Envy's Call
By: nightmaiden
AN: Wow, has it been four months already? School was tough and I really missed writing stories. Thank you for most of you to be patient with me. Anyway, I'm happy that school's over and I'm writing again. Good thing that I'm taking summer break. I'll stop talking and explain this story a little bit. This story's a little different from my three pervious stories. It's a dark fic. Pretty depressing and happy life all together, but bad stuff start to happen with one character…It's OOC, but what's not? Isn't that the whole point about Fanfic.net? Writers can't really get into the characters, even if they wanted to. It's hard to. The average age is 24 for the main characters…Enjoy the story and don't leave because if the story is a bit sad and dark. No flames, please.
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.
Chapter 1
Entrance Bell
The Saturday rising sun glowed brilliant orange over the strong and great mountains, setting the white snow around the city of Odaiba into the city of gold, mentally making the locates feeling rich and pure. A lone large airplane at the size of a peanut in the eyes of the people on the ground slowly took into the air, its' nose high in the sky to travel to its' destination. Its' large shadow swan across the tall buildings of the city, sending a blink of darkness to those who lived or worked there. The roar of the engine filled loudly into the ears below as the plane passed the city. Half an hour passed and another large plane took into the air as followed by another. Heavy clouds slowly moved as more heavy, thick clouds ran behind, bring along bits of snow to the streets and buildings. The wind traveled through the city and streets, bring along the coldness from the heavy snow and clouds. Birds chirped in their warm little homes. People shoveled the one feet of snow from their driveway.
In her room, Sora threw her pillow over her face to avoid the bright sun, peeking into the dark room. She lifted the soft pillow from her tired eyes and found the clock that read passed six. Turning her head to the right, Sora breathed in the scent she loved to smell every morning. She sighed happily and wrapped her arm around the waist of her fiancés. The brown hair man, but often act more like as a boy, muttered something unintelligent. Sora smiled as she nuzzled her face into the mop of brown hair. Turning his head, Tai smiled as his and Sora's noses touched.
"Morning already?" He hugged Sora, trying to fall asleep again.
"Bummer, huh?"
"We could just stay like all day today and all night until the next morning." Tai rubbed his face to her neck.
"How much that sounds really nice, but I've got to head to the shop." She kissed Tai's head.
"But it's a Saturday. You can't work on a Saturday."
"Have you even considered about the people who need flowers on Saturdays?"
Tai thought for a long time, "Can't they just go to a candy store and buy candy instead?"
Sora frowned as she threw up the blankets, stood up and wrapped her robe around her nightgown from the coldness. She slipped on her slippers and headed to the restroom. Turning the knobs for the shower, Sora held her hand out to test the water. Cold water rain down her small hand. To kill time for the hot water to run, Sora returned to her room to gather her undergarments. Tai brought back the blankets as the cold air from the room settled to his body. Tai leaned on his elbow and looked serious with a straight face.
"Sora, I told you I wasn't peeking yesterday."
"That's why I'm taking my undergarments to the restroom."
"What's the difference at some nights?" Tai broke the straight face and grinned in mischief.
Sora blushed, "Be quiet, you hentai!" She threw a pillow at him before she entered and closed the door of the restroom to take her shower.
Tai smiled cutely as he stood up and headed to the kitchen. On the way to the kitchen, Tai grabbed the remote and turned on the TV. The news came up talking about a body was discovered at the abandon building last night. Tai shook his head in disgusted. Thinking how some people could be so sick into doing things to innocent people. After for a few minutes, the reporters changed the topic to a car accident. Tai poured himself a glass of juice. Drinking the juice, the phone rang. Tai picked it up.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Tai."
"Hey, Mimi. Do you see the news?" Tai took a sip from the glass, waiting for Mimi's respond.
"Yeah, I did. Sad, isn't it?" Mimi sighed on the other side of the phone.
"How can some people be cruel?"
"I don't know. They all should burn in hell."
"I agreed…"
An awkward silence passed through the line before Mimi spoke, changing the subject immediately.
"Hey, I forgot to ask…Are we still going to the mall for Sora's gift?" Mimi asked.
"Yeah, I'm just waiting for Sora to take her shower and leave for the shop, then I'll head to your place."
"Oh ok, then we'll wait for you. Well, me and Matt would have to find something to do to entertain yourselves until you come." Mimi sighed.
"Alright, but I wouldn't be surprised to soon hear a little kid running around your apartment." Tai grinned.
It took a moment for Mimi to understand what Tai was referring to. Mimi blushed, "Shut up, Tai! This is just like you!" Then she hanged up.
Tai laughed silently in himself. Cooking while listening to the updated news, Tai cracked some eggs with one hand and poured into the pan while finishing his glass of orange juice. The eggs popped and sizzled hotly as Tai stepped away to grab the salt to add in. He mixed the eggs around the pan when Sora walked inside and kissed Tai on the cheek.
"Hmm, something smells good." She chirped happily.
"Really? I wonder why I'm here. I should be a famous chef on TV and be admired by lots of women." Tai grinned.
Sora rolled her eyes and shook her head. She took Tai's plate, kissed him good bye and ran to the door, "Bye Tai, love you."
Tai's shoulders dripped down as he watched Sora disappear from view. With a fork in hand, Tai checked the refrigerator for more eggs. He grabbed the carton to find it empty. Tai made a face from the lack of eggs. Tai sighed.
"Love you too."
~o~
"Mimi, I want to buy Sora a necklace, not the whole jewelry store." Tai glared at the girl.
Many people walked around mini stores and checking out the stands in the center of the mall. There was always something to do and go in the greatest mall of Odaiba. Different color of lights filled the mall instead of the white snow city. Music can be heard from the speakers on the ceiling of the mall. People passed by browsing for things to buy for many different reasons. Special days such as birthdays to made up holidays for the young children of Odaiba. People passed by, exchanging stories to their friends about how their day went and how funny a fishing trip can go wrong. Matt was standing outside the store, watching the people walking around. He turned back to where Tai and Mimi stood in the store. Mimi was squatted down, looking at the display of arranged rings, bracelets, and necklaces behind glass boxes. Tai stood by her, his arms crossed against his chest.
She gave him a bored face, "Tai…a way to a woman's heart is jewelry. I wouldn't except you to understand that. It always seems that guys don't want to understand or they just don't know it," Mimi stopped as the two boys gave her confused faces, "It's just the same as like 'a way to a men's heart is through his stomach'…"
"Oh." The two finally nodded their heads dumbly. Both boys glanced at each other, shrugged their shoulders and their faces expressed the 'what the hell did she just say?' look.
Mimi sighed, "Buy four necklaces for her."
"What!?" Tai dropped his cell phone, "That's what you want, Mimi. Sorry, Matt. Too bad for you." Tai patted Matt's shoulder.
Matt gave a sheepish smile.
Mimi glanced at the Matt, "What did he mean by that?"
"Hey look, there's Davis and Kari." Matt pointed out to the two younger teens across the center of the mall.
"I'll buy this one." Tai told the worker, whom smiled and told the cost to Tai.
Tai, Matt, and Mimi walked over to Davis and Kari when Tai was done paying for a necklace. The two nodded their heads to the trio. Davis and Kari were sitting down on a bench, sharing a pretzel.
"Hey, you guys. What you doing here?" Mimi started.
"Waiting for T.K." Kari nodded towards the hair cut shop.
T.K. came out with a new hairstyle. His hair was gel down and combed forward and to the sides neatly. He grinned.
"Well?"
The others stared. Davis looked up, "How much did you pay? You might want it back." He went back to eating the bread.
~o~
The day had gone fast and Sora was wrapping up for the evening to close. The bell rang, indicating that a customer was leaving after buying a bunch of lilies. A closed sign hanged neatly from the inside, letting the too late customers know that the store was closed. Sora smiled to the last customer and pressed in a few buttons to clear off the previous cost from the machine. She grabbed the roses with care and cut the extra stems and thorns. Carefully wrapped them with a plastic sheet, Sora tied up the bunch then placed them on the counter.
"Great choose of flowers. Who's the lucky girl, may I ask?" Sora told him the cost.
"It's for my little sister." He scooped some yen from his wallet and handed it to her.
"That's cool."
"It's her fifth birthday." He smiled.
"Really? How old are you?"
"Twenty-five. My father remarried and came my little sister." He smiled as he rubbed his clean short cut black hair.
Sora smiled as she gathered the change. He looked around the shop.
"People kept saying she's my stepsister, but I love her as my own sister." He smiled.
"That's really nice." Sora responded with a smile. She counted the change and handed it to him. "Thank you for coming by. Please come again."
"It's fantastic how you keep the flowers fresh in a weather like this." He pointed out to the snow outside the shop.
"Thank you." Sora gave him the receipt.
"Hey, you wanna have dinner tonight? I know this place by my-"
"Oh…I'm sorry if I showed any signs, but I can't. I'm getting married soon." Sora tried to smile.
"Oh…well that's all right. Hey, maybe I could come to your wedding." He smiled.
Sora beamed brightly, "That would be great…"
"The name's Ryck." He shook her hand.
She smiled, "My name's S-"
"Sora, I know." He smiled.
For some reason Sora felt a cold shiver down her spine, "How did you know?"
He smiled again, "The store's called Sora's floral, right?"
Sora gave a sighed of relief, but not letting Ryck see it and smiled, "Yeah. Yeah, it is."
"Well I'll see you around, Sora." He grabbed his flowers and waved.
"Hey wait!"
Ryck turned around, a bit surprised. His blue eyes held confusion. Sora came around the counter and handed him a piece of paper.
"Here's the wedding day and the place. Don't be late."
He smiled, "I won't." Then left.
~o~
The phone rang and Sora picked it up, "Sorry, we're closed."
"Really? Damn, I was thinking of buying my beautiful bride-to-be a dozen of roses for how wonderful she is."
Sora smiled, "Hey, Tai. What's up?"
"Not much, just wondering if I should order take-out."
Sora held the phone between her ear and shoulder as she tided up the counter and cleaned up, "Hmm, we still have the left-over pizza from yesterday. We can eat that and watch a movie."
"That's cool. You want me to pick you up?"
"Nah, it's okay. I don't want you having trouble with the snow outside the shop. I'll walk instead."
"Okay. See you soon. Bye."
Sora smile, "Bye."
"Well, I'm heading out now. Sorry when my kid was calling all day today." Josh, Sora's employee, stepped out from the back room to the front of the counter.
"Don't worry about it, Jo." Sora hanged up the phone.
Josh eyed Sora, "That wasn't her, was it?" He pointed to the phone.
Sora smiled and shook her head, "No, that was my kid."
"Tai?" Josh joked, grinning.
"Yep."
"All right, I'll see you Monday. Bye, Sora."
"See ya." Sora waved as Josh left the shop and headed to his home.
After a few minutes, Sora grabbed her bag and switched off the lights. She closed and locked the door behind her. Snow softly came down again covering the hard worked effect people do to clear off the snow from the sidewalk. Lights loomed overhead, casting a dim old black and white fashion movie to the sidewalk and street. The night cold wind picked up slightly and rusted the tall leafless trees in the area. Sora hugged her heavy coat tightly against her small frame. Her cell phone started to ring.
Sora placed the cell against her ear, "Hello?"
Nothing.
"Hello?" Sora lift an eyebrow.
Once again silence welcomed her. Confused, Sora hanged up her phone and made her way home again.
As she walked home, Sora heard footsteps from behind, but chose to ignore it, such she thought that perhaps it was just other person walking home from the cold snow. She crossed the street and took into another sidewalk. Sora decided to play with her keys, but accidentally dropped them on the ground. As she stopped and grabbed the fallen keys, Sora noted that the footsteps had stopped as well. Her blood grew cold as she started walking again and heard the walking from behind start after her. Sora swallowed hard and grew frighten. Without thinking and knowing, Sora suddenly turned around and crashed into someone.
"Woah, careful."
Sora looked up to the eyes of Ryck, "Oh god, you scared the crap out of me."
"Sorry."
"What you doing here? And thought you were heading home." Sora rubbed her forehead.
"I was, but I came back round the corner and then I bumped into you. I read the receipt and you over paid me with the change. You gave me ten yens extra." He smiled gently, both his dimples curved, showing his boyish face.
Sora changed her expression, "I did?"
"Yeah." Ryck handed Sora the ten extra yens back to her. "Well, I'll see you later."
Sora watched as Ryck turn his back and turn a corner, from her sight. Sora sighed heavily. She felt a little relief, but a pair of eyes followed her without notice.
Well, what do you think? It will get darker soon. Give me a week to write the next chapter. Thanks. R&R. Oh, I wanted to say thanks to those who reviewed and told me that in 'Filling in the Space' I got the words 'sigh' and 'sign' wrong. I was confused during that story until my 8 year old niece corrected me. Pretty stupid, huh?
