A/N: I'm so sorry it has been so long, but I have to warn that it might take some time between every chapter, at least for now. I hope you enjoy!:)

Chapter 2

The next morning Ichie woke up early and sleepy. While gathering her stuff in her bag she wondered how to avoid Daisuke and the others for the whole day. Should she tell someone about them? That they believed in something like that. Would anyone even believe her? The others were normally so nice and, well, normal.

Eventually Ichie just decided to avoid everyone and let it be. If the others would leave her alone she could just try to find some new friends.

The clock on the wall told Ichie that it was time to leave, so she grabbed her bag and made sure the door was locked behind her. She wouldn't have to run to school, since she left so early.

Ichie didn't really focus on her surroundings while walking trough the park. That was probably not a good idea, since the next thing she knew was colliding with someone.

"Oh crap, I'm sorry. I didn't watch where I was going," she apologized, but recognized the person when he chuckled.

"That seems to happen to you often", Ken Ichijouji said. Ichie blushed a bit.

"Yeah, well… What are you doing here? Don't you live in Tamachi?"

"Yes, but sometimes I like to get away from everything familiar there. It gets boring", he answered and Ichie just nodded in response, her head aching a bit from the lack of sleep.

"Are you okay?" Ichijouji asked. "You seem a bit distracted".

Ichie shrugged.

"I'm just tired, I had an… interesting day yesterday", she said and he raised his eyebrows.

"Anyway, I've got to go, school starts soon", Ichie said in a fake enthusiastic voice and made a move to walk forward.

"You don't really look like going to school. Do you want to go and get some coffee with me?" Ichijouji said before Ichie got far.

She stopped, wondering what she would do. She really didn't feel like going to school and she really needed some coffee, since she hadn't had any of it at home. But on the other hand, she didn't know Ichijouji at all and found it a little strange that he was asking her to hang out.

"I'm not a serial killer, if that's what you're wondering", he smirked noticing her hesitation.

Ichie cracked a smile. "What the hell, lets go get some coffee."

"Oh god, I needed this", Ichie said while sipping her coffee. They had found a café near the park and sat in one of its tables.

"So, why aren't you in school?" Ichie asked Ken. They had talked about some random things and she found the boy quite nice, but didn't obviously know him at all yet. Maybe he could be a new friend for her.

"I don't really need to go to some my classes, since I've already done the work beforehand", he explained. Ichie rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, it must be nice to be super smart. I don't have the energy or motivation to do much school stuff. I probably should, but I don't." To Ichies surprise, Ken shook his head.

"It's not actually that great in the long run. I would like to just enjoy my life, playing football and other things without people all over me."

Ken's answer surprised Ichie a bit. The boy always seemed to be fine with the attention he got on media, but now that she thought about it, Ichie probably wouldn't enjoy it either.

"Yeah, I haven't really thought about it that way. But I understand it might be a little annoying", she said and Ken nodded.

"So, why did you agree to skip school?" he asked. "You said something about having an interesting night yesterday?"

Ichie sighed. She wasn't sure if she wanted to talk about it to anyone, and she didn't even know Ken yet. She was annoyed and a little sad that she thought she had made friends, and then they turned out being either crazy or total idiots.

"I just thought I had made new friends, but it didn't work out all that well. So I felt like taking a day off, since you gave me the opportunity. Plus, we have only a couple classes today because of some teacher conference, so I won't be missing anything super important."

"I see. Well, maybe you can work things out with them. But you are more than welcome to spend your day off with me, if you want", Ken offered. Ichie shrugged her shoulders.

"Why not?" At least he wasn't telling her to believe in a magical world.

They hung out a couple hours and Ichie felt like Ken could become a good friend to her if given enough time. He was nice, although a little more official like than any other teenager Ichie knew. Around one o'clock Ichie decided to go home. They had exchanged phone numbers so they could keep in touch and Ichie thanked him for cheering her up.

However, her good mood was ruined when she got to her home door. There, leaning to the wall next to the door, stood Hikari, Takeru and Daisuke.

"You have got to be kidding me…" Ichie muttered and the trio snapped their heads to her.

"Ichie-" Daisuke started but Ichie cut him off.

"No, you need to leave. I don't want any of you here", she said in a cold tone and moved to open the door.

"Ichie please, just let us explain", Hikari pleaded.

"No, I think I got it yesterday. I don't want any part in whatever you guys think you're doing. Just leave me alone, ok?" she replied and yanked the door to her and her mom's small apartment.

"Just give me five minutes. Just you and me they boys can stay outside. Haven't I been that much of a friend to you in these couple weeks?" Hikari tried and Ichie sighed.

"Fine. Five minutes. But you two", she pointed at Daisuke and Takeru, "Stay here or leave."

"Fine", neither of they boys seemed too pleased with their place as they sat down on the stairs. Annoyed, Ichie motioned Hikari to enter the apartment.

"So, you wanted to explain?" Ichie leaned to the wall of her room while Hikari stood in the center of it.

"I'm really sorry how yesterday turned out. I know you think we're crazy, but please just give us a chance to prove that we're not. We have been good friends to you until yesterday, right?" Hikari seemed sincere and Ichie bit her lip hesitating.

She wasn't happy with the idea, but if the others wouldn't leave her alone otherwise, she probably should just get it over with.

"Fine, you can try to prove your crazy theory to me once, but after you have shown whatever you want to show me, you people leave me alone. Deal?" Hikari seemed happy with the outcome and nodded.

"Thank you, Ichie. I promise you won't regret this".

"Yeah I hope so…" Ichie said and walked Hikari to the front door.

"Text me when you're ready to get it over with", she told Hikari and the other girl exited her apartment.

Before leaving to school Ichie got a text from Hikari asking if she could meet them after school in the computer lab. Ichie had just texted back a simple yes and asked who 'them' was. It turned out that 'they' included Taichi, Koushiro Izumi, a boy who was a bit younger than Taichi, Takeru, Iori, Miyako, Daisuke and obviously Hikari herself.

Ichie was not exited to meet them, but she had to admit that she was a bit curious of how they would try to explain their thing to her. The last time they explained it she had ran, and she couldn't understand how they were going to get her to believe this time.

When the last bell rang and let the student's finally go home and to their hobbies, Ichie made her way to the computer lab. Everyone except Taichi and Koushiro were already there. Ichie dropped her bag on the ground and leaned on a wall.

"So…" she just awkwardly stated. She hadn't spoken to any of them during the day, not even to Daisuke who she sat next to in most of her classes.

"Taichi and Koushiro should be here soon, and then we're going to show you," Takeru explained and Ichie nodded slowly.

"Right…"

It didn't take long for Taichi and Koushiro to arrive. Koushiro introduced himself to Ichie and then they got to the point.

"So how exactly are you going to prove your 'another world' to me?" Ichie asked and in response Hikari tossed her something that looked like a phone. After getting a better look at it, Ichie came to the conclusion that it was not a phone. It was a weirdly shaped light blue device. She looked at the others questioningly.

"What is this?"

"It's your digivice, we'll explain what it means later," Taichi said and pointed at a computer on the first row. "Just point it at the screen of that computer, say digiport open, and you'll get all the proof you need."

"How is that going to prove anything?"

"Would you just do it," was the only response Ichie got, so she figured it would be easiest to just do it.

She walked in front of the computer, glanced at the others and gave a deep sigh.

"Digiport, open," she said while pointing the digivice at the screen and waited for nothing to happen so she could go home. But instead of nothing happening, the screen lit up with white light and Ichie felt something weird happen to her. Suddenly she wasn't standing in the computer room anymore, but in somewhere that felt like nowhere. It lasted only for a second, and then she felt herself fall on the ground. But it was not the computer lab, it was in the middle of the woods.

"What. The. Hell?" Ichie was shocked. Was she dreaming?

She didn't have any more time to wonder what was happening, when the others appeared around her.

"So, believe us now?" Daisuke smirked and Hikari slapped his shoulder. Ichie just looked at everyone in shock.

"Wha- how- where?" It seemed like she couldn't form any sentences.

"You're in the Digital world. The one we told you about. So, do you believe now?" Ichie just nodded. How could she deny anything anymore? They couldn't trick her like that, just transporting her from the school to some random woods. It took a little while for her to get her thoughts together.

"So you were really telling the truth… How is this possible?"

"Well, we don't exactly know how this place exists, but it is definitely real," Koushiro said.

"Ok…", Ichie said slowly. "What now?"

"We thought we would just show this to you and give you a little time to take it in. We should come here tomorrow, we need to find your partner," Taichi explained.

"My partner?"

"Yeah, your digimon partner is somewhere in this world. We need to find him, or her."

Ichie nodded wondering what her partner would be like. Hell, she didn't even know what digimons were like!

"Can I see any digimons today?" she asked hopefully.

"We should leave that for tomorrow, we just wanted to show you that this place is real today." Koushiro said and ichie nodded again.

They returned to the computer lab trough a small tv that was randomly just sitting in the woods, agreed to meet there the same time the next day and went home.