Thank you for reveiwing frosty!!!!!! I love reweiws!!!! Ur like the only reson i started writing on this one again, other than i think it could really go somewhere. Sorry the next chapter took so long. Enjoy.


He flipped through the channels once again.
"Nothing, nothing, nothing, guys."
"It's broadcast! Whadaya expect?" Yamato said in his own sly way.
"I bet we could think of something to do other than watch TV on our VACATION?" Koushiro, who was sitting on the couch stiffly, folded his arms and pouted. He was no good on vacation.
"Taichi! Did Takeru say he was coming down 109? Are you sure?"
Kari was by the window; there was a very worried look on her face.
"O he's always late...and yes I'm pretty sure he said 109, he was on that damn cell phone he won't replace."
Taichi was lying, all he had said was "I'm coming, tell Kari not to get all upset." What was the use in getting her more wound up though?
"Uh, how bout we play a board game. There's monopoly in the closet." Iori attempted to cheer Kari.
"No I think I'll just stay here and watch for him. You guys play."
That's it, Tai said to himself, he would not have Kari doing this again.
"Kari, may I speak to you?"
He grabbed her arm, maybe a little bit to forcefully, but it's not like she'd have a bruise. He pulled her into the adjacent sitting room, smiling his fake keep-up-appearances smile. He closed the door softly and then turned around sharply, his angry expression taking Kari by surprise. He growled at her through his teeth, pronouncing each word slowly and carefully, "If you do not stop moping around and making every one uncomfortable, I swear Kari, I don't know what I'm going to do. "
"I'm sorry, it's just that…"
"TK is only 3 hours late, and I've talked to him twice in the last hour. He knows how to get here; he just got out of town. Calm down."
"I'm sorry," she said shyly, she had a frightened look on her face, Tai had never been so angry with her.
All out once Taichi's grip loosened and he broke out into a slightly sad expression.
"I'm sorry Kari, I'm just a bit upset."
"With me? I'm sorry Tai, I'll just have fun, I know Takeru will be here soon."
"No, it's not you, it's something else. Talk to you later."
Tai had in fact been in a rather delicate mood since about 2 hours ago, when he and Sora had taken a walk, trying to "breath in as much of that country air as they could", as she had said, before the rain. Since she had told him, he had been on the edge. He had no idea on what to do. Should he do anything? If he stayed out of it, Sora would be hurt, but if he got into it, he had only imagined how it would turn out.
He got up and walked stiffly around the room. Kari, whom was obviously thinking of only one person, laid across an old sofa, and absent-mindedly asked Tai what was wrong.
"Nothing. Don't worry about it."
She was satisfied with that, and slipped back into her fidgety worrying mood. Tai opened the door and started to walk out, but remembered why he was in there in the first place.
"Kari, why don't you go help Mimi and Sora in the kitchen?"
"In a minute."
The answer was excepted and he was back in his mind, contemplating his own problems, as she was. He walked back into the rec. room and saw that Iori was thumbing through a magazine. Jyou was asleep on the couch in front of the TV where he'd been when Tai had left. Koushiro, Daisuke, and Yamato were gone. He continued through the room and down the stairs. Daisuke was trying to light a fire in the living room, and al the girls were in the kitchen, except for Kari. Wait, Yolei. Where was she?

He stepped into the kitchen and smiled at Mimi, who looked up from a salad she was tossing. She frowned back at the second rate smile she had received and went back to her work. Sora was standing at the stove frying something, and Mimi cleared her throat loudly, trying to catch her attention. Sora looked back and her face lit up at the sight of Taichi.
"Hi! You guys hungry?"
He walked over to her.
"Umm, not really, it's only about 4:30…You seen Yolei?"
"She was in here, and said she was gonna try out one of the four-wheelers…"
"O…does Mimi know?" he whispered.
"That Yolei's gone?"
He gave her a sincere look.
"I tell her everything, Tai. I'm thinking of waiting till' after we get home to tell him. What do you think?"
"That's probably a good idea," he said, thinking it was the most intelligent thing he' d heard all day. "Would you mind not telling Kari? She'd probably tell TK and then we'd have a whole other set of problems, k?"
"Of course Taichi."
She tried to give him a hug but he pulled away, mumbling something about going to find Koushiro.
He couldn't hug her right then, he could not touch her, it felt like he was stealing, lying to his friend. That was one thing he had never been accused of, and didn't plan to be.

~confused yet?