Chapter 4 – Friendship and More
Disclaimer -- Digimon / mine
A/N: wow its been a while...anyways, thanks for the reviews and constructive criticism :) -- especially KoumiLoccness and theladyknight for reviewing every chapter so far. I know all the facts might not be exactly accurate, but can't we disregard the tiny trivialities? (please?) ;)
so here it is:
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Sora –
It was Monday morning, once again. The day before, Mimi and I had gone shopping for stuff for the dance. I got this cute little blue dress and some matching earrings. Simple and sweet. Mimi, on the other hand, got two bags full of clothing, accessories, and multiple pairs of shoes, all of which matched her dress. Figures. Mimi was the only person fashion-savvy enough to know how to pull off wearing two pairs of shoes to a single three-hour event. Haha, not that she was intending to do that, of course.
Word had spread throughout the school about me "taking" Matt Ishida off of the "eligible dates" list. I was flooded with questions like "Are you two an item now?" from various people in the halls and got glares of hatred from his fan-girls. What had I gotten myself into? Well, at least I was with Matt now. Or was I? I didn't know and it threw me into some sort of a subdued panic (if that makes any sense) until lunch.
When our lunch period finally came, I found Matt and just decided to ask him outright. "Matt, are we a couple?" Matt's eyebrows raised and I saw out of the corner of my eye that Mimi and Tai had their heads bent together and that they were snickering quietly. Was this really so funny?
"Well, um… I don't really know… are we?" Matt answered. "Do you want to be?"
"I don't know…" I said hesitantly. If I said yes, then the future was unpredictable. If I said no – that would just plain suck. Well. Of course I couldn't say no. "Sure…do you?"
"I'm in if you're in." he said, shrugging. He brought his face close to mine and stared into my eyes, as if he were challenging me.
"Okay."
"Alrighty then."
"Uh huh." I continued.
"Mm hmm."
"Yup."
"That's right."
"Uh…" I had run out of things to say and started to laugh.
"Okay, you lovebirds, it's official. You're a couple." Tai interjected. He added, "And you've both gone crazy."
We all laughed and resumed eating. What fun.
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Matt –
Wow, when Sora asked if we were a couple I was just plain speechless. It's not as if I didn't predict it. I mean, all morning long I'd been shrugging off questions asking whether Sora and I were together or if we were just going to the dance as "friends." I was debating whether or not to ask her the same thing, but I guess she beat me to it. Still, I didn't know what to say. But I was kind of relieved that the whole issue was out in the open and we'd established that yes, we were a couple. Sure, it was scary that we might have had a gruesome break-up and that that our friendship was on the line, but maybe the risk was worth it.
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Mimi –
Hehe, Matt and Sora were an official couple! But then another question came into the light… What about me and Tai? Well, after Sora and Matt finished eating and left, I asked Tai about our relationship. It totally came off as a define-the-relationship talk, though, which looked like it kind of freaked him out.
"Hmm… I don't know, Mimi. Let's see how great of a time we have at the dance and decide later."
Okay, yes, it was kind of disappointing that he didn't definitely want to be my boyfriend, but whatever. I agreed with him, because who knows what we'd think of each other in a week? (Well, since I'd known him for so long things probably wouldn't change, but oh well). Plus – it'd be more fun if we just went as friends because that slight awkwardness of a date would be totally eliminated. Aren't I fabulous at fighting off disappointment?
Hmm… Tai said that we'd see how GREAT of a time we'd have at the dance. Hehe, that means he thought we'd have a GREAT time.
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Kari –
The rest of the week was pretty normal, I guess. We were stuck doing some last-minute project because the teacher ran out of things to teach us. I mean, there was a week left of school, and yet we had this big class project to get to know each other better. Isn't that something that you're supposed to do in the first week of school? Well, it was pretty easy, so I wasn't complaining. All we had to do is talk to everyone in the class and find out a couple of things about them that we didn't discover throughout the whole year. By Friday, the day of our field trip, I still had a couple more people to talk to. Davis and TK.
What was I supposed to find out about Davis? He didn't exactly keep his thoughts to himself. I mean, it was hard even not to know what he'd eaten for breakfast that morning. And then what about TK? I'd known him since 2nd grade, and well-- that's a whole long time to get to know someone. And if there were any secrets he was keeping that were so secret that I didn't know them, he probably wouldn't tell me because of some lousy school project.
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TO BE CONTINUED...
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alright...hopefully i'll post the next chapter sooner than usual :D