Disclaimer: I don't own digimon, but sadly, this story's all mine :\

Author's note: Well, I'm going to consider this a "Taiora epic" lots of chapters, lots of twist and turns but I've started a system in which I won't post a new chapter until I have at least the next one in line so that in case of writers block, I can still update as usual :) If it gets a little weird at some points, I can't help it, it's based on a true story with a few significant changes (to make it fit) and a few other small ones. Also, I've made the school system entirely Americanized because otherwise the plot wouldn't fit :\ Anyway, hope you enjoy :)

Dedication: To Tomo-chan, because I do "miss you immensely".

Chapter 1

"So?!" Tai asked anxiously the very second his best friend was in sight. Five sets of eyes were glued on the red-head as they awaited her reaction. "Well," she said and looked down sadly. As if on queue, the five slumped down in their chairs with an equally disappointed look.

"I made it!!!" she laughed and quickly threw her arms around Mimi, who had jumped up in excitement. "Congratulations Sora," Matt smiled coolly from his seat. "I knew you'd make it! I knew it!" Tai exclaimed, smiling so wide it hurt. He stood up as well and smushed Sora into another hug so that she was left gasping for air.

Giddy with success she continued laughing, "Thanks guys, I really appreciate it!" They nodded and laughed some more but with that, Sora sat down and conversation proceeded as usual. There was no dwelling on it, no second thought, no reason for any of them to assume that that conversation would be what would eventually destroy their friendship.

No one had really given it much thought, not even Sora. She was a straight A student, always at the top of the class, so when a new gifted high school opened up in Tokyo, it seemed only procedure for her to apply.

And really, she didn't think she had the slightest chance of actually making it. She was competing against the top kids of her own school and those surrounding for a slot. She did it only so she could say she had done it, not so she could say she made it.

But somehow, grueling hours of essays, tests, and interviews later, she had been accepted. She had opened the letter that evening after soccer practice, read it, and almost immediately tossed it aside. It wasn't until two hours later when her mother asked to see the letter, did she realize that she had been accepted.

The bell rang and Tai and Sora bid their goodbyes to the rest of the group, heading for there first class. (Somehow they had managed to score the exact same schedule this year) As they walked, Taichi would glance over every now and again, smile, and extort, "Man, I knew you would get it." Sora would then laugh and smile back, ever since the beginning Tai had encouraged her whole-heartedly.

In the week before her expectance letter Sora had been …less then optimistic. She guaranteed everyone that she had no chance of getting in but Tai had never believed her. "Sora," he assured her, "There is no way you won't make it. You're at the top of the class, president of the SGA, you've got tons of community service hours. You're a shoe in."

For a while, Tai was actually considering applying to Tokyo Academy for the Gifted and Talented as well. "I hate it here," he explained one day during P.E., glancing angrily at the jocks throwing basketball at the nerds AN: *sniffles * darned jocks, "You're the only person here I can stand." Sora shifted her attention from the jock/nerd battle and looked at Taichi with a blush, "Well, what about the rest of the digidestined?" "Well, yeah, you know what I mean," he said, and walked off to help the nerds.

Of course, Tai was Tai and those plans quickly fell through. Day after day she would pester him to fill out the application until finally, one day, he snapped. "Look, it's none of your business okay?!" he yelled as the walked to lunch. Sora stopped dead in her tracks. It had been a long time since Tai had risen his voice to her.

"I was only trying to help," she said meekly. Tai sighed, "I know, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have gotten angry with you. It's just…you know…things.." Sora tried to get him to explain, but it was to no avail. Afterwards, her asking about the application lessened, as she feared another outburst from Tai. In the end, Tai never even turned it in.

Sora recalled all this as they walked in silence to class. "I wish you had turned your application in," she spoke softly, beginning to realize the fact that she was going to a new school and Tai wouldn't be there. He frowned and shrugged, "You know I wouldn't have made it. My grades are terrible."

"That's only because you don't try!" She yelled in frustration. "You're brilliant when you want to be, you would have aced the entrance exam and they would have been forced to take you." Tai looked down guiltily at the ground. 

Sora had always had unfaltering faith in him, but he could never understand why; it seemed like he was always disappointing her. For years she had been encouraging him to bring his grades up and do his homework, but he had ignored her requests and saw the letdown in her face every time she glanced at his report card. Now this, all he had to do was turn in a sheet of a paper, and he had somehow let her down again.

In first period they took their usual seats side by side just as the bell rang. "You're not mad at me…are you?" Tai asked, worried that his companion was being unusually quiet. "Of course not Taichi," she whispered back as Mr. Yegemi began talking about the lesson plan for the week, "It's just, I'm-"

"Miss Takenouchi?" Yegemi interrupted menacingly. Sora's head popped up immediately, giving full attention to her teacher. "If you and Mr.Kamiya are going to be planning you're wedding, please do so outside of my class room," he said, evoking light laughter from the class. Sora sank in her chair with a blush, silently thankful she hadn't asked Mr.Yegemi for a recommendation to TAGAT (Tokyo Academy for the Gifted and Talented that is). Tai glared threateningly at those who had laughed and then sat coolly back in his seat, giving an indifferent look to his teacher.

Noticing this, Sora kicked him hard in the shin and threw a fake smile to Mr.Yegemi so class could resume once again. She quickly took out her notebook and began jotting down notes furiously, shaking her head slightly and making sure not to look at her friend. 

Tai smiled widely at her behavior, Sora was such a goody-two-shoes. And because you're such a slacker, you're about to lose her, he reminded himself. Awkwardly, he reached for his empty notebook, coughed a little to hide the noise he was making,…and for the first time ever, began taking notes.

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Chapter 2 should be up soon :) Reviews are much appreciated!!!

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