Oliverqueen01- First off the view count is over a certain number and for that there is only one person to do the disclaimer this week. But before we get to that just thank you for all the support it really means a lot. So i think most of you have been waiting for this chapter this the story began and now we have arrived at it. So enjoy this week's chapter and as usual reviews/questions will be handled at the end.

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Chapter 15:Ash and Serena's First actual real date

Serena was still in shock over what Ash had just said to her. It was like she was on another earth and this was Ash's doppelganger who was standing in front of her. Then she realized that that sort of thing was only possible in the movies and tv. When the shock came down she snapped back to reality and accepted his invitation. She went up to her room grabbed her sweater the one she got from Dawn and then went with Ash.

The two of them walked in silence and taking quick glaces at each other without the other noticing also wondering what the other was thinking. For Serena she was wondering what was possibly running through Ash's head asking her out so suddenly maybe what Shauna and her mother said was coming true or this could just be a dream. For Ash he was hoping that this would go well and that Serena would have a good time. Eventually Serena decided to finally break the tension and spoke.

"So Ash, where do you plan on taking me?" Serena asked with a look of curiosity.

"You'll see we're almost there." He answered with a grin.

The two of them then stopped in front of a white building with a blue roof.

Ash opened the door for Serena and let her inside before him. When she got inside what she saw amazed her. Inside the walls were covered in beige paint and the floor was hardwood. There were people her age sitting at tables and talking with each other with a machine on the table and a stage in front of the tables.

"Ash, what is this place?" she asked in amazement

"This Serena is the Pallet town Playhouse." he said coolly.

"Playhouse? Like drama plays?"

"Yeah, I want to see for myself how good you are at acting since I'm not in your Drama class and words from the others alone can't describe it." he explained.

Serena blushed furiously and spoke.

"But-But- It's different in class since there's only at least 20 people in there but there are more people here. I'm so nervous that my stomach is doing back-flips on back-flips."

Ash put his hands on her shoulders which caused her to jump a little and then she looked directly into his brown eyes for the first time that night.

"If it'll make you feel better then I'll go up with you, that way you don't have to go through it alone." He assured her.

Serena blushed and thanked him as they were lead to a table by a worker and sat down as the first performance went on. As they looked through the device on the table to see what to preform, they had difficultly deciding what to choose, Ash would choose one but Serena wouldn't like it and the opposite was true too. Then a miracle occurred when they finally agreed on a script to play on stage and grinned at each other.

Ash continued to watch the performers on stage to pick up a few tricks if needed while Serena went through the script to select a scene. When she didn't find one to choose she handed it to Ash and told him to choose one. When he selected one he circled it with the a pencil and handed it to Serena. When she looked at the scene he selected she went crimson red.

"Excuse me Sir, Ma'am but after this next performance you will be next. Have you chosen the item you will preform yet?" asked the worker in a squeaky voice.

"Yes we have." Ash informed him.

"Very good, if you would follow me backstage to get ready."

Serena and Ash rose from their table and followed the stagehand backstage to prepare for their performance. Once they were in costume they went over their lines one more time to make sure they didn't forget their lines. The stagehand came up to them once more.

"I'm sorry I forgot but I need your names to introduce you to the crowd."

"Ash Ketchum."

"Serena Yoshida."

The man nodded as he headed out on stage to introduce them. Ash turned to Serena who was shaking and covered in sweat.

"Serena are you okay? You look like your about to faint." Ash asked in concern

"I'm fine, just nerves I guess." she told him

"Don't worry I'm nervous too but as along as we have each other I think we'll do fine. After all we can't give up until it's over right?" he asked with a grin.

Serena agreed with what Ash had just said to her. She really loved that despite feeling nervous himself that he was going out of his way to make her feel better. It was one of the many things she loved about him aside from his positivity and well the fact that he was handsome didn't hurt him either. But what was about to unfold had her ten times as nervous. The stagehand then went to the stage and spoke.

"I hope everyone is having a good time tonight watching the very talented performers who have performed here tonight."

The crowd yelled in enjoyment at the stagehand. He waited for the noise to die down before he spoke again.

"Well then I guess we should end the night on a high note shall we? Now for our final performance for the evening introducing Ash Ketchum and Serena Yoshida who will be performing something from our choice selection that they want to be a surprise."

The audience cheered as the stagehand stepped off to the backstage area and the dimmed the lights as Ash and Serena stepped on to the stage.

"Here we go." they both thought as they began.

(The following scene Ash and Serena are about to act out is from The Flash episode titled Who is Harrison Wells? The scene where "Barry" and Caitlin you know :p)

Serena and Ash walked on to the stage and began to perform their chosen scene.

"Hey." Ash began in a low voice.

"Good to go, Just need to give it a little spin." Serena said while holding a glass pretending it was a lab tube and placing it on the table.

"Oh,right yes. A spin."

"So this, uh serum that you're making, is it a temporary fix, or will it take away his power permanently?" Ash asked curiously.

"Not permanently. Just long enough so we can stop him." She explained to him while still spinning the glass on the table.

"And how long is it going to take?"

"Not long. We just need- What are you doing?" She explained only to find him in front of her, she faked a smile and then moved to another table on stage. Ash then looked at the audience coyly and then spoke his line.

"Something I think I should have done a long time ago."

This was the part that made Serena turn crimson red after reading it. When Ash grabbed her by the shoulders and brought her really close to his face, she knew what was coming next. In the scene they had to kiss each other. One take no screw ups and it had to look believable.

Then it happened Ash moved to her face and began to kiss her. Their lips were crashing into each other with such intensity that seemed for a moment time stood still and they were the only two in the playhouse right now. Serena had mixed emotions at that moment. On the one hand she knew it was just a fake kiss that was written into the scene, but on the other hand the guy she's had a crush on for awhile was actually kissing her but she didn't care she was enjoying the moment regardless of the circumstances.

"Mm Barry!" Serena said as she snapped back to reality and pulled away only to be pulled into another kiss. Once they began to kiss again a beep went off mimicking a computer sound

"Ah Oh, my God." Serena said as she pulled away.

The two of them then headed to the front of the stage and then bowed to the audience. The audience was giving them such a ovation that it never seemed to end. Once it did end they exited the playhouse and began walking again.


Neither of them said a word to each other until they passed a man selling ice cream at a cart on the sidewalk. Ash then spoke up to break the tension between them at the moment.

"D-Do you want an ice cream cone?" He asked nervously.

Serena nodded and they headed to the ice cream cart. Once there they got a vanilla and strawberry ice cream respectively. Serena was going to pay for hers but Ash paid for both of them insisting that he didn't mind paying for them both. Once the cones were payed for they continued walking.

They eventually came to a park and sat down on a bench in front of a fountain. In front of them was a playground where young kids were playing. A ball suddenly popped in front of their feet followed by a young girl no younger than 4 with green eyes and brown hair and she was wearing a sun dress.

"Excuse me mwister, can I have my ball back?" the girl asked shyly.

Ash smiled at the little girl and patted her on the head as he reached for the ball and handed it back to the little girl. The little girl smiled at the sight of getting her ball back and then spoke to him.

"M-My name is B-Bekee" she tied to say.

Ash laughed as the girl said her name. He knew that she was trying to say her name is Becky but her being a 4 year old the words couldn't come out clearly. He then spoke to her again.

"Well Becky, My name is Ash and that's my friend Serena." He said as he pointed to Serena on the bench. Serena flashed a smile and waved to the girl. Serena thought Becky reminded her of herself when she was young. Becky looked at Serena shyly and then turned back to Ash.

"She's very pretty, is she your girlfriend?" Becky asked innocently

Both of them went into shock and blushed at each other confusing the little girl. Once they came out of shock Serena went next to Ash and bent down to Becky and spoke to her.

"Becky, I'm flattered you think I'm very pretty, your very pretty yourself. But to answer your question whether Ash and I are boyfriend and girlfriend, we're just really good friends." she told the little girl.

"B-But you two look vewwy cute together." Becky said with a innocent grin.

Both of them blushed at the same time in embarrassment, at that moment a orange haired women and brown haired man came up to them. Ash assumed that these were probably Becky's parents. Once they caught their breath they spoke to Ash and Serena.

"I'm so sorry about our daughter, I hope she didn't cause you too much trouble." Her mother said in a semi quiet voice.

"No, not at all she was just being her adorable self isn't that Becky?" Ash responded with a grin.

Becky flashed a toothy grin towards her parents as she ran towards her mother's leg. Her father then spoke.

"Well in any case, thank you for entertaining Becky, but we must be on our way now. Come Becky say goodbye to the nice people." Her father said to her in a loving voice.

Becky came out from behind her mother's leg and stood in front of the two teens.

"Bye Mr. Ash and Ms. Serena I hope you think about what I said!" Becky yelled.

Becky and her parents then left the two teens alone in the park, both of them wondering what the other was thinking.

For Ash he was thinking what had happened over the course of this outing with Serena. He finally admitted to himself and his best guy friends that he had come to fall for the honey haired girl and even chose something to do that she was good at for his own eyes, Hell he even kissed her for god's sake and it felt good, right even but now he didn't know what she was thinking about him.

For Serena tonight seemed like a fairy tale. Crush shows up at door uninvited and unannounced? Check. He asked her on a date? Check. They did something that she liked and wanted a career in? Check. And then he kissed her right on the lips. True it was only pretend but it was still real to her. After tonight she knew that couldn't remain just friends it only be weird and awkward if they didn't talk about it eventually, but tonight she just wanted to relax and enjoy the moment that she was having with Ash.

"She was adorable wasn't she?" Serena asked Ash snapping him out of his thoughts.

"Yeah, for a 4 year old she was adorable."

Then there was an awkward silence between them until Ash spoke.

"Look Serena about tonight and about when we-" Ash began before he was cut off.

"It's okay, I just want to enjoy tonight with you. We can deal with what happened tonight at the playhouse another time, after all what was it that Becky said? Oh right I'm your very pretty friend right?" she teased him.

She grabbed his hand which caused him to jump a little but he immediately calmed down and he liked the feeling of her fingers intertwining with his. He then heard a sound and looked up at the sky.

"Look Serena a shooting star." he exclaimed excitedly.

He pointed up to the sky which caused her to look. Her eyes widened at the sight, the sky was so clear that she could see other stars in the sky. It reminded her of back home when she was on her journey and camped out with her friends every night.

She saw another shooting star and made a wish on it. Ash saw the same star and also made a wish on it. When it was gone they decided to make their way home. After tonight nothing would be the same. Luckily tomorrow was the weekend which meant work, which also meant tomorrow she could talk to her friends about tonight.


Once they came to Serena's doorstep they stopped and talked.

"Listen, despite what happened tonight with me coming suddenly asking you out on a date, at the playhouse and with Becky in the park, I actually had a nice time tonight out with you. Thank you for that." he said shyly.

Serena blushed before she spoke.

"I did too, it was nice to get away from everything for a while, even if it meant I had to preform in front of a large crowd but it does help prepare me for my future since I want to be an actress after all. But I wouldn't change anything that happened tonight for the world." she told him while blushing.

The two of them grinned at each other and for the 2nd time that night it felt like time froze and they were the only two people in the world at that moment. The two of them hugged each other and broke apart only to look at each others face. Slowly they moved their heads closer to one another to the point where they could smell each others breath. Their hearts are beating a million Pontya an hour within their chest as their lips almost met again but was interrupted by a certain grey rhino pokemon.

Rhyhorn grunted at them which caused them to break apart and come back to reality. Rhyhorn smirked at them proud of it's handiwork. Ash sighed and then spoke to Serena.

"Rhyhorn really doesn't like me does he?" he asked with a sigh

Serena giggled and answered

"He does like you, he's just being really overprotective of me since mom had him before I was born. Isn't that right Rhyhorn?"

Rhyhorn grunted in denial which caused Serena to laugh and Ash to sigh.

"Well I better get home, we both have work tomorrow and I doubt either of our bosses would be happy with us if we came in and slouched around due to lack of sleep."

"Yeah, I think your right so see you tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow then."

Ash went out the gate, closed it and waved goodbye to Serena as he made his way back home. Serena then went over to Rhyhorn and crouched down next to him.

"You know Rhyhorn you really need to stop with the interruptions whenever Ash and I are just talking on the doorstep." Serena playfully scolded him

Rhyhorn grunted it's name in jealously. Serena rubbed his head as she talked to him.

"Rhyhorn I'm a big girl now and Ash really means a lot to me. He won't hurt me, so please for my sake will you try to get along with him? Please?" She asked with pleading puppy dogs eyes.

Rhyhorn took a minute to consider it's options. On the one hand it loved what he was doing to Ash scaring him and reminding him that he was always there watching what he was doing with Serena in front of his eyes. On the other hand he knew that she made a very valid point. Serena wasn't a little girl anymore, she's a big girl who can handle herself and Ash hasn't done anything to make him angry to hurt Ash. That's when Rhyhorn made up his mind.

Rhyhorn licked Serena's face in Happiness which meant that he would try to get along with Ash. Serena was overjoyed that Rhyhorn would give Ash a chance and not grunt at him anymore. Serena then got up rubbed Rhyhorn's head one final time telling him good night and went inside.

When she got inside she found her mother's Fletchling on it's perch asleep. She quietly tiptoed to her mother's room and found Grace asleep on her bed with a loud snore coming from her. Serena closed the door and then headed to the bathroom to take a shower and then head to bed. Once she got out of the shower and went into her room she found her pokemon on the left side of her bed asleep waiting for her. Serena smiled at them. She knew tomorrow she would tell them what happened and she couldn't wait. She took one final look at them and then went to sleep.


Ash came home and found his mother passed out on the couch with the tv on. He sighed as he took off the tv and placed the blanket on her. He knew that Christmas break was coming up he thought to do something nice for her like take her on vacation just the two of them. He then left on the hallway light and went upstairs to the bathroom to take a shower.

Once he finished from the bathroom he went into his room to find Pikachu still awake but Froakie asleep on a mat that his mother had purchased recently. Ash hopped into bed with Pikachu following suit.

"Pika-Pi?" Pikachu asked catching Ash's attention.

"Hmm? Oh it's nothing Pikachu. Just thinking about what happened tonight while I was out with Serena."

"Pika?" he asked

"Well, I took her to the playhouse to see her act and I went on stage with her to make her feel less nervous but um... the scene I chose well there was something there that I didn't except to do at all."

"Pikachu Pika-Pi?"

"I um... I um..." Ash stuttered.

Pikachu decided to tease Ash by starting to light up it's cheeks. When that happened Ash knew what was coming if he didn't speak in the next 5 seconds.

"Serena and I kissed each other and it felt good. Then after that we went to the park to eat ice cream and we met a little girl named Becky who said that we looked cute together, and not to leave anything out we both saw a shooting star and made a wish on it. But I'm not telling what I wished for then it won't come true." he told his oldest friend.

Pikachu smirked at Ash. Finally after years of denseness and finally moving past his unsuccessful first date he was happy that Ash had finally found someone other than himself, his other pokemon and his own mother to love.

Ash rubbed Pikachu's head to which it sighed it's name happily.

"You like her right? More than anyone else?" Ash asked him.

Pikachu nodded at Ash's statement. Pikachu liked Serena, out of all the people he had met she was the only one that he didn't thunderbolt at all.

"Well then I guess that's that. We better get some sleep after all tomorrow is work and you're meeting up with the rest of the gang tomorrow at the ranch with Froakie."

"Pikachu."

The two said goodnight to each other and went to sleep. For Ash it took a while because he knew if he closed his eyes the day would end. But then an image of Serena smiling at him popped into his head which caused him to finally shut his eyes and go to sleep with one thought in mind:

"Best Date ever."


Oliverqueen01- So I'm back from training with Vegeta. I learned how to turn super sayian and use Final Flash it was cool. So ya I messed up with the episode airing the league actually started today and just wow. I won't spoil it cause this is an episode you have to watch to enjoy for yourself. But anyway let's recap. THEY KISSED! When i was writing how I would make them kiss that scene from the flash instantly popped into my mind and I thought why not run with it. What was the wish they made on the shooting star? They will be revealed eventually. I'll say this much it was hinted earlier in the story :p. I don't think I missed anything else like Rhyhorn finally giving Ash a chance right? Right. :p Anyway let's get to the reviews/questions.

Reviews/questions

49ers (Guest)- Will May and Selina get teased by someone? We'll see. At this point there's about 10-15 chapters left. Thank you for reviewing.

Espeon44- thank you good sir. Hopefully you'll like next weeks chapter too. This one was absolutely my favourite to write.

Engel2092- No it's not like he showed her- Well it's not like she rescued- they hardly spend any time- no this is story is a tragic- I think I'll shut up now too :p Ya this chapter after the last line from the previous one just had to lead into this. Yes Dominic Purcell was in Prison Break along side Wentworth Miller the reason you probably don't remember is because back then he had hair. Oh and Mr Popo said to remind you that no it's still post season 2 and his training LOL.

Pikatrainer1- Yes Truth be told I was actually watching that episode when I wrote the max scene. Anyway thank you for the review.

Mixt Number XV- Oh you have? That's amazing I stopped because too much filler sometimes and like in the review above yours I was actually watching that episode when the scene with Max was written. And yes he took his time and look where that lead him this week :p

Amour guest- war? In this story no. In the anime? Maybe depends what happens with the whole team flare arc seeing we're at the league and it hasn't be resolved yet. and Yes yes, keep up the amourshipping stuff and all that good jazz. I will don't worry about that :p

Pokemonmeat- thank you good sir. Hopefully this chapter did good in your eyes it was really fun to write.

Ooobserver- Yes everyone knows thought instead of everyone finding individually might as well have it happened at her birthday without her noticing. I think this you have more questions after what happened with them. :p

Monkeyboy0118- Thank you glad you love it and yes since chapter 3 I know. Now where things go from here will be interesting.

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