From here on out, this fic may take a slightly songfic-ish turn. Lots of lyrics will be involved...
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"Hey... did anybody notice that Rika and Henry are missing?"
It was the afternoon, and we had gotten out about an hour ago. Rika and Henry were gone, and I was hanging out in the park with Kenta, Kazu, Guilmon, and Terriermon.
"I didn't notice that," Kenta said, blinking.
"That's 'cause you're an idiot." Kazu retorted.
"HEY!" Kenta socked Kazu in the arm.
"Seriously you guys! They're missing."
"Well, it's not like we know." Kazu replied, rubbing his arm. Suddenly, we saw Rika and Henry from out of the bushes.
"Momentai, Takato!" Terriermon said cheerfully, sitting on Guilmon's head. "They'll show up sometime!" He swirled his ears around Guilmon's nose, causing the dinosaur to sneeze. They all laughed.
"Don't worry Takato," Guilmon smiled with a happy voice. "They'll be here soon."
"Well well, speak of the devils," Kenta looked over at them, and he waved.
"Hey guys!" Henry called out. Both Rika and Henry ran over to us.
"We have visitors," Rika said, smiling. She turned to the side, where a girl and a guy stood.
"Hey," the girl smiled at us she walked over. She wore a leather sleeveless shirt that showed her midriff, with matching black gloves and boots. Her jeans were slightly faded and looked too long for her petite body, and she wore huge black-framed sunglasses on her head, the blue lenses shining from the bright afternoon sun.
"My name's Crystal. I'm an exchange student from the United States," Crystal greeted. We all shook her hand, welcoming her.
"And my name's Peter," the guy said, coming over to the group. He had short, messy green hair with black streaks in it, wearing slim glasses on the edge of his nose. He wore a green shirt with a star on it, with a black vest and black pants to match. He wore green wrist bands and green sneakers.
"Crystal and Peter shared an exchange family," Henry explained, "and last minute, they weren't able to have them in their home, so Rika and I volunteered."
"Crystal's also my cousin," Rika said, smiling. Crystal wrapped her arm around her cousin's shoulders, grinning.
"Yup," Crystal answered. "Rika told me a lot about Japan, so I was really suprised when she told me that I was staying at her house instead of my exchange family."
"She also told us about her friends!" A small voice exclaimed. Everybody's eyes boggled, and Crystal looked embarrassed. She put her backpack down, opening the flap and gently lifting a blue puppy, with white bangs and a black cap on.
"Meet Puppishumon, guys." Crystal said, wrapping her arms around her digimon. "Loud mouth extraordinare."
"So not a loud mouth," Puppishumon spat. "Cutie, yes. By the way, just call me Puppi. It's less of a mouthful."
"Wow, you have a digimon?" Kazu exclaimed.
"Lucky," Kenta said in awe.
Crystal giggled. "Yeah... Freak incidents and stuff." She smiled, but looked like she didn't want to elaborate.
"I have a digimon too. C'mon out, Kakimon!" Peter exclaimed. He put down his backpack as well, and unzipped the bag, and a black, cat-like face popped out. It had black triangles underneath its eyes and on its forehead, and wore a red bandana.
"Finally!" The black digimon exclaimed. "I can breathe!" Everybody laughed, and the digimon struggled itself out of the backpack.
"Anyway, like I was saying, Crystal has heard a lot about you guys!" Puppi exclaimed.
Crystal smiled, blushing a little bit. "Rika's sent me a lot of letters. I bet I can guess who you guys all are."
"Really now?" I looked at her, with an almost challenging look.
Crystal smiled, and started to walk over to each person as she spoke. "Let's see... you two are the squabbling ones." She stood infront of Kenta and Kazu, grinning.
She walked over to Guilmon. "And you're the big eating machine," she said, patting Guilmon on the head.
"You're the peaceful one who doesn't like fighting," Crystal said as she looked at Henry. "And of course you're my cuzzeh," she said, giggling as she looked at Rika.
"And you are the gogglehead extraordinaire, who often does stupid things," Crystal said, looking at me in the eye.
"HEY! I don't do stupid things!" I said with a huff.
"Yeah you do! Yeah you do!" Puppi said. She started to flail her arms at him, wiggling them about. I looked at her with big eyes, and then sweatdropped.
"You sure -YOU'RE- not the one who does stupid things, Puppi?" Crystal said, looking down at her digimon. They all sweatdropped.
"Well," Rika said, "To finish off what you started, cuz, let's see... Peter, you're the comedian who tries and makes everybody laugh..."
"Who, me?" Peter said, laughing at his own joke. Everybody shared a chuckle.
"And my cuz here," Rika continued, motioning towards her cousin, "is the overdramatic clutz queen."
"Am not!" Crystal replied. "I'm SO not overdramatic."
"That's kind of a rhetorical statement," Henry said, laughing.
"And I'm -SO- not a clutz. I can dance almost any dance move you can think of!" Crystal continued.
"Really? You can dance?" I looked at her, suprised.
"Yeah!" Crystal said, giggling. "I'm a great dancer!"
"I gotta agree with that," Rika laughed. "She's really good. She can best anybody."
"Not really," her cousin replied, but she was blushing. "I can dance the foxtrot and the mamba and the hampster and the numa numa..." Crystal twirled around and started to hum to herself, dancing to an imaginary beat. Her feet were in perfect rhythm as she stepped, and she twirled around and bowed infront of us as a finale. We all clapped.
"That's awesome!" I continued clapping. Crystal blushed, and continued to bow.
"Thank you, thank you," she said, lapping up all the attention.
"I wonder if you can dance like that, after your dancing lessons," Rika looked over at me with a thoughtful look. "If you can, you two would be great together as dance partners."
"Yeah... dance lessons... right..." I suddenly remembered what Henry had told her at lunch. I wondered how exactly I was going to pull that off.
Suddenly, an idea sparked. Now just to put it in action...
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Yeah. That's it Wait 'til next time!
