Tai was the popular who couldn't care less of anything. Sora was a tennis player who had everything planned. She had friends, yet she was not popular. When they actually met, sparks lit in the silence. Until things changed. NOT ANGST!

Ch.1

Tai just finished his soccer practice, and was heading home. He was furious. In the middle of his practice, three of his many ex girlfriends came to him and yelled at him for dating them without any intentions of staying longer than a week in their relationship. Sure, he was no angle. But they weren't all goody – too shoes either. All thou, they did take him away from where the practice was held, preventing his teammates stares or laughs. But in the end, He really didn't care about them, but being the good person he was, he apologized and said that at the time he dated each of them, he was trying to forget someone, and that again, he was sorry for using them. Of course they bought it. And of course it was made up.

Yet he was furious. How dare they confront him! He dated them, and it was over. 'Cant you get a hint', he thought miserably. He should have thought about it before dating them. He then remembered why he dumped them. All three were a pain.

When he reached home, he was much calmer.

Sora was doing her homework, when a friend called. Unfortunately, her mom answered.

"sorry, Sora is doing her homework right now. She will call you back". The talk was ended before the speaker on the other line identified.

Sora was pissed. 'who the hell does she think she is!' she got up, thinking of what she was going to say her mom. She came close to door, reached for the handle and... stopped.

"damn.. the match" she mumbled in gritted teeth. She was a tennis player, and there was an upcoming competition against many players. Her first one was against Joan, and it was held in the exact time her mom signed her for a shift at the flower shop. She asked, yelled, begged and actually cried for her mom to allow her to go.

And she had no intentions of blowing it off. She sat back and finished her homework.

When it was dinner time , she was debating in her head about mentioning the call from earlier. In the end, the big 'NO' won.

Her mom wasn't evil, or mean, but thought that tennis was a mindless little game. And as much as Sora tried, she couldn't prove her wrong. Her mom was strait in mind, and this was not going to change any time soon.

Tai was sleeping, when a shout interrupted.

"TAI!" someone yelled.

He woke up and got out of bed, evil plans forming in his mind for the one who ruined his precious sleep.

"What!" he said while trying to use the wall as a bed.

Kari stood there, laughing her head out at her brother's appearance. His hair was messier than normal, and his eyes were closed. But that wasn't the cause of the laughing fit. His pants were. His "I love you mommy" with little red hearts and small pigs with arrows pants.

"WHAT!" he grumbled.

"never mind" Kari said, trying to stifle her laugh. "Matt is on the phone". She said and ran to her room, where she broke down laughing.

Tai didn't understand that, and had no intentions of trying to, since he was half unconscious. "Why the hell are you calling at this hour!" he yelled.

"Tai. Its eight o'clock." Matt said, a smile plastered on his face and his eyebrow raised (or, in other words – falling anime style :). "Never mind, I just wanted to ask you, are you coming to the mall tomorrow? And that girl, what's her name, dana? Well, she's coming too".

"And that should affect my answer, which is a 'no', how?" Tai wondered.

"You said you liked her man! That you wanted to ask her out!"

"Oh. Man, I forgot about it. Anyway, I changed my mind; I'm not interested in dating anyone right now."

"Really? Why?" Matt asked.

"I'll tell you tomorrow. Right now, all I want is SLEEP!"

And the talk ended with a slam. Matt laughed at his best friend's behavior, and went back to his computer.

The next day went as usual. Well, almost. The long boring classes, the long line in the cafeteria, and the long investigation Matt questioned. And Tai hated it all, to the bone.

On the way back home it started raining. Tai loved the rain, so it didn't bothered him much. But the cold wind, that he hated. He shivered, wearing only a thick long sleeves shirt. He wanted to run, to heat up his body, when a shout stopped him. He looked over to the other sidewalk where he saw a woman sitting on the floor in an odd position, while rubbing her lower back with a pained expression.

It took him a moment to realize she fell, and ran over to help her. "Are you okay?" he asked worriedly. And she looked up. Her eyes were amazing. Those brown, red-like, ruby eyes glazed at him. He have never seen such eyes before, and for a first time, it fascinated him.

"I'm fine thank you. I slipped at a puddle of water. ahh, I hate the rain". She answered.

Tai didn't know what made him do it, but he started a conversation. "really? I love it, all thou the wind is a pain". He smiled at her, and asked again for her well being.

"Thanks, but I'm fine, really, I am". She smiled back.

Sora was heading to her house after a tennis practice, when it started raining.

"Damn" she muttered to herself. She was freezing after twenty steps or so. She looked up in order to see the clouded sky, and didn't notice the puddle of water waiting for her. And in the end, her feet touched the water, and she fell.

She shouted in surprise. She fell on her back and it soared. She rubbed her back in hope it will make the pain go away, when a shadow covered her.

"Are you okay?" It was a man's voice. First she saw his legs, then up to his upper body, and then his face. She recognized him as Taichi Kamiya, one of the most popular boys at her school.

"I'm fine thank you. I slipped at a puddle of water. ahh, I hate the rain" she answered truthfully. He was dripping with water too.

When he said he liked the rain she was dumb struck. How could someone love the rain? Its cold, wet and makes the floor slippery. She snickered bitterly at her last remark.

"Are you sure you're okay?" he asked again. And he smiled. She wasn't like those girls who would jump their heads off once some hot guy smiled at them. And she had no intentions in being one. Wait, did she just say hot?

She smiled at that and answered.

"So, why are you outside walking miserable in the rain?" he asked, and she laughed.

"I was just coming back from my tennis practice, when this started".

He was impressed. "Tennis? Nice. Are you good?"

She gave him a look. "What do you think?" her eyebrows raised, making her look a little threatening.

Tai laughed nervously. "Hey! I really don't know! I just met you! How should I know?"

She smiled when he scratched the back of his hair, obviously a habit of nervousness. She thought it was cute. "Calm down, I'm just messing with you".

He laughed "oh".

They stood there in the middle of the street for about an hour, when the rain stopped, the lack of water on their face bringing them back from their conversation.

"You know, I would suggest walking you home, but I'm drenched, and ask anybody – I'm no gentlemen." He joked.

She laughed genuinely "Don't worry, I'm no lady myself"

He was about to say bye to her when he remembered. "Wait, what's your name?"

She smiled thinking how awkward was it to ask for one's name after an hour long conversation. "Sora, and yours?"

"Tai. It was nice talking to you Sora, you certainly brighten my day" he smiled, pointing at the now blue sky.

She blushed at his comment and laughed.

"Goodbye Tai"

"Bye Sora"

And they walked to different ways.