Misty stood outside the school, nervously and stroking her arm; trying not tremble from the cold. She usually just went straight home when the bell went, not hanging around after the school as if she was kind of cool kid.
However, she observed what was so different from the cool kids to her, she noticed that there she stood in black trousers and neatly pressed shirt with a red tie; which she thought was appropriate for school. However, when she looked around her, she found all the girls were wearing short skirts and colourful and stylish shirts. While the boys had a range of styles from the smart blazer look to the rough and tumble look of muddy and baggy clothes.
She glanced at the clock on the side of the building and realised she had been waiting for 20 minutes for Melody. She had stitched her up! Misty was about to start walking home until, "Hey Misty," was heard.
Misty turned around and saw Melody posing herself imagining her name in flashing lights above her. Melody reminded her too much of her sisters and that was a bad thing!
They walked to Melody's house without saying a word to each other, Melody told Misty it would give her a bad image talking to a geek and all.
Misty was a bit upset by the way Melody was treating her, but she thought it was only for tonight.
She found it hard to understand what was wrong doing work at school; she just wanted to get a good job in the future unlike some people.
Misty smiled to herself, but she wasn't for long until she arrived in Melody's bedroom. She couldn't believe her eyes. All around the room were photographs of Ash and some other random boys, but most of them were of Ash.
"You like my room, huh?" asked Melody, settling her things on the bed and taking her jacket off.
"Err…yeah, it's great," replied Misty, sarcastically.
"I suppose you would say that, fancying Ash and all," said Melody, stroking a photograph of him and planting a kiss.
Melody tried to make Misty jealous with all the pictures she had collected of Ash and all the memories that they had shared.
"I don't fancy Ash," Misty said. She was obviously lying with the amount of blushing she was doing.
"Okay whatever, let's get started," grumbled Melody.
Hours went by and Misty was left in suspense all through the afternoon. Misty noticed the amount of make up Melody had in her cupboards and drawers. There was a range of different colours and textures and Misty was gripping her chair for dear life as Melody placed the war paint on her skin. Misty had never used make up before, she was too young to know about make up due to the stress of her mother dying and her sisters never taught her what colours go with what outfits.
Melody had covered the mirror so Misty couldn't even take a sneak peak of her appearance.
"So what you wearing to the party then?" asked Melody, looking through Misty's school bag.
Before Misty could respond, Melody laughed as she swirled around in a short red dress.
"Well well, aren't you trying to impress," joked Melody.
"Is it okay? I bollowed it from my sister," smiled Misty.
"Yeah, it's lovely hunny," replied Melody sarcastically and couldn't wait to see Ash's face when he sees her in this.
She looked at Misty and tried not to laugh. Misty probably thought she looked like a million dollars, but that wasn't the case. Melody had placed black lipstick and bright orange eye shadow on her victim with large amounts of blusher and mascara.
"So ugly, bless her," muttered Melody, slipping into her outfit.
"What did you say?" asked Misty, quickly pulling up her dress.
"You look amazing sweetheart, Ash is going to be blown away," lied Melody giving her a fake smile and a thumbs up.
Melody saw Ash and Gary walking down in their direction and started to become excited. She saw Misty looking really happy for once in her life and tried looking at herself in the school's windows for a reflection.
"Hiya girls," greeted Gary.
Gary arrived in a smart blue shirt with a painted picture of a skull on the back with some trendy black trousers. Ash was wearing a black jumper with some ripped and stylish black jeans. His hair was still spiked up all over the place, but his amazing chocolate orbs stared at the girls.
Gary's and Ash's mouth dropped when they saw Misty beaming at them. Ash was shocked and speechless. Gary couldn't hold it in anymore and burst into fits of laughter while Melody joined, finally handing Misty a mirror.
Misty looked at her make up and hair, it was horrible and embarrassing! She watched the pair laughing at her as her eyes welled up with tears.
"Thank you," stuttered Misty, sadly; giving Melody back her mirror.
Gary and Melody stopped laughing and asked, "What are you saying thank you for? Mel made you look like a complete prat."
"You made me remember why I've always avoided people like you," smiled Misty.
She suddenly felt proud of herself by standing up to her bullies and she saw that Gary and Melody look offended by her comment.
Melody saw Ash raising an eyebrow to show that he was impressed of the attitude Misty was giving and was going to attempt to clap and cheer Misty on until she walked up to Misty in anger.
"Well, we all think you are an ugly cow anyway and a waste of space in this world. So here, have these I think you get the message," shouted Melody and throwing a pair of scissors in her hands.
"No!" yelled Ash furiously, trying to stop Melody passing the blades onto her, but it was too late.
Misty suddenly realised what Melody had just told her and she felt the same way about herself. She had no one to stop her now, no teachers and no sisters; it was the perfect timing for her to leave this world.
Misty rushed off weeping in her steps and clutching the scissors in her hands and ready to take Melody's advice.
"Come on baby, forget her, she's such an ugly thing. She won't do it anyways," said Melody, cuddling Ash and stroking his shirt.
"You're a bitch, Mel," hissed Ash, shoving her off and rushing off after the poor girl.
An hour had passed and Ash had searched the whole of Pallet town. He should have never let Misty go to Melody's house.
'So much of being nice guy,' he thought 'I just make things worse.'
Ash had prayed to God for the first time in his life for Misty to be safe and hoping she hadn't…Ash shook off the thought.
"Crap!" he yelled furiously as he kicked a tree violently near by, letting all his deep anger out.
After a few crazy moments of battling with a poor defendless tree, he heard a high pitched scream.
Ash quickly ran towards the scream as he came to some dark and isolated alley. Then he saw the terrific sight of a pool of blood around an innocent girl. Her eyes were fixed on him as she cried and mouthed the word, 'sorry' to him in a pained and upsetting whisper. She had dropped the scissors on to the ground and collapsed in a heap.
Ash swiftly came to her aid as he held her tightly and muttered, "Why?"
