Chapter 8
The next morning T.k. woke up before Kari did. "She's adorable when she sleeps." He looked at the clock, 10:30am. He knew Kari had to meet up with the other women at noon, but decided to surprise her. T.k. moved closer to Kari and placed a soft kiss on her cheek. He slowly kissed a path along until he reached her lips. Kari had woken up just before he kissed her lips. She reacted and turned it into a long passionate kiss. T.k. wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Good morning." He smiled.
"I'd say." She giggled. T.k. took that as a sign and dove in to another long passionate kiss. "This went better than I thought it would." T.k. freed Kari from his grasp and helped her out of bed.
"Good morning." Kari finally returned.
"Are you hungry? Its 11:00am, you have to meet the girls at noon."
"Yeah, if I wasn't before I woke up I am now." Kari grabbed a pair of jeans and an old shirt and changed in the bathroom while T.k. changed into his shorts and Basket Ball T-shirt.
"Beautiful as always." T.k. took Kari's hand and they walked down to breakfast.
"There you two are!" Tai said when they entered the room.
"Sorry, Tai, I let her sleep in a bit today."
"Sleeping well, Kari?" Asked Izzy. Kari sat down with a plate of fruit and yogurt.
"Sure am. How about you?"
"When Tentomon isn't emailing my D-3. He wants to make sure I'm having fun. I have to say, I miss the little guy. I'm thinking about making a trip to the Digital World when we get back."
"That's a great idea! Can I come, Izzy?" Cody asked.
"Of course, we can all go." Izzy smiled.
"T.k. at noon we need to go pick up something." Said Ken. T.k. nodded.
Kari and Yolei looked at each other skeptical.
"Pick up what… Ken?" Yolei said.
"You'll find out later. I promise." He said kissing Yolei softly.
Mimi had just finished her breakfast. "Kari, Yolei, Sora- I'm going to start laying things out and setting up. Bring your dresses and shoes when you finish." She stood up to leave, "Oh, wait I forgot something!" She quickly hugged Tai and ran off.
"Have fun with that, Sora." Matt teased.
"Joe are you going?" T.k. asked.
"Might as well. Gomamon told me he's going to make sure I go. I'm not sure how he's going to do that, but after seeing what he can do in the Digital World I'm not going to underestimate him."
The rest of the group finished breakfast and said their good byes for the next few hours.
"Text me if you need anything, Kari. I'll be in the room or with Ken after we go check on some things."
"I will. But expect text mesages even if I don't need anything."
"See you at 5:00 for dinner." Kari nodded, hugged T.k. and waited for Yolei.
"Well, here we go. Another few hours of Mimi messing with my hair, she does good work but it hurts."
"I'm sure it's going to look wonderful, Yolei. Just hang in there."
"Easy for you to say. You wake up with perfect hair." Ken laughed and kissed Yolei's cheek.
"Come on Yolei!" Yelled Kari. Yolei ran to her friend and they skipped off to get their wardrobes.
Meanwhile, Ken and T.k. ran off to the flower shop from yesterday.
"I'm glad it's not raining this time. I had to go in the bathroom and use a hair dryer to dry my clothes so Kari wouldn't find out I left." T.k. said.
"Luckily, Yolei was so tired she didn't notice mine." They arrived at the flower shop. The same girl was at the register from yesterday.
"Hey you two, did your girlfriends like what you chose?"
"We haven't given them the presents yet." Ken replied. The cashier rung up the orders and went to the back to get the corsages. They paid and walked back to the condo to put them in a safe spot.
Matt and Tai were figuring out where to get last minute corsages while Izzy, Joe, and Cody played mind games to keep their brains flowing. The girls were already starting to work on their evening look. Mimi started with Yolei's hair.
Yolei sat in a chair Mimi set up facing the TV. Kari and Sora were flipping through the channels looking for anything to watch. They finally settled on an old movie they watched as children. Kari got her cell phone out and sent T.k. a message:
Can't wait for tonight.
After an hour of hair pulling, styling, and lots of hair spray Mimi had styled Yolei's hair into fancy styled bun with locks of her hair elegantly hanging down on her neck and a couple in her face. This time it was Sora's turn. Sora didn't take too long. Mimi straightened her hair, put in hairclips, and sprayed her hair with glitter.
Next was Kari. Kari's also didn't take long. Mimi started straightening her hair.
"Hmm Kari, your hair needs a sparkly hairclip. Do you have one?"
"No." She replied. Mimi sighed and looked through her arsenal of hair products and pieces. Nothing called out to her for Kari's hair.
"It's okay Mimi. I can just use the one I always use. I'm sure it won't be that big of a deal." Kari clipped in her hair clip. "See, its fine."
Mimi took the next hour working on her own hair. She straightened it to make it easier to curl up then gave herself a head full of Shirley Temple curls. Once they all had their hair ready it was time to get in their dresses and accessorize. Mimi was determined to make everyone look prettier and more glamorous than ever before. Kari looked at the clock once they were done.
"Oh no! It's 4:50! I have to meet T.k. in ten minutes!" Kari ran over to her purple heels and slipped them on. "See you at the dance!" She yelled running out of the room.
"She is so not use to having a boyfriend. She hasn't learned guys expect you to be fashionably late." Said Mimi.
Kari walked down to the room and opened the door. "T.k?... Where is he?" Kari got out her phone and sent T.k a message:
Where are you? I'm in the room.
He replied a minute later:
Stay there. I have something for you.
Kari starred at the text message. "Something for me?" T.k walked in the room all dressed in his formal attire.
"Kari!" He ran up to her and wrapped his strong arms around her waist. "You look beautiful. I have something for you though." T.k walked over to his bag and pulled out a small box wrapped with a bow. "Here, open it."
"You didn't have to…"
"I wanted to. Open it." He smiled putting the box in her hands. Kari pulled the bow undone and opened the box.
"Wow. It's beautiful. Thank you, Tk. Mimi wanted to put something in my hair. She took her normal red one out and fixed the purple hair in its place.
"And of course the corsage." Tk took her wrist and slipped it on. Kari smiled. The couple left the room and walked down to dinner.
The rest of the group was already downstairs wearing their formal clothes. "Hey look, there they are!" Said Joe pointing to the top of the stairs. T.k and Kari waved and gracefully descended down the stairs like a Prince and Princess arriving at a ball.
"Nice entrance T.J, can we go already?!" Davis yelled walking off.
"Hey, everyone. Wow, we all sure clean up nice. What's his problem?" T.k said pointing towards Davis.
"He's probably mad that he couldn't take Kari to the dance." Sora replied.
"Oh… Well too bad. He can't beat me." T.k smiled. Kari laughed at the situation as the group walked to the ball room together.
It was decorated like a fancy ball fit for royalty. There were sparkly lights hung around the room, a buffet table full of deserts, decorated tables, and in the middle a huge dance floor. The DJ stand was on a decorated stage. The group was amazed at the scene they were gazing upon. Tai, Matt, and Davis ran to stuff their faces at the desert table with their dates standing behind them amazement.
"Of course they run for the food." Mimi said.
Ken had already led Yolei out to the dance floor. Izzy, Joe, and Cody had chosen a table to sit down and chat at. A slow song Tk recognized from the radio started to play.
"May I have this dance?" T.k offered his hand to Kari. Kari blushed and took his hand. Together they walked out to the center of the floor and started dancing.
"Tai, we're dancing!" Mimi pulled Tai away from the cake he was eating.
"You too, Matt!" Davis joined Izzy, Joe, and Cody.
"Why did you guys come if you aren't going to dance?" He asked.
"I have to be here in case anyone sprains an ankle or something." Said Joe.
"Tentomon told me to ask a girl to dance. I did take lessons a few years back. Mom wanted me to learn ballroom. She said 'A true Gentleman learns to ballroom dance.'" Izzy added. Cody nodded.
"I don't know how to dance… But everyone else is here. I knew I would still have a good time." Cody said.
A few songs later T.k and Kari came to join the others at the table. T.k walked to the desert table for snacks for Kari and himself.
"Kari, would you like to dance?" Davis asked once T.k was gone.
"No thank you. I promised to only dance with T.k tonight." Davis walked away out of jealousy.
The rest of the night Mimi, Yoei, Kari, and Sora kept their dates dancing. Izzy eventually got up and asked a girl standing by herself to dance. When the fast songs came on the group got together and danced like no one was watching, having more fun than they had ever had. Matt, Sora, Tai, Mimi, Joe, Cody, and Davis left early after getting tired from all the dancing.
At the end only T.k, Kari, Ken, Yolei, and surprisingly Izzy were left at the dance. It was time for the last song, a slow romantic ballad. The two couples and Izzy with the same girl from earlier danced until the last note was done. T.k softly tilted Kari's chin up and kissed her for a perfect ending to a perfect night.
Izzy thanked the girl he had been dancing with and they exchanged email addresses. Just as he was going to shake her hand she quickly kissed Izzy and ran away. He blushed in total confusion. Ken and Yolei saw the whole thing.
"So Izzy, how was the kiss?" Yolei taunted.
"…Prodigious…" A second later he snapped back into reality with his eye popping out. "Uh… what I meant was… It was…I…" T.k and Kari walked up to join them.
"What's going on?" Kari asked.
"Izzy got kissed." Yolei teased. Ken, Kari, and Tk laughed at Izzy's embarrassment.
"I bet Tentomon will be happy to hear that one." Ken replied.
"I'm sure Patamon won't mind passing along the information."
"Ha Ha, very funny, guys."
"Did you get her number?" Yolei asked.
"No… but I did get her email address." Izzy smiled.
"Izzy's got a girlfriend. Izzy's got a girlfriend." Sang the group walking back up to their rooms.
They each said their good nights to one another and departed to their rooms. After dancing so much they were all too tired to go up to the after party that Tai, Matt, Yolei, and Sora were at. Instead, Kari and T.k found a movie on tv a fell asleep with their arms wrapped around each other.