Chapter Ten- The Dream
Jesi sat in bed with a cast around her leg. Ken was by her side as he had been everyday
since they came back from the digital world.
"Ken you don't have to come over every day you know, it's such a long trip."
"Don't worry about it, I want to come."
Ken and Jesi sat close to each other.
"I wish I could go outside, I've been in my room too long I'm getting tired of it."
"Then come on."
"But, Ken I can't go outside like this."
"Yes you can, come on."
Ken took her hands and helped her up out of the bed. He let her lean on him and they
went out onto the balcony. Jesi leaned on the railing and looked out at the city.
"It feels good to get outside."
Ken sat on the railing and leaned back..
"Hey, I'm falling!" he joked.
Jesi pulled him back onto the floor and smiled.
"There, I saved you."
Ken leaned down and kissed her.
A sudden breeze blew and gave Jesi the chills. She held her arms around herself.
"Ken lets go inside, it's cold."
Jesi turned around to lean on Ken but instead he picked her up and carried her inside. He
sat her down on the couch and sat next to her.
"Ken, you're so sweet."
Ken leaned her back on the couch and kissed her again. Meanwhile Flotsymon and
Wormmon were sitting in Jesi's room watching.
"Wormmon have you ever kissed another digimon?"
"No it's hard to kiss someone when you have no lips and a sideways mouth."
"Do you think if two Digidestined are in love their digimon are too?"
"I don't know, Ken's never been in love before."
"Well Davis has a crush on Kari and Veemon has a crush on Gatomon, so maybe that's
true."
"Maybe..."
Flotsymon leaned over and kissed Wormmon, as much of a kiss as a cat can give.
Wormmon's green face turned red.
As Ken and Jesi sat on the couch, the phone rang.
"I'll get it for you," Ken said. He got up and answered the phone. "Junryou residence.
Oh hi mom, uh huh. Well... Ok"
"What did she want?" Jesi asked.
"I have to go home, I'm sorry. I'll be here right after school tomorrow."
Ken put his coat and shoes on and smiled as he walked out the door with Wormmon.
"Bye Ken." Jesi sighed and laid down on the couch. "He's just so sweet, and his smile..."
Jesi fell asleep on the couch.
Ken woke up early that morning. He stepped down off his bed and looked outside. It
was raining again. Such a dreary day, he could barely see the city through all the fog. Ken
changed into his clothes, very depressed. But when he saw Jesi's picture on his desk he began to see things more clearly, and everything seemed a little brighter.
Jesi woke up and looked at her alarm clock. She was late again. She got up and got
dressed quickly. She rushed down the street in the pouring rain and arrived at her job at the
market. Her boss was not pleased to see her late at all. As she went to work she wished the day
would end so she could go home. The phone at the store rang. When she answered, Ken was on
the line, and things didn't seem so bad.
Jesi arrived home at the end of the day. She opened the door to her apartment, soaking
wet. She looked up and Ken was sitting in the living room waiting for her. She smiled and
greeted him, and all they could see was each other. They went into Jesi's room and closed the
door, Jesi and Ken leaned back on the bed, and soon her wet clothes were on the floor.
Ken sat at the table doing his homework. His mother walked into his room to put his
clean laundry away. As she walked out she bent down to pick up a pen on the floor. She opened
Ken's desk drawer to put it away, but found something else. She picked it up.
"This is.. This can't be Ken's! He's too young." She put it back down in the drawer and
walked into the kitchen. "Ken come in here."
Ken walked with his mother to his room. She had a troubled look on her face but he
didn't know what could be wrong. The she showed him the drawer.
Ken could feel his heart beat inside his chest when he saw what his love had given him and
he had hidden in the drawer.
"Ken is this yours?" His mother said in a panicked voice.
"It's...for when I get older."
Ken's eyes did not meet with his mother's. She walked out of the room and took what
had been in the drawer with her. Ken sat in his room with his head on his knees.
Jesi got an e-mail from Ken and went to the digital world right away. She saw Ken
perched on the rock where they had met, his head rested on his knees. He did not look up as he
sobbed.
"Ken what's wrong!?" She ran over to him. Ken told her what his mother had found.
"It's all my fault...I..." Jesi began to cry. Ken tried to comfort her, but could not since he
was also crying.
"What if she never lets us see each other again!?"
As Ken was about to answer, Jesi heard a faint sound. A doorbell ringing. It got louder,
until she sat up and was awake.
It took Jesi a moment to remember where she was, but stood up and leaned with her
weight on her unbroken leg. She opened the door to see Kari and Yolei with a bouquet of
flowers.
"Hi!" Yolei said happily.
"We all chipped in and bought these for you." Kari said.
"Oh thank you!" Jesi said. "You can put them in the dining room with the others."
Kari and Yolei walked into the dining room with the flowers, and saw a huge pile of
flowers and candies piled up on the counter.
Kari and Yolei sat down in the living room with Jesi after putting the flowers on water.
"I guess a lot of people have already given you flowers." Yolei said.
"No, just Ken."
Yolei and Kari looked at each other, surprised.
"You mean, Ken bought all of that for you?" Yolei asked.
"Yes..."
"He must be costing his parents a fortune."
"I tell him that it's not necessary but everyday he comes by right after school and stays
until supper. Each day he brings me a new gift too."
"Well, that's not so bad." Yolei said.
"But I'm worried, he's never at home anymore. What if he's not getting his schoolwork
done because of me?"
"Don't worry," Kari said. "Next time you see him just talk about it, he'll understand."
"Thanks Kari." Jesi answered. "TK and Kari are a lot alike, they are both so caring and
always look on the bright side. It must be why they have their crests, Hope and Light." she
thought to herself.
"Uh oh, I gotta go." Yolei said looking at her watch. "I'll see you two later!"
"Bye Yolei."
Jesi and Kari sat on the couch and sipped tea as they talked.
"How long will it be until your leg is healed?" Kari asked.
"About 3 weeks, I can't wait to get this cast off."
"I was wondering if you'd like to go on a double date when you're better."
"A...double date?"
"With TK and I, doesn't that sound fun?"
Jesi thought about it. "Ken and I have never been on a real date before." she said after a
moment.
"Neither have TK and I. He was so nervous to ask me." Kari smiled.
"TK is such a sweetheart." Jesi said.
"So is Ken." Kari laughed. The two friends sat and talked for the rest of the evening.
Jesi sat in her living room that evening reading a book. It had been a few hours since Kari
left and her parents weren't home yet. Jesi looked up when she heard the doorbell ring.
"Who's there?" she called.
"It's Ken."
"Oh come in, it's not locked"
Ken opened the door and appeared with a bouquet of flowers in one hand a box of candy
in the other.
Jesi sighed. "Ken you don't need to bring me a gift every time you come here."
"But I want to." Ken smiled and put the flowers and candy in the dining room with the
others he had brought.
"Where's Wormmon?"
"He's at home, he was sleeping when I left, I guess the long trip this afternoon wore him
out."
Jesi sat quietly and thought. "He seems to think if he doesn't do everything he can to
please me, something bad will happen or something. What is he so worried about?"
Ken sat down next to Jesi and put his arms around her.
"Ken..."
"Yes?"
"Why are you going out of your way to be nice to me? You come here everyday and
always bring me gifts, you don't have to you know."
"But I just want to make you happy."
"I am happy. You don't need to buy me things to make me happy. I'm happy just being
with you."
Ken looked away and stared blankly ahead. His mood suddenly changed and he seemed to
be thinking of something totally different than he had been a moment ago.
"My brother..."
"Your, brother? I didn't know you had a brother."
"I...did. I used to have a brother."
Jesi sat quietly and waited for him to finish. He seemed afraid to even say the words, as if
something terrible would happen if he continued.
"I did have a brother, named Sam. But, he...died."
Jesi remembered the photograph in Ken's house. She had seen it many times but never
asked who it was, or gave it a second thought.
"Ken, how come you never told me before?"
"It's not something I like to think about."
"You shouldn't forget about people you loved who have died. You should remember the
good times you had together. That's what my parents always say to me."
"Sam and I never really had many good times. He died when I was little. And when he
was alive my parents never payed any attention to me. Sam was the perfect son, and one day I
just wished he would go away, so my parents would love me too. But then, he died. After that is
when I started going to the digital world... and became the digimon emperor."
"You can't blame yourself. You didn't cause it Ken."
"Sam dying wasn't the end though... I had to live in his shadow even after he was gone,
because my parents tried to make me into him. They never really appreciated me for who I was
until recently. That's why they are so overprotective now. I guess they are afraid to lose their
son now they we are finally getting along. "
"So... that's why" Jesi thought. She leaned her head on Ken's shoulder.
"Oh Ken, Kari and Yolei were here before. Kari wanted to know if we wanted to go on a
double date when my leg is better."
"A...double date?"
"Yes, you know, you and I go on a date and TK and Kari go on a date with us."
"I've never been on a date before." Ken said nervously.
"Me neither, but don't you want to?"
Ken sat for a moment. Then he turned to her a smiled. "Sure."
