You Got A Friend On Me
By Aerisakura&Freak
Chapter 3: You Got A Friend On Me.....And Maybe More
The next morning Takato wake up early, there is school today, he got up and started to get ready for school, he eat his breakfast, got some bread for Guilmon, and then leave to see his friend. On the way to Guilmon’s house, he saw Rika walking towards him.
“Hi Rika” Takato said cheerfuly “Morning goggles” Rika replied, there was a silent until Takato remembered Rika’s school was on the other side of the city.
“Hey Rika, isn’t your school in to the other way” Takato said confused “Well...yes...but I..I came to see you, I.....” Rika souned nervous, she sighed “I wanted to see how were you feeling” Rika said half lying.
Takato smiled “I’m feeling fine, thanks to what you told me, thanks Rika, I’m glad that now you think of me as your friend” Takato said as he hugged her, Rika was a little surprised at first, but then she returned the hug “No problem Takato” she said and released at Takato when she saw the people looking at them.
“I got to go now or I will be late for school, see you later goggle-head” Rika said as she started to walk to her school “Bye Rika” Takato said waving his hand, he then remembered that he still has to take the bread to Guilmon, so he ran towards Guilmon’s house.
Rika was on her way to school when Renamon appeared in front of her “Rika, why didn’t you tell him?” Renamon said crossing her arms over her chest, Rika sighed and then replied “Because, what if he just thinks of me as a friend, if I tell him how I feel, our friendship would be ruined, and I don’t want that” with that she continued walking to her school and Renamon desappeared.
Meanwhile, Takato leaved the bread to Guilmon and then left to his school, he still got early, so he took his seat and rested his head on his desk and started to think about Rika behavior a while ago ‘She wasn’t like her usual self, she really has been a very good friend lately, maybe I should go to see her after school’ Takato was still lost in thought and didn’t noticed that Jeri was talking to him, he still didn’t reacted until he heard at Kazu said something like “He must be thinking in The Digimon Queen”.
Takato felt his cheeck grow warm and said “Wha..?” Kazu and Kenta laughed at him and said “Henry told us that you and The Digimon Queen are dating, we didn’t believed, but your face tell everything” they continued joking making Takato blush more.
“That’s....well...I...” Takato sighed as they joked about him not even be able to talk, he looked at Jeri, she smiled at him and said “I’m glad that you and Rika are together” with that she took her seat as the teacher entered the classroom, Takato keep thinking about what everyone said, that he and Rika are together, he doesn’t feel sad for Jeri being with Henry anymore, he now is happy for them, what Rika told him, make him understand that, but now, he didn’t know how he felt for Rika anymore.
With Rika was the same, she keep thinking about Takato and about what Guilmon said, that Takato looks happy when he is with Rika, she thought about everyone beliving that they are a couple, but she remembered more what Takato’s dad say, they were a good couple, ‘If Takato’s dad knows Jeri too, why won’t he think that is her the one that is his girlfriend’ Rika sighed, her thought now where with the events on the moorning, in her house, her mother keep making questions about Takato, the same that her grandmother, but they didn’t let her speak, they were so happy with the idea that Rika was opening her heart to someone, and then Renamon insisted that she should go to talk with Takato, she thought in the hug he gave her, she wanted to know if he could feel the same for her.
It was luch time in Takato’s school, so he went to eat his luch alone, he still needed time to think, he thought in the hug he gave to Rika, why did he hug her, he sure wouldn’t have dare to hug her before, but in the past days she has been a good friend, and it was her who asked him to talk of his problems, he was very grateful with her, she is his friend now, but could they be more than that as everyone believes, when he hugged her, he felt someting warm in his heart, something that he hadn’t feel before, not even with Jeri, he sighed, he remembered that this moorning when he gave the bread at Guilmon, he asked him if he saw Rika this morning, and when Takato asked him why he asked that, Guilmon aswered that it was because he looked happy, happy as Rika makes him be, he didn’t know if that was true, he hadn’t noticed, but he did know that he felt happier with what she said, and with the fact that she treats him as a friend now, he sighed.
It also was luch time on Rika school now, but she wasn’t hungry, she like always, stayed away from the other girls in her school, she sat down under a tree, and Renamon appeared in one of the brachs, she looked at Rika and noticed the troubled look on her face.
“Rika, you should tell him, you don’t know if he feels the same or not, and you won’t know if you don’t try, he maybe doesn’t realize what he feels for you yet” Renamon said trying to encourage her tamer.
Rika sighed, looked at Renamon and said “Maybe you are right, but what if he doesn’t feel the same and then he doesn’t want to be my friend anymore?” Renamon looked at her tamer and nodded “I understand that Rika, but I think he feel the same, just that he still doesn’t realize, and even if he doen’t feel the same, he would keep being friends with you” Renamon said and was about to desappear to leave at her tamer to think about what she said but Rika spoke again “Maybe he would want to keep as friends, but I think I wouldn’t want that, I just couldn’t” with that Rika left to her classroom.
The bell rang, luch was over and for the rest of school Takato and Rika keep thinking in each other, and in what to do with the feelings they have for each other, Takato trying to figure out what were the feelings he has when Rika is around and Rika thinkin if she should tell Takato her feelings for him.
The bell rang again, now school was over, Takato decided to go to see at Guilmon and talk to him, Guilmon maybe sometimes be clueless, but sometimes he said the right things, Takato thought that maybe just by telling Guilmon how he feels will help him to feel better.
Rika walked home, Renamon didn’t appeared again, she understood that her tamer nedded time to think and leave her alone for now would be better. At her house, Rika dressed in her normal clothes and seated in front of her table, she keep thinking in what Renamon said, she knew that Takato would keep being her friend no matter what, but she didn’t know if she could said the same, she was afraid to lost his friendship, she didn’t know if she should take the risk.
Takato told Guilmon all his feelings, the little dinosaur like digimon looked at his tamer and gave him a hug, Takato did felt a little better, but still didn’t know what he feel for Rika.
“You must find for yourself Takatomon, Guilmon knows that you will” said Guilmon while releasing Takato and he smiled at his tamer, Takato looked at him, smiled too and said “Thanks Guil”
Rika was still at her house and she had got to a conclusion, she will take the risk and will tell Takato how she feels, at that moment Renamon appeared and Rika told her “At this time he must be at the park with Guilmon, right?” Renamon smiled and nodded.
“Do you want me to go with you?” “Yes, but..you will leave to talk to him alone” Rika said walking towards the park in silence.
Guilmon sensed Renamon and looked up from his bread and saw Rika and Renamon standing on the door, Takato looked too and smiled at Rika.
“Takato, can...I..talk to you?” Rika said, starting to be nervous “Yea, of course Rika, is something wrong?” Takato said worried as Renamon indicated to Guilmon to leave them alone, so bouth digimons leaved alone at theirs tamers.
Rika waited for the two digimon to leave and then started “Takato, you know that you got a friend on me....but I..I want to be more than that...I..like...no..I love you Takato”
