Jessie Remembers

One day...

Jessie and James were picking berries with Meowth.

"We sure are lucky to have found these berry bushes." Meowth said.

"The best part is no one, not even a wild Pokemon, is here to stop us." James said.

"You said it." Meowth smiled.

Just then, they heard humming from James' Chimecho and three Pokemon that looked like shrine bells. These Pokemon were called Chingling and they were the pre-evolved form of Chimecho.

"The Chingling and Chimecho make a real good harmony together." Meowth said, listening to it.

"This beautiful harmony is what helped me get those Chingling." James smiled.

*(Flashback)*

James and Chimecho were spending some time together and he was happily listening to Chimecho's humming. Suddenly somebody started humming along with Chimecho's humming.

"I wonder what that sound is?" James questioned out loud.

He and Chimecho followed the sounds of the humming and they found three wild Chingling humming together in harmony. James found out what they were and also found out they were the pre-evolved form of Chimecho. He fell in love with them immediately and caught them.

*(End flashback)*

"What luck you caught three Chingling at once." Meowth said.

"Yes and I couldn't be any happier."

Jessie was busy picking berries when she suddenly heard a splash.

"What was that?" She asked.

"What was what?" James asked her.

Just then they all heard a splash.

"Somebody must be swimming." Meowth said. "Might be a water type Pokemon."

The trio went to see what the splash was about.

The splash turned out to be a woman around Jessie's age throwing stones in a lake.

"She looks worried about something." James said.

Jessie went over to the woman.

"You look like something is on your mind." She said.

"There is and I don't know what to do about it." The woman said.

The woman's name was Diana and she told Jessie her trouble. Apparently Diana met a man named Ethan and they fell in love with each other. But Ethan was going back to Johto, where he came from.

"He asked me to go with him." Diana said. "But I don't know if I can leave my home."

It was then Jessie started having a memory, a memory about a boy asking her to come with him.

"You should go with him." Jessie said, suddenly. "If you don't go with him you will end up regretting it afterwards. I know because I went through something like this when I was a child."

Jessie's story was when she was ten years old she had a crush on a boy named Astin. One day Astin was leaving to become a Pokemon coordinator and he asked Jessie to go with him. But Jessie refused because at that time she was taking an audition for a theater. So Astin left and Jessie had to say goodbye to him.

"Did you win at your audition?" Diana asked Jessie.

"No, my friends did instead." Jessie said sadly. "And I've regretted not going with Astin, especially since I never saw him again after that. That was my only chance of obtaining happiness and I blew it. So Diana, it is best for you to go with Ethan or you'll make the same mistake I did."

Diana looked sadly at Jessie and stayed silent for a moment.

"I will go." She said at last. "I will go with Ethan."

"That's the spirit." Jessie said. "Go and find happiness with him and don't make any regrets."

Diana thanked Jessie and hoped she will find happiness too. Then she left.

Jessie felt a bit good with herself for helping Diana not make the same mistake she did with Astin.

"Hey Jessie." Meowth said. "Have you never really seen this Astin kid again?"

"No I haven't." Jessie said. "I found out some time ago that he became a great Pokemon coordinator and he is now happily living with his new wife and child. So Astin is happy with his life."

James and Meowth felt sorry for Jessie because of her troubled childhood.

"Chin up." James said. "We'll both find new happiness in the future, I know we will. So we can't let our sad pasts get us down."

Jessie and Meowth looked at James in amazement.

"I believe you're right James." Meowth said. "Let's all find happiness."

Jessie agreed.

Despite going through a depressing life now, Jessie, James and Meowth agreed to find happiness again.