Part 4: Apology:

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon

A/N: I LOVE this part. Originally, there was a chapter titled 'wishes' between this one and the last one, but I think this one sums in up fairly well.

T.K's Point of View:

"T.K." I heard Kari say. She sounded… unsure of her self. Whatever, I didn't care how she felt anymore.

"I don't have time for deceit and lies right now, Kari. I'm not sure I ever do anymore."

That one hurt her. Well, maybe she felt even one one-millionth as hurt as I did. Didn't make me feel any worse.

Didn't make me feel any better, either.

"I wanted to say I'm sorry, I-"

"You've said that before. I didn't believe you then, I don't believe you now."

"- don't care whether you want me back, I just wanted you to know that I was sorry" She finished, as if I hadn't interrupted at all. "Anyway, I'm going to assume you still don't want anything to do with me, so… I'll leave you be."

I knew, then, that I couldn't stay angry forever. And I had NO idea how I was going to feel once the anger passed.

I was too angry to even hope to see past it, but in that moment, I realized that, somehow, I still loved her.

This was going to be a long quarter indeed, if I was going to be sitting next to a girl I both loved AND hated in most of my classes.

But I didn't have to hate her, that was my choice. And I didn't really want to.

"Kari… Wait."

She turned around, looking… Hopeful, perhaps?

"I… can't forgive you yet. But I will."

"I'm assuming, since you can't forgive me yet, that you still want me to leave now?" She asked, looking… More herself that I'd seen her in what must have been… A month. And I knew why, finally.

"Yeah."