On to the next chapter! I gots lots of reviews for one night! Four reviews in about 20 hours! That's not bad. It used to take a week to get one review on my other story. Guess I'm doing better! I personally like this fic better then my last one. And I have a great idea for another fic that I plan to start! It's gonna be contestshipping if anyone's wondering. But don't worry! It won't slow down my updates!

Now to answer all my wonderful reviews!

Keyblader1991- I love the kool aid man! Man now I want some kool aid. Oh well, anyway, 1. I thought you were serious for a second. You scared me to death! But then you just made me laugh and I realized that you had left the last review and it was just funny. 2. That would be a little OOC but he would be pretty sad either way. 3. And thanks for hoping I get more reviews because it worked! I got 3 more!

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Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon. T.T

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Misunderstanding

Chapter 3: Nothing's What it Seems

Misty and Brock ran as fast as they could to the old boarded up building. When they got there Misty was upset to learn that Ash wasn't there. She had known he probably wouldn't be there but she couldn't help hoping. It would've been so much easier had he been there. They began to run around the city looking for him. They had split up but Misty still hadn't seen him anywhere. She was nearing the end of town now though.

Then she saw him. He was far away on the dirt road that led to Pallet Town.

Pallet Town? He was heading home at this hour? Why would he be doing that? But it didn't matter. She ran down the road after him but he was pretty far ahead. Then she saw him turn off the road and through some trees. Now she was really confused.

She finally reached the spot where he had turned off the road and followed through the trees. When she got to the other side she was surprised to find a waterfall and a river right there.

And sure enough, there was Ash sitting by the river just looking into it. It was still raining and he was soaked. Misty looked down at herself and realized that she was soaked too. Funny since she hadn't even noticed in her frantic search for Ash.

She walked over to him and sat down next to him.

"What are you doing?" She asked. She would've asked about his back but she wasn't as worried about him now. His back didn't seem to bother him at the moment. They were just sitting here; it wasn't like they were running a marathon.

He jumped up, startled by Misty's voice and then slowly sat back down, looking at her. "I was taking a walk." He said slowly.

She looked at him funny. "A walk? In the rain? In the middle of the night?" She asked.

"Well, it's actually almost morning." He told her.

She looked around a little but it was still too dark to see much. She did notice that the sky was turning a light purple in one direction. She turned her attention to the water. "Wow. This would be a great place to fish." She said absent mindedly.

He started laughing at her comment. She looked over at him surprised. Why was that so funny? He finally stopped laughing and shook his head, a faint smile on his lips. "You really don't remember this place?" He asked.

She was surprised by his question. Remember this place? Why would she remember this place? Between Pallet Town and Viridian city, the only thing she could think of doing with Ash that was important was meeting him. But could that mean…

She looked around a bit more and felt dumb for not realizing it. She had come to this river to fish while she was traveling. She had only been there that one time. It was here though that instead of fishing for fish she ended up fishing for Ash.

She laughed at her mistake. "Wow. I'm can't believe I didn't realize it." She started. "And here we are again." She said quietly.

He just kept looking out at the water when she said this, his expression didn't chance. He looked like he was trying to hide his emotions. He would try to do that a lot at times so Misty knew that he was doing it but she wasn't sure what he was trying to hide.

"Ash…" She said quietly. He looked over at her and once he saw how sad and worried she looked, he smiled.

"Man I'm tired." He said, shaking his head. She just kept looking at him, wondering what he was trying to hide. Then she remembered that she needed to talk to him about before. Explain some things.

"Misty," "Ash," They both started at the same time. They laughed.

"You go first." She said. He nodded and started again. Only before he started speaking, he looked away from her, as if he didn't want to see her face or something.

"Misty, about before, I don't want you to get the wrong idea. That kiss didn't mean anything and I'm sorry it even happened."

Misty's heart shattered.

"I only did it because you were saying that I didn't care about you and I don't know, I guess I wanted to prove that I do care about you. But we're just best friends, and that's all we'll ever be. I'm sorry I made you run off and if you can forgive me, I'd really appreciate it because I'd hate for us to go separate ways while you were mad at me." He finished.

Misty thought her heart had stopped beating all together. She couldn't hear it, or feel it anymore. She stared at the water with a blank expression on. What was there to say? Only one thing she could say. "I forgive you." She said quietly.

They both just sat there looking at the water not saying anything else to each other. Misty felt almost emotionless. That was probably why she wasn't crying. She stood up, the logical side of her brain working better now that the emotional side was almost completely gone at the moment.

"We should get back. Brock is probably worried." She said and he stood up too. She could tell that his back was still bothering him but he seemed to be walking fine now. He was tough like that. Never wanting to show weakness. She thought. He always wanted to do things on his own and prove to everyone that he could do it. They were a lot alike in that way.

After some walking they made it back to the Pokemon Center and Misty had Nurse Joy look at Ash's back while she went outside to wait for Brock. They had agreed to meet back at the Pokemon Center around this time so it worked out.

He soon arrived and she told him and Pikachu that she found Ash.

"Well, where was he?" Brock asked, but Misty had already turned around and was walking into the Pokemon Center and into their room that they had gotten for the night, though nobody had slept in it. She closed the door behind her and sat on the bed and soon found herself lying down. Before she knew it, she was asleep.

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Misty had slept all morning and had woken up at noon. Brock told her that Nurse Joy had said Ash would be fine to leave that day for home so they set out as soon as Misty and Ash had woken up. Ash had fallen asleep too since neither of them had really gotten any sleep.

Misty had gotten her bike from the old building and met them at the Pokemon Center before leaving. They got to the cross roads that would take them to Cerulean, Pallet, and Pewter City. Brock had suddenly said that he would be leaving too and so he was setting off for home too.

"So I guess this is it." Misty said quietly to the both of them.

"No." Ash said. "We'll keep in touch! That's what best friends do. We'll be close and of course we'll meet again." He told her and Brock.

She smiled faintly and nodded. "Yeah, that's right." She said quietly. She looked back at the two friends she had traveled with for so long. She would miss them both of course. And her and Ash were best friends and that was it. She's get over him and then miss him the same way she would miss Brock. It wouldn't be like the way she already missed him now. As if a part of her was already missing. As if the world was slowly turning black and white around her and everything she knew and loved was shattering.

She shook her head. It wouldn't be like that for long at all. She'd forget all about her silly crush and things would go back to the way they had been before she had met him, only better! With two new best friends and a gym to take care of. Things would be fine.

I hope. She thought to herself.

"Well, then I guess this is goodbye." She said to them both, not really wanting to look right at Ash.

He nodded anyway. "Yeah. Goodbye." He said.

Brock waved a hand. "Until next time."

"Right." She said with a sad smile. And with that, she turned around and didn't look back as she got on her bike and rode away.

"Well Ash, I guess I know how you really feel about me now." She said sadly. She wondered what was worse. Not knowing, or knowing.

She honestly wasn't sure.

She arrived back to Cerulean City when it was starting to get dark. She opened the gym doors only to find it empty. Her sisters where already gone.

She walked up the steps to her room and closed the door behind her. She was finally alone in her room with no one home. Now that she wasn't tired, and no one was there, and she realized that she may never see Ash again, she finally began to cry.

At first they rolled down her cheeks in a calm manner but she soon found herself reliving the other night when he told her he didn't care about her in the way she cared about him. When he said that kiss was a mistake. An accident. At these thoughts they started to come faster and faster until she felt like she couldn't breathe.

It was a terrible night. She didn't get any sleep and she just ended up crying all night until about 3 in the morning when she finally just fell asleep, still crying. She also ended up having terrible nightmares too.

It was the first night of many.

Had you fooled didn't I? Most of you thought Ash was gonna be really hurt didn't you? I could never seriously hurt Ash like that! Ok, well maybe I could but not this early in the story. But man that gash is gonna leave one heck of a scar. Ouch. Well anyway, thanks to everyone who reviewed and please continue to review everyone!! I'd love you forever! Just remember that!