After finally making it her goal to make Dawn love her, Zoey realized something that put a hole in her plan. "How exactly do I make her love me?" Zoey asked. Ash, who was still staring up at the night sky, blew out a puff of smoke and replied, "You need to figure that out on your own..."
"BUT...BUT DIDN'T YOU SAY YOU WOULD HELP ME?"
"Oh...right. Sorry about that, Zoey! I sometimes like to get into character, if you will..."
Zoey let out a disgruntled sigh and said, "Never mind that, Ash. Listen, I need to know as much about Dawn as I can if I'm going to seduce her into loving me! ...If you really think about it, that doesn't sound like a nice way to get a lover, does it?"
"In the time of dinosaurs, men fought over things as mundane as living quarters. Love is no different, even now. We must use whatever is at our disposal to fufill our desires. You would be wise not to forget that..." Ash replied with a serious look on his face.
Zoey reminded herself to keep that in mind, although she wasn't too sure what it meant. Zoey stared at Ash for a few moments, deciding that if she wasn't a lesbian, she would definitely go for him. "By the way," she said, "What exactly did you do to this Misty girl? I know you said you hurt her, but how?"
Ash was worried that he would be asked this. Without even talking, Ash reached into his pocket and pulled out a small picture. He handed it to Zoey and said, "Look at these picture..." Zoey looked at it and immediately noticed Ash in the picture.
Standing around him was a tall tan-skinned man with slit-like eyes, a brown-haired girl with abnormally large breasts for her age, and a small black-haired boy with glasses. Pikachu was in the picture as well. They all had happy, smiling faces in the picture. Zoey handed it back to Ash and asked, "Okay, I saw the picture...so what does it mean? Was that brown-haired girl...Misty?"
Ash shook his head and replied, "No. That girl's name is May. I traveled with her and her brother Max, that short boy with the glasses, during my adventures in Hoenn. After that, we hadn't seen each other again until that last contest..."
Suddenly, Zoey realized something horrifying. That girl...May...her face and body...it looked...it looked so similar to...to...
Zoey stared into Ash's dark eyes and whispered, "That girl...she isn't the one that...that..."
His messy hair hid ash’s eyes as he said, "Yes. Long ago, at that last contest, the gunman that killed seven people four years ago...that was May..."
Zoey couldn't believe it. May looked so happy and sweet in that picture. 'What could have drove her to such extremes?' Zoey wondered. Ash turned his face away from Zoey when he said, "It hurts just thinking about it. She killed seven people, including her brother, and then shot herself in the face. It's...it's horrible..."
"Well...although you and Misty were at the shooting, how did that ruin your relationship?" Zoey asked. She knew she was delving too deep into this, but she had to find out more about that last contest.
Ash covered his face with his hands. Through his fingers, Zoey could hear him say, "Before the shooting started, May appeared before me and...and..."
"And what?"
"And she confessed her love to me. She told me...she told me that I was all she ever wanted..."
"Wow. She must have been serious about you, then..."
"Yeah. But I was here with Misty, and when May kissed me, Misty had walked in and she saw us..."
"Oh, Ash, I'm...I'm so sorry..."
Well, that's not even half of it! Misty left me and I was furious with May. I hit her and screamed at her. I was so angry at her that I didn't care once about her feelings. I just let all of my fury out on her. After that, I left her to drown in her guilt..."
"Then...the shooting..."
"Y-Yeah. I guess...I guess May just found no will to live after that. She had let herself get sucked into a delusional world of grandeur and she paid the ultimate price for it. Unfortunately, so did her little brother and several others..."
When all was said and done, Ash wiped his eyes and yawned. "I think we better go inside. We need sleep, especially you. Come on..." Zoey nodded and silently followed him all the way back to the apartment room.
For the rest of the night, a strange, uncomfortable air of silence befell both of them...
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