DIscLAimER: Let me put it this way. If I owned Digimon, TK and Kari would be happily married with a small army of children. But are they? No. I'll let you figure out the rest.
Hello again! Thankyou for all the reviews! Very encouraging! ^_^ It's so nice to be loved! I have overcome my temporary writer's block and am now "in the mood" for writing again! Happiness!
And by the way, to that person who suggested that the dance teacher might be Kinomoto Sakura from Cardcaptor Sakura-- You caught on, you smart person! You're the only one who noticed and commented! You are indeed perceptive. Yes, I did use Sakura's last name, but fortunately/unfortunately the dance teacher is not Sakura. I seem to have an aversion to cross-overs.
And would you believe that my so-called "friends" were all -poking- me today, because they wanted me to update?! I was poked all over my arms, back, side, and they also had the cheek to poke my -face-! I had a good mind to discontinue this story just to spite them!
SAVE THE LAST DANCE CH 6
Ms Kinomoto glanced at her watch and stood up. "Alright, class," she said, turning the music off. "Time to switch." TK and Kari stopped dancing and reluctantly separated.
"Well, uh, why don't we go and get a drink?" Kari suggested nervously, her face flaming and her gaze fixed firmly on her shoes.
"Great idea Kari," TK said, trying --but not succeeding-- to get a better view of her face by tilting his head. "Let's g--"
"TK!" Mady interrupted, grabbing his hand. "Be my partner!"
"Well, that was forward," Ms Kinomoto thought, striding up to them. "Mandy," she said. "TK had to dance twice yesterday. I think you should give the poor boy a break and give one of the others a chance." She looked at Mandy pointedly.
"Well Miss," Mandy said innocently, twirling a strand of hair around her finger. "I would, but you see, they've all left to get drinks."
"And I suppose you think TK doesn't need a drink?" Kari thought. She frowned, but didn't say anything.
The teacher sighed. "You don't mind, TK?" she asked.
"No, I don't mind." TK shrugged and offered her a small smile.
"Alright then," Ms Kinomoto said, throwing her hands up in defeat. "Go ahead."
Mandy smiled triumphantly and pulled TK's hand. "Come on, TK, let's go."
TK turned to Kari. "Wait for me, will you?" he asked.
Kari nodded. Giving a small wave of thanks, TK turned to follow Mandy.
Kari stood, watching them head to the middle of the "dance floor" before turning to go and sit on one of the benches. "He couldn't help it," she told herself firmly. "It was only polite to agree to be her partner, it wasn't as if he -offered-." But despite her attempts to console herself, she couldn't help but wonder if maybe he did like Mandy-- what boy wouldn't? "The fact that he danced twice yesterday would be a good enough excuse to not dance. He didn't have to accept. What if he does like her and is only dancing with me because he feels he should?"
"Look! -TK- is dancing with Mandy!"
Kari's attention was caught by the loud whispers of the two girls sitting nearby.
"Yeah, we all know who -he'll- be dancing the last dance with."
"No chance for us then, huh?"
"Not a snowball's chance in hell."
"But I still don't understand, why did he turn her down earlier? Who would dance with -Kari-" She shot the girl in question --who had her gaze firmly fixed straight ahead-- a furtive glance. "When they could dance with -Mandy-?"
"Maybe he felt sorry for her. She is his -best friend- after all. If he didn't dance with her, who would?"
They both sniggered.
"Don't mind them, Kari," Yolei said loudly, sitting down next to her and shooting the pair of girls --who had suddenly stopped their sniggering-- a fearsome glare. "They're just jealous that you got to dance with TK and they didn't." She shot the girls a sidelong glance and raised her voice. "You were his -FIRST CHOICE- too." She gave a satisfied smile as the girls left, muttering darkly.
"Heheh. Good riddance to bad rubbish," she murmured to Kari, who smiled.
"Thanks, Yolei," She said softly.
"No problem. What are friends for?" Yolei put her arm around Kari's shoulders. "So, you doing anything tonight?" At the shake of her friend's head, she continued. "No? Well, want to come shopping with me? I need to get a dress."
"You -haven't- got a dress yet?" Kari asked, incredulous. "The dance is only two days away, Yolei!"
Yolei shrugged. "I wasn't expecting to have anyone special to dance the last dance with, so I was planning to just wear anything. But..." she trailed off.
Kari smiled a rare genuine smile. "It's Ken isn't it?"
Yolei clapped her hand over the other girl's mouth and looked around frantically for someone who might have overheard. "Shhh! Not so loud! Someone might hear you!"
Laughing, Kari pulled Yolei's hand off her face. "So what did he say?"
"Nothing, it's just that--" Yolei stopped, seeing her friend's raised eyebrow. "Well, it's just that when he asked me to be his partner today, he looked really nervous and he's never nervous about anything, at least I've never seen him nervous about anything, and we danced yesterday, so there was really nothing for him to be nervous about, unless--" she babbled, face becoming redder by the second.
"Ok, ok, I'll come!" Kari interrupted her tirade, laughing.
"Really?" Yolei asked. "You'll help me?"
"Of course! -What are friends for?-" Kari said, using the same phrase her friend had used earlier. "Come Friday night, Ken is not going to know what hit him!"
"Okay, let's finish up!" Ms Kinomoto called, turning the music off once more. "You're all dismissed for lunch!"
Yolei's head jerked up. "Alright, lunch! I'm starved! Let's go, Kari!"
"Sorry Yolei, I promised TK I'd wait for him."
"Ah." Yolei gave her a knowing look.
"Since Kari can't go with you, would you mind if I did?"
Both girls jumped. Kari recovered first.
"Of course she wouldn't mind! Would you, Yolei?"
"I, uh--"
"Exactly."
Ken looked unsure.
"I'd be happy to go with you," Yolei managed to say, finally finding her voice.
"That's settled then!" Kari declared. "Off you go," she said, shooing them off. She watched them leave, amused.
"Kari!" TK ran up to her, slightly puffed. "Sorry for making you wait so long. Ready to go?"
Kari's stomach grumbled loudly and TK laughed.
"I see. C'mon," he said, taking her arm. "Let's go to lunch."
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The head of the dance committee, a girl with short red hair and freckles, adjusted the position of her glasses on the bridge of her nose and surveyed the decorated hall. "Great work everyone," she said, turning to the large group of students under her charge. "The hall looks -great-." The students cheered. "Now all we have to do is arrange the food, the drinks, the music, the floor plan..."
The cheers ceased abruptly and were replaced by multiple groans.
"More work," TK moaned. Davis smacked his forehead with the palm of his hand. Ken had a look of utter despair on his face.
"C'mon guys," Yolei said. "It's not -that- bad!"
The boys raised gave her identical looks of disbelief.
"Alright, maybe it is," Yolei conceded. "But it'll be worth it. It's our graduation, we've gotta go out with a bang! So let's get to it! Work! Work! Work!"
TK covered his face with his hands, Davis smacked his forehead even harder and Ken's despaired look had become even more intense, if that was possible.
"I don't think that had quite the effect you were hoping for," Kari commented.
"TK!" The committee head and a group of several other girls ran up to them. The head stepped forward. "Well, TK," she began. "I think you should be well aware that for this dance, we need music, and in order to have music, we need to hire a band."
TK nodded, unsure of what this had do with him.
"And since your older brother is the lead singer of the Teenage Wolves, we were wondering..." She left the question hanging.
"Well, Matt is kinda busy--" TK stopped abruptly, noticing the almost predatory looks on the faces of the girls now inching closer to him and feeling a growing sense of unease.
"--but I'll see what I can do," he finished quickly. He looked at Davis. "Close man, that cut it -real- close," Davis' expression was saying. He looked nervously at the girls, who were looking at him expectantly.
"Well?" The head asked pointedly, motioning towards TK's phone, which was clipped to his belt. TK looked down at it.
"I'll--I'll call him now," he said, asking himself silently just -why- he had to have a famous brother. The head nodded approvingly. TK unclipped his phone and dialed Matt's number.
"Hello?" Matt's voice inquired.
"Hey Matt."
"TK! This is a strange time to be calling."
"Uh, yeah. I was, uh, "asked" to call you."
"Rabid fangirls ?"
"How did you know? No, don't answer that. Well, the uh, graduation dance is coming up, as you probably know, and the committee was wondering if you --that is, the Teenage Wolves-- would come and play."
"Isn't that a bit unfair, asking you to use your influence on your brother to get a famous band? And unethical too. The other classes don't have students who are related to singers."
"-Yes!- I -so- agree with you! So you can't? Great, bye--"
"I never said we wouldn't. I mean, I couldn't pass up this one chance to see my brother confessing his love to a certain uh, -Kari-, could I?"
"How did you know-- I mean, what? What are you talking about?"
"You know very well what I'm talking about, little bro. I've seen the picture of her on your beside table."
"You are -so- not coming."
"Are you willing to tell your rabid fangirls that?"
"-Your- rabid fangirls, not mine."
"Well, are you? Are you willing to risk your health? Your life?"
"..."
"Good. I see you still have your good sense. We'll come."
"But are you sure you'll have time ? I mean, with your busy schedule and all, I wouldn't want to--"
"We'll -make- time, little brother."
"Oh, alright," TK sighed. "I'll tell them."
"Good boy. And if you need any tips, you know who to ask!"
"What!? You'd -so- better not tell anyone, Matt!"
"Oh, so you -do- like her?"
"Do you mind?"
"Alright, alright," Matt said, laughing. "I'll lay off on the teasing."
"-Thankyou.-"
"No prob. Listen, this is a really nice conversation we're having, and I'd really like to tease--chat to you more, but I gotta make tracks. Band practise. Give those rabid girls the manager's number. He'll sort the money business out. Hell, I might even be able to persuade him to throw in a discount, seeing as I get to see my little brother confess his love. Sorry TK, couldn't resist. See ya soon, little bro."
"See ya."
TK sighed and hung up. The committee girls were looking at him questioningly. "They'll come."
"Yes!" the girls cheered exultantly.
"Here's their manager's number," TK told the head, taking a pen out of his pocket and scribbling it on the back of her proffered hand. "You can sort the cost out with him."
She looked at it and nodded, smiling. "Thanks TK, thankyou so much."
With a final nod, the head ushered the girls away.
"Why me?" TK moaned, throwing his hands into the air.
"What, will Big Brother get to see who you're in love with?" Yolei said, trying to hide a smile, but not succeeding.
At TK's pained look, the whole group cracked up laughing.
"Gee, thanks for your sympathy, guys."
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Well? What do you think? Comments please!
God Bless!
YT
Hello again! Thankyou for all the reviews! Very encouraging! ^_^ It's so nice to be loved! I have overcome my temporary writer's block and am now "in the mood" for writing again! Happiness!
And by the way, to that person who suggested that the dance teacher might be Kinomoto Sakura from Cardcaptor Sakura-- You caught on, you smart person! You're the only one who noticed and commented! You are indeed perceptive. Yes, I did use Sakura's last name, but fortunately/unfortunately the dance teacher is not Sakura. I seem to have an aversion to cross-overs.
And would you believe that my so-called "friends" were all -poking- me today, because they wanted me to update?! I was poked all over my arms, back, side, and they also had the cheek to poke my -face-! I had a good mind to discontinue this story just to spite them!
SAVE THE LAST DANCE CH 6
Ms Kinomoto glanced at her watch and stood up. "Alright, class," she said, turning the music off. "Time to switch." TK and Kari stopped dancing and reluctantly separated.
"Well, uh, why don't we go and get a drink?" Kari suggested nervously, her face flaming and her gaze fixed firmly on her shoes.
"Great idea Kari," TK said, trying --but not succeeding-- to get a better view of her face by tilting his head. "Let's g--"
"TK!" Mady interrupted, grabbing his hand. "Be my partner!"
"Well, that was forward," Ms Kinomoto thought, striding up to them. "Mandy," she said. "TK had to dance twice yesterday. I think you should give the poor boy a break and give one of the others a chance." She looked at Mandy pointedly.
"Well Miss," Mandy said innocently, twirling a strand of hair around her finger. "I would, but you see, they've all left to get drinks."
"And I suppose you think TK doesn't need a drink?" Kari thought. She frowned, but didn't say anything.
The teacher sighed. "You don't mind, TK?" she asked.
"No, I don't mind." TK shrugged and offered her a small smile.
"Alright then," Ms Kinomoto said, throwing her hands up in defeat. "Go ahead."
Mandy smiled triumphantly and pulled TK's hand. "Come on, TK, let's go."
TK turned to Kari. "Wait for me, will you?" he asked.
Kari nodded. Giving a small wave of thanks, TK turned to follow Mandy.
Kari stood, watching them head to the middle of the "dance floor" before turning to go and sit on one of the benches. "He couldn't help it," she told herself firmly. "It was only polite to agree to be her partner, it wasn't as if he -offered-." But despite her attempts to console herself, she couldn't help but wonder if maybe he did like Mandy-- what boy wouldn't? "The fact that he danced twice yesterday would be a good enough excuse to not dance. He didn't have to accept. What if he does like her and is only dancing with me because he feels he should?"
"Look! -TK- is dancing with Mandy!"
Kari's attention was caught by the loud whispers of the two girls sitting nearby.
"Yeah, we all know who -he'll- be dancing the last dance with."
"No chance for us then, huh?"
"Not a snowball's chance in hell."
"But I still don't understand, why did he turn her down earlier? Who would dance with -Kari-" She shot the girl in question --who had her gaze firmly fixed straight ahead-- a furtive glance. "When they could dance with -Mandy-?"
"Maybe he felt sorry for her. She is his -best friend- after all. If he didn't dance with her, who would?"
They both sniggered.
"Don't mind them, Kari," Yolei said loudly, sitting down next to her and shooting the pair of girls --who had suddenly stopped their sniggering-- a fearsome glare. "They're just jealous that you got to dance with TK and they didn't." She shot the girls a sidelong glance and raised her voice. "You were his -FIRST CHOICE- too." She gave a satisfied smile as the girls left, muttering darkly.
"Heheh. Good riddance to bad rubbish," she murmured to Kari, who smiled.
"Thanks, Yolei," She said softly.
"No problem. What are friends for?" Yolei put her arm around Kari's shoulders. "So, you doing anything tonight?" At the shake of her friend's head, she continued. "No? Well, want to come shopping with me? I need to get a dress."
"You -haven't- got a dress yet?" Kari asked, incredulous. "The dance is only two days away, Yolei!"
Yolei shrugged. "I wasn't expecting to have anyone special to dance the last dance with, so I was planning to just wear anything. But..." she trailed off.
Kari smiled a rare genuine smile. "It's Ken isn't it?"
Yolei clapped her hand over the other girl's mouth and looked around frantically for someone who might have overheard. "Shhh! Not so loud! Someone might hear you!"
Laughing, Kari pulled Yolei's hand off her face. "So what did he say?"
"Nothing, it's just that--" Yolei stopped, seeing her friend's raised eyebrow. "Well, it's just that when he asked me to be his partner today, he looked really nervous and he's never nervous about anything, at least I've never seen him nervous about anything, and we danced yesterday, so there was really nothing for him to be nervous about, unless--" she babbled, face becoming redder by the second.
"Ok, ok, I'll come!" Kari interrupted her tirade, laughing.
"Really?" Yolei asked. "You'll help me?"
"Of course! -What are friends for?-" Kari said, using the same phrase her friend had used earlier. "Come Friday night, Ken is not going to know what hit him!"
"Okay, let's finish up!" Ms Kinomoto called, turning the music off once more. "You're all dismissed for lunch!"
Yolei's head jerked up. "Alright, lunch! I'm starved! Let's go, Kari!"
"Sorry Yolei, I promised TK I'd wait for him."
"Ah." Yolei gave her a knowing look.
"Since Kari can't go with you, would you mind if I did?"
Both girls jumped. Kari recovered first.
"Of course she wouldn't mind! Would you, Yolei?"
"I, uh--"
"Exactly."
Ken looked unsure.
"I'd be happy to go with you," Yolei managed to say, finally finding her voice.
"That's settled then!" Kari declared. "Off you go," she said, shooing them off. She watched them leave, amused.
"Kari!" TK ran up to her, slightly puffed. "Sorry for making you wait so long. Ready to go?"
Kari's stomach grumbled loudly and TK laughed.
"I see. C'mon," he said, taking her arm. "Let's go to lunch."
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The head of the dance committee, a girl with short red hair and freckles, adjusted the position of her glasses on the bridge of her nose and surveyed the decorated hall. "Great work everyone," she said, turning to the large group of students under her charge. "The hall looks -great-." The students cheered. "Now all we have to do is arrange the food, the drinks, the music, the floor plan..."
The cheers ceased abruptly and were replaced by multiple groans.
"More work," TK moaned. Davis smacked his forehead with the palm of his hand. Ken had a look of utter despair on his face.
"C'mon guys," Yolei said. "It's not -that- bad!"
The boys raised gave her identical looks of disbelief.
"Alright, maybe it is," Yolei conceded. "But it'll be worth it. It's our graduation, we've gotta go out with a bang! So let's get to it! Work! Work! Work!"
TK covered his face with his hands, Davis smacked his forehead even harder and Ken's despaired look had become even more intense, if that was possible.
"I don't think that had quite the effect you were hoping for," Kari commented.
"TK!" The committee head and a group of several other girls ran up to them. The head stepped forward. "Well, TK," she began. "I think you should be well aware that for this dance, we need music, and in order to have music, we need to hire a band."
TK nodded, unsure of what this had do with him.
"And since your older brother is the lead singer of the Teenage Wolves, we were wondering..." She left the question hanging.
"Well, Matt is kinda busy--" TK stopped abruptly, noticing the almost predatory looks on the faces of the girls now inching closer to him and feeling a growing sense of unease.
"--but I'll see what I can do," he finished quickly. He looked at Davis. "Close man, that cut it -real- close," Davis' expression was saying. He looked nervously at the girls, who were looking at him expectantly.
"Well?" The head asked pointedly, motioning towards TK's phone, which was clipped to his belt. TK looked down at it.
"I'll--I'll call him now," he said, asking himself silently just -why- he had to have a famous brother. The head nodded approvingly. TK unclipped his phone and dialed Matt's number.
"Hello?" Matt's voice inquired.
"Hey Matt."
"TK! This is a strange time to be calling."
"Uh, yeah. I was, uh, "asked" to call you."
"Rabid fangirls ?"
"How did you know? No, don't answer that. Well, the uh, graduation dance is coming up, as you probably know, and the committee was wondering if you --that is, the Teenage Wolves-- would come and play."
"Isn't that a bit unfair, asking you to use your influence on your brother to get a famous band? And unethical too. The other classes don't have students who are related to singers."
"-Yes!- I -so- agree with you! So you can't? Great, bye--"
"I never said we wouldn't. I mean, I couldn't pass up this one chance to see my brother confessing his love to a certain uh, -Kari-, could I?"
"How did you know-- I mean, what? What are you talking about?"
"You know very well what I'm talking about, little bro. I've seen the picture of her on your beside table."
"You are -so- not coming."
"Are you willing to tell your rabid fangirls that?"
"-Your- rabid fangirls, not mine."
"Well, are you? Are you willing to risk your health? Your life?"
"..."
"Good. I see you still have your good sense. We'll come."
"But are you sure you'll have time ? I mean, with your busy schedule and all, I wouldn't want to--"
"We'll -make- time, little brother."
"Oh, alright," TK sighed. "I'll tell them."
"Good boy. And if you need any tips, you know who to ask!"
"What!? You'd -so- better not tell anyone, Matt!"
"Oh, so you -do- like her?"
"Do you mind?"
"Alright, alright," Matt said, laughing. "I'll lay off on the teasing."
"-Thankyou.-"
"No prob. Listen, this is a really nice conversation we're having, and I'd really like to tease--chat to you more, but I gotta make tracks. Band practise. Give those rabid girls the manager's number. He'll sort the money business out. Hell, I might even be able to persuade him to throw in a discount, seeing as I get to see my little brother confess his love. Sorry TK, couldn't resist. See ya soon, little bro."
"See ya."
TK sighed and hung up. The committee girls were looking at him questioningly. "They'll come."
"Yes!" the girls cheered exultantly.
"Here's their manager's number," TK told the head, taking a pen out of his pocket and scribbling it on the back of her proffered hand. "You can sort the cost out with him."
She looked at it and nodded, smiling. "Thanks TK, thankyou so much."
With a final nod, the head ushered the girls away.
"Why me?" TK moaned, throwing his hands into the air.
"What, will Big Brother get to see who you're in love with?" Yolei said, trying to hide a smile, but not succeeding.
At TK's pained look, the whole group cracked up laughing.
"Gee, thanks for your sympathy, guys."
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Well? What do you think? Comments please!
God Bless!
YT