KG: Yatta!! I was able to finish chapter 3 soon! Now I need to think about my projects…^^;;

Anyways to summarize, last chapter ended with Takuya hugging Kouichi out of gratitude and Kouji seeing them and leaving in tears. This chapter is shorter than the others, I know, but I couldn't think of any way to really stretch it out. Anyways, please tell me what you think!

I don't own Digimon Frontier or any other season.

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--Takuya in the Middle— Explanations and Apologies

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The next day was pretty depressing for me. I tried to call Kouji, but he would not pick up the phone or return my calls. I even tried walking over to his house, but he wouldn't open the door, he avoided me by all means. Kouichi tried to console me by telling me that it was not my fault and that Kouji would get over it, but I knew the truth.

I knew that he took my hugging Kouichi very harshly and that just made me feel even worse in knowing that I was the cause of his pain now.

On Monday I made a point of getting to school half an hour early so that I could talk to Kouji before eh tried to avoid me again. I waited in front of the entrance of the school, now the only way for him to avoid me was to not come to school at all, Kouji wouldn't do that, he puts too much emphasis on learning....

I stood at the entrance for ten minutes before I saw Kouji coming. I saw him look my way and then quickly shift his gaze in the opposite direction. I wasn't gonna take this anymore... He was gonna hear me out and he was gonna hear me out now!

I went over to Kouji ad literally dragged him by the arm to the side of the school and I also managed getting a couple of bruises along the way...

"Itai! Stop that Kouji! It really hu- itai!" I just received another punch to my arm. Gee, and to think that he liked me...

"Well then let go of my arm, baka!" this was not gonna to be easy....

"Just hear me out Kouji! It was not what it seemed!" I stopped him from punching my arm again and looked him in the eyes. He finally stopped struggling.

"Fine, but let go of my arm first!" I had never heard Kouji that angry and upset before, I quickly released his arm and began to rub my own. Kouji looked at my sore arm and seemed to barely realize what he had done.

"G-gomen nasai, T-takuya! I didn't mean to hurt you... yurushite kudasai!"

I looked at his eyes and I knew that he was being sincere, my arm was aching and hurt, but I knew that it was probably nothing compared to the pain I must have caused him...

"Don't worry about it, Kouji. I forgive you, but I know you didn't really mean to do it anyways. You were just upset; I should be the one asking you to forgive me... so will you?"

Kouji looked a little better now but I knew he was still hurting inside. "Of course, Takuya. But really, I feel bad about everything I did, following you and all on Saturday... I just don't want to lose you to anyone; even if it's Kouichi, but I don't want to hurt him either... he's already had more than enough hardships of his own. But really, he's so happy when he's with you. When I saw you hug Kouichi, I couldn't take it..." he bit his lip as he thought, "I just ran..."

"Kouji, I know this isn't easy for you, or Kouichi. Trust me; it isn't any easier on me... I care about both of you and I don't want to hurt either one of you! Now I'm in the middle of this, I'm the one who has to choose," I closed my eyes, "I feel like this is like some weird game! I don't want play or finish it because I know someone is going to end up being hurt in the end!"

My eyes started brimming with tears as I said this. These were the thoughts that kept on torturing me, "someone will be hurt...I don't want that...I don't..." I began to sob into Kouji's chest uncontrollably. He put his arms around me and began to rub my back. I just kept on sobbing until I felt better. I looked back up into Kouji's eyes and blinked away my last few tears which he wiped away with his hand.

"Takuya, I'm sure that it'll be okay. If you so end up choosing, one of us will be in pain, but I'm sure we will be able to be happy for each other and will find comfort for our pain."

He said that, but I still thought it would be unfair. One of my friends would not be happy, but I also knew that there was no other way... I finally got up and felt that things would turn out okay. For every problem, there is a solution.

The first bell rang and we quickly headed off for class.

Kouichi came to our classroom right after school looking concerned, but he seemed relieved when he saw that Kouji and I were talking again. I offered to buy ice-cream so we headed for the ice-cream parlor nearby and ordered what we wanted. Kouichi got a black cherry ice-cream, Kouji asked for blueberry and I got a strawberry cone for myself. We began to head for our homes now and were waiting for a red light to change.

We waited for a full five minutes for the light to finally change. We were about halfway across the street when we heard police sirens. That's when we noticed the green car speeding towards us, tailed by the police. Kouji quickly pushed Kouichi to safety. He was about to do the same to me. I beat him to it.

I was about to run to safety when the car suddenly rammed into me. I heard the brakes screech as I was viciously knocked to the pavement. My whole body screamed out in pain but for some reason, I couldn't. I lay there on the pavement as I listened to the police trying to call an ambulance.

"Takuya!!!" Kouji, Kouichi they were okay. I tried to open my eyes, but it hurt so much... I finally managed to catch a glimpse of Kouji and Kouichi running towards me as I felt the world slip away from me and my world went black...

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KG: Just to any of you who are wondering, no, Takuya's not going to die. I wouldn't let that happen to him right now so don't hate me. I now I said that I was gonna take longer, but I just can't seem to keep away from the computer now... writing has become so addictive.

Takuya, Kouji, Kouichi: ::Sweatdrop::

KG: ::coughs:: um, so anyways, please read and review