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"Hey Tai. Hey Kari." I heard Matt say, as we walked through the doors of our apartment building.
"Hey Matt." Tai answered. I noticed the look on Matt's face was a worried one.
"How's T.K.?" I asked. I had to know.
Matt hung his head. His answer wasn't an easy one. He knew it would affect Tai and Kari more than the rest.
"He has pneumonia."
Memories flashed through Tai's head. He knew that Kari had pneumonia when she was little, because of him. He remembered when she almost died one night in the hospital. He remembered the stressed look on his parent's faces, as Kari lay there.
He also remembered when they were in the digital world, and Kari collapsed. He remember when Izzy and him went off looking for medicine, and he told Izzy of what happened those years ago.
Kari also had thoughts of when she was sick with pneumonia. Only she didn't know the emotions shared by the rest of her family. She was trying to stay alive. But, she also remembered her dream she had previously.
They both hung their heads in their own sad memories.
"Tai? Kari?" Matt said, looking at their faces. They were in another dimension to him. Finally, Tai looked up, his eyes were pitch black. He blinked, and his eyes returned to normal.
"Sorry Matt." He said, pretty clearly.
"What's wrong?" Matt asked.
"Well, it's just, well…" he sighed "when Kari was little, she had pneumonia too, and, I…I was the reason she got it. She was home from kindergarten, because she didn't feel well, and I wanted to play soccer, so I took her out, thinking she would like to play too. I kicked her the ball, she kicked it back, but it went off in another direction. So when I picked it up and turned around to see her, she'd passed out. She nearly died…" Tai said, trailing off on the last sentence. Matt looked at him with pity on his face. I however, was still in my reverie. I couldn't forget my dream. I looked at Tai: his head hung in shame as he recalled the memories. I came out of my reverie by just looking at his sad, remorseful face. I didn't know what to say. I guess it was good that I didn't try to comfort him, because I knew that whatever that I did, it wouldn't help him in the slightest. Matt turned to me.
"What about you?" he asked.
"Oh, nothing," I lied. I didn't want to tell him.
"Well, do you two still want to go to the hospital?" Matt asked gently, knowing that maybe they couldn't handle it, because of their previous experiences.
"Yes, I want to go," I said strongly, "but Tai," I turned to him, "you don't have to come if you don't want to." I didn't want to hurt him.
"No, I said I'll come…" he answered, "for emotional support." I felt a rush of gratitude towards him. He would do all this for me…
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