'We have mail!' Announced Hawkwmon as he entered the kitchen with a handful of envelopes.
'Ooo what is it this time? Oh gosh, did any of my orders arrive?' Asked Yolei crowding around Hawkmon.
'Bills, bills, oh a letter for Ken'.
'I bet it's from Davis' Yolei gibed.
'...it ...is' said Ken somewhat meekly.
'It all well and good that you too are friends again, but I don't know why he never sends me any letters, I mean, we only saved the digital world together, no big deal right Yolei said sarcastically. I mean, I know we weren't as close as you and but the occasional 'hi Yolei' or 'how ya going yolster' would be nice, I mean, you've been talking to him for three months, he has barely tried to reach out to the rest of us, me and Kari were talking about it the other day'.
'Yolster? Who calls you Yolster?' Ken chuckled.
'Well he could, why do you have to be the only digidestined that he wants to talk to'.
'Ken stopped and touched his chin with his fingertip thoughtfully 'You know, I'm not sure...maybe he's not sure that the rest of you forgive him, I haven't asked him about it'.
'Oh yeah. Don't forget Kari and I are having a girls night tonight, you're still good to watch the kids after work right?'
'Yeah'.
'Ok kids, I think its time for bed decided Ken as the movie they were watching came to an end.
'But dad! come on, its not that late' begged Betty.
'You have to get up early tomorrow, I already let you both stay up an extra half hour and your mother told me to have you in bed at 9'.
'Fiiiine' said Noah in an unenthused tone.
Betty was muttering something under her breath in disagreement as both children walked towards their bedrooms.
Ken sighed as he reclined on the couch, it had been such an exhausting day but he was also quietly excited.
Davis had asked him if he wanted to talk on web cam after he got the kids to sleep, he was excited but also nervous for some reason. Like he had butterflies in his stomach. Maybe it was because they had never done this before.
Yawning as he stood up, Ken grabbed his laptop and walked into his empty bedroom, shutting the door behind him.
He sat down on the bed and opened the laptop, he began fixing his hair with his fingers then, catching a glance of his reflection he felt a bit ridiculous and stopped.
"Hey :) just got them to bed" typed Ken.
"Great, wasn't too much trouble?" His friend sent back.
Before ken had finished typing his response a video call from Davis came up and he answered it.
'...hi' said Ken cautiously.
'Hey! How ya going Ken?' Said Davis sounding somewat like an excited child.
'Oh, pretty good...I've been watching the kids all night, they wanted to watch mean girls, so we were doing that'.
'Wow, that's an old movie for them'.
'Don't say that, you'll make me feel old' Ken giggled.
'Sorry' Davis said as he smirked. 'Hey...are you wearing a bath robe?'
Ken self consciously looked down at the navy blue, white pin striped fuzzy robe that he was wrapped in.
'...its comfy...yolei bought it for me...' Ken said quietly as a blush grew over his face.
'Haha you're such a dad' laughed Davis.
'Why?'.
'Because only dads wear bath robes'.
'But what about that number you've got on' Ken playfully jabbed.
'What!? What's wrong with it!?' Davis exclaimed as he looked down at his matching shirt and pants patterned with kangaroos and surf boards.
'Do you buy all your pajamas from a souvineer store?'
'...maybe'
They both laughed, Ken felt less nervous already, however, the butterflies in his stomach hadn't dissapeared, this feeling confused him, but he didn't pay attention to it.
'You know, this almost feels like that night at my house, its amazing that we can be so far apart and still hang out like this'.
'Technology sure is amazing' Ken said then paused for a moment.
'It really meant a lot me that you were so honest with me that night, it must have been very hard' Ken added.
'Yeah...' Davis said embarrassedly. 'But in a way it was less hard than keeping it a secret for so long'.
'You know... Your gonna think this sounds dumb' Davis began. 'But I've been thinking about why I was so obsessed with you for so long. Like, if I knew it was never going to happen why did I keep liking you.'
'Remember when we were 14, that day that we went to lunaworld together?' Davis asked.
'That was that theme park that opened up wasn't it?'
'Yeah, thats it'.
'But remember how on that day you told me how you thought you might be bi because you had a crush on your neighbor, what was his name...Saed?
'Yes...' Said ken looking down shyly, he hadn't even thought about that day, or Saed for that matter since then.
'But then...after your dad found out...when he read your diary...you just never brought it up again, you pretended it never happened'.
'I never got to see Saed again either' said Ken solemnly.
'Then, you get with yolei almost right after'.
'I wish that I had been brave enough to tell you that I was gay back then, so that you didn't have to feel as alone, instead of pretending to like Kari'.
'I was ok' Ken replied. 'I think maybe me deciding to go on a date with her initally was to show my dad that i was straight, but when i got to know her better i really did fall in love with her'.
'I know that now, but back then...i think i convinced myself that you must like me too, you just hadnt realised it yet because you were so caught up in making your dad happy. I would tell myself that one day you would realise and you would break up with Yolei, i was sure of it, even when you were engaged i kept telling myself that you didnt actually want to get married. But then when the wedding was a week away, i think thats when the fantasy really fell apart.'
'I guess I wanted to say I'm sorry for being such a weirdo, it was wrong of me to assume I knew your feelings better than you did. i won't ever do that again' Davis added.
'That's ok, you've clearly grown up a lot since then'.
'Yeah deffs, I'm so glad that I don't have any feelings for you at all any more so we can be friends again and just talk about anything like this y'know'.
'...Yeah' Ken said as he felt a lump form in his throat.
Ken could feel himself begin to shake, he knew that he needed to say goodbye before Davis noticed.
'Hey...I think I just heard Bobby get up, I should go'.
'Ok , that sucks, well it was great talking to you'.
'Bye!' Ken blurted out hastily as he shut the computer and tears formed in his eyes.
'Why am I crying? It doesn't make sense'.
Ken hunched over and put his face in his hands.
'I don't understand' he said out loud as tears flowed.
After a few minutes Ken calmed himself down, but then he heard a familiar voice on the other side of the room.
'Ken, why did Davis say that he was in love with you?'