The alarm went off. It was 8am. The sunlight blinded me between the curtains that I forgot to shut the night before. I stumbled out of bed and washed up, listening to the blaring of the morning news on the TV downstairs. The big topic was the same as it had been these last few weeks, and I only had to hear the one name to confirm it.
But today was different. The reporter had a different tone as he spoke. I couldn't hear what he said, but sounded more urgent, more concerned. As I shut off the water and dabbed my face with a towel, I realized why when I heard him say what we all had been dreading to hear.
"The mayor of this city has ordered a full city lockdown."
That was when I heard a loud noise downstairs. I ran down the steps as quickly as I could.
I found Taichi and Agumon in the living room. Taichi had just played the sound effect of an air horn, and he was holding his phone in front of his face, the red dot on the screen blinking before him.
"Aaaand we are vlogging LIVE in my living room, just heard the news that my city is officially on lockdown. This is intense!"
I watched Taichi move the camera until Agumon appeared on screen, waving and smiling as he stood behind.
"Oh - and look who else joined us!" Taichi laughed as he realized I had been standing there. He was unfazed at my grimace through his camera. "We've just learned about the end of mankind as we know it! Do you have any thoughts?"
"Shut it down, Taichi," I said crossing my arms.
Then he frowned, and hit the camera's pause button. "Come on. I have to do something while we're stuck here."
"We can always eat!" said Agumon.
"Don't even think about eating all of our food, Agumon. Everything's so hard to find out there right now."
I felt bad seeing Agumon frown, although Taichi wore a similar expression.
"I can't even go for a run, or hang out with my friends..."
Taking Taichi's phone, I held the camera in front of me and tapped the screen to unpause.
"I think it's a crazy world we're living in right now," I said. "It's gonna take some time adjusting, and it's gonna be hard, but I'm sure we'll make it through this!"
"Yeah!" agreed Agumon.
Then I stopped the video and looked at Taichi. He smiled, but I could tell he was still unhappy. His phone buzzed, and on the screen I saw the name of who sent him a message.
"I think I know exactly who might cheer you up," I said, feeling mischievous.
"Wait, what?" Taichi asked, snapping out of his thoughts. "Who-?"
His eyes widened in fear when I showed him who sent him that message, and whose number I had just dialed.
"You did n-!" he snatched his phone from my hands and fumbled to end the call right away, but there was already a voice on the other end. "Uh - hey! Um…"
"Hmm?" Agumon asked as Taichi stared daggers at me. I held in my laughter.
"Yeah… I saw… crazy, huh? Oh, you were…?"
I noticed his cheeks turning red. "I was thinking about you, too…"
He was on the phone for a while. I walked into the kitchen and noticed Agumon had followed me. I put three pop-tarts in the toaster, and waited for them to come up. Then, putting my index finger to my lips, I handed one of them to Agumon, who ate it with delight.
I carried the third pop-tart to Taichi, who was still on the phone.
"Yeah, it's gonna be tough," he said, then he looked at me again. "But hey, I have reason to believe that we'll make it through."
We exchanged smiles as he ended the call.
"Feeling better?" I asked.
"Yeah. Thanks."
A/N: Who did I call for Taichi? That's open for interpretation ;)
