A/N: OMG! She's putting a second chapter in already? Yeah so I can't sleep, sue me. Now to the second letter my crazy sister chose for me. Oh I so hope I can pull this off….hold your breath everyone!...not really, you might turn blue lol Just commence with this little shot!

Baritone

Bar-i-tone: n. 1. A male singing voice having a range higher than a bass and lower than a tenor. 2. A singer having a baritone voice. 3. A part written in the range of a baritone voice.

If there was one thing about Ash Ketchum that totally and completely stunned her; it would have to be his voice as he joined Brock on the Karaoke machine.

So maybe they all have had quite a few drinks, but when you get together with your friends for a small reunion it was bound to happen. It made the tension disappear and allow everyone to let loose and forget that the raven-haired heart breaker was soon to go on another journey, dragging the -oh-so- loveable father figure Brock behind him. Not to mention that he would probably gain another female traveling partner who would probably be prettier than the last. Damn. Where did May hide that small bottle of rum?

But enough about depressing things, all that would happen tomorrow, it was now the time to party and just enjoy the time they had. And how did they plan on spending the evening before the departure? Well, it just so happened that Dawn had the bright idea of renting a large Karaoke in Cerulean so that they could bring it back to her gym, set it up in her pool arena, and place the large screen on the far wall so that the extra large words could be seen from across the other side. May had squealed when she and her younger brother Max had come back with colored lights after running through the grocery store for candy, soda and ice cream. The stupid things had been on sale. Damn it. So what did the siblings do? They took out her sensor lights and screwed the color lights in their place.

So maybe her gym had been the perfect place to set up a small party. Not only was the area large with plenty of free space, but there was a pool. And if there was a pool then that meant swimming and swimming meant limited clothing, and limited clothing meant that Ash would be wearing his swim trunks low around his waist showing off his amazing lean and toned stomach and chest. Oh. Wait. That meant she could dunk that loser in the water and drown him so that he wouldn't go on another stupid adventure without her. Yeah, that sounded much better.

At first the party had been started off with screaming and shouting as the boys decided that all the girls deserved to be thrown in the water. Brock had played life guard as Tracey, Max, and Ash chased her, May, and Dawn around the water struggling to capture them as the girls fought with all their might. Ash should have known better then to go after her. Didn't he know that she was stronger than him? Hadn't he learned anything in the three years they traveled together? Wait. What?

"Ash Ketchum drop me!" she screeched as he closed his arms around her and picked her up right off the tiled floor and carried her towards the chlorine filled water. She fought as best she could, pulling and pushing her body against his but he hadn't even struggled. It was like he was carrying his light weight Pikachu or something. This was so unfair. And yet, as she was plunged into the water, the sound of his loud laughter filling the air before she was surrounded with bubbles, it wasn't his strength that had surprised her. He was a growing boy who traveled about every day; he was supposed to be strong. If he had been the same wimpy ten year old from before she would have been seriously worried.

She shot to the surface, shaking her head to rid of the excess water when May's and Dawn's screeches sounded around her and were suddenly joining her in the pool. By the time they surfaced everyone had jumped in and then there was Max, Brock, and Tracey trying to race each other May and Dawn splashing her in the shallow end and Ash jumping off the diving board to do cannon balls and create massive waves. It wasn't long before everyone decided jumping looked like tons of fun. You had Tracey's running man that made everyone laugh at the hysterical scene, then there was Brock's belly flop which sounded really painful and the room echoed with "oooooh…" before he surfaced and laughed at how stupid he probably looked. Ash, being the doofus he was, did a jack knife because he loved making a splash and Max wanted to do his rendition of a cannon ball. The skinny fourteen year old hardly made a sound let alone a wave, May followed him with a normal dive, it would almost have been a ten if her legs hadn't split, and Dawn jumped off with a screech, her body as straight as a pencil.

When she jumped it was with expertise. She had done dives her whole life being a water trainer and living by the pool all the time. So she did two flips before turning her body so that she could hit the water in a dive, so perfect that there was no splash and swam all the way to the end of the pool before surfacing. She was met with applause and Ash's shout of her being a show off. Whatever. Soon everyone tired of the water, and it was Dawn who had hurried to the singing device, grabbing the microphone and flipping to a song that she could sing. The girl wasn't bad, her voice was in tune, and she hit the high notes decently, and did it all clad in a pink bikini, and with wet mangled hair. That was quite an achievement for her alone.

May had been next, turning it to some Pussycat Doll's song that was about some break-up and sang the sorrowful tune with heart. It really was a shame that the brunette stank on ice. Everyone had the kindness to applaud and cheer the brunette's performance before someone was shoving her onto the small little stage and pushing the microphone into her hands as May jumped off. She chose a Leann Rimes song, one that had been in a movie called Coyote Ugly and sang as best she could. When it came to a finish it was silent, and everyone stared at her with wide eyes. Oh come on, it couldn't have been that bad. Could she have been worse than May? Oh how embarrassing.

"Wow Misty that was great!" Max suddenly cried out being the first to clap before everyone joined in.

"I didn't know you could sing," Brock accused as she placed the mike on the table and hopped off the stage.

"I can't," she argued shrugging her slim shoulders and glaring at Tracey who had been the one to put her on the friggen thing.

"That was fabulous!" Dawn grabbed her arm. May cheered along with her, each girl grabbing hold of her arms and leading her towards the drinks. Misty glanced at Ash, eyes widening as she realized he was giving her the most peculiar look, like he was shocked. Don't worry Mister Pokemon Master; you're not the only one.

The boys immediately took over the machine as soon as they chugged down a few cups of the alcohol Brock managed to get. Max, bless his young heart, stayed away from the poison and also managed to escape the embarrassment of the Karaoke but Brock, the nutty one, was on there every other song so that his deep voice was booming into everyone's ears. Tracy soon joined him and then they would sing together making it very balanced with Brock's bass and the green haired boy's tenor voice. And Dawn and May could not stop laughing at Brock's own song, called "Joy and Jenny" an ode to the nurse and police woman. That was his one hit wonder for sure. It took a lot of pushing to get a tipsy Ash up there to sing and boy could he sing. It was the one thing about him that made Misty's head tilt with confusion. Sure his voice had deepened while he grew, but she had never known him to sing before. It was in between Brock's bass and Tracey's tenor. Baritone if you will. He was able to hit the high notes Brock couldn't reach and the lower notes Tracey couldn't hit.

Then she got mad. He wasn't even trying and yet he sounded like he knew how to sing all his life. He made her spine tingle with the unusual sound, and her heart beat rapidly and she didn't like it. It made her wonder how many girls he would serenade to, not only was he courageous and charming but now he had a singing voice. Could this get any worse? Still, she put on happy face laughing and clapping as the boy rubbed his head in embarrassment when everyone suddenly suggest he sing with her. What? They couldn't be serious? Oh yes they were.

In one moment she had been on the floor beside Max and in the next she was beside her best friend who was looking at her with the shyest look she had never seen on him before. His brown eyes connected with her cerulean orbs and then he gave her an encouraging grin.

"Can't hurt to try," he said handing her the second microphone. She could only nod as he picked out a song. Oh man, he just had to choose the song from "Beauty and the Beast." It had to be the one song that could express all her emotions into one melody. Damn, damn, damn! And so they sang her face bright red and her heart pounding as the memorized the sweet sound of his voice for later. And after he had gone on his stupid journey disappearing for a year or whatever, she would do her duty at the gym. But, when she would escape from the day's work she would find her Celine Dion CD and play number three and listen as she and her partner cooed out their rendition of "Beauty and the Beast." No one had to know how she would compare both boys' voices, agreeing with herself that yes, Ash was much better.

A/N: Well…I hope this one was good. It was all I could think of though and man was it hard to come up with. Although picturing Ash with a good singing voice is kind of a fan girl thing huh? Lol Oh well, it's my story and I wanted him to have one =) so read and review please!

As the world turns and the grass grows the Waterfalls!=)