Alright. Sorry for the long wait. Thanks to those who reviewed. This is Chapter 2, by the way. If you find it sappy, so be it. HAHA! Please rate & review. :D
I repeat, I DO NOT OWN THE CHARACTERS.
Chapter 2: Contemplations
Wong household… 6:45 PM…
Henry arrived at his apartment and saw Mr. Wong at the living room.
"Hey, Dad!" he said.
"Henry… Glad you're home…" Mr. Wong said.
"You'we just in time to eat!" Suzie said to her older brother. "Hey, whewe have you been? Did you go and see Wika again?"
Henry blushed because his sister figured out where he had been. More so, his blush became deeper when he remembered what had happened at Rika's house a while ago. Those violet eyes which looked exquisite to him and he was still captivated by Rika's beauty.
"Man! How am I gonna get Rika out of my head!" Henry said to himself as he rubbed his temples.
"What's the matter, Henry?" asked Mrs. Wong who noticed her son's odd behavior.
"N-Nothing, Mom!" Henry lied. If he told his mother about Rika, he will never hear the end of it after receiving his total embarrassment with Jaarin and Suzie hours ago.
The Wong family had their dinner and everyone seems to be excited over random things. Especially Suzie who was excited about being a fourth grader.
"And that's how my fiwst day went!" Suzie said to her family.
The Wongs were laughing at Suzie's narration. Until they finished their dinner and all went straight to their rooms. Henry was lying in his bed and still thinking about Rika. His obvious crush on her makes it even bigger as he reflects on her.
"Now I realized that experiencing this is even harder than Tai Chi…" Henry said and after that, he grabbed something to keep his mind sane.
Nonaka household… 8:45 PM…
Since Seiko relieved Rumiko's responsibility in dishwashing, Rumiko felt it was free to watch a soap opera for that night. Rika was hanging around in one corner.
"Rika, can I ask you something?" Rumiko said to her daughter.
"Yeah, Mom? What is it?" Rika said.
"I was asking how do you find your friends and why do you can't get away from them? Especially with that boy earlier…" Rumiko said to her daughter.
"What? They're my friends? And I got along with them because of Digimon…" Rika answered, not knowing where the conversation would lead to.
"What about Henry? You seem to be very close with him!" said Rumiko again.
Rika's eyes widened at that point. She was already embarrassed with the fact that her mother saw her and Henry at the living room a while ago and now the topic about him has been brought up casually.
"Yeah… He is close to me… I don't know why… But I prefer him a better company rather than Ryo!" said Rika with a plain expression.
"Rika, I'm happy that you're attracting cute guys such as Henry and Ryo… But when will you start being a girl and wear dress or get girly instead?" Rumiko smiled.
"Mom, if I wear a dress or get girly if that's you're saying… I'd be scaring the daylights out of them… And there's no way that I'll wear a dress unless I get married or something!" said Rika.
"Whatever you say, Rika!" Rumiko shook her head.
"Talk about married? I don't even plan to have a boyfriend! But… there's something that tells me that I should give romance a chance… Nah! It will be foolish anyway!" Rika said as she shook her head to stop the madness that came over her. "Anyway, I gotta go, Mom… I still have school tomorrow…"
"Good night, Rika!" said Rumiko.
"Night, Mom." said Rika as she raced to her room.
Matsuki household… 9:00 PM…
Takato was not yet sleepy so he thought of doing something worthwhile before hitting the sack. He remembered that he got Jeri's phone number a while ago. Perfect! A better way how to get through the girl he likes!
He reached for his phone and dialed Jeri's number.
"How I wish it's her! Please be it her! Be it her!" Takato moaned slightly.
A few rings came on the side and someone answered. "Hello?"
The voice was Jeri's, to Takato's joy.
"H-Hi, Jeri! What's up?" said Takato nervously.
"Oh hello, Takato! Why did you call?" Jeri's voice sounded like a girl about to explode.
"I just want to talk to you over the phone!" Takato said. "Dang! It sounded lame!"
"Aww! That's sweet of you Takato!" Jeri said sweetly. "Anyway, what do you wanna talk about?"
"Anything!" said Takato. "I like it when it's about you!"
When Takato realized what he had just said, he blushed while holding his phone in alarm.
"Takato, you liked things related to me?!" Jeri echoed. But deep inside, she is about to squeal.
"Y-Yeah!" Takato stuttered. He realized that fooling around Jeri is not just a piece of cake.
"Okay!" and Jeri began mentioning things that she would like to talk about and they can say it is going to be a very loooooong night.
Nonaka household… 10 PM…
Rika was about to sleep when she heard her cellphone ringing.
"Hello?"
"Hi Rika!"
The voice was so familiar to Rika. It was Ryo Akiyama. The so-called Digimon King.
"What, Ryo? Why are you calling as late as this?" Rika asked.
"Nothing, Wildcat! I just want to apologize for always bugging you every since I defeated you in that Card Tournament… and with all the flirting stuff… I felt bad for doing so…"
"Since when did you get sincere all of a sudden?!" Rika was totally curious.
"Just now? I guess… I know that you're only amused with me so I decided to accept it." said Ryo on the other line. "So can you forgive me and let's be friends?"
"Fine! You're forgiven! But one more thing, can you please stop calling me nicknames?" Rika said with her tone as icy as it was before.
"Sure! I'd buy that!" said Ryo. "Anyway, see you at school tomorrow! Bye!"
"I won't be seeing you…" Rika said slyly and with a maniacal laugh. And with that, she got the phone off and slept.
Rika was already dreaming at this point.
DREAM:
It was set 10 years into the future. Rika was seen to be wearing a wedding dress, just as she prophesied when she was 14. When she looked from afar, she saw that her groom was wearing a tuxedo and he had blue hair. Could this be Henry Wong, the boy she liked before?
And when she had reached for the altar, she was unexplainably happy because her husband-to-be was indeed Henry Wong and they were about be a couple legally .
"Do you, Rika Nonaka, take Henry Wong to be your lawfully wedded husband?"
And Rika said, "Yes, I do."
"Do you, Henry Wong, take Rika Nonaka to be your lawfully wedded wife?"
And Henry said, "Yes, I do."
"I now pronounce you, man and wife. You may now kiss the bride!"
Both of them felt infinite bliss when they faced each other. When they had kissed, they felt a white light shining upon them.
END OF DREAM
Then Rika Nonaka woke up to face reality.
"What the heck?!" she said with eyes wide with amazement and shock.
As she slapped herself, Rika was totally aware that it was indeed a dream. A part of her wanted it to be real but she erased those thoughts since that would hamper her friendship with Henry.
"That dream! It looked… so real… Should I tell this to him? He could laugh at me if I told him! I know it would be just coincidence if he had the same dream too…" Rika said. "Oh good. Rika, focus. You have to erase those nasty thoughts on your head. Yeah. So you could fall asleep once again!"
But little did Rika know was that Henry also got the same dream.
Wong household… 12 MN…
Henry Wong woke up also because of the dream.
"Did it really happen?" he said with amusement as he got his alarm clock. It read 12:05 MN. "That's weird… I got married to Rika?!"
He rushed out of his room and into the bathroom to wash that almost-reality that took place. When he was enough, he went back to his bed.
"That's crazy… I know I like Rika… Could it really be true? But if it's dream… I wish that I would never wake up… But how am I gonna tell her that? She'd probably laugh at me for it…" Henry thought and he fell asleep instantly.
Even though Rika fell asleep soundly after that dream, she could not help but wonder why she had that in the first place. She seemed distracted by that and caused her grandmother to worry about her.
"Rika dear, are you alright?" asked Rika's grandmother.
"Y-Yes, Grandma! I'm fine!" said Rika. "Man, it seems everyone is asking about that since yesterday… Oh great… If I tell him about it, I'd really look pathetic! Maybe I should keep quiet…"
And while Rika is distracted about it, on the other hand, Henry is still trying to figure out what could happen if he told her about it. He was even afraid to tell her that he liked her. How far if he told her something with depth to it?
"Think of the best time, Henry! There's no use in fooling around the girl you like!" Henry berated himself.
Then by a trick of fate, the two ended up meeting each other along the pavement. It was not smooth since Rika collided into Henry as she was walking by. As she noticed that it was Henry, she went from shock to blush because of that dream that lingered in her mind.
"H-Henry! H-Hi!" she stuttered. "Good grief! I so wanna kill myself for doing this…"
"Hey Rika!" Henry said good-naturedly. But deep inside, he is going to burst in embarrassment. "You mind walking alone or do you want me to accompany you?"
"S-Sure! I won't mind…" Rika said. "Geez, Rika… Making a fool out of yourself is now the worst career you'll do in the world next to modeling…"
"Okay… Let's go then." Henry said simply. Rika blushed but looked away, for she did not want to make a fool out of herself any longer.
The two went to school, pretending that nothing happened yesterday at Rika's house as well as their secret dreams that had each of them in it. They realized that they should wait for the perfect time to say it rather than exposing their secrets and making fools out of themselves. They were finally distracted by the sight of Ryo talking to Alice.
"Looks like the resident Romeo has found himself a Juliet!" Rika gained back her confidence and snickered to Henry, who just laughed with her.
"Hey, Rika!" Ryo smiled. "Anyway, guys, this is Alice McCoy…"
"No need for that Ryo…" Alice said and giggled.
"Alice and I already knew each other…" Rika said. "She studied in the same school as I did… and Henry knew her because she used to have Dobermon, the messenger."
"Yes, Rika… You know me very well!" Alice simply said.
"Anyway, where are you off to?" Ryo asked.
"To school, Einstein! Where else will we go?" Rika retorted.
"Oh right! HAHAHA!" Ryo said and scratched his head. "Anyway, catch you later! Alice and I are going to school!"
"Yeah! Catch you later, you dufus!" Rika said and tugged Henry along with her. "Come on, Henry! Let's go!"
As the two younger teens went away, Alice asked a weird question that would sure knock Ryo's guts out because of laughing.
"Is that Henry her boyfriend?" she said.
"No… But she'd like to be HIS girlfriend!" Ryo answered with a chuckle, somehow accepting the word that he said. "That's impossible… Unless she did fall in love all of a sudden. Well, whatever I can do, I should be happy for my friend. And I guess Henry can kick some sense of romance into her…"
Rika was in an unusually happy self when she saw Ryo a while ago. She is finally free from Ryo's bugging!
"Finally, that rooster head had found himself a hen! There's no way he'll be bugging me now!" she said loudly but Henry can only hear.
"That's good…" Henry laughed nervously. He had been contemplating on making a move on Rika but the thought of her busting him made his thought fly away and further more, it only made him blush.
Rika noticed that Henry blushed. "Why was he blushing? And frankly, he looked so funny!" she thought.
"Wong, stop blushing. You looked like an idiot, for your information." Rika said that but deep inside, she was completely amused with it.
"Thanks." Henry grinned.
"No biggy!" Rika said coyly. "Let's go before we get late to class!"
"You're right!" Henry said and they ran to school like normal children.
When they arrived in school, they saw Takato and Jeri talking to each other earnestly. And luckily, or unluckily, they spotted Kazu and Kenta in one corner.
"Hey Visorhead! What time did you see Takato and Jeri talking?" Rika asked.
"Around 7:30, Digimon Queen. Look at the time, it's 7:54!" Kazu pointed out.
"Ugh! They must be talking about mushy stuff!" Kenta groaned.
"Anyway, we saw Ryo with a girl…" Henry added.
"That's not a surprise!" Kazu said while sneering. "What's she look like?"
"Blondie… You know Alice McCoy? Our new classmate in Ms. Asaji's class? That's the girl!" Rika replied.
"Oh! Her!" Kenta said as he lifted his glasses. "Say, is that Ryo and the Alice girl?"
Henry and Rika looked to where Kenta is looking. "Yeah! That's her!" he said.
"HEY RYO!" Kazu called out, hoping that Ryo could hear him.
Ryo and Alice were just walking towards the quartet when Kazu called Ryo.
"Hey guys! Why are you calling me?" Ryo said.
"Dude! I can't believe it!" Kazu said as he eyed Ryo suspiciously. "Fangirl?"
"No! I'm not his fangirl. I'm just an acquaintance from the other block!" Alice replied.
"Cool!" Kenta said.
Then, the bell rang for it was time for the students to go inside their classrooms.
"Anyway, it's nice to talk to you guys but I gotta run! I had a tardy on first day and I don't wanna repeat it today!" Ryo said as he brushed off. "See you all!"
"Great! I'm Kazu Shioda!" said Kazu as he extended his arm to Alice.
"And I'm Kenta Kitagawa!" said Kenta.
"I'm Alice McCoy!" said Alice.
Then the trio went inside, leaving Henry and Rika shaking their heads.
"Boys…" Rika said.
When Rika reached Jeri's side, this grabbed her the opportunity to tease Jeri.
"So, what Jeri Katou and Takato Matsuki talked about?" Rika started.
"Oh my gosh! Rika! I thought you're Nikki!" Jeri said, almost having a heart attack. "Well! So many stuff and you won't believe what happened yesterday night!"
"What happened?" Rika was now goggle-eyed.
"He called me at my house! Isn't that exciting?!" Jeri squealed.
"Oh no! A day of squealing and yelling from Jeri Katou! If only she knew that my dream is worse than hers!" Rika thought to herself. "Speaking of Henry, where is he now?"
Her violet eyes spotted the blue-haired boy talking to Takato. Suddenly, her heart skipped a beat and she blushed.
"Oh no! It's bad enough that I learned to like him but acting like this in front of Jeri? I'll never hear the rest of it!" Rika mentally slapped herself.
"Hey, Rika!" Jeri called. "Want to know other details?"
"Yeah! Sure!" said Rika and sat down with Jeri. As she expected, the brunette talked mostly about Takato.
Takato now brought up his experience last night with Jeri at the phone to Henry.
"I called her on the phone last night, Henry and I felt funny!" Takato blushed.
"So? Now's the time to make your move!" Henry advised.
"I can't! I feel embarrassed! What if she turns down on me?" Takato said, facepalming himself. "There's no other girl who can replace her in me… Neither can Rika… She's just our friend!"
Henry's grey eyes now were scanning the classroom for Rika. Sure, her hair has been tied up just like before and she is wearing a white shirt that went along with black pants but to him, she looks prettier than any other girl in their classroom.
Takato noticed that Henry was stunned already in the middle of their conversation but saw that he was looking at someone else. He knew that Henry was not looking at Jeri because Henry knew of Takato's crush on her so he assumed the last, Henry was looking at Rika.
"Hey, Henry! Are you looking at Rika?" asked Takato and waved his hand now to catch Henry's attention.
Henry did not reply. That caught Takato and he laughed at Henry.
"So you are looking at Rika!" Takato teased. "That means, you like her!"
Henry blushed. "No, I don't!" he said. It was obviously a lie.
"Then why are you blushing? You're pink, you know?" Takato teased.
"I told you I don't, Takato!" Henry said. "Unfortunately, yes, Takato, I do like her… Now the dream I had yesterday night made it even obvious it's more than that…"
"Well, I don't understand why you're like that, Henry but I take it, you like Rika and you're afraid to tell me… Oh well, we're indeed best friends since I too am afraid to tell Jeri what I feel." Takato grinned.
Henry simply ignored Takato. But Takato is right. He cannot bring himself to tell Rika how he feels. Both of them are clueless what to do.
Then Ms. Asaji entered the room and it was the time for first period. Math. Because of that, the students groaned.
Remembering that she sat with Henry yesterday on their first day, Rika went to where she is supposed to be. Then they were doing Math when Rika began thinking randomly.
"Hey, Henry! I saw you talking to Takato earlier… So what did Gogglehead say to you?" she said.
"Well, he told me that he called Jeri yesterday night and they talked about insane and stuff…" Henry recalled.
"That's what Jeri said to me! A while ago!" Rika sneered. "I wonder how we can get those lovebirds together?"
"Yeah… It will take the entire school year for Takato to get to ask her out!" Henry pointed out.
"Do you have any idea? You seriously can't count on me on this one!" Rika groaned.
"I could say the same but there could be a way!" Henry said good-naturedly.
"Of course, there'll be a way! You're Henry the-oh-so-amazing pacifist!" Rika chuckled.
Then they heard Ms. Asaji yell in the room.
"MR. SHIODA! YOU'RE SLEEPING AGAIN, AREN'T YOU? WELL, THERE'S TWO COUNTS OF DETENTION TO YOU, YOU LITTLE MISTER!" she said.
Takato whispered to Kenta on one side. "Kazu is so gonna be in for it!" he said.
Then Ms. Asaji led the dazed Kazu out of the classroom, gathering laughter and hilarity from the class.
"And if anyone of you tries sleeping in Math class? You will join him for the rest of the week!" the teacher threatened.
"Who the hell sleeps in Math class?" one student remarked.
"Kazu Shioda, of course!" Alice McCoy answered.
Then the bell rang signaling for their recess. Kazu and Kenta found Takato, Jeri, Henry and Rika in one table.
"Can we sit with you guys?" Kazu asked.
"Sure, you can. There's some space around here." Henry said. He was seated next to Takato. If he sat next to Rika during lunch, the other boy would sure get suspicious. And if he saw Takato sat next to Jeri, in his opinion, that would mean too obvious.
"So, how do you find being in detention, Kazu?" Takato asked.
"No change! The teacher in the office looks like a zookeeper keeping a wild animal!" Kazu groaned.
"I'm not surprised, Visorhead! Because you yourself are wild enough for an animal! Wilder enough, if I'm not mistaken!" Rika smiled deviously.
"HEY!" Kazu retorted.
"Let's eat before everything turns cold!" Jeri said.
However, peace was destroyed around the Tamers. Because in one second, a group of guys were giving something to Rika, most likely that news had spread that she is a model's daughter.
"Rika Nonaka, is it true that you are the daughter of the greatest model, Rumiko Nonaka?" one boy asked.
"Rika Nonaka, will you go out with me?" another one asked.
"Oh boy!" Rika thought. "It's just my second day of school but it appears as if it's my third to the last!"
"Uh, no gifts or anything please… Rika is too busy right now…" Takato said as Kazu attempted to get rid of the guys while Henry and Kenta surrounded both Rika and Jeri respectively, otherwise all of them will get totally harassed.
Rika found herself in an uncomfortable with Henry's body just an inch away from her. She definitely remembered what happened at her house yesterday and it did not leave her mind for good.
After considerable prodding, the guys eventually left the table and the Tamers had finally gone to their seats once again.
"Man, Rika, you sure do attract lots of guys!" Kazu commented.
"Yeah! Unfortunately… Thanks for shoving those guys away…" Rika said dully. She definitely had no interest in them. Only in one person and she herself knows who is it.
"No problem! The next thing you'll need is a bodyguard, Rika!" said Kenta.
Then all of the tamers got quiet and ate their food because all of them are rest assured that nothing will bug them again. Rika looked at Henry to see if he reacted to what had happened earlier. She did not want to assume he is jealous because that would only cause distraction in her already-distracted mind.
Henry looked at Rika after he finished his food. He was actually jealous when many guys tried asking Rika out earlier. But when Rika caught him seeing her, he immediately looked away and blushed.
"I hate to admit it, but Henry looks cute when he blushes." Rika thought to herself and she felt her own blush as well. "I'm a baka as of now because of that."
"Crud! She got me! I wonder what she's thinking now?" Henry said to himself.
While Henry and Rika had their own shares of spacing outs, Takato and Jeri are also thinking about each each other especially what happened after the phone call yesterday night.
"Jeri's so nice and special to me… How can I ask her out? I'm too chicken to do so!" Takato said to himself. "But what Henry said, I should make my move now."
"Rika told me that I should tell my feelings too…" Jeri said. "But how?"
Kazu noticed that two pairs of couples are spacing out so he decided to change the subject.
"So, anyone for a card game battle?" he asked randomly.
"COUNT ME IN, SHIODA!" Rika sneered.
"Thanks, Rika. But I'm not going in. I just snapped you four from fantasy and looks like you're the only one who caught on!" Kazu explained with a grin.
The bell rang and it was time for the tamers to return to their classroom.
After a few hours, it was their History class. The teacher seemed to have been talking about Japanese History to the class.
"Ugh! It's getting boring!" Kazu complained to Kenta.
"So do I! But I can't talk out loud because Mr. Mise looks grudging!" Kenta pointed out.
"Nikki, what time are we going to go?" Jeri said. She too was getting bored with the lesson in Japanese History.
"Don't ask me!" Nikki protested.
Until the tamers heard a different thing that came from their teacher.
"So, we're going to have an assignment that will be done by pairs!" said their teacher. "And from my class list, I will randomly select boy-girl names so gradings will be fair!"
"Please don't let me work with Kazu or Kenta!" Rika said to herself.
"If I could be assigned to someone else, I wish it's someone I know!" Henry muttered inside his mind.
"Ugh! I wish it could be Jeri…" Takato said.
"How I wish my partner would not be weird!" Jeri plead to herself.
Kazu and Kenta were praying that the girls they could be with are inclined in Japanese History.
"Kazu Shioda and Nikki Itsuki!" the teacher called out.
Kazu looked to where his probable partner is. Seated with Jeri.
"Kenta Kitagawa and Lily Arashi!"
"Oh boy! Hey Lily!" Kenta was happy since Lily is his friend and they could help each other in their homework.
"Takato Matsuki and Jeri Katou!"
The effect of their names called brought blushes to Takato and Jeri.
"Bingo!" Rika said, now that Jeri her friend will have the guts to tell Takato about her feelings.
Unfortunately, their teacher was having a hard time randomizing so he ended up in a scanning technique.
"And, Henry Wong with Rika Nonaka!" the teacher said. "And for the others…"
Henry did not expect that his crush will be his partner in history. Rika just simply kept quiet to avoid further funny feelings she will have.
"So, you want to start now or want to start tomorrow?" Henry asked casually.
"If now, do you have history books in your house?" Rika said.
"Yeah! Chinese and Japanese history." Henry said.
"Oh I forgot. You're a cross-breed of China and Japan." Rika chuckled.
"The perks of having two nationalities…" Henry grinned.
"Okay! Since none of you aren't listening, the assignment will be due next week and you may now go. I'll see you students tomorrow!" the teacher said. The timing of the bell ringing matched his words of goodbye.
Then the students got out of the classroom. Kazu and Kenta, after talking with their partners in history, dashed out.
"Jeri, is your friend Kazu weird?" Nikki asked Jeri.
"Always, Nikki!" Jeri answered. "Well, I'm glad I'm not Kazu's partner!"
"I hope so! Anyway, see you later, Jeri!" Nikki said.
"Hey, Jeri!" said Takato. He was dying to ask Jeri out.
"What is it, Takato?" Jeri beamed.
Takato was about to say something when he heard Henry call his name.
"Hey, Takato!" Henry said.
"Just a minute, Jeri. What's up, Henry?" asked Takato.
"Did your wish come true earlier?" Henry chuckled.
"I think so… It would be a step towards that. Anyway, I'm taking it slow!" Takato said.
"You sure are!" Henry pointed out.
"What about you, Henry? What do you say you have Rika for a history teammate?" It was Takato's turn to tease.
"It's fine. Don't you ever think green, Matsuki!" Henry retorted.
"Sure, Henry!" Takato just grinned. "Anyway, see you later!"
"Good luck asking her out!" Henry called out.
When Takato heard Henry's last sentence, he totally forgot what he was supposed to do. And he realized that Jeri is not around now.
"Henry! You're so great in ruining my moments!" Takato said to himself. The he started to run off to find Jeri.
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