Ch. 16 Holding Them Close
Sora and I walked back to Yolei's. When we got in, Yolei and Mimi were up, her parents had left.
"Kari, Sora, where were you?" Yolei asked.
"We just wanted to wake up the guys without waking you guys up," I laughed as I held up the walkie-talkie so they could see it.
"They didn't like us very much for that!" Sora was laughing just as much.
"What did they do?" Mimi asked.
"Tai was freaking out! It was great!" I was laughing so much.
"I wish I was there! You should have woken us up!" Mimi was laughing too.
"Yeah, that would have been great to hear," Yolei agreed.
"Tai is probably worried to death," I told them.
"Why would you say that?" Yolei questioned.
"I told him that we needed to talk," Sora said shyly.
"Let's go down and see them," Mimi decided.
"Sounds good," I was agreeing with her.
We walked to the elevator, when we got off, to our surprise; we saw Tai and the others waiting for the elevator. They were shocked to see us.
"Sora!" Tai said surprised.
"Hey Tai," Sora said cheerfully.
"What…What did you want to talk about?" he stuttered.
"Nothing," she replied.
"Really? You made it sound like you were going to break up with me, before we even went out! I'm glad it wasn't about that," Tai was relaxed now.
"Who said I didn't want to break up with you?" she shot right back at him.
"You want to break up with me!" Tai was both puzzled and shocked.
"I never said that," Sora said slyly.
"You must love tormenting me," he said back to her.
"It is rather funny!" Sora and all of us girls started to laugh.
"Oh, real funny!" Tai was getting mad now.
"Sorry Tai, look we better get to our own houses, we need to get dress," Sora decided.
"How about we meet back by the school in an hour? I'll get dressed and quickly go to the airport to meet Willis," I agreed with the plan.
"Would you like me to come with you to the airport Kari?" Davis asked sweetly.
"No, I'll be fine, I promise," Willis asked for me to meet him, not Davis and me.
"Oh, I understand, Willis only wanted you to go, fine," he seemed jealous.
"He never said that, but I would rather it be just me," I was giving Davis a sad look.
"I understand," Davis repeated.
"We better get going, come on Kari," Tai pulled away from the conversation.
"Right!" I yelled.
Tai and I left the others.
"Kari, you seem happier, I'm glad to see you this way," Tai broke the silent we once had.
"I guess you could say that," I announced.
"For liking Davis so much, you seem to be avoiding him a lot," he told me.
"Why would you say that?" I asked.
"Well…You wouldn't let him come with you to the airport," Tai reminded me.
"That is because Willis asked me to meet him, not Davis and me," I strongly said.
"Ok Kari, what ever you say," he gave me a cold look.
"Tai, what is your problem?" I was now angry.
"Nothing Kari," he was also getting angry.
We arrived at our apartment 10 minutes later.
"I'm going to get dressed in fresh clothes," I told Tai as I grabbed a pink dress.
"Wear the pants," Tai told me.
"These? I haven't worn these in forever!" I was puzzled as I pulled out a pair of pants.
"Yeah, with this shirt," he replied as he pulled out a long sleeved pink t-shirt.
"I guess I could wear my short, black gloves," I decided.
"No, wear this shirt," Tai took out a tank top and a silk cloth.
"Really?" I was puzzled.
"Wear the silk as a belt," he told me.
"Ok, I'll go change," I was still confused.
"Wear the black gloves still," Tai said before I could grab my long, pink gloves.
"Ok Tai, I'll see how it looks," I puzzled because he never told me what to wear before.
I walked to the bathroom and quickly changed.
"Wow, it looks good!" I said to myself surprised.
I really liked how it looked; I should have Tai help out more often!
I knocked on the bedroom door.
"Hold, hold on!" Tai yelled, then there was a thud, something had fallen.
"What was that?" my mom yelled.
"Nothing!" Tai yelled to her as he opened the door.
"What really was that?" I asked.
"I dropped something," he replied as I walked into the room.
"Tai! Why are your clothes on the floor?" I was confused and shocked.
"I was looking for something I stole from Sora 4 years ago," he said shyly.
"What did you steal from her?" I was really puzzled.
"Her locket, but I never got to see what was inside, and I found it on the floor, after she dropped it, and I didn't give it back, I liked her so much," Tai admitted.
"Oh, if it helps you, I once took something from Izzy's bag; I put it in a box of all the things I love. Here let me get it," I told him as I took out a locked box.
"What did you take from him?" Tai was the one puzzled now.
"I took a program for his computer," I replied.
"Hey, what does it say on it?" he was looking at a case I held.
"Oh no!" I was shocked at what I read.
"What is it Kari? Spit it out already!" Tai told me.
"To Mimi, from Izzy," I was in shock.
"What! Let me see!" he was just as shocked now.
"It must have been something Izzy wanted Mimi to see," I hated what I did.
"Let's put it in the computer," Tai decided and opened the door.
Tai and I walked into the computer room. It was filled with papers of my dad's.
"Ok, if I click this then, huh?" Tai didn't know much about the computer.
"Here, you click this, plug this in, and you put the disk, there!" I knew a little more.
"Ok, we'll just open it like so," my brother click a button that said 'open file'.
"It's a letter, with some pictures and other stuff," I told him.
"Kari, read it out loud," Tai told me.
"Dear Mimi, I'm sorry I've never told you this before, but I really like you. I don't really know why, but I find you really cool. I know you would never like me, but hey, why not try. I know you think I should have gone to computer camp, but I don't like those places! I'm really glad I met you, and it makes me heart broken to know that you would never like me. I know that you like Matt, maybe even Tai. I'm not that sure. I don't think you'll see much of me after this summer camp, I don't think you would want to! I better let you go; you have better things to do. Izzy," I read the letter.
"Look at the pictures; he took pictures of Mimi and Matt! Hey, he has pictures of Mimi and me! Wow, he really did like her," Tai said as he pointed to picture on the computer screen.
"Look at that one, it's of me…Wonder what that is about," I was confused, I didn't remember that.
"Look, under it, it says, I took this picture without Kari knowing. I put this in to show you the only person that I've known that had a crush on me. Kari doesn't know that I know, but she follows me around everywhere, I find it adorable! She's cute for a 9 year old!" Tai was reading.
"He knew the whole time…Look!" I was pointing at a link.
"Let's see where it goes," Tai decided as he pressed the link.
"Oh my! Izzy told me about this site! He made this site about his friends, Look at all this stuff, pictures, quotes, everything!" I was shocked.
"I think we should give this back to Izzy, I'll give the locket back to Sora. Kari, what else did you have in that box?" he asked me as he shut down the computer.
"I'll show you when we get back in our room," I replied.
When we got back into our room, I took out the box.
"This is a picture of me and T.K. from four years ago," I held a picture of T.K. and myself.
"What are those, are those broken goggles?" Tai was pointing at something on the bottom.
"They're the goggles that Davis broke, when you gave him yours," I told him.
"Oh Kari, you are so-" Tai wasn't able to finish his sentence.
"Tai! I have to get to the airport! Willis will be waiting!" I yelled rushing out the door taking my box with me.
I ran all the way to the airport, breathless when I got there.
I was walking all around the place, then I saw a guy with blonde hair and blue eyes.
"Willis! Is that you?" I yelled over to the guy.
"Kari!" he said walking towards me.
"Hey Willis, how was your trip?" I asked as he reached me.
"It was long, I'm just glad to see you!" Willis told me, and gave me a hug.
"Has anything new happen, girlfriend, new friends?" I asked.
"No, do you have a boyfriend? Did you have one when we first met?" he questioned.
"I don't know if you would call us boyfriend and girlfriend, but I didn't have a boyfriend when we first met, I liked someone, but I didn't have a boyfriend," I explained.
"So who is you not sure boyfriend?" Willis wondered.
"You're going to find this funny, but Davis," I told him.
"Really! I would think it would have been T.K., you and him were in New York together, you know what I mean?" he told me.
"No! I never liked T.K., I just wanted to make Davis jealous…Oh, come on we have to get to my school. The others are meeting us there…In 5 minutes!" I took Willis's arm and ran.
It took us ten minutes to get to the school. Willis was all sweaty and tired.
"Kari, it's about time you got here! Where's Willis?" Yolei yelled to me.
"He's behind me, can't you see?" I yelled as I turned around. Willis was on the ground.
"I don't run much," he said smiling.
"Well, get over here!" Tai yelled back at us.
"We're coming!" I was getting angry. I helped Willis up and we walked over to the others.
"Hi Yolei, Davis, T.K., Cody," Willis was nice and said hi to whom he knew.
"Willis, you haven't changed a bit!" Yolei pointed out.
"Yeah, but I can tell that Kari has, she got a whole new outfit!" Willis laughed.
"You don't like my outfit? Tai picked it out!" I told him, looking at Tai.
"Oh, hello Tai! Thanks a lot for what you did," he told Tai.
"Huh? Oh, yeah, no problem!" Tai was confused.
"Here, meet the others," I said, motioning the others to introduce themselves.
"Hello, I'm Mimi," she was to first brave soul.
"Why hello Mimi, it is nice to meet you," Willis said charmingly.
"Hi Willis, my name's Sora," she said politely.
"You guys sure do know how to find pretty girls," Willis joked around.
"It is nice to finally meet you face to face, I'm Izzy," Izzy said calmly.
"I knew it! I'm glad to meet someone as smart as you!" Willis was happy.
"I'm sorry, but they're taking to long. That is Matt; over there is Joe, who else is there, oh Ken! Ken, come here, come meet Willis!" I yelled to Ken.
"Hello Willis, my name is Ken, I'm the newest part of the group, I came even after you!" Ken said.
"That is all of them!" I told Willis.
"Well…It is very nice to meet all of you," Willis told everyone.
"You don't seem as smart as you were four years ago," Izzy rudely pointed out.
"Yeah, are you still taking classes at Colorado State?" Tai asked.
"No, I live in New York now, so I just go to middle school," Willis replied.
"Really? What happened?" Izzy wondered.
"I didn't like all the work, I wanted to be a normal teenager," he told Izzy.
"I'm sorry about Tai and Izzy, they aren't that smart…Anyways, Kari was right, you are cute for a 13 year old! You must have a lot of girls after you," Sora said blushing.
"Nah, I'm all alone…Kari said I was cute?" he was puzzled.
"Cute, just not my type," I reminded them.
"Hey Davis, have you had any luck with Kari? I know how much you liked her when we first met. I hope I didn't hurt your feelings when I gave her a good bye kiss," Willis apologized.
"It was nothing, I already forgot about that!" Davis laughed.
"You didn't answer me, have you had any luck with her?" Willis was serious now.
Davis didn't say anything.
"Davis? Are you ok?" Willis was puzzled.
"I've had my dream come true you could say," he replied.
"Oh, I see, well, I'm glad Kari finally told you!" Willis said back.
"What? You mean Willis knew too!" Davis was yelling at both me and Willis.
"No! I never told him, I never told anyone but the girls, everyone else found out on there own. Willis must have found out when we first met. Wait! Willis you thought I liked T.K., then, how did you know I had a crush on Davis?" I was getting irritated.
"I was joking! I didn't think you would take it like that. I'm sorry, I'm just stepping on your toes, I knew it wasn't a good idea to come," Willis was sad now.
"We love having you here Willis. We've just got some major issues. Anyways, maybe we should fill you in a little," Yolei decided.
"Ok, what is there to know?" he asked.
"First things first, Davis and Kari are, let me see, they're in the stage of liking each other. That goes seconds to me and T.K., and the others…Well, Tai and our dear Sora are also in this liking stage, same with Izzy and Mimi," Yolei told him.
"Really, ok what about the other guys? You just left them alone, didn't you? Whatever, I bet I could help them find someone. Hey, I bet you guys already like someone out of this group!" Willis laughed.
"Oh Willis! Come on!" I was laughing too.
"We should go to someone's house…Oh no! We need to go to my house, I had to work today, you guys could help, make the job more fun, and faster!" Sora decided.
"Sounds great, where do you work?" Willis was filled with joy.
"My mom's flower shop, I've been helping her since four years ago," she pointed out.
Willis was speechless. We didn't know if it was the thought of working at a flower shop, or that he already said he would help!
"Oh, let's go!" Sora decided without asking the others.
We weren't that far from Sora's mom's flower shop, so we walked there.
"Sora! What took you so long?" Sora's mom yelled to her from the doorway.
"Sorry Mom, but I did bring help," Sora happily replied.
"Ok, just hurry, Mrs. Kenching called with a big order, she'll be here in 15 minutes, that order would take one person 30 minutes to finish," her mom explained.
"Come on guys, we better get started!" Sora told us.
"Ok, two bouquets of red tulips, a dozen red roses, the bouquet of the week, and 20 violet's singly rapped, that's a lot!" Sora told us.
"Ok, Davis, Willis, and I will get the flowers," I told her.
"Fine, T.K., Yolei, and Cody, you guys can rap the bouquets," Sora told them.
"The rest of us will rap the violets and do whatever else is needed," Mimi decided.
"Ok, let's go!" Sora said as we started to work.
Davis and Willis were having the hardest time finding the flowers we needed. I had to get all of the flowers for the most part.
"What color violets?" Davis asked.
"Violet's are purple, or violet, they only come in the color violet!" I told him.
"Here, let me get that for you Kari," Willis tried to help, but he grabbed the wrong flower.
"I wanted the one next to that!" I laughed.
"Kari, did you get all the flowers?" Sora yelled to me.
"Yeah, we're coming right now!" I yelled back.
"Ok, we can help you now," Davis said nicely to the others.
"Ok, we need to get these violets rapped," Sora pointed out.
Everyone grabbed a violet, took some ribbon, and started to wrap them. It was very quiet.
"I remember when I use to help you, we would sing, that was really fun," I told them.
"Yeah, that was great," Sora told me and stopped what she was doing.
"Why don't you girls sing for us?" Willis asked.
Sora and I looked at each other.
"Ok," I told them.
"What do you want to hear?" Sora asked.
"Oh, I got it, we should sing 'He Wasn't' by Avril Lavigne," I told Sora.
"That sounds great, you should start," Sora said with a smile.
"You always started Sora," I pointed out.
"Fine," Sora said sadly.
"Go Sora!" Tai yelled.
"There's not much going on today, I'm really bored it's getting late. What happened to my Saturday? Monday's coming the day I hate," Sora sang into one of the violets.
"I'll sit on my bed alone, staring at the phone," I also sang into a violet.
"He wasn't what I wanted, what I thought, no, he wouldn't even open up the door, he never made me feel special, he isn't what I'm looking for," we both sang and pretended to play the guitar.
"This is when I start to bite my nails, and clean my room when all else fails, I think it's time for me to bail, this point of you is getting stale," Sora sang again. We started to dance around the room.
Then, we both sang the chorus part again.
"Na, na, na, na, na," Sora sang.
"We all got choices," it was my turn.
Sora sang na, na…again.
"We all got voices," I sang with the same beat.
Once again, Sora sang the na, na part.
"Stand up and make noise," I sang that, then Sora sang na, na…And I sang the same thing again. We then sang the chorus part twice.
"Like I was special, 'cause I was special!" we both finished.
"Yeah!" everyone was clapping. Sora and I started to turn bright red in the face.
"Kari, you never told me that you could sing that good," Tai told me.
"You see what else she can do," Sora said.
"What else can you do Kari?" Tai hesitated to ask.
"I have many talents, both Sora and I can play the guitar, I can play the drums, and I can play the piano. I'm just so talented!" I was laughing.
"Matt taught you guys how to play the guitar?" he wondered.
"No, once we were waiting to talk to Matt, he had his guitars sitting out, so Kari and I decided to try to play them. We were pretty good," Sora told him.
"I knew my guitars were in different places!" Matt suddenly said.
"Whatever, oh my gosh, are the flowers done? Here comes Mrs. Kenching!" Sora yelled.
"We just finished the last violet," Willis told her.
"Why hello Sora, I see your mother hired some workers to help you," Mrs. Kenching said.
"No, these are just my friends, they decided to help me out," Sora informed her.
"Your mother never would hire anyone, just like that little store, I don't know what it's called, but it's a family store, there daughter, I think her name is Yolei always was working, such a nice girls she was, she looked just like you dear, but I don't see her anymore," she was pointing at Yolei.
"I knew you looked familiar! My mother is good friends with you!" Yolei exclaimed.
"Ah, yes, I knew you were Yolei, how are your siblings, they were so talented," Mrs. Kenching calmly said
"They're good," she was angry with Mrs. Kenching for asking about her siblings.
"That is good, I must be going, Yolei, you should really get back to working with your family! Thank you Sora, tell your mom that I'll be back soon," Mrs. Kenching left the flower shop.
"Yolei, you should have told me you knew Mrs. Kenching," Sora said.
"I never liked that woman. She always came to see my siblings, found me average. Am I really average? I try so hard, but I'm found to be average," Yolei said sadly.
"Yolei, you are very smart…I bet you that your siblings couldn't fix a computer," Izzy pointed out.
"But I learned everything by watching you Izzy," Yolei was really sad.
"Yolei, none of us find you average, you're special in your own way," I told her.
"I guess you're right Kari," Yolei seemed happier.
"What are we to do now?" Davis asked as Izzy's cell phone rang.
"Hello…Oh hi Mom…Yes…Ok…I will…Bye," Izzy said over the phone.
"What is it Izzy?" Mimi asked.
"Let's go to my house, my mom will make us something to eat, and Willis can tell us what he has done since you guys last saw him," he replied.
"Sounds great, not that I have many things to say, but I am hungry!" Willis said happily.
We got to Izzy's home, which was a few blocks away.
"Hi Izzy, I'm sorry I called you home, but I didn't know what was going on," his mom said.
"No problem Mom, I'll figure it out," Izzy smiled.
We went into Izzy bedroom. He took his laptop and connected it with his computer on his desk.
"You sure do like computers, don't you?" Willis asked.
"You could say that," Izzy said, but he was looking under the desk where his computer was.
"Is there anything I could help you with Izzy?" Yolei asked.
Izzy came out from under the desk and whacked his head on the desk. "Oww!"
"Izzy are you ok?" Mimi asked in a scared voice.
"That hurt, but I'm ok," Izzy got up and turned on the computers.
"What are you doing Izzy?" I was puzzled.
"I wanted to show Willis the pictures we took," he replied.
"Oh, that reminds me, Tai we need to talk," I said.
"Yeah, we'll be back in a minute," Tai told them.
We had left the room and went into the kitchen.
"Will we bother you in here?" I asked.
"Oh, no Kari, you're fine," Izzy's mom told us.
"We should give back the stuff, I have my whole box," I told Tai.
"Ok, I got the locket," he said back.
We walked back into Izzy's room.
"Sorry about that, but before you get to those pictures, Tai and I have some things we need to give back…Go on Tai," I told them.
"Sora, I'm sorry to tell you this, but I took this locket from you four years ago. I don't know what's in it, I never could open it," Tai gave Sora her locket back.
"Oh, this locket, it is so old. To bad you couldn't open it, if you did, you would have found a picture of you and me," Sora opened the locket and showed us.
"Now I have many things, but the worse thing I took was this," I held up a disk and gave it to Izzy.
"Oh, wow, this disk, it's…Well…I was going to give it to Mimi…Wow," Izzy was staring at it.
"What else is in that box?" Sora asked.
"Well, I have a picture of T.K. and me four years ago," I replied.
"I remember this picture," T.K. said happily.
"I also have Davis's broken goggles," I was holding them up.
"Wow, you kept them?" Davis was shocked.
"Oh, I almost forgot about this," I held up a whistle.
"That thing! When you were three, you would always blew that thing at me," Tai said.
"I wonder why I stopped wearing it," I said then blew into the whistle.
"Kari, I have a question for you…Does your camera have pictures in it?" Willis asked.
"Yeah, but I haven't looked at them in forever," I replied.
"Hey Kari, that's a digital camera, right?" Izzy asked me.
"Yeah," I replied.
"Here, I can put them onto my computer," he told me.
"Ok, but sometimes my camera takes pictures by itself," I warned them.
"Ok, let me see the camera," Izzy told me.
"Sure," I took the camera from around my neck and handed it to Izzy.
"Let me see, this should fit into it like that, and…it will take a minute to load," Izzy informed us.
"Did you take any pictures of me Kari?" Willis asked.
"I'm not that sure what's on that camera," I reminded him.
"Kari, your pictures are on the computer now," Izzy told me.
"Here, let me give them a look," I sat on the chair by the computer and clicked on the picture.
"Hey, that is the soccer game when I went up against Ken!" Davis pointed out.
"Oh, I remember that, everyone came to your game, I had to take pictures," I told him.
"Look! There's a picture of Cody," Yolei pointed at the screen.
"You just had to take a picture of me," Cody said to me.
"I'm sorry Cody, I didn't think you would mine," I apologized.
"Look at the last picture," Cody put his finger on the screen.
"Ok…Hey it's a picture of Willis!" I clicked open the file.
"Did you mean to take that picture?" Willis asked me.
"No, but it is a good picture," I told him.
"I can print these pictures if you want them Kari," Izzy said nicely.
"That would be nice," I answered his offer.
"Ok, let me just press this…Ok, they're printing," Izzy said as the printer started to beep.
"Thanks Izzy!" I smiled.
"Now that we are doing that…We should get some pictures with Willis!" Yolei decided.
"Yeah!" everyone agreed.
We decided to go outside and take the pictures.
"You can use your camera too Kari," Davis said to me.
"I should!" I agreed.
"We should get some pictures with Willis, Kari, and Yolei," Cody told us.
"Ok, come on girls," Willis said to us.
We walked over to a tree. Yolei and I decided to stand with Willis sitting in between us. Yolei and I had our arms folded, and we were looking down at Willis. He had this confused 'what did I do' face.
"That was great!" Sora laughed.
Yolei and I walked over to Izzy and Sora and looked at the picture.
"Is it that bad?" Willis asked as he walked over by us.
"No, it just looks real funny!" Yolei started to laugh.
"It really is!" I started to laugh too.
"I think it looks good!" Willis was laughing now.
"Willis, could I take your picture?" I asked him.
"Sure," he said as he walked over to a tree. He leaned up against it and smiled at the camera.
"Perfect!" I told him.
Willis walked over to where I was standing. "Is there any way I could see it?"
"Izzy, can you hook up my camera to your laptop? Willis wants to see the picture I took," I yelled.
"Yeah, bring it over here," he told me.
I nodded my head in agreement, and Willis and I walked over to Izzy.
"Ok, let me see your camera," Izzy said as I handed my camera to him.
"Are you going to show Mimi that disk?" I asked off the subject.
"I wasn't planning on it…But I could," he said calmly.
"I already saw what was on it, I shouldn't have read it, Tai told me too," I told him.
"That's ok; it was probably a bunch of junk I wrote!" Izzy said.
"It was really sweet what you wrote. Do you even remember what you wrote?" I questioned.
"Not really," Izzy said, he then heard typing and turned around.
"Hi Izzy! I wanted to see if I could go on my web site I made," Willis smiled.
"You should have asked, but that's ok," Izzy told him.
"Yeah, I know, but I really wanted to show you this web site, I'm sorry," Willis apologized.
"Could you get on your web site?" I asked.
"I can't find out how to! I should of learned how to read Japanese!" Willis laughed.
"Here, move over, I'll help," Izzy said.
"Don't worry, we'll help you out," I said nicely.
"Type the web address in the address box," Izzy instructed.
"Ok…There you go," he said back.
"Ok, let's see, if I press this, ok there," Izzy said as he clicked a bunch of buttons.
"Kari, could you get the others, I want them to see this too," Willis asked me.
"Sure, I'll be right back," I replied.
Tai and Matt were over by a tree talking. I decided to go over to them first.
"Hey Kari!" Matt waved to me as I walked over to them.
"Hi Matt," I said cheerfully.
"Why are you so happy?" Tai asked me.
"No reason," I answered.
"Is there any reason why you're over here?" Tai rudely questioned.
"Yes, I have two reasons," I calmly responded.
"Come on and tell us Kari," Tai was getting impatient.
"First thing, did you ever ask Matt if he knew about Sora liking you?" I was questioning Tai.
"No," he simply answered.
"Would you please tell him Matt?" I nicely asked.
"Sure…Of course I know…Four years ago, I told Sora that I liked her. When I told her this, she said that she liked me no more than a friend. She also said that she liked you," Matt told Tai.
"You mean you knew this whole time!" Tai yelled.
"Anyways, Willis was going to show us a web site he made, get the others for me," I said as I left.
"What? Why can't you!" Tai yelled at me as I left.
I walked back to where Willis and Izzy were. They stared at me with puzzled looks.
"Where is everyone?" Izzy asked.
"I made Tai and Matt get them, why should I have to do everything?" I joked around.
"I never knew how lazy you were Kari!" Willis joked with me.
"I'm not lazy!" I snapped.
Willis and Izzy looked at me shocked.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have snapped," I was really sad.
"No, I shouldn't call you lazy," Willis told me.
"Here come the others!" Izzy yelled as he pointed at our group of friends.
Willis and I waved them over.
"Hey Kari, what did you guys need?" Sora happily asked.
"Willis wanted to show us his web site," I informed them.
Everyone gathered around Izzy's laptop. Willis was operating it.
"Ok, this is the web site I made when I went home, after Davis and the others left me in New York. I think you guys will like it. I didn't have pictures, so I had to sketch pictures of what I remembered you guys looking like. Hope you like it!" Willis told us about it.
"What is the web site called?" Yolei asked.
"The web address is Willis said properly.
"Wow, this looks much better than mine," Izzy pointed out.
"Really, what is your sites name?" Willis wondered.
"The address is he told him.
"Really, we should look at that after we're done here!" Willis was overjoyed.
"I just updated it before I left for the school," Izzy told us.
"Cool!" Willis exclaimed.
"What do you have on your web site Willis?" Davis asked.
"Well, I have a lot of sketches I made of you guys. I have some writing too. It's mainly a thank you sight to you guys, but we never had any contact, so you guys never got to see it," he replied.
"Oh, here, I want to see what is on this disk real quick," Izzy said as he put the disk in.
"Is that the disk Kari gave back to you?" Mimi asked.
"Yeah, I don't know what's on it," Izzy told her.
"If Kari didn't take it, would you have given it to Mimi?" Matt wondered.
"I don't know, I wasn't really a risk taker, so I don't think I would have," Izzy replied.
"Izzy, it's loaded," Ken said pointing at the computer screen.
"Let's see…Dear Mimi; I know you'll never like me. I know you like Matt, maybe even Tai," Izzy mumbled as he read.
"Eww, I never liked Tai! I did like Matt at one point, but Tai, no!" Mimi screamed.
"Oh thanks, you're so nice Mimi!" Tai teased.
"I didn't mean it like that Tai, I meant that you're not my type," Mimi apologized.
"I know what you meant Mimi, I was just joking with you," Tai explained.
"Anyways…Izzy, you know when we took those pictures with our first crushes? Well, I wasn't being truthful…I only took the picture with Matt; I should have had a picture with you too. Both of you guys were my first crushes from the group," Mimi told them.
"I wish I didn't take that disk, you guys would have been together from the start, that is if Izzy was going to give you the disk," I sadly said.
"I don't think I would have given it to her, if I wanted her to know, I could have told her. I wasn't strong enough to tell her, not like Matt," Izzy informed us.
"What do you mean Izzy?" Matt asked.
"Well, when you liked Sora, you told her, I couldn't do that," Izzy explained.
"Tai never told Sora, he didn't want to hurt Matt feelings. I never told Davis because I didn't want to hurt T.K.," I was thinking.
"I never told T.K. because I thought you liked him Kari!" Yolei exclaimed.
"Matt was the only one who didn't care about hurting another's feelings," Sora pointed out.
"You're either the rudest person in our group, or the bravest," I said to Matt.
"No, Matt just really liked Sora," Tai pointed out.
Everyone started to laugh.
"I guess that is one of Tai good sides, he can make a joke out of anything!" Mimi giggled.
"Brave and funny, that's Tai for you!" I was laughing so much, I started to cry.
"Should I say thank you or what?" Tai wondered.
We heard some beeping. "Huh?" Izzy looked at his computer.
"What is it?" Ken asked.
"I'm not that sure…Oh no! Come on!" Izzy yelled as he hit his laptop.
"Izzy, is something wrong?" Joe asked.
"My laptop just crashed! All the pictures might have been lost!" Izzy looked worried.
"Don't worry, we can take more picture," Sora said happily.
"But, my…I had something important on," Izzy said as the computer turned back on.
"It will be ok, it was when my computer crashed, remember that Izzy?" Tai questioned.
"Yeah…Oh, good it was saved," Izzy said with a sigh of relief.
"I'm getting hungry, is lunch ready?" Willis said with a starved look.
"We can go check," Izzy said as he picked up his laptop.
We walked to Izzy apartment.
"Hi Izzy," his mom said as we walked in the door.
"Hi mom, is lunch ready yet?" Izzy asked quickly.
"It should be ready in 30 minutes," she replied.
"Ok, thanks!" Izzy waved bye as we went into his room.
"Willis, you never told us what happened after we left," Cody said nicely.
"Well, nothing really happened to me," he told us.
"It has almost been a year, something had to happen," Davis pointed out.
"Well…I made that web site, I searched every where to find one of your guys phone number…I had no luck with that!" Willis smiled.
"What? You mean you didn't meet a cute girl, no new friends nothing?" Davis was puzzled.
"Yeah, I'm not a people person," Willis sadly said.
"You mean that my sister and her weird friends were your first friends?" Tai asked.
"I wouldn't call them weird, but yes," Willis told him.
"We not weird!" Yolei yelled at Tai.
"When I said friends, I meant Davis," Tai lied.
"You're not good at lying Tai," Willis said.
"Yes I am!" Tai rudely yelled back at him.
"Tai, he has a point, you are a terrible liar," I agreed with Willis.
"Love you too Kari!" Tai angrily said to me.
"I know you do!" I laughed.
Everyone laughed at what I said.
"Kari, hurry, take a shower! Tai's rubbing off on you!" Sora yelled laughing.
"Come with me, I'll show you to the bathroom," Izzy winked so only I could see.
"Ok, better hurry," I pretended to be worried.
Izzy took me to a closet. He opened it and took out two water guns.
"Take these, we'll need to fill them," Izzy had a plan.
"Ok, where's the bathroom?" I asked.
"Over here," he motioned me in.
"Ok, fill them up," I gave him the water guns.
"When we get back, try not to get the girls so much. Our main goal is to soak the guys. No one is in their good clothes, so we'll be fine!" Izzy was smiling.
"Yeah! Let's do this!" I had an evil smile on.