Author's Note: Wow I have gotten a lot of interested response for this story so far. I guess I only have three reviews but what reviews they are. It makes me happy to get such responses for my work. I was going to work on other stories first then get back to this one but I feel more inspired to write on this story due to the great reviews I have received for the first chapter. Thank you to all the people who reviewed and please keep reviewing, It is the only way I know if people like what they are reading.

New Author's Note: Sorry this took so long to write. I have been rather busy with substitute teaching, working as a line cook, taking university summer courses and looking for a teaching job for the next school year. Still don't have one yet even though I have applied for over 120 term contracts. The next time I update this story I might be in Japan teaching. Don't grow up kiddies it sucks. Now that I have finished whining about my life, on with the disclaimer.

Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon.

Tai's father woke Tai up the next morning.

"Time to get up Tai. Your mother and I have to go to that meeting today so you will be spending the day at Sora's. Do you think that you will have fun with Sora?"

Tai sat up in his bed, wiped the sleep from his eyes and said, "I don't know. I don't think that Sora likes me anymore."

"Why do you say that Tai?"

"Sora doesn't play a lot with me anymore at school."

"Do you think that this has something to do with Kari?"

"Yeah."

"Well I see. I think that you need to talk to Ms. Iwamoto about how people are acting towards you. Has Sora been calling you names or saying mean things about you?"

"No, she just seems like she doesn't want to know me anymore."

"Maybe Sora is confused about what you want."

"What do you mean?"

"Well Tai, sometimes people act in ways that confuse other people. For example, your mother has been staying in our room for a really long time right?"

"Yeah."

"Why do you tink that she is doing that?"

"Because she hates me and doesn't want to see me anymore."

"You think that Tai, but your mother doesn't hate you Tai. Mom loves you very much, and she loved Kari just as much, but losing Kari hurt your mom so bad that she just can't make herself get out of bed. knowing that her actions have been hurting you too has made her feel even worse. I suspect that you are acting differently at school since Kari left us, and that Sora is confused by your actions. I bet that Sora thought that you were angry or that you wanted her to leave you alone."

"What if she doesn't want to be my friend anymore?"

"Well I guess that you will just have to make some new friends. How about that Mimi girl, it sounds like that she is a really nice person."

"I don't know if Mimi will still like me after yesterday."

"Well it is too early to be giving up on that just yet, so how about you get dressed and pack up a couple of things to take to Sora's while I go get breakfast ready, all right Tai?"

"Yeah okay Dad."

Tai's father left the room and Tai got changed and looked around his bedroom to find what he would like to take to Sora's to play with. While searching the bedroom he discovered the egg laying in the blankets on his little sister's bed.

'Wow I wasn't dreaming last night,' thought Tai, 'An egg really did come out of the computer.'

For a moment Tai thought of telling his father about the egg, but then he remembered that he wasn't suppose to go near the computer and would get into trouble for messing around in the computer room.

'Guess it was a good thing that I didn't throw the water onto the computer,' thought Tai proudly, 'I really wish Kari was here, she would have found this really neat. I bet she would want to take care of it and everything; she would have been really good at that too.'

Tai wanted to start crying but then he heard his father telling him to hurry up because breakfast was ready. Tai grabbed the egg warped it in some dirty clothes, to protect it, and carefully but it into his kit bag. Tai quietly ate his breakfast, brushed his teeth without being asked and got his bag to carry over to Sora's.

Tai never saw his mother that morning. He left with his father to go to Sora's and his father would came back and get his mother. When Tai and his father arrived at Sora's mother Mrs. Tachenochi answered the door.

"Thank you for allowing Tai to spend the day here," said Tai's father as the two Kamiya males entered the apartment.

"Think nothing of it, I am just glad to be able to help out," replied Mrs. Tachenochi, "Tai I believe that Sora is in her room, Why don't you go and see what she is doing."

"Okay," replied Tai knowing full well that he was being told to leave the room so that Sora's mom and his dad could talk about things that they did not want Tai to know. Tai remembered how his parents would get Kari and him to leave the room when they were discussing Christmas presents or when they were arguing about dad's drinking. Tai figured that Mrs. Tachenochi and his dad were either talking about him, or what he had said about Sora not wanting to play with him.

Before he could leave the kitchen to go and look for Sora, his father stopped him and said, "Now Tai, I want you to be on your best behaviour for Mrs. Tachenochi, okay?"

"Okay Dad."

"I also want you to promise to play nicely with Sora too, okay?"

"But what if...'

"Tai."

"Okay, I will if she wants to."

"all right, now why don't you go and find Sora."

"Okay."

Tai left the kitchen and went looking for Sora. Tai was scared as he walked through Sora's home. he wasn't sure if Sora would want to play with him and he didn't think that Mrs. Tachenochi would want to do much with him either. Tai walked slowly through the house feeling that as soon as his father left that he would be told to leave and to go home. When he reached Sora's room Tai quietly knocked on the door , expecting to be told to go away.

Instead Tai heard Sora's voice say, "Who is it?"

"It's me Tai."

"Okay you can come in, but don't tell my mother that I am in here."

Tai enters the room to find a cave made out of couch cushions and blankets. He sees no sign of his friend Sora.

"Sora, where are you?"

"I'm in here," said a voice from within the cave, "Don't tell mom, she isn't allowed to know where I am."

"Why isn't your mom allowed to know where you are?"

"Because she is being mean to me. Someone took my hat at school and mom said that since I was not responsible enough to take care of a hat I can't have a pet now."

"I wouldn't want to take care of a pet," says Tai as he looks at the floor. "Mom asked me to take care of Kari when she was sick and looked what happened." At this point tears start forming in Tai's eyes.

"Don't cry Tai. It wasn't your fault."

"Yes it is I was suppose to take care of her," Says Tai as he sits down on the floor and begins to cry.

Sora comes out from her pillow cave, walks up to her friend and says, as she puts her arms around his shoulder, "It wasn't your fault Tai. Mommy told me that Kari was very sick and that you did your bestest but that it wasn't good enough. Mommy said that nobody's bestest would have been good enough. Mommy said that Kari needed doctors and medicine but nobody knew that. It wasn't your fault."

"if it isn't my fault then why does everybody hate me? Mom won't come out of her room and nobody at school will talk to me."

"My mommy told me that your mommy is so sad the it hurts her heart and that makes her sick and she can't get out of bed."

"Mom isn't sick, she never threw up or anything."

"No, not that kind of sick. Mommy told me that because I though that your mommy might be sick like Kari was but mommy told me that it is different. Mommy said that it is called depressed or something like that and you only catch it when your really sad and nothing makes you happy anymore."

"I don't feel happy anymore either."

"I told mommy how you didn't want to play at school anymore and she said that you were depressed too maybe. She told me that I needed to play with you."

"Why didn't you?"

"I thought that you were mad at me, and everyone else."

"I wasn't mad."

"I thought you were because you always sat by yourself and looked mad and stuff. Then when I was going to ask you if you had seen my hat you were yelling at Mimi so I thought that you must have hated everyone for not saving your sister."

"I thought that everyone hated me because Kari died."

"No Tai, no one hates you."

"Really? You don't hate me Sora?"

"Hey we're best friends, we can't hate each other," Sora hugs Tai as he finishes crying. Just as Sora was about to ask Tai if he wanted some ice cream, because ice cream always made Sora feel better after a big serious cry and Tai's plight made Sora monetarily forget her argument with her mother, Sora heard a noise coming from Tai's kit bag. She looked over and the bag was sitting on the floor shaking.

"Tai," whispered a rather alarmed Sora, "I think there is a ghost in your kit bag."

Tai looked up at his bag and cried out in alarm, " Oh no the egg!"

Sora sat stunned as her friend ran over to his gyrating kit bag, "You brought breakfast with you?"

As Tai began pulling dirty laundry out of his bag he said to Sora, "No, it is an egg that came out of the computer last night."

"Your computer laid an egg?"

"Yep."

"Can I see it?"

Tai held up the egg and a look of horror and panic came over his face when he saw a large crack on his egg.

"Oh no I broke it. I'm sorry Kari I tried to be careful I really did."

Sora scooted over to have a closer look. She saw the crack on the egg like Tai did but then the crack grew bigger. She looked over to see the look of guilt and anguish on Tai's face and said, "Don't worry Tai you didn't break the egg, it's hatching."

Yet another author's note: In April I'll be in Japan teaching. Me so happy.