Snow Job 2001 -- DigiDestined Style
Chapter Five
The second last day of their trip dawned and Matt had dragged Mimi out to the hills again for another snowboarding lesson.
"Let's see you Mimi," he said.
"All righty then," Mimi sighed. She started down the hill and made it to the bottom... in one piece. Matt followed her.
"Yeah Mimi! You made it!" Matt exclaimed.
"I made it!" she shouted. Mimi jumped at Matt and threw her arms around his neck. "Yes!!!"
Matt responded with a kiss. "Now let's try again."
They got on the chair lift and rode it to the top. They had to stop it once because someone tripped before getting on, but that only gave Matt and Mimi more time to talk about everything. Soon they were zooming down the slopes together... well, maybe not zooming, but going at a very respectable speed and not falling down...
~*~**~*~
Sora's boredom was getting to her. Booking an earlier flight back to Japan had been impossible, and, still stuck in the cabin, she had Absolutely Nothing To Do. She was currently sitting on the couch with a notebook and pen, scrawling out page after page of words that made no sense at the time. Free association writing it was called. One would take a pen, paper and themselves, sit down and just start writing whatever comes out. Sora had been at it for about half an hour now.
Tai poked his head into the cabin and saw Sora sitting there, abosrbed in her work. He wandered in and sat down near her. She didn't look up, even when he called her name. Eventually she acknowledged his prescence.
"Hey Tai."
"You seemed pretty busy there. Whatcha writing?" he asked.
"Nothing. Just whatever comes out of my brain," she replied.
Tai nodded. "Hey, remember when we saw that band perform the other day? What was their name, Our Lady Peace?" Tai asked.
"Yeah. They were great!" Sora smiled.
"I liked them too."
"Remember that girl who tried to tackle the frontman, Raine? She was nuts!" This was referring to an incident in which a girl with long brown hair who'd jumped onstage and glomped Raine Maida. (A/N: This did not happen really, as far as I know, I just wanted to make fun of Heather 'cause I know she'd attempt to do something like that. Hehe.)
"You wouldn't do that if you met them, would you?"
"Naw. I kinda can't right now," Sora said, referring to the cast on her leg that had been her source of annoyance for the past few days.
Insert awkward silence here. Tai checked his watch, then glanced at the door. Sora started doodling on her page. Tai looked at the door again.
"Expecting someone?" Sora asked.
"No."
"Then why do you keep looking at the door?"
Silence was interrupted by a knock. "I wonder who that could be," Tai said under his breath as he got up to answer it. He opened the door slightly, said something, and then turned around and told Sora to close her eyes.
"Oh-kay..." Sora said skeptically, closing her eyes.
"Okay guys, come in," she heard Tai say. There were footsteps on the floor, muffled words, and the sound of a door closing. "Sit down. Okay Sora. Open your eyes."
Sora did so, and almost fell off the couch at the sight. There, across from her, was Raine, Jeremy, Duncan, and Mike. "Hello..." she trailed off. "Tai - this - you - I... wow. Hi."
"Hi Sora," said Raine. "Tai here told us you weren't feeling well, and he thought some visitors might cheer you up."
"Tai? What the - how did you manage this?" Sora asked.
"I pulled a few strings," Tai said off-handedly, as if it was the most normal thing in the world to get rock stars to visit your girl.
The guys signed Sora's cast and they stayed for at least an hour. The visit really brightened Sora's day. Tai seemed to just hang back and let Sora talk, but he had this chronic smile on his face the entire time.
Jeremy's watch beeped and he admitted they had to go. "It was nice meeting you," he said.
"Thank you for coming," Sora said. "I appreciate it."
"Hope you feel better soon," said Mike.
"Thanks! Bye!" Sora called as the guys left the cabin. She gave Tai an incredulous look. "How did you DO that?"
Tai gave her a smug grin. "Like I said, I pulled a few strings."
"No, seriously, what did you do?" Sora asked.
"I ran into one of the guys yesterday - literally. I believe it was Duncan. We got to talking and I told him about you," Tai explained, "and I asked if they would mind paying a visit to you. He asked the rest of them and everything went from there."
Sora smiled. "You didn't have to do that."
"Yes I did." Tai sat next to Sora and stretched his arm around her shoulders. "You deserve something nice, since we're leaving tomorrow."
Sora settled into Tai's arms and looked up at him. "This has been a great trip Tai."
"It's a whole lot better because of you," Tai said.
Unbeknownst to them, Davis was hidden in one of the rooms. He'd seen the whole thing, and now he finally knew what he could do for Kari...
~*~**~*~
Yolei spotted her target and watched it closely. She was crouched behind a snowbank with a rather large ball of snow in her hands. "Yes, that's it... move into firing range..." she whispered, "aim... fire!"
The ball of snow was hurled towards Izzy, smacking him in the back of the head. Yolei giggled and ducked behind the snowbank again as the redhead scooped up a snowball of his own and pursued her. "Not fair Yolei!" Izzy cried. He threw the snowball and missed.
Yolei tripped and Izzy used that as an opportunity to cover her in the white stuff. She shrieked loudly as the cold went down the back of her neck while Izzy laughed almost evilly. Eventually she started to get up and Izzy began to flee, but Yolei grabbed him by the ankle, sending him down to the ground. "Gotcha!" Yolei cried.
Izzy lay prone on the ground and stayed completely still. He scarcely breathed, grinning in his mind. Silence ensued.
"Izzy? Izzy are you okay?" Yolei asked. "Hey, get up." She moved up to Izzy's side and shook him gently. "Izzy, if you're joking, stop it. It's not funny." Nothing. "Izz? Come on, get up. Don't make me call for help. I'll do it." Silence. "Izzy? IZZY!" Yolei got to her knees to stand, when a hand clamped to her wrist and jerked her downward. "AAHH!!"
Izzy was laughing. "Now who's got who?" he asked as Yolei fell across him.
Yolei sat up indignantly. "That wasn't funny Izzy," she said seriously. "I really thought you were hurt."
"I'm sorry Yolei," Izzy said, turning over onto his back. "I didn't think you'd take it seriously."
"Well I did."
Izzy propped himself up on his elbow in the snow. "I think you won that round, if it makes you feel better," he said.
Yolei smiled a little. "It does, a bit."
"Good..." Izzy trailed off, his dark eyes looking into Yolei's. She had snow stuck in her eyelashes, he noticed, and in her long hair too. Izzy was finding it hard to comprehend what he was thinking at that particular moment, but whatever it was...
...Yolei was thinking it too. Izzy's hat was tilted at an odd angle and his face was red from the cold. Yolei suddenly decided he looked incredibly cute like that and couldn't help but smile more. Anyone watching from a distance would think they were nuts, sitting out in the snow staring at each other and ignoring the rest of the world.
~*~**~*~
T.K. and Kari were at the ski chalet having lunch. Kari hadn't been much for skiing today and was staring out at the hills while she munched on a french fry. T.K. sat across from her and watched her face. It seemed expressionless to him, which was worrying. It had taken a lot to even get her out of bed that day and everyone was worried.
"Kar?" T.K. asked. "Kari?"
Kari's head snapped robotically back to face T.K.. "Yes T.K.?"
"You don't want to be out here do you?"
Kari stared at her food. "I do want to be here... just... I don't know T.K.. I really don't know anymore," she said quietly.
T.K. reached across the table and put his hand on Kari's. "You can talk to me anytime Kari. Just... just don't... you know... again," he told her. "I was really scared last night Kari."
"Me too..." she trailed off. "You meant what you said last night, right? About me being important?"
"Every last word. You are ever so important to me Kari. It almost makes me want to spout poetry, but I'm not a poet, so I can't." Kari laughed a little.
"What do you mean by all this?" Kari asked. "It seems like you're beating around the bush about something."
It was T.K.'s turn to glance away. He seemed to be intently listening to the music being played over the speakers nearby. When he finally looked back at Kari, his eyes were happy. "I suppose I am. Kari I- Kari, I mean I- oh damn this is hard to say..." Kari's inquisitive stare was enough to make him almost pass out from the pressure. "I said that last night because I feel... so different about you, you know? It's like a sudden rush of this... emotion whenever I'm around you, Kari, and it's... it's a good one, you know?" Kari looked confused. "That feeling is... it's love."
Kari's expression didn't change for a few moments. She kept staring at T.K. like he was a specimen in a petrie dish during science class, examining every possible point of interest on his face: eyes, nose, ears, the little bit of hair that fell over his face, eyebrows... lips...
"I shouldn't have said that," T.K. muttered. "Now I feel stu- Mmph!" T.K.'s eyes flew open in shock as Kari practically lunged across the table, grabbed him by the collar of his jacket and kissed him. He closed his eyes and moved one hand to Kari's arm, the other to her cheek. "-pid..." he finished when Kari finally decided to break the kiss. "Kar... what the- nevermind, just... woah. You kinda scared me there."
"Sorry," Kari said sheepishly, blushing furiously. "I know I'm not usually that spontaneous, it's just the minute you said... Oh, forget the smalltalk, T.K., I love you!"
"That's just what I was going to say," T.K. replied. "Kari, I love you too."
They sat there smiling at each other for a few moments before letting out short laughs at how cheesy they felt. "I'm so glad I finally said that," Kari sighed.
"Me too," T.K. said, adjusting his grip on her hand. "Me too."
~*~**~*~
"Davis, you're crazy!" Willis exclaimed.
"Come on guys, just go along with it," Davis protested. "Please?"
"I still don't quite understand what you want us to do," Joe said.
Davis sighed. It was later that day, and Davis had assembled Willis, Joe, Cody and Izzy to execute his plan. "You're gonna put on the makeup and costumes, go in there on my signal, and be treble charger," he explained for what seemed to be the millionth time that afternoon. He put special emphasis on the word 'be.' This was Davis's plan to cheer up Kari.
"Um, one problem Davis," Cody noted. "We don't look a thing like them."
"That's why I have makeup and costumes!" Davis proclaimed, holding up two large bags.
"You've got to be joking," Izzy said.
"Nope, I went all-out. Now go get changed!" Davis said, shoving the bags into their arms and pushing them away. If everything went according to his plan, Kari would be the happiest girl at Sunpeaks... no, in Canada... no, the world...
Chapter Five
The second last day of their trip dawned and Matt had dragged Mimi out to the hills again for another snowboarding lesson.
"Let's see you Mimi," he said.
"All righty then," Mimi sighed. She started down the hill and made it to the bottom... in one piece. Matt followed her.
"Yeah Mimi! You made it!" Matt exclaimed.
"I made it!" she shouted. Mimi jumped at Matt and threw her arms around his neck. "Yes!!!"
Matt responded with a kiss. "Now let's try again."
They got on the chair lift and rode it to the top. They had to stop it once because someone tripped before getting on, but that only gave Matt and Mimi more time to talk about everything. Soon they were zooming down the slopes together... well, maybe not zooming, but going at a very respectable speed and not falling down...
~*~**~*~
Sora's boredom was getting to her. Booking an earlier flight back to Japan had been impossible, and, still stuck in the cabin, she had Absolutely Nothing To Do. She was currently sitting on the couch with a notebook and pen, scrawling out page after page of words that made no sense at the time. Free association writing it was called. One would take a pen, paper and themselves, sit down and just start writing whatever comes out. Sora had been at it for about half an hour now.
Tai poked his head into the cabin and saw Sora sitting there, abosrbed in her work. He wandered in and sat down near her. She didn't look up, even when he called her name. Eventually she acknowledged his prescence.
"Hey Tai."
"You seemed pretty busy there. Whatcha writing?" he asked.
"Nothing. Just whatever comes out of my brain," she replied.
Tai nodded. "Hey, remember when we saw that band perform the other day? What was their name, Our Lady Peace?" Tai asked.
"Yeah. They were great!" Sora smiled.
"I liked them too."
"Remember that girl who tried to tackle the frontman, Raine? She was nuts!" This was referring to an incident in which a girl with long brown hair who'd jumped onstage and glomped Raine Maida. (A/N: This did not happen really, as far as I know, I just wanted to make fun of Heather 'cause I know she'd attempt to do something like that. Hehe.)
"You wouldn't do that if you met them, would you?"
"Naw. I kinda can't right now," Sora said, referring to the cast on her leg that had been her source of annoyance for the past few days.
Insert awkward silence here. Tai checked his watch, then glanced at the door. Sora started doodling on her page. Tai looked at the door again.
"Expecting someone?" Sora asked.
"No."
"Then why do you keep looking at the door?"
Silence was interrupted by a knock. "I wonder who that could be," Tai said under his breath as he got up to answer it. He opened the door slightly, said something, and then turned around and told Sora to close her eyes.
"Oh-kay..." Sora said skeptically, closing her eyes.
"Okay guys, come in," she heard Tai say. There were footsteps on the floor, muffled words, and the sound of a door closing. "Sit down. Okay Sora. Open your eyes."
Sora did so, and almost fell off the couch at the sight. There, across from her, was Raine, Jeremy, Duncan, and Mike. "Hello..." she trailed off. "Tai - this - you - I... wow. Hi."
"Hi Sora," said Raine. "Tai here told us you weren't feeling well, and he thought some visitors might cheer you up."
"Tai? What the - how did you manage this?" Sora asked.
"I pulled a few strings," Tai said off-handedly, as if it was the most normal thing in the world to get rock stars to visit your girl.
The guys signed Sora's cast and they stayed for at least an hour. The visit really brightened Sora's day. Tai seemed to just hang back and let Sora talk, but he had this chronic smile on his face the entire time.
Jeremy's watch beeped and he admitted they had to go. "It was nice meeting you," he said.
"Thank you for coming," Sora said. "I appreciate it."
"Hope you feel better soon," said Mike.
"Thanks! Bye!" Sora called as the guys left the cabin. She gave Tai an incredulous look. "How did you DO that?"
Tai gave her a smug grin. "Like I said, I pulled a few strings."
"No, seriously, what did you do?" Sora asked.
"I ran into one of the guys yesterday - literally. I believe it was Duncan. We got to talking and I told him about you," Tai explained, "and I asked if they would mind paying a visit to you. He asked the rest of them and everything went from there."
Sora smiled. "You didn't have to do that."
"Yes I did." Tai sat next to Sora and stretched his arm around her shoulders. "You deserve something nice, since we're leaving tomorrow."
Sora settled into Tai's arms and looked up at him. "This has been a great trip Tai."
"It's a whole lot better because of you," Tai said.
Unbeknownst to them, Davis was hidden in one of the rooms. He'd seen the whole thing, and now he finally knew what he could do for Kari...
~*~**~*~
Yolei spotted her target and watched it closely. She was crouched behind a snowbank with a rather large ball of snow in her hands. "Yes, that's it... move into firing range..." she whispered, "aim... fire!"
The ball of snow was hurled towards Izzy, smacking him in the back of the head. Yolei giggled and ducked behind the snowbank again as the redhead scooped up a snowball of his own and pursued her. "Not fair Yolei!" Izzy cried. He threw the snowball and missed.
Yolei tripped and Izzy used that as an opportunity to cover her in the white stuff. She shrieked loudly as the cold went down the back of her neck while Izzy laughed almost evilly. Eventually she started to get up and Izzy began to flee, but Yolei grabbed him by the ankle, sending him down to the ground. "Gotcha!" Yolei cried.
Izzy lay prone on the ground and stayed completely still. He scarcely breathed, grinning in his mind. Silence ensued.
"Izzy? Izzy are you okay?" Yolei asked. "Hey, get up." She moved up to Izzy's side and shook him gently. "Izzy, if you're joking, stop it. It's not funny." Nothing. "Izz? Come on, get up. Don't make me call for help. I'll do it." Silence. "Izzy? IZZY!" Yolei got to her knees to stand, when a hand clamped to her wrist and jerked her downward. "AAHH!!"
Izzy was laughing. "Now who's got who?" he asked as Yolei fell across him.
Yolei sat up indignantly. "That wasn't funny Izzy," she said seriously. "I really thought you were hurt."
"I'm sorry Yolei," Izzy said, turning over onto his back. "I didn't think you'd take it seriously."
"Well I did."
Izzy propped himself up on his elbow in the snow. "I think you won that round, if it makes you feel better," he said.
Yolei smiled a little. "It does, a bit."
"Good..." Izzy trailed off, his dark eyes looking into Yolei's. She had snow stuck in her eyelashes, he noticed, and in her long hair too. Izzy was finding it hard to comprehend what he was thinking at that particular moment, but whatever it was...
...Yolei was thinking it too. Izzy's hat was tilted at an odd angle and his face was red from the cold. Yolei suddenly decided he looked incredibly cute like that and couldn't help but smile more. Anyone watching from a distance would think they were nuts, sitting out in the snow staring at each other and ignoring the rest of the world.
~*~**~*~
T.K. and Kari were at the ski chalet having lunch. Kari hadn't been much for skiing today and was staring out at the hills while she munched on a french fry. T.K. sat across from her and watched her face. It seemed expressionless to him, which was worrying. It had taken a lot to even get her out of bed that day and everyone was worried.
"Kar?" T.K. asked. "Kari?"
Kari's head snapped robotically back to face T.K.. "Yes T.K.?"
"You don't want to be out here do you?"
Kari stared at her food. "I do want to be here... just... I don't know T.K.. I really don't know anymore," she said quietly.
T.K. reached across the table and put his hand on Kari's. "You can talk to me anytime Kari. Just... just don't... you know... again," he told her. "I was really scared last night Kari."
"Me too..." she trailed off. "You meant what you said last night, right? About me being important?"
"Every last word. You are ever so important to me Kari. It almost makes me want to spout poetry, but I'm not a poet, so I can't." Kari laughed a little.
"What do you mean by all this?" Kari asked. "It seems like you're beating around the bush about something."
It was T.K.'s turn to glance away. He seemed to be intently listening to the music being played over the speakers nearby. When he finally looked back at Kari, his eyes were happy. "I suppose I am. Kari I- Kari, I mean I- oh damn this is hard to say..." Kari's inquisitive stare was enough to make him almost pass out from the pressure. "I said that last night because I feel... so different about you, you know? It's like a sudden rush of this... emotion whenever I'm around you, Kari, and it's... it's a good one, you know?" Kari looked confused. "That feeling is... it's love."
Kari's expression didn't change for a few moments. She kept staring at T.K. like he was a specimen in a petrie dish during science class, examining every possible point of interest on his face: eyes, nose, ears, the little bit of hair that fell over his face, eyebrows... lips...
"I shouldn't have said that," T.K. muttered. "Now I feel stu- Mmph!" T.K.'s eyes flew open in shock as Kari practically lunged across the table, grabbed him by the collar of his jacket and kissed him. He closed his eyes and moved one hand to Kari's arm, the other to her cheek. "-pid..." he finished when Kari finally decided to break the kiss. "Kar... what the- nevermind, just... woah. You kinda scared me there."
"Sorry," Kari said sheepishly, blushing furiously. "I know I'm not usually that spontaneous, it's just the minute you said... Oh, forget the smalltalk, T.K., I love you!"
"That's just what I was going to say," T.K. replied. "Kari, I love you too."
They sat there smiling at each other for a few moments before letting out short laughs at how cheesy they felt. "I'm so glad I finally said that," Kari sighed.
"Me too," T.K. said, adjusting his grip on her hand. "Me too."
~*~**~*~
"Davis, you're crazy!" Willis exclaimed.
"Come on guys, just go along with it," Davis protested. "Please?"
"I still don't quite understand what you want us to do," Joe said.
Davis sighed. It was later that day, and Davis had assembled Willis, Joe, Cody and Izzy to execute his plan. "You're gonna put on the makeup and costumes, go in there on my signal, and be treble charger," he explained for what seemed to be the millionth time that afternoon. He put special emphasis on the word 'be.' This was Davis's plan to cheer up Kari.
"Um, one problem Davis," Cody noted. "We don't look a thing like them."
"That's why I have makeup and costumes!" Davis proclaimed, holding up two large bags.
"You've got to be joking," Izzy said.
"Nope, I went all-out. Now go get changed!" Davis said, shoving the bags into their arms and pushing them away. If everything went according to his plan, Kari would be the happiest girl at Sunpeaks... no, in Canada... no, the world...