A Love More Precious Than Gold: Part 2
Matt's balcony *@----}----{----@*
'Wow. Mimi's changed so much. But I can tell that her personality hasn't changed. Still so caring, understanding, sweet, innocent, and perfect.' Matt thought as he sat staring at stars from his balcony. "Matt, what are you thinking?" He said as he snapped himself back to reality. "I mean, she'll never like you. You saw her! She's turned so beautiful, like a flower in bloom. And you, Matt? You nothing but an ugly duckling. Except you'll never turn into a swan." A tear appeared at the corner of his eye, but he wiped it away before it could fall. "I just don't want to lose you again, Mimi. I just don't want to part with you again." He whispered as he leaned back and looked at the North Star.
"Who are you talking to, Matt?" A voice came from inside. Matt spun around and saw T.K. standing at the doorway. He began to walk towards him and Matt turned his gaze back to the stars.
"No one, T.K. Why are you out here at this hour?" Matt asked. He sniffed a little and avoided his brother's gaze.
"I'm not a little kid anymore. And another thing, have you been crying, Matt?" T.K. asked. 'Watch him say no. He never tells me anything anymore,' T.K. thought.
Matt wiped the last traces of tears off his face and replied. "No! I wasn't crying, T.K." 'He'll never understand even if I tell him anyway.'
'See? What did I tell you?' T.K. sat down in a chair across from Matt. He, too, began staring at the stars. They've been doing this ever since they're little. They always used to think that each of them held something special. But the beliefs are fading as they grow up.
"You know, Matt. I'm not a little kid anymore as I said before. I know that you're thinking about Mimi. I'm not that dumb. And plus, you're my brother. You might think that I don't understand. But I do! How do you think I feel about Kari?" Then T.K. covered his mouth. He knew he'd said that wrong thing. Only he knew that he still likes Kari. Everyone else thinks that they're enemies now that they broke up. But the truth is, T.K. still can't get over her. He just pretends to not like her for his pride. He didn't want to be the one who gives in and apologizes.
Matt looked at T.K. and smiled. "Obviously I underestimated you. I guess you do understand." Matt sighs and looks down at his glass of water. "It's just that I think that Mimi's too good for me and... I think that I'll only be a burden to her. I mean, it's like Beauty and the Beast, except I'll never turn into a prince." 'There I said it. Well, it's better than talking to myself.' Matt thought.
'So that's why he's so down.' "Nonsense. You're my big brother and you're better than any prince in the whole world. Mimi would be happy to go out with you. I think that you should just ask her." T.K. encouraged Matt. He took a sip from his Root Beer and set it onto the round table between them.
"What's the point?" Matt asked. You could hear the hurt in his voice as it broke. Memories brought hot tears down his face again. Except this time he didn't bother to wipe them away.
"What do you mean, what's the point? The point is so that you and Mimi can FINALLY go out with each other and live happily ever after. What do you think?" T.K. almost yelled.
"Do you really believe in living happily ever after? I mean, we both know that it only happens in fairy tales. And this is real. And plus, even if I did get the courage to ask her, she'd probably just go away again. I mean, you heard her. She said she'd go away sooner or later. It'll just make it hurt more than already will. It'll be just like last time." Matt looked up at the full moon and saw Mimi's face instead of the moon. That it was Mimi brightening the darkness. Then he shook it out of his mind and saw the moon again. More memories came back. More painful memories...
Flashback *@----}----{----@*
Matt's waiting impatiently for the girl of his dreams by the water fountain in the middle of the park. Finally, he caught a glimpse of her, walking drearily towards him. 'Great. Something is wrong. This is going to make this harder than it already is.' He thought as he went up to her. "Hey, Mimi." Mimi looked up at him for a few seconds, then collapsed into his opened arms, crying. He was speechless and he didn't know what to do. Hesitantly, he wrapped his arms around her and kept saying to himself, 'please don't slap me, please don't slap me.' To his surprise, she cuddled into a more comfortable position.
When she finally took her face out of his chest, her mascara was messed up from her crying and her eyes were practically overflowed with tears. "Wha... What's wrong, Mimi?" He hid his present to her deeper into his pocket. 'Maybe I'll save it for later. But this is definitely not a good time.'
"Everything is wrong, Matt! Everything!" She screamed. When she calmed down. "My... my parents wants to move our whole family to New York City in America! Do you know what that means? It means I may not ever be able to see any of you anymore! I can't do that! I can't leave any of you! I can't leave you!" She said. She buried her face onto his shoulder and began crying again.
Matt was too shocked himself. 'How will I ever live without you, Mimi? You can't leave! But I can't be so selfish either. What am I supposed to do? Give me a sign, somebody!' He snapped back to reality when they found each other staring into each others' eyes. He quickly turned away. 'I... I can't burden you, Mimi. I'm sorry...'
"Everything will turn out right. You'll never lose us and we'll never lose you. You'll always be here." He said as he pointed to where his heart was. "Now you don't have to worry about a thing. Don't you remember? Destiny will work everything out in the end. We don't have to worry about a thing..." Matt tried to comfort her. But he had tears in his eyes as well. But he managed to hold them back until she left him alone. It seemed like she ran out of his grasp forever...
End flashback *@----}----{----@*
Matt took something out of his back pocket. It was a little transparent case which held a golden angel brooch. The angel was playing a harp. "You were going to give that to Mimi, weren't you?" T.K. asked.
"Who else will I give it to? But I don't know anymore. I think that I may as well just let it go. It'll never work. I mean, just think. A rebel and a princess. I'm sure her parents will be nice about it and all, but I can ruin her future. And I don't want to do anything to hurt her." Matt said in almost a whisper.
"Yea, I know what you mean, big bro." T.K. agreed. "You just like the person so much you'd rather sacrifice your all just to make her happy and safe."
"How do you know all this stuff, T.K.? When I was your age, I was as lost as a little lamb about this. Wait a minute. Does this have anything to do with Kari?" Matt asked. Then he remembered that T.K. mentioned something about Kari before.
"Yeah, genius. It's all about Kari. Why do you think we started this fight anyway? You see, there's this kid who's father owns a really powerful company. And he's been asking Kari out ever since. But Kari always refuses him because of me. But if she'd go out with him, I'm sure she'd have a very bright future. I don't want to drag her behind.
"So one day I told her that we're allowed to see other people. I hoped that she got the hint. But I think she took it the wrong way and thought that I fell in love with someone else. So the next day, when I went to apologize, she'd already went out with him. And she seemed rather happy. I knew it'd be for the better... And the fight just grew bigger and bigger. And now it's like this." T.K. ended his story with a long, depressed sigh.
"Wow. T.K., I never knew so much. You should've told me. But the thing is. It doesn't matter who it is. If you love somebody, you love somebody. You can't run away or hide from it. If it's meant to be, you can't stop it. And plus, do you think it's money and power that Kari wants?" Matt told his theory.
"Yamato Ishida. Everyone has a right to say that to me but you. Now think about it." T.K. said as he exited the balcony and back into his room. He left Matt there alone to think.
'Go for it, Matt, what have you got to lose?' A side of him said. But the other side disagree, as always. 'Let's see, Matt. Your heart, your dignity, everything. Don't risk it. She isn't worth it.' 'Don't listen to him, he doesn't know anything. And plus, are you stupid enough to listen to him?' Suddenly a cold wind blew and tugged at Matt's hair and clothes. It seemed to have woke him up. Determined what he'll do, he went back into his room and opened up his book and began reading.
Tai's apartment garden *@----}----{----@*
Tai picked a red rose from the garden and began to peel off it's petals. "I love her, I love her not. I love her, I love her not." Finally he gave up and threw what was left of the rose onto the pavement. "I am so pathetic! I can't even make up my own mind. I don't even know if I have a crush on somebody. I mean, I can save a digiworld, but I can't tell what's in my own heart. How stupid can someone be?" Tai asked himself.
"Sora... why are you always on my mind?" he whispered. Just then, he saw car lights flashing in from behind the gate of their apartment. Then, he saw a red convertible pull up into the driveway and his sister stepped out of it. With her was another guy who's about 17. (AN: Even though I don't think so. If it's too young an age to drive, I'm sorry. But I think that Kari deserves better than an 18 year old guy!) He gave her a kiss on a cheek that she quickly rubbed off after he was gone. She saw her brother in the garden and walked up to him.
"You didn't have to stay up for me, you know. I am a big girl now. I can go on dates without a nervous brother waiting for me at home." Kari said when she reached him.
Tai looked up, then kicked the rose aside into the bushes. "I wasn't waiting up for you, I was taking a walk, thinking." He looked up and saw a million stars glistening in the night sky.
"Yea, sure. And what exactly are you thinking about? Me?" Kari questioned. She still assumed that he was just waiting to spy on her and her date.
"A person. And no, it's not you. You're not always center of attention you know." Tai replied. 'Now would you leave me alone and let me think?' He began to walk towards the water fountain. Kari stayed right behind him. She was determined to know what's wrong with her brother.
"I find that hard to believe. Well, is it a girl?" Kari asked. "Because if it is, you should tell me. After all, I am a girl, I know about this stuff that you guys are clueless about."
"Yea, it's a girl." He looked at her sister a bit, then turned his gaze back forward. "It's just that I don't know if I have a crush on her or not. I mean, I've never really like liked anyone before. So how do I know that I like her?" When he finished, he leaned forward and took a drink from the water fountain.
"It's Sora, right?" Tai spitted his water right out and began to choke. He coughed like crazy but finally got better when Kari patted his back. "I'll... um... take that as a yes."
"How'd you know?!" Tai yelled. "I know it's not a lucky guess, I can tell."
"It's a little obvious. I mean, think about it. We digidestined are all best friends. Other than us, your next choice would be sports. So it'll have to be one of the digidestined. It can't be me. Everyone knows that Matt and Mimi have a crush on each other. So Sora's the only one left. And you just said that it's a girl, so you're not gay. At least I hope that you're not..." Kari explained.
"NO I'm not gay! And whatever happened to I'll help?" Tai exclaimed as they began to walk back up the stairs to their apartment.
"Okay, okay. Patience. Do you have butterflies in your stomach when you're near her? Or do you think about her non stop when she's not around?" Kari questioned.
Tai hesitated for a while. 'Should I really tell her? I mean, maybe she'll tell T.K. and T.K. will tell Matt and Matt will tell everyone else just to embarrass me! Hold on, she broke up with T.K. But still, should I tell her?' "Um... yes to both." 'May as well.' He thought.
"Well then 99.99% says that you have a major crush on her. So are you going to tell her?" Kari asked. She likes Sora a lot and wouldn't exactly mind her brother going out with her. Well, not like she has a choice.
"Hold on. We're going a little bit too fast. And plus, I'm a guy, how do you know all this stuff about guys?" Tai asked suspiciously. He really wanted to get off the subject about him and Sora. It is quite a surprise to him. It's not a bad one, but he still didn't want to talk to his little sister about it.
"Simple. Because T - " Kari quickly covered her mouth when she realized that she said something that no one knows.
"Because T.K. used to tell you this stuff, right? And you know that he really likes you. Well, let's see, Kari. You're going out with another guy and you still remember all this about T.K.? Every word? Isn't that a bit wrong?" Tai questioned.
"No... where did you get that from," Kari stuttered as she looked away.
"Well, from T.V. mostly. And plus, after all, I am a guy. I know all this stuff that you girls are clueless about," Tai mocked Kari which made her blush deeper than she already did. "You still like T.K., don't you?"
"Why... why are we talking about him? We're talking about you and Sora, remember?"
"Well, my problems are solved since now I know that I like Sora. So your problems are next. So you do still like T.K., right?" Tai asked in a brotherly voice. (AN: for those who don't have older brothers, this kind of brotherly voice does get annoying sometimes... usually... okay, all the time.)
'Should I tell him? I mean, this is girly stuff. Maybe I'll be better off calling Mimi or something. But he is my big brother and he told me about the Sora business.' "Yea, I guess I still do." Kari said after minutes of hesitation.
"Well then, why don't you tell him that instead of pretending to hate him so much?" Tai asked.
"Are you serious? I am not about to be the one who apologizes when it's all his fault. Look, you want to know what happened? I'll tell you what happened. One day, out of the blue, T.K. just came up to me and said that we should be allowed to see other people. So obviously, he has someone else in mind. I guess I'm just not good enough for him. So I went out with someone else instead, you happy?" Kari fumed. Teardrops began to form at the corners of her eyes and were about to spill out anytime.
"Look, I'm sorry, Kari. I didn't mean to get you all upset." Tai said as he wrapped an arm around her shoulder. "Well, I know that he hasn't gone out with anyone yet since neither Matt nor T.K. told me about it. So I'm sure he meant that you're free to see other people. Well, maybe this fight is completely useless."
"Yeah, maybe." Kari said softly. Then she drearily dragged herself back into her room.
"Well, I guess I may as well tell you Sora. I mean, what have I got to lose?" Tai asked himself as he slowly closed the door to his bedroom.
Matt's balcony *@----}----{----@*
'Wow. Mimi's changed so much. But I can tell that her personality hasn't changed. Still so caring, understanding, sweet, innocent, and perfect.' Matt thought as he sat staring at stars from his balcony. "Matt, what are you thinking?" He said as he snapped himself back to reality. "I mean, she'll never like you. You saw her! She's turned so beautiful, like a flower in bloom. And you, Matt? You nothing but an ugly duckling. Except you'll never turn into a swan." A tear appeared at the corner of his eye, but he wiped it away before it could fall. "I just don't want to lose you again, Mimi. I just don't want to part with you again." He whispered as he leaned back and looked at the North Star.
"Who are you talking to, Matt?" A voice came from inside. Matt spun around and saw T.K. standing at the doorway. He began to walk towards him and Matt turned his gaze back to the stars.
"No one, T.K. Why are you out here at this hour?" Matt asked. He sniffed a little and avoided his brother's gaze.
"I'm not a little kid anymore. And another thing, have you been crying, Matt?" T.K. asked. 'Watch him say no. He never tells me anything anymore,' T.K. thought.
Matt wiped the last traces of tears off his face and replied. "No! I wasn't crying, T.K." 'He'll never understand even if I tell him anyway.'
'See? What did I tell you?' T.K. sat down in a chair across from Matt. He, too, began staring at the stars. They've been doing this ever since they're little. They always used to think that each of them held something special. But the beliefs are fading as they grow up.
"You know, Matt. I'm not a little kid anymore as I said before. I know that you're thinking about Mimi. I'm not that dumb. And plus, you're my brother. You might think that I don't understand. But I do! How do you think I feel about Kari?" Then T.K. covered his mouth. He knew he'd said that wrong thing. Only he knew that he still likes Kari. Everyone else thinks that they're enemies now that they broke up. But the truth is, T.K. still can't get over her. He just pretends to not like her for his pride. He didn't want to be the one who gives in and apologizes.
Matt looked at T.K. and smiled. "Obviously I underestimated you. I guess you do understand." Matt sighs and looks down at his glass of water. "It's just that I think that Mimi's too good for me and... I think that I'll only be a burden to her. I mean, it's like Beauty and the Beast, except I'll never turn into a prince." 'There I said it. Well, it's better than talking to myself.' Matt thought.
'So that's why he's so down.' "Nonsense. You're my big brother and you're better than any prince in the whole world. Mimi would be happy to go out with you. I think that you should just ask her." T.K. encouraged Matt. He took a sip from his Root Beer and set it onto the round table between them.
"What's the point?" Matt asked. You could hear the hurt in his voice as it broke. Memories brought hot tears down his face again. Except this time he didn't bother to wipe them away.
"What do you mean, what's the point? The point is so that you and Mimi can FINALLY go out with each other and live happily ever after. What do you think?" T.K. almost yelled.
"Do you really believe in living happily ever after? I mean, we both know that it only happens in fairy tales. And this is real. And plus, even if I did get the courage to ask her, she'd probably just go away again. I mean, you heard her. She said she'd go away sooner or later. It'll just make it hurt more than already will. It'll be just like last time." Matt looked up at the full moon and saw Mimi's face instead of the moon. That it was Mimi brightening the darkness. Then he shook it out of his mind and saw the moon again. More memories came back. More painful memories...
Flashback *@----}----{----@*
Matt's waiting impatiently for the girl of his dreams by the water fountain in the middle of the park. Finally, he caught a glimpse of her, walking drearily towards him. 'Great. Something is wrong. This is going to make this harder than it already is.' He thought as he went up to her. "Hey, Mimi." Mimi looked up at him for a few seconds, then collapsed into his opened arms, crying. He was speechless and he didn't know what to do. Hesitantly, he wrapped his arms around her and kept saying to himself, 'please don't slap me, please don't slap me.' To his surprise, she cuddled into a more comfortable position.
When she finally took her face out of his chest, her mascara was messed up from her crying and her eyes were practically overflowed with tears. "Wha... What's wrong, Mimi?" He hid his present to her deeper into his pocket. 'Maybe I'll save it for later. But this is definitely not a good time.'
"Everything is wrong, Matt! Everything!" She screamed. When she calmed down. "My... my parents wants to move our whole family to New York City in America! Do you know what that means? It means I may not ever be able to see any of you anymore! I can't do that! I can't leave any of you! I can't leave you!" She said. She buried her face onto his shoulder and began crying again.
Matt was too shocked himself. 'How will I ever live without you, Mimi? You can't leave! But I can't be so selfish either. What am I supposed to do? Give me a sign, somebody!' He snapped back to reality when they found each other staring into each others' eyes. He quickly turned away. 'I... I can't burden you, Mimi. I'm sorry...'
"Everything will turn out right. You'll never lose us and we'll never lose you. You'll always be here." He said as he pointed to where his heart was. "Now you don't have to worry about a thing. Don't you remember? Destiny will work everything out in the end. We don't have to worry about a thing..." Matt tried to comfort her. But he had tears in his eyes as well. But he managed to hold them back until she left him alone. It seemed like she ran out of his grasp forever...
End flashback *@----}----{----@*
Matt took something out of his back pocket. It was a little transparent case which held a golden angel brooch. The angel was playing a harp. "You were going to give that to Mimi, weren't you?" T.K. asked.
"Who else will I give it to? But I don't know anymore. I think that I may as well just let it go. It'll never work. I mean, just think. A rebel and a princess. I'm sure her parents will be nice about it and all, but I can ruin her future. And I don't want to do anything to hurt her." Matt said in almost a whisper.
"Yea, I know what you mean, big bro." T.K. agreed. "You just like the person so much you'd rather sacrifice your all just to make her happy and safe."
"How do you know all this stuff, T.K.? When I was your age, I was as lost as a little lamb about this. Wait a minute. Does this have anything to do with Kari?" Matt asked. Then he remembered that T.K. mentioned something about Kari before.
"Yeah, genius. It's all about Kari. Why do you think we started this fight anyway? You see, there's this kid who's father owns a really powerful company. And he's been asking Kari out ever since. But Kari always refuses him because of me. But if she'd go out with him, I'm sure she'd have a very bright future. I don't want to drag her behind.
"So one day I told her that we're allowed to see other people. I hoped that she got the hint. But I think she took it the wrong way and thought that I fell in love with someone else. So the next day, when I went to apologize, she'd already went out with him. And she seemed rather happy. I knew it'd be for the better... And the fight just grew bigger and bigger. And now it's like this." T.K. ended his story with a long, depressed sigh.
"Wow. T.K., I never knew so much. You should've told me. But the thing is. It doesn't matter who it is. If you love somebody, you love somebody. You can't run away or hide from it. If it's meant to be, you can't stop it. And plus, do you think it's money and power that Kari wants?" Matt told his theory.
"Yamato Ishida. Everyone has a right to say that to me but you. Now think about it." T.K. said as he exited the balcony and back into his room. He left Matt there alone to think.
'Go for it, Matt, what have you got to lose?' A side of him said. But the other side disagree, as always. 'Let's see, Matt. Your heart, your dignity, everything. Don't risk it. She isn't worth it.' 'Don't listen to him, he doesn't know anything. And plus, are you stupid enough to listen to him?' Suddenly a cold wind blew and tugged at Matt's hair and clothes. It seemed to have woke him up. Determined what he'll do, he went back into his room and opened up his book and began reading.
Tai's apartment garden *@----}----{----@*
Tai picked a red rose from the garden and began to peel off it's petals. "I love her, I love her not. I love her, I love her not." Finally he gave up and threw what was left of the rose onto the pavement. "I am so pathetic! I can't even make up my own mind. I don't even know if I have a crush on somebody. I mean, I can save a digiworld, but I can't tell what's in my own heart. How stupid can someone be?" Tai asked himself.
"Sora... why are you always on my mind?" he whispered. Just then, he saw car lights flashing in from behind the gate of their apartment. Then, he saw a red convertible pull up into the driveway and his sister stepped out of it. With her was another guy who's about 17. (AN: Even though I don't think so. If it's too young an age to drive, I'm sorry. But I think that Kari deserves better than an 18 year old guy!) He gave her a kiss on a cheek that she quickly rubbed off after he was gone. She saw her brother in the garden and walked up to him.
"You didn't have to stay up for me, you know. I am a big girl now. I can go on dates without a nervous brother waiting for me at home." Kari said when she reached him.
Tai looked up, then kicked the rose aside into the bushes. "I wasn't waiting up for you, I was taking a walk, thinking." He looked up and saw a million stars glistening in the night sky.
"Yea, sure. And what exactly are you thinking about? Me?" Kari questioned. She still assumed that he was just waiting to spy on her and her date.
"A person. And no, it's not you. You're not always center of attention you know." Tai replied. 'Now would you leave me alone and let me think?' He began to walk towards the water fountain. Kari stayed right behind him. She was determined to know what's wrong with her brother.
"I find that hard to believe. Well, is it a girl?" Kari asked. "Because if it is, you should tell me. After all, I am a girl, I know about this stuff that you guys are clueless about."
"Yea, it's a girl." He looked at her sister a bit, then turned his gaze back forward. "It's just that I don't know if I have a crush on her or not. I mean, I've never really like liked anyone before. So how do I know that I like her?" When he finished, he leaned forward and took a drink from the water fountain.
"It's Sora, right?" Tai spitted his water right out and began to choke. He coughed like crazy but finally got better when Kari patted his back. "I'll... um... take that as a yes."
"How'd you know?!" Tai yelled. "I know it's not a lucky guess, I can tell."
"It's a little obvious. I mean, think about it. We digidestined are all best friends. Other than us, your next choice would be sports. So it'll have to be one of the digidestined. It can't be me. Everyone knows that Matt and Mimi have a crush on each other. So Sora's the only one left. And you just said that it's a girl, so you're not gay. At least I hope that you're not..." Kari explained.
"NO I'm not gay! And whatever happened to I'll help?" Tai exclaimed as they began to walk back up the stairs to their apartment.
"Okay, okay. Patience. Do you have butterflies in your stomach when you're near her? Or do you think about her non stop when she's not around?" Kari questioned.
Tai hesitated for a while. 'Should I really tell her? I mean, maybe she'll tell T.K. and T.K. will tell Matt and Matt will tell everyone else just to embarrass me! Hold on, she broke up with T.K. But still, should I tell her?' "Um... yes to both." 'May as well.' He thought.
"Well then 99.99% says that you have a major crush on her. So are you going to tell her?" Kari asked. She likes Sora a lot and wouldn't exactly mind her brother going out with her. Well, not like she has a choice.
"Hold on. We're going a little bit too fast. And plus, I'm a guy, how do you know all this stuff about guys?" Tai asked suspiciously. He really wanted to get off the subject about him and Sora. It is quite a surprise to him. It's not a bad one, but he still didn't want to talk to his little sister about it.
"Simple. Because T - " Kari quickly covered her mouth when she realized that she said something that no one knows.
"Because T.K. used to tell you this stuff, right? And you know that he really likes you. Well, let's see, Kari. You're going out with another guy and you still remember all this about T.K.? Every word? Isn't that a bit wrong?" Tai questioned.
"No... where did you get that from," Kari stuttered as she looked away.
"Well, from T.V. mostly. And plus, after all, I am a guy. I know all this stuff that you girls are clueless about," Tai mocked Kari which made her blush deeper than she already did. "You still like T.K., don't you?"
"Why... why are we talking about him? We're talking about you and Sora, remember?"
"Well, my problems are solved since now I know that I like Sora. So your problems are next. So you do still like T.K., right?" Tai asked in a brotherly voice. (AN: for those who don't have older brothers, this kind of brotherly voice does get annoying sometimes... usually... okay, all the time.)
'Should I tell him? I mean, this is girly stuff. Maybe I'll be better off calling Mimi or something. But he is my big brother and he told me about the Sora business.' "Yea, I guess I still do." Kari said after minutes of hesitation.
"Well then, why don't you tell him that instead of pretending to hate him so much?" Tai asked.
"Are you serious? I am not about to be the one who apologizes when it's all his fault. Look, you want to know what happened? I'll tell you what happened. One day, out of the blue, T.K. just came up to me and said that we should be allowed to see other people. So obviously, he has someone else in mind. I guess I'm just not good enough for him. So I went out with someone else instead, you happy?" Kari fumed. Teardrops began to form at the corners of her eyes and were about to spill out anytime.
"Look, I'm sorry, Kari. I didn't mean to get you all upset." Tai said as he wrapped an arm around her shoulder. "Well, I know that he hasn't gone out with anyone yet since neither Matt nor T.K. told me about it. So I'm sure he meant that you're free to see other people. Well, maybe this fight is completely useless."
"Yeah, maybe." Kari said softly. Then she drearily dragged herself back into her room.
"Well, I guess I may as well tell you Sora. I mean, what have I got to lose?" Tai asked himself as he slowly closed the door to his bedroom.