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This is the LAST chapter before the epilogue where, I PROMISE, nobody gets pregnant, and nobody is getting married, because everyone does that, and it's so cliché, therefore, be awesome and don't skip it :)

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Chapter Eighteen: Facing it all.

How could Ash do that to Misty, and worse, with Dawn? He's such a player; cheating on Misty with Dawn. Dragging Dawn into something that isn't something she would even think about doing. He probably changed her into a slut. It's all his fault. Let's see, May said Misty saw her in her pyjama's, which probably means she slept with him no doubt! That's probably why he told us where he lives and was flirting with Dawn when he first met her. She totally wanted him. Stupid girl. Stupid boy. He doesn't deserve her.
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"You nervous?"

"If my mother is actually there, I will be. If she's freaking out because I left for like two months without a note or warning… then, very nervous."

Ash and Dawn were in the car driving to Twinleaf Town. Since Dawn and Ash are now a couple, she decided, with his permission of course, that she wasn't going to be moving out of his place anytime soon. So she's going back to her house to get her clothes and other personal possessions.

Ash lifted her hand in his and gave it a kiss. Dawn blushed and kept a smile on her face. It has been two weeks since she's been his girlfriend and she couldn't be happier.

"You'll be fine, alright?" Ash flashed her a smile then put his eyes back on the road.

"I hope you're right."

"Okay, so while you go get your stuff, I'll be at the grocery store. I'll be close by, so if anything, call me, I'll be there in just a few minutes. Though, I would rather be with you."

"I know you would Ash, but I need to do this alone."

"I understand Dawn." He stopped at a house, "is this it?"

She sighed keeping her eyes on the house, "yes. Thanks for bringing me."

"No problem love." They shared a small kiss before she got out of the car.

Ash opened the window on the passenger side a bit. "Bye Ash," she said from the other side of the window. "Bye Dawn," he blew her a kiss and then drove away to the nearest market.

Dawn stared at her house and then sighed, "Let's do this."

Dawn walked up her steps to the front door and unlocked it. She walked into her house and closed the door after her. "Hello?" no answer. Dawn shrugged, I should have expected this. She walked up the stairs to her room to gather her things in a luggage.

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When she was done packing, she had two full luggages. "Done!" That's when she heard the door open. Oh God.

Dawn decided to go for it anyways. She grabbed her luggages by the handle, one in each hand, and proceeded to go down the stairs.

"Dawn!" her mom greeted her.

"Hey mom."

"Sorry I've been gone for so long," she said taking off her jacket, "I went for an audition in Snowpoint City. But then, I decided to stay there a bit longer since it was so nice there. Well, three months is a lot longer than I had planned, but it was like a mini vacation."

Mini her mind repeated sarcastically. "That's nice," replied Dawn as she realized her mother didn't acknowledge the two luggages Dawn was holding.

"So how is everything? How's Kenny?"

"Kenny and I aren't together anymore mom. And I'm great. This is the first time I've been home in two months."

"Oh, then where were you?" Ms. Berlitz said going towards the kitchen.

Dawn followed her mom. "At my new boyfriend's house, well, we've only been together for two weeks but we have been good friends before," Dawn said smiling, "he moved here from Kanto about three months ago."

"That's nice dear," she replied in an uninterested tone. Dawn rolled her eyes. Figures, it was too much caring for her as soon as I started talking about myself... whatever. "Hey mom, just to tell you, I'm moving out."

"You can't be moving out, you don't have the money to," Ms. Berlitz said continuing on what she was doing. Dawn got annoyed, "Haven't you been listening to me at all? I technically already have moved out, like two months ago."

"Move out if you want to Dawn. I'm not stopping you."

"Of course you aren't," Dawn said quietly, she wasn't in much of a mood to argue. She took her luggages and walked up to the door. "Okay then, bye mom."

"Bye honey."

Before Dawn opened the door she sent Ash a text message to pick her up. When she got the okay, she went outside and locked the door. "Dawn?" She heard as she was locking the door.

Dawn spun around, "Kenny?"

"Why do you have luggages?"

"Because I'm moving out."

"Moving out? Where to?"

"To Jubilife City; I'm moving in with Ash."

Kenny crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow. "He's still with Misty you little cheat."

Dawn frowned. "You have some nerve calling me a cheat Mr. I-had-a-side-deal-with-that-Zoey-chick-while-dating-me," she crossed her arms, "besides, Misty and Ash aren't even together anymore. I am his girlfriend now."

"You, with that low life? Please, don't you know you deserve better than that," he spat.

"Oh please, enlighten me Kenny."

He smirked, "me." Dawn eyes widen but she still held a smirk, "a little too late."

"Face it, Ash is not the one for you." Dawn was getting annoyed, "how could you say that?"

Flicking his hand back, he said, "Because he isn't me."

Dawn rolled her eyes, "shut up Kenny. You had your chance, you blew it, get over it."

In his peripheral vision, Kenny saw Ash pull up behind Dawn.

"Besides Kenny, I am complete-" stopped mid-sentence by a kiss, from Kenny. Dawn was too flabbergasted to do anything. She just stood there, numb in shock.

Hands pried them apart; Ash's.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?"

"Ash!" said a surprised Dawn.

"Well well Ash, I see you got yourself a cheating girlfriend."

Ash glared at Kenny. "How much of an idiot do you think I am?"

"Whatever Ash, it's not like you two are going to last anyways."

"Kenny, the role of a jealous bitch is not needed. Besides, you got your shot; you lost the best thing that could ever happen to you. Of course, I could care less about what you lost but, she's mine now and it would be great if you never spoke to her again. Okay? Good." With that, Ash led Dawn to the passenger seat, and then went to his place in the car, but not before sending a triumphal smile Kenny's way. Kenny glared back at him while they drove away.
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Ash and Dawn arrived home; the car ride was a silent one. Dawn was definitely impressed by Ash; he stood up for her. Something Kenny had never done for her.

Dawn had finally said something to break the silence, "thank you Ash." She closed the door of the condo room.

Ash turned around. "It's no problem Dawn," he said as he hugged her. Dawn was enjoying the hug until she felt something vibrate in his pocket. "Uh, Ash?"

"I'll get it." He took his phone out of his pocket and answered it, "Hello?"

Dawn went to go sit down on the couch.

"Hey Ash."

"Misty?" Ash wasn't expecting this, Dawn's head jerked up at the name. "What do you want?" Ash went into his room and closed the door.

"To say sorry, I truly am sorry for what happened. I was actually going to break up with you afterwards. I wasn't going to continue cheating on you after that."

"Why? Why did you choose him over me? I still don't understand what I did wrong."

"Ash, you invited Dawn to live with you. I was your girlfriend Ash."

"Dawn had nowhere else to go!"

"Ash, that move alone could make any girl insecure. There were multiple opportunities where you could have cheated. I couldn't trust you. Ash, I called you not to fight, we did enough of that while dating." This caused Ash to chuckle along with Misty.

"Actually Misty, I have a confession. I did cheat on you; once. But Dawn wanted to protect the relationship you and I had, so she lied to me and I believed her. It's a complicating story, but eventually she told me the truth but we were already going out again."

"Well then I guess we're even aren't we?"

"I suppose we are."

"Ash, I called you for a second chance."

Ash was stunned. He did not see this coming. "Uh, that's great and all Misty, but Dawn is my girlfriend now and-"

"No, no! My bad, I didn't clarify. I don't want a second chance as your girlfriend. We tried it out and it failed, remember? No Ash, I wanted a second chance as your friend. I miss how we used to be, before all of this."

"Yeah, I miss it too."

"So, what do you say? Let's give this another shot as friends this time and let us just stay close friends."

Ash couldn't help but chuckle, "Alright, deal."

"Phewf! I'm so happy that's clarified. Anyways, I got to go. See you around Ash."

"Bye Misty." Ash clicked the hang up button on his phone. He then proceeded to smile; he was happy he and Misty were going to stay friends.

Ash walked out of the room to see his girlfriend lying down on the couch opposite the television.

"Hey Dawn." He sat at the edge of her seat.

She turned to face him, "Hey babe, what did Misty want?"

"Oh, she called to say sorry and she wanted a second chance as friends and never again anything more."

"Did you accept her apology?" asked Dawn now sitting up, her feet still on the sofa while Ash put his arm around her legs.

"Of course I did," he said to which Dawn smiled, "I mean she's been my best friend for so long and we ruined it by taking a chance and going further with our relationship. So might as well stay friends."

"Aw, I'm happy for you Ash, everything is going fine between you and Misty."

"Well my life just became perfect. Everything is going well and as a super bonus, I got the best girlfriend." Dawn leaned over to kiss him. "I'm living with my boyfriend. Just there my life is great."

Ash kissed her this time. "Let's go for a drive." Dawn was puzzled but obliged.
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Night time had arrived, and Ash was driving Dawn to Floaroma Town.

When they came out of the car, the first thing Dawn noticed was how different the smell was, "it smells great here!"

"I know. You've never been here before?"

"No," Dawn replied, "I mean, I drove past it, but never stayed in the town."

"Well then, let's take a walk." Ash then took Dawn's hand and walked north.

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They had passed by a flower shop where Ash purchased Dawn a beautiful pink tulip; her favourite flower. They then went to a nearby park where Dawn immediately ran for the swings.

"I love the swings! It's like flying."

"I guess~ you could put it that way," he chuckled.

Dawn sat on one of the swings, Ash took the position behind the swing Dawn was on and pushed her.

"You know what I like?" asked Dawn, her hair being controlled by the wind.

"What?"

"When my boyfriend pushes me on the swing."

Ash couldn't help but smile. "Well, do you know what I like?"

Dawn smiled, "me?"

Ash laughed. "Of course, that and pushing my girlfriend on the swing."

"Yay!" Dawn was happy with Ash. He made her feel comfortable with being herself. "Slow me down, I want to jump."

"Alright." Ash held onto the chain and pulled her in slow, then gave her a light push. "Wee! Perfect landing!" she said with her arms in the air.

"And then he tackles you for the touchdown!" Dawn made a scream, but Ash made sure she landed on top of him so he wouldn't get hurt. "Don't hurt the tulip! Besides, it's not polite to tackle a lady," she said as she got off of Ash and sat down, Ash sat down facing her.

Dawn put the tulip beside her. "Tell me something I don't know about you," Dawn said fiddling with the grass beneath them.

"Hmm, let's see… Did you know that I'm the best mass murderer ever?"

"The best mass murderer ever? No I didn't, tell me more." Dawn looked at Ash with a smirk.

"No really, it's true! I'm so good other murders learn from me."

"Really?"

"Oh yeah, I also come up with their moves and stuff, and they're so popular, they land in movies."

"And you don't?"

"Psh, no. What kind of mastermind would I be if I were caught."

Dawn laughed, "Oh wow Ash. You make a very good story teller."

"Don't I?" Dawn pushed him lightly. "No, but seriously, tell me something you haven't told me before."

"I've told you everything you need to know Dawn honestly."

"You promise?"

"Yes." Dawn looked at him for a bit. Then, she smiled and leaned in to kiss him, which he gladly accepted and returned. Ash couldn't help but smile throughout the kiss. I got the perfect girl.
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So what do you think guys? Is this a good last chapter before epilogue?

It may seem rushed the way Dawn faced Kenny and Ash faced Misty, but trust me, if I stretched it out it would feel stretched out, and if I put it in separate chapters I would get complains that the chapters were too short, therefore, this. I think it worked out well though.

I want to be able to update either during the weekend -because my plans might have flopped- or early next week because I just realized I'm in a HUGE predicament with school. The program that I want to switch into gets 180 applicants a year, and out of those only 18 get accepted so I need to work my butt off to get grades in like the 90's.

Also, next week on Wednesday I'm getting an endoscopy so I want to finish this before my phase of freak-out begins.

Next time we "meet" it'll be the last :( I will miss you guys, you people have been awesome!

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