Trials of Life
I don't own Digimon
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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
-+-+ Scene change
(----) Different point of view
(-/-/-) Flash back
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Chapter 37
He waves bye to Growlmon X and Raptordramon. "Bye Revmon! See you later then!" Growlmon X says. He nods and steps onto the symbol that will teleports him right back to the apartment he shares with his partner.
Soon he finds himself back home. He grins and looks around for Jager, only to find that his partner isn't here. He takes his pack to his room and then dresses up. He picks up his keys and then leaves the apartment. He decides to head over to Sora's.
He knocks on the back door and soon Sora opens and says, "Hey Rev, come on in." He smiles and steps into the house. "Thank you." He says. They sit by the table and he asks, "I didn't see Jager when I arrived, do you know where he is?" Sora looks thoughtful and then says, "O, you don't know. He's at the beach with the others. I had to work today, so I couldn't go." He nods at this and asks, "So, any more girls lined up for Jager?" "Not really. It looks like we don't need to hook him up anymore." Sora informs him.
He frowns and wonders just what does that mean. "What's been going on then?" He asks finally. "Jager's dating a girl named Lin. He's been going out with her since you left." Sora says. He just stares at Sora in shock with his mouth moving but nothing coming out. Sora seems amused with this and continues, "She's fourteen years old and seems like a girl, though I don't know how they met though. I don't think anyone does." He recovers and sighs. "She's with him today then?" He asks. Sora nods her head at that.
He can't believe that Jager had actually found a girl to go out with. He tries real hard to picture it, but found it extremely hard to picture. He then changes the subject to something else. He'll have to think this over before he sees Jager again.
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They had a game of beach valley ball. Izzy is the referee of the game while they were divided into two teams of fives, for Sora and Joe couldn't make it today, so Tai, Ken, Cody, Jager, and Mimi were on one team together while Matt, TK, Davis, Yolei, and she herself were on the other team and finally Lin decided to just help Izzy
"Ok! Four serving five!" Davis yells out and the serves the ball. Cody hits it over the net, she sends it back over, and then Tai spikes it over. Matt hits it up and Yolei spikes it over the net. Ken misses the ball so it lands on the ground by Jager's feet.
"Point to team two!" Izzy declares and Jager tosses the ball over the net. They then move positions. "Five serving five!" TK yells and the ball is sent over the net. Mimi hits the ball into the air and Jager then spikes it over the net. Yolei hits it and Tai then sends it back to her team's side. Davis drives for it, sending it into the air and she hits it over the net. Ken hits it over, Yolei sends it back, Jager makes it sail over the net, and Matt spikes it back. Tai and Cody collide and the ball lands on the sand.
They cheer at this as Izzy declares, "Point to team two!" Mimi sends the ball back over to their side and TK serves again. "Six serving five!" TK shouts. Cody hits the ball, Matt sends it flying over the net again, Ken sends it into the air and then Tai spikes it. They miss the ball and it lands by Yolei's feet.
"Point to team one!" Izzy says and the other team cheers. "Six serving six!" Cody says then serves the ball. The ball makes it over the net, Davis hits the ball, Jager then hits it back, Yolei hits it over the net, and Ken sends it right back. Davis and Matt try for the ball, but they both miss the ball, she sends it over the net. Tai catches the ball and Mimi goes to help Matt up while TK helps Davis up.
"I think we could do with a break. It's lunch." Izzy states as everyone walks back to where their stuff is set up. She glances over to where Lin and Jager are walking. She sighs as she watches them interact. They bother were interested in each other, but they just didn't want to talk about it. She decides to have a talk with Lin about it.
She then looks to where TK is and decides to have TK talk to Jager about it. She moves closer to where her boyfriend is and whispers, "I don't suppose you could talk with Jager about his feelings for Lin?" TK sighs and says, "Did already and he's waiting to talk with Revmon about it." She looks surprise about that and then nods. "Revmon is coming back tonight, hope they talk it over then." She says. TK inclines his head down as to agree with that.
Soon the few good cooks among them take out some barque supplies and head to where they spotted. With Jager, Matt, Mimi, and TK gone it leaves her and the others at the site. 'Gatomon would love just laying around in the sun. Too bad Lin doesn't know about Digimon, but then it's Jager's choice about telling her too. Joe did with Sharon and its been working out pretty well.' She thinks as she walks over to where Lin is sitting.
"Hey. What to talk?" She asks as she sits down by Lin. The other girl looks surprise as she sits. "About what?" Lin asks. "About your feelings for Jager." She says. Lin looks uncomfortable at this and says, "It's not serious." She smiles at this and says, "But you want it to be." Lin looks guilty at this but doesn't deny it. "He scared me at first, you know? He surprised me about the whole dating thing, I didn't expect it, you know? I know that I'm not much to look at." Lin says.
She looks Lin over and didn't know just what to say, for Lin doesn't look too bad in her opinion but it seems that Lin wouldn't believe it if she told her. She sighs and says, "Trust me on this, if you ask Mimi and Sora to help you with you're wardrobe, you'll be having second thoughts about that one." Lin looks up at that and asks, "You ever let them do that to you?" "A few times." She admits. Lin looks thoughtful at this and she says, "It might work out, you know. Just don't give up on it, ok?" Lin looks away and then says, "He's only going out with me to get them to stop with setting him up." She nods and says, "I think everyone figured that one out. But he's not uncaring; he just has a few problems that he fears will keep him from having close relationship with someone of the opposite gender." It's as close to the true that she felt comfortable telling.
Lin looks thoughtful at this and says, "I guess we all have our secrets." She nods at this, knowing that Lin understands the hint. She hopes that Lin and Jager will last for quite some time, for they both seem to need each other. In what way, she didn't know, only that on some level she knows that they could help each other the longer they are together.
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She thinks about what Kari said. She did know that Jager does have secrets, but the face that most of them knew that Jager was dating her to get out of going out on blind dates wasn't something she thought that they would figure out. She stares off at the ocean, more lost in her own thoughts then in the scenery before her.
'So they knew that we were only going out to stop him from going on more blind dates. They don't seem to pity me or hate me; they just seem to accept me. I've never met people who were so accepting of a stranger.' She thinks, then she hears someone call her name and she snaps out of it. She turns to where she heard her name come from and finds that the others were back with cooked hamburgers and hotdogs.
She gets up off the towel and walks over to where Jager is standing. She finishes filling her plate with food and sits to Jager's right. They chat about stuff, like who's birthday is coming up and then about TV shows and movies. She was among the first group to get up and get seconds.
After a good hour, they return to playing valley ball, only this time Mimi decided to sit this game out, so she took Mimi's place on team one. She just hopes that she plays alright.
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He walks towards his apartment and wonders what time Revmon will be getting back. He unlocks the door and hears, "So, you got a girlfriend." He sighs and turns on the lights. "Hello Revmon. You talked with Sora, didn't you?" He says as he takes off his shoes. He then places the bag on the floor. "Yip, it seems that it all started when I left on my trip." His partner says. He sighs and says, "And you think I planned it that way? You'd be correct." He watches as Revmon just looks defeated and says, "Why keep it from me?"
He finishes sorting through the pack on the floor and says, "You would have wanted a hand in the picking and I wanted to choice on my own." Revmon snorts and says, "I only want someone worthy for you! Plus how do I know that she isn't just using you?" He grins and says, "Cause I scared her on our first meeting so much that I thought she wouldn't show up at the meeting point. I also was the one to name the terms too." Revmon looks taken back by that information. "You scared her that much? What did you do? Catch her off guard then." Revmon says. He can't help but grin a bit as he remembers the way she cringed when he questioned her about spying on Matt and him.
He sighs as he heads to the bathroom to rinse out his swim trunks. He then hangs them up to dry out. He'll do laundry tomorrow; he soon sits down on a lazy boy chair. "So, how was Growlmon X?" He asks, changing the subject. "Doing good. You'd be stunned at how large he has grown. You should visit him too." Revmon says.
He nods at this; something in his expression must have shown his worry about something, so Revmon asks in a concerned voice, "What's wrong?" He admits, "I don't know my feelings concerning Lin." Revmon studies him and asks, "You're developing feelings for her after just a week?"
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He waits for his partner to answer. He didn't expect this and he didn't know just how to answer this. "I guess so. There's just something about her that I can't describe." His partner tells him. He studies his partner and then says, "I think this is something only you can go through. Though I wouldn't mind knowing what this Lin looks like." Jager sighs and nods at that.
They soon just turned on the TV and Jager takes out some frozen fries for supper. It's 5:23 pm and it won't take long for them to heat up. They soon found an American movie to watch too.
They spent the rest of the night just chilling out in front of the TV. It's Sunday and his partner has school tomorrow. He still has trouble thinking that Jager found someone without anyone's help, but then, he knew that just cause they keep picking teens that they think Jager will like, doesn't mean that they're the right ones either. So now he's curious about who this Lin is and what she's like.
To be continued …