Author's notes: Okay this was supposed to be short…. Why do these stories always run away with me??? Anyways. The characters: Taylor, Lexi, Juana, Shawna, Sheri, Jerome, Eric Mitchell, and Alex, are mine. If you'd like to use any of them, just ask. I'll probably ask you what you want with them, but I'd probably let them out on loan to ya ;-) If you've read "My Enemy; My Love" you'll recognize some of my original characters; and if you haven't read it, please do and review it. Of course if you read this one and review this one and review it I won't complain either. I hope you enjoy this. I really liked writing it. I think it's got some real humor to it.

" Oh, and could you possibly guess what movie he picked for us to watch?" Yolei twisted the ring on her finger. "The Frighteners."

" The one with Michael J. Fox? I love that movie, it's hilarious." Taylor walked into the living room with a smirk on her face.

" Hilarious? That movie scared me to death; I was in his lap for half the movie." Yolei huffed settling into the couch.

Mimi laughed sitting down next to her, " Honey, that's why he picked it. Honestly I would have thought Ken to have a little more imagination."

" That's not nice." Sora chided from across the room.

" Uh-huh, and how many times did Matt try that with you, while you two were dating?" Taylor laughed out loud as the girl turned bright red.

" Taylor, play nice." Kari teased from the kitchen.

" Yeah, yeah. What are you doing in there anyways?" Taylor brushed a few of her braids out of her face.

" Lexi and I are trying to find something to cook." Kari answered.

Taylor rolled her large brown eyes, " First of all can Lexi even cook?"

The green eyed, red haired girl, in question, shot Taylor a nasty look.

Taylor continued, ignoring the gesture, " Secondly this night is supposed to be fun, AKA: no cooking, no digimon issues and no trying to figure out old crests and their meanings. Just us chilling and having a good time."

Sora, Mimi, and Yolei walked into the kitchen.

" Okay that's all well and good, but we would like to eat." Yolei piped up.

" We've got some food don't we? Or did the guys eat it all before they vacated?" Mimi questioned.

" Naw, I promised them a slow painful death if they didn't leave us the frozen pizzas and the ice cream." Taylor opened the freezer to check. " Yup all here."

"No joke, Taylor, with a threat like that coming from you is it any wonder." Lexi arched her left eyebrow. " And pizzas? I don't know."

" Pizza is fine with me." A voice called out from the foyer.

The girls glanced out to see a petite blond haired girl, shacking water from her coat. " I hope you don't mind that let myself in."

" Hey Me casa Su casa." Taylor walked over and gave the girl a hug. " How are you Shawnalyse?"

She smiled brightly, her light blue eyes dancing. " I'm wonderful, the lunch went perfectly. On a side note, how is that you are the only one who pronounces my full name right?"

Taylor tugged on one of her braids, " I'm black and half my family lives in America. Your name is nothing."

The girl chuckled, " Cody's poor mother, she looked really relieved when she found out I just go by Shawna."

" I'm sure she was. Most of us were." Sora took Shawna's coat and put it in the closet.

" Sora, this is my apartment let me do that." Mimi scolded.

" I don't mind, really." Sora assured Mimi.

" Alright everybody in the living room we can't start dinner until Juana gets here." Taylor announced.

" Where is she anyway?" Kari wondered.

" She's probably at Davis' soccer game." Yolei offered, " Last time Davis' and Ken's teams played each other she was there."

" Is something going on with those two?" Kari inquired, a hopeful tone evident in her voice.

Yolei looked astonished, " You didn't know? They've been going out for about six months!"

" Wow I didn't realize how wrapped up I got in that film project." Kari bit her lip. " So how do they look together?"

" Absolutely adorable." Lexi offered, " I was eating lunch at a café downtown and I saw them walking down street together hand and hand."

" Oh, good, I want him to be happy." Kari looked down at the ground.

" Are you okay, Kari?" Sora touched the younger girl's hand.

" Yeah, it's just that I was worried he wouldn't find somebody. I mean he asked me out and I had to tell him no. I think I cried more than he did." Kari fidgeted a bit, "But at least now I know he's happy."

" A broken heart is always difficult to handle, even if you're the one who's breaking it." Taylor lamented.

Mimi nodded, " I think I always had a harder time being the quote, unquote bad guy."

" It was hard for me too." Sora pulled at her collar.

" You broke up with Matt, I thought…" Yolei started.

" It was a mutual thing, but I started the conversation." Sora interrupted.

" So anyways: Yolei, sweetie, darling, where did you put my cell-phone?" Lexi batted her eyelashes playfully at the lavender haired girl.

" Nope. Izzy and I made a pact I keep your cell-phone away from you so you can relax and Izzy will hide Ken's from him for same reason." Yolei smirked.

Lexi made a small growling sound, " You two work to well together."

" We know." Yolei grinned. " Hey, Shawna, you said the lunch went well."

" Very well. I invited Cody and his family to the gallery, than my family and his to a small informal lunch together. We really had a good time." Shawna twisted the gold chain around her fingers.

" That's a necklace I haven't seen yet." Mimi leaned in closer.

Shawna giggled, removed the necklace and held it out for the others to inspect. "The angel holds a star because it stands for the inspiration of the spirit. Cody gave it to me this afternoon."

" Awe, that is so sweet." Sora gushed.

" Thanks. I meant to ask you earlier, Kari, how did that film project go?" Shawna asked.

" It went really well, but I will admit to some home-sickness. I learned so much; I wouldn't have traded the experience for anything. I mean it was a once in a lifetime opportunity. But I really did miss my family and all of you guys of course." Kari relayed to the group of girls.

" I couldn't believe your parents let you go. It was a nine-month trip, granted it was paid for, but come on, mine would have never agreed." Yolei pointed out.

" I know I always wondered how you convinced them or maybe conned them into letting you go." Mimi smirked.

" It wasn't me, believe me. Tai was the one that did it." Kari admitted.

" Tai? I thought he was against the trip; he was a wreak the whole time you were gone." Sora questioned.

" He was against it, at first anyway. I guess he heard me, when I was crying on the phone with TK, when I thought I couldn't go. Tai looked at our parents and basically laid out that they had trusted me to save the world when I was just a little kid, and now it was only fair to trust me to be responsible when I was making a dream of mine come true." Kari reminisced.

" He said that? Our Tai?" Mimi was flabbergasted.

" Yup. He really is a great big brother." Kari smiled before looking at Sora inquiringly, " By the way, are you seeing anyone?"

" Na, Na, Na, the spy strikes." Taylor hollered, drawing a laugh from everyone.

" Spy? Spy for who?" Sora looked confused.

" Oh, please, as if you don't know." Lexi accused.

" I have no…" Sora started before a knock on the door interrupted her. " That would be Juana."

" Sit, chill, I'll get it." Taylor stood up and opened the door. Her mouth dropped open in shock, " Girl, you are a mess."

The other girls peeked around the corner to see Juana covered in mud.

Juana shook her head as she took off her shoes and coat, " I don't what you want me to do with these."

" Leave them there." Taylor grabbed the coat, " I'll get a bag to hang this in. What happened to you anyway?"

" Double over time, Davis scored the winning goal." Juana grinned.

Yolei's eyes widened, " I bet he was on cloud nine."

" Past. He ran over where I sitting, after he got away from his team; he hugged me first, and sorta fell taking me with him. Not that he cared he was still high off the adrenaline." Juana laughed and lifted her bag, " Where can I put my stuff?"

" Wherever, the guys aren't here and we don't care." Mimi smiled, " Oh if you want a shower…"

" Point the way." Juana cut Mimi short.

The girls all started laughing again.

" What?" Juana asked innocently, " I love the guy I don't need to smell like him and mud. By the way, Yolei, your boyfriend was an angel today. He let me have his umbrella when it started raining. Too bad went to waste. "

" Sounds like him." Yolei nodded.

" Okay not to be rude, but I'll be back after I rinse the mud off." Juana disappeared with Taylor down the hallway.

Taylor came back in a few minutes, " That girl is a loon." She muttered as she scratched the crease of her leg.

" Taylor knock it off you're as bad as the guys." Mimi nagged.

Taylor shot Mimi a perturbed look, " Just wait 'til you live with 'em longer. You start taking on their characteristics."

" Haven't you always been crude?" Mimi snipped.

" Yeah, but this isn't my fault anyway. That's Joe's spot." Taylor retorted.

" I don't think I want to know." Sora half-pleaded.

" Actually I know what's she's talking about and it's kinda cool." Mimi admitted.

" Okay I'll be the brave one and bite. What do you mean?" Lexi offered.

Taylor chewed on her lip, than rolled up her shorts up to the crease of her leg to show off a tiny tattoo.

Kari's gasped, " When did you get that?"

" I'm lost, what does that symbol mean?" Shawna asked.

" It's the symbol of Reliability, it's Joe's crest." Sora answered. " But I'm curious too when did you get that done? I'm sure Joe had a fit."

" I hope not, since he didn't know me yet. I was thirteen was I had this done and I met Joe, when I was eighteen." Taylor rolled down her shorts and bowed at the end of her story.

" You got his crest tattooed on you five years before met him?" Yolei's voice was covered in astonishment.

" And everyone wonders why he feinted when he tried to patch up my leg." Taylor smirked. " So anyhow, lets get those pizza's started, so we can…" The phone rang, and Taylor grabbed the receiver, " Hello Digital Image, this is Taylor…. Oh hi Davis…Yep she made it in a second ago, and she's cleaning off in the shower…Did you need her to call you? Okay I'll tell her you said hi then …Congrads on the game...No problem… You too…Buh-bye Soccer-boy." Taylor hung up the phone and chuckled. "He just wanted to make sure she made it here safely."

" That is so sweet." Shawna sighed.

" That is so unlike Davis." Yolei walked into the kitchen to help Taylor, " Juana is really good for him."

" He's good for her too." Taylor smiled. " Oh yeah you guys don't mind if she uses you for guinea-pigs, do ya?"

" Depends on the experiment." Lexi stated.

" Oh she just wants to sing a couple of the songs, she's doing at the club tomorrow. Just to see what you guys think of 'em." Taylor shrugged as she and Yolei got out the pans.

" I certainly don't mind." Sora entered the kitchen and washed her hands. " Okay what can I help with?"

" Just get the foil on the pans. Yolei open up the packages and figure out how hot we need the oven." Taylor paused and looked out at the girls in the living room, " Before anymore people try to crowd in the this unbelievably small kitchen, pick one of you to get the drinks, the rest hash out what movie we're watching."

" Watch out Davis and Tai. Taylor's gonna challenge for leadership." Kari teased.

" She has to be a leader, she's going out with Joe." Mimi taunted.

" What's that supposed mean, Pinky?" Taylor challenged as she pulled down the glasses.

" Well you know, Joe's so shy…" Mimi trailed off suggestively.

" Yeah, he's shy in public, he's still very male thank you very much." She leaned out of the kitchen and looked and the girls with a leading smile, " You don't think he comes over here at night to study from books, do you?"

Sora gagged, " Joe?!?"

Taylor threw back her head and laughed out loud, " You betcha." She kissed the air and twirled in a circle. " Believe me though, he took a lot more encouraging than any of my other boyfriends."

" Encouraging for what?" Yolei arched her eyebrow.

" Yeah, Tay, we want details. Just watch how juicy, we've got a youngin' here." Lexi squeezed Shawna's shoulder.

" I'm fifteen, not deaf, dumb and blind. Spill girl; we want details!" Shawna piped up.

Juana came out of the bathroom in her tank top and shorts and quickly held up her hands defensively. "Whatever it was I didn't do it and I wasn't there."

The girls all laughed, then Mimi spoke up, " Careful Juana, we'll start wondering where you met Taylor."

" I met her at the police station." Juana answered.

Everyone paused and looked at Juana; she and Taylor started laughing.

" You were joking." Sora assumed.

" Oh no, we met at the police station. I was there to be questioned in an accident my ex-boyfriend was a victim of and she was there to be questioned about her black eyes and broken arm." Taylor offered.

" My dad wasn't the nicest guy in the world." Juana scuffed her foot. " But thankfully I live with my sister now, so it's cool."

" Hey Taylor, which arrest was that?" Mimi stuck out her tongue

" Tachikawa, you are really asking for it. I wasn't even arrested that time." She winked as the phone rang, " Woo Hoo, we're popular." She picked up the phone, " Hello Digital Image…Yes, Shelly I'm here… I have the bracelet on my ankle as always…Yeah I'll be here all night…Glad you remembered…Swing by if you want we're having ice-cream and pizza…yeah you too…bye." Taylor scowled as she hung up the phone. "Prick."

" I take it that would Officer Shelly Conner." Mimi deduced.

" Yeah, but three weeks and I am done! Free at last. Free at last. Glory! Glory! I'll be free at last!" Taylor shouted.

" Why are we butchering that famous speech?" Shawna inquired.

" You wouldn't understand, you've never been on probation for two years, after spending a month in jail." Taylor helped Yolei put the pizzas in the oven.

" A whole two years? For what?" Lexi snorted.

" Procession." Taylor responded.

" You were on drugs?" Kari looked a bit startled.

" No my boyfriend at the time was and he couldn't get caught, so he said those magic words: honey I love you. So I let him stuff the crud in my pocket. And after I got out in month, Matt picked me up and I found that guy had a new girlfriend. I gave up two years of my life for that. I cried the whole first night I was home. Matt didn't leave until I asleep."