Phone Tag
By
Rob Logan
Warning:
This fic contains yaoi - guy/guy
relationships, including kissing. If this offends you, I recommend you turn
back now.
This fic is
rated lime, for slight detail, but no explicit sex.
It was a beautiful summer day. The
wind blew softly through the trees, making a slight whistle as it passed the
leaves. The sun shone down on the face of a couple of young boys, sprawled out
on the grass under a particularly gentle willow tree. They sat there quietly,
enjoying some homemade sushi.
Tai sat on the soft grass, directing
his chopsticks towards his meal. He looked down and laughed to see that he was
missing entirely. His mind was on other things. He looked back up across from
him and smiled. His lover Matt smiled back as he caught his gaze.
The two had been going out for about
a week now, since they had finally been able to admit their feelings towards
one another. It was about time. Even some of their friends had realized how
much they cared for each other before they had. Izzy had been the first to
suspect that there was something between them. Joe and Sora had been skeptical,
but Mimi had insisted they were cute together. Even T.K. had begun to wonder
why Matt seemed to have so little interest in the girls that swarmed him at
school.
"You seem distracted,"
Matt said with a grin. "What's up?"
"I was just thinking..."
Tai replied, putting down his chopsticks. "About how glad I am that I can
be here today," He stared into Matt's gorgeous blue eyes. "I love
you, you know that?"
Matt gaped. It was the first time
that Tai had said that out loud. There had been indications of it, of course,
but Matt wasn't completely sure that Tai felt the same way as he did. "I
love you too, Tai" He leaned towards him, grabbing him around the waste,
and giving him a deep kiss.
Tai felt a slight jump as Matt's
tongue began to run along his. He indulged right back, and began to pull Matt
down onto the ground with him.
They lay on the soft ground, focused
only on each other. Tai began to feel Matt's hand climb up his pant leg,
running up and resting on his hip. Then it moved upwards, sliding under his
shirt, as Matt's hand began to feel his chest. It began to play with his
nipples... pinching them softly, making Tai let out a soft mew from the back of
his throat. Matt's lips migrated to Tai's neck, sucking on it gently. Tai
opened his eyes, feeling suddenly awkward. He abruptly sat up, causing Matt to
rise with him.
"What's wrong?" Matt
asked, surprised, and trying to catch his breath.
Tai closed his eyes for a moment.
"I'm sorry, Matt... I can't do it... it's not you… it's just..."
Matt raised his hand to Tai's soft
cheek. "What is it?"
Tai paused and swallowed before
continuing. "It's... just so early... we've only been going out for a
week. I... I don't know if I'm ready."
Matt turned his view towards the
field. "Are you not sure about... about your feelings? Tai... are you
having second thoughts about us?"
Tai's view shifted up from the
ground back to the face of his boyfriend, "No... no, that's not it at all.
This is even better than I pictured it... I feel I can be so honest and open
with you... I've never felt that way about anyone before;" he paused
again, "I just don't want to spoil things... to do anything before we're both
ready. I really don't want to blow this, Matt... I don't want to do anything
that could hurt us."
Matt nodded understandingly.
"It's okay... listen, I'll be here for you. You gotta know that. Whenever
you're ready, I'll wait for you."
"Thanks Matt... for
understanding."
"No problem man, we're still
friends, no matter what."
Tai smiled and reached over to hug
Matt. He embraced him, holding him securely. Matt held him just as tight, his
heart thumping as he cradled his lover. They sat there for several minutes,
just holding each other, as they spread down onto the ground. Tai moved his
nose up against Matt's and smiled.
Matt smiled back. He reluctantly
raised one of his arms to grab a glance at his watch. "Hey, we should be
getting packed up pretty soon." Matt noted as they pulled from the
embrace. "It's getting on four... didn't your mom want you home by
five?"
Tai nodded, "Yeah, she wants me
to be home for dinner... but we've got a little time left" He smiled.
Matt smiled back. He wished moments
like this never had to end... Tai's gorgeous smile always made him feel like he
was the center of the universe... the way Tai looked at him... he felt he could
do anything.
"Want to go to the creek before
we head back?" Tai's words interrupted his thoughts. "Sure... maybe
we can go for a swim?" Matt suggested.
"Sure."
"Alright, let's go.." He
stood up and brushed himself off. "Oh, could you help me with the
basket?" he asked, picking up his plate and silverware and placing them
carefully back into the small wicker box. Tai picked up his dishes as well, and
placed them gently inside. He picked up the basket and placed the strap over
his shoulder.
Matt couldn't help but let out a
smirk. Tai looked up at him questioningly.
"What?"
Matt shook his head. "Sorry,
just the way you're holding it... it looks like a purse."
Tai laughed. "That'll be the
day... when I go out walking with a purse. Maybe a sunhat and a dress,
too."
Matt smiled, but seemed slightly
surprised. He walked up to Tai and put his hand on Tai's rear. "I think
you'd look kind of cute in a dress" He said with a big grin.
Tai was surprised and looked
slightly hurt. "Matt… you don't think of me that way, do you? Like a
girl?"
Matt slowly shook his head.
"No... I'm sorry; I didn't mean to offend you man. I dunno, you're just
more in touch with your feminine side... no offence."
"No offence?" Tai turned
around. He couldn't believe that Matt could think of him like that... As it
was, Tai had struggled with this issue when he realized he was gay. But for
people to think of him as the type who would dress up in drag? No... that
wasn't him. Not Tai... he was a jock, an average guy... not a fem. He didn't
like to think of himself that way. Like a complete faggot.
"Tai...
look -"
Tai turned back, and stared Matt in
the eyes. "No, you look here, Yamato. I'm the captain of my soccer team. I
like sports, getting dirty. I was popular with the girls; I could have had any
one I wanted. I'm not some nancy boy. No..." He shook his head as his
cheeks went red. "If you want a girl, you can go and find yourself one.
See if I care!" He threw the basket down to the ground with a clang.
"Call me when you can see me for the man I am!"
With that
he started walking off towards his house. Matt stood there dumbly, in shock.
"Tai, wait!" He yelled after him. He reached down and grabbed the
basket, and started chasing after him, but Tai just sped up. Matt stopped,
devastated. "I'm sorry Tai..."
"Wait up, I'm coming!"
Davis yelled as he threw a towel around his waist and ran out of the bathroom.
"Don't hang up!" He turned around the hall corner... but it was too
late. His sister had the phone.
"Matt!" She giggled
flirtfully. "You haven't called, how's it going? Hey, I watched all those
movies you told me about. They were all really good, just like you said they
were... then again, how could you ever be wrong?" She got interrupted as
Davis grabbed the phone and ran as fast as he could towards his room.
"DAVIS!!" he heard his sister scream at him as she gave chase after
the phone. She desperately grabbed at him in a last ditch to get it back, but
she ended up missing and knocking off his towel. Davis managed to slide into
his room and close the door just as she tripped, falling and face-planted into the
floor with a smack.
Davis looked
down and blushed. "Oh well,"
he thought. "No one's here but me
anyway." He put the phone up to his ear and hesitantly tested to see
if it was still on. "Matt?"
"Hey Davis, is that really
you?"
"No… it's Veemon's latest
digivolvement, Davisclonemon, what do you think?"
"Sorry. Thanks for saving me
from your sister, back there, I thought I was going to die..."
"Hah, you still haven't told
her about you and Tai, have you?"
Matt paused. "Actually, that's
what I'm kind of phoning about."
"Keeping secrets from my
sister? Oh, I really wouldn't worry about it, she's really not the brightest
gal -"
"No, no, about Tai... have you
heard from him at all today?"
"Not that I can think of...
why? Is something wrong?"
"We… we had a fight."
"What?? When, what was it
about?"
Matt sighed. "I don't know... I
said something that seemed to hurt Tai's feelings... baka...he's probably
really mad at me..."
"Slow down man… When was it,
and what exactly did you say?"
"Today… at the park. I just
made a crack about him being a pretty boy... he took it real hard.."
"Oh boy... you've really done
it now, man."
"What? Did I miss
something?"
"Hello, where have you been?
Tai's really sensitive about this stuff... you know how hard he took it when he
realized he was gay... the last thing he wants is to be looked at like a drag
queen... Matt, you've really got to apologize to him."
Matt just blinked. "Davis... no
offence man, but when did you get to be such an expert on relationships?"
"Oh, I've read all the books...
trust me, when you like someone like Kari, you can use all the psychological
know-how you can get.."
"Okay... well, thanks for the
help man... I'll be sure to call him. See ya."
"Yeah, okay, bye."
Matt sighed and hung up the phone. "How am I supposed to apologize to
him..? He was so mad... he probably won't even accept an apology. Ah, Taichi...
I wish I could do this whole day over... everything would be so
different..." He plopped down on his bed and stared at the roof. "What are you doing right now, anyways?
Are you thinking of me, too?"
Tai stared at the roof of his room,
wondering the exact same question. A single tear ran down his face. Maybe he
had been too hard on Matt… No, Matt had been a jerk! Tai refused to blame
himself for this. He wasn't a girly boy... he was just as masculine as any
straight guy. He shook his head. He wished he hadn't run off like that. Maybe
he and Matt could have worked things out... they could have talked. "Oh Yamato... why do we always have to
fight like this?" He jumped as his thoughts were interrupted by ring
of the telephone.
"Maybe
it's Matt..." he thought to himself. "Maybe he phoned to apologize... to admit he was wrong."
He reached out to grab his phone, but shook his head and stopped halfway.
"No. I'm not going to forgive him..." he rolled over onto his side
and let the phone ring, until finally the ringing stopped. Kari yelled to him
from the living room. "Tai! It's Matt, on the phone for you!"
"Tell him I don't wish to speak
to him!" He yelled back out to her. Kari blinked, surprised. "That's weird... I would have thought
that Tai would have jumped at the chance to talk to his boyfriend..."
She propped the phone back up to speak. "Sorry Matt, Tai... is busy right
now."
Matt frowned from the other side of
the line. "Is he busy... or does he just not want to talk to me?"
Kari was again surprised, knowing
that Matt would predict such a thing. "Um… well, actually-"
Matt cut her off soberly. "It's
okay... I get the idea. Bye." He hung up the phone without waiting for a
reply.
Kari stood there dazed. She hung up
the phone and walked up to Tai's bedroom, gently knocking on the door.
"Tai, are you okay in
there?"
He took a moment to respond.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Go away."
She felt she should be hurt; Tai
normally wasn't like that. But she had to understand, given the situation.
Something had to be wrong with those two. "What
could it be?"
"Okay... are you sure you don't
want to talk?"
Again he took a moment before
replying. "I'm sure, now leave me alone!"
"Wow," she thought to herself, "...he's really upset... I better find
out what's going on." She walked back into the living room and picked
up the phone. "T.K., you better be
home..."
"Okay Patamon, now it's your
turn." T.K. told his little friend as he finished moving his piece.
"Um... T.K., I still don't get
it.. what' the difference between the king and the queen? And what's this funny
lookin one here?"
T.K. sighed. "How many times do
we have to go over this?" He shook his head. "Okay... just for you,
I'll let you move whatever piece you want where you think it should go, as long
as it makes sence, okay?
Patamon smiled widely. "Okay,
he said, "I choose this one." He picked up the horse-shaped peice
with one of his small paws. "Pegasusmon, flying hope" He laughed.
"Star shower!" He said as he swooped his peice down and knocked all
of T.K.'s peices off the table onto the floor.
"Hey, that's cheating!"
T.K. managed as he laughed hardily. Just then, the phone rang. "Who could
that be?" He picked up the phone, just managing to fight off the last of
the giggles. "Hello?"
"T.K., this is Kari... look,
have you talked to Matt at all today?"
"Hey Kari...um, in the
morning... but then he went out with Tai somewhere. Why, what's wrong?"
"I think they've had a fight.
Tai's been locked up in his room ever since he got home, and when Matt called
earlier, Tai didn't want to speak to him..."
"No way... listen, Matt's gone
out for a walk, but I'll talk to him when he gets back, okay?"
"...No, actually... I think
it's better that I find out what's going on before we talk to them about
it."
"Oh... okay. Call me if you
find anything out, okay?"
"Sure. Bye!"
"Later."
Kari hung up the phone.
"Great..." she sighed. "Alright,
so T.K. doesn't know what's going on, and I already called Codi, Yoli's out of
town for the weekend... who else does that leave?" She sighed again.
She picked up the phone again and dialed. "Hello, is Davis there?
"Hey Kari! What's up?"
"Have you heard from Tai or
Matt today?"
"Yeah... Matt called me about
half an hour go. Why?"
Kari smiled on the other end.
Finally, this was getting somewhere. "Did he seem upset to you?"
"Well, yeah, sort of. Something
went down with him and Tai earlier."
"What was it? Listen, Tai's
really upset... I need to know what's going on."
"Uh... okay, well... all he
told me is that he made a joke, something about Tai being girly, and Tai got
really mad and took off."
She breathed deeply. "Oh... so
that's what set him off.... Listen, I've gotto go, thanks for the help,
bye!"
"Anytime -" he started,
but was cut off as she hung up.
Kari hung up the phone. She thought
about calling T.K. back right away, but she reconsidered. She wanted to talk to
Tai about it first. She walked to his room. "Tai... can we talk?"
He waited a moment before answering.
"Fine, come in."
Kari opened the door and walked in.
Tai was lying on his bed, seemingly just staring at the wall. She sat down on
the bed beside him, but he didn't even seem to notice.
"Tai... what's wrong?"
He didn't turn around. "I don't
want to talk about it."
Kari sighed. Normally she wouldn't
press the issue, but it wasn't healthy for him to keep it to himself like this.
"Please... come on Tai, you've been acting like a zombie ever since you
got back. If I didn't know better I'd think you had been possessed by a black
gear." She smiled. He half-smiled as well, even though she couldn't see
it.
"Maybe
I am being a little unfair..." he thought to himself, "the last thing I want to do is scare
her." He rolled over to face her. "I'm sorry... it hasn't been a
very good day."
"I noticed," she joked.
Her grin turned to a sympathetic smile. "What happened to get you so
upset?"
"It was.... nothing, it was no
big deal."
"Tai..."
"..."
"It was Matt, wasn't it?"
"... Is it that obvious?"
She let out a half smile. "Uh
huh. What did Yamato do to get you locking yourself in your room for
hours?"
He didn't answer. Just then the
phone rang. "I've got it," Kari told him, and ran to the phone.
"Hello?"
"Hey, what happened?" the
familiar voice of T.K. asked form the other end, "I thought you were gonna
call me back."
"Oh, hey T.K. Sorry, I got
distracted."
"It's okay... did you find
anything out?"
"Not much. Apparently Matt made
a crack about Tai, and he took it the wrong way."
T.K. nodded. "Doesn't sound
like something to make him get that upset though, does it?"
"No, not really. But you know
Tai... he may act pretty brave, but he can be really sensitive..."
"Yeah, I guess..." T.K.
thought for a moment. "Well, will Tai talk to you about it at least?"
"Nope. He's being stubborn. I
just don't know what to do, T.K. I really don't like seeing him sad."
T.K. nodded in symphony. "Listen,
I've got an idea..."
"What is it?"
"Well, I'll handle the
details... but do you think you can get Tai to the school computer lab in about
an hour? Just tell him it's an emergency in the digiworld or something."
"I'll try."
"Good. Well, I'll see you there
then, okay?"
"Alright... bye T.K."
"Bye."
T.K. hung up the phone. Patamon was
sitting on the desk beside him.
"What are you guys up to,
T.K.?"
"Well, you'll just have to wait
and see, now won't you buddy?" he smiled as he grabbed his little friend
and gave him a slight noogie.
"Hey, lemme go!" Patamon
laughed.
Kari walked over to Tai's bedroom
again. "I'm back" she informed him quietly.
Tai didn't turn to face her.
"Who was it?" he asked her, trying to pretend he didn't care.
"It was just T.K."
"Oh..." Tai unwillingly
let out a slight sigh of disappointment.
"Were you hoping... it would be
Matt?"
Tai turned around swiftly.
"Don't be stupid, I don't want to talk to that jerk..."
"Okay, sorry…" she backed
down, "Oh, that reminds me... the reason T.K. called; there's something
weird going on in the digiworld. I'm supposed to meet him at the high school...
could you come with me please?"
Tai was slow to answer.
"...Well, I guess. If it's for the good of the digital world." "Besides," he thought, "maybe it will help me get my mind off
Matt."
"Thanks." Kari smiled.
"That was easier than I thought."
she thought to herself.
"Okay, wait a second. Just what
did Kari say?" Matt asked his brother as he threw on his jacket.
"She said that there's a crisis
in the digiworld, and she needs us to get down to the school as fast as
possible." T.K. tugged his hat on and walked towards the door.
"Alright," Matt nodded.
"Let's go."
Tai and Kari walked into the
computer lab. "Hello, T.K.? Anybody home?" Kari called out. There was
no response. Kari turned to Tai, "Looks like they're not here yet."
Tai nodded his head. "Why don't
we check out the situation." He walked towards one of the computers and
sat down.
"No!" Kari shot out. She
paused as Tai gave her an odd look. "... I mean... um, maybe we should
wait until the others get here."
"Uh... okay." He stood
back up, and walked over to the window on the other side of the room. Kari,
breathing a small sigh, walked over to the wall and leaned back on it.
"Sorry we're late!" A
voice burst from the doorway. Tai turned around to face the boy, and found
himself facing Matt.
Matt stood dumbstruck.
"Tai..." he started. T.K. came up from behind him and half-entered
the doorway.
Tai shifted his eyes from the blond
over to his sister, giving her a slight glare. "What's he doing here?"
Matt interrupted her. "Kari
called and told us that there was something up in the digital world." He
glanced at his brother. "T.K. gave me the message and we got down here as
soon as we could."
"That's bull, and you know it,
Matt!" Tai looked at Matt, his face reflecting the obvious anger in his
voice. "T.K. called Kari, he was the one who told us to come here."
Matt looked at T.K., puzzled, then
at Kari. They both did their best innocent look, but he figured out the
situation nonetheless. He looked down. "You guys shouldn't have done
this," he said quietly to the younger siblings.
"Done what, Yamato? What are
you accusing us of now? Do you think Kari and I set something up, do you think
we did something to the digiworld just to get your attention?!"
"Don't you get it yet,
Tai?" Matt snapped, his eyes focused on the chestnut haired boy.
"There is nothing wrong with the digiworld!"
Tai gave a look of shock. "Then
why were we called down here?" He managed to maintain a scowl on his face.
Matt shook his head, with a slight
degree of disgust notable in his expression. "Our siblings were playing
matchmaker. They brought us here, hoping that we'd see each other and make
up."
Tai stood there with a stupid look
on his face. He turned to face Kari, only to see she was gone. "Baka..." he thought to himself,
"Matt must be right... and they
slipped out while we were fighting, too. I can't believe it... I was so mad at
Yamato I didn't even notice them leave..."
He looked up to see Matt's gorgeous blue eyes gazing at him. "What?"
he asked, almost having forgotten his anger at the boy.
Matt started to speak, but stopped
himself. "No," he thought,
"he's too stubborn, he won't forgive
me, even if just out of spite.." He turned around. "Let's
leave... it looks like there's nothing here to save anyway."
Tai nodded. "Yeah, this was
pointless. They were just being stupid kids." He stood, a glint of sadness
in his eyes.
Matt walked to the door and turned
the knob. Click. He tried again, but
it wouldn't open. "What the..." he said to himself.
Tai heard Matt's gentle voice.
"What?" he asked him, and walked up to the door.
"It's the door... I think it's
locked!"
"You've gotta be kidding
me..." Tai said, "Outta the way, let me try." He twisted the
doorknob, to no avail. He tried a couple more times, then turned to Matt.
"They must have locked us in!"
Matt sighed. "Great," he
said under his breath. He looked out the window and scanned best he could for
Kari and T.K., but they were nowhere to be seen. He turned his back to the door
and slouched down to the floor beside it. "T.K. is so dead when I get
home..."
"Yeah... Kari too." Tai
looked down at Matt. He wanted to lean down beside him and hold him... but he
couldn't. No matter how much he wanted to. "He would probably take me back..." he thought to himself. "But no, I can't do that to myself. I know he
loves me... but I need more than that. I need him to respect me..." He
shifted his eyes, and looked back out the door window.
Matt gazed up at Tai. "He's so stubborn..." he thought.
"I want to tell him I'm sorry, to
stand up there, and look into his eyes, and see that gorgeous smile..."
He wanted to reach up and kiss him, and tell him everything was going to be
alright. But it was pointless to dream.
Tai slowly slouched down beside him.
"We could try to pick the lock..."
Matt shook his head. "With
what?"
Tai paused. "We could call for
help.."
Matt interrupted him. "The
phone lines don't reach outside of the school."
"Well... we could climb out the
window."
Matt couldn't help but look at him
and smile. "Are you that desperate to get away from me, Taichi?"
Tai looked at him, surprised.
"Matt..."
Matt looked into Tai's eyes.
"Tai... I'm sorry... what I said earlier... I didn't mean it... I -"
Tai interrupted him this time, his eyes getting slightly cloudy. "Matt... don't speak." He reached his hand,
resting it on Matt's cheek, reaching out, and placing his lips on Matt's.
Matt was taken off guard, but leaned
in towards Tai, putting one of his hands on the back of the brunette's head,
and the other wrapping around his waist. Tai leaned in closer. He pushed Matt
back until he was lying on the ground, and went right down after him.
Tai moved his lips from Matt's own,
down to the side of his neck. Matt let out a slight whimper of pleasure.
"Tai..."
Tai barely moved his lips off of
Matt to reply. "What?"
"About… earlier..."
Tai moved his face up to Matt's,
resting his own nose against the blonde's. "It's okay... It's all
forgotten. I love you..."
Matt looked into Tai's eyes. "I
love you too, Tai..." His lips locked onto Tai's, as his lover put his
arms around him.
Kari smiled and looked at T.K., who
gave her five. She slipped the key into the slot, and unlocked it. She then
turned back to T.K., who took her arm, and they walked down the hall.
Tai and Matt didn't notice the
unlocked door for quite some time.
Well, what did you think? Remember,
this is my first fanfic, so I wasn't expecting any miracles ^-^. Comments, or
even constructive criticism would be appreciated. You can reach me at
heero_fan@gundamwing.net
Thank you for reading!
