Rimmer
Disclaimer: Digimon does not belong to me.
I can't believe it. I saw it with my own eyes so I know it's true, but, still. I just can't believe it. I sigh and shoot the basket ball again. 'It's not fair' it think as I watch the ball sail through the air. It hits the rim and circles it before flying to the left. Another rimmer, it's all I seem to be able to do tonight. 'Actually,' I go to pick up the ball, 'It kinda fits.' Almost scoring but not quite. Just like me, almost, but a miss in the end.
I lost Kari. Well, I didn't lose her, something tells me I never had her the way I thought I did. I thought that maybe, just, maybe she might love me. I shot the ball a little harder. 'Forget that, she's in love with him.' I thought bitterly. I should have seen it coming. I really shoud have. Actually, it's my fault she ended up with him. I pushed her to him, I really did. Well, it's not like it wasn't a joint effort. Davis helped in her final choice too. Our fighting over her must have upset her, and she confided in him and then... Well I saw the result tonight.
I was walking home from school, the gang and I had been in the Digiworld and we just returned. It was around five o'clock and getting dark. I don't know why but I didn't want to go home so I decided to walk through the park. So, I was wandering around and I came to the playground. I saw two people sitting on a bench talking. I reconized them immediatly, Kari and him, Izzy. They were sitting close to each other, and Kari was telling him something. They didn't see me, they didn't know I was there. They were talking, I blinked and then, they weren't talking anymore, they were... kissing. It hit me right then and there. Kari didn't love me, or Davis, or any of those other guys that were after her. She loved Izzy, a lot, judging from the way she kissed him. I'll leave it up the the imagination, but, let's just say...I wouldn't expect Kari to kiss someone like that.
So here I was. Stading out of sight while the girl I love is kissing the living daylights out of one of my best friends. Suddenly I stepped on a twig, the two on the bench jerked apart. I stepped out from my shelter, the large penguin in the middle of the playground. "Hey guys what's up?" I said pretending I had just came upon them.
Izzy and Kari exchanged puzzled/worried glances. They were wondering if I had seen anything they wouldn't want me seeing. "Oh, I was just talking to Izzy, what are you doing here?" Kari replied with a smile that didn't quite reach her eyes.
"I just wanted to take a quick walk before going home." I replied. I slipped my backpack off one shoulder and then opened it looking for something. Finding it, I took it out and gave it to her. "Here, I might as well give this back now." It was a book of hers that she had lent to me. I had liked it, 'Sophie's World'. It was a mystery book, with the history of philosophy writen in. It was really good.
Kari took it from me smiling. She must have thought that if I had seen something I would have said so. "Thanks, did you like it?"
I shrugged. "I like Locke's ideas best, but Berkley's cool too."
"Berkley is quite interesting. Particualrly because his most famous ideas are very hard to prove one way or another." Izzy stated.
I shrugged but in my mind I was choking him. Then something hit me. "Did you read the book too?" I asked.
Izzy nodded. "Kari lent it to me a while ago. I rather enjoyed it."
"Oh" I said. Now I was taking an ax to him in my mind. It kinda scared me that I was thinking that way. I was so angry now. Kari had lent Izzy the same book, before she lent it to me! Okay, odd I know, but Kari had always lent me her books right after she had read them.
I made a lame excuse and headed off. I really didn't want to go home so I went to the Rec. Center and decided to shoot some hoops. I had asked Patamon to fly home without me before I had even headed to the park. The announcer came over the PA saying that it was nine o'clock and the place was going to close in half an hour. I went to the locker room changed and headed home. When I got there I told Mom that I had a headache, so she left me alone.
I went to my room and Patamon was on my bed asleep. I smiled for the first time since I left the park. I sat down at my desk and drummed my fingers on it. I really wanted to talk to somebody. I would usually call Kari, but well, I couldn't this time for the obvious reasons. I couldn't call Tai, since I wanted to really complain about Kari. Sora and Yolei, were girls. Sexist I know, but still. That leaves Joe or Matt.... I picked up the phone.
Joe picked up on the third ring. "Hello?" He asked.
"Hey Joe, It's TK."
"Oh, hi. What's up, or down?" his voice questioning.
"Oh nothing much, everythings pretty much down though."
"Let me guess....Kari dicided to go out with Davis?" Joe joked.
"No, she decided on Izzy." I replied completly serious.
"...."
"Joe??" I asked worried by the silence.
"Are you serious?"
"Yeah." I said nodding. "They were kissing in the park and when I say kissing, I mean KISSING."
"Whoa, wait what do you mean KISSING?" He said quickly.
"My God, if she had her tounge any further down his throught she would've..."
Joe intruppetted me. "Are you sure? I mean KARI???"
"Yeah Kari! 'Little Miss I'm so perfect. Kari, Miss I have two boys at my beck and call and I have to go neck with a third, Kari."
"Woha, okay, this just got totally weird. Now did I just hear you insult KARI"
I was getting fusterated. "YES Joe, you just heard Takeru Takaishi dissin' Hikari Kamiya. That clear enough for you?"
"I think I want to go do my homework now..." I shook my head laughing silently. Poor Joe, he sounded so weirded out.
"Joe, don't." I said calmer now. "I was just a little upset, I'm over it now."
"Well, I'm not surprised."
"Huh?"
"Look everyone gets tired of themselves. You just got tired of being the nice-I'll never insult anyone in my entire life self."
"Oh." I said. Trying to decide if I should be insulted or not. I decied not. "Well, I gotta go." Then I thought about something. "Hey, we NEVER had this conversation. If Tai found out I said what I did...." I cringed. I honestly hadn't meant to say those things it was just, venting I guess. But even if I told Tai that, he'd still kill me.
Joe laughed. "Never happened. I promise."
"Thanks." We said goodbye and I hung up. Seconds later I heard the phone ring, I picked it up on the first ring without glancing at the caller ID. I thought it was Joe calling me back to tell me something. "Yes Joe, I wasn't kidding when I said Kari was kissing Izzy."
"KARI WAS KISSING IZZY!!!!!!!!!!!" Matt screamed.
"NO! Wait she wasn't! I mean she was! I mean! I never said that!!!!" I said panicing.
"Yeah right, TK." Matt said.
"I NEVER said that okay?" I pleaded. "I already told Joe, nobody's supposed to know, Heck I'm not supossed to know."
"I get it." Matt said laughing.
"So what did you need?"
"Nothing really, just wanted to talk."
"Oh." After a few seconds silence: "I can't believe Kari is going out with Izzy." I said in a rush.
"They might not be going out."
"Matt they were..."
"Well, how were they kissing?"
"Kissing like," I hesitaited, I really didn't want to say anything bad about Kari again. "Like, with the whole body, real close, hands in hair, rubbing back..."
"And you were watching this?!" Matt said.
"It was an accident."
"Right, well, anyway, they might not be going out. Sometimes feelings build up and then... Boom. Things just happen. And whoever's there, well." Even though I couldn't see it, I knew Matt shrugged.
"Yeah, but," I didn't want to tell Matt about the book, it was kinda silly, but I did anyway. "She lent him a book before she lent it to me, and she smiles really brightly when she sees him. I really do think she loves him."
Matt took a deep breath and let it out slowly. "In that case..." He hesitated. "You know what I'm going to say right?"
"Yeah, it's her choice, and I have to just leave it, even though I don't like it."
"In a nutshell, yes. If she does love him, there's nothing you can do." Matt chuckled. "At least you didn't lose her to Davis, that would just kill your fragile male teen ego."
"Very funny." I said in a deadpan voice.
"I thought so!" Matt said brightly. "I mean it though, just leave well enough alone. If there's one thing that can kill friendship it's love."
"Right. They're both my friends and I should be happy that they're happy." I said, my voice sad souding.
"Yeah."
"But what about me? I still love her."
"Well..." Matt paused. "As cold a this sounds, you're going to have to just deal with it."
"I guess." I said quietly. "Thanks Matt."
"Listen, don't get yourself down about this. Try looking to other girls. Kari isn't the only one in existance. And hey, you're the star basketball player, you got tons of girls swooning over you."
I began laughing. "Well, I wouldn't call it swooning... giggling whenever I walk by maybe, but not swooning."
"Takeru Takaishi, you are FULL of yourself!" Matt said laughing.
"So are you." I shot back.
"Yeah, I know. Proud of it too!"
I shook my head laughing. "Hey did you hear about the Bulls?"
"Oh yeah, they won their last game, maybe they might win the championship this year." Matt said.
"It's just one game, if they get cocky, they'll lose it."
"Against the Wizards too, dosn't Air Jordan own that team now?"
"Yeah, he didn't come to the game though...."
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AN: So that's it. Hope you liked it, I love underdogs! Da Cubs! Go Sosa!
