Envy's Call

By: nightmaiden

AN: Thanks for the reviews, but I hope to get more with this one.

Disclaimer: Don't own Digimon…

Chapter 2

Again

The next day led quickly to the break of dawn, causing Sora to forget what had happen last night that frighten her so. Heavy clouds hovered over the city, which resulted having no sun that morning. The city had grown quiet since it was a gloomy Sunday, but the airport never rested. People came and gone. The snow rained heavily in its slow falling rhythm. People in heavy coats and mittens walked to their cars to head to the store for last minute request of food. A pair of runners ran through the sidewalk for their afternoon exercise. Briefs of heavy smoke escaped from the runners' months to the cold crisp air. Their pink cheeks and noses showed evidence of how cold they are.

Still asleep, Tai had his head hid beneath the pillow. His arm dripped to a side. Sora stood up, grabbed a pair of sweats, and placed them on. Pulling the large T-shirt loose from her pants, Sora made her way to the restroom. Tai rolled onto his back. The alarm set off, startling Tai. Rolling back on his stomach, Tai turned off the beeping alarm. Sora came out of the restroom.

"That's the first time we woke up before the alarm." Sora smiled. Toothpaste foam around her mouth.

"Yeah well…You better head to the sink, maddog. You're drooling." Tai stood up, also looking for extra sweats.

Sora blushed from the white foam around her lips and retreated back to the restroom. Tai soon found a pair of sweats and entered the restroom with Sora. Tai brushed his teeth when Sora finished. Tai continued to brush his teeth when Sora head to the shower and turned on the water. Sprinkles of water started then the full flow rain down. The water slowly turned from cold to warm hot water. Sora started to remove her shirt when she remembered Tai by the sink. Turning, Sora saw Tai staring from the mirror, but he quickly turned his eyes to himself, brushing. Sora folded her arms over her chest, waiting to get Tai's attention. She saw sweat forming around his forehead. She coughed to draw his attention. Tai noticed and fixed his eyes to her on the reflection. He suddenly smiled, revealing the foam around his teeth. Once finished, Tai looked around to what else to do.

"Tai…"

"All right, all right. I'm out." Tai rinsed his mouth and left the restroom.

After she was done showering, Sora moved to the living room and turned on the TV. An hour passed when Sora stretched tiredly on the couch, removing the sore muscles. She sat up, not knowing what to do. The fading sound of water raining down can be heard from their room to the living room. Tai was in the shower, leaving Sora bored with herself. A blush reached to her face when she recalled a time when Tai entered the shower with her, surprising her a bit, but that soon was forgotten. The phone rang, breaking Sora from her hotly memory. She reached the ringing phone and answered.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Sor."

"Hi. What's up, Matt?"

"Not much. Just wondering if you and Tai want to watch a movie."

"That would be great. I'm bored stiff over here."

"I tried telling you that Tai's boring to live with. I know, I was once his roommate. Now me? I'm always fun. You should've kept me when you had me." Matt laughed.

Sora rolled her eyes and smiled, "Having to hear you talk about your music career all day long? No thanks."

"Hey. That was a cheap shot. So, what do you say? Movies?" Matt changed the topic.

"Hmm…sure. What's playing?"

"Not sure, I thought we could just head over there and see what's on."

"Oh, okay."

"We'll meet within an hour, that okay?"

"Yeah. Alright, I'll tell Tai."

"Right. See you soon."

"Bye, Matt."

Tai came in as Sora hanged up. He walked around the sofa as he dried his hair with a towel and dropped next to her.

"That was Matt."

Tai grinned, "And what does that loser want?"

"If we wanted to watch a movie."

"Sounds great. Let me just finish up." He replied before retreating back to their room.

Sora went back to watching TV when the phone rang again.

"Yeah?"

As before last night, the silent tone on the other side of the phone welcomed her. Confused, Sora asked a question, but no answer came. The silence slowly killed her. She desperately wanted to know who was calling her. The silence acted like the darkness. She couldn't hear anything as well as couldn't picture who was calling. She tried again asking who it was, but again no answer. Sora shrugged. As she took the phone from her ear, a fading voice whispered.

"Sora…"

Quickly, Sora jerked the phone against her ear again, "Hello?"

But the mystery voice had stopped and silence once again bothered Sora. Nothing was on the line. She asked who was this, but was cut off by the dialing phone, showing that the caller had hanged up. Sora listens for anything to change before looking at the phone. Soon the sound changed to let the person with the phone to hang up as well. Sora hanged up the phone and sat still, wondering what was going on. Shaking herself from her thoughts, Sora cursed to herself for acting paranoid and letting it take over her. Sora decided to wash her face to cool off the burning feeling she was taking in from the phone call. Tai was combing his large hair when Sora walked into their room.

"Who was it?"

Sora didn't answer. She kept walking to the restroom. She took no notice of Tai's following eyes. But at the door of the restroom, Sora looked to Tai.

"…Wrong number."

Sora didn't wait for Tai's respond and closed the door behind her. Once locked the door, Sora turned the knobs of the sink and cold water sprinkled down to Sora's hand. Sora rolled up her sleeves to her elbows. At the corner of her eye, something black startled her. Sora turned sharply to the mirror. Her heart stopped thrusting in her chest, as her blood became warm again. The mirror reflected Tai's dark blue towel hanging on the door behind her. Sora jumped again when Tai knocked on the door.

"Sora? You okay?" The doorknob turned slowly.

"Yes, I am."

"You sure? You screamed and it scared the hell out of me."

Sora rubbed her forehead in confusion. She screamed? When did she scream? A dizzy feeling swan through her head, threaten her to faint, but Sora kept control of herself. She breathed in deep breaths.

"Sora?"

"…I'm okay, Tai."

~o~

The day haven't gone their way when the four found out that nothing good was on or even it was, the tickets were sold out. Rather, the four decided to walk in the park before heading back home. The soft snow gently floated down to the cold earth. Matt and Mimi walked ahead of Tai and Sora. Mimi softly wrapped her scarf around her and Matt's neck. He carefully kissed Mimi on her head. Sora smiled as she watched the two, holding Tai's arm warmly against her side. Tai tilted his head until it rested on Sora's. The two couples walked through the one-foot of snow through out the park. Small children played on the snow, making snow angels until their little buttons grew cold. Some built snowmen and snowwomen. Others built and played castle, acting like soldiers at war. And many other kids threw snowball to one another.

A snowball sailed through the air and smacked Matt behind his head. Mimi yelped in surprise. Tai and Sora happened to glance at a few mothers, who were going to yell at their misbehaved kids when they saw Matt double over, but stopped when Matt grinned and started to gather up snow and threw it across to the kids. The kids giggled and screamed to escape. More snowballs flew through the air to where the four were. Mimi laughed and ducked away, gathering some snow to form a snowball. Tai and Sora formed some snowballs and threw some of their own little battle to the small children. Matt ran and threw more until a snowball caught his face. He fell and the kids buried Matt with snowballs. Matt laughed. Mimi, Tai, and Sora joined him. Soon Matt gave up. The mothers slightly bowed to say good bye as they took their kids home. Mimi helped Matt up.

"Well, we better get home." Mimi wiped the melted snow from Matt's pink and white face.

Matt sneezed loudly, "Yeah, please…"

Tai and Sora waved good bye to the couple as their left the park. Tai wrapped his arm around Sora's shoulder and pulled her close as the snow grew stronger. They walked silently through the rest of the park, heading home.

"Sora?"

"Yeah?"

"What happened this morning?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean in the restroom."

Sora grew tense, but calmly eased that away, "It's nothing…"

Tai appeared skeptical.

"Tai, it's nothing."

Tai pulled Sora from the park. He grabbed her shoulders and gently, "Sora, please tell me. You're scaring me."

Sora looked into his chocolate brown eyes and looked away, "Tai…"

"What?"

"Damn it, it's nothing."

"Bullshit! Something's scaring you. What's wrong, Sora?"

"Now you're scaring me!"

"That's not what I meant! Who was that on the phone?"

"I don't know! Nobody answered! It was the wrong number! Jeez, Tai. Don't be stupid! Look, I'm tried. I'm going home."

"Wait, Sora."

"Shut up! Leave me alone!"

Everything grew silent. Tai finally gave up and nodded his head and walked with Sora to home. No words were exchanged. No glances were visible. The wind picked up and Tai did not dare touch Sora. Sora cast her eyes to the ground as she followed Tai. When they got home, Sora headed to the kitchen without looking at Tai. Tai trailed after her.

"Sora?"

Sora kept her back towards him, waiting for whatever he wanted to say.

"I'm sorry."

Her eyes softened.

"I'm just worried about you…I love you."

Tears came down, "Oh, Tai." She brought herself to his embrace. "I'm sorry too."

"You wanna talk about it?" Tai asked softly.

Sora simply nodded.

~o~

Monday came and Sora decided to take her car through the snow. She told Tai about the phone call on Saturday in the shop, the strange feeling she had when she walked home that night and the same silent phone call yesterday. Tai grew worried, but Sora convinced him not to worry about it. He didn't want her to go to the shop today, but Sora insisted that she was okay. Tai agreed and kissed her before she drove to work. The day had changed from shiny to gloomy, heavy sky covered clouds. The snow had stopped from raining its large heavenly white snow. Sora came to a stop when her cell phone went off. She reached and clicked on her phone.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Sora."

"Oh, hi Tai. What's up?"

"I wanted to know if you want Chinese or Mexican food."

"Hmm…" Then the light turned green, Sora drove on, "Chinese. We ate Mexican last week."

"Chinese? Anything special you want with it?"

"No, just the usual."

"Ten eggs roll…Three servings of fried rice…Five servings of beef and broccoli…and two servings of that yellow stuff…hmm…I wonder what I want."

Sora laughed out loud, "Shut up, Tai and order."

"Yes, honey," Tai said in a 'husband defeated by his wife' tone, "Oh, Kari and T.K. are gonna join us."

"Cool, maybe we can play a game."

"Not strip-poker, please not that game. You guys always pick on me."

Sora grinned in mischief, as she turned the car to the right, "Don't worry, little Tai. We're not going to pick on you…We're gonna pick on T.K. this time."

The silence on the other side of the phone made Sora smile. Tai took a moment. T.K. half-naked and Sora and Kari drooling over him.

"We're not playing that game and that's final!"

"I'm just kidding, Tai."

"Hmm…"

"Well, I'll see you after work. Bye Tai."

"Bye."

Sora laughed as she turned off the phone. The cell rang again.

"Yeah?"

"Hello?"

"Yeah?"

"Sora?"

"Who's this?"

"I'm a customer of your floral shop. My name is Gene."

"Oh hi. How did you get my cell number?"

"I wanted to ask you an important question."

Sora crooked an eyebrow as she stopped to a red light, "I'm sorry, but how about if you come over to the shop and we'll talk."

"Do you know what I can add to the water to last a rose longer, than using that powder stuff? I know there's something, but I forgot what it was."

Sora rubbed her temple, "Sir, I'm very late to work. Can't this wait until you come to the shop?"

"No, it can't." He said in a little harshly.

Sora couldn't take it any longer, "Someone's on the other line…" She lied.

"You're lying…"

"Excuse me?"

"You're lying. You're scared, but you shouldn't worry, my little sweet Sora. I love how your hair waves and ripples every time you're walking, doing work, or just sitting in your car waiting on the red light."

"Who is this?" Sora looked around her surrounding. She grew nervous.

"I told you already. I love that shirt on you. It shows all the deserved curves and it tightens your br-"

"How did you get this number? What do you want?"

Silence greeted her.

Then…

"You."

Sora remembered her situation and hanged up. She started to sweat and look around. She parked her car in the parking lot of the floral shop. The phone rang again. She grabbed it.

"What do you want from me?!"

Silence greeted her for a moment.

"Jeez, I just wanted to know if you want that red hot salsa stuff?"

"Oh god Tai, thank goodness."

"What? What's wrong, Sora?"

~o~

Josh glanced worriedly at Sora from the cost register, who was talking on the phone. He turned to attend a customer on the front counter. Sora whispered.

"Tai, I'll be fine…No, don't worry about me…Yeah…Okay, see you at home soon…What?…No…Okay, I love you too….Bye."

Sora placed the phone back on the hanger and took her place beside Josh, on another register. She welcomed new customers. The day went slow and no mystery phone calls were made to the shop or to Sora. The snow outside the shop started again, but not blocking anything. Sora watched the snow and worked unconsciously, until someone called her name. She handed the purchased red roses to a tall man in dark glasses when she spotted Ryck behind the customer. The man left and Ryck stepped forward. He handed Sora three small packets of flower seeds.

"How's your little sister?"

"What?…Oh, she's fine. Yeah, she loved the party."

"That's great." Sora pressed in some numbers.

"Hey, I got a question."

Sora sorted through the register for change, "Shoot."

"What can I add in the water to make flowers last longer?"

Sora jerked her head sharply to find Ryck smiling at her, "Wha?…"

"Yeah, all the time, my flowers keep dying too fast. I want to make them live a little bit longer. Can you help?"

Sora lost her voice and started to sweat.

"Hmm…I…" Sora quickly grabbed the change and handed to him, "I, I don't know…"

Ryck looked at her, "Oh…Okay, that's no problem. Well, I'll see you later."

He grabbed the bag that contained his brought items and left. Sora held her head and breathed in deeply.

'It couldn't be…' Sora tried to focus her vision.

"Sora? You okay?" Josh asked.

Sora blinked, "Yeah. Sorry." Sora faked a smile when the next customer came.

~o~

The store had closed and Josh had left to his house. The silent had grown annoyed to Sora. She shook her head and locked up the shop. She walked to the parking lot. Taking out her keys from her pocket, Sora heard fading footsteps behind. Her blood flowed cold again and her pace quickened. Quickly, but failed to control herself, Sora tried to grab hold of her suddenly cold keys.

"…Sora…"

Sora gasped at her name being called upon. She glanced around the dark parking lot, but found nothing move and the footsteps had stopped. The wind whispered silently through the area. She spun around to the locked car, wishing she could open the car to be in the safety of it. Her heart pumped loudly, making it to hear anything around her surrounding.

'Oh god, please…'

The keys didn't want to stop shaking. It felt like the darkness wrapped it's cold and black blanket around Sora's exposed being. Cold blood flowing through her veins. Heart racing. A dizzy feeling rose. The steps stopped and someone grabbed Sora from behind. Then he placed a napkin over her mouth and nose, sending her to a pit less darkness.

Well? Please R&R…