Betrayal

- Meeko Melodie

Meeko: Hello, everybody!!

Meeko Melodie: I do not own Digimon or any of the characters in there. Also, the song "Prelude in B Minor, op.28, no.6" doesn't belong to me either, it belongs to Frederic Chopin.

Chapter 3:

Two days had past since the beach "incident". Zoe and Takuya didn't see each other, they didn't even chat on MSN anymore. Nobody knew what happened and they didn't really notice the awkwardness between the two, they continued to enjoy the vacation.

At the end of the week, one night, Kouji picked up the phone and dialed Zoe's number.

"Hello?" Zoe answered the phone in her house.

"Z?" Kouji asked.

"Yeah," Zoe replied.

"It's Kouji, you doing anything right now?" Kouji asked.

"No," Zoe answered, "why?"

"You want to come over right now?" Kouji asked again.

"Sure," Zoe replied, "See you later." And with that, she hanged up the phone. Zoe sat on the cold hard floor, hugging herself as she imagined Kouji discovered Takuya had kissed her. The thought of that made her shivered, although it was not cold. She stood up and went to the kitchen to look for her mother.

"I'm going out," Zoe told her mom.

"Ok," Mrs.Orimoto replied and asked, "When are you coming back?"

"Don't know," Zoe replied, as she put on her shoes, "It depends; I'll phone to let you know, ok?"

"Alright," Mrs.Orimoto answered and said, "Have fun!" Zoe closed the door and said to herself, "I'll try."

Kouji was sitting in front of the piano, with some music sheets in front of him, he started to play. Just when he started, the door bell rang. Kouji stood up and opened the door. Zoe went in. They sat on the couch, and it sounded like neither of them wanted to start the conversation. Finally, Zoe decided to break the eerie silence.

"So," Zoe started, "Did you practice for the Piano Competition?"

"Yeah," Kouji replied, and then silence followed.

"Where are your parents?" Zoe asked.

"Dad went out for business and mother is at a friend's house," Kouji answered bitterly. Zoe felt his loneliness as she snuggled up closer to him, Kouji embraced her gently and they sat on the sofa for a long time.

"Kouji?" Zoe called.

"Hmm...?" Kouji answered sleepily.

"Can you play the song that you're going to play in the competition?" Zoe asked him. Kouji loosened his arms around Zoe and he walked up to the piano. He opened the lid, sat down, straightened up his back, looked at the music sheet for a few seconds and put his hands over the keyboard. He started to stroke down the piano keys, building a structure of sound in the air. The house was filled with the piano notes and as the last chords still lingered in the air, Kouji realized that Zoe was standing right beside him.

"How...how is it?" Kouji asked, standing up slowly and closed the lid of the piano.

"It's beautiful," Zoe whispered.

"I never play any songs for anyone," Kouji told her softly, "but I'm playing this for you."

"Thank you," Zoe whispered again. Kouji hold Zoe close to himself and kissed her with passion. Zoe had her arms around Kouji's neck; Kouji had his arms around Zoe's waist. They managed to make their way back to the couch, still holding on to each other, neither of them wanted to let go. They broke apart from each other, trying to catch their breath and started as Kouji kissed Zoe again.

Zoe suddenly evoked the memory when Takuya was kissing her on the sidewalk, that expression on his face, that expression of grief and the sadness. She pushed Kouji off softly, mentioning him to stop. Kouji stopped unwillingly but didn't ask why; he just looked at her quizzically. Zoe cuddled close to his warm body and Kouji held on to her with both his arms.

Zoe's mind was racing with images of Takuya, which was muddling up her mind and giving her a head ache. She rested on Kouji's shoulders and fell asleep. Kouji was playing with Zoe's strands of blond hair and thought, "I'm too fortunate to have a girlfriend like Zoe." Yet, Kouji didn't know that Zoe had betrayed him.

Meeko: Well, guys, how was it?

PS Thanks for your comments: Tama-cue and lil-shorty-300