Chit Chat [Charles] [Finished]

Charles felt weird. For the first time in his life, someone other than his parents had texted him. And girl to add to that, a girl who had been his first friend and company along with her partner in a long time. Charles prayed, he didn't grow feelings for her or he would hang himself for being anywhere near her.

And just to make things weirder, he almost got arrested yesterday and the police stole his phone. Charles knew they were doing they're job, afterall he did run away from home quite a while ago, but still... Fortunately he was able to get Steamdramon to get back his phone from station. Charles had dropped it while running away and the only reason they didn't find the text message was because the battery was dead. However, they charged it over night and the next morning, Charles discovered very embarrassingly that he had a text message from Mana asking him to come to see her at Myashita park that day and that the message was from the previous day.

Charles decided to go. The problem was, Myashita Park was pratically in the opposite side of the city. So he began running first thing in the morning, the cloak Datamon had given him almost floating in the wind. It seemed to give him strenght fir some odd reason, and Charles could not complain, it was quite a run.

Finnaly he began to see the silhouette of Mana in the distance. Charles took off the hood of the red cloak to allow her to recognise him more easily.

"Hi Mana! How are you doing? I hope I'm not late or anything" He said as he got to her. Then his stomach growled loudly and Charles realised he hadn't eaten since yesterday's lunch. He put on a shy smile on his face, trying to diaguice the hunger.

Mana told Charles she knew of a place hidden in the Myashita park where they could hang out with her digimon out. The name of the person that told her of that place was familiar to him.

"Ann... I think I heard of her once, but I`m not sure where or when. But I guess it doesn`t matter now."

They went to the place Mana had told him off, with Ayaka greeting him from Mana`s backpack.

"Oh, hi, there, nice to see you too!" Charles replied.

They sat down on the grassy floor and Mana took out some food. Not wanting to be rude or needy, Charles restrained himself from asking for any.

"So... what`s up?" Charles asked Mana. The answer was both suprising and terrifying. She was asking about how to know if a boy had feelings for her. Was she talking about him? He prayed not.

"I...I don`t really know, I have never been throught that... I think you might be able to tell by the way he treats you, in a way he tries to protect you against basicly everything, or put`s your wishes above his needs, or something of that type. Unless you mean in a... I hope you don`t mean THAT way." Charles replyed, trying to convence himself his prayres had worked. "But anyway why do you ask?"

(OOC: Since this site is PG13 and I have no idea how old you are, I will not write down the words which describe the other meaning of "love". I hope you understand my concern.

Also nice going, I was as amazed as Charles, I mean this caught me completly by suprisse, nice going!)

"Thanks, I kinda forgot to eat since yesterday, I was hum...busy." Charles thanked Mana when she offered him some food, which eagerly devored. Mana then proceeded to tell him the stroy of this guy she had met, and throught the details of her words, Charles came (with a lot of relief) to the conclusion that it wasn`t him. Strangely Charles felt that even Steamdramon, a digimon who had murdered his friend for being "too nice", felt compassion for the girl with her love triangle. "As I said, I am no expert, but... well, first don`t misinterpret kindness with love. And I don`t mean just others, but you too. I mean, it takes a lot to have actually tried to help me after all the things you heard about the spirits that can just possess me at any time and to which I am pratically helping and allowing to live, possibly for ever. That shows a great deal of compassion, which you gave to a complete stranger, without having fallen in love with me. They seem to be definetly your friends. To know if you love them... you have to look into it, see if it`s about "love" or about you simply caring about them, due to your kind, caring and, I hope you don`t mind me saying, soft nature. As to them loving you back...Maybe I can do something to help you try it out, but it might not come out nice from where they see it. Oh, and I can`t Forget your greatest advisor, the one you should really be debating this with: Ayaka, your best friend, as far as I know, whose devotion to you is... I have no way to mesure it, I`m sure."

Charles wasn`t sure how she would react to his speech. Sometimes he wasn`t sure if he should find a job as "Doctor Phil" or shove himself into a trash can.

(OOC: Now, call me whatever you want, but I am quite religious and I find it offensive to see "god" instead of "God". I apologise if it was by mistake, but otherwise, I just have problems with it. Just a warning, sorry about the way I'm acting.)

Apperantly Ayaka was unable to understand the feelings her partner was feeling, which left her in a situation about as awkward as Charles's.

"I told you my opinion. You became friends fast because you're kind and all those other things I said. If there's something more..."love" is hard to define and since I don't think love towards your parents is the same as love towards your girlfriend or boyfriend, I can't say I ever experienced it, and am not the best person to advise you about this." Charles stated. Of course her next reaction and question left him speechless. Mana just asked him if he thought she was...pretty? Oh, God this was really awkward. "I...I...I...I...I" Charles said as he tried to say something but no words seemed to come to him, so confused he was. "I...I...hum, sure I do. I mean, I..."

Charles really didn't know what he could say that didn't incenuate something that could generate more awkwardness. He turned to Ayaka, a look on his face that clearly showed he was looking for help.

(OOC: a small sidenote. I always try to picture how the Rp would look like in anime, and this is turning out to look like some great, but awkward comic relief bit)

The situation had gone from to worse to even worse. Now, Mana was crying, thinking he thought she was ugly. As her partner tried to calm her down, she implied that Charles should say something to help, despite the fact that Charles's words had had no effect other than make things worse so far.

"Mana, I don't think you're ugly, you ARE pretty, you're beautiful, I just don't think it really matters to the point. " Charles told Mana, something that was half a lie, since the reason he hesitated was quite different. " Besides, how could I call someone ugly, you looked at me, I could play a zombie in a horror movie without needing make-up!" Charles hoped the humour could help her feel better. Then something snapped in his mind. "You know, Replimon thinks everyone is just a poorly constructed copy of someone else, so there's no shame in copying, stealing or killing anyone or anything. But I know that's wrong and you do too, I'm sure of it. If you love someone... It's a matter you'll have to leave to time to figure it out, I guess. Patience is the best attitude you can have right now."

Charles that this time he didn't screw up.

"Of course I think you`re beautifull. Why else would I even say it, knowing you just confessed to me to fallen in love with two other people about the first time they were kind to you?" Charles replied, with a smile, as the girl seemed to be really starting to feel better. Of course, the situation didn`t last long without going awkward again as Mana began offering him to go to her place to get, claming he could improve his appearance there if he couldn`t do it in his own place, her face turning increasingly red as she spoke, finishing with a sentence that almost implied she would agree to go on a date with him. Charles bit his tong with this yet another suprise, and stood, due to the pain. He didn`t know what to answer and he though best to explain just that. "Look, I... I`m really confused, and I`m not even sure we`re still on the same topic as what we start out in. And how did you know I can`t home? Look, I want to help, to return the favor you did to me by being my fried, but this is just becoming...AAAHHH!" Charles grabbed his hair with his hands, almost as if he wanted to pull it off. He stopped and got on his knees. "Look, I`m sorry if I`m terrible at this, but...I`m just unexperienced, and since I began having those weird nightmares I don`t know if I can handle people well anymore and..." Charles covered his mouth. He never told anyone about his nightmares, the ones from the accident he had and that only stopped the day he went to the digital world. For some reason the whole situation was being so ennervating that he wassimply letting his mind out. He needed to control himself better.

Boy this was turning to be way to awkward. Charles imagined that if the police was on his trail, then they wouldn`t arrest him now, simply to avoid getting themselves into the conversation.

(OCC: I'm assuming that "fainted" means " passed out")

Charles was...frozen in place. He barely could take what had come before and the idea she was accusing him of not trusting her (which to be fair was true when it came to his nightmares, since he didn't trust ANYONE with them), and the final drop, the revelation that she actually liked him. And given the context, it wasn't just like in a friends way, but in the love way.

All reason left Charles. She had been so nice to him, so persistent in helping, like no one had before, and he had thought it was just her personality? How could he have made such a stupid guess? And if she really loved him... How could he had let get anywhere near him? Guilt and fear flooded him, and anger against himself as well. A certain hatred of himself almost took over at the thought that maybe he was just like Steamdramon dedicated to kill off anyone that was nice to him to achieve his own goals.

Charles stood and walked to a nearby tree and bashed his head against it.

"How could I have been so stupid?" He shouted angered "How am I supposed to "fix this", Ayaka? One can't fix love. And to think she endangered herself by going with me..." Charles felt a few tears begin to come down on his face " And the worst part of all... I think I might feel the same way."