Tai's POV
Davis and I are meeting up once again to see if Kari is doing better. As I walk out of my room I see my mom crying and my dad drinking. He is drinking a lot again. I am glad I am leaving the house. He gets violent sometimes when he drinks. I hope he doesn't hurt my mom. As I am thinking to myself I hear a voice.
"Tai! Are you ready to go?" I look up and see Davis with his goofy smile. I am so happy he is doing better. I nod my head and reply, "Let's go!" We walk to the hospital and the walk is very quiet with just quick exchanges. I don't think either of us know what to say about this. We fina;;y arrive and a nurse escorts us to Kari's room.
We get into her room and decide we are gonna try talking to her. Davis spoke to her first. He talked about soccer and then Veemon. He went on for a little bit till he just kind of shrugged. I am not sure if he ran out of things to say or just was hurting to see Kari like this. He excused himself for the room for a minute to get a drink.
I walked over to Kari and put my hand on her hair and pushed it out of her face. "Kari, I am so so sorry for putting you in this position…" I started to cry. I sat down next to her bed and collected myself. I have to be strong for Davis and Kari. I started to speak once again but this time was whispering, "Kari, please wake up." I begged to her lifeless body. "Kari, I need you. I don't know what I would do if I lost you." I put my hand on top of her and started to sob again. "Kari, I love you so much… without you I just can't go on." I suddenly felt my hand get squeezed. "Well why didn't you just start with that Onii-chan?"
I looked up and saw Kari smiling. "Kari!" I heard Davis yell as he came running in. I looked over at Davis and saw Matt and TK walk in behind him. "So she's awake?" Matt asked. TK ran over next to Davis and gleamed with happiness. "Good to see you are awake Kari," He said with a smile.
The doctor came in after a few minutes and took her vitals. He also took her temperature. He looked at me and then spoke with a smile, "She's ok to go home in the next few hours after I fill out some of her paperwork," He turned to her, "Are you ready to go home?" She nodded and squeezed my hand really tight. I looked at her and smiled.
Davis POV
It was finally time for Kari to go home! I was thinking about coming with Tai but realized she might need some time to relax and just be by herself. Somehow after being in a coma she was really sleepy. Tai called a cab for the three of us and had them drop me off first. I exited the cab and said my goodbyes.
I walked up to the door and found it open a little bit. My dad was there frowning but my mom and sister were not. "Where's Jun and mom," I asked. He looked at me with a pissed off look and told me the left. I ran past him to Jun's room and saw her stuff was completely gone. & lefty and went to my room and sat at my desk. What in the hell had happened? I was only gone for a few hours. They must have really left in a hurry. I knew mom wanted to leave dad but I am surprised it happened so fast. I tried to figure out why mom would take Jun and not me and then it hit me. Jun turned 18 yesterday. Dad legally can't do anything about them leaving. He could fight for me though. I don't know why he would want to though. He always belittles me and calls me a failure. He says I am a disgrace to the family.
My thoughts are suddenly interrupted by a banging at the door. He slams open the door. "Where have you been all day you little piece of shit?" He went close to me and I could smell alcohol on his breath. "I was at the hospital with my friends," I replied to my dad trying to not show that i was terrified of his presence. "You didn't show them your bruises did you?" He leaned in closer with his fist raised at me.
I fell out of my chair trembling, "N-no I would never. I love-" He cut me off with a punch to the face. Next thing I know I was on the ground in a fetal position getting kicked. He finally stopped after a few minutes. Once he left the room I got into my bed and cried. I just don't understand why he hates me so much. I passed out and woke up around noon. I am so glad It's summer so I can sleep in. I got up to get ready and saw that he had left for work. I sent Tai a message on the D3 and said I would be coming over in a bit to hang out. He replied and said he would see me soon.
I grabbed my backpack with a sleeping Veemon in it and headed out. As I was walking Veemon woke up. "Davish?" "Yea," I replied. "Why do you let your dad hurt you? Why can't I help you fight him?" I looked at the ground and frowned. I was silent for a bit then replied. "I am scared Veemon. He is a lot bigger than me and I don't want him to hurt you. That is why you can't help me. I will stand up to him one day but for now I will be ok. I am strong." I put my hands on top of my goggles. Veemon mumbled something and tucked his head back into my bag.
Within the next few minutes I arrived at the Kamiya residence. I knocked and was greeted by a cheery Kari. She motioned me to follow her into the living room. It was just them and Tai was sitting on the couch watching tv. I sat down between him and Kari and Veemon popped out of my bag and went over to their partners to chat. We sat there and talked about random stuff for a little bit then suddenly the conversation got serious. Tai looked me dead and the eyes and asked the question I feared the most, "What are those bruises from? Do you parents hit you?" This moment felt surreal. I froze. I wasn't sure how to reply so I sat there in silence as the Kamiyas stared. Tai looked and me and the next thing he said shocked me, "I knew it. I am going to knock him out. He is never going to hurt you again Davis!" I then started to cry as him and Kari comforted me. The whole time silent. My mentor somehow found out the one thing I am most ashamed of. I hope he doesn't think of me differently.
Next thing I know we were at the police station with their mom and I was telling them everything that had happened these past few months. Every. Single. Detail. Finally after what felt like forever they tried to contact my mom and found they couldn't get a hold of her. The police officer told me they had a problem. Even if they pin him as guilty I would have nowhere to go since they couldn't get ahold of my mom or Jun and they were all I had besides my dad. Suddenly I looked over and saw Tai talking to his mom then a few moments later she pulled the police officer off to the side. He looked at me smiled.
"Mrs Kamiya here just said she would take care of you until we can reach your mom and sister.: They both smiled at me. I smiled back but that smiled faded quickly when I heard a voice behind me. "You little shit! I will kill you!" I turned and saw my dad trying to break out of his cuffs. The police officer escorted me out and told me I could come back in a few days to talk to them more. For now my dad would be in a holding cell.
We got back to their house after running by mine to get some things. Tai and I shared his room since he has a bunk bed. As we were getting ready for bed Tai looked at me and spoke, " I know this is hard for you Davis but just know Kari and I are here for you." I smiled a little bit. "We really do care about you Davis," He continued. I tried to keep the smile but suddenly and found myself crying again. I looked at him and then said, "Do you think of me differently now? Am I weak?" He pulled me into a hug. "No, of course not. I do not think of you differently and you are not weak. You are strong and brave. You are the bravest person I know Davis."
I looked at Tai and smiled. I was so glad he was my friend. I can always count on him no matter what. After saying our goodnights to his parents we both went to sleep and decided to talk more tomorrow. We were both exhausted.
Author: I am really sorry for taking forever to upload these past two chapters. When I started this I wanted to be so much more dedicated. Unfortunately life got in the way. I went through a pretty bad break up and work has just been super stressful. I really do want to write more though because I have so many ideas to share. Feel free to leave a review and suggests. I noticed I had misspellings on the old ones where I had & instead of I and you can thank google docs for that. lol. I have no clue how to fix it. Anyways I'll have more ASAP. XOXO