Here I am, starting to type and all of a sudden I see my mail opener, which was lost for about 6 months!! I was like staring at it, then, 3 seconds later I say, "OH my gosh! The mail opener!" -.-' My, am I slow.

You Never Know

Chapter 3

Ring, ring. Joe gets up from his studies and goes over to the living room. "I got it mom!!" he tells her. "Moshi?"

"Hello, I am from Ben's clothing company and I would like to know if I may take a survey?" Came a lady's voice.

Joe's brow furrowed. "Um, no thank you." He really didn't want to be rude but he was studying (that's very, very important! =D). And besides, his mom was busy.

"Okay, thanks anyway, have a nice day."

"Bye." At least she was nice. Joe thought. He proceeded back to his room. As soon as he sat down, another phone call came.

Joe sighed, pushed the chair back again, and went to the living room. "Hello?"

"Hello, I'm from the Sunshine clothes donation cooperation. Do you have any clothes you can donate?" A deep male's voice said.

"Iie, not this time." Joe said shaking his head, as to emphasis to someone who's not there.

"Thank you anyways." Joe jerked the phone away from his ear as he hears a slam.

"Someone's not having a good day." Joe said to no one in particular. He hangs up and goes back to his room. "Okay, get busy again."

----------Five minutes later----------

Ring, ring! Joe looks up from his work. "Why are there so many-" Joe stops himself (he still has the sense to =D). "-phone calls?" Nevertheless, he went into the living room to get the phone (AGAIN). "Moshi?"

"Ohayou, I am Faye from the Shelia fabric company. Our new store just had a grand opening and everything is 15% off-"

Joe interrupted, "It's okay, I'm not interested. Thanks for telling me any- " This time, Faye or whatever the name is, cuts him off. Joe suddenly hears beeping.

"WHAT? At least let me finish!!" Joe yelled, then lowered his voice and said, "Well, I did cut her off..."

"Joe is something wrong?" His mom calls from her room.

"No, nothing's wrong. Just telemarketers."

"Oh, okay."

Joe goes back to his room again (AGAIN!) and settles down to work. But by now, he lost all his concentration. "Why are there so many commercial people calling? How come they all call at the same time? Why are they all related to clothing anyways? Some clothing domination over business areas? Ha..."

Just then, there was a deadly sound. So deadly that it can make a person go crazy after hearing it three times in a row. There was a ring.

"Arrrgg!" My patience has its limits... (Insert samurai duel music here)

Joe stormed (not walked) into the living room and got the phone. He was about to yell into it when a familiar voice said, "Hello? May I talk to Joe?"

"Oh, hi Izzy." Joe pushes his glasses back up from the rim of his nose.

"Err, You're busy right? You sound irritated."

"Oh, no, it's nothing. Why did you call?"

"Are you busy this Saturday?"

"No." As Joe said this, he was thinking maybe he needs to study.

"Good, because we were planning to go watch Tai's soccer game and play some badminton."

"But I don't think I can come..."

"Come on! You got to loosen up sometimes." How did he know what I was thinking? Joe pondered.

"And besides, Kari and TK don't feel so good. We're trying to cheer them up and lighten the mood for them."

"What's wrong?"

"I don't know. No one does. They're not telling us anything."

"Oh." Then, without second thought he said, "Count me in."

Izzy laughed, not a big one, but a giggle-ish one. "I knew you weren't all about studying."

"Hey!" But before Joe could say more, there was beeping. "I'm going to get him..." Joe had a second thought, "Somehow."

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Izzy smirked. I got him this time! I wonder if he's going to do anything about it. Well, I did my job so back to the computer.

Izzy strolled back to his room and sat down in front of his computer. On his screen was an email he read minutes ago...

----------Flashback----------

"Lets see..." Izzy just turned his computer on and was checking his emails. "All junk mail, except for Tai's. What does he need to say that he can't call me?" Izzy clicked on it and read:

Hey Izzy,

I think you didn't hang your phone up yet because I called you a dozen thousand times and it was still busy. Anyways, this Saturday is my soccer game and everyone's planning to play badminton after watching my game. So you have to come and tell Joe that too.

You have to come, Tai

Izzy quickly ran over to the phone. "Oh man! He's right." Izzy hung up, lifted it up again, and dialled Tai's number.

"Hello?"

"Tai! Give me a reason why I have to come to your soccer game."

"Because I said so..."

"A good reason!"

"Kari and TK aren't feeling well!" he blurred out.

"Huh? How?"

"I don't know, but we're just trying to cheer them up."

"Oh, okay then, I'll come." Izzy quickly added. "But it's for Kari and TK, not you."

"Wahhh! You're sooo mean."

"Whatever. Got to go, need to call Joe."

"Oh yeah...okay bye."

"You're so lazy I swear."

"Uhuh, okay bye." Tai quickly hung up, leaving Izzy to call Joe.

"Right."

----------Present ----------

Sora sat thinking about last night. She had suspected that they liked each other. Now, she was sure that Kari liked TK.

Was she thinking about him? Sora sighed. She looked okay at dinner. Tai and I nearly had a food fight. Oh gosh, how can I do that? But I was on the verge of killing him! Okay, maybe not that bad but still!

-----------Flashback----------

"Sora, I heard you liked Jason." Tai said, and then nearly slapped himself for that. But he really wanted to know if it was true.

"Jason-kun? No I do not like him! Just a friend." If Tai was trying to lighten the mood then I would understand but this is just over the edge. "Why do think I'll like him?"

"I don't know...I just heard people say that." We hear Kari giggle.

"And you think it's true? I thought you were my friend!! You should know me better than that." I felt like flicking food at him.

"Tai, stop picking on Sora." Tai's mom gently said and smiled at me.

"I didn't!"

----------Present----------

Well, at least everything's okay...for now. Sora snapped back to the present. And I hope it'll stay that way. Maybe watching the soccer game and playing badminton will make things more cheerful.

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I wonder as I wander under the shadows of the trees. I feel so alone. So weak. Where's everyone? Are they like how I am? I'm dragging myself just to get somewhere, which is, where? Do I even have a destination anymore? I can just give up, but what about my friends? Maybe they will too?

Kari woke up with a start. Was I feeling angst? But nothing happened, yet. It's just dreams, right? Kari looked at the calendar. Today is Friday, thank goodness. Well, better get ready for school. Kari got up, made her bed, and shut her alarm clock as she went to the bathroom.

Kari stopped in front of the bathroom. Wait...oniisan suppose to have woken up by now. She opened Tai's creaky door and looked in.

"ZZzzzz..."

Kari gathered her breath, then, "WAKE UP YOU LAZY BUM!!"

Tai jolted from his sleep and hit his head on the bedside table. "Itai! Kari don't try to scare me like that again!"

Kari giggled. "Well, then wake up on time, high school starts earlier you know."

"Yea, yea." Tai got up.

"Kari?" Their dad asked from their room. "What's the big commotion?"

"Oh, nothing. Oniisan wouldn't wake up so-" Tai rushed into the bathroom past her and closed the door. "Hey! I woke up before you!"

Tai laughed. "Oh, well. You were just standing there so I decided not to waste time."

"Next time I won't wake you up!" Kari retorted. Well, the point of waking him was so he wouldn't be late.

Tai started humming.

"Kari?" Their dad called again.

"Nothing, dad." Kari answered, and then went to her room to change.

----------After school----------

"Kari!" Her mom called. "The phone!"

Kari got up and went to get a cordless phone. "Got it mom!" Then to the phone, "Hello?"

"Kari? Hi..." Came a male's voice.

"Oh hi TK. Um...how's it going?" Kari asked as she went back into her room.

"I'm fine. I want to ask you something."

"Yeah?" TK was acting plain weird.

"Have you been having strange dreams lately?"

Kari trembled at the thought of those dreams. "Yes..." She said quietly, "Have you, too?"

"Yeah...My dream was like Patomon being attacked." TK coughed.

"Mine too. But it was with Gatomon."

There was a few seconds of silence. Then, TK broke the silence by saying, "Do you think it has meaning?"

"I don't k-know."

"Maybe it's trying to tell us to go back? Or maybe something's wrong there? Maybe-"

"TK, Stop! I don't know and I don't want to!" With that, Kari hung up.

She lay on her bed and buried her face in the pillow. Silent tears rolled down her cheeks.

Oh my, I hope it wasn't so bad! I was trying to make it long. =) Please R&R!

Now reply to the reviewers!! Sorry that I didn't reply last time.

T.K. & Kari's son, Rayono: Thank you for reviewing! My first reviewer!! =)

Haichi321: Thanks for the advice! It really helped and will continue to. It was something to look at when I think I forgot something. And I did! Thankfully I wrote it down. =D

Clarify: Yesh, I'm glad you're proud of me! Haha! And once again, don't abandon YOUR desert story. And update your story!!

Hakari-4-Tekeru: Thanks for reviewing!! It really helps me write. I'm glad to know someone is actually ecstatic about my story. =)