We meet different kinds of people in our lives and each one of them -- regardless of the time they are with us -- teaches us many new things and show us a new point of views.

BUT when you're texting a guy who has an imaginative brain enough to come up with "Fifty Shades of Ash" you are introduced to another level of creative thinking. For example, wondering 'if two mind readers read each others' minds, who's mind are they reading?' or moving onto darker themes like 'isn't suicide self-defence since you're killing the guy who tries to kill you'.

Ash Ketchum
If I punch myself and it hurts, am I strong or am I weak?

Misty Waterflower
You're stupid.

Ash Ketchum
Hey, that was a genuine doubt!

Misty Waterflower
Why do you even have so many doubts?

Ash Ketchum
I like to ponder upon the things many humans don't seem to realise. I ask those unasked questions.

Misty Waterflower
By browsing "Hits Blunt" on Google, right? :D

Ash Ketchum
Still, I AM asking them. And not everyone asks such questions.

Misty Waterflower
Because not everyone is eager to prove themselves insane. Unlike you, of course.

Ash Ketchum
You're always looking down on me!

Misty Waterflower
:D

Ash Ketchum
I have another doubt.

Misty Waterflower
You know what, just shoot.

Ash Ketchum
We call the lion the king of the jungle, right?

Misty Waterflower
Correct.

Ash Ketchum
Do other animals consider him as the King too?

I gazed at his question for a few seconds. Why was he asking this? I started typing the reason why we call the lion the king of the jungle and how other animals might not consider him as the King, but then I stopped. I needed to know why he was asking that-- what stupid theory was cooking in his head.

Misty Waterflower
Why do you ask?

Ash Ketchum
I think my golden retriever is being bullied by his dog peers. Should I shave his fur off like in the shape of a lion so that they respect him?

Misty Waterflower
By that logic, if we call camel the ship of the desert, do other animals use him as a mode of transportation when they have to cross a desert?

Ash Ketchum
Wait, is that real?

Misty Waterflower
Ash...?

Ash Ketchum
So, should I shave his fur or not?

Misty Waterflower
I don't know what to feel worse about : your golden retriever being bullied or the fact that he is yours. What a tough life he must lead.

Ash Ketchum
So shave or not?

Misty Waterflower
ASH KETCHUM!

Ash Ketchum
I know my name. Shave or not?

Misty Waterflower
Take a hint -_-

Ash Ketchum
Hint? You're dropping hints? ^.^ Already?

Misty Waterflower
I can't anymore. It's one in the night. I need sleep, even if you don't. Good night.

Before Ash could come up with another 'genuine doubt', I locked my phone and held it to my chest. It had been a week since we started talking... and things were pretty great. We also had a six-day snap streak but we never shared our pictures.

He knew I had orange-ish red hair (thanks to my over-talkative mom) and that's how he found me on Snapchat. 'Not every girl neighbourhood girl has orange hair and the name Misty Waterflower' he told me.

I smiled. No matter how annoyed I showed him I looked while talking to him, I wouldn't deny the fact that Ash was cool. He asked weird questions, told me how Renesmee and Jacob was a superior ship than Edward and Belle and debated over how that if all the animals in the world could talk, Hyenas would be the rudest given to their habit of laughingly mockingly (I never really understood the concept behind it, but whatever, it's Ash I'm talking about); but overall rating the Ketchum kid would be 8/10. I would prefer talking to Ash over Rudy or any other guy in my message request any day.

My phone buzzed again. I held it over my face and unlocked it.

From Ash Ketchum

I clicked on the notification. His chat screen flashed in front of my eyes.

Ash Ketchum
If we can't see air, it is possible that fishes don't see water either?

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After having pancakes for breakfast and hearing how Ash was a fairly bright kid from Mom, I returned to my room.

I don't know which personality out of the fifty, Ash pulled out in front of my mom, but it was definitely working on her. Bright? My foot. My mom needs to hear his theories and doubts.

As soon as I entered my room, I heard my phone going off. Running over to it excitedly thinking one of my girls called me, I picked up my phone only to feel more disappointed than I must've ever felt.

Asshole

I never really kept nicknames in my contact lists, but this man-- this man made every inch of my body itch to write the 'Asshole' for his contact number.

I mentally prepared myself and accepted the call.

"Look who finally decided to answer"

"What's up, Rudy?" I spoke, my voice clearly showing my disinterest in talking to him.

"You don't reply to my messages or pick my calls— what's up with you?"

"I don't feel obliged to do either" I replied as calmly as possible "Dating or not, it's my choice if I want to talk to you. And we're not dating anymore, so I am, in no way, supposed to behave the way you want me to"

"What's gotten into you?" Rudy spoke exasperatedly "just because I am giving you importance, you're walking over me?"

I rubbed my forehead with my fingers. "I never asked you to give me the importance in the first place. You decided that you wanted to be obsessed with me over four weeks of dating" I spoke irritatedly "You say you have tons of girls chasing after you, right? Why don't you go bother them and leave me alone"

"You're not treating me right!" he fought back. I don't know where this man got his confidence from, butevery time he came to argue with me and couldn't beat me with facts, that's the dialogue he slapped on. Every single time.

"Then go to the one who does. I don't intend to treat you right, anyway" I said and hung up. I put my phone on silent mode and left it on the bed.

I don't know what was stopping me from blocking him, maybe it was my decency or maybe I somewhere hoped that he would realize how toxic he's being himself and stop calling and texting me; I did try blocking him, but blocking someone who you know well feels.... weirder than blocking some random dude trying to hit up on you.

I sat down on my swivel chair and switched on my laptop. We didn't have school today and after that little episode with Rudy, I wasn't in the right mind to complete assignments, so I decided to watch something else instead.

As soon as my laptop connected with the WiFi, I was bombarded with multiple notifications from Times Of Kanto.

What could it possibly be? Another celebrity pregnant? Some political walked out without a mask? Some idiot made some stupid statements? Flat earthers stating Japan doesn't exist either?

I clicked on the application, only to find myself staring at the screen grinning ear to ear.

Kanto will hereafter be in a state of partial-lockdown. Shops, parks and restaurants to open.