Disclaimer: Again, digimon, not mine

My mind was in chaos since the day at the field. I had been in love with Yolei for years. I had only admitted this truth to myself the day before. Before, I had some hope for a chance, but that one sentence ended it. It often repeated in my mind. Minomon tried to remind me that at least Yolei thought I was cute, but that wasn't enough for me. I poured myself into my job and increased my work hours to distract me from the ache in my heart. However, that brought the fear that the dark spore would become active again. Davis noticed this and hung out with me more. He tried to include the other Digidestined, but they had lives of their own. None of them knew why I needed the distraction and would want to do their own things. I always had trouble with the Digidestined, socially. Now, when I needed them the most, they turned their backs on me. Not that I blamed them, they didn't know why I needed them. I wasn't the only victim. The Digidestined were drifting apart. The older children were starting to move away. It was at that point Minomon had a brilliant idea for a friend. One who had a similar situation to me.
"Hey Mimi," I said as I sat down to lunch, bringing Wormmon, who immediately went to find Palmon. After finding each other, they came and sat close to us, stealing pieces of our lunch. It was a weekend and I was having lunch with Mimi in the digital world as opposed to with Davis. He had a soccer game. Mimi and I had a relaxed relationship. We got along better than I thought we would. We were both outsiders currently among the digidestined, but loved one of them. The group had accepted me as a partner, but had trouble making me a friend. Mimi had lost a lot of friends when moving to New York. We were well suited company as distant viewers of the group. We discussed the group as we saw them move apart.

Mimi admitted to me that she loved Izzy, but was afraid to make a move. She claimed that he had showed no interest. I was surprised by this for Mimi was very pretty and very nice. She knew my secret about Yolei. I was actually surprised that she got it out of me. In a way, it was freeing for her to know. I was very comfortable discussing my feelings with her. Both because of her own feelings for Izzy and her personality made her easy to talk to. I told her of the incident in the park. She understood in a way Davis never could.

"Sora," Mimi said suddenly interrupting my laughter. I turned and saw her, my smile gone. My hand, which had been touching her knee pulled away suddenly. Why was she here? I questioned silently. I wanted to have a quiet lunch with Mimi.

"I was going to see if you wanted to hang out and I found you in the digital world. What are you doing here, Ken?"

"I just came to the digital world to have lunch and found Mimi-"

"Ken and I have been spending a fair amount of time together," Mimi interrupted.

Sora frowned, "Do you really think that's a good idea? What about Tai? And you know who?"

"Sora, I'd like to assure you that my interest in Mimi is purely platonic as is her interest in me." I stood up and bowed to Sora who looked confused.

"Ken's in love with Yolei-"

"Mimi-"

"It took me forever to get him to tell me."

"Mimi! Why did you tell Sora?"

"Sora understands. She's in love with Matt. Why do you think she goes to all of his concerts?"

I had never thought of that.

"I just wish I knew what Matt felt," Sora sighed.

"No offense, Sora, but wouldn't he have made a move by now?" I tried to be delicate.

"You haven't."

"But I haven't dated other girls, Matt has." Sora looked deflated. "I'm sorry, Sora, I didn't mean it."

"No, Ken, it's okay," she sighed again. "It's just that sometimes he'll do things…sweet things…that make me think, maybe."

"Why don't you ask Matt what he thinks of Sora? And then Izzy about me? Sora and I can ask Yolei," Mimi said quickly, excited.

I was stunned, "I can't ask them that. They…I…I can't. I wouldn't ask them that. They would know something was up."

"But Ken, your parents are always asking you to have your friends over. This would make them happy, as well as us," Mimi begged.

"The summer's almost over. You could go on a camping trip, all of the guys, to celebrate the end, or something," Sora helped Mimi. They both looked at me hopefully.

"I'll talk to Davis, maybe we can organize something, but I don't promise anything." Before I had finished speaking, Mimi and Sora collapsed on me, giving me hugs as a thank you.

Davis wanted to hang out with me after the game, so we met up at his house. He quickly showered while I tried to make conversation with Jun. When I first started hanging out with Davis, she had been shocked that the famous Ken Ichijouji would want to hang out with her brother. After 4 years, she had gotten used to the idea. At first she was always asking me questions, but by now I was just one of her annoying brother's friends. I was actually relieved by this idea because, personally, I couldn't really stand Jun. I would try to make conversation because it seemed rude not to. Luckily, Davis came out of the shower and dragged me into his room, saving me from Jun's stares.

"So Ken, I was thinking of going to the digital world today, since my soccer camp is done for the day, and you don't have work. What do you say?"

"Davis, I was thinking, summer's almost over. Maybe we should have a big get-together, with all of the male digidestined. You know, one last hurrah before school starts again," I winced, waiting for Davis's response. Mimi and Sora better appreciate this.

"Ken, that's a great idea! We could go on a camping trip in the digital world! We could bring our digimon and have a guy's night, every night for a few days. No stupid girls or sisters or parents to bother us for a few days. It would be awesome! Glad I thought of it," Davis teased, grinning at me. "We can call the others tonight and invite everyone!"

"I don't know about this, Davis, maybe it's a bad idea."

"No, it's a great idea." He picked up the phone, "Hi, Tai, it's Davis, I was thinking that all of the guy digidestined could have a camping trip in the digital world, before summer ends. It'd be just the guys, no girls allowed"

I could hear Tai on the other end, "That's a good idea, we could do that this next weekend, and be gone for the entire weekend. I'll call Izzy, Joe and Matt and organize it. You call Cody, Ken and TK, see if you can separate him from my sister."

"I'm on it, Tai. Call me when you have it organized."

I sat in Davis's room as he called Cody and TK. Cody was immediately interested, but had trouble convincing his parents. After promising that Joe, an adult they trusted, would be there the entire time, they relented and let him. It took sometime to convince TK. He had started dating Kari recently and already had plans for the weekend with her. After some arguing from me, TK agreed to cancel his plans with Kari to go camping with us. I was surprised Davis didn't through a fit when TK mentioned his date with Kari. He said he was over Kari, and had been for years. I didn't believe it though, until then. It made me wonder if Davis had his eye on someone else, or not.

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