~THE GOOD LIFE: T.K.'S STORY, PART 3~
Mimi walks prettily into the room.
"Hello everyone! I'm here to say the introduction..."
Matt, Izzy, Joe, and Tai burst into the room.
"Mimi, what are you doing? She'll kill you too!" Matt exclaims.
Mimi harrumphs. "Hmph!"
"Mimi, don't do it!" Izzy insists.
"You'll be sorry for the rest of your life," Joe warns.
"You do *not* want to be on her bad list," Tai advised.
Mimi held her head proudly. "I'm *not* going to be on her bad list."
"Why?"
Mimi stares back at the person reading this. "Because unlike *you* silly boys, *I* have asked for permission."
All four boys sweatdrop. "Oh."
Mimi clears her throat. "Ahem. Excuse that little interruption. Now, Venus163 owns Jare, Stacey, and the plot. You really *should* ask for permission, whether to use them, or to say the introduction or conclusion..." she glares at the boys. "Well, all the rest, Digimon, she does *not* own.
"Everyone here is in high school...well, excepting T.K., Kari, and Stacey. *They* are in middle school. I think Venus163 called this an alternate-reality fic.
"This story's rated PG-13, because it's so depressing." Mimi smiles. "It's not *too* depressing, I mean happy end...oops, spoiler, sorry. Well, you know me. If I like it, then hopefully *you'll* like it too.
"You really *should* review this. Venus163 takes all reviews to heart, and you should see how happy she gets when she reads reviews, unlike when *some* people read the introduction or conclusion without asking..." Mimi glares at the boys, who keep sweatdropping.
"Send all those reviews and critcism to her E-Mail address, crescent87@hotmail.com I assure you, she reads *every* single review she gets.
"I think I've covered everything...oh yeah! A word of advice: It's *always* good to ask permission for anything!"
Matt scowls. "Would you let it go?"
Mimi shakes her head. "No, not since you're going to die..."
Tai looks around. "Hey, where's Kari?"
"And T.K.?" adds Joe.
"Come to think of it, I haven't seen Sora either," Izzy announced.
Mimi waves her hand. "Oh, them? They're searching for the closet door key to let Venus163 out..."
"WHAT? AAAHHH!"
Mimi's left in a pile of dust as the boys race out of the room.
Mimi giggles. "...they didn't stay to hear that I was just kidding! Boys! And now, please enjoy Part 3 of T.K.'s Story!"
~THE GOOD LIFE: T.K.'S STORY, PART 3~
By Venus163
T.K. sat nervously across from Kari. She and Tai were visiting, but T.K. was torn. On one hand, he could spend his whole life staring at Kari, yet, it hurt seeing her, knowing she liked someone else...
Stacey comfortingly squeezed his hand. T.K. was grateful that she was sitting next to him.
"Matt? He's taking a nap," Mimi cheerfully answered Tai's question. Since their engagement, it seemed like Mimi was living here, and T.K. thought it just great, especially since she had...
"Hey, you guys...oh, hello, Tai, Kari."
Mimi beamed as Matt came down the stairs. "Hey Matt!"
Tai stared. "Matt...you cut your hair..."
"Nah, kinda slicked it down more," Matt answered.
"Interesting..." Kari said cautiously.
"Are you kidding?" Tai retorted. "He looks weird!"
Matt glared at him. "Not funny, Tai!"
"I might not be, but your hair sure is!" Tai snickered.
"Not nice..." Matt said, barely restraining himself from punching Tai.
"Tai, that's because Matt's not done with his hair," Mimi cut in quickly, winking at T.K. and Stacey. "We need to give some of the hair a perm..."
"Perm? No way are you perming my hair!" Matt insisted.
"A straight perm, Matt," Mimi assured him. "It'll calm down the spikes."
Matt still looked suspicous. "Well..."
"You want me to do it for you?" Mimi asked.
Matt glared daggers at Tai. "Yeah, that way I know nobody's going to mess up the hair."
Mimi, knowing a fight would take place if not avoided, steered Matt back up the stairs. "I'm sorry, but this is going to take a while," she said apologetically, disappearing upstairs.
T.K. sighed. "Matt's going to kill me when he finds out that it was my idea."
"Me too," Stacey added.
"He's not going to kill *you*," T.K. assured her. "But me...that's another story."
"Well, I have to take some of the blame too!" Stacey said indignantly. "There's no way I'm letting you get in trouble for something I did too!"
"You're great, Stace," T.K. said bluntly.
Stacey blushed. "Aw, thanks T.K. But still, did you see the look on Matt's face when Tai made fun of his hair?"
T.K. snickered. "Do I? His eyes wide as golfballs and getting wider!"
"The whole family got makeovers because of us," Stacey remembered. "Elise did..."
"Only because you accidentally popped your bubble when you were chewing gum on her, remember?" T.K. said slyly.
Stacey's eyes lit up, though she blushed. "When was that...like, when we were six?"
"Yeah, it was!"
"Remind me to buy Mimi some ice cream," Stacey asked him. "She got us out of trouble."
Nodding, T.K. avoided looking at Kari but looked straight at Tai.
Tai decided to break the uncomfortable silence. "Matt's loosened up a lot since he met Mimi, hasn't he?"
T.K. slowly nodded. He met Stacey's gaze, and he thought, 'You're right, Tai. But you'll never know *how* much Matt's loosened up.'
"Do you really have to go so soon?" T.K. asked, carrying her bags.
Stacey nodded. "Yes, T.K. I have to go."
Putting the bags down in front of the plush chair of the airport, T.K. turned and looked straight at her. "It's so hard without Kari..."
Stacey put a hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry, T.K. It's just a matter of time now before she comes back."
"How can everyone be so sure?" T.K. asked bitterly, the pain too much. "Mimi, Matt, you...What if she *never* comes back to me?"
"She will," Stacey said smilingly.
"How do you know?" T.K. demanded.
"Girl's intuition," Stacey answered. Then, she smiled brightly. "Come on, cheer up! I'll come and visit again, I promise!"
T.K. stared wonderingly at her. "How did I ever get through those first few months without you?"
Stacey struck a pose. "I don't know, but if you did, you can get through the ones after I leave." She opened her arms. "Aw, come on, you big baby. Give me a hug."
T.K. gave his cousin a friendly hug. "There you go, Stace." His eyes suddenly lit up. "Hey, can I write to you?"
"Sure!"
"Flight 387 to Asahigawa start boarding now," came the voice from the intercom. "Flight 387 to Asahigawa start boarding now."
"Good-bye, Takeru," Stacey said formally.
"Good-bye, Stacey," T.K. waved sadly. He watched Stacey disappear into the ramp, her blonde hair soon out of sight. Turning around, he dejectedly started walking home.
"Still stuck on the algebra, little bro?"
T.K. looked up. "Oh, hi Matt."
Matt glanced over his shoulder. "Poor you. I hated that stuff when I had to learn it." Looking at his watch, he apologetically patted him on the head. "Sorry T.K., but I can't help you with this. I'd only mess you up more."
As Matt flew down the stairs, T.K. turned back despairingly to his homework. "Oh..."
He had too much stress lately. First, there was his Kari problem. Then, he was in this alone, since Stacey had gone back home. Added homework didn't...
The phone ringing interrupted his concentration. Wondering who could be calling this late at night, he picked it up. "Hello?"
"T.K., have you seen Kari?" came Tai's worried voice.
"Kari, no, why, what happened to her?" T.K. asked, feeling sick with worry.
"She's gone. I-I haven't seen or heard from her since this morning. She didn't come home for lunch or dinner, but I didn't think to worry, 'cause she usually eats out, but it's ten thirty and I *still* haven't heard from her, I'm beginning to worry..." Tai rambled, near panic.
"Okay, Tai, calm down," T.K. said soothingly, though he was in as much turmoil as Tai. "Why don't you try getting hold of Mimi, Sora, Joe, you know, the rest of the gang. I have a good guess at where she could be, but I'm not sure. I need to go check."
"Alright."
"Tai?" T.K. asked hoarsely. "Is she with Jare?"
Tai was silent for a few moments, inflicting a dreadful silence. Finally he choked out, "I think so."
"Then this situation gets worse," T.K. said bluntly. "Jare's the type of person to take advantage of a girl like Kari."
There was a loud thump on the other end of the line.
"Hello, Tai? Tai? Are you there?" Trembling, T.K. hung up quickly and ran out the door.
"Hey, T.K.! Where are you going so late?" Matt asked suspicously.
"It's Kari, Matt. She's been missing all day."
Matt immediately stood up from the couch. "She's missing?"
"I have a pretty good guess on where she is, but I'm not sure. Oh Matt..." T.K. said, stopping.
"Yeah, T.K.?"
"Could you go to Tai's and wake him up? I think he fainted."
"Tai? Fainted? Of course I'll go."
"Thanks." Without waiting for an answer, he flew out the door, praying that he wasn't too late.
Running through the park, his mind was only on one person.
'Kari...' he thought. Then, he stopped abruptly, hands clenched.
'It's all your fault, T.K.,' he blamed himself. 'You should've done more to protect her, but instead, you selfishly stayed away from her, just because it hurt. Now, she's going to get hurt because of you...'
Suddenly he imagined Mimi and what she would say. 'What are you waiting for, T.K.? Go be her hero!'
Matt, he would say, 'Little bro, are you chickening out on me now? Chickening out on *her*?'
Still, he couldn't bring himself to run any further. Near ready to turn back, he had only taken a couple of steps when Stacey popped up in his mind.
'Takeru Ishida!' she exclaimed. 'You've waited much too long for it to end this way! What happened to the strong guy I knew, who watched over and waited for the girl he loved?'
T.K. flexed his fingers. 'She's right, they're all right. I can't chicken out now, she needs me!' With that, he began to run again, running towards her favorite place: a cherry tree in the middle of the park.
'Please, please let me be in time!' he prayed.
Nearing the cherry tree, he was overcame with a sense of forboding. Quickening his steps, he strained to see any sign of Kari.
He was rewarded with the sounds of quiet weeping. A soft voice sobbed, "Somebody, help, please!"
'Kari!' he thought.
"Shut up, sugar, no one can hear you now," came a deeper voice, which T.K. instantly recognized as Jare's.
As anger built inside him, T.K. found a red haze surrounding his view, although not hampering it. He stalked towards the voices and in the dim light of the lamps, saw Kari against a tree, Jare on top of her.
"Get off of her," he ordered.
Kari, seeing him, grew limp with relief.
Jare turned slowly. "Why, if it isn't little T.K. What is he doing out so late?"
"I said, get off of her!"
Jare pushed Kari out of the way roughly. He then turned to T.K. "So?"
Kari, sobbing, snapped, "I'm pressing charges!"
Jare grinned evilly. "I'm afraid that I'm going to win. *No one* messes with Jared Sugamora and gets away with it."
T.K.'s mind raced. 'Sugamora, Sugamora...where have I heard that name before?' Knowing that it wasn't time for that, he clenched his fists and glared at Jare.
Jare laughed. "As I thought. Weakling." He took hold of Kari's arm and pulled her harshly up. "Now where were we..."
Seeing him do that, something in T.K. snapped. The red haze turning dark crimson, he shouted, "Get out of the way, Kari!"
Kari instinctively obeyed. Tearing her arm from Jare's grasp, she threw herself over to the side.
T.K.'s mind was on one thought: Revenge. Launching himself onto Jare, he started attacking him with such a fervor of anger and disgust that Jare couldn't fight back.
Throwing a punch, he grunted, "This is for Kari."
Punch. "This is for Tai!"
Punch. Punch. "And this is for Stacey!"
PUNCH!
Jare fell to the ground, battered and unconscious.
Panting heavily, T.K. stared disgustedly at Jare's body. Then, remembering Kari, he turned to her.
"Oh, Kari." He went over to her limp form and put his arms around her, stroking her hair soothingly.
"Oh T.K.," she gasped out, "you knew! You knew, and tried to keep him away from me!"
T.K. didn't know what to say, so he stayed silent.
~END OF THE GOOD LIFE: T.K.'S STORY, PART 3~
~TO BE CONTINUED...IN THE GOOD LIFE: T.K.'S STORY, PART 4~
Kari walks calmly in and looks innocently at the reader.
"Don't worry, I've asked for permission from Venus163 too. Well, you've probably heard it enough times already, but I'm required to tell you again.
"You'll be one of Venus163's best friends if you review her story. It's great being her best friend, because I am. She's smart (a straight-A student), a good writer, and she's really nice when she's not angry."
Kari smiles. "There's only one more part of T.K.'s Story before it's my turn! In my story, it tells about what *I* was feeling. Please stay tuned for it!
"My brother's story is after mine...that is, if Venus163 gets enough reviews. Poor Tai. He wasn't supposed to get her so...*mad*. I hope she doesn't cut him out of her story as punishment.
"Now, as of this moment, Venus163 is..."
(Venus163 enters)
Finally! Out of that closet. Oh, hi, Kari. How's the conclusion doing?
"Fine."
I'm *so* glad you and Mimi asked for permission before talking to the readers. Now, if the others had done that...where are the others, anyway?
"I think that they're..."
Tai walks in with Matt, laughing.
"So, I thought that..."
TAICHI KAMIYA! YAMATO ISHIDA!
Tai sweatdrops. "This isn't good."
Matt nods. "You want to run?"
"Okay. One, two..."
The boys look at each other and run on two. "AAAAHHHH!"
GET BACK HERE! Oh, Kari? You're doing a *great* job! NOW, WHEN I CATCH YOU BOYS...
(Venus163 exits)
Kari smiles apologetically. "Poor Venus163. She really worked hard on this story, and she wants it to be perfect..."
Joe and Izzy stride in.
"Hey Kari? Did you ask for permission?" Izzy asks.
"Of course I did," she scoffs.
"Where's Tai?" Joe demanded.
"Tai? He's with Matt, getting chased by Venus163..."
"What? Venus163's out of the closet?"
"Well, yes..."
"Let's get out of here, Izzy," Joe insists.
Izzy nods. "Prodigious idea!" Both run out.
Kari bows politely. "Please read and enjoy the last part of T.K.'s Story."
She walks calmly out.
-Venus163
Mimi walks prettily into the room.
"Hello everyone! I'm here to say the introduction..."
Matt, Izzy, Joe, and Tai burst into the room.
"Mimi, what are you doing? She'll kill you too!" Matt exclaims.
Mimi harrumphs. "Hmph!"
"Mimi, don't do it!" Izzy insists.
"You'll be sorry for the rest of your life," Joe warns.
"You do *not* want to be on her bad list," Tai advised.
Mimi held her head proudly. "I'm *not* going to be on her bad list."
"Why?"
Mimi stares back at the person reading this. "Because unlike *you* silly boys, *I* have asked for permission."
All four boys sweatdrop. "Oh."
Mimi clears her throat. "Ahem. Excuse that little interruption. Now, Venus163 owns Jare, Stacey, and the plot. You really *should* ask for permission, whether to use them, or to say the introduction or conclusion..." she glares at the boys. "Well, all the rest, Digimon, she does *not* own.
"Everyone here is in high school...well, excepting T.K., Kari, and Stacey. *They* are in middle school. I think Venus163 called this an alternate-reality fic.
"This story's rated PG-13, because it's so depressing." Mimi smiles. "It's not *too* depressing, I mean happy end...oops, spoiler, sorry. Well, you know me. If I like it, then hopefully *you'll* like it too.
"You really *should* review this. Venus163 takes all reviews to heart, and you should see how happy she gets when she reads reviews, unlike when *some* people read the introduction or conclusion without asking..." Mimi glares at the boys, who keep sweatdropping.
"Send all those reviews and critcism to her E-Mail address, crescent87@hotmail.com I assure you, she reads *every* single review she gets.
"I think I've covered everything...oh yeah! A word of advice: It's *always* good to ask permission for anything!"
Matt scowls. "Would you let it go?"
Mimi shakes her head. "No, not since you're going to die..."
Tai looks around. "Hey, where's Kari?"
"And T.K.?" adds Joe.
"Come to think of it, I haven't seen Sora either," Izzy announced.
Mimi waves her hand. "Oh, them? They're searching for the closet door key to let Venus163 out..."
"WHAT? AAAHHH!"
Mimi's left in a pile of dust as the boys race out of the room.
Mimi giggles. "...they didn't stay to hear that I was just kidding! Boys! And now, please enjoy Part 3 of T.K.'s Story!"
~THE GOOD LIFE: T.K.'S STORY, PART 3~
By Venus163
T.K. sat nervously across from Kari. She and Tai were visiting, but T.K. was torn. On one hand, he could spend his whole life staring at Kari, yet, it hurt seeing her, knowing she liked someone else...
Stacey comfortingly squeezed his hand. T.K. was grateful that she was sitting next to him.
"Matt? He's taking a nap," Mimi cheerfully answered Tai's question. Since their engagement, it seemed like Mimi was living here, and T.K. thought it just great, especially since she had...
"Hey, you guys...oh, hello, Tai, Kari."
Mimi beamed as Matt came down the stairs. "Hey Matt!"
Tai stared. "Matt...you cut your hair..."
"Nah, kinda slicked it down more," Matt answered.
"Interesting..." Kari said cautiously.
"Are you kidding?" Tai retorted. "He looks weird!"
Matt glared at him. "Not funny, Tai!"
"I might not be, but your hair sure is!" Tai snickered.
"Not nice..." Matt said, barely restraining himself from punching Tai.
"Tai, that's because Matt's not done with his hair," Mimi cut in quickly, winking at T.K. and Stacey. "We need to give some of the hair a perm..."
"Perm? No way are you perming my hair!" Matt insisted.
"A straight perm, Matt," Mimi assured him. "It'll calm down the spikes."
Matt still looked suspicous. "Well..."
"You want me to do it for you?" Mimi asked.
Matt glared daggers at Tai. "Yeah, that way I know nobody's going to mess up the hair."
Mimi, knowing a fight would take place if not avoided, steered Matt back up the stairs. "I'm sorry, but this is going to take a while," she said apologetically, disappearing upstairs.
T.K. sighed. "Matt's going to kill me when he finds out that it was my idea."
"Me too," Stacey added.
"He's not going to kill *you*," T.K. assured her. "But me...that's another story."
"Well, I have to take some of the blame too!" Stacey said indignantly. "There's no way I'm letting you get in trouble for something I did too!"
"You're great, Stace," T.K. said bluntly.
Stacey blushed. "Aw, thanks T.K. But still, did you see the look on Matt's face when Tai made fun of his hair?"
T.K. snickered. "Do I? His eyes wide as golfballs and getting wider!"
"The whole family got makeovers because of us," Stacey remembered. "Elise did..."
"Only because you accidentally popped your bubble when you were chewing gum on her, remember?" T.K. said slyly.
Stacey's eyes lit up, though she blushed. "When was that...like, when we were six?"
"Yeah, it was!"
"Remind me to buy Mimi some ice cream," Stacey asked him. "She got us out of trouble."
Nodding, T.K. avoided looking at Kari but looked straight at Tai.
Tai decided to break the uncomfortable silence. "Matt's loosened up a lot since he met Mimi, hasn't he?"
T.K. slowly nodded. He met Stacey's gaze, and he thought, 'You're right, Tai. But you'll never know *how* much Matt's loosened up.'
"Do you really have to go so soon?" T.K. asked, carrying her bags.
Stacey nodded. "Yes, T.K. I have to go."
Putting the bags down in front of the plush chair of the airport, T.K. turned and looked straight at her. "It's so hard without Kari..."
Stacey put a hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry, T.K. It's just a matter of time now before she comes back."
"How can everyone be so sure?" T.K. asked bitterly, the pain too much. "Mimi, Matt, you...What if she *never* comes back to me?"
"She will," Stacey said smilingly.
"How do you know?" T.K. demanded.
"Girl's intuition," Stacey answered. Then, she smiled brightly. "Come on, cheer up! I'll come and visit again, I promise!"
T.K. stared wonderingly at her. "How did I ever get through those first few months without you?"
Stacey struck a pose. "I don't know, but if you did, you can get through the ones after I leave." She opened her arms. "Aw, come on, you big baby. Give me a hug."
T.K. gave his cousin a friendly hug. "There you go, Stace." His eyes suddenly lit up. "Hey, can I write to you?"
"Sure!"
"Flight 387 to Asahigawa start boarding now," came the voice from the intercom. "Flight 387 to Asahigawa start boarding now."
"Good-bye, Takeru," Stacey said formally.
"Good-bye, Stacey," T.K. waved sadly. He watched Stacey disappear into the ramp, her blonde hair soon out of sight. Turning around, he dejectedly started walking home.
"Still stuck on the algebra, little bro?"
T.K. looked up. "Oh, hi Matt."
Matt glanced over his shoulder. "Poor you. I hated that stuff when I had to learn it." Looking at his watch, he apologetically patted him on the head. "Sorry T.K., but I can't help you with this. I'd only mess you up more."
As Matt flew down the stairs, T.K. turned back despairingly to his homework. "Oh..."
He had too much stress lately. First, there was his Kari problem. Then, he was in this alone, since Stacey had gone back home. Added homework didn't...
The phone ringing interrupted his concentration. Wondering who could be calling this late at night, he picked it up. "Hello?"
"T.K., have you seen Kari?" came Tai's worried voice.
"Kari, no, why, what happened to her?" T.K. asked, feeling sick with worry.
"She's gone. I-I haven't seen or heard from her since this morning. She didn't come home for lunch or dinner, but I didn't think to worry, 'cause she usually eats out, but it's ten thirty and I *still* haven't heard from her, I'm beginning to worry..." Tai rambled, near panic.
"Okay, Tai, calm down," T.K. said soothingly, though he was in as much turmoil as Tai. "Why don't you try getting hold of Mimi, Sora, Joe, you know, the rest of the gang. I have a good guess at where she could be, but I'm not sure. I need to go check."
"Alright."
"Tai?" T.K. asked hoarsely. "Is she with Jare?"
Tai was silent for a few moments, inflicting a dreadful silence. Finally he choked out, "I think so."
"Then this situation gets worse," T.K. said bluntly. "Jare's the type of person to take advantage of a girl like Kari."
There was a loud thump on the other end of the line.
"Hello, Tai? Tai? Are you there?" Trembling, T.K. hung up quickly and ran out the door.
"Hey, T.K.! Where are you going so late?" Matt asked suspicously.
"It's Kari, Matt. She's been missing all day."
Matt immediately stood up from the couch. "She's missing?"
"I have a pretty good guess on where she is, but I'm not sure. Oh Matt..." T.K. said, stopping.
"Yeah, T.K.?"
"Could you go to Tai's and wake him up? I think he fainted."
"Tai? Fainted? Of course I'll go."
"Thanks." Without waiting for an answer, he flew out the door, praying that he wasn't too late.
Running through the park, his mind was only on one person.
'Kari...' he thought. Then, he stopped abruptly, hands clenched.
'It's all your fault, T.K.,' he blamed himself. 'You should've done more to protect her, but instead, you selfishly stayed away from her, just because it hurt. Now, she's going to get hurt because of you...'
Suddenly he imagined Mimi and what she would say. 'What are you waiting for, T.K.? Go be her hero!'
Matt, he would say, 'Little bro, are you chickening out on me now? Chickening out on *her*?'
Still, he couldn't bring himself to run any further. Near ready to turn back, he had only taken a couple of steps when Stacey popped up in his mind.
'Takeru Ishida!' she exclaimed. 'You've waited much too long for it to end this way! What happened to the strong guy I knew, who watched over and waited for the girl he loved?'
T.K. flexed his fingers. 'She's right, they're all right. I can't chicken out now, she needs me!' With that, he began to run again, running towards her favorite place: a cherry tree in the middle of the park.
'Please, please let me be in time!' he prayed.
Nearing the cherry tree, he was overcame with a sense of forboding. Quickening his steps, he strained to see any sign of Kari.
He was rewarded with the sounds of quiet weeping. A soft voice sobbed, "Somebody, help, please!"
'Kari!' he thought.
"Shut up, sugar, no one can hear you now," came a deeper voice, which T.K. instantly recognized as Jare's.
As anger built inside him, T.K. found a red haze surrounding his view, although not hampering it. He stalked towards the voices and in the dim light of the lamps, saw Kari against a tree, Jare on top of her.
"Get off of her," he ordered.
Kari, seeing him, grew limp with relief.
Jare turned slowly. "Why, if it isn't little T.K. What is he doing out so late?"
"I said, get off of her!"
Jare pushed Kari out of the way roughly. He then turned to T.K. "So?"
Kari, sobbing, snapped, "I'm pressing charges!"
Jare grinned evilly. "I'm afraid that I'm going to win. *No one* messes with Jared Sugamora and gets away with it."
T.K.'s mind raced. 'Sugamora, Sugamora...where have I heard that name before?' Knowing that it wasn't time for that, he clenched his fists and glared at Jare.
Jare laughed. "As I thought. Weakling." He took hold of Kari's arm and pulled her harshly up. "Now where were we..."
Seeing him do that, something in T.K. snapped. The red haze turning dark crimson, he shouted, "Get out of the way, Kari!"
Kari instinctively obeyed. Tearing her arm from Jare's grasp, she threw herself over to the side.
T.K.'s mind was on one thought: Revenge. Launching himself onto Jare, he started attacking him with such a fervor of anger and disgust that Jare couldn't fight back.
Throwing a punch, he grunted, "This is for Kari."
Punch. "This is for Tai!"
Punch. Punch. "And this is for Stacey!"
PUNCH!
Jare fell to the ground, battered and unconscious.
Panting heavily, T.K. stared disgustedly at Jare's body. Then, remembering Kari, he turned to her.
"Oh, Kari." He went over to her limp form and put his arms around her, stroking her hair soothingly.
"Oh T.K.," she gasped out, "you knew! You knew, and tried to keep him away from me!"
T.K. didn't know what to say, so he stayed silent.
~END OF THE GOOD LIFE: T.K.'S STORY, PART 3~
~TO BE CONTINUED...IN THE GOOD LIFE: T.K.'S STORY, PART 4~
Kari walks calmly in and looks innocently at the reader.
"Don't worry, I've asked for permission from Venus163 too. Well, you've probably heard it enough times already, but I'm required to tell you again.
"You'll be one of Venus163's best friends if you review her story. It's great being her best friend, because I am. She's smart (a straight-A student), a good writer, and she's really nice when she's not angry."
Kari smiles. "There's only one more part of T.K.'s Story before it's my turn! In my story, it tells about what *I* was feeling. Please stay tuned for it!
"My brother's story is after mine...that is, if Venus163 gets enough reviews. Poor Tai. He wasn't supposed to get her so...*mad*. I hope she doesn't cut him out of her story as punishment.
"Now, as of this moment, Venus163 is..."
(Venus163 enters)
Finally! Out of that closet. Oh, hi, Kari. How's the conclusion doing?
"Fine."
I'm *so* glad you and Mimi asked for permission before talking to the readers. Now, if the others had done that...where are the others, anyway?
"I think that they're..."
Tai walks in with Matt, laughing.
"So, I thought that..."
TAICHI KAMIYA! YAMATO ISHIDA!
Tai sweatdrops. "This isn't good."
Matt nods. "You want to run?"
"Okay. One, two..."
The boys look at each other and run on two. "AAAAHHHH!"
GET BACK HERE! Oh, Kari? You're doing a *great* job! NOW, WHEN I CATCH YOU BOYS...
(Venus163 exits)
Kari smiles apologetically. "Poor Venus163. She really worked hard on this story, and she wants it to be perfect..."
Joe and Izzy stride in.
"Hey Kari? Did you ask for permission?" Izzy asks.
"Of course I did," she scoffs.
"Where's Tai?" Joe demanded.
"Tai? He's with Matt, getting chased by Venus163..."
"What? Venus163's out of the closet?"
"Well, yes..."
"Let's get out of here, Izzy," Joe insists.
Izzy nods. "Prodigious idea!" Both run out.
Kari bows politely. "Please read and enjoy the last part of T.K.'s Story."
She walks calmly out.
-Venus163