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Kari's Room, Tokyo, Japan
7:00pm, 5.13.02
KARI~
I kept telling myself that I was not clinically insane. That by not talking to Serena, I was in a way helping her. I felt that by taking the initiative to actually try and catch Cameron in the act of evil, it was putting myself in danger. And the more Sere hung around, she would be in danger too.
So I did the only thing I could think of. I cut off all contact from her and the rest of my friends. I was no longer paling around with the Digi-Destined, no longer being buddy-buddy with the Sailor Scouts. It was just me, Kari, against the world. I didn't email anyone, take anyone's calls, and the only time I talked to Tai was when I asked him where he was going this evening.
He looked really nice as he left. He said he was taking Sere to that new French restaurant. I know she'll like it. So I was left home alone, with only the TV for company, my parents gone on a business dinner. It was just my luck that nothing happened to be on TV that night either.
Should I go try and find Tai and Serena at the restaurant? Apologize for being stubborn? Force myself to tell them all I thought and what I had found? Or.what I was about to find?
That unmarked manila folder of Cameron's sat on my desk. Untouched, unopened, unread. I was afraid to open it and find all the secrets that lay there, for when I did, Cameron would have to reveal himself for what he really was. A sick twisted jerk set among us to try and get answers.
To what, I don't know. But I know I will find out.
I sat up from my bed to look at the night sky, and once I did, I was captured in the serenity of everything. The blanket of darkness woven with stars and the softly glowing orb that was the moon. There would never, ever be another night like this. I felt it from the bottom of my heart and the back of my head.
The back of my head.
Where I felt everything. My."psychic generator" I guess you could call it. Right now, there was a nagging feeling there, that I had to get outside. Run. I just wanted to be outside running. The prospect of surfing through a folder that would reveal everything really put me in a sour mood.
I stood up and pulled on my socks, running shoes, and my coat. It was a beautiful night, but I knew it would be cold. As I left my room, I shot a glance at my bedside table. There lay my transforming wand, the object that allowed me to become one with the Moon Kingdom, a Sailor Scout, at will. I grabbed it. I didn't want to leave it.
I snuck down the stairs, through my kitchen, past the living room, where Gatomon lay on the couch in a deep sleep. I went outside as quietly as I could, without making any noise. If I woke Gatomon, she'd surely want to come. I closed the door behind me, and when I set foot on my front porch, I took off. I dashed. I ran wherever my heart took me.
My heart took me to the beach. The beach where TK had first told me he loved me, the place where we first kissed, the place we decided to be together forever at. And right then, my heart jolted with fear and loneliness.
In neglecting my friends, I had also neglected TK. What was I doing? I can be such an idiot sometimes. I really feel like just jumping sometimes. Jumping into the deep ocean and swimming to a far away land. I took my shoes and socks off, cautiously shuffling towards the waters. The tide lapped around my feet, as if trying to tell me to step out farther and farther. So I did. I was knee length when I heard the voice call out.
"If you go out too far, you may be tempted to swim. And never come back. That wouldn't be fair."
I turned and smiled at the strangely familiar masculine voice. He smiled back. TK was sitting some distance away, his own feet in the water, his arms around his knees, his hair blowing in the breeze, just watching me.
"How would you know?" I asked quietly, trying not to disturb this calm I felt wash over me.
He looked out towards the water, into the distance, and I saw his eyes glaze over. "Because I feel like that sometimes too."
TK looked at me then patted the sand beside him. I went over like an obedient puppy, and plopped down next to him. He instantly wrapped me in his embrace, and I leaned my head on his shoulder.
"Why wouldn't that be fair?" I asked.
"Because you'd be leaving me." He let go a little, and I turned to face him. "Do you remember when I went to America to get my book published?"
I nodded. "That was the worst time of my life."
He bobbed his head. "I only came back because I knew it was unfair. Because I let the waters pull me in, I swam, I didn't want to come back. But I did. Do you know why?"
I shook my head.
"Because," he stopped in thought. "Because I have a duty here. I am a Digi-Destined, and I couldn't leave the group all alone. And I also have a sense of responsibility to you. That's why I came back. I came home because you need me as much as I need you."
I caught my breath in my lungs. "What's the point of this?" I asked cautiously.
Good thing TK doesn't get offended by my "get to the point" attitude. One of the many reasons I love him.
He smiled at me. "Don't you miss us? Don't you feel you have a sense of duty? Isn't it time you swam back?"
I felt like I was sinking, drowning. It can really creep you out sometimes, how much a person can tell about you. I didn't want to be easy to read, like a book with its cover open. I wanted to be locked in a box, where the only person who could know me was myself.or maybe just the light that spilled in through the corners.
I turned to TK and smiled, and pulled him into a huge kiss. In a way, he was the light that seeped in through the cracks in the box. And so was Serena. When I get home tonight, I'll call her, and I'll apologize for being stupid, and we'll giggle and laugh like we used to. Who cares about Cameron, he can slip up his true identity in his own time. I want to live for right now.
TK broke off the kiss and started to stand. I stood with him, and pulled him into me again for another kiss.
"Kar, I'm going to go. Do you want me to walk you home?" He asked.
I shook my head. "I want to stay here a bit more. Think. Contemplate."
He let go of me and smiled, and started to walk off. I love having a boyfriend that you don't have to explain anything to. TK makes life so simple, and so sweet.
I sat back down on the shore, watching the sky as it became heavily darker, and as in the near distance I could see a storm brewing. I hugged myself in the cold.
So that was why I needed to be at the beach. Because subconsciously, I knew that TK would be here too. Our souls called to each other, and they made us meet up so we could get things sorted out. And I'm so glad they did.
I stood up, satisfied. I could go home now, get some sleep, and then tomorrow I had some major making up to do.
Plans can change in a heartbeat. Like when the moon was suddenly blocked out by a huge rain cloud and it started to pour. Like when I heard the noise behind me, and paid it no mind. Like when I stood to pull on my socks and shoes someone came up behind me and shoved me headfirst into the water.
I was being weighed down by my clothes, but I clawed against the water and broke to the surface. I could breathe. But the tide kept pulling me further and further out. I wanted to swim back, I was frantically trying to swim back, but I was no use for the massive strength the water held.
I didn't want to die.
My transformation stick floated by me just as a bolt of lightning hit the beach. In an instant, the whole sky lit up and I could see, vaguely, a few figures standing on the sand. Just watching me. I grabbed my wand.
"ECLIPSE SHADOW POWER!" I yelled into the storm, just as I went under.
But this time, I knew I had the power to get out. I flew above the water and swam back, standing on shore and shaking the droplets off of my soaking wet white leotard and gray skirt. My knee-high boots sank into the sand, but I steadily pulled myself up to my full height. Light reflected off of my golden tiara and some of the figures shielded their eyes with their hands. The figures surrounded me. One of them approached me, laughing. I held my pink and gold bow and arrow up right to the figure's face. "What the hell do you want?" I asked, as thunder grumbled behind me. A man's laugh broke my nerves and shattered my confidence. I lowered my arrow just a little. I didn't want to be catapulted back into my dream, but the likeness of the same voice melted through my head as he said those words. "What I want comes with a price, little Digi-Destined Sailor Scout warrior." He moved closer to me, reached out a hand towards my face. I growled at the prospect of him touching me, and I once again put my weapon at a ready. "Back off. Don't get close to me." He laughed again, deep and coarse and I swear that the hair on the back of my neck stood up. Who was he? "I won't touch you.I just want something that only you may give to me." I shrunk back just a tiny bit. "What?" I asked, my voice strong, not at all the way I was feeling.
"You know what, I believe I told you in your dreams."
I scrunched my forehead in thought, and tried to remember the dream I had so many nights ago. *FLASHBACK* "I shall just say three things before I leave. The first, what Freienadal told you was not fulfilled. When you became your Sailor Scout, you forced the time flow faster, so as a sacrifice Darien had to die. The one who died that night never died." "Who was it supposed to be?" Kari asked in a rush.
The man ignored her. "The second, beware of what the newest evil has in store for you. You can trust me, but there will be people from your past who you thought was pure, and they only turn out to be evil in the end." "And the third," he said, throwing a cape over his shoulder for a dramatic effect. "Watch out for your friend Serena." *END FLASHBACK*
"Watch out for your friend Serena."
The voice echoed over and over inside my brain. How stupid I was, when that dream foretold what I needed to know. Watch out for Serena, she always wins in the end. She always solves the puzzle. And what had I been doing this entire past week?
Ignoring her, thinking I was saving her.
I can't believe I am that dense. The dark man took a step closer to me.
"She has what I want, and I want you to help me get it."
"Never," I said, taking a step closer and pressing my arrow against his chest.
"Don't you care to know what it is? Know all the answers to all the questions you have ever had about you and your life?"
The arrow gleamed in the dark. How nice it would be just to hold it to this man's throat and push and push it in further until the blood was sliding down his neck and he fell to his knees, never to bother me again.
"I don't need the answers. I don't care what you have to say either," I hissed. His eyes glowed in the dark, and I saw them narrow. "You will in a moment." All of a sudden I was attacked. Swiped at, kicked, tackled, there were too many to fight. I shot one in the back with an arrow and he fell with a cry of pain, and I stabbed at another, the shadow slumping to the ground against a tree. But it was way too much. I couldn't do, as much as I fought, the more I seemed to be winning. The more that seemed to come. They picked me up from behind and tossed me into the water again. The tide again started ripping my body away from the land I so desired. I swam, I fought, I swore, I screamed, all of my efforts caught by the storm. So I. I gave up. I couldn't do it. I let the water slowly take myself out farther and farther, as the man from my dreams howled with laughter. My spirits sank. My body went under with it. I needed air, but for some reason I didn't want to fight to get it. Why couldn't it just come so easy? And that's when I heard it.the vaguely familiar voice whisper inside my head, "We can call you Electra." Serena? I thought to the empty waters. And something TK said came back to me, fast, rushed, a jumble. "Don't you miss us? Don't you feel you have a sense of duty? Isn't it time you swam back?" Oh TK, you are so right, I thought, as I swam back harder. I knew I had a sense of duty. I had to fight to protect the ones I love, I'm the one of the only ones. Me and Serena, the twice as special. But when I got back to shore, everything from my mass destruction was gone. The man, his lackeys. Only two figures stood on the shore. One sat on the beach, watching me warily, as if I may explode on them at one moment. It was a little mini-lion like character, with a dark red coat, an even darker bushy mane. He snorted at me and turned his head when I came crawling onto the sand. The other held out his hand, his eyes shining in the little light there was. His smile curled up at both corners. But it was just too impossible for me to think about. I didn't take Cameron's hand, so he bent down and picked me up instead around the waist. When I was standing I pushed him away from me. I didn't want him touching me anywhere. "What happened? Why are you here? Why did you touch me?" I asked, sputtering, shaking from the cold. Luckily the storm had stopped. The little lion's eyes narrowed. "You are just lucky we came along when we did or you would have died." I tossed my head it's way. "Who are you?" Cameron stepped between us. "It's almost obvious, isn't it? He's my Digimon, Terymon, meet Kari." My eyes widened. I was so caught up in my fantasy that Cameron was the evil one, I never stopped to actually think. He was a Digi-Destined.he had a Digimon.and in his free hand, a Digi-Vice.D3 model. I looked at Cameron full in the face. He smiled. I couldn't stop staring. "You.saved me?" He nodded. "Well, with Terymon's help." "When did you.? How did you.?" He seemed to read my thoughts. Again, I hate being such an open book. "Well," he said. "I actually found him a couple hours earlier. I called around to try and tell people, but nobody seemed to be home. Funny, for a night in a storm. And well, I live right there," he pointed to a house on the beach. "So it isn't hard for me to spot people I know in fights. I came down with Terymon, he did his thing, and they pretty much ran off." I was nervous around him. My whole life as of now was based on the fact that he was the enemy. I was so shaky with fear and the cold I fell into him. He supported my full weight, and we started walking. "You know Kari," he said, as we were leaving the beach. "I know we got off on the wrong foot and everything, but I just want.you to accept the fact that I'm one of the gang. I'm a Digi-Destined, just like you." I'm a Digi-Destined, just like you. Don't say that to me. You have to be the evil one. And I know just how to prove it. He walked me home, a sweet gesture. I could now see the qualities all the other girls in our group fell for in him. He was funny, he kept making cracks about the weather. He had that smile. He was charming, friendly, everything that would be perfect in a guy if he weren't. Well, if he weren't our biggest enemy. He walked me to my front door, said goodnight, said he'd come over and see how I was doing tomorrow, to get warm, take a shower. I walked in nodding at his words, and immediately found myself sitting at my desk, in a robe, manila folder in hands. I opened it, not caring what was going on. And inside? Papers. Lots of papers. None of them screaming, "I AM THE EVIL CAMERON BWAHAHAHAHA". But at the same time.I felt crushed. They were papers he had written. Reports for classes. What classes, I don't know. But they were all entitled, "The Unknown Powers of the Brain,", or "Psychics Among Us," or "Clairvoyant, Perceptive, In-depth Thoughts,". There was nothing that could give me a clue as to how I knew he was the bad guy. Maybe.sigh. Maybe I just have to admit to myself that he is a Digi-Destined. Just like me. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ HAHA, I get so lame near the ends of chapters. Know why? Because all I'm thinking about is the next one I get to write the beginning to. Lol, such
a writer.
~ Erin
~ Erin ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Kari's Room, Tokyo, Japan
7:00pm, 5.13.02
KARI~
I kept telling myself that I was not clinically insane. That by not talking to Serena, I was in a way helping her. I felt that by taking the initiative to actually try and catch Cameron in the act of evil, it was putting myself in danger. And the more Sere hung around, she would be in danger too.
So I did the only thing I could think of. I cut off all contact from her and the rest of my friends. I was no longer paling around with the Digi-Destined, no longer being buddy-buddy with the Sailor Scouts. It was just me, Kari, against the world. I didn't email anyone, take anyone's calls, and the only time I talked to Tai was when I asked him where he was going this evening.
He looked really nice as he left. He said he was taking Sere to that new French restaurant. I know she'll like it. So I was left home alone, with only the TV for company, my parents gone on a business dinner. It was just my luck that nothing happened to be on TV that night either.
Should I go try and find Tai and Serena at the restaurant? Apologize for being stubborn? Force myself to tell them all I thought and what I had found? Or.what I was about to find?
That unmarked manila folder of Cameron's sat on my desk. Untouched, unopened, unread. I was afraid to open it and find all the secrets that lay there, for when I did, Cameron would have to reveal himself for what he really was. A sick twisted jerk set among us to try and get answers.
To what, I don't know. But I know I will find out.
I sat up from my bed to look at the night sky, and once I did, I was captured in the serenity of everything. The blanket of darkness woven with stars and the softly glowing orb that was the moon. There would never, ever be another night like this. I felt it from the bottom of my heart and the back of my head.
The back of my head.
Where I felt everything. My."psychic generator" I guess you could call it. Right now, there was a nagging feeling there, that I had to get outside. Run. I just wanted to be outside running. The prospect of surfing through a folder that would reveal everything really put me in a sour mood.
I stood up and pulled on my socks, running shoes, and my coat. It was a beautiful night, but I knew it would be cold. As I left my room, I shot a glance at my bedside table. There lay my transforming wand, the object that allowed me to become one with the Moon Kingdom, a Sailor Scout, at will. I grabbed it. I didn't want to leave it.
I snuck down the stairs, through my kitchen, past the living room, where Gatomon lay on the couch in a deep sleep. I went outside as quietly as I could, without making any noise. If I woke Gatomon, she'd surely want to come. I closed the door behind me, and when I set foot on my front porch, I took off. I dashed. I ran wherever my heart took me.
My heart took me to the beach. The beach where TK had first told me he loved me, the place where we first kissed, the place we decided to be together forever at. And right then, my heart jolted with fear and loneliness.
In neglecting my friends, I had also neglected TK. What was I doing? I can be such an idiot sometimes. I really feel like just jumping sometimes. Jumping into the deep ocean and swimming to a far away land. I took my shoes and socks off, cautiously shuffling towards the waters. The tide lapped around my feet, as if trying to tell me to step out farther and farther. So I did. I was knee length when I heard the voice call out.
"If you go out too far, you may be tempted to swim. And never come back. That wouldn't be fair."
I turned and smiled at the strangely familiar masculine voice. He smiled back. TK was sitting some distance away, his own feet in the water, his arms around his knees, his hair blowing in the breeze, just watching me.
"How would you know?" I asked quietly, trying not to disturb this calm I felt wash over me.
He looked out towards the water, into the distance, and I saw his eyes glaze over. "Because I feel like that sometimes too."
TK looked at me then patted the sand beside him. I went over like an obedient puppy, and plopped down next to him. He instantly wrapped me in his embrace, and I leaned my head on his shoulder.
"Why wouldn't that be fair?" I asked.
"Because you'd be leaving me." He let go a little, and I turned to face him. "Do you remember when I went to America to get my book published?"
I nodded. "That was the worst time of my life."
He bobbed his head. "I only came back because I knew it was unfair. Because I let the waters pull me in, I swam, I didn't want to come back. But I did. Do you know why?"
I shook my head.
"Because," he stopped in thought. "Because I have a duty here. I am a Digi-Destined, and I couldn't leave the group all alone. And I also have a sense of responsibility to you. That's why I came back. I came home because you need me as much as I need you."
I caught my breath in my lungs. "What's the point of this?" I asked cautiously.
Good thing TK doesn't get offended by my "get to the point" attitude. One of the many reasons I love him.
He smiled at me. "Don't you miss us? Don't you feel you have a sense of duty? Isn't it time you swam back?"
I felt like I was sinking, drowning. It can really creep you out sometimes, how much a person can tell about you. I didn't want to be easy to read, like a book with its cover open. I wanted to be locked in a box, where the only person who could know me was myself.or maybe just the light that spilled in through the corners.
I turned to TK and smiled, and pulled him into a huge kiss. In a way, he was the light that seeped in through the cracks in the box. And so was Serena. When I get home tonight, I'll call her, and I'll apologize for being stupid, and we'll giggle and laugh like we used to. Who cares about Cameron, he can slip up his true identity in his own time. I want to live for right now.
TK broke off the kiss and started to stand. I stood with him, and pulled him into me again for another kiss.
"Kar, I'm going to go. Do you want me to walk you home?" He asked.
I shook my head. "I want to stay here a bit more. Think. Contemplate."
He let go of me and smiled, and started to walk off. I love having a boyfriend that you don't have to explain anything to. TK makes life so simple, and so sweet.
I sat back down on the shore, watching the sky as it became heavily darker, and as in the near distance I could see a storm brewing. I hugged myself in the cold.
So that was why I needed to be at the beach. Because subconsciously, I knew that TK would be here too. Our souls called to each other, and they made us meet up so we could get things sorted out. And I'm so glad they did.
I stood up, satisfied. I could go home now, get some sleep, and then tomorrow I had some major making up to do.
Plans can change in a heartbeat. Like when the moon was suddenly blocked out by a huge rain cloud and it started to pour. Like when I heard the noise behind me, and paid it no mind. Like when I stood to pull on my socks and shoes someone came up behind me and shoved me headfirst into the water.
I was being weighed down by my clothes, but I clawed against the water and broke to the surface. I could breathe. But the tide kept pulling me further and further out. I wanted to swim back, I was frantically trying to swim back, but I was no use for the massive strength the water held.
I didn't want to die.
My transformation stick floated by me just as a bolt of lightning hit the beach. In an instant, the whole sky lit up and I could see, vaguely, a few figures standing on the sand. Just watching me. I grabbed my wand.
"ECLIPSE SHADOW POWER!" I yelled into the storm, just as I went under.
But this time, I knew I had the power to get out. I flew above the water and swam back, standing on shore and shaking the droplets off of my soaking wet white leotard and gray skirt. My knee-high boots sank into the sand, but I steadily pulled myself up to my full height. Light reflected off of my golden tiara and some of the figures shielded their eyes with their hands. The figures surrounded me. One of them approached me, laughing. I held my pink and gold bow and arrow up right to the figure's face. "What the hell do you want?" I asked, as thunder grumbled behind me. A man's laugh broke my nerves and shattered my confidence. I lowered my arrow just a little. I didn't want to be catapulted back into my dream, but the likeness of the same voice melted through my head as he said those words. "What I want comes with a price, little Digi-Destined Sailor Scout warrior." He moved closer to me, reached out a hand towards my face. I growled at the prospect of him touching me, and I once again put my weapon at a ready. "Back off. Don't get close to me." He laughed again, deep and coarse and I swear that the hair on the back of my neck stood up. Who was he? "I won't touch you.I just want something that only you may give to me." I shrunk back just a tiny bit. "What?" I asked, my voice strong, not at all the way I was feeling.
"You know what, I believe I told you in your dreams."
I scrunched my forehead in thought, and tried to remember the dream I had so many nights ago. *FLASHBACK* "I shall just say three things before I leave. The first, what Freienadal told you was not fulfilled. When you became your Sailor Scout, you forced the time flow faster, so as a sacrifice Darien had to die. The one who died that night never died." "Who was it supposed to be?" Kari asked in a rush.
The man ignored her. "The second, beware of what the newest evil has in store for you. You can trust me, but there will be people from your past who you thought was pure, and they only turn out to be evil in the end." "And the third," he said, throwing a cape over his shoulder for a dramatic effect. "Watch out for your friend Serena." *END FLASHBACK*
"Watch out for your friend Serena."
The voice echoed over and over inside my brain. How stupid I was, when that dream foretold what I needed to know. Watch out for Serena, she always wins in the end. She always solves the puzzle. And what had I been doing this entire past week?
Ignoring her, thinking I was saving her.
I can't believe I am that dense. The dark man took a step closer to me.
"She has what I want, and I want you to help me get it."
"Never," I said, taking a step closer and pressing my arrow against his chest.
"Don't you care to know what it is? Know all the answers to all the questions you have ever had about you and your life?"
The arrow gleamed in the dark. How nice it would be just to hold it to this man's throat and push and push it in further until the blood was sliding down his neck and he fell to his knees, never to bother me again.
"I don't need the answers. I don't care what you have to say either," I hissed. His eyes glowed in the dark, and I saw them narrow. "You will in a moment." All of a sudden I was attacked. Swiped at, kicked, tackled, there were too many to fight. I shot one in the back with an arrow and he fell with a cry of pain, and I stabbed at another, the shadow slumping to the ground against a tree. But it was way too much. I couldn't do, as much as I fought, the more I seemed to be winning. The more that seemed to come. They picked me up from behind and tossed me into the water again. The tide again started ripping my body away from the land I so desired. I swam, I fought, I swore, I screamed, all of my efforts caught by the storm. So I. I gave up. I couldn't do it. I let the water slowly take myself out farther and farther, as the man from my dreams howled with laughter. My spirits sank. My body went under with it. I needed air, but for some reason I didn't want to fight to get it. Why couldn't it just come so easy? And that's when I heard it.the vaguely familiar voice whisper inside my head, "We can call you Electra." Serena? I thought to the empty waters. And something TK said came back to me, fast, rushed, a jumble. "Don't you miss us? Don't you feel you have a sense of duty? Isn't it time you swam back?" Oh TK, you are so right, I thought, as I swam back harder. I knew I had a sense of duty. I had to fight to protect the ones I love, I'm the one of the only ones. Me and Serena, the twice as special. But when I got back to shore, everything from my mass destruction was gone. The man, his lackeys. Only two figures stood on the shore. One sat on the beach, watching me warily, as if I may explode on them at one moment. It was a little mini-lion like character, with a dark red coat, an even darker bushy mane. He snorted at me and turned his head when I came crawling onto the sand. The other held out his hand, his eyes shining in the little light there was. His smile curled up at both corners. But it was just too impossible for me to think about. I didn't take Cameron's hand, so he bent down and picked me up instead around the waist. When I was standing I pushed him away from me. I didn't want him touching me anywhere. "What happened? Why are you here? Why did you touch me?" I asked, sputtering, shaking from the cold. Luckily the storm had stopped. The little lion's eyes narrowed. "You are just lucky we came along when we did or you would have died." I tossed my head it's way. "Who are you?" Cameron stepped between us. "It's almost obvious, isn't it? He's my Digimon, Terymon, meet Kari." My eyes widened. I was so caught up in my fantasy that Cameron was the evil one, I never stopped to actually think. He was a Digi-Destined.he had a Digimon.and in his free hand, a Digi-Vice.D3 model. I looked at Cameron full in the face. He smiled. I couldn't stop staring. "You.saved me?" He nodded. "Well, with Terymon's help." "When did you.? How did you.?" He seemed to read my thoughts. Again, I hate being such an open book. "Well," he said. "I actually found him a couple hours earlier. I called around to try and tell people, but nobody seemed to be home. Funny, for a night in a storm. And well, I live right there," he pointed to a house on the beach. "So it isn't hard for me to spot people I know in fights. I came down with Terymon, he did his thing, and they pretty much ran off." I was nervous around him. My whole life as of now was based on the fact that he was the enemy. I was so shaky with fear and the cold I fell into him. He supported my full weight, and we started walking. "You know Kari," he said, as we were leaving the beach. "I know we got off on the wrong foot and everything, but I just want.you to accept the fact that I'm one of the gang. I'm a Digi-Destined, just like you." I'm a Digi-Destined, just like you. Don't say that to me. You have to be the evil one. And I know just how to prove it. He walked me home, a sweet gesture. I could now see the qualities all the other girls in our group fell for in him. He was funny, he kept making cracks about the weather. He had that smile. He was charming, friendly, everything that would be perfect in a guy if he weren't. Well, if he weren't our biggest enemy. He walked me to my front door, said goodnight, said he'd come over and see how I was doing tomorrow, to get warm, take a shower. I walked in nodding at his words, and immediately found myself sitting at my desk, in a robe, manila folder in hands. I opened it, not caring what was going on. And inside? Papers. Lots of papers. None of them screaming, "I AM THE EVIL CAMERON BWAHAHAHAHA". But at the same time.I felt crushed. They were papers he had written. Reports for classes. What classes, I don't know. But they were all entitled, "The Unknown Powers of the Brain,", or "Psychics Among Us," or "Clairvoyant, Perceptive, In-depth Thoughts,". There was nothing that could give me a clue as to how I knew he was the bad guy. Maybe.sigh. Maybe I just have to admit to myself that he is a Digi-Destined. Just like me. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ HAHA, I get so lame near the ends of chapters. Know why? Because all I'm thinking about is the next one I get to write the beginning to. Lol, such
a writer.
~ Erin