Yep...this is the first chapter of my story Love Evolution I'm not going to explain or describe any of the characters in the chapters but I will have a page with all the main character's profiles. I might describe some of the minor characters but you might want to keep the profiles page up for reference while you're reading the chapters...just in case you want to know what they look like er somethin...I don't know if that made sense or not...but I'll post up profiles later on...

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Digimon or any of it's characters...and I probably never will...but I do, however, own my characters, which are all names listed below that are not copyrighted to Bandai...

Rika and Ryo © Bandai/Digimon

Nariko, Kameko, Kaida, Inari, Haruko, Shiniko, Sabyrmon, and all other characters © to me!

And now...on with the story...

Chapter One:

Love is Pointless

Love is pointless. How can something so ridiculous be so attractive to so many people? I don't understand why someone would get into a relationship just to be broken out of it again. Why would they want to go through so much pain?

I'll never fall in love. I don't want to end up like my mother…heartbroken by every stupid guy she's ever dated. All they want is sex and that's it. Stupid boys. I'll never let that happen to me…never…I won't follow in my mother's footsteps and end up like her. I'll carve my own path…without the presence of a guy. I won't open up to anyone! I'll live my life without boys and their stupid lies!

I will make it through life...alone...

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The sun's rays peeked through the blinds and stared in the face of a beautiful young lady. Her strawberry red hair shone in the warm beams which roused her from her sleep. Two bright lavender eyes blinked in an attempt to push out the light. The birds chirped their morning songs and the delicious smell of bacon and eggs filled the air.

She could tell this was going to be a wonderful day for her so she quickly hopped out of bed and made her way to the window, opening the blinds and letting in the summer sun. She smiled, seeing the front yard display of the crystal pond with neatly cut grass surrounding it. Small white lilies bounced around in the water as the cool breeze caressed the pond's surface.

Her thoughts were interrupted by her grandmother calling to her, "Rika, dear! Breakfast is ready!"

"Coming grandma!" Rika smiled, quickly taking her clothes to the bathroom to prepare for the day.

After getting her quick daily shower and taking care of all the little extra's, like brushing her teeth, fixing her hair, etc., she strolled downstairs to meet her mother and grandmother at the table.

"Good morning." Rika said cheerily as she pulled up a chair and sat in front of a plate full of wonderful smelling pancakes, eggs, and bacon.

"Good morning, sweetheart. I assume you slept well?" Her mother smiled her pretty smile at her.

"Sure did Mom…" Rika took her butter knife and cut the first fluffy piece out of her pancakes and stuffed it in her mouth.

Rumiko rambled on about her day yesterday as they all ate their breakfast. Rika, still in her good mood, actually found herself listening to her mother for once. She was surprised to see that she kind of took interest in what Rumiko had to say. But even though she was listening, Rika stayed quiet most of the time while Rumiko and Seiko made conversation and sipped their morning tea.

"Hey Mom?" Rika waited until they paused after their current conversation to speak.

"Yes Dear?" Rumiko turned her attention to her daughter.

"May I go over to Nariko's for a while?" Rika smiled innocently, "Please? I haven't seen her in a long time."

Rumiko smiled back, "Well…I guess there's no harm in that."

Rika pushed her chair back as she stood up, "Thanks Mom. You're the best." Rika put her empty plate in the sink and headed for the door.

"Make sure your back before dark. And no making out with any boys." Rumiko teased as Rika put her shoes on.

"You won't have to worry about that happening, Mom." Rika replied and opened the door. "Oh by the way…thanks for breakfast. It was delicious." She smiled.

"No problem, Hun. Have a good time."

"I will. Bye guys." Rika walked outside into the warm air and gently closed the door behind her.

She pulled out her cell phone and dialed Nariko's number as she started down the road, "…hello? Is Nariko there? ...Ok thanks…"

"…Hello?"

"Nariko. Hi. I just wanted to call and see what's up. So…what's up?"

"Oh nothing much since we last talked."

"That's cool. Hey I asked my Mom if I could come over to your place and she said it was ok."

"Oh that's great! I'll call over the rest of the gang and we can hang out at the mall or something!"

"Sounds good. I'll be there in about half an hour."

"Ok. Bye Rika"

"Bye" Just as Rika was putting away her cell phone, she bumped into someone, making her drop the phone. "Watch it!"

"I am so sorry. I didn't mean to."

"You better be sorry." Rika looked up and the first things she saw were the ocean blue eyes of a brown haired boy. For a short moment she was lost in those eyes. She felt the waves wash over her as she gazed into a glimmering sea.

The boy picked up her undamaged phone and handed it back to her with a smile.

Rika snapped back to reality and, with a snort, snatched the phone and stuffed it into her pocket. "Watch where you're going next time." Rika turned and continued on her way to Nariko's.

The boy blinked in confusion, but shrugged it off and continued on his way, also.

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Rika knocked on the door of a vast, white, two-story building and waited patiently for Nariko. After a short while, the door swung open and Nariko greeted Rika with a welcoming hug.

"Great to see you again, Rika! Please, come on in." Nariko moved aside and let her in, closing the door behind her.

Rika looked around in awe, "Wow…nice place you got here. Are you all done unpacking yet?"

Nariko sighed, "Unfortunately no…I've been too busy. And I'm the only one who didn't straighten out my room." She smiled.

"Where's everyone else?" Rika took off her shoes and wandered into the living room, admiring the high quality furniture and carpet.

Nariko followed her as she replied, "They're upstairs with Sabyrmon. Not much going on right now. We were just waiting for you to arrive so we can figure out what we're gonna do today." She led Rika upstairs and into her room where Inari, Kameko, Kaida, and Sabyrmon were waiting.

Kameko was sitting on the bed brushing Sabyrmon's glamorous white fur and Inari and Kaida were playing a video game on the floor.

"Hey guys." Rika smiled, glad to see her friends again.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned their attention to Rika as she entered the room.

"Hi Rika. It's so nice to see you again. How have you been?" Kameko asked.

"I've been doin alright, I guess." Rika answered as she took a seat beside Kameko and Sabyrmon on the bed.

Kameko continued brushing the winged tiger's fur and Inari and Kaida turned their attention back to their game. Nariko pulled a chair up beside the bed and sat facing the back of the chair with one leg on each side and her arms folded across the back.

"So what are our plans for today?" Rika asked, directing the question to no one in particular.

"I was thinking maybe we could go walk around the mall for a bit and then later go see a movie or something." Nariko replied after a few moments.

"We saw a movie last week, Nariko. Can't we go to like the arcade or something?" Kaida complained, still keeping her eyes glued to the television.

"Well my mom's not gonna be home for another hour so we have some time to think."

"Why do we have to wait for your mom?" Inari questioned.

"Because she has the car, dope. We can't go anywhere without a car." Nariko smiled at the stupidity of that question.

"Ohh….I knew that…"

"…Ok how bout this…we can drop Kaida and Inari off at the arcade and you, Kameko, and I can go to the mall for a while and get our nails done or whatever." Rika suggested after a while's thought.

"Alright…sounds good…..that is if Inari and Kaida can stand being at the arcade all day." Nariko smiled sarcastically as she flicked her eyes toward the girls on the floor.

"I don't know guys….." Kaida sat up after she finally failed to complete a mission in Halo 2, "It's pretty scary in that arcade….." She tried not to smile as she returned Nariko's sarcasm.

Inari turned off the Xbox and sat up also. "Ya...please don't make us go to that terrible place…" Inari was pretty good at keeping a straight face when it came to sarcasm.

Kameko just smiled, still brushing Sabyrmon's fur even though it was pretty much as neat as it could be.

Rika glanced out the window, still kinda impatient, "Hey, can't we just walk? I mean, it's not that far away."

"Ya...I guess we could walk..." Nariko stood up and pushed the chair back into its little corner.

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The three girls that were left after dropping Inari and Kaida off at the arcade down the street walked into the enormous mall where they spent most of their afternoon hours just wandering around the place. It was a Saturday, which meant the mall was extra busy and was crammed with loads of people…including hot guys. ;)

After only a couple of hours the girls were tired of walking so they plopped down on a bench and watched the people pass by.

"Oh…get a load of that hottie, Rika." Nariko, keeping her eyes glued to a black-haired boy, gently jabbed Rika in the ribs and gestured toward him with her eyes.

Rika at least had to glance, but when she did the boy looked in her direction and saw her looking straight at him. Rika quickly turned to face Nariko again.

Nariko smiled and glanced back at the boy, "O Rika. He's checkin u out. I think he thinks you like him." She teased, making a small blush creep up Rika's cheeks.

"Shut up, Nariko…he is not."

"Ya he is. Oh my God, he's walking over here!"

Rika jerked her head up and met the boy's eyes again, but he hadn't moved a bit. He smiled at her and Rika slightly blushed once again, but managed a smile. She turned back to Nariko and punched her in the arm for embarrassing the hell out of her in front of a cute guy. And even though she really didn't care, she couldn't help but blush.

"Ow! What the hell was that for?" Nariko said as she rubbed her shoulder.

"Don't ever do that again! That was embarrassing!"

Nariko smiled and glanced off in a different direction, spotting a very attractive blonde. He had a small goatee on his chin and owned two of the most gorgeous eyes. He was wearing a plain white T-shirt and baggy blue jeans which covered up most of his white tennis shoes. A deep blue stocking cap, which had the word 'Nanigashi' written on the front, covered up most of his semi-long blonde hair and almost covered his ears. He was leaning up against the wall across from them with his arms crossed over his chest.

He looked up and saw Nariko staring, Rika just looking, and Kameko stealing a glance now and then. He flashed a half-smile which made Nariko blush.

"Oh my God, he smiled at me!" Nariko, beaming with happiness, waved to the handsome blonde.

Rika rolled her eyes and leaned back trying to get as comfortable as the wooden bench would allow her.

The young man put his hands in his pockets and sauntered on over to them, dragging his shoes on the ground which were obviously at least one size too big.

Kameko froze, wandering what she would do if he sat beside her, because there was barely any room anywhere else on the fairly small bench.

Nariko shoved Kameko over to the end of the bench and scooted over so he could sit between Rika and her.

The blonde made himself comfortable between Nariko and Rika, with both arms across the back of the bench behind both girls, "How's it goin, ladies?"

Nariko crossed her bare yet beautifully tan legs and fixed her short, blue jean skirt over them so nothing was showing, "Hi. My name's Nariko Takahashi…"

"Takahashi…I've heard that name somewhere before…"

Nariko blushed again, unable to hold it back, "Oh you have? Well my mom's kinda in the modeling business with Rika's mom, so you might have heard my mom's name somewhere. Her name's Nozomi Takahashi."

"Ya, that's it…Nozomi. So which one of you ladies is Rika?"

Rika took a glance at the blonde and finally spoke up, "That'd be me…"

He smiled as he looked over at the red-head, who was staring off in the other direction.

"So what's your name?" Nariko interrupted, not wanting him to get too attached to Rika instead of her.

"…Nanigashi…Haruko Nanigashi" He kinda tilted his head down in her direction so she saw the word written on his hat.

"Sexy…" Nariko smiled a somewhat evil smile at him and stood up, "So you wanna go walk around or something? We're not getting much done sitting here."

"I guess. I got nothin better to do." Haruko stood up and followed Nariko into nothingness as she led him through the mall, Rika and Kameko not far behind.

Kameko sighed, kinda bummed because she didn't even get introduced. She would have spoken up and done it herself if she weren't so shy all the time. She shook it off and caught up to the group, hoping later on Haruko would at least ask for her name.

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Rika, having got fed up with Nariko trying to impress Haruko, had gone her separate way after a couple of hours and was followed by Kameko, who considered Rika to be closer to her than Nariko. Unfortunately, Nariko and Haruko were always somewhere near them as if they were following them around the whole mall. Rika, hoping to lose them, had stopped in Hot Topic, a place Nariko would maybe never go even if her life depended on it. But since Haruko was with her and he apparently liked Hot Topic, Rika found herself watching Nariko flirting with Haruko…again. Rika decided to just wait outside and she and Kameko found their way out of the mall.

Rika went and sat on the curb and Kameko sat beside her.

"This is really starting to piss me off…" Rika blurted out after a few seconds of silence.

"..What is…?" Kameko said in her quiet little voice.

"THIS!" Kameko kinda jumped at Rika's answer, "Every time she sees a cute guy she always has to act like she's better than everyone else! I mean…I don't really care if the guy likes me or not…It's not like I wanna get with him!" Rika was obviously a little mad but she wasn't making the problem a huge deal, "It's just that she thinks he's gonna like me better than her so she tries to act like something she's not. She knows I won't try to win him over. I don't want to have to deal with a stupid boyfriend. All they do is cause problems and screw everything up…"

Kameko just kept quiet cause she wasn't really the conversational type.

Both of the girls were as silent as falling snow and Rika paused a while before apologizing, "Sorry Kameko…I just don't think I like her as much as I used to when we were little…She's changed so much since her father almost died in that car accident…"

"…I know what you mean Rika…and its ok…you don't have to apologize…"

"Thanks Kameko." Rika smiled at her, thankful that she had a friend like her.

Kameko smiled back, "No problem…But I think we should talk to Nariko…I mean if it's bothering you, we should do something about it…….right?"

Rika gazed out into the street and locked her eyes on a sign in a window, "…Ya….I guess so…"

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After what seemed like a million years, Nariko, followed by Haruko, finally came through the doors and out into the cold of the night.

Rika, having heard the doors, glanced up at the two just as Nariko wrapped her arms around Haruko's neck. Rika looked away…not wanting to invade their privacy…which wasn't so private because….well….they were at the mall…

Nariko smiled and gave the boy a kiss on the cheek…which apparently…was a huge mistake…….

"What the hell do you think your doing!"

Nariko looked past Haruko to see a beautiful, slim girl storm up to them, her anger directed at Nariko.

"He's mine! What makes you think you can go around kissing MY boyfriend like that!

Nariko blinked in confusion because Haruko had told her he was single… "I'm sorry…I didn't know."

"Ya you better be sorry! Cause if I ever catch you doing something like that again I swear I'll hunt your ass down, bitch!"

Nariko raised both her eyebrows as if daring her to say something else, "What did you just call me?"

"You heard me! I don't have to repeat myself!" The girl was looking Nariko up and down as if she was lower than dirt.

"Shiniko, I can explain…" Haruko tried to get the girl to direct her anger at him instead.

Shiniko glared at him with fire in her eyes, "You just stay the hell out of this, Haruko!"

Nariko, getting mad now, started fighting back, "Don't yell at him! It was MY fault, not his!"

"I know it's your damn fault! And you're gonna get what's comin to you, you fuckin whore!"

"Oh that's it…" Nariko dropped her purse and flung herself at Shiniko, landing on top of her. She grabbed her by her hair and smashed her head off the pavement. Shiniko dug her nails into Nariko's arms and pushed her off, but Nariko still had a firm grip on her hair and she wasn't about to let go…

Hope you guys like my story! I promise it will get better later on...hopefully...but ya...check back later for updates...