Author's Note: This is my first attempt at a Digimon fanfic - let alone at a Sorato one. I hope you enjoy this and I promise it gets better! :)

"Sora!" I heard my mother yell. "Are you ready yet? You know you are going to be late!"

"I know, mother!" I yelled back at her, while pulling on my blue jean flares over my bikini bottom. I grabbed a shirt out from my closet, put it on, and then stood in front of my mirror. "Perfect," I said to myself, pulling back strands of auburn hair away from my face. For being sixteen I really didn't think it was that perfect but let alone perfect enough for my mother and me. I grabbed my jean jacket and ran out into the kitchen where my mother was setting the last batch of chocolate chip cookies into the woven basket. "Here," she said, handing it to me. "Three batches of Ms. Takenouchi's best cookies."

I smiled. "Thanks again, Mom." I walked to the door, wrapped my jacket around my arms, and tucked the basket safely under my arm.

"Bye, Sora!" my mother yelled out. "Have a good time!"

"Bye, mom!" I said, opening the door and walking out. "I will! Don't worry!"

"Ah," I said, taking in a deep breath of air, "fresh air." I looked over the railing of the Odiaba Mansion apartments. "What a wonderful day it is and will be." I walked on and out of the apartment floors walking off into the streets.

I was meeting my old friends, Joe, Tai, Kari, Yolei, Cody, Ken, Davis, T.K., Matt, Izzy, and Mimi at the Odiaba beach to hang out. There was nothing else to do this summer so we decided to hang out more. With Ken and Yolei going out, along with T.K. and Kari, and Matt and me, everyone was usually off doing something else but this was the summer we were all suppose to hang out. So we are making it possible.

"Hey!" I heard a voice say, and then the running of their shoes. "Sora! Wait up!" I turned to see that it was Yolei dragging Ken along with her. I smiled at them.

"Hello," I said, stopping.

"Hi!" Yolei said excitedly.

"Hello, Sora," Ken said, looking down at his feet. Ken was the shy one ever since he stopped being the Digimon emperor two years ago when he was only twelve. But now he and Yolei were fourteen and Yolei was well known for dragging a boy like Ken anywhere.

"Hello, Ken, Yolei," I said, smiling at Yolei's happy face.

"This is so exciting," Yolei exclaimed. "I'm really looking forward to seeing everybody once more"-she turned to Ken and smiled-"aren't you?" she asked him.

Ken smiled. "Yeah," he said, scratching his head confusingly.

I glanced at my watch. "Uh-oh." I said. "We better get going, we are going to be late." I ran with Yolei and Ken following behind.

"Hey!" came another voice. "Slow down!" All of us turned to see who it was now and we were almost to the beach.

There stood a teenager with blonde hair and bright, cerulean blue eyes, and he was only sixteen-years old. "Matt!" I said, running to him and kissing him lightly on the cheek.

"Hello," he said to me, smiling. "How is my angel?"

I smiled, blushing, I answered, "Fine. What about you?"

"Doing great myself." He looked over to Yolei and Ken and laughed. He walked over to them with me wrapped around in his arms; I was dragging along close to his waist.

"Yolei, Ken," he said looking at them. "Hello."

"Hello, Matt," they both said.

"Come on!" I yelled to them, looking at my watch. I was eager to get there and see everyone. "We gotta go! We're almost there!"

"I don't know why we are walking!" Yolei called at me. "You can drive! Matt can drive! Why couldn't we just take the car?"

"Because!" I said smiling. "No car! Besides mine needs gas."

Yolei, Ken, and Matt walked over to me and we walked onto the Odiaba beach. We noticed a couple of kids wading in the water; their pants were rolled up. One of then looked up, she had brown hair and brown eyes. "Hey, Sora! Yolei! Ken! Matt!" she called to us, running out of the water and walking to us.

"Hey, Kari," we all said.

"Come and join us," she said. "Everyone is here." She led us to a soft and shady part of the beach.

We all greeted each other with warm welcomes. Joe had brought book to study, for he wanted to be a doctor and was working hard to get into a college. Izzy, of course, had brought his computer along, just in case he got bored. Kari had brought her camera, for pictures and such. Mimi was still wearing her pink cowgirl hat that was once Palmon's but not anymore.

"Here," I said laying the basket of cookies down on the blue and red blanket. "Cookies."

"Hey, all right!" Cody yelled, grabbing for the cookies. He was only eleven- years old but going strong. He grabbed some and began munching on them quickly.

I smiled.

"Sora!" Mimi said to me. Mimi lived in America and was even lucky to be here. "Good to see you."

I smiled at her. "Good to see you, too," I said.

"This is great," Izzy cried. "Everyone here together again. Just like old times."

"You're right," I said. "We haven't been together for a long time." I glanced at Matt. I haven't seen anyone but him for the past two years.

"C'mon," Mimi said, grabbing hold on my waist. "Kari and I were doing this earlier, it's fun." She led me over to the water and pulled her jeans up. She then looked over to me and said, "Come on, Sora."

I looked to the water then at Mimi. I pulled up my jeans and went wading in the water with her. Every once in a while I was able to see Matt glance at me.

"Come on, Matt," T.K. said, Matt's little brother, who was only thirteen. "She'll be okay. Let her have some fun."

Matt didn't say anything back, or even look at T.K. he just watched me "Gr!" I yelled as Mimi splashed me with the ocean water. "No fair!"

Mimi stood there in the water laughing. "Hey!" I said to her, splashing her with water.

She stopped laughing quickly, looked at me and said, "You know you could do with some fun"-she waded over to me and then pointed at Matt-"look at him. He's watching you like a hawk watches over his prey. Not a very pretty scene."

I looked over to Matt, he was smiling and I waved at him, he waved back. "You really think he is over protective of me?" I asked looking at Mimi.

"I don't know," Mimi said. "He just looks as if he is."

"Ah," I said. "Nonsense!" I splashed some water on Mimi getting her shirt wet.

"Hey!" she said laughing, and then looking at her shirt. "Stop it!"

I laughed and walked away from her and onto the sandy beach. Sand was going in between my toes as I walked over to the umbrella and to everyone else. I sat beside Matt. "Now you're all wet!" Tai exclaimed looking at me.

I shook my head causing the water from my hair to splash onto Tai. "Of course. Do you want me to drag you in the water?" I said, standing up, smiling. "Because I can!"

Tai almost fell over backing away. "No thanks," he said. "I'll pass"- he pointed to Matt-"ask him, not me."

I looked over to Matt. "Want to?"

"No, thank you anyway," he said. "Besides-"

"Don't go on and say something, Matt, because I know what you might say, 'Don't go, Sora, you might hurt yourself.' For the millionth time, Matt! I know!"

Joe looked over to Matt and whispered, "She has it down, wait till she remembers what all the normal things you talk about in a conversation." Joe laughed.

"Ha, ha," Matt said to Joe, sarcastically. "Very funny."

"You know," I said to Mimi in a whisper, "maybe you are right. Maybe he is too protective of me."

Mimi looked at me, coldly, she said, "I told you."

I sighed and turned back to Matt. Maybe Mimi is he be over protective? I decided to forget the subject when Davis pulled out some rice cakes out of the red and white cooler.

"All right!" I said, grabbing two of them and handing the other to Matt. "Rice cakes!"

"Hey, Davis?" Mimi asked. "You don't happen to have any of those chocolate covered rice cakes, do you?"

"As a-" Davis began.

"I do!" Yolei said, looking into her bag of convenient store items. She pulled one out and handed it to Mimi. "Here ya go."

"Thanks," Mimi said, gratefully taking the rice cake.

"Hey," I said, "what happened to the cookies I brought?" I looked in the basket and saw none left.

"Apparently, Davis, Cody, and Yolei ate them all," Izzy said, laughing and lifting the empty basket upside down.

"Those were for everybody," I said.

"Oh, darn," Mimi said, looking at the empty basket. "Those were the good kind, too."

"All of the cookies that Sora's mom makes are good," Yolei complimented.

"Why thanks, Yolei," I said to her.

"Okay, we better eat these too," said Kari, bringing out a tray of sandwiches, "before they mold or something."

Matt grabbed two sandwiches and handed one of them to me. "Thanks," I said, taking it from him.

He smiled but said nothing.


Author's Note: Please review. I hope you enjoyed the first chapter. No flames please. :)