After hearing that people want an epilogue, I've finally gotten around to writing it! Here it is!!
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Contemplations
Epilogue: See You in the Morning…
Jenrya unlocked the front door and motioned for Ruki to enter. "Wow…" she breathed. "What?" Jen asked as he closed the door behind them. "It hasn't changed since you were last here."
Ruki smiled at him. "It's…quiet."
"You've never been here during a quiet moment?" Jen stared at her.
"Nope." Ruki smiled as she shook her head. "Usually Suichon-chan is chasing Terriermon around." She looked around. "Where is he, anyways?"
"I asked Takato to look after him." Jen flicked on the light and walked into the kitchen. "I didn't exactly want company tonight." He added quietly. Ruki nodded. She had almost forgotten about that. A couple silent minutes passed, and Jen started tracing meaningless patterns on the counter as if his life depended on it. Finally, Ruki broke the silence.
"So, uh, when's your family going to be back?"
"Tomorrow. But not until later on." He added quickly.
"I see." Ruki nodded. "Can I borrow some of Jaarin-san's pajamas?"
"Sure. You know where her room is, right? They should be in the top drawer of her dresser."
"'Kay. Thanks, Jen-san." She cat-yawned and walked into the dark hallway. Jenrya watched her retreating form and chuckled quietly. It was a scary, exciting, and strange thing for him to have a girl over—usually it was Takato and the rest of the Tamers, and occasionally he'd invite a few of the guys over for a mini tournament, but just having Ruki over was different. He shook his head as his face began to burn at some thoughts he began to have. 'Never gonna happen, Jenrya. Not until you're twenty or somethin'. Definitely not until you're twenty, when Ruki-chan is involved.' He got himself a glass of water and tried to drink it with a straight face, but the same thoughts began to appear in his head, and he choked.
"Jen! Are you alright?" Ruki rushed out of the room and into the kitchen, hearing Jenrya's coughing/choking/laughing.
"Yeah, I'm *cough, choke* fine, Ruki *cough, cough*" Jenrya laughed. Ruki sighed and walked over to the spluttering boy and slapped him on the back. "Hey! What was that for?!" he cried, now halfway across the floor. Ruki raised an eyebrow. "Better?"
Jenrya paused for a moment, finally noticing he was no longer choking. "Uh, yeah. Thanks, Ruki." Ruki only shook her head and offered him a hand. Jenrya took it and got to his feet. It wasn't until then that he noticed how much taller his older sister was than Ruki, for the pajama top the redhead was wearing was only just hanging on her one shoulder. The other side was hanging lopsidedly, exposing the shoulder. She was also standing on the bottom of the pajama pants. The blue-haired boy turned cherry red.
"Oh, grow up, Lee-kun" Ruki huffed and gave him a peck on the cheek. "G'night, baka." She turned and walked away.
Jenrya grinned Takato-style again. 'I think I could get used to this …' his brain quickly registered the final part of her goodbye.
"Hey! I'm not baka!"
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How was that? I know I said that I needed time, and this was really too long to put it off. Sorry 'bout that. I promise to work on all my fics and the fics I've said that I'd do (Ryuki in the works, for sure!), since teachers aren't giving as much homework since the first month is almost over. Ciao!
