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Reasons of the Heart – Angel

Misty carefully checked the mirror one last time before she walked out the door.  She was an obvious perfectionist and she could never walk past a mirror without checking every hair was in place.  It didn't matter if she was going out with the girls or meeting some guy for dinner, first impressions were important to her and perfection sure made them an easier feat to conquer.

Misty stopped and screwed up her nose.  She looked great in her vintage denim hip hugger jeans, black lacey top with a satin camisole underneath and hoop earrings, but something just didn't look right.  She tried pulling her hair up into a bun, then down on her shoulders and several other styles before she finally opted to have it in pigtails at the sides with a few strands free at the front.

She walked to the door taking a quick glance down the corridor before stepping out and making a dash for the front door.  "This is not a date," she muttered to herself as she slowly made her way to their meeting place being careful not to get any dirt on her new boots.  She tried to shake off the sinking feeling she had as she walked that she had forgotten something.

Spend all your time waiting

For that second chance

For a break that will make it ok

There's always some reason

To feel not good enough

And it's hard at the end of the day

I need some distraction

Beautiful release

Memory seeps from my veins

Let me be empty

And weightless and maybe

I'll find some peace tonight

In the arms of the angel

Fly away from here

From this dark cool hotel room

And the endlessness that you fear

You are pulled from the wreckage

Of your silent reverie

You're in the arms of the angel

May you find

Some comfort here

So tired of the straight life

And everywhere you turn

There's vultures and thieves at your back

The storm keeps on twisting

You keep building on the lies

That you make up for all that you lack

It don't make no difference

Escaping one last time

It's easier to believe

In this sweet madness

All this glorious sadness

That brings me to my knees

In the arms of the angel

Fly away from here

From this dark cool hotel room

And the endlessness that you fear

You are pulled from the wreckage

Of your silent reverie

You're in the arms of the angel

May you find

Some comfort here

You're in the arms of the angel

May you find

Some comfort here

Some comfort here

('Angel" by Westlife)

Ash sat in his usual booth in the far corner of the restaurant.  He tried not to look at the door even though it was all he wanted to do.  He took a quick casual glance now and then hoping that it wouldn't be the moment that she decided to walk through the door.

"Do you have to be so obvious?" a female voice beside him asked.

"What?" Ash asked turning towards the girl.

"What's her name?" she asked.

"What makes you think I'm waiting for a girl?" he asked.

Amanda just rolled her eyes and let out a soft chuckle.  "Really Ash, I've known you since we were kids," she told him.  "Do you really think you can fool me? It's so obvious that it's just not funny."

"Why do you care?" he asked.

"No reason," she shrugged.  "Just wanted to make sure that you weren't being unfaithful to Misty."

"Funny," he said sarcastically.  "Can you just get me a coke?"

"Sure," Amanda said as she walked off.

Ash glanced towards the door and smiled as he saw Misty walk in looking perfect as always.  She stopped to chat to a few friends before she noticed him and headed towards his booth.

"Wow Misty, you look great," he awed.

"Um . . . thanks," she replied nervously.  "So why don't we just get straight into business?  Any specifications?"

"Well the guys said no costumes," he told her off the top of his head.

"Damn, that's too bad," she sighed.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"Its just that my sorority overrule your frat by one vote," she said smiling sickeningly sweet as she rested her chin on her hands.  "Hope they don't mind."

"I guess they wont," he shrugged.

"Here's your coke Ash," Amanda said as she brought over Ash's drink.  "Can I get you . . . " she began as she turned to Ash's date.  "Oh my gosh, Misty what are you doing here?"

"Amanda?" Misty asked before the girl replied with a quick nod of the head.  "I can't believe it's you.  You look great."

"Thank you," she smiled.  "You look amazing Misty, so what are you doing here with . . . well . . . him?  I mean I know he's my cousin and all but really Misty, you could do better."

Misty blushed and scowled.  "I am not on a date with him," she stated calmly.  "I'm only here because he happens to be the president of the frat Alpha Gamma choose."

"Of course Misty," Amanda said as she rolled her eyes sarcastically.  "So can I get you anything?"

"Diet coke?" Misty offered.

"Ok, be right back."

(A/N: I'm just going to skip the rest of the date seeing as its just boring discussions and a little reminiscent, nothing really interesting so I'll just move on to the interesting stuff)

"Damn," Misty said as she caught a glimpse of her watch.

"What's wrong?" Ash asked.

"I didn't expect this to take as long as it did," she stated apologetically, "I was supposed to meet up with Melody and Sabrina almost 2hrs ago."

Ash looked at his own watch and chuckled.  "You only expected this to last ten minutes?"

Misty smiled sheepishly and shrugged her shoulders innocently.

"Can I at least walk you home?" he asked.  "It being late and dark and all."

"I guess," she shrugged.

They both got up and began to walk back to Misty's sorority house.

"Thanks Ash," Misty said as they stopped outside the front door to the sorority house.  "Tonight was fun."

Ash nodded in agreement.

Misty suddenly found herself drawn to his eyes and as she looked deeper and deeper into those pure chocolate brown eyes their faces began to get closer and closer till there was nothing left between them but the small expanse of air that separated them.  Only seconds later their lips met in an amazing kiss filled with loving memories and renewed desires.

After what seemed like an entire lifetime they broke apart.  Misty looked at him for a second, her confusion eminent before she said goodbye and stepped in the door.

"Good night Misty," he whispered as he turned away, a small smile on his face, and made his way back to his own dorm.

"Good night," she whispered quietly after hearing the barely audible farewell of her one true love.  She slumped against the door contently and sighed as she let her body slide down it to the floor.

"Hey Misty," Krysanthia said as she walked into the hallway.  "Have fun?"

"Depending on your definition of fun," Misty shrugged nonchalantly.

"Well Melody and Sabrina are waiting for you in the main room and I don't think they're even remotely happy with you."

"Lucky me," she sighed as she made her way to the room where her best friends were waiting for here arrival.

"Look who finally decided to show up," Sabrina said with mock defensiveness.

"What did I miss?" Misty asked.

"Nothing really," Melody shrugged.

"So what are you doing now?" Misty asked.

"Reading the new edition of Pokemontology," Sabrina told her.

"Yours is so totally you Misty," Melody stated.  "Just listen to this.  You're a Jigglypuff.  You are always searching for the one.  If you don't watch carefully you may end up spending your entire life searching for them only to find they were right in front of you all along.  You have an image in your head of perfection that very few live up to so don't be too harsh on the ones who don't because you may end up missing out on a lot more than you think."

Sabrina looked over Melody's shoulder and read aloud the end of the horoscope.  "Your perfect match is the fun loving Totadile who will let you in on a whole other perspective of the world.  Your best buds are Evee's (A/N:  The Pokemontology equivalent to Gemini) and Kazam.  That's me and Mel."

"Now lets find the Totadile," Melody suggested.  "It says here October 29th.  I can't think of anyone with that birthday."

Misty lowered her head and tried to conceal the blush crawling onto her cheeks as she thought about the only Totadile she knew and the amazing kiss they had shared only moments earlier.

"Here," Melody said as she finished flipping through the book and stopped at the page they were looking for.  "Totadile," she began.  "Is always the life of the party.  Filled with some kind of infinite supply of energy that no one can match a Totadile can always be found where the action is.  Totadiles are fun loving, energetic and good humored because life is too short not to.  Totadiles always add a new perspective to everything and love to be heroic.  One of Totadiles biggest problem is that it never quite sees everything like it is and often misses the important details."

"Sounds about right to me," Misty muttered to herself.

"A Totadile very rarely thinks about love," Melody continued, "but when they find love it will be the purest form imaginable as they sweep the unsuspecting Jigglypuff off its feet.  Totadiles best friends are Onyx and Ghastly. Famous Totadiles yadayadayada," she said as she skimmed the page and began turning to the next but stopped suddenly when something caught her eye.  "Oh my gosh," she said suddenly.

"What?" Sabrina said as she looked over her friends shoulder and read the line.  "Couldn't have said it better myself," she gaped wearing the same expression.  She cleared her throat as she began to read the sentence out loud for Misty's benefit.  "Worlds Greatest Pokemon Master," she began, "Ashton Satoshi Ketchum."

"What a weird coincidence," Misty shrugged.

"Coincidence my ass," Sabrina said.

"Actually I wanted to ask you something kind of on the lines of that subject," Misty started.

"What?" Melody asked.  "Sabrina's ass?"  The girls fell into a fit of giggles almost immediately.

"No Ash," Misty said as she stopped laughing. "What would you do if I . . . I mean somebody kissed Ash?"

"It depends who," Sabrina replied.

"Ok," Misty said searching her mind for the right words.  "Hypothetically speaking lets say that Shannon kissed Ash."

"I bitch slap that little whore all the back to the shit hole she ascended from," Melody said angrily.

"Ok, a bit more graphic than I expected but its good to know," Misty said nervously.  "What if I kissed Ash?" Misty asked.  "Hypothetically speaking of course," she added quickly.

"Well first I'd scream," Melody said.

"Then I'd scream," Sabrina added.

"Then we'd call everybody else . . .," Melody continued.

"And there'd be a whole lot of screaming going on," Sabrina finished in her best Elvis impression.

"Ok hypothetically speaking," Misty began, "Let's say this whole situation isn't quite as hypothetical as we all thought."

For a few seconds there was complete and utter silence.  It was like the calm before a storm and this was going to be one hell of a storm.

Melody was the first to make a noise.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Then Sabrina followed suit.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Several others then joined them as the good news was spread around the entire sorority.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

~ Meanwhile outside ~

Ash was slowly making his way back to his own place when he heard the screaming coming from the sorority.  He began to run but stopped himself almost immediately.

'It's probably just a bug,' he thought to himself as he turned back in his previous direction.  'But what if its not?' part of him argued back.  'Somebody else could have heard it, I'll let them go instead, Misty's probably sick and tired of my saving her.' 'And if you save her that means that you get the credit and she may just be so overcome with joy like last time you may find her in your arms once again.'

Well that did it.  Just the thought of holding Misty in his arms and he was over at the sorority house in a flash.  He went over what he would say as he knocked on the door and waited for a response.

A few seconds later, a girl with jet-black hair and hazel-brown eyes opened the door.  "Just a sec," she said before Ash could even get a word in and disappeared to one of the other rooms.

A few seconds after that Misty came to the door unaware.  "Hi Ash," she said taken aback.  "What are you doing here?"

For a second Ash couldn't speak, he was just so caught up in her beauty that his mind couldn't concentrate on anything else.  "The screaming," he said as he suddenly remembered his purpose for coming back.  "I wanted to check that you were ok."

"Thanks Ash," she said smiling despite herself.  "That was really nice of you but were fine."

Ash smiled back as his breath was taken away and his heart began to race just looking at the beauty of this angel that stood so near to him.  "I'm just glad you're alright," Ash replied.  "Well . . . goodnight Misty."

"Goodnight Ash," she replied waiting for him to walk away before she shutting the door.

"Who was at the door?" Melody asked as Misty reentered the room.

"No one," Misty replied slightly dreamily before Chloe, the girl who had answered the door, could reply.

"That's strange," Sabrina mused as she looked out the window, "nobody sure does look a hell of a lot like Ash."

"Strange," Misty replied nonchalantly.  "I think I'll go to bed," she said as she headed upstairs to her own room before anybody could stop her.

"Looks like they don't need our help anymore," melody smiled as they watched Misty practically skip down the hall.

~ to be continued ~

Seeing as there's a big ball coming up I think that it's best that I introduce some of the new characters coming in which are all based on my friends:

Krysanthia Mendoza – Shoulder length dark brown hair with red highlights, brown eyes and tanned skin.  She's Spanish and her best friend is Jessica Davis.

Chloe Arizona – Chest length jet black hair, hazel brown eyes and an olive complexion she's always up for a laugh and can make anyone laugh.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Reynolds – Short jet-black hair, green eyes and a light tanned complexion, she's a bit shy but a good and trustworthy friend.

Stephanie Otecco – Waist length dark brown hair, dark eyes and dark skin, she's quite short but doesn't like to be reminded of it and believes that her height is an advantage.

Anya O'Connor – Typical Irish, short red brown hair, blue eyes and a pale complexion dotted with freckles she's always ready to tell you the truth even if you don't want to hear it.

Antonio Hernandez – Krysanthia's boyfriend, typical Spanish look dark hair dark eyes and tanned skin.

Clark Johnson – Long black hair, blue eyes and pale skin.

Orlando Mitchell – Dark blonde hair, hazel green eyes and a lightly tanned complexion.

Joshua Daniel Hartnett – Brown eyes, brown hair and a pale complexion with a very slight tan.  Lizzie's boyfriend.

Hayden Christianson – Blonde hair, pale blue eyes and a slightly tanned complexion.  Stephanie's boyfriend.

Duncan James – Dark brown hair, grey blue eyes, pom complexion.  Anya's boyfriend.

I think that's about all of them.  I hope you liked that chapter.  Please review.