Overprotective

By Moonlit Sea

Chapter 5

The next morning when Crystal awoke she still felt tired. She hadn't got much sleep that night; she kept waking up in a panic thanks to the nightmares she was getting. She yawned then stretched and got out of bed, looking at the weather through the window.

It was a bright, cheerful, sunny day but Crystal still felt lousy. She wanted to crawl back into bed and try to get some more sleep. When she saw the time it was 11:30am. She remembered that she said she would go and see someone but couldn't remember who her brain still in snooze land.

*-Perhaps I'll remember while I'm getting changed.-* she thought heading towards the bathroom.

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"Are you sure she's coming?" Ray asked looking at the time; it was now 12:30pm.

"Yeah… at least that's what she said yesterday." Max answered.

"Maybe she forgot." Kenny said.

"If she feels like it, she'll come." Kai said.

"Kai's right." Tyson said walking in the room.

Everyone was amazed, Tyson agreeing with Kai? Now there's rareness for you. It was so rare that even Kai was shocked.

"Crystal went through a lot yesterday." Tyson continued ignoring the amazed looks on his friends faces.

"You're right Tyson." Max said coming out of his shock. "We should let her have her own time. She's probably still upset over Tai."

At this Ray sighed and asked "Hey Max, do you give Crystal back her necklace for me?"

"Huh?" Max replied obviously not listening.

"She said you could keep it." Tyson answered for Max.

"Oh… did she say anything else?"

"Yeah, she said she gave it to you for good luck." Max said realising what Ray had asked him.

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*-I hope she's okay.-* Davis thought as he waited across from Tyson and Max's place. *-Where are you Crystal?-* he wondered getting more worried by the minute. Then she came round the corner, Davis was amazed by what he saw, instead of the bright and cheery Crystal he was used to seeing. This Crystal looked run down and exhausted. *-What's wrong with her? -* He asked himself. He shook himself out of his shock and shouted over to her "Crystal!"

She obviously hadn't heard him as she kept on walking. Davis crossed the road and walked in front of her, but she still wasn't paying attention as she walked straight in him.

*THUD*

"Oh! I'm terribly sorry! I know I should watch… Davis?!" shocked to see it was Davis she had bumped into.

"Crystal are you okay? You look terrible." He commented to which he was expecting the reply to be something along the lines of 'Gee thanks Davis'. But was a little surprised by what Crystal did say.

"Do I? Oh that's probably 'coz I haven't had much sleep." Only half aware of her answers.

Davis could see that she wasn't really aware of what she was saying and decided to give her a little test.

"So where you going?" he asked knowing full well where she was going.

"Going? Uh… where was I going?" she asked herself thinking. "Oh yeah… I'm going to see…T…T… someone who began with a 'T' " trying to think of the persons name.

"Is it Tai?" Davis asked hoping to get them together so they could talk about what happened.

His plan backfire as soon as he said the name 'Tai' for Crystal seem to totally wake up.

"Why should I go and see him!" she said angrily, "What are you doing here anyway Davis?"

*-So much for that plan.-* he thought before hearing Crystal's next question.

"Oh…uh…I wanted to talk to you. You see I heard the conversation you had with Tyson and Max yesterday." Davis explained nervously.

"What!" Crystal said more shocked than angry.

Davis nodded and explained that he saw her crying down by the river, and how he wanted to speak to her to see if she was all right. Then not knowing what to actually say and ended up hiding behind a tree. When he finally did figure out what to say Tyson and Max had already showed up and he ended up hearing the whole conversation.

"I see." Crystal said when Davis had finished, "Could you… um please keep it to yourself." she asked.

"Uh. Sure Crystal."

"Thanks Davis." she turned to go into the building when Davis said

"Just one more thing."

She turned back to him.

"That necklace that Max held up it was the same one that Tai gave you three months ago wasn't it."

"How do you know about that?" she asked she didn't remember telling about it.

"Tai showed it to me before he gave it to you he wanted to know if it was okay."

Sam just turned back toward the building then said "Bye Davis." then started to walk in.

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*-What am I to do? The way Crystal shouted at me I doubt if she'll ever speak me again.-* Tai sighed looking out the bedroom window. Although it wasn't his bedroom window, he had decided that he couldn't stay in their apartment as it would only remind him of Crystal too much and how close they used to be.

"Are you okay Tai?" a voice asked bringing Tai out of his thoughts.

He turned to see a worried Yolei Inoue at the door of their spare room.

"Yeah Yolei, I'll be okay." Tai replied solemnly.

"That's good. Because the Tai we know doesn't mope around feeling sorry for himself." Ken Ichijouji said appearing at the door beside Yolei.

"Ken." Yolei said surprised at how insensitive her boyfriend was being.

"He's right Yolei. *Sigh* I also don't hold grudges." Thinking about the people who set him up.

"That's good also 'coz Kari and TK are here." Ken said.

Tai gave a slight smile.

"Well then I guess I'd better go and see them." He said heading towards the door.

"Tai." Kari said as her brother entered the room "Are you…"

"Okay?" he said finishing her sentence for her "After what you and the others did." his annoyance clear in his voice.

"We're sorry Tai. We were only trying to help." TK apologised.

Tai sighed, "It's okay. This was bound to happen eventually." Looking at the ground.

"Oh Tai. I'm so sorry." Kari said.

She could see that he wanted to cry but was holding it all in. she looked at Yolei who understood immediately.

"Perhaps we should leave you two alone." She said then looked at TK while pushing Ken out of the room.

"Right." TK replied understanding the look he got.