I'm back with another new chappy! Sorry it took me so long to update this fanfic I've been so busy with my other ones that I kinda had to put this one on hold. Plus writers block was eating me alive! Anyway Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't know Pokémon
Chapter 6: Travels in Unova
10:30! Oh man it was already 10:30 pm, those thirteen hours went by really fast.
'Well I guess that's what happens when I fall too deep into sleep…' I think heading as quickly as I can down the hall of the Pokémon Center, it being night time the place is silent and most of the room I pass have sleeping trainer's and other people in them, all snoring away. I keep moving until I skid to a stop right in front of the room this morning; Nurse Joy was standing outside the door looking at a clipboard in her hands.
"Nurse Joy! Nurse Joy!" I say stopping in front of her
"Why, hello Iris," she says giving me a warm smile, "I'm guessing you're here to check on Ash, yes?"
I give a quick nod, "Yeah…um h-how's he doing?" I feel myself blush when I ask.
"Well good news," the pink haired lady said giving a large, then did something a little unexpected, she gave a small happy dance, "I did it, I did it, I really, really did it!"
I sweatdrop, "I uh...y-you did what N-Nurse Joy?"
"I did the Psychic surgery on your friend and it was an absolute success!" the pink hared lady cried
I smile, "That's great Nurse Joy! So Ash is okay?"
Nurse Joy nods, "Yes he's fine, but Ash is a bit on the woozy side from the anesthesia and he's in a bit of pain from the surgery, but overall he's in perfect condition!"
"Awesome…so i-is it alright i-if I go and see him?" when I ask this I find myself fingering a lock of my hair between my fingers and that fluttery filling is in my stomach again.
"Why of course," she stepped out of my way, "he's right in there, try not to be too loud, the anesthesia left him with a head ache and his stomach isn't feeling to good,"
I nod, "Yes of course, and uh Nurse Joy thanks for giving Ash the Psychic surgery, it meant a lot to him,"
Nurse Joy blushes a bit, "Oh well it was no problem, any way I better go return Eseopn and Umberon to Virgil," with that Nurse Joy makes her way down the hallway her Audino waddling close behind.
I stand there for a few seconds alone in the hallway, thinking what I wanted to say to Ash, but my mind was so focused on how much I liked him that I could barely think straight. So instead I took a deep breathed smoothed my hair, gripped the door handled and walked right in. The door creaks a bit making my cringe slightly, I quickly slip in and close the door behind me as it clicks shut I hear a faint groaning. The room is dark, except for the faint rays of moonlight that peeked through the slits in window blinds, all the medical equipment I had seen this morning is gone and I can see a bed along with a few more items in the room, but forming a lump in the bed sheets I see a silhouette of a figure. I feel my heart double in speed knowing that it was Ash.
I force myself to move forward, the only sound I hear is my shuffling feet and the sound of my heart pounding loudly in my ears, "Hey, Ash a-are you…are you awake?" I find myself whispering when I'm standing beside the bed.
There is a small moan, before I hear the shuffling of blankets, "Wha…who's there?" comes a slurred voice.
"Ash, it's me, Iris," I say before turning and felling around the night stand and finding a lamp and clicking it on. I hear a loud moaning sound as light brightens the room, when I turn back to the bed I see Ash's hands covering his eyes, I feel myself blush, "sorry i-is it too bright for you?"
He nods slowly, "Turn…turn it off," his voice is a bit muffled by this hands, but I quickly shut off the lamp.
I stand there for a few second not knowing if I should say anything but I swallow and start to speak, "Um…how are you feeling? Are you feeling alright?"
I hear more sheets moving around, "No…this anesthesia is making my head and stomach feel like shit…ugh…" Ash moans.
I laugh a bit, "Yeah, Nurse Joy said you'd be feeling like that…but it'll wear off in an hour or two-"
"Hey Iris," Ash says cutting me off, "could you help me sit up?"
"Um…sure thing," I say but don't move.
"I-Iris?" I hear Ash ask after I bit of silence.
"Oh…right," I slowly move around in the dark and reach my hands out until my fingers brush across something smooth and soft.
"Iris…t-that's my face," I hear Ash slur, I blush and quickly remove my hand then after a bit of more awkward movements I was able to prop ash up with his pillow supporting his back.
Ash gives a tired groan, "Uuuugggghhh,"
"What's the matter?" I ask as I pull up a chair beside his bed.
"Everything…hurts," in the faint moonlight I can see Ash's eyes are squeezed shut and his hands are resting on his stomach, "this anesthesia sucks….uugghh…"
"Do you want me to get Nurse Joy?" I ask, Ash shakes his head before moaning, "well…um d-do you want me to get you anything?"
I could see Ash blink his eyes open, "…Water…yeah water would be good,"
"Sure thing," I say spying a pitcher full of water on the night stand, "I'm going to have to turn on the light, okay?"
I hear my raven haired crush moan, "Okay," I click it back on and start to fill a glass with water as I'm doing so I look over at Ash.
His raven hair is messier than normal and he looked drained. Blinking his amber eyes open I can see there a bit red, but none the less they get my heart racing. I give a small smile at his as I try to ignore my blushing face, Ash give a lopsided smile and I can't tell but his cheeks seem pink.
"Um…I-Iris," Ash says looking into my brown eyes.
"Ye-yeah, Ash," I find myself stammering
He gives a bit of a laugh, "Um, your kinda spilling the water,"
"Wha-"I look down and suddenly feel that my hand's all wet and I see that water's overflowing from the glass and dripping onto the floor, I gasp, "Oh, sorry," I lower the pitcher and hand him the glass, damn it now when I'm around him I'm so clumsy!
Ash holds the glass up to his lips but doesn't take a sip, he give a groan and hold the glass back out to me, "Ugh…n-never mind I-I don't think my stomach can handle w-water right now,"
I take the glass and set it down next to the pitcher and then start to wring out my sleeve that's cold with water, that's when I notice the large lump in the bottom of the sheets, Ash must have seen me staring because he slowly pulled the blankets aside so I can see his leg. It's surrounded with a red cast from just below his thigh all the way down to his foot, the cast stops a few inches from his heel and the rest of his foot is tightly wrapped in crisp white bandages and all I can see are his toes peeking out.
"Wow, Nurse Joy wrapped your leg up pretty good," I say.
Ash nods "Yeah…she had to give me like sixteen stiches for the gash in my leg and then the Psychic surgery took…"
"She said it took thirteen hours" I finish, I start to mess with my hair, "um how did the surgery go anyway?"
Ash shrugs, "I donno, I don't remember anything after Nurse Joy gave me the anesthesia," he points to his arm where a band aid could be seen, then he give a moan his hand moves down to his leg, "d-damn it, my leg hurts…" he hisses face twisting in pain.
"Is it bad?" I ask then mentally kick myself for asking such a stupid question.
"It feels like a Boffalant is trampling all over it," Ash moans, "uggghhh…I didn't think Psychic could hurt this much…" I can tell he's trying to hide his pain, but it's not working.
"I wish I could help it feel better," I say without thinking, I bite my lip when Ash looks at me with that smile of his, "sorry," I stammer, still not thinking.
Ash rests his head against his pillow, and slowly rubs his temples, "Wh-What are you saying sorry for, Iris?"
"Huh…I-I uh," his amber eyes are making me freeze up and my heart pound faster, "I…just don't like to see you-I mean anyone feeling in pain…I…" I let my voice trail off
Ash smiles a bit, and stops rubbing his temples, "Well that's nice I guess…uggghhhh…"
"Are you alright?" I ask as Ash doubles over clutching his stomach, he's eyes squeezed shut.
"No…uuuggghhh," he moans.
"What's the matter?" I leap to my feet, "d-do you want me to go get Nurse-"
Before I can finish Ash makes a gagging sound, I gasp and without bothering to think I shove my hands under Ash's mouth just as he starts to vomit! AHHH WHY DID I DO THAT! I shudder as the warm gross vomit spews all over my hands and spills onto the top blanket, when it finally stops flowing from Ash's mouth I let out a high pitch squeal of disgust, just then the door opens.
"Oh dear!" Nurse Joy cries when she sees me with my hands outstretched and vomit dripping between my fingers, and Ash looking miserable.
"Help meeeee, pleaasssseeee!" I say as some of the vomit starts to run down my arm and into my sleeve, UGH GROSS!
"Oh looks like someone made a bit of a mess," she says coming over to other side of the bed, Audino coming over with a bowl which Nurse Joy sat on Ash's lap, "are you alright?" she asked slowly rubbing his back, he was about to responded but instead he started to vomit again.
I cringed as it splatters into the bowl, "Um…can I have something to wipe my hands or something?" I say quietly as the stench of the vomit is starting to make my stomach churn.
Nurse Joy laughs a bit, "Of course,"
After cleaning my hands (which was washing my hands twice, putting hand sanitizer and wiping them with disinfectant wipes) I reenter Ash's room, Nurse Joy was changing the top blanket and Ash was frowning a bit as Audino was forcing him to take some sort of medicine I think.
The moment he spots me he gives a sheepish smile, "Er um…sorry I-I didn't mean to uh vomit all over your hands, Iris I didn't mean to I-"
"Don't worry it's not your fault," Nurse Joy says with a kind smile as she drapes a new blanket over the bed, "it's just one of the side effects of the anesthesia,"
"Oh…" Ash says looking down at his hands; I swear his face just turned a shade of red.
"It's alright, my hands are fine," I say showing him my hands which are nice and clean, he just nods ugh damn I must be freaking him out. When Nurse Joy leaves the room I sit without saying anything for a few moments, before blurting out, "Hey do you want me to get anything for you Ash?"
Ash looks at me, thinks for a bit, "Oh, c-could you get me my bag and stuff from me? It's in the room…y-you know from…this morning…" he lets his voice trail off as he stares down at his hands, his cheeks increasingly becoming red.
My mind flashes back to this morning. The sunset, me sitting next to him…Ash's soft lips against mine, for those two sort seconds, I can feel my face burn.
"Iris?" I flinch and look up, Ash looking at me.
I get to my feet, "Uh, right, your stuff," I head for the door almost tripping over my own two feet causing Ash to snicker a bit.
"You okay Iris?" he asks giving me one on his one a kind smiles.
I make a that small squealing sound (ugh can't I act normal around him just once?!) but manage to squeak a small, "Yes," before rushing out the door.
Quickly I make my way back to the room I had fallen asleep in and was about to open the door but instead I get knocked off my feet and land flat on my butt when Axew, who slams into my side and then give a death grip on my neck.
"Axew ew ew axew ax ax!" he cries squeezing me harder
"Axew…let go I-I have to breathe you know," I say trying to pry his claws off my neck
"Sorry about that," I look to my left to see Virgil who was holding his squirming Glaceon in his arms, as he makes his way down the hallway "Glaceon popped out of its pokeball, it wanted to play with Axew, but only managed scaring him,"
"Glac glaceon eon," the Ice type pouted seeing that it's trainer would ruin it's fun.
"It's alright," I say getting to my feet I feel chills run through me at the sight of the icy blue pokemon, "Virgil put that thing away, it's scaring Axew, ugh it's so cold now, brr" Axew shivers and leaps into my hair
"Right, alright Glaceon return," the Pokémon is zapped back into it's red and white sphere, Virgil stretches, "well it's almost eleven I better get home before my Dad and Davey worry about me, so I'll be seeing you Iris, tell Ash that I said 'Best wishes and get better soon'"
"Right, but Virgil," I say
"Eevee ve eve," his brown and white Pokemon calls as if to say goodnight as well, I wavy as the two leave the Pokémon Center.
As soon as Virgil's gone I grab the door handle and slip into the room.
"Ax axew ew ax?" axew pokes his head from my hair as I flick on the lights; he looks at me as if puzzled why I'm in here
"Don't worry Axew I'm just getting something" I respond spying Ash's bag I pick it up but then hesitate as I see his notebook sticking out under the pillow where I left it, I bite my lip. I still desperately wanted to know what was inside! I drum my fingers against the blue green cover.
"Ax axew axew ew?" I can see my dragon type Pokemon had the curious look in his eyes.
I quickly tuck the notebook under my arm, "Don't worry Axew, that's nothing…uh well it's Ash's but I uh…" I let my voice trail off as I see Axew become confused, "never mind,"
I rush back down the hall and skid to a top at Ash's room, I stop and take a deep breath as the fluttery feeling returns to my stomach and can't help but feel all excited and nervous!
"Ax axew ew ax,"Axew says giving me an odd look; I guess he'd noticed my strange behavior
I feel myself blush but ignore Axew and grab the handle and walk inside of the room which is now dark, "Ash I got your-"
"Audi audino no," I jump as Audnio appears in front of me, her fingers to her lips and then she points.
I peer past the Hearing Pokémon to see Ash, he was fast asleep softly snoring in his cute way, man the anesthesia knocked him out good, "Oh, sorry," I say sheepishly, "but don't worry I won't stay long," I hold up Ash's bag, "Axew and I just came to drop this off," Audnio looks a little displeased that I might wake Ash up but she lets me in anyway.
Tip toeing, I make my way into his room and gently place his gray and blue backpack next to his bed. I was about to place his notebook onto the night stand when those words, in bold black Sharpie grabs my attention.
Travels in Unova.
I bite my lip, it's only three words but they hypnotize me like a spell, I can't help but let my mind roam around in wonder about what may be inside. I glance up to Ash, 'He said it was personal…and I know I really shouldn't be looking into his stuff but-'
"Aud Audino no no audino" I turn to see Audnio who was still standing at the doorway looking displeased that I was still in Ash's room
I straighten up, "Um right," I give Axew the notebook, he turns it over in his hands looking confused about what the words say on the cover, luckily for my sake Axew can't read, "we'll be leaving now," I quickly slip by Audnio, my eyes glued on the floor the whole time, and I scuffle my way back to my room and open the door only to find Cilan sleeping snoring loudly.
"Good I can have some privacy," I sigh.
"Ax ax ew ax?" Axe says looking at me wondering what I mean by that
I sweatdropp, "Uh i-it's nothing Axew" I reach and pull my dragon Pokémon from my hair I take Ash's notebook and set it on the nightstand, "right now it's way past your bed time and you need to get to sleep,"
"Ax axew ew," Axew pouts
"No buts Axew" I say placing him in the bed he and I shared, "look even Pikachu is asleep" I point over to the electric mouse who was fast asleep at the foot of Cilan's bed.
Axew gives a sigh; he knew if Pikachu, he's best friend, was asleep he should be to, so he says goodnight and I place a kiss on his head and tuck him in. I click the lights off and scuffle around in the darkness and get in my pjs before giving a glance at Axew. I smile seeing that he had nodded off the sleep, he had a Axew sized handful of blankets cuddled to his chest.
'Perfect, now I can really have some privacy,' quickly I grab Ash's notebook from where I had left it and slip out of the room, and softly let the door click behind me, 'now I just need a nice place for me to sit and read this,'
By now it's almost midnight and all the lights are off and everyone's asleep, well besides me of course, I move around slowly my feet against the floor the only source of sound. Being that I slept for thirteen hours earlier I'm wide awake and find a nice spot on a bench near a window where the light from a street lamp shines through giving me a source of light.
"Travels in Unova," I whisper to myself as I hold the cool notebook in my hands.
Slowly.
Very slowly.
I open the cover of the book.
Okay there we are I'm stopping you guys with a cliff hanger! Wonder what inside the notebook? Well…oh who am I kidding I can't make you guys wait for a whole new chapter so I won't make you guys wait go on and read!
I let my eyes pierce greedily at the first page. To my surprise only a paragraph is written in Ash's messy handwriting. I quickly start to read.
Day One:
Ugh I can't believe mom's making me write in this thing! Every time I go on a journey she calls me like twice a week anyway why does she need me to write down everything I did while on a journey? It's so annoying! But I might as well make the best of it…
Today's my first day on a new adventure and this time me and Pikachu are traveling in a region called Unova! So far I really haven't done anything; well that not true I think I might have met my first traveling partner. Her names Iris. I guess she lives here in Unova I didn't ask but I'm assuming that much anyway I found her in a bush. At first I thought she was a Pokémon because when I pulled out my Pokedex it said she was a Tusk Pokémon named Axew, well all I did was throw a pokeball at her and then she yelled "Ouch!" and that when she came up and started yelling at me.
I look up from the page. Then I look back down. I realized this is the very first day I meant Ash and the day he hit with a Pokeball and the day Pikachu shocked me. I look back down at the page and read the rest and all it says it all the things Ash did on that first day in Unova.
'What's so personal about that?' I think, 'I mean he just telling what happen on that one day…' I contuie to read the page.
Going around Unova today was really fun. Too bad I didn't get to catch any Pokémon today though. But at least I met Iris and she even said she help show me around Unova, that's nice of her. What's weird is that she sleeps in a tree, she lets her Axew ride in her hair, and she didn't tell me anything but her name. She sure is strange, but I guess I'll know her better when we keep traveling.
I flip through the notebooks pages. It's almost all the same, what happened that day, what he did and oddly he seemed to write stuff about me in most of the first pages. Like one a page labeled day two and when Team Rocket attacked us.
When they grabbed Axew and Pikachu Iris jumped right in to action. She started climbing a tree like it was nothing! I swear I never seen anything like it! It was freakin' awesome!
But then towards the end it read:
I tried jumping to reach the cage Pikachu and Axew were in but I missed just by barley and I went falling straight towards the ground! I got big bruise on my ass to prove it to. But strangely when I hit the ground Iris came up and asked if I was alright. She was all up in my face, but for some reason I didn't mind (mostly because I her eyes where huge and…really, pretty brown color) and even though I've only known her for a day she seems really comfortable around me…
The sound of the pages turning in Ash's notebook ring through the empty room as I continue to read. Most of the pages I just give a quick glance at, I mean I've already lived that day with him; I didn't need to read about it.
'Besides, Iris all you looking for is some deviance that Ash likes you that's it,' I think to myself.
I scan all the way up to pages that tell about Ash getting his first gym badge and Cilan starting to travel with us, I only find a few pieces of useful info. It was a few pages that told all about that time he and I went to the dessert resort and helped that kid with the Sandile problem. Most of it was about the adventure we had but this was the part that caught my eye:
When I was trying to save the Pokémon from the crumbling piece of rock I was worried I'd get broiled by the burning hot water that separated us from dry land, as the rock crumbled away I thought I was done for but out of nowhere Iris swoops in and saves me! She had climbed onto the chain of Sandiles and reached her hand out and grabbed me, just at the nick of time to! When we were up high in the air on the Sandlies for some reason I couldn't take my eyes off her and I didn't know why, she didn't seem to notice because she was having too much fun seeing how high up we were. And when I held her hand like that…I don't know it felt different…not bad different but fuzzy in the pit of my stomach different. I mean it never happened when I held Mom's hand or when I held any other girl's hand for that matter. I don't know it was weird but I like it, I guess.
Then towards the end Ash even wrote about how "pretty" I looked in my white bikini when we were taking a break in the warm hot spring bath at dessert resort. I couldn't help but blush at that comment, 'Man I was so clueless back then…well it guess it explains why he staring at me that whole time we were in the hot springs…' I think remising on that moment. The next clue I found was when he got his first gym bandage in which Ash wrote:
I did it! I actually did it! I won my first gym bandage in Unova! And I have my new Pokémon Oshawott and Tepig for that win and of course Pikachu helped to. But when I think back to that Gym Battle I remember seeing Iris standing up there watching, she was looking at me with those big brown eyes of her…I don't know why but the way she looked at me made me feel warm inside and it felt really good. The whole time when those waiter guy's fan girls where cheering them on I could hear Iris cheering for me to! Can you believe it, I haven't even known this girl for more than a few weeks but, she was there cheering me one none the less! But of course as soon as I showed her my Gym Badge and did my little happy pose (ugh that's a really bad habit of mine and I really gotta stop doing that…) called me a little kid (again). And then when Cilan asked if we were traveling together she got mad and denied it and then she ran off, and that was a real downer. But it got better when I Cilan deiced to join us and when I asked her if she officially wanted to join me and him to travel she got really happy, it was weird…but who cares I got my first Gym Badge!
I felt myself blush I remember every single moment of that, 'Well don't get too excited yet, Iris,' I think, 'I mean sure it gives some indication that he likes me…but it doesn't come right out and says it, I gotta dig a little bit deeper…'
I flip through more pages. There was a section telling about when he started to call Axew's Dragon Rage Dragon sneeze, I didn't get much there besides the fact that he didn't like how I got mad at him and how I kept saying no when he asked to battle me. Plus there was a little bit on how he was surprised at how much I cared for Axew and how he felt sorry for me when Excadrill didn't want to listen to me in the beginning of our travels. I read every single page each holding information on each of our adventures but every so often there's a comment that catches my eye, like when he thought I was awesome by being able beat both Stephan and Luke's Pokémon in that Battle Tournament we were in and he didn't even seem mad when he wrote about me beating him using Excadrill and winning the whole competition! There was the time Ash and I stared in Luke's movie and he wrote about how "nice" I looked in the princess outfit and he talked about how pretty my eyes were. Then there was when we help that daycare guy with his Deinos and how Ash said he could dream of leaving me alone and going ahead to Driftveil City without me he said he would never be able to do that in a thousand years! After that it was about the Flower Pagrade girls and even though he admitted he hated how I forced him to wear a wig and a dress he had fun and like how I did my hair and the green dress and necklace I wore was "perfect" on me and he loved how I showed off Snivy's power when battling that Moira girl's Cinccino!
(TG2012: thank you Bulbapida, without you that whole paragraph wouldn't have been possible!)
By the time I got to the pages about Ash feeling bad for me about my experience at Opuilied Academy that's when I see it.
I figured it out, I don't know what took me so long but I realized why I've been feeling so weird around Iris all the time. I asked Cilan about it and he said it was pure symptoms of having a major crush on someone I can't believe it but I'm actually in love a girl! I never thought I would fall in love, I mean I never felt this way towards Misty, May or Dawn before but when I'm around Iris don't know what comes over me. Her big brown eyes are like chocolate and her dark indigo hair's all shiny and when I felt it the other day…feels all soft like velvet! She's perfect! Ugh but when she's around me I kinda don't know what to do and I flub up and I don't know what to do! Well I know what am not gonna do there's no way I'm telling anyone, that'll be way to embarrassing! But it doesn't matter because I fell awesome! I'm in love with a girl, her names Iris and she's the most beautiful awesome girl I ever met!
"He likes me!" I squeal as softly as I can as I hug the notebook to my chest, "He really likes me!"
I dance around the feeling of happiness rushing through me; I dance so swiftly I crash right into a chair. I fall to the floor with a loud thud but I start to laugh, I'm just so happy! Ash Ketchum loves me! ME! ME! ME! He loves ME!
"Aud! Audnio!" I sit up at the sound of the voice; I was having so happy I didn't even hear Audnio come down the hall. The pink Pokémon has a flash light in hand and is shining it down on me like I'm a criminal caught red handed with a precious gem.
I sweatdrop, "Oh…er hi Audnio," I stammer.
"See I was right Aundio I knew I heard someone was out here," Nurse Joy appears besides Audnio, she looks at me an eyebrow arched.
I quickly get to my feet, "Right, I know get to bed, got it!" I rush down the hall; I really don't want to get yelled at by a cranky Nurse Joy again. I get to my room and slip in bed. I fall asleep with a smile on my face! I just can't believe Ash loves me!
When the morning comes I'm sitting at a table with a plate of pancakes and eggs in front of me. Cilan had made it and it taste great but I'm not really paying attention. What I had read in Ash's notebook last night still lingered in my head and I was stewing with excitement, there were a few more pages left for me to read and was planning to read them right after breakfast. I smile to myself; I can't believe Ash loves me!
"Ax axew ew ax!" I look down at Axew who sitting beside Pikachu with a bowl of Pokéchow in front of him
"Pika pi chu pika," Pikachu snickers
"What?" I ask, "what's so funny?"
"Um, Iris are you alright?" Cilan asks, I turn my attention to him and Virgil who are sitting across from me.
"Yeah I'm fine," I lift a piece of pancake to my mouth.
Virgil sweatdrops as I put the piece of pancake in my mouth, "Iris, you do realized that you're eating your pancakes covered with ketchup, right?"
"Wha-?!" I look down at my plate, he was right instead of maple syrup bright red ketchup covered my perfectly good pancakes, "EWW!" I cry as I taste the ketchup covered pancake that was sitting on my tongue, seeing no napkin I can spit it out in I quickly force myself to swallow it thought and shudder at how horrible it taste.
Pikachu and Axew snicker, I blush.
"Sorry, I-I uh just have a lot things on my mind," I take a sip from my orange juice, "that's all,"
Virgil and Cilan look at each other, then turned to me with arched eyebrows, "What!?" I cry making them both jump, "why do you guys keep staring at me like that?"
Virgil shrugs, "Oh, no reason,"
"We were just wondering if you'd share what's on your mind Iris," Cilan adds
I blink, "Wha? I uh…no I don't think I should. No I mean I don't want to-"
"Why not?" Virgil inquires
I fell my cheeks go pink, "B-Because I just don't, t-that's why," I start to mess with my ketchup covered pancakes.
"Is there any other reason?" Cilan asks
I look up at them; I opened my mouth but had no idea what to say.
"Um excuses me, Iris" I look to my left to see Nurse Joy approach the table, phew thank God!
"Yes," I answer
Nurse Joy stops and takes a glance at my pancakes, gives me a strange look before saying, "It's Ash, he's asking to see you"
"Really?!" I exclaim jumping up, they all look at me, I blush, "I mean er…thanks for telling me, I'll go see him right away,"
I start down the hall before Cilan and Virgil can say anything.
'I wonder what Ash wants to see me for?' I think, 'maybe he wants to talk, or something like that,' I stop in front of Ash's room, that fluttery feeling rushed into my stomach, I take a breath and grab the handle and walk in. I blush, Ash is sitting up in bed two ice packs rest is on wrapped up leg, his backpack sit on lap and Ash is rummaging through it an upset expression is on his face.
"Um, hey Ash," I say,
"Hey, Iris," he responds not looking up
I close the door behind me and walk up to his bed, "How, ya feeling? Does your leg still hurt?"
Ash looks up from backpack and turns to me, "Um, yeah, my leg it's okay, still hurts though," he gives me a smile. My heart starts to beat faster in my chest.
I give a small smile back, "So um…w-what you call me for?"
Ash turns back to his bag, "Oh, I uh just kinda wanted to…uh ya know talk,"
"Talk?" I say a bit louder than I mean to, "er what about?"
'Is he going to ask me about that kiss yesterday morning?' I think my face burning, 'I wonder…does…does he want to k-kiss again?'
"Hey Iris," Ash's voice snaps me from my thoughts; his amber eyes are looking right into mine.
"Yeah?" I squeak
He rubs the back of his head, "Hey, you don't happen to know where my notebook is do you?"
I feel my heart drop into my stomach, "Y-Your…n-notebook?"
Ash starts to mess with his fingers, "You know the one with the blue cover and say Travels of Unova on it…"
I stare at him, 'Oh, shit!' I think, I look at Ash and sweatdropp, "Er um…n-no I haven't seen it," I lie, "maybe I left it in your room when I was getting your stuff yesterday,"
Ash smiles, "Oh, yeah good thinking Iris," I see his cheeks turn red, oh he's blushing!
"Do you mind going and…um-"
"Do you want me to get it for you?" I quickly say, before he can answer I say "sure no problem, I'll do it right now!" I rush out the door
'Damn it, damn it, damn it!' I think as I run down the hallway and back to where Cilan and Virgil are, 'please God, don't tell me I left it here when I fell last night!' my eyes scan under the tables, when I see a blue object I gasp and immediately dive under one of the tables for it. I grab the blue thing only to hear:
"Wha?!" a lady leans down and looks under the table she shots a angry look at me, "What do you think you're doing with my skirt young lady?"
I sweatdrop and realize the blue thing is just a part of the lady's long blue skirt, "Oh…um sorry I…I uh…" I let my voice trail off and climb out from under the table.
"Are you sure you alright, Iris?" Cilan asks when I get back over to our table, both him and Virgil had seen the whole thing with the lady
I don't answer and plop down in my seat, but I give a nod.
"Are you sure-"
"I'M FINE!" I yell cutting Virgil off and causing a few people to stare, "…I-I just got other things on my mind…"
Virgil sweatdrops, "um…s-sure whatever you say…"
I groan and slouch in my chair, 'Damn it! I lost Ash's notebook! Where could it be?! He gonna be so mad if he finds out I lost it, ugh what I talking about I still gotta worry about what he's going to say if he finds out I read it! Oh what am I gonna do?! Ash is gonna hate me for sure!'
"UGH! WHY ME!?" I cry aloud before covering my face with my hands, and at the moment I don't care who's looking.
What is Iris going to do? How is she going to find his notebook? What will Ash think if he finds out Iris read his notebook? What will Ash about the Unova League? Find out in the next chapter of Hope is Never Broken!
There you go guys after a long wait I finally updated! Once again sorry for the wait! Anyway hope you guys enjoyed it!
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