Author's Notes





Okay, I've been having a good day so I decided to upload this new chapter. I think it's a little longer than some. All the things I have stated before etc. etc. just read it.

Disclaimer: I don't own digimon. Yet.













"Come on Suzie, into your pajamas." Rika had taken off her ball gown first and then tried to get Suzie to take off hers.

"But Wika!" Suzie whimpered.

"Listen Suzie," Rika said, bending down to the little girl's height. "If you take off the dress and go to bed, I'll let you keep the dress, and I'll have you come over to my house on Sunday."

Suzie gasped "That would be de coowlest ting ever!" she jumped up and down a little.

Rika sighed, "Well, it won't happen if you don't get to bed."

Immediately Suzie began taking off the ball gown with the help of Rika and getting into her pajamas.



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Rika left quietly, and turned down the light, "Good Night Suzie"

"Good Night Wika"was the reply.

After Suzie was sure Rika had left, Suzie turned to her Digimon and whispered. "Lopmon?"

"Yes Suzie?"

"Is there any way to make Wika my sister?"

Lopmon considered the question a minute, she thought it odd but still answered, "If she got married to Henry she would be your sister."

"Weally? Thanks Lopmon!" with that, Suzie fell asleep.



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Henry had been kicking himself in the head since Rika had left.

'Why didn't you kiss her? What would have happened if I had kissed her?' The thoughts swirled around in Henry's mind like fog. But it all boiled down to the one truth of the matter.

He was dying to kiss Rika.



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Rika was almost scared to return to the main room of the apartment where Henry was. Thing was, she didn't have a choice. She kept telling herself it wasn't true, it didn't happen. It was a fluke, a joke. But her stomach kept doing flips and she couldn't dismiss the warm feeling she still had from being held in his arms."



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Rika walked in the main room where Henry was still standing, unmoved form before.

She kept a distance of about three feet away. She didn't dare get any closer.

They might have stood that way forever, in awkward silence, both too stubborn and scared to say anything.

Until Calumon turned back on the music, the volume quite low, and landed on the floor in the middle of the two.

"Dance some more? Please? It's so pretty!" the little digimon looked up at them, so completely innocent.

Both carefully took a step forward, then another, and another, until they were only a few inches from each other.

This time Henry took Rika's hand and laid the other on her waist as they waltzed in the middle of the room.

After a few mesmerizing moments, Henry stopped, he slid his other hand down to hold onto Rika's waist while guiding her arms upward.

They once again leaned in, less timid, more afraid.

When their lips connected after a few agonizing and beautiful moments Rika felt a chill run up her spine, and perhaps for the first time in her life she let herself be caught up in emotion.



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When they both broke away, Rika laid her head on Henry's shoulder. They stood there like that for a few minutes until they heard a key begin to turn in the lock.

They sprang apart immediately. Rika turned off the stereo, and motioned for Henry to take Calumon. Henry did and began walking towards his room. Rika silently thanked God for the fact that they were having trouble with the lock.



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When Mr. and Mrs. Wong returned they paid and thanked Rika. Rika also asked about Suzie coming over to her house on Sunday as she'd promised.

The Wongs said it was a great idea and that they would send Henry over with her at noon.

The Wongs loaned Rika an umbrella and she left. But when she looked back at the building on her way to the subway, she saw someone in a window, looking back at her.



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'It was a fluke, an accident. It didn't mean anything at all.' Henry pounded these words into himself as he tried to convince himself they were true.

'He did not like Rika Nonaka, and she certainly did not like HIM!' but then the thought once again, interrupted Henry, 'but you kissed her.'

Henry looked bitter and frustrated, because he had no excuse for that.



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When Rika had returned home, it was still raining. She was a little early, so she took to the shelter of the gazebo with her own confused thoughts.

'Why had she done that? She was Rika Nonaka, the Digimon Queen! She did not like boys, and she did not like dancing and she absolutely HATED dresses.

'But somehow,' she thought, 'tonight included all three, and I enjoyed every minute of it.'

For a moment Rika shuttered as she erased the thought from her mind.

Then a concerned Renamon appeared from "somewhere."

"Rika?" Renamon's voice held the right mixture of concern and confusion as she looked at her tamer sitting on the gazebo floor.

"What are you doing out here? You hate the rain!" is Rika's reply.

"What's wrong Rika?" There is no reply.

"You know you can tell me Rika, I'm your partner." Now Renamon is seriously concerned, Rika was acting nothing like herself.

This time she got a reaction. "mumble mumble mumble"

"Rika?"

In the most bearly audible whisper, Rika makes the confession. "I kissed Henry."

Renamon's eyes widen, she never expected to hear those words come out of her tamers mouth.

Rika hugged her knees and laid down her head.

"I won't pretend to understand or offer you advice Rika." Renamon finally says quietly, "but I will be here for you no matter what."

Rika whispers "Thank you Renamon" as her digimon disappears into the shadows.

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