Yes there is another time skip…my story, my universe. Not my character's however, seeing as I don't own Pokémon.

Ch. 7 The big day

3 months later…

"I can't believe I'm doing this, I don't have time for a sit down lunch." Misty mumbled to herself as she walked away from the gym. Something about all this felt familiar. Still, the day she had guessed it would happen was coming closer and closer and everything still seemed ok. No war was breaking out, no freak named Nyander was anywhere near them, and most of all Ash was still safe.

"Of course I guess I'll see how safe later though." She looked down at the letter in her hand. "If anything happens today I swear I will never forgive myself."

She was on her way to meet with Drew. It was a relationship it pained her to keep up. She could see how much it was hurting everyone around her, especially May, but it was the only way to be sure. She half wished May would just get with Ash, she would be the protective one, but that would just make everything worse. Besides, wouldn't they just use May to get to him? He was better off alone and May would just have to suffer. Sure she could've ended things and been alone herself. May and Drew could make up and get on with their lives, but she knew she couldn't keep herself from Ash then. Her thoughts were cut off by her name being called.

"Misty, over here. What took you so long?" Drew gave a lazy wave to motion her over to the café.

"Sorry, I got caught up. I've still got to get back, but this is important after all." She smiled.

"It's more important than you think Mist…y." she shuttered involuntarily. Only Ash was ever allowed to call her Mist.

"And why is that?" she asked, trying to act like nothing happened.

"Well this isn't exactly what I had in mind, but time's not on our side. Sorry." The mention of time being against her had again caused Misty to react.

"Anyway Misty, I know this didn't start under the best of circumstances." Drew began, putting his hands into his pockets.

"Why are you bringing all this stuff up Drew, can't we just have lunch without me killing you?" Misty looked around, hoping to see a waiter.

"Sorry, but Misty I didn't' want to come here to have lunch. We're both straight forward people so I'm just gonna do this."

'Oh maybe he's going to break up with me. Better work on acting upset. Just think of what it can mean for Ash, that should do it.' Misty thought. He brought his hands out of his pockets and rolled a pokeball across the table.

"Just open it, over the table." Drew said.

"Over the table, but, oh." She stopped dead as a small sparkling something rolled out. She picked up the ring. It was delicate and gold, with a medium sized round-cut diamond glittering up at her. She fought back the vision of the ring she had seen nine years ago on herself from now's future and she succeeded.

"Well, yes or no?" he looked entirely unconcerned.

"Yes." She whispered. She began to cry, hoping the tears could be disguised as tears of joy.

"Wow really?" Drew stared at her. "You really just said yes?" he was smiling now, but it faltered at her tears. "Why are you crying?"

"I'm just…happy." She laughed to help emphasize her point. She slid the ring onto her finger and tested it's sparkle in the light.

"Well I guess my time's up. Duty calls and I'm sure I can think of a few people who would be excited to hear about this." Drew stood up and offered Misty his hand. He pulled her up into a kiss. "We can talk about this more later. Don't keep those young trainers waiting." He whispered into her ear.

"Right, bye Drew." She said. She waved and started to walk back to the gym.

"I can't believe it." She said to herself, staring down at her ring. "It was never supposed to get this far. What am I doing?"

"You know the first sign of insanity is talking to yourself." Misty froze mid stride.

"No."

Short chapter…great cliffhanger. Sorry about that but hey I'm the author and that's how I say it goes ;p (I'm doing a lot of that this chapter huh? Lol oh well!)

STL