School was done and Takeshi and I walked home together, we stopped off at my home to pick up Tokomon. As we walked down the street we could only wonder, why was Uzimon after us? I was wondering about other things as well… Takeshi said some things before that piqued my curiosity. He said he has lost someone before… I began thinking back to the day before. Maybe it had to do with that picture…

Takeshi turned to me and asked, "So who was that guy who helped us out?"

I looked up, out stretched my arms, and let out a big yawn. I replied, "You mean Patrick? That was the person who helped us out…"

Takeshi bit his thumb, I could tell he was somewhat hesitant, his voice also carried that one as he said, "Don't you find it odd?"

I raised one eyebrow and asked, "What in the world are you talking about?"

He looked down and put his hand in his pocket, as we walked towards the park. He said, "Well he just jumped in and saved us, and it wasn't against some big buy or any human…" He looked up to the sky and continued, "It was against a Digimon… Don't you think he would have been the slightest bit scared? I mean if I saw a human with a gun I would be to paralyzed with fear, but a walking, talking, gun monster? I'm sorry, but no one is that brave! It borders on stupidity…"

He stared off into the distant skyline, as I began to think things over… After a few minutes of silence I had collected some thoughts, I said, "I honestly think Patrick is a sociopath… An egomaniacal one at that."

Takeshi asked, "And that's someone we can trust?"

I smirked and continued, "I know it's hard to believe, but I think he helped us to prove his dominance over us… He helped us simply to make him feel better about himself. I know we can't trust his intentions, but he did help us and we have to take that into account… He's an ally, a strange one."

Takeshi pointed over towards a bench and asked if I wanted to it, my legs kind of hurt so I went along. He sat back while I was hunched over looking at the children that were playing. It must be nice to have that… That carefree sense of joy, to be honest, seeing them made me angry. I stood up and opened up my bag. Tokomon was sleeping on a towel. I looked down at him… He was so peaceful… Takeshi smiled and said, "He is pretty cute… Do you think he is as fearsome as Tsunamon was in battle?"

I shrugged and said, "Not sure really! I mean he better be for both our sakes."

A strange grumbling came from Takeshi's bag. We looked at each other and both laughed as we said, "Feeding time!" and Takeshi continued to say, "I am going to get some food, okay? I'll get some for you and Tokomon as well, be right back!"

I got off the bench, put my bag on my back, and walked towards the pond in front of me, when I started to hear a guitar and a familiar voice singer. As I followed it the words became clearer and clearer…

First the mic then a half cigarette
singing Cathy's clown
that's the man that she's married to now
that's the girl that he takes around town
she appears composed, so she is, I suppose
who can really tell?
she shows no emotion at all
stares into space like a dead china doll

I followed the voice for a minute and I found Aimi playing her guitar sitting on the grass with a bag next to her. She was playing the same song as she was before. The sun beamed down on her face as she closed her eyes, she was lost in the music she was playing. I placed my bag at the side, and watched… But there was something wrong… I could sense it…

I'm never gonna know you now, but I'm gonna love you anyhow
now she's done and they're calling someone
such a familiar name
I'm so glad that my memories remote
Cuz I'm doing just fine hour to hour, note to note
here it is the revenge to the tune
"you're no good,
you're no good, you're no good, you're no good"

At that point something in my heart just broke… A tear rolled down her eye, it seemed like she was struggling to sing the rest of the song. I squeezed the branch of the tree I was hiding behind. It felt so hard to listen to her…

can't you tell, that it's well understood
I'm never gonna know you now, but I'm gonna love you anyhow
I'm here today and expected to stay on and on and on
I'm tired
I'm tired
looking out on the substitute scene
still going strong
XO, mom
it's ok, it's alright, nothing's wrong
tell Mr. man with impossible plans to just leave me alone
in the place where I make no mistakes
in the place where I have what it takes
I'm never gonna know you now, but I'm gonna love you anyhow…

At that point she almost broke down, but my squeeze actually broke the branch of the tree. She quickly turned around and said, "Oh hey!"

She wiped the tears from her eyes with her hands, put on the most painfully fake smile. I looked down at my feet somewhat ashamed and said, "I'm sorry…"

She quickly got up and said, "No, no! Please don't… I guess I am glad someone finally heard. The counselors in the school are just so quick to dismiss you as "just another case of healthy and typical teenage depression" so they can do little work and collect a somewhat meager pay check…"

I placed a hand in my pocket and looked off to the side, and joked, "Trust me, my old doctor didn't work in a school and he sucked just as bad as anyone else the school had to offer!"

She started to giggle a little bit. She asked, "How bad was he?"

I smiled and said, "To be honest… I want to kill him."

She then stopped laughing, as stared at me. There was a few seconds of awkward silence. The only word that went through my head was "Shit!" She then fell on the ground laughing. Holy crap, she laughed? It kind of just slipped out, and the usual reaction entailed running for the hills. But she seemed to like it…

I suddenly heard a few loud beeps. Aimi reached into her pocket and pulled out her cell phone. She pressed buttons as whispered, "What's this?"

She shrugged and threw her arms down to her sides. I put a hand on her shoulder and gave her a smile. She looked up with an even bigger smile. I said, "Yeah, if you ever need to talk, I have ears!"

Her phone started glowing and she dropped it on the ground. She freaked out and jumped right into me. I think I had a boner… But seriously, her phone started emitting a beam that blinded us for a few seconds. And it hit me. I remembered this glow… Even though our eyes were covering our hands, I knew what to expect as we slowly lowered our arms and opened our eyes. Fuck! There is was, another egg… I slowly asked, "What were you just sent?"

"It was from someone named K0rSav10r…" She said while looking at the egg. I slapped my forehead. Now she would be dragged into this. Suddenly a scream caught us by surprise. It was Takeshi! I ran back to the bench, while Aimi scooped the egg in her bag and followed. As I got back on the pathway I saw Takeshi running. He screamed, "GET OUTTA HERE!"

Some rock Digimon was chasing his and flinging rocks at him. Out of nowhere a bubble hit the Rock Digimon. It flew on my head, and asked "What a nap!"

I looked up and asked, "Is that you little guy?"

He smiled and said, "The name is Patamon! Yeah, I was Tokomon before! And this is Gotsumon!"

He looked angrily at us, but he turned his attention to Takeshi and continued to chase him. Tsunamon popped out of his bag and head-butted Gotsumon. He then turned back into Gabumon. Gotsumon angrily said, "I have no real problem with you! It's that human I am after! But if you want some…"

Takeshi yelled, "What did I do!?"

Gotsumon said, "No idea! But orders are orders kid!"

He then lunged over Gabumon as Patamon shot another air bubble at him. Takeshi just stood there with his mouth open and whispered, "Jesus fuckin' Christ man! What the hell did I do?"

Just to say, the song isn't mine, it's Waltz #2 (XO) by Elliott Smith, you should take a listen if you are curious! I just felt as if I should make that clear! Thanks for reading bud-day! 