After sixteen years of not seeing Ash, Serena, now 26, finally sees him for the first time since then. Serena still has a crush on him but is still unable to tell him. Ash, also 26, is Pokémon World Champion, has two kids: a son and a daughter, but...
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16 Years Later
Serena laid in her bed, looking up at the ceiling, thinking that moment over and over again, replaying it as she felt like it was only yesterday, but in reality it had been 16 years.
Yep. In fact, it had been 16 years since she last saw him. Serena was now a twenty six year old woman and not much had happened in her life since she was ten. When he last left her, the words that he said that rang so much in her head...
"I promise that I'll contact you every so often."
She remembered that line like it was part of a movie script. The sad part of that line he said before he left that day... is that he never kept true to his word. He hadn't contacted her once since then. Not one phone call, not one text message, not one email, nothing. She was disappointed about it, but she was in no way mad at him for it, just saddened. She kind of blamed herself for that too, she didn't contact him either. She felt that she had to make the first move in order for him to respond, but she never got the courage, which is why she blamed herself for it. She didn't know whether to blame herself completely for it, most of it, or half. She didn't want to blame him for anything but she should for some of it. He could have kept his promise to her that he would keep in contact with her but not doing it even one time throughout sixteen years seemed very disappointing to her.
She flashed back to the moment he left her. It was seriously the WORST moment of her life. Her crush leaving her sight for the second time within a few years and not seeing him again for a long time was painful to her, but seeing as it's been over a decade and a half since they last made contact, every waking moment she didn't see him or even heard from him felt like numerous seconds of her life were being taken away, seconds she could never get back.
When he left her that day, she had never gotten the guts to tell him her true feelings, that she liked him more than a friend. And she was mad at herself about it. So many opportunities throughout their journey and not once she could get her inner feelings to come out that the boy always seemed so dense to know about. She wondered if she ever did tell him, what his response would be. He probably wouldn't know, by either little knowledge on the subject, or clueless on the whole idea of romance, or both for that matter. But she was older now, so if she saw him again, she would definitely reveal to him how she felt towards him. But now, that would be a waste of time, because of one thing...
He was already married.
Yep, your ears are not deceiving you. Ash, the incredibly dense kid who knew nothing about romance and love, had a few years ago gotten married and within that time and even had two kids, a son and a daughter. Serena had seen his wife and she no doubt was a gorgeous woman but he was so caring and due to the fact that he was Pokemon world champion, what girl wouldn't want to marry him? Men wanted to be him and women wanted to have his children. The man was an icon worldwide and was truly meant to be. Serena thought that Ash was downright stunning now as a grown man. His appearance had changed only the slightest in sixteen years but what he looked right now made Serena's heart melt and almost made her want to faint, but she was just one of many.
