I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. ~Author Unknown

Falling in love is so hard on the knees. ~Aerosmith

Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. ~English saying used on poesy rings

Chapter 5

A Word of Wisdom!

(BGM: Dance Dance, by Fallout Boys)

It was Friday and everybody couldn't wait 'til Saturday's Valentine's Day Dance. The whole school was in a spastic frenzy. Everybody was trying to get somebody to go with them to the event, even if they knew they were going to get rejected.

"Today's the day." Takuya muttered to himself.

"Oooooh yeeeeeeah!" Kouji uttered.

"Um... a word of advice, Kouji. Don't ever say that again like that." Kouichi suggested.

"Screw you! I do whad I waunt!" Kouji replied back.

"Well we should hurry up and get to class. First period is about to start." Takuya suggested.

The three students left their separate ways to their own class.

"Alright! I get to have Zoe for first period!" Takuya thought in his head (Now why didn't anyone tell me it's "Zoe" without the "Y". Gees, I've been screwing her name throughout the whole story!)

Takuya entered his science class. He couldn't wait to tell Zoe the big news. As he slowly walked to his seat he realized... Zoe wasn't sitting in her seat as usual.

"Hmm. She must be running late" he said to himself.

Everyone began to hurry into the class at the last minute as the warning bell rang.

"Settle down class! The class is about to start as soon as the tardy bell rings!" Mrs. Ronald said, the science teacher.

Takuya sat down in his usual seat right next to Zoe, hoping that she will show up.

"Ok she will show up any minute now." he thought optimistically, "She's just got to be here!"

Well it turns out she never made it even when the tardy bell rang.

"Don't worry Takuya. She'll come rushing through that door any minute now, talking about how she woke up late, and how she didn't have enough time to do her hair and other girly morning rituals."

It was now in the middle of class and she still didn't show up.

"...And class what is it called?" the teacher asked the class.

"D-N-A!" the whole class said in a robotic unison.

"Weird." he muttered to himself. He was getting even more worried.

Where could she be? He thought before the dismissal bell rang.

***

It was lunch now and Takuya, Kouji, and Kouichi were sitting on the same table... without fighting this time. They all just sat eating without talking to each other. There was awkward silence.

"Soooooooooo.... where's Zoe?" Kouichi finally asked.

"Yeah Takuya. Where is she?" Kouji added.

"Heck if I know. She didn't show up in first period today." Takuya replied.

"Hmmmmmm..." Kouji and Kouichi suspected.

"What?"

"Nothin'. We'll just find out what happened to her after school." Kouichi suggested.

"I guess we will." Takuya responded. He then took a drink from his expired milk bottle.

"Uuuu! How can you drink that? Its overdue!" Kouji informed Takuya.

"It is?" he questioned clueless.

***

Meanwhile, it was after school and JP was making his way to Zoe's house quickly.

"I just hope I can make it there in time so I can ask her out!" he mentioned aloud as he ran off the bus.

He was running the fastest he had ever ran in his whole life. As he cut through someone's lawn that had a sign that read "Beware of DOG!", a dog sprung up from its slumber and started chasing him.

"OH CRAP! OH CRAP!" he yelled to each stride he made with his legs. Luckily his adrenaline kicked in and helped him out run the dog as he jumped over a fence.

"Hahaha! Stupid dog can't get me now can you?" he said arrogantly as he turned around only to find out he was in a yard full of three more dogs. They were bull dogs. Fortunately, they were sleeping until he stepped on a twig...

In the next moment, the whole neighborhood could see a screaming fat kid running down the street with four dogs chasing after him.

"MAN THIS IS JUST GREAT!" he shouted sarcastically.

"SOMEBODY HELP!" he continued to yell.

To add more humor to the scene it seemed like the dogs had a sense of humor. In fact, when the dogs barked it almost sounded like they were barking, "GO! GO!" instead of the usual "BARK! BARK!"(True story!)

"OMG, am I loosing it?" JP asked himself under his staggering breath.

To his luck, he out ran them somehow as he slowly stopped and watched the dogs turn around and walk off.

"YEAH thats what I thought!" he yelled out towards the dogs.

One of the dogs turned around as if they were ready to chase him again, but JP took off before it had the chance.

***

Meanwhile, Takuya, Kouji, and Kouichi ran off the bus after a previous discussion over who would get to ask Zoe out first before the other people. As they ran down the streets towards her house, they were busy nudging and pushing each other out of the way. Kouji was in the lead.

"Ah! This is pay back for yesterday!" Kouji shouted as he pushed Takuya aside into the bush.

"Heeeey!" Takuya went crashing into the hedges nearby.

Kouichi, on the other hand, thought it was his duty to help him out of the bush like a true friend.

"Thanks man. Now I got to get rid of this wedgie and all these leaves down my boxers." Takuya mentioned.

As Takuya was adjusting himself, Kouichi and he went after the menacing wild-haired Kouji who was just a few blocks away from Zoe's house.

"Hahaha! Victory!" Kouji proclaimed.

JP came around the corner only to see them coming his way too.

"Dude, what happened to you?" Takuya asked JP as he caught up with the rest of them.

"I could ask you the same thing." JP responded. He was a sweaty mess.

They all looked at Kouji who was about to ring the door bell to Zoe's house.

"Stop!" JP yelled.

"Why?" Kouji questioned.

"You cheated!" Takuya accused Kouji.

"What are you talkin about? This isn't a game we're playing." Kouji responded.

"Hello! What about me?" JP asked trying to direct attention towards him.

"What about you?" They all replied.

They all began to start arguing over everything, even the littlest things. They argued over who played fair to how JP was a sweaty mess. Takuya couldn't get over Kouji sucker pushing him into the bush to where he was going to spend all night removing all the leaves from his boxers.

During their bickering, the door flew open with Zoe's sister looking at them rudely. This time she didn't look too happy.

"What do you guys want? Your disturbing us! And why are y'all arguing?" she said.

By now Tommy made his way into the picture as he was playing his Nintendo DS in the background.

"Uhm... us arguing?" JP asked wiping sweat off his head.

"Yeah, we weren't arguing. We were having a 'friendly discussion'." Takuya explained.

"Really" she stood looking at them as if she couldn't believe them.

"Seriously, we were." Kouichi added.

"Yeah, couldn't you tell? I mean, if we were across the street from each other firing guns at each other with... Tommy over there flying by with a grenade in his mouth, we would still call it a 'friendly discussion'."

"You guys are something else. I can't believe Zoe is actually friends with guys like y'all." she insulted, "So like what are y'all? Eighth graders?"

"Actually, I'm a freshman in high school!" JP boasted.

"Whatever. Anyways, could you guys come later. Zoe isn't feeling too well."

"Wow, what's wrong?" Kouichi asked.

"She's actually sick. So BEAT it and come some time later!" she said as she slammed the door.

"Who was that?" Zoe asked as she walked by sneezing really badly.

"Oh, those were your no good friends. They wanted to see you." her sister replied.

"Well what did they want?"

"I don't know. I guess they just wanted to see you."

"Well why didn't you call me?"

"Well I thought you were too sick to come to the door."

"I'm SICK not DEAD!" Zoe stressed.

"Oops, my bad." her sister said as she sashayed her way into the kitchen.

"Gees, you would think having a older sister would be better than a brother." Zoe muttered to herself.

She walked over to the door in her pink pj bottoms and a white cami with a bunch of tissues in her hand.

To her dismay as she opened the door, she found that the guys had already left.

***

The guys had went there different ways with different ways to come back and ask Zoe out.

"I'll come back and ask her out!" Kouji thought out plainly.

"I'll comeback and give her a 'get well' card as I ask her out!" Kouichi thought to himself.

"I'll comeback with a bowl of hot soup!" JP thought as he smacked his lips due to the thought of food.

"What a bunch of morons!" Tommy thought.

"Gosh, now I got to go home and remove all of these leaves off of me!" Takuya said with despair.

As Takuya entered his house he went straight up stairs without seeing anybody because no one was there. Everybody was out doing something. His dad was at work and his mom was with Shinya at the doctor (No it was not because of him standing on his head). As he laid down and began to brush his hair, he heard a beep. He looked over to where the sound could have possible come from, which was his drawer. He knew what it was when a interesting thought past his mind.

"Hmm... maybe I should pay him an interesting visit." He said to himself.

When he said him he meant Bokomon. He wanted to see him for some wisdom.

As he pulled out his D-tector, he activated a portal that would lead him to the digital world. He quickly jumped in.

***

THUD, He fell in Bokomon's hut.

"Oh gosh! What do you want?" the strange midget creature asked him.

"Uhm... I need advice." Takuya said hesitantly. He never got advice from a digimon before. After all, what does he know.

"And why should I help you?" bokomon snapped.

"Well, for one, I helped save your world!" he answered back.

"Darn it! You got me. Alright then shoot!" bokomon couldn't get rid of him.

"Heh heh, don't tempt me!"

"Very funny" bokomon said sarcastically.

"OK... well you see... there's this dance." Takuya started to explain.

"Uh huh."

"And... well... there's this girl... and me and a group of guys want to ask her out."

"I see." he really didn't.

"And... well... it's kinda hard to tell her... my feelings." he continued.

"Hm!" bokomon rubbed his chin as if he was in deep thought.

"I... was wondering... how I should tell her?" Takuya was brushing the back of his neck, "Who am I kidding. You've never even loved in your life before."

"Well to answer your question, I would tell Kouji, Kouichi, and JP to step aside. Then I would get on my knees and tell Zoe how I feel for her and how she is such a lucky person." Bokomon explained, nodding his head with closed eyes, "And I'll have you know I have loved before in my life."

"What? How did you know about me, Kouji, Kouichi, and JP. In fact, how did you know I was talking about Zoe?" he was baffled that bokomon knew so much.

"Because... your not the first person to come here asking for advice."

"Oh... heh heh." Takuya started to blush.

"And why is your head turning read? Are about to explode?" Bokomon questioned.

"Um... its nothing. Soooo... you really were in love before?" Takuya was very interested in Bokomon/s story as he explained every detail of it.

"Well thanks bokomon. I'll go over there and tell her how I feel." Takuya said as he passed through the portal to the real world.

"Ha! Nincompoop! Like he even has a chance! Ha ha haaaaaaa!" bokomon couldn't help himself from laughing.

***

When Takuya made it back to the real world, he ran all the way to Zoe's house.

"I got to make it before the others do!" he yelled out loud in the night.(I know this is kinda unsafe)

He leaped over incredible bounds over fences and hedges.

As he came to Zoe's door step, he rang the door bell as he waited for her to answer.

"Oh! Hey Takuya!" Zoe said as she answered the door this time. She sounded like she her nose was congested.

"Sooo... Zoe..." as he began to inform her about the dance, he realized she already had been informed... three times, with a "get well" card and a bowl of soup in her hand.

(Womp womp wowowowowow!)

A/N: I 'm sorry if this chapter took forever. It seems like my life is becoming more and more hectic.

I hope y'all enjoyed this chapter even though Valentines day is long gone now. The next chapter is when they finally go to the dance, so stay tuned! You don't want to miss it! In fact, I'm still a little hesitant to write it.

Poor Takuya. Maybe bokomon was right. Maybe he has no chance what so ever. Stick around and find out what happens next. I'm sure JP Kouji and Kouichi are happy...