'Kay. How many people expected another chapter this quickly?

Nobody?

I'm going to write far ahead and try to make a stable publishing schedule, instead of making you all wait a year between each chapter. That's just harsh. I'm sorry.
Maybe I'll update once a day? :3

By the way, I'm changing the story. A fair bit. Sorry about that. I changed Ranamon's entrance, too.

Why Me? Chapter Thirty-Eight

The orange hat flew as Tommy and I landed in the water. I went face first, Tommy sideways. I sat up quickly and snot the water out of my nose. I hugged Tommy, cuddling him. I couldn't leave them. They were my friends. Surrounding me. Half-worried, half overjoyed. Partly angry, but that was reasonable and could wait. I hugged them all, and it felt right.

"We thought you were dead." Kouji said darkly. I hadn't been gone that long, had I? I hugged him.
"I did too." I had no idea where that had come from, what made me say that, but it was the truth. With Cherubimon commanding me, Ranamon harassing me, and my depressive outlook, I thought I really had been dying. It had felt like everything was crushing me. I wished death upon myself throughout this whole time, but I felt so much better now.
My friends cleared me some space in the world, gave me a place to exist.
I grabbed Kouji's hand, and he held me close.

The big group hug lasted forever. Or, the next best thing.
Zoe rested my head on her shoulder and cradled me, rocking me side-to-side. She pet my hair and hugged me tightly. Even JP threw his arms around me.
Eventually, we started to walk. We hadn't gotten far when the Toucanmon rushed out, asking us where we were going.
"We'e going to keep going. Thank you for the meal, though." Zoe smiled.
"But you're taking her?" The biggest Toucanmon asked, referring to me.
"Yeah. Got a problem?" JP asked.
"She was our friend first." Tommy added.
"No." The Toucanmon admitted. "But why don't you stay?"
"Well, we really need to be going." Kouji said.
"Awe, come on, please go swimming! It's totally free!"
"Yeah, sure. Swimming sounds like a great idea!" Takuya yelled, running into the guy's changeroom. One by one, we all succumbed to the lovely thought of swimming, and ran into the bathroom.

Half an hour later, Zoe had dressed me in a light blue one piece bathing suit. It was backless and had come with a tutu-like fringe on it. I messily tossed my clothes into one of the bins. I was eager to get in the water. All the guys were already there, splashing around. I was about to head out, but Zoe asked for my opinion. I vaguely pointed at the rack and said 'that one', aand ran. I wasn't good with swimsuits. I ran straight into the water, hopping onto Takuya's back, and attempting to wrestle the pool floatie away from him.
"Get your own!" He said goofily and sent a little splash my way. I sent a bigger one back, igniting the beginning of a massive splash war between everybody except JP and Kouji, both of them lazing aound on floaties. I splashed JP, trying to get him to join, but he rolled over on the tube and ignored it. I splashed him again, and he started kicking water into my direction. Kouji lazily ignored all the splashing and drifted around on a floatie board. As JP kicked water at Takuya and Tommy, I swam over to Kouji and pulled him on the board back to the splashing area.
"No." He said simply, and swam out of my gasp. I hopped on his back.
"Why not?" I whined, splashing him.
"Because you're all idiots." He said, continuing to drift. Getting irritated, I let go and slid back into the water. I grabbed the board and Kouji's stomach from underwater and flipped him. He resurfaced.
"Now?" I whined. He looked at me for a second and dove underwater. I felt myself being lifted and thrown back into the water, amidst the splashing. I resurfaced to a splash in the face, and spat out the water in my mouth.
"No." Kouji said. This, however, did not matter to Takuya, who then proceeded to splash Kouji until he complied.
As JP launched a splash in my diection, I dove underwater, holding my nose. I resurfaced as the wave passed, all my wet hair clinging to my face.
"Kia, you look like Kazemon! We can't see your eyes at all!" JP laughed. I grinned.
The fun ceased when we heard Zoe scream.
All of us looked back to the changeroom as we heard a crashing noise. Half of the little building was gone, and drenched. We saw Zoe laying under the debris. We rans as quickly as we could, all of us hoping she'd be okay. The entire area was drenched.

Cliffhanger! D:
I've already gotten three chapters ready for publishing, though, if it makes anybody feel better.
I'm sorry about the year long delay before these. I'll finish the story before I do that again, I swear.