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I think I did it again
Chapter one
Sora Tachenouchi closed her eyes and wished desperately that she was somewhere else. A deserted island in the south pacific would be just great. She opened her eyes. Nope still in the school cafeteria with everyone staring at her.
" Please Sora, please just give me one last chance," Daemon Bean pleaded her, he knelt on the lino cafeteria floor and stared up at her with hopeful eyes.
She really really hated doing this. They'd only been out once. She'd thought that he was cute and he was really good in the school show. She'd thought that he'd be nice and they would be able to talk about something interesting for once. But of course he had turned out to be a totally self- obsessed freak, who was to busy drooling over her than to have a proper conversation. She should have been used to this by now.
She'd only told him that she didn't feel right about going out with him again. They didn't have anything in common and she just wasn't attracted to him. But here he was begging for her to forgive him right in the middle of the school lunchroom.
" I'm sorry Daemon, your a nice guy but I just don't want to go out with you," She whispered, trying to hide her voice from the rest of the cafeteria.
" I don't understand Sora. We were getting on so well. I thought this could be a wonderful relationship. I think I'm starting to fall in-"
Oh for godsake, they had only been out once! Why did he suddenly start using that 'L' word again?
" Look I'm sorry Daemon but there's nothing there, sorry," She walked out of the cafeteria before he could use that stupid word. Every head turned to watch her leave.
In Sora's opinion there was no such thing as 'Love' that's just something some nieve person made up a long time ago. She'd been out with a hundred boys this year and she'd never once felt 'Love' even though they insisted it was.
What was everyone's problem, why did they all have to chase after her? All right, most girls would die to be in her position, but she hated it. She hated every body thinking that she was some stupid bimbo. She hated having a trail of guys following her, asking her out at every chance they got. She hated having a trail of girls' follow her everywhere doing exactly what she did. Wearing exactly what she wore, doing their hair just like her, talking just like her. Why couldn't people just go and get there own lives for once. Why was all of her so called friends just like a flock of sheep? Maybe she should go jump off a cliff, they'd properly follow her straight away.
" Please!" Daemon Bean cried hysterically as he ran after Sora Tachenouchi.
" That is so pathetic," Tai Kamiya mumbled into his hamburger. He started finishing his lunch now that the show had finished.
" There goes another one, sucked in by Sora Tachenouchi. Poor guy he'll never be the same," Matt Ishida shook his head sadly.
" I don't know what everyone gets so worked up about there's nothing special about her," Tai muttered,
" What are you talking about! She's the hottest most popular girl in school!" matt cried,
" So, she's a shallow get around. Looks don't make up for a missing personality,"
" Yeah but they sure help," Davis laughed,
" Have you ever bothered to actually speak to her?" matt asked his bestfriend,
" There's so many guys after her I haven't ever got the chance. Anyway I don't see why so many guys are always after her,"
" Actually she's not a bimbo," Izzy another of Tai's friends said from the end of their table, " She's quite smart,"
" Why do you say that?" Davis asked looking horrified,
" Well . . .I've spoken to her before,"
" When? You never told us!" Davis cried,
" It wasn't relevant. We worked together in the library once after school. She actually understood what I was talking about as well,"
" Now that's scary," Davis whispered,
" She's actually very nice, I don't think you should judge her before you know her Tai,"
" Would you go out with her?" Davis asked Izzy,
" Uhhh . . .that's not relevant either,"
" I'm only asking, you like her don't you! You would!"
" Lot's of guys like her . . .it's nothing to be ashamed of," Izzy whispered as he blushed furiously,
" What about you Joe, would you?" He asked the boy sitting opposite Izzy with his nose stuffed in a biology book.
" No! She's a she devil that girl! Do you know what she doe's to guys? She reels them in like fish. Then totally fall head over heels in love for her, like she wants and then she dumps them. Because she likes to see them cry. It gives her some weird kick," Joe told them frantically
" Tai?"
" No, I'm going with Joe on this one. Come on you guys just saw what she did to daemon. I've actually seen to girls have a bitch fight over him. My sister reckons he's the hottest guy in school and Sora just went over there and broke his heart. Do you guys really want to end up like that?"
" If I can have a piece of her first, of course I do!" matt laughed,
Tai groaned trust his friends to keep their brains in their pants.
Tai had to admit that she was attractive, it was hard not to. She had a great figure, a beautiful smile, shiny long red hair and sparkling amber eyes. But he'd rather go out with someone he could actually talk to. Dating a girl just because she was hot is totally pathetic. He liked girls who stuck out from the crowd. Girls who weren't afraid to go against other peoples expectations, girls with an arty flare. He would never fall for some selfish shallow rich girl.
" Yeah well maybe you should try and talk to her Tai. I bet you'd totally fall for her," matt laughed,
" Or trip over his shoes and stutter like a gerbil," Davis sniggered,
Tai glanced at his cars digital clock, 5:36am the red dial read. All right maybe he was crazy to get up so early on a Saturday morning, but these shots would be worth it. Tai had discovered a couple of years ago that he shared his little sisters' photographic talent. At the moment his photography class had been given an assignment to ' capture the city'. Straight away he'd had a flock of inspiration. He was going to go out and capture on film the part of city that people rarely saw. The still errie side, that hide away from the rest of the world.
Right now he was heading for a hill just outside the city, from here he could see the whole city laid out before him. But even though he could see all the life, he was at such a distant that it seemed a whole world away. The sun raise would add to the gentleness of this picture.
He parked his car and took his camera out of the trunk. He stepped over the dewy grass and started to walk down the hill. He paused as he saw another figure sitting on the ground busying herself in something. She was right in his shot. He'd have to go and set up infront of her.
He frowned as he realised the red headed figure was actually Sora Tachenouchi.
Why the hell would she be out so early, he thought she would be at home getting her beauty sleep.
He walked down the slippery grassy hill. His curiosity begun to creep up on him, he couldn't help it. He slowly walked behind her and pierced over her shoulder at what she was doing.
The most beautiful painting of a sunset was sat on her lap. It was so realistic that Tai felt the rest of the world was just a painting and this was reality. She had captured the essence of the scene infront of her perfectly. He'd never seen anyone paint so well.
" Don't worry I know it's crap. You don't have to tell me that," She said casually,
He jumped a little surprised that she knew he was there.
" No. . .It's . . .It's really good," he whispered a little shocked,
" Thanks . . .I think," She laughed,
" Sorry. I just haven't seen anything that good in a long time,"
" Yeah right," She sniggered,
" Seriously, are you in art class at school?"
" Yeah. So why are you up so early on a Saturday?" She asked curiously.
" Oh. . Ummm. . ." He had totally forgotten why he was out on that hillside so early in the morning," I wanted to take some photos of the sunrise and the city," he told her,
" Well pull up a piece of grass and snap away," She offered him, " I'm Sora,"
" Tai, Tai Kamiya,"
He pulled out his camera of its bag and paused.
" Why do want to paint here?" he asked her,
" I don't know. . .there's just something about the stillness of the city. It's like your looking down on all of these people's lives but none of them can touch you. Like your a god or something,"
His heart seemed to flip over in his throat. No one could explain what he'd felt about this place better than she just did.
He knelt down on the grass and started adjusting his lens. He took a few photos just to make sure they all turned out all right.
She swirled her brush in the jar of water next to her and sighed as she started to sweep another orange across her page.
" You sound pissed," He commented,
" Yeah I am," she muttered softly,
" Let me take a wild guess and say it's got something to do with Daemon bean?"
" Oh.. I guess you caught that performance in the cafeteria . . .sorry about that,"
" Don't worry, I like a little entertainment with my lunch. Do you think you could come and liven up breakfast at my house?"
She started laughing. He hadn't realised just how musical it would be.
It felt good to laugh, she hadn't done that for a while.
" Well is that why your pissed?"
" A little of it is,"
He nodded knowingly, he wasn't about to go preying into her business.
" Actually that's not just the start of why I'm pissed off. I'm pissed off because he started acting like I'd just run away from him at the alter or something, when I'd only gone out with him once and there was no way he could think that date went well. All he talked about was himself and he wasn't even remotely interested on what I had to say. If really thought I'd want to go through that night of boredom again he must be absolutely made. And I'm really pissed off with my friends calling me and going on about how Daemon such a good looking guy and we would look so great together, asthough they don't even care about what I want. Not that any of them can actually see outside there own selfish orbit. They're all to busy painting their nails and looking in the mirror to even notice I'm unhappy. The only thing they actually notice about me is how I'm wearing my hair or what clothes I just brought. Do you know I can't actually wear by hair in the same style twice because they all are? And they always have to do everything that I do. Last month I told them I was going vegetarian just to see what they did, then they all suddenly go veggie to. Last week I said I hated N-sync so they all got rid of their posters and brought U2 CDs. I mean come on what is wrong with people. Why can't they just get their own lives? Why do they have to have MINE!"
" Oh . . .well I guess those are pretty good reasons to be pissed," He smiled sympathetically.
" Oh I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to start chewing your ear off or anything. I just really needed to get that off my chest,"
" And do you feel better now that you have?"
" Yeah I do," She smiled thankfully,
" Glad I could be of service. There's just one thing, if you really don't like those guys why do you still hang out with them?"
" I can't get rid of them. Believe me I've tried. This is about the only place no one can bother me. It's where I come to think,"
" Sorry, I didn't mean to spoil that for you,"
" No you're not bothering me! It's really nice to be able to talk to someone for a change. I can't actually talk to anyone,"
" Why not?"
" Because no one understands,"
" Well I understand. Of course I don't know what it's like to be the most popular girl in school and have about every guy after you. But I know how you feel about the whole superficial face of high school,"
" I'm glad someone else can see what a shit hole this place is,"
" Is not the place, it's the people,"
" Yeah that's it,"
" It's the fact that everyone seems to expect something from you and if you step out of what they expect, they all start talking about you. Of course it's not as bad for boys as it is for girls. I mean we can go around do what we like with who we like and get praised for it. You guys do that and you get branded as . . ." He suddenly trailed off as he remembered some of the rumours he had heard about Sora.
" Slut's, get arounds, whores, yeah I know what people say about me Tai. And just to clear the air none of it's true,"
" I. . .uh. . .I never said it was,"
" Yeah but you thought it didn't you / I know what it's like, guys want to look cool so they say stuff in the locker room. Spread rumours,"
" Well I try not to believe in rumours,"
" Every one believes what they hear. People say they don't, but deep down they do,"
" Well I don't. I don't think your anything of what they say you are Sora. I've only been sitting here speaking to you for a quarter hour and I think you're really nice. You're not your average bimbo,"
" Uh. . .thanks," She laughed and smiled up at him.
Something twanged in his heart as he realised that gorgeous smile was for him. Her eyes lit up everytime she smiled, they seemed to glow with light and life.
" Can I have a look at your book?" he asked trying to change the subject and keep his mind from wander somewhere it hadn't been before.
" My sketch book?" She ran her hand above her finished painting and frowned as she thought, " If you'd like. They're not very good though.
Not very good, that was the world's biggest understatement. He looked through each page of the bursting folder trying not to miss a single detail. Every scene, every figure, every single sketch and painting seemed to buzz with life asthough it was about to get up and walk off the page. He'd never seen such talent from an ordinary person before.
" I don't normally let people look through my book," She told him nervously as he stared down at a page.
" You should you know. You should put these up somewhere. I bet people would pay millions for one of these. They're incredible. Really, their brilliant,"
A touch of red blushed across her cheeks.
" Why don't you think their any good?"
" Oh I don't know. My Dad doesn't like them. I guess I just listen to him more than I should,"
" Well you shouldn't their fantastic! He must be crazy if he doesn't like them. Your really talented Sora,"
" Hmmm," She smiled shyly. It meant allot to her for someone to actually compliment her painting without wanting something in return.
" Are you a photographer then?"
" Yeah, I like to say I am anyway. That's what I'm going to study after senior year. How about you?"
" Oh I don't know yet. I haven't decided," She said sceptically, " So what are you planning to do with the rest of your Saturday?"
" Go home and watch cartoons while I have a huge breakfast. Then just you know hang out,"
" Sounds like fun," She laughed,
" Yeah I know I'm a geek but that's been my routine for the last eight years and I'm not ready to give it up,"
" No it doe's sound like fun. I never get to just laze around the house anymore. My stepmums always trying to push me out and getting me to do something,"
" Well do you want . . .to come out and hang out at my apartment?" he asked carefully.
" That would be really cool," She smiled at him, " Unless I'll mess up your routine," She raised her eyebrows at him.
" Well . . .I think we can work around that," He said sarcastically.
They packed up their things and headed back to his car.
" Tai that's disgusting!" Kari Tai's little sister cried as coke ran out of his nose, " You are such a jerk!"
Sora hugged herself, she seriously thought her sides were going to split with laughter. She hadn't had so much fun since . . .since she couldn't even remember.
Tai was so different from anyone she knew. He was so fun to be around, his presence was so lively and intoxicating it was almost a challenge to not let yourself go. They had spent all morning and most of the afternoon just hanging out in his apartment. His sister had almost had a heart attack when she Sora there. But Kari was just like Tai, she was easy to talk to and very lively. Sora and her had instantly got along great. The three of them had made a huge ice cream sundae with malterseres, chopped up mars bars, skittles and brownies mixed in together. Then they had watched cartoons until twelve then had a junk food lunch and now they were watching The Waterboy, probably one of the funniest films in history according to Tai.
The best thing about being here was that Sora felt totally relaxed. She was just being herself and so were they. Tai was so warm and funny Sora knew he felt totally at ease with being himself. Something that allots of people especially boys seemed to find hard to do around her. She had only known Tai and Kari for a day, but she already felt as though this was her second home.
Tai wiped his nose with the back of his sleeve.
" Sorry about that," he grinned,
" Errr, why are you always so gross!" Kari cried as she threw her shoe at him, the closet thing to her hand.
" Alright no need to get violent Kari," He said calmly.
" Oh my god is that time!" Sora suddenly exclaimed, " I was meant to baby- sit for my brother an hour ago. My stepmum is going to kill me," She leapt out of her set.
" Your not going already are you?" Tai asked,
" I've got to. I am soooooo late. Thanks for having me Tai, I'll see you at school okay? It was really cool meeting you Kari see you soon!"
" See you Sora!" Kari called,
" Bye " Tai called as she ran out of the front time, he stared at the door with a small smile on his face. Well he had been totally wrong about her. Sora was not only totally drop dead gorgeous she was smart, witty, sweet, kind, athletic, artistic and she wasn't afraid to be herself.
" Ahh poor Tai. Your not going all ready are you?" Kari quoted him in a mockingly sad voice.
" Shut up Kari," Tai snapped.
" Love is in the air. Every where I look- ooowwwww!" She cried as a pillow crashed down in her head.
" Shut up Kari!"
" That's it Tai your dead!" Kari screamed as she turned on him ready for a pillow war.
Authors note- Well that's the first chapter, its going to get better so stick around. R+R!
I think I did it again
Chapter one
Sora Tachenouchi closed her eyes and wished desperately that she was somewhere else. A deserted island in the south pacific would be just great. She opened her eyes. Nope still in the school cafeteria with everyone staring at her.
" Please Sora, please just give me one last chance," Daemon Bean pleaded her, he knelt on the lino cafeteria floor and stared up at her with hopeful eyes.
She really really hated doing this. They'd only been out once. She'd thought that he was cute and he was really good in the school show. She'd thought that he'd be nice and they would be able to talk about something interesting for once. But of course he had turned out to be a totally self- obsessed freak, who was to busy drooling over her than to have a proper conversation. She should have been used to this by now.
She'd only told him that she didn't feel right about going out with him again. They didn't have anything in common and she just wasn't attracted to him. But here he was begging for her to forgive him right in the middle of the school lunchroom.
" I'm sorry Daemon, your a nice guy but I just don't want to go out with you," She whispered, trying to hide her voice from the rest of the cafeteria.
" I don't understand Sora. We were getting on so well. I thought this could be a wonderful relationship. I think I'm starting to fall in-"
Oh for godsake, they had only been out once! Why did he suddenly start using that 'L' word again?
" Look I'm sorry Daemon but there's nothing there, sorry," She walked out of the cafeteria before he could use that stupid word. Every head turned to watch her leave.
In Sora's opinion there was no such thing as 'Love' that's just something some nieve person made up a long time ago. She'd been out with a hundred boys this year and she'd never once felt 'Love' even though they insisted it was.
What was everyone's problem, why did they all have to chase after her? All right, most girls would die to be in her position, but she hated it. She hated every body thinking that she was some stupid bimbo. She hated having a trail of guys following her, asking her out at every chance they got. She hated having a trail of girls' follow her everywhere doing exactly what she did. Wearing exactly what she wore, doing their hair just like her, talking just like her. Why couldn't people just go and get there own lives for once. Why was all of her so called friends just like a flock of sheep? Maybe she should go jump off a cliff, they'd properly follow her straight away.
" Please!" Daemon Bean cried hysterically as he ran after Sora Tachenouchi.
" That is so pathetic," Tai Kamiya mumbled into his hamburger. He started finishing his lunch now that the show had finished.
" There goes another one, sucked in by Sora Tachenouchi. Poor guy he'll never be the same," Matt Ishida shook his head sadly.
" I don't know what everyone gets so worked up about there's nothing special about her," Tai muttered,
" What are you talking about! She's the hottest most popular girl in school!" matt cried,
" So, she's a shallow get around. Looks don't make up for a missing personality,"
" Yeah but they sure help," Davis laughed,
" Have you ever bothered to actually speak to her?" matt asked his bestfriend,
" There's so many guys after her I haven't ever got the chance. Anyway I don't see why so many guys are always after her,"
" Actually she's not a bimbo," Izzy another of Tai's friends said from the end of their table, " She's quite smart,"
" Why do you say that?" Davis asked looking horrified,
" Well . . .I've spoken to her before,"
" When? You never told us!" Davis cried,
" It wasn't relevant. We worked together in the library once after school. She actually understood what I was talking about as well,"
" Now that's scary," Davis whispered,
" She's actually very nice, I don't think you should judge her before you know her Tai,"
" Would you go out with her?" Davis asked Izzy,
" Uhhh . . .that's not relevant either,"
" I'm only asking, you like her don't you! You would!"
" Lot's of guys like her . . .it's nothing to be ashamed of," Izzy whispered as he blushed furiously,
" What about you Joe, would you?" He asked the boy sitting opposite Izzy with his nose stuffed in a biology book.
" No! She's a she devil that girl! Do you know what she doe's to guys? She reels them in like fish. Then totally fall head over heels in love for her, like she wants and then she dumps them. Because she likes to see them cry. It gives her some weird kick," Joe told them frantically
" Tai?"
" No, I'm going with Joe on this one. Come on you guys just saw what she did to daemon. I've actually seen to girls have a bitch fight over him. My sister reckons he's the hottest guy in school and Sora just went over there and broke his heart. Do you guys really want to end up like that?"
" If I can have a piece of her first, of course I do!" matt laughed,
Tai groaned trust his friends to keep their brains in their pants.
Tai had to admit that she was attractive, it was hard not to. She had a great figure, a beautiful smile, shiny long red hair and sparkling amber eyes. But he'd rather go out with someone he could actually talk to. Dating a girl just because she was hot is totally pathetic. He liked girls who stuck out from the crowd. Girls who weren't afraid to go against other peoples expectations, girls with an arty flare. He would never fall for some selfish shallow rich girl.
" Yeah well maybe you should try and talk to her Tai. I bet you'd totally fall for her," matt laughed,
" Or trip over his shoes and stutter like a gerbil," Davis sniggered,
Tai glanced at his cars digital clock, 5:36am the red dial read. All right maybe he was crazy to get up so early on a Saturday morning, but these shots would be worth it. Tai had discovered a couple of years ago that he shared his little sisters' photographic talent. At the moment his photography class had been given an assignment to ' capture the city'. Straight away he'd had a flock of inspiration. He was going to go out and capture on film the part of city that people rarely saw. The still errie side, that hide away from the rest of the world.
Right now he was heading for a hill just outside the city, from here he could see the whole city laid out before him. But even though he could see all the life, he was at such a distant that it seemed a whole world away. The sun raise would add to the gentleness of this picture.
He parked his car and took his camera out of the trunk. He stepped over the dewy grass and started to walk down the hill. He paused as he saw another figure sitting on the ground busying herself in something. She was right in his shot. He'd have to go and set up infront of her.
He frowned as he realised the red headed figure was actually Sora Tachenouchi.
Why the hell would she be out so early, he thought she would be at home getting her beauty sleep.
He walked down the slippery grassy hill. His curiosity begun to creep up on him, he couldn't help it. He slowly walked behind her and pierced over her shoulder at what she was doing.
The most beautiful painting of a sunset was sat on her lap. It was so realistic that Tai felt the rest of the world was just a painting and this was reality. She had captured the essence of the scene infront of her perfectly. He'd never seen anyone paint so well.
" Don't worry I know it's crap. You don't have to tell me that," She said casually,
He jumped a little surprised that she knew he was there.
" No. . .It's . . .It's really good," he whispered a little shocked,
" Thanks . . .I think," She laughed,
" Sorry. I just haven't seen anything that good in a long time,"
" Yeah right," She sniggered,
" Seriously, are you in art class at school?"
" Yeah. So why are you up so early on a Saturday?" She asked curiously.
" Oh. . Ummm. . ." He had totally forgotten why he was out on that hillside so early in the morning," I wanted to take some photos of the sunrise and the city," he told her,
" Well pull up a piece of grass and snap away," She offered him, " I'm Sora,"
" Tai, Tai Kamiya,"
He pulled out his camera of its bag and paused.
" Why do want to paint here?" he asked her,
" I don't know. . .there's just something about the stillness of the city. It's like your looking down on all of these people's lives but none of them can touch you. Like your a god or something,"
His heart seemed to flip over in his throat. No one could explain what he'd felt about this place better than she just did.
He knelt down on the grass and started adjusting his lens. He took a few photos just to make sure they all turned out all right.
She swirled her brush in the jar of water next to her and sighed as she started to sweep another orange across her page.
" You sound pissed," He commented,
" Yeah I am," she muttered softly,
" Let me take a wild guess and say it's got something to do with Daemon bean?"
" Oh.. I guess you caught that performance in the cafeteria . . .sorry about that,"
" Don't worry, I like a little entertainment with my lunch. Do you think you could come and liven up breakfast at my house?"
She started laughing. He hadn't realised just how musical it would be.
It felt good to laugh, she hadn't done that for a while.
" Well is that why your pissed?"
" A little of it is,"
He nodded knowingly, he wasn't about to go preying into her business.
" Actually that's not just the start of why I'm pissed off. I'm pissed off because he started acting like I'd just run away from him at the alter or something, when I'd only gone out with him once and there was no way he could think that date went well. All he talked about was himself and he wasn't even remotely interested on what I had to say. If really thought I'd want to go through that night of boredom again he must be absolutely made. And I'm really pissed off with my friends calling me and going on about how Daemon such a good looking guy and we would look so great together, asthough they don't even care about what I want. Not that any of them can actually see outside there own selfish orbit. They're all to busy painting their nails and looking in the mirror to even notice I'm unhappy. The only thing they actually notice about me is how I'm wearing my hair or what clothes I just brought. Do you know I can't actually wear by hair in the same style twice because they all are? And they always have to do everything that I do. Last month I told them I was going vegetarian just to see what they did, then they all suddenly go veggie to. Last week I said I hated N-sync so they all got rid of their posters and brought U2 CDs. I mean come on what is wrong with people. Why can't they just get their own lives? Why do they have to have MINE!"
" Oh . . .well I guess those are pretty good reasons to be pissed," He smiled sympathetically.
" Oh I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to start chewing your ear off or anything. I just really needed to get that off my chest,"
" And do you feel better now that you have?"
" Yeah I do," She smiled thankfully,
" Glad I could be of service. There's just one thing, if you really don't like those guys why do you still hang out with them?"
" I can't get rid of them. Believe me I've tried. This is about the only place no one can bother me. It's where I come to think,"
" Sorry, I didn't mean to spoil that for you,"
" No you're not bothering me! It's really nice to be able to talk to someone for a change. I can't actually talk to anyone,"
" Why not?"
" Because no one understands,"
" Well I understand. Of course I don't know what it's like to be the most popular girl in school and have about every guy after you. But I know how you feel about the whole superficial face of high school,"
" I'm glad someone else can see what a shit hole this place is,"
" Is not the place, it's the people,"
" Yeah that's it,"
" It's the fact that everyone seems to expect something from you and if you step out of what they expect, they all start talking about you. Of course it's not as bad for boys as it is for girls. I mean we can go around do what we like with who we like and get praised for it. You guys do that and you get branded as . . ." He suddenly trailed off as he remembered some of the rumours he had heard about Sora.
" Slut's, get arounds, whores, yeah I know what people say about me Tai. And just to clear the air none of it's true,"
" I. . .uh. . .I never said it was,"
" Yeah but you thought it didn't you / I know what it's like, guys want to look cool so they say stuff in the locker room. Spread rumours,"
" Well I try not to believe in rumours,"
" Every one believes what they hear. People say they don't, but deep down they do,"
" Well I don't. I don't think your anything of what they say you are Sora. I've only been sitting here speaking to you for a quarter hour and I think you're really nice. You're not your average bimbo,"
" Uh. . .thanks," She laughed and smiled up at him.
Something twanged in his heart as he realised that gorgeous smile was for him. Her eyes lit up everytime she smiled, they seemed to glow with light and life.
" Can I have a look at your book?" he asked trying to change the subject and keep his mind from wander somewhere it hadn't been before.
" My sketch book?" She ran her hand above her finished painting and frowned as she thought, " If you'd like. They're not very good though.
Not very good, that was the world's biggest understatement. He looked through each page of the bursting folder trying not to miss a single detail. Every scene, every figure, every single sketch and painting seemed to buzz with life asthough it was about to get up and walk off the page. He'd never seen such talent from an ordinary person before.
" I don't normally let people look through my book," She told him nervously as he stared down at a page.
" You should you know. You should put these up somewhere. I bet people would pay millions for one of these. They're incredible. Really, their brilliant,"
A touch of red blushed across her cheeks.
" Why don't you think their any good?"
" Oh I don't know. My Dad doesn't like them. I guess I just listen to him more than I should,"
" Well you shouldn't their fantastic! He must be crazy if he doesn't like them. Your really talented Sora,"
" Hmmm," She smiled shyly. It meant allot to her for someone to actually compliment her painting without wanting something in return.
" Are you a photographer then?"
" Yeah, I like to say I am anyway. That's what I'm going to study after senior year. How about you?"
" Oh I don't know yet. I haven't decided," She said sceptically, " So what are you planning to do with the rest of your Saturday?"
" Go home and watch cartoons while I have a huge breakfast. Then just you know hang out,"
" Sounds like fun," She laughed,
" Yeah I know I'm a geek but that's been my routine for the last eight years and I'm not ready to give it up,"
" No it doe's sound like fun. I never get to just laze around the house anymore. My stepmums always trying to push me out and getting me to do something,"
" Well do you want . . .to come out and hang out at my apartment?" he asked carefully.
" That would be really cool," She smiled at him, " Unless I'll mess up your routine," She raised her eyebrows at him.
" Well . . .I think we can work around that," He said sarcastically.
They packed up their things and headed back to his car.
" Tai that's disgusting!" Kari Tai's little sister cried as coke ran out of his nose, " You are such a jerk!"
Sora hugged herself, she seriously thought her sides were going to split with laughter. She hadn't had so much fun since . . .since she couldn't even remember.
Tai was so different from anyone she knew. He was so fun to be around, his presence was so lively and intoxicating it was almost a challenge to not let yourself go. They had spent all morning and most of the afternoon just hanging out in his apartment. His sister had almost had a heart attack when she Sora there. But Kari was just like Tai, she was easy to talk to and very lively. Sora and her had instantly got along great. The three of them had made a huge ice cream sundae with malterseres, chopped up mars bars, skittles and brownies mixed in together. Then they had watched cartoons until twelve then had a junk food lunch and now they were watching The Waterboy, probably one of the funniest films in history according to Tai.
The best thing about being here was that Sora felt totally relaxed. She was just being herself and so were they. Tai was so warm and funny Sora knew he felt totally at ease with being himself. Something that allots of people especially boys seemed to find hard to do around her. She had only known Tai and Kari for a day, but she already felt as though this was her second home.
Tai wiped his nose with the back of his sleeve.
" Sorry about that," he grinned,
" Errr, why are you always so gross!" Kari cried as she threw her shoe at him, the closet thing to her hand.
" Alright no need to get violent Kari," He said calmly.
" Oh my god is that time!" Sora suddenly exclaimed, " I was meant to baby- sit for my brother an hour ago. My stepmum is going to kill me," She leapt out of her set.
" Your not going already are you?" Tai asked,
" I've got to. I am soooooo late. Thanks for having me Tai, I'll see you at school okay? It was really cool meeting you Kari see you soon!"
" See you Sora!" Kari called,
" Bye " Tai called as she ran out of the front time, he stared at the door with a small smile on his face. Well he had been totally wrong about her. Sora was not only totally drop dead gorgeous she was smart, witty, sweet, kind, athletic, artistic and she wasn't afraid to be herself.
" Ahh poor Tai. Your not going all ready are you?" Kari quoted him in a mockingly sad voice.
" Shut up Kari," Tai snapped.
" Love is in the air. Every where I look- ooowwwww!" She cried as a pillow crashed down in her head.
" Shut up Kari!"
" That's it Tai your dead!" Kari screamed as she turned on him ready for a pillow war.
Authors note- Well that's the first chapter, its going to get better so stick around. R+R!