Digimon Adventure 02 – Summer in Alaska
Day Ten
Skyy's eyes slowly opened as the happy ringtone of Mimi's cell phone filled the stateroom. She heard Mimi's weight shuffle on the bunk bed. Mimi reached over to her cell phone and turned the alarm off.
"Okay guys, its 7:00, time to get up," Mimi said groggily, her voice hoarse from just waking up. Skyy groaned lightly in her head. She squished her face into the covers. Mimi flicked on the side lamp and the tiny stateroom became engulfed in light. Skyy closed her eyes and envisioned what she remembered from the night before. She smiled into her pillow and her heart swelled happily.
Sora sat up in her bed just as Mimi got down from her bed and walked into the bathroom. Skyy heard Sora collapse back into her bed and pull the covers over her, which caused Skyy to laugh lightly. Skyy snuggled back into her covers and waited for Mimi to come out of the bathroom.
The girls didn't talk much that morning because they were soo tired and had stayed up soooo late the night before. Not to mention some of the more hard drinkers, aka Sora and Mimi, had slight hangovers. Skyy was happy now that she didn't drink a lot of alcohol. Sora was last in the shower and just as she came out Skyy was pretty much done getting ready. She stuffed her extra toiletries and clothes into her brown carry-on bag. She had taken out her sketch book and drawing supplies from her bag and put it in her suitcase the night before so she'd have more room for her extra stuff. When she was done checking that everything of hers either had been packed in her suitcase or was in her carry-on bag, she flipped on the TV as she waited for Sora and Mimi to finish getting ready. As she waited the phone to their room rang. She got off her bed with a grunt and went to pick it up.
"Hello?"
"Sup sleepyhead," Tai's voice answered. Skyy raised an eyebrow.
"Sleepyhead? Do I sound sleepy?" she asked. Tai laughed.
"Not really, so it's coming up to 8:00 huh, when are you guys coming up?" he asked. Skyy shrugged even though Tai couldn't actually see her.
"Soon, probably between 5 and 10 minutes? Why?" Skyy asked.
"Well we've been waiting at the buffet for an hour, our room's already all cleared out so we were just waiting for you guys, oh yeah! Brandon, Jeremy, and the girls are all here too, they all wanted to say goodbye before we all left," Tai explained. Skyy nodded.
"Ohh cool, yeah, we'll be up soon, sorry to make you wait," Skyy said. The two friends said goodbye and hung up the phone.
Just as Skyy had predicted Mimi and Sora finished getting ready in the next 10 minutes. They all did a double check of the entire room to make sure they didn't forget to pack anything. Once they were all clear they left the room, the door clicking shut behind them. All of their suitcases were gone as well as all the other passengers' suitcases down the hallway.
Skyy sighed. She probably wouldn't be able to sleep in a stateroom on a magnificent ship ever again. Her family was too poor; they didn't even have a car of their own. Though Skyy was swearing that she'd buy one for herself for college, even if it was a crappy car, she'd get one. Not saying her family was destitute or anything, they had plenty of money, but they had spent most of the money they had been saving for cars on her and her sister's medical bills. Also they had moved to and from Canada and that required a bit of money.
The girls made their way up one floor to the buffet and easily found the large table of teenagers eating breakfast. Skyy's heart beat faster as she thought of seeing Izzy. She laughed lightly to herself.
She had never been this eager to see him before. Though she supposed now that they were officially a couple, it was natural to want to see him even more than usual. Skyy almost sighed when she saw Izzy's crop of maroon hair sitting at the table, but she forced herself not to react all girly by just seeing him.
Tai looked up and saw them coming over at stood up happily.
"Hey girls! How'd you sleep?" he asked. Izzy turned around and blushed lightly, smiling at Skyy. She beamed back at him.
"Agh, don't even mention it! I barely got any sleep at all!" Mimi whined. Tai smiled at her.
"Aw, poor baby," he teased, wrapping an arm around her shoulders and kissing her temple as she pouted angrily. Skyy leaned down and lightly kissed Izzy on the cheek. He took her hand in his and entwined their fingers together as she sat down beside him. This action got them a lot of surprised looks from their American friends and Jeremy too. Matt acted like he already knew which meant Tai must have blurted it out the night before or something after they left the girls.
"Hey – did something happen? Since when are you two an item?" Jeremy grinned, nodding towards Skyy and Izzy. He asked in English so that the English speaking friends could understand. Said friends leaned closer, obviously wanting to know the answer as much as Jeremy. Both Skyy and Izzy blushed.
"Um, since last night actually," Izzy said in English. Skyy smiled, she still couldn't get over him speaking English. Jeremy flashed his teeth as he grinned.
"Well! Congratulations then!" he cheered. He leaned over and slapped Izzy over the back, causing him to buckle forward a little. Jeremy also leaned over and gave Skyy a big hug.
"Ha, ha, thanks Jeremy," Skyy said, smiling at him. Sara and Hailey leaned closer with sparkles in their eyes. They both reminded Skyy of Sora and Mimi and so she assumed what was coming.
"Sooo, how did this happen then?" Hailey asked. Skyy's other Japanese speaking friends tuned them out because they all already knew what happened, and didn't understand the conversation anyway. Skyy and Izzy blushed.
"Well I don't know…how do confessions usually go?" Skyy shrugged, not wanting to get into details all over again. Sara rolled her eyes.
"Was it that normal? Come oon, Izzy you tell us what happened," she said, turning to face Izzy. He flinched and turned red, uncomfortable with the sudden attention.
"Uh…well…I don't know, it's…do we have to?" he mumbled. Jeremy grinned.
"Never mind girls, they won't tell us. Must've been dirty then," Jeremy teased. Skyy and Izzy turned beat red. Jeremy laughed loudly. Hailey and Sara backed off though, slouching back in their seats.
"Well anyway, I think you two are super cute together! So congrats!" Hailey said smiling. Skyy thanked her. Izzy blushed lightly, smiling, and thanked her too. Brandon, Naomi and Sara said congrats too.
Soon Skyy, Mimi, and Sora left to get some food then ate happily for the last time with their new friends. Then the intercom came on and started calling down different groups of passengers. The groups ranged from 1-40 and each passenger got a slip to put on their suitcases the night before that had their group number on it. The numbers each started getting called over the intercom starting at 1.
Whilst they waited Skyy saw Brayden walking by with his family. Skyy quickly got up, startling everyone at the table. She called Brayden's name until he heard her and turned around. He smiled widely when he saw her and waltzed over to her.
"Hey Skyy!" he said, hugging her. Skyy hugged him back casually. She instantly felt Izzy's fingers brush her back and she knew he had come up right behind her. Brayden gave Izzy a weird look but returned his attention to Skyy.
"Hey, I thought you were supposed to come back to me last night," he joked. Skyy laughed lightly.
"Yeah, sorry Brayden, but I kinda got sidetracked," she said blushing. She felt Izzy's hand wrap around her waist. Brayden eyed Izzy's hand.
"Yeah, I see that. Anyway, I think I get what went down anyway," he said, looking right at Izzy. Skyy glanced from Izzy to Brayden.
"Oh, well yeah," was all Skyy could mumble.
"So I guess you beat me to it then?" Brayden grinned, looking at Izzy.
"I guess so, no hard feelings?" Izzy asked. Brayden laughed lightly.
"Nah, it seems I wouldn't have had a chance anyway, right Skyy?" Brayden asked. Skyy turned pink.
"Sorry Brayden, but my heart was set," she mumbled, shrugging lightly. Brayden shrugged.
"Oh well, anyway here's my phone number and e-mail, we should at least keep in touch right?" he asked slipping out a piece of paper from his pocket. Skyy smiled and took the paper from him.
"Sure," she said. Brayden grinned.
"Well I'll talk to you later then!" he said happily. He then stooped down and gave Skyy a kiss on the cheek. Skyy flinched and Izzy straightened up.
"wha-! H-hey!" Izzy huffed but Brayden quickly turned back to his family laughing and waving goodbye. Izzy watched him angrily. Skyy smiled lightly and rolled her eyes as she watched Brayden leave. Jeez that guy. Skyy heard their friends laughing lightly at the table behind them; apparently their conversation had been a show for them all. Skyy took Izzy's hand and leaned up to kiss him on the cheek.
"Don't worry about it Iz," she said grinning. Izzy pouted angrily.
"But he…jeez," Izzy sighed. Skyy giggled and led him back over to the table where they sat down. They continued eating as the numbered groups kept getting called over the intercom.
All of Skyy and her friends were in group number 32, so they had a while to wait. As the numbers were all called one by one their friends all left one by one. They all exchanged e-mails and phone numbers before anyone left so they were all able to stay in touch. Hailey was the first to leave for she was group number 5. Then it was Naomi with group number 12. She and Brandon took a while to say good bye and Brandon ended up walking her down to the docking station with her family before coming back up to the buffet. Jeremy was then next with group number 19. Jeremy and Skyy must've hugged a billion times before he finally left with his family. Skyy would surely miss him. Though it wasn't like it was her last time seeing him, when she went to college in Canada later that year she'd be able to go see him.
Soon after Brandon and Sara left with group number 23 and 24. That left only the original six friends waiting at the table for their number to be called. They chatted softly and Skyy tried to take as many pictures as she could. She had taken a huge group picture of them all before anyone had left and she promised to send it to everyone when she got home. Skyy took some more last minute pictures of her friends before group 32 was called. The buffet was nearly empty now with almost all the numbers having been called.
When their number was announced over the intercom the teens made their way with their bags to the loading dock and got their keycards and passports checked before they were let off the boat. Skyy mentally said goodbye to the huge dream boat. She knew she'd miss being on a huge boat like this. She clutched Izzy's hand as they walked down the ramp to the big building they had come through when they were first boarding the ship. Izzy smiled and squeezed her hand.
They made their way through the huge pier building and picked up their luggage from their group station. Once they all confirmed their suitcases they wheeled them out to the pick-up zone. Jut like before there were tones of taxis coming up and trying to get passengers. They ran around comparing prices and finally just picked two taxis with somewhat cheap prices. Skyy, Izzy, Matt, and Sora went in one taxi, whilst Tai and Mimi went in another. They told the drivers where they wanted to go and the two taxis set off for the Weston Hotel in downtown Seattle.
Though they weren't staying the night there, they knew they could at least hold their big suitcases there whilst they went out. It was around 9:30 currently and Mimi's plane left around 7:30 at night. So they still had a long time to kill before leaving to go to the airport.
Once the taxis pulled up to the hotel the teens paid their fare and went in to check in their luggage. Skyy took the opportunity to put away the clothes in her carry-on bag and put them into her suitcase.
After they all mulled over what they wanted to do. Sora mentioned going back to the market place again. Skyy wanted to go back too. Last time they didn't get to actually go in because they didn't have enough time. Everyone then agreed to go to the market place so they headed out of the hotel and walked down to Pike Street.
When they got there it was like déjà-vu. All the same people seemed to be there all the same smells and all the same sights. They made their way past the crowds of people and walked down the street beside the market place. Mimi figured out that the first ever Starbucks café was on this street so they followed her lead.
The Starbucks store was small and squished in-between other stores and cafés. They all walked in and got in line to order something. As she waited Skyy noticed all of the mugs for sale on display on one of the walls. She took a liking to a brown one and decided to buy it for her mother. Her mother had suddenly gotten into collecting café mugs, so Skyy knew she'd love a mug from the first ever Starbucks store. When Skyy ordered her smoothie she bought a mug as well. She was happy because the mug had printed on it that it was from the first Starbucks café.
After they all got their coffees or smoothies they headed out of the shop and crossed the street into the market place.
The market place was full of different kinds of people selling all kinds of merchandise. Skyy was blown away at how multicultural it was. There were people of all different cultures selling flowers and clothes and artworks. There were a lot of food stalls too and some of the guys were drooling over all of the fresh sea food at one stall.
They all bought one thing from the market place except for Skyy who had already bought the mug for her mother. Mimi bought a big tan colored sun hat with pink flowers along the rim. Tai had said it looked super cute on her which was one of the main factors of why she bought it. Sora had bought a small mahogany knitted purse from the same person that sold Mimi her hat. Tai bought a notebook and pen from a book stall for Kari back home. He said it maybe could help her with her job as a camp counselor. Matt bought a Seattle cook book for his little brother T.K. because he said that T.K. had been getting into cooking recently. Izzy didn't know what to buy though. Skyy kept pointing out stuff for him, but he ended up just buying a Seattle keychain. Skyy teased him, calling him a cheap guy.
They walked the length of the market place at least two times. Tai bought some beef jerky from a meat stall and they all shared it as they walked. They passed many art stalls too and Skyy kept getting caught up looking at all the drawings and paintings. There were also professional photos for sale and Skyy got caught up drooling over those too. They were so pretty; she would've loved to decorate her room with some of them. They even had some copies of photographs by Dorthea Lange! Skyy loved her old photos.
Skyy took her camera out several times to take pictures of all the stalls and pictures of her friends. As they walked more though, all the stalls started to look the same. It became repetitive and the six friends got tired of it. They left the market place and walked back down the streets away from the market place.
They stopped off and browsed through the odd clothing store but the prices were all ridiculous and Mimi was the only one willing to actually stay and try things on. She didn't want to burden the others so she refrained from staying in the clothing stores for too long. But Tai did use up most of the rest of his spending money to buy Mimi another present for her birthday. He got her a pretty pink sundress that she had taken a liking to.
They didn't go in many stores but eventually they found themselves back at the hotel with no idea what to do. They were all tired of walking and when they got into the lobby they all eyed the big squishy looking brown couches and chairs scattered here and there. They all collapsed in a couple chairs and a couch all positioned around a coffee table. They went up and checked out their suitcases and rolled them over to the chairs. It was around 3:30 and they still had 4 hours until Mimi's plane was due to leave.
They all slouched in the chairs and Mimi took out her cell phone. She was phoning her parents back in New York to give them an update on what was happening. Tai sat beside her with a slightly sad face, his hand resting on Mimi's leg. It was then Matt took out a deck of cards and started playing some sort of game with Tai. Izzy had taken out is laptop and Sora and Skyy had crowded around him to watch funny videos. Skyy also got her camera cord out of her bag and connected her camera so they could all look at the pictures she had taken. She was nearly out of room on her camera. She had taken about 2000 photos and had about less than 100 left on the memory card. She'd have to go through them all and delete the ones that she didn't want.
After they looked through most of the photos, Sora had gotten bored and turned to play cards with Tai and Matt. Skyy had gotten a little sleepy from looking at the computer screen for so long so she leaned down her head on Izzy's lap and closed her eyes. She smiled lightly when she felt Izzy start to play with her hair. He had his laptop beside him on the couch and was still clicking through the rest of the pictures.
"Hey Skyy?" he asked softly. Skyy felt that she was about to drift to sleep but Izzy's voice kept her awake.
"Hm?"
"These pictures are really good," Izzy said. Skyy cracked open an eye.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"I mean, these look really nice, they almost have a professional calibre. I speculate if you improved a bit, people would buy your photos," Izzy said. Skyy glanced at the screen.
"I was just trying to get pretty shots..." she mumbled. It was true she didn't like just snapping shots of things; she always tried making the pictures more interesting by using different photography techniques. But no one had ever actually complemented them before, she just wanted pretty pictures.
"Well, I strongly recommend you take advanced photography courses when you return to school, besides, I saw you drooling over those old photographs for sale, you seemed more interested in those than the paintings…you should think about photography a little more," Izzy said smiling. Skyy smiled lightly.
"Maybe..." she mumbled. She'd never really thought about photography as a hobby. She just did it to create memories. She thought about it more as Izzy kept browsing through the pictures. She liked taking pictures…and if a photographer was good, they made a lot of money. Also Skyy did like the idea of learning how to develop films in dark rooms and using film cameras. She thought it was a neat process.
Skyy mostly just liked to paint, but she decided she might like to try expanding into different types of art. Hey, she'd been painting and sketching her whole life. Maybe it was time for her to try something new. Professional photography could be fun.
Skyy watched her pictures appear on Izzy's laptop screen. His fingers still lazily played with her hair and Skyy started feeling that sleepiness from before return. Tai and Matt's soft talking from their card game and the clicking of Izzy's laptop was all she heard. She blocked out the sounds of the busying hotel guests wandering around the lobby.
Skyy eventually drifted into a light sleep and was awaked what she felt like was at least an hour later. Her head was still on Izzy's lap but he was no longer looking at pictures on his laptop. Skyy quickly sat up and shifted her weight off of Izzy. He shifted as well as she moved. He had been talking to Tai beside him. Skyy sat up and checked her watch. They had about 2 hours till Mimi's plane left.
They were all still lounging around, some sleeping, basically trying to waste time as much as possible. It was until Sora had come back from the bathroom that she recommended sitting and having some food at the small café beside the lobby. Skyy perked up at the sound of food and so did her friends. They all got up from the comfy seats and stretched their sore limbs. They grabbed all of their luggage and rolled it over to the café Sora had pointed out.
The café was called the Coldwater café. It was decked out with blue lights and furniture. They had a lot of sandwiches and cakes on display and Skyy could feel her stomach rumbling. The teens found the biggest table they could, sliding a smaller one up beside it to fit the extra people. They all ordered some coffee each; Skyy got a cold one because she didn't like normal coffee. A couple of them also got little sandwiches to eat. Skyy shared one with Izzy, though she ended up eating most of it. They all chatted and eventually as they finished their sandwiches ordered the odd cake as well. Izzy got a vanilla one for himself and Skyy. They both couldn't finish it and Tai ended up eating the rest of it because he didn't get a cake.
They wasted another hour in the café and soon decided it was time to get a taxi and head to the airport. Tai wanted to stay a little longer saying there was no need to leave yet. Skyy could tell he was only trying to prolong Mimi leaving. She felt sad for her friend, knowing he would have to say goodbye to his precious Mimi soon. They all finished up their food and packed away what they could finish and would save for later. They rolled all of their bags outside and quickly got two taxis. Tai and Mimi went in one cab with Skyy and Izzy and Matt and Sora went in another cab. The ride to the airport seemed long and Skyy saw Tai and Mimi's fingers always interlaced the entire time. Izzy was gracious and sat in the front, letting Tai and Mimi be a little bit closer. Skyy mentally wished, for her best friends' sake, the time from now till Mimi's flight would take a very long time.
Skyy was also going to miss Mimi, and would definitely have to make sure she kept better contact with the light brunette haired girl. The air in the cab was depressing so Skyy tried to keep a conversation going as much as she could. Mimi and Tai seemed distant though and only Izzy was trying to help Skyy with her efforts. Soon before they reached the airport Skyy gave up talking and the rest of the ride became silent.
When they arrived at the airport Mimi went up to get her tickets to go back to New York. The others went in a different line to get their tickets back to Japan. They got their big suitcases checked as well and they were all taken away to their respectful gates. The teens met up again after and followed Mimi to her gate because she'd be leaving first. They all sat down where they could in the gate and sadly waited for the intercom to come on and announce the boarding of Mimi's plane.
At one point Mimi and Tai disappeared for a little while. Nobody said anything because they all sort of knew they were saying goodbye privately. When they came back Mimi looked like she had been crying and she was clutching Tai's hand. The rest of the friends tried to keep the mood light but it worked out as well as Skyy's attempt was in the taxi cab.
When the announcement finally rang out everyone got up and started showering Mimi with hugs. Skyy hugged her for at least a solid minute before letting go and saying goodbye. Tai hugged her for even longer and refused to let go for a little while. He was whispering stuff in her ear and kissing her lightly. She was whispering back before they finally let go of each other and she walked over to the gate entrance. She waved goodbye and blew a kiss to Tai before finally getting her ticket checked and disappearing down the walkway.
Skyy's heart wrenched as she saw her friend leave and was too afraid to look at Tai's face as Mimi walked away. They all sighed sadly and turned to leave the gate. Sora and Skyy have Tai quick reassuring hugs and Izzy and Matt slapped him lightly over the back…the guy version of a reassuring hug.
On their way to their gate they passed a couple of stores. Skyy stopped when she saw one store. Izzy noticed her stop walking at looked back to her.
"Skyy? What's the matter?" he asked. Skyy cocked her head to the side.
"That store looks cool, can we go in for a bit?" she asked. The other three friends turned around, hearing her question. Matt glanced at his watch.
"Well, we have three hours left before our plane leaves, we can afford to waste some time," he said. Sora and Tai nodded in agreement and Skyy smiled happily. They all went into the store and Skyy wandered every which way. It was an odd store with a bunch of random things for sale. They had lava lamps, notebook supplies, artefacts, prank supplies, tiny decorations like lamps and fake plants, and other odd things. They also had a small display of music boxes. Skyy looked at them all. She saw a pretty white, wooden one with blue carvings in it. The carvings were of clouds and birds in the sky. She opened the box and there was a small dancing fairy that spun around to a tune. The inside of the box was all covered with light blue silk and there was a small round mirror with small curvy carvings around the edges placed behind the dancing fairy.
Skyy ran her fingers over all the little surfaces of the music box and over the outside. She smiled lightly at the softness of the silk. Suddenly Tai snapped her out of her thoughts when he giddily came running up to her with a couple cans of silly string.
"Hey, hey! Can you buy me some of these? I spent all of my money already," he said. Skyy raised an eyebrow.
"Why? So you can attack me with those when we get home?" she asked. Tai grinned widely.
"You, and my sister," he said evilly. Skyy rolled her eyes.
"If they make you that happy, how much are they?" Skyy said giving in. He finally seemed to be cheering up so she decided to buy him something. Tai told her the price and Skyy went over to the cashier with him to buy three cans. When she finished paying Tai happily took his present and thanked Skyy. He skipped away to show off his new prizes. Skyy smiled softly as she watched him. Just then she felt two arms curl around her waist and her smile became wider.
"Hey Iz," she said turning her head to see him. Izzy grinned and rested his chin on her shoulder.
"Buying him something to keep him elated?" Izzy teased. Skyy grinned.
"Yeah, he deserves a little present I think," Skyy said. Izzy chuckled.
"Hey, why won't you purchase anything for me to keep me pleased?" Izzy joked, pouting slightly. Skyy raised and eyebrow. She kissed him on the nose and his pout disappeared.
"Because I only need to do that to keep you happy, you're a cheap boyfriend," Skyy teased. Izzy pretended he was shot with an arrow to the chest.
"Aw, jeez, ouch…that hurts," he teased. Skyy smiled and turned around to kiss him on the lips. He smiled against her and kissed her back, sighing lightly when they parted.
"Well, I guess maybe I am," he winked at her and Skyy laughed lightly.
They wandered around the store for a little longer, checking out all the silly toys and trinkets for sale. Soon though the five of them left and looked for a new store to go in. they passed the food court and started feeling sick from the smell of food. The sandwiches and cakes from earlier was enough food to keep them full for awhile so the smell of more food just made them all feel unwell. They found a big Barnes and Nobles book store and decided to go in. they all spread out and Skyy was surprised to find the manga section rather quickly she grinned and picked out a few books to browse. She curled up on the floor with her back to the bookcase and her small stack of manga beside her. Izzy and Tai soon found her and decided to help her block the isle by sitting down on the floor as well. Izzy was resting his head on Skyy's shoulder and was flipping through a science magazine. Tai tried reading the manga with Skyy but gave up and just looked at the pictures because he couldn't read the English translations. Sora and Matt were off somewhere else and they were too lazy to go find them.
Skyy didn't know how much time passed whilst they were in there and didn't bother checking. All she knew was that Izzy had gone through three magazines and Sora had come to find Skyy so she could buy them all coffees from the Starbucks a while ago. It wasn't until Skyy noticed the darkness outside the windows of the store that she snapped back to reality. The sun had gone down and it was now night time. She looked around at her friends and sitting around her in the manga isle. Matt and Sora had stayed with them after buying the coffees.
"Hey, what time is it?" Skyy asked. Matt glanced up to her before looking at his watch.
"Um, almost 10:00, our flight is in half an hour," Matt said closing his book lightly. Suddenly Sora's head snapped up.
"Oh my gosh do you know what I just realized?" she said. Skyy looked over at her.
"What?"
"Of course it wasn't Brayden who had sent those notes! I mean he should have never even been an option!" Sora said. Skyy almost laughed. This topic was coming up again. Izzy's face turned red and Tai and Matt gave the girls confused looks.
"And whys that?" Skyy asked.
"Because! Your name was always written on the front of the notes, when Brayden first approached you he didn't know your name! He had to ask, remember?" Sora said matter of factly. Skyy's eyes widened.
"Oh yeaaaahhh! I totally forgot about that! woow we're dumb," Skyy laughed.
"Umm, mind if I ask what you're talking about?" Tai asked. Skyy and Sora grinned and spoke at the same time.
"Ask Izzy."
Izzy turned even redder as Matt and Tai's attention turned to him.
"Uhh, it's not really important..." he said and quickly pretended to go back to reading his magazine.
"Fine, but you're telling us when we get home," Tai said. Izzy tried ignoring him. Skyy laughed.
"Anyway, before Sora's random outburst, do you guys wanna go make camp at the gate if we only have half an hour?" Skyy asked. They all shrugged.
"I don't care, I can't read any of these books anyway so I'm bored as hell, may as well go," Tai said. Sora and Matt agreed. So, with that they put all the books and magazines away and collected their carry-on bags. They wandered over to their gate and when they got there they had about 25 minute left to wait and luckily found a large section of empty seats to sit at. They mostly just chatted- listened to music, or played cards to waste the last remaining minutes. When the announcement rang out for boarding they all stood up and got into line. When they were approved they walked down the ramp and into the plane. They found their seats quickly and plopped down. It was 10:30 and Skyy had felt incredibly lazy, the whole day they had mostly just been waiting around, and trying to waste time. Tai was supposed to sit with Skyy and Izzy again but because Matt and Sora had an empty seat next to them this time, he sat with them, leaving Izzy and Skyy alone. Skyy saw Tai flip out is cell phone and start texting. She knew he was talking to Mimi because her plane had already landed and she was probably already at home. Skyy sighed, they had a tiring flight ahead of them. 13 hours was a long time.
When the plane finally took off Skyy snuggled next to Izzy, not really because she was tired but just snuggling for the sake of snuggling. When the plane got in the air and the movement became smooth Izzy leaned his head on hers and broke the silence.
"To be honest, that wasn't the real reason why I confessed to you suddenly," Izzy said softly. Skyy looked up at him without moving her head.
"Hm?"
"When I said it was because I wanted to do it before Brayden did, that's not the whole truth," he said.
"Then why'd you do it?"
"At first, if you didn't figure out it was me in the notes, I was just going to forget about it and figure something out later when I had more courage. But when I saw that he'd taken your first kiss, I just got really jealous. I didn't want him or anyone else for that matter taking away anymore firsts of yours, so I decided to just do it and confess," Izzy explained lightly. Skyy smiled.
"What kind of firsts do you mean?" she asked. She felt Izzy shift slightly. He was probably blushing.
"Uh, well, there was the first kiss, first date, first boyfriend…uhh…f-first make-out—" Izzy said getting more embarrassed. Skyy giggled
"Sorry but I've already had those firsts," Skyy said bluntly. Izzy lifted his head in shock to look at her.
"W-what! Y-y-y-you've-v-v…" he stuttered. Skyy chuckled.
"My first kiss was Brayden, my first boyfriend was Jeremy, my first date was Jeremy, buut, the other stuff I haven't done yet, I was gonna save that for you," Skyy smiled slyly and kissed Izzy on the nose. Izzy turned bright red and his mouth snapped shut. He was too embarrassed to even comment on the Jeremy thing.
"Just forget it Iz," Skyy said grinning and rolling her eyes. She snuggled her head back into Izzy's shoulder and he hesitated before she shyly rested his back into its position on Skyy's head.
After a while of trying to go to sleep and failing Skyy took out her camera and flipped through the pictures again. It wasn't until she came up the Rumba lesson pictures did she raise her eyebrows in surprise.
"Hey Iz...is it me or are all these pictures of just me?" Skyy asked, her mouth twisting into a grin. Izzy glanced down at the pictures and blushed.
"Oh uh…sorry, I couldn't help it," he mumbled. Skyy laughed lightly.
"So thaaats why you didn't want me to look at the pictures right after the lesson," Skyy said. Izzy shrugged sheepishly. Skyy snuggled back against him and kept looking at the pictures. Soon she got bored though and when she felt Izzy had fallen asleep against her she put the camera away and closed her eyes. She fell asleep against his shoulder and they stayed like that for the rest of the flight.
When there was about an hour left of the flight Skyy woke up, her movement causing Izzy to wake up too. They were both stiff from sitting up for so long and couldn't fall back asleep. They chatted and ate some plane snacks, went to the bathroom and watched the clouds pass by out the window. Skyy felt better when she felt the plane start to lower. The captain announced their arrival to Tokyo and when the plane broke through the clouds and Skyy saw her busy city down below she cracked a wide smile. She was back home back in Japan. Somehow she was happier to be home than she thought she'd be. When the plane landed in Tokyo airport the five teens waited to be let off the plane then finally sludged off with their bags. They got their suitcases quickly at the baggage claim and headed for the car pick up. Sora, Matt, Izzy and Tai were on the phones with their parents asking to be picked up. Sora's mom came within five minutes and she left with Matt. The three left-overs waited outside on a bench. Tai snapped his phone shut and bit his lip.
"Umm, Skyy?" he said. Skyy looked up at him tiredly.
"Hm?"
"I might not be able to drop you off at home, you see my mom is taking us to my aunts house as soon as she picks me up, and it's in the opposite direction of the apartment," Tai said. Skyy frowned.
"Oh…" she mumbled. Izzy then sat up.
"I can ask my mom to drop her off, your apartment building is close to mine anyway," Izzy said shrugging. Skyy and Tai smiled in relief.
"Oh good, thanks Iz," Tai said and slouched back into the bench.
"Thanks," Skyy said. Izzy smiled at her.
"No problem," he muttered as he took out his cell phone. Tai's mom got there within five minutes and Skyy and Izzy said goodbye as he drove off with his family. Skyy had said a quick hello to Kari through the car window for she was sitting in the back seat. Skyy sort of missed the light brunette haired girl. Even though it had only been a week it felt like it had been a long time. Maybe it was because so much happened. Skyy waited with her fingers interlaced with Izzy's as his mom drove up shortly after Tai left. Izzy's mom eyed their interlocked hands and how Izzy was graciously offering to move all of Skyy's luggage into the car for her. She huddled up to him before he got in the car.
"Oh my, did something happen with you and Skyy whilst you were away?" she asked. Skyy smiled as she heard her from inside the car. Izzy blushed.
"Yes, and we'll talk about it later okay mom?" he said, embarrassed. Is mom giggled and rushed into the driver's seat and Izzy sat in the back with Skyy.
The ride home was short. Skyy and Izzy mostly just chatted softly in the back seat whilst Izzy's mom watched them "secretly" from the review mirror and hummed happily along with the radio.
When they reached Skyy's apartment complex Izzy helped get Skyy's suitcase out of the car. Izzy took out his backpack which caught Skyy's curiosity. They walked over and stood outside of the building entrance in silence before Izzy finally leaned in and gave Skyy a kiss on the cheek. They both burst into a quiet laughter when they heard Izzy's mom's audible squeal from the car.
"C'mon, walk me up?" Skyy offered, Izzy smiled and took her hand in his. He walked her up to her apartment and stopped just before she was about to go in. He reached behind and set his backpack on the ground and zipped it open. Skyy watched him curiously.
"What are you doing?" she asked. Izzy grinned widely.
"I got you something," he said. Skyy rose an eyebrow.
"You got me a present? When?" she asked. She could've sworn she never saw him buy anything. Izzy laughed lightly and took out a bag with a large, heavy looking object in it.
"At the airport, when you weren't looking," Izzy gave her a sly smile. He held out the bag to her and Skyy took it.
"Oh wow," she said and she took the object out of the box. She gasped when she saw what it was. White with blue carvings, it was the music box she had been admiring in that store. She looked up at Izzy and opened her mouth to speak but nothing came out. Izzy smiled wider.
"You like it? I got two other songs to go with it," he said pointing to the bag. Skyy looked down and quickly rummaged out the two music box pieces. She looked at the labels. The songs were 'Here Comes the Sun' and 'If Only I had a Brain'.
"Both songs suited you well so I got both," Izzy grinned. Skyy looked at the names of the songs again.
"Heeyyy! I DO have a brain!" she said frowning. Izzy laughed.
"It was a joke!" he said. Skyy shrugged though and smiled. She wrapped her arms around Izzy and squeezed him tightly.
"Thank you sooooo much! I love it! I'm totally taking back what I said about you being cheap!" Skyy said. Izzy chuckled and nuzzled his face into her neck. They pulled apart and Izzy gave her a quick kiss.
"Well, I should get going now," Izzy said. Skyy nodded. He gave her another lingering kiss and Skyy almost protested when he broke away.
"I promise a first date really soon okay?" Izzy said. Skyy laughed lightly and kissed him again, Izzy wrapped his arms around her waste, bringing her closer. They broke apart after a while and Skyy grinned.
"You better," she winked and he chuckled. Izzy finally let her go and walked back down to the staircase. Skyy sighed and fished for her house key. Once she got it out she opened to door to her house and hobbled in with her suitcase. She slipped off her shoes when the door clicked shut behind her.
"Mom, Dad, I'm hooome!"
Digimon Adventure 02 – Summer in Alaska: End
