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Chapter 5: Confessing!

The raven-haired teen blinked his eyes as he started to wake up before slowly getting up and sitting on the edge of the bed that he was placed on.

"Great. I really screwed up. My friends are probably worried about me and I'm in so much pain from the drugs that I have in my stomach. Wait. How are they still there? I thought that they would've dissolved by now." said Ash to himself as he looked around and placing a hand on his stomach to work on easing the pain.

He placed his other hand on his head as he was starting to get a headache from where he hit the wall hard in the chase.

"Look who's up. How are you feeling?" asked Officer Jenny, stopping by to check on him.

"I could be better. Got a bad headache." replied Ash, looking at her and noticed that his vision was starting to blur a bit.

"How about we get you taken care of after I ask you a couple of questions? Come with me." said Officer Jenny, unlocking the cell door and opening it up.

The chocolate-eyed teen attempted to get up and held himself up for a few seconds before everything blurred and he struggled to walk to the door.

Officer Jenny felt bad for what the teen had been through and helped him out of the cell and walked with him down to the questioning room.

She helped him into the chair before closing the door and sitting across from him.

"Ash, can you tell me how you got involved in this whole drug ring business?" asked Officer Jenny curiously.

(With Brock, May, And Max)

They were just waking up when they noticed that their friend wasn't in his bed.

"Where's Ash?" asked May, looking at his bed as she got up from her own.

"Maybe he's in the bathroom?" asked Max, rubbing his eyes to get the sleep out.

"He's not in there. Maybe he went on without us for food." said Brock looking into the empty bathroom.

"He could've been really hungry and didn't let us know." said May, trying to guess what might've happened to their friend.

"Let's go and see if he's eating." said Max, putting his shoes on.

They went down to the cafeteria, but their raven-haired friend wasn't anywhere to be seen.

"That's weird. I wonder where he went to then." said Brock, placing a hand on his chin as he tried to think what might've happened to their friend.

"At this point anywhere. Let's eat and then we can continue to look for him." said Max as his stomach growled loudly.

Brock and May nodded before going to eat their breakfast before continuing to look for their friend.

(Back With Ash)

"I ended up taking a late-night walk in a couple of towns ago because I couldn't sleep. This girl came running into me and pulled me into an alleyway, like she was running from something. I didn't know what she was up to and she asked if I could help her with something and I agreed, not knowing what was going on. She gave me a package to smuggle out of the town and then left me with instructions on where to meet her after I left the town." replied Ash, just wanting to be done with this whole drug ring thing.

"Then how did you smuggle them out when there were cops checking everyone's bags as they entered and left the towns and cities?" asked Officer Jenny.

"I would swallow the packages and carrying them out in my stomach before going to a bush or behind a tree and throwing them up. Trust me, it's grosser than it sounds." replied Ash, shuddering as he had to remember how many breakfasts he lost due to the ring.

He was surprised that he hadn't lost more weight than he had already.

"Oh, Ash. Why would you even start down this path?" asked Officer Jenny, feeling bad for the teen.

"I didn't intend on doing this for a long time, but the money was good. I would get paid for delivering the packages, but I didn't know that they were drugs until I asked her about the packages. She didn't even care to tell me what I was doing until I asked her just before I took this delivery, which ended up being the drug ring bust." replied Ash, placing his head in his hands and grimacing as his stomach gave him another shooting pain.

"Ash, everything's going to be alright. If you just tell us who the person you were working for is as well as where she is, we can end this nightmare for you." said Officer Jenny, reaching over and placing a sympathetic hand on his shoulder.

"Her name is Ari and she's hiding in a couple of abandoned places around town. Here is my cell phone with her phone number so that you can trace where exactly she is." said Ash, handing over his cell phone as he just wanted to be done with this whole ordeal.

"Thank you, Ash, for everything. I have one last question: Where are the packages that you were going to deliver to us?" asked Officer Jenny, taking the cell phone and giving it to another officer.

"They're…inside me…I can…feel that…something is wrong…" replied Ash as the pain increased and he was starting to lose consciousness.

"Get him to the hospital! The packages must be dissolving and if we don't do anything he could die of an overdose!" said Officer Jenny, ordering the other officers.

They quickly picked up the teen and rushed him to the hospital as Officer Jenny just looked at the empty chair in front of her and sighed.

She went to the investigation lab and found that the officer that was working with the cell phone had already traced where Ari's phone was being used to call from.

She ordered that they go ahead and arrest her for being in charge of the drug ring and for placing a teen in danger.

"We're going to make this right once and for all." said Officer Jenny, looking at Ari's picture on a security camera.

(Back With Brock, May, And Max)

They had been looking around the city but found no sign of their friend.

When they got back to the Pokemon Center, Nurse Joy flagged them over and told them that their friend had been taken to the hospital and couldn't tell them what happened as she didn't even know the full details.

They all gasped at the news before running out of the Pokemon Center towards the hospital.

When they arrived, they asked the front desk where their friend was and she told them where he was and they hurried off to find his room.

It took them a few minutes to find his room and when they did, they gasped from how he looked.

He was pale and had sweat all over his forehead with all kinds of tubes going into his body as well as a bandage covering his head.

They walked in and grabbed a few chairs before they noticed that he was starting to wake up.

"Ash?" asked May, watching his eyes flutter open.

"M-May?" asked Ash, looking at her as well as the others.

"What happened to you? We've been looking for you all over the city." asked Max, curiously.

"It's a very long story." said Ash, grimacing from a pain shooting through his stomach.

"I can fill you in on what happened." said Officer Jenny, walking into the room.

The teen's chocolate eyes went wide as he knew that his friends were going to be disappointed with him smuggling drugs.

She sat and explained that he had been viciously attacked by someone with a knife and he barely made it out alive.

They all gasped from her story and looked at each other in disbelief from the sudden attack on their friend and Officer Jenny gave the raven-haired teen a small wink and he gave a small smile as he understood.

She had kept everything about the drug ring away from them as she knew that it wasn't his fault as he went into the drug ring completely clueless.

The others stayed with him for a couple of hours before they had to head back to the Pokemon Center and they said their goodbyes before they left.

Officer Jenny stayed the entire time to make sure that he was alright with his friends being there.

"Officer Jenny, why didn't you tell my friends the truth?" asked Ash before she left the room.

"Because you didn't do anything wrong. You were just a pawn in Ari's drug ring and besides, you've already suffered enough with a concussion and close to a drug overdose. By the way, I received word earlier today that we arrested her and she is being charged with drug possession, endangerment of a minor and almost manslaughter." replied Officer Jenny with a small smile on her face.

"That's great. Thank you, Officer Jenny, for everything." said Ash, smiling.

"Anytime. That's what I'm here for." said Officer Jenny with a big smile as she saluted him before leaving.

The raven-haired teen just smiled as he knew how happy he was to be free and not to have to do anything else with Ari and her drug ring ever again.

He fell asleep with a smile on his face as he was also happy to be alive.

Hope you enjoyed Chapter 5! Happy Memorial Day!

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