"If you knew that a single moment, perhaps little more than a mere second, could change your life forever, would you still go through with it? I know I wouldn't, but then, I never had that choice." – Ash Ketchum
Disclaimer – I don't own Pokemon. I barely even own the plot because it's loosely and I mean very loosely based on Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol'. That means no Tiny Tim and 'God bless us, everyone' the fundamental moments of the actual story.
This is basically just rewriting Valentines Verse because frankly there are parts in the story that I'm ashamed of, namingly (can you believe that's not a word?! Total outrage) chapter four AKA part III
Valentines Verse: Lost Lyrics Part I – Sing Me A Love Song" . . . You're not sick, you're just in love," the three girls sand in far from perfect harmony immediately accenting it with a chorus of giggles.
"Suddenly, I don't feel that hungry anymore," she said pushing her plate away.
"We wonder why?" one of the three girls asked knowingly.
"We wonder why?" the other two echoed in singsong voices as they prepared to sing the song once again.
Seventeen-year-old Misty Kasumi Waterflower blushed and looked over to her slightly younger best friend Ash Ketchum hoping he hadn't noticed the red tinge across her usually pale cheeks or caught on to her sisters not so subtle hint.
He simply sat there, staring glumly at his food and mashing it up into tiny pieces. Misty looked at him sympathetically wishing there was something she could do to make him feel better, he had been this way since they had arrived in Cerulean City for a break from everything.
Coming home to Cerulean was like a Valentines tradition for Misty. She'd done it for as long as she could remember. She would go to her parents' graves on Valentines, to celebrate their life, rather than their death, and to celebrate that love they had all shared for each other.
"It doesn't look like either of them are like eating," Lilly stated coyly raising an eyebrow at the two.
"Well no offence Lilly," Misty stated trying to make an excuse for her self, at least. "But you never have been the best cook in the world."
The three girls shrugged Misty's comment off as if she hadn't said anything at all and began to sing again. "Love is in the air . . ."
Ash and Misty covered their ears playfully trying to hint to them to stop. But then Misty's sisters had always been clueless to matters such as . . . well . . . any.
"You want to go for a walk, Ash?" Misty asked trying to get him away from her sisters before they just out and out told him her deepest and darkest secret.
The fact was, she was in love with the boy beside her and had been for quite sometime. So long that she could barely remember a time when she wasn't in love with him.
Ash nodded and quickly thanked her sisters for the food though practically untouched then left the table going to the hall to grab their jackets.
"Don't be too long," Violet told them. "Remember you promised to help us decorate for the party."
"How could I ever forget?" Misty replied sarcastically as she too left.
Her sisters threw the biggest and best Valentines Day parties ever which wasn't actually hard seeing as the only people who did anything like that besides them were high schools and rest homes. Her sisters always had the hottest bands, the most fashionable decorations, the edgiest clothes, and the coolest celebrities at their parties. It was in a league of it's own and the competition was slim to none.
Ash being the gentleman that he was helped her with her jacket and opened the door for her as they both headed out for their walk.
Misty smiled as she watched the fresh snow float towards the ground. She tightly wrapped a jacket around herself and Togetic, her youngest and dearest Pokemon keeping it warm as they walked out the door.
Misty's sisters watched them leave.
Daisy sighed. "Don't you just wish that those to would get together so we could just relax, or something?" she asked her sisters.
They nodded in response.
"Totally," Lilly added. "I mean, it is so totally obvious the way they act around each other. It's like they're the only ones who don't see it."
"I wish somebody would just show them how much they need each other, and how bleak their lives could be with out each other," Violet sighed in frustration.
Little did she know, that tonight her wish would come true.
"Ok Ivysaur," Misty called down the Pokemon below. "Make sure you hold the ladder straight."
"Ivy," it replied grinning mischievously, something Misty failed to see from her position that she probably wished she had.
Misty reached up trying to hook up a string of hearts that her sisters insisted just had to be put in the most awkward place of all, then suddenly out of the blue the ladder jarred causing her to loose her balance.
She struggled to stay on the ladder but it was futile. She screamed and closed her eyes tight waiting for the impact of the fall, but it never came.
She opened her eyes cautiously as she felt some unknown source of warmth against her own body. She saw Ash with a faint glow around him and smiled to herself.
"I must be in heaven," she muttered quietly.
"Pardon, Myst?" he asked moving slightly to reveal the source of the glow behind him. It was one of the bright lamps her sisters had set up by the stage for the band tomorrow.
"I just said thank you," she lied her cheeks becoming a faint shade of red.
She felt her heart pounding in her chest. He was so close she could feel his breath against her skin warm and comforting. She could feel his heart, beating in time with her own.
Slowly their faces inched closer and closer. She closed her eyes preparing to close in on that last inch of space that separated them from all they ever wanted. They were so near to the moment she dreamed of for so long she knew it was nothing more than a matter of seconds.
Three . . .
Two . . .
One . . .
BAMM!!!!!!!!!!!
A vine shot out between the two, pushing them apart and denying them those few seconds they had been longing for so long.
They followed the vine with their eyes to it's owner, Chikorita, busy glaring at Ivysaur and Pikachu who stood cowering behind the ladder.
Ash chuckled nervously and placed his hand behind his head as he returned Chikorita to her pokeball.
He wasn't sure which he was more embarrassed about, the fact that he had just practically been attacked by his own Pokemon or the fact that he had just almost kissed Misty, and the fact that he had wanted to kiss her more than he had ever wanted anything in his life.
"Are you ok?" he asked Misty.
She rubbed her arm where Chikorita had nipped it, but other wise she was ok so she just nodded in response.
She was still in shock from what had almost happened and wasn't even sure if she could talk. She decided she was far better just not to take that chance.
"This place looks great," Lilly said as she, Daisy and Violet all walked into the room. It seemed that just when the decoration had begun, they had all found something more important to do.
"Well if were done now, I'm going to bed," Misty said not wanting to stay around and have her sisters ask her about the sudden awkwardness between herself and Ash.
"Yeah, me too," Ash said.
"Spoiled sports," violet replied pouting at them. "We we're just going to do some more like singing."
"Goodnight," Ash and Misty said quickly as they both ran up the stairs to their respective rooms.
Ash had always been a sound sleeper, but tonight was different. He tossed and turned in his sleep the tiniest noises awaking him from his tortured slumber, but at midnight he was suddenly awaken bathed in some kind of ghostly glow.
"Ashton Satoshi Ketchum," an unseen figure bellowed.
Ash gasped and all he could do was reply to it with a meek, "yes."
~ to be continued ~
As you can tell if you ever read Valentines Verse this story is basically the same. The main change will probably just be a more developed writing style and the later chapters. I'm especially going to change the ending seeing as that was one thing that got a lot of complaints in the original because they had been together like five minutes and he just proposed for no particular reason.
So please review, five would be good, ten would be great and anything over fifteen would be bloody brilliant.
And thank you to iCy CaNdY, DigiDestined of Courage, crazysexycoolbabe, LiZzIe (even though I forced her too), Azian, Sailor Epyon, 9065, tmp and NiChoMiMeSaJe who all reviewed the original of this story even though it was considerably lame.
