In My Heart: Live For Today
By: TheFifthCharmedOne
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Summary: Third and final part of In My Heart trilogy. The road of love never did run smooth, but it seems things may finally be going the way they were meant to go. Though as the old saying goes, everything is not what it seems. Poke and Contest ships.
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Chapter 10: Two Is Better Then One (May and Drew's Wedding: Part 1)
Maybe it's true that I can't live without you
Maybe two is better than one
There's so much time to figure out the rest of my life
And you've already got me coming undone
And I'm thinking, ooh, I can't live without you
'Cause, baby, two is better than one
There's so much time to figure out the rest of my life
But I figured out with all that's said and done
Two is better than one, two is better than one
Two Is Better Than One, Boys Like Girls feat. Taylor Swift
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MISTY POV
A few months had passed since Christmas, and May and Drew's wedding was getting closer and closer. Aunt Caroline practically lived with us now that the wedding was nearing. They were doing last minute planning and everything that could possibly be done to prepare for a wedding.
I barely had a chance to talk to May, not only because of the wedding, but because of how busy my gym was making me. Building, painting, organizing, furbishing, advertising, it was a lot of work to do.
Thankfully, Ash was there to help. He watched the twins while I talked to contractors and advertisers.
Eventually, in June, my gym was up and running. I had plenty of hopeful trainers coming in everyday, and I felt that I was really doing something right, that this was good.
Summer was hot and humid as usual, and I was glad for the air-conditioning at the gym. I was working with a young trainer named Amy who had just started out on her Hoenn journey with a Mudkip. She had captured a Poochyena and a Tailow, and had challenged Uncle Norman to a battle, but lost. She was very disappointed in herself and her Pokemon. I was teaching her to understand that Pokemon had feelings too and that she shouldn't be too harsh on them when the door opened.
"Mama!" I heard my twins cry out. Then I was tackled by my two four year old monsters. I smiled and laughed as I pulled them away from me. I held them under my arms and looked at Ash.
"You gave them sugar didn't you?" I asked. Ash grinned sheepishly. I sighed and put the twins down. They were running up the walls as soon as their feet touched the floor. "Might as well let them run out." I turned back to Amy and Ash kept an eye on the twins.
On the Cerulean Gym front, well, I gave it a lot of thought and I decided to have my sisters sell it. I can't hold onto it forever; it'll only haunt me. Sure, the Gym is where I grew up and where I learned about my love for Water types and about Pokemon in general, but I'm twenty years old now. I have my own gym, which has been named Badges and Ribbons (the twins came up with it), and my own life here in Hoenn. I'd love to have it there forever, but Daisy, Lily, and Violet have their own dreams, their own lives. I can't force them to live like that forever.
We didn't sell the Gym to complete strangers, in fact, because Brock's mother Lola loves Water Pokemon so much, we sold it to her. She can design it anyway she wants and not interfere with the Rock Pokemon of the Pewter City Gym. She is also the official Gym Leader there now, and the League has agreed with it.
As for the Waterflower underwater shows, well, Lola agreed to let us do as many performances there as we want, and to come visit anytime. So we won't have lost the Gym forever, we just won't be tied down by it.
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May and Drew were still getting ready for their wedding, and the date was getting closer and closer.
When I came home later, Aunt Caroline was making dinner, and Max was sitting in the living room watching TV.
"Max!" Alex and Jake ran over to their cousin, who happily accepted them. Max was now sixteen and he had a lot of good Pokemon to his name. He had won and lost a bunch of battles, but he had learned a lot from them. It made me smile to think I'd known him since he was seven and wanted so badly to be a trainer but couldn't. He had changed some since he was younger; his glasses no longer took up half of his face, now they were small square glasses that brought out his eyes. He wore cargo like jeans and a green t-shirt with a Pokeball design on it.
"Misty?" I turned, and there was May. She looked tired, worn, but happy at the same time.
"May! Long time no see!" I went over and hugged her. I felt her laughing in my arms. "You'd think we didn't live in the same house or something."
"Well, weddings are busy, what can I say?" she said with a sheepish smile. Then she leaned up and whispered in my ear. "That's not all that was busy." My eyes widened and I looked at her.
"You did it?"
"We did it." I smiled and hugged her again.
"I knew you were ready. You just had to know you were." (1)
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The day before May's wedding had to be the most stressful. May was running to and fro, in her pajamas, as she fixed all the tiny details. Drew was watching with a exasperated but happy expression.
"Nervous?" I asked him. He shook his head.
"Course not. But now that it's finally here, it seems kind of surreal." I nodded.
"Misty! Where's Jake's suit? I need my ring bearer to be ready! And Alex's dress? I need my flower girl!" Drew threw me an apologetic look and I sighed, going up to the twins' room.
"May, breathe. Honey, breathing is your friend," I soothed her once she had stopped moving. "I have them set aside in my room."
May took a deep breath and sat down on Alex's bed. I had just recently taught them how to make their beds.
"I'm just so nervous. I want tomorrow to be perfect." she admitted.
"If you spend too much time wanting something to be perfect, something will undoubtedly go wrong."
"Is that supposed to be comforting?" she looked at me with a bemused smile.
"It's supposed to be realistic." I smiled comfortingly and hugged her. "You were there for me when I was pregnant with the twins, at my lowest moments and my highest moments, so don't you dare think I won't be there for you. Getting married is scary. But you just have to know you aren't alone." She smiled at me and we sat there for a while, hugging. "After all," I finished with a glance at the doorway where Drew, Ash, and the twins were standing. "Two is always better then one."
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A/N: Weeeee for pre-wedding shortness! XD Well, I failed at trying to finish the story before the New Year, and you know what? There's nothing wrong with taking one of my most loved stories into the new year with me. I mean I'm taking Petals and Thorns with me, aren't I? And all my lovely rewrites? So why not take this with me and finish it off with style and no rush. 8D
So, rant over. Review now please.
(1) If you recall, May was hesitant about going all the way, and this was confirming that they had.
~Charmed