Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Digital Trilogy - Episode 2 - Complexity of Life ❯ Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Later that same evening, Kovin and Ozlimon were on his couch, which had been restored to order, watching TV. Kovin had acquired a satellite dish so he could watch some North American programs in English. They were watching a rerun of an old Star Trek episode, when his phone rang.

"Hello, Kovin speaking." He said.

"Kovin, it's Tai. You should be warned that TK is on his way to your place, with some lethal intention. He thinks you're the reason Kari broke up with him."

"What? Kari broke up with him? Why would she... oh yeah, right." Kovin tried to gracefully cover that little fact, but there was no way to. "Why does TK think I'm responsible?"

"Well, TK came over, and Kari said they needed to talk, and they went into the bedroom. I couldn't help but hear them with my ear on the door, she said she was with someone else. We already know she spent the whole day at your place. And she said she didn't want to be still going out with him if she didn't love him anymore. TK flipped. Just ran out of here saying he was going to kill you." Kovin was absorbing all the information. "Come to think of it, I'm not happy either. She's fifteen and you're like twenty!"

"Tai, calm down. I won't explain, but she can. Ask her who it is." Tai could be heard talking to Kari in the room with him.

"She says it's none of our business."

"OK then Tai, ask her if it was me." Again, Tai was asking Kari the question.

"OK, she says it wasn't you. She kind of laughed at that."

"One more question, Tai. Ask her if it's a guy."

"What do you mean, 'if it's a guy'?"

"Ask her." A long pause followed.

"Uh, shit man. Sorry. Seems I have a different kind of situation over here. I'll call you later." The phone at the other end clicked. Kovin smiled and hung up his. Just then he heard horrendous pounding on his door. Kovin got up, stood by the door, wrapped his hand around the handle of something in his closet, and opened the door. TK came bursting in.

"You are dead! I trusted you!" TK swung his right fist with all he could, but Kovin tripped him coming through the door. Kovin close the door behind him as TK got to his feet. He made to attack again but stopped due to the katana blade on his neck. Kovin knew this could calm him down, quick.

"What say we have a little chat about this, get some details sorted out, make sure we're all on the same page; and then you can try to kill me again. But I get to use this if you try." TK said nothing, and did nothing. Just starred daggers at Kovin. "You're a sensible kid, we can talk ok?"

TK spoke slowly and quietly so the blade would not cut him. "Alright."

Kovin moved the blade, sheathed it, and indicated the kitchen table. "First of all, TK, are you a virgin?" Kovin asked. The question caught TK completely off guard. That was not the sentence he was expecting. Before his better judgment could respond, he shook his head to indicate he wasn't. "Alright then, I assume that Kari is the only girl you've ever been with?" Again, TK was dumbfounded. But he was curious as to where this line of questions was going, so he decided to play along. He nodded his head, indicating Kari was the only girl he'd physically been with. Kovin smiled.

"TK, Kari left my apartment forty-five minutes ago, and Kelryn thirty minutes ago." TK didn't get it. "I was at work all day." TK still didn't get it. "TK, take a very deep breath in through your nose." TK got it, but he got the wrong thing.

"You bastard! That's my girlfriend and you knew it!" TK was on his feet with homicidal rage again. And again, the katana found its way to TK's neck.

"TK, you have to calm down. I know how much you love her. I'm not going to connect the dots for you, but I will state the facts, as we know them. One, I was at work all day. Two, Kelryn and Kari were both here all day." TK's eyes were darting back and forth, and his lips were moving subconsciously, a sure sign that his brain was working its hardest to compile all the facts into a solution. TK looked extremely confused and frustrated. Then suddenly, his face went white, and he stared at Kovin with huge frightened eyes.

"Oh, my god." He said slowly.

"Good boy, I knew you could get it." TK sat down at the table again. Just staring off into space. Kovin waved his hand in front of TK's face, trying to get his attention. "Come on, you need some air."

* * *

Kovin had taken TK out walking the streets down toward the waterfront. Toward the abandoned pier he liked to go to for thinking. TK was a zombie. Kovin had to stop him from walking into traffic three times. Patamon was trying to get TK to talk, but he just wouldn't respond. After twenty minutes, they arrived. TK was able to navigate the three-meter slope down to the pier surface. Remarkably easy despite the fact that it was now the pitch black of night. Kovin looked around, and discovered none of the lights on the two old warehouses were on. The place was bathed in a dark glow, caused by the bright lights of Tokyo reflecting off the low clouds. The whole place was wet from a recent rain. Last time Kovin was here the place looked like the skeletal remains of a long dead industry, now with the darkness and fresh rain, it looked like some undead body, that could grow into a monster at any moment. Still, Kovin found it relaxing to be here. TK was still staring off into space.

"TK, what are you thinking about?" Kovin asked, knowing the answer.

"I can't stop thinking about her." He said in a dazed voice.

Kovin drew from his sides two fifty-centimetre long glow sticks. The kind you had to crack and shake, to get them to work. Kovin held them both in one hand, held them high above his head, and brought them crashing down on top of TK's hat with an audible 'whack'.

"OW! What was that for?" He yelled, rubbing his head.

"Two reasons, first these things have to be broken to work, and second were you thinking about Kari at that moment?"

"Ahh, no." He said, checking his head for blood, there wasn't any.

"You also needed a trip back to reality; here." Kovin handed TK one of the glow sticks, and they started walking. "I know you must be hurting, man. I am too. Let me tell you something about Kelryn. I love her, a lot. Same as you love Kari. But there's another piece here, Kelryn and I tell each other everything, good or bad. I already knew about her and Kari. I also know that it won't last. I know the reason they both got together. And finally, I know Kelryn lied to me when she told me the reason she got together with Kari, and what the real reason is." TK stared at him, waiting for him to connect the dots, or at least spell it out again.

"TK, Kari will be back with you in less than two weeks. If you believe me, you have to act like you don't. Act like Kari's gone forever, so the situation can be played out."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean I know more than you need to. And I want to help. Getting Kari and Kelryn apart is good for both of us. And I'm telling you that all we have to do is act like them being together is a permanent thing."

"But they're lesbians now. We can't do anything." Kovin snickered.

"TK, homosexuality is not a communicable disease, or a permanent condition. Just let them have they're thing for now, and it will work out."

TK did not believe him. He knew Kari was gone for good, and he still loved her. But he also had to deal with something that no guy in the world wants, the humiliation of your girlfriend leaving you for another girl.