Edited thanks to my Beta Evenstar606
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon!
Edited on: 9/27/07
As Kari walked towards the school she wondered what the "Big News" was that Yolei had raved about all last night during their ritual phone calls. She wondered if it had anything to do with that boy Yolei had been talking to online for the past 5 months. Or maybe it had something to do with TK… Kari thought. Well, she only assumed it might have something to with TK since he and Yolei had been hanging out with each for a while; but she only hoped nothing serious was going on between them, even though she knew that Yolei would have said something since she did like to talk a lot.
Just then, Kari's thoughts were interrupted when Yolei attacked her with a big hug. "Wow Yolei, I missed you too… and it's been what…" Kari said, looking at her pink and white wristwatch. "Eight hours?" she finished with a smirk, and then looked up to see Yolei already laughing.
"Yes, eight hours that I have been apart from my best friend!" she said dramatically as she held on to her best friend, who just gave her a pat on the back, and started walking towards their lockers, which, luckily, were right next to each other.
"So what's this big news you've been ranting about?" Kari finally asked as she unlocked her locker and started get some books out of it.
"Oh right, the big news," Yolei pretended she had forgotten about it as she shuffled through a few folders with papers sticking out every where.
"Oh don't play dumb with me, Yolei!" Kari said poking Yolei softly on the shoulder.
Yolei had been Kari's first best friend that was a girl since they met in the digital world. Even though they were best friends Kari didn't always tell Yolei everything; she knew that Yolei was usually the first one to start gossip. She knew that Yolei didn't really mean it, but she did love to talk, and sometimes if you persuaded her correctly she'd usually spill.
Sometimes Kari used that to her advantage.
Other than that, she and Yolei pretty much acted like sisters, always laughing and sharing details on their life. Ever since they started high school though, Yolei began to change. She started dyeing the color of her hair, for now it was a deep dark purple; every now and then she would wear her glasses, but when she wasn't wearing them they would be replaced by light purple contacts.
Yolei gave a small giggle as she closed her locker door with the lock and then leaned against it. "Well since you're eager to know, the big news is…" But just as she was about to say it, she was interrupted by a certain goggled-headed boy who cut between the girls and leaned on the locker next to Yolei.
"Morning, ladies," was his response.
"UGH! DAVIS!" Kari yelled as she gave him a small nudge in frustration.
"What? What did I do this time?!" Davis demanded, sounding defenseless and clueless as Yolei just laughed at the shocked face Davis had made.
"Ugh never mind, the bell is going to ring right about now," Kari said as she placed her right hand on her forehead and raise her left finger in the air just in time for the bell to ring.
"Guess I'm going to have to wait till later to hear the story, later guys." Kari waved at her friends and left for class, leaving them to wonder that maybe she was hanging around the school a little more than she's supposed to, since she already memorized the bell schedules, school rules, and school anthem.
"So what's going on?" Davis asked as he turned to Yolei.
Even though Davis was not fully over his crush on Kari, he had learned to calm down a lot with obsessing over her. He still got jealous when other guys tried hitting on her. Even more with every moment that Kari was with TK, but after the last time he expressed his jealously out loud to Kari, it had them both furious. Lately, he'd been acting like a good friend to both of them.
"Nothing, I just had to tell Kari something important that happened yesterday night online," Yolei said as she began walking to her class leaving poor Davis alone.
"Man, why do they always do that when I come?" Davis sighed to himself as he dropped his head and walked sadly to his class. 'Maybe it's because I tend to overreact every now and then, yeah maybe that's it,' Davis thought. He perked up once he entered his classroom.
Kari walked into the almost empty classroom and took the seat closest to the window; she took out her drawing pad and turned to the page she had been working on for a week.
Every time she had something big on her mind, she would always take out her trusty drawing pad and just draw her feelings away; the sad part was that whenever she began to draw, she usually got so lost in it that she wouldn't even notice the people around her.
She began to stare at her recent drawing; it was a drawing of a girl holding on to something that Kari hadn't yet finished drawing. She took out her pencil and began drawing another figure, which started to turn into a boy standing up in front of the girl.
As she was about to work on the face, she felt an odd presence around her, as if someone was watching her. She quickly looked up, and came face to face with her nosey blond best friend, who was trying to figure out what she was drawing.
"Hey," Kari said, trying to close her drawing pad, but TK blocked her hand and grabbed the pad before she could try to close it.
"Hey what's this, a new drawing?" TK asked as he tried to get a look at the drawing in his hands, before Kari tried to steal the pad away from him.
"Oh c'mon TK! Give it back! You know I hate it when you look at my unfinished work!" Kari whined as she got up and started jumping around him to see if she could get it, but curse him being taller than her.
"Hey, this is actually coming out really nice. Hmm, this girl sorta looks like you," TK said with a smirk as he raised an eyebrow at her.
"Does not! TK stop being such a bully, just because your taller than me doesn't give you the right to pick on me," Kari said as she gave up trying to get it back and just pouted with her arms over her chest.
"Aw Kari, have I ever told you how cute you look when you're all angry," TK said as he put her art pad back on her desk, and then ruffled her hair a bit.
And just as she was about to say something the bell rang and TK took a seat right next to her.
"Good morning class," the teacher said as she sat down on her big black rolling chair.
"Good morning!" replied the class.
"Well, since we only have two weeks of class left I would like you all to pair up in twos, and pick out a certain literature that catches your attention. Then next week on Friday I would like you write out the same play, but with a modern flare; this project will be worth 5 Grades! So don't think your getting off easy just because the school year is ending."
The class groaned; slowly everyone stood up and began looking for a partner.
As Kari was about to turn to TK to ask him to be her partner, she saw a certain redheaded girl already beat her to it.
"Hey TK, would you like to be my partner?" the red headed girl asked.
Just as TK was about to respond, he looked over to Kari and noticed her staring at her books, which could only mean that she was a little disappointed. 'I did promise her that we would be partners for every project we would have this class' he thought as he looked back at the redheaded girl with a sympathetic expression.
"I'm sorry Amy, but I already promised Kari that I would be her partner," he said to her as he winked at Kari signaling that he remembered his promise. Kari responded with her famous cheery grin.
"Oh right, I forgot about Kari; it's always Kari…" Amy said in a disappointed tone as she walked away.
TK just stared at her as she walked away; surprisingly it didn't bother him much that she was disappointed at all, he just wished she would have taken it a little better, because now Kari would start with her questions.
"What just happened?" Kari asked with a worried expression.
"Nothing…" TK said scratching the back of his head. "Odd thing for her to want to be my partner after that messy break up we had," TK said, remembering what happened that day.
FLASHBACK
TK picked up his phone and started dialing a number as he sat down on his bed.
"Hello?" said a voice on the other line.
"Hi, Amy?"
"Hey babe, what's up?" Amy said in a bubbly voice.
"Um yeah, I was wondering if you can come over for a bit?" he asked, trying not to sound too eager.
"Yeah sure, what time?" Amy asked sounding excited.
"Um, now would be good."
"Great, I'll be right over then," Amy said, and hung up happily. Little did she know what was about to happen.
10 minutes later
The doorbell rang at TK's house. He got up and slowly walked over to the door.
"Hey sweetie," Amy said as she leaned in to kiss him, but he quickly turned his face so she kissed his cheek.
"Um…hi." TK said nervously.
"TK is something wrong? You sounded weird on the phone."
TK motioned for her to sit on the couch with him. "Amy we need to talk," he said, trying his best not to avoid her eyes, but she made it very hard for him.
The look she was giving him was a look he learned from the few months of them dating; it was the look as if she knew exactly what she was in for.
"Yeah, you're right, we do," Amy responded in a calm way trying to hide the bit of anger that was starting to boil inside of her; she crossed her arms over her chest.
TK stared at her 'wow this might not be so difficult after all' he thought as he walked over to her and stared at her.
"Amy, I think you're such a great girl and all, but…"
"You love her," Amy finished for him, as she tried to hold back a few tears that were ready to come out.
TK just stared at her in confusion as he tried to get his thoughts together. "What?"
The tears that had formed in her eyes, she couldn't seem to hold back any longer.
"Did you really think I was stupid, and couldn't figure it out?" Amy yelled as she shot up out of the seat while letting a single tear roll off her cheek.
"No, it wasn't like that; look I just thought that we needed time to think, I have a lot going on right now with school, basketball, guitar, you would know all of this if you weren't always so fucking busy with your friends," TK said, trying to put his hand on her shoulder, but she moved away.
"Oh, don't use those lame excuses to me!" she yelled back. "Be a man and just admit that you love her, stop lying to me!" Amy said angrily as she pushed him.
"I don't know what you're talking about," TK said shaking his head. The moment she said those words there was only one face that popped into his mind, but he would never let anyone know it.
"Don't you freaking lie to me! You love that girl, I know you do! And it's because of her that we're so messed up!" Amy yelled again as she pushed harder this time.
"No, don't bring her into this; she has nothing to do with us not working out, Amy, you're just so filled up in your plastic life to even know what's going on in the world outside," TK said looking away.
He didn't mean to be so blunt with her, but loving another girl wasn't the only reason why he didn't want to be with Amy.
"Stop being so stupid! She's every reason for us breaking up! But you know what, I knew this was going to happen, you're always freaking defending her!" Amy said as she tried to calm herself down.
"And you're always trying to put the blame on her, don't you freaking understand that her and I are just friends?" TK replied calmly.
"Keep lying to yourself, you just might believe it," Amy said as she wiped the tears away from her eyes.
TK just sat there quietly listening to Amy's sniffles; he wasn't sure what else to do, he hated breaking up with people.
"Whatever, I knew this was going to happen; and you know you're going to regret letting me go, because I doubt she could ever love someone like you." Amy got up and headed towards the door. TK just sat there watching her as she left.
Her words surprisingly didn't hurt him like she hoped they would; he was so used to hearing far worse when his parents were getting their divorce that he learned that they were just words, it wouldn't change anything.
And as he watched her leave, he sat back down on the couch and thought to himself silently.
I don't love her TK kept repeating to himself.
But he couldn't help but remember those words that Amy said. "Keep saying that you might start to believe it."
END OF FLASHBACK
"Kari to TK! TK are you there?" Kari said as she frantically waved her hand in front of his face.
It wasn't like TK to space out like that.
TK snapped out of his old memory to see Kari's worried expression.
"Heh heh, sorry, I was just thinking about something that's all," TK said shaking his head; he grabbed his book bag and started to take out his literature book.
"So what story would you like to do?" TK said as he kept flipping through the pages.
Kari took her book out too and began to turn the pages, but couldn't help but stare at TK 'wow he changed so much since last year,' she thought. Kari noticed that she was staring too much, so buried her nose back into the book.
"How about we do something simple like Romeo and Juliet, since you love to draw all that mushy kissy couple crap?" TK finally said.
"Pfft, it's not crap! It's romantic! Something you wouldn't know how to be!" Kari said with a smug look on her face as she flipped through the pages of the book, and finally spotted Romeo and Juliet.
"Pfft your face, I am nothing but romantic!" TK said, raising his eyebrows as he closed his books.
"Uh-huh sure," Kari said, still not convinced even though she knew perfectly well that TK did have his romantic side; she just loved to push his buttons at times.
"Hmm, I guess I'm going to have to prove just how romantic I can be eh?" TK said as he got close to Kari.
Kari still didn't take her eyes off of the book in hopes that maybe she could hide the blush that was starting to appear on her cheeks. 'Sometimes I think I push his buttons too far," she thought as she slowly lifted her eyes from the book and stared directly at his deep blue eyes.
But just before anything happened, the bell rang, causing Kari to push TK away from her.
"Okay you Romeo wannabe, how about we work on our project after school today?" Kari suggested as she packed up her bag.
"Yeah sure, want to come over to my apartment after school? No ones going to be home, so we'll have quiet time and it'll give me another chance to show you just how romantic I can be," TK asked as he gave her a playful nudge as they both headed to their next class.
"Sure why not? I just got to call my mom and tell her. And don't
think you going to get lucky mister," Kari said with a smile as she
walked into her art class, leaving TKto go to his photography
class.
She just had to admit that she loved the way that they
playfully flirted with each other; she just hated the fact that it
was just playful, nothing serious, all a joke.
As she walked into the classroom, she sat down and couldn't help but wonder about what had happen with Amy back there in the classroom.
'Hmm, I still wonder what's the real reason he dumped Amy, it couldn't be because of school, he's a straight A student; and not basketball either, he's the captain; and guitar, well maybe guitar, Matt isn't very lenient; but then again I wonder…. was it cause of me? I mean I could tell that it bothered her every time TK would want me around but still…' Kari thought as she took her normal seat in the front of the class waiting for her teacher to begin the class.
TBC
K there's chapter 2 I really hope you liked it.
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