Digimon Adventure 02 – Summer in Alaska

Day Six

Skyy woke up with the darkness of their stateroom greeting her again. Only then did her hearing kick in and she heard the thumping of fists on their door. She grumbled and stuffed her face deeper in her pillow.

"Girls! C'mon it's late! You need to get up!" Matt's muffled voice yelled form the other side. Skyy heard Sora shift in her bed followed by the soft padding of Sora's bare feet walking across the room. Sora clicked the door open and light flooded into the room.

"What do you guy's waaant?" Sora mumbled, sleepiness coating her words. Skyy heard Matt sigh.

"It's 9:30! Our train tour leaves in an hour!" Tai's voice grumbled. All of a sudden Mimi's weight sprung from her bed.

"WHAT!" she yelled and practically flew from her bed. Skyy smiled into her pillow. She heard Mimi rush into the bathroom and slam the door shut. Skyy heard the others laugh as well. Skyy could feel the ship wasn't moving. They must've already docked at Skagaway. Damn, they even didn't wake up when the captain announced that they'd boarded, or that they were even allowed off the boat. Skyy pushed herself from her bed and untangled her legs from the sheets. She wandered over to the door whilst rubbing her eyes awake.

"So why didn't you wake us up earlier then?" Skyy wondered. Tai rolled his eyes.

"We tried! We've been calling since 9:00! When you didn't answer we just came down to your room and started banging on the door! Thank god it worked," Tai grumbled. Skyy raised her eyebrows.

"Oh…wow, okay, you boys go down to the Piazza we'll meet you there," Skyy said and started closing the door.

"You'll be quick right?" Matt asked. Skyy grinned.

"Hey, if they drag, I'll whoop their asses into shape, okay?" Skyy winked. Matt shook his head but smiled.

"Okay, we'll meet you, see ya," Matt said and Skyy closed the door.

The girls were rushing that morning but were making great progress. 20 minuets after the boys left all three girls had showered; Mimi and Sora had done their hair and were almost done putting on make-up. Skyy was almost done, just pulling some clothes on when their phone rang. Skyy picked it up and was surprised to hear Jeremy on the other end.

"Oh hey Jeremy! What's up?"

"Not much, I was wondering when your tour starts today?" he asked, he was speaking English. Skyy raised an eyebrow.

"Didn't I tell you last night? Its 10:30," she spoke in English as well.

"Do you mind if we hang out before you leave?" he asked. Skyy smiled.

"Sure! It won't be for long, but meet us in the Piazza, the guys should be down there already," Skyy said. She could tell that Jeremy broke out into a grin.

"Excellent! I'll go down their now!" he said. Skyy smiled.

"Okay, see you soon," she said then hung up. Skyy looked up and saw Sora and Mimi's heads poking around the corner.

"Was that Jeremy?" Sora said with a hint of excitement in her voice. Skyy gave them a bored expression.

"Yeah….he's meeting us down at the Piazza…"she said slowly. Both Mimi and Sora erupted into squeals.

"Yaay! We get to hang out with Jeremy!" they gushed. Skyy rolled her eyes and pointed a finger at Mimi.

"You! Why are you so giddy about this? You got your man last night! Already fawning over other guys are we?" Skyy said with a fake glare in her eyes. Mimi turned pink and smiled.

"Well...I-I ummm I still love Tai all the same!" Mimi said turning red. Sora and Skyy grinned.

"AWWWW!" they gushed and gave Mimi a big group hug. Mimi huffed and pushed away, embarrassed. They finished getting ready within the next 6 minuets an all hurried down to the Piazza on the sixth floor.

As they approached the large center of the ship before they saw their friends they smelt the smell of grilled sandwiches. Skyy's stomach growled. The three girls saw the boys all sitting in big comfy looking chairs. Skyy saw Jeremy's blonde hair first and was happy to see that he had found the others okay.

There were only four chairs and naturally Sora went to sit on Matt's lap. He rapped his arms around her waist when she sat down. Mimi walked over to Tai and bent down to give him a light kiss. Both were red in the face and Tai shuffled over so Mimi could squish beside him. They both had smiles on their faces when Tai rapped his arm around Mimi's waist and entangled his fingers with hers. Skyy stood there awkwardly for a second. Both Izzy and Jeremy both made a move to get up and offer their seat when Skyy interrupted them.

"Hey! So those sandwiches smell really good! Who wants to go get some with me?" she said. Izzy resumed his motion to get up.

"I'll go," he said. Sora was about to get up too when Matt tightened his grip on her waist, stopping her from getting up. She gave him a confused look. He just smiled and shook his head.

Skyy smiled brightly when Izzy offered and noticing that no one else wanted to go she turned and walked over to the little sandwich grill in the corner with Izzy at her side.

"Remember the first day here? We said we'd come down here and get sandwiches?" Izzy said. Skyy smiled.

"Yeah, that date I promised, we can't really count right now though because the others are here," she said. Izzy smiled.

"Yeah, maybe tomorrow or something? Besides visiting the Tracey Arm a majority of the day will be at sea," Izzy said with hopefulness in his voice. Skyy beamed.

"Yeah!" she agreed. They reached the little grill and told the chef what they wanted. They both ordered two sandwiches each, in case someone else ended up wanting one. As they waiting for the chef to finish grilling their sandwiches Skyy glanced over to Jeremy. He was chatting happily with her friends, using rather large hand gestures to explain some sort of story. Skyy smiled.

"So, what do you think of Jeremy?" she asked Izzy. Izzy frowned.

"Oh, uh, Jeremy? He's interesting I guess," Izzy muttered. Skyy frowned.

"You don't like him?" she asked. Izzy flinched.

"No! It's not that, he…he's a nice guy! He's fun to hang out with!" Izzy said with a fake smile. Skyy gave him a sceptical look. He was lying, she could tell. She left it at that though. She frowned to herself. Why didn't Izzy like Jeremy? It made her sad that the guy she liked didn't like one of her close friends.

Meanwhile Izzy bit his lip and looked at the floor. Damn, he had made her upset. She could tell he was lying…he didn't like lying to her, but if he told her the outright truth that he didn't like Jeremy getting all of her attention she'd be all weird about it.

They both got their sandwiches in silence and returned to the group. Tai ended up having Skyy's other sandwich and Sora and Matt shared Izzy's other sandwich. They chatted until they had finished their sandwiches. Matt looked at his watch and saw it was almost 10:30. They all got up and said goodbye to Jeremy. Jeremy headed off back to his family and Skyy and her friends headed up one floor to the ramp that led to the pier.

It didn't take long for them to actually get off the ship, and it surprised them to see the train tracks lead right onto the pier. There was already a large line up about 6 meters from the tracks. Skyy grumbled but they all joined the line anyway. Staff for the train tour walked up and down the line with signs that said which tour this was. Izzy checked the signs and confirmed this was the right tour. They were facing a cut off mountain that the pier was attached to. Skyy grinned when she saw all the graffiti all over the rocks. It wasn't vandalism though; she could tell it was done with paint. There were a bunch of names, and a lot of cruise line logos with names of captains and how long they captained a ship for. There were also cruise line logos with how long a ship a cruised for before it was decommissioned. There were a lot of names of people with hearts around them or "just married" captions, but most of the art was for cruise lines that had been there. Skyy even saw a logo for their cruise line but it was for a different ship, not the Golden Princess. More people lined up behind them and it wasn't long before the train slowly started crawling down the tracks towards them.

Skyy leaned as far as she could to see the train and clicked pictures until she lost her footing and Izzy quickly grabbed her arm and pulled her upright again. She blushed and thanked him. He laughed calling her clumsy. Soon the train stopped where the tracks ended. They stood in front of the last car on the train. It was an old looking vintage type train. The kind of train you'd see in the Gold Rush days. It was a brown train with a dark grayish black roof. The windows and doors were all trimmed with gold metal and written in curvy gold letters on the side of the train read "Lake Squanga". Skyy wondered if that was lake they were going to pass by or something.

Soon the staff opened the doors and all the tourists rushed to get good seats. Fortunately Skyy and her friends were close to the doors of the last train car and they were the first ones on. They all went to the very back and sat in the last seats. The two couples automatically sat together so Skyy happily sat down beside Izzy. She kinda liked there being two couples. Then she and Izzy got to be third wheels together.

The inside of the train was nothing special really. It was beige walls and ceilings and a door at the end that lead to a small lookout that hung off the end of each train car. There were a lot of large windows that let the sun shine through and the seats were all booths that could fit about two people each. Tai and Mimi sat in the very back booth, then Matt and Sora sat in front of them. Then Izzy and Skyy sat across the isle from Matt and Sora. Izzy and Skyy were on the side that faced out to the ships. The others were on the side that faces the rock.

When all the passengers had boarded and sat down. The guide's voice rang through the intercom. He introduced himself and another guide. Slowly the train started moving and Skyy got excited. Soon the train sped up and they passed all the ships that were docked and started heading into a forested area. There wasn't much to take pictures of right now but Skyy kept leaning over Izzy to take pictures anyway. He laughed at her and finally switched seats so she was by the window. Skyy also took some pictures of her friends to pass time before something worthy of a picture passed them. Soon though they passed a very old cemetery called "Gold Rush Cemetery", that had a hero and a villain buried within it. The guide then went into this full out story from the gold rush days about these two dead guys.

So basically there was this bad guy called Jefferson Smith. He would con people for money. Because they were all away from their families this Jefferson guy had a telegraph and charged money for the people to telegraph their families. But what they didn't know was that the wire from the telegraph led nowhere and was just buried in the dirt. So this man conned all this money from the people. One day this other guy named Frank Reid had enough and got into a fight with Jefferson. They both pulled out their guns and shot. Jefferson was killed instantly but Frank died a couple days later in the hospital. After that Frank Reid was known as the town hero of Skagaway.

Since they passed by the cemetery so quickly Skyy didn't get a good picture of it. She asked her friends if they could go there after the tour and they agreed. Soon the train entered a thick forest area and the guide broke out into talking about the town and how it came to be because there was no specific scenery to look at. Skyy and Izzy broke out into conversation while waiting for some better scenery to pass by. Izzy took out his laptop after a while and started madly typing computer stuff. He had his digivice connected to it though so Skyy could tell he was doing something related to the digimon.

Soon the train emerged from the forest and they started crawling upwards on the side of a mountain. There where still a lot of trees but now you could see the peaks of mountains in-between clouds and rivers carving through the rocks downwards. Skyy was taking so many pictures she'd lost track of things she had already taken pictures of. Soon the doors at the back of each train car opened and passengers could go out onto the little decks to take pictures. Skyy immediately bounced up to go outside. Izzy left his laptop and followed her, not wanting to sit by himself. Skyy gasped when she walked out onto the deck. It was really small, could probably fit about five people. But because they were at the back of the train they got a good view of things they had passed. Skyy liked watching the tracks fade away behind them. The deck was a little rocky because of the bumpy tracks so Skyy and Izzy had to hold on tight to the railings. At one point Skyy leaned over to take a picture of the side of the train. Soon she felt Izzy's chest lightly touching her back. She turned around and the wind caused her hair to fly in his face. Izzy jumped and backed off. He had his arm arched around her with his hands on the railing on either side of her.

Skyy laughed when Izzy shook his head to get her hair out of his face. Skyy pushed some of it away.

"Ha ha, sorry Iz," She laughed. Izzy arched an eyebrow.

"Damn wind," he muttered then leaned slightly over her to look at the camera in her hands.

"Take any good pictures?" he asked. Skyy blushed at his proximity.

"Y-yeah! Here see," She turned around so her back was to the railing. It was kind of awkward because Izzy was slightly arched over her. She was happy though. She clicked through her pictures and sometimes paused to take a quick picture of something that passed by. Some of the other tourists on the deck got tired of being there and left, so only Izzy and Skyy and a professional photographer from their cruise ship were there. Skyy got curious and started asking the guy about his camera. Izzy let go of the railing so she could get past him, much to his disappointment. Izzy leaned on the railing and watched the scenery until Skyy was done talking. Soon the photographer left leaving the two of them by themselves. Skyy went to stand beside Izzy so that their arms were touching.

"It's really pretty up here isn't it?" Skyy sighed. She felt Izzy nod.

"Yeah, I'm glad we went on this tour," Izzy said.

"I hope I don't fill up my camera with pictures from just this tour" Skyy laughed. Izzy looked at her camera.

"How many pictures have you taken so far?" he asked.

"During the whole trip or just this tour?"

"The whole trip,"

"1768…"Skyy said.

"Wow! That's a lot," Izzy gasped, acting surprised. Skyy nudged him slightly. He was teasing her.

"Hey, when were old little shrivelled up people we'll have fun looking at these together! You'll be glad I took so many!" she huffed. Izzy was quiet for a second.

"You think we'll all still be together when we're old?" he asked looking at the tracks instead of her.

Skyy looked at him.

"Why not? Of course we'll still be together! We're all good friends!" she said. Izzy smiled lightly. Skyy kept looking at his profile.

Every time she stopped to really look at him it blew her away how good looking he really was. I mean sure he wasn't Jeremy or anything, but in her eyes he was very, very good looking. With his maroon hair against his tan skin and his black eyes, he was extremely good looking. And the way his mouth quirked when he grinned, she loved it all. Everything about him she just loved to bits. She would be heartbroken when he finally found someone that he loved, knowing it wouldn't be her. Suddenly Izzy turned to look at her.

"What?" he asked. Skyy jumped.

"Huh? What? What, what?" she asked nervously.

"You've been staring at me for the past five minuets," he said raising an eyebrow. Skyy turned beat red and she could feel her cheeks and ear heating up. Her fingers fumbled and she almost dropped her camera over the railing.

"Oh! Uh nothing, it's just…uhh there is an eyelash on your face!" she said even though there wasn't. Izzy blinked and put his hand up to his face.

"Huh? Really where?" he asked. Skyy raised her hand and pretended to pick an eyelash off his face and quickly pretended to flick it away so he wouldn't see.

"There! Gone," she said and quickly turned to look out at the mountain and trees. He smiled.

"Thanks," he said then turned. They stood in silence. Soon darkness surrounded them. They had gone through a tunnel. The light from the entrance of the tunnel slowly got smaller and smaller. The wind died somewhat and Skyy couldn't see Izzy beside her, she could still feel his arm touching hers though. She leaned her head on where she assumed his shoulder was and was glad to feel it under her head. She felt Izzy stiffen for a second and her heart skipped a beat. Would he shrug her off? Skyy bit her lip. But soon her heart melted happily when she felt his arm slide from the railing and wrap around her waist.

'Yes!' she thought and mentally pumped a fist in the air. They stood there until the train emerged from the tunnel and even for a while after. They were only interrupted when some tourist guy came through the door and jumped when he saw them.

"Oh! Hee, hee, sorry you two," the man said winking at them. Skyy spun around and jumped away from Izzy. He did the same. They were both beat red.

"Oh! Uhh, no we're sorry…I was leaving anyway," Skyy muttered in English and quickly scuttled back inside the train. Izzy slightly bowed to the guy in apology, which took him by surprise (considering he was American and didn't normally have people bow to him), and followed after Skyy.

When Skyy entered the train car her four friends were all huddled together whispering. Skyy gave them a weird look and when they noticed her they all broke apart quickly and stopped talking. She ignored them and sat down in her seat. Izzy sat down beside her and both were silent. Their cheeks still pink.

Soon the scenery all became the same. They reached the summit of a mountain and passed over the Canadian border. Somehow Skyy felt happy to be back in one of her countries. Even though she hadn't been born in Canada, and wasn't Canadian at all, she felt Canadian and this country was just another home to her. This wasn't the only time they were going to be in Canada on this cruise either. Their last port of call was Victoria, British Columbia. Skyy was excited to go there.

They passed lakes, trees, rock, and even some snow sometimes. Skyy stopped taking pictures until she saw some caribou and took pictures of them. But other than that everything seemed the same and she didn't see the point in taking more pictures. On the way back though her and Izzy switched places and he fell asleep against the window. Skyy kept taking pictures of him whilst she and Sora giggled about how cute he was when he was sleeping.

Only one thing bugged her about the tour. People would always stare or give them glances when they spoke in Japanese. Skyy almost wanted to tell them "what, we're Asian! Obviously we speak a different language! Stop looking at us like we're aliens!" in English just to throw them all off. You'd think it was understandable that because she was from Japan, and was with her Japanese friends, that's she'd be speaking Japanese. She ignored them for the most part though; sometimes she'd glare at someone until they turned away.

A while after passing the Canadian border they got to the halfway point and they turned around so they started heading back the way they came. the guide that had been talking the whole way up switched places with a female guide who started talking for the trip back. The two couples fell into conversation so Skyy went over to her seat with Izzy. She'd been sitting with Sora and Mimi whilst Tai and Matt were out on the deck. When the boys came back Skyy was kind of ignored.

Izzy was still asleep so Skyy curled up her feet on the booth so her knees were against her chest. She turned her head to rest on her knees. She'd hoped it looked like she was looking out the window, when actually she was just looking at Izzy.

Skyy started getting lost in her thoughts. Soon, before she could even think about it, the train stopped at the pier. She was snapped out of her daze when she felt the train halt. Izzy woke up from the movement and yawned, stretching his arms in the air. Skyy smiled at him.

"Hmmm…are we back?" he asked sleepily. Skyy resisted the urge to touch his face.

"Yep! You slept the whole way!" Skyy laughed and got up from her seat. Izzy looked around taking in his surroundings. He quickly packed up his laptop, which he'd left open in the empty booth in front of them.

"So you up for a hike to that cemetery?" Tai said coming up behind Skyy and putting his hands on his hips. Skyy smiled.

"Yeah!" Skyy said. Mimi shrugged.

"I've got runners on so I'm okay with it," she said. They all decided and quickly got off the train. They asked one of the staff members which was the best way to get there and the man pointed them in the right direction.

Soon they were on a gravel road that led back the direction they'd gone on the train. It didn't take long to get there, maybe 20 minuets. The cemetery wasn't very busy. It was on a hill with lots of rocks and trees. Skyy wondered how they could keep a cemetery here. There were paths circling around all of the old graves. The graves were all from the gold rush days so some of them were falling apart and had replacement stones so people could still read the names. Skyy quickly found the grave stones of the two men mentioned in that story. She took some pictures of them and also some other really old stones. They weren't there for very long before Tai broke out into the spooky stories again. He did the same thing at Sora's Aunt and Uncle's trailer. And just like last time, Sora and Mimi got creeped out and wanted to leave. Skyy didn't mind leaving either. Not because of the stories, but just because the cemetery got boring.

So they left and walked back to the pier. It started getting chilly and Skyy was getting a little tired. They all talked on the way back and it seemed everyone else was tired too. They all had no desire to go into town, so they decided to go back on the boat. When they got to the pier they climbed the ramp to their cruise ship and checked in again.

Once they got back they didn't really know what to do and ended up going up to the 14th deck, the pool deck. There were some blankets on the chairs also they all sat down and grabbed some blankets. Skyy stretched out on one of the pool chairs. Sora started playing with her hair. The feeling relaxed her and made Skyy's eyelids droop. She tried to stay in the conversations as much as possible but soon sleep overcame her and the last thing she remembered was Sora talking about how the government has found so many ways to con people's money without them noticing. Skyy was kind of glad she's fallen asleep so she wouldn't have to stick around for that conversation.

Soon though, Sora was shaking her awake. Skyy grumbled at the disturbance. The blanket she was curled under had gotten warm because of her body heat.

"C'mon sleepyhead, we're leaving!" Sora laughed. Skyy blinked a couple times and sat up. She noticed only Mimi and Sora were with her.

"Where did the guys go?" she asked, rubbing her eyes.

"They went to play ping pong for a while," Sora said and stood up. She had previously been kneeling beside Skyy. Skyy smiled to herself. She imagined Tai and Matt playing ping pong and Izzy sitting in a chair typing away on his laptop. He always did that in his spare time.

"C'mon, I'm hungry let's go get some pizza from the buffet," Mimi said. Skyy jumped up from her chair at the sound of food.

"Sure! I'm up for pizza; I haven't eaten since this morning," Skyy said. The three girls headed straight for the buffet and got large two large slices of pizza each. They sat at a table and chatted happily. As they were eating the intercom came on saying that they were leaving port shortly. The girls watched through the windows in the buffet as the ship slowly came to life and started edging away from the pier.

When the girls finished their food they grabbed some ice cream at the little ice cream stand just outside the entrance to the buffet. They walked around for a little while as the sun was setting. Skyy clicked a few pictures of the sunset before she continued walking with her friends.

Eventually, after they maybe walked the entire ship two times, the three girls found themselves at the teen club. Surprisingly there was no one there. The DJ and the supervisor women were there, and the DJ was playing some tunes at a low volume. Other than that there was a small group of teens in a far corner and that was it. The girls found their usual group of chairs and benches and made themselves comfortable.

"Woow it's already 10:00, we were strolling for a while, I wonder where the guys are?" Sora wondered allowed.

"Probably strolling around too, watching a movie, swimming, playing bingo, the list is endless," Skyy shrugged. Sora nodded.

"Maan! I can't believe I'm turning 17 tomorrow!" Mimi sighed. Skyy sighed too.

"Yeaah…it feels like only yesterday that Davis and the others joined the "group" and all that stuff happened..." Sora said. Skyy's memories flashed back to when she was in the hospital with her leukemia, how her crest of life saved her and how she first realized during that time that she was in love with Izzy. A small smiled cracked at her lips.

"So much has happened, I mean we're going to University soon, and you and Tai are together, Kari, TK and all them are in high school," Sora continued.

"Boo you're making me feel old," Skyy chuckled. Sora grinned.

"I don't know about you guys but I can't wait to be a hot university student!" Mimi said. Skyy and Sora laughed.

"Anyway, coming back to Mimi and Tai's newfound relationship, who thought that would've ever happened?" Sora said. Skyy nodded.

"I know right! This time last year we would've denied the whole thing!" Skyy said leaning bit closer to Sora. Mimi raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, it's like when you guys weren't together it wasn't even a possibility, but as soon as it happened you two seemed to be so perfect for each other!" Sora sighed. Skyy nodded vigorously. Mimi cleared her throat.

"I'm so glad my love life is so interesting and impossible for you two to comprehend," Mimi rolled her eyes. Skyy and Sora laughed.

"But still Mimi, this time last year would you have ever thought of this happening?" Skyy asked. Mimi cocked her head.

"Honestly, no. I probably would've laughed at the idea," Mimi smiled, "I used to think Tai was a big-headed idiot, and too stupid to take seriously."

Skyy and Sora laughed. Mimi continued.

"But as soon as we started talking more frequently online, I don't know there seemed to be more to him than I thought. And the more I thought about him the more I realized what a good guy he actually was," Mimi smiled shyly.

"Aww your so cute Meems, I'm soo happy for you two, it's about time Tai got himself a girl," Skyy said. Sora nodded.

"I think you're his first girlfriend too," Sora pondered. Skyy nodded.

"She is," she clarified. Mimi smiled.

"Somehow that seems so cute, I mean I've dated before but he seems so innocent now for not having dated yet," Mimi said.

"Well it's not like anyone's never asked him. At school he gets many love letters and girls asking him out. He's quite a catch at our high school. Since Matt's already taken anyway," Skyy winked at Sora, who laughed. Mimi's eyes widened.

"Really? Oh…" she mumbled. Skyy grinned.

"Don't worry, we'll watch him when we get back, we'll make sure he's only devoted to you Meems!" Sora said. Mimi grinned.

"Don't worry, he's the kinda guy who only devotes himself to one girl, and it takes him a while to get over a girl, believe me," Skyy said thinking of how long it took for Tai to get over Sora. Mimi and Sora gave her confused looks but Skyy just waved her hand at them.

"Yeah…that's the only thing that sucks," Mimi sighed. Skyy and Sora perked up.

"What am I gonna do when this cruise is over and we have to leave each other?" Mimi mumbled. Sora frowned.

"Well, you can always call him, and there's the internet?" Sora suggested. Mimi nodded sadly.

"You can come visit him, I know right when we get home he'll start saving for a plane ticket to go see you," Skyy said. Mimi smiled at this.

"Yeah, I can save too, we'll visit each other, during university, and the summer too," Mimi said, seeming more confident. Skyy smiled.

"Speaking of university, where do you all want to go?" Sora asked, changing the subject.

"I want to go to Sheridan College," Skyy said bluntly. Mimi and Sora looked confused.

"Sheridan College? I've never heard of it," Sora said.

"That's because it's in Canada," Skyy said. Sora and Mimi's eyes widened.

"What! You want to go to college in Canada? But! But!" Mimi sputtered. Sora looked upset too.

"Don't worry! It'll only be for four years and Sheridan has the best art programs in the world!" Skyy said. Sora frowned.

"But…Skyy you'll be gone for so long…." She mumbled. Skyy smiled and hugged her.

"Aww! I'll be back soon and I'll come home during the summers!" Skyy said.

"Skyyyyy, it'll suck with you not there, you always make everything more fun, you're the light of our group," Sora mumbled. Mimi nodded sadly. Mimi didn't seem as upset because she lived in New York and Sheridan College was only a few hours away.

"Well we still have the rest of the year and I'll send letters and visit! I'll be back for Christmas so don't worry yourself over it," Skyy said. Sora nodded.

"Anyway, where are you two planning to go?" Skyy said, moving the subject off of herself.

"I want to go to Tokyo Fashion College," Sora said. Mimi and Skyy raised their eyebrows.

"Fashion?" they mimicked. Sora nodded.

"Yeah, I've been interested in it for a while, but I only recently decided to take it on as a career." Sora smiled. Skyy nodded.

"Somehow that seems like a good match for you," she said.

"I want to be a chef….and have my own daytime cooking show!" Mimi blurted. Sora and Skyy's eyes widened.

"Seriously?" Sora asked. Mimi nodded determinedly.

"Yes! I love cooking! My mom and I cook things all the time! I especially love making desserts and pastries! And I naturally need to be on television so I want to have my own daytime cooking show!" Mimi said. Skyy smiled.

"That seems to totally match you too," she chuckled. Mimi beamed.

"What do you want to be Skyy?" Sora asked. Skyy leaned back into her chair.

"Hmmm probably a painter, or a photographer, but mostly a painter," she said smiling.

"But you can't just live off of painting when you start out, I mean of course your going to become the best known painter of this century," Sora laughed, "but what about before that?"

Skyy thought about it for a second.

"Maybe I can work in an art store? Haha, noo I don't know…" she thought. Mimi smiled.

"What about marriage? Do you guys want to have a family?" Mimi asked. Sora squealed.

"Oh of course I do!" she said happily. Skyy's eyes widened. She'd never thought about marriage, or families. All she knew was that she wanted to paint. Families weren't on her list.

"I want to have two children! It doesn't matter what they are but I want two!" Sora said giddily. "And I want a big western wedding! In a really big, old church!" she went on.

Skyy scrunched her face at the thought of a big tacky wedding. Mimi giggled.

"I want a really pretty wedding, that's all, and cute little girl!" she sighed. Both girls turned to Skyy. Skyy jumped a little and started fidgeting with her fingers.

"What about you Skyy? How many children do you want?" they asked. Skyy blinked stupidly a few times.

"Oh….kids…..I don't know, I never thought about it…I don't really care," she muttered. Mimi frowned.

"Heey! How can you not care? Do you even know what kind of wedding you want?" she asked. Skyy pondered it for a second. She grinned.

"A shot gun wedding with Elvis as the preacher," she chuckled. Sora and Mimi rolled their eyes. Skyy lifted her hands.

"Okay, okay! I guess…a really simple wedding with not a lot of people, either outside or in a small tiny church with all the windows open and the breeze coming in. There has to be a lot of really pretty flowers and everything is white and the room is filled with sunlight," Skyy explained. Sora grinned.

"Aww that sounds so cute! You've definitely thought about it" Sora winked. Skyy blushed slightly. To be honest, she hadn't actually. Not saying she just came up with it right on the spot. But she had a vision of this kind of wedding randomly in one of her dreams a couple years ago. She remembered feeling really happy during that part in the dream. So she automatically wanted her wedding to be like that. Skyy just shrugged at Sora's comment.

"Aww man! This cruise is amazing! I wish we could stay here forever!" Mimi sighed, stretching up her arms in her seat. Sora smiled and nodded.

"I'd agree with you there, but I think Pleo would kill me if I never came back," Skyy grinned to herself thinking of her digimon friend she left behind. Mimi laughed at this.

"Ohh yeah, Pleomon is so clingy to you, she'd be very upset. But now that I think about it I'd miss Palmon way too much! I haven't seen her in ages!" Mimi whined, frowning. Mimi's plant-like digimon flashed into Skyy's mind.

"Yeaah, I haven't seen Biyomon in ages either, we all need to get together when Mimi finally decides to come to Japan to visit Tai," Sora said. Mimi perked up and nodded happily.

"True, but I see Pleo and Kota all the time, they won't leave me alone," Skyy joked. Sora laughed.

"By the way, I meant to ask, how's Kotamamon doing? Is he still bitter towards you?" Sora asked. Skyy grinned.

"Ohh, he hates me," she chuckled, "but he always comes to visit with Pleomon so there is definitely something still luring him here, whether it's the memory of sis or just my close connection with her." Skyy cocked her head.

"Anyway I don't really mind, gives me more chances to tease him" Skyy laughed. Sora and Mimi grinned.

"I think we should visit Yuki when we get back, just for the sake of saying hello," Sora said. Skyy smiled fondly.

"I visit her all the time but I think she'd like to see all you guys again," Skyy said. It made her happy when her friends came with her to visit her sister's grave. Especially when her sister, Yuki, meant so much to Skyy and had such a big impact on her life.

The girls chatted some more about their futures and plans they had. They had never really seriously talked about these things before so they were talking for quite a while. Soon it came to be 12:00 and the boys walked into the teen club. Skyy spotted their three male friends and waved them over. They all quickly said there hellos. The boys had really only come to pick the girls up.

The girls had become tired and the boys seemed a little drowsy as well. As the six teens walked down to their rooms Skyy discovered that the boys had actually been scowering the entire boat for the girls for the past hour, and before that were hanging around the Vista lounge. She laughed asking Tai how they could possibly just sit in a lounge for hours when no events were even being held there. He just said they'd been chatting…and actually fell asleep at one point. Tai said it was when Izzy had to wake up both him and Matt that they decided it was time to find the girls and head to bed. She laughed at their silliness.

When they reached their staterooms the girls gave the guys all little hugs. Sora and Mimi gave Matt and Tai little pecks on the cheeks before saying goodnight. Skyy and Izzy awkwardly said goodbye and disappeared into their staterooms.

Skyy was the first one in her room and as soon as she glanced to her bed she saw a neatly folded, crisp piece of paper with her name scrawled on it lying by her pillow. Sora looked around Skyy and saw the letter, she grinned sleepily.

"Yaay! Skyy got another letter! Reeeeaaaad it," she said. Skyy slugged over to her bed and flopped down, grabbing the note. Sora and Mimi sat beside her and leaned in to see the note.

In the locomotive, Lake Squanga is in scripted, I see your face glowing bright behind your camera lens in the sunlight. From, X

Skyy blinked at the note for a second. Mimi sat up.

"Lake Squanga? What's that?" she asked. Sora scrunched her face too.

"What's a "Locomotive"?" she asked.

"It's a word for a train," Mimi said.

"Well we did go on a train today…but what does Lake Squanga mean?" Sora asked picking herself up from the bed and slouching onto her own. Suddenly Skyy remembered something. She grabbed her camera and started clicking through pictures furiously.

Mimi perked up.

"What is it Skyy?" she asked. Suddenly Skyy's eyes widened.

"He was on the train!" she gasped. Sora raised an eyebrow.

"The train? You mean the one we were on today?" she asked. Skyy nodded.

"See look! Here is a picture of our train car!" she showed the picture to Mimi, who was closest to her. Mimi squinted at the picture. Then her eyes lit up.

"Lake Squanga! It says Lake Squanga on the side of the train!" she said. Sora perked up and looked at the picture.

"That means he must have been in our train car!" Skyy said.

"Well, that doesn't mean he was in the train car, he could've been outside and just saw you board it," Sora said. Skyy shook her head and looked back at the note.

"No, he talks about seeing my face behind the camera lense, also he says "in the locomotive", so he must have been in the train car," she said. Sora 'hmmm'd'.

"Do you remember any guys in our train car?" Mimi asked. Sora shrugged.

"There were a couple of guys I think I remember who sat in the front of the car, but I didn't pay much attention to them. They looked about our age…" Sora thought. Skyy peered at the note again. Darn! It was always somewhere or someone she wasn't paying attention to…who could X be! Skyy started flipping through her pictures again to see if she had taken any of the inside of the car. She finally found some and a light gasp left her mouth. Sora looked over.

"What is it? Did you find something?" she asked. Skyy nodded.

"I'm not saying this is him, but look at that guy," she said, she pointed to a boy sitting in the front of the train car in the picture. Sora grinned when she saw him.

"Ohh he's cute" she smiled. Mimi peeked over too.

"Oh wow!" she said. Skyy nodded.

"Yeah! He's looking right at the camera! Do you think that was by accident?" Skyy asked.

"I don't know, but if we see him at the teen center you should approach him, see if he knows who you are or something," Mimi asked. Skyy nodded.

"Yeaah…" Skyy looked back at the camera. Sora and Mimi stretched and got up to get ready for bed. Skyy peered at the boy in the picture. He looked around her age, maybe a year or two older. He had shaggy brown hair and dark eyes; they were hard to see in the picture. He was wearing a blue hoodie. He was American and didn't look half bad. Skyy kept looking at him until the bathroom became free. She wondered. Could he be the boy sending the notes? Could he be X? Or was the fact that he was looking at the camera be purely accidental? There wasn't really enough proof to justify him as a possibility. But there was slight proof.

As Skyy got ready and soon, into bed, she kept mulling over the hoodie boy in the picture. She would definitely need to approach him if she saw him. Because he was on the train she knew he was on their boat because that train tour was only for tourists on the Golden Princess. She needed to figure out who this X guy was. It was possible he was one of the guys in the teen center who hug out with a different crowd so Skyy never noticed him. Skyy couldn't get him off of her mind as she drifted off to sleep.

The next day they'd all be getting up early to see Tracey Arm. Also, Skyy hadn't forgotten, that "date" she set up Izzy to hang out in the Piazza. She definitely didn't want to miss that. Skyy soon started dreaming of days to come as she fell into a deeper sleep and that slight rocking of the boat cradled her thoughts. As Mimi's birthday approached, and the cruise was ending, it seemed the magic of being abroad was drifting as well. Skyy didn't really want it to end so quickly.

Day Six: The End