=_= --- was up too late um… tonight,
actually, researching… but not anything for school. Something for an argument
with a friend. "I will not rest, until Katie believes me that she's with
Harry, not Ron!"
…ok, so the truth's out. I was in the HP section. Which has too many slash
stories. DEAL!
…oh, and I still need a new title for this story…
Happy Holidays
Lyra of The Edge
The party was…. Going surprisingly well, actually. With everyone, save Terriermon and occasionally Takato, steering clear of the mistletoe (with the exception of Calumon's attempt to eat it), and Jeri being too absorbed in playing random Christmas songs to suggest many holiday games so far… Other than a marshmallow contest…. (chubby bunnies – Terriermon and Lopmon had stopped them, however, after they had decided to take it personally) Things were actually going fairly smoothly.
Except that, it seemed, Kazu had brought a CD that Jeri approved of, all 17 songs, and in the order they were in. meaning she'd be free to attend to other matters for the next hour. She disappeared momentarily, and, upon her return, accompanied by an empty soda bottle and a checkerboard, the majority of the guests had vanished from sight. Most the Digimon remained, looking quite confused, and Takato stood, too spaced out and caffinated, to notice.
"Looks like it's just you and me then, unless any of the Digimon want to play…" she grinned, grabbing Takato's arm and dragging the half-aware goggle-head down the hall, narrowly avoiding some of the others' hiding spots. "Hey, I know you guys are in there somewhere… come out and I'll call the other girls…"
"Even Kim?" Kazu demanded, peeking out from behind the sofa.
"Sure…" instantly the room was flooded with the remaining guys, except Henry, and Ryo gladly handed Jeri the phone to call her friends over with. Rika stood in the corner of the next room, watching the seen with disgust.
"What would you do if you had a guy that obsessed with you?" Henry asked her jokingly, motioning towards Takato, who was obviously by now only faking his caffeine intoxication.
"Probably kick him…" she snarled, rolling her eyes at the mere thought.
"What if you had a girl that obsessed?"
"That… is not right…" Rika shuddered, wondering how such a comment had come from Henry of all people. One of the other guys, maybe, but not him. He was too traditional to even think about things like that, at least she thought. "Ugh, look at that. Terriermon is teaching the other Digimon how to play…"
"I think he's been around girls too long. Even if it *was* Suzy, involuntarily… at least now she'll have a group to play with, we certainly don't need her joining the older kids…" he paused, watching Rika's eyes slowly scan the room. "What?"
"Oh, great. She's purposely doing this, I'll bet. Marren'll bring her little brother, and that'll leave an equal number of guys and girls…" she shook her head sadly. "She's determined to set all the others up ASAP so she can have Takato to herself."
"And if you 'don't think like them', how do you know all this?" Henry intrigued.
"Goggle-head could figure this one out. And you already pointed out that he probably has…" she said, referring to the vacant expression on Takato's face.
"So why are you so upset? It's not like *you* were after him…" I hope…
"What?! No, idiot… I find people like all of them disgusting. I was concerned by the fact that they're going to try setting *me* up with someone too, and I get the feeling it's Ryo…" Henry froze as she spoke the words.
Please, not with him… with me,,, he silently prayed, glancing nervously between Rika and Ryo, trying to make it appear as though he was scanning the Digimon and Suzy's game. "What makes you say that?" he asked quietly.
"A hunch, that I hope is wrong. We were both loners, both of us have powerful Digimon, and we're both experts in combat. I just-"
"Hey, you two!" Jeri grinned, yelling at Rika and Henry from the next room. "We'll play Seven minutes in heaven later! For now, get back in here, the girls are here!" they glanced at each other, blushing, thankful that the other one didn't really know what was in their brain and that none of the others could see them too clearly.
That sure blows my theory of who they were gonna try and set me up with… Rika sighed, reluctantly walking back in and standing, sneering, over the game that was about to begin. "Do I have to play? I mean are any of you guys that pathetically determined to," she mad a face of disgust, "kiss me, that you'd use this game as an excuse, and fairly much risk having your face pummeled in after the party?" Most the males in the area shook their head no frantically. Kazu, on the other hand, made the dumb mistake of laughing at her.
"You think we would actually want to risk kissing you? We want to kiss girls," he shook his head and looked around between the guys that were already gathered there. They all nodded in agreement, Takato slowly, hoping not to be seen by Rika, since he was her regular target anyway. Henry was still standing back behind Rika, simply observing the whole scene.
"Well, then, if that's how you guys feel, then I'll just leave now. I'm bored of all this nonsense anyway… Renamon, you can stay if you want…"
"Rika, wait!" Jeri pleaded suddenly. "I'm trying really hard to make sure everyone likes my party, and I don't want anyone to leave early. How about this; we'll play this so that everyone spins once for now, and then we'll go have a snack and agree on a game that everyone can enjoy." The room turned into a deadly silence as everyone slowly agreed in their own minds with the plan, then looked to Rika for her answer. The other girls were still fairly confused on the whole thing, because they didn't really know Rika.
"If we have to…" she sighed. "But I don't see why I'd want to kiss any of them…"
"Um… oh, I know!" one of the other girls said suddenly. "You only have to kiss the person on the cheek, if you don't want to…" everyone nodded at the suggestion, by now just eager to get the whole conversation over with.
"I'm going last, then…" she snarled, and sat down by one corner of the board. Henry finally stopped surveying the scene and sat beside her, keeping with the boy-girl pattern that was supposed to exist. "I still don't see why we have to play…" she mumbled under her breath, her voice drowned out by the heavy metal music now playing in the background.
Thus the game began. Jeri, of course, went first, and was *quite* upset when it landed on Kenta… and thus it continued, with no one seeming to land on whoever they wanted to. Suddenly, the music in the background all but ceased and everyone looked up momentarilly.
'I'll never speak to you again!' came the only line in the song.
"Kazu… exactly what is on your CD…?"
"Oh, don't worry! That's the only song like that, and you'll note it was censored."
"Considering there's only one line left in the song, should we ask what was in there before?"
"Probably not…"
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The game had gone by fairly fast, and, thankfully enough to her, Rika had not been landed on even once. It had slowly occurred to her, however, that she would not be going last apparently, as Jeri had gone first and Henry sat between her and herself. She suddenly was brought back from concentrating on not running out the door, when she heard someone yelling at her that is was 'your turn, already!'. She calmly opened her eyes once more and looked around. "I told you, I'm going last, even if I'm not in last position. I'm trying to delay torture as long as possible…"
"We'll play charades or something next…" someone said quietly.
"Alright, then. Henry… your turn." The room grew silent yet again, other than Jingle Bell Rock in the background, as he spun… and landed on Rika. Everyone gasped (somewhat sarcastically) and looked at him, the apparently doomed to be murdered because of an unlucky spin. Rika sighed and placed her hand on her face, supporting it and closing her eyes as she apparently struggled not to complain. Somewhere, in what seemed like a different dimension to Rika because of how stressed she was, one of the other girls mumbled something about how they shouldn't have made a rule adjustment.
"Just get it over with…" Rika sighed.
"Um… Rika, we're waiting for you to spin now…" her face turned red as she realized what that meant. Henry had kissed her, and she hadn't even noticed. She mentally kicked herself, though she was unsure why. She'd have to figure it out later… for now, she wanted to get this game over with… she couldn't think of any point in her life she'd wanted a snack that much without being hungry.
She calmly reached over and spun, praying like heck that it landed on… no one, truth to tell. She sorta wanted it to land on Henry, but… then she'd be embarrassed, not something she liked to be… she opened her eyes as she heard the bottle come to a spot. It was pointing to her right… where Ryo sat… she turned, groaning to herself and saw…
Nothing. Ryo was not there. She looked down. "Hi, Rika!" Calumon grinned. "Ryo said he'll be right back, and wanted me to take his place until then."
"I'm not waiting for him to come back," she said quickly, then grinned, picked up the little Digimon, and kissed him on the cheek before looking at the rest of the group. "I'm starved. How about you people?"
Yahoo!!! We won! Our basketball team won!!! But that was yesterday… today, I have a cold. Great. But at least this means I might skip school tomorrow, which means I might actually catch up on my fanfics. ^_^ Review, please! Ja ne to heiwa, ai Lyra-chan!
