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Chapter ten: Forgive and Forget… or not.

"Are you and Kari… going out?" Davis asked slowly.

"Eh?" T.K asked blankly.

Davis waved his hand in front of T.K's face. "Yo! T.D! What's with you today? You're kinda spacey."

"Eh?" T.K stared at Davis for a second then grinned. "Ah, yeah! I'm here!"

Davis shook his head. "You didn't even blow up when I called you T.D!"

"What?" T.K cried. "Have you been calling me anything but T.K on purpose?"

Just then, I happened to walk into class when they were trying to kill each other.

"Look! There's Kari!" Davis said softly. "Aren't you gonna go and cuddle her or something?"

"You are crazy!" T.K shouted and brought his fist down on top of Davis' head hard.

"Eh?" I looked over at the two of them and they stopped, as if someone had put a pause button on them.

Boys are crazy. I frowned and went back to doing very last minute homework.

"Wow! She just looked at you!" Davis whistled. "Is she wondering why her new boyfriend isn't as cool as me?"

T.K wanted to choke Davis but then he had a bright idea.

"Hey!"

"What?" asked Davis.

"Just watch." T.K waved at Davis to tell him everything was okay then took the few brave steps in my direction.

"Hi Kari."

"Hi T.K." I said, without looking up.

"Did you leave your homework to the very last minute again?" he asked critically.

"Urm, well yes."

He was looking over my shoulder at the dumb maths problems which so badly needed to be done in the next five minutes, and then he said, "Can I help you with that?"

"What?" I asked blankly.

"I said can I help you with that?"

"I heard ya but… you really suck at maths, don't you?"

(He does?)

(And then T.K faints anime style with the legs sticking up.)

"Well, I've gotten better at it!" he said defensively.

I narrowed my eyes at him and said, "The only thing you're good at is eating."

T.K gave me a really pathetic look, "pleeeeeaaaasseeee!"

"You're begging to help me with my homework? What has this world come to?"

T.K smiled. "Well, I've got the crest of Hope, don't I? I need a little hope if I really wanna win your heart, don't I?"

I felt my legs wobble, that sweet smile again… Had I really missed that T.K so much?

"Besides," he continued, "Aren't you supposed to be giggling and saying Oh T.K- I need help with my assignment-giggle!"

"That's really dumb." I said.

"That's what all the other girls do." He rolled his eyes. "But they really don't get that I'm only in love with one person…"

"Oh? And that person is?"

His blue eyes grew serious. "Kari, can't you see that I'm in love with-"

BBRRRIiinnnnggg!

"Waahhh!" I shrieked. "There's no more time! I need to finish this homework in ten seconds!"

I was just going crazy. But T.K stepped in, and helped me with my homework.

"Miss Kamiya, would you please hand in your homework now."

"Oh yeah!" I grabbed the sheet off the desk and passed it to the teacher.

"Mr. Takashi, would you please take your seat now?" That teacher really is freaky. You'd think he was a machine, not human, in that smooth voice of his.

T.K walked quickly and took his seat next to Davis.

Okay, this was freaky.

Yolie and me were walking through the hallways and their was this death glare that came from all of the other girls.

"What's going on?" I whispered.

Yolie frowned. "They're just jealous because of all the attention T.K's been giving you. If they knew how close you two really are since being the Digidestined, then they'd practically put T.K on a leash. You better be careful, Kari. They've got their fangs out."

I stared at her. "I have absolutely no idea what you just said,"

She rolled her eyes. "Basically, it means, get your bloody hands off him, bitch!"

"Great." I sighed.

"Oh look there's T.K right there."

"Yeah."

"Aren't you gonna say hi?"

"Right here? In front of everyone?"

"Yeah. Why not? It's just one little word."

"You just said so yourself. Those girls are standing around here waiting for my next move."

Yolie frowned. "Well, just say something! Don't brush him off like he's a fly. He's just so hopelessly in love with you."

"Feh."

Despite what I had said before, I went up to T.K and said, "Hey."

He had been whining about something to do with his homework, but then he turned and his face was really surprised.

"You don't need to pretend to be surprised," I said. "You know me better than that."

"Yeah, I know." he admitted. "I'm trying. To act like myself, you know."

"Yeah…" I looked at my feet. "Well, um… you know this morning… well, um thanks. Thanks for helping me with my homework."

"No problem." he grinned. "You're always welcome."

I still can't help feeling giddy and weak whenever he smiles at me. And its getting worse!

"Thanks."

"See you around."

"Yeah… see ya."

I turned and went back to Yolie. Then we continued walking through the halls, trying to ignore those death glares.

"Well, I did it. I said hi to him."

"That was more than hi." she said seriously.

"I just said thanks for this morning, that's all."

"You said that part yourself. You wanted to talk to him yourself."

"What?"

Yolie's glasses glittered in the light as she clasped her hands together. "Ohhh… this is so cute! He keeps telling you that he loves you and you won't admit you've fallen in love with him too! You probably don't even know! And you keep denying it! THAT IS SO romantic!" she squealed.

I must have been staring at her with an extremely disbelieving look because she avoided my gaze and cried, "Oh my! There's Ken!"

This is so stupid.

It's like playing a weird game. Whenever the guy you like comes, you're meant to squeal and giggle or something. What's with that?

Is that what girls are supposed to do? Am I just abnormal? If that's so, then I reckon girls are just as stupid as boys… maybe boys are even better…

T.K…

For some reason, I haven't been able to get him out of my head ever since the time he kissed me. I keep thinking of him over and over, and that's when I become vulnerable.

"Whassup, sis?"

Tai poked his head in through the door, and said, "You do know T.K is absolutely crazy about you, right?"

I narrowed my eyes at him. "What have you been doing? Reading my mind?"

"Oh… reading your mind…" he grinned. "Does that mean you were thinking about him?"

"NO!"

Tai shrugged. "Well, I still reckon you should give the poor guy a chance."

"I did!"

11 unread emails…

Huh…

I scrolled down them, reading one after another. The ones from Yolie are pretty pointless. Stuff about the clothes she bought at the store. She should go ahead and email Mimi instead!

Well, what's this?

I saw the sender address was T.K's. There was a little argument in my head about reading it or not but, I decided it wouldn't be as cruddy as the cruddy letter.

Hey Kari,

There's something I wanted to tell you before but I kept getting interrupted. It's funny, almost as if something is deliberately trying to keep me from telling, but I wanna tell you… But I just don't have the guts. Even to write it on an email!

Please can you see me under the huge cherry blossom tree in the park? I know that tree might not be a very good idea but that's where everybody meets.

Meet me there at 6 tomorrow. Love T.K

Ah…urm…

For once, I was just a huge loss of words… wasn't this the same way Tai won Sora?

Wait… backtrack a second… Sora told me she was the one who ended up doing the confessing and that she was the one who asked Tai to meet her there…

Wow, that tree has a lot of history but… what will happen now?

Emichii: And that peeps, is the second last chapter! WOW! And if you haven't read I'm Still Hopeful, then you better go read that immediately, cuz not only does this follow up from it, there are heaps and heaps of cross references! Example? Well, go check out Sora's email for Tai to meet her under the tree! She said exactly the same things T.K wrote, maybe in different words, but they both wanted to meet there a 6pm! How cool! Anyway the cross references is way cool!

And let me tell you- the next chappie may be short but… this fanfic has to end sometime… And guess what? I shouldn't tell you but- next chapter is when T.K kisses Kari-again! HAHA! Read and review!