Ash Gets Epilepsy?

Ash was sprinting to the mall; one hand was in front of him to ward off other people around him and the other one on his head to hold his hat on. He glanced at the watch on his hand. 4:17. He and Misty had agreed to go home, drop off their stuff, and then meet at the mall at 4:00 after finishing homework and other useless things that teachers seem to think will help the kids in their life. Of course, Ash already knew what he was going to be when he grew up, and that required none of the things he learned in school. A Pokemon trainer.

Yeah, a stretch, but hey, a guy can dream.

Finally, Ash spotted a familiar girl standing idly by the entrance of the mall.

"Misty!" Ash ran up to the orange haired girl waiting outside the mall. It took him a while to get to the mall, since he didn't want to admit to his mom that he was going to be alone with Misty. Even though technically it wasn't a date, just an outing between two friends, Ash felt the need to make sure that he looked his best. He wore jeans and his signature blue vest, but somehow managed to drag a comb through his hair.

Ash saw Misty look up as he jogged up to her and she smiled, causing a thousand butterflies to appear in Ash's stomach. Metaphorically, of course. "Hey, Ash." She greeted him, and crossed her arms. "It took you a while."

Ash grinned sheepishly. "Sorry, my mom…" he trailed off, waving a hand absentmindedly, and shrugged at the girl standing in front of him.

Misty smirked. "Ah, I wish I was there to see that. Did she smother you?" Misty asked, chuckling. Ash knew that Misty was assuming that his mom was just being her normal overprotective self she was whenever Ash left the house.

Ash shook his head and readjusted the cap on his head nervously. "Uh, well, more like she wanted to know who I was going with." Ash trailed off hesitantly, feeling his cheeks heat up. After a second, Misty caught on to what he was saying, and Ash saw her cheeks turn red too.

"W-well," Misty started, trying not to stammer and avoiding eye contact with Ash. "What d-did you say?" she said, trying to look casual.

"Um."

"…"

"I ran?"

At this, the tension between the two broke and Misty started to crack up. "You ran?" she asked, disbelievingly, doubled over and holding her stomach.

Ash shrugged, trying to fight back a grin. "Well, it seemed to be an appropriate response at the time, but thinking back on it…" he scrunched his eyebrows together, trying to imagine his mom's expression when he gets home.

"Oh, your mom is going to kill you!" Misty said gleefully, clapping her hands together.

Ash glared at her. "Oh, hush. At least you're not stuck with a psycho mother." He said, crossing his arms and pouting.

Misty just laughed at Ash's forlorn expression. "Psycho mother or not, you've still got it good. My sisters gave me this," she held up a long sheet of paper filled with many scribbles in different color pens, "when they found out I was going to the mall. Apparently they're too busy with college or whatever."

"Ugh!" Ash held a hand over his eyes. "I think that just gave me epilepsy."

Misty shook her head. "Aw, shut up, Ketchum, stop being a drama queen. Anywho, come on! We've got a lot of shopping to do!" With that, Misty looped her arm with Ash's and dragged him into the mall, despite his protests about shopping for Misty's sisters.

But, Ash thought, he should probably be used to it.

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Max bent down and picked up the fallen Frisbee, his back aching.

"May!" Max whined. "I'm tired of playing Frisbee! Can we go to the mall? Please?" he begged his sister, who shared an amused look with Drew.

"Gee, Max." May said, smirking. "Who would ever know that you would be begging to go to the mall?"

Max glared at her. "May, I'm tired. Cut it out!"

May grinned, and then linked arms with the two boys. "Alrighty then, let's go!" she called to no one in particular, and started to sprint in the general direction of the mall.

"Maaaay!" Max's voice stretched out, his feet flying behind him as his older sister continued to drag him excitedly. "Stooop!"

"Huh?" May asked, her eyebrows scrunching together. She abruptly stopped in her tracks, sending Max flying forwards.

Next to May, Drew chuckled. "Wow, you sure do get excited when we go to the mall." He said, raising an eyebrow at May, who huffed and crossed her arms, turning to face the boy next to her.

"Well, for your informa—" May stopped talking suddenly as she caught sight of Drew, and she immediately slapped her hands over her mouth, her eyes wide.

Drew stared at her. "What?" he asked.

May let out a high pitched giggle and shook her head frantically, still pressing her hands against her mouth.

"What, May?"

"Y-your hair!"

Drew's eyes suddenly widened and both of his hands flew up to his head. "…What about it?" he muttered, horrified.

May giggled again and pulled a tiny mirror out of her bag. "Look!" she laughed, and handed the mirror to Drew, who glanced into it to see his green hair sticking up in all directions.

"May!" Drew complained, desperately running his fingers through his hair to fix it. "That's the second time you've done that! Can't you just leave my hair alone!"

"It's not my fault!" May protested, obviously trying not to laugh. "I mean, Max is fine—Max?" May asked as she looked down at the boy glaring up at her.

"Nice to see you still know I exist." Max said dryly, crossing his arms.

May smiled sheepishly. "Hehe, oops. Sorry. But look, we're here!" she said, pointing at the huge building in front of her.

Drew rolled his eyes. "Thank you, Captain Obvious. Can we go in now?" he asked.

"Aw, shut it Grasshead."

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Misty was going to kill her sisters.

Well, not kill them. They were still family. Maybe maim, or seriously injure. Either way, they deserved it for being selfish brats. Misty knew that college was important and stuff, but she would bet her right leg that they were at home doing their nails at this moment. Of course, they were too lazy to come to the mall themselves, so they gave the 'shopping duty' to their dear old younger sister.

She pulled a pencil out of her pocket and crossed out hair brush. Not only was this annoying her, but she knew that it was annoying Ash. Misty had expected him to have made some excuse and left ages ago, but by some miracle, he managed to hold out this long. They had only managed to go through a quarter of the list in an hour. Of course, that could have been due to the fact that Ash insisted on stopping at every food court, game stop, or music shop.

"Mist!" Ash whispered harshly, grabbing the girl's arm. "Misty, is that Drew?" he asked frantically.

Misty looked up from the list in her hands exasperatedly. "Aw come on Ash, they're at the park. You've been spending too much time with that arrogant idiot that you're seeing him everywhere." She said, shrugging.

"No, wait!" Ash protested, letting go of Misty's arm and pointing. "Green hair, right there!"

Misty followed Ash's line of sight and gasped. "But, could that really be Drew?" she asked, obviously worried.

Ash looked at Misty skeptically. "How many people with green hair do we know?" he asked her.

Misty shrugged. "Still…" she trailed off.

Suddenly, there was a high pitched scream from the other side of the mall. "OH MY GOSH IT'S DREW!" This was followed by shrieks from multiple girls.

Ash nodded. "Definitely Drew. Which means that May and Max are with them. Which means—"

"That we've gotta go." She said, grabbing Ash's arm and spinning around to be blocked by—

"Max?" Misty asked, surprised.

The young boy nodded. "But don't worry, I won't tell May or Drew." He said, shrugging.

Misty's eyebrows shot up. "Really? You won't?" she asked, shocked.

Max shook his head. "Nah, it looks like you guys are running away from them anyways. Plus, it's always fun to know something that my sister doesn't know. But I'd suggest that you get out of here quickly, before they find you."

Misty nodded and grabbed Ash's wrist, quickly pulling him out of the mall and towards their neighborhood.

Sorry about the wait, I've got a lot of things going on...Hope you liked the chapter, and please tell me what you think!

~Fawkespower