When Misty looked back at Ash, he wasn't smiling anymore. Instead he looked serious, and in his eyes was a longing, she saw it. He saw it in her eyes too. Her arms found their way up around his neck, and their faces leaned in towards each other. Their hearts raced madly as light snow began to fall slowly all around them. His hands pulled her in close and she closed her eyes, she lost herself in everything. Everything felt so right, so different too. Finally, she felt his lips on hers, and she completely melted into his loving embrace. It seemed that they kissed each other for so long, but this new feeling that budded up inside of them, just exploded out. Misty pulled away for air and breathed heavily as did Ash.
His eyes bubbled with excitement and hers were filled with overwhelming joy. She was speechless. Josh had never kissed her like that, with so much love, so much compassion. Ash knew that she was his friend, but he felt something much more for her, and he had realized this after years away from the furious red head. He had missed her so much, that he just couldn't take it anymore. Only one thing could provide an answer as to why he felt that way; he was in love with her.
When he had found out that she was dating Josh, he of course was heart broken, but he only wanted the best for Misty, so he let it slide. But he could tell by her actions and words, that she really didn't care for him as much as she led on. Hopefully he had thought right, and it turned out he did, because there she stood smiling at him.
"Ash… that was… incredible!"
"Well you know me!"
"Yeah, dense and brain dead when it comes to emotions!"
They were still holding onto each other and Ash furrowed his eye brows once again as Misty began to laugh. Right in the middle of her laughter, he leaned in again, and kissed her once more. This had to have been a dream. There was no way that what Misty had dreamed of for so long had become reality.
But it was. Ash and Misty walked back to the gym hand in hand. His arm draped over her shoulder for warmth and Pikachu ran in front of them. Misty opened the doors and found the fireplace still on and heating up the living room. Ash took off Misty's coat as well as his own and then he cleared his throat.
"Ahem, Mademoiselle Misty, would you like some hot cocoa and cookies? It's the house special!"
Misty laughed as Ash smiled sheepishly like always. She nodded and he started making his specialty. Misty didn't doubt that it was probably the only thing he knew how to make. While they waited for the cookies to bake, Ash and Misty toasted each other with their warm cocoa.
"To us!"
"To us!"
They took a sip and then Misty smiled.
"Ash, did you plan on doing that all along? Going up there and kissing me?"
He turned a shade of pink, but laughed it off.
"Well, I was hoping that you would get rid of Josh soon. Otherwise I wouldn't have done that."
Misty set her cup down and walked up to him. She wrapped her arms around him and he did the same.
"Ash, I have never met a more sincere, warm hearted and kind person as you."
She gave him a long kiss, and it was only interrupted because of the sound of the oven timer going off. Ash took out the cookies and jumped around excitedly. Misty wanted to reach for a cookie but he lightly tapped her hand away and waved his finger.
"Ah ah ah! It's still too hot! You've got to blow on them like this."
Ash started to blow on the cookies and the steam slowly evaporated into the air. Misty joined in and felt giddy to be doing something a kid would do. But strangely she was reminded of herself, acting like this whenever she was around Ash. It felt so stupid to be questioning herself and her actions. Maybe that's what had happened when she was with Josh. She had to be so grown up that she couldn't be herself.
They took the plate of cookies to the living room along with their drinks and they sat down near the fireplace on the sofa. Pikachu curled himself near the warm fire, and Misty curled next to Ash. The soft dimmed light combined with the sparkling lights on the tree made it the perfect setting for the two. Her head leaned on Ash's chest lightly, and she closed her eyes and sighed. Ash smiled softly and stroked her hair. He inhaled her scent and closed his eyes as well.
"Misty… I love you…"
She heard his murmured voice and smiled softly.
"I love you too Ash…"
Soon enough, the two of them drifted off to sleep, with their arms around each other protectively.
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"Misty! Wake up! It's Christmas morning!"
She slowly opened her eyes and felt a shiver go down her spine. Ash's warmth was already gone from her, as he was standing above her excitedly. Misty smiled as she pulled off the blanket. The plate of cookies had been half eaten. Probably dear old Santa right? She chuckled to herself as Ash grabbed a present from under the tree. Misty rubbed her eyes. What? A present? But she hadn't wrapped any presents, or put them under the tree… As Ash put the small box into her hand, her heart opened up to all of his kindness. Of course Ash had done it, who else?
So Misty slowly ripped off the wrapping paper, which wasn't a problem, because it had been wrapped clumsily. After she got the paper off, in her hand was a small black box. Ash took it from her, and then opened it after he got down on one knee. Misty gasped as she saw the contents of the box; a stunning diamond ring.
Ash took her hand and put the ring on her finger.
"Misty, will you marry me?"
Her head buzzed and her heart raced. Was this a dream? No it was surely real. But what was she going to say? Did it even make sense to say yes? He had only come back two days ago, yesterday he had kissed her and yes, he had said he loved her. But she did say she loved him too. She had known him practically all her life, well half of it anyways. So she thought it made some kind of sense, even if it was all going so fast.
"Yes, I'll marry you Ash!"
He got up and hugged her tightly after kissing her fiercely. Ash twirled her around and she laughed. Pikachu had woken up too, and was cheering them on. Once he put her down, she looked at her hand and the ring it was sporting.
"Wow Ash… this is beautiful! But where on earth did you get the money?"
"An elf friend of mine helped me…"
Ash looked at Pikachu and they smiled.
"So you mean, you took that job to buy me this? So even back before you knew that Josh had broken up with me, you were going to buy this?"
"Yeah, I knew I would marry you someday Misty. You mean way too much to me and I guess it was the perfect timing so I popped it under the tree for you! Hope you like it!"
"Oh Ash! I do! Really, I do! Oh, I love you."
She lost herself in his warm embrace and he smiled with his chocolate eyes filled to the brim with joy.
"I love you too. More than you'll ever know."
They spent the day just being happy with each other's presence. Occasionally, she would stop around the house and see something that had reminded Misty of Josh. But when she did come upon something, like an old photograph, she smiled, but only because of the experience. She had been stupid to think that her feelings for Ash were nothing. The whole time Misty was with Josh, she had poured out her love for Ash into his brother, thinking that she loved Josh. Now with the ring on her finger, she knew in her heart that she had finally found the one she was meant to be with. She had finally fallen for him. She had finally fallen in love, and this time, for real.
A/N: okay, yes, this is the end. Please don't kill me! I know it was short… but you see… I didn't have the inspiration to keep going… I sort of got WB or maybe I just wasn't interested enough, but I did it! I really wanted to do this fic, and I'm ever so happy I finished it! (Even though this chapter was really short, I know V.V)
But other than that, I hope you all enjoyed this merry fic! Lol I might write another fic one day for May and Drew… and incorporate their wedding into it… but it would be very brief… more focused on the other couple lol
Thanks for reading! I hope you've had a wonderful day, or a wonderful day to come!