Hi! Sorry I didn't upload yesterday, but I completely ran out of time. I was up til 2 in the morning reading a book, so…yeah. Warning: I got less then six hours of sleep, so let's see what I write this time…

I'm so happy! My inbox is full of reviews and such! Keep it up! Remember: a review a day keeps the guilt away! I just came up with that now…I think I'll start using it. Even though I can't make you guilty with puppy eyes since this site doesn't have webcam…

As promised, this is the sister chapter to the last one…oh, and as of this moment, I have no idea what is going to happen. I'll see as I'm writing it, and I'll be pleased. I usually am.

I hated rain. I wasn't made for rain. I was made for long relaxing days in the hot sun, sipping on a Coke while playing board games with TK. I wouldn't have minded splashing around in the pool, or ocean, as the case may be, but water from the sky? It just wasn't natural.

And now I was covered with it.

"Why…is…rain…so…wet…" I shivered, even though I was inside TK's grasp so as to get rid of suspicion that I was anything more than a sweet and innocent 'demented guinea pig toy,' as TK liked to tell people when they saw him holding me. The disguise worked, but I was still soaked, as was TK and Matt from the brisk run from the bus stop to the Kamiya's apartment. Gabumon had decided to stay home when he saw the clouds over head, complaining that his fur coat didn't dry well. If I'd have known I would have gotten soaked, I would have stayed home too.

Anyways, now we were huddled under a balcony, preparing to make the last part of the journey to get into the cover of the complex building. Matt looked around a few times, his light hair darkened from the wetness. TK was panting beside him.

"Patamon, water is wet because…because…well, it just is. And you're heavy. Have you been sneaking midnight snacks again?"

I pouted, and my ears/wings flopped even lower than before. "Um, well, chocolate is just so good! I can't help it…it calls to me…"

Matt sighed, still trying to see through the pounding rain. "Patamon, I can see that coming out of Agumon's mouth, but not yours. Anyway, let's make a run for it…right…now!"

With that, the two boys, plus me huddled in the smaller one's grip, ran twenty feet, up some stairs, and straight forward, as if an angry Scorpiomon was chasing us (is that his name? I forgot…)

We reached a door slightly protected by a balcony…not by much, since the wind was coming right at us. Matt pounded on the door, so loudly I was afraid the door would break. However, his 'knocking' on the door seemed to work, and in a few seconds it was opening to show the big haired leader.

Without any of the usual formalities when visiting a home, Matt rushed TK inside, closing the door quickly behind him. Once inside, he preceded to the bathroom, emerging with two towels, throwing one at TK and me.

"Hey! Ishida, you're not even going to ask for towels?"

Matt started drying his hair. "Kamiya, you'd have said yes anyway, so I just saved myself some talking with wet clothes on."

Tai struggled to come up with a good comeback, but failed with his finger raised in warning. "Ishida, at least set a good example for TK."

Matt just shrugged. "Hey, TK knows that I know you reasonably well, so all's well that ends dry…"

Just then, Kari came running into the room. "Hi, Matt! Hi, TK! Hi, Patamon!"

"Hi, Kari!" TK said, sounding hyper. I hoped he didn't have his mom's coffee. I had tried that stuff once, and, according to an amused TK after the incident, I had been bouncing off the walls in delight.

"Now, you three go play. Patamon, Agumon is sleeping on the bed, so he could keep you company. Mom shouldn't be home until late, and Dad went on a business meeting, so we shouldn't have to worry about hiding you, but still…" Tai said, smiling at his sister.

"Okay, Tai! See ya!" She replied, leading TK and me toward a door farther down the hall. We entered the room, and I flew out of TK's arms, splattering water all over the place as I mounted on a post on the bunk-bed. From there, I started to shake the water off. After all, TK hadn't let me use the towel…

"Hey, why's it raining inside? Is there a leak?" came the thin voice of Agumon, who happened to have been lying on the bottom bunk.

"Ooops, sorry about that," I said, not feeling sorry at all. I was dryer, so I was elated.

Of course, after Kari let me eat some of her mom's freshly baked cookies (chocolate chip, which Kari explained were the only edible food in the house right now), I was sound asleep next to Agumon, exhausted from the fierce battle with the elements. TK would later say that I hadn't had to run at all, but there's only so much a 'mon could take!

Of course, I woke up to Matt yelling that we were leaving in ten minutes.

Great. A perfect opportunity to have fun, and I was too tired to enjoy it.

I looked around me. A large pile of board games that looked haphazardly put away lay at the foot of the bed, along with a small pile of army figurines and a mountain of crumpled up Kleenex. I wondered what I missed.

Then I heard it. That incessant pinging. I immediately shivered.

"TK, I'm not going back in the rain! Why can't your dad drive us?"

TK looked up from where he and Kari were playing a clapping game. "Um, I think he has to work today."

"It's no fair! I don't want to get wet! I don't want to!"

TK sighed, and gave up clapping. Kari looked up too, her eyes kind and warm. "Maybe you could go in the backpack…"

"NO!" TK blurted out.

Kari frowned. "Why not? He could fit, and it would be easier than stuffing him in your hat…"

"I am not going in TK's hat!"

"Patamon is not going in my backpack!"

"Why not?"

"Um…well…" Of course, since TK didn't properly reply, Kari moved towards the backpack, opening it before he could stop her.

"Um…okay then. That's why your backpack is so heavy…"

"…yep."

They stood around awkwardly for a minute, so I decided to see what was in that backpack of his.

Okay then. I didn't expect that…

Inside the green bag were rocks. Tons of rocks.

"I thought Gatomon was joking when she said that it felt like you had bricks in there…"

"So, TK, why do you have rocks in your bag…?"

"Um…well…when we went into the Digiworld, and after Agumon depleted my supply of candy, I started picking up rocks. I mean, they are just so colorful and cool! See, there's a shell from the beach where we first spent the night, and there's a brick from Devimon's castle…this is from the wreckage from VenimMyotismon, and this is just a cool rock I found yesterday!"

"…okay then. I won't touch the sacred backpack of a rock collection again. How do you even carry it?"

"…why do you think I got Matt to give me a piggy back ride so much?"

Anyway, despite the fact that TK was lugging around a bunch of rocks everywhere, I still had to go out in the rain.

So I did the natural thing. I began to cry.

"I…d-don't…w-want…to…go…out…in…th-the…r-rain…"

I guess I was really upset, because I ended up de-Digivolving.

And before I could work up what happened, Kari grabbed TK's hat off of his head and threw my diminished form in there.

And, of course, I Digivolved back almost instantly.

Great. Now I was stuck in a baseball cap.

As TK said as he squashed the cap, me and all, onto his head, it was a good thing I was similar to guinea pigs. At least I could fit into small spaces…

Okay. That was longer than normal. What do you think? You know what happens next; Pata gets pulled out of the hat. I had planned for Gatomon coming in from the rain, but my sister wouldn't stop talking, and I had to get this up today, or rather, night.

Hope you enjoy! =)