Chapter 8: Betting on Takari

Kari POV

"Ok so you are telling me that you went round to Hayate's house at three o'clock in the morning with the sole purpose of breaking up with him?"

"Yes Aina that is what I'm saying" I said. She looked at me as if I had gone mad or something.

"Did he get cross?" she asked, sounding concerned.

"Yeah he did get quite cross. He also said that I was going to go back to him sooner or later because in his opinion 'Blondie' wasn't going to satisfy me as much as him"

Aina looked at me, her eyes wide with shock "He said what?"

"What I have just told you"

"I cannot believe the cheek of him! And who is blondie? He doesn't mean me does he? Oh my god, Kari he thinks that you are a lesbian!"

I rolled my eyes. Trust Aina to jump to conclusions that are not true. "Darling, he doesn't think I'm a lesbian, he just thinks that I am going to get back together with TK that's all. Nothing to worry about"

Aina looked at me, a sly smile playing on her lips. "Kari……"she started.

I stared at her trying to figure out what she was thinking. Then it clicked.

"Oh no, I am not going to get back together with him, honestly, and anyway he is going out with Aimi and you know that"

"Kari, I know that you still like him, I can see it in your eyes and plus you two are meant to be together. I know that"

"You are one seriously demented person my friend" I said putting an arm around her shoulders. "And there is no such thing as 'meant to be together' really"

"But there is" Aina protested "Your friend with the purple hair told me"

"Yolie?" I said, wondering when those two had talked.

"Yes, Yolie. I couldn't think of her name. Anyway she told me that something weird happened to you when you were a kid, and that you could visit this sort of parallel world full of weird creatures and that this sort of dragon told you that you and TK needed each other and that you were meant to be together for ever and ever and ever"

I looked at her. Not only Yolie had told her about the whole 'no light without hope and no hope without light' thing but she had also told her about the Digital World too. I made a mental note to kill her later.

"Look Aina, I don't care what Yolie told you. TK and I are history, as a couple of course, because we are still friends, but anything else, we are not. Deal with it"

Aina sighed and looked at me straight in the eye. "You can say whatever you please Kari, but I know that it is just a matter of time until you get back together again, and when the time comes I will be here saying 'I told you so and you wouldn't listen' ok?"

"Yeah, sure. I'll believe you" I said. Aina smiled.

"You will see. It only will be a matter of time until you are together" Aina said "and there is no need to be sarcastic"

I rolled my eyes "Okay I won't be sarcastic"

Aina laughed "I am willing to bet that you will be together by Christmas" she said.

"Christmas?"

"Yes Christmas, three months from now"

"Ok Christmas, what's the wager?"

Aina bit her lip in concentration "Eternal bragging rights"

Bragging rights? This was going to be good. Normally Aina won these types of bets but with bragging rights in between I was as sure as hell that I had to win the bet. After all mine and TK's romantic relationship was over, and was never going to happen again. Too many years and things had passed in between, and those things made it impossible. And not to mention the fact that TK is dating that idiot of a girl, Aimi to the rest of the world and that I … well I had broken up with Hayate, damn me. Anyway I could get I guy easily and that way the bet would be won. I smiled at my cleverness and my awesome planning ways. This was going to be too easy.

"Wager accepted" I said holding out my hand. Aina smiled and shook it.

"Let the best win"

Aina POV

I watched Kari as she walked away towards her house. Silly little girl. She had no idea what she was getting into accepting the bet. Smiling evilly I rummaged through my bag and fished out my mobile.

"Hola (Hello)" I said as soon as Yolie picked up.

"Hi Aina, everything's going ok?"

"Everything is running smoothly. Kari accepted the bet without thinking it twice"

"That is good. I talked to Cody; he told TK that Kari liked him"

I smiled "Excellent, not long and they will be back together"

"I hope so. I am so not letting Kari have bragging rights and anyway, they need each other to be whole. I mean you should see the look on TK's face whenever he is with Aimi, you can really notice that he is bored to tears, and really I can't blame him, that girl has got zero brain"

"I know, it is ridiculous, you should see her in class, especially in geography, we were doing capitals the other day and she didn't even know what the capital of Japan is"

"She doesn't even know what the capital of her own country is? That is lame"

"Totally lame, anyway, back to the Takari subject, deadline of the bet is Christmas, and before that we have got opportunities. There is the Halloween dance and the Christmas School Concert in with I know Kari is going to sing. We have just got to give her a song that reflects on their past relationship if the Halloween plan doesn't work"

"Good idea, I will run it through with the guys and see what they think about the plan"

"That will be perfect, hey, why don't we all meet up this afternoon and talk about it?"

"Yeah, sure I will tell the rest. Five o' clock at the usual Starbucks?"

"Five o' clock it is. See you later!"

"Bye!"

I smiled to myself as I put my phone back in my bag. Kari was going down and I was going to get eternal bragging rights.

"So do you all think that is a good plan" I said. Yolie, Ken, Davis, Candella, Cody and I were all sitting around a one of the round tables in Starbucks.

"I played my part, so I guess so" (Cody)

"Yeah" (Davis)

"Totally up for it! It is so exiting" (Candella (Candy))

"Do I really have to get involved? Ouch! That hurt Yolie" (Ken)

"Definitely" (Yolie)

"Good, everything settled then. We will first execute our plan on Halloween, in a month and a half from now, and I just hope nothing gets in our way" I said.

"Like Kari having a new boyfriend you mean?" Ken said.

"Kari? A new boyfriend? That is ridiculous"

"Aina, I am afraid Ken is right" Candella said pointing to the window. I turned my head around and saw Kari hand in hand with a boy I did not recognise. This was bad, very bad.

"What are we going to do now?" Yolie said her head in her hands.

"We are going to come up with a brake up plan and fast, I do not want anyone getting in our way"

So that is chapter eight, very different from what I had originally planed. I hope you like it. And thank you for reviewing last chapter. Hope you review this one too.

The movie was Grease by the way, made in 1978, and makes it 30 this year.

Anyway, lots of love, hugs and kisses

-Lunahope