Trials of Life
I don't own Digimon
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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
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(----) Different point of view
(-/-/-) Flash back
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Chapter 35
He sighs as he looks at the teen before him. He can't believe that he's on a date with her; he recalls that her name started with an M. This was the fifth date that he's gone on since TK turned fourteen. There was still no signs of the X-Antibody beginning activated in either TK or Patamon, not that this didn't mean much, it could still activate one day.
He's technology twenty years old now and his thinking about his future. He is almost finished his programming classes in University and he's thinking of a career in the movie industry, more likely in the special effects department. But for now, he'll focus on earning his credits to graduate from University.
He focuses in on his date when she asks, "So, you want to go see a movie?" He smiles politely and says, "Why don't you pick?" Her eyes glow at this and he is soon dragged out of the restaurant. He wonders if maybe it's time to retaliate on those that keep setting him up on dates. He knows who to ask, Tai and Matt will know.
He smiles wickedly as he lets his thoughts wonder on just how to get them back. He as an idea in mind, but will need to find the right someone. They enter into his car and he is on his way to the movie theatre.
(----------------------------------------Lin------------------------------------------)
She sketches this kid on a skateboard, she has to admit that the kid was talented, or she wouldn't have picked him out of the crowd. She finishes the last few lines of her drawing and then examines what she sketched. Satisfied, she looks for another target.
She spots one, this kid around her age is moving through the crowd, but it's the way the guy moves across the grass that catches her attention. The way he moves was predatory like, then she studies what the guy is wearing.
He has on a black shirt with an image of a red dragon on the back of it. His wearing navy jeans that show off his butt real well and white runners. The guy also has his hair dyed white and looks totally out of it from the look on his face. He's tall, about six feet in height and, from her angle, has green eyes.
She smiles and admits that he's cute. She opens her notebook to a new page and waits for him to stand still. Soon she's in luck, for he finds a large tree and leans on it. She then begins to draw light lines at first and then glancing up every few seconds to make sure she's capturing the real him on her page.
Soon she begins to study him in earnest as to get the right detail for her sketch. She also then notes that he's scanning the crowd for something, but she couldn't see his other eye cause he wasn't glancing in her direction. Soon she finishes her sketch and begins to draw him walking and just a head pose.
She then puts her notebook away and just decides to look at him. She knew full well that he's most likely waiting for his girl friend. 'I wonder who's the lucky girl to claim him for a boyfriend. She's probably some air head with tons of cash.' She thinks.
After five more minutes, she notices someone walking towards the guy she's been watching. 'Is that Matt from the Ice Wolves? It is! I wonder if I could get his autograph?' She thinks as she watches as the two teens greet each other.
She's curious now who the green eyed guy is to be on talking terms with a hottie like Matt Ishida. She decides to get in closer to the pair, if only to learn the guy's name. She quickly packs her stuff and walks towards a tree close to where the two were.
Soon she catches the last part of what no name is saying to Matt. "… can't you maybe talk Mimi out of it? I really don't need to be set up on dates that they keeps setting me up for. I only go out with them as to not hurt their feelings." "Did you try talking with Tai?" Matt asks. "No luck, he's decided to only help if I come up with a solid plan that doesn't show any evidence that he had a hand in it." The guy answers sourly. She hears Matt sigh and then says, "You're working on one, right? I really don't know just what might make Mimi lose interest on setting you up on dates. I also think Rev, has a hand in this too." "Of course Rev does! He's most likely the one that suggested that Sora and Mimi help set me up on dates. I'm thinking of talking with Rev to visit with Growl for a week, but that might be only thing I can do to him. He is my best friend when everything is settled." Unknown says Matt.
She thinks about this information. She knows that Matt's girlfriend is a girl called Mimi, though nobody knows her last name. Now it seems that it's more likely that Matt's friend is also available too. She didn't know just how to interpret that; either the guy is mental or gay.
She frowns as she focuses in on the next part. "You ever date before they set you up on these dates?" Matt asks. "No, I just didn't want anyone to notice, you know. They might also freak out when they find out about Rev. I don't want some girl tattling to the new paper or selling the info." Matt's friend says. "You really thought this through, huh?" Matt asks, clearly impressed. "I had a lots of time to think about it." The guy says.
She blinks in surprise about the part about this Rev guy. She's now more interested in the guy then before, but she now just wonders how to get connected. She frowns as she ponders this.
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He just didn't know what to do. He really had hoped that Matt could help out, but it seems that he might needed use the plan he's been thinking about. He didn't really want to go through with it, but it seems that it's the only way.
He watches as Matt leaves and then notices someone by the tree in a few feet away and a little to the left. He then studies the shadow on the ground and could note that it seems that they had someone spying on them. He sighs, wondering if it was one of Matt's fan girls.
He moves quietly towards the tree and looks behind it. He finds a girl, not that he's stunned at this though. He notices that she's busy thinking and hasn't notice that he's here.
He then sizes up the fourteen year old. She has light brown hair with blond highlights and she has bluish eyes. He guesses that she's taller then the Digidestine of Light. He notes that she's wearing a dark green shirt with a black windbreaker. The pants had tree colours and they were brown, black, and green. He sees the backpack by her feet.
He studies her for a good three minutes and then says, "Heard anything of interest?" He watches as she looks startled and then looks at him with dawning horror. "I, um, I was… looking at this tree! Yea, it's really old and its bark is very cracked." She says lamely. He looks unamused at this. "You were spying. Just what did you hear?" He asks. "Just that you don't like going on dates set up by this two girls and that one of them seems to be Matt's girlfriend." She says, clearly unhappy about confronting him.
He studies her and then says slowly, "And you are?" "Lin Strith." Lin says. He sighs and says, "Jager Kimura." She looks surprised at him giving her his name. "So, now what?" She asks. 'What indeed.' He thinks as he stares at the teen in front of him.
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She stares into Jager's mismatched eyes. As odd as it was, she believes that they were real and not contacts. The right eye was silvery blue eye and not the green she thought it would be. She feels so stupid about getting caught this way, but she'll be lucky if he didn't tell her to bug off. She really didn't want that, she was too curious about who Rev is and what the big secret is about the guy.
"Meet me here tomorrow around five." He tells her and then leaves her alone. She begins to panic about what the guy wanted. She doesn't know weather to show up or not. She slowly picks up her pack and heads for home.
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He blinks in surprise at his partner's suggestion. It's true that Guilmon X is now Growlmon X and that nobody has ever seen a Growlmon, let alone a Growlmon X. He had to admit that this was too tempting to miss out on. He could also visit with Raptordramon too for a spar.
But then he begins to wonder if the real reason was to get him away from the apartment. It was a given that Jager knew who was setting him up as well as who started it too. But then, it looks that Jager might be luring him away from the apartment and away from any means of communication with Sora and Mimi.
'I guess Jager needs the week to come up with a plan. By then, I'll come up with a few counter plans, so it more or less a win-win then.' He thinks to himself. "I'll go. I leave tomorrow morning though." He informs Jager. Jager grins at this and nods. "I can live with that." His partner says and he watches as his partner and best friend heads to the fridge to start supper. He studies Jager for a few minutes and then just shrugs; he'll wait for Jager to slip up and give him a few hints at what he's planning.
He turns to watch the show from America. He snorts as a commercial appears. The commercial had to do about this new movie being released into theatres in America.
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He checks the time and finds that it's two minutes to five. He then spots Lin walking slowly towards him. He could see that Lin didn't look too thrilled with coming to meet him. Not that he blames the teen, but she did spy on Matt and him, and he figures that she could make it up to him by dating him to get Sora, Mimi, and Revmon off his back. His also glad that they didn't say Revmon or Growlmon during their conversation. He didn't know just how much she heard, but it had to be more then what she told him.
Soon Lin stands before him, looking anywhere but at him. He sighs and feels a bit sorry for her, but he really wants to have control over his own love life again. He decides to begin.
"I'm not going to bite, you know." He says to Lin. Lin looks up quickly and then looks of to her left. "Then why did you want to meet up with me?" Lin asks. "I need to prove to them that I don't need them fixing me up with girls. That I could get a girl without them interfering in my life." He says. Lin looks him in the face and asks, "Just what's in it for me?" He smiles a bit and says, "How about going to Matt's concerts and going back stage afterwards?" Lin looks stunned at this offer and then recovers, asks, "Just what is your relationship with the Ice Wolves?" "I'm a relative of sorts to Matt." He informs her. She looks torn between accepting and rejecting the offer.
He decides to add something to make sure she agrees. "You can also meet with Matt's and mine group of friends. See Matt outside of the music seen." He adds. He watches as Lin weighs all the pros and cons of dating him. He doubts that she'd go for it if it was just him paying for them on the dates, for he knows he gave her a huge scare the other day.
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She can't believe the whole thing, not only dating someone as cute as Jager, even if he unnerved her yesterday, but also going to any of Matt's concerts with backstage passes. She's not that big of a fan of the Ice Wolves, but she did find some of the members cute. She also wants to know more about Jager and watch him interact with his friends. She finishes thinking about it and says, "Sure, as long as you pay on the dates." She notices that Jager didn't care about that and figures out that he planned to from the beginning.
"Here's my number for my place and under it is my cell phone number." He says after he writes them out on a small piece of paper. She takes the paper with the phone numbers and pockets it. Then demands, "Well are we going or not?" Jager nods and leads the way. Tonight the Ice Wolves had a concert and seeing as Jager promised about taking her to see the Ice Wolves play and go backstage, them might as well begin this very night.
To be continued …