Friend, Please - Ash Ketchum x Reader

"Petrified of who you are and who you have become"
"I know you want to leave but friend, please, don't take your life away from me"
- Twenty One Pilots
You've been on the run from your abusive (?) family for four years now. you're 14. You wanted to become a trainer, and someday, a master, but your parents never cared. they always favorited your brother. your parents never cared about your dream.
You started out in the Kanto region, and your starter was Charmaner, who has now evolved into Charizard after these four years. Your Charizard is the only friend you could trust, for so long. You haven't been able to trust any "friends" you've met because you're afraid they'll just leave you, like your parents did. You weren't always like this. this, cold, distant, and depressed.
until you met HIM.
You've never met someone so happy, so happy to see YOU.
You never thought you would be able to trust anyone again, until now.