Digimon: Still not mine…. Ah well, at least I've got Brad (

A/N: I'm quick, aren't I? please review and thank you for all the wonderful people who already have…

Chapter 2

"I got to be going now." TK said, standing up from the table he and his companions were sitting around for the last two and a half hours. "My mom's home, for a change, and I have to make an appearance."

Jenna glances at her watch. "You're right." She said, smiling. "We've been here enough I need to be heading home as well." She turned to Kari and Brad who were sitting by her left. "You know how my dad acts when I take too long."

Brad smiled comfortingly. "Want me to walk with you?"

"Nah." Jenna grinned, taking TK's arm in hers. "TK will, he lives in my way and he's leaving now too."

She let go of TK and leaned down and kissed Brad gently on the lips. After taking her bag and telling everyone goodbye she joined TK and they both left the diner.

Kari looked curiously at the sight of them leaving together. "What was all that about?" She asked Brad, who was looking bewilderedly at the same direction.

"I don't know…" He turned to look at Kari. "She's planning something."

Kari nodded. "She sure seemed friendly."

"The question is whether she was acting friendly or friendly." Brad commented, raising an eyebrow.

Kari stared at him. "Is there a difference?"

"Sure." Brad exclaimed. "There's the normal friendly and there's the friendly friendly."

Kari still looked puzzled. "And what kind of friendly was she now?"

"The friendly friendly, which makes me suspicious because she isn't that friendly even with me."

"But…" Kari stared at him. "Why wouldn't she be friendly to him?"

"I'm not talking about being friendly to him." Brad was almost frustrated. "She was flirting with him! Way too much, it was so obvious she couldn't make it clearer by sitting in his lap."

Kari went quiet for a while, and then shook her head in confusion. "No, it can't be… Jenna doesn't do that kind of things, she's always so direct… And TK, he will never do anything like that, he's…"

Brad smiled. "He's a nice guy, I know. And Jenna isn't doing anything like that…"

Kari sighed. "So what is she doing?"

Brad shrugged. "I wish I knew."

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"So how is it to be a gifted basketball talent?" Jenna asked smiling, as she and TK made their way home.

"How is it to be head-cheerleader?" TK smiled back.

Jenna laughed. "Didn't your mother tell you it's rude to answer a question with another question?"

"Nope." TK answered simply. "She wasn't there to tell me what to do most of the time."

"And your dad?" Jenna asked, looking into his face.

"He lived in a different city then." TK shrugged. "Why are you asking this?"

Jenna shrugged as well. "I don't know. Why do you answer?"

TK smiled. "You don't know me, it's easier to talk with you. My friends…" TK trailed of, looking up at the sky.

"What about them?" Jenna asked, worry mingling with the curiosity in her voice.

"They are used to see in a certain light. They know me well, most of them, at least, but no one have ever gone as far as asking me anything personal. Maybe because they know I wouldn't have answer them."

"Why answer me then?" Jenna asked quietly.

TK laughed. "I've already told you; you don't expect me to do something, or to be someone, because you really don't know how I'm supposed to act. You don't judge me. I can complain to you, while they would never expected me to do such a thing."

"Everyone has a right to complain." Jenna protested. "Even someone who seems as perfect."

TK snorted. "Me? Perfect?" Jenna nodded. "I guess I do seem inhumane sometimes…" TK smiled. "I used to constantly complain as a child, everyone around me seemed to be annoyed by it, so it started to disappear when I grew up…"

Jenna smiled sadly. "I know what you mean… My dad, he's…"

"You don't have to…" TK started to say.

"No." Jenna tried to smile. "I need to. And you are right, it's easier to talk to someone different."

"My dad..." She sighed. "He's a idiot. He treats my mom badly, and she goes and cheats on him, he becomes frustrated and he yells on my sister and me. It's not that he used any physical means." She said quickly, seeing the look of concern on TK's face. "It's just he never lets us hang with our friends for long, or be out of his sight for more than a day. He lost my mother, or at least, her love. He's afraid to loose us too, I know it's the only reason he acts this way, but sometimes…"

"You just wish it was easier." TK finished the sentence for her.

"I hope it will be easier, someday." Jenna smiled, grimly. "Do you? I mean, hope for a better future?"

TK sighed and stopped before a building. "I live here." He looked uneasily at her. "Do you want to come up?"

"Ahm…" Jenna frowned.

"Don't worry." TK smiled. "My mom's at home, and I think my brother is too…" He snorted. "Besides, I respect Brad too much to make a move on you."

Jenna smiled. "That's not it…"

"You can call your dad from my place if you want." TK suggested.

"Let's got then." Jenna took his arm once again.

They went up in the elevator and came in to the apartment using TK's keys. As they came into the living room they saw two women sitting and drinking coffee. One was older and obviously was TK's mom, the other was much younger and was looking curiously at them.

"Hey, mom!" TK smiled. "Sora. This is…"

"Jenna." Sora finished for him.

"Nice to meet you Mrs. Takaishi." Jenna said politely. "Nice to see you again, Sora."

"You know each other?" TK asked, looking from one to another.

"We've met on Kari's birthday party." Sora explained.

"Oh." TK said slowly. "We'll be in my room." He added and led Jenna there.

"How do you know Sora?" Jenna asked as they came in to TK's room.

"She's dating my brother." TK explained, and gave her the phone. "You call home and I'll go ask her about him."

Jenna quickly called home and explained her father she had to stay longer over a friend's house because she needed to finish a biology project. She put the phone down with a sigh, thankful her father seemed to be in a good mood and let her stay where she was instead of demanding her to return home that very second. Some pictures caught her eyes on TK's desk and she went closer to it, examining them. The first was a family picture of what Jenna presumed was TK, his brother and their parents, the second was of him and some girl, Jenna looked closely at the picture and her eyes went wide.

"Holly crap." She muttered, looking at it. It showed TK and Kari, both smiling, they didn't look older than twelve, and Jenna wondered when it was taken, and what happened since then.

Reluctantly she moved to look at the third picture, only to be further surprised. The same moment the door opened and TK came in.

"I didn't know you're such a big fan of Matt Ishida."

"What?" TK stared at her.

"You must be some fan to keep a picture of both of you, not to talk of getting one with him…"

Suddenly TK started laughing. "You… Thought… Oh, god." TK panted as he tried to stop laughing.

"What's so funny?" Jenna demanded.

TK straightened up. "He's my brother." He explained, still smiling.

"He's your…" Jenna sat on TK's bed in shock. "And Sora's dating…"

"Yes." TK nodded and sat on a chair in front of her.

"But… but you have different last names?" Jenna asked.

"My parent are divorced, Matt lived with my dad, and I with my mom who changed her last name back to her maiden name after they got divorced." TK explained.

"Your parents are divorced?" Jenna asked with interest. "How is it?"

TK smiled sadly. "It was hard in the beginning. I was only a child then and felt guilty for the fact their marriage fell apart. I missed Matt and my dad because my mom moved away, saying she needed distance." He laughed bitterly. "There was a time I thought she did it in order to punish me."

Jenna looked at him. "But don't you think it's better when parents are getting divorced other than making each other miserable?"

"I don't know." TK shrugged. "My parents just stopped getting along. I think they still love each other." He smiled sadly. "Or maybe it's just a piece of hope that left of the eight years old me who wanted to have a happy family again."

Jenna answered his smile. "Hope. We were talking of that. You didn't answer me…"

TK looked at her. "I think I have hope. I just don't know sometimes if it's me or just a part of the someone I'm used to show to people…"

Jenna frowned. "What do you mean?"

TK sighed deeply. "What do you know of the Digital world?" He asked her.

"I know that Kari and Davis are digidestined, and that they both have digimons… Why?" She looked puzzled.

"Well…" TK started with a sigh.

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"So your crest is hope?" Jenna asked with interest. TK nodded. "You and Kari…."

"What about us?" TK frowned.

"You're soul mates." Jenna grinned.

TK stared at her. "What?!"

"I saw it in one of Kari's notes on the subject; Light and Hope complete each other."

"Yes, you see some of our digimons are bonded, but it doesn't mean me and Kari are as well." TK protested.

"Explain this." Jenna pointed on the picture on TK's desk.

"We were once friends." TK said quietly.

"Why did you keep it?" She asked.

TK smiled. "I really don't know." He looked out of the window. "It's going to be dark soon."

Jenna jumped and stared at him. "I need to be going home." She collected her bag and stood up in front of him, smiling. "TK." She said seriously. "Tomorrow I want you to come over and say hi. Or else I will, and you do not want me to make a scandal…" She stood on her toes and kissed him on the cheek. "You've earned a friend for life, TK Takaishi." And with that she went out of the room.

TK followed her to the door. "You have as well." He answered, smiling, before she left.

When he turned around he saw Sora standing a few feet away, looking at him. "Is the fact you talk to Kari's best friend for over an hour is a good sign?" She asked.

TK shrugged. "That's not why I'm talking to Jenna."

"Ironic, isn't it?" Matt cam behind Sora, putting his hands on her shoulders. "That the person who so called 'destroyed' your friendship with Kari becoming your friend now?"

"Jenna never was to blame." TK answered, heading to his room. "Kari has changed, her friendship with Jenna was only a sign for that then."

"And you weren't jealous?" Sora asked.

"Of course I was jealous of Jenna." TK answered almost angrily. "I'm not now though." And he closed the door behind him.

"Yeah." Matt said quietly to Sora. "Now he's jealous of Davis."