Welcome back to my story which seems to take me way to long to write…Ok so I'm going to attempt this, cause I've managed a day off from school. Thank GOD Midterms are over YAYA! Ok so on with the next chapter of You KNOW! Hope you guys like this. Ok, this chapter doesn't have much Takari just cause I'm trying to build up plot so stick with me here ok. Thanks.
Takeru's POV:
God, being woken up at 7 am on a Sunday is ungodly! Takeru brought his hand up and back down slamming his alarm off. It was a Sunday and he should have been asleep at the time, however he had promised the gang to get together and play a round of ice hockey. Ice hockey! What in the hell was I thinking when I agreed to wake up at 7 am? Takeru though while he stumbled out of his bed and into the wall leading to the bathroom.
"Shit, it's too early!" he exclaimed while rubbing the bump that was quickly forming on his head from the encounter with the newly found wall in his room.
Takeru walked into the bathroom, still dazed. He turned the water on for his shower and as the water heated up he brushed his teeth. Takeru stepped into the shower moments later and let the warm water run over his body. Soaping up and washing his hair, he stood in the shower letting his sleep run away like the water falling off his body and down the drain.
Takeru opened the shower door 15 minutes later. As he stepped out onto the cold floor, steam escaped the shower and cascaded off his body. He rubbed his wet hair, wrapped a towel around his waist and returned to his room.
Takeru stood in his room with just the towel wrapped around his waist stareing at his closet.
"Cold cold cold, need to find something to wear quick!"
Soon enough, Takeru pulled out a long sleeved turtleneck to wear underneath a warm sweater and dark khaki pants. Takeru sat on his bed his hair still wet pulling on a pair of socks. Takeru headed down stairs drying his golden blond hair as he went.
"Hm…what is there to eat?" Takeru ventured towards the fridge at his father's apartment. He hated staying here sometimes. There was never anything to eat. He opened the fridge and gasped. Not only was there no foul stench coming from the fridge, but the door was fixed, the light was on and most surprisingly of all, there was no rotten food in the cold box. He stared into the light, mesmerized by the sight he saw, edible food! He saw edible food in his father's apartment. When was the last time he'd ever seen that food that didn't make him puke? He rubbed his eyes, slapped his face, and pinched his arm just to see if his was asleep still.
"Little bro, don't kill your self, the foods real." Matt had just entered the room to see his little brother beating him self up in front of the refrigerator.
"You mean, we don't have to bet each other to eat this time!?" Takeru was in utter disbelief. "When did u guys get food in here that wasn't turning green?"
"Ha, well, about a week ago dad came home from work his two week trip to China right?"
"Right, but what does that have to do with the fridge?"
"I'm getting there, I'm getting there. Anyway, the last week he was away I went camping with Tai, Izzy and Joe remember?"
"Yup."
"So when dad came home, he opened the fridge and almost passed out from the smell. I mean I came home and the apartment smelled like rotten eggs had been cooked and then served up with that nasty sauce you and I found last time you were here."
"WHAT! You mean you didn't throw that stuff away! It was meat at one point, not sauce! It was purple and green and every other nasty color a food can turn. You were supposed to get rid of it!"
"I know but after you left I didn't have the courage to touch it, it smelled so bad."
"Anyway, I came home and dad was like passed out on the floor, he was half awake and half knocked out. Said he had tried to clean it out and then the smell got the better of him so he just lay down and tried not to breath…"
"Holy crap, I'm glad I didn't come in with you that night."
"Yeah, I almost lost my lunch. So after that dad and I had to stay in a hotel and we got someone to come in, clean the smell out of the couch and beds and we got a new fridge."
"Wow."
"Yup so we're gonna try and not let things go rotten this time."
"Well good luck with that, but for now since I don't have to worry bout food jumping out at me I think I'll eat this." Takeru pulled out a container of food that looked tantalizing to him.
"Oh wait, that's not food, it's bait."
"Ah!" Takeru dropped the container. "And why the hell is bait in the fridge!"
"Dad didn't know where else to put it…."
"Oh god, ok how bout this is this alive inside the container?"
"Nope fried chicken, eat away!" Matt grinned and took the container away from Takeru to warm up.
***
"Hey guys, what's up!" Matt called as the two brothers entered the ice rink.
"Hey you guys, where you been we're ready to pick teams!" Tai called out.
"Well Takeru here couldn't be pried away from my fridge." Everyone's eyes bugged out, their mouths dropped. Everyone ran up to Takeru to feel his forehead, see if he'd suddenly come down with a terrible sickness.
"Guys, calm down I'm ok, Matt got a new fridge and there is edible food in it." Takeru exclaimed amused by how well everyone knew that nothing short of 9900 yen or a delusional fever would persuade anyone to attach themselves to Matt's fridge.
"Wow" Davis exclaimed "well now that astonishments have been made, may we please start!"
"Yeah yeah, so who wants to be captain?" Hikari asked.
*** The game progressed well for the next 3 hours with Tai and Davis as captains. Tai's team won 9-4 but with Takeru and Matt on his team he could do nothing but win. After the game, the whole gang headed over to The Shrine Diner for lunch.
"Haha, Davis I'm going to order a burger, and fries and 3 milk shakes and YOU have to pay for it haha!" Tai gloated. Another catch to the game played earlier was the loser team paid for lunch and Tai was not going to let Davis off the hook.
"Hey, Hikari, you don't have to pay for my lunch, I can pay for yours, it's ok." Takeru offered.
"No don't worry about it Keru, we bet on the game, and our team lost which means that I pay for your lunch. Now let's sit down and watch Davis and my brother fight over ketchup!"
"Haha, no matter how many times they do it it's still funny."
"I know. It's great to see my brother fighting like a little kid."
The two friends walked towards the table. Suddenly Takeru lost his vision.
"Peek-a-boo. Guess who." A grin spread across Takeru's face as he traced the arms of the person covering his eyes.
"Um….Erin, Emily, Eva"
Oh my god, what is SHE doing here! Hikari's mind screamed, what was Eriko doing at THEIR dinner. And what was she doing with her arms around Takeru.
"Silly, it's me!"
"Oh Eriko look at that!" Takeru turned around to face Eriko. "What are you doing here?"
"Oh, Keru, I just came out for lunch and by chance I managed to see you!"
"Eh, 'by chance I managed to see you!'" Hikari mocked. Keru is MY nickname for him.
"Well it was my luck too then now wasn't it." Takeru looked into Eriko's eyes, neither of them noticing the hurt on Hikari's face.
"I was just about to sit down with my friend wanna join us Eriko? Hikari's paying."
"What I-I- arg!" Hikari stomped off to the table where the who gang was sitting at.
Takeru looked after Hikari, confused. Did I say something to upset her?
Hikari plopped down beside Joe and just sat there staring at the table. 'Hikari you don't have to pay for my lunch. Peh, then you ask me to pay for her for HER like I'll ever do ANYTHING for her. She's just a stuck up rich brat, oh Keru, I hope that you're just being really nice to her.
"Kari, Kari…. KARI!" Hikari was knocked out of her revere by someone calling her name. She looked up to see Izzy looking at her with worried eyes.
"Kari, we're ordering, what do you want?" Tai asked her.
"Oh… um, I'll have a chicken burger and a chocolate milkshake." Hikari politely told the waiter. She looked around her at the large table her friends occupied, where was Takeru. She looked around the dinner and saw him. There with the jocks and the popular people. What's up with him?
"Hey what's up with Takeru, why'd he abandon us?" Yolie was puzzled as to why Takeru wasn't sitting with them anymore.
"I don't know but I don't like it." Ken said. Him and Davis looked like they were going to blow. Everyone knew that neither of them liked the popular people at all, and Takeru used to be just like them. But now something was different. He was all buddy buddy, and it made no sense to anyone.
"Here is your food." The waiter had arrived with the food and everyone's thoughts of Takeru were momentarily thrown away while they devoured the food in front of them like a pack of hungry wolves.
Just as expected, Tai and Davis had begun fighting over the solitary ketchup bottle again and everyone put Takeru to the back of their minds while the watched the spectacle of the two teens fighting. That was everyone but Hikari.
Takeru, why are you being so friendly to them? But above all, why are you spending so much time with her? I thought you and I were the inseparable ones, no you and her. Hikari sat there quite and thinking slowly picking at her food.
As the day slowly drew to a near, the 11 friends minus Takeru began to leave. They had spent the day talking, eating, talking some more and then eating more.
It had been a fun day for the retired digidestened. With Tai Matt and Davis' eating contest leaving all three paralyzed for the following 1 hour and Sora, Kari and Yolie's milkshake drinking contest leaving the three girls with headaches. The day had been fun, even Hikari had managed to forget about Takeru for the duration of their outing.
On their way home, Tai managed to talk to Hikari.
"Hey, you alright?" Tai spoke full of consern for his sister.
"Yeah, I'm fine why?"
"Oh, just that when we first sat down you were very distant and then again when we left Takeru at the diner."
A wave of jealousy hit Hikari, yeah, they had left him there, left him with that girl.
"It's nothing Tai." Hikari was getting a tad mad.
"Hey, sorry didn't mean to get you angry. I'm just worried about you that's all."
"I know I'm sorry, it's nothing you did. I just….can't figure why he's hanging out with them…"
"Don't worry Hikari, he'll realize that we're his friends. He'll be back, it was probably just a one day thing anyway."
"Yeah, your right Tai, he was probably just being nice."
Nice, just being nice, yeah, that's it. It was just Takeru being the nice person he is. Hikari smiled contempt at her decision.
***
Hikari:
Dear Diary,
Today was really fun, minus the waking up really early part I had fun. We played ice hockey and I was on Davis' team, unfortunately we lost. Man! Do you believe that it was Davis, Mimi, Izzy, Yolie, Sora, and me…well I guess that was a pitiful team, but we still should have beaten Tai and the others.
After hockey we went to eat lunch and Eriko was there. Man she really bothers me, I'm sure she's trying to separate Takeru from us. But, what can I do, I can't tell him what to do….can I? No I can't ….right no telling Keru what to do…
Anyway, my courage still hasn't built. I figure I should give it the next 3 years and with enough investment maybe it'll grow enough for me to tell him….maybe? Eh better give it 4 years with lots of interest.
Oh man, but I tell you if I see him and Eriko together again I may either puke or scream, wish me luck.
Oh that's the phone write to you later bye.
Hikari Yagami.
*Ring Ring*
"Hello, Yagami residence, Hikari speaking."
"Hika, hi."
"Oh hi Keru."
"Hey, Hika, you and I are best friends right?"
"Of course we are."
"Ok so as my best friend and as a girl can I ask for your advise?"
Uh, oh…"Sure what is it?" Hikari was hesitant.
"Ok it's about Eriko." Hikari was silent, she felt her stomach knotting.
"Ok what is it?" It's that she's medusa isn't it haha she's medusa…just don't say that out loud Yagami!
"Ok, this may be a weird question, but what would the ideal date be?"
Hikari felt her stomach plummet to the depths of the earth and her heart break. Ideal date? Eriko…
"Um…."
"And I want you to be honest. What would your ideal date be?"
MY ideal date? Should I tell him? I want my ideal date to be me and him, not me and someone else…
"Hika? You still there?"
Hikari stuttered. "O-oh um, yeah, just thinking." My ideal date…*sigh* well he is my best friend. If he's happy with her then…god!
"Well, dinner would be a nice way to start off a date, then I guess a walk in the park, with the moon shining bright…" Hikari trailed off as a single unknowing tear escaped her eyes. Her perfect date, she could imagine her perfect date with him.
"And if you're really lucky, the heavens will open up, and snow will fall blanketing you in a world of sparkles." Hikari closed her eyes and felt herself being swept away. How she longed to walk through the park while it snowed with someone she loved…how she dreamt.
Takeru was dazed, he could feel the date happening already.
"Wow thanks Hika that's great I owe you one! Thank you so much, see you tomorrow at school!"
"Bye." Hikari placed the phone back on the receiver and slid down the wall. If you only knew how much you owe me. God! I just gave my perfect date to the most popular girl in school…Hikari you fool.
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