Here's the next chapter of Our Destiny. Now don't shoot me just because I didn't choose your OC. Seriously guys it's not cool at all. I'm the author and it's my choice.
Anyways, hope you enjoy.
To say that Ash was shocked was a vast understatement. As he laid there, slightly groaning in pain due to the impact of Dawn's vehicle on his upper waist and left arm, he couldn't help but wonder why he was at fault here. He scrunched his eyebrows in confusion.
Meanwhile, Dawn had her arms on her hips, giving the ebony-haired man an intimidating stare. "Imbecile! You're not even apologizing!" She yelled. At this point, people were giving them looks and were watching in curiosity.
Ash, groaningly managed to get up on his feet and adjusted his glasses. Avoiding her question before and her death glare now, he had recognized her. That long luscious blue hair…those full cheeks…long eyelashes…those full lips. How could he have not recognized her sooner?
"Excuse me! I'm waiting for an apology and you're checking me out?! You better apologize otherwise I'll sue you for wrecking my car!" She continued yelling and Ash really was contemplating what to say to her. She was really a hot-headed girl.
"Uhhh…" He fumbled, adjusting his glasses. "I-I-"
"OMG! That's it! I'm suing you! I'll take you to court and make sure that you pay!"
"But-But I-"
"I can't believe the nerve of some people. They're not even humane enough to apologize!"
"Listen-" He protested but was interrupted yet again.
"Shut up and apologize already, you idiot!" She demanded.
Ash put his palms up in defence and said, "Okay, okay!" This got her to calm down a bit, but she was still giving him a death glare. He sighed, wondering why he should be apologizing, especially since she was at fault here. But it was probably the best thing to do here as he certainly wanted to escape from this situation as fast as possible. Plus, she was a bit loony in the head.
"I-I'm sorry." He sighed and Dawn's reaction was still. However, Dawn just puffed her cheeks in bitter annoyance and turned around, flipping her hair in the process, accidentally slapping Ash's face a little.
He couldn't help but crack a little smile as her blue locks hit his face; it smelled like strawberry and it mesmerized him. He was suddenly brought back to the current situation when he heard Dawn's car engine roar to life as she sped past him, heading for the road.
He could only sigh at her behaviour. Never before had he met such an…intriguing woman in his life. He glanced at his bike, which happened to be torn apart.
Now how was he going to get home?
Dawn parked her car just outside the gates of the house and then she locked her car, put her car keys in her black leather purse and hummed to herself while she approached her house. She walked inside, placed her purse on the white sofas and sat down in relief. "James! Bring me a glass of water!" She yelled and within a minute, there was a glass of water in front of her blue eyes.
Taking the glass, she gulped down the water greedily and placed it back on the tray that James was holding. "Dawn, your mother and sister have been meaning to speak to you." He said.
Dawn's eyebrows raised in realization, "Oh, right! I nearly forgot!" She exclaimed in worry. "I'll go talk to them right now! Where are they?"
"Currently, they're in Ms. Johanna's room." He stated matter-of-factly.
Dawn gave James a nod and proceeded upstairs to her mother's room. Along the way, she glanced at her father's picture and couldn't help but to escape a sad sigh. As a toddler, Dawn loved her father and she was very close to him. She missed him so much and was emotionally traumatised when he had died on her eleventh birthday.
Shaking her thoughts away and telling herself not to start crying, she was now in her mother's room and she saw her mother with Serena beside her.
"Hey, mom. Hey, Serena, what's up?" She greeted casually as she sat down playfully on the bed.
"Where were you? We were waiting for so long." Her mother glanced at her with a knowing look.
Dawn just ignored it, "I was with Kenny! It was an emergency." She stated to her mother, who sighed.
"Dawn, I told you that we needed to talk to you about something important. And you ignored us!" Serena exclaimed, annoyed at her sister.
Dawn rolled her eyes at the behaviour of her younger sister and mother, "Are you not hearing me? I told you it was an emergency." She said, a bit aggravated.
"Dawn! Stop being childish." Her mother retorted. "Family should be priority over anything else!"
"Stop this, mom! You guys are just saying this because you guys don't like Kenny!" She pointed out. While it was true, it was irrelevant in this situation.
"That's not it, Dawn." Serena protested.
"It is!" Dawn exclaimed. "You guys have never approved of Kenny and you won't ever be!" She crossed her arms in a child-like manner and puffed her cheeks immaturely as she rolled across the bed, burying her head in her pillow.
Serena came next to her and placed a hand on her shoulder, however, Dawn shoved it off. Serena was fed up of Dawn's childish tactics. "Dawn, it's true that we don't like Kenny, but that's not important now. We still have something very important to talk to you." She said, but Dawn just shook her head, stubbornly.
Serena looked at her mother with pleading eyes. Johanna sighed. She was used to Dawn's stubborn behaviour and she knew of a very effective way to stop acting stubborn. "Okay, Dawn, if you listen to us, I promise you that you'll get a new pair of shoes tomorrow."
Immediately, Dawn removed herself from her pillow and faced her mother in excitement, "You mean the ones from last week at that store?"
Johanna smiled, knowing her tactic had never failed, "Yup."
Dawn shot them a smile, "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" She said in utter joy and embraced them in a tight hug.
Both of them chuckled a bit, "Okay, Dawn now you have to listen."
Dawn nodded, "I'm all ears."
Ash came out of the taxi, paid the taxi driver, and walked inside his home. He had given his bike to a local repair man and it was going to take some time to get repaired, so now he had to get a taxi or borrow one of his brother's ride to get to work every day. He sighed at the thought.
"Ash. Get your ass inside." A low voice spoke broke his thought away.
Ash scowled at his cousin, who had a smirk lingering on his face. "Gee thanks, Paul." He muttered sarcastically.
Paul was Ash's cousin and to put it simple, Paul wasn't the best person to talk to. Often times, he was cold and bitter; he had no respect for Ash in particular and he considered him to be a sore loser for having no love life. On the other hand, he was often respectful for his parents and his aunts and uncles. Paul had three serious relationships in his life but sadly, never got married. He wasn't proud of it, but at least he had something to boast about to Ash, who had never had one relationship in his entire life.
"What? Did I touch a nerve?" He continued smirking, amused at Ash's reaction.
However, Ash just rolled his eyes and continued walking past him, when he was suddenly stopped by his grandfather.
"Hey, Ash, where's May? Wasn't she with you?"
Ash's grandfather, Albus Ketchum was a tall, lanky man with silver-grey hair and a neatly trimmed beard youthful eyes. He was often spirited for his old age and he always lit up the room when he walked in.
"Yeah, gramps, she was, but May continued shopping more." He told him with a straight face.
"Hmm…" He said, his voice dark but yet powerful, "She's there alone?"
"Yes, but she'll be fine." Ash stated confidently. He knew that May was capable of handling herself.
"If anything happens to May, I'll make sure I report you to the police because you were supposed to be with her." He said jokingly. Ash rolled his eyes at his grandpa's joke and couldn't help but to let loose a chuckle. When Albus was in his teen years, he was a comedian.
"Yeah, well I'm going up to my room, I have work to do."
"Not so fast, Ash." Another voice said. Ash sighed. He turned towards his aunt.
"Yes, Ruby?" He said as he looked at her, while she had a grin on her face.
Viviana was Ash's aunt but most members of the family preferred to call her Ruby, solely because of her love for the jewel. Ash's aunt was a bit crazy; she was a bit young to be an aunt, older than Ash's oldest brother Gary, and younger than her sister Delia.
"Well you better get ready, because a girl's coming to see you!" She grinned and Ash groaned yet again.
"Really?" He asked in disbelief.
She pinched Ash's cheeks and he rolled his eyes in annoyance, "Ruby stop that!" He retorted.
"You know I can't help it!" She continued to grin.
"Get to the point, will you?" He said flatly.
"Oh, right!" She exclaimed sheepishly, "Well this girl is pretty nice, she's got a bachelor's degree in programming and she's extremely beautiful. She's the one for you, I'm sure!"
Ash sighed. Ruby was often part of choosing Ash's future wife along with almost every member of the family excluding his brothers and May and Misty. "Ruby, please. I think it's best if we don't talk about this. I have a lot of work to do for tomorrow."
"No, Ash, you should listen to her." His gramps suggested. "Besides, you don't want to stay single for the rest of your life and die alone…" He grinned jokingly but Ash somehow felt insulted.
"What's the point? No woman even likes me, they all reject me." He said disappointingly.
"You won't know if you never try!" Ruby winked. She was always optimistic.
"Do it Ash," Paul said as he now approached them, "Otherwise you'll just be a sore loser for the rest of your life."
"Shut up Paul!" Ash exclaimed angrily.
"Stop it, Paul." Albus commanded and Paul just turned the next cheek.
Ruby turned around to face Ash, "Come on Ash, take advantage of the opportunity. You never know, this girl might actually like you." She said. "You can at least think about it…" She continued seeing Ash hesitate.
Ash groaningly sighed, "Alright, alright! Geez, will everyone stop patronizing me?"
"Yay!" Ruby said as she hugged Ash rather tightly. "Trust me, I think this is the one for you."
Ash couldn't help but to wince at the tightness of the hug and the feeling that he was going to be rejected once again. It always happened and honestly, every time, he had some ounce of hope that this girl would be the one for him but the results were always turning out badly and he was always rejected. There was even a point in time where he was rejected because he was too 'boring' or 'plain'.
Releasing from his grip, Ruby smiled again and Ash chuckled at her behaviour. He nodded before he finally went up to his room, ready to start his work he had to complete for tomorrow.
"WHAAT?!"
Serena and Johanna flinched in expectation. They had just told Dawn that they were planning to get her married, but in an arranged marriage. At first, Dawn was stoked but when she realized that she wasn't going to be married to Kenny, that's when she lost it.
"NO! There's no way!" Dawn retorted.
"Dawn, listen." Serena said, "Kenny isn't the right guy for you."
"And how would you know that?! I'm not breaking up with Kenny, no matter what you guys say! And I'm not getting married to someone whom I barely know! That's utter bullshit. This is the 21st century not the 1800's!" She was practically hoarse from yelling.
"Dawn, we know you're devastated, but you can't marry Kenny. He won't treat you right. He's not the one for you. We'll choose someone who's perfect for you and he'll take care of you in the long run and love you." Her mother said and Dawn couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"No! I refuse to accept this! This is preposterous! The only person I'm going to marry is Kenny, no-one else!" She retorted back. "And he is the right guy for me. He always has been!"
"Dawn, Kenny's never ever going to keep you happy. He's the type of guy that'll toss you like a used napkin." Serena said matter-of-factly.
"Really?" She said in disbelief, "If that's the case, then why hasn't he done so?"
That statement had rendered Serena speechless, simply for the reason that she couldn't back it up. She had no proof that Kenny would betray Dawn like that, but there was always an inner feeling inside of her that he would one day.
"Exactly." Dawn said, noticing her sister hesitate and she got up from the bed, proceeding to walk away from the room.
"Wait!" Dawn halted at her sister's words. She turned around.
"What?"
Serena approached her, "I have a propostion."
Dawn looked at her in curiosity and spared a glance at her mother, who seemed to having no clue what her daughter was talking about.
"Okay…I'm listening."
"Tell Kenny that you wanna marry him." Serena stated.
Dawn looked at her sister as if she had grown two heads, "What?"
"Yeah. If he wants to marry you, then that proves that he loves you and wants to be with you forever. But if he doesn't…then that means that he's afraid of committing to a woman for the rest of his life." Serena stated proudly.
Now Dawn was rendered speechless. But she couldn't help but contemplate about it. No doubt, she was planning to marry Kenny one day, but she didn't think she wanted to marry now at the age of twenty-one. But hey, what was the harm? She knew Kenny loved her and she wanted to prove that.
So, without hesitation she said, "Okay."
Serena smiled in satisfaction and her mother said from across the room, "BUT…if he doesn't want to marry you, you'll have to marry the guy that we choose. Understand?"
Dawn smiled, thinking that she was going to prove her mom and Serena wrong, "Deal!"
The door opened to reveal a young woman smiling. She had red locks that rested on her shoulders, with nice blue eyes, cheekbones and long almost curly eyelashes. She was wearing a long red dress that fell just a bit up the ankles.
Ash, and everyone in the family watched in curiosity.
Could this be the one for Ash?
Credit for the OCs go to WR Winters for the submission of Albus Ketchum and a guest for the submission of Ruby, Ash's aunt. Don't worry, more OCs will be revealed. If anyone wants to submit an OC for a family member, go ahead, but OCs will be closed maybe around chapter 5 or so. Also thanks to Halo Ash for suggesting Paul to be Ash's cousin. For other people who submitted OCs for Ash's cousin, don't worry some will make it to the story as well.
This was supposed to be updated a while back, but things got in the way and I kinda forgot about it. Eh. Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed it! :)
Leave a review and tell me what you think. Until then, see you guys next time!