Yay, I finally have an author's note on the first chapter! Anyways, I will try to keep to the timeline and maybe throw in something new to make it slightly less boring.
Enjoy
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Davis, the girl who needs a huge confidence boost closed off herself after the distancing friendship between herself and Kari, her childhood friend.
Today, just like any other day, Davis walked out of her house, the only place of safety for her and into the most horrible and judgmental place on earth, no, not the internet... But school.
She woke up early today since she is on the soccer team and today is her weekly morning practice. It was also the first school day of her 12th year in this world.
"I'm going now." Davis said goodbye to her half asleep sister as her parents had head out for work before.
"Yeah, have fun in school." Her sister, Jun said waving lazily.
Making sure to lock the gate, Davis went to the lift of her high rise building and waited for the lift.
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Upon hearing the doors of the lift opening, Davis looked up and saw one of her childhood friend, Kamiya Taichi looking like he just woke up.
'Which he probably did.'
Davis sighed internally, just the person she wanted to avoid, other than the other Kamiya who crushed her heart with the constant rejection.
"Oh, hey Davis! How was your holidays?" Tai gave Davis a beaming smile, with blinded innocence.
Davis raised her head up to answer while entering the lift, "Oh, the usual..." Lowering her head after answering when she heard the lift door close.
'If only I can shout it out!' Davis belittled her horrible confidence and need to hide the truth of the girl Tai calls, 'sister' before her own feelings come into play.
Sensing something was up, Tai made a move to make the shy girl speak up. "Really, were you able to finish your homework?"
Davis nodded, still keeping her head down and silently prayed for a faster elevator trip.
"How hardworking of you. You know, I haven't even touched my math worksheets yet... Sooo..." Tai purposely dragged his last word out, staring at Davis expectantly.
"Y-You can come over after s-school." Though Davis's reluctance was obvious, Tai took it as a good sign that she is recovering from whatever that made her withdrawn.
"Thanks Davis! You're the best!" Tai swung an arm around her in a makeshift hug and walked out the lift.
"See you at 5." Tai shouted running to his new high school as Davis was left alone to sigh in regret.
"See him at 5? What was I thinking? He doesn't know about Kari..." Davis mumbled under her breath how much the visit is going to go wrong.
'But, I guess it's better than doing nothing at home.'
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Davis reached her school after accepting that there was nothing to change what has happened and ran to the lockers.
"Oh, look here, it's Davis, how has your holiday been... Oh that's right, you didn't have anyone to hang out with didn't you?"
The condensing manner of the self proclaimed best friend of Kari's, Li rubbed off wrongly on Davis and as usual, she chose to keep quiet.
"What was that? Was it your loneliness sipping, or are you really just a pushover?!" Li said getting into Davis's face.
"I would rather have you not spitting all over my teammate, Li, I do not want her to be damaged by your acidic personality." Brad, one of the players in my soccer team pulled me away from the fuming bully.
"W-Wait. I still haven't put my bag." Davis tried to pull back her arm but to no avail.
"Davis, no matter how much you need it, don't bring all you practice materials to a Wednesday class, most of the lessons are physical education."
Brad, probably the only one who respects Davis's position as the ace of the team gave a valid point to the girl.
"Knowing how far behind I am in my teacher's popularity scale, I don't think so."
Davis has the higher grades in her class but it was only because she had her family to rely on and hard work. However, the teachers sometimes target her during lessons to read from the textbooks.
"Davis, just change into your cleats, we'll talk about this later." Brad left no room for backups and left her by the bench at the field.
Davis nodded dumbly and took out her required equipment before changing.
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"Davis, you're here, and on time to boot. As expected of the ace." Despite the coach's bright smile and encouraging words, most of the team rolled their eyes at her.
"Now, now. I know you boys are angry that Davis is an ace, but it better not be because you think she is a girl..." Coach said looking at each of the members in the eye.
"She worked very hard for this position, unlike some of you who think you're too good to join practice without my prompting." Coach turned back to Davis and signalled her to go on the field.
They each got a set of regime they have to complete by the end of today's practice, different positions got their own but Davis, she had to do all of the workouts within the same time.
Brad leaned over Davis's shoulder to peer at her regime and winced, "GG."
Davis rolled her eyes before smirking, "For you maybe, but I have to do it."
Brad left her to her own devices and went back to his own practice.
Only an hour passed and practice was finally over, "Great job surviving the warm-ups." Coach looked very pleased with the progress of his team.
"Warm-ups... Those were warm ups?! Now I remember why I wanted to skip." A boy groaned as he soothed his thirsty throat with sports drinks.
Davis just stood near the back, slightly panting but looked ready to continue with whatever Coach throws at them.
"Well then, lets get to the main event... A practice game!" Cheers were heard as the team ran to form their own teams.
Even though the team is still uncomfortable with Davis being the ace, they do know how much effort she put in to make it here and she can kick their butts one-on-one. Thus, want her in their team.
The games started off then, when someone passed the ball to Davis, she just missed the heading and ran to get the ball back.
Before Davis is a boy who looked around the same age of her, he stared at Davis for a while before passing the ball back.
"You look like someone I know." The boy then walked away to the shoe lockers.
"Hey, you're holding up the game!" Davis snapped out of her stupor and kicked the ball back, still feeling the same stare at the back of her head.
"That can't be Tai, he's less cooperative." The mysterious blonde said, chuckling as he entered the school door.
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After a few games, Davis walked into her assigned classroom and avoided looking at Kari who sat in front of her seat as usual.
Feeling the need to fill up the awkward silence, Davis spoke up, "So... We're the same class again, what luck huh?"
Kari sat down and looked to the front, "I didn't really notice and I wouldn't count that for luck as well."
Wincing from Kari's words, Davis numbly sat down as well, waiting for the teacher to enter the room.
A conversation was heard outside the classroom and Davis tilted her head slightly to hear the mumbled words.
"Wait... I'll... Come in then." The homeroom teacher finally came in to greet the class.
"Okay, class, today we have a new student." Upon those words, entered a blonde boy who wore a bleach hat and started smiling when he saw Kari.
"Hi everyone, the name's T.K. short for Takeru. Nice to meet you." T.K. bowed and waited for the teacher to assign him a seat.
"Ok... You can seat beside the girl with a camera around her neck." The teacher did not wait for a response before turning back to the blackboard to resume lessons.
"Long time no see, our homeroom teacher reminds me of an Ogremon." T.K. sat down beside Kari and smiled while she chuckled.
Davis, who can see all this cannot help but be jealous of the sudden friendship they forged, still, she did not let it get to her.
The bell rang throughout the school and children rushed to the front of the class while waiting for the one in charge of today's lunch.
Davis sighed and took out her lunch box, slowly walking out the class. Judging by how Kari looked so immersed with T.K., Davis did not make a move to invite her.
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"I knew you would be here." Davis turned around and saw Brad without his usual gang of friends.
"If you're wondering about them, I had asked for privacy... So, no use again?" Brad took a seat beside her on the park bench.
Davis shook her head, "This new kid got to her and now I don't think I can separate them."
Brad patted Davis's shoulder in sympathy, "Sorry to hear that... Can I have some of your soup?"
Davis smiled at his attempt to steal her cooked meal, dodging out of the way. "Maybe, but only if you promise to not do whatever you did this morning."
"Oh come on! Li had it coming, why can't you just tell her off or something?" Brad made grabby hands to the soup bowl that Davis held away.
"It's because what she said doesn't bother me, I don't really care about her that much to get affected by her words."
Davis saw Brad shrug, "Fair enough. I solemnly swear to not bring harm to Li's pitiful existence... Now give me the soup."
Davis rolled her eyes and handed it to him. Throughout the whole lunch break, they talked about soccer, avoiding the topics on broken friendships.
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It was finally the end of school and Davis steeled herself with whatever confidence she can grasp and walked up to Kari by the shoe lockers.
"H-Hey, can I walk home w-with you?" Davis said after taking a deep breath.
As she waited for her reply, she fiddled with her fingers and avoided eye contact.
It was a good thing that only Kari and T.K. were the only ones still there to witness the shy girl speaking.
"Not today, I really want to show T.K. around the neighbourhood. Sorry." Kari said apologetically, not seeing the same hurt look every time this happened.
Davis nodded, holding back the tears and trying not to feel her heart breaking and swiftly left.
As she walked out, she did not notice that a purple haired girl who is older than them brought the letter of warning from Tai.
"Hey, Kari. Aren't you being too mean to the girl?" T.K. frowned when Kari shrugged.
"I don't see the problem, I do need to show you around after all."
"Kari, we could've invited her to accompany us-" T.K. couldn't finish his sentence as his neighbour, Yolei interrupted.
"Hi there, are you Kamiya Kari?" Seeing Kari nod, Yolei continued on. "Good, I've just got a message from Kamiya Taichi and I thought you would want to see it."
As Kari slowly read the message, her face started to get worried, "We're gonna have to talk about Davis later. My brother needs me."
As they went to the computer room guided by Yolei, they met up with Izzy.
"Izzy, did you get a message from Tai?" Kari asked as Izzy nodded and looked to Yolei.
"Can I borrow the computer room, Yolei?"
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Yolei was more than happy to comply, talking about how dedicated graduates are and the honour in the former computer club president asking her.
Izzy then went on to talk about how his batteries in his communication device went out when he played a logical game.
Noticing that the digi-gate was opened, Izzy tried to tell Kari and T.K. without alerting Yolei.
"Hey, what's the digital world? Is it a new amusement park?" Yolei kept firing questions, noting how the other three in the room avoided her gaze.
Cody then chose to appear, noticing that Yolei was not at the meet up point.
"Yolei, you promised to help me fix my computer..."
"Oh yeah, sorry, I forgot." Yolei scratched the back of her head in embarrassment.
In the digital world, Tai spotted the egg after receiving a message from Izzy.
"Isn't that the crest of courage?" Agumon said while Gatomon noted that it must have been there for a long time.
Tai being the ever curious child he is, touched the egg and it released an orange light before three glows flew out of it.
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In which Tai impatience and ability to attract danger comes in handy. If you think that adding a bully to Davis is clique, I am sorry but I do have something I want to do with those two OCs and if I added a best friend, I would need a bully to balance it out. Sometimes, I notice how much plot armour Kari has and while others also has some, she is the most annoying one. I want to write it in terms of everyone having equal amounts of luck so sorry, Kari fans.