Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Time and Love Again ❯ Kisses, More Classrooms, and Best Friends ( Chapter 2 )

TriceroDragon: Well I'm glad everyone likes where this is going so far, so I decided to continue. There's plenty of dialogue here. Also its 8:00 in the morning, I've been eating sugary snacks and I'm dead bored. So read and Review please.

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Time and Love Again

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Darren snickered from down the hallway. Everyone was focused on the classroom where the runaway reptile had been herded. But as far as Darren could see, what they didn't know wouldn't hurt them in this situation.

Meanwhile, inside the classroom, Izumi felt as if Takuya was grilling her. A string of questions to her, with another coming as soon as one was answered; she considered for a moment to run away, but if she was to achieve what she'd worked so hard for, she'd have to endure it.

"Was it you in the bushes that day?" he asked. "Yes" she replied shamefacedly. "Why did you stay?" was the next question. "I wanted to make sure you were alright" was the answer. "You could have asked Davis the next day. Why did you really stay?" he asked again. "To tell the truth I don't really know" she answered. "Don't give me that" he said. "One more time, why did you stay" he asked a third time. "Can we move on?" she asked. "Okay whatever. There is, however, one last question. Why did you kiss me? Not that I didn't like it" he said. Izumi didn't know whether to be embarrassed or glad, so she gave a twisted sort of grin. "Because I like you" she said plainly. Now it was Takuya's turn to be emotionally confused; not knowing whether to be taken aback, or happy. He asked one last question. "Aren't you involved with Kouji?" the answer came like the crack of a whip. "No, it was just a deception to make you jealous. I've liked you the whole time" she said very openly.

He was very surprised at this. Maybe it was the heat of the moment, maybe it was something else altogether, but it happened. He stood up, and kissed her, fervently, and she grabbed his cap and put it, backwards, on her head. He pulled her closer to him. The kiss was broken. He grabbed the small cage in which he'd trapped the snake and walked, teetering a little bit as if disoriented, out of the room.

She decided that it was best she left too. She picked up her satchel, and stumbled a bit to the other door, on the other side of which she found her friend waiting for her. "Looks like the confession went well" he said. "How'd you know what went on?" she asked. "Ear to the door, I can't help it, I'm a born eavesdropper" he replied in his usual imperturbable tone. "Oh ho ho, hot stuff. From what's currently residing on your head, and knowing where its previous residence was, I think I know what went on, but don't worry, your secret's safe with me as long as you smooth out your hair, it looks like you were getting freaky if ya know what I mean" he said. She pulled a small comb from her satchel and sped off for the ladies room.

No one seemed to notice his missing cap for the rest of the day, and for this he was glad. If anyone found out what had happened, awkward questions would be asked, and uncomfortable answers would have to be given.

Later on in the meantime, with Izumi and Darren at her house; "You loove him!" he taunted. "So?" was her reply. "You admit it? Chica, you have gone over your heels haven't you?" he said. "Stop calling me Chica, you know I don't like it. And so what if I have gone head over heels? He's a great guy and if I don't do something, some other girl'll snatch him up" she said animatedly. "Okay, okay, I get the point. But seeing as how you're hearing wedding bells, I don't suppose you can help me out with my current dating dry spell?" he asked. "Darren, I've known you since second grade, and if this is a dating dry spell for you, then I'm a horny toad. You've never had a date in your life!" she said. "Hey I didn't ask for a libido update or info on your sexual preferences!" he laughed. She threw a pillow at him in mock annoyance. He caught it and kept chuckling. They'd been best friends for, like, ever but sometimes he still got on her nerves. "You know exactly what I meant you pestilence!" she mock yelled, throwing another pillow at him.

Meanwhile, at Takuya's house, Davis was munching eagerly on a cheeseburger, while Takuya outlined his problems. "It was insane, we walked to her house, and then she kissed me and went inside..." he said. "Um hum" Davis half-said, half-chewed. "...Then, this afternoon, when I was catching that snake, I kissed her in the classroom!" he finished. Davis spat out the hunk of cheeseburger he'd been chewing, Takuya backed up to avoid being showered with the saliva that accompanied the half-chewed burger lump. "You what?" Davis said, his eyes gleaming. "I kissed her" Takuya said. "On the cheek, right?" Davis said, expecting an immediate Yes, but the answer he got surprised him. "No, on the lips" Takuya answered. "You've got to be kidding me!" said Davis, eyes wide and staring. Takuya punched him in the arm. "You don't think I can kiss a girl on the lips?" he said. "Uh... I refuse to answer on grounds it may incriminate me?" he said. "Try again" "Um... I plead the fifth?" he tried. "Ah screw it" he said at last, punching Takuya in the arm. "So you wanna fight eh," he started "I'll give you a fight!" they punched and wrestled all over the basement floor, Takuya being victorious by pinning Davis to the floor and standing on top of him. "Gerroff me, you big galumphing bear" he said, squirming. As he tried to escape, he remembered something. Takuya had not been wearing his hat since they left the school. "Hey Takster, where's your hat?" Davis asked. Takuya leapt off of him and grinned sheepishly, his hand behind his head. "It's uh, in the wash" he lied. "No it's not! Your mom just came like 20 minutes ago and emptied the machine. Hang on a sec, you were wearing your hat when you went in to get the snake. But you weren't wearing it when you came out..." Davis said. "I know what happened! While you were kissing, your little girlfriend there took a souvenir" Takuya scowled. Davis was always good at figuring things out, even if he didn't show it in school.