This Changes Everything II
By Archangel Bloodraven.
Kari sat dejectedly nursing her punch and wishing someone had spiked it. TK was supposed to be here, but he had called Tuesday night and said that something had come up and he wouldn't be able to make it to the dance Friday night. He had encouraged her to go anyway and now here she sat. She was about to get up and leave when a shadow fell across the table.
"A lovely evening." The tall stranger said. Like Kari, he was dressed as an angel.
"I guess." She mumbled.
"You're a lovely lady."
"Look Romeo, I don't know what you're after but you better save your smooth talk for someone who cares because I'm on my way out." She snarled more harshly than she had intended to.
"As you wish." He said turning and heading for the door.
"Wait." She said catching his arm. "Sorry. I didn't mean to snap at you like that. It's just I'm here alone."
"Guy stand you up?"
"More like left hanging. I know he really wanted to be here."
"Since we are both about to leave, may I have the pleasure of a dance before we go?"
Kari was about to refuse, then shrugged and said, "Okay."
"Thank you." He whispered leading her onto the dance floor as the last group song began to play.
Somewhere between
What can and can't be seen
I knelt in your spring
You dusted off my wings
Your kiss upon my face
Feels like a brush with grace
Baby, that's all it takes
To take me higher
If true love really does exist
It would feel as pure as this
Baby, it's as if
We're dancing with angels
Stealing light from shooting stars
We're just taking what is ours
In each other's arms
We're dancing with angels
Kari sighed. She was dancing with an angel all right. Just not her angel. She had never thought of TK as more than a friend, so why did this dance feel so wrong and at the same time, so right?
How did we find
Smooth blue in a crooked sky
Could be love winds
Gold threads through a grand design
Your whisper on my skin
Familiar healing wind
We must be slipping in
Heaven's windows
If true love really does exist
It would feel as pure as this
Baby, it's as if
We're dancing with angels
Stealing light from shooting stars
We're just taking what is ours
In each other's arm
We're dancing with angels
Oh, oh, oh, oh -- oh, oh, oh, oh
Ah, ah, ah, ah -- ah, ah
Oh, oh, oh, oh -- oh, oh, oh, oh
Ah, ah, ah, ah -- yeah, yeah, yeah
(Yeah) Your kiss upon my face
(Yeah) Feels like a brush with grace
(Yeah) Baby, that's all it takes
To take me higher
If true love really does exist
It would feel as pure as this
Baby, it's as if
We're dancing with angels
Stealing light from shooting stars
We're just taking what is ours
In each other's arm
We're dancing with angels
If true love really does exist
It would feel as pure as this
Baby, it's as if
We're dancing with angels
Stealing light from shooting stars
We're just taking what is ours
In each other's arm
We're dancing with angels
Angels, angels
Dancing with, dancing with, dancing with angels
Angels, angels
As the song drew to a close Kari drew close to her mysterious stranger to kiss him, but he stopped her with a gloved finger to her lips. "Don't."
"But why?"
"Because there's a great guy out there, the one that should have been here tonight. If you kiss me here, tonight, not knowing who I am, when you kiss him, you'll never be kissing him. You'd be kissing me and I don't deserve to take someone's happiness like that." He said stepping away from her.
"You're right." She sighed and started to move towards the door when the DJ cut in.
"Weeeeeeelllllllll!" He wailed in a voice that reminded her of the stories the others told about Etemon. "The votes have been tallied and this years Midnight Madness King and Queen are the two annnnnnnnngellllllllllllllls!" Kari winced as the a spot was thrown on her and her mysterious partner who tried to bolt for the door as the crowd went wild. "What we need now is for those two crraaaaaaaaaazzy cats to join me for the ritual unmasking, crowning and final dance."
"No escape now." She said taking his hand and leading him to the stage.
"The Midnight Madness Masquerade Queen is...." The DJ held his breath in anticipation as the stranger removed Kari's mask. "Hikari Kamiya! And her King is...." Another breathless silence fell over the crowd as Kari raised her trembling hands and removed the mysterious man's mask. "Takeru Ishida!"
Kari stared in numb shock for a moment before slapping TK in the face and storming out the door
~*~
Ouch! Can TK patch the rift between him and Kari? We'll find out. "Dancing With Angels" is from SHeDAISY's "The Whole SHeBANG" album.