BROKEN BEYOND REPAIR

🌹FREED SOULS🌹

"Ash.. We..." Iris wanted to say something, not something but a lot but couldn't. She just couldn't. Ash placed his fingers on his lips indicating silence. And it was done. Not a word was said..

His eyes grew softer as his arms held Hina on his lap tightly leaning to her shoulder.

"You ate something princess?" He asked which sent a weird feeling in the honey blonde's chest.. She knew Ash wasn't her friend, hell she couldn't even say him as someone she knew but it was weird. The girl nodded her head as he placed his hand over her head.

For Ash, he needed to be calm.. Hina was here. He couldn't afford to lose his calm before her at least..

"I belive you guys wish to talk.." He said, his voice was calm and soothing yet a tint of regret and hate was audible. For someone who knew him, it was there.

"I never talked seriously to Richard and.." Should he say Delia or mother or mom.. He didn't knew. He was conflicted but in the end she was his mother but what about Hina... What if she.. He didn't wanted her to believe he lied to her. Especially after last night.. He placed his hands over her ears. He didn't forced, she didn't resisted.

"Mother too.."

"So how have you been Ash?" Misty asked. His eyes rose to meet the first person he met on his journey who looked at him.. How had he been.

"If you count being almost killed to death a few times fine, losing the people you hold people close, killing people mindlessly, losing all you have fine.. Then yeah, i belive I am fine misty.." He smiled toward her.. A smile so forced that she regretted not standing up for him.

"We..." Iris said.

"Are sorry Iris.." He offered.

"My life was ruined.. I lost my everything and you know that right.. My pokemon, my life, my everything.. But i don't blame you guys.. Maybe you didn't had a choice. Sometime you have to chose something and you choose yourself.. I am glad of it.." He said. Ash didn't blamed anyone but didn't loved everyone too..

"Because i wouldn't take your burdens on my shoulders." His eyes grew cold lightly..

"Clement must have told you right.." He said when all the four head tilted in confusion.. What did clement had to do here? Ash saw the confused expression on their face and Paul's face which was curling into a smile.

'That bastard.'  He frantically thought. So this was the reason why Paul held max in his room for last whole night locked.

"Forget it.. What are you here for? Beg for forgiveness." He asked but the four of them looked like they wanted answers. No harm right.. He wasn't the kind of guy to torture someone because they protected their own lives in past.

Just because they hurted Ash didn't meant they were evil.. Just because they saved themselves didn't made them a antagonist. It is just hard to accept some facts.. Maybe if they supported him, a different outcome could have been there. Maybe Sabrina would have been alive, but then again. The wheel of fate is quite surprising and unpredictable.

Then maybe he wouldn't have met her either.

"What about Clement?" Serena asked as his eyes met hers.. Did he loved her.. Maybe at a point. A childish crush as Sabrina would call it.. Extracting all the information from his mind wasn't a big problem for her.. She used to tease him a lot about it but he felt guilty.

Guilty she couldn't be his first kiss.

What could you expect from someone who travelled with him for a whole region and left after kissing him.. A kiss is supposed to be a memory which implant itself in one's mind. It did..