Chapter 3 – Boredom is nothing
Disclaimer - Digimon does not belong to me; however, its owners can learn how to share.
A/N: sorry for the delay...finals and weird end of the year projects and all that stuff.
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Kari –
Hooray! We're going to have an end of the year field trip next Friday! Okay, so next Friday's not really the end of the year but it'll be the 1st week of June, and around then we won't be doing anything in class anyway. Monday morning, the word spread through the eighth grade that a field trip was being planned, and I heard some of the wildest things. A kid in my class started all these random rumors about going boating and hunting mountain lions. As if. It was just going to be one of those nice, "quiet" picnics down at the park. We'd be given the freedom to do "whatever we wanted" as long as we didn't cause any disturbances. When we had these things last year, Davis would always end up kicking a soccer ball in the back of a teacher's head or something, and the rest of us would watch (and laugh) as he was told off. So sad.
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Yolei –
Friday, at last! The last week of May totally droned on ever since that first day, when I told Kari about my date with Ken and she caught me up on the last Digidestined "meeting." I wish I had been there for the pillow fight, but after some thought, the whole thing sounded very "first-generation"-Digidestined-ish. Besides, my date with Ken was great.
Ken's such a gentleman! I mean, he's so old-fashioned and nice – no wonder he has the crest of kindness. Anyway, he picked me up at my house, and we walked to the park and talked and stuff like that. It's so weird; I never got to reflect on last year and all the hectic things I'd been through until then. I couldn't believe a year ago he was still the Digimon Emperor... and that a little while before that I didn't even know the digital world existed!
It was so great to just talk through it all, remembering. But I was kind of disappointed that we missed the gathering at Tai's house. I definitely plan on going to the next one!
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(Omniscient Narrator) -
It was Saturday, once again, at the Kamiya house. Tai, Matt, Sora, Mimi, Kari, TK, Yolei, and Davis were there.
"Where's Ken?!" shrieked Yolei. "He said he was coming..."
"Who cares? Kari's here!" Davis exclaimed.
Kari giggled and made a face.
"I guess Izzy's not gonna show up, then, is he?" Sora said quietly to Matt.
"He's probably still stewing," replied Matt. "I never thought he'd get so mad over Mimi and Tai."
"Tai and Mimi seem oblivious to the fact that Izzy likes Mimi," TK said, joining their conversation.
"I don't blame them," said Sora. "They're caught up in their own little drama."
"Hey, you two are going to the dance together, aren't you?" TK asked.
"Shut up," Matt told his brother. "And how'd you find out anyway?"
"From Tai," answered TK. Matt shook his head with an air of resignation.
Kari approached, evidently trying to get away from Davis. "So…What's up?"
Davis, following Kari relentlessly, joined them. "Yeah, TA, what's up?"
"What are we all over here for?" Yolei asked.
Only Tai and Mimi were left outside of the circle. Tai seemed a little annoyed at Mimi because she kept talking about everything she bought on her last trip to the mall.
"Sora?" Tai called over. "Why don't you come and talk to Mimi instead?"
Sora laughed and went to relieve Tai.
"It's kind of sad, you know?" Sora said as she sat down next to Mimi.
"What is?"
"All that time in the digital world, we focused our thoughts on the enemy (whoever it was at that particular time) and became friends, but now that the threats are gone, we don't have much to do," Sora answered.
"I'd say that's better than going around the digital world and being in danger the whole time," said Mimi.
"We have less of a reason to all stay together, though," Sora went on. "And I guess it's not at exciting," she added.
"Says who?"
Mimi and Sora looked around the room. The main feature was Matt and Tai mercilessly and exaggeratedly reenacting one of TK's embarrassing moments for Yolei. TK tried to join in to deny the story and defend himself, but Davis was continually challenging TK to arm-wrestling matches (which TK kept winning). Davis' voice could be heard over the chatter, "Don't worry, Kari, I'll win this one for you!"
Sora looked at Mimi and laughed. "Maybe you're right."
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Matt –
Haha, that was fun. TK looked about 5 different shades of red after we told all those stories to Yolei. It's nice to be able to laugh.
Poor TK, he's being challenged and re-challenged to arm-wrestling matches by Davis. It seems that Davis is trying to get Kari's attention, but he keeps losing to TK. Anyway, now that Tai and I have finished telling our little stories, Kari seems more interested in the conversation that she's having with Yolei about the classes that they're taking next year.
Sora's over there in a corner talking to Mimi about god-knows-what and Tai's venturing in their direction, probably hoping that the shopping conversation is over. I can hear their voices above the din:
"Hey guys. What're you talking about?" says Tai.
"Oh nothing." Mimi answers.
"So no more shop-talk?"
"Thanks for reminding me!" Mimi pipes up eagerly. "Well we're planning to go shopping tomorrow for the dance, right, Sora?"
"Yeah…" she answers.
That's right, Sora's going to the dance with ME and we're going to have the greatest time ever! Hahaha.
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Davis –
Yes! I finally won a match in arm wrestling against TK! Well actually, I was letting him win before so that Kari could see that I was nice enough to give up my pride so he wouldn't get upset. Uh huh… And then I told Kari I'd win this one for her… and I did! Am I great or what? Not to mention strong, and brave, and smart, and generally just much better than TK! Well, maybe I could work on the whole ego thing.
It's just that Kari's so PERFECT! She's so sweet and nice… I've loved her from the day I met her! Anyway, since I'm almost PERFECT (much more perfect than TK, at least), we're absolutely PERFECT for each other! And TK can go jump into a lake. Well, Kari would probably jump after him and save him because she's so valiant… not because she likes him or anything. Okay, she may ACT she likes him, but she's just pretending because she knows that she secretly likes ME!
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TK –
Thank god, Matt and Tai stopped reenacting all the stupid things I've done for everyone to see. And Davis finally stopped bugging me. He kept challenging to me to an arm-wrestling match because he couldn't stop losing. I finally let him win and he left me alone. He's just doing it to impress Kari, but I don't think she really likes him in that way. Maybe she likes someone else? (me? maybe, please?)
Hmm, I've been thinking about what Matt said last week. Should I ask Kari out? I've liked her for the longest time – as long as I've known her, actually. I love being around her, spending time with her. Maybe it's because we've been through so much together-- we've become such close friends. That's why I'm hesitant about asking her out, too. I'm afraid that we'll screw our relationship up, and I don't think I could take that. How could I risk our friendship simply because I want something more? And yet, how could I give up that something-more simply because I'm afraid?
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T0 BE CONTINUED...
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A/N: Next chap coming soon...
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