It was a late tuesday night and I was walking my way to Yamato's house.
It wasn't something weird for us, the chosen children, to meet at unusual hours, especially after the weird appereances of digimons all around the city
That time it was just me and Yamato, wich should be awkward with all of that "ex-boyfriend" stuff but, due our strong friendship, was perfectly normal.
When I arrived the apartment, I noticed that I got there a little bit early...
Thirty minutes earlier.
Ok, it's not weird for me to come to this house so it's not like a big deal, right?
I knocked the door expecting for Yamato's "Hi!", but it wasn't Yamato the one who opened the door.
"Oh, hi Sora." said a sad eyed Takeru "I was expecting for Yamato to come back but... it doesn't matter, come inside."
I got into the apartment siting in front of Takeru, who looked sadly at his digimon.
That situation was more awkward than I expected...
"So..." I tried to break the silence " Where's Yamato?"
"He went to the supermarket." he answered "He wanted to buy some rice"
"Oh, ok."
And another awkward silence emerged in the room. Takeru had his eyes stuck in the floor while Patamon looked at him sadly.
"Did... did something happen?"
That question seemed to win Takeru's interest.
"It's just... something Hikari said." he explained a little bit blushed.
"Hikari?"
That seemed like an interesting story since those two were practically stuck to each other. Could this be a signal of romantic feelings between them?
"You want to tell me what happened?"
He looked aside awkwardly
"Well... There's this cute girl I started dating about a week ago..."
"Hikari?" I asked.
"No! She is not Hikari!" he screamed as his face turned red "So, the point is that this girl wanted us to go on a date today... and I told her I couldn't..."
"Really?" said sadly Mikuru as she got closer to him "Why?"
"Well, we are at tuesday: I'm going out with Hikari"
"Wait, there's something I don't get" I interrupted "Why is tuesday important?"
"Well, it is sort of a tradition Hikari and I have since... Since when?" he looked up to the roof searching for an answer "Wow, it's been so many time since then I can't even remember. But that's not important, the point is that we've been spending every tuesday together since a long time."
"Really? How does it come that I didn't know it?"
"I don't know, I thought one of our brothers might've told you..."
"And what do you do in one of this tuesdays, huh?"
"We eat icecream."
"Just that?" I teased, getting him blushed once more.
"Yes, just that."
I laughed a little bit, did I look so funny when i talked about Yamato at that age?
"Well, well... getting back to the point: you rejected that girl's date because of Hikari's tuesday?"
"Yeah, we haven't missed any tuesday, a date wasn't going to ruin that record"
'That's so cute. Why haven't we thought about doing something like that? I'll talk to Taichi and Yamato... Or should I tell just one of them?'
"So, keep on telling your story"
"Okay..."
After hearing that excuse, Mikuru got mad...
Like really mad.
"Hikari?" she asked "Are you tearing me apart because of Hikari?"
"Yes, but calm down..." he said "It's only for today, we still have all the other days of the week, It's just tuesdays are for Hikari."
"You are so..." she murmured "Ugh, see you later."
"And she left." he commented "I thought she would calm down after a couple of hours, but it wasn't like that."
"What did she do?"
"I found her yelling at Hikari"
"I'm so tired of you! You always mess up EVERYTHING!" the weird screaming he suddenly heard as he walked around the school caught his attention "Just stop pretending you're completely innocent!"
"May I know what you're talking about?" asked a confused voice.
And he knew who was the one screaming.
"Of course you know what I'm talking about! I'm tired of you, Hikari Yagami! Just stay away from Takeru!"
Hikari was the first one to notice Takeru's presence, making Mikuru notice it too.
"Hikari, Mikuru... What happened here?" asked Takeru trying to find out what was happening.
"What happened, Takeru? Shouldn't you know it?" was Mikuru's angry answer "I'm tired of this! I want Hikari to stop getting into ou relationship! She's such a..."
"Do not blame Hikari about this!" deffended him "It is you the one who can't control herself!"
"Of course, everything is my fault now, right?" said Mikuru ironically "Why are you always defending Hikari?! What about us?!"
"Hikari is my friend!"
"I don't care!" she yelled "I don't care if what you have is a friendship or any, I want you tu choose: it's Hikari or me"
After those last words, the whole place was covered in silence, as if none of them was able to talk.
"Takeru..." murmured Hikari.
"Wait, you won't tell me you picked her before Hikari, right?" I asked, shocked because of the story I just heard.
"Of course not!" exclaimed Takeru "I've dated that girl for four days at much, Hikari has been my friend since we were eight!"
"So... what hapened then?"
"What I told you: I picked Hikari."
"And what did the girl said?"
"Wait... are you serious?" she asked about starting to cry.
"I'm sorry"
"But... I thought..."
"Look, what I have with Hikari is more than just a couple of dates..."
"That's what I meant to you? 'Just a couple of dates'?" the first few tears began to make their way down her cheeks as she looked angrily at Takeru.
Takeru felt guilty, really guilty... he didn't want Mikuru to misunderstood their relationship, or to give her wrong expectatives.
"Mikuru..." said Hikari breaking into the conversation "Your... realationship doesn't have to come to this... there's nothing more tahn a friendship between us."
"Nothing?" asked Mikuru "Is this your definition of nothing? Have you ever seen how he looks at you?"
"Mikuru..." said Takeru a little bit angry.
"Have you ever compared the way he talks to other girls with the way he speaks to you?"
"Mikuru..."
"And will you keep on pretending you don't care about him dating other girls? You think I didn't notice the way you looked at us?"
"Mikuru just stop it!" yelled Takeru "Just go away, now!"
Mikuru dedicated Hikari a last hateful look before she walked away.
"This wouldn't happened if it wasn't for you, Hikari" were Mikuru's lasts words.
"Hikari didn't say a word after that."
"Takeru..."
"The worse part is that wasn't the first time we live something like that..."
"Seriously?"
So Takeru was becoming a heartbreaker, when she met him he was just a little kid...
She sounded like a elder.
"This time was worst than the others anyways, but... some girls are a little bit too jealous"
"Did you eat ice cream anyways?" asked Sora, wondering if that situation could stop them to continue their tradition.
"Hikari didn't want to but..."
"Takeru," said Hikari once the classes ended "are you sure you want to get out today?"
He looked at her thoughtfully.
"Do you really want to stop it because of this?"
He hated Hikari's sad eyes, he hated them even more than that last situation.
"No," she answered sadly "but sometimes I feel like it is for the best"
"Why?"
He sweared he'd do anything to wash away the sadness from Hikari's eyes.
"You are the best friend I've ever had, Takeru." was her irrelevant answer "I love spending time with you but lately..."
"Hikari, please... We've been friends since we were eight, we can't break that because of... this"
Her sad eyes focused on the floor...
"We passed through a lot of stuff, this can't be the last."
And suddenly they focused on his once more.
"It's... it's ok, I guess"
"We speaked way less than usual"
Sora's heart was totally conmoved.
Hikari and Takeru, the youngers of the group, having this kind of problems.
"We've had already bought the ice creams when she finally opened her mouth..."
"Why do you do that?" asked Hikari as they walked by the park.
"Do what?"
"Dating so many girls," she explainedlowering her voice "why so many?"
"They're fun..." was everything he could say.
Hikary stayed silently for a moment, until she talked once more.
"I feel bad for Mikuru," she said "she really seemed to like you."
"But it wasn't going to last forever anyways."
"I know..." agreed Hikari "but I would feel jelous too."
He looked at her shocked, how would Hikari act if she was jelous?
"I'm glad you care about me, Takeru," said Hikari as she stood up "I'm glad you don't treat me like the others..."
He looked at her a little bit confused, without knowing what to say.
"And I'm glad I won't be your girlfriend, because I'm not sure if I could deal with a broken heart."
And after Hikari had said that, she ran away.
"Wait, Hikari said that?"
Were we talking about the same Hikari? Since when does Hikari say those things? Since when is she so rough with Takeru?
"Yeah, those were her words."
We stood in silence for a few minutes, I didn't know if I should break it.
I looked at the door, waiting for Yamato to come and help me, because I didn't know what to do anymore.
I remembered the time when Takeru cried, in the digiworld, when he was scared.
"I don't want to lose Hikari" he said breaking the silence.
I smiled at him, those two were probably the cutest couple ever.
"I swear I wouldn't do with her what I did before, I mean it."
And now he was crying, and the picture of an eight year old Takeru crying came to my mind.
Patamon looked at him from his hat, worried about his partner.
"Takeru, Hikari won't hate you, you know?"
"Takeru," I said "why did that coment afect you that much? Do you wanna date Hikari?"
His face showed surprise and confusion, he was definitely shocked.
"Dating Hikari?" he asked "I don't know how it would be like to date Hikari, but I guess..."
"What?"
"I guess I don't wanna see her with another boy, and I don't want to lose her."
'Yes! I got one of them to admite it! Wait to know about this Mimi...'
"And she isn't like any other girls I've dated... I do get jelous when other guys talk to her, and I do feel something special when she is around me."
'Just say it, what do you feel for Hikari Yagami, Takeru' I thought.
"I've never said it before but..."
'Here it goes, here it goes!'
"I think I..."
"I'm back!" greeted Yamato as he got into the apartment, and for the first time since she got there she wasn't wanting him to arrive "Oh, Sora you're here! Sorry if I got here a little bit late, it's just I was going to make som fried rice and..."
"It doesn't matter" said Sora trying to control her rage ", Takeru and I had a good time, right?"
"Huh? Um... yeah" said Takeru as he aparted his face to hide his blushing.
'Why did you have to arrive right now? Couldn't you wait a little bit? I was going to hear the most expected confession!'
"Sora," cald Takeru without daring to llok at her face "I'll talk to Hikari tomorrow... I think she should be feeling bad too."
A little smile took place in my face.
"Yeah, she probably is."
"What are you guys talking about?"asked Yamato "Did I miss something?"
"Oh, it's just that Takeru had some problems with"
"No!" yelled Takeru and I as the blond boy took his digimon in his arms.
"Nothing happened," repeated nervously Takeru "I swear."
"If you say so..." said with a weak smile.
I winked him an eye in complicity, after all there were lots of secrets she knew now...
But of course, she wasn't going to tell them all to Yamato.
Don't be so rude, this is my first english-written story.
I hoped you like it.
Y para mis seguidores hispanohablantes...
Perdón por no haber seguido publicando (lo sé, soy muy inconstante), creo que no seguiré... solo me dieron ganas de subir un one-shot.