"Oooooooh....." Renamon's voice was heard in a mocked tone, echoing through Rika's head the next morning as she reached up and took a sticky note off the door of Rika's room that had quite possibly been stuck there the night before.
"Shut up.." Rika snapped in her old voice as she scanned the note over.
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My one and true love Rika,
Your eyes are like a beautiful sunset sky, your voice like a million angels singing..
My heart flutters whenever I lay eyes on your beautiful face...
Please, give me the honor of your company tonight at the Shinjuku Pier at sunset.
Forever yours,
Your secret admirer.
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"Oooooh..." Renamon repeated, receiving a glare as she came into view.
"It's probably from Takato as some joke..." Rika snapped quickly, yet her eyes fell back on the letter, and she fell silent.
"But it's not his handwriting, and you know he can't write that beautifully." Renamon pointing out, half joking.
Rika was still silent, knowing exactly what she'd find at those docks that night.
"Well are you going?"
"... I have to..." Rika finally responded, running her thumb across the letter. "Something inside me says I know this writing."
Renamon gave her a skeptical look. "What about Takato's joke?"
"Drop it.." Rika waved her hand at Renamon, turned, and walked back into her room.
"Henry?"
Rika looked up from the stool at the Katou family resturant at her friend Jeri, currently reading that morning's paper that had been dropped off at the front door.
"No.. not Henry.. Henry would've signed it."
"Does this guy know you have Henry already?"
Rika shook her head and sipped from the cup of iced tea in front of her, then set it down with a small clank.
"I don't believe so..."
Jeri folded the paper together briefly and looked at her. "What do you mean you don't believe so? If you're going tonight, you'll have to know that.."
"Not really.." Rika shrugged, and took another sip of her iced tea as Jeri, with a loud rustle from the newspaper, unfolded it with a twist of the wrist and went back to scanning the pages.
"If you believe it's smart to go.."
"I do." Rika replied with her old sharp edge to her again.
Jeri raised one eyebrow and looked at her, then back at the paper. "Careful young lady.." she said in a tone that sounded almost like Takato scolding Rika, that made both girls roll into giggles just as the bell above the door let out a tinkling noise as another customer walked in.
"WAY too much giggling going on in here.. let's go find somewhere else to eat..." the voice of Kazu remarked.
"Hold it right there.." Jeri put her one hand on her hip and glared at the two boys that had walked in. "You come in that door, least you can do is sit down and talk.."
Rika grinned at the expressions on Kazu and Kenta's faces, took another sip of her drink, and turned back in the stool to look at Jeri.
"Do we have to?" Kazu groaned in his normal whiny tone of voice he had with Jeri.
Rika giggled again, and Kazu grinned. For the past few days, his passion had been to prove to Kenta he could make Rika giggle more than Henry could ever dream of.
Jeri rolled her eyes. "Com'on guys just sit down."
"Fine." Kenta growled, slumping into the chair on one side of Rika, Kazu sitting in the other leaning on the bar to look into Rika's face.
"So how's the most beautiful girl in the world doing this lovely morning?"
Rika gave him a look out of the corner of her eye. "Fine. How's the most annoying guy in the world who could easily get the role of the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz from personal experience with the 'if I only had a brain' concept?"
Kenta roared with laughter as Kazu's face stiffened into a scowl.
"Very funny.. well if I'm trying out you're trying out for the tin-man.. you not having a heart and all.."
Kenta roared louder, and Jeri almost glared at him, even though she was laughing as well.
"Hey I heard Ryo's back in town.." Kazu changed the subject, and everyone quieted.
Ryo... that was the name... Ryo. Rika slipped into her sub-concious mind like she always did now when she was in deep thought.
"Earth to RI-KA"
Rika jumped out of her trance and looked over at Kazu staring at her with a weird look across his face. "Hey you okay?" he asked, the look of abnoxiousness softening into concern.
Rika nodded, standing up from the stool and walking towards the door. "I'll see you tomorrow you guys.."
"Hey Rika?"
Rika turned around and looked at Jeri who had paused from her usual cleaning to look up at her. "Hmm?"
"Are you going?"
Rika hesitated with her answer, looking quickly outside the glass door, then back at Jeri with a solemn look on face, as if to be deep in thought again.
"Yeah... yeah I think I will."
Kazu and Kenta looked back and forth between the two girls with puzzled looks.
"Uh.." Kenta started, but was cut off by the bell above the door ringing and Rika suddenly letting out a pleasurable gasp.
Both boys looked over at Rika, arms draped around a tall indigo-haired boy's neck.
"Go get a room.." a high-pitched voice growled and soon Terriermon was on the floor beside the two tamer's feet and walking over to the stools, glaring back at his tamer. "I liked it before where you weren't caught up in her ey--- Are you even listening to me?? HENRY!!"
Henry looked up at his partner digimon. "I'm sorry.. what did you say?"
Terriermon started up his ranting but Jeri cut him off, smiling.
"What he said was you two should go take a stroll together and I'll keep Terriermon here..."
"Wha?" Terriermon started to protest but Jeri scooped him up and pushed him up the stairs to the small apartment above the diner just as Rika and Henry vanished without a trace.
Rika waved her hand at Renamon for the twelvth time that day, but this time as the orange rays of light reflected off her white tank top and tight blue jeans, the sound of seagulls echoing calmed her a bit, and Renamon immediatly vanished... out of sight, but not completly away. She wasn't sure what to expect out of the girl who'd been half out-of-it all day.
A shadowed figure stood at the end of one of the docks, easy to see that despite the warm weather, he wore a trench coat over his jeans and t-shirt. His hair spiked up like Kazu's, and for a second, Rika thought that was who it was and her heart sank, but then in a low, mesmorizing voice, the boy spoke.
"Hello, Rika... remember me?"
He turned as she neared him, a pair of crystal blue eyes meeting hers, and Renamon felt herself go almost limp at the sight of him. This was what all the commotion was about? This was what Rika's problem had been? This.. normal boy?
But Rika's attention was clearly caught by trying to identify the boy's name again, knowing the face, but not being able to put the rest of the picture together.
"You came... so you think we should start over?" was one of the first things he said, and caught Rika off-guard as the name suddenly came back to her, along with the memories of the time they had spent together.
The boy stumbled back, grasping his cheek and staring at her in shock as she rubbed her hand. "I forgot how hard a cheek you had.." she sneered, lowering her hand back down to her side.
"Same old Rika Nonaka I see.."
"What do you want?" Rika growled, tapping her foot impatiently on the wooden dock.
"I wanted to see if we could start over... as I said. I've missed you Rika..." his hand reached up to stroke her hair, and she glared harshly at him, enough to make him pull his hand back and sigh.
"Already been claimed I see.."
He turned back around and walked to the edge of the dock, and stared out into the water, the wind that swept over the sea rustling his deep brown hair.
Rika shoved her hands into her jean pockets and rocked back on her heels. "For quite some time now.. Ryo you had your chance with me... you lost it." she said fiercly, turning around and walking back through the ships, until a hand grabbed her arm and spun her around. "Tell me who beat me to you... tell me who the man is who's stolen your heart."
Rika ripped her arm away from him in disgust. "And why do you want to know that?"
"To write his name on a dart board and throw darts at it all day..." he raised one eyebrow at her to show he really wanted the name.
Rika sighed, turned and started to walk away. "Wong..." she said quickly.
"Henry Wong.."
"Shut up.." Rika snapped in her old voice as she scanned the note over.
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My one and true love Rika,
Your eyes are like a beautiful sunset sky, your voice like a million angels singing..
My heart flutters whenever I lay eyes on your beautiful face...
Please, give me the honor of your company tonight at the Shinjuku Pier at sunset.
Forever yours,
Your secret admirer.
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"Oooooh..." Renamon repeated, receiving a glare as she came into view.
"It's probably from Takato as some joke..." Rika snapped quickly, yet her eyes fell back on the letter, and she fell silent.
"But it's not his handwriting, and you know he can't write that beautifully." Renamon pointing out, half joking.
Rika was still silent, knowing exactly what she'd find at those docks that night.
"Well are you going?"
"... I have to..." Rika finally responded, running her thumb across the letter. "Something inside me says I know this writing."
Renamon gave her a skeptical look. "What about Takato's joke?"
"Drop it.." Rika waved her hand at Renamon, turned, and walked back into her room.
"Henry?"
Rika looked up from the stool at the Katou family resturant at her friend Jeri, currently reading that morning's paper that had been dropped off at the front door.
"No.. not Henry.. Henry would've signed it."
"Does this guy know you have Henry already?"
Rika shook her head and sipped from the cup of iced tea in front of her, then set it down with a small clank.
"I don't believe so..."
Jeri folded the paper together briefly and looked at her. "What do you mean you don't believe so? If you're going tonight, you'll have to know that.."
"Not really.." Rika shrugged, and took another sip of her iced tea as Jeri, with a loud rustle from the newspaper, unfolded it with a twist of the wrist and went back to scanning the pages.
"If you believe it's smart to go.."
"I do." Rika replied with her old sharp edge to her again.
Jeri raised one eyebrow and looked at her, then back at the paper. "Careful young lady.." she said in a tone that sounded almost like Takato scolding Rika, that made both girls roll into giggles just as the bell above the door let out a tinkling noise as another customer walked in.
"WAY too much giggling going on in here.. let's go find somewhere else to eat..." the voice of Kazu remarked.
"Hold it right there.." Jeri put her one hand on her hip and glared at the two boys that had walked in. "You come in that door, least you can do is sit down and talk.."
Rika grinned at the expressions on Kazu and Kenta's faces, took another sip of her drink, and turned back in the stool to look at Jeri.
"Do we have to?" Kazu groaned in his normal whiny tone of voice he had with Jeri.
Rika giggled again, and Kazu grinned. For the past few days, his passion had been to prove to Kenta he could make Rika giggle more than Henry could ever dream of.
Jeri rolled her eyes. "Com'on guys just sit down."
"Fine." Kenta growled, slumping into the chair on one side of Rika, Kazu sitting in the other leaning on the bar to look into Rika's face.
"So how's the most beautiful girl in the world doing this lovely morning?"
Rika gave him a look out of the corner of her eye. "Fine. How's the most annoying guy in the world who could easily get the role of the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz from personal experience with the 'if I only had a brain' concept?"
Kenta roared with laughter as Kazu's face stiffened into a scowl.
"Very funny.. well if I'm trying out you're trying out for the tin-man.. you not having a heart and all.."
Kenta roared louder, and Jeri almost glared at him, even though she was laughing as well.
"Hey I heard Ryo's back in town.." Kazu changed the subject, and everyone quieted.
Ryo... that was the name... Ryo. Rika slipped into her sub-concious mind like she always did now when she was in deep thought.
"Earth to RI-KA"
Rika jumped out of her trance and looked over at Kazu staring at her with a weird look across his face. "Hey you okay?" he asked, the look of abnoxiousness softening into concern.
Rika nodded, standing up from the stool and walking towards the door. "I'll see you tomorrow you guys.."
"Hey Rika?"
Rika turned around and looked at Jeri who had paused from her usual cleaning to look up at her. "Hmm?"
"Are you going?"
Rika hesitated with her answer, looking quickly outside the glass door, then back at Jeri with a solemn look on face, as if to be deep in thought again.
"Yeah... yeah I think I will."
Kazu and Kenta looked back and forth between the two girls with puzzled looks.
"Uh.." Kenta started, but was cut off by the bell above the door ringing and Rika suddenly letting out a pleasurable gasp.
Both boys looked over at Rika, arms draped around a tall indigo-haired boy's neck.
"Go get a room.." a high-pitched voice growled and soon Terriermon was on the floor beside the two tamer's feet and walking over to the stools, glaring back at his tamer. "I liked it before where you weren't caught up in her ey--- Are you even listening to me?? HENRY!!"
Henry looked up at his partner digimon. "I'm sorry.. what did you say?"
Terriermon started up his ranting but Jeri cut him off, smiling.
"What he said was you two should go take a stroll together and I'll keep Terriermon here..."
"Wha?" Terriermon started to protest but Jeri scooped him up and pushed him up the stairs to the small apartment above the diner just as Rika and Henry vanished without a trace.
Rika waved her hand at Renamon for the twelvth time that day, but this time as the orange rays of light reflected off her white tank top and tight blue jeans, the sound of seagulls echoing calmed her a bit, and Renamon immediatly vanished... out of sight, but not completly away. She wasn't sure what to expect out of the girl who'd been half out-of-it all day.
A shadowed figure stood at the end of one of the docks, easy to see that despite the warm weather, he wore a trench coat over his jeans and t-shirt. His hair spiked up like Kazu's, and for a second, Rika thought that was who it was and her heart sank, but then in a low, mesmorizing voice, the boy spoke.
"Hello, Rika... remember me?"
He turned as she neared him, a pair of crystal blue eyes meeting hers, and Renamon felt herself go almost limp at the sight of him. This was what all the commotion was about? This was what Rika's problem had been? This.. normal boy?
But Rika's attention was clearly caught by trying to identify the boy's name again, knowing the face, but not being able to put the rest of the picture together.
"You came... so you think we should start over?" was one of the first things he said, and caught Rika off-guard as the name suddenly came back to her, along with the memories of the time they had spent together.
The boy stumbled back, grasping his cheek and staring at her in shock as she rubbed her hand. "I forgot how hard a cheek you had.." she sneered, lowering her hand back down to her side.
"Same old Rika Nonaka I see.."
"What do you want?" Rika growled, tapping her foot impatiently on the wooden dock.
"I wanted to see if we could start over... as I said. I've missed you Rika..." his hand reached up to stroke her hair, and she glared harshly at him, enough to make him pull his hand back and sigh.
"Already been claimed I see.."
He turned back around and walked to the edge of the dock, and stared out into the water, the wind that swept over the sea rustling his deep brown hair.
Rika shoved her hands into her jean pockets and rocked back on her heels. "For quite some time now.. Ryo you had your chance with me... you lost it." she said fiercly, turning around and walking back through the ships, until a hand grabbed her arm and spun her around. "Tell me who beat me to you... tell me who the man is who's stolen your heart."
Rika ripped her arm away from him in disgust. "And why do you want to know that?"
"To write his name on a dart board and throw darts at it all day..." he raised one eyebrow at her to show he really wanted the name.
Rika sighed, turned and started to walk away. "Wong..." she said quickly.
"Henry Wong.."