Disclaimer: Okay…welcome to Chapter 6 of "True Love Waits" and while you're reading this did you know that you could be saving over 15 on car insurance? Unless of course, you don't own a car…then you'd be saving 15 on nothing! Well…that was a useless tidbit, anyway I don't own digimon and you should've realized that by now…so I guess we can get started!

Chapter 6: The Mistake

(T.K.'s P.O.V)

I looked at the clock in the kitchen sighing. It was 12:30. I was getting knots in my stomach. I had recently applied for a part-time job as a high school guidance counselor. I wanted to get experience in the psychology field and by chance I picked this job. I had actually torn out all the jobs that I thought I would like, placed them on a dartboard and threw a dart at it. It hit the guidance counselor ad.

They said that they would get back to me in a few weeks. All in all, the interview went pretty well. The pay was satisfactory, the location was close, and the school itself wasn't that bad. They called a few days ago telling me to meet them at the school in the guidance office. I hope I would get the job…maybe after a few weeks I could afford a car. My old one was a junk heap…thanks Davis.

The clock reached 12:45 and I decided to get there early. I boiled up some water and made tea. I poured it into a thermos and headed to my car. It took about 15 minutes to get to the school and 10 more to get to the guidance office. I walked in and saw the guidance counselor sitting across from me at the other end of the desk. I sat down setting my tea aside.

(Kari's P.O.V)

I was sitting at my kitchen table looking around at my apartment. Today was the day T.K. hopefully got his new job. I had everything planned out. If he didn't get the job, I'd take him out to a nice dinner, get him a few drinks of sake and bring him back home to stay over for the night. I even had two banners lying in wait at the corner of the living room. One said Congrats on getting your new job! The other said Sorry it didn't work out…there's always next time! If he did get the job I'd probably fix him up a nice dinner here, we'd probably talk for a few hours, play some games and depending on my mood, I'd let him stay over for the night. I also had a bit of my own surprise for him.

I snapped out of my daydream and looked at the clock that was on my oven. 1:37 it blinked. I decided that I'd get everything ready from now. I went to my room, undressed, stepped into my bathrobe and walked into the shower. After a 20-minute shower I got dressed.

I put on some casual clothes and walked out to my car. I had a few errands I needed to run. First, I had to pick the sake. Then I had to get my hair done and then I had to pick up the food. After about 3 hours of being out I got back home. I took another shower and got dressed. I was wearing a new dress that Mimi bought me. It was made of velvet or silk, I couldn't tell the difference. It was a dark blue that you could probably mistake for black. When the light hit it just right it looked like it sparkled.

I put my bathrobe on over the dress so that it didn't get messy when I was cooking. I had made white rice, corn, Chinese donuts, General Tso's chicken, Japanese chicken, seasoned shrimp and for dessert I bought 2 3 qt. containers of ice cream. One was cookies n' cream the other was vanilla.

After 2 hours of cooking I called T.K. He was back home. He told me that he had got the job and they wanted him to start Monday. I asked if he wanted to come over for a celebration party and he agreed almost immediately. I hung up the phone and placed the food out on the table. I brought out a bucket of ice and placed the sake bottles in it. I got out my best china and put it on the table.

The door rang as soon as I finished putting up the banner and hooking up the PS2 to the plasma screen TV in my living room. It was a gift from my dad. Quickly I stripped off the bathrobe and laid it out flat on my bed. Then they knock three times. "I'm coming!" I said walking to the door.

(T.K.'s P.O.V)

The door opened and I saw Kari standing in yet another beautiful dress. I quickly regained my composure and smiled. "Where do you get the money for all this?" I said walking inside. "Well, the dresses are a gift from Mimi, the rest I pay for out of my own pocket." She said. "Sometimes I really think you outdo yourself…" I said sitting down at the table.

She sat down after me and we ate. About halfway through my third helping I noticed Kari staring at me. I swallowed a mouthful of rice and looked at her. "What is there something on my face?" I said picking up a napkin. She shook her head. "It's nothing…" She said finishing her food.

I finished my third glass of sake and stood up. "That was good." I said stretching. I headed for the couch in the living room with Kari following behind me. We sat down in front of the TV and I put in Ghost In A Shell. As the movie played on, I noticed that Kari was kissing on me. I tried to pull away from her and she continued to kiss on me. "Are you drunk?" I asked. "Maybe…" she said giggling.

I sighed. "C'mon Kari, I don't want to do this if your drunk…I don't think I'd want to this if you were sober either…" I said. Suddenly she stood up. I knew what was coming next, I'd seen Matt do it many times. She grabbed the nearest thing she could and flung it at the wall in the kitchen. "Why not! Don't you love me?" She yelled. I stood up. "C'mon Kari…calm down…you need to stop…you might hurt someone." I reached my hand to comfort her and almost immediately I knew that was the wrong move. She raised her hand and slapped me square in the face. I staggered back a little and regained my footing.

After about 30 minutes of hearing her throwing things and cursing me, and a few other things she calmed down. I was in the bathroom tending to the cut she gave me from when she dug her nails in my face from slapping me. I walked out with a band-aid on the side of my face. I saw Kari passed out on the floor between the kitchen and the living room.

After I cleaned up the place and tossed out the broken vases, glass and other things, I picked Kari up and laid her down on her bed. I had brought along a bag of spare clothes just in case it got late and I didn't feel like leaving. I took off my shirt and pants, unfolded the bed from her couch (one of those couches with the fold out bed), grabbed some sheets from her linen closet and tried my best to fall asleep. It didn't work.

I stayed up almost all night thinking about what had just happened and what Kari had said. The words banged in my head as if someone were playing the drums and I was the drumsticks. Don't you love me! Was all I could think about for the whole night. Finally I fell asleep around 4 to later be woken up at 7 by Kari's alarm clock. She must've had a serious hangover because she didn't even budge when the alarm clock rang.

I turned it off and walked into the kitchen. I decided to fix her some tea and a good breakfast. I had read in a book somewhere that fixing someone a good meal after a hangover helped reduce the effects. I was pretty sure it was Joe's book. At around 8:30 she woke up and walked out of her room. "Oh…my head is killing me…" Was the first thing she said. She must not have remembered anything.

"Mornin' sleepyhead." I said as she sat down in the couch. I put the food and the tea on a tray and brought it out to her. "What's this for?" She asked looking at me. Then I noticed that she was still in her dress. "Don't you think you should take that off?" I said referring to her dress. "I should but I don't feel like it now…but what's this for? And what happened to your face?" She said pointing at the band-aid.

Wow…she must really not remember anything… I sat down. "Eat first…it'll help your headache." I said while sitting down next to her. After she finished I told her everything. The dinner, the movie, the drinks and how she lashed out at me. As I finished she just looked at me.

"I—I'm sorry…" She said running her finger across the band-aid. I smiled. "It's nothing…" She held her hand up to stop me. "Of course it is…I hit you T.K…you and I both know that I'd never do something like that. And for that I'm sorry…" I smiled. "It's okay…but last night gave me a lot of time to think about some things…you see, we've been good friends for a really and I mean really long time. Last night…you asked or should I say, yelled at me asking if I loved you…" I paused to see her reaction. Nothing. "Last night got me thinking…we've had a really good relationship and although you were drunk and irrational, what you said hit me like an 18-wheeler speeding on the freeway…" I paused once more to look at her face. For some strange reason it looked as if it glowed from the light outside. "I was wondering…what if its time to take this relationship further?"

Kari's face seemed emotionless. It was as if she hadn't heard a word I said. Then the oddest thing happened. She kissed me! I thought I was supposed to kiss her! Well, either way, it still happened. I kissed her back and soon we were sprawled on the couch kissing yet again. But at least this time she was sober.

About 15 minutes later I decided that it was time to go. I broke the kiss and got up to leave. She was smiling at me. I grabbed my stuff, headed out the door and left. As I walked into my dorm I saw Davis sitting in his usual spot in front of the TV. Maybe things are finally turning around for me… I said as I fell back onto my bed falling asleep.

Goten: Told you it was gonna be good! If you enjoyed it I'm glad I could be of service…and if you didn't then your computer is going to blow up in T-minus 10 seconds…I suggest you find a bomb shelter to take refuge in…