Dark-Angel: Thanx to all my wonderful reviewers! As my French teacher would
say, all of you deserve a kiss, but I wouldn't go that far...
Anyway, I forgot to post earlier that Ryo is still older than everyone, but because he had to make up for lost time in the Digital World. I am also going by the dub ages and names as you might have guessed.
And a big happy birthday to anime4u2! Thanx for reviewing!
Floramon: Disclaimer: Liz AKA Dark-Angel does not own Digimon nor does she own Chiaki J. Konaka or Toei or Disney or whoever owns Digimon, dub or original.
Valentine Drama ~
Nameless Chapter 2
~*~*~*
Rika sighed as she exited the school building. She didn't even bother to wait for Jeri so that they could walk home together. She just wanted to get home as soon as she could. But with the mount of luck she'd been having lately, that hardly seemed possible. She felt that somewhere along her way home, there would be an obstacle that would be hard to pass.
As hard as she tried, Rika could not get the potent memories of the day out of her head. She and Ryo having an "awkward" moment during lunch, Kazu teasing her about her "thing" for Ryo, and now this. A tiny thing that could lead to so many open possibilities. Something that simply started out by her drawing a piece of paper out of a box...A very unique piece of paper that had only one name on it. A name that she could not get out of her mind...A boy that she could not get out of her head...
'This can't get any worse.' Rika asked herself as she passed a small side street.
"Rika! Wait up!" A voice called from somewhere behind Rika.
'Great. It just got worse.' Rika stopped reluctantly as she recognised the voice immediately. She waited until the person was almost beside her until she spoke. "What do you want?"
"Is that anyway to greet a friend, Rika?" The person asked as he forged a hurt voice.
"Ryo, what do you want." Rika asked again, this time more annoyed. It wasn't until Ryo didn't say anything that Rika turned around to look at him. He was smirking at her with a challenging look in his eyes. Rika Nonaka never backs down from a challenge.
"Rika, you know earlier, how you said that you didn't want anything do you with the Valentines thing, but Mrs Gooley said you had to?" Ryo said with an adorable smile.
"No." Rika said plainly as she recalled the event in her mind.
~*Flashback*~
"The boy's names are in this box, and the girl's in this one." Mrs Gooley held up two small boxes. "I will ask all the girls to come up and draw out one name and sit down again. Please keep this secret otherwise it won't work."
Time went by until every girl had drawn a name out of their box. Except Rika. She just sat there at her desk and stared into space. The teacher had called out her name five times, but Rika just sat there.
There was only one name left in the box so Mrs Gooley, being the patient person she is, slammed it down on Rika's desk, causing Rika to jump. Rika looked down at the paper and coldly stared at it. She knew who it was, she could feel it. She was trying really hard not to grab it and rip it into pieces. The only thing that stopped her from doing that was her own heart.
"Take it and read it." With that, Mrs Gooley walked to the front of the room again and told the boys to come up and draw their papers.
~*End of Flashback*~
"I want you to know that you don't have to give me anything." Ryo said seriously as Rika just stared at him dumbly.
"How did you know?" Rika said as she looked at the brunette suspiciously. She heard a rustling sound coming from behind her and turned around abruptly.
"Magic." Was all Ryo said before turning swiftly on his heel and running back the way he came. Rika turned around and just stared after him.
More rustling came from behind her and Rika turned around once again to see nothing. She sighed heavily and walked forward, mentally scolding herself for being so stupid.
~*~*~*
"Mom, I'm home!" Rika yelled as she walked to her room and threw herself on her bed. "From another stupid day at school."
Unfortunately, her mother had walked into the room just as she'd said that. "Rika, what's wrong?"
Rumiko sat on the edge of her daughter's bed while she looked into Rika's ice violet eyes. "We have this stupid valentine's thing that we have to do for tomorrow. We drew out names from a box and now we have to make something for that person." Rika explained as she looked at her mother. Not many people would believe that they were mother and daughter, except maybe for the eyes. They were so different in many ways, but they had learnt a whole lot from each other in the past year.
"Let me guess. You either hate or love the guy you've got and you don't know what to do about it? Am I right?" Rumiko smiled at her daughter.
Rika pondered on whether or not to answer her mother's question. It was so difficult and yet so true. Eventually, she decided to answer. "What if I don't know exactly how I feel about him?"
"Rika, if you're confused about your feelings, give it time. Spend some time with this boy and sum up in your mind his qualities and faults. Let your heart decide in the end how you feel about him and try not to let your pride interfere. In the mean time, I have a perfect Valentine's gift that I've had for a while. It's been sitting in my room for maybe over two years now. I won't go into the story of how it got there, because you don't really want to know. Come on, I'll show you." Rumiko patted the side of the bed and gestured for Rika to follow her.
~*~*~*
"Anyway, I think that Rika has Ryo, but I'm not sure. I just know that I have who I wanted to have and I'm very happy bout that." Alice talked to the person on the other end of the phone line, while fiddling with her Math homework.
"Yeah, I'm guessing that Rika had Ryo, but who has Ryo got? He never told us." Jeri spoke into her phone as she lay on her bed.
"I dunno. It's weird. He never even mentioned it. It's like he was disappointed about who he got. Hey, Jeri? Do you get this homework?" Alice frowned as she tried to read her math notes.
"It's Algebra, first off. X = y and y = 16, I think. Figure it out from there." Jeri answered while looking at a photo of her and Takato, who have been dating ever since the D-Reaper saga.
"Some friend you are. Anyway, should we set Rika and Ryo up? You know, get them together and get them to admit how much they really like each other?"
Jeri sprang up quickly from her bed. "Tomorrow! Valentine's Day! After school! Friday!"
"Jeri what the hell are you talking about?" Alice said quietly while carefully placing the cordless phone back to her ear. She was pretty sure that she would become at least 75% deaf now.
"We should get them together tomorrow after school since it's Valentine's Day. I know that Ryo has a definite thing for Rika, and the reason for Rika being so cold to Ryo is probably because she's afraid of her feelings, so it'd work out perfectly! And it's Friday tomorrow, so they don't have to worry about school the next day, so..." The very excited Jeri lay back down on her bed sighed romantically.
"Please, Jeri. You're gonna make me throw up. Anyway, I got to go finish this math since it's due tomorrow. I'll see you in the morning. Later." Alice waited for a very faint "see ya" from Jeri before hanging up. She looked at her clock-radio which read 10:30. "Shit." (this may sound really weird, but I can't really imagine Alice cursing. Anyway...)
~*~*~*
"I hope she likes it. Afterall, it was my father's choice..." Ryo sighed as he lay on his bed and stared at a small, red box in front of him. His arms rested behind his head while he thought about Rika. She was never really a very feminine person and never allowed herself to become close with boys, especially since her father left all those years ago. But still, something attracted him to her. Something indescribable and resilient, and yet it was so insecure and fragile. He didn't want to lose whatever he had with Rika just because of some stupid hormonal feeling. But he knew that this wasn't just based on hormones. He had felt a connection with her when he played the card game against her. She was so strong, safe and great, and yet she was so weak, insecure and lost.
Dark-Angel: Please review and the plot will be better than this I promise. Although it will only be a couple of chapters, a lot can happen in that time ^_~
L8ers!
Anyway, I forgot to post earlier that Ryo is still older than everyone, but because he had to make up for lost time in the Digital World. I am also going by the dub ages and names as you might have guessed.
And a big happy birthday to anime4u2! Thanx for reviewing!
Floramon: Disclaimer: Liz AKA Dark-Angel does not own Digimon nor does she own Chiaki J. Konaka or Toei or Disney or whoever owns Digimon, dub or original.
Valentine Drama ~
Nameless Chapter 2
~*~*~*
Rika sighed as she exited the school building. She didn't even bother to wait for Jeri so that they could walk home together. She just wanted to get home as soon as she could. But with the mount of luck she'd been having lately, that hardly seemed possible. She felt that somewhere along her way home, there would be an obstacle that would be hard to pass.
As hard as she tried, Rika could not get the potent memories of the day out of her head. She and Ryo having an "awkward" moment during lunch, Kazu teasing her about her "thing" for Ryo, and now this. A tiny thing that could lead to so many open possibilities. Something that simply started out by her drawing a piece of paper out of a box...A very unique piece of paper that had only one name on it. A name that she could not get out of her mind...A boy that she could not get out of her head...
'This can't get any worse.' Rika asked herself as she passed a small side street.
"Rika! Wait up!" A voice called from somewhere behind Rika.
'Great. It just got worse.' Rika stopped reluctantly as she recognised the voice immediately. She waited until the person was almost beside her until she spoke. "What do you want?"
"Is that anyway to greet a friend, Rika?" The person asked as he forged a hurt voice.
"Ryo, what do you want." Rika asked again, this time more annoyed. It wasn't until Ryo didn't say anything that Rika turned around to look at him. He was smirking at her with a challenging look in his eyes. Rika Nonaka never backs down from a challenge.
"Rika, you know earlier, how you said that you didn't want anything do you with the Valentines thing, but Mrs Gooley said you had to?" Ryo said with an adorable smile.
"No." Rika said plainly as she recalled the event in her mind.
~*Flashback*~
"The boy's names are in this box, and the girl's in this one." Mrs Gooley held up two small boxes. "I will ask all the girls to come up and draw out one name and sit down again. Please keep this secret otherwise it won't work."
Time went by until every girl had drawn a name out of their box. Except Rika. She just sat there at her desk and stared into space. The teacher had called out her name five times, but Rika just sat there.
There was only one name left in the box so Mrs Gooley, being the patient person she is, slammed it down on Rika's desk, causing Rika to jump. Rika looked down at the paper and coldly stared at it. She knew who it was, she could feel it. She was trying really hard not to grab it and rip it into pieces. The only thing that stopped her from doing that was her own heart.
"Take it and read it." With that, Mrs Gooley walked to the front of the room again and told the boys to come up and draw their papers.
~*End of Flashback*~
"I want you to know that you don't have to give me anything." Ryo said seriously as Rika just stared at him dumbly.
"How did you know?" Rika said as she looked at the brunette suspiciously. She heard a rustling sound coming from behind her and turned around abruptly.
"Magic." Was all Ryo said before turning swiftly on his heel and running back the way he came. Rika turned around and just stared after him.
More rustling came from behind her and Rika turned around once again to see nothing. She sighed heavily and walked forward, mentally scolding herself for being so stupid.
~*~*~*
"Mom, I'm home!" Rika yelled as she walked to her room and threw herself on her bed. "From another stupid day at school."
Unfortunately, her mother had walked into the room just as she'd said that. "Rika, what's wrong?"
Rumiko sat on the edge of her daughter's bed while she looked into Rika's ice violet eyes. "We have this stupid valentine's thing that we have to do for tomorrow. We drew out names from a box and now we have to make something for that person." Rika explained as she looked at her mother. Not many people would believe that they were mother and daughter, except maybe for the eyes. They were so different in many ways, but they had learnt a whole lot from each other in the past year.
"Let me guess. You either hate or love the guy you've got and you don't know what to do about it? Am I right?" Rumiko smiled at her daughter.
Rika pondered on whether or not to answer her mother's question. It was so difficult and yet so true. Eventually, she decided to answer. "What if I don't know exactly how I feel about him?"
"Rika, if you're confused about your feelings, give it time. Spend some time with this boy and sum up in your mind his qualities and faults. Let your heart decide in the end how you feel about him and try not to let your pride interfere. In the mean time, I have a perfect Valentine's gift that I've had for a while. It's been sitting in my room for maybe over two years now. I won't go into the story of how it got there, because you don't really want to know. Come on, I'll show you." Rumiko patted the side of the bed and gestured for Rika to follow her.
~*~*~*
"Anyway, I think that Rika has Ryo, but I'm not sure. I just know that I have who I wanted to have and I'm very happy bout that." Alice talked to the person on the other end of the phone line, while fiddling with her Math homework.
"Yeah, I'm guessing that Rika had Ryo, but who has Ryo got? He never told us." Jeri spoke into her phone as she lay on her bed.
"I dunno. It's weird. He never even mentioned it. It's like he was disappointed about who he got. Hey, Jeri? Do you get this homework?" Alice frowned as she tried to read her math notes.
"It's Algebra, first off. X = y and y = 16, I think. Figure it out from there." Jeri answered while looking at a photo of her and Takato, who have been dating ever since the D-Reaper saga.
"Some friend you are. Anyway, should we set Rika and Ryo up? You know, get them together and get them to admit how much they really like each other?"
Jeri sprang up quickly from her bed. "Tomorrow! Valentine's Day! After school! Friday!"
"Jeri what the hell are you talking about?" Alice said quietly while carefully placing the cordless phone back to her ear. She was pretty sure that she would become at least 75% deaf now.
"We should get them together tomorrow after school since it's Valentine's Day. I know that Ryo has a definite thing for Rika, and the reason for Rika being so cold to Ryo is probably because she's afraid of her feelings, so it'd work out perfectly! And it's Friday tomorrow, so they don't have to worry about school the next day, so..." The very excited Jeri lay back down on her bed sighed romantically.
"Please, Jeri. You're gonna make me throw up. Anyway, I got to go finish this math since it's due tomorrow. I'll see you in the morning. Later." Alice waited for a very faint "see ya" from Jeri before hanging up. She looked at her clock-radio which read 10:30. "Shit." (this may sound really weird, but I can't really imagine Alice cursing. Anyway...)
~*~*~*
"I hope she likes it. Afterall, it was my father's choice..." Ryo sighed as he lay on his bed and stared at a small, red box in front of him. His arms rested behind his head while he thought about Rika. She was never really a very feminine person and never allowed herself to become close with boys, especially since her father left all those years ago. But still, something attracted him to her. Something indescribable and resilient, and yet it was so insecure and fragile. He didn't want to lose whatever he had with Rika just because of some stupid hormonal feeling. But he knew that this wasn't just based on hormones. He had felt a connection with her when he played the card game against her. She was so strong, safe and great, and yet she was so weak, insecure and lost.
Dark-Angel: Please review and the plot will be better than this I promise. Although it will only be a couple of chapters, a lot can happen in that time ^_~
L8ers!