This story is a sequel to my story, simply titled "Takari". You don't have to have read it, just know that Kari finally told off Davis, and TK finally asked her out.
Kari set her brush down and looked at herself in the mirror. Elegant, simply elegant. She had just spent forty-five minutes preparing herself for her first date with TK, not counting shower time. She had even bought a new pink dress for the occasion. She looked herself up and down; hair, earrings, dress, makeup, shoes, perfume. She was all ready for TK to pick her up at five o'clock.
She left the bathroom to encounter her brother, Tai, with a camera. He snapped the picture before she could react.
"Mom said she wished she could be here to take this, but drafted me to do it."
"TAI!!!" Kari was definitely annoyed by his snapping of a picture. She was already nervous about going on a date with TK and didn't need any more attention.
"Don't be like that. You should be happy to have your picture taken as beautiful as you are. TK is going to be blown away." Kari blushed at her brother's comment.
Across the street, TK was also finishing preparations. He gave himself a final check-over. Yep: hair, shave, cologne, shower; and all in just twenty minutes. TK's bruises and marks from his encounter with Davis earlier that week were all but gone. That happened on Monday, now it was Saturday. He had a date with the most beautiful girl in the world, and he was taking her to Le Gato's, a great French restaurant for dates.
TK stepped out of the bathroom, and moved over to the door to get his coat.
"Hold on there, TK." Matt got up from the computer and went to his room. He came back out with a tie that was the same colour as TK's pants. "No man should go to a restaurant like that without a tie. Otherwise you're looking good man."
"Thanks, Matt." TK was nervous about his date. He'd never been on one before. Matt put the tie around his own neck, tied it and took it off to give to TK. He fumbled with the knot a bit, and Matt helped him.
"Don't worry, you'll be fine. Kari's probably just as nervous as you are." Matt was assuring his little brother. "There, Hollywood. You are ready. Go get her!" TK was almost out the door when Matt called back to him, "Hey!"
"What?"
"Might need this!" TK caught his wallet as Matt threw it to him.
"Thanks, Matt."
Kari was sitting at her kitchen table, trying to look casual while checking the clock every three seconds. It said that she still had seven minutes to wait. The bell rang, and she jumped out of the chair, and ran to the door. She stopped by the mirrored door of the closet and checked her hair, put a few strands back in place, and checked herself again. She must have taken too long because TK rang the bell again.
When the door opened they both saw their favorite person in the world, dressed up and presentable more than they had ever seen. Kari felt warm, TK had to concentrate to keep his mouth closed.
"You look beautiful," TK said, trying to keep his voice.
"Thanks," Kari was a little more modest than TK.
TK reached out his hand for hers, "Shall we? It's getting late." Kari let him take her hand and they left.
They went to see a movie before dinner. They had a lot of fun, and as the evening went on they weren't as nervous with each other. Going to the movies as a date was fun, they got to share a large popcorn, and Kari let TK put his arm around her. She said because she was cold, but no one anywhere would ever believe that. And dinner was fantastic. Kari had French Onion Soup while TK had some rabbit-pastry thing witch he couldn't identify; but he liked it.
It was now about ten o'clock and TK was walking Kari home. The sky had started to thunder so he thought he should hurry. They saw Tai and Sora coming up the street from the opposite direction.
"Hey you guys!" Sora called.
"You better get home Tai, we don't want that hair of yours getting wet, we'd need a truck to get you home!" Kari was always trying to get Tai to tame his wild hair.
"It's alright Kari, Tai's coming over to my place, we rented a movie." Sora had a sly expression in her voice.
"Yeah, that'll keep occupied for a while." TK also had the slight slyness in his voice. Kari didn't quite get what Sora was hinting, and TK picked up.
Kari, who had always had her slight psychic ability, was trying to read TK's mind to find out what he meant. Kari had never succeeded in reading minds, but she could usually tell what someone was feeling or if they were lying. At this moment, two things happened simultaneously. TK leaned against a metal rainspout while still holding Kari's hand, and a bolt of lightning hit the high building right beside them.
The shear force blew all four back. Kari tried to sit up, but her body wouldn't respond with anything other than pain. She saw Sora leaning over her to see is she was all right. Wow, Kari thought, I must have been hit hard. It sounded like she just called my TK! At that moment, she passed out.
TK woke up in a hospital bed. All his muscles felt numb, like when they're bruised, but he couldn't see any bruises on his arms. Tai was standing over him.
"You OK Kari? You landed on your head so you got knocked out. But you should see TK; he's a little out of it. He thinks he's you. Can you believe that?" Tai indicated the bed next to TK's in the room. Now TK was really confused, Tai was talking to him like he was Kari. He was about to try and correct Tai, but he saw himself lying in the next bed. TK also saw mirror on the wall of the bathroom, through the open door. He went to point at the image of Kari we was seeing, and the image of Kari pointed back. TK lifted his hand to his forehead, so did the reflection of Kari. TK tried to speak.
"What hap..." Before he finished, he put his hands to his throat. He had a girl's voice. More than that, he had Kari's voice! The TK beside him looked up.
"Can you guys give us a minute alone?" The other TK said. Sora said she'd called Matt, and she and Tai left.
"Sure thing. You guys behave." Tai said, closing the door.
"Notice anything different about me, TK?" The TK said. Before our TK could respond, the other said, "It's Kari. Our minds switched when that lightning hit."
TK lifted up the bed sheets to get up, and stopped. He was wearing Kari's dress! "I believe you. What are we going to do?!?" TK was getting a little impatient about it.
"I don't know." Kari touched the bandage on the side of hear head, she still felt sore. To anyone else, it looked like TK checking his bandage.