Chapter 28

The music continued and the dancing went on. Yolei and ken were currently having a conversation with TK and Kari.

"And so when Matt came to get his guitar, there was spaghetti sauce...everywhere!" laughed TK finishing up a story. Everyone laughed.

"Say Kari, I going to go up and get ken and me a drink. Wanna come along?" asked Yolei.

Kari nodded brightly and the girls went off through the dancing crowd to the other side of the room where the drinks were.

Turning around to make sure the girls were out of earshot, TK leaned in closer to ken. "I have the flowers. They're in the bathroom. Be right back" and with that TK ran out of the gym to the bathroom.

It was a surprise that TK and Ken had going for Yolei and Kari. Ken had given TK money to buy the flowers for him when he went to his grandmother's house so he could buy a bouquet of flowers for Yolei. TK had hid them in the boy's bathroom until they were ready to be given.

"I already gave her flowers though..." said Ken. "Perhaps I should just give her the necklace." TK had returned and was handing Ken the flowers, looking around to make sure Kari and Yolei weren't coming back yet.

TK shook his head, ramming the flowers into Ken's chest. "No way ken! I worked too hard to get these flowers, so you are giving them to her!" TK looked to his right. "Shoot! Here they come!" TK and Ken quickly hid the flowers behind their back.

"Oh Yolei!" cried a girl's voice from the other side of the crowd. Yolei had given Ken a quick smile and wave before turning back to see who called her. Kari however continued walking their way.

"Kari..." began TK carefully. "These are for you.."

Kari's eyes lit up. "Oh! Thank you TK!" She hugged him tightly, accepting the flowers. Ken smiled. 'If Kari reacted that way...then maybe Yolei will to...even if I already did give her flowers...besides...I have the necklace too.' thought Ken.

TK watched as ken went in search of Yolei. At first, he only dodged the large crowd as best as he possibly could. He then got to the other side of the crowd where the refreshment table was.

Ken smiled. There she was. She was standing by the drinks.

He quickly walked up to her, tapped her on the back, and just as she was turned around he gave her a most passionate kiss.

"KEN!" cried Yolei from beside him. Ken's eyes went wide with shock. Wait a minute...if Yolei was there...then who was he kissing...?

Completely on reflex, Ken shoved the girl he was kissing to the ground, as he broke the kiss.

"Ouch! Pervert!" cried the girl. ken looked between Yolei and the girl on the floor, everyone near them watching. They looked so alike! They both had the same length of hair, same color, same height and build, similar dresses, and both wore glasses.

Yolei, who had had two glasses in her hands, dropped them to the floor, making them crash into millions of pieces, grabbing the attention of just about everybody. TK and Kari pushed their way through the crowd to see what had happened. No one spoke.

Ken looked at Yolei with guilt covering his eyes. "Yolei...I-"

"Forget it" hissed Yolei. She glared daggers at Ken. She ran past the crowd and out the gym doors. The girl Ken had kissed was now standing.

"Smart move Ichijouji. That's the best way to win a girl's heart...kiss another girl" she spat.

"But...I- I thought you were Yolei! You two look so alike and its dark and I-"

TK put a hand on his shoulder and whispered into his ear. "Stop talking and run." ken looked at him. "Run after Yolei."

Ken didn't wait another second. He bolted out the doors in seconds. After several minutes of murmuring from the crowd, the music started up again and the dance continued.

Ken panted for breath as he ran, puffs of smoke raising into the air at each breath from the cold. he had to catch her. he knew where she was going. Home.

Running down the street he nearly ran into a telephone pole before he reached her apartment building. Running up the stairs two at a time, ken reached her door in not time flat.

He banged on the door. "YOLEI!" he screamed through the doorway.

The door opened to Ken's surprise. But what he saw didn't make him any happier. Yolei's older brother and sister stood in the doorway, blocking the view of his precious Yolei.

"Get outta here Ichijouji. You ain't welcome here" hissed Yolei's older brother. Ken only stood there panting as he looked up at the older boy, holding his side due to a cramp in his side. Sweat poured down ken's face.

"But- I-came here to-" tried ken.

"To what? Apologize? Little late don't you think?" sneered Yolei's sister, who then disappeared when she heard a distressed cry from Yolei's room.

Ken tried to look in by using his tiptoes, but Yolei's brother made sure he couldn't see in. "Let me see if she's alright-" tried ken again.

"Well she ain't, thanks to you. She doesn't want to see your sorry ass ever again" the boy continued to hiss. Ken froze, staring at Yolei's brother in utter fear and shock. No...Couldn't be..

"She-she didn't say that..." whispered ken.

"Yes I did Ken Ichijouji. I never want to see your sorry back-stabbing behind ever again. Now just leave me and my family alone. You kissed TWO other girls tonight Ken, the first was a trick done by a bully, but not the second. You kissed HER! Not the other away around. I SAW! You and I Ken...are no more...this relationship is OVER!" With that, Yolei's older brother slammed the door right into ken's face.

Ken slid to the floor, his back against Yolei's door. Tears fell like waterfalls. 'It was over...' he kept moaning in his head. 'Over...'

Wormmon had seen the hints that there was something wrong with his partner the second he walked in.

First, Ken's face was emotionless. Something that never happened anymore.

Second, his eyes were glazed over as though he really wasn't there.

Third, He was walking like a zombie, not really looking at anything, his arms limp at his sides.

Four, he wasn't chattering about the dance, nor Yolei, which ken said he would do when he returned from the dance.

Wormmon walked up to ken and hugged his ankle, asking," What's wrong?"

Silence. Ken shook Wormmon off his ankle. He didn't reply until after he had taken off his jacket, shoes, socks, tie, and shirt. He crawled into bed, with only his pants on. 'Odd' Wormmon thought. 'He never does that.'

Wormmon crawled and worked his way up to the bed, and by that point, ken had already bundled himself into a small cocoon of blankets rolled up into a small ball.

"Ken? What happened?" asked the little worm.

"She never wants to see my sorry ass ever again..."Ken choked. Wormmon cocked his head to one side at this.

"Why not?"

"It was a mistake...I swear to you it was..."

"What was a mistake?"

"The kiss..."

Wormmon knew this was a hard thing for ken to talk about, so he let him be...figuring out the rest for himself. He would find out the whole story eventually...