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Anyone But You
By: Empress Hikari
Chapter Seven
Rika woke up and stared at her tent's roof-thingy. (A/N: What is the ceiling of a tent called, anyways?) She tried for a few minutes to get back to sleep, unsuccessfully. Finally she got up and left her tent. I was still daylight. Confused, due to the fact she felt like she had been asleep a while, she looked down at her watch. "It's only been a half hour?" She questioned aloud.
"That'd be correct."
Rika turned to see Alice behind her. "Hey, Alice. Staying up till dark?"
"Obviously." The blond girl shrugged as she said this.
"Great, I think I'm going to, too. Wanna go for a walk?"
"Sure." Alice didn't really feel like a walk, just like sitting down and listening to music, but Rika had been acting so strange earlier, that she was glad her friend was just being normal again. Well...as normal as Rika Nonaka ever got....
The whole walk was pretty silent. Alice gathered that she was still really bothered by whatever it was the zoned her out earlier. "Ok, Rika. Spill." She said, stopping.
"What?" Rika turned to look at her, caught off guard.
"Something is wrong. I know you, we've been best friends for two years. I know how you act and this is not it. Now what is it."
Rika couldn't help but smile, despite the fact she knew that she wasn't in a good situation. Alice was just like that. She wasn't all beggy and pleasy, and she never tried to whine or pull puppy dog eyes like Jeri did when she wanted you to do something. Alice was direct and to the point. But so was she, and so was Henry. That's one of the reasons the three had become as close as they were. They never tried to guilt trip one another. They didn't bug you unless they thought the matter was serious. They were fun, and you could always trust them to keep a secret. Besides, they pulled killer pranks on the others. They were like the three musketeers. the fact that she didn't want to tell Alice changed as she thought this. Alice wouldn't care. Besides, she needed advice from someone and Henry was obviously not going to help, at the moment cause she could tell he thought he had screwed up. Which he had.
"Hello?"
"Oh" Rika was pulled from her thoughts. Ok. Deep breath. One. Two. Three.
And she told her. She told her about the conversations between her and Ryo at the park, the walk home, the thing here, her conversation with Henry, and then finally, what Henry had said to Miranda. And Alice listened the whole time. When she was finished, the blond asked. "Do you want advise?"
Rika waited a moment. She had told Alice for that reason, but now that she had talked she didn't want it. She wanted a nap. "Love some, but not at the moment. I need to sleep, later, and thanks." And she left the blond there.
And Alice seemed perfectly fine, perfectly normal, perfectly ok with the information. But Alice had gotten much better at keeping her mask on than Rika. Inside she was in a mass of sad, soggy, queasy, guilty,...stuff. Alice had liked Ryo for a while. And the two of them had become good friends. Alice had known that Ryo liked Rika. But, Rika treated him like trash. Then again, that was just her way. Ryo was the only other person who had been in the digital world for a long time other than Alice. He understood her when Henry and Rika sometimes couldn't. She really liked him. She had hoped eventually he would see her as more than a friend, but she had known it was unlikely. Ryo and Rika would be good for one another, and Alice wouldn't get in there way, no matter how much she wished to switch places with her friend. Ryo loved Rika. And she would make sure to help them out.
~*~Later That Night at the Second Event~*~
"Ok, everybody." Jeri started. The second round is flashlight tag. You get one point for every member of another team you get. Every person and digimon must wear one of these" She held up a Velcro bracelet, "When the person gets hit by a flashlight beam, they must freeze and wait for the person to come and put a dot( a fuzzy ball with a piece of the opposite kind a Velcro attached.) of their teams color on their bracelet. Team one, will have the blue colors, Ai, baby blue, Kenta, blue, Rika, lavender blue, and Henry, green-blue. Team Two gets Yellows, Alice, Goldenrod, Me, Yellow, Mako, green-yellow, and Kazu, orange-yellow. Team Three, finally, gets Red. Ryo, crimson, Takato, red, Miranda, orange-red, and Suzy, pink." As she called their names they received their bracelet and bag of dots. " No tagging back the same person who tagged you, or the same person twice in a row. If you tag a person before you tag them again you must tag someone else. To tag the person who tagged you , you must tag another person first. Digimon can play in this game. You must wait until the buzzer goes off in thirty seconds, before you can tag someone. Ready, Go!"
Rika ran swiftly into the forest, and behind a tree, this way everyone would pass her and she could tell the direction in which they went. Apparently though, Alice had the same idea, and was at the tree right next to hers, seeing each other they smiled, and silently agreed not to tag each other,... yet. Suddenly Alice's grin got wider and she pointed behind Rika. The auburn haired girl turned to see Henry at the tree on the other side of her. The three looked at one another. The buzzer rang, but they didn't fire. None of them did. They were the three musketeers once again.
Together, they hunted their prey down, sometimes getting groups of two's or even three's at once. They were all running low on dots, and by the time the second buzzer indicating a stop came, they Alice was down to five, and Rika and Henry were down to seven. Alice had got hit only twice, Rika once, and Henry five times. They had had a blast. When they reached the clearing, all three of them looked at one another, and without saying anything they knew that when they got back home they were going to a laser tag lockdown together.
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This ain't a song for the broken-hearted No silent prayer for the faith-departed I ain't gonna be just a face in the crowd You're gonna hear my voice When I shout it out loud
It's my life It's now or never I ain't gonna live forever I just want to live while I'm alive (It's my life) My heart is like an open highway Like Frankie said I did it my way I just wanna live while I'm alive It's my life
This is for the ones who stood their ground For Tommy and Gina who never backed down Tomorrow's getting harder make no mistake Luck ain't even lucky Got to make your own breaks
It's my life And it's now or never I ain't gonna live forever I just want to live while I'm alive (It's my life) My heart is like an open highway Like Frankie said I did it my way I just want to live while I'm alive 'Cause it's my life
Better stand tall when they're calling you out Don't bend, don't break, baby, don't back down
It's my life And it's now or never 'Cause I ain't gonna live forever I just want to live while I'm alive (It's my life) My heart is like an open highway Like Frankie said I did it my way I just want to live while I'm alive
It's my life And it's now or never 'Cause I ain't gonna live forever I just want to live while I'm alive (It's my life) My heart is like an open highway Like Frankie said I did it my way I just want to live while I'm alive 'Cause it's my life!
Bon Jovi It's My Life
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Okay...okay...so not much romance in that chapter...heck...there was none...Ryo wasn't even hardly mentioned. But if I made the fic completely centered on the couple with no outside story it would be boring and unrealistic. So please. Tell me what you think.
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Anyone But You
By: Empress Hikari
Chapter Seven
Rika woke up and stared at her tent's roof-thingy. (A/N: What is the ceiling of a tent called, anyways?) She tried for a few minutes to get back to sleep, unsuccessfully. Finally she got up and left her tent. I was still daylight. Confused, due to the fact she felt like she had been asleep a while, she looked down at her watch. "It's only been a half hour?" She questioned aloud.
"That'd be correct."
Rika turned to see Alice behind her. "Hey, Alice. Staying up till dark?"
"Obviously." The blond girl shrugged as she said this.
"Great, I think I'm going to, too. Wanna go for a walk?"
"Sure." Alice didn't really feel like a walk, just like sitting down and listening to music, but Rika had been acting so strange earlier, that she was glad her friend was just being normal again. Well...as normal as Rika Nonaka ever got....
The whole walk was pretty silent. Alice gathered that she was still really bothered by whatever it was the zoned her out earlier. "Ok, Rika. Spill." She said, stopping.
"What?" Rika turned to look at her, caught off guard.
"Something is wrong. I know you, we've been best friends for two years. I know how you act and this is not it. Now what is it."
Rika couldn't help but smile, despite the fact she knew that she wasn't in a good situation. Alice was just like that. She wasn't all beggy and pleasy, and she never tried to whine or pull puppy dog eyes like Jeri did when she wanted you to do something. Alice was direct and to the point. But so was she, and so was Henry. That's one of the reasons the three had become as close as they were. They never tried to guilt trip one another. They didn't bug you unless they thought the matter was serious. They were fun, and you could always trust them to keep a secret. Besides, they pulled killer pranks on the others. They were like the three musketeers. the fact that she didn't want to tell Alice changed as she thought this. Alice wouldn't care. Besides, she needed advice from someone and Henry was obviously not going to help, at the moment cause she could tell he thought he had screwed up. Which he had.
"Hello?"
"Oh" Rika was pulled from her thoughts. Ok. Deep breath. One. Two. Three.
And she told her. She told her about the conversations between her and Ryo at the park, the walk home, the thing here, her conversation with Henry, and then finally, what Henry had said to Miranda. And Alice listened the whole time. When she was finished, the blond asked. "Do you want advise?"
Rika waited a moment. She had told Alice for that reason, but now that she had talked she didn't want it. She wanted a nap. "Love some, but not at the moment. I need to sleep, later, and thanks." And she left the blond there.
And Alice seemed perfectly fine, perfectly normal, perfectly ok with the information. But Alice had gotten much better at keeping her mask on than Rika. Inside she was in a mass of sad, soggy, queasy, guilty,...stuff. Alice had liked Ryo for a while. And the two of them had become good friends. Alice had known that Ryo liked Rika. But, Rika treated him like trash. Then again, that was just her way. Ryo was the only other person who had been in the digital world for a long time other than Alice. He understood her when Henry and Rika sometimes couldn't. She really liked him. She had hoped eventually he would see her as more than a friend, but she had known it was unlikely. Ryo and Rika would be good for one another, and Alice wouldn't get in there way, no matter how much she wished to switch places with her friend. Ryo loved Rika. And she would make sure to help them out.
~*~Later That Night at the Second Event~*~
"Ok, everybody." Jeri started. The second round is flashlight tag. You get one point for every member of another team you get. Every person and digimon must wear one of these" She held up a Velcro bracelet, "When the person gets hit by a flashlight beam, they must freeze and wait for the person to come and put a dot( a fuzzy ball with a piece of the opposite kind a Velcro attached.) of their teams color on their bracelet. Team one, will have the blue colors, Ai, baby blue, Kenta, blue, Rika, lavender blue, and Henry, green-blue. Team Two gets Yellows, Alice, Goldenrod, Me, Yellow, Mako, green-yellow, and Kazu, orange-yellow. Team Three, finally, gets Red. Ryo, crimson, Takato, red, Miranda, orange-red, and Suzy, pink." As she called their names they received their bracelet and bag of dots. " No tagging back the same person who tagged you, or the same person twice in a row. If you tag a person before you tag them again you must tag someone else. To tag the person who tagged you , you must tag another person first. Digimon can play in this game. You must wait until the buzzer goes off in thirty seconds, before you can tag someone. Ready, Go!"
Rika ran swiftly into the forest, and behind a tree, this way everyone would pass her and she could tell the direction in which they went. Apparently though, Alice had the same idea, and was at the tree right next to hers, seeing each other they smiled, and silently agreed not to tag each other,... yet. Suddenly Alice's grin got wider and she pointed behind Rika. The auburn haired girl turned to see Henry at the tree on the other side of her. The three looked at one another. The buzzer rang, but they didn't fire. None of them did. They were the three musketeers once again.
Together, they hunted their prey down, sometimes getting groups of two's or even three's at once. They were all running low on dots, and by the time the second buzzer indicating a stop came, they Alice was down to five, and Rika and Henry were down to seven. Alice had got hit only twice, Rika once, and Henry five times. They had had a blast. When they reached the clearing, all three of them looked at one another, and without saying anything they knew that when they got back home they were going to a laser tag lockdown together.
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This ain't a song for the broken-hearted No silent prayer for the faith-departed I ain't gonna be just a face in the crowd You're gonna hear my voice When I shout it out loud
It's my life It's now or never I ain't gonna live forever I just want to live while I'm alive (It's my life) My heart is like an open highway Like Frankie said I did it my way I just wanna live while I'm alive It's my life
This is for the ones who stood their ground For Tommy and Gina who never backed down Tomorrow's getting harder make no mistake Luck ain't even lucky Got to make your own breaks
It's my life And it's now or never I ain't gonna live forever I just want to live while I'm alive (It's my life) My heart is like an open highway Like Frankie said I did it my way I just want to live while I'm alive 'Cause it's my life
Better stand tall when they're calling you out Don't bend, don't break, baby, don't back down
It's my life And it's now or never 'Cause I ain't gonna live forever I just want to live while I'm alive (It's my life) My heart is like an open highway Like Frankie said I did it my way I just want to live while I'm alive
It's my life And it's now or never 'Cause I ain't gonna live forever I just want to live while I'm alive (It's my life) My heart is like an open highway Like Frankie said I did it my way I just want to live while I'm alive 'Cause it's my life!
Bon Jovi It's My Life
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Okay...okay...so not much romance in that chapter...heck...there was none...Ryo wasn't even hardly mentioned. But if I made the fic completely centered on the couple with no outside story it would be boring and unrealistic. So please. Tell me what you think.