Chapter Uno! Digimon ;)
"Hey Katrina could you quit packing for one second and try listening to me for once!"
I looked over at my best friend for 3 years. Renee's hands were clenched into fists. Her long brown hair was swung around her shoulders. She had her arms hanging out and was crouching down in an angry baboon position. I pondered for a second considering her request.
"Nope I don't think that's possible." And I went back to stacking up another moving box. She let out a sound that sounded half like a mother giving birth, and half like a mental squirrel getting hit by a car.
"Katrina I swear if you don't get your but over here I will…." (I don't really think you want to hear the rest of that sentence).
She continued like that for quite a while. Once she finally realized I wasn't paying an ounce of attention to her she grabbed my arm and began pulling me away.
"Hey what are you doing?" She continued tugging my arm.
"I'm abducting you. From now on you're living in my basement." I cringed. "Great offer but I'm not that interested." She continued trudging along. We were moving along a grassy field now.
"There's no reason not to be. You get two course meals a day. There is no bathroom no plumbing and no sunlight. How could you possible turn down an offer like that?"
I thought about it for a second. "Like this!"
I jerked my arm and managed to get it free. But then she reached out to grab me and ended up lunging at me. Somehow she ended up sitting on me. I struggled and kicked and screamed.
"No! Let me go! Help she's kidnapping me!" She smacked my head.
"Hey shut up were almost there! Just get up!" She got up and began pulling me by my legs. Grass was getting shoved into my mouth. It muted my screams of protest.
By the time she finally let me go I had lost my willpower to run. I spat all the grass out and looked around to yell at her again. I was left speechless. Her smug grin didn't make me feel any better but I couldn't keep my mouth from hanging. I was so busy on making my escape I never really asked her where she was taking me. Somehow I found myself on a large grassy hill looking down on our entire township. The lights were on and the streets were filled with people.
"You remember what's so important about this place?" I looked up and spotted an apple tree. "Um the free fruit?" She sighed exasperated.
"You know I'm the one who'd supposed to have the terrible memory here! Guess again."
I looked around again puzzled. I didn't remember this place at all except ...hey wait a minute.
"This is the place where we first met! You were climbing a tree and Uncle Davis was screaming at you to get down! Then I saw you in the tree and I climbed up with you!" Renee laughed at the memory.
"Yes exactly! And remember then Uncle Tai and my dad tried climbing up the tree and we started pegging them with apples." I started keeling over in laughter.
"We had perfect aim too! I can still remember all the bruises all over Uncle Davis."
Renee grabbed an apple and let out a ferocious battle cry as she threw it with all her strength. I laughed and followed her example.
"doosh, doosh doosh!"
We both started yelling with each apple we threw. A while later when we were trying to stop laughing (and failing miserably) Renee still giggling threw her arm around me and said
"It's not gonna be the same without you. I mean were practically family for heaven's sake." My shoulders drooped and I let out a sigh.
I bet you're wondering what she means by practically family. Well you see Uncle Davis wasn't really my uncle. He was just a close friend of Tai and Sora, who aren't really my real parents either. You see Tai and Sora adopted me three years ago from a foster care facility. I don't really remember much about my past since I was diagnosed with memory lose at a young age. What I was told was that my real parents had died in a tragic accident when the whole town had gone through tornado's earthquakes and a forest fire all at the same time. It had been recorded the worst national disaster in the history books. Somehow I had made it through that horrible disaster and as you can see am still here. Renee noticed how quite I had gotten and gave me a friendly slap on the back.
"Hey don't worry it won't be so bad. There's always internet, or telephone." I tried to force on a smile.
"Yeah you're right.." I mumbled.
She looked down at the ground like I was. It seemed like she was trying to think of something else she could say to help me feel better. Her head snapped up. Then she turned to me with a devilish smirk.
"Who knows you may even find you-know-who there." She pulled playfully at my bandana. I felt my cheeks grow hot and I smacked her hand away.
"Renee!" I cried in protest.
"What!" she screamed back defensively."You're going back to the same town you first lived in! Who knows he still might be there."
"Psh fat chance that will happen." I sighed feeling even worse than before.
Renee snickered "Aww you really that disappointed you won't see him? Well I guess you would be since you had a crush on him all those years ago even though he was your big brothe- mlah, mlah mlah" I had pressed my hand against her mouth.
My cheeks were flaming now. "Shut up Renee! I don't want the whole world to hear! Besides you know he wasn't really my brother!"
I could feel her laughter on my hand as I kept it firmly planted around her mouth. It was too bad her arms were still free. If they weren't she wouldn't have been able to steal my bandana. I released my grip around her mouth and lunged after the bandana. She easily side stepped me and climbed onto the branch above. I tried to keep my balance so I wouldn't fall off. I looked up at her.
"That's not fair! You're using your monkey skills against me." She smiled smugly.
"Nobody said life was fair." Then she stuck her tongue out at me.
She flipped the bandana around where poorly printed letters sprawled across it read "Carson Ooo lala" Well that's how Renee was reading them anyways.
I shook the branch she was on and she naturally grabbed onto the tree for support letting go of the bandana. I quickly reached out my hand to grab it.
"Gotcha!" I looked down at the familiar sprawl of letters.
It was worn out and faded but it was the closest thing I had to my memory's .. and him. When I woke up in the hospital bed I only had two things with me. One was this bandana. The other one was like a mini game boy. I used to carry it around with me everywhere but things would get weird when I did…so I kind of didn't anymore. Anyways, when I saw the familiar writing and name on the bandana only a couple of glimpses of memory had come back. The doctors called it a miracle; they said that because of that I have a slim chance of regaining all my memories. But so far I haven't gotten any back.
They told me Carson's parents had been good friends with my own. That's why when they passed away my parents took him in as their own son. When I looked at the bandana I had no brotherly feelings toward him. They were different it was hard to explain, but they went with the one small glimpse of memory I had with him.
"Sorry for stealing your bandana." My head popped up in surprised. I hadn't even noticed her come over. She looked up into the sky avoiding my gaze.
"I know how much it means to you." She laughed adding "I mean I never see you without it."
I gave her a reassuring smile. "No problem I knew you wouldn't have done anything with it anyways. I mean if you did you know I'd kill you."
"You kill me? Ha! That's a good one." I raised my arms in a ninja pose.
"Don't make me come over there!" Her eyebrow curved up.
"What're you gonna do? Chop some sushi?"
"RAA!" I cried as I leapt at her.
It went on like that for quiet sometime when our battle was over Renee pointed up to the sky. "Hey look Katrina! The stars are beautiful tonight!" I joined her gaze.
It was just like she said the sky was clear and all the stars seemed like they were sparkling just for me and her. We both put our arms around the other's shoulders and watched the stars.
"Call me right when you arrive ok?" I looked over at Renee.
On the outside she looked normal but when you looked closer you could see her auburn eyes watering. I smiled and gave her the biggest bear hug I could muster.
"You don't even need to ask!" She smiled and hugged me back.
That's how we ended up on our last night together before I moved, sitting in an apple tree under the stars, hugging each other.
(for those of you who are wondering about Tai, Sora and Davis you will soon find out ;)