Disclaimer: If you didn't read it in the first chapter, you don't need to read it here.

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Chapter 2

Tai took a deep breath before entering the school building. Then, he opened the door and stepped inside. He could still hear Kari's ramblings ringing in his head.

"Now, ignore the popular girls, and they'll have nothing to do with you. You have to get to class a full 5-10 minutes earlier than everyone else to get my stuff…er…your stuff ready and organized. Don't tell anyone that this has happened. Keep in mind, I am dating T.K. so you have to act like I normally would around him. You cannot act popular in any way or you're going to totally get beat up. Any questions?"

He couldn't help but wonder if there'd be any way to get sick in the middle of class so that he could go home and not have to listen to the same lectures that he'd heard three years before. After all, Kari was only in 9th grade, and he was in 12th. He was a senior and she was barely a junior. He was going to be bored out of his mind. As he walked down the hall, he heard a voice yelling to him.

"Kari!!"

He turned to see T.K. running toward him.

"Kari!" T.K. picked him up and swung him around.

"Hey! Let me go! Put me down, T.K.! PUT ME DOWN!!" Tai yelled.

T.K. dropped Tai, stunned.

"Oh…uh…sorry. I just haven't been feeling too hot lately. This morning, I woke up kinda feeling sick. Sorry." Tai repeated.

"Oh, no! I should be the one apologizing. I had no clue. Sorry." T.K. said.

"It's ok." Tai said.

Tai felt horrible. He couldn't believe that he'd snapped at T.K. like that. He was supposed to be Kari, not some guy! He had to start acting like Kari. Which reminded him, he had to get to class about 7 minutes early. Now what was her locker number again? 467? And what order were her classes in?? And what was her locker combination? Oh, he didn't know!

"Hey, Kari, you want me to walk you to your locker and classes today? I mean, I wanna make sure that you don't get sick. Unless, of course, you don't want me to…" T.K. said.

"No! That would be excellent!!" Tai spat out.

"Ok then, let's get going." T.K. said.

Tai slowly began to follow T.K., not being able to help but think that this was one of the most ingenious plans in the world.

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Kari walked into the building and began looking around for Tai's locker.

"Tai-chan!!"

Kari turned. Sora walked up to Kari. Kari smiled.

Good. That means that she likes him. Kari thought. I always did like Sora, and I needed to think about how to get them together. At least this is a start.

"Taichi Kamiya!" Sora said, putting her hands on her hips.

Kari jerked with a start.

"You can just wipe that little smirk off your face. I know what you're thinking. I don't like you like that!" Sora cried.

"Oh. Sorry." Kari muttered.

Sora groaned. "I've only told you a million times. Maybe more."

Sora giggled. "But you never give up, do you."

Kari smiled. "I never have been the kind to just give things up after the first time." Kari said. "Especially things I like." she added with a smirk.

"God, Tai!" Sora said. "Why do you have to be so darn cute? Well, I guess…How about a dinner date in….um…How about two weeks? I'm busy til then." Sora said.

"Sounds good!" Kari said, without realizing that she was grinning from ear to ear.

Sora laughed, putting her hand up over her face, so as not to laugh as loud. Kari gasped as she realized that she was still grinning. Sora put her shoulder out.

"Shall we go to class?" she asked.

"It'd be my pleasure, m'lady." Kari said, bowing.

As they began to walk off, someone grabbed Kari by the arm. She whirled around, just to look into the face of a teacher.

"Aren't we forgetting something?" the teacher asked.

"Uh…" Kari looked around at herself. It didn't seem like she was forgetting anything.

"You have In School Suspension, Mr. Kamiya." the teacher said.

"ISS???" Kari screamed.

"Oh. Are they still calling it that? Well whatever." she said. She handed Kari a slip.

"The room number is 467, but you of all people should know that by now." the teacher said. "Have fun."

"ISS???" Kari screamed again.

"Calm down Tai. It's not like you haven't been there before." Sora said.

"ISS???" Kari screamed.

"Well, you'd better get going." Sora said.

Kari nodded. She began to walk toward the room that the teacher had pointed to.

"What in the heck did he do? How did he manage to get ISS? Did he know that he had it today? Did he remember? Is this his way of taunting me?" Kari asked herself as she walked. She ignored the weird looks she was getting. "Ughh! I don't even care! I'm gonna kill him anyway when I get home!"

Kari had reached the room. She took a deep breath and slowly entered the room.

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Kami-chan: Hope ya'll enjoyed this chapter!! I'll update soon.