Chapter 5: Dairy

A/N: This was inspired by a much weaker story I was writing, and then I realized that I could use it to salvage this story. Also, the last chapter is in desperate need of editing... So is the first one. : |

9:30 PM, the same day:

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Kari's POV:

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I sat down at the desk in the room, and did something very mundane for me: I opened my dairy to the next page.

July 6

Somehow, writing this seemed too normal, for such an eventful day. But, to much of the rest of the world, this day had only was July 6th. It wasn't the day that everything changed. I continued:

Today, everything changed.

"A fair analysis" I muttered to myself, as I continued on the same line.

My parents disappeared, T.K's mother disappeared, and his father was framed with kidnapping her. T.K and I are now boyfriend and girlfriend. I think we may be going a little to fast. I'll have to talk to him about that.

I laughed slightly. Ignoring the first two sentences, this could have been seen as a completely ordinary journal entry for a fifteen year old girl.

To be honest, everything has gone to fast, though, so it's seemed kind of natural. I mean, in one day, I went from being a normal girl to being an orphan, taken in by the older brother of my boyfriend... who happens to be a rock star! And who happens to be an asshole, or at least according to T.K. Actually, T.K called him a 'jerk', not an asshole, but that's beside the point. T.K refuses to tell me why he says that, except that Matt is somehow 'mistreating Sora', although I can already attest to the fact that Matt has a weird sense of humor.

Which reminds me of something strange that T.K said. When I said, "If you were mistreating me, I'd want Sora to get involved." He claimed that this was only because he's not. I'm not quite sure what he means, but T.K says he's not beating her or anything. I trust him... and I know he wouldn't let something like that slide anyway... Or, at least, I hope he wouldn't.

And then, there's T.K. He's trying to act happy, but it's clear he's not. He's been spacy and he's snapped a lot since his parents went missing... I kinda want the T.K who I knew at the beginning of the day back... The one who would just hold me when I cried. He's changed, and I don't really like it. Then again, I'm sure he'll change back. He's just stressed.

And really, I'm stressed and spacy too. I just can't get my bearings, it's as if all my dreams have come true at once, but also my worst nightmare's have, too.

And then, I stopped writing, because I was about to start crying, and closed the dairy, and walked downstairs, knowing that I wouldn't be able to sleep any time soon.

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T.K's POV:

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I heard footsteps going down the stairs, and I recognized them instantly. If I'd had any hope of sleeping, or if I'd thought that Kari wasn't in desperate need of comforting, I might have stayed in bed, especially, because I was sure that Matt would be unhappy if he saw me and Kari together at this time of night. Then again, Matt was over at Sora's, and I had the feeling that he wasn't coming back until tomorrow morning.

So, I got up, dressed in my pajamas, and walked down the stairs.

When I saw her, I knew I'd made the right choice to come downstairs.

She was sitting on the couch, crying, or at least she had been. She was clearly trying to hide it when I reached the bottom of the stairs, but her eyes gave her away, red on red as they were the first time I'd seen her today.

"Kari... You can't lie to me. So don't try. I know your crying." I said, sitting down next to her.

"That's an interesting way of saying that." She replied.

"How should I have said it?"

"I don't know... You really didn't need to say anything at all, you know."

"True... True." I said, smiling gently at her.

She smiled back, and then abruptly frowned.

"Takeru, I want to talk to you about something."

"Yes?"

"We're going a little too fast for me... You understand, right?"

"Yeah... Alright, I understand."

"Thanks." She said, kissing me on the cheek.

"No problem... Feel vaguely better?"

"Vaguely." She said, with a weak smile.

"Alright... I'm going to try to sleep, you should probably do the same." I said, standing up.

"Yeah." She said, doing the same.

I kissed her cheek, and we walked up the stairs, closely behind one another, before we parted and went to our separate rooms for the night.

A/N: Way to short, but oh well. At least it's progress, right?