Wow! *sniffs* I can't believe how many reviews I received for this fic! *tears of joy begin to form in eyes* Honestly, I didn't really expect very many. Do you all really think that this fic is good? *sniffs while smiling* But, THANK YOU SO MUCH! I'm just so glad that you all like it. And since you all do, I'll try to hurry up and finish this fic as soon as I possibly can. (However, I also have to put finals and research papers first, hehe) But I will promise to all of you that I will finish this fic as soon as possible. *bows in gratitude*

Okay, I really don't know whether or not to put a little bit of Mimato into this. I kinda had this Mimoe thing in my head, but Joe's not really in this fic. *ducks as tomatoes fly at me from Joe fans* I'm sorry. Please don't hurt me. I also had this idea to make Michael show up, or just be there as Mimi's date for prom. I'm not sure whether or not to make Matt and Mimi go together, but in this next chapter, Mimi kinda hints at one of the characters I made up, Jade, getting together with Matt, but that's only like, one line and that's all. *opens up umbrella as more tomatoes are sailed through the air at me by Mimato fans* Please do hurt me!

Anyways, though, I already said that this was a Kouyako. I'm not going to tell you anymore so I don't ruin how it goes. However, I can tell you that you are all really going to hate Joany after you finish this part, even though I give her a guilty conscience that decides to hate her too.

Again, this is based mostly on my own prom night. Yes, a tomboy like me actually went to prom. And I tell you, it'll probably never happen again. ^_^ We'll see....

Another reminder, I added my own made up characters: Kit and Jade. You can refer to my note in part 1 to get a brief summary about them.

And now that I've talked all of you into boredom.... let's begin.... (oh yeah, I don't own Digimon. I'd really love to though so that I can change some things that are going on, if ya know what I mean)

Lost In The Moment

Part 2

Izzy put the finishing touches on the speaker. He closed it up and then gave Matt a thumbs up.

"Thanks, buddy," Matt said. He was about to turn to the rest of his band Mysticism, when Izzy spoke up.

(A/N: I really don't know what Matt's band is called. I'm just making up a name that stood out in my mind vat of ideas.)

"Just try not to play it too hard," Izzy said, "How many times do I have to tell you that?"

"Obviously, not enough times," Jade smiled as she walked into the large gym with Mimi and Kit.

"If you people are done, may I?" Matt asked wanting to get back to practicing.

Odaiba's school committee had hired Mysticism to play for prom. Besides Mysticism, they also talked Mimi into singing a couple of songs she had written herself with her friends while she was still in America. The rest of the time, a DJ would be playing when the band and Mimi wanted to stop performing.

Jade glared at him playfully. Matt turned to his band members and they began to test some sounds before they played.

"Hey, Izzy," Kit walked over, "So, who're you going to prom with?"

"You're not going to ask me to prom are you?" Izzy looked up at Kit after he put his tools up. He was remembering that Yolei had asked him something similar before asking him to prom.

Kit gave him a confused look.

"Why would I ask you to prom?" Kit asked.

Izzy waved away the comment, "Never mind."

"So," Mimi asked excitedly, "Who are you going with?"

"Well," Izzy said, "I don't know yet. Joany hasn't answered me yet."

"Joany?" Kit looked at him in even more confusion. Uh oh, she thought.

Izzy nodded, not understanding Kit's change of tone and confusion.

"Uh," Kit took a step back, "I have to, uh, go somewhere real quick. I'll see you guys later-" she turned to her cousin "-J, I'll be home by six." Without another word, she ran out of the gym. Gotta find Yolei. She's gonna be crushed. She probably already knows.

"What's with her?" Jade asked in confusion.

"If my cousin were you," Matt chimed in nonchalantly as he strummed a couple strings on his guitar, "I'd run away too." He then smiled impishly at her and resumed practicing.

"Izzy?" Jade asked narrowing her eyes at Matt, "Are you sure you fixed the speakers and the equipment? He sounds like he's off-key."

"Of course I fixed everything," Izzy said. He looked at Matt and his band, "How can you tell they're off key. They haven't even started playing yet. And it doesn't have anything to do with the equipment."

"Oh, really," Jade walked over to the sound controller and flicked a switch causing a loud screeching sound that made Matt and his band, who were the closest to the speakers, stop in the middle of playing and plug their ears.

Immediately, Matt scrambled down to the sound controller and pulled the switch back down. He glared at Jade.

"Oops," Jade said smiling deviously, but acting innocent. She laughed and walked away.

"I think they'd make a really cute couple," Mimi whispered to Izzy who only chuckled and nodded.

**********

"Yolei," Kit knocked on Yolei's bedroom door, "You have to come out sometime. You can't live without food, you know." She sighed and looked at the other girls who stood outside of Yolei's room.

She sighed. Kit had unsuccessfully searched for Yolei the day before when she found out about Izzy asking Joany to prom. And since she hadn't seen Yolei all morning at school, she rounded up everyone but her own cousin, who had karate class, to find Yolei at her house.

"Yolei!" Sora called, "Please come out. You can't just lock yourself up in there. We're here to talk to you."

"Come on, Yolei," Mimi said, "Mimi will take you shopping and you'll feel better in no time." She knocked on the door and twisted her face into a frown when no one answered.

"Yolei-" Kari called.

"What are you guys doing?" a voice asked from behind all of them. They all turned and jumped to see Yolei walk in from the living room.

"Aren't you in-?" Kari asked looking at Yolei's bedroom door.

Yolei shook her head, "I just got back from my dad's store. He needed help after school. I've been there all evening. What are you guys doing here?"

"We thought-" Kit looked at the door, "But your sister said-" She looked toward the living room.

"My sister never knows where I am," Yolei said, "It'd be a miracle if she knew left from right."

"I heard that!" Yolei's older sister called from the living room.

"Does it look like I care?" Yolei called back.

"How come you're door's locked then?" Sora asked.

"I have to lock it," Yolei said. She raised her voice as if talking to her sister in the living room more than to her friends, "It's to keep pesky older siblings out of my closet!"

"Like I need anything from your closet," Yolei's sister called again.

Yolei rolled her eyes, whipped out a key and opened her bedroom door. All the girls who had been standing outside of her bedroom, now all piled into her room and took a seat in either a chair or the floor.

"What are you guys doing here?" Yolei asked smiling brightly.

"It's alright, Yolei," Kari said to her friend, "You don't have to pretend." She put her hand on Yolei's.

"What?" Yolei knew what everyone was talking about, but she didn't feel like talking about it.

"He doesn't know what he's missing," Kit said.

"He may be our friend," Mimi said, "But I never knew he could be so-"

"Hold on just a second," Yolei cut Mimi off in mid-sentence. She sighed and looked at everyone, "I know what you're all here for, but I'm completely okay. Now I don't have an excuse to go to prom. I'll just join Kit and lounge around the living room all night."

"Yolei," Kari began.

"I'm fine," Yolei said.

"You want some of my angry girl music to sooth your soul?" Kit chimed in.

Yolei and the other girls laughed a little. They were all glad that everything was supposedly going alright.

"Well," Kit said, "Izzy did say that Joany hasn't exactly answered him yet. So you never know. Chances are, she'll say no and, uh, you'll go with him."

"Look," Yolei smiled, "I appreciate all the support and comforting, but I am just so sure that he'll be going with Joany. I mean, it's not like he can turn her down since he's the one who asked her."

"Yolei-" Kari began.

"I have a sixth sense about these things," Yolei cut her off. She hung her head, "Besides, if I were Izzy, I'd choose Joany over me."

Kari and Sora exchanged glances sadly. "You shouldn't put yourself down, Yolei," Sora said, "You're a really great person. And Izzy should know that." Yolie smiled.

Sora, Yolei thought, Always so sweet.

Kit smiled deviously, "Yolei? You want we should do something to-"

Yolei laughed as she interrupted, "Much obliged, but I don't think that's necessary."

"If you say so," Kit smiled.

"Hey," Mimi said, "I've got the greatest idea." Her eyes glimmered devilishly.

"Oh, no," Kit said in fear, "Mimi, you're not going to-?"

"We will all go shopping!" Mimi exclaimed, "We'll all go to prom. If Izzy's not going with Yolei, then we should at least make her so stunning that he'll wish he had gone with her."

"I think that's a reasonable idea," Kari nodded.

"What does that have to do with all of us going to prom?" Kit asked shaking her head 'no.'

"We have to be there to support Yolei," Kari said.

"I think that's a good idea," Sora said.

"Are you kidding?" Yolei shook her head, "I'm not going to prom."

"Oh, come on, Yolei," Mimi said, "I can make Izzy drop his jaw when he sees you. He'll regret not going with you for the rest of his life. I mean, Yolei, what's Joany got anyways?"

"Well," Yolei began to count, "She's the assistant chair person of the school student committee. She's the secretary of the student council. She's the manager and pitcher for the girl's softball team. She was runner up during the Odaiba talent search. She-"

"You're not helping," Mimi gave Yolei an exasperated look.

"Well, you asked," Yolei said, "And I can go on and on."

"Is there anything she's not?" Kit asked.

"I can't think of anything," Yolei said.

"I was being sarcastic," Kit said rolling her eyes.

"I still think that we should go with that idea," Kari said, "We make Yolei drop-dead gorgeous and we'll rub it in Izzy's face at prom."

"I'm not going to prom," Yolei repeated, "How many times do I have to tell you that?"

"None," Mimi said, "Tomorrow morning, ladies, we will all hit the mall." She smiled and got up, "Until then. I have to go home. It's getting late."

Choruses of "me too" came from the rest of the girls.

"I'm not-" Yolei began.

"Nuh-uh," Mimi put her finger up, "I don't want to hear it. We are going to the mall tomorrow and that's final. You can't fight it either."

"Wanna try me," Yolei mumbled.

"What was that?" Mimi asked.

"I said," she looked around at the other girls' hopeful faces. They were all being so supportive. I can't let them down, Yolei thought. She smiled, "I said, I'll see you tomorrow."

"Goody," Mimi clasped her hands together at her victory, "Well, we'll meet at the mall tomorrow morning at seven then."

"Uh, Mimi?" Kit said.

"What is it?" Mimi asked excitedly, "You're going too. You know you can't get out of this."

"Uh," Kit smiled, "Yeah I can. Tomorrow's a school day. We can't be at the mall at seven."

Mimi clasped her hand over her mouth, "It is, isn't it?" She thought for a while, "Well, then. We will go directly after school then. We'll meet outside of the school building and head for the mall."

Sora and Kari nodded. Yolei looked unsure, but decided to go with it. I can always back out at the last moment, she thought. Kit just looked around the room, trying not to make eye contact with her friends.

"Kit," Kari pleaded.

"You people know how I am about dresses and stuff like that," Kit said. She looked at everyone, "Geez. Alright. I'll go with you. But do not, and I mean DO NOT expect me to try anything on, or look for anything to wear at all. Got that?"

"So long as you're going," Kari smiled. She then mumbled, "Besides, I'm sure Mimi will find some way to change your mind."

"Huh?" Kit looked at Kari.

"Nothing," Kari said, "Let's all go home." She headed out the door.

"Just because I go shopping with you girls," Kit said as she headed out the door also, "Doesn't mean I have to go to prom or buy anything at all."

"Whatever you say, Kit," Mimi smiled. All she needs is a date, then she'll completely make a one eighty turn around about her decision.

*************

"Yolei asked me to prom," Izzy was talking to himself as he sat in the computer room. He was still thinking back to that couple days ago when Yolei had walked into the computer lab and asked him if he'd go with her to prom, "Why would she ask me to prom?" He stared at the picture on the computer desktop. He looked at Yolei. Her lovely smile. Her long violet hair. Those glimmering eyes hidden behind that pair of glasses.

Izzy shook his head. Where are all these thoughts coming from? He had found himself thinking about Yolei day in and day out. Fortunately for him, he hadn't run into Joany all week. A week. That was all the time left before prom. He blinked a couple times before he decided that he needed to have a talk with Joany. If he was going to make a decision, he might as well do it while he still had time.

Heading down the hall, more thoughts flew through his head. I'll just tell her that a really good friend wants to go with me. It won't be that bad... But Izzy, you can't suddenly tell a girl you're not going to prom with her. You're the one who asked her, genius. But she's not who you really want to go with. Right? Besides, you only asked her as a friend. You'd only be going as friends. It's not like breaking a date with a girlfriend or anything. She'll understand. You two aren't dating. She should know that it's only natural for you to fall for another girl. Who's she to judge? Hold on just a second... Fall for another girl? Where did that come in? I'm not falling for Yolei. Am I? She is pretty attractive. And she is a really great girl. And-

"Hey Izzy!" a familiar voice called down the hall to Izzy. He looked up and broke away from all his thoughts. Joany smiled at him.

"Hi Joany," Izzy said. Tell her.

"Guess what?" Joany said happily, "Since no one else has asked me, I guess I can go with you to prom." Her smile faded. Izzy didn't look too excited. Instead, he looked as if he just found out something horrible.

"You look really out of it," Joany said worriedly, "You okay?"

"Uh, yeah..." Izzy tugged a little at his collar. For crying out loud! Tell her! You're going with Yolei! You want to go with Yolei! Izzy's eyes widened at his thoughts. Whoa! Where did that come from? No need to be so dramatic Izzy.

Joany shook her head, "You don't look okay. Tell me. What's wrong?"

"Well... I..." Izzy hung his head almost feeling ashamed that he wanted to call off being Joany's date.

Joany tilted her head and looked at Izzy curiously.

"Joany," Izzy took a deep breath. He looked at her and said, "it's about prom. I- I wanted to, uh-" It's not that hard to say, doofus. I can't go to prom with you. Just say it.

Joany frowned, "What about prom? You don't want to go with me?"

"Joany," Izzy said, "It's not really you. There's just this girl and she, uh-"

"Let me guess," Joany smiled, "The girl of your dreams suddenly decided to ask you to prom. Something that you never expected to happen. And now, you're facing the dilemma of either going with me so you don't have to face going back on your word, or going with her, but ditching me."

"Somewhat like that," Izzy said, "I mean, you and I both know that I asked you as a friend and that we'd only be going as friends."

"Of course," Joany said, "That's how we went last year. Just friends."

"And, honestly," Izzy said, "I never really felt this way about her until just a while ago. I mean, I've always found her to be a very attractive and likable person, but I never expected her to ask me to prom. And when she did, something sorta clicked."

"Oh," Joany nodded, "I see. And like the gentleman you are, you thought it'd be really wrong of you to ask me to prom, but then suddenly turn around and say that you're not going to go with me."

Izzy nodded sheepishly, "I'm sorry."

"No need to be," Joany said, "Totally understandable." She smiled.

"So," Izzy said and looked at her, "You don't mind?"

"Why would I?" Joany said, "Remember? We're were only going to go as friends anyways." She bit her lip and spoke again, "By the way, who is this lucky lady?"

"Uh," Izzy hesitated, but decided that there'd be no harm in saying who, "Yolei Inoue."

Joany looked surprised at the reply. Her? How could it be her? She's nothing special. Joany gasped at what she had just thought. Why did she have such rude thoughts? That wasn't like her.

"What's wrong?" Izzy asked catching her gasp.

"Oh, uh, nothing," Joany said, "Yolei Inoue, huh?" She looked at Izzy sadly. He was going to ask someone else.

"What's wrong?" Izzy asked again.

Suddenly, something came over Joany. She didn't understand it, but she went with her very first instinct and spoke before she could think on it.

"It's just," Joany began, "Isn't Yolei going with someone else?" What am I doing? she thought realizing what she was saying.

Izzy looked taken aback. Oh no. Someone beat me to her. Arghh! I knew I should have asked her when I had the chance. Or better yet, said yes when she asked me.

"You might be mistaken," Izzy said hopefully.

"Yolei's the girl with long violet hair and wears glasses right?" Joany asked as words just began to fall out of her mouth. She still wasn't thinking.

"Well, there are a lot of girls who have long violet hair and wear glasses," Izzy said.

"She's in your computer club," Joany said, "Yeah, I'm sure that's the same girl."

She's right, Izzy thought. He almost felt like kicking himself, physically, By now, she's probably already found another date. Why didn't I say yes?

"Who's she going with?" Izzy asked.

"I'm not sure," Joany said, "But I think I overheard her talking to her friends about her date for prom. I just didn't catch his name."

"Really?" Izzy asked feeling suddenly down.

"Sorry," Joany felt horrible. What am I doing?

"You really didn't catch what his name was?" Izzy asked.

Joany shook her head.

Izzy hung his head.

"Alright then," Izzy began to turn away, "I'll see you later. And I'm sorry about-"

"Actually," Joany stopped him, "If you still want to go, I'm still available." She smiled, "We'll go as friends. Like we did last year."

Izzy smiled a little. It wouldn't look too great if he went by himself. Just about everyone would be going with a date. He nodded and then looked at her sheepishly, "I'm sorry. I wanted to break off the date, but now you end up asking me to prom."

"That's alright," Joany smiled, "So we're set, right?"

Izzy nodded, "Yeah. I gotta go. I'll talk to you later about what we'll do for prom."

Joany nodded, "I'll see you around."

Izzy walked away.

"What the hell were you thinking?" Joany slapped her forehead, "He is going to be so mad at you when he finds out you lied to him." She hung her head and walked away. Why did I do that? Well, if I didn't, then he'd be going with Yolei and my chances would be all down the drain. But you didn't have to do that!

************

"She is going to be even more crushed when she finds out," Kit said to Kari as they walked down the hall.

The two girls had run into Izzy on their way to class. Curiosity getting the better of them, they had inquired Izzy about who he was going to take to prom.

"I'm taking Joany," Izzy had answered.

Shocked and surprised, the two girls had been too caught up in the fact that Izzy was taking someone else that they couldn't sense the downness of Izzy's tone.

Without saying anything else, the girls disappeared down the hall leaving Izzy in confusion.

"You wanna tell her?" Kit asked Kari, "You know her better."

"I'm not going to tell her," Kari protested.

"Tell who what?" Yolei suddenly appeared from a nearby classroom.

"Nothing," Kit said too quickly.

Yolei gave the two a thoughtful look. Her face straightened, "This has to do with me, doesn't it?"

Kari and Kit looked at each other. Kari spoke up, "Yolei..." She glanced at Kit again.

"Yolei," Kit said, "I think it's better if you hear it from us..."

Da da da da!! That's the end of part two. It just keeps getting longer and longer. And there's more to come.

Okay, just a little note: Maybe not everything that's going on in here is what happened to me during prom night. The guy I asked to prom... well, he doesn't like me in "that" way. We're just friends. He just doesn't know I like him. And the girl he went with to prom, well, she isn't at all a bad person and she never did anything to me. I just needed to show everyone that Izzy liked Yolei, but he still went to prom with someone else and I needed a good reason why. But that's about all that didn't happen to me. So it's not exact, but like I said, it's based on my own prom night. :)

Well, please r&r.

Again, I'm thanking everyone for the many reviews I'd received from part 1. Oh, and I know that I promised that there'd probably only be 3 parts, but it got longer and I couldn't help but add another part.