Author: MoiraShipper
Song: Innocent-Taylor Swift
Resume: Alice, after returning from the Digital World, goes to the same school as Ruki and meets Jenrya and they help each other in different ways.
Innocent
I guess you really did it this time
Left yourself in your war path
Lost your balance on a tightrope
Lost your mind trying to get it back
"Alice, you're going to be late for school!" Keith called his daughter, from downstairs.
"I'm coming, Daddy." The blond replied.
Alice turned to her uniform and her bag on the table and sighed, throwing herself on the bed, looking to the window beside the bed, seeing the summer sky. She'd been studying in the Female School X for months, since the D-Reaper incident, but every morning she'd wake up, it was like the first school day. Insecurity and loneliness. She'd stayed so much time out in the Digital World that now she thought she didn't belong to that school or in the human's world, she wanted to come back to the other world.
"Dobermon..." She whispered.
She missed her digimon partner, Dobermon and the time they'd spent in the Digital World and even trying, she couldn't find a way to go back there. Why did she have to return to the Human's World? She thought she would be better among digimons, not with the mean girls from her school, who thought she was a gothic and lunatic girl, for dressing all in black and in dresses and telling everyone she'd spent her years in the Digital World. The only ones she remembered being friendly to her were tree teens, two boys and one girl that she'd helped recover the powers to bio-emerge. She thought that one of them, the brunette, Jenrya, was cute. But after the end of the battle, she'd disappeared and hadn't seen them again, since that day.
She took her uniform and dressed herself, stopping in front of the mirror. A blond girl with two ponytails in black bows, ice blue eyes, dressing a grey skirt and shirt. She preferred a black uniform.
Wasn't it easier in your, in your lunch box days?
Always a bigger bed to crawl into
Wasn't it beautiful when you believed in everything
And everybody believed in you?
Alice McCoy was walking in the corridors of her school in the lunch time and, while going to her locker, she heard some girls whispering about her, but she ignored them as always.
"Isn't this that McCoy girl, from the 5A?" One of the girls asked, staring at Alice's back.
"It's her. Minna, from her class, told me she is weird." The other said.
"She says she stayed in the Digital World for years, do you believe it?"
"Of course not, she's lying to get attention from people, that gothic."
Alice kept her books and, after seeing that the two girls who had been gossiping about her were gone, she closed her locker and went to the window, where she supported her arms with her head resting over them, her eyes sad.
"Why do I have to stay here? Nobody believes me when I tell I've been to the Digital World." Alice whispered to herself.
For her, the human's world was cruel and full of gossips, different from the Digital World, where she could be herself, without hearing bad things about her.
"I just want to go back there again..."
From the window where she was, she could see the feminine volleyball team training and she saw the three teens she'd met during the battle that had happened in the city. The girl had her red hair in a ponytail and violet eyes. The others two were boys, a brunette of brown hair and goggles and the other brunette, oriental, had dark blue hair. The redhead girl looked angry.
"Hey Takato, what take you so long to give me back these cards?!" Ruki exclaimed, crossing her arms, irritated.
Takato looked intimidated and smiled, nervous.
"I'm sorry Ruki, Hirozaki and Kenta wanted to have a battle with me." Takato tried to explain.
Jenrya, forecasting a discussion, sighted, staying between them two.
"Calm down, you two." The brunette said.
"Hey, it's better we return to our school, we promised the guard we wouldn't be gone for too long." Takato said, seeing the clock.
Jenrya looked to the window and was surprised to see a pale and blond girl of blue eyes and tried to remember from where he'd seen her before. The girl goggled and hided herself under the window, letting the boy confuse.
She didn't want to admit, but she had been in love with the brunette since she'd met him in the battle. Jenrya, remembering she was Alice, the girl who'd helped them times ago, chased her.
"Hey Lee, where are you going?" Takato asked, curious.
He tried to follow him, but Ruki held him by the arm.
"You two can't be here! It's a female School! Out now!"
But Jenrya ignored her and went looking for the blond girl. He'd been curios about her since she'd disappeared after helping them to recover the power for the bio-emerge. She looked so distant, but there was something on her that made him start to like her and now, seeing her again, he was going to talk to her.
It's all right, just wait and see
Your string of lights are still bright to me oh
Who you are is not where you've been
You're still an innocent
You're still an innocent
Alice was under the window, praying for the boy to leave. She didn't like turning in red or being embarrassed in front of people.
"Please, go away..." She wished.
"Hey, it's you, Alice, right?" The brunette asked, smiling.
Alice was embarrassed for being found in that position, under the window and blushed. But the boy was smiling to her and sat beside her.
"Don't you remember me? You and Dobermon helped me and my friends to digivolve ours partners last year." Jenrya kept saying.
"Yeah… I remember. You're Jenrya" Alice muttered.
It's wasn't a question. Both didn't realize but they were sat there on the floor and some girls that were walking, looked at them.
"But why are you hiding yourself?" He asked, curious.
Alice was blushing more than ever with the question and Jenrya thought she looked cute.
"I'm… A little shy." Was all she said.
Jenrya smiled and she averted her eyes, asking herself why he was there, with her.
"We've been thinking where you might be, after helping us, it was like you disappeared."
"Yeah… I did disappeared."
Jenrya looked to her, without understanding. She was so mysterious for an eleven-years old girl, but it was what made him want to know more about her, be friend with her. It'd taken him one year to find her again and he already liked her. Alice, somehow, felt she could trust on him, he was a gentle boy who fought for what he believed and loved, he made her start to like him. And, he was a Digimon Tamer as her, he would believe her. So she prayed.
Alice turned her face to him, her blue eyes into his own, grey.
"When my grandpa and my father started to do some experiences of the Digital World, I suffered an accident and was sent to that place for a long time." She told him in a low voice. "I was eight."
Jenrya was chocked with her past. She'd stayed there for so long, 3 years, stuck in the Digital World, that's way she was so quiet. The boy felt very sorry for her and held her hand for a little, releasing it then. But the touch was enough to make their hearts beat fast.
"Didn't you… Feel alone there?" He asked.
"I had Dobermon, and the others digimons that were there." She said with a small smile. "When the D-Reaper event started, I was sent with Dobermon to help you and your friends, and then, went back. I just returned for sure, when your group defeated the enemy."
She finished her story, staring at her hand, which Jenrya had touched before, feeling the warm from his hand.
"But you don't look happy being here." He pointed.
He looked at her blue eyes, which looked a little cold.
"I was happy in the Digital World. I've never been good at talking with people, with digimons it's easy. The girls from my class think that I'm lying about everything" She said coldly. "But you understand me, right?" She asked with shinning eyes.
"Sure! I went there too, I know it's all true."
Did some things you can't speak of
But at night you'll live it all again
You wouldn't be shattered on the floor now
If only you had seen what you see now then
"I just wish I could go back there, live forever in the Digital World."
She wished so badly to be there again.
"Alice… What…?" He asked, scared.
Jenrya didn't know if it was his imagination or not, but it looked like the girl was disappearing in front of him, more pale than ever. In panic, He hugged her tight and Alice got scared when she felt his strong arms hugging her and realized she was disappearing.
"Alice, I miss the Digital World and Terriermon too, but this is our world, with our family and friends." He pleaded.
"But Jenrya-"
He stopped her, without releasing her, his hand o her blond hair.
"Even if you don't have friends now, I can be one, Ruki and the others Tamers too, we searched for you and didn't found you. I want to know you better, go out with you and teach how to play cards. But to do to these things, you need to stay here. I-I like you." He said.
The boy finished his words quickly and turned red when realized he had told Alice he liked her. Alice was blushing too, he could see in the hug her red neck.
Wasn't it easy in your firefly catching days?
When everything out of reach someone bigger brought down to you?
Wasn't it beautiful runnin' wild till you fell asleep
Before the monsters caught up to you?
"I-I… I wanna stay here." She decided.
She closed her eyes and remembered her father, her grandpa, but the others Tamers too and Jenrya, who was in front of her. Dobermon who wanted to see her happy. Alice looked at herself and saw she wasn't disappearing anymore.
"Jenrya… Thank you." She said with a smile.
She released from the hug and they two were in front of each other, their knees touching and he was surprise to see Alice wiping a tear.
"I need to give you my answer now, because if I don't, I'll not have the courage to tell this after. You know, I like you too and I want to go out with you." She told him, blushing.
"Really?" He asked, happy.
"Sure your little fool! But don't you mind that I am a Gothic Lolitta?" She asked, a little concerned.
Jenrya hold her hands between his owns, smiling, making her blush more.
"I like you Alice, with your own style."
Even with the black make up, the black dresses and her mysterious and difficult personality, she was sensibly and loved the ones she cared for. To Jenrya, there's no way to not fall in love with her.
She opened a beautiful smile and he couldn't believe his luck for finding Alice again and she accepting his feelings.
Alice thought the same thing. They two were getting closer and closer, a little shy and Alice was feeling anxious for her first kiss. Then their lips met and they felt butterflies flying in their stomach. Alice closed her eyes for a moment while Jenrya touched lightly her cheeck, tasting her strawberry gloss. It was short, only a kiss, but their first kiss, a special moment.
When they broke the kiss, they were in silence, still feeling their lips and smiled, their noses touching, while giggling. Jenrya helped Alice to rise and she held his hand.
"C'mon, let's see Ruki and Takato."
"Ok." She agreed.
They two went together outside the building, searching for the Tamers, and Jenrya asked:
"Do you think we'll se Terriermon, Dobermon and the others, again?"
Alice smiled, looking at the blue sky and then, to the boy she liked.
"Of course. You made me believe that I'm not alone, so I'll make you believe we'll see them again."
It's all right, just wait and see
Your string of lights are still bright to me oh
Who you are is not where you've been
You're still an innocent
It's okay, life is a tough crowd
32 and still growing up now
Who you are is not what you did
You're still an innocent