Hi guys. I would like to thank, *starts panting* um I'd like to thank,
thank, um thank- *ebacusta faints from to much candy*
Kari: Um ebacusta had too much candy last night. Before I do thank yous, I would like to explain why it took so long to update. Ebacusta lately has been having lots of computer problems, and was about to post something using another computer, the reason why she hadn't updated. But then her brother fixed the computer and now she's back. If it's any consolation she almost done with chapter 3. Now, she would like to thank
Blitz Blazer- for your review
Cloaked Fox- for your review also
Kawaii Mimi-chan- for your reviews. Then she would like say, I did type Kari twice and it wasn't a typo. But if you want Ken to go he can. I forgot to mention Willis gets trapped there also and I am going to change the summary. Then she would like to thank
Eowyn the Fair- for your review and not to forget
miaow 227- for your review. Thanks. Also, note, since they never tell us the Digidestined's birthdays, Ebacusta will make some up okay?
T.K.: Ebacusta also needs some-
Davis: *interrupts* Kari will you go out with me?
Kari: No.
Davis: Please!!
Kari: No.
Davis: Please!!
Kari: *hits Davis with a mallet* Time for the disclaimer.
Izzy: I'll do it. Ebacusta owns absolutely nothing of Digimon.
Ebacusta: *slurs words* don't make it so obvious. I do own digimon.
*Tai and Matt dragged ebacusta to the bathroom.*
T.K.: Um. Ebacusta wants to know your ideas for what could happen in this story. Please tell. Urm, fic time.
Censer Kid: Don't think you wanna see or hear this. *pulls a curtain over scene*
Try, Try, Try, Again
By ebacusta
Chapter 2
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The next day the digidestined were leaning against the wall waiting for Izzy. When they saw him, he was sprinting towards them.
"What's wrong Izzy?" Sora asked.
"Izzy showed them the computer screen.
"Is that the digital world?" Yolei asked.
"Yes!" Izzy responded.
"It looks different," Kari observed.
"I know! It's been attack by a virus that some how got into T.K.'s digivice. I think it came from an unopened email. T.K. did you check you email last night?"
"No," T.K. responded. Yamazaki, who was lingering around the corner, felt his stomach churn and his mind start to race. If T.K. didn't open his email last night the virus that attacked the digital world was his!
Izzy continued, "Anyway, the digital world has reconfigured itself in such a way that.all the evil digimon we defeated have now been resurrected and reign evil once more! We'll have to defeat them all over again. But now, they're much stronger!"
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"What!?!?" all the digidestined screamed in unison. Sora looked as if she was about to faint as she leaned on Tai's shoulder.
"That's impossible!" Matt said, "Surely not all of them!"
Izzy nodded, "It's like the digital world is going back in time. First Malomyotismon came back and then Mummymon and Arukenimon."
"Great, soon we'll be changing diapers," Tai said looking around at the younger of the group.
"No we won't Tai," Izzy said "The digital world is going back, not necessarily the digidestined." "If Izzy knows, then Willis must know and-" Kari said but was interrupted when her D-Terminal went off. She pulled it out and flipped it open. On the screen it said:
The digital world is in danger. Its been reconfigured, we need to figure out how to deal with this problem. Say hi to everyone for me.
Willis
"So Willis knows and says hi to you guys. Now hopefully Mimi knows and-" Kari's D-Terminal beeped again. She pulled it out and flipped it open. This one said:
When I heard about the digital world from Michael, I fainted in the middle of class and had to be taken to the nurse's office. I am hiding in a bathroom stall right now. I can't believe all those scary monsters are back. And they're stronger now! This is bad guys.
Mimi
"So Mimi knows along with Michael too. So now that the whole team knows what we need to do know is figure out what to do about it," Kari said putting away her D-Terminal.
Then T.K. spoke, "The enemy may be much stronger, but so are we. The bond we have with our digimon has strengthened hasn't it? Plus Devimon was no real challenge even if he is more powerful; he can't take on one angel much less two. And if he actually manages to get a hit this time we can celebrate at my house."
Suddenly Sora said, "What makes you think we'll fight Devimon first?"
"Well Sora, it sounds like this virus has basically pushed a rewind button making the digital world go back in time. If you just rewind a videotape that won't change the sequence, will it? No. So logically, all that's happened is the digital world has been rewound and is now playing in the same sequence," T.K. reasoned.
They were silent for a minute. Finally Kari said, "T.K.'s right. Though I never fought Devimon from what Tai tells me he didn't even get a hit on Angemon. Besides, the prophecy said that the one who couldn't digivolve would kill him was right. Maybe this time the prophecy says the one he's never met will kill him." They all laughed.
"Well, one thing's for sure," Sora said as they pushed off the wall, "we need to find out who sent T.K. that virus."
"And more importantly why," Yolei piped as they walked past Yamazaki. Davis jumped up down, "If I find out who and why, will you date me Kari?"
"No. Hey Ken, Cody, you two have been very quiet. What do you have on your minds?"
"Well, I was just thinking that whoever sent T.K. that virus must go to the same school as us," Cody said thoughtfully.
"Why do you think that Cody?" Yolei asked.
"Well," Ken said instead of Cody, "unless T.K.'s told his email address to someone who hates him outside of school, no one else could possibly send him one. Since we have a directory (A/N. I don't know if Japanese schools give their students school directories like they do in America but for now please pretended with me that they do.) that has the addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and cell phone numbers of all the students in the school it's not possible someone outside of school sent it to him."
Cody spoke, "Unless our school is selling our directories at a bookstore and out of the millions of people in Japan someone who doesn't go to our school knows and hates T.K. and has a copy of our directory then like Ken said, it's not possible. T.K. have you given your email address to anyone who's not a digidestined outside of this school?"
T.K. shook his head. "No."
"So," Ken said, "Therefore it has to be someone in this school."
"But who?" Sora asked.
"That's what we have to figure out," Cody replied simply. "Now come on guys we have to get to the assembly hall." They walked in and sat and even when the principal walked on the stage none of them could focus on what he was saying.
They heard, "Students of Odaiba High (A/N. Ken has moved.)-"and "We must band together and make our community a better place-" and "Takeru Takaishi, Kari Kamiya, Yamazaki Watobe and-" and "will be forming a group for a 14 day bake sale and-" and the last thing they heard before going to class was, "You'll all be given a packet on your assignments in Geography."
In Math the teacher called on Kari once and she amazingly got the answer right though she hadn't heard the question. In English the teacher called on Kari three times and every time she muttered something and then said the sentence in Japanese rather than in English. In PE she was hit by a ball 6 times not to mention how many times she ran into the walls of the gym and was knocked out. Instead of History she lay in the nurse's office, after taking Tylenol, with a glazed expression on her face.
At lunch the nurse let Kari out where she got her assignment and the notes of the lesson from a dazed T.K. and then ate lunch with all the other dazed digidestined children who were lost in thought about the digital world. When they got to Geography they sat with their groups and surprisingly so as the teacher began to speak they came back to their senses and listened intently to what they had missed.
"These students," the teacher said as she began to walk around the room lying packets on tables, "are the packets you will use to help organize your event. Look these over. Then I will allow you time to talk with your group and use a phone to set up a meeting place with your parents for after school."
"Can we use our cell phones?" one girl called out.
"Yes."
"Miss, what if we have Volleyball practice after school?" another girl asked.
"Then you'll have schedule around that won't you?" the teacher replied setting down the last group of packets on a table opposite where the girl was sitting and then retreated to her desk. "Get started kids." Yamazaki, T.K., and Kari looked their packets over in silence.
"Okay," Kari said finally. "We can meet at my house." Yamazaki nodded and T.K. shrugged.
"Let me call my mom first," Kari said pulling out her metallic hot pink cell phone. She dialed her home phone number. It rang two times before then her mother picked it up. "Hello?"
"Mom, it's me Kari. Can T.K. and Yamazaki, a boy from class, need to come over after school so we can work on a bake sale event thing?"
"What about Volleyball?" Mrs. Kamiya asked.
"After that too," Kari replied.
"Will you be cooking today?"
"I don't know," Kari said truthfully
"Ask your friends while I wait on the line," Mrs. Kamiya said.
Kari covered the mouthpiece of her phone and talked to the group about cooking.
"We might mom," Kari said into her phone.
"Okay, I'll get the ingredients, what do you need?"
"Eggs, milk, sugar, brown sugar, chocolate chips." Kari said. After giving her mom a list of ingredients, Kari's mom said, "Kari I have to talk to your brother, he's calling my cell, I talk to you later sweetie, bye."
"Bye mom," Kari said. Turning off her cell phone she looked at them, "Mom said yes. She's going to get the ingredients we need for do some experimental cooking. We might want to check out some cookbooks from the library and stopped by your homes and get some that your family own." They nodded and both pulled out their cells to call their parents.
When they were done they stared at the table. "What should we do now?" Yamazaki finally asked.
"Brainstorm," T.K. said firmly.
"Yeah definitely," Kari said perking up, " You're such a genius T.K."
"Such flattery," T.K. said imitating Rei. Suddenly Rei walked in and Kari looked up. "T.K. I forgot Rei's in our class," she looked around, "We're the only group with three people. She's going to be in our group." T.K. bit his lip.
The teacher said, "Rei how nice of you to finally join us, how was the orthodontist appointment?"
Kari racked her brain to see if she remembered what group the principal put Rei in. In her mind the principal said, "Takeru Takaishi, Kari Kamiya, Yamazaki Watobe, and. and. and Rei Tokuse (pronounces t-coo-say)."
"T.K., she's in our group," Kari groaned. She pulled out her cell phone and quickly called her mom's cell.
"Yes Kari?"
"Mom, it appears that the last member of our group was absent when I called you fifteen minutes ago. Rei Tokuse is also coming over."
"Isn't she the leader of T.K.'s fan club?" Mrs. Kamiya asked. Kari could tell she was driving to the market because of the traffic in the background.
"Yeah," Kari said. Her mother made a disgruntled noise from the back of her throat and then spoke in a disgusted voice, " That girl is soooo stuck up. I dislike her mother too. Always telling me how you shouldn't be so rude to her daughter. You! Ha! She also is always telling me how Rei and T.K. would make such a cute couple. Always telling me to tell you to butt out of T.K. and Rei's relationship. But if she must come over fine." Now Kari loved her mother but right now her heart was bursting with pride that her mother didn't like Rei or her mother.
"Mom?" Kari asked.
"Yes?"
"Could you repeat what you said about her to T.K.?" Kari asked looking at Rei who was talking amicably to an extremely bored T.K. who was now doodling on the corner of his packet.
"Sure."
"Great hold on." Kari leaned closed to T.K. and whispered in his ear, "Mom wants to share her personal opinion about Rei with you." T.K. grinned and took the cell she was handing him. This made Rei stopped talking and immediately start to glare at Kari fiercely.
"Hello?" T.K. said.
"Hi T.K." Kari's mom said.
"Hi Mrs. Kamiya."
"How are you?"
"Fine."
"Your mother?"
"Fine."
"Well, Kari wants me to tell you what I think about Rei and her mother so her goes." Her voice instantly changed to the disgusted one she had used before as she once again made a disgruntled noise from the back of her throat. " That girl is soooo stuck up. I dislike her mother too. Always telling me how Kari shouldn't be so rude to her daughter. Kari! Ha! She also is always telling me how Rei and you, T.K. would make such a cute couple. Always telling me to tell Kari to butt out of you and Rei's relationship. But if she must come over fine." T.K. burst out laughing and Kari joined him.
"T.K." Kari's mom said in her normal voice, "I'll see you later."
"O- o- okay," T.K. said his face turning red and his eyes filling with tears. Kari was in the same state as she took the phone back and said, "I love you mom, bye."
"I love you too. Bye honey." Kari put her cell away and clutched her stomach. "I can't breathe," she choked out.
"Me neither," T.K. said tears streaming down his face. "Your.your.your mom. she's so. she's so. funny."
"I know," Kari said as her tears began to form a little puddle on the table. Rei and Yamazaki fumed from across the table. Even as they started to Brainstorm what they were going to make while Rei surveyed the packet neither T.K. nor Kari could stop laughing and thus when they were done brainstorming the paper was drenched and the pen was running because of the tears that kept falling on the paper.
"I'll. I'll copy it onto.onto a dry piece of paper," Kari said still laughing as she pulled out a piece of paper and started to write again. By this time neither Kari nor T.K. had any tears left to fall, and their stomachs were hurting so much that if they didn't know why they would have thought they had some fatal stomach disease. Their faces were extremely red and Rei and Yamazaki's faces were so red they could have passed for a fire hydrant. T.K. whipped out a camera and a before they could do anything he took a picture.
Kari finally finished the brainstorming list and she stuck it in her new binder. The binder she was going to use for this bake sale was a one and half inch binder that had already been stocked with paper, mechanical pencils, lead, eraser replacements, colored pencils, and markers. There were also some separators with the paper tabs ready to be written on and slipped in place. Along with all those there was a scientific calculator and some other things she might need in a binder. She always made one of these and stuck it in her locker in case she ever needed an extra binder.
After class Kari's eyes once more glazed over and T.K. resumed to being his dazed self. After school Kari went to the gym and changed for Volleyball practice. Pulling on the white shorts and sweater with blue trim and over the shorts a pleaded skirt with a blue trim. Putting her tennis shoes on and pulling her hair back into blue hair band she left the girls' changing room.
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"Go ahead and warm up girls," Mrs. Kuchida (the Math teacher) said as she walked in wearing a sweat suit instead of her black slacks and white long sleeve button up shirt. In place of high heels she wore walking shoes and hanging around her neck was bright gleaming silver whistle.
Kari got out a volleyball and even though she was dazed she hit the ball expertly performing excellent saves and spikes. T.K. watched from the bleachers. Finally after 10 minutes of that Mrs. Kuchida called them all together and told them line up on the wall. She took a ball and called each girl forward one at a time and threw the ball to her so they could show how they were doing. There were 18 girls and out of them Kari was the eighth to go. Rei went before her.
Rei hit the ball with ease getting applause from every girl (except Kari) every time she did. Kari glanced at T.K. who was looking bored on the bleachers. Rei finished.
"Kamiya!" Mrs. Kuchida called from across the gym. T.K. perked up as Kari ran to her place and when the ball came towards her she backed up and hit it perfectly. She heard applause behind her. This went on as Kari demonstrated a spike, bop; two saves and ran across the court to get some of the balls Mrs. Kuchida threw. There was one problem with the applause. It was louder than Rei's had been and when T.K. whistled, that didn't help Kari's situation. When Kari went back to the wall and sat Rei glared at her. Finally she sneered, "You think you're so good don't you? Well you haven't seen the worst of it." After that the coach divided the group into two teams. Kari was on the same team as Rei. Mrs. Kuchida blew her whistle. Kari served. The play ended, Kari's team got the point. As time progressed Kari was soon in the front with Rei beside her. The ball came at them.
"Got it!" Kari yelled as she jumped to spike it. Rei jumped and shoved Kari toward the ground and missed it intentionally. Kari fell hard on the ground.
"Tokuse! What was that?" Mrs. Kuchida yelled while some girls helped Kari up.
"Kari said she had it miss," Rei said evilly.
"Well how come you didn't get it when she fell?" the coached yelled.
"Well, I thought it was a rule that when someone yelled 'I got it!' we shouldn't take it from them," Rei replied.
"If you pay attention to that rule in a game we'll definitely lose!"
"Yes Mrs. Kuchida," Rei said. The next play started. It headed for them again. Neither Kari nor Rei moved. "I got it!" Kari yelled after it appeared Rei wasn't going to do anything. She ran towards the middle where the ball was headed. Rei did to and as Kari jumped and hit the ball over something crashed into her arm. She fell this time landing on her feet. Kari scored and the team rotated. Fina, a nice blonde-haired girl with brown eyes, served.
It was set in play and everything was going well until the ball headed yet again for Rei and Kari.
"Got it!" Kari yelled. She moved over and few steps and jumped. Suddenly out of nowhere Rei crashed into Kari's side and Kari flew with a loud 'CLANG!' into the bleachers. Rei hit the ball and scored, as everyone was too busy staring at Kari to stop it. T.K. ran down the metal steps of the bleachers until he was right beside her.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"No, my side, I heard a cracking sound," Kari said blinking back the tears that were trying to surface. But no matter how hard or fast she blinked the tears leaked out anyway.
T.K. stood up; "Rei how could you? You heard her say she had it and you just charged at her. You evil sadistic witch!" Rei who had been trying to suppress a grin burst into tears.
"Takaishi!" Mrs. Kuchida barked, "Take Kamiya to the nurse!"
"Yes ma'am," T.K. said lifting Kari and glaring at Rei. Kari whimpered into his shirt. He carried her out of the gym and to the nurse who told Kari to where a brace for a couple of days. She fitted her with one. It was like a girdle except it didn't squeeze. It kind of supported her.
"Thank you Nurse Yousedoi (Yo-say-doy)," T.K. said bowing as he helped Kari down the hall and back to the gym. For the remainder of practice Kari held an ice pack to her side and lay on the metal bleachers with her head in T.K.'s lap who spent the rest of the practice glaring hatefully at Rei. When practice was over Mrs. Kuchida called Rei over to where T.K. and Kari were. Her eyes still held tears.
"Takaishi, why did you yell those things at Rei?" Mrs. Kuchida asked.
"Don't tell me you didn't see that," T.K. said angrily.
"See what?"
"See Rei plow into Kari like a cow after Kari said she had the ball! She was grinning at the ground while everyone was staring at Kari. She meant to do it! She's been doing things to Kari all practice just because Kari's a better volleyball player."
"She's a show off. And I never meant to hit her," Rei protested.
"Yes you did," T.K. spat, "You were grinning. Let's ask some of the players and see what they saw. Fina!" the blonde whirled around. "Yes?" she called.
"Was Rei grinning after she bashed Kari into the bleachers?"
"Yes."
"Did you see her shove Kari towards the ground and intentionally miss the ball the first time it came at Kari and her?"
"Yes."
"Did you see her try to knock Kari down the second time but only crash into her arm after she had hit the ball?"
"Yes."
"See!" T.K. yelled. "Witnesses! Witnesses!" He questioned two more girls before saying, "She is an evil sadistic witch and I will never date her! She can stalk me and dream all she wants but I will never date her!" Rei burst out into fake tears. "Don't pretend to be hurt! If anyone should be crying here its Kari! You don't know how hard of an impact she made when you did that. The bleachers shook you hit her so hard!"
Mrs. Kuchida finally spoke, "Rei, I'm afraid I'm going to have to put you on probation for as long as it takes for Kari to recover. I'm very disappointed in you!"
"You.you mean I can't play Volleyball until Kari recovers?" Mrs. Kuchida nodded. "What! Kari's the evil sadistic witch! She's a show off! She trying to out do me so T.K. will want to go out with her!"
"You evil-" T.K. began but stopped when Kari spoke, "That's not what you said yesterday Rei! Yesterday you said T.K. was your man. I didn't argue. He may be your man but he is my best friend." (A/N. You go girl!)
"But if he's going to be your man, you treat him with respect and dignity. He probably would have lost enough dignity if he were going to your level to find a date. I can't believe you sink so low as to attack his best friend," a familiar voice said from the doorway. Matt and Tai were standing in the doorway.
"Matt, Tai. When did you get here?" T.K. asked. "I thought we were walking home."
"You were but mom called me on my cell and told me to come get you guys. I had to drive all the way from Kichi's house and you know how far away that is. Come on," Tai said as he came over to pick Kari up. She whimpered again.
"What's wrong?" Tai asked. But Kari did not answer him. Instead she buried her face in his chest and cried. T.K. got their bags and with the help of Matt carried them to Tai's car.
"Kari?" Tai asked as T.K. climbed into Tai's Porsche after putting their things in the trunk. Rei and Yamazaki were already sitting there with their things in their laps. Both were looking down cast. "Do mind if you sit on T.K.'s lap?" Kari shook her head and Tai placed her gently in T.K.'s arms. Like she had done with Tai she snuggled her face into T.K.'s chest and cried silently shaking slightly.
T.K. hugged her. The down cast Rei, who was sitting in the middle attempted to lean on T.K. for comfort but he pulled away angrily and stared down at his injured best friend. "It's okay Kari. It's okay," T.K. said as he hugged his best friend again. Suddenly he thought of what Patamon had told him earlier came back. His face became warm as he thought about having a crush on his best friend. Gatomon and Patamon came running (or flying) into the open door.
Patamon settled on T.K.'s white hat again and whispered, "Is she okay?" Gatomon bounded into Kari's lap and hugged her. "Kari, I'm so glad you're okay," Gatomon said. "We just found out what happened from Tai and Matt." As she said this Tai and Matt pushed their seats back and climbed into the front seats. Starting up the car and leaving the parking lot Tai streaked Kari home. While he drove Kari leaned against T.K. looking out the window while hugging Gatomon like a three year old snuggling with their stuffed animal.
When they reached the apartment complex Tai and Matt took T.K. and Kari's things up while T.K. carried Kari up the stairs.
"Thank goodness for Basketball and training," he thought as he carried her up. The still down cast Yamazaki and Rei (feeling even more down cast after being refused by T.K.) followed not far behind. When they walked into the Kamiya apartment Kari's mother dropped her cookbooks on the counter and rushed to hug and kiss her daughter. While she said good-bye to Tai and Matt she glared unrelentingly at Rei.
"Kari do you still want to cook?" Mrs. Kamiya asked anxiously. Kari nodded. "Do you want to take some pain relievers?" Mrs. Kamiya asked in the same worried tone. Kari nodded and her mother hurried to the kitchen getting a glass of water and two pills for her daughter. Kari swallowed the pills and a couple minutes later got off the couch (where T.K. had laid her) and pulled out their brainstorm list.
For the next four hours the foursome cooked without rest testing their final products on Kari's parents. After their four hours of labor and testing about a third of the things on the list the group's list hadn't changed except for a few tiny notes made on the first five. Where it had formally been:
1. Chocolate Chip Cookies 2. Sugar Cookies with homemade frosting 3. Brownies 4. Cupcakes-homemade frosting 5. Doughnuts-homemade frosting 6. Pies 7. Ice Cream Sandwiches 8. Ice Cream Bars 9. Popsicles 10. Shakes with a twist 11. Smoothies 12. Lemonade with limes 13. Pastries
It was now:
1. Chocolate chip Cookies 2. Sugar Cookies with homemade frosting 3. Brownies 4. Cupcakes-homemade frosting 5. Doughnuts-homemade frosting (small) 6. Pies 7. Ice Cream Sandwiches 8. Ice Cream Bars 9. Popsicles 10. Shakes with a twist 11. Smoothies 12. Lemonade with limes 13. Pastries
Tomorrow they would come back to Kari's house and do the next five and brainstorm some more bake sale ideas. Though Kari thought she could never like Rei especially after what she did to her today to Kari's surprise she found Rei very pleasant to work with in the kitchen. She was an excellent cook and really nice when she wasn't competing for T.K.
So far Kari's parents had like most of the things they tried. Though the adults never got to taste the doughnuts, they never finished, Kari and the others were going to do the first five again with different frostings, which Kari would make at the beginning of tomorrow's cooking lesson. They spent 30 minutes cleaning up and then collapsed in the living room to decide on the ingredients they would need for tomorrow.
"Definitely more of what we had today," Rei said. "If were going to remake all the recipes with different kinds of icing. Kari what do you need to make the icing?"
"Well, before I can tell you that we need to figure out what icing flavors we want. We'll also have to go check out some pastry books tomorrow. If someone would please find maybe at the least three different glaze recipes that would also be nice."
"How about chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry for our icings?" Yamazaki suggested. Everyone agreed and Kari wrote down Hershey's kisses, vanilla extract, and various other items to make the chosen icings.
"Great," Rei said watching what Kari wrote over her shoulder. "Now that we've got that we can list what we might need for the next two or three items." They did so and so they had a nice list with which they gave to Mrs. Kamiya.
"Mom, how much did you spend on groceries for our project today?" Kari asked.
"$45.69, why?" Mrs. Kamiya asked surveying the ingredient list.
"Because, " Kari said, "we need to document how much we're spending for this project. First reason is because they gave us a budget, they second reason is so they can reimburse the parents that paid for the necessities up front." She walked back into the living room and sat down stiffly on the couch.
Rei winced but her hands hovered over her laptop. She had readied a spreadsheet with the necessary formulas.
"$45.69," Kari said. Rei's hands flew across the keyboard as she typed in the amount. Everyone looked at her.
"That leaves us with a balance of $454.31," Rei said as she saved the document and turned off her laptop.
"Great," Kari said. "Now, we can always ask for a raise of our budget if we do some extra work for a week and get top marks so don't worry if we're about to run over a little." There was a knock on the door. Mrs. Kamiya answered.
"Hello," they heard her say. A minute later a blonde woman and a brunette woman stepped into view.
"Rei, are you ready?" asked the blonde who was obviously Mrs. Tukose and that meant the brunette was Mrs. Watobe. Yamazaki and Rei got up and grabbed their things.
"Bye guys," they said as they put on their shoes and left. T.K. and Kari talked until 11pm when T.K. had to use the bathroom. When he returned he saw Kari lying on the floor asleep. Smiling, he moved her to her bed and left.
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The next day Kari dressed in the school uniform. The green skirt and blouse with white trigging and white socks with brown loafers. By the time Kari got to school the news of her injury had traveled fast. She was hugged carefully by the other uniformed students. When she got to her locker (Tai carrying her things) she had to remove seventeen bags of candy with get well cards attached. When Kari went into Math, the teacher Mrs. Kuchida present Kari with an empty bag and told Kari to put all her presents in it. She had to ask Mrs. Kuchida for three more as the gifts on her desk were over flowing and on the floor and surrounding desks. And the Math teacher did not assign any homework
In English she found more gifts for her had been left with the teacher. Presented in one and a half bags. Other students were carrying the other bags in. The bags sat beside Kari as she waited for her mother to come. Today she had a doctor's appointment.
When the nurse came to inform Kari her mother was here the teacher assigned eight people (all guys) to carry her things to her mother's car. Kari went quickly to the nurse's office where her mother was waiting. The nurse checked her out and she left the school with her mom. The guys loaded all the bags into the truck and T.K. handed her a book with a pink ribbon tied around it.
"Bye Kari, I'll put your stuff up for you," T.K. said. "When you get back, tell me how it went." Kari nodded and hugged her best friend. By the time they got the doctor's office Kari was trembling. "I sure hope they don't have to give me a shot," she thought as she climbed out of the car and walked towards the building. Upon going inside the building her mother and her rode the elevator up to the fifth floor.
Mrs. Kamiya went up the receptionist told her that Kari was there for her doctor's appointment. Kari on the other hand was still holding the book watching Gatomon (who she had left at home, or at least thought she had) pace the floor. Finally getting bored with her Kari removed the ribbon and opened the book and saw that it was like a scrapbook T.K. had made. Though it wasn't the best skill it was still pretty and Kari was so happy she forgot where she was and started to cry.
"Kari, the doctor will see you now," a woman in white said. Kari scrubbed the tears out of her eyes and off her face and walked in calmly followed closely (so close she was tripping) by Gatomon and her mom behind her. After the normal weight, height check up they went into an office and waited. While they waited Kari looked at the scrapbook examining each page thoroughly. Kari started to cry just as the doctor came in.
"Does it hurt?" he asked. Kari looked up and took in his sandy brown hair and green eyes. He was wearing a white coat over his red shirt and jeans.
"No, my.my.my best friend.he.he just.just made me.a scrapbook of things.of things we did and.and still do together," Kari said through her joyful tears. The doctor took the book and opened it. "Wow. A guy made this?" he asked. "What's his name?"
"T.K. well that's actually his nickname. His real name is Takeru Takaishi. He's has messy blonde hair and ocean blue eyes and some well-developed muscles. He's not a muscle man or anything oh no. He's basketball player. He's really nice and thoughtful and he's really kind too. But he's also deep. He's very deep and though he doesn't get upset easily some things do get him upset and then he like breaths fire. It's so awesome." While she had been saying those things the doctor had been examining her. He lifted her shirt and put the flat metal plate on her back. "Who's the brown-haired kid beside you in the picture?"
"That's my brother Tai. Very courageous and always has a plan of action. Though sometimes they're not the best things to do." The doctor laughed. "And the spiky blonde beside T.K.?"
"That's T.K.'s brother (A/N. or is it half-brother? I can never remember. If someone would please tell me which one so I can get it right I'd be very thankful.) Matt. Tai and him are best friends." After a few examinations the doctor asked, "How did this accident happen?"
Instantly Kari's eyes darkened as she replied, "Rei Tokuse, a girl from my school, is the leader of T.K.'s fan club. She thinks I want to take T.K. away from her or some how manipulate T.K.'s mind by showing off in front of him at Volleyball practice. Well we were practicing one on one with the coach and being called forward to practice some things, Rei got some applause but I got more. She got angry and when we started to practice team against team, we made it all the way up to the front row, no problem. But once we were there, the troubles started. The first time the ball came towards us I jumped to get it she jumped also and pushed me down while missed the ball intentionally. The second time, though I did manage to hit the ball she crashed into my arm. The third time when I went for the ball, she went for it also though she heard me say I had it.
"She crashed into me and I flew sideways into the bleachers. She of course scored, because everyone else was too busy staring at me to stop the ball. While Rei was trying hard not to grin, T.K. was asking how I was doing. I told him I heard a cracking sound and then he got extremely upset at Rei and called her an evil sadistic witch. Then she burst out into tears and T.K. said that I should be the one crying, not Rei, and I was crying, but not because I wanted too. T.K. carried me to the nurse and she said I needed to wear a brace for a few days. She fitted me with a temporary one until I went to the doctor." The doctor nodded.
"Well, let me go get that brace for you and I'll be right back."
"That evil witch," Kari's mom hissed after the doctor had left. She had been looking at the scrapbook T.K. had made for her. After having the brace put on the doctor said, "Like the nurse said all you have to do is wear this brace for a few days. All that happened when you hit the bleachers was that one of you bones popped out of alignment. It's not out too far, just a little, so if you wear this for a couple of days and don't do any running or sports, don't carry heavy things or eat more than you want, you should be back to your normal life style in no time." Kari nodded. "Thank you," she said.
He said, "Schedule another appointment for Monday to have it removed. If you feel any pain just take some aspirin. I'll see you soon Kari." Mrs. Kamiya nodded now and while ushering Kari out the door said, "Thank you." Mrs. Kamiya did indeed set up a second appointment for Kari at 11:10 Monday morning.
"Where do you want to eat?" Mrs. Kamiya asked once they were on the road again.
"I don't know, how about McDonalds?" Kari mumbled looking at her album again.
"McDonalds it is!" Mrs. Kamiya said. Kari stared at a picture that they had taken with the whole digidestined team. Her eyes were fixed on her and T.K. who were at the front of the group arms around each other grinning while a dejected Davis stood beside her arms folded. She thought of her 'intimate crush' on T.K. It couldn't really be true could it? Having a crush on her best friend was completely preposterous. Was it? Suddenly a memory flooded her mind.
***Flashback***
T.K.: You're going to give up? Just like that? Listen Kari; I care too much about you to let you go without a fight!
Kari: Huh?
***End of Flashback***
That had been back when she first went to the dark ocean. And what had she said later on that day when he came to rescue her?
***Flashback***
Kari: T.K., remember this morning when you said you cared about me? What did you mean by that?
T.K.: Uh, you know, it meant, uh, stuff.
Kari: Well ya know what? I really care about you to.
***End of Flashback***
But that was caring about him like a friend right? If this was going to be what she was going through over the next couple years she might as well have been drowning in the dark ocean. And yes, though Gatomon was shining a little light, she still would have found it more profitable to be stumbling through pitch-black caverns trying to reach the light taunting her above. Did Tai go through this? "Maybe I'll ask mom later," she thought.
"What are you thinking about?" Gatomon asked staring at her thoughtfully.
"What? Oh nothing," Kari said in a distant tone.
"Yes you are. Is it T.K.?" Gatomon asked bluntly. Kari's heart stopped.
She smiled at her digimon before saying, "You're good. I was thinking about our adventures in the digital world."
"Liar," Gatomon said. "What were you really thinking about?"
"Okay, okay. I was thinking about something T.K. said to me three years ago," Kari confessed.
"What was it?" Gatomon pushed.
"Well, it was the first time I went to the dark ocean, when T.K. asked me if I was just giving up. And then he told me that he cared to much about me to let me just disappear," Kari replied but quickly added seeing the mischievous glint in her digimon's eye, "But it's nothing."
"You were thinking about what I told you the other day weren't you?" Gatomon asked.
"No," Kari said defiantly. They stopped at a McDonalds and Kari got out of the car. She looked at the green skirt she was wearing and smoothed the wrinkles on her white blouse (A/N. That was the uniform Sora wore in the second season, wasn't it?). Gatomon hopped out and together they went in. After eating Kari stopped by her house to get the recipe books, went back to school, and was just in time for Geography, though she was 20 minutes late.
After checking in she went down the halls and found her locker. She opened it. A mountain of presents fell out of it knocking her over in the process. She heard a laugh and looked around to see T.K. walking towards her. Her entire body was covered by presents except her head, legs, and arms. Holding down his hand, T.K. helped Kari up from the mess.
"How'd it go?" T.K. asked as her helped her pick up the presents and shoved them back into her locker.
"I have to wear it for a few days. Can't eat too much, lift heavy objects, no running, and no sports. By the way," she gave him a peck on the cheek and he blushed. "Thanks for the scrapbook."
"Yeah well, I've been working on it for a couple years. If you don't like it I can-" T.K. said still red.
"Like it?"
"Do you like it?" T.K. asked hopefully.
"Like it? No." T.K. looked as though someone had punched him in the stomach. "Love it? Yes." He grinned. "Really?" She nodded, pulling out her books. The two walked beside each other to Geography.
"Mrs. Kamiya, how nice to see you. How was your appointment?" the teacher asked when she saw Kari.
"Fine."
"Well, T.K. can tell you what we're doing," the teacher replied.
"Well, we're just brainstorming some new recipes," T.K. replied as he gave Kari his chair and pulled up another one for himself. "What have we got so far guys?"
"We've got a list," Rei said shoving it across the table. This one said:
White Macadamia Nut Cookies Oatmeal Raisin Peanut Butter Cookies Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins Cinnamon Sugar Butter Cookies Ginger Snaps Gingerbread Men
"I know they're a little out of season but hey it's just brainstorming," Rei said pointing to the Gingerbread Men.
"Well," Kari said as she pushed the stack of recipe books to the center. "Let's look through these and see if we can't lengthen that list." They nodded, and all grabbed a book, and began to flip through them.
Kari, who was looking through Mrs. Fields Cookie Book (ignore the title if Mrs. Fields isn't in Japan), said, "Hey look at these. Chocolate-Glazed Shortbread Cookies." The group leaned over and examined the cookies half (long ways) covered in chocolate.
Rei wrote it down and then said, "And if we did chocolate cookies and half covered them in white chocolate, we're set."
"What about these Cinnamon Maple Rings?" Kari asked turning the book around so everyone could see the mini cinnamon rolls. She turned the page as Rei wrote it down and then said, "Hey an icing recipe for Gingerbread Men." She again showed the book to the others and Rei proceeded to sigh. "Even though I wrote Gingerbread Men, down it's a relief that we have a recipe. Gingerbread Men are not my strong point."
"Candy Bar Cookies," T.K. said staring at The Pillsbury Bake-off Cookbook. "There's no picture, but let's try these anyway." Rei nodded and wrote them down. "And then Starlight Mint Surprise." Rei wrote it down too.
Suddenly Yamazaki laid down his book and said, "You guys we need to rent space for our bake-sale." Everyone became silent.
"No, problem," Kari said laying her book on the table and pulling out her laptop. She quickly signed on ignoring the announcement that she had more mail. She typed rapidly while Rei pulled out her own laptop and signed online also. While they did that T.K. and Yamazaki to returned searching, T.K. writing down the things they found.
12 minutes later Kari said, "I found one!" She pulled out her cell. "I'm going to call and see how much this person wants for it." She dialed the number. "775-2364."
"Hello?" a pleasant sounding female voice said.
"Yeah, I just saw your ad for a small space available for rent on Main Street. I was wondering how much your were charging for it. Please. I am a sophomore at Odaiba High and our school is doing something to help our community and we need a place where we can set up a bake sale. We only have $500," Kari pleaded.
"Well, in that case I'll let you rent it for $33 a week," came Kari's reply.
"Really? Thank you Mrs."
"Lambert."
"Yes, thank you Mrs. Lambert."
"Now, I must tell you the place needs a little work. So you might have to do some things before you can open up for business. There is a kitchen, a cabinet and refrigerator that does work. There is also a small office. Let's see, you're in school right now, so how about I meet you and your bake sale group at about 4:15?"
"Okay, that'll work. Thank you Mrs. Lambert!" Kari said and hung up with a huge grin. "For $33 a week we can rent this place." Rei typed that in on the spreadsheet and said, "After paying this week's rent we have $421.00 left for the other things. In the first week we'll have to make enough money to cover rent and ingredients for the next week." Kari bookmarked the website and turned off her laptop putting it away. T.K. pushed the brainstorm list over to the girls. They had checked through all the books on the table and found that only three of them contained things that they needed.
Kari and Rei looked over the list. This is what they saw in addition to the ones above:
Mrs. Fields Cookie Book:
Chocolate Cream Filled Hearts Chocolate Sandwich Cookie (We can reverse) Surprise Filled Cookies Lemon Cream-Filled Cookies Carmel Filled Brownies Peanut Butter & Jelly Squares Mocha Mousse Cheesecake Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Classic Apple Pie Carrot Cake Chocolate Macadamia Cream Satin Cream Chocolate Fantasy Baby Banana Cream Pies
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The Pillsbury Bake-off Cookbook-109-133
Chewy Microwave Granola Bars Peanut Blossoms Easy Lemon Sours Peanut Butter Fudge Brownies Chocolate Mint Parfait Bars Treasure Chest Bars Rocky Road Fudge Bars 135-159 Japanese Fruit Marble Cake Mardi Gras Party Cake 161-186 Lemon Fudge Ribbon Pie Peaches and Cream Crescent Dessert Spicy Apple Twists Fudge Marble Cheesecake
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The Pillsbury Party Cookbook
Pg.52 Roasted Pepper and Pasta Salad Pg.53 Almost Candy Bars Pg.62 Cookie and Cone Clowns Pg. 85 Thick Pan Pizza Pg. 88 Pizza Dippers Pg. 89 Wheel-o'-Fun Cakes Pg. 121 Stars 'n Stripes Cookie Squares
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Our Ideas
Tacos Burritos Nachos Hamburgers Blueberry Muffin Cranberry Muffin
"Good list guys," Rei said. They grinned.
"We're turning this thing into a restaurant," Kari said also grinning. Suddenly everyone looked at her like she was a genius. And she knew why too. "Restaurant," they all said together.
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Hi guys. If you didn't like the ending sorry, I was out of ideas. I have one for the next chapter though. At least I think I do. Anyway, if you want the recipes to any of the food items I mentioned in this chapter just tell me in a review and I'll post them as a chapter. Thanks for reading and please review. Next chapter out ASAP. This spacing thing is really annoying.
ebacusta
Kari: Um ebacusta had too much candy last night. Before I do thank yous, I would like to explain why it took so long to update. Ebacusta lately has been having lots of computer problems, and was about to post something using another computer, the reason why she hadn't updated. But then her brother fixed the computer and now she's back. If it's any consolation she almost done with chapter 3. Now, she would like to thank
Blitz Blazer- for your review
Cloaked Fox- for your review also
Kawaii Mimi-chan- for your reviews. Then she would like say, I did type Kari twice and it wasn't a typo. But if you want Ken to go he can. I forgot to mention Willis gets trapped there also and I am going to change the summary. Then she would like to thank
Eowyn the Fair- for your review and not to forget
miaow 227- for your review. Thanks. Also, note, since they never tell us the Digidestined's birthdays, Ebacusta will make some up okay?
T.K.: Ebacusta also needs some-
Davis: *interrupts* Kari will you go out with me?
Kari: No.
Davis: Please!!
Kari: No.
Davis: Please!!
Kari: *hits Davis with a mallet* Time for the disclaimer.
Izzy: I'll do it. Ebacusta owns absolutely nothing of Digimon.
Ebacusta: *slurs words* don't make it so obvious. I do own digimon.
*Tai and Matt dragged ebacusta to the bathroom.*
T.K.: Um. Ebacusta wants to know your ideas for what could happen in this story. Please tell. Urm, fic time.
Censer Kid: Don't think you wanna see or hear this. *pulls a curtain over scene*
Try, Try, Try, Again
By ebacusta
Chapter 2
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The next day the digidestined were leaning against the wall waiting for Izzy. When they saw him, he was sprinting towards them.
"What's wrong Izzy?" Sora asked.
"Izzy showed them the computer screen.
"Is that the digital world?" Yolei asked.
"Yes!" Izzy responded.
"It looks different," Kari observed.
"I know! It's been attack by a virus that some how got into T.K.'s digivice. I think it came from an unopened email. T.K. did you check you email last night?"
"No," T.K. responded. Yamazaki, who was lingering around the corner, felt his stomach churn and his mind start to race. If T.K. didn't open his email last night the virus that attacked the digital world was his!
Izzy continued, "Anyway, the digital world has reconfigured itself in such a way that.all the evil digimon we defeated have now been resurrected and reign evil once more! We'll have to defeat them all over again. But now, they're much stronger!"
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"What!?!?" all the digidestined screamed in unison. Sora looked as if she was about to faint as she leaned on Tai's shoulder.
"That's impossible!" Matt said, "Surely not all of them!"
Izzy nodded, "It's like the digital world is going back in time. First Malomyotismon came back and then Mummymon and Arukenimon."
"Great, soon we'll be changing diapers," Tai said looking around at the younger of the group.
"No we won't Tai," Izzy said "The digital world is going back, not necessarily the digidestined." "If Izzy knows, then Willis must know and-" Kari said but was interrupted when her D-Terminal went off. She pulled it out and flipped it open. On the screen it said:
The digital world is in danger. Its been reconfigured, we need to figure out how to deal with this problem. Say hi to everyone for me.
Willis
"So Willis knows and says hi to you guys. Now hopefully Mimi knows and-" Kari's D-Terminal beeped again. She pulled it out and flipped it open. This one said:
When I heard about the digital world from Michael, I fainted in the middle of class and had to be taken to the nurse's office. I am hiding in a bathroom stall right now. I can't believe all those scary monsters are back. And they're stronger now! This is bad guys.
Mimi
"So Mimi knows along with Michael too. So now that the whole team knows what we need to do know is figure out what to do about it," Kari said putting away her D-Terminal.
Then T.K. spoke, "The enemy may be much stronger, but so are we. The bond we have with our digimon has strengthened hasn't it? Plus Devimon was no real challenge even if he is more powerful; he can't take on one angel much less two. And if he actually manages to get a hit this time we can celebrate at my house."
Suddenly Sora said, "What makes you think we'll fight Devimon first?"
"Well Sora, it sounds like this virus has basically pushed a rewind button making the digital world go back in time. If you just rewind a videotape that won't change the sequence, will it? No. So logically, all that's happened is the digital world has been rewound and is now playing in the same sequence," T.K. reasoned.
They were silent for a minute. Finally Kari said, "T.K.'s right. Though I never fought Devimon from what Tai tells me he didn't even get a hit on Angemon. Besides, the prophecy said that the one who couldn't digivolve would kill him was right. Maybe this time the prophecy says the one he's never met will kill him." They all laughed.
"Well, one thing's for sure," Sora said as they pushed off the wall, "we need to find out who sent T.K. that virus."
"And more importantly why," Yolei piped as they walked past Yamazaki. Davis jumped up down, "If I find out who and why, will you date me Kari?"
"No. Hey Ken, Cody, you two have been very quiet. What do you have on your minds?"
"Well, I was just thinking that whoever sent T.K. that virus must go to the same school as us," Cody said thoughtfully.
"Why do you think that Cody?" Yolei asked.
"Well," Ken said instead of Cody, "unless T.K.'s told his email address to someone who hates him outside of school, no one else could possibly send him one. Since we have a directory (A/N. I don't know if Japanese schools give their students school directories like they do in America but for now please pretended with me that they do.) that has the addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and cell phone numbers of all the students in the school it's not possible someone outside of school sent it to him."
Cody spoke, "Unless our school is selling our directories at a bookstore and out of the millions of people in Japan someone who doesn't go to our school knows and hates T.K. and has a copy of our directory then like Ken said, it's not possible. T.K. have you given your email address to anyone who's not a digidestined outside of this school?"
T.K. shook his head. "No."
"So," Ken said, "Therefore it has to be someone in this school."
"But who?" Sora asked.
"That's what we have to figure out," Cody replied simply. "Now come on guys we have to get to the assembly hall." They walked in and sat and even when the principal walked on the stage none of them could focus on what he was saying.
They heard, "Students of Odaiba High (A/N. Ken has moved.)-"and "We must band together and make our community a better place-" and "Takeru Takaishi, Kari Kamiya, Yamazaki Watobe and-" and "will be forming a group for a 14 day bake sale and-" and the last thing they heard before going to class was, "You'll all be given a packet on your assignments in Geography."
In Math the teacher called on Kari once and she amazingly got the answer right though she hadn't heard the question. In English the teacher called on Kari three times and every time she muttered something and then said the sentence in Japanese rather than in English. In PE she was hit by a ball 6 times not to mention how many times she ran into the walls of the gym and was knocked out. Instead of History she lay in the nurse's office, after taking Tylenol, with a glazed expression on her face.
At lunch the nurse let Kari out where she got her assignment and the notes of the lesson from a dazed T.K. and then ate lunch with all the other dazed digidestined children who were lost in thought about the digital world. When they got to Geography they sat with their groups and surprisingly so as the teacher began to speak they came back to their senses and listened intently to what they had missed.
"These students," the teacher said as she began to walk around the room lying packets on tables, "are the packets you will use to help organize your event. Look these over. Then I will allow you time to talk with your group and use a phone to set up a meeting place with your parents for after school."
"Can we use our cell phones?" one girl called out.
"Yes."
"Miss, what if we have Volleyball practice after school?" another girl asked.
"Then you'll have schedule around that won't you?" the teacher replied setting down the last group of packets on a table opposite where the girl was sitting and then retreated to her desk. "Get started kids." Yamazaki, T.K., and Kari looked their packets over in silence.
"Okay," Kari said finally. "We can meet at my house." Yamazaki nodded and T.K. shrugged.
"Let me call my mom first," Kari said pulling out her metallic hot pink cell phone. She dialed her home phone number. It rang two times before then her mother picked it up. "Hello?"
"Mom, it's me Kari. Can T.K. and Yamazaki, a boy from class, need to come over after school so we can work on a bake sale event thing?"
"What about Volleyball?" Mrs. Kamiya asked.
"After that too," Kari replied.
"Will you be cooking today?"
"I don't know," Kari said truthfully
"Ask your friends while I wait on the line," Mrs. Kamiya said.
Kari covered the mouthpiece of her phone and talked to the group about cooking.
"We might mom," Kari said into her phone.
"Okay, I'll get the ingredients, what do you need?"
"Eggs, milk, sugar, brown sugar, chocolate chips." Kari said. After giving her mom a list of ingredients, Kari's mom said, "Kari I have to talk to your brother, he's calling my cell, I talk to you later sweetie, bye."
"Bye mom," Kari said. Turning off her cell phone she looked at them, "Mom said yes. She's going to get the ingredients we need for do some experimental cooking. We might want to check out some cookbooks from the library and stopped by your homes and get some that your family own." They nodded and both pulled out their cells to call their parents.
When they were done they stared at the table. "What should we do now?" Yamazaki finally asked.
"Brainstorm," T.K. said firmly.
"Yeah definitely," Kari said perking up, " You're such a genius T.K."
"Such flattery," T.K. said imitating Rei. Suddenly Rei walked in and Kari looked up. "T.K. I forgot Rei's in our class," she looked around, "We're the only group with three people. She's going to be in our group." T.K. bit his lip.
The teacher said, "Rei how nice of you to finally join us, how was the orthodontist appointment?"
Kari racked her brain to see if she remembered what group the principal put Rei in. In her mind the principal said, "Takeru Takaishi, Kari Kamiya, Yamazaki Watobe, and. and. and Rei Tokuse (pronounces t-coo-say)."
"T.K., she's in our group," Kari groaned. She pulled out her cell phone and quickly called her mom's cell.
"Yes Kari?"
"Mom, it appears that the last member of our group was absent when I called you fifteen minutes ago. Rei Tokuse is also coming over."
"Isn't she the leader of T.K.'s fan club?" Mrs. Kamiya asked. Kari could tell she was driving to the market because of the traffic in the background.
"Yeah," Kari said. Her mother made a disgruntled noise from the back of her throat and then spoke in a disgusted voice, " That girl is soooo stuck up. I dislike her mother too. Always telling me how you shouldn't be so rude to her daughter. You! Ha! She also is always telling me how Rei and T.K. would make such a cute couple. Always telling me to tell you to butt out of T.K. and Rei's relationship. But if she must come over fine." Now Kari loved her mother but right now her heart was bursting with pride that her mother didn't like Rei or her mother.
"Mom?" Kari asked.
"Yes?"
"Could you repeat what you said about her to T.K.?" Kari asked looking at Rei who was talking amicably to an extremely bored T.K. who was now doodling on the corner of his packet.
"Sure."
"Great hold on." Kari leaned closed to T.K. and whispered in his ear, "Mom wants to share her personal opinion about Rei with you." T.K. grinned and took the cell she was handing him. This made Rei stopped talking and immediately start to glare at Kari fiercely.
"Hello?" T.K. said.
"Hi T.K." Kari's mom said.
"Hi Mrs. Kamiya."
"How are you?"
"Fine."
"Your mother?"
"Fine."
"Well, Kari wants me to tell you what I think about Rei and her mother so her goes." Her voice instantly changed to the disgusted one she had used before as she once again made a disgruntled noise from the back of her throat. " That girl is soooo stuck up. I dislike her mother too. Always telling me how Kari shouldn't be so rude to her daughter. Kari! Ha! She also is always telling me how Rei and you, T.K. would make such a cute couple. Always telling me to tell Kari to butt out of you and Rei's relationship. But if she must come over fine." T.K. burst out laughing and Kari joined him.
"T.K." Kari's mom said in her normal voice, "I'll see you later."
"O- o- okay," T.K. said his face turning red and his eyes filling with tears. Kari was in the same state as she took the phone back and said, "I love you mom, bye."
"I love you too. Bye honey." Kari put her cell away and clutched her stomach. "I can't breathe," she choked out.
"Me neither," T.K. said tears streaming down his face. "Your.your.your mom. she's so. she's so. funny."
"I know," Kari said as her tears began to form a little puddle on the table. Rei and Yamazaki fumed from across the table. Even as they started to Brainstorm what they were going to make while Rei surveyed the packet neither T.K. nor Kari could stop laughing and thus when they were done brainstorming the paper was drenched and the pen was running because of the tears that kept falling on the paper.
"I'll. I'll copy it onto.onto a dry piece of paper," Kari said still laughing as she pulled out a piece of paper and started to write again. By this time neither Kari nor T.K. had any tears left to fall, and their stomachs were hurting so much that if they didn't know why they would have thought they had some fatal stomach disease. Their faces were extremely red and Rei and Yamazaki's faces were so red they could have passed for a fire hydrant. T.K. whipped out a camera and a before they could do anything he took a picture.
Kari finally finished the brainstorming list and she stuck it in her new binder. The binder she was going to use for this bake sale was a one and half inch binder that had already been stocked with paper, mechanical pencils, lead, eraser replacements, colored pencils, and markers. There were also some separators with the paper tabs ready to be written on and slipped in place. Along with all those there was a scientific calculator and some other things she might need in a binder. She always made one of these and stuck it in her locker in case she ever needed an extra binder.
After class Kari's eyes once more glazed over and T.K. resumed to being his dazed self. After school Kari went to the gym and changed for Volleyball practice. Pulling on the white shorts and sweater with blue trim and over the shorts a pleaded skirt with a blue trim. Putting her tennis shoes on and pulling her hair back into blue hair band she left the girls' changing room.
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"Go ahead and warm up girls," Mrs. Kuchida (the Math teacher) said as she walked in wearing a sweat suit instead of her black slacks and white long sleeve button up shirt. In place of high heels she wore walking shoes and hanging around her neck was bright gleaming silver whistle.
Kari got out a volleyball and even though she was dazed she hit the ball expertly performing excellent saves and spikes. T.K. watched from the bleachers. Finally after 10 minutes of that Mrs. Kuchida called them all together and told them line up on the wall. She took a ball and called each girl forward one at a time and threw the ball to her so they could show how they were doing. There were 18 girls and out of them Kari was the eighth to go. Rei went before her.
Rei hit the ball with ease getting applause from every girl (except Kari) every time she did. Kari glanced at T.K. who was looking bored on the bleachers. Rei finished.
"Kamiya!" Mrs. Kuchida called from across the gym. T.K. perked up as Kari ran to her place and when the ball came towards her she backed up and hit it perfectly. She heard applause behind her. This went on as Kari demonstrated a spike, bop; two saves and ran across the court to get some of the balls Mrs. Kuchida threw. There was one problem with the applause. It was louder than Rei's had been and when T.K. whistled, that didn't help Kari's situation. When Kari went back to the wall and sat Rei glared at her. Finally she sneered, "You think you're so good don't you? Well you haven't seen the worst of it." After that the coach divided the group into two teams. Kari was on the same team as Rei. Mrs. Kuchida blew her whistle. Kari served. The play ended, Kari's team got the point. As time progressed Kari was soon in the front with Rei beside her. The ball came at them.
"Got it!" Kari yelled as she jumped to spike it. Rei jumped and shoved Kari toward the ground and missed it intentionally. Kari fell hard on the ground.
"Tokuse! What was that?" Mrs. Kuchida yelled while some girls helped Kari up.
"Kari said she had it miss," Rei said evilly.
"Well how come you didn't get it when she fell?" the coached yelled.
"Well, I thought it was a rule that when someone yelled 'I got it!' we shouldn't take it from them," Rei replied.
"If you pay attention to that rule in a game we'll definitely lose!"
"Yes Mrs. Kuchida," Rei said. The next play started. It headed for them again. Neither Kari nor Rei moved. "I got it!" Kari yelled after it appeared Rei wasn't going to do anything. She ran towards the middle where the ball was headed. Rei did to and as Kari jumped and hit the ball over something crashed into her arm. She fell this time landing on her feet. Kari scored and the team rotated. Fina, a nice blonde-haired girl with brown eyes, served.
It was set in play and everything was going well until the ball headed yet again for Rei and Kari.
"Got it!" Kari yelled. She moved over and few steps and jumped. Suddenly out of nowhere Rei crashed into Kari's side and Kari flew with a loud 'CLANG!' into the bleachers. Rei hit the ball and scored, as everyone was too busy staring at Kari to stop it. T.K. ran down the metal steps of the bleachers until he was right beside her.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"No, my side, I heard a cracking sound," Kari said blinking back the tears that were trying to surface. But no matter how hard or fast she blinked the tears leaked out anyway.
T.K. stood up; "Rei how could you? You heard her say she had it and you just charged at her. You evil sadistic witch!" Rei who had been trying to suppress a grin burst into tears.
"Takaishi!" Mrs. Kuchida barked, "Take Kamiya to the nurse!"
"Yes ma'am," T.K. said lifting Kari and glaring at Rei. Kari whimpered into his shirt. He carried her out of the gym and to the nurse who told Kari to where a brace for a couple of days. She fitted her with one. It was like a girdle except it didn't squeeze. It kind of supported her.
"Thank you Nurse Yousedoi (Yo-say-doy)," T.K. said bowing as he helped Kari down the hall and back to the gym. For the remainder of practice Kari held an ice pack to her side and lay on the metal bleachers with her head in T.K.'s lap who spent the rest of the practice glaring hatefully at Rei. When practice was over Mrs. Kuchida called Rei over to where T.K. and Kari were. Her eyes still held tears.
"Takaishi, why did you yell those things at Rei?" Mrs. Kuchida asked.
"Don't tell me you didn't see that," T.K. said angrily.
"See what?"
"See Rei plow into Kari like a cow after Kari said she had the ball! She was grinning at the ground while everyone was staring at Kari. She meant to do it! She's been doing things to Kari all practice just because Kari's a better volleyball player."
"She's a show off. And I never meant to hit her," Rei protested.
"Yes you did," T.K. spat, "You were grinning. Let's ask some of the players and see what they saw. Fina!" the blonde whirled around. "Yes?" she called.
"Was Rei grinning after she bashed Kari into the bleachers?"
"Yes."
"Did you see her shove Kari towards the ground and intentionally miss the ball the first time it came at Kari and her?"
"Yes."
"Did you see her try to knock Kari down the second time but only crash into her arm after she had hit the ball?"
"Yes."
"See!" T.K. yelled. "Witnesses! Witnesses!" He questioned two more girls before saying, "She is an evil sadistic witch and I will never date her! She can stalk me and dream all she wants but I will never date her!" Rei burst out into fake tears. "Don't pretend to be hurt! If anyone should be crying here its Kari! You don't know how hard of an impact she made when you did that. The bleachers shook you hit her so hard!"
Mrs. Kuchida finally spoke, "Rei, I'm afraid I'm going to have to put you on probation for as long as it takes for Kari to recover. I'm very disappointed in you!"
"You.you mean I can't play Volleyball until Kari recovers?" Mrs. Kuchida nodded. "What! Kari's the evil sadistic witch! She's a show off! She trying to out do me so T.K. will want to go out with her!"
"You evil-" T.K. began but stopped when Kari spoke, "That's not what you said yesterday Rei! Yesterday you said T.K. was your man. I didn't argue. He may be your man but he is my best friend." (A/N. You go girl!)
"But if he's going to be your man, you treat him with respect and dignity. He probably would have lost enough dignity if he were going to your level to find a date. I can't believe you sink so low as to attack his best friend," a familiar voice said from the doorway. Matt and Tai were standing in the doorway.
"Matt, Tai. When did you get here?" T.K. asked. "I thought we were walking home."
"You were but mom called me on my cell and told me to come get you guys. I had to drive all the way from Kichi's house and you know how far away that is. Come on," Tai said as he came over to pick Kari up. She whimpered again.
"What's wrong?" Tai asked. But Kari did not answer him. Instead she buried her face in his chest and cried. T.K. got their bags and with the help of Matt carried them to Tai's car.
"Kari?" Tai asked as T.K. climbed into Tai's Porsche after putting their things in the trunk. Rei and Yamazaki were already sitting there with their things in their laps. Both were looking down cast. "Do mind if you sit on T.K.'s lap?" Kari shook her head and Tai placed her gently in T.K.'s arms. Like she had done with Tai she snuggled her face into T.K.'s chest and cried silently shaking slightly.
T.K. hugged her. The down cast Rei, who was sitting in the middle attempted to lean on T.K. for comfort but he pulled away angrily and stared down at his injured best friend. "It's okay Kari. It's okay," T.K. said as he hugged his best friend again. Suddenly he thought of what Patamon had told him earlier came back. His face became warm as he thought about having a crush on his best friend. Gatomon and Patamon came running (or flying) into the open door.
Patamon settled on T.K.'s white hat again and whispered, "Is she okay?" Gatomon bounded into Kari's lap and hugged her. "Kari, I'm so glad you're okay," Gatomon said. "We just found out what happened from Tai and Matt." As she said this Tai and Matt pushed their seats back and climbed into the front seats. Starting up the car and leaving the parking lot Tai streaked Kari home. While he drove Kari leaned against T.K. looking out the window while hugging Gatomon like a three year old snuggling with their stuffed animal.
When they reached the apartment complex Tai and Matt took T.K. and Kari's things up while T.K. carried Kari up the stairs.
"Thank goodness for Basketball and training," he thought as he carried her up. The still down cast Yamazaki and Rei (feeling even more down cast after being refused by T.K.) followed not far behind. When they walked into the Kamiya apartment Kari's mother dropped her cookbooks on the counter and rushed to hug and kiss her daughter. While she said good-bye to Tai and Matt she glared unrelentingly at Rei.
"Kari do you still want to cook?" Mrs. Kamiya asked anxiously. Kari nodded. "Do you want to take some pain relievers?" Mrs. Kamiya asked in the same worried tone. Kari nodded and her mother hurried to the kitchen getting a glass of water and two pills for her daughter. Kari swallowed the pills and a couple minutes later got off the couch (where T.K. had laid her) and pulled out their brainstorm list.
For the next four hours the foursome cooked without rest testing their final products on Kari's parents. After their four hours of labor and testing about a third of the things on the list the group's list hadn't changed except for a few tiny notes made on the first five. Where it had formally been:
1. Chocolate Chip Cookies 2. Sugar Cookies with homemade frosting 3. Brownies 4. Cupcakes-homemade frosting 5. Doughnuts-homemade frosting 6. Pies 7. Ice Cream Sandwiches 8. Ice Cream Bars 9. Popsicles 10. Shakes with a twist 11. Smoothies 12. Lemonade with limes 13. Pastries
It was now:
1. Chocolate chip Cookies 2. Sugar Cookies with homemade frosting 3. Brownies 4. Cupcakes-homemade frosting 5. Doughnuts-homemade frosting (small) 6. Pies 7. Ice Cream Sandwiches 8. Ice Cream Bars 9. Popsicles 10. Shakes with a twist 11. Smoothies 12. Lemonade with limes 13. Pastries
Tomorrow they would come back to Kari's house and do the next five and brainstorm some more bake sale ideas. Though Kari thought she could never like Rei especially after what she did to her today to Kari's surprise she found Rei very pleasant to work with in the kitchen. She was an excellent cook and really nice when she wasn't competing for T.K.
So far Kari's parents had like most of the things they tried. Though the adults never got to taste the doughnuts, they never finished, Kari and the others were going to do the first five again with different frostings, which Kari would make at the beginning of tomorrow's cooking lesson. They spent 30 minutes cleaning up and then collapsed in the living room to decide on the ingredients they would need for tomorrow.
"Definitely more of what we had today," Rei said. "If were going to remake all the recipes with different kinds of icing. Kari what do you need to make the icing?"
"Well, before I can tell you that we need to figure out what icing flavors we want. We'll also have to go check out some pastry books tomorrow. If someone would please find maybe at the least three different glaze recipes that would also be nice."
"How about chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry for our icings?" Yamazaki suggested. Everyone agreed and Kari wrote down Hershey's kisses, vanilla extract, and various other items to make the chosen icings.
"Great," Rei said watching what Kari wrote over her shoulder. "Now that we've got that we can list what we might need for the next two or three items." They did so and so they had a nice list with which they gave to Mrs. Kamiya.
"Mom, how much did you spend on groceries for our project today?" Kari asked.
"$45.69, why?" Mrs. Kamiya asked surveying the ingredient list.
"Because, " Kari said, "we need to document how much we're spending for this project. First reason is because they gave us a budget, they second reason is so they can reimburse the parents that paid for the necessities up front." She walked back into the living room and sat down stiffly on the couch.
Rei winced but her hands hovered over her laptop. She had readied a spreadsheet with the necessary formulas.
"$45.69," Kari said. Rei's hands flew across the keyboard as she typed in the amount. Everyone looked at her.
"That leaves us with a balance of $454.31," Rei said as she saved the document and turned off her laptop.
"Great," Kari said. "Now, we can always ask for a raise of our budget if we do some extra work for a week and get top marks so don't worry if we're about to run over a little." There was a knock on the door. Mrs. Kamiya answered.
"Hello," they heard her say. A minute later a blonde woman and a brunette woman stepped into view.
"Rei, are you ready?" asked the blonde who was obviously Mrs. Tukose and that meant the brunette was Mrs. Watobe. Yamazaki and Rei got up and grabbed their things.
"Bye guys," they said as they put on their shoes and left. T.K. and Kari talked until 11pm when T.K. had to use the bathroom. When he returned he saw Kari lying on the floor asleep. Smiling, he moved her to her bed and left.
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The next day Kari dressed in the school uniform. The green skirt and blouse with white trigging and white socks with brown loafers. By the time Kari got to school the news of her injury had traveled fast. She was hugged carefully by the other uniformed students. When she got to her locker (Tai carrying her things) she had to remove seventeen bags of candy with get well cards attached. When Kari went into Math, the teacher Mrs. Kuchida present Kari with an empty bag and told Kari to put all her presents in it. She had to ask Mrs. Kuchida for three more as the gifts on her desk were over flowing and on the floor and surrounding desks. And the Math teacher did not assign any homework
In English she found more gifts for her had been left with the teacher. Presented in one and a half bags. Other students were carrying the other bags in. The bags sat beside Kari as she waited for her mother to come. Today she had a doctor's appointment.
When the nurse came to inform Kari her mother was here the teacher assigned eight people (all guys) to carry her things to her mother's car. Kari went quickly to the nurse's office where her mother was waiting. The nurse checked her out and she left the school with her mom. The guys loaded all the bags into the truck and T.K. handed her a book with a pink ribbon tied around it.
"Bye Kari, I'll put your stuff up for you," T.K. said. "When you get back, tell me how it went." Kari nodded and hugged her best friend. By the time they got the doctor's office Kari was trembling. "I sure hope they don't have to give me a shot," she thought as she climbed out of the car and walked towards the building. Upon going inside the building her mother and her rode the elevator up to the fifth floor.
Mrs. Kamiya went up the receptionist told her that Kari was there for her doctor's appointment. Kari on the other hand was still holding the book watching Gatomon (who she had left at home, or at least thought she had) pace the floor. Finally getting bored with her Kari removed the ribbon and opened the book and saw that it was like a scrapbook T.K. had made. Though it wasn't the best skill it was still pretty and Kari was so happy she forgot where she was and started to cry.
"Kari, the doctor will see you now," a woman in white said. Kari scrubbed the tears out of her eyes and off her face and walked in calmly followed closely (so close she was tripping) by Gatomon and her mom behind her. After the normal weight, height check up they went into an office and waited. While they waited Kari looked at the scrapbook examining each page thoroughly. Kari started to cry just as the doctor came in.
"Does it hurt?" he asked. Kari looked up and took in his sandy brown hair and green eyes. He was wearing a white coat over his red shirt and jeans.
"No, my.my.my best friend.he.he just.just made me.a scrapbook of things.of things we did and.and still do together," Kari said through her joyful tears. The doctor took the book and opened it. "Wow. A guy made this?" he asked. "What's his name?"
"T.K. well that's actually his nickname. His real name is Takeru Takaishi. He's has messy blonde hair and ocean blue eyes and some well-developed muscles. He's not a muscle man or anything oh no. He's basketball player. He's really nice and thoughtful and he's really kind too. But he's also deep. He's very deep and though he doesn't get upset easily some things do get him upset and then he like breaths fire. It's so awesome." While she had been saying those things the doctor had been examining her. He lifted her shirt and put the flat metal plate on her back. "Who's the brown-haired kid beside you in the picture?"
"That's my brother Tai. Very courageous and always has a plan of action. Though sometimes they're not the best things to do." The doctor laughed. "And the spiky blonde beside T.K.?"
"That's T.K.'s brother (A/N. or is it half-brother? I can never remember. If someone would please tell me which one so I can get it right I'd be very thankful.) Matt. Tai and him are best friends." After a few examinations the doctor asked, "How did this accident happen?"
Instantly Kari's eyes darkened as she replied, "Rei Tokuse, a girl from my school, is the leader of T.K.'s fan club. She thinks I want to take T.K. away from her or some how manipulate T.K.'s mind by showing off in front of him at Volleyball practice. Well we were practicing one on one with the coach and being called forward to practice some things, Rei got some applause but I got more. She got angry and when we started to practice team against team, we made it all the way up to the front row, no problem. But once we were there, the troubles started. The first time the ball came towards us I jumped to get it she jumped also and pushed me down while missed the ball intentionally. The second time, though I did manage to hit the ball she crashed into my arm. The third time when I went for the ball, she went for it also though she heard me say I had it.
"She crashed into me and I flew sideways into the bleachers. She of course scored, because everyone else was too busy staring at me to stop the ball. While Rei was trying hard not to grin, T.K. was asking how I was doing. I told him I heard a cracking sound and then he got extremely upset at Rei and called her an evil sadistic witch. Then she burst out into tears and T.K. said that I should be the one crying, not Rei, and I was crying, but not because I wanted too. T.K. carried me to the nurse and she said I needed to wear a brace for a few days. She fitted me with a temporary one until I went to the doctor." The doctor nodded.
"Well, let me go get that brace for you and I'll be right back."
"That evil witch," Kari's mom hissed after the doctor had left. She had been looking at the scrapbook T.K. had made for her. After having the brace put on the doctor said, "Like the nurse said all you have to do is wear this brace for a few days. All that happened when you hit the bleachers was that one of you bones popped out of alignment. It's not out too far, just a little, so if you wear this for a couple of days and don't do any running or sports, don't carry heavy things or eat more than you want, you should be back to your normal life style in no time." Kari nodded. "Thank you," she said.
He said, "Schedule another appointment for Monday to have it removed. If you feel any pain just take some aspirin. I'll see you soon Kari." Mrs. Kamiya nodded now and while ushering Kari out the door said, "Thank you." Mrs. Kamiya did indeed set up a second appointment for Kari at 11:10 Monday morning.
"Where do you want to eat?" Mrs. Kamiya asked once they were on the road again.
"I don't know, how about McDonalds?" Kari mumbled looking at her album again.
"McDonalds it is!" Mrs. Kamiya said. Kari stared at a picture that they had taken with the whole digidestined team. Her eyes were fixed on her and T.K. who were at the front of the group arms around each other grinning while a dejected Davis stood beside her arms folded. She thought of her 'intimate crush' on T.K. It couldn't really be true could it? Having a crush on her best friend was completely preposterous. Was it? Suddenly a memory flooded her mind.
***Flashback***
T.K.: You're going to give up? Just like that? Listen Kari; I care too much about you to let you go without a fight!
Kari: Huh?
***End of Flashback***
That had been back when she first went to the dark ocean. And what had she said later on that day when he came to rescue her?
***Flashback***
Kari: T.K., remember this morning when you said you cared about me? What did you mean by that?
T.K.: Uh, you know, it meant, uh, stuff.
Kari: Well ya know what? I really care about you to.
***End of Flashback***
But that was caring about him like a friend right? If this was going to be what she was going through over the next couple years she might as well have been drowning in the dark ocean. And yes, though Gatomon was shining a little light, she still would have found it more profitable to be stumbling through pitch-black caverns trying to reach the light taunting her above. Did Tai go through this? "Maybe I'll ask mom later," she thought.
"What are you thinking about?" Gatomon asked staring at her thoughtfully.
"What? Oh nothing," Kari said in a distant tone.
"Yes you are. Is it T.K.?" Gatomon asked bluntly. Kari's heart stopped.
She smiled at her digimon before saying, "You're good. I was thinking about our adventures in the digital world."
"Liar," Gatomon said. "What were you really thinking about?"
"Okay, okay. I was thinking about something T.K. said to me three years ago," Kari confessed.
"What was it?" Gatomon pushed.
"Well, it was the first time I went to the dark ocean, when T.K. asked me if I was just giving up. And then he told me that he cared to much about me to let me just disappear," Kari replied but quickly added seeing the mischievous glint in her digimon's eye, "But it's nothing."
"You were thinking about what I told you the other day weren't you?" Gatomon asked.
"No," Kari said defiantly. They stopped at a McDonalds and Kari got out of the car. She looked at the green skirt she was wearing and smoothed the wrinkles on her white blouse (A/N. That was the uniform Sora wore in the second season, wasn't it?). Gatomon hopped out and together they went in. After eating Kari stopped by her house to get the recipe books, went back to school, and was just in time for Geography, though she was 20 minutes late.
After checking in she went down the halls and found her locker. She opened it. A mountain of presents fell out of it knocking her over in the process. She heard a laugh and looked around to see T.K. walking towards her. Her entire body was covered by presents except her head, legs, and arms. Holding down his hand, T.K. helped Kari up from the mess.
"How'd it go?" T.K. asked as her helped her pick up the presents and shoved them back into her locker.
"I have to wear it for a few days. Can't eat too much, lift heavy objects, no running, and no sports. By the way," she gave him a peck on the cheek and he blushed. "Thanks for the scrapbook."
"Yeah well, I've been working on it for a couple years. If you don't like it I can-" T.K. said still red.
"Like it?"
"Do you like it?" T.K. asked hopefully.
"Like it? No." T.K. looked as though someone had punched him in the stomach. "Love it? Yes." He grinned. "Really?" She nodded, pulling out her books. The two walked beside each other to Geography.
"Mrs. Kamiya, how nice to see you. How was your appointment?" the teacher asked when she saw Kari.
"Fine."
"Well, T.K. can tell you what we're doing," the teacher replied.
"Well, we're just brainstorming some new recipes," T.K. replied as he gave Kari his chair and pulled up another one for himself. "What have we got so far guys?"
"We've got a list," Rei said shoving it across the table. This one said:
White Macadamia Nut Cookies Oatmeal Raisin Peanut Butter Cookies Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins Cinnamon Sugar Butter Cookies Ginger Snaps Gingerbread Men
"I know they're a little out of season but hey it's just brainstorming," Rei said pointing to the Gingerbread Men.
"Well," Kari said as she pushed the stack of recipe books to the center. "Let's look through these and see if we can't lengthen that list." They nodded, and all grabbed a book, and began to flip through them.
Kari, who was looking through Mrs. Fields Cookie Book (ignore the title if Mrs. Fields isn't in Japan), said, "Hey look at these. Chocolate-Glazed Shortbread Cookies." The group leaned over and examined the cookies half (long ways) covered in chocolate.
Rei wrote it down and then said, "And if we did chocolate cookies and half covered them in white chocolate, we're set."
"What about these Cinnamon Maple Rings?" Kari asked turning the book around so everyone could see the mini cinnamon rolls. She turned the page as Rei wrote it down and then said, "Hey an icing recipe for Gingerbread Men." She again showed the book to the others and Rei proceeded to sigh. "Even though I wrote Gingerbread Men, down it's a relief that we have a recipe. Gingerbread Men are not my strong point."
"Candy Bar Cookies," T.K. said staring at The Pillsbury Bake-off Cookbook. "There's no picture, but let's try these anyway." Rei nodded and wrote them down. "And then Starlight Mint Surprise." Rei wrote it down too.
Suddenly Yamazaki laid down his book and said, "You guys we need to rent space for our bake-sale." Everyone became silent.
"No, problem," Kari said laying her book on the table and pulling out her laptop. She quickly signed on ignoring the announcement that she had more mail. She typed rapidly while Rei pulled out her own laptop and signed online also. While they did that T.K. and Yamazaki to returned searching, T.K. writing down the things they found.
12 minutes later Kari said, "I found one!" She pulled out her cell. "I'm going to call and see how much this person wants for it." She dialed the number. "775-2364."
"Hello?" a pleasant sounding female voice said.
"Yeah, I just saw your ad for a small space available for rent on Main Street. I was wondering how much your were charging for it. Please. I am a sophomore at Odaiba High and our school is doing something to help our community and we need a place where we can set up a bake sale. We only have $500," Kari pleaded.
"Well, in that case I'll let you rent it for $33 a week," came Kari's reply.
"Really? Thank you Mrs."
"Lambert."
"Yes, thank you Mrs. Lambert."
"Now, I must tell you the place needs a little work. So you might have to do some things before you can open up for business. There is a kitchen, a cabinet and refrigerator that does work. There is also a small office. Let's see, you're in school right now, so how about I meet you and your bake sale group at about 4:15?"
"Okay, that'll work. Thank you Mrs. Lambert!" Kari said and hung up with a huge grin. "For $33 a week we can rent this place." Rei typed that in on the spreadsheet and said, "After paying this week's rent we have $421.00 left for the other things. In the first week we'll have to make enough money to cover rent and ingredients for the next week." Kari bookmarked the website and turned off her laptop putting it away. T.K. pushed the brainstorm list over to the girls. They had checked through all the books on the table and found that only three of them contained things that they needed.
Kari and Rei looked over the list. This is what they saw in addition to the ones above:
Mrs. Fields Cookie Book:
Chocolate Cream Filled Hearts Chocolate Sandwich Cookie (We can reverse) Surprise Filled Cookies Lemon Cream-Filled Cookies Carmel Filled Brownies Peanut Butter & Jelly Squares Mocha Mousse Cheesecake Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Classic Apple Pie Carrot Cake Chocolate Macadamia Cream Satin Cream Chocolate Fantasy Baby Banana Cream Pies
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The Pillsbury Bake-off Cookbook-109-133
Chewy Microwave Granola Bars Peanut Blossoms Easy Lemon Sours Peanut Butter Fudge Brownies Chocolate Mint Parfait Bars Treasure Chest Bars Rocky Road Fudge Bars 135-159 Japanese Fruit Marble Cake Mardi Gras Party Cake 161-186 Lemon Fudge Ribbon Pie Peaches and Cream Crescent Dessert Spicy Apple Twists Fudge Marble Cheesecake
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The Pillsbury Party Cookbook
Pg.52 Roasted Pepper and Pasta Salad Pg.53 Almost Candy Bars Pg.62 Cookie and Cone Clowns Pg. 85 Thick Pan Pizza Pg. 88 Pizza Dippers Pg. 89 Wheel-o'-Fun Cakes Pg. 121 Stars 'n Stripes Cookie Squares
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Our Ideas
Tacos Burritos Nachos Hamburgers Blueberry Muffin Cranberry Muffin
"Good list guys," Rei said. They grinned.
"We're turning this thing into a restaurant," Kari said also grinning. Suddenly everyone looked at her like she was a genius. And she knew why too. "Restaurant," they all said together.
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Hi guys. If you didn't like the ending sorry, I was out of ideas. I have one for the next chapter though. At least I think I do. Anyway, if you want the recipes to any of the food items I mentioned in this chapter just tell me in a review and I'll post them as a chapter. Thanks for reading and please review. Next chapter out ASAP. This spacing thing is really annoying.
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