"Fine, I'll leave you two... Alone..." Brock said with a smug grin, wiggling his eyebrows. Misty face palmed and shoved the former breeder in the direction he had came from.

"Just go!" She sighed, rolling her eyes and glancing awkwardly back at Ash.

"About your best friend then..." He rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly, squinting one of his eyes. "I mean, I always thought we were best friends..."

"Thats because we are..." She barely mumbled, looking away embarrassingly.

"So... Does that mean...?" His face softened when he saw her cheeks growing redder, even though she wasn't looking at him.

"No, that's ridiculous! You and I would never work!" She said stubbornly, turning her head out of his view.

"Mist..." He sighed, grabbing her arm gently with his gloved one and towards him. "I'm not as dense as everyone thinks..."

"And I'm not joking when I say we wouldn't work..." She tried again, avoiding his eyes.

He rolled his chocolate brown orbs, tilting her head towards him. "Really?"

"Positive..."

"I guess I'll have to prove you wrong..." He mumbled, still holding onto her arm with one hand and shyly placing the other on her waist.

"Ash..."

"HEY GU-"

"GAH!" May's loud entrance was interrupted by Ash's yelp, ending up in him letting go of Misty and sending her falling to the ground.

"Hey!" She glared at Ash from the ground, then at May. "Thanks, May."

"I came at just the right time!" May gushed, suddenly grabbing popcorn from her vanny bag and sitting cross legged on the grass. "Carry on!"

"Uh..." Ash sweat dropped, helping Misty off the ground and glancing at May.

"Go!" May waved one of her hands quickly, shoving popcorn in her mouth with the other. "This was getting juicy!"

"Way to ruin the moment..." Misty mumbled but giggled, blushing and looking at Ash. "So..."

"Ash hurry up and kiss her already!" May hissed, Ash's face turned beet red.

"May!"

"What?"

"Lets just leave this till later..." Misty giggled again, shyly taking a hold of Ash's hand. "C'mon, Ashton."

"Ashton?" Ash raised an eyebrow. "Great. That's worse than Ashy-Boy."

"Well if Misty calls you Ashton, you'll be Ashy-Boy to me, Gary and everyone I tell!" May chirped, linking arms with Misty and trailing the pair forward.

"Can this get any better?" Ash face palmed, a sweat drop forming on his head.

"Hey, Iris! We were totally right, Ash and Misty like each other!" May grinned, un-linking her arm from Misty's and racing up to the tan girl.

"Crap, I forgot-" Ash hissed to Misty before he was cute off abruptly by Iris.

"What?!" The dragon trainer yelped, her soil coloured eyes widening dramatically. "Ash, you know I'm your girlfriend!"

Ash winced at her sharp tone and his behind Misty, shoving the redhead forward. "Hey!" She hissed, meeting Iris' glare and laughed nervously. "Heh... Hey, Iris..." She said sheepishly, her eyes going into arrow shapes.

"I thought you were my friend, Misty!"

"Of course I'm your friend!" Misty defended, seemingly hurt by her friends words. "I don't know why your acting so strange all of a sudden though-"

"Oh, would you look at that." Jayme rolled her eyes, her hands bawled into fists at her side. "First she steals Gary on me and now Ash off Iris!"

"No, it's not like that!" Misty stammered, her cheeks heating up with embarrassment. "I don't know why Gary says I like him like that, I'd never do anything to break you guys up!"

"Really...?" Jayme considered, before frowning again. "Then why were you guys acting so lovely-dovey before you went off to get Iris?"

"We weren't!"

"Uh... You kinda were..." May sweat dropped, remembering her awkward conversation with the redhead. "You thought Gary was cheating on you with Jayme..."

"You gotta be kidding me..." Misty face palmed, pinching the spot between her eyes at the top of her nose. "Look Jayme, I swear I don't like Gary like that. Surely you've caught on with May and Iris' teasing I kinda like Ash..."

"I figured..." Jayme sighed deeply, pouting slightly. "But why were you acting like Gary was your boyfriend...?"

"I'm sorry, I can't remember..." Misty said honestly, looking into the pink haired girls blue eyes. "I promise though, you're the first girl that Gary actually likes. Believe me..."

"Ugh fine..." Jayme pursed her lips in a straight line. "I suppose I believe you."

"Doesn't sound like it..." Ash mumbled, Misty elbowed him in the ribs. "Ow!"

"Hey wait a second..." Cilan mumbled, gaining everyone's attention. "Don't you think it's strange that Ash and Misty clearly like each other but somehow fell for other people...? It was almost as if they were under a spell..."

"What do you mean...?" Ash frowned, shyly sliding his hand into Misty's.

"I'm pretty sure Gary doesn't like Misty and Iris, hopefully, doesn't like you..." He sighed at the end, blushing when Misty gave him a knowing look. "You know, so she doesn't ruin anything for you two..."

"Sure..." Misty giggled slightly, before turning serious. "I just don't understand why I was apparently acting like I was in love with Gary but can't remember it..." She sweat dropped, glancing at the spiky haired boy who saw in the corner in a sulk.

"If he was back to his normal self maybe we could make sense out of it since he's so good at research..." Cilan sweat dropped, Misty frowned and pursed her lips, her eyes widening suddenly.

"I know! Ash and I were okay after we got knocked out, right?"

"Yeah..."

"So, if I knock Gary out, maybe he'll go back to normal?" She grinned, looking over at Brock. "I could even use Brock's frying pan!"

"It's worth a shot..." Cilan nibbled his lip before nodding. "Although I don't think Iris would appreciate you knocking her out with a frying pan..."

"I'll just make sure it works with Gary first," Misty reassured, grabbing Brock's frying pan and heading over to Gary. "Hey, Gary...?"

"What do you want?" He mumbled and looked up at her, a pout on his face.

"I just wanted to tell you something..."

"Well?"

"Happy birthday!" And with that, she whacked him across the head with the frying pan, causing him to land on the ground with a thud, his eyes in swirly shapes. "Did it!" She called over to Cilan, dragging Gary over by the arm.

"Now, how do we wake him up...?"

"I've got that covered!" Ash beamed, walking over with a bucket in his hand.

"Uh Ash..."

"It's okay, Mist!" He grinned. "I've always wanted to do this." He stuck out his tongue playfully, pouting the bucket directly over Gary's head.

"Poor Gary..." Misty laughed, joined in by Ash's when the brown haired boy sat up with a jolt after Ash dumped the water over him.

"Where did you the talk the water from anyway?"

"It's not water." Ash smirked, helping a confused Gary up from the ground. "I just showed Brock a picture of Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny and he drolled in seconds!"

"Ew what the hell Ash?!" Gary cried, looking up and his now flattened hair. "It took hours making it that shiny!"

"Yeah, he's back."