Sorry for the long wait. My sis and I started watching Avatar: The Last Airbender, over break, and we've already seen all of the first season (book, whatever you want to call it…). So we've been busy. Hope you all had a good break (or Thanksgiving, since I guess people could still work last weekend) and that Black Friday didn't get to anyone.

I hated it when Joe was at school.

Not that I missed him and his worrying. Well, maybe I missed it a little. But I could get so lonely! Joe forbad me from using the phone, so I couldn't call anyone else, and he wouldn't let me leave the room. Ever.

It wasn't even like anyone was ever home. Jim only visited a few times each month, his dad was at the hospital all day and all night, and his mom was gone almost as much. I wanted to leave this stupid room and get some food!

And it wasn't even like his room was all that grand or anything. He had me sleeping in his sock drawer. His sock drawer! Joe might be neat and all, but not even I liked to wake up in the morning to smell the remnants of feet all around me. It wasn't that good. At all.

But, at least when Joe was home I was able to have some fun. I hadn't mastered the art of turning on the computer yet, so that was a big no-no, but when Joe came home he would help me turn that on, would turn on the TV too, since I couldn't reach it, and would scratch me behind my ears. He owed me a lot more, but that was enough to keep me from complaining. Too much, that is.

So here I was, home alone, while Joe was at school. And school wasn't even halfway done!

I had taken a nap for the first part of the day. Now it was ten o'clock, and I was bored.

And it wasn't like Joe's magazine racks held anything interesting. They only had boring pictures of doctors and stuff. Though I once found a picture of a woman having a baby…okay, enough with the magazines. I threw them aside and looked around the room I was becoming all too familiar with.

Nothing to do. I didn't want to jump on the bed. Not just because I had fallen off and landed on my head the last few times I had done it. Besides that, the bed was getting boring.

So was the closet. I mean, I couldn't even straighten it up. Joe had to be the only teenager alive with a neat closet. And I mean neat as in organized and dusted and everything.

It was almost annoying. Where were all of his toys, his childhood? I never found any pictures of him at a younger age. It sort of made me sad that he was leaving that behind.

Until I found the air vents.

Who knew that apartment building had conveniently placed ventilation shafts above my head?

After a few attacks at it to open it…ahem, I would have to come up with an excuse for Joe as to why a piece of ceiling had collapsed…and a few hops on the bed to get into it (okay, more like a hundred. It was higher than I had thought.), I was in and moving. With a destination in mind, I headed out, a free ranger.

Well, after that midday run in with the neighbor's cat, since apparently I went the wrong direction the first time, and then nearly scaring some fish into drowning, since apparently I went the wrong direction again, I found it. The almighty kitchen.

Food is very good. That's all I'll say for that part of my journey.

It was a simple matter to get back to Joe's room, with only one run in with a furnace…it wasn't too scary…I was falling headfirst back into Joe's room.

That's when I noticed it. The small chest hidden under Joe's computer desk. It was about my height, and I had been looking for things bigger than me.

I was curious and full, a good mixture for keeping guilt out of my way. Most people think that starving works better, but not for me. So I went and pulled out the chest and opened it.

And my boredom basically evaporated.

Later that day, Joe came home, looking tired and worried. More than likely he had a lot of homework tonight. Not that I was going to let him do it.

"I'm home…what the…" he called as he entered his room. "Uh…Gomamon? Why is there a piece of the ceiling lying on my bed…why is the vent open…oh, tell me you didn't!"

"Yep. I did. It was quite fun."

"Gomamon, did anyone see you?"

"Besides a cat, a few fish, and some mice that were up there, nope."

"…there was a cat in the vents?"

"No, silly. Don't you know your neighbor's pet?"

"…uh, okay, one second. You went traversing the apartment?"

"Yep. Like I said, it was quite fun."

"…what is that in your hands?"

"You mean paws."

"Okay, paws."

"Actually, I think they're flippers…"

"What is that in your two arm thingies!"

"Okay, okay, hold your horses. These," I said, grinning up at my confused partner, "are what we call toys. A toy bear, to be precise."

"…where did you find Carlos?"

"…better question. Who names a teddy bear Carlos?"

"…I was five, okay?"

"Whatever you say. Carlos, the teddy bear, was lying next to Alpha Squid and GI Joe."

"Alfi…Joey…"

"…hmmm. Sorry, but I can't imagine you as an army person. Maybe we should call him GI Jack."

"Hey! You were searching threw my memory's box, weren't you?"

"…yeah. I just found it. There's some really cool things in here, you know that? The doctor toys were fun."

"Yeah, Dad gave them to me when I got my first A on a report card…see that? That's a toy Jim won for me at a fair. It took him like ten tries, though…"

"I like the doll clothes. The sailor outfit. Cute."

"That used to be mine."

"You were once my size? No way!"

And so we spent the rest of the night. Sure, the ceiling might be a little cracked up in some spots, that cat emotionally scarred for life, and Joe might be behind in homework, but I think a trip down memory lane was exactly what he needed. Me too.

First things first. That wasn't supposed to turn mushy. But it is, and it was fun, so now it is posted. Since you are reading this.

Two. Jim is Joe's older brother, attending university. In the sub, he has two brothers, but you may have realized I use dub for everything. Now you know.

Okay, so yesterday I found a pair of earmuffs with Kari's crest symbol on them! Okay, so technically not hers, but it has that eight point pink flower (or star, if you prefer), and it looks almost identical. So I had to get them. Mwahahaha!

And as I said before, I'm not writing as much because of school (duh) and watching another anime/cartoon thingy. I wouldn't have written this, but I read a really good chapter from Hedgi, and I wanted to write Digimon today because of it. So here.

Review! How were your Thanksgivings? Trees up yet for Christmas?