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To the very nice people who have been reading this: I luv you guys! Now, I'm adding a little twist because I saw the ending of 02, so… I guess it'll get better now. Dedicated to Ismini for actually getting me to sit here to type this up because, really, I thought no one was reading this. So, thank you very much, Ismini, for the e-mail!
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The Doctor, the Model, and the Rock Star
Part IV: Gig Cancelled
Davis was bouncing a soccer ball on his head at the park with Demiveemon when Ken arrived with Leafmon.
"Ken!" Davis called, momentarily forgetting the ball he was bouncing, and ran to Ken.
Ken looked up in time to see the ball land on Demiveemon. He heard a distant "Ow!" from the in-training Digimon.
"Hello, Davis," Ken greeted formally. "What was it you wanted to tell me?"
Davis felt the ball on the back of his head and looked back to find Demiveemon trailing after him. "Hey!"
"You forgot your ball, Davis," Demiveemon explained. He and Leafmon saw each other instantly and started playing a few feet from their human partners.
Davis picked up the ball and turned to Ken. "Are you doing anything tonight?"
Ken shook his head, keeping to himself his guess of what's to come next. "Why?"
"Well, see I'm going to this club later on with some friends, all ages," the goggle-headed boy explained, "and since you don't seem to go out a lot, I was wondering if you want to come with us." Oh, man! Did that just come out? I just insulted him!!!
Ken was silent for a moment. "Are the other Digidestined coming?"
Davis thought for a moment or two. Huh… if he said 'yeah,' Ken will definitely not come. If he said 'no,' the lie would be worth it. So, "No," Davis answered. "Just some guys from the soccer team." Well, that was true. Tai was a former member. "So, you coming?"
Ken was going to shake his head again, but Leafmon was on his shoulder at once, nodding the opposite of Ken's answer.
"That would be great!" Leafmon said. "Ken hasn't gone out in a while, haven't you, Ken?"
"Huh?" Ken was dumbfounded. Did Leafmon just say 'yes'?
"See?" Leafmon continued. "He'd love to come! What time should he be there?"
Davis pretended to think for a while. "Six thirty's ideal," he answered. "I'll meet you by the door. It's that club near the mall. You know which one?"
Ken nodded, going along with the scene. It seemed appropriate to say 'yes' and nod.
"Great! Well, I'll see you there!" Davis said. He ran the opposite direction with Demiveemon trailing after, saying, "Davis, can I come too?"
Ken recovered from the scene's conversation and mentally kicked himself for nodding. He said yes? How could he? No, wait! It was Leafmon!
"Leafmon!" he said warningly, setting his Digimon partner on the ground. "Why did you say 'yes'?"
"Well," Leafmon started. He started to think of some great excuse he can use. "I was hoping to use your computer for Donkey Madness tonight?" he answered hopefully.
Ken just smiled. He can't bear to get mad at Leafmon anymore. He shook his head. "Let's go." He carried Leafmon home, thinking all the way if he should call to back out.
The Digidestined gathered at the park again around six that night, with the exception of Matt, who was setting up at the club, and Cody, whose mother didn't allow him to go. It was Davis who arrived first. Then Tai, T.K., Joe, and Izzy were next. The girls came all at once, which was around ten to fifteen minutes later.
"What took you guys so long?" complained T.K. and Davis at the same time.
"Well, Yolei was having some problems…" started Kari. She didn't want to be the one to tell everyone that Yolei was wailing like a kid over what she should wear.
"Problems?" repeated Tai. "What problems?"
"Oh, she was worried about what to wear," Davis answered.
Everyone turned to him in surprise.
"How did you know?" Joe asked.
As much as Davis liked the limelight, he was too anxious to get going to actually take the time to brag and say he just knew girls.
"I called and Yolei's brother answered. He said she was 'busy,' and I heard her in the background crying about what to wear," Davis answered. "So, now can we go?" he asked impatiently.
Yolei's face was as red as a tomato as soon as the guys looked at each other with those looks on their faces.
"What the heck's wrong with you, Davis?" Yolei shouted at the new leader of the Digidestined, right in the ear.
"Itai…" Davis could only say. His ear was ringing. "Back out, Yolei. My ear hurts now."
"Grr…" was all Yolei could say. Kari and Mimi were holding her back at her arms at once. Just in case of a fistfight.
"Now, Yolei," Mimi said, trying to coax the purple-haired girl to calm down. "You don't want to go to the club mad, do you?"
Yolei calm down at once. "No," she said in a much "girly" way.
"Let's go," whined Davis. He was worried that Ken might come and not see him. Then he'd turn back and he'll never get the chance to show the other Digidestined how nice Ken really is.
"Lead the way, Davis," Tai joked. The other took it literally and started walking to the club, determined.
Tai sided up with Sora at once.
"You look really good, Sora," he told her.
"Thanks," Sora just said. "You look good too for someone who's always covered in dirt from soccer," she told him half jokingly.
Tai just sighed. "I try."
T.K. walked beside Kari, which was the most natural thing in the world to the two of them.
"So, are you excited?" asked T.K. This was both their first time going to a club.
"Kinda," Kari answered. "It should be fun."
"You know," started T.K., "you look great. Compared to the average everyday Kari I see."
"Hey!" Kari complained. "That's really—"
"She always looks good, T.K.!" Davis corrected him from the front of the group.
"All right, all right," T.K. surrendered mockingly. "Geez," he whispered to Kari, "you'd think he'd bite my head off because of that." Kari only laughed.
Izzy and Joe were walking together, conversing in the quietest way possible.
"Are you going to tell her?" Izzy asked in a very hushed whisper.
Joe looked at the redhead as if he was crazy. "Are you crazy?!" he exclaimed quietly. "I don't stand a chance against Matt!"
"It's not a competition, you know." The way the computer "geek" said it, he was going to get in that analyzing mode. "The way I figured it, if a person likes another person, the first should tell the second. If there happens to be a third, the second is torn—which is," he lowered his voice, "Mimi—and it's a matter of her choosing which one she wants. Of course, in your situation, that's the case. But if the third happens to like the first--"
"Uh, we're not going to go there," Joe cut him off. "I'll just wait it out. There are other fishes in the sea."
Meanwhile, Yolei was fussing over Mimi and Matt's "relationship."
"Have you gone out on a date?" Yolei asked.
"With Matt?" Mimi checked, wide-eyed. "No!"
"Has he ever dropped hints?"
"I… I don't want to think he has…" Mimi trailed off. Sure he has, but it's not the best thing to assume something that wasn't there.
"Have you dropped hints?"
"No!" Mimi exclaimed. As a girl, she believes she shouldn't drop hints.
"Will you? If he ever asks you out will you say—"
"Aw, man!!!"
That came from Davis at the front.
"What's this?" Tai asked, unbelieving what he was seeing.
"They cancelled the band tonight?" Sora asked what was on the notice board.
"But why?" T.K. asked to no one. "They just cancelled a major band out!"
Matt came out of the club looking down and depressed.
"Matt!" They all came to him at once.
"What happened?" Joe asked him. This was his first time at a club, and it's going to a waste.
"The line-up person said he's got a better band in place of us," Matt answered. What "better band"? We're professionals, for chrissake!
"Better band?" June echoed from behind Mimi. They all looked at her, surprised. Matt was ready to draw back in the club to hide, but there was no escape. June was fawning over him in a split second.
"Mattie-chan!" she said in what might sound like an exaggerated concern in her voice. "Don't be so down!" She hugged him, like Matt asked for it. "I'm here. You can cry on my shoulder… shh…"
"He's not even crying," Yolei whispered over to Mimi.
"I know," Mimi whispered back. She looked really unapproving of the scene. Her eyes have narrowed to an animated line and a dot under.
"You know, June," Matt said, conjuring up some turnaround for June in his head, "I have to go. My friends are waiting, see? We've got some plans—"
"Oh, it's okay, Matty," June said, ignoring Matt's silent plea. She unhugged him and straightened with a determined look on her face. "I'm going to go in there right now and give that line-up manager an earful!" She stalked purposely into the club, leaving the Digidestined running down the street right after the door closed to escape June's wrath—well, just plain June.
As soon as they reached Highton View Terrace, they slowed down and came to a stop, panting and catching their breaths.
"Well, that was scary," Matt said between gasps.
Tai was grinning despite losing his breath. "One more run-in like that with June and I think you're going to be smothered."
The rest of the Digidestined laughed, but Matt had a scowl on his face. "Shut up, Tai."
"Well, what now?" Kari asked. "We're all dressed up with nowhere to go."
"Let's eat out," Sora suggested. "Then we can just go to the mall and walk around."
Everybody agreed. They were deciding on which restaurant to go to when Davis remembered Ken.
"Oh, no!" Davis said, his hand hitting his forehead. "I forgot!" He started running back to the club. "I'll see you guys around!" He waved back.
"Meet us at the Italian restaurant!" Mimi called after.
Davis ran, sweating like crazy in the June heat. How could he forget about Ken? Now he'll think he can't trust him! There goes another Digidestined off.
As soon as he reached the club, he asked the security guard if he had seen Ken Ichijouji around.
"The genius?" the guard checked. He shook his head. "I don't think the likes of him go to places like this."
"Oh, thanks then," Davis said. Does that mean he didn't show up? He shook his head. Now, it was starting to get cold. What if he had waited? He would've looked so dumb waiting for no one!
It was 11 near midnight when Tai and Kari got home. It was overall a really fun night. But to end it, Kari opened her mail and saw one from Willis.
"Hey, Tai," she said, reading the mail. "Willis is coming two days from now."
"Willis?" Tai repeated. Then he remembered Kari and T.K.'s story about when they went to New York. "Oh, that Willis. Yeah? What for?"
"He says he wants to visit us," Kari answered. "He says he wants to go around the same afternoon." She looked at her older brother. "You think we can show him around?"
"Yeah, sure," Tai answered.
They got ready for the night. As soon as both their backs hit the bed, they fell asleep.
