Ch. 17 Water Fight And A Kiss

We walked into the bedroom; the water guns were behind our backs.

"Is Kari clean now?" Sora asked.

"Yes, but your not!" Izzy said as we pulled out the water guns.

They started to run, stupid idea, if they leave Izzy's room, he'll fire, just not in his room.

Everyone ran outside.

"Fire!" I yelled. Izzy and I pumped up the water guns and fired.

"Hey! No fair! We don't have anything to fire back with!" Ken yelled.

"Yes we do!" Willis yelled, pointing at a hose.

"I think we should run for it Izzy," I was staring at him.

"There's another hose over here, they just don't know it," Izzy smiled.

Tai and Matt were holding the hose, Ken and Davis were going to turn the water on.

"Ready?" Ken yelled to them.

"Ready!" Matt and Tai yelled back to them.

The hose was aimed at me.

"Kari! Watch out!" Izzy yelled as he ran over and pushed me out of the way, he got hit.

"Izzy! Are you ok?" I yelled as I walked over to him.

"That was cold!" Izzy yelled.

Sora, Mimi, and Yolei ran over to us.

"Davis wants to know if he can come onto your side. That goes seconds to all of us, and T.K., Cody, and Ken. Joe is hiding behind a tree, so I don't know about him," Yolei said to me.

"What about Willis?" I asked.

"We couldn't find him, did he leave the room?" Sora questioned.

"I don't know, no I saw him leave, he was right after Davis," Izzy remembered.

"I wonder where he is," I was talking to myself.

"There he is!" Mimi saw him talking to Tai and pointing at us.

"He's going to be on their side," I was sad about that.

We saw Tai and Matt walk away from him. Willis walked over by us.

"Kari!" Willis waved to me as he walked closer.

"We don't want you over here if you're ganging up with Tai and Matt," I said.

"No, I pretended to, I know what they're planning now," he sweetly replied.

"What are they then?" Mimi coldly asked.

"They're going to attack from the right, in five minutes," he answered.

"Kari, Davis, take these, you're going to attack from that tree," Izzy said throwing the water guns.

"Right!" we agreed.

"Now, for the rest of us, we'll attack with our hose," Izzy pointed at the hose.

"Ok!" everyone yelled.

Davis and I left.

I was having issues getting up the tree.

"Here, let me go up first," Davis told me.

He climbed up to the first branch.

"Give me the water guns," he told me.

I handed him the water guns. He placed them on the branch.

"You can get up the first branch by yourself," Davis said.

"Right," I climbed up onto the first branch, it was low to the ground.

"Ok, now give me your hands," Davis instructed me.

"Ok," I put my arms up.

"Ok, I'm going to pull you up now," he informed me.

"No, I'm too scared!" I screamed, and pulled my arms down.

"I won't drop you, you mean too much to me," he explained.

"I'm trusting you," I told him as I put my arms back in the air.

Davis grabbed my wrists, and I grabbed his. He gently pulled me off the branch. I was getting scared. Soon I was able to grab the next branch.

"Grab onto the branch, I'll need to pull you from the waist," he said calmly.

"Oh, uh, ok," I was scared that I might fall, not be able to get a good grip.

"Do you think you have a good grip?" Davis sweetly asked.

"Yeah," I said, then he let go of my wrists.

"I'm going to grad you from the waist now, do be scared," he told me.

"Right!" I said back to him.

He grabbed my waste. It scared me at first, but I was fine after a second.

"You can let go of the branch, I got you," Davis was being really nice.

"Ok, I'm a little scared though," I informed him.

"When I'm in reach, grab me, I promise you I won't let go," he let me know.

"I'm going to let go now," I was scared, but I let go.

Davis pulled me up slowly.

"Kari, grab onto my shoulders," he told me.

I did what he said. He pulled me up quickly this time. When he pulled me all the way up, he gave me a quick look, and then a hug.

"See, you did it," Davis whispered in my ear.

"Here they come," I told him.

"Here, take your water gun. I almost forgot about them," Davis said. Tai and Matt looked up in the tree and found sight of us.

"Kari and Davis sitting in a tree K-" I didn't let Tai finish; I took my water gun and fired.

"Ah, they got the water guns!" Matt yelled and pointed the hose at us.

"Kiss this!" Tai yelled, and water came out of the hose.

"Kari, get down, if the water hits us, we'll fall for sure!" Davis yelled at me.

"I can't, I'm too scared," I said. Instead of jumping down, I threw my water gun at Tai. It hit him.

"Tai!" Matt yelled, and gave us a dirty look.

"Give me yours," I told Davis, and fired at Matt.

"Let's get down there," Davis decided.

"Yeah," I agreed.

Davis jumped down, and I jumped into his arms.

"Tai, did I hurt you?" I asked as I walked towards him.

"No!" Tai laughed as the fired the hose at us.

"Ah!" Davis and I screamed.

All of a sudden, Izzy and the others came running towards us.

"Charge!" I heard Sora yell.

Sora, Mimi, and Yolei ran really fast, and pushed down Tai and Matt.

"Let it go," Izzy told T.K. and Willis.

The let go of the hose and water sprayed everywhere.

"Attack!" Cody yelled.

Ken, Izzy, and him took buckets of water and dumped them over Willis, Davis, and me.

"That water is freezing!" I yelled.

Everyone was laughing, and we were soaked!

The water from the hose stopped running.

"What happened Izzy?" Ken asked.

"You kids shouldn't be using these hoses!" a girl around Cody's age yelled.

"Who's that?" Tai asked.

"You never care when you and your friends are playing with them!" Izzy yelled back at her.

She walked over to where we were. I looked at Cody, his face lit up with happiness.

"Izzy, my mom is going to yell at you, I told you, if you give me an attitude, I can get you kicked out! I won't tell her this time, but I'm being nice," she told Izzy.

"Who are you?" Cody asked.

"The name's Terry, aren't you Cody?" she asked.

"Yeah, how do you know me?" Cody was confused.

"My friend is in your class, she never told me how cute you were," Terry smiled.

"What's your friend's name?" Cody questioned.

"Joy," she simply answered.

"Joy! She tries to cheat off my papers!" Cody was furious.

"No wonder she likes you so much, that jerk," Terry wasn't happy herself.

"Aren't you friends?" Cody was confused again.

"We were, then she went all bad girl style, anyways, I won't tell my mom Izzy, only because I want to see Cody again," Terry started to walk away.

"I think she likes you Cody," Willis said.

"I wouldn't mess with Terry, she may seem nice now, but I've know her ever since I moved here. Terry is from a bad crowd," Izzy explained.

"I don't like her, but I do like her twin sister. Her name is K.C., she is awesome. They are totally different, and K.C. is cuter!" Cody was blushing.

"Aww, that is so cute, you have a crush, is she your first of your age?" Yolei was overjoyed.

"Yeah, but I don't think we should talk about this here, we're soaked, I can't go home like this, my mom will give me a huge lecture!" Cody complained.

"Let's go to my house, we should have clothes that will fit all of you guys," I decided.

"Ok, but Cody is pretty short, I might not have clothes that would fit him," Tai warned us.

"That's ok, anything will work," Cody replied to Tai comment.

"Good, you can wear Kari's clothes!" Tai laughed.

"Wait, Tai's your brother?" Willis asked me.

"Oh, I never told you did I? Tai is my brother; T.K. and Matt are brothers too!" I happily told him.

Willis nodded, and we walked to my humble home!

"Tai you're all wet! All of you are!" my mother wasn't happy that we were wet.

"Sorry mom, we're going to change now," Tai said back to her as we went into our room.

"Let me see, Yolei, you can pick from whatever, you should fit in my clothes," I told her.

"Ok, this will be fun," Yolei joked.

"Sora and Mimi, I have some skirts, they should fit you, and my shirts should fit you too," I said.

"Let us look," Sora said to Mimi.

"Izzy, Matt, Joe, you guys can look through the stuff in that dresser," Tai told them.

"Ok, thanks Tai," Matt politely said back to him.

"For you guys…Well, I still have my clothes from when I was your age, but Cody might have trouble finding something to wear," Tai said as he pulled a box from the closet.

"Ok, we can help Cody find something to wear," Willis offered.

"What about you Kari?" Yolei asked as she looked through my clothes.

"I'll get what I want to wear when you guys are done," I reassured her.

"Do you have an extra pair of gloves?" Davis asked me.

"I have my long pink ones," I told him.

"Then which ones are you wearing?" Davis was looking at my hands.

"I have short black ones too," I replied and put my hand in his face.

"Oh, I didn't notice," he shyly said, and started to blush.

"Kari, what's in that box?" Sora asked, she was pointing at a box on the top of the closet.

"I think that has my clothes from four years ago," I wasn't sure.

"Let's see," Mimi said as Sora pulled down the box.

I opened the box.

"Hey Cody, you might be able to fit in these!" Tai laughed, I hit him.

"I got an idea for a cute outfit," I said to myself.

"Ok, I found what I want to wear, what about the rest of you?" Tai asked everyone.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Ok, I'm going to change in here, Davis can have the bathroom, Izzy can change in the computer room, and Tai can change in our mom's room…Sora can change in here, I'll go last," I decided.

"Ok," everyone went where they needed to be. The rest of us waited in the hall.

One after another went to change, Sora, then Mimi, then Yolei, I was the last to change.

I was changing, but I needed a little help, I cracked open the door.

"Sora, come here," I whispered.

"What is it?" she asked.

I backed up so she could come in.

"I need your help, I can't get this tied," I held up two strings.

"I'll get it," Sora tied them together.

"Thanks, I'm almost done, you can stay in here, I'm just putting on some accessories," I told her.

"Sure, need anymore help?" Sora questioned.

"Could you hand me…Oh no! My camera, I was wearing it when we were playing in the water! It might be broken now, great!" I was sad.

"I'll look at it, you keep on getting ready," she picked up my camera and looked at it.

"Sora, why do you like Tai?" I asked off the subject.

"I don't really know, maybe his great courage, his leadership, and he is kind of cute! I really think it is because he is a good person at heart, a great friend…Why do you like Davis?" she asked me.

"Well…He is a good friend, cute, funny, a born leader, a boy of great courage," I told her.

"Just like Tai, it's really funny how much they're alike!" Sora laughed.

"If they were smart, we would have the perfect guys!" I laughed as I brushed my hair.

"Ready?" Sora questioned.

I nodded my head and opened the door.

"I'm not that sure what's going on," I heard Davis say as I cracked open the door, I then softly closed it, and motioned Sora to stay.

"Kari, is something wrong?" she asked me.

"What do you think he means?" I questioned her.

"What and who are you talking about?" Sora was confused.

"Davis, I heard him say that he wasn't sure what was going on…He sounded sad, even puzzled…What did he mean Sora?" I was scared.

"He must be confused…At one point, you can't stand to be without him, and at others, you don't want anything to do with him, he doesn't know if you truly like him," she explained.

I cracked open the door again.

"Kari's just a little scared, you have to know one thing Davis, she's new at this stuff. She likes you, why else would she do the things she does? Anyways, Kari has liked you for, what…Three years, I would think. She wouldn't tell you that she likes you and then just tell you to drop dead," I listened to Izzy.

"I guess you're right, but-" Davis stopped when I opened the door.

"But what Davis?" I asked sweetly.

"Oh, nothing!" he said, trying to pretend like he had nothing to say.

"When did you get those?" Tai asked, pointing at my clothes.

"I've had them," I simply answered.

"Right," Tai slyly said back.

"You guys look like you're keeping a secret from us," Sora pointed out.

"We're not hiding anything," Ken lied.

"If you truly liked me Tai…You would tell me," Sora did the sad, you know you want to face.

"Fine! Davis wasn't sure what was going on with Kari!" Tai blurted out.

"Tai!" Davis yelled at him

"Even if he didn't tell me, I already knew, just like Izzy said, I'm new at this, give me sometime…I'll come around. I promise you, and I haven't broken one yet…I know you're just as scared Davis, admit it, I can see the fear in your eyes, you beautiful, scared eyes. You're scared just as much as I am, it's life for you, sometimes you get what you want, and others…You don't, believe me, I know. Davis, listen, you're just like Tai, and that isn't always a good thing, if we get to the next stage, you know, I might get mad, but that's because I have a not so nice side too. You just have to tell me it will be ok, let me shed my tears, hold me in your arms, take care of me, let me know you'll always be there, make me feel better, that's all you'll have to do. I know it seems like a lot, but it isn't, and I'm ready to hear anything that you need to tell me. Davis, I'll always understand, all the differences, problems I've had, you always understood. I'm not ever going to tell you to drop dead! I'll always like you, even if we're not together, even if I was to find someone else. Trust me," I found the words from my heart.

"Kari, I am scared, I've never liked someone as much as I like you, I never let myself like anyone else other then you…Kari, you were my first and only crush. I'm going to treat you with the kind and loving heart I have. I'll always be here, even if we don't stay together…I know I wouldn't break up with you, you mean the world to me, and if you broke up with me, well…I wouldn't have any reason to live, you are my world. I'll need help at points, and I'm not always that smart, but you'll help me through, I would think you would. I don't know how to put my feelings for you in words; people would say it as I love you, but that's not it…I don't think it's love, but that something before it, that feeling that you get when you just won first place, when you passed a big test, when you get your first kiss! I don't know what it really is, I'm not that sure if it's what I feel, it's a happy feeling, that is so great that it makes you sick! You know? That, I can't be with anyone else, I know you're the one feeling, but it seems like so much more…It is something that I guess I can't put in words, but it feels so good," Davis explained to me in thoughtful words.

"I understand," I softly told him.

Everyone walked away, left the hall, left us alone, they went into our room.

"You do?" Davis softly asked in a sweet, delicate voice.

"Does it feel like you want to kiss the person, but you're afraid that they're going to back away? Like you were born to be here this very minute?" I questioned.

"Yeah, that's how it feels," Davis and I got real close.

We were right about to kiss, then I heard my mom coming around the corner, and I quickly backed away…Our perfect moment was ruined.

"Where are the others Kari?" she asked me.

"In the room," I calmly answered.

"Why are you out here?" my mother slyly asked.

I hesitated.

"I wanted her to show me some pictures, of when Tai and here were little," Davis saved me.

"Oh, ok," she said, and thankfully she left.

We decided to go into the bedroom.

When I opened the door, I heard a thud, someone fell. When I looked in, I saw Tai and Willis on the floor, they were watching us.

They were staring at me with these I'm sorry eyes.

I walked over to where Matt and Cody were.

"Your mom came, didn't she?" Matt whispered to me.

"Yep," I was nodding my head.

"What was going on out there Kari?" Cody asked me.

I smiled and started to turn bright red.

"Did you, or did your mom come before you could," Matt knew what was going on.

"Mom came before we could, it was the perfect moment ruined," I was sad.

"You'll have other chances," Cody tried to bring up my hope.

"I know, but right then and there would have been perfect," I said thinking about what happened.

Everyone stared at me, they said things to me, I saw their lips move, but I didn't hear anything, I was thinking about what could have happened, that I could have had my first kiss on the lips by the only one I've ever thought about since the day we met.

"Why were you listening?' I asked Tai and Willis, I was looking out the window.

Tai was staring at me; Willis avoided contact with my eyes.

"Why?" I yelled, I wanted to know.

"I, um, I," Tai stuttered.

"Why? You had no reason to listen to our conversation, were you watching too? Come on Tai, I thought you could trust me!" I was angry, stressed, mad.

"I just didn't want you to do anything stupid, Willis wasn't listening, he came to tell me not to listen, he was being a good friend," he explained.

"I'm not stupid, I wouldn't have done something stupid, you have to trust me Tai!" I yelled at him.

"I know, I understand," Tai looked at me with sad eyes.

"No you don't! You don't know what I've been going through, you're not me, you'll never understand, you'll try to, but you won't know, you won't Tai!" I fell to the ground, eyes filling with tears. I closed my eyes, covered my face with my hands, I was on my knees, as low as I could get to the ground.

"Kari," Davis hesitated at first, I could feel the air on the back of my neck, but then his soft hands touched my back gently. It was comforting to feel a warm, kind touch.

"Nobody cares how I truly feel," I mumbled, I'm not that sure if I wanted Davis to hear me.

"I care," he whispered to me.

A dark image filled my mind, I pulled myself to sit up, I grabbed Davis tight. "Davis!"

"Kari, it's ok, what's the matter?" he asked in a warm, sweet voice.

"I saw something; it was a dark image, Davis!" I yelled his name, I felt like he was getting farther and farther apart. I didn't know what was going on.

"Kari!" I heard Ken's voice. Everything grew dark, Davis and everyone else grew farther and farther away, but I still had sight of Ken, I walked over to him.

"Where did everyone go?" I sobbed, I was still crying.

"They're here, we just can't see them, stay close," he told me.

"What was that?" I yelled and grabbed hold of Ken's arm.

"I don't know," Ken replied.

"Kari!" I heard, it was the same voice I heard before.

"Did you hear that? It was Davis, I know it was," I told Ken.

"Do you think this is that Dark World?" Ken questioned me.

"Yeah," I said quietly.

"Then how could it be Davis? He's never been to this world," he was confused.

"He has a cut! He told me about it! Davis was once taken from his home or something like that, he blacked out, someone cut his arm, and he woke up back at his house, he had this sharp pain in his arm, he had a cut, but it went away when we met up with Willis," I remembered.

Ken looked at me; my eyes were still filled with tears. I still held onto his arm. He put his hand on my shoulder, Ken was shaking with fear.

"You're shaking Ken," I told him.

"I know, I can't help it, I'm scared," he admitted.

"I can't just stand here, come on Ken, let's walk and talk," I decided as I let go of his arm.

"Ok," he agreed with me.

We walked around, we didn't know where we were going, but we went there.

I stopped.

"What is it Kari?" Ken asked me.

"I pulled you in this Ken, I'm sorry, if I didn't tell Davis, none of this stupid stuff would have happened," I was ready to cry again, but I didn't.

"Kari, don't even think this is your fault, we would have still slept over, you would have met up with Willis, and we would still have some sort of mess like this," he tried to comfort me.

"Right, I guess," I decided he was right.

"What happened in the hall anyways Kari?" Ken asked, changing the subject.

"It was almost magical, until my mom came. I asked Davis if what he felt was when you want to kiss the person, but you're scared that the person is going to back away, that you were born to be where he was that very moment. Davis told me, yeah, that's how it feels, and he got real close. He was about to kiss me, then I heard my mom coming. I had to back away. The perfect moment was ruined," I explained.

"On the lips?" he questioned.

"Yeah, it was going to be perfect," I said again.

"You'll have other chances," Ken told me what Cody also said.

"That is what Cody told me, but that moment was the perfect chance, if only my mom wasn't home, Davis could have given me the kiss," I told him.

"But Kari-" Ken started.

"No buts, it was going to be perfect, beautiful, as beautiful as Davis's eyes, as warm as his touch…It was going to be awesome! Davis and I out in the hall with my brother and the others not knowing what was going on, a kiss that would have taken my breath away! I was ready for it, so was he…If only it would have happened," I said calmly.

"Would you say you're in love with Davis?" he asked slyly.

"Love is such a big thing, I don't think it was love, I think I just really wanted that kiss, I wanted to feel what would have happened, what it's like to have someone care for you that much," I said.

After I said this, I felt something warm, like someone or something was breathing on me. It was a soft touch on my lips. I suddenly saw the darkness fade away, Ken was no longer there. I was scared to see what I would find when I opened my eyes. Was what I felt real, or just a dream? I opened my eyes slowly, when I saw Davis next to me. I quickly found out what was going on, but weren't the others in the room. I didn't see them. He had kissed me, right on the lips. Just like in fairy tales, his kiss woke me from the death I once felt. He stared at me with his beautiful, worried eyes, he hadn't notice that my eyes were slightly opened, I opened them wide now.

"Kari, you scared me," Davis said peacefully.

"What, what happened?" I stuttered.

"I'm not that sure, you kind of just blacked out, you were holding onto me, and then you let go, you almost fell on the ground, but I held onto you," he explained.

"Where is everyone?" I asked.

"I asked them to let me be with you alone," he told me calmly.

"I felt something before I woke up, what was it?" I questioned, even though I knew what it was.

He hesitated.

"Davis, what was it?" I asked again.

"I didn't get to out in the hall…I decided to when you lied there so still, so helpless…I thought you felt alone…I wanted you to know I was here," he told me slowly, like he didn't want me to know.

"I was in that Dark World!" I blurted.

He gave me these shocked looking eyes.

"I wasn't alone, I was talking to Ken," I told Davis.

"Really? He was here the whole time," he informed me

I looked around the room, for some reason, I was avoiding contact with Davis's eyes.

"What are you thinking about?" he was curious.

I sat up. I wasn't looking at him; I was avoiding any contact with him. I felt scared, even sick, like I was going to melt, I was having mixed emotions. I remembered that dark place, the kiss that woke me, everything that happened to me, from first sight of Davis to this moment.

"Kari…Are you ok? You seem to be avoiding me," I heard his words, but my head hurt, I really didn't understand, well I knew what he was saying, but I didn't know what to say back to him.

"I…Don't…Know," it was getting hard for me to breathe.

"Kari!" those were the last words I heard, I must have passed out or something.