Author's Notes- Yes, I ripped the idea for the line about Rika and bunnies form a oneshot entitled "Ice Cream". I forget who wrote it, but credit where credit is do to them.

Disclaimer- Although it would make a great birthday present, I don't own digimon. Or Green Day. Yes, there is a space between the words.

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Ryo and Rika stood outside the door of Rika's house. "You sure you're ready?"

She nodded. "Are you?"

He nodded. Rika pushed the door open. "Mom? Grandma? I'm home!"

No answer. She went inside and motioned for Ryo to follow. "Miss Nonaka?" he called.

Ryo noticed a peice of paper on the kitchen counter. "Hey, Rika! C'mere!"

"What is it?"

"A note. It says

Dear Rika,

If you're reading this, then you've come home. Good. You're in a lot of trouble when we get back from your father's house. For now, though, there's food in the fridge.

Love,

Mom, Dad, and Grandma."

"They're at my dad's house? Why?"

Ryo shrugged. "I dunno. Maybe he's a bum, and he wants your mom back?"

Rika laughed. "He's a bum, alright, but he has a wife."

"Oh. Well, maybe he just wants to apologize?"

She shrugged. "Maybe. I'm hungry, and supposedly, there's food in the fridge."

"Woa!" There was so much food that she had to gasp. She had never seen more than fruit and maybe bottled water in this refridgerator. Her mother was a model, after all.

Ryo walked over. "Oh, cool! Wings!" he took a bag out. "You don't mind if I...?"

"You're sharing those, bub."

He laughed. As he put them in the microwave, she looked in the freezer. There was actually ice cream in her freezer! There was a peice of paper, too. She read it.

"Our little secret.

Love, Dad."

She crumpled it up. "My stupid father left me some ice cream. Want some?"

"Do you really have to ask?"

She took out two bowls.

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Five minutes later, they were sitting on her couch, watching TV, and eating ice cream and barbecue wings at the same time. "You know," Rika said, "this is the first time in a long time that I've eaten something that wasn't non-fat."

"Really? Wow. This was probably the first lunch I've had in a week that didn't consist of cheetos and hi-C."

She laughed.

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Over the next few hours, it dawned on Rika that she was home without parental guidance. "Hey, Ryo! Let's go jump on my mom's bed!"

"You finally have the spirit of being home alone!" he said, following her.

Rika started jumping immediately, but Ryo took a CD out of his pocket and put it into Rika's mother's DVD player. He pressed a few buttons, and "Holiday" by Green Day was playing.

They jumped like there was no tomorrow.

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But, unfortunately, there was a tomorrow. And, at 11:00 PM, after a day of play with the girl of your dreams, preperation for tomorrow requires sleep. As he walked out the door, Ryo called "See you tomorrow, pumpkin!"

"You really don't have to go, you know!"

"I know! But I'd rather get this lttle thing called sleep!"

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Author's Notes- Well, folks, this is what you call a "transition chapter". It has no value, other than to help me fast forward things by a few years. Oh, and to have Rika eat her first barbecue wing. Bubye!