Changing- An Amourshipping Story

Chapter 17: A story's beginning

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-Ash's POV-

I feel - happy? It does seem like it. I made a new friend and got to know Serena better. Why wouldn't I be happy? It also feels good to let someone know what I have been through. After all this time. We are still at the coffee shop, and now we are thinking of ideas for this project. I could do a repeat of my life, but I want to make it different in some way. We come up with a few ideas. We decide to each write a starter chapter, then work from there. We will meet up again at the same place at 5 PM on Tuesday. I have no idea what Serena is going to write about. We do have some ideas, but they don't really work for the beginning of the story. We don't even know the theme yet, so we can go in all different directions. 

When we are done at the coffee shop, I decided to go back to my dorm to start my first draft of the beginning of the story. When I get there, I pull out a piece of paper and a pencil and start thinking. My first draft goes something like this. 

It started at a summer camp Chapter 1

The clock keeps ticking on. It feels so slow now. Ever since that day, the light has simmered down. Simmered down. And I know why. But it's painful. It's painful to think about. We were so close, and yet so far from being together forever. Can happiness last forever? They always say things are perfect, but why is it that one mistake can ruin the illusion? Shatter it completely?

And I think back. I think back to the day we first met. It was the best day in my life. It created this illusion. This illusion of peace and perfection. But all good things have to come to an end. We met at a camp. I was a stranger. A stranger to this world. I didn't feel like I fit in with society. Throughout the first days, I would separate myself. I would separate myself from the group. They didn't deserve a failure like me. And then I met her. A girl. And she was approaching me. She was smart, kind, and beautiful. The opposite of me. And I wanted her so bad. And she granted my wish. She decided to talk to me. "You know it's not fun if you go by yourself. Come on, join me!" And that was how we met. Two sentences that would change my life forever. For the first time in my life I felt like I could be like them. But I couldn't. I was not like them. I was handicapped. I was in a wheelchair. People pitied me, but I didn't want to be pitied.  I wanted to be me. And that is why I felt different with her. She acknowledged me as a human, and not something lower. She, for the first time since I was 4, made me happy. Truly happy.

-Serena's POV-

I went back to my dorm after meeting Ash. I wanted to start work immediately! But how to begin, how to begin. I wanted to pull stuff from my life, but I wanted to make it different. I pick up my pen and started writing. 

The girl with Arrhythmia Chapter 1

I look back to the past. Things could have been perfect, but I couldn't break his heart. Breaking his heart would mean breaking my own heart. And that could have been fatal. You see I had Arrhythmia. I found this out when I was 7. At the age of 9, my parents decided to take me to a camp to make me feel better. People said I was smart. That I was beautiful. But I disagreed. I was broken. Almost no one would pay attention to my successes . And because they described me as these things, when I failed, I was looked down upon as a failure. I still tried to fit into society though. This summer camp. I doubted it could help me, but it helped me more then I could have imagined. I met someone like me.

He was disabled like me. He was an outsider. He was looked upon as a mistake. And when he wasn't, he was pitied. I knew how he felt. I hated being pitied. In fact, it was one of the reasons why I moved schools. I wanted people to treat me like a normal person. Not as something less. So I masked my disease. No one knew about my true self. Except for my parents. But I could hide my problems. He could not. And everywhere he went, people saw him, and looked at him as something that wasn't equal to us. And this infuriated me beyond belief. I think it was this day that I started having feelings for him. I knew that he would treat me like a human, even if he knew what happened to me. He would treat me like a lady. Like someone who belonged in this world. And I would do the same. It was my perfect little fantasy, and it all started with me getting to meet him.

I looked upon my work and smiled. I think it was actually quite good. If we decide to go with my idea though, the story will be very sad. But I think that will be fine. I wonder what Ash has wrote so far. I guess I will know on Tuesday. Hopefully he likes it. I look at the photo on the desk near my bed. This is where I put the photo of me and the boy from summer camp. I look at it, and wonder. Would he be impressed, if I showed it to him? I wonder. I honestly can't wait for Tuesday. Luckily, I only have to wait two days. I look at the time and see it's 2:45. I have been writing for quite a while. I decide to go to the beach , because why not? I wear my swim suit under a T-shirt and some shorts. I grab a towel and some other necessities for a beach day, before leaving my dorm with my Pokémon to have some fun. 

-Ash's POV-

Ughhhhhh. I'm finally finished. It's 3 PM and I think it looks quite good. I spent quite a while on it though. I decide to watch some cartoons on TV today. I put on Rattata  and Glameow and start watching( It's basically Tom and Jerry). I decide to start on episode 1, and I grab some snacks. Maybe this day could actually be fun for once. 

-End of Chapter 17- 

This was a quite hard chapter to write. I'm supposed to make a story from two points of view in a story from lots of people's points of views. This will be easier in the future, hopefully, as I plan Ash and Serena to merge their chapters and make a story. But the hard part isn't the story they are writing. My main problem is how to make them write the story, while keeping their normal lives, and keep developing things. It will not be easy, but I hope you guys will enjoy it. I will see you guys in chapter 18!

-Jackson