Chapter 3
The Truth
Yay! The last chapter!! I was surprised at how long it ended up being!
Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN DIGIMON!!! XD
"Jen wake up! Please!"
No, I wanna sleep…
"Jen! Come on! You have to wake up!"
Why?
"Dammit Jen! Please wake up! I need you here!"
Ryo? You need me?
"Please! Wake up! I know you couldn't have hit your head that hard!"
Haha, very funny. Alright I'll wake up…but only because you asked me.
"Jen?"
I opened my eyes with some difficulty, my gray eyes meeting a pair of blue eyes, the blue eyes that I love so much. His perfect blue eyes were welding up with tears. Ryo Akiyama crying? No way…
"R-Ryo? Is that you? Why are you crying?" I asked rubbing my head a little.
Ryo wiped his eyes, "Thank God Jen, I thought I lost you there for a moment," he said. He pulled me into a hug, a strong, protective hug. It felt so right to be sitting there with him holding on to me, just like that night in the Digital world.
I hugged him back, "Thanks Ryo…for caring…" I said still holding on tightly. Ryo pulled me away, I caught myself before I whimpered.
He looked at me with a hard look and said "Of course I care, all of us care about you Jen…Don't ever forget that."
I looked at him in surprise. I smiled and drew myself into another hug. He hugged me back again. Tears were stinging in my eyes, but I didn't let them come out, at least not yet. I held on for what seemed like forever. He pulled away, this time I let out a sigh. I missed his warm embrace already.
"So how are we gonna get out of here?" I asked after a moment of silence.
Ryo scanned our surroundings, "I'm not sure, I don't hear Takato any more…I hope he didn't get lost too."
"Wait you didn't come after me as soon as I fell did you?" I asked, I was blushing slightly.
"Well yeah I did, 'cause if you had woken up down here all alone, you might've panicked. I know I would've…Plus, I didn't want you to end up in a coma." he said, he was still looking around.
I smiled, "Thanks Ryo." He looked at me and smiled. "Alright we gotta get up there, or else we're gonna be down here all night," he said he walked up to me and offered me his hand. I took it and stood up.
I guess I must've messed up my ankle in the fall because there was a sharp pain that shoot up my leg. I knew I was going to fall, but then I felt someone catch me.
I looked up Ryo was grinning at me, "You hurt your ankle didn't you?" I nodded blushing at how close he was.
"Alright, we aren't gonna be able to get up there now, I'm sure Takato yelled back before you fell, so they'll find us sooner or later," he said, for some reason he had a large grin on his face. He put me down and then sat down with me.
We sat in silence for a couple of minutes his arm still around me. I started to feel sleepy, I rested my head on his shoulder. Before I knew it I started to close my eyes.
"Jen? Hey Jen, don't fall asleep. I'm not gonna have the heart to wake you up if you do," Ryo whispered.
I sat up rubbing my eyes, "What do you mean?" I asked. He looked away and said "Well you look adorable sleeping on my shoulder and I'm not gonna be able to wake you, so…yeah just don't fall asleep." He yawned, and laughed "Or else I might fall asleep and then we're both in for it." I smiled, I thought I saw a blush on his cheeks, but I was probably imagining things.
Once again it was almost like Jaarin was there telling me to tell him. God, even when she's not around I'm annoyed by her.
"Ryo? I- um- what I wanted to tell you up there before I fell, was well…" I trailed off. Boy this was a lot harder then I thought. Ryo was looking at me with a look that I just couldn't place. I started to get closer to him feeling a cold draft.
"You know ever since that night back in the Digital World I've felt different around you. I didn't just see you as the Legendary Tamer everyone else did after that night, but I saw you in a different way." The words came out a little easier every time. Ryo was still looking at me in that strange way, but with a soft expression.
"We saved the world, we all became stronger friends, but…I didn't see that my feelings were different from everyone else's until you left and didn't come to visit us so much," I squeezed his jacket a little more, when a cold gust came out of nowhere. He held me closer.
"I guess it's true when they say that you don't realize what you have until you've lost it. I felt like I lost you," I paused. I was finally going to say it, and dammit was it hard.
I sat up a little more his arm falling off my shoulder a bit, I looked at him straight in the eyes and said, "I love you."
Realization hit me, I just said what I wanted to say the last couple of years and he was sitting there with that blank, surprised, amused look. I felt the sudden urge to make a run for it and suddenly the pain in my leg was growing, because without thinking, I did make a run for it.
Hot pain shot up my leg but I completely ignored it, tears were falling from my eyes as I ran. It was so dark though I couldn't see were I was going so I ended up tripping a couple of times. I wasn't sure but I thought I heard Ryo's voice screaming from behind me, if it was I didn't believe it was him. Then out of nowhere I felt a strong pair of arms tackle me to the ground, it didn't hurt too much, but I pretended it did so I could shut my eyes.
"Jen, open your eyes," Ryo said. I shook my head I didn't want to see his blue eyes probably filled with hate.
"Jen, please open your eyes, I want you to look at me," he said, his voice was awfully soft. Something I wasn't really expecting. I tried to get away but boy was he strong, he had me pinned under him and I continued to struggle.
"Jen, open your eyes, I want you to realize something," he said. I didn't want him to see me crying like I was right there, even if he probably already knew I was crying.
"Jen, please…" he said this time so softly, I could hardly hear him. I couldn't help it anymore, I opened my eyes. When I did open my eyes I saw his eyes softer then any other time I had seen him. My gray eyes were still swimming in tears and he wiped the tears that were still streaming down my face. I lied there completely amazed with him, did he not hate me?
"Jen, you know I got something I've been needing to tell you to…I love you too," he said. I knew for a fact that he wasn't lieing, I could see it in his eyes that what he was saying was true, yet my brain didn't seem to be able to understand that.
"W-What?" I said stupidly. His smile only grew more, before I knew it he had placed his lips on mine for a kiss. I lied there in shock, I don't even remember kissing him back that well, just that I knew I was in heaven. After what seemed like ages, we separated, and this time I let out my whimper.
"Aww, Jen do you want another one?" Ryo said mockingly. I blushed but nodded. He set his lips back on mine, and started the next kiss this time I was ready. I closed my eyes and kissed him back with everything I had.
We ended up walking back to the same place were I had told Ryo I loved him (at least we think it's the same place). We must've talked for ages and not notice until we heard Takato again, this time we could hear Kenta, Hirokazu, and Shiuchon screaming for us. I could Monodromon and Terriermon, but they sounded very close.
"JEN!! RYO!! WHERE ARE YOU GUYS AT!?" Terriermon cried.
I looked at Ryo smiled and then said "Well I guess our quite time is over…" Ryo just grinned at me.
"We don't have to." he said in a sly voice. I pulled him into another kiss "Yes we do, I'm freezing!" I said. He just chuckled and said mumbled something about keeping me warm.
"TERRIERMON! WE'RE OVER HERE!" I yelled, Ryo actually stood back, "Since when do you scream so loud?" he asked. I just winked at him, and I heard Terriermon.
"JEN!? WAS THAT YOU!?"
I sighed "Yes Terriermon, and you don't have to yell, you're almost in front of us," I said which was true he was directly above us.
"Oh! Jen are you o.k.? Why's- never mind- TAKATO! I FOUND THEM!" he yelled.
I could hear Monodromon running up to Terriermon, "Ryo? Are you down there?" asked the dinosaur like digimon.
"Sure am buddy, think you can help us? Mr. Lee here busted his ankle," Ryo replied, I gave him a sour look but he just grinned.
"How'd he do that?" came another voice. I knew right off the bat that was Ruki.
He smiled "Well Princess, Jen here thought it wou- ow! Why'd you do that for?" I ignored him and his complaining about his foot.
"Well Ruki, I think I'll just keep that to myself," I said not helping but to smile slightly.
Even in the darkness I could see her smile, "Renamon?" she called.
"Yes, Ruki?" asked the fox digimon. "Go and get these two before they freeze to death," she told the digimon.
Renamon gave a small chuckle and jumped down. "Now which one of you lovely boys would like to be brought up first? Unfortunately you're both to big to cry up there at the same time." she said.
I could hear Ruki laughing up above. After a minute of struggling Ryo and I were finally up with the rest, by then Kenta and Hirokazu were there and helping us.
"Where's Takato? He's the only one with a dam flashlight." Ruki whispered obviously annoyed.
"Shall I go and look for him, Ruki?" Renamon asked. "I don't think you need to worry I see something over there."
It was indeed Takato and Shiuchon, who had Lopmon on her shoulder just like I do with Terriermon.
Shiuchon looked annoyed and Takato looked a little embarrassed. She started to blab about how instead of turning toward Terriermon he decided to go the opposite way. I couldn't help but laugh. I was sitting on the floor and when Takato asked why I glared at Ryo telling him to shut up.
"Something happened and Jen's to shy to tell us what exactly happened," she told Takato. Takato sniggered something and started to look around.
"Alright lets go home yeah?" he said. I nodded tired and just wanted to go home, Ryo helped me up. I was able to stay standing by myself I just needed help walking. I stood there for a bit not even realizing that we were holding hands. Ruki turned around as though she was going to say something but stopped when she saw us holding hands.
She smiled and mumbled something, it sounded a lot like, "About time". I smiled back and started to walk forgetting about my ankle.
I hissed, and Ryo put my arm around him and put his other hand around my waist. We all walked back to Guilmon's "home".
"You know I'm surprised our parents haven't called us yet," Takato said pulling out his phone.
"Speak for yourself, my dad probably called me at least a hundred ti-"he was cut off by Ruki,
"Hey Ryo? Isn't this your phone?" She had his blue phone in her hand it was covered in dirt. Ryo, careful not to let me fall, walked on over to Ruki and took his phone back. He flipped it open and gave a sad sigh.
"Thanks Ruki, I owe you one," he patted her head only to receive a growl from her and a slap on the shoulder.
"Ow! I said thank you!" but he was already walking over to me with his phone in his hands. I looked at it, he had seven missed calls, five voicemails, and three text messages. His dad was just as bad as mine, but with Shiuchon with me, it was probably double.
Ryo was cursing under his breath, his dad must've been mad…I could imagine mine only worse. When we finally got back to the hide out, he was arguing with his dad about how he was helping me out with my hurt leg and dropped his phone (part of it was a lie but no one would know). I hopped to the table where my jacket was I pulled it out, to my great relief I only missed three calls, one from my dad, another from my mom, and one from someone else. There was a text message, but it was from Jaarin telling me that if I didn't come home with news about my new relationship with Ryo she would personally go up to him and tell him how I felt.
"Wow your sister sure wanted us to get together," Ryo said from behind me.
I jumped a little then blushed and said "Since when are you allowed to read my texts?"
He shrugged "Jen do you think it would be alright if I stayed over tonight? My dad's pretty mad, and he's even more mad 'cause he's still stuck at work." he said smiling at me with a bit of mischief.
"Let me call my dad and ask," I said. I dialed up my dad's number, Shiuchon was saying bye to Ai and Mako, and giving Impmon a bear hug, poor guy-er-digimon.
"Dad? It's me Jen." I said into the phone.
"Jen? About time you called I was getting worried."
"Sorry dad, its just I got carried away and forgot my phone in my jacket pocket, at the tables and we started playing hide-and-go-seek and well yeah."
"It's ok but next time I'm going to have to tape your phone to your head."
"Ha-ha very funny. Listen, Ryo's dad is still at work and he was wondering if it was alright if he stayed the night at the house. Is it ok?"
"Yeah, tell him of course. He's welcomed here when ever he wants. Hold on Jaarin!"
"Alright I'll tell him, does Jaarin want to talk to me?"
"Yes, well here's your sister."
"Jen You already know what I'm going to ask you so you might as well start talking!"
"Jaarin? Do you ever quit? You know Ryo read that text!"
"What! He did!? Oh no, he didn't-"
"Jaarin, your lucky I told him before he read it."
"Wait does that mean?"
"Yes Jaarin, we're going out." The next thing I knew Jaarin was screaming into the receiver. I had to hold the phone far, far away from my ear.
"Jaarin! Shut up!"
"Sorry! Sorry Dad! Sorry Mom! I thought I saw a bug! Anyway… Really!? Yea! My little brother has a boyfriend!! Yippee!"
"Yea, ok I get it your excited. Can I go now? I'm getting weird looks from Ruki…Yes you Ruki!" I never thought I'd be so happy to hear my sister blabber.
"Jen? Was that loud scream Jaarin?" Ryo asked. I nodded.
"Oh! Is that him!? Tell him I said Hi!!"
"Jeez. Jaarin you sound like your ab- never mind you just did." She had just gave a loud squeal. "Jaarin says hi," I told Ryo.
Ryo grinned and took the phone away from me, "Hello Jaarin! Don't worry your little brother's fine!" he tossed the phone back.
"Alright- Jaarin?" she was still squealing.
"Hello Mr. Lee! Thanks for letting me stay over!" Ryo greeted my dad as he helped me get into the car.
"Are you ok Jen? What happened?" my dad said as I got in. I heard Ryo get into the back.
"I kinda fell whiled we were playing and I hurt my ankle a bit, but I'm fine! Takato had a first-aid kit in the hide-out, in case he ever needed it with Guilmon, and he let me use it." I said. "Jeez Jen you need to be more careful, Hello Ryo, thank you for helping out my son." He said to me and Ryo.
"It's the least I could do! Your letting me stay over! Plus Jen here is like my best friend! So of course I'd help him!" Ryo said with a large grin. Shiuchon was already asleep in the back when we left the park, Lopmon was snoozing there as well. Terriermon was talking in his sleep, something about a slice of pizza and Monodromon was snoring a little to loud.
Whiled Ryo helped me get into the apartment, Dad carried Shiuchon and Lopmon. I had to wake up Terriermon so he wouldn't end up kicking me on the way in. When we got in the first person who was there to greet me was Jaarin. She saw Ryo and how he was holding me and almost squealed again if it wasn't for Terriermon, who knew that she would and jumped into her arms asking her for a bed time story.
After Ryo and I brushed our teeth and got changed, we headed to my room, but not before Jaarin had asked for a private talk, in which she made clear she didn't want to hear any strange noises coming from my room.
Blushingly I walked into my room and slammed the door, Ryo was laughing his head off on my bed. Terriermon was already asleep on the bed mumbling. Monodromon was practically sleep waking to a corner I had set up for him and crashed into it to sleep.
"Its not funny! She's so embarrassing!" I said glaring at the wall.
"Ahh…Sorry Jen! Its just as soon as I saw her walking up to us I knew she would say something." he said walking up to me. I was still glaring at the wall.
"Aww come on Jen! Give me a smile! Please!" he said patting my cheeks. I gave in and smiled. He pulled me in and kissed me. We both walked up to my bed and fell asleep in each others arms. I fell asleep with a smile on my face a long with some kisses.
A/N: YAY!! I finished!! So what did you guys think!? Please R&R!! No flames please this is my first story!