Author's note: I don't own digimon or the characters.

Sorry this took forever to upload but I have been busy. Most of it was written forever ago but I just no quickly wrapped things up. Some time has passed since the last chapter but Matt catches you up in his journal entry. This chapter takes place over the course of midterm week. The next chapter will be the wedding. I promise. Enjoy.

Dear Journal,

It has been awhile since I have written in you. It is now March and Izzy and Clair's wedding is extremely close. Their wedding is the day before Spring Break starts so after the wedding, we are all heading home. Tai will be coming to stay with my dad and I again. Hopefully he will work things over with his father over the break. It will be nice to hang out with are friends who don't go to school here. I will see them all at the wedding, but it will be nice nonetheless. Speaking of friends, Veronica is out of isolation and has renewed her friendship with Clair. They aren't best friends again yet but it is a start. They hang out a lot. Clair says that eventually Veronica will try to work her way back into the group and that we should let her despite the way she has treated us. I guess nobody deserves to have no friends so I guess we can do that. Mimi might be difficult to get on board. Sora says she got into a fight with Veronica and that is why she had to live with Sora and Gwen. Mimi is moving back in with Veronica today. Gwen has been dating her ex-girlfriend since Valentine's Day much to Sora's dislike. I agree with Sora. I don't trust Rosemary either. It is Gwen's life though and we have to respect her decisions. Tai has been studying for his midterm for his Introduction to Psychology class all day. He went over to Izzy and Clair's to get Clair's help since she is a psychology major. I have been using the peace and quiet to study for a chemistry midterm but I miss my man. We have become inseparable. I love him with every fiber of my being. Not much else is going on since everyone is just talking about the wedding and Spring Break plans. I'll write in you later.

Matt

Sora checked her email inbox while Gwen took a nap between reading her textbooks. She smiled when she saw an email from her new secret pen pal, Joe.

Dear Sora,

I hope you are doing well. I only have one more midterm to take so I am less frantic studying. You know how crazy I get with that. I want to get into a good medical school one day so I need to keep my grades up. I hope your studies are going well although I'm sure fashion textbooks aren't nearly as challenging as ones with all this medical terminology. I can't believe our little Izzy is getting married this month. LOL. I look forward to dancing with you at the wedding. I'm sure you will look divine in your bridesmaid gown even if you think pink isn't your color. You look amazing in everything. You just aren't aware of it. We will match because of my vest though. Also, we will probably be walking with each other down the isle since you are the maid of honor and I am the best man. Who would ever think that I would be walking down a church isle with my arm linked in Sora's? I sure didn't.

Love,

Joe

Sora smiled. She had been emailing Joe back and forth since he emailed her on Valentine's Day. It was different from the way she emailed her other friends though. The two of them had grown so close and now they started putting "Love" before their names at the end of the emails. She didn't know why she had become so drawn to Joe. After all the bad dates she had been on with less-than-desirable men, she found herself in love with how much of a gentleman Joe was and how thoughtful he was towards her. She hadn't been treated that well by a guy since Matt and she knew dating him again wasn't possible. She had grown to love him but was not yet in love with him. They weren't really an official couple but they talked to each other like one. Joe and Sora texted each other all the time and talked on the phone a lot. Sora clicked the "Reply" button on her email.

Dear Joe,

Thank you for the compliments. I still don't think pink is my color but it is comforting to know that you think I look good in it. Good luck with your midterm. I still have a couple left myself. Since my roommate, Gwen, and I have the same major, we are in a lot of the same classes and studying together really helps. The two of us have spent so much time together studying. At least it keeps her away from that awful girlfriend of hers. I don't trust that Rosemary girl as far as I can throw her. Mimi is moving out today as well. Her things are already packed and she is moving them back down the hall later. She is in the library studying for one of her midterms. Can you picture Mimi studying? Can you even picture Mimi in a library? LOL. I can't either. I want to go there just to take a picture. I will be happy when midterms are over and spring break begins. We get to kick off spring break in style though with the wedding. That is pretty nice. I am really looking forward to this wedding as well. I am glad that you are my date to the wedding, Joe. I look forward to seeing you in a pink vest. LOL.

Love,

Sora

"What psychologist is most associated with classical conditioning?"

"Uh…hold on…I know this…um…Skinner?"

Clair shook her head and turned the flash card around so Tai could see the answer. "It's Pavlov. He experimented with the dogs' salivation as a response to meat powder, remember? The smell of the meat powder made the dogs salivate and then Pavlov started ringing a bell before he introduced the smell. After awhile, just the bell made them salivate."

Tai laid his head on the table. "This is too much information. I am going to fail."

Clair put her hand on Tai's back. "No you won't, Tai. Not with my help."

Tai looked up at her. "Don't you have your own midterms?"

"I only have one more and I know I will ace it. Don't worry. It's not like I am locked up in the bedroom on my laptop like my soon-to-be husband is." Clair briefly looked at the closed door to Izzy's room. "He has been in there for hours. Why don't we take a break, Tai? I'll make some coffee." Clair got up and walked into the kitchen of the apartment.

"Great, I'll need all the energy I can get."

Later in the day, Mimi returned back to Sora and Gwen's room. The two girls were excited to have a distraction from their studying. "Well, girls, I guess I am moving back down the hall."

Sora got up and walked over to Mimi. She gave her friend a hug. "I'm going to miss having you as a roommate."

Gwen walked over to the two and also put her arms around Mimi. "Me too…even if your air mattress did take up the entire dorm floor." The three girls laughed and all took a portion of Mimi's things. They walked down the hall to Veronica's dorm. Mimi opened the door and saw Clair and Veronica sitting on Veronica's bed. The two girls greeted the incoming girls. Mimi was a little thrown to see Veronica greet her after their constant fighting that eventually resulted in her being temporarily kicked out of her own dorm room. The girls sat Mimi's things down. Clair told them all to sit down for a minute so the three girls all took a seat on Mimi's bed. Clair looked over at her former roommate.

"I think you should tell them what you just told me." Veronica looked scared and nervous but Clair put her arm around her to comfort her. "It's okay, I know it is hard but I really think it will help things."

Veronica nodded and looked at the three girls sitting on Mimi's bed. "I just told Clair about some things I have gone through over the past several months." The three girls looked at her with curiosity and compassion. Even Mimi was able to muster up genuine emotions. They could tell Veronica's news was painful for her to talk about by the expression painted on her face. "I guess I should start with what most of you already know. After that party we all went to in November at Bryan's apartment, I have distanced myself from everyone. I know you weren't here at the time, Mimi, but I'm sure you have heard about this party." Mimi nodded and Veronica continued. "Apparently there was a plan going on that was made up by Gwen and Sora to see if Tai had feelings for Matt despite him being presumably straight. Gwen used her cousin, Bryan, who is bisexual, to flirt with Matt to see if Tai got jealous. By the way Tai and Matt are always walking around campus holding hands, I'm sure we all know that Tai did indeed have feelings for Matt. I was unaware of this plan at the party and I was the only one other than Tai. Clair and Izzy were off together so I was hanging out with the rest of the gang. I thought Tai was straight when I first saw him earlier that night and I also thought he was attractive so I was flirting with him before and during the party. Once he saw Matt and Bryan kissing, he led me to go somewhere else in the apartment. He got a few drinks in his system as well as some very questionable punch and took me into the bedroom. We were making out and Tai wanted to push things farther. I wasn't comfortable with that. I liked Tai but I had just met him and I was a virgin. I didn't want to lose my virginity to a drunk college boy I met a few hours before. Needless to say, Tai and I had words and I left." Veronica took a deep breath and continued. "After that, Sora and Gwen were so fixated on Tai and Matt that they didn't seem to care about my problems and Clair was too hung up on her new boyfriend, Izzy. I didn't want to talk to Tai and I didn't really know Matt so I was basically alone. Once Tai and Matt became an item, everyone suddenly wanted to include me in things again, but by that time I was so bitter about the lack of attention I had received. I started to cut all of you out until I was alone. After a hallway confrontation with Tai, I snapped. I went to Bryan's apartment in hopes of dating him to get back at you all. I knew how much you all hated Bryan for kissing Matt when he agreed to help you all get Tai and Matt together. What happened next was not part of the plan." A tear went down Veronica's cheek and Clair grasped her tighter. Sora, Mimi, and Gwen were on the edge of their seats with anticipation of what had happened after she went to the apartment. They waited patiently as Veronica paused her story for a couple of minutes to collect herself. "Bryan pressured me to go with him to the bedroom and I went. He pushed me into having sex with him but I said no." More tears went down her face. "I said no again and again but he didn't listen. He did it anyway."

Mimi, Gwen, and Sora stared at her with their mouths open in shock. Tears started welling up in Sora's eyes as well. Gwen started to speak. "My cousin…raped you?" Veronica nodded and continued to cry. Everyone sat in silence until Veronica continued.

"He raped me and I stayed with him. I don't know why. He just had a control over me like that. Clair said dating a boy with a controlling personality is very dangerous and I now know why. He kept me away from my friends and made me hate you all even more. He told me never to talk to any of you. I was so alone that I wanted to be with him just so I would have somebody in my life. However, something else happened the night of the rape."

Sora, who was crying, decided to be the one to ask her. "What else happened that night?"

"I got pregnant." The three girls on Mimi's bed were in shock again and Clair held her friend tighter. "Bryan didn't put a condom on so the sex was unprotected. I'm lucky I didn't get any sexually transmitted diseases. I had that checked out so I know that I didn't. I found out I was pregnant over winter break. I knew I didn't want the baby but I never thought I would get an abortion. That is never something I thought I would do. Bryan basically forced me to get one though. I have been such a wreck since. I have gotten some depression medication to take and believe me, I have been taking it. It still doesn't make me feel like I didn't kill my unborn child. I believe in abortion being a woman's choice, but it just wasn't my choice. I stayed with Bryan after that too. We stayed together until Valentine's Day." She looked at Mimi and Mimi gulped. "I went to his apartment to find Mimi there in nothing but a revealing robe. She was drinking wine and claimed to just have had sex with Bryan."

Sora and Gwen looked over at their friend with anger and disgust. Gwen hit Mimi on the arm lightly. "Mimi! How could you do such an awful thing?"

Tears started forming in Mimi's eyes. "I didn't do it, Veronica. I didn't have sex with Bryan. That was a lie. I just wanted to pay you back for the hell you were putting me through as my roommate. You hated me from the day I moved in. I just wanted to make you suffer like you were making me."

Veronica sat with a confused look on her face. "What? Was Bryan even there like you said he was?"

"No."

"How did you get into the apartment then?"

"Bryan let me in. We talked and I basically got him to break up with you and then he went out to a bar I guess because he came back to the apartment drunk."

Veronica was still puzzled. "How did you get him to break up with me and me not even know anything about it?"

"I…I read your diary." Mimi looked down. "I'm so sorry. I know that is such an invasion of privacy and an all-around horrible thing to do. I really am sorry for doing that. I read that you had an abortion and I told Bryan that you never went through with it and that you were still pregnant."

Veronica's eyes practically popped out of her head. "What? How could you do such a thing?"

Mimi started crying and looked up at Veronica. "I'm so sorry. I know how wrong that was now." Clair looked at Mimi with anger and Sora and Gwen shook their heads in disgust. Mimi could tell that all her friends were extremely disappointed in her. "I know my apology probably isn't worth much and that you all probably hate me right now."

Sora stopped shaking her head and looked at her friend. "We don't hate you Mimi. We are just disappointed that you would go so low to hurt someone. I know you severely disliked Veronica and we were all upset at the way she was acting towards us but that doesn't constitute reading her diary and lying about topics as serious as abortion."

Mimi nodded solemnly and looked around the room at everyone. She ended with her eyes on Veronica. "I'm sorry to everyone for what I did and I hope you won't continue to dwell on the awful things I did. I especially want to express my sincerest apology to Veronica. I wish I could take everything back." Everyone was slightly shocked to hear Mimi speak with such honestly and humbleness.

Veronica felt the sincerity of what Mimi had just said and nodded. "I accept your apology. I did treat you horribly as well as the rest of you. I also wish I could take everything back."

Clair stopped all the apologies. "All of this is in the past. I think we should all move on and stop being so miserable. I don't want all this grief from my friends on my wedding day which is rapidly approaching. It's in a couple of days, you know." Everyone smiled at Clair lightening the mood.

Veronica looked at the three girls across from her. "Sora and Gwen, I would really like it if we could try to rebuild our friendship that we had at the beginning of the year, and, Mimi, I would like to build a new one with you since I never tried to be your friend in the past."

Gwen smiled. "Of course, Veronica. If we all knew what you were going through, we would have been easier on you. We did try to be your friends again despite not knowing your situation."

"I know that. I wish I would have let my pride stop interfering with what the smart thing to do was."

"Well, it doesn't matter now because we are all friends again." Gwen smiled at Veronica.

Sora walked over and gave Veronica a hug. "Gwen's right. Everything is back to the way it was at the beginning of the school year."

Veronica looked at Mimi. Mimi stood up. "Veronica, I would love to try being your friend. It is the least I can do after all the things I did."

"Thanks Mimi. I'm glad we are friends and I'm glad you are moving back in today."

"So am I. Also, there is something else I want to say. This is actually more so geared to Clair though."

Clair looked surprised. "Oh, go ahead Mimi."

"I know we have become friends over the past months but our friendship is nowhere close to the friendship that you and Veronica have. I know it would have been awkward before with Veronica not being friends again with Sora and Gwen, but now that has changed. I think Veronica should take my place in the wedding party. It only seems right to give up my spot as a bridesmaid."

Veronica answered before Clair could. "Mimi, I could never take that away from you. Besides, Clair's bridesmaids gowns are pink I hear. That's clearly your favorite color."

"It is, but I think that it is the right thing to do. I am honored at your request for me to be in your wedding, Clair. However, my heart is telling me that that spot belongs to Veronica."

Clair smiled. "Thank you, Mimi." She stood up and gave Mimi a hug. "You really are a sweet girl under all that makeup." The two girls laughed. She turned around. "How about it, V?"

"I…I don't know, Clair."

"Please."

Veronica smiled. "Okay."

Sora smiled at how far Veronica had come. "Veronica, if you like, you can take my spot as maid of honor since it was originally yours. I'm fine with only being a bridesmaid."

"No, Sora. I'll take the bridesmaid spot but I will not deprive you of being maid of honor. I can tell you are really excited about it from what Clair has told me. She says you are on the ball about all your maid of honor duties."

Sora smiled. "If that is what you want."

"It is. I am looking forward to being your bridesmaid, Clair."

"So am I, V."

Sora's eyes bugged out of her head. "Oh my God! The wedding is coming up in less than a week and Mimi's bridesmaid gown needs to be altered with Veronica's measurements! We need to call Yolei ASAP!"

Everyone started laughing. Clair looked at Veronica. "I told you she was on the ball."

Gwen handed the professor her midterm and exited her history class. It was the only class she didn't share with Sora this semester. It was her last midterm and she was ecstatic. Tomorrow she would be packing up and heading home for spring break which would be kicking off with the wedding of Clair and Izzy in just two days. She hurried back to her dorm and dropped off her backpack. She changed into more becoming clothes since her current outfit was only meant to be comfortable and not overly-appealing. She checked her hair and makeup and headed over to Rosemary's dorm room. Her girlfriend had finished her last midterm the day before. She knocked on her girlfriend's dorm. Nobody answered so she knocked again. She assumed that Rosemary wasn't there so started to turn away and leave. She paused. She heard someone talking inside the dorm. She pressed her ear up against the door to listen more intently on what was being said. Her attempt was unsuccessful as she could not make out what any of the words were. She did hear two distinct voices though. They were both female and she recognized one as Rosemary's. She knocked again. "Rose? Are you in there? It's me." Nothing but silence followed her voice. She suddenly realized that Rosemary had given her a spare key to her dorm room so that she could let herself in if she needed to. She hadn't used it yet but she felt that something bad was happening and needed to figure out what. She dug through her purse until she found the key at the bottom. She put it into the lock and opened the door. She looked up and gasped. Rosemary was putting her shirt back as was a girl who was sitting in the bed next to Rosemary. Gwen had no idea who the girl was but she was able to figure out what had just happened. Gwen stepped into the dorm and slammed the door behind her. "What the fuck did I just walk into?"

Rosemary looked down. "Gwen…I…we…"

"Just own up to it Rose! Be honest this time!"

"This is Courtney." She motioned her hand to the girl sitting beside her. "She is an old friend of mine who goes here and she wanted to hang out before spring break started. I said yes and we came here."

"And…."

"One thing kind of led to another." She looked up at Gwen. "I don't know what happened, Gwen. I am so sorry. We just kind of caught in the heat of the moment. We used to date and some of the passion was still there and before I knew it we were making out on my bed. Then the clothes started coming off and…"

"And you had sex with another girl while we were together…again. You know what? Sora was so right about you. She said that you would cheat on me again and you did." Tears started going down her face and she shook her head. "I should have seen this coming. I don't know why I didn't. I guess I was too blinded by love yet again."

Rosemary stood up. "Gwen, can we talk about this later?"

Gwen looked at her girlfriend. "No, we can't. We're over. I mean it this time. I don't want to ever see your backstabbing face ever again." She took the key to Rosemary's dorm that she had in her hand and threw it at Rosemary. It hit her on the cheek hard. Gwen turned around and stormed out of the dorm room crying.

Tai walked into his dorm room to see his boyfriend lying in bed playing his guitar.

"Hey, Tai. How was your last midterm?"

"Not bad, Yama. I don't think I failed it."

"Well, that's a good sign." Tai took off his shoes and crawled into bed next to Matt and gave his boyfriend a hug. "Tai?"

"Yes my love?"

"Will you be staying with my father and I over spring break?"

"Yes, if that it okay with the two of you."

"It is. My dad said that you could stay with us as long as you need."

"That is very kind of him."

"I agree. Tai, I really want you to try to work things out with your father over the break."

"I know you do, Yama. I promise that I will try. Once the wedding is over, that is at the top of my priority list."

"Good."

Tai looked at Matt. "I love how you care so much about me." Matt smiled at him and gave his boyfriend a kiss.

"I can't believe it is finally time for the wedding."

"I know. It seems like we have been waiting for it forever. The wedding is happening in two days and then there is nothing but spring break relaxation for a week."

Matt nodded. "It's finally time all right."

TO BE CONTINUED…