Matt woke up with startle.
He was sweating madly. The salty liquid trickled down to the crisp white sheets.
He carefully rubbed his temple. Turning on the lights he slides to the side of the bed, and swung his feet down to the carpeted floor.
He was again, in a hotel room.
Alone.
Damn it.
It was one of those nights, when you wake up and ask yourself, 'Where am I?'
And every single time, there were my friends always there to support me.
Well I never like to show how much I appreciate them evidently, so I'll normally put on this act of coldness.
That I am my own man.
Yamato Ishida all grown up.
'Yeah, right!' I said mocking myself.
Not this girl, somehow she knew better than myself.
All my flaws, my weakness, and even my secrets!
Hell I'll never figured out how she had guessed it.
I'll have to guess that she's really good at guessing.
If there's any person that could put me back on my feet, it's her.
Even if I get my ego to the size of infinity she still manages to pull through to me.
So everytime, I feel lost I'll call her.
And that's exactly what I'm going to do right now.
Matt bend forward to the bedside table and grabbed his cell phone and leveled it to his ears.
"Moron." He said with a sigh.
The phone registered the word and voiced dialed Sora's number.
Don't get me all wrong.
I was saving her number on my phone, when 'I' not noticing where I was walking slammed right onto a signboard.
A seven year old kid who happens to ride past us on his bicycle saw me fell on my butt. With his eyelids pulled to the side the kid grinned and yelled.
"MORON!" Laughing his head at me.
Then my phone beeped. Signaling that it had save Sora's number under the voice dialed command 'Moron'.
I wanted to change it, but Sora insisted on using it. She said…
"Come on! It'll be a good joke!"
After much of hesitating, I surrendered. She sure was right about it being a good joke.
One day while I was in the transit link, I got this urged to call her. So I said the word.
All I remembered after that was being kicked out by the train conductor with a black eye.
"Moshi Mosh."
The sound of her sugar sweet voice pulled me back to reality.
"YA-MA-TO…" She said in low goofy voice.
I laughed.
How sweet it was to be able to laugh again.
"Hi beautiful." I greeted in the most seductive voice.
There was a pause from her.
Somehow I could feel herself blushing at the end of the phone.
A large grin spread across my face, I always enjoyed teasing her.
"Nice one, but I'm not falling for it! What's wrong?" She taunted.
"I'm sitting in a hotel room, that's too…" He muted thinking for a suitable word. "Unfilled. And I think I have no idea where I am. What's my purpose in life and What I'm doing here." Matt complained.
"You're in Malaysia, singing at the opening for the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant, supposedly pursuing your ultimate dream to be the no. 1 man in music history." Sora assured him.
Matt tried to process the information Sora just gave to him.
He slowly got up and tucked the curtain to the side the get the view of the city.
"It looks just like Tokyo," Matt described to her.
"You miss us." Sora mocked.
"Do not!" Matt shirked.
"You are such a big liar." Sora said.
"Why?" Matt questioned. "I'm surrounded by Hot Gucci Mama's who adores me. I'm too busy to even have you on my mine right now."
"Oh, your busy?" Sora said, the tone of her voice scared him.
"Then you don't mind me putting down the phone then!"
"STOP! Sora! I'm joking!" He yelled desperately.
"Toooooooooooooooooot…" Sora said in an attempt to mimic the sound of the phone hanging up.
"That's the worst imitation of a phone I ever heard in my life." Matt berated.
"I miss you." She said softly, "We all miss you."
"If anyone bugs you, Just call me and I'll kick their ass!" Sora added.
"If anyone were to bug me it'll be you." Matt said blankly.
"I'll pluck every inch of your hair out, Matt!" Sora warned.
'Her voice is soo… calming.' Matt thought.
"Hey, it's probably 3 a.m. there in Malaysia. Don't you wanna get some sleep?" Sora asked him.
In her mind Sora knew.
It was one of days… that he called her… seeking for reassurance.
Even if he's too stubborn to admit it.
She knew.
"Come on! Let's talk some more, I'm not letting this phone down until you fall asleep! Okay?" Sora declared.
In his heart, Matt was relieved. Like a heavy weight was just lift up off his back.
They continued to chat the hold night.
Soon Matt's soft breathing was heard through the phone… from the sound of it, she could feel how tired he was.
Finally sure that he was fast asleep.
She did the same thing she always wanted to do, yelling into the phone.
"GANBATTE!!"
Sora puts down the phone blushing madly.
It has been a routine to do that.
Everytime he called her, she would do exact same thing.
Talk and when she knows he's asleep, she would scream those words into the receiver.
And he wouldn't know.
It's just this secret she have been keeping to herself.
Suddenly the chilled air started to get on her, she sneezed.
It was 6 a.m. when Matt called and she was in a middle of a bath.
That guy really know when to call a girl. The last time he called she was repairing a pipe. When she laughed, she pulled the screw to hard and the water burst out into the house.
'I really got grounded for that.'
Looking down she noticed that she was still all wet with shampoo still in her hair. Adjusting the clad towel higher to cover up from the chill, she quickly dashed for the bathroom to continue her bath.