Ch. 15 The Kiss Good Night Nightmare
"Kari! Come here!" Tai yelled to me.
Davis was still holding me. He let go of me, we stared in each other's eyes. I never noticed how beautiful his were! I was about to melt.
"Kari!" Tai yelled again.
"Coming!" this time I yelled back.
Davis and I walked hand in hand towards Tai.
"You guys look adorable together," Sora told us.
"Oh, come on!" Tai moaned.
I let go of Davis's hand, and went up to Tai.
"I've told you, I'm growing up, I can't stop it," I wanted to cry.
"I know, I wish you didn't have too," Tai gave me a hug.
"I'll always be your little sister," I whispered in his ear.
"I'll always be here to talk to," he whispered to me.
"I'm sorry," I started to cry, today was very emotional.
"It will be ok," Tai stopped hugging me and looked at Sora and Matt.
"I know how you feel Tai, T.K. is growing up just as fast," Matt pointed at T.K. and Yolei.
"Yeah, but you're handling it much better then I am," Tai looked worried.
"No, I just don't show how much it hurts to see him grow up; I wasn't even there most of his life. I've only been able to spend little time with him," Matt looked scared.
"Don't worry Matt, he'll be fine. He has been so far," I told him with a smile.
"Kari is right, you did the best you can, you now need to let them do their own thing, I guess you could say that you need to let them be free," Sora told us.
"If only my sister was as caring as you guys," Davis had a sad look in his eyes.
"Davis, look around you, we are like your brothers and sisters, we care for you like you were family. Any ways, you are like the little brother I never got!"' Sora winked.
"Gee, I really don't feel like that toward Kari!" Davis laughed.
"Sora, I don't feel like Davis is my brother, I feel something different," I told her.
"Yeah, well, it goes the same for me, and I hope Tai feels the same way!" Sora looked at Tai.
"I feel the same," Tai started to laugh too.
"I'm going to talk to T.K., you coming Davis?" I asked.
"Oh…Sure!" Davis was overjoyed.
"I'll talk to you later Tai," I said as we walked away.
"T.K, shouldn't you get back home?" I asked him.
"Oh…My mom, she's going to be home in a couple of minutes!" T.K. said shocked.
"He's not always smart, but he's awesome!" Yolei told me.
"Come on Davis, help me get the others!" T.K. yelled, running all over the place.
"Come see me before you leave," I whispered to Davis.
He nodded in agreement, and went to help T.K.
"Are you sure you like him?" Yolei asked me.
"Yeah, I really do," I said staring at Davis.
After a minute or two, everyone was ready to go. Davis walked over to me.
"Take this," I said handing him the walkie-talkie that they gave back to us.
"Oh…For what?" Davis was confused.
"I might get lonely," I said quietly.
"Ok," he said, and walked off.
I waved to him as he left.
He smiled back at me.
"Come on girls, now what should we do?" Yolei asked.
"Kari, you did a very brave thing, you seem so much happier," Sora told me.
"I just feel like this is a dream," I told them.
"Let's see if it is," Yolei said, then pinched me.
"Oww! That was stupid!" I yelled as I rubbed my arm.
"Well, you know that you're not dreaming," Yolei said and started to laugh.
"What would I do with out you guys?" I wondered.
All of a sudden, we heard a noise coming from the vent. We screamed.
"Look, a hanger…It has a note on it!" Yolei pointed out.
"I'll read it…Sorry we had to go, we would have stayed longer, but T.K.'s mom is coming home, send us some notes, always, the guys…How nice, get a pen and paper," I told them.
"What should we write?" Mimi asked.
"I'll write it…We got your note, it was nice of you to write. We're also sorry you had to go, we were having fun! Write back. Got to go, the girls…Sounds good," Sora wrote as she spoke.
"Here, let me put it down," Yolei was smiling.
Sora handed her the small piece of paper.
"Hold on, seal it with a heart," I told them.
"Oh, ok, give it here; I'll make the heart…Great!" Mimi drew a heart before and after where Sora wrote the girls. After Mimi was done, she handed it back to Yolei. She put it down the vent.
After a couple of minutes, they sent up another note. It was to Sora and me only.
"Come on, we'll read it over here," Sora told us.
We walked over to Yolei's closet, a walk in closet. We went in there to read the note.
"I'll read it," Sora told me.
"Ok," I calmly responded.
"Dear Sora and Kari, we miss you so much…Oh how cute!" Sora started, I took the note from her.
"I am sorry Kari, it was wrong of me to make you keep that terrible secret locked up, I shouldn't have. It was so wrong of me, I hope you will forgive…Oh my," I was shocked from what I read.
"And Sora, I'm amazed you still, or better yet, ever liked me, you deserve better if you ask me. Wow, wasn't expecting that, were you? I'll let Davis talk now…That is so sweet," Sora was also shocked.
"Kari, I'm kind of scared, I've never told anyone what I told you, but I think it was for the better. I'm also amazed that you like me! I just wish you would have told me earlier, at least the part about you not liking T.K., it would have made things easier, but that is what I think. Wow, it still shocks me, what you said and everything, that kiss you gave me, I should have known, it was to tell me, wasn't it? My dream has came true, I finally got the perfect girl, smart, funny, beautiful, everything! Oh, I better say something to Sora, she has to know something too…Oh Davis," I was blushing.
"Here let me read the rest…Sora, thank you for being there, you are like the older sister I wish I had! That must be why Tai likes you so much, you're a wonderful person, just like Kari. If you were my age I wouldn't know who I would like more, you or Kari. I really need to tell you something though, you can't tell Kari, well I guess you can, but read this in your head first," Sora read to me. She then read the rest in her head. She had this shocked look on her face.
"It's bad isn't it, he doesn't like me any more, doesn't he?" I was ready to cry if it was about that.
"No, he wrote…I've never met someone like Kari before, and it scares me. I don't know what it is that scares me, maybe the fact that Kari really likes me, but I still feel like we're no more than friends, and that's ok but I don't know," Sora looked at me with sad eyes.
"Oh Davis! I can't believe I made you feel like that! I'm such a bad friend!" I was ready to cry.
All of a sudden, I heard Davis's voice, it was the walkie-talkie, I had it with me, I was sitting on it. Davis had heard my every word, all of the guys did.
"Don't cry Kari, I didn't try to make you feel bad," I heard Davis say.
"Give me that thing," Sora told me. I handed my walkie-talkie to her.
"Kari? You there?" Davis was asking.
"Hey Davis, what you guys wrote, it was so sweet. Just to tell you Davis, Kari, she's fragile, hasn't like anyone other then Izzy, and that was just because she was young, don't worry Izzy, you are adorable, for a Computer Wiz! Anyways Davis, you got to give her some time, she hasn't liked you all her life, not like other people, she has been hurt before, if you know what I mean. Just give her some time…That goes for you too Tai, she might be growing up, but she'll need you once in awhile, and she'll be talking to me a lot, but that is because I'm a girl, I understand this stuff, I've been through it many times! Don't ask me to tell you what she tells me, it will always be our little secret, I'm only going to tell if she's putting herself in danger, which, I don't think she would," Sora told mainly Tai and Davis.
"We understand!" we heard Tai and Davis yell over the walkie-talkie.
"I'll be ready soon, just give me a couple of days," I whispered, Sora had it where the boys could hear me. I didn't know this at first.
"Kari, don't worry, I'm going to need some time too," Davis told me.
"Thank you for the note, we better get going, the others might be worrying about us," Sora said.
"We'll talk to you tomorrow," Tai said sweetly.
"Don't be talking bad about us," Davis was laughing.
"We won't Davis, see you tomorrow," I told them.
Sora and I walked out of the closet, I hid the walkie-talkie behind my back, they didn't know I gave one to Davis. I didn't want them to know.
"Hey Kari, do you know where the walkie-talkies are?" Yolei asked me.
"Why do you want them?" I was puzzled.
"To give one to the guys, I can't find either of them," Yolei explained.
"Oh, they already have one then," I was smiling.
"Why?" Yolei asked slyly.
"I thought I might get lonely, so I gave one to Davis when he left," I was now blushing.
"Oh Kari! I can't believe you, for someone who just told a guy that you like him; you sure can't stand being without him!" Yolei was laughing at me.
"I'm sorry, I'm new at this stuff," I admitted. Davis was my first true crush.
"I know Kari," Yolei said calmly.
"Kari…You there? I need to talk to you…Will you get in trouble if you sneak out? Tai wants to talk to you too…Kari?" Davis said over the walkie-talkie.
"I'm coming, where should we meet?" I questioned.
"Outside of T.K.'s place, we can't go much farther," he replied.
"Ok, I'll be there, give me a minute," I told him.
"Go on Kari, just be quiet, everyone is asleep," Yolei warned me.
I left, I was being very quiet. I snuck out the door, into the hall.
When I got down to T.K.'s house, Davis and Tai were waiting for me.
"Hey Kari," Davis whispered, we couldn't be loud, people were asleep.
"What do you guys need?" I was puzzled.
"I know Ken was talking to you today, I saw you starting to cry, why?" Tai was asking.
"He told me about when he was 9, when his brother died. He said his world was filled with darkness; he went to that world that I was in. He also said that he heard someone yelling for help, he heard me! He was the one who cut my palm, it was an accident. I also cut the back of his neck out of fear. He was the one who told me that I was to keep everything a secret, but it wasn't his fault, that world made him evil. It made me crazy," I confessed.
"Do you think he did it to me too?" Davis asked me.
"Did what to you?" Tai asked Davis.
"Did this," Davis pulled up the sleeve of his right arm, showing the cut.
"I'm not that sure, it could have been me for all I know," I answered his question.
"I guess you're right," Davis replied to what I said.
"He has…What is going on?" Tai was confused.
"Davis, Ken, and I all have a cut in a different place," I explained.
"Kari," Tai said in a soft, but puzzled voice.
"If you don't understand, just ask Ken about it, he should know more than I do," I told him.
"Kari, you should be going, we got our answer," Davis told me.
"Ok, I'll see you later," I said as I gave Tai a hug.
"Good night Kari," he told me.
"What, I don't get a hug?" Davis joked around with me.
I gave him a kiss on the cheek and started to walk away.
"That will work to," Davis was shocked.
"Go back to Yolei's," Tai told me with a smile.
I walked away from them, it had scared me, what I did, but it's ok to get scared once in awhile.
I sneaked back into Yolei's home, I was very quiet. I then slipped into Yolei's room. I was smiling and blushing, they knew something was up.
"What happened?" Sora asked with a smile.
"Nothing," I was lying, and I did a bad job!
"Did he kiss you?" Mimi was asking.
"No," I wasn't lying that time.
"Did you kiss him?" Yolei was excited.
"Maybe," I was now so red in the face, and I had a huge smile.
"With Tai there! It must have only been the cheek," Mimi blurted out.
"Of course it was only the cheek, even if Tai wasn't there, I'm not ready for anything more," I was shaking; I really didn't want to talk to them about this.
"Kari, I can't believe you! Tai hasn't even kissed me, you make me so jealous! Maybe I'm scared, I was going to kiss him, right on the cheek, but I didn't, he had to leave," Sora admitted.
"I only kissed him because, well, I kissed him…I can't believe I'm telling you guys this…But I kissed Davis because Tai was there, I wanted to show him that I'm growing up, I was only going to give him a hug, but I gave him a kiss," I was telling them everything, things I shouldn't have.
"Maybe that's why," Sora said in a confident voice.
"What are you talking about Sora?" I was puzzled.
"Tai, he won't kiss me! He doesn't want you to touch Davis; he doesn't want Davis to lay a finger on you. I think Tai is thinking, if he doesn't kiss me or hug me for that matter, neither would you Kari. I can't believe it; I like a guy that won't let his sister grow up!" Sora explained.
"You're probably right," I was sad now.
"Hey, at least you're not listening to him, if you did, well, you wouldn't have told anyone anything, and there would be a bigger problem!" Yolei told the truth.
"Yeah, but I know why he didn't want me to tell, I wonder if he only felt this way because he was left out, my crush liked me, but he didn't know that Sora liked him, he didn't know that she ever liked him, not until today. Maybe he'll be better, anyways, Sora did Matt tell Tai about you telling Matt that you never liked him, being Matt?" I was talking none stop.
"No, Tai never asked Matt, or me," she sounded worried.
"What is his problem? He asked me if Matt knew that you liked Tai. I told him to go ask for himself, but he doesn't!" I was angry now.
"Why didn't you just tell him?" Yolei asked.
"Tai use to be of great courage, now he's nothing. That is what he was known for his powerful courage, his will to keep going, he was a born leader! Now he isn't. I don't know what happened to him…I thought he should find out himself, ask himself, but he couldn't even do that," I explained.
"Oh, I understand now," Yolei told me.
"We should get to bed, we'll talk more tomorrow," Mimi decided for us.
"I agree, we have a lot to do," I was getting a little sleepy.
"Ok, I'll get the lights, Kari, you can have the bed, you'll need a good rest," Yolei told me.
"Oh, ok, don't you want it?" I was puzzled.
"No, I'll be fine on the floor, same with Sora and Mimi," Yolei was now making the decisions.
"Ok then," I wasn't sure still.
I sat on her bed, it was a full, not like my small twin bed.
"It's really big, two people could fit on this bed," I said.
"Here, I'll sleep up there too," Sora said.
"Ok, fine, just hurry!" Yolei was getting impatient.
She turned off the lights as we said good night.
I woke up before the other girls. It was around 7:30AM. I never really got up early, but for some reason I did today. I was a little scared when I woke up; I had a dream unlike anyone I ever had before. I need someone to talk to, but it couldn't be Davis, not Tai, none of the guys. I really didn't want to wake up anyone, but I had to, I was ready to cry, but who? Mimi, no, she isn't the one that I would let hold my secrets. So, Yolei or Sora. I knew Sora longer than Yolei; I knew I could trust her. Yolei though, she is great with figuring things out, like Izzy. I needed to talk to Sora; I think she would be better, this time any ways. She slept next to me, I didn't want to wake her, so instead of waking her up, I threw my pillow at her…Yeah, that was smart! She woke up with a frightened look in her eyes.
"Kari? What was that?" Sora was puzzled at what happened.
"Sora, I'm really sorry I woke you up, but I really need to talk to you," I was scared.
"No need to be sorry, that is what I'm here for. Let's go outside and talk," she was being real nice.
"Ok," I agreed with her.
We walked out of the bedroom, and went out the door of Yolei apartment. We left the door unlocked, and a note for Yolei. We took the walkie-talkie with us, I'm not that sure why, Sora wanted it with us. We went outside the building, and walked over to a tree.
"Kari, what do you need to tell me?" Sora asked sweetly.
"I had this dream, a very scary dream," I was getting scared.
"What was it about?" she wondered.
"It was four years into the future. Tai and all the older kids were starting college. All the younger kids, including myself, started high school. Yolei and T.K. were still happier than ever. Same with Izzy and Mimi. It was perfect," I wasn't scared of this part.
"What about Tai and myself, and you and Davis?" Sora questioned.
"You started to play tennis none stop, it was what you did, Tai came to every game, you guys were real happy. Davis and I were having problems. Every time we went out somewhere, Tai would always follow, he never let us alone. After a while, you got annoyed with him, and broke up. Tai was heart broken, he blamed it on me. I couldn't see him like that, I wasn't happy. Davis thought that I was unhappy with him, he broke up with me. I was only in the second year of high school. Tai and you got back together. I wasn't happy, I couldn't live like that. I died of loneliness of the age of only 16, it was my birthday when I was found dead, died on my sweet sixteen, of loneliness," I explained.
"It was only a dream Kari, I swear, I would never let Tai do that to you," Sora comforted me.
"Yes, I know, but it felt so real," I was really scared at this point.
"Don't worry about the dream Kari, I can tell something else is bothering you," Sora was right.
"How do you know all of this stuff?" I was puzzled by her.
"I'm not stupid," she simply replied.
"I never said you were," I told Sora.
"So, what else is bothering you?" Sora questioned.
"I'm not that sure, I'm thinking about so many things," I answered.
"We should get back inside," Sora was nice, and didn't pressure anything out of me.
"Ok, you probably want to get back to bed," I had a smile now.
"Nah, when I get in…I'm going to wake the others, including the boys," Sora laughed as she pulled out the walkie-talkie.
"Sora! Are you really going to wake them up?" I was laughing now.
She pressed the button on the walkie-talkie and yelled, "Wake up!"
I was laughing so much!
"What was that for?" Tai yelled back to us.
"Time to wake up sweetie," Sora said, she was laughing now.
"What? Sora? What?" Tai was really confused.
"Get up, we need to talk," Sora said back to him.
"That doesn't sound good," he responded.