Chapter 9

Monday morning. Ken took in a deep breath as he stepped off the early bird train to Odaiba. Over the weekend he had slowly gotten better. he smiled. He should have known he would have gotten better. Yolei had cheered him up Saturday afternoon and Sunday he spent in bed regaining his strength. There was only one thing that was bad about all this. Or at least, for Yolei.

"Achooooo!" she sneezed loudly. Ken sighed as he sat a few rows back beside Davis. They were currently in Language Arts and poor Yolei was suffering from a nasty head cold. Her throat was scratchy, nose tingly and runny and stuffed up and she was always sneezing! Her head was dazed and dizzy and she couldn't think straight.

Ken knew she had gotten it from when he had kissed her the other night. He really didn't think it was that contagious. So, therefore, being the bearer of Kindness, he felt guilty.

Though he had no choice to stay a good distance away from her since his immune system was off. 'Stupid cancer!' thought Ken bitterly.

The class seemed to be a blur for everyone. After class however, Ken had an idea.

As they walked down the hallway and on their way down to the computer room to pick up their digimon, Ken pulled Yolei back from the others and had her walk slower with him.

"What is it Ken?" asked Yolei, making sure not to breathe on him.

"Do you have instant e-mail?" he asked. Yolei was about to answer but Ken cut her off. "Besides your D-3."

Yolei still nodded. "Yeah, why?"

"Well, since your sick, I thought maybe we could talk by e-mail" he suggested.

"Okay!" said Yolei, ecstatic at the idea.

"We'll have to contact each other somehow, but here's my e-mail nickname for it" said Ken, writing it down on a handy piece of paper.

"Alright then!" said Yolei.

Ken sat down at his computer, Wormmon fast asleep inches away. He turned it on and waited. When it was ready he got e-mail up and waited for Yolei to start talking. He didn't know her nickname and couldn't contact her.

E-Mail Talk

EricaX - Ken? You there?

Breezyhope - Yes.

EricaX - Your name's Breezyhope? Why?

Breezyhope - Well, when I was got a lot of fan mail and stuff, a fan e-mailed me under this name. How she got it is beyond me. I had to change my e-mail, cause then everyone would use it. So I put it under her old name.

EricaX - Oh.

Breezyhope - So why EricaX

EricaX - I don't know. I wanted something different and I didn't want to use the name Yolei. So I guess I just liked the sound of it.

Breezyhope - I like it.

EricaX - I like yours better.

Breezyhope - So what do you want to talk about?

EricaX - I don't really know. Maybe we could talk about what we are going to do about Arukenimon.

Several minutes go by without a reply from Ken.

Breezyhope - Sorry, she just makes me so mad. She was the one who made me become the emperor.

EricaX - I know. But we have to stop her somehow.

Breezyhope - Please, lets not talk about her.

EricaX - Alright, we won't.

Breezyhope - Feeling any better?

EricaX - No.

Breezyhope - I'm sorry.

EricaX - It's okay. Not your fault.

Breezyhope - Yes. Yes it is my fault, I was the one who just had to kiss you the other night when I knew very well that I was sick.

EricaX - But you didn't know you were contagious.

Breezyhope - I should have known.

Neither of them type for several minutes.

EricaX - Are you guys going to go to the Digital World tomorrow?

Breezyhope - Yeah.

EricaX - Could you do me a favor and take Poromon with you. He's getting homesick and tired. he's needs to regain his strength.

Breezyhope - Sure.

EricaX - thanks. Well, I had better go. See you tomorrow.

Breezyhope - Goodnight Yolei. Love you.

EricaX - Love you too Ken.

End of E-mail talking.