Overprotective
By Moonlit Sea
Chapter 3 - Leave Crystal Alone!
***Ding dong***
"Hold on I'll be there in a moment," Daisuke Motomiya shouted at the door.
A few minutes later he opened the door.
"Hey Davis didn't wake you up did we." Henry Wong teased.
"Very funny Henry. No you didn't I was already up." Davis answered.
"Now that's amazing." Takato Matsuki said.
"Hey where's Rika? Isn't she coming?" Davis asked ignoring what Takato had just said.
"Dunno we haven't over there yet." Henry replied.
"I thought you said we'd let Davis handle Rika." Takato said to Henry.
"Thanks Henry, just what I wanted, to get my head ripped off before I go and see my best friend." Davis replied sarcastically.
"No problem" Henry replied smiling.
"Well let's get this over with." Davis said while closing the door to his apartment.
When they arrived at Rika and Ryo's apartment Davis knock on the door.
The door opened to reveal Ryo.
"Hey Ryo is Rika in?" Takato asked.
"Yeah I'll just get her for you." Ryo said and turned to get Rika leaving the door open so they heard the conversation that went on.
//"Hey Rika the others are here for you" Ryo said.
"Already? But I'm not ready yet." Rika replied.
"Well hurry up then." Ryo answered back.
"Your not helpful Ryo but at least your cute."
"Just like you pumpkin." //
Then Rika appeared at the door a few minutes later.
"You ready now" Davis said.
"Yeah I'm ready. See ya later Ryo." She shouted back as she closed the door.
"Are you sure Crystal said it was okay to visit her today." Rika Nonaka asked as they walked towards Crystal and Tai's apartment.
"Yeah I asked her last night. Although she didn't sound like she was listening very well."
"How do you mean Davis?" Henry asked.
"She seemed distant some how as if she was worried about something." Davis replied.
"She was probably still trying to rest from the long flight back." Takato said.
"Maybe but I'm not so sure." Davis said.
When they arrived at Crystal's place Rika rang the bell. A few minutes later the door opened but it wasn't Tai or Crystal at the door it was someone they'd never seen before.
"We're sorry we thought Crystal Green and Taichi Kamiya lived here." Henry said to the person standing at the door.
"They do." The person replied.
Just then Crystal appeared from the bedroom looking half asleep and still in her night stuff then she caught sight of Takato and the others at the door.
"Oh! I totally forgot you guys were coming!" she said, "Please come in I won't be a minute." Then rushed back into the bedroom.
"Uh okay." Davis said.
They all went in still wondering who the stranger was.
"So who are you?" Davis asked.
"My names Ray. Crystal and I met while she was travelling America." He replied.
Just then Crystal came out of the bedroom she was wearing dark blue jeans and a sleeveless dark blue top that had a flower in the bottom left hand corner.
"Sorry about guys I totally forgot that Davis had told me that you all were coming." She apologised.
"That's okay Crystal." Rika said.
"Well I'd better get going the others will be wondering where I am." Ray said.
Crystal laughed and said, "I think they'll know where you were."
"Well thanks for letting me stay Crystal and nice meeting you." he said to the others and went out the door.
"Crystal who was that?" Henry asked.
"Who Ray? He's a friend I met in America." She replied while heading towards the kitchen "anyone want a drink?" she asked.
"Does Tai know he stayed here?" Davis asked.
At that point Crystal stopped what she was doing.
"Crystal you okay?" Takato asked.
"Hm yeah I'm fine. Excuse me in minute will you." she said and headed back towards the bedroom.
"What'd I say?" Davis asked confused.
"I think there's something wrong between Crystal and Tai." Takato said.
"Yeah it sure looks like it." Rika said.
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"And where have you been?" Kenny asked as Ray walked though the door.
"I was at Crystal's." Ray replied.
"Are you sure that was a good idea Ray." Max said walking into the room.
"I'm beginning to think it wasn't." Ray said.
"You should of thought that before you went." Kai said.
"Well if you and Tyson didn't argue so much maybe I wouldn't gone." Ray stated.
"Hey don't blame your bad decisions on me. I wasn't the one who to you to go." Kai answered back.
Ray sighed and sat on the sofa.
"So what happened?" Max asked.
"Nothing happened Max. Except the fact that Tai called for Crystal while I was there, it was stupid of me to answer the phone." Ray answered.
"So that's where you were last night." Tyson said yawning.
"Did you just get up?" Ray asked.
"You know Tyson always the last one to get out of bed." Kenny said in reply to Ray's question.
Tyson smiled at what Kenny had just said as if he was proud of it.
"What made you pick up the phone in the first place?" Kenny asked getting back to topic of Crystal.
" I dunno I thought it might be one of you guys saying that Tyson and Kai had cooled off and I could come back." Ray said with a sigh and headed toward the balcony.
"This isn't good." Tyson said.
"Really, what gave you that idea." Kai said.
Tyson was about to answer back went someone knocked on the door.
"I'll get it." Max said.
He opened the door to see two girls one had brown hair and the other had red hair.
"Can I help you?" he asked.
"Hi I'm Sora Takenouchi and this is Suzie Wong." She gestured to girl beside her. "Does Ray live here?" the red haired girl said.
"Yeah he does why?" Max asked.
"We've come to tell him to leave Crystal alone." The brown haired girl said.
"Why what's he done?" Tyson asked appearing at the door.
"Well he uh…" Sora said going a little red then looked at Suzie.
"He's ruining her relationship with her boyfriend." Suzie answered.
"But don't you think it's really up to Crystal to decide what about her relationship with Tai." Max commented.
"Their right Max." a voice said from behind them.
Max and Tyson turned round to see Ray standing a few feet away from them.
"Ray are you serious?" Tyson asked but he didn't get an answer to his question.
"Don't worry I won't trouble Crystal again." Ray said to Sora and Suzie.
"Thank you." Sora said.
And they started leave.
"Hey" they turned round to see who was calling them to see Max and Tyson behind them.
"Yeah" Suzie answered.
"Did Crystal send you here?" Max asked.
The girls looked at other then back at the boys.
"I'll take that as a no." Tyson said.
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"They're going to do what." Crystal said in shock at what Jeri had just told her.
"Okay once more." Jeri replied she had already repeated herself several times but apparently it wasn't getting through to Crystal. "Sora and Suzie are going to tell Ray to leave you alone."
Fear now replaced the shock on Crystal's face and she ran off without giving Jeri any reason.
"Where's she off to?" Takato asked Jeri as Crystal ran pass him.
He then gave his girlfriend a kiss on the cheek.
"I don't know, I just told her that Sora and Suzie were going talk to Ray and tell him to stop bothering her and she ran off." Jeri explained.
"Interesting." Takato remarked thinking about what happen that morning when they visited Crystal.
"What?" Jeri asked curiously.
"Oh nothing." If there was something wrong between Tai and Crystal it was not his place to get involved.
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"Crystal you home?" Tai shouted in the apartment. "Guess not."
He sighed and sat on the couch, he then saw a note on the table propped up against a picture. He picked up the note and looked at the picture, he recognised it instantly it was when they met up with Davis and Kathryn down by the river. He then read the note:
'Tai,
I've gone to see a friend. I didn't want you worry so I left this note :o).
It's now half four I should be back about 7pm okay, if not I'll give ya a ring ;o)
Love,
Crystal
P.S. we'll talk when I get back.
Tai immediately got worried 'a friend' could mean anyone even 'him' not wanting to say or even think about saying his name. He looked at the picture again and sighed it was Crystal's way of saying 'I Love You' he suddenly felt guilty for not trusting her, he then got up and walked towards the bedroom and collapsed onto the bed staring at the ceiling.
*-Is Crystal hiding what really happen in America from me? Is that why she asked Ray to change the subject? Is there something going between them?-* thinking back to what happened at the airport a couple of days ago.
At that moment the phone rang he stretched over to reach for it on the bedside table.
"Hello?" he said in a 'can't be bothered' tone of voice.
"Tai." A voice said in an urgent and worried tone.
"Izzy? What's wrong?" he asked paying a little more attention.
"Do you know where Crystal is?" Izzy asked.
"I wish." Tai replied with sarcasm and sadness in his voice.
"Ooooooookay…" Izzy said somewhat confused. "It's just she was suppose meet me an hour ago and she hasn't turned up…"
"What!" Izzy now had Tai's full attention.
"…She was suppose to help me with something but never showed up. I had to ask Henry come over at short notice."
Tai looked at the bedside clock it said 5:30pm, so Izzy was the 'friend' she was going to see but she never got there wherever there was.
"Tai? … TAI? … You still there?" responding to the long silence at Tai's end.
"Hm… oh yeah sorry Iz. I'll find out where she got to." And with that Tai put down the phone without saying goodbye.
He was about to call Davis when he realised that if she was there she would of called Izzy or at least asked Davis to call him. There was only one other place he could think of that she would be without telling anyone…Ray's. Tai ran out the apartment at full speed almost forgetting to lock the door as his anger took over all rational thinking.
