to be."
"No, that's okay, I wouldn't..." Misty paused and smiled widely at him, "I wouldn't love you any other way."
"Love?"
"Yeah... Love." Ash didn't have to ask anything more he knew what it meant, Misty did love him just the way he loved her. Misty waiting for a while, finally she rolled her eyes and snapped, "Ash, aren't you gonna kiss me already?" Ash grinned confidently folding his arms behind his head and resting peacefully closing his eyes.
"I thought we both agreed that mushy love stuff about a kiss in the end was boring, couldn't for once we just leave it the way it is?" Misty sighed softly, would she have to wait for him for this too? Had he learned nothing?
"I should have known, Ash can be so predictable when it comes to romantic things like that," sighed Misty softly.
Suddenly she felt a shadow cast over her back and a hand gently but forcefully turn her face towards his direction and Ash's face leaned in and pressed his lips gently against hers and fell deeper into it the more time passed. Misty felt like she was melting into him as she put one hand on his shoulder and leaned herself closer to him.
"Wow," breathed Misty as they broke apart, she stared at Ash surprised. "I didn't expect that... Not from you."
"Guess I'm more romantic then you give me credit for," grinned Ash proudly.
"Yeah, you are... But I thought you weren't into this romantic mushy stuff..."
"I could grow into it," shrugged Ash, "As long as you were there waiting for me if I fell behind."
"I always was, wasn't I? I'll always be, I never thought you'd be such a romantic though," joked Misty.
"Never say never, Misty, besides..." He gripped her arm and leaned closer, both their eyes staring deeply into each other, "I learned from the best." Misty didn't think it was possible but she smiled even more then before at Ash, surprised and amazed at his change in attiuide.
"So did I," said Misty. Brock and Pikachu stood in the hallway watching the whole thing. Misty never cared to talk about Ash and April dating and April never mentioned to Jeremy about Ash, they didn't need another thing to argue about.
Misty held a new respect for Ash, she was more patient with him and Ash appreciated Misty more and as long as they shared this mutual agreement, things would be just fine, as long as they had each other and it was always obvious to tell they were in love, no one could stand in their way. As long as he believe in her and she believed in him there'd always be a way, they'd always stand a chance. And as long as Brock and Pikachu were nearby to keep an eye on them, they'd always be working things through whenever times got hard again.
So in the end everything worked out, after the doubts and set backs it all came together, there Ash and Misty were on the beginning of a freash new start, finally finding something more, something better, something beautiful. And sealing the deal with a kiss as in every romance story. Ash leaned forward and place another kiss on Misty unable to help himself.
"It never gets old, eh, Pikachu? " smiled Brock watching the two.
"Cha..."
The End
VenusFlame2
Part 7: Obvious & Mutual
Ash looked for Misty for hours, every place he could think of and she wasn't there. Where could she be? He breathed heavily as he sat himself on the ground and leaned against a large tree, exhausted. He deeply sighed.
"That's it, I give up...! Maybe it just wasn't meant to be..." Just then two people walked over to Ash.
"Ash?" Asked a voice from above him. Ash cocked his head up to the person. It was April.
"Oh, hey, April." He spotted a guy beside her and gave a questionable look.
"Oh, this is Jeremy," intorduced April.
"Hi," greeted Ash with little enthusiasm.
"Hey," smiled Jeremy. April looked around Ash.
"Uh... Where's Misty?"
"I don't know," Ash shrugged, he put his head down and leaned himself more against the tree. "And I'm not sure I should care anymore."
"What? Ash, come on, I thought I had a deal, I'll return to Jeremy and you get Misty to be with you, what happened?"
"I don't know," Ash said defensivily, he lifted himself from the ground. "Nothing I do ever seemed to be good enough for her, I've been thinking maybe she's not worth this at all."
"Ash... Don't say that," demanded April.
"It's true, I've been looking all day and I still can't find her, I can't help it if she's starting to have doubts, but I'm tired of going through all of this."
"Ash, love is worth the wait," informed Jeremy as he placed his arm around April. April looked back at Jeremy and smiled.
"Sounds like something Misty would say," Ash thought out loud.
"I think it was, she probably told me sometime around when she was giving me advice about love and dating of course she had no idea the guy was you."
"Why didn't you tell her?" Asked Ash.
"Because... I..." April looked down ashamed and started fidgeting with her fingers. "I knew she'd stand in the way because I knew behind it all she really liked you, but that was back when I wasn't thinking straight. Now, I'm with Jeremy like I'm suppose to be and you... You should be with Misty, like you're suppose to be. What's stopping you?"
"The fact that I can't find her," Ash looked around one more time, "anywhere."
"Where could she be?" Wondered Jeremy.
"Ash knows," smiled April in much certainty.
"I do?" Asked Ash. April giggled.
"Cluelessly cute," she smiled, "Of course you know Ash, you're smarter than you give yourself credit for, just think... Close your eyes and listen to what your body's telling you."
"What my body's... Telling me?" Ash still remained clueless.
"Just do it!" Demanded April more annoyed, realizing how much she started to sound like Misty, she calmed herself down and added, "... Please?" Ash did as she said, he closed his eyes and tried listening as hard as he could.
"What is your body telling you?"
"All I hear are children playing and cars passing and... Pokemon!" Ash immedietly opened his eyes happily, April shook her head slowly and grabbed Ash's arm.
"Ash, please, stay with us... I mean... What are your instincts telling you... What is your heart saying?" Ash tried again and sighed out in a frustration.
"I can't see nothing, I can feel nothing, I'm just not the romantic type just like Misty always says."
"And don't you ALWAYS want to prove her wrong?" April pointed out.
"Well..."
"Fine, Ash, give up. Give up on having something beautiful and rare and great," she put her arms around Jeremy's waist and began to walk away. "Why should I care...! Funny though, I never knew you as a quitter." Ash ran to her and stood in their path angrily.
"I'm not a quitter," he protested.
"That's what I thought when I saw you battle, you're not afraid of taking chances when it comes to pokemon, battles and challenges but as soon as something comes along that's out of your leauge, you run away scared," assumed April. "You just can't handle a real challenge, something you can't control or demand or battle."
"No! I never give up, not on my pokemon, not on my friends, not on anything. No matter what it is."
"So why should love be any different?" Asked April.
"I don't want to give up on Misty, but I can't find her anywhere," explained Ash.
"Oh, so that means you're allowed to give in, if you're battling and you find yourself in a tough spot, do you just throw in the towel? Tell me, Ash, I wanna learn from the expert." She seemed to be getting hard on him.
"No, of course not, if it gets tough you hang in there, you keep faith inside of you through anything."
"Ex-actly."
"Oh," said Ash realizing what she was doing.
"What are your instincts telling you now?" Grinned April. Ash sighed looking at her.
"That I should go find Misty." April and Jeremy both nodded in agreement. Ash ran off and kept looking for her, he came back to April's house where of course April wasn't at anymore and ran to the door.
"I looked everywhere else, maybe she decided to come back," thought Ash out loud before he could reach the door knob and door opened and there stood Misty. They looked at each other surprised, before Ash could say anything Misty spoke.
"Ash," she said breathlessly.
"You seem... Happy to see me," noticed Ash feeling a bit confused.
"I had a talk with Brock, he made a lot of good points." She turned back around and took off her jacket, Ash followed her inside and closed the door behind him not taking his eyes off her. The couch was still folded out into a bed, Misty walked over and sat on it, Ash sat beside her waiting for her to continue.
"All this time waiting for you to come around, to realize the reason why I always got frustrated when you weren't as into romance as much as I wished, it felt like I've been waiting forever for you." Misty saw how Ash's face filled with guilt and part sadness too.
"No, but that's a good thing," Misty added. "It was worth the wait. I was just angry that it took you so long to realize and when you finally said those words I wanted to hear for so long, I couldn't help but... Hate you. I couldn't help but wonder why didn't you realize sooner."
"Misty... I..."
"But then I realized-well, actually Brock helped me see that I never said anything. I couldn't go around giving tiny signs and mixed signals in hopes you'd figure it out. That wasn't your job and if I wanted you to know how I felt about all this, I should have said something, I shouldn't have kept it to myself, this was my fault and it had nothing to with you and I'm sorry."
"I never understood why you liked that stuff, romance and love, it was always so predictable, it would always end in a kiss, through all they went through you'd know in the end 'love' would always come through, don't you ever get sick of the same thing sometimes?"
"Of course you would, you love adventures and changes and unpredictableness. But a kiss in the end, it's one of those things I never get tired of seeing," smiled Misty gazing into her own little world. "It just shows they could get through anything as long as those two people believed in each other. But love is just about kissy kissy mushy stuff that you stick your tounge at, Ash. It's really like a pokemon battle when you think about it."
"Really?" Ash questioned skeptical, "I would doubt it." Misty swung her head to him accepting the challenge he was giving her.
"Want me to prove it?" Ash nodded his answer and Misty continued for him. "All right then, the key to a battle is never giving up, uptaining strategies and strenght through everything. Well, love takes that too, it takes faith and trust and strenght of two people equal sides giving all they have to keep their love going strong."
"I guess you're right," considered Ash starting to believe her. Misty looked away from him and leaned foward.
"Course the kissing part's not so bad either." Ash studied Misty for a moment and smiled.
"Guess somethings never get old..." Misty looked over at Ash and leaned back to him.
"The obstycles, the feelings, the heartbreaks, the solutions and then finally the same ending kiss."
"Like in every fairy tale," mention Ash.
"Only no Fairy Godmother, just Brock," giggled Misty.
"And no prince charming," blushed Ash, "just me... Clueless, un- romantic me..."
"Where were you all these hours?"
"Looking for you," answered Ash. She leaned closer and looked him dead sqaure in the eye.
"That sounds pretty romantic to me."
"Really?" Asked Ash optimistically.
"Yeah, you just might be growing up, Ash Ketchum," Ash smiled at her compliment, Misty returned the smile, it slowly faded as she looked down. "You know, Ash, I was really close to giving up on you, on us, but something told me not to, something told me to just wait."
"I could understand you getting tired of waiting though," asured Ash falling back first to the bed. Misty looked over her shoulder to see him laying down there, he still kept his eye on her.
"Still I shouldn't have been so quick to do that."
"It's all right and I'm sorry too, for not being the kind of guy I know you'd want me to be."
"No, that's okay, I wouldn't..." Misty paused and smiled widely at him, "I wouldn't love you any other way."
"Love?"
"Yeah... Love." Ash didn't have to ask anything more he knew what it meant, Misty did love him just the way he loved her. Misty waiting for a while, finally she rolled her eyes and snapped, "Ash, aren't you gonna kiss me already?" Ash grinned confidently folding his arms behind his head and resting peacefully closing his eyes.
"I thought we both agreed that mushy love stuff about a kiss in the end was boring, couldn't for once we just leave it the way it is?" Misty sighed softly, would she have to wait for him for this too? Had he learned nothing?
"I should have known, Ash can be so predictable when it comes to romantic things like that," sighed Misty softly.
Suddenly she felt a shadow cast over her back and a hand gently but forcefully turn her face towards his direction and Ash's face leaned in and pressed his lips gently against hers and fell deeper into it the more time passed. Misty felt like she was melting into him as she put one hand on his shoulder and leaned herself closer to him.
"Wow," breathed Misty as they broke apart, she stared at Ash surprised. "I didn't expect that... Not from you."
"Guess I'm more romantic then you give me credit for," grinned Ash proudly.
"Yeah, you are... But I thought you weren't into this romantic mushy stuff..."
"I could grow into it," shrugged Ash, "As long as you were there waiting for me if I fell behind."
"I always was, wasn't I? I'll always be, I never thought you'd be such a romantic though," joked Misty.
"Never say never, Misty, besides..." He gripped her arm and leaned closer, both their eyes staring deeply into each other, "I learned from the best." Misty didn't think it was possible but she smiled even more then before at Ash, surprised and amazed at his change in attiuide.
"So did I," said Misty. Brock and Pikachu stood in the hallway watching the whole thing. Misty never cared to talk about Ash and April dating and April never mentioned to Jeremy about Ash, they didn't need another thing to argue about.
Misty held a new respect for Ash, she was more patient with him and Ash appreciated Misty more and as long as they shared this mutual agreement, things would be just fine, as long as they had each other and it was always obvious to tell they were in love, no one could stand in their way. As long as he believe in her and she believed in him there'd always be a way, they'd always stand a chance. And as long as Brock and Pikachu were nearby to keep an eye on them, they'd always be working things through whenever times got hard again.
So in the end everything worked out, after the doubts and set backs it all came together, there Ash and Misty were on the beginning of a freash new start, finally finding something more, something better, something beautiful. And sealing the deal with a kiss as in every romance story. Ash leaned forward and place another kiss on Misty unable to help himself.
"It never gets old, eh, Pikachu? " smiled Brock watching the two.
"Cha..."
The End