Disclaimer- I don't own Digimon or any other licensed products in this story. Don't sue, I'm broke.
First, I'd like to thank the people who wrote such sweet reviews for part 1 and the two people who e-mailed me Please write to me all you want, I love reading them. Thank you so much and don't worry, this will be a multi-chaptered story and I have quite a ways to go so I hope you all stay with me till the end. I apologies for any grammar mistakes.
I had this chapter (part, whatever) already written when I posted part1 but I held back on posting it till I had finished part 3. I wanted them to be posted together. It will be a long wait till part 4 comes out and I'm really sorry about that. But the summer class I'm taking is really killing me and studying has to come first (or I get my computer rights revoked). So expect future parts to come at a snail's crawl but they will come. Now, on with the story. Warning: expect angst ahead. But don't worry too much. I hate angst; it makes me sad.
~by The Silversage
Part 2: The Coming Storm
Friday 4:25 P.M.
"Hey
guys! Come on in," Tai said opening the
door to let Matt and T.K. in.
"Happy
Birthday, man!" Matt smiled, slapping his best friend on the back, "Are we the
first one's here?"
"Nope. Sora and Miimiii are here," he teased. Matt flushed at the mention of the
strawberry-haired girl's name.
"Taaiii! Not in front of the kid," he hissed gesturing
to T.K. with his eyes.
"Like its
not totally obvious," T.K. muttered rolling his eyes. "Um…Is Kari around?"
"Your girlfriend
is in the kitchen with the others," Tai smirked.
T.K. rolled
his eyes again and headed for the kitchen trying to ignore the snickers from
Tai and his brother. Ever since they
had caught him and Kari asleep on the couch, they'd been absolutely impossible,
taking every available opportunity to interrogate them about what happened that
night…or embarrass them. He pushed open
the door…and stepped into a war zone.
Pots and
pans were scattered everywhere and a fine coat of flour was covering the entire
kitchen. Sora was trying to attack the
gigantic pile of dirty dishes in the sink while Mimi was standing on the
counter, emptying the cabinets.
"Sora, I
think its safe to assume there is absolutely NO icing anywhere in this
kitchen," Mimi said.
Sora sighed
tiredly, glancing at the mess Mimi's search had left. "Don't worry about it Mimi. We'll just use the whipped cream with a little food coloring. Oh, hi
T.K."
"Is Matt
here?" Mimi asked, hopping down from the counter. At T.K.'s nod, she slipped out the door before he could actually
say anything.
"Hey!" Sora
yelled, turning off the faucet and racing after her, "Get back here Mimi, I'm
not cleaning this up by myself."
T.K. smiled
after them before heading over to Kari who had holed herself up in the far
corner of the kitchen, cutting strawberries for the cake. He looped an arm around her shoulders and
gave her a light squeeze. "Hey, how are
you holding up?" he asked softly.
Kari leaned
into him slightly, "Pretty good, actually," she answered with a smile, "This is
the longest I've gone without…you know." She felt him give her another squeeze and looped an arm around his waist,
content to stand there in silence. She
smiled to herself thinking over the last two weeks. T.K. had been her constant shadow, never leaving her side. The fact that they had the exact same
schedule helped. It made her
feel…safe…to have him near. Now, her
biggest problems were: Davis, who, having noticed the two of them hanging out
more was always trying to pick an argument with T.K., and…
"Hey! You two need a chaperone?" Tai teased
leaning over the counter from the living room. The two jumped apart guiltily.
"TAI!" she
yelled grabbing a cup towel and throwing it, aiming for his head. Tai caught it in midair and headed for the
couch laughing. "Jerk!" she yelled at
his retreating back.
"I have a
really bad feeling he and Matt are going to be more obnoxious than usual
today," T.K. muttered.
"Well,
we'll just play it cool and if they want a show, we'll give them a show," Kari
smiled with an evil gleam in her eyes. T.K. glanced sideways at her before a slow smile of understanding spread
across his face. "Deal?" she asked,
holding out her hand.
"Deal," he
smiled, shaking her hand.
Friday 4:45 P.M.
"Is
everyone here?" Tai asked glancing around the living room filled with friends,
old and new, and their respective digimon. It's a good thing Mom and Dad are out of town for the weekend, he
thought looking around at all the digimon.
"Yeah,
everyone's here," Yolei nodded, "Davis couldn't make it because his family's
visiting his grandmother for the weekend." Kari tried not to giggle at T.K.'s sigh of relief.
"And Joe
and Gomamon are going to be late," Izzy added.
"So what do
we do first?" Matt asked.
"How 'bout
Truth or Dare?" Mimi suggested. There
was a mass groan from every guy in the room save one.
"What's
Truth or Dare?" Ken asked. Ten pairs of
eyes stared at him incredulously. Izzy,
who had been taking a sip of Coke, promptly started choking, which set off Tai
and Matt laughing at him.
"It's a
game," Yolei started, ignoring the two boys.
"Yeah, that
every girl thinks has to be played whenever there's a gathering of more
then two people," Tai added sarcastically, once his laughing was under control.
"Tell me
about it," Matt muttered.
"Hey!" the
girls exclaimed. Cody wisely leapt of
the couch as four pillow cushions headed
for Tai and Matt…who didn't move as quickly.
"Oww."
"They're
only pillows you big baby!" Mimi muttered grabbing one of the pillows off the
floor and hitting Matt on the shoulder. "That's for insulting my suggestion."
"I didn't
say it. Tai did," he protested. Tai laughed as he watched his friend's
beating.
"How did we
wind up related to them?" Kari muttered to T.K.
"You got
me," he murmured.
Tai and
Matt glanced up to see their younger siblings whispering to each other. They exchanged evil grins. "We're in," they said simultaneously.
"I'm not,"
Cody said.
"Good, you
can sit with me," Izzy smiled. "I find it much safer to be a spectator when it
comes to this kind of game," he said softly once Cody sat down, pulling
out his video camera, "and the perfect opportunity for future blackmail."
"My
attitude exactly," Cody said smiling back and pulling out his instant camera.
"Can we
play?" Augumon asked.
"No!"
Byomon and Palmon shouted.
"You don't want
to play. Trust me!" Palmon exclaimed.
"Yeah. Mimi and Sora play this all the time
so we know!" Byomon added, "Of course, seeing as how we don't wear
clothes, I don't think any of us could flash someone from the
window." This was followed by silence
and a mass dropping of jaws from everyone except Mimi and Sora who were
blushing furiously.
"BYOMON!"
Sora shrieked.
"You did
What?!" Tai exclaimed wide-eyed as Sora buried her face against Mimi's
shoulder.
"Did you
catch all that?" Cody asked Izzy, who was zooming in on Sora and Mimi.
"Yup."
"Okay Sora, Truth or Dare?" Mimi
asked.
Sora
glanced at her warily. If I say
Truth, she'll probably ask me something really embarrassing about Tai. "Dare." Mimi leaned over and whispered something in her ear.
"No
fair. We want to hear," Yolei said.
Sora's face
suddenly flushed scarlet. "I can't do
THAT!" she exclaimed.
"Aw, come
on. It's his birthday," Mimi pleaded.
Tai's
interest perked up realizing he was the subject of the next dare. Mimi probably dared her to kiss me or
something, he thought hopefully. He
and Sora had been pretty much dubbed the 'unofficial couple' by the others,
which was fine by him. But both of them
had been taking things slow; neither
one were ready yet to risk their friendship.
Sora sighed
and walked over to stand in front of Tai, aware of everyone watching her
curiously. At least I'm wearing a
bra this time, she thought to herself grabbing hold of the bottom of her
shirt.
Tai watched
her walk over fully expecting her to lean down and kiss him. He was not expecting her to lift her
shirt up in front of him…or to see so…much of her. Only two words were passing through his head
on endless repeat. Oh. God.
Sora walked
back to her seat thoroughly embarrassed. But she had to admit, Tai's expression was priceless. Still is, she corrected herself
sitting down again. She received a mass
applause from everyone except for two people.
"Tai,
breathe already," Matt said shaking his wide-eyed friend who was still in
shock.
"Tai, Truth
or Dare?" Sora asked, still a little pink. Tai didn't answer, completely spaced out with a lop-sided grin on his
face. "Tai? Oh, never mind," she muttered, "Matt, Truth or Dare?"
"Dare."
Sora and
Mimi exchanged wicked grins and Mimi handed Sora a tiny black bag which she
passed to Matt. "Go put this on but no
peeking till you're in the bathroom." He accepted the bag warily and held it out at arms length heading for
the bathroom.
"So, what's
in the bag?" Yolei asked eagerly. Everyone leaned forward.
"You'll
see," Sora smiled sweetly.
"Keep those
camera's ready," Mimi told Izzy and Cody, "I want copies."
"There's No
Way In HELL I'm Wearing This!" Matt yelled from the bathroom.
"You'll
wear it or I'm coming in there and putting it on you!" Mimi yelled back. There was a long pause from the bathroom.
"Is that a
promise?"
"Moron,"
Mimi crossed her arms in front of her chest sinking into the couch
blushing. Sora, Yolei, and Kari giggled
at her embarrassment. T.K. and Ken
exchanged smiles. The smiles and
giggles turned into hysterical laughter when a very red and sulking Matt
finally came out of the bathroom, still wearing his pants but shirtless wearing
a very risqué black lace teddy.
"What in
God's name are you wearing?!" Tai managed to gasp out finally.
"Ask your girlfriend. It's her idea," he returned sitting next to
his so-called best friend who took that moment to actually fall off the couch
he was laughing so hard. Ken and Yolei
were leaning against each other as were Kari and T.K., all gasping for air. The corners of Matt's mouth twitched upwards
as he remembered his whole reason for playing this game in the first place. Laugh it up, little brother, he smirked,
You're going down next.
"I'm really
glad we're not playing," Gatomon whispered, passing a bowl of popcorn to
Patamon. All the digimon were engrossed
in watching their human friends embarrass and humiliate each other.
It was another five minutes
before everyone settled down enough for the game to continue. "T.K., Truth or Dare?" Matt asked shooting
glares at the occasional snickers around him.
Oh
man. He's probably going to ask me
something humiliating, like if I'm in love with Kari, he thought with a
frustrated groan. I can't ever let
her find that out. I know she'd never
feel the same, he mused, sneaking a glance at his best friend beside
him. "Dare."
An evil
smile spread across Matt's face. "I
dare you… to kiss Kari. And I mean a real
kiss." He almost burst out laughing at
the wide-eyed panicked expression on his brother's face. A deer caught in headlights, he
smirked.
Kari
glanced at T.K. catching his terrified, panicked expression. She quickly averted her eyes trying to
ignore the icy hand clenching her heart. I guess I don't blame him, she thought squeezing her eyes shut so
no one could see her hurt expression. Having
to kiss your best friend…must be like having to kiss your sister, she
sighed in disappointment.
T.K. felt
his heart drop into his stomach at her disappointed sigh. His left hand clenched into a tight fist as
he stood up and offered her a hand up.
"It's okay,
T.K.," she whispered with a forced smile, "Just play it cool, remember?"
"Yeah," he
murmured apprehensively.
"Come
on! We want some action!" Tai
yelled from the couch.
Kari shot
her brother a glare before turning back nervously to T.K. T.K. wasn't at all sure of what to do with his hands and finally settled them
lightly at her waist while Kari rested hers on his shoulders. Here goes nothing, he thought taking
a deep breath and leaning down.
Kari closed
her eyes, listening to some inner voice that told her to tilt her face up and
before conscious thought could stop her, she leaned up on tip-toe, meeting T.K.
halfway. Oh God!, was her last
coherent thought as she melted against him, wrapping her arms around his neck
to keep her balance.
T.K.'s eyes
popped open in surprise when Kari initiated the kiss, too shocked to react at
first. When he felt her press against
him and her arms wind around his neck, he lost any semblance of control as he
abruptly tightened his grip around her to keep her from pulling away. She gasped, startled by his actions and he
took advantage of her parted lips to deepen the kiss.
He silently
cursed the Fates when lack of air forced him to pull away. He rested his forehead against hers trying
to drag in enough air to his oxygen starved lungs and he could feel her own
shuddering breaths against the hollow of his neck. He opened his eyes reluctantly, half expecting her to slap him
for being so forceful. When he finally
met her chocolate eyes, he was vaguely surprised to find no trace of
anger. Instead, there was only
confusion and something else he couldn't quite identify. He was trying to search out what that
something else might be when a 'click' from Cody's camera brought him back to
earth.
He set her
down gently, both surprised and embarrassed to find he'd been holding her a
good two inches off the ground all this time. Kari stepped back, putting some distance between herself and T.K., and
looked away trying to look at anything but him. At least until her heart stopped
pounding. Blushing furiously, they both
sat down with as much dignity as they could, glancing around the room at their
silent friends, most of which had their jaws hanging open. Kari's gaze settled on Tai who was somewhere
between dumb shock and glaring at T.K. She glared back. "So was that
enough action for you two pervs?" she shot at him and Matt. Matt nodded, still in shock, finally getting
his mouth to close while Tai just glared right back at her. "Why can't you two just read dirty magazines
like normal guys?" she teased, leaning to the side against T.K.
T.K. looked
down at her in confusion before remembering their little 'deal'. We're supposed to pretend we're already a
couple, he reminded himself. With a
slight smirk in their brothers' direction, he casually draped an arm around her
shoulder. "It's still my turn, right?"
he asked, ignoring the death glare Tai was giving him. He hoped to God Kari couldn't hear the way
his heart was still pounding.
"I do
believe it is," she answered with a similar thought, playing along. She tried not to giggle at Tai, who was
fuming at T.K.
Matt,
you are so going down for this, T.K. mused sending his brother an evil
smile that promised future revenge and retribution. But not just yet. I'll have to wait till you let your guard down. "Ken, Truth or Dare?" he said suddenly.
"Truth," he
answered immediately. After seeing the
last round of dares, he didn't want to take any chances.
"What do
you think of Yolei?" T.K. asked with a sly grin. He struggled to keep a straight face as Ken dissolved into a
stammering fit, turning redder and redder.
As it
turned out. Someone else beat him to the punch in exacting revenge.
"Matt,
Truth or Dare?" Kari asked with an expression far too innocent.
"Dare," he
answered confidently. He had no doubt
that either Kari or T.K. would try to get him back by making him kiss
someone. He risked a quick glance at
Mimi, who was squeezed into the same easy chair as Sora. This'll be fun, he mused to himself.
"I think
turn-about's fair play, don't you?" she asked, looking up at T.K.
"Ohh yeah!"
he grinned back at her.
She stood
up and casually walked over to Sora and Mimi's chair. "Matt," she began, "I dare you… to kiss…," she stopped and leaned
over the top of the chair, "…Tai." She
chuckled evilly at his and her brother's stunned expressions while everyone
else burst out laughing. "Payback's a
bitch, isn't it."
Tai just
sat in stunned silence, oblivious to everyone's laughter. He hadn't realized she even knew that
word, let alone could come up with a dare like that. Matt, however, jumped up from the couch
yelling.
"What kind
of sadistic, psycho are you?!" he yelled. "Taiii! Do something
about this, she's your sister."
"That's
right, she is my sister," Tai said slowly standing up, throw pillow in
hand. Kari tensed. "And right now, she needs to be TAUGHT A
LESSON." He launched himself at her
only to land on the carpet as she took off with a scream. The chase was on. Everyone watched on in amusement as Tai chased his sister with
the pillow.
"T.K., Help
me!" she screamed when Tai cornered her in the kitchen.
"Watch the
cake!" Mimi and Sora yelled.
"Ooo, help
me T.K.," Matt mocked in a high pitched voice, "Save me, sa-" BAM! T.K. hit Matt square in the face with a
pillow. "That does it," he muttered
grabbing a pillow, "Get over here!"
What ensued
was a massive free-for all pillow fight with the occasional "Watch the camera!"
from Izzy and a few "Watch the camera crew!" from Cody. Tai finally managed to pin Kari to the floor
in the hallway and was tickling her when someone knocked on the door. "Come in," he yelled before realizing his
mistake.
Everyone
froze as the door swung open to reveal a soaking wet Joe, briefcase in hand,
coming from a late exam with Gomamon right behind him. He walked in and took in the sight before
him. Tai had Kari pinned to the floor
frozen in mid-tickle, Matt was sitting on T.K.'s chest with a pillow raised,
ready to hit him again, and Mimi and Sora were faced off against Ken and Yolei,
all armed with pillows. He could also,
just make out Izzy and Cody behind the couch filming and clicking away. The digimon had retreated to Tai and Kari's room
as soon as the pillow fight broke out. He smiled to himself setting down his briefcase. "Nice shirt Matt. Is that a new look?" he quipped.
Matt looked
down, having forgotten he was still
wearing the black lingerie. "Aaah!" he
yelled running into the bathroom, slamming the door behind him.
Joe smiled
and offered T.K. a hand up. "Let me
guess, Truth or Dare?"
"Yeah,"
T.K. said with a frown, noticing the way Kari winced when Tai pulled her to her
feet grabbing hold of her left arm.
"Sora or
Mimi?" Joe asked.
"Sora," he
answered, "Why are you all wet?"
"If you all
hadn't been so busy beating each other, you would have noticed that its raining
cats and dogs outside," Joe said with a grin. No sooner had he said that when a loud BOOM! Of thunder crashed
overhead. There was a mass scream from
the girls: Sora and Mimi hugging each other, Kari trying to permanently attach
herself to her brother, and Yolei squeezing a very red Ken.
10 minutes later
"Man, it's
really coming down out there," Matt mused watching from the sliding glass
balcony door. Everyone was plastered to
the window, watching, or in Izzy's case, filming the storm and eating cake.
CRACK.
"What was
that?" Sora asked.
CRACK…CRACK.
"Is that
hail?" Cody asked.
CRACK.
"Looks like
this just became a sleepover," Tai said with a sigh. "I don't want anyone going out in that mess." Everyone looked up as the lights flickered
for a second. "Kari-"
"I
know. Get the candles," she sighed,
heading for the kitchen.
Tai grabbed
the cordless phone and tossed it to Sora. "Let's start calling parents," he told her.
Friday 10:00 P.M.
The girls
were gathered in Kari and Tai's room while the boys agreed to 'camp out' in the
living room. The digimon had all
returned to the digital world, courtesy of Izzy's laptop due to lack of
sleeping space. The electricity and
phone lines had been out for at least the last hour.
"Here,"
Kari said handing Yolei one of her old night shirts, "You can wear this one."
"Are you
sure?" Yolei asked.
"Oh sure. I haven't used it in ages myself," she
answered, fingering the short sleeves of the night shirt absently. She turned to the two older girls, deep in
thought. "I don't think you two will
fit any of my pajamas. You're both too
tall and I'm all out of night shirts."
"We can
sleep in what we're wearing," Sora started.
"No, you
can wear some of Tai's pajamas," Kari exclaimed pulling out two pairs and
tossing one to Mimi.
"You're
sure he won't mind?" Sora asked.
"Nah. He definitely won't mind you wearing them,"
Kari teased lightly. The three girls
smiled as Sora blushed furiously.
Sora and
Mimi had barely finished changing when Tai walked in heading straight for the
closet.
"TAI!" Kari
yelled throwing her pillow at him, "Can't you ever knock!"
"Sorry! I'm just getting the extra blankets," he
muttered from the closet. He backed out
of the closet, loaded down with blankets, turned around, and came face to face
with… "Sora…um…nice pajamas."
"They're
yours," she answered, nervously twirling a lock of her short auburn hair. "I hope you don't mind."
"No not at
all," he answered absently, lost in her eyes, "You look good in my
clothes." The girls in the room burst
into giggles and Tai fled the room after turning fifteen shades of red.
"He really
likes you, you know," Kari smiled to the girl she had always considered like an
older sister.
"You think
so?" Sora asked pensively, "I never thought he'd see me as anything other then
his best friend."
"Speaking
of which, what about you and T.K.?" Mimi asked slyly.
"Yeah, that
was some kiss," Yolei teased from the top bunk, "I didn't know you two were
dating."
T.K. sighed
as he lifted his hand to knock on the girls' door. Tai had left the room so quickly, he forgot the extra pillow in
the closet and was refusing to go back to get it.
"We're not
dating."
Wait,
that sounded like Kari, he thought, pressing an ear to the door.
"It sure
looked that way to me," Mimi teased.
"Look, Tai
and Matt have gotten it in their heads that T.K. and I are more then just
friends," Kari explained, "They've been impossible for the last two weeks. So we thought we'd play up on that and
hopefully get them off our backs."
"So you two
were just acting?!" Sora exclaimed, "Wow! You had me totally fooled."
Mimi
grabbed one of Tai's soccer trophies off the bureau. "And the winner of this year's academy award is Kari Kamiya," she
said handing the trophy over ceremonially to a giggling Kari.
On the
other side of the door, T.K. slowly backed away from the door wishing he could
erase what he just heard. In an instant
he felt his heart be crushed. He leaned
against the hallway wall his hands in fists trying not to burst into
tears. Once he felt he had sufficient
control, he headed back to the living room, glad of the dark shadows from the
flickering candles. He flopped on the
carpeted floor burying his face in a couch cushion.
"I thought
you were going to get a pillow," Ken asked from the floor next to him.
"Don't need
one," he mumbled sullenly, his voice slightly muffled by the pillow. Ken cast him a worried glance but kept
silent.
Back in the
bedroom, Kari slowly stopped giggling and handed the 'Oscar' back to Mimi. "You should give this to T.K. He's the one who did all the acting," she
said with a sad smile.
"You mean
you weren't acting?" Sora asked softly, pulling Kari down to sit between
her and Mimi on the lower bunk, Yolei leaned down from the top bunk,
watching. Kari bit her lower lip and
closed her eyes before slowly shaking her head. "And he has no clue how you feel, huh?" Sora pressed.
"No," Kari
answered softly.
"Oh, Kari,"
Sora whispered pulling the younger girl into a tight hug.
"Don't you
worry Kari," Mimi put in brightly, "It'll all work out."
"You
think?" Kari asked with a shaky smile.
"I
promise," the pink-haired girl said with a bright smile.
Saturday 1:32 A.M.
Kari jerked
upright in a cold sweat, panting for air. Please! Not again!, her
mind screamed as she looked around the room, slowly filling with a dark grey
mist. She swung herself over the top of
the bunk onto the ladder as quietly as possible so as not to wake Yolei or the
other two girls on the lower bunk.
In the
living room, T.K. was tossing and turning. He just could_not_ get comfortable with that couch cushion. He finally gave up all together and sat
up. The only light in the room was
coming from Izzy's lap top. He got up
and made his way over to Izzy who was too engrossed in his computer to notice
him. T.K.'s curiosity rose when he
noticed that Izzy was biting one of his knuckles to keep from chuckling. He peeked over Izzy's shoulder…to find himself
staring at the footage of him and Kari in full lip-lock. "Izzy!" he hissed.
"Ahh!" Izzy
yelped, jumping a mile.
"What_are_you_DOING?!"
T.K. fumed in embarrassment somewhat surprised that no one had woken up.
"Oh! Um…I was just…sort of…um…timing you?" Izzy
answered struggling to keep a straight face watching T.K. turn redder and
redder. "Did you know you two went at
it for four minutes and twenty-three seconds?"
"Izzy! Not so loud!" T.K. hissed, glancing at the
other guys still sleeping while Izzy laughed softly. They both turned around when they heard the sound of a door opening
and quick footsteps. Kari rushed by
without giving them a second glance almost slamming the bathroom door behind
her.
"Kari?"
T.K. whispered to himself in bewilderment.
Kari
fumbled blindly in the dark for a moment before finally lighting the candles
she had left there earlier. She threw
open the medicine cabinet reaching for the razor and quickly pulled up her left
sleeve. It was getting harder to see
with the thickening mist.
Taking a
deep breath, she slowly dragged the razor over the inside of her forearm once,
then twice. Pain. The second one had gone deeper then she
intended. She closed her eyes and
gritted her teeth making sure to keep her arm over the sink. The corner of her mouth twitched upward as
she watched the mist recoil almost violently from her, from the pain. That's right. Just back off. She
tilted her arm so the blood could drip in more easily. Can't stand the pain, huh?, she mused
directing her thoughts to the dark mist around her. She frowned when she noticed the mist was starting to creep back
around her again. That's never
happened before. She ran the razor
against her arm again. Like before, the
mist recoiled, but after a minute or so it started in again. Kari slashed her arm again, trying to fight
down the panic threatening to overwhelm her. This time the mist hardly reacted, closing around her like a
blanket; she couldn't see the counter
she knew she was leaning against. In the distance, she could hear the soft crash of the ocean. Please no!
T.K. stumbled
in the dark over to the bathroom door. Something just didn't feel right.
"Kari?" he
asked, knocking on the door softly, "Is everything all right?" No answer. "Kari?" he tried again, "You okay?" Still no answer. He tried to
ignore the rush of fear that ran through him. Okay, don't panic. Maybe she
didn't hear me. "Kari? What's going on?" he asked a little
louder. Izzy was now staring at him,
but he ignored it. He tried the
doorknob. Locked.
Now
panic! "Kari! Open the door!" he commanded, ignoring the
fact that the rest of he guys were starting to wake up.
"You know,
we do have another bathroom," Tai mumbled sleepily from the couch, not
bothering to open his eyes.
T.K.
ignored him, pounding on the door now. Kari,
NO!, his mind screamed, You promised. He was in full panic mode now. "Damn it Kari, OPEN THIS DOOR!" he shouted, twisting the knob as far as
it would go pushing against it as hard as he could, trying to force the lock.
The girls
came out of the bedroom, curious to see what the commotion was. Izzy was watching silently from the
computer; Joe, Ken, and Cody were
watching from their respective makeshift beds. Tai and Matt exchanged looks of concern before getting up and making
their way to T.K., still yelling at the door.
"HIKARI
KAMIYA, OPEN THE FUCKING DOOR!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. He backed up a bit before ramming the door
with his shoulder with little success.
Matt
growled low in his throat. He'd had
about enough of T.K.'s unusual behavior and even though he hated to admit it,
it was starting to scare him. "Hey!"
Matt yelled angrily, grabbing him by the front of his shirt, "What the hell
is WRONG with you?!" He
immediately let go when he saw the pained, barely contained panic in his little
brothers eyes, silently pleading with him. He gave T.K. a nod of understanding. The two brothers backed up before ramming the door with their shoulders
simultaneously.
"What's
going on?" Sora asked softly, moving next to Tai.
"They've
lost their minds," he muttered in a monotone trying to ignore his 'big brother'
alarm which was screaming full tilt. The wood of the doorway cracked ominously as Matt and T.K. hit it again.
"Joe, get
over here," T.K. called backing up for one last run at the door, "I'm gonna
need your help." Joe stood up and drew
near, clearly confused.
Matt gave
T.K. a questioning look but T.K. just stared straight ahead at the door,
determinedly. With one last rush at the
door, the tortured wood finally gave way with a loud CRACK! Matt froze in utter shock at the sight in
front of him. Oh God!, he
thought, closing his eyes.
