Hello ... Hope most of you had a happy T day.

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"Are you ready?" Matt asked.

"Um, ready for what?" Ken asked as he shyly raised his hand.

"Well, Izzy made a brilliant discovery!" Kari said happily. "The ports are opened!"

Ken jumped up, "and no one told me!"

"Well, we wanted to surprise everyone!" Yolei said.

"Yeah, surprise," Michael said as he wrapped his arm around Yolei.

"But– doesn't the portal being open mean that something is wro–"

"No! We already checked! Agumon and Gatomon both clarified that nothing is wrong," Tai said.

"And Armadillomon knows some Geckomon that are running this cruise ship. It doesn't sail, but it's open to the public cause it has a pool. It's kinda like a harbored hotel. They said it would be okay if we go and hang out!"

Ken looked at Cody. Cody looked back at Ken for approval, "well," he said lowly, "what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Cody was waiting for some smart reply on how they shouldn't go, but instead he just looked at his Digivolving partner and shrugged.

Davis was kind enough to open the portal to the selected area. When they arrived they were greeted with hugs by their little friends. Ken walked along and looked for Wormmon, he found his partner talking to Hawkmon, "Wormmon!"

"Ken? Ken!" Wormmon said as he ran and jumped into a long awaited embrace by his friend. "I missed you so much!"

"I missed you more!" Ken joked.

Yolei came running over to Hawkmon, "there you are!"

"Yolei!" Hawkmon flew to his partner and was greeted by an extra tight hug, "Yolei, you're hurting me!"

"I just missed you so much!"

"So, anything new?" Wormmon asked.

Ken looked at the ground, "I'll catch you up later," he said lowly as he walked back to the others with Wormmon in his arms.

"Catch up on what?" Hawkmon asked as he watched Ken and Wormmon leave.

Yolei lowered her head and lowly said, "Ken and his father were in an accident, his father died."

Hawkmon gave a sorrowful look, "that's so sad! How's Ken taking it?"

"Me and Michael got together!" Yolei said, hoping to change the subject.

"Really? That's wonderful!" Hawkmon said as he flapped his wings in joy.

Yolei and Hawkmon greeted the others. Everyone was as happy they could be, everyone was smiling and laughing once again. "What's wrong?" Armadillomon asked.

Cody looked at Ken, he had a small smile, but that was an accomplishment, even for him. "Nothing," Cody said as he shook his head.

"Well, let's swim!" Agumon said as he jumped up.

"Yeah!"

The others walked with their Digimon to the women and men's room. Ken stayed with Wormmon. "Don't you want to swim?"

"No, I want to spend time with you! The both of us know very well that you can't swim."

"Yeah, so, it'll be fun! The least you could do is get out of long sleeves and pants! Get some color!"

"I like pale white, what's wrong with it? And what's wrong with spending time with you?"

"What's wrong with what?" Davis asked as he walked out with Veemon. Ken looked down at Veemon and smiled. Veemon was wearing little swimmers and a tube.

"Swimming!" Wormmon said before Ken had a chance to speak.

"Swimming rocks!" Veemon said as he fixed his duckie tube.

"Yeah, why not! There are more tubes! You both can go in."

Ken sighed and grabbed his bag, "fine," he said lowly as he picked up Wormmon.

"Remember what I said," Matt said as he came out with Gabumon, "never take no for an answer with him." Gabumon ran ahead and jumped into the pool. Veemon put his toe in and snapped it back.

"Oh, don't be a scaredy-cat!" Gatomon said as he pushed him in.

"Yeah," Kari said, "I'd like to see you go in!" Gatomon gave her an angry look.

"We can't force him to do stuff he doesn't want to do," Cody said.

Yolei meet Michael by the entrance. "Beautiful," Michael whispered. Yolei smiled shyly as she moved closer and grabbed hi hand.

Ken looked down at Wormmon, "that's something you should catch up on," Ken looked back at them as he grabbed his towel.

Wormmon knew Ken liked Yolei, it's not news. He never thought of what would happen if Yolei did something like this, it was always how happy Ken would be if she loved him back.

"Ken, don't worry, she loves you."

Ken looked back at Yolei, who walked with Michael to the others, hand in hand. "No she doesn't," Ken whispered as he wrapped the towel around his shoulders and grabbed a small tube for Wormmon.

"It's nice to see that you're joining us!" Joe said as Ken walked over.

Ken kept his eyes on the ground, he didn't want to look up. If he looked up he would see him and her, hand in hand, probably kissing. "Yeah."

"Want one?" Davis asked as he held out a small crunch bar.

"No thank-you."

"TAKE IT!"

Tai jabbed Davis in the stomach, extra-hard. "Ish-nay on the voice-nay"

"Hey! You said for us not to take no for an answer from him!"

Ken looked up at Tai, who was mouthing curses at Davis, then he looked back at the ground.

"Oh, let's go swimming! Okay?"

Ken nodded and walked with Wormmon to the pool stairs. Yolei and Michael were near by, he could tell, because everyone got quiet.

Michael whispered something to Yolei ("watch this.") before he started walking in Ken's direction. Ken kept his eyes on the ground, praying Michael will not notice him.

Michael noticed him, and he gripped his towel and pushed him in. "Oops, you should really watch where you're going," he managed to say with a strait face.

Ken grabbed onto the side and pulled himself out. Once he was out of the water, he looked at Michael, "you thought that was funny, didn't you?" he asked as he pushed him

Yolei stopped laughing and jumped up, "don't fight!"

"Yes, actually, I thought it was!"

"You wanna see something really funny?" Ken asked. Ken drew back his hand and rammed it into Willis's nose. Davis went running to Ken who looked at Michael on the ground, "now who's the weisenheimer?"

Michael put a hand to his nose, which was bleeding, as Yolei ran to his side, "Ken! You idiot! You could have hurt him!"

"Oh, so when he trips and pushes me, it is funny, but when I show him my fist, it isn't?"

"You are unbelievable!" She yelled.

"Yeah, no shit," Ken said as he grabbed his stuff. "You coming?" he asked as he looked at Wormmon.

"Yes," he said lowly.

Joe walked to Michael and kneeled beside him. Michael pushed himself up and ran to Ken and tackled him, "how dare you make fun of me infront of my girl!" he yelled as he wrapped his hands around Ken's neck.

"Let me tell you something, I couldn't care less if she was Tai's girl!" Ken used his foot to push Michael off him.

"Stop it!" Yolei yelled.

Ken gave Michael another punch, "I can take verbal abuse, yes, I have since you moved here! But if you ever, I mean ever, lay another finger on me again, I will not be held responsible for my actions. You understand me?"

Davis came and grabbed Ken's arm to pull him off, but Ken shook it off. "Come on Ken, he gets it!"

"You understand me?" he said as he gripped onto Michael's neck. Michael slowly nodded. Ken let go and got off him.

Michael looked up at Ken's back as he grabbed his bag and rammed his stuff in it. "You better watch your back, cause if I see you again I'll–"

"You'll what?" Ken asked as she stopped and looked at him, "Kill me? You'd be doing both of us a favor!"

"I can't believe you two would fight over such a stupid reason!" Yolei yelled.

"Hi! Reality calling Yolei," Ken said as he picked up Wormmon and walked to the stairwell.

Yolei balled her fists and ran after Ken, "I cant believe you'd fight over me! I thought you were better them that!"

"Guess I'm not."

"Why can't you just move on? Get over it! It'd make everyone happier!"

Ken stopped and looked up at Yolei, "if you think I could get over you, don't you think I would?" Ken's voice echoed throughout the stair well, "I hate everything about you!"

Yolei's nails were nor about to pierce her skin, she was angry. "You think I find you all that interesting? Yes, you're cute, but you're crazy!"

"Yes, your point?"

"I wish you were dead!" She yelled before she turned around and stomped her way back up the stairs.

"Come on Wormmon, lets get you home."