Monday January 26, 2004
Ebacusta: It's snowing! I'm really happy today because I have like no homework and my mouth doesn't hurt. (Yes!!) I got spacers on Friday. (Poo.) And I have to get my braces this Friday. (More Poo.) No announcements this time except:
I'm sorry if this is confusing to anybody. My brother thought that in a 40 page chapter, there would be no breaks and people would get lost so, I spilt into three parts. Sorry if it's confusing. This is the third and final part of chapter 1. Please enjoy, and I hope you like it. Don't forget to review. *smile*
Disclaimer: Do you own Digimon? Neither do I.
By ebacusta
Chapter 1
Part 1
What goes up, must come down
Kari stood nervously on the side stage. T.K. stood beside her. The band waved at her to come out onto the stage.
"You'll do fine," T.K. said as he pushed her out onto the stage. She walked smoothly over to the band. She stopped in front of the mike and took a deep breath. She just wanted to die. The band began the intro.
She opened her mouth and sang, "I'm just a girl. That doesn't like the thought of being alone. I need to be loved and held real close. I'm the kind of girl. That needs to be caressed and kissed so soft, yeah. I need a man who. Who's gonna treat me right. I need a man who'll be with em every night." People were already gathering in couples on the dance floor and dancing.
"So I've gotta find me a man. With Sensitive eyes. One who understands, love is stronger than pride. So I gotta find a man, a sensitive mind. Not just any kind of man. One of a kind." Her heart was beating rapidly as he began the next verse.
When she finished the last verse she smiled, curtsied, and walked off stage.
She ran into T.K.'s open arms. He caught her and swung her around. "That's wonderful. You're voice is so beautiful. It was awesome."
"Thank you," she said. She opened her mouth but closed it. She was not going to admit that she had been thinking about him the whole time she'd sung the song.
"You were?" he asked.
"What?" she asked.
"You were thinking about me the whole time?" T.K. questioned.
"Oh, yeah. I said that out loud," Kari asked. T.K. nodded. She smiled. "Crap," she thought. "Well, let's go back out," Kari said. T.K. nodded in agreement. They descended the short flight of steps and were back on the dance floor. They slid through the dancers and Kari was caught by Yolei and Ken.
"Kari that was wonderful!" Yolei exclaimed.
"Yeah," Ken agreed. Satsuki passed them. "Great job Kari!"
"Thanks," Kari said.
"Hey slave," a familiar voice said. Kari sucked in her breath and turned around. The owner was Stacey, a blonde who was head of the cheerleading team. "You're voice needs some work in the singing department."
"Yours needs some in the talking and singing department," Kari replied.
"What does that mean?" Stacey asked. She pondered it a second
"Anyway, go get me a cup of punch and a cookie," Stacey ordered. Kari turned and took a step before she turned back around.
"Are you sure? You're body may recognize how good food tastes and you'll lose your control over your body." Kari walked off. Stacey yelled after her, "Are you implying that I'm anorexic?" (A/N. I'm not implying that cheerleaders or anybody else is anorexic. In fact, I like everybody.)
Kari ignored her and retrieved the cookie and punch. She sat them down in front of Stacey. Stacey's date, the quarterback on the foot ball team, spoke up, "Hey you, don't talk to my date like that."
"Shut up, you just want to sleep with her again," Kari shot back at him. He blushed embarrassed. She walked off.
"Um, excuse me!" Kari turned. A red head was waving her over. She walked over briskly. "Yes?" Kari asked.
"Could you get me and my friends some punch?" Kari nodded and walked off. She walked over to the refreshment table. T.K. was standing there.
"Four cups of punch," Kari said.
"Coming right up," T.K. said cheerfully, a smile plastered across his face.
"You can drop the happy act T.K.," Kari said flatly. The smile dried up immediately. He began ladling punch into the cups.
"Man, this whole catering to the seniors thing really stinks," T.K. said, his voice close to that of a whining child.
"I know," Kari agreed.
"What complete waste of my time," T.K. declared angrily.
"I know," Kari agreed.
"This is stupid. The idiot seniors can get their lazy butts out of the gross plastic chairs, come over here, and ladle their own punch. Get their own cookies and their own food. Then, they can drag their butts back to their tables and eat all they want," T.K. listed. Kari nodded before adding, "And we could be with Tai and others." T.K. nodded.
"This class doesn't even deserve to be catered too," Kari said as T.K. began handing her the cups. He nodded. She continued, "If anyone deserved to be catered to, it should have been Tai's class." T.K. nodded again.
Kari balanced the cups and said, "Well T.K. you'll have to put on your happy face again."
T.K. sighed heavily, "This is retarded." He plastered his fake smile back on and in a cheerful voice said, "If you need anything, you know where to come." Kari chuckled as she walked away. She walked back over to the girl's table and set down the drinks.
"What took you so long?" the girl snapped. "I'm parched."
"Sorry," Kari said through a clenched teeth forced smiled. It took all her strength to keep her face from contorting into an angry frown. She watched the girl's date and her friend's date drain the cups. They held the cups out in front of her. "More," they demanded. She moaned inwardly.
Kari dragged her feet back to the refreshment stand. T.K. dropped his happy act as he said, "Back so soon?" Kari slammed the two cups on the table.
"The seniors are so rude!" Kari growled through clenched teeth. T.K. took the cups and filled them. She picked them back up and walked away. Out of the corner of her eyes she saw him put his act back up. The band was motioning to her. She quickly took the cups back to the table and ran back up the stairs. She walked coolly on to the stage.
After the intro she began to sing, "I'll be your dream, I'll be wish, I'll be your fantasy. I'll be your hope, I'll be your love be everything that you need. I love you more with every breath truly, madly, deeply do... I will be strong I will be faitful 'cos I'm counting on a new beginning. A reason for living, a deeper meaning.
"I want to stand with you on a mountain. I want to bathe with you in the sea. I want to lay like this forever. Until the sky falls down on me...
"And when the stars are shining brightly in the velvet sky, I'll make a wish send it to heaven then make you want to cry...The tears of joy for all the pleasure in the certainty. That we're surrounded by the comfort and protection of... The highest power. In lonely hours. The tears devour you...
"I want to stand with you on a mountain. I want to bathe with you in the sea. I want to lay like this forever. Until the sky falls down on me..."
There was an instrumental part before Kari continued singing, "Oh can't you see it baby? You don't have to close your eyes cos it's standing right before you. All that you need will surely come...
"I'll be your dream, I'll be wish, I'll be your fantasy. I'll be your hope, I'll be your love be everything that you need. I love you more with every breath truly, madly, deeply do..."
" I want to stand with you on a mountain. I want to bathe with you in the sea. I want to lay like this forever. Until the sky falls down on me..." She repeated it a few times as her voice faded. When she was done she curtsied to the applause and ran off the stage.
She was immediately called over by the red head again. The two girls were holding up their cups. Kari's heart sank and she grabbed the two cups. She walked away and growled. Stacey called her over demanding another cookie and some Chex Mix.
"Be careful," Kari warned. "You're body is losing control already." This made her feel a little better. She was called over by many other different tables each requesting cookies. She walked over to T.K.
"And you just got off the stage?" T.K. inquired. His act had dropped as soon as he saw her coming.
"Shut up," Kari snapped. She gathered the food and then took the cups T.K. handed to her. She walked slowly delivering each treat to its owner. Kari delivered Stacey's last. When Kari put the cookie in front of her face Stacey stared at it in disgust.
"This is not the one I wanted! Go get me another one!" Stacey exclaimed. Angry Kari grabbed the cookie shoved it into Stacey's mouth.
"Suck on it! Maybe then it'll taste better." Kari walked off. Slowly one by one almost all the seniors got up to dance. Kari joined T.K. in getting treats. They went and joined a whole bunch of other juniors who were taking a break. After eating, Kari shared a slow dance with T.K. For the rest of the night Kari served various seniors.
At the last song, about 20 'til 11 p.m., Kari stopped to watch T.K. He came on the stage and the song intro began. Kari recognized it as "The Last Song" by the All-American Rejects. He opened his mouth and sang, "This may be the last thing that I write for long. Can you hear me smiling when I sing this song, for you, and only you.
"As I leave will you be someone to say good-bye. As I leave will you be someone to wipe your eye. My foot is out the door and you can't stop me now.
"You wanted the best, it wasn't me, will you give it back. Now I'll take the lead, when there's no more room to make it grow. I'll see you again, you'll pretend you're naïve, is this what you want? Is this what you need, how you end up let me know.
"As I go! Remember all the simple things you know! My mind is just a crutch and I still hope, that you will miss me when I'm gone. This is the last song!
"The hearts start breaking as the year is gone. The dream's beginning and the time rolls on. It seems so surreal, now I sing it. Some how I knew that it would be this way, somehow I knew that it would slowly fade. Now I'm gone just try and stop me now.
" As I go! Remember all the simple things you know! My mind is just a crutch and I still hope, that you will miss me when I'm gone. This is the last song!
"And will you need me now, you'll find a way somehow. You want it too, I want it too.
" As I go! Remember all the simple things you know! My mind is just a crutch and I still hope, that you will miss me when I'm gone. This is the last song!" T.K. repeated this a few times as his voice faded. The seniors broke out in whistles and cheers and screams and yells at the end of the song. Kari jumped up and down and screamed the loudest.
"GO T.K.! GO T.K.! YOU ROCK! THAT WAS AWESOME!" Kari screamed. She jumped up and down and cheered. He was looking and smiling at her and only her. She almost melted. The seniors gathered their things after they had calmed and the teachers made some corny speech about how they would miss the seniors next year at college. Kari was too busy hugging T.K., who was now standing next to her, to listen.
The juniors began to gather their things after the last of the seniors left. Just as they were about to leave Mr. Gahachido yelled, "STOP! YOU HAVE TO CLEAN UP AFTER THE DANCE AS WELL!!" The juniors groaned.
One boy yelled out, "This is slave labor!"
"Yeah," Kari agreed.
"You make us set up before the dance, you make us cater during the dance, and now you're making us clean up after the dance? Something's wrong there!" Satsuki yelled.
"You wasted my Friday afternoon and evening and now you're going to waste my early Saturday morning?" T.K. yelled.
SHUT UP!!" Ms. Fujiyama yelled. "GET TO WORK!" The juniors groaned and started to clean things up. Kari and T.K. got out the ladders and took down the stage decorations. They popped every single balloon and took down the "HAPPY GRADUATION!" sign and ripped off the streamers.
"Man this was probably one of the most boring and useless days of my life," Kari groaned as she and T.K. let another coil of streamers fall to the ground. They climbed down off their ladders and began to gather the streamers and balloon scraps into a pig trash ball. Afterwards, Kari and T.K. took all the decorations that cold be reused and folded them up neatly. The packed them back in boxes and stacked them.
They then unhooked the speakers that the band used and move them back in the stage storage area. They moved and helped clean off the refreshment table. Packing away the tablecloth and the other things. They threw away the extra food. Kids then began kicking chairs out of the way and lifting tables to move them out of the auditorium.
"WAIT!" Ms. Fujiyama yelled. The students looked at her. "CHECK THE TAPE ON THE UNDER SIDE OF THE TABLE TO SEE WHICH ROOM IT BELONGS IN!!" Kari and T.K. check theirs. Room 11-A. They lifted the table and carried it back to its respective place. They then washed and scrub the tables down before they went back into the auditorium to sweep it out.
After the trash is swept up and put into the trash, Kari and T.K. joined the other kids dragging a stack of chairs back into the auditorium. When they reached the place where a row would be, they stopped and unstacked the chairs setting them in rows. Once the room was set up for assembly in the morning, the students were told to get the boxes and decorations they were responsible for.
Kari and T.K. retrieved them and put them in the student council room. Kari and T.K. turned to start walking home.
***Kari's POV***
Later that night T.K. and I walked home.
"Man, my feet are killing me!" I said. "I can't believe they actually made us wear these high heels!" I slipped them off.
"This was probably one of the worst days of my life. I mean Stacey was treating me like I was her slave. I'd really like to shoot her. I can see the headline now: EVIL, WRETCHED CHEERLEADER SHOT ON GRADUATION DAY. Oh how I'd treasure it so."
T.K. chuckled. "Stacey must have really got on your nerves. It's not like you to talk about violence.
"She did," I said. This was my chance to ask him. My heart began to beat wildly. We were almost to my house it was now or never.
"Hey T.K."
"Hmm?"
"I- I was won-won..."Stop stuttering you sound like an idiot. "I was wondering if you'd like to go out with me."
He looked startled and then said, "No."
"Oh, okay," I said. We were standing in front of my apartment building. "Well, good night." I ran up the stairs tears already falling down my face.
"No wait Kari!" he yelled and began running up the stairs after me. I didn't wait. I ran into my apartment and slammed the door behind me.
***T.K.'s POV***
"I really blew it tonight Matt," I groaned.
"Why? What happened?" my older brother, Matt, asked. I had decided to go find him at his band practice and talk to him. He was visiting from college and he and his band were going to do a home concert. Surprise, surprise they actually all ended up going to the same college without even planning it. I was utterly depressed.
"Kari asked me out and I was so surprised that I freaked and said no," I groaned. My head drooped.
"Why did you freak out? You've been wanting something like this to happen for a while?"
"I know, but I was just so surprised. The world kind of spun out of focus and I just said some random thing. Man, I really messed things up," I moped as my head fell against the wall with a thump.
"Man T.K., I know you're really bummed about this, but beating yourself up and causing yourself brain damage won't help the situation," Matt grinned.
"What are you talking about?" I asked.
"The way you just threw you head into the wall. I doubt there's a single soul who didn't hear the noise your head made. It was so loud that I'm surprised you're still awake! You should have knocked yourself out!" Matt replied. I smiled bleakly.
"Cheer up T.K. Well, I really doubt there's much that can be said until tomorrow. Just find her at school tomorrow, apologize, tell her what you meant to say, and explain why you accidentally said no."
"What do I do then?" I asked.
"Then, just give her some space and let her repair the damage by herself. If she still wants to go out with you she come to you when she's ready. If she doesn't come, then you really did blow it," Matt sighed. "Listen, I gotta go back to band practice, but I bet if you explain the situation, she'll forgive you in a heartbeat."
"You think so?" I asked. Matt nodded. I watched as he stood up and went back into the building. Yeah, she'll forgive me...if I can ever get her to stay still long enough to talk to her. And I won't be able to pull out the best friend card I probably shattered that possibility an hour ago. Darn it, why am I so stupid. I just ruined everything.
I slowly got up and started towards home. Why couldn't I just think straight? This never would have happened if I could have just thought straight and said yes like I meant to. I'm so stupid I just want to die. As I walked through the streets I looked up at a huge digital clock. It was almost 1 and I still had some homework to do. I dragged my feet up the stairs and into my apartment.
It's been almost four hours since I ate yet I don't feel hungry at all. I took off my shoes, and went into my room. I discarded my clothes on the floor. I rummaged through my closet until I found a shirt and pulled it on. I sat down at my desk to try and finish my homework, but my eyes kept drifting to the picture of Kari and me on my desk. I slammed it down and quickly and sloppily finished my homework.
I felt extremely lonely as I lay down to go to sleep. But I couldn't. I wanted to fade away, and pretend that this never happened. That it was all a bad dream that would fade away when I woke up.
***Kari's POV***
As soon as I was in the house I made a mad dash for my room. I didn't want Tai pressing me for details. I ran into my room and flopped down on my bed. I dropped the shoes on the floor. This dress was so restricting. I clumsily undid the zipper and let the dress fall to the floor.
I went to my closet and pulled on my PJs. I pulled out the rubber band in my hair and let it sweep down around my shoulders. After I had spent years listening to the other digidestined saying that T.K. loved me as well, when I asked him he said no. This proves they were lying to me so I'd feel better. I finished my homework and then walked silently out of the room. I grabbed the phone and ran back to my room.
I slowly dialed Yolei's number and put the phone to my ear. The coolness of the phone made me began to cry again. I can't believe this, I knew I should have just kept my mouth shut. It was painful to keep it a secret and watched T.K. go out on dates with other girls, but he had never kissed any of them. He had always told me he was saving his first kiss for someone special and the other digidestined had convinced me that I was that someone special he was waiting for.
This was more painful. They had lied to me and I now suffered the feeling of rejection as well. It hurt.
"Hello?"
"Hey, it's me," I said trying to keep my voice steady and quiet at the same time.
"Oh hey Kari, how'd it go?" Yolei asked getting excited.
"He said...he said no," I gasped. I couldn't hold it back any longer. The sobs of agony and pain ripped through my body as I let out all the tears once again. It was too painful, I couldn't keep it all inside.
"Oh, that can't be right. Maybe he just got nervous. He loves you, I know he does..." Yolei tried to comfort me.
"Shut up..." I said quietly. My body was shaking uncontrollably and I could almost see the hurt on Yolei's face. "Shut up," I repeated. "You lied to me. You all said that I was that special someone T.K.'s been waiting for, but I'm not. He doesn't like me anymore. Maybe he did at some point, but this proves that I'm not the one."
"But Kari I..."
"Stop it, I...I never want to talk to you again," I gasped and hung up the phone. I fell down on my bed. I cried long and hard. I hadn't meant to say that. I felt the phone slip from my hand and fall with a clatter to the ground. He doesn't love me that was the realization of the whole thing that I didn't want to realize. He doesn't love me now, he never did, and he never will.
***Normal POV***
T.K. tossed and turned in his bed. He couldn't fall asleep though he tried for hours. He just couldn't do it. He got up and pulled on shorts over his boxers. He had to get out of here. He ran out into the hall, put on his shoes and left.
*
Kari sat up. She couldn't sleep. She was completely upset about what had happened. She went to her closet and pulled off her PJs. Instead she put on the short white dress that stopped just above her knees and on top of that she tied a long pink ribbon given to her by T.K. around her waist. She added the anklet and bracelet he had given her on past birthdays and a pair of white slip-on high-heel sandals. She quickly ran back to her room and pulled T.K.'s hat on and left the house.
*
Get a load of me, get a load of you
Walkin' down the street, and I hardly know you
It's just like we were meant to be
*
T.K. walked solemnly down the street. It was a warm spring night and the breeze was comfortable as it caressed his skin. His thoughts were filled of only her.
*
Holding hands with you, and we're out at night
Got a girlfriend, you say it isn't right
And I've got someone waiting too
*
Kari walked slowly and aimlessly down the street. She had no idea of where she was going or what she was going to do there, she just had to get out of her house. It reminded her constantly of the events that had happened. But she did know that wherever she was going would help her to cope with her problems.
"He doesn't love me," Kari said quietly to herself. "I guess, I could spend my life with Davis."
*
This is just the beginning
We're already wet, and we're gonna go swimming
*
T.K. stopped and looked at the moon. Kari had always told him that her favorite time of day was at night because she liked to stand on her balcony and look at the moon. She said that she especially liked full moons. The moon was as full as ever. T.K. continued down the street.
*
Why can't I breathe whenever I think about you?
Why can't I speak whenever I talk about you?
It's inevitable, it's a fact that we're gonna get down to it
So tell me
Why can't I breathe whenever I think about you?
*
Kari walked quietly. She saw trees sitting in clusters. The park. That where she was going. The park. She would resolve her problems with the help of nature.
*
Isn't this the best part of breakin' up
Finding someone else you can't get enough of
Someone who wants to be with you
*
"I wanted to be with her. Why couldn't I have just said what my heart was telling me to say? Why couldn't I have just said yes?" T.K. wished Kari had slapped him after he said no-to bring him to his senses before she had left. At least so he could feel the pain that she must be feeling now.
"Our bond must have become weaker," T.K. thought. It was darker now. He spotted a bench. He would sit here, and figure out his problem. The closer he got the more he knew he would find what he was looking for. He approached it.
*
It's an itch we know we are gonna scratch
Gonna take a while for this egg to hatch
But wouldn't it be beautiful?
*
Kari's heart felt at ease as she walked silently through the park. She stopped by the pond and knelt down. She put her hand in the water. It was cold, just like her heart.
But I love him," she thought.
*
Why can't I breathe whenever I think about you?
Why can't I speak whenever I talk about you?
It's inevitable, it's a fact that we're gonna get down to it
So tell me
Why can't I breathe whenever I think about you?
*
T.K. heard a sound and looked up. A girl was coming towards him. A girl wearing a white dress and white sandals. And a pink ribbon was tied loosely around her waist.
*
love for you to make me wonder
Where it's goin'
I'd love for you to pull me under
Somethin's growin'
For this that we can control
Baby I am dyin'
*
Kari saw someone else sitting on the bench as she approached. The wind blew her hair and dress. It was a boy. She sat beside him and looked down.
"What's wrong?" he asked her.
This was what she was looking for. This would be the thing that helped her sort out her problems. "Today, I had the great idea of asking out my best friend on our way home," she began. "All my other friends said that he love me and that he would say yes for sure. So I did, under the false impression that maybe he did love me. But when I asked, he said 'No.'
"My other friend had asked me to call her and tell her what he said. So when I got home, I did. I don't know, I lost my mind and said I never wanted to talk to her ever again, but that's not true.
"Why did you say that?" the boy asked. She couldn't see his face. It was hidden in shadow.
"I don't know," she gasped as she tried to hold back tears. "I just remember that I always had this dull pain in my heart whenever I saw him with another girl. And even though he's every girl's dream, in all the girls he went out with, he never kissed one of them. I remember him telling me that he was saving his first kiss for that someone special and all my other friends convinced me that I was that someone special he was waiting for. They convinced me that after I asked him, this pain in my heart would go away. Of course, I've loved him for so long that I just took the first excuse given to me to ask him out.
"So I asked him, and he said no. My friend said that maybe he got nervous and accidentally said no. Maybe that true, but they lied to me. The pain in my heart is still there. In fact it's gotten worse - to the point that it's painful to live. You wouldn't believe me if I told you that I actually thought of committing suicide, but I know he wouldn't want me to do that! Anyway, I lost my mind and opened my big mouth. I said something that I didn't mean and I regret everything that's happened in the past 12 hours or so. But, enough about me, what are you doing out here this early in the morning?"
*
Why can't I breathe whenever I thing about you?
Why can't I speak whenever I talk about you?
*
T.K. listened quietly as the girl who had come and sat beside him told him everything that had happened to her. "But, enough about me, what are you doing out here this early in the morning?"
"Me? Well my best friend asked me out, and I freaked and said no. I couldn't sleep so I came here. I love her, but I... I just messed everything up so bad. I meant to say yes and tell her how long I had been waiting for this, that I'd loved her for nine years. I wanted to sweep her up into my arms and kiss her but I... but I didn't. Instead, I said no and ruined everything. I'm just so stupid." He looked down and tears began to fall from his eyes. He felt a hand on his knee and looked up.
The girl, whose face he still couldn't see, was a few inches from his face. "You're not stupid. In fact," she giggled, "your best friend must be the luckiest girl in the world to have a best friend like you. You remind me a lot of my best friend, you know. I used to feel like the luckiest girl in the world to have him but... I messed that up last night." She looked down.
He didn't know why, but he reached up and put his hand under her chin and lifted it up. She looked at him and slowly they got closer until their lips touched. Her mouth slightly open, T.K. couldn't stop himself. His tongue snaked its way into her mouth and touch her tongue lightly. The girl responded and touched his tongue in response. He pushed his lips against hers harder. When they finally pulled apart, the girl stood up.
"You know it's funny," the girl said smiling. "You remind me so much of my friend. I don't know. Even after I messed everything up, he gave me all these really neat and nice things. I just couldn't help it, I put on this ribbon that he gave me, and these two pieces of jewelry, and his hat that he let me borrow the other day, and it makes me feel closer to him. But when I'm next to you, I feel like...like I'm back in his loving care. Of course, he only loves me as a friend but..."
T.K. smiled, "So you wear that because it makes you feel closer to him?"
"Yeah. I know they may look tacky or ugly or what ever you want to say, but I don't care what kind of fashion statement it makes, it makes me feel closer to him, and that's all that really matters to me."
"Well..." T.K. began but trailed off. She was trying to sound cheerful to hide the pain she was going through. He stood and held her by the shoulders. "You don't have to pretend," he said. "If you want to cry, let it out and cry. Don't...don't keep it inside, these things have a way of coming back and getting you." She pulled away.
"I have to go. Thank you for listening though," she said. She walked away a few steps. He turned his head to stare at the trees.
"Hey." He turned his head back around. "You go to Odaiba High, right?" she asked.
"Uh, yeah," T.K. said. The girl was crying. He could tell.
In a shaky voice she said, "If you ever see a girl with lilac hair and round glasses, named Yolei, tell her...tell her that her friend... that her friend didn't mean to say the things she said. Tell he that I'm sorry." He watched the girl walk into the darkness, the wind blowing her hair and dress.
"That was...that was...Hikari," he breathed.
*
Why can't I breathe whenever I think about you?
Why can't I speak whenever I talk about you?
It's inevitable, it's a fact that we're gonna get down to it
So tell me
Why can't I breathe whenever I think about you?
*
Kari walked through the street. All of a sudden she had become extremely tired. She leaned against the building for support. She was breathing hard.
"What? What's happening to me?" she gasped. Her heart, she fell to the ground in agony clutching to her chest. "What's wrong with me?"
Suddenly a bright circle of light surrounded her and a wind blew out of it. Her arms automatically moved to protect her face. The wind was blowing up, but her dress was only blowing out a little. She stood ready to run if she had to. She tried to, but the wind caught her and held her in place. She threw her arms over her face. The ribbon was rapidly fluttering in front of her face.
"What? What is this?!?!" Kari exclaimed as she was lifted off the ground. "T.K.! Tai! Help me!"
***************
The next morning T.K. walked out of his second period class. Kari was in his classes but, he hadn't seen her all morning. He hoped she wasn't sick. He spotted Yolei.
"Hey Yolei!" She stopped and turned. He ran up to her. "Do you know where Kari is?" Yolei sucked in her breath sharply.
T.K. spoke, "I spoke to her this morning. In the park at like two in the morning. I don't think she knew it was me, but I didn't realize it was her until after she left." Yolei began walking again.
T.K. ran to catch up. "Yolei wait! She said...she said to me to tell you that she was sorry and that she hadn't meant what she said. She was just upset. Now please, do you know where Kari is?"
Yolei nodded sadly. "Gone."
"Gone?" T.K. asked.
Yolei nodded. "Yeah, gone. Her mother called this morning and said she was missing. She wanted to know if she was at my house."
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Hey. This is the end of chapter one. I hope you guys liked it. Review and I'll have
the next chapter out ASAP.
ebacusta *~.^*
P.S. Here's the way Japanese school systems work for those of you who don't know:
First Years = Sophomores
Second Years = Juniors
Third Years = Seniors
Basketball Terminology for those who don't know (I know this is late):
Pass it in = throw the ball in to a teammate for a play to begin
Bring it down = dribble towards your basket after passing it in
Three-pointer = a shot taken from behind the 3 point line. Worth 3 points
Lay-up = a shot taken close to the basket (used most often when driving the ball)
Worth 2 points.
Drive to the basket = dribbling aggressively toward your team's basket to make a goal.
The songs in this chapter (in order):
"Find me a man" by Toni Braxton. All rights belong to her.
"Truly, Madly, Deeply" by Savage Garden. All rights belong to them.
"The Last Song" by The All-American Rejects. All rights belong to them.
The song italicized while T.K. and Kari were walking is:
"Why Can't I?" by Liz Phair. All rights belong to her.
One last thing. REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW!