Note: yet another famous note, If you read the story, you must’ve read the story I Love You? You might want to read how I got this idea at the end of the story.

   Ash stayed in bed the rest of the day since he returned. He stared at his ceiling for what felt like only minutes. He now is renting the apartment that Misty used to live in. He remembers hearing of Misty moving away to Britain, but he didn’t know if it was true or not. He wanted so much to feel her in his arms again. He turned over in bed. He silently breathed onto his pillow. He began to think more on Misty and why she would want to leave. He didn’t want her to. He loved her so much. His every thought was of her, until the wedding was called off. He felt sorry as she was. She thought she was the immature one. To Ash, that was too funny, he was the one that was immature. He acted childish and foolish. But her learned one thing through all of this. Love is hard to go through. Why you love someone isn’t based on what you do it’s what you feel and think about the other person. Love is hard to come by, you can’t pick it up on the street. Ash learned so much through all of this. Yet, why did it have to end so horribly. He flipped over to face the ceiling. He stared at it, and started to fell nothing. Then he felt his eyes hurt and he realized he was crying. He has never cried about something like this before. Sure, there were those old childhood crushes he had, but now he was 20. He never cried over those old childhood crushes, now it was a marriage. He never realized that it hurt this much. He wanted Misty again. Maybe, it wasn’t meant to be, though. Maybe, it wasn’t for him. Maybe, he was supposed to be alone, maybe.
   It was one in the morning. His phone rang. He sniffed and picked it up.
   “Hello?” he said with a small sniff at the end.
   “Ash, what’s wrong?” the voice said. She was old friend, Jessica. She was one year younger than Misty who was now 22. Jessica had a brownish hair color. She was somewhat slim and enjoyed reading. She was one of the first friends Ash and Misty met when they first got to Pallet University. Ash met up with the girl only once a week. She studies psychology and is also learning how to write books.
   "Ash, you want to move on right? Why don’t I go over? I’ll come over right now,” she said sternly and she hung up the phone. Ash set it down and turned over and started to cry. He felt the hot tears brush his face. His eyes had already turned red. He no longer felt a thing. He only felt his own hurt. He felt grief an sorrow, nothing were to help him. Suddenly, there was a knock at the door. It was probably Jessica. She, along with most of the people at the university, lived in these apartments. She was probably the second most popular student at the university besides Ash. He was popular because no one at the university ever considered love. Ash had bee surrounded by it for the past 12 years. He got up and went to the door and opened it. Jessica was wearing a nice night gown and a robe.
   Ash sniffed again, “What’s with the clothing?”
   “I’m going to sleep here. YOU are going to stop thinking of Misty. You know why? Because you haven’t made one B on anything at school. You can’t even think straight. You haven’t said a word to anyone anywhere. I also noticed that your mom is extremely worried about you.,” She scolded him.
   “I feel lonely,” was Ash could say. He shivered a little. It was fairly cloudy and cool night.
   “Ash, if you ever feel cold or tired, you can come to me,” Jessica comforted. There was this silence as Ash sat in his bed staring at Jessica in the eye. Jessica began to suddenly blush.
   “Ash, I.. let’s go out for a little something, say pizza,” Jessica said silently. Ash nodded and silently rubbed his eyes and they both dressed in something a little suited for the outside and left.

   Ash and Jessica walked back to the apartment. They decided that it would be all right to see each other. Ash didn’t really mind at all. Misty was long gone now. But, maybe it wasn’t the right thing to do. Maybe Misty was still waiting for him. He didn’t dare think of any of this in front of Jessica.
   “I’d stay over at your place, but I have early classes. I know your first class starts at like noon or something. Well, I’ll see you later then. Maybe we could go out again,” Jessica said.
   “Most people who date usually go out more than once,” Ash said coolly.
   “Okay, then, in two days, Saturday, I’ll..” Jessica began to feel shy by now.
   Ash trying to quickly respond to her shyness spoke, “I’ll pick you up,”
   Jessica nodded and left Ash. He slowly closed the door. Jessica smiled all the way to the other side of the small road to her apartment. Ever since Misty introduced her to Ash, she had developed a strong crush on him. Jessica really didn’t want to tell Misty this because she was afraid Misty would over react. She really did love Ash. She sometimes didn’t fell the heart to show it. He knew that Jessica felt strongly for him. Jessica told herself that again and again. This time, she believed it. She felt her heart melt at him. She never really had a love life before. She really had crushes before. This was different though, did Ash really want to be with her. Was Ash willing to give up on Misty in just one year? Jessica felt nothing like this. Her problem was, what if Ash started to re-think back to Misty, what would she do? She hadn’t known Misty for very long and didn’t know what to say about her. Misty was just a great friend and fiancee of Ash and they spent a lot of their early life together. She didn’t know what to do. Jessica breathed a few times and reached her apartment door. She decided that the idea would go away after the night was over.

   Ash spent the next day, Friday, Ash frantically looked everywhere for something to wear to see Jessica. He went around the mall looking for nice shirts and possibly something for her, maybe a necklace or a bracelet or.. a ring. He stared at his finger of which he was wearing the ring Misty had rejected about one year ago. It was their engagement ring. It sparkled and gleamed into his face. He turned his hand over and read the small writing in a neat cursive: “Misty” was all it said. He felt his throat begin to close in. He quickly snapped and went on.
   It was about six at night. He spent all his time, all day, looking for something to wear. He finally found something and a beautiful necklace for Jessica. He still felt that going out with her meant that he was abandoning Misty. Ash looked, in his image, like a lecher or some pervert just running from girl to girl looking for trouble. He spent the rest of the night wondering if his absent teacher had called in sick for tomorrow too.

   The two spent their Saturday night evening dinner at the ‘El Corozon’ which was Spanish for ‘the heart’. Ash learned that this was a great place to go for a first date and they didn’t serve Spanish food either. They decided were directed to table seven and sat down.
   “Ash, this is really nice,” Jessica said.
   “Yeah, I know,” Ash spoke softly.
   “Hi, I’m Mist..” the waitress suddenly stopped.
   “Excuse me, your name was?…… MISTY!!!” Ash exclaimed but not loud enough for many people to hear.
   “Uh, I suppose this would be Misty,” Jessica whispered.
   “Ash, um,” she decided it wasn’t her choice to stop Ash so she went on. “Well, what do you wish to order, sir,” Misty felt this weird twinge in her stomach.
   The rest of the night went by oddly. Ash felt uncomfortable. Jessica felt left out. Misty felt she shouldn’t come out. So the rest of the night went on pretty much according to the way Ash had planned it. He still didn’t know what to do. Ash carried on normally. He took Jessica to her apartment quickly after dinner except that Jessica pulled him in.
   “Ash, please, if you still want to go out with her then just tell me now,” Jessica pleaded to him.
   Ash had no idea how to answer. He decided that this is what he could say, “Misty is behind me now. It sounds mean but, that life is over. It does sound mean, but.. I love you now,” Ash whispered. He kissed the brown haired girl and walked off to his place.

   Ash couldn’t get over any of the things that happened tonight. He felt that Misty was still a part of his life. So he drove back to the restaurant and decided he must talk with her. He met up with the manager.
   “Hey, kid, it’s closing time,” said the manager in a somewhat harsh voice.
   “I’m looking for Misty,”
   “In the back kiddo,”
   Ash saw Misty ready to leave as she was getting her coat.
   “Misty,” Ash called.
   “I have to go, I have class early tomorrow,” Misty felt a little shy after today and was trying to avoid Ash.
   “Wait, I want to talk to you,” Ash spoke firmly.
   Misty felt that she must talk to him too. “two minutes,”
   “Misty, I can’t understand yet why you left me. I don’t get the point of telling me you love me and telling everyone that you were madly in love with some guy you met on the road. Some kid that bumped into you and stole your heart as well as your bike. I don’t know why you’d say any of those things and leave me behind for what, ‘I’ve got class early tomorrow.’?” Ash exclaimed.
   “One minute,” Misty said impatiently.
   “Misty, tell me why you left me,” Ash demanded.
   “Why?,” Misty began to feel sorry for herself and sat down as well as Ash. “I don’t know, I didn’t feel mature enough for you, is that all?” Misty whimpered.
   “Why didn’t you tell me?” Ash asked.
   “What would you have said?”
   “I would say, it’s just cold feet. You just needed to calm down and think positive. You could just realize that you were going to be married to someone you really love,” Ash spoke.
   “Is that the truth? Would you have really said that?”
   “Yes… No,” Ash felt confused.
   “So then what would you have REALLY said,” Misty emphasized.
   “I would have said, I can’t really know either. I don’t know what to do. I would be just as scared as you are. I couldn’t do much better than you were,” Ash said truthfully.
   “See, I didn’t truly know if I could even go through with it either. I didn’t want to hurt you or hurt myself. But, I realize that running way hurt more,” Misty said concerned. Ash nodded.
   They were silent for a while. “So are you still going to Pallet University?”
   “Yes,” Misty answered, “Is Jessica your new girlfriend?”
   “Um.. yeah. Still live at the same complex?”
   “Yeah,” Misty answered.
   There was another short silence.
   “Well, my number is 706, you can come and visit me,” Misty stated.
   “Okay, mine’s 302, your old place,”
   “Here, take the ring,” Ash took off the engagement ring.
   “Okay, just take my necklace to remember me,” she took off her necklace and put it on Ash while Ash put the ring on Misty.
   The two kissed shortly but passionately. They whispered good-bye to each other and left.

Pika’s Prints: My last FF in the past three weeks. Well, it’s another Growing Pains Pokemonization. I hope you really liked this. This is like a break-off story for my series right after I Love You? It’s supposed to be my original idea instead of Missing You, you know, to continue for all you ,and I quote, 'Ignoramuses' who don't watch the Disney Channel and watch Growing Pains. This is semi-series as this little story will not continue onward.