Summary: TK and Kari are pretty much 'the perfect couple' in their sophomore class and two of the most popular kids in high school. But when someone from Kari's not so long ago past moves to Odiaba, will "the perfect couple" stay "the perfect couple" or will everything come to a crashing end?
You Save Me
'Unfaithful'
(don't own Rihanna either)
Kari spent her Saturday morning thinking of a good costume idea for Jessica's party. She absolutely loved costume parties and she couldn't wait to go to Jessica's. Kari was glad she could finally be on good terms with Jessica. She decided to go as an angel. Kari went down to a near by costume rental place and rented the cutest angel costume she could find. The costume fit her perfectly. It was plain white long dress with a pair of wings and a halo. The bottom of the dress was fluffy, to make it look like she was floating on a cloud.
Kari called TK one last time, begging him to come to the party with her. When he said no, she went alone. Jessica lived a few blocks from her and within a few minutes, she was already at her apartment building. Kari knew Jessica lived in a penthouse on the top floor of her apartment building. 'Must be nice to be filthy rich,' Kari thought to herself. She took the elevator to the top floor and followed the loud music until she came to door 316. Kari knocked but when no one came to open the door, she just let herself in.
Kari was shocked what she saw when she opened the door. The party crowd stopped dancing and just stood and starred at her, some even started laughing. Kari stood there, embarrassed as no one was in costume. She realized Jessica had tricked her. Kari's embarrassment turned into anger when she saw Davis. She walked up to him and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt.
"Where. Is. Jessica?" Kari asked him in the angriest voice Davis had ever heard her use.
"Sh..sh..she's on the deck," stammered Davis afraid of the pint sized girl in front of him.
Kari let him go as she stormed to the deck. People got out of her way and led her straight to the deck. Kari saw Jessica flirting with Willis by the hot tub. Jealousy immediately swept over Kari and made her even angrier with Jessica. Jessica looked up and saw Kari in her angel costume and immediately bursted out laughing. Kari stopped in front of Jessica and crossed her arms. She took a good look at Jessica's outfit.
"Jessica, I thought you said you were going as a princess but all I see is your everyday slut costume," said Kari angrily.
"I am a princess, duh. See the tiara?" Jessica asked as she pointed to her crown on her head and then pointed to her white T-shirt where the word "princess" was printed in gold, sparkly letters. By now, the party guests were crowded by the deck door to see the brewing cat fight.
"Just tell me the truth. Did you do this to me on purpose?" Kari asked, although she already knew the answer.
"I'm so sorry Kari. I had printed all the invitations and then last night I changed my mind. So I spent all last night calling everybody and I must have forgot to call you. I'm truly sorry Kari!" Jessica 'apologized' in her fake, high pitch voice.
"You bitch! You're a fucking liar!" Kari muttered under her breath just loud enough for Jessica to her.
Kari couldn't control her anger anymore. Kari attacked Jessica and pushed her into the hot tub. As Jessica fell back, she reach up for Kari and pulled her in with her. The two girls fought in the steaming hot water. They pulled each other's hair, ripped each other's clothes and hit each other has hard as they could. Kids crowded around the hot tub cheering on their favorite. But Willis had seen enough and grabbed Kari away from Jessica and out of the hot tub while Seth grabbed Jessica.
"Let me go Willis! Let me go!" Kari yelled as she did her best wiggle lose from his strong grip and continue attacking Jessica.
"You're just lucky your boyfriend came to save you before I beat you to the ground!" Jessica said loud enough for everyone to hear. Kids started to whisper amongst themselves about Jessica's comment. Kari was so embarrassed, she hid her face in her hands.
"Come on, let's go and get you cleaned up," Willis said eventually and led Kari back to his apartment.
Jessica was pissed to see Willis come to Kari's rescue and not her's. She was even more upset when he left with Kari instead of staying with her. Jessica looked around as she saw everyone starring at her. The boys were starring at her wet T-shirt, making Jessica kinda regret not wearing a bra. She was soaking wet, cold and she was pissed.
"Hand me my phone," Jessica ordered and one of the girls in her entourage ran to get it.
Willis walked Kari to his apartment. It was a silent and very quiet walk. When they got to his apartment, Willis told her stay put while he went and got her some dry clothes. He came back with a pair of his basketball shorts and one of his old hoodies. Kari went into his bathroom as she changed from her soaking wet angel costume and into his dry clothes. She came back out and sat down on the couch and Willis gave her a blanket to cuddle up in. He took her costume and threw it in the dryer and came back to sit by her.
"So what the hell Kari! What got into ya? I've never seen you behave like that!" Willis asked her.
"Jessica tricked me! She did this to me on purpose!" Kari defended herself.
"So that gives ya a reason to be even worse than her?" Willis asked.
"No...but when I saw her flirting with you I got kinda jealous." Kari quietly replied back.
"Ya did?" He asked calmer and she nodded. "Don't worry about it Kari. I don't even like her. Ya are the only girl I love."
"As much as I want to hear it, please don't say that." Kari said as she looked away, shamed by her feelings.
"It's true." He replied as he gently reached up and turned her face to look at him. "I really do love ya Kari."
Willis leaned in for a kiss. Kari still wasn't sure about how she felt about him. She sat there as she watched Willis's face get closer and closer to hers. Suddenly there was a loud and urgent knock at the door. The two jumped by the sudden noise. Willis got up from the couch to see who was at his door so late. As soon as he opened the door, TK came in and punched Willis in the gut. The force from TK's punch made him fall on the floor.
"TK!" Kari was shocked to see him, let alone punch Willis with no excuse. "What the hell?"
"What are you doing at his house?" TK yelled at her.
"I got in a fight with Jessica and got wet. So he gave me some dry clothes to wear. Nothing happened!" Kari explained, trying to calmly explain as she got up to help Willis up off the floor. "You should apologize to him and to me."
"Kari...I...thought...Jessica told me," TK stuttered, starting to feel bad for jumping to conclusions.
"Jessica told you I was here?" Kari asked. "Well there's your problem! I'm very disappointed in you TK. I can't believe you would have such little faith in me!"
"Kari I'm so sorry!" TK apologized and moved closer to her to give her a 'I'm sorry' hug.
"Stay away from me TK. Right now I don't even want to see your face," replied Kari as she backed away from him and walked over to the door. "I'll come back for my costume later Willis."
Kari slammed the door as she left. TK was so ashamed of himself for letting his emotions get the best of him. He walked over to the door and looked back at Willis, now standing clutching his gut. Willis gave him an evil smirk before TK walked out of the apartment. A million thoughts raced through his head when he saw Willis smirk like that.
Kari ignored all of TK's text messages and phone calls. She wouldn't answer anyone's texts or calls. She stayed in her apartment for the rest of the weekend. When Kari wouldn't answer her phone, TK did his best to talk and apologize to her in person. He came to her apartment and sat outside her door for hours, waiting for her to come out. He sent her flowers and chocolate, which she wouldn't accept. At a last resort, TK pounded on her door, begging for her to open up but she wouldn't.
Kari didn't hate TK, she loved him with all her heart. But her heart was being torn in two by two very important people in her life. She needed time to think about everything that happened these past few days. She didn't want anyone to influence her decision in anyway. Her mind changed every minute of every hour. Kari loved both boys but she just couldn't decide. Stay with TK and wonder what could have been? Or leave TK for Willis and wonder what could have been? By Monday morning, she walked to school all alone. She didn't want to see TK or Willis.
"I am afraid she's going to leave me now!" TK panicked as he told the rest of the group. "She wouldn't answer my calls. She didn't accept my flowers. She wouldn't even open her door."
"TK I'm so sorry!" Yolie said, offering her sympathy for him. It broke her heart to see him this distraught.
"I don't want to lose her again Yolie," he replied, almost ready to breakdown and cry. "I should have done something sooner. I should have tried to prevent this."
"TK, you may not want to hear it but, my mom always says everything happens for a reason. Maybe this is for...the best?" Jake suggested, "maybe it just wasn't meant to be?"
"Thanks Jake, that's exactly what I wanted to hear!" TK said angrily and sarcastically.
"There is no reason to lash out on Jake." Ken jumped in, defending Jake. "He was just trying to help TK."
"I'm sorry guys. It's just...this is so difficult. I should have seen this coming. Maybe I could have stopped this if I would have said something to Kari. Maybe I should have gone to the party with Kari. I knew it wasn't a costume party! I could have prevented this whole situation," TK rambled on.
"TK, if she can't decide between you and Willis then obviously she doesn't truly love you," Cody spoke up, restraining himself from spilling everything else he knew about Kari and Willis to TK.
"Maybe she'll come to her senses and realize what she's doing is a huge mistake." Yolie suggested.
"Yeah, cause the way I see it, it's her loss TK. You're a great guy. Any girl would be lucky to have you as their boyfriend," said Davis.
"Thanks guys," replied TK. "But I still can't help but feel like I messed everything up."
"TK, this is not your fault," Yolie tried to reassure him. "You did nothing wrong."
"It's not fair! I just don't get it! What does that loser have that I don't? I should have done something to stop this. I should have confronted Kari, maybe we wouldn't be in this mess. But now she's probably making out with him before school or something." TK rambled on.
"That is it!" Cody said frustrated. He had heard enough of TK's rambling.
Cody quickly walked away from the digidestin. The others stood and watched Cody in bewilderment as he walked away. Cody didn't care if he was going to be late for his first period class or not, he was on a mission. He walked up and down every hallway in school until he finally found Kari sitting all by herself on one of the benches in the courtyard. Cody marched up to her. When she finally looked up at him, he could tell by the expression on her face she was doing some major thinking. But he didn't care, he was about to give her a piece of his mind whether she wanted to hear it or not.
"You're an unfaithful bitch," Cody finally said.
"Excuse me?" Kari asked looking up at Cody, shocked he would say something like that to her.
"You heard me," Cody replied. "All morning, I have had to listen to TK gripe and complain about you and you know what? I'm sick of it! You need to fucking choose between TK and Willis before TK comes to his senses and realizes he's better off without you! I may not like you but it's obvious you and TK belong together. But if you think you're better off with your douche bag, loser, ex-boyfriend go for it. But if you don't choose soon, you might lose TK forever."
"I know that Cody!" Kari exclaimed as she started to cry, "but I don't know what to do!"
"IF you have a heart, maybe you should listen to it," replied Cody. "But if you don't choose soon, I will tell TK everything I know about you and Willis and then your problem will be solved."
"NO...please don't tell TK!" Kari begged through her tears.
"Then hurry up and choose already!" Cody yelled.
"But it's so hard!" Kari cried.
"This Saturday is the wedding and TK doesn't need anymore stress the way it is. If you don't tell him by Friday night, I will!" Cody threatened and he walked away.
Kari sat alone on the bench in the courtyard. The longer she sat there and the more she thought, the more her head hurt. She wanted someone to talk to, but she knew no one would understand. Kari started to count down the days until Friday night. She still had four and a half days to decide.
