By:
Enja
Ages:
Ash: 14, Misty: 15, Brock: 19, Franky: 15
Chapter:
2, Franky??
I had enjoyed myself last night. Ash
and I sat on that hill and watched the stars for hours. He was being really sweet.
We talked, laughed, told jokes, and frankly just had a really good time. We
came back at the crack of dawn, very tired. Brock lay there with Pikachu at his
side, snoring loudly. I managed to get a couple more hours of sleep before we
had to leave again. I now sat at breakfast with Brock and Ash. They kept
shooting glance at each other. I couldn’t figure out why.
“Why do you guys keep doing that?” I
ask, impatiently.
“Doing what?” Brock asked.
“You keep shooting glances at each
other! Duh!”
“Well…umm…you see…uhh—
“Forget it, forget it. I don’t even
want to know.” Ash let a little sigh of relief. I ignored it.
“PIKA PI!” (KETCHUP NOW!) Ash rolled his eyes and threw
him a few little packets. Immediately Pikachu started ripping them apart and
dumping them down his throat. I finished my apple and threw it away.
“Well I’m ready!”
***
It was almost time for a break and
everybody was somewhat tired. Brock was twitching like crazy. Probably for a
phone. Ash and Pikachu were starting to slouch from their upright stance and I
was walking very slow behind.
“Can we please stop now, Brock?” Ash
pleaded.
“NO, WE MUST KEEP GOING! THE SOONER
WE GET TO A PHONE, THE BETTER!” I sighed silently and trudged on. That didn’t
go too long.
“Pikachu, you know what to do.” Ash
whispered to Pikachu. He nodded before jumping off Ash’s shoulder and towards
Brock. Pikachu clung to Brock’s leg and smirked, his cheeks were soon crackling
and Pikachu performed and Thunderbolt. I watched as Brock fell to the ground in
pain.
“Not a bad Thunderbolt.” I looked
behind me, Ash did too. Brock was in too much pain to realize that someone was
here or move.
“Who are you?” Ash asked. I examined
the boy’s features that seemed vaguely familiar. The chestnut colored hair, the
deep green eyes, the perfect smile, and the slightest amount of freckles.
“Forgive me for not introducing
myself, I am Franky Orlando.” I gasped and jumped into his arms and hugged him
tightly. His face resembled lots of shock.
“What’s with you, Misty?” Ash asked,
bewildered.
“Misty Waterflower?” Franky asked.
“The Misty Waterflower?” I nodded and immediately hugged me back. After a few
minutes we released and looked into each others eyes.
“What?” Ash asked, apparently not
believing any of this.
“Ash, this is Franky, my old boyfriend…” I say smiling at Franky, he smiled brightly back.
“Oh…” Ash’s voice told me he wasn’t one bit excited about this.
“What…happened…?” Brock asked, still very groggy.
“My old boyfriend Franky, this is him!” I say pointing at Franky.
“Oh… nice to meet you!” Brock said. He glanced at Ash and took Franky’s hand and shook it and introduced himself.
***
We had canceled traveling for the rest of the day on account of my old boyfriend was back. Ash sat all day and watched his Pokemon play. Brock did a little bit more than that but not much. Franky and I were catching up on ourselves. The day he left was exactly five years, seven months, and twenty-one days now. I don’t know why I was counting. Maybe it’s because he was my only friend before I met Ash.
***Flashback***
I watched out the window through my ten year old eyes that were crying very hard… Today my best friend was leaving on his Pokemon Journey. I would be going too, except my sisters were holding me back. God, I hated them! They would never let me make my own decisions or do what I wanted. I was only able to go out in my backyard which was fenced all around and very small. My only friend, Franky would come over to my house to play everyday. Today he wasn’t coming to play though. He was coming to say ‘Good-bye.’ A knock on the front door startled me out of my thoughts. I wiped my tears away, so it wouldn’t look like I was crying, and got up and headed to the door. In the doorway was exactly who I suspected.
“Hey…” He said.
“Hey…” We both did not sound very enthusiastic. We stared at each other, painting the images of each of our faces in our minds.
“Well I guess this is…umm…good-bye…” He kissed me on the cheek. With that he turned around. I could see a glimmer of a tear in his eyes, he closed them and pushed the tear out. He started walking away.
“Bye…” I say. I watched him disappear from sight and he did not look back. I burst back into my house, crying.
***End to Flashback***
“So…uhh…how have you been?” I asked.
“Actually pretty good. You?”
“Good.”
“Hey, what’s with Ash?” He asked.
I shrugged. “He seems awfully upset since you turned up.”
“Ahhh…I think…” He ended. He thinks what?
“You think what about Ash?”
“Uhhhh… nothing!” I did not believe that for a second. I am going to find out what with Ash, RIGHT NOW! Well okay, maybe later, after I catch up with Franky.
“Hey Misty? I think I’m going to ‘introduce’ myself to Ash more, okay?” I nodded. Uhhh! I was going to do that! Oh well.
***Ash’s P.O.V.***
I
stared over at the sitting couple. They looked so cute together. Right now I
would pay anything to be Franky. To be honest I am really jealous. Misty seemed
so happy when Franky showed up. She was his old girlfriend. No duh she was extremely
happy about all this. She hasn’t really said much to me since Franky showed up.
Misty was too caught with him to really notice her surroundings. I took notice
when Franky got up and walked over to me.
“Huh?”
“Hey
Ash.” Franky greeted me.
“Hey.”
I watched as he sat down next to me. He peered around the area where we had set
up camp. He smiled and then said.
“It’s
beautiful out here isn’t it?”
“You’re
avoiding something.” I point out.
“Oh…yeah,
I was going to ask you about—“Misty?” I finished for him. “Yeah.”
“I
thought so.”
“Well
here it goes, first of all, do you like Misty?” What was I to answer? I couldn’t
deny it! It was totally true and obvious. But I was not the person to admit
these kind of things. “Well…erm…uhh…”
“You
do don’t you?” Franky asked.
“NO!”
I said this more quickly than I meant.
“I
think you do.”
“NO
I DON’T!”
“You
do! Don’t yell again, you’ll just attract Misty’s attention.” This was true, if
I yelled again it was more than likely Misty would watch us.
I
sighed. “I guess you’re right.”
“Well
Ash, this is competition.” That was not thee answer I was expecting.
Competition? Yeah, competition I was surely going to lose!
“That’s
right Ash, competition. I love Misty too. We’ll just have to see who she chooses.
***Misty’s P.O.V.***
I looked up to Ash and Franky. Franky had somewhat of a grin on his face and Ash looked shocked and worried. I wonder what’s up?
PLEASE READ: for one I’m sorry about the first chapter, it was a
little messy and hard to read. The stupid computer shut down on me and I had to
hurry through so I could finish my EVIL math homework.
2. Yes the summary will probably kick in the 3rd chapter.
The title will soon begin to make sense in the story, but for now…
TO BE CONTINUED!