Chapter 3

Disclaimer: I don't own digimon or any of its characters. Oh and I don't own the Lincoln Park song "Crawling." I Only own that poem.

Here's chapter 3, thanks for all the reviews, you've made me so happy!!!!! OK, hi again, I may have switched the meaning of the Lincoln Park song to fit the idea of the story. I also made up a name for Davis' mom since I don't know it. Anywaz, go on and enjoy the story, Until next time!!!!!!!

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~Davis, Yolei, Ken, Tk, Kari- 12
~Tai, Sora, Matt- 16
~Izzy, Mimi- 15
~Joe-17
~Cody- 10

thoughts
(a/n)- Author note

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Crawling in my skin
Without a sense of confidence
Consuming, Confusing
Crawling in my skin
Without a sense of confidence I'm convinced that there's just to much pressure too take
There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface

[Chorus]
Crawling in my skin
These wounds, they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing what is real

There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface
Consuming, Confusing
This lack of self control I fear is never ending
Controlling
I can't seem
To find myself again
My walls are closing in
(Without a sense of confidence I'm convinced that there's just too much pressure to take)
I've felt this way before
So insecure

[Chorus]
Crawling in my skin
These wounds, they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing what is real

Discomfort, endlessly has pulled itself upon me
Distracting, reacting
Against my will I stand beside my reflection
It's haunting how I can't seem.......

To find myself again
My walls are closing in
(Without a sense of confidence I'm convinced that there's just too much pressure to take)
I've felt this way before
So insecure

Without a sense of confidence I'm convinced that there's just too much pressure to take(2x)
Can't seem to find myself again my walls are closing in.....
(Without a sense of confidence I'm convinced that there's just too much pressure to take)
I've felt this way before so insecure....

[Chorus]
Crawling in my skin
These wounds, they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing what is real......(2x)

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"Hmm... one of my favorite songs, right on track with everything I was thinking..." Davis thought depressingly as he took off his earphones and rolled off of his bed. Why do I always listen to stuff that depresses me?!

"Ugh,....n..not again, I....I can't do this right now!," Davis whispered fiercely to himself as he began to shake. Small, tiny beads of sweat began forming across his forehead. His right arm automatically began to reach into his pocket. "No, I can't!" Davis yelled in a low voice struggling against myself. " I'm about to meet my mother's guest." "If I someone walked in on me, mom would be so embarrassed, I....I'll just wait until after dinner." Davis thought shakily as he put the small razor back in his pocket and laid back down on his bed.

Yesterday I went to Ken's house talk to him about thing singing thing. Yeah, well we found out first place receives the recording track and 100,000 dollars. Now I know we probably wouldn't get first place, especially with Matt's band competing, so were going for second. The people in second place get 50,000 dollars and a full year of anything you want free at McDonalds. They pay for it and everything, all you do is use the card they give you which sends them the bill. We're thinking of asking two of are class mates Chris and Brian if they wanted to be in the competition with us. Chris said it sounded like fun and Brian said yeah, since he had nothing better to do with his life. So now we are pretty close to having a full band, all we need is one more person. I think I'll ask Tk, but I tell him not to tell his brother. I like surprising people.

"Sweetheart, come on out our guest have arrived!" My mom yelled ripping me out of my train of thought.

"A...Alright mom!" I quickly replied so I didn't worry her. I got off my bed again leaving my cd player there and headed towards the door.

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I calmly began to walked out of my room, my face blank. I walked into the spacious living room were everyone was gathered. As I got there, I saw two familiar faces. I walked over and stood behind the couch my mother was sitting in. I was basically in pure shock.

"Boys this is...." The man said not able to finish the rest.

"DAVIS!" They both yelled over come with shock as they starred surprised to see this boy in front of them.

"Matt, Tk......?," "What are you guys doing here?" I asked them just as shocked as they were. "First of all I knew they wouldn't just come to my house for a friendly visit, especially when everybody just finds me annoying." "This sure does ruin my after dinner plans, I mean come on, if they catch me then they'll definitely tell the others!" Davis thought sarcastically as he waited for an answer from the two.

"We could ask you the same!" Matt replied starring him down.

"Well I see you boys already know each other, which is just great!" Davis mom squealed excitedly not catching what was going on between the boys.

"Mom, what's going on?" I demanded, kind of scared of the answer she would give.

"Well Davis honey.........., Mr. Ishida and I are getting married!" Davis mom said as she stood up while Mr. Ishida wrapped his arms around her.

"Wha..?" I ask not comprehending this.

"Ok, let me get this straight, and tell me if I get anything wrong." Matt said in a steady voice. "You and Davis mom are getting married?!" Matt screamed getting a little agitated.

"Is there a problem with that Yamato!" Mr. Ishida said looking at him with a teasing mock surprise look on his face.

"Hell to the yea!" "I mean ya could have at least told us so we would have been a lot less surprised." "I can't believe this...." Matt mumbled to himself turning his attention to the floor as he went into deep thought mode.

I was ready to pass out right then and there when I heard the news. Tk looked as if they might do the same, but Matt started fussing with is father and all the attention turned to them. "Yea... they have a good reason to be surprised, I mean, they did kind of get stuck with,..well... me, they don't even really know me, this is definitely going to be an interesting break...."

***Matt pov***

"Wow, Davis is going to be my step brother," "Hold on, let me say that again," "DAVIS in going to be my step brother?!" "Guess I'm starting to get use to the idea." The mild shock began to wear off. I felt kind of dumb for saying all that stuff now, so now I'm just standing here in the living room starring at everyone's reaction. "I wonder how we are going to live like this." "Oh well, I guess it can't be as bad as it seems, can it?"

***Tk pov***

"Ok... when and how did this happen......?" Davis is probably gonna drive me crazy, how could dad do this to me?!" "I just hope he knows what he's doing. Maybe we can try to get along..."

***Back to regular pov***

"Well now that the introductions are over, his mom spoke...Davis, would you be a dear and take them up to your room honey, dinner will be ready in about half an hour okay!"

"Okay....?" Davis replied really confused as he walked in a daze up the stairs that lead to his room with Matt and Tk trailing behind him.

Once inside the room Matt and Tk decided to question him about things they couldn't ask around their parents.

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They all stood there silent for a second each not really knowing what to say, too puzzled to speak. Both of the Ishida brothers had questions burning in their minds. Matt was first to break the ice.

"Davis, do you mind if we ask you a few questions, and do you promise to answer them?" Matt asked.

"Yeah, I guess, but if I don't like a question, I might not answer it." "Ok?" Davis replied.

"Cool." Matt stated and the the questions began. Davis had already some answers for any questions someone might throw a him. He's always been ready, with the type of situation he's in you have to have answers prepared in case you freeze up when someone ask you about a bruise that's visible. Even if they're off the wall answers, anyone would expect that because well.... he was Davis. He could manage to get out of a tough situation relying on his skillful lying techniques.

"Davis, you never told us that your parents were divorce, and here I was in the digital world yelling all this nonsense at you." "Why, didn't you tell us?" Tk asked looking a little hurt. He and his brother where looking at Davis who had his back turned away from them and was leaning against the large window in his room.

"It's not really that big of a deal, so what if my parents are divorced." "They don't seem to care, so why should I?" Davis replied defiantly as he walked away from his window and sat down on the full size bed, he picked up a picked up a magazine on the way and began reading as if they were not there.

"Davis, don't give us those bullshit answers!" Matt said in a low yell taking the magazine from Davis's hands. "Man, what's up with you, we know it matters, how long have your parents been divorced?" Matt asked gently waiting for a reply."

"They've been divorced since I was nine." Davis replied solemnly.

"Where's Jun at?" Matt asked also taking notice that Jun wasn't there.

"Mom told me she moved out." Davis said while looking at Matt. "Are there anymore questions because I would really like to get back to my magazine.".

"Of course we have more questions!" "Like, how in the world did you manage not accidentally blab about your parents being divorced?" Tk asked.

"No one asked." Davis said getting bored with the conversation.

" Davis, why didn't know about your sister moving out when she lives in the same house as you?" Matt questioned demanding an answer from Davis.

"I don't live here, I live with my dad. " Davis stated trying to keep the hate for his dad out of his voice.

"Davis, you never fail to amaze us." Tk said looking at him.

"Just doing my job!" Davis replied sarcastically while picking up another magazine and sitting down on his bed again.

Matt walked over to the bed while Tk sat in Davis's desk chair. "Davis." Matt said while sitting on the bed. "We know how hard it is going through divorce, you can always talk to us if you want to."

"That's nice." Davis said acting like he was not really paying attention and into his magazine, he was already in mild shocked that they were the first ones to find this out.

"What's this?" Tk said quietly to himself as he picked up the book. The front read Property of Davis, KEEP OUT!! "He probably won't mind." Tk thought to himself as he opened the book to see what was inside of it. He opened it straight to the middle and was surprise to find a poem, or such called 'Happiness.' Whipping his head around one more time to make sure no one was looking, he silently began to read the Poem:

"Happiness"

I am happy.
Happiness is me,
I only wish for a bed,
A place, where I can just rest my head
From my troubles I can hide,
When time has no meaning
And the aching of painful beatings,
Hurts no more

If you were cursed to spend a day in my shoes,
You might look at me differently,
Like takin' a glimpse on the dark side of a mirror
you would see what I see,
Just be glad that your not me
I have to live everyday,
with, this carefully hidden secret of mine

Everyone thinks I'm happy,
But if you looked a little closer at me,
What do you think you would see,
Would you see me,
Or the someone I pretend to be

Here I sit daydreamin' in Math class,
Waiting for time to fly by
I am happy,
you see happiness is... me,
I am Davis Motomiya, what else could I be?

Tk was a little confused at this poem. "I never knew Davis could write things like this?!" Tk thought somewhat surprise. "Isn't he happy?" "I mean, Davis is always happy,........why is he writing stuff like this?" "I wonder if he's getting into fights at school, that must be it...?!"

The date on the poem was the day before yesterday Tk realized. "Maybe he does need someone to talk to, cause if he's writing stuffs like this something must be wrong." Thinking again to himself.

"Hey u..um Davis, what's this?" Tk asked a bit scared as he held up the book.

"Damn, man can't you read the front, it said keep out." Davis said reaching for the book.

Matt intercepted him and took a look at the same page Tk had been looking at. "This is really good Davis, I didn't know you wrote poems." Matt stated

"Um... yeah, just occasionally." Davis replied taking the book out of Matt's hands. "People always like to get in your business, didn't the front say private?!" He walked over to his drawer and placed it in. "Note to self, when people come over hid certain things ya' don't want them to see."

"Davis are you sure there's nothing wrong, because that er.. poem didn't seem very.., well.., happy." Tk said.

"Guys, it's just a mean, it doesn't really mean anything." Davis lied. He smiled at them emphasizing that it didn't mean anything.

"Davis, you mind if I use it sometime?" Matt asked.

"Umm....I guess not, hey, I got a new game for my play station 2, wanna check it out?" Davis questioned sounding like the hyper Davis that everyone knew..

"Sure, we did kind of barge in on your personal life, but if you ever have a problem, you know with the divorce and all, your two new older brothers will be there to help you." Matt said smiling as he and Tk gave Davis friendly on hit the shoulder.

"That's cool, but, Tk's not that much older than me, only by what, 6 months!" Davis responded laughing.

The other two may not have noticed it, but Davis's inhaled sharply for a split second from the impact of the friendly gesture that hit him on his sore back. Davis may have been in pain, but made no sign of it towards his friends. He played it off like it hadn't happened.

"Older is older Davis, I wonder what Kari is going to think about us becoming brothers! She probably won't even believe it!" Tk said laughing.

"Tk, what do you think all of the others are going to say, you and Davis aren't unknown to fight each other, they probably will be pretty shocked!" Matt laughed.

"Whatever ya'll, let's just play the game now!" Davis said as they all sat down in front of his tv.

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"Malcolm, you heard that?" Diane asked.

"Heard what?" He asked confused.

"Their laughter, that means there getting along well. I just knew they would get along with each other." Diane, Davis' mother said excitedly.

"Yeah, I know, it's great." he said hugging her closely.

"Malcolm, we have to tell them soon..." Diane said looking at him seriously..

"I know, their mother has been dead for alittle over a year now, I guess we kept it from them long enough." Malcolm replied.

"Yeah, to think if me and Nancy hadn't been arguing that much, I would have never went to that party." "Man, only a couple of months after I found out she was pregnant." "Our marriage was falling apart in the first place, but it doesn't make what we did right."

"About that time Jeff was starting to develop certain problems, that caused me to divorce him in the long run." "But out of all of it, I'm glad that I got to meet you." Diane said staring up at him with love in shining in her eyes.

He leant down a kissed her on her forehead. "We have the whole break to tell them, but we can't put it off for too long ok."

"Alright." Diane said agreeing with him.

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The three of them were still sitting on the floor in front of the tv. They were pretty much into the racing game.

"Davis Ishida, I guess it could work!" Tk said while looking at Davis. "Hey, If my dad adopts you, we would really be like brothers then!" Tk said excitedly.

"You have to excuse Tk, he gets too excited sometimes!" Matt said while smiling.

"It's okay." Davis replied still glued to the screen. "It would be cool to be brothers with you." "We would be one big happy family!" I laugh as the joined in. "Seriously, it couldn't be any worse than living with my dad and getting the crap kicked out of me everyday."

"Boys, come on down dinners ready!" Diane yelled.

"Alright mom!" Davis yelled back as he shut off the game.

"Man, I almost won!" Tk said disappointed as he saw Davis turn off the game.

"No you didn't Tk, you were in last place, how could you have won? Matt asked smartly.

"Well, had we kept playing the game I could have won !" Tk fake pouting trying to defend himself.

"Yeah right TA, that's impossible because I would have won, nobody can beat the king of video games." Davis said while pointing to himself.

"Davis, get over yourself!" Matt said while playfully hitting him in the back of the head.

"Yea, yea, yea..." Davis replied as he rubbed the back of his head were he got hit.

"Whatever, we better get downstairs before they get angry." Davis said to them as the exited the room and headed for the kitchen.

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"Hi boys, have a seat, dinner is ready." Davis mom said while putting the remaining trays of food on the table.

"Thanks you Ms. Diane." Matt replied as he and the others took a seat large rectangular glass table.

"Now, now non of that Mrs. Diane stuff, you can just call me mom if you wish or Diane." There new mom replied while looking a the both of the with a huge smile on her face.

"That goes for you to Daisuke, You can call me dad if you want or Malcolm." Mr. Ishida said with a grin on his face.

"Ok." Davis replied as they said grace and began digging in.

"Boys, do you like the rooms that Davis showed you?" Diane asked.

"Yes ma'am, but if you don't mind, Tk and I would rather share a room." Matt said with a pleading look on his face.

"Sure, the room across the hall from Davis's has bunk beds, so your welcome to stay there, and I know Davis would love having you just across the hall!" She said smiling.

"Thanks!" Matt said as he went back to his dinner.

"Wow, this is really good!" Tk stated as he looked up to his step mom.

"Why thank you Tk!" Diane replied as she raised the cup up to her lips.

"Tk's right diane, this is excellent!" Malcolm said. He reached over to grab more mashed potatoes.

"Aww..., Ya'll really know how to make a woman special." Davis Mom replied glowing with excitement as she placed the glass cup gently back down on the table.

"My gosh, this is painfully sickening." Davis thought sighing to himself.

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You boys have fun now, and make sure to stay out of trouble! Diane yelled after the three boys racing from the building.

Mom, it's just a christmas party, see ya later Davis yelled as he and his new brothers ran off to meet the other digi-destined at Joe's house.
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{Davis Pov}

"Hey guys! Sorry we're a bit late." I heard Matt say as we walked through the front door.

"No problem!" Joe replied, "At least you came, come on in and make yourself at home." Joe said a he ushered them inside.

Everyone was either dancing, talking or eating. I didn't really feel like being social today, so I sat in a chair away from everyone. Ken did come over and talked to me for a bit . He asked me if I wanted to go over there with him and the others, but I told him I was fine were I was. Ken's my best friend, out of all of them that I've known, Ken's been the nicest, that's why he's my bestest bud. It's not like they care if I didn't come to sit with them. The older kids seemed to be hangin' with each other and the new kids were hangin' with each other. Who knows what they were talking about. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't starting to feel left out, but that's a common thing for me. Damn, I'm starting to feel depressed again. I guess now's as good of time as as any.

I got up from my chair, not that anyone noticed and headed down the hall towards the bathroom. I quietly went in and locked the door. Walking towards the sink I reach into my right pocket. There it was, my handy blade. I never left home without it. I'm starting to feel guilty about cutting at a party, I hate doing this when I'm not at home, but what's done is done. I pulled down on the handle shutting off the water. My wrist hurt, but they had stopped bleeding. Ow! Ugh, my head. I guess I moved to fast. I stand there for a second trying to get over the dizziness, then I gently put my dark blue wrist bands back on and walked out of the bathroom door. I decided I would be a little more sociable, just so they wouldn't think anything was wrong and get on my case. Davis your a genius.

Walking over to where they were sitting I sat down. I could see that Ken was happy that I came over to sit. I began talking like I had been there all along, of course most of the time I was talking they ignored it, like what I was saying wasn't important, it probably wasn't. At least they think I'm back to normal, by their standards. They weren't really talking about anything, just about the digital world and what the wanted for Christmas.

I didn't really seem to care what they were doing anymore so I tuned them out while keeping a smile on my face. The older digidestined had came over a while ago and started cover sating with us youngings and asked us how everything was going, or some shit like that.

{ Matt's Pov}

I was embarrassed when we arrived a little late for the party, I was suppose to help set up for it but that thing came up. You know the family issue. Anywaz, I headed over to talk to my friends and left Tk and Davis to go talk to theirs. Strangely, I saw Davis head away from his friends and sit alone in a chair. Hmm... I wonder if he usually does that, I probably wouldn't have noticed. I wonder if I should ask him what was wrong, but then I saw Ken go over there and start talking to him. I was glad he went over there. I dismissed the situation and went on talking with my friends.

"No Tai, I will not stand under the mistle toe and let you kiss me and that's final." Sora said firmly as she whacked Tai on the back of the head.

"Hey, you can't blame a guy for tryin'!" Tai laugh rubbing the back of his head as the others joined in.

I looked over to the younger kids and saw them laughing and joking, when I noticed Davis get up and leave. I wonder where he's going? I ask myself as I turn my attention back to the group, he's probably just going to the bathroom. Mental note, find out what's wrong with Davis when we get home.

We went over to the younger kids and started talking with them when I noticed Davis came back. His eyes looked clouded. As soon as he got over to us he was like a whole another person. He was laughing and joking like everything was fine. What could have caused such a change? Why am I worrying myself over this, I mean this is Davis, Happy care free Davis right. That's what I thought before, but now that I really look, I'm not so sure, if he can keep a secret like his parents being divorced, what other secrets could he be hiding. There's definitely more to Davis than what meets the eye and I'm gonna find out.




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