Chapter 2

TK woke up early, his mother was even still in bed. Patamon was sleeping in his hat, so TK decided to let him sleep. TK went out to the living room. He wasn't fully awake yet, so he had neglected to make his bed. He was still in his pajama bottoms, and had no interest in changing yet. He also had no shirt on, exposing his upper body. He plopped down on the couch and groaned.

"Ouch... Son of a..." He reached to his shoulder. It hurt so bad that he couldn't even touch it. "Grrr." TK leaned forward to the remote.

Patamon came flying out of the room with TK's hat. TK didn't notice yet.

TK clicked the TV on. He groaned again at the TV. "Nothing but infomercials."

Patamon was hovering over TK's head with his hat. He decided to set it on TK's head to see his reaction. He dropped the hat on TK, it covered his eyes,.

"Patamon?" TK said with a laugh.

"Good morning TK." Patamon flew down to the couch. "Why up so early?"

"I just couldn't sleep anymore." Said TK.

"Do you feel better TK?"

"A little," TK groaned again. His shoulder was in pain. "Patamon, could you check my shoulder, it's killing me."

"Sure." Patamon flew up to TK's shoulder and examined it. "Oh my gosh TK!"

"What?" Said TK. "What's the matter."

"Your shoulder, it's bleeding."

"What?" TK reached to it and rubbed his hand on it, ignoring the pain. He looked at his hand. "Your right, it is." There was blood, not alot, but a little.

"I'll get you some bandages." Patamon flew to the bathroom to get them.

TK leaned forward so he wouldn't get blood on the couch. TK's mom walked out to the living room. "Good morning son. Oh my, what happened to your shoulder?"

"Hey Mom. I don't know." Said TK. His mother walked up and touched his shoulder. TK hissed in pain.

"Oh look." Said Nancy. She pointed to a spring sticking out of the couch. "That's not good."

"Grrr." TK was in pain.

Patamon had returned with bandages. "Here I come TK!"

It was around 2:30 PM, TK was taking a walk with Patamon on his head. His wound was all patched up. It was cleaned and bandaged up. The spring was cut and removed from the couch. TK was walking over to the Kamiya's apartment, hoping to surprise Kari.

"TK," Said Patamon, "Where are we going?"

"To Kari's house." TK sighed. "I need to see her."

"So that means I get to see Gatomon." Patamon laughed.

"What, have a date?" TK said with sarcasm.

"No," Patamon barked, "I just have to talk to her about something."

TK laughed. "That's nice." TK went silent. Kari, I hope you meant what you said. He arrived outside of the apartment building and began to go up. Once outside the front door, he took a breath. Okay, here we go. TK began to knock.

It was about thirty seconds before the door opened. It was Tai. "Hey TK."

"Hey Tai, what's up?" Said TK.

"Nothing, getting ready to go play soccer." Tai stretched. "Come on in buddy." Tai turned around to walk to the kitchen. TK followed him.

Tai sat down in the recliner, Agumon was on the couch trying to open a can of soda, but couldn't because of his big claws. TK sat down, and Patamon flew onto the back of the couch.

"So, TK." Said Tai, "What' brings you here?"

"Well." Said TK. "I uh..." He looked at Agumon. "Uh oh, I better move." TK got up and Agumon finally got the can open, but it exploded.

"Darn it, now I'm all sticky." Said Agumon while laughing.

"You're not the only one." Patamon was also covered in soda. He had a scowl.

"Whoops. sorry about that." Agumon said.

"Good call on the move." Said Tai to TK.

"Yeah thanks." TK sat down in the other recliner, across the room from Tai.

"So anyway, what'cha doing over here TK?"

"Well," Said TK slowly, "I guess I kinda wanted to see Kari."

"Shy much?" Said Tai with a laugh.

"Well, I would have called first, but..." TK sighed. "Ya see, this whole situation with my Mother being jobless, and Matt being gone. It's making me act strange."

"Well, that's what Kari said." Tai leaned forward to reach toward his shoes. "She said you were acting strange."

"You know." Said TK. "What she said to me."

"Well, she does like you." TK looked to the floor. Tai continued. "She said that the only thing missing is you." Tai sat up. "She said she was going to tell you, but she didn't seem too happy last night, she seemed a little mad actually."

TK sighed. "I can't believe it."

"TK." Said Tai. "What happened?"

"I told her that..." TK coughed. "I told her that I wasn't ready." He felt tears welt up in his eyes. "I didn't think she actually liked me. I'm such an idiot."

"Well," Said Tai, "You're not an idiot, and I think you'll be happy to know something."

"What Tai?" Replied TK in the middle of his tears.

"Kari just left." Said Tai. "She went off to the store, then to go to your house."

"What?" TK looked up, his tears halted. "You mean, she's going there, right now?"

Tai nodded. "Come on, I'll drive you over right now." TK smiled and nodded. Tai smiled back and he and TK went down to his car. On the way down, Tai asked TK, "So, what are you going to tell her?"

TK responded, "I'm going to apologize, then ask her out!"

"Good." Said Tai, "Do you know how long I've been waiting for you to do this? Now let's hope she still feels the same way."

"Way to make me feel better Tai." Barked TK.

"Sorry, I'm sure it'll be fine." The two boys got to the car, it had four doors, Patamon and Agumon sat in the back, Tai and TK in the front. They left for TK's house.

TK is ready to tell Kari his feelings for her, and apologize to her. Will TK be able to keep his composure.