A note to all who read this:
Okay, here's the next installment of what I hope to be a successful masterpiece. One thing though to reiterate is that I have taken on the 1st Person POV of Davis and occasionally switch to 3rd Person to get some of my sometimes confusing changes of scene across to the reader.
Chapter 5, Guys! Enjoy!
r2k121
Disclaimer (for Digimon): This story is based on the television show Digimon. I do not own any of the characters mentioned here.
Disclaimer (for FanFiction): This story written here is mine and is not intended to copy any others.
Finding YouChapter 5 – The Tension Shifts
"Another pina colada, sir?" the waiter asked me.
"Naw, man, I'm good."
Wow! This is the life...the water and sky are both blue, the temperature is just right, and the girls, o the girls!
"Davis..."
I open my eyes and sit up from my recliner. Now where did that voice come from?
"Over here, Davis."
I look to my left and there she is: Kari. She's in a pink two-piece bikini, looking great as always. What? I can't have a crush on her still?
"Kari?"
"Davis, get up."
"What?"
"Get up, they're serving lunch."
I slowly awake to the sight of Kari's soft brown eyes. Damn, only a dream.
"Well good afternoon, sleepy-head."
"Hey, Kari."
"Here, Davis." She put my foldaway table down and pushed a food platter on it.
"I got something for you when the attendant came."
I took off the wrapping to find a chicken sandwich, two cookies, and some chips.
"Awesome! Thanks!"
I devoured the food quickly as I always do and gulped down the soda that came with the food. We had only chips and some fruit at Joe's for breakfast before we left, but that wasn't enough.
"Hey, Davis?" Tai peeked over the row where Ken, T.K., Cody, and Izzy were sitting in front of me.
"Yeah, Tai?"
"Come here for a sec, please. I need to straighten something out between Matt and me and I need your testimony."
At that, I heard Sora mumble something about not needing another opinion. I unbuckled my seat belt and made my way over to them.
Author's Note: Switching to 3rd person POV now!
While Davis was gone, Yolei and Kari began to strike up a conversation beginning about none other than...well...Davis!
"Kari, you actually think he opened the door on me on accident?"
"I know he can get out of hand sometimes, but I'm positive he wouldn't do something like that on purpose."
"Well what about what he did to you and T.K.?"
"That's a completely different story and has really nothing to do with your situation right now."
Yolei sat back in her seat and sighed.
"I guess you're right. I did overact yesterday, but the thing that really ticked me off was that he was there, eyes wide open, gawking at me."
Kari smiled. "Name one guy who wouldn't want a free show like that?"
"None that I know of." said Yolei laughing
"Okay, okay...now..." Kari looked in the back row and found Joe sleeping with a picture frame in his hand. "...about Joe..."
"I know...he's got it bad for Mimi. It's so sweet."
They both turned back just to make sure Joe wasn't awake to hear that. A curious Yolei plucked the picture frame from Joe's hands.
"Yolei are you crazy? Put it back before he wakes up!"
"Don't worry, I just wanna look at it a sec."
Yolei held up the small picture frame. It was of the entire original DD group a few days after they defeated MaloMyotismon. Joe was standing next to Mimi, her arm around his waist waving to the camera.
"Aww...that's so sweet!"
"I know. I bet he can't wait to see her again." said Kari
"You got that right."
At the sound of that, Kari and Yolei both stiffened. They both turned back to see Joe wide-awake.
"Er...sorry Joe." Yolei said handing back the frame to him.
Joe looked at the picture and sighed. "It's okay. God I miss her."
"Tell me something, is that your only picture of her?" Kari asked.
"No, of course not. I have many since I first met her in the digital world. This is the most recent one."
"That was over a year ago!" exclaimed Yolei.
"Yeah, and I haven't seen her since. I email her and stuff to try and keep in touch."
"And does she respond?"
"Well yeah, but not as much as I wish she would. To be quite honest, when Sora said that Mimi was looking forward to seeing me again, I was too excited not to pass this opportunity up."
"And what about your grades at school?" Kari asked with a smile.
"Eh..."
"Well?"
"Forget them. Mimi is worth that B in Anatomy."
"You think a B is bad? You need a life." Yolei said laughing at him. Joe just smiled.
Author's Note: Switching back to Davis's 1st person POV!
When it comes to music, Matt always has the edge over Tai. O well, that's a guy's pride for you. Anyway, what's Joe, Kari, and Yolei up to. I made my way back to my seat.
"Hi guys! What's up?"
"None of your beeswax pervert!" Yolei snapped at me yet again.
"Yolei..." Kari said glaring at her.
Joe just chuckled and sat back in his chair. I shrugged and took my own seat. I made sure Yolei was looking the other way and took out a piece of paper and a ballpen and wrote a note to Kari and handed it to her.
"Still pissed at me?"
"Yep."
"O well."
I took out my latest soccer magazine from my backpack and picked up where I left off the night before. Wait, how long is this flight again? I turned to Kari and asked.
"How long do we have till we land?"
"About 12 hours." She said looking at her Digivice.
"Aww, man..."
Six hours later...
Man, this sucks. No, this REALLY sucks. There's absolutely nothing to do! The in-flight movie was bad, I've read my soccer magazine five times over, and the worse part is that I have no one to talk to. I mean, there's Kari and Yolei, but they're too busy giggling about some 'cute guy' in a magazine. Besides, Yolei is still mad at me. Why did I have to have this seat?
"Excuse me, Sir?"
YES!!! Dinner time. I looked up at the attendant.
"We have chicken, beef, and fish. Which one would you like to have?"
"Chicken please."
The attendant pulled out a platter from the cart and set it down on my foldaway table. Two minutes later, my platter is empty. Good chicken.
Half an hour later...
"Kari?"
"Yeah, Yolei?"
"I gotta go to the bathroom."
"Oh." Kari got up from her seat and Yolei stepped over her.
"Move, per..." Okay, now I'm pissed. This is just getting ridiculous.
"YOLEI, SHUT THE HELL UP!" I scream at her.
A few heads, especially the other DD's, begin to pop up from the rows of seats. Yolei looks around at them and turns a crimson red. I stand up from my seat and move into the aisle
"Go..." I say sternly to her. She puts her head in her hands and runs all the way back towards the restrooms. Great, now I made her cry.
"That wasn't necessary, Davis." Kari said frowning at me.
"O yeah? Well neither is calling me names." I pull my backpack from the overhead compartment and sling it over my shoulder.
"Where are you going?" Kari asked.
"Away..."
I decided to try and find another seat just to get away from this for a while. I made my way up the aisle towards the attendant's area when a hand grabbed me from one of the rows. It was Sora's.
"Davis, what happened?"
"Not right now. I'll tell you later." She let my arm go and I walk forward a bit when a pang of guilt runs through me. I walked back to Sora.
"Do me a favor please?"
"Okay."
"Just go make sure Yolei is alright." And with that, I turned around and continued.
Good thing there were extra seats around. There was an empty row in the middle rows that was in front of the partition between first-class and coach that I had all to myself. A little lonely, but it would have to do. I sat down and put my bag in the seat next to me and thought about what had just happened. I thought about Yolei crying her eyes out while Kari and Sora were doing their best to comfort her. That really wasn't necessary of me, and I just exploded on the spot. I sat back in my chair looking up at the ceiling and replayed that thought over and over in my mind. It must've been at least an hour and I was partially oblivious to what was going on around me.
"Excuse me, did you see a guy come up this way looking for another seat?"
"Yes, ma'am he's in the front row over there."
I heard footsteps approaching me until they stopped and a shadow appeared over me. I turned to my left and looked up at puffy, red eyes.
"Can I sit down?"
I nodded my head and moved my bag to the floor.
"Look, Yolei I'm really sorry. I just blew up back there."
"It wasn't your fault Davis. I should've stopped. Friends again?"
"What do you mean 'again'? You'll be my friend no matter what."
We looked at each other and smiled.
"So you got this whole row to yourself, huh?"
"Yeah, it's cool."
"Need some company?"
"What about Kari?
"Sora moved to your seat after you left."
"Okay."
We spent another hour or so talking about random stuff and laughing about what some of the crazy pranks we pulled on each other over the past few months. It was great to see her happy again.
"Hey, Davis?"
"What?"
"I need a nap. Mind if I use you as a head rest?"
"Naw, go ahead."
She pulled one of the wrapped pillow and blanket packages from one of the other seats and opened it. She then put down the armrest that separated our two seats, put the pillow on my lap, and swung her feet onto the seats. (Author's Note: I'm pretty sure that you can do this.) It didn't take long for her to fall asleep since she'd been crying before. Strands of her lavender hair covered her face and I brushed them back behind her ear. I can't believe I'm saying this, but she looked cute like that. I found myself playing with her soft hair thereafter, watching her sleep the whole time.
"Sorry I made you cry, Yolei." I whispered to her.
My eyes became heavy and I too fell asleep.
Author's Note: Switching to 3rd person POV now!
Sora went over to where Davis and Yolei were sitting at just to check on their whereabouts. Boy, was she surprised.
"O my God, that is so cute!" she exclaimed at the sight of the sleeping pair. She went back to Kari and told her about the scene.
"Now that's one of those Kodak moments." she said taking out her camera. "I won't miss this one."
Both of them made their way to the front and took some careful pictures of Yolei and Davis. Then, they hurried back to show the rest of the DD group.
"Woah!" said Tai looking at the photos on Kari's camera.
"Go Davis!" said a surprised Matt.
"So that's what they were up to." T.K. said laughing at the pictures.
"I didn't see this one coming." Ken said smiling at the sight.
"Actually Ken, this doesn't surprise me at all one bit."
"What do you mean, Cody?"
"What's this you're looking at?" Joe decided to see what the excitement was about.
"Oh...wait a minute, that's Davis and...Yolei?"
"Well c'mon spill it, Cody. Why doesn't any of this surprise you? Is there something you know that we don't?" asked an impatient Tai.
"Alright, alright. Here's what I've been seeing lately."
The DD group leaned in closer to hear the explanation better, since Cody was whispering.
"For the past few months, I've seen Davis and Yolei get a little closer than normal. Sometimes when I go to visit Yolei in her apartment, Davis was almost always in the area."
"And what's wrong with that?" Matt asked.
"I'm getting to that point. Sometimes, Davis sleeps over her place even though he's only a floor below her and vice-versa."
"You don't suppose they're trying anything funny, do you?" Sora questioned.
"Well like I said, this was in the past few months, when Davis was still pretty much obsessed with you." Cody said looking at Kari.
"Figures..." Kari said rolling her eyes.
"Anyway, after the "incident", Davis needed someone to be there for him at the time."
"Yolei." Izzy said.
"Precisely. Even up until now, they've been hanging around each other. But from the looks of it, I doubt that they see each other as anything but good friends. That may change though, especially on this trip."
"So let's help them figure out their feelings for each other!" Tai exclaimed.
"We aren't going to do a single thing." Sora said to Tai.
"But..."
"Tai, trust me on this one. If they really have those kinds of feelings, it'll show in time. Let's not interfere and make things complicated for them."
"And the DD of Love has spoken." Kari said patting Tai on the back. "Sorry bro, but I'm gonna side Sora on this one."
"Hi guys! What's up?"
Author's Note: Switching back to Davis's 1st person POV!
Ahh...what a nap. I looked at my Digivice to see how much time we had left. Nice, only one and a half hours remaining. Yolei was still sleeping with her head on my lap and the fingers of my right hand were tangled in her hair. I smiled to myself and unwound my fingers and smoothed out her hair. She stirred a bit, then looked up at me.
"Hi."
"Hi. Sleep well?"
"Uh huh. How much time do we have left?"
"About an hour and a half."
"Davis?"
"Yeah?"
"You know how I hate my hair being tangled, right?"
I didn't realize that I was once again playing with her long lavender hair.
"But it's so soft..." I tried to reason giving her that puppy dog look. I went back to trying to smooth out the tangles, which she surprisingly allowed me to do.
"So what are you planning to do when we get to Hawaii, Davis?"
"Aren't we all going together?"
"Yeah, but I mean when we want to go do our own stuff."
"Um...soccer on the beach?"
"Typical..."
"Hey...watch it. And what might you be doing?"
"Going with the girls to look for some cute guys."
"Typical..." I tried to mock her.
We both just sat there for a few minutes in silence. But of course, I got bored in that short period of time.
"Let's go back and join the others." I suggested.
"Sure."
Yolei picked her head up off my lap and stood up stretching her back. I followed in the same manner, picked up my backpack, and headed towards the rear of the plane, where our original seats were. What's this? Looks like a meeting; I'd better see what's going on.
"Hi guys! What's Up?"
At that point, everyone looked up all at once with shocked expressions. They seemed to be huddled over Kari's camera.
"Is there something on Kari's camera that we'd like to see?" I asked.
"O...um...that is..." Tai stuttered.
"A picture of...uh...Miko! Yeah that's it, Miko!" Kari said turning the camera off.
"Aww...can I see?" Yolei asked.
"NO!!!" the whole group spoke at once.
"Sheesh...what's wrong with that picture of your cat?" I asked.
"Um...er..." Kari couldn't think of anything.
"O never mind." Yolei said throwing her hands up.
Just then, the Seatbelt sign came on with the announcement that we had an hour before our landing and that we were to be seated. We all went back to our seats, which meant we, meaning Yolei and yours truly, would be doing some of our own one-on-one interrogations.
"Kari, what were you trying to hide?"
"What do you mean, Davis?"
"Don't play dumb, Kari." Yolei said glaring at her.
Kari laughed nervously.
"C'mon guys, it really wasn't that important."
"You either tell us now or later, but either way I'm going to find out." Yolei said.
"Same for me." I joined.
"I'll tell you, but just not now, okay?"
"Fine. But you'd better make good on that promise." I said.
Okay, now that I've hinted as to whom Davis should end up with, the real story will kick in next chapter. Stick around for a while, 'cuz it ain't over till I say so. Thanks for reading!