Wings of Hope

Wow, even the sound of his voice was starting to get his blood boiling. This guy really doesn’t know when to shut up? Like, seriously, his back was to him, and he was still talking? Annoying. A part of him wanted to be friends with him. He wanted to have some sort of relationship with TK….but….there was just a lot on his mind, and they still needed to talk about that night. But, right now would be too soon.

He felt someone staring at him, and if it was TK he would actually murder the kid. But, when he turned around, Patamon was staring at him. Damn therapy dog. Davis actually got off his bed and sat on the floor with the dog, and started to pet them….this was actually soothing.

“…yeah…awkward…”

…he needed to at least be civil be with him…small talk was boring.

“….so…how was your Summer?”

Socks skidded across the carpeted floor as TK moved around the edge of his bed. He pulled out the stepping stool that he had brought for Patamon--hey, the dog had short legs and needed to get onto the bed somehow--before climbing onto his own bed.

He leaned forward and grabbed his phone that he left on the edge of his bed near the desk. Leverage, he thought, in case things were to strain between the two more than they already had.

Blue eyes snuck a glance at Davis when the boy finally spoke aloud, a normal tone to his voice. It honestly had caught the blond off guard and he was almost confused for a moment on how to respond. But it was just another question. It wasn’t too bad.

Except he had to be careful with what he said; TK wanted to make it so nothing reminded either of them about the end of the school year and the party. “It was great for the most part. I did some volunteering at the news station where my dad worked and I was able to write some drafts for the newspaper. Mainly leads, but it was still some nice experience,” he said. To continue his involvement, TK was planning on joining the student newspaper.

Anger. Hurt…..Rage. Everything swirled in is head. Memories of the party. The…thing that almost happened. But everything came to shit…Davis didn’t realize that his fists were clenched. After the party, everything that TK did just irked Davis. He always looked down on him, and that just made Davis resent this asshole.

He wanted to punch that smile off his face. He’s acting like nothing happened between them. This is why he didn’t want to even think about college. This is why he tried to turn straight, to get these feelings about TK away from his heart.

“Yeah. A really. Really. Small world.”

His anger was under control. It was under control. He didn’t know if Patamon would attack him if he punched the living hell outta that ass. So, he sat down on his bed, and turned his back on TK, trying to make obvious that he didn’t want to talk to him. Ever.

This was definitely awkward. TK didn’t even need to see Davis brush aside the greeting with his curt answers to know that things weren’t going to be easy between them. But roommates, TK thought. They had to have something good going for them or else this would have ended awkwardly for them.

TK walked into the room, leaving the door open; he dind’t want to risk the chance to Patamon running after each and every person but he decided that he would just keep his eye on his active pet. 

“You know, it kinda makes it easier,” he said. TK set his bag onto the chair belonging to his desk as he kicked his shoes off. “A lot of roommates have that awkward getting to know their roommate stage. We’ve already been there. So it’ll be okay,” he said. At this point, he felt like he was talking out of his ass as he tried to appease to someone who didn’t want to talk to him. He understood why. He got why. But the two were adults; they needed to do something.

    Kari froze when she heard the familiar voice. She was suddenly terrified of looking up, it was impossible after all, Takeru couldn’t be here,she hadn’t told him where she was going to attend college, not yet at least. She knew Taichi wouldn’t have gone against her wishes either and blabbed to him, but the beagle that was now cuddling up to her cat and giving puppy kisses to was telling her otherwise.

    Taking a deep breath, she slowly looked up and saw exactly who it was infront of her. It was TK and now she didn’t know what to do or say. Things hadn’t felt the same since her major fuck up before graduation, there had been an uncomfortable atmosphere between them which had hurt her greatly and even caused her to come as far as she could to get away from the atmosphere but still be able to communicate with them like normal via texts like she had been doing.

    “TK? What are you doing here? I mean…I’m happy to see you! But I’m just….Did Tai tell you?” She spoke softly with a nervous smile as she got closer to them, leaning down to pick up Gatomon. As much as she wanted to let her play with Patamon, she needed the comfort she gave her at the moment.

Though her name had left his mouth, TK still couldn’t grasp the idea that Hikari Yagami was standing in front of him. Only a few months had passed since he had actually seen the girl in front of him, but the time and the problems that had come between the two of them before their separation felt like their time apart had last a year at least.

Despite those problems, there was a small part of him that was happy to see the girl, ecstatic that they were here in a new setting with everything behind the two. Still, he was afraid. Things had become awkward and he was less distrusting with himself and others, confused by what others wanted.

But still, TK had seen how familiar Patamon and Gatomon had been with one another--there was still some hope that things could return back to normal.

He shook his head at her question. “We talked and all, but he didn’t tell me anything that was... about you.” He was sure that her being here was what she was referring to but he couldn’t just assume. “This was my first choice school. I have a bunch of friends from the area and they recommended it to me.”