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The next morning, or so Yolei decided, was
entirely too sunny for the mood she was in. In the background, she could hear a song Hawkmon had turned
on.
Ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
I woke up
this morning
The sunshine was shining
I put on my happy face
I'm
living, I'm able
I'm breathing, I'm grateful
To put on my happy
face
Yolei sighed. "Can you please turn that off? I'm really not in
the mood for it right now."
"But, Yolei, I'm only trying to cheer you
up."
Woke up and realized
This world's not so bad after
all
Looked at it through a child's eyes
And I saw these beautiful
things
That you never think about
Like the ocean, moonlight and stars and
clouds
It's amazing how we don't appreciate our blessings
There's plenty
of people who don't like me
But since there are more who love me and I love
myself
Sometimes, it gets tough
It gets tough
But I can't give
up
Can't give up
Just take a deep breath
Close my eyes
Feel the love
and give a smile
Yolei sighed again as she turned to face her Digimon
partner. "Alright, alright. I get the point. I need to cheer up." A tinge of
sorrow still lingered in her eyes. Yolei adjusted her glasses. "I suppose you
think it's funny that song's stuck in my head now."
"Of course
not!"
~*~
"I'm going over to TK's, Mom!"
"Okay, Ken. Have a good
time." Ken walked out of his family's apartment.
Wormmon, not going with
Ken on this particular trip, hummed contentedly to himself. "I hope this works
out."
~*~
I woke up this morning
The sunshine was shining
I put
on my happy face
I'm living, I'm able
I'm breathing, I'm grateful
To
put on my happy face
I woke up this morning
The sunshine was
shining
I put on my happy face
I'm living, I'm able
I'm breathing, I'm
grateful
To put on my happy face
Yolei walked down the street,
trying to spot any of the other Digidestined. Out of the corner of one eyes, she
saw Matt walking with one arm wrapped around Sora's shoulders. Mimi and Joe
weren't far away from them. Although they weren't touching, Yolei knew they were
together. Inwardly sighing, she kept going.
**Why did he have to play
that song?** Yolei continued to walk down the street. She spotted Tai flirting
with some girl ahead on her right and TK, Kari, and Davis off on her left.
Frustrated at seeing the other Digidestined paired off, she turned and headed
off in the other direction.
It's me
I just wanna be happy
Uh,
just be happy
Uh, just be happy
Today is the day I am willing to say
I
will put all the past behind me
No more enemies
Ready 'cause
(Ready
'cause)
I'm living in this world
(Living in this world)
I wanna make a
change
(Wanna make a change)
Gonna make a change
(Gonna make a
change)
Put on my happy face
~*~
"Hey Cody, Izzy."
"Hello,"
Cody replied, preoccupied with something on Izzy's pineapple laptop.
"Hi
Ken. What brings you across the river this early?"
"Have you, uh, seen
Yolei around?"
Izzy smiled knowingly. "Sorry to disappoint you, Ken, but
I haven't. I don't know where she might be, either."
"Oh. Well, thanks
anyway. I'll see if I can find her."
With a smug chuckle, Izzy answered,
"You do that, Ken." Ken eyed his friend for a moment, then walked
off.
Cody looked up from the laptop. "Do you think he finally got it
figured out?"
"I think he did..."
~*~
I woke up this
morning
The sunshine was shining
I put on my happy face
I'm living, I'm
able
I'm breathing, I'm grateful
To put on my happy face
I woke up
this morning
The sunshine was shining
I put on my happy face
I'm
living, I'm able
I'm breathing, I'm grateful
To put on my happy
face
Yolei sat at a table, sadly alone. All around her she saw
couples. She sighed. **Well...this is a GREAT way to spend Valentine's. I'm
probably the only girl in town that doesn't have a boyfriend to spen the day
with.**
A/N: I'm not a fan of Valentine's Day. Something about the
'I'm old enough to date, and no guy wants to date me' thing, I
think.
Yolei took a sip of her soda. Smiling sadly to herself, she
mentally toasted "Here's to a Valentine's Day alone, Yolei." Then she drank a
good bit of the rest of her soda. She never noticed Tai walking by alone, but he
did see her.
Everything's gonna be all right
Everything's gonna be
okay
Everything's gonna be all right
Everything's gonna be okay
Gonna
be all right
Everything's gonna be all right
Everything's gonna be all
right
Everything's gonna be okay
Gonna be all right
Everything's gonna
be all right
Everything's gonna be all right
Everything's gonna be
okay
Gonna be all right
Everything's gonna be all right
Everything's
gonna be all right
Everything's gonna be okay
~*~
"Hey
Ken!"
Ken looked up, emerging from his internal focus, to see Tai. "Oh,
hey Tai."
"What's up? You look like you fell into that despair pit thing
Joe mentioned once."
"Huh?"
A/N: This is where the
Davis-bashing in the beginning of season 2 (dubbed version) started infecting
me. I'm not sure why, though...Anyway, this is not in anyway my opinion of
Davis, especially as this story takes place after the end of season 2 (I don't
know how long after, though) so that Davis isn't the idiot he seemed to be at
the beginning of the season. And now on with the story.
Tai laughed
at the confused look on Ken's face. "I never thought I'd make 'genius Ichijouji'
confused. Davis maybe, but never you."
Ken chuckled. "Hey, Davis is easy
to confuse. I mean, he can't even get TK's name right. I know. I've heard him
mess it up before."
Tai grinned. "I knew I could make you feel better. So
what was wrong?"
"I've been looking for Yolei all morning and haven't
found her."
One brown eyebrow went up. "Oh?"
"Yes."
"You
didn't try using your D-terminal to e-mail her and ask her to meet
you?"
Ken looked sheepish. "I left it at home with Wormmon."
"Then
you've come to the right Digidestined, because I happen to have just seen
her."
"Where," Ken demanded.
Tai chuckled. "Slow down,
alright?"
"Tai..."
"Alright, alright. I'll show you where she is,
one soccer-playing Digidestined to another."
"Thanks."
Tai and Ken
headed back to where Tai had seen Yolei. As they went, Tai asked, "Ken, you
wouldn't happen to know any girls that might want to go out with me, would
you?"
~*~
I woke up this morning
The sunshine was shining
I put
on my happy face
I'm living, I'm able
I'm breathing, I'm grateful
To
put on my happy face
I woke up this morning
The sunshine was
shining
I put on my happy face
I'm living, I'm able
I'm breathing, I'm
grateful
To put on my happy face
Yolei took the first sip of her
second soda. She had almost resigned herself to being alone when she heard a
familiarly quiet voice ask her, "May I please join you, Yolei?"
Yolei
looked up and met Ken's blue eyes with her own eyes. "Sure. I could use some
company."
Ken sat down and as one they took a sip from sodas. "So...you
sound like you want to talk to me," Yolei said.
"Well, I do. And you
sound like you could use a friendly non-Digimon ear to hear you out about
something."
"Well, to copy you, I do."
Ken smiled gently,
something Yolei thought was easy for him. "Then," he suggested, "why don't we go
somewhere a little more...private, I guess. The digital world?"
"Sounds
good."
"Great. We'll meet in...what, three hours?"
"Sure, I
guess."
"And I'll bring some food. I don't mind doing that."
"If
you want to..."
"Look, Yolei. As far as I understand, you fed the others'
Digimon enough times. Consider this your turn to be fed."
Yolei laughed
quietly. "Then I'll see you then, and don't forget the food."
"I
won't."
I woke up this morning
With a happy face
I'm flying, I'm
flying
I'm flying, I'm flying
I'm flying, I'm flying
I'm flying, I'm
flying
I'm flying, I'm flying
I'm flying, I'm flying
Flying,
flying
Yolei and Ken headed off in different directions. If she had
looked, Yolei would have noticed a slight bounce in Ken's step. Yolei, though,
was too wrapped up in thoughts of making a change for the better in her life to
look.
~*~
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