This story takes place a year after Crimson betrayal, K. I hope you like it.
Jesse, now 15, sat on a rock in the digital world. Cubmon sat nearby. The digital world was peaceful since they defeated . Right now they're trying to rebuild villages that were destroyed by the battle.
"Hey Jess, good to see you came today," Davis yelled coming towards them with the others, "But isn't' it really late?"
"Yeah, but I don't have school tomorrow. If I did, it wouldn't matter anyways I have it all figured out."
"An explanation would be nice," Tai said.
"Ok well I'm suppose to go to bed at 10 pm and wake up at 7 am. Well instead I got to bed at 7 pm wake up at 10 pm come here until 1 am then go back to bed until 7 am. Same amount of sleep but I get to come here."
"Smart, Jess." Kari laughed.
"It works. Well I've already been here for an hour so lets get to work before I have to go."
"Ok, I see you're wearing your work clothes." Mimi stated. Jesse smiled. She was wearing a dusty pair of jeans with a black t-shirt. She also had long arm gloves that hid her scars.
"Are you calling my clothes ugly," Jesse teased.
Cody rolled his eyes, "Come on lets get to work."
They all split up into pairs to work on different things in the village. Ken and Jesse building the frame for the houses, TK and Kari would put on the roof after Yolie and Izzy got done finishing the outer work. It took about fifteen minutes to do one frame since they were small and simple.
"Who taught you how to build houses?" Ken asked. Despite what he thought when he first met her, Jesse wasn't so bad. Especially after she got help for her depression. To this day nobody knew what caused Jesse to go partially comatose, nobody but Jesse of course. Ken could go as far as to say he like Jesse…a lot.
"Oh me and my dad went to Mexico for the summer and built houses down there. It was really fun."
"That's cool."
"Yeah but it meant I wasn't able to take summer soccer lessons."
"Oh you're still in soccer."
"Yep on Varsity this year."
"That's great!"
"You're on varsity as well right?"
"Yep."
After about an hour they were starting on the fifth house. Ken frowned when he noticed Jesse kept shaking her head.
"Are you ok?" Ken asked.
"I guess the digital world is hotter today than I thought it'd be. I'm just a little dizzy."
"Maybe you should take off those gloves. It's almost like wearing a long sleeve shirt." They stopped working. Jesse looked down at the gloves.
"I just…" She stopped and glanced around not looking at Ken directly, "I…I don't like looking at the scars. When I look at them, I hurt. Plus they're really ugly, you don't want to see them."
"If I had to choose between seeing some old scars or watching you have a heat stroke, I'd rather just see you the scars."
"Well we better get back to work we only have 45 minutes left." Jesse stated ignoring Ken's comment. She walked over to pick up a hammer when Ken grabber her arm, gently.
"Just take the gloves off. You can put them back on when the others get closer if it makes you feel better," Jesse bit her lip she really trusted Ken. He was a great friend to have and she didn't want to scare him away. Most of all, she didn't want his pity. Jesse finally nodded and turned away fro him He understood and walked to the other side of the framed building to finish some things up. When Jesse approached him he noticed she kept the part of her arms with the scars firmly at her sides, hiding them from view.
They continued to work. After about 30 minutes, Ken looked over and saw Jesse putting a nail near the top of the frame. You could see the scars on her right arm. He flinched at how painful they looked. Jesse noticed this and immediately put her arms to her sides. Ken let out a sigh and walked over to where Jesse stood. Before she cold protest Ken grabbed her arm and held it out so he could see the scars. Jesse turned her head away.
"I don't pity you," Ken whispered, he could see the surprised look in he ryes, "You did this to yourself therefore I do not pity you." Jesse looked almost relieved. Ken reached out and traced some of the deeper scars with his finger. He could sense Jesse's tenseness and discomfort yet he didn't stop.
"See Jess, I'm not afraid. I'm not going to leave you because you made some mistakes in the past."
"Do you promise?" Jesse asked her voice cracking.
"Promise?" Ken questioned.
"Do you promise never to leave me?"
Ken looked up at her, "I promise…I'll never leave you."
Before he could comprehend what happened he felt Jesse's lips on his. As soon as they were there they were gone. Ken stared at Jesse, her eyes were wide and she was blushing slightly.
"Jess…" Before he could say anything else, Jesse yanked her arm from his grasp and took off running. She put her digivice to the air as she ran and disappeared.
Ken stood there, shocked. Jesse just kissed him, "I like you too, Jess," Ken whispered before leaving to tell the others Jesse went home.
-Jesse's house-
Jesse walked out of her room into the quiet hall. 'I guess they're not back yet,' She thought sadly. Her parents plus Max went to a party for her dad's work. Jesse was going to go as well but didn't when her parents told her that the only other girl her age was who was going, was home sick. She would've gone to hang out with Max but a lot of his friends would be there so he didn't need her.
'It's 12:30 in the morning and I'm not tired, What should I do?' Jesse's thoughts were interrupted by the telephone ringing 'Who the hell calls at this time?"
"Hello?"
"Jesse? This is Marc Beo calling," Marc and Marie were their next door neighbors. He was on the police force so he was always calling to warn them about something "suspicious" in the neighborhood.
"What is it this time, Marc?" Jesse asked. His answer made her drop the phone and fall to her knee's.
"Jesse? Jesse, are you there? I'm sending Marie over." Jesse barely heard him, she was so numb
This is just a setting up the story for what's going to happen. The more reviews I get the faster I update.