Ch. 11 A Girls' Night

The door opened, I saw Matt's head pop in. He was smiling, not a happy smile, a smile that was hiding his true thoughts. He stared at me.

"Matt, I'm sorry about all the trouble I've put you through," I said calmly.

"You haven't caused any trouble for me," he replied with a happy smile.

"I'm the one who caused T.K. to go through that weird stage. I'm the one who causes all problems it seems like. I'm trying to be strong, but I can't, I can't find the right way, the right path. I've been weak this past week, I now know why, Izzy showed me. It was the terrible truth. He said that it might be that I'm scared to see the team split apart, go in different directions. I'm trying not to, I just can't! I guess I'm not strong enough. Then…Then there's Davis, my heart can't handle it all. I'm not strong, I can't do this alone, but I have to! No one knows what I'm going through, making me go through the whole thing alone. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think…That…I have to…Tell him. It might be the only way, he would understand, but all that lying I've done, if I told him, he might get hurt. This can't be! If I do anything, I can only hurt, not help. What is my problem!" I was confused, weak, and sad.

"You can't blame yourself, it isn't your fault. We all have our share of issues; maybe it's just your turn. You don't have to tell anyone anything, it's all up to you, you decide," Matt was calm and sweet.

"This is so, so, so-!" I was so scared, too scared, I stopped dead in my tracks, I couldn't talk, I felt sick, I was weak. I must have been trying, working to hard. I was at one point sitting; now I was laying on the ground. My eyes were open, I saw Matt staring at me with scared looking eyes. He held me in his lap.

"Izzy! Tai! Get in here! I think Kari might have that fever back!" Matt yelled, he couldn't get up.

Everyone rushed through the door. Worried faces were on most, scared on the others.

"Kari, are you ok? You haven't had anything like this happen to you since, well not since four years ago, when I went to summer camp, and you had to stay home. You had a very high fever, I was scared, but you, you always were smiling, even when you felt bad," Tai reminded me of those terrible days.

"I knew we shouldn't have let her be so active, she got to active, it stopped the medicine from working, I think we should get her home, but I don't really want her to walk, I don't think she will be able to. She's already really weak, if we took her any where it could make her worse," Izzy was worried.

"Then she'll just have to stay here," T.K. said.

"I'll call my mom," Tai told them, and left the room.

"If only," I whispered to myself.

"What did you say Kari?" Davis asked, he had this sad look, scared, sad look.

"Nothing," I said weakly.

I wasn't in Matt's lap any more, some how, I'm not that sure how, I was in Davis's lap. He held me close, he had his hand on my head, his hand was cold, I was so hot.

"Izzy, get the thermometer, I want to see how bad this fever is," Davis said shaky.

"Here," Izzy handed Davis it.

"Here, Kari, stick this under your tongue, like you did before," Davis smiled.

I did that, after a minute, Davis took the thermometer out of my mouth. He looked at it.

"She's not running a fever, her temperature is normal," Davis said shocked.

"Let me see it, you have to be reading it wrong, feel her head, it's burning," Izzy looked puzzled. Taking the thermometer out of Davis's hands, he was even more shocked. He dropped the thermometer. "It's normal," Izzy was speechless.

"Kari, do you feel ok?" Davis asked sweetly.

"Yeah, I guess you could say that," I said thinking about something else. I jumped up and walked out of the room. I saw everyone look at me, they were shocked.

I was in the living room, I saw Tai on the phone.

"I don't know why you're not answering the phone, but when you get this message call me back at T.K.'s house, I love you Mom, oh by the way, it's Tai!" Tai said to the answering machine.

"Did you get an answer?" I asked him.

"What? Kari? You should be lying down!" Tai was over worried.

"I'm fine Tai," I reassured him.

"Kari, come her," Tai told me.

I walked over to him.

"Kari, what has been going on lately?" he asked calmly.

"Nothing Tai," I was weak, but calm.

"I feel like you are hiding something, what is it?" Tai had a worried look on his face.

"I'm not hiding anything," I was lying.

"Is it about Davis?" he whispered.

"No," I said, I didn't think about my answer.

"Kari, do you have a fever?" Tai wondered.

"No," I was answering with simple no's.

"Are you sure, you head is really hot," Tai looked worried.

"Izzy and Davis said so," I was smiling.

"I wish Mom had picked up the phone, you need to get home, and get some rest," Tai said.

"I don't want to go home; I want to see if I can spend the night at Yolei's, with Sora and Mimi. A girl's night only. I think it will help me," I was calm, and a little stronger.

"Maybe me and the guys should have a guys night, all of us at T.K.'s, it would be fun, we could talk about the good old days, old crushes," he was smiling now.

"Don't tell him," I whispered.

"I won't Kari, I promise," he always knew what I was talking about.

"Thank you Tai, I'm going to talk to Yolei and the others," I walked into the bedroom.

"Kari, you shouldn't be running around like that!" Izzy yelled at me when I walked into the room.

"Izzy, I'm fine! Anyways, I found the perfect solution to my unhappiness, Yolei, Sora, Mimi, and myself…Should have a slumber party at Yolei's house, while you guys hang out here, in T.K.'s house! I think this will give a great change to talk about random stuff, something I haven't done since, well, four years ago, as we've been calling it, the good old days," I was smiling.

"That is a great idea, let me go ask!" Yolei shouted as she left.

"Mimi and I should call our moms and tell them," Sora said agreeably.

"If it's not ok with your mom T.K., my mom would be fine with us going down there," Cody said.

"I'll call my mom when Sora and Mimi get off," T.K. was smiling.

"If you guys get lonely, you can always call us to come down," I was nice about the fact.

"I wouldn't mine that," Davis was blushing.

"If Davis calls, just ignore it," Matt laughed.

"I remember when I slept over at Davis's house, I woke up because of Davis's loud snoring, then his sister told him that Kari was on the phone, he thought he was dreaming," Ken reminded Davis.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Davis lied, still blushing.

"Davis, you have much to learn, we'll teach you all we know," Tai was the one laughing now.

"Come on guys, don't make fun of Davis, just because he day dreams, dreams, and thinks about Kari all the time, doesn't me he's doesn't know anything about girls," T.K. was smiling.

As we all laughed, Yolei walked into the room.

"I missed making fun of Davis, didn't I?" Yolei was puzzled.

"Can we sleep over?" I asked, changing the subject.

"Yeah, what about the guys?" Yolei asked back.

"I'm on the phone now," T.K. was sweet about it.

We all looked at T.K. with hope in our eyes.

"Ok, see you in an hour," T.K. hung up the phone, and put his thumb up with a smile.

"Awesome!" Mimi shouted.

"Everything is good, we'll be going then," I said with a smile.

"Yeah, let's go," Sora said with a sarcastic sad look.

All the girls left.