Disclaimer: I don't own digimon, but I do own Paul, Tom and Brad!
Chapter One: What a Day
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Ever since Sora could remember, maybe even before that, they had been best friends. She could remember running around the soccer field with him, kicking a soccer ball back and forth. She could remember spending day, after day, after day out on that soccer field growing up, having the time of her life. She had always figured that she would eventually end up with him…that she and Tai would be together, but she couldn't have been more wrong. That became more and more apparent to Sora when they reached high school, and everything changed.
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"Sora, wake up, you're late!" Sora's mother said as she shook her daughter awake.
"What? Mom what time is it? Why are you shaking me?" Sora lifted her head and glanced at her clock. School was starting in eight minutes. "Oh my God! I'm gonna be so late!"
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Sora raced down the school hallway as the late bell went off. Shit! I'm gonna be in so much trouble! Sora screamed at herself as she ran. She ran as fast as she could, and completely missed the "wet floor" sign on the floor. She hit the wet area, and slid. She fell right on her butt, and the seat of her pants was entirely soaked. It looked like she had peed herself. Not only that, but it was out-of-uniform day, so she was wearing her favourite skirt…which was now very dirty. She cursed herself again as she stood up and carefully jogged to class.
"Ms. Takenouchi, you're late," her teacher, Mrs. Totoba, said sternly. Sora had tried—unsuccessfully—to sneak into class unnoticed. She was now incredibly late, because she had stopped in the bathroom and blow-dried her skirt.
"I'm sorry, but I had an emergency," Sora lied.
"Which was…?" Sora froze. She hadn't thought this far ahead.
"Uh…um…"
"Ms. Takenouchi, I'm waiting," Mrs. Totoba said angrily.
"It's my fault, Mrs. Totoba," Tai said, walking into the class. Mrs. Totoba's head jerked up toward the door, and her eyes narrowed toward Tai,
"Really, Mr. Kamiya. Now, explain to me how it's your fault that a student in an entirely different class than you is late," she challenged. Tai, never being one to back down from a challenge, grinned.
"Well, this morning Sora missed the bus because of me, and I was going to give her a ride to school but my car broke down. Then, when we finally got to school, I couldn't get my locker open. Sora, being the kind girl that she is, tried helped me out. So please, don't punish her for being a considerate person, Mrs. Totoba," Tai explained. Sora marveled at how quickly Tai made the story up. She held her breath, waiting to see if her teacher would buy it or not.
"Very well. Sora, sit down now. Taichi, get back to your classroom." They nodded, and Sora rushed to her seat. She shot Tai a look that said 'I owe you my life" and Tai gave her one back that said 'don't I know it'. He smiled smugly, and left to get to his homeroom.
"Now class, as I was saying before Ms. Takenouchi came in…" Mrs. Totoba said, returning to her lesson.
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"Tai, that was amazing! Thank you so much! How did you do it?" Sora screeched, reaching over the table to hug Tai graciously. It was their lunch period, and they were in the cafeteria.
"Well, I was walking by when you ran in and I heard her yelling, so…I thought I'd play hero," he said smugly. "As for the amazing part…I know." Sora laughed.
He could always make her laugh, without even trying. That was one of the things she loved about him…he was so carefree and always there to rescue her when she needed rescuing. She sighed. Her life would be so much simpler if only…
Her thoughts were interrupted, as Matt—a.k.a. the complication—sat down beside her at the lunch table.
"Hey, are you guys coming to the party tonight?" Matt asked.
"Sure are," Tai and Sora said at the same time.
"Jinx!" they both screamed at the same time. "Double jinx," they, once again, said together. They were about to go on when:
"I'm so dead!" Mimi complained as she and her boyfriend, Paul, sat down at the table.
"What's wrong?" Sora asked, concerned.
"Did you know that we had a huge test in science next period?" Only Sora nodded, since she was the only one in Mimi's science class. "Well, I didn't know! I'm so screwed…I can't believe this, I really need to do good on this test to bring my mark up."
"Oh Mimi, you'll do fine," Paul said stiffly, and unfazed.
Sora bit her tongue to keep from saying something she knew she shouldn't say. She didn't care too much for Paul. He didn't treat Mimi the way she deserved to be treated, and yet Mimi didn't seem to notice. Ever since Sora had known Mimi—which was a rather long time—she had always wanted to be treated like a princess. When she met Paul, something in her changed. Sora didn't want to say anything, because she knew how much Mimi liked Paul…but it was getting harder and harder to do. Sometimes, she just wanted to smack him, to scream 'what's wrong with you', to make Mimi come to her senses, and leave him.
Sora decided that now was the time to do something. So what if Mimi got a little mad at her, she'd get over it, right? The bell rang, just as Sora had opened her mouth to speak. Paul jumped up from the table, and grabbed his books. He took off without even saying goodbye to Mimi. Sora just sighed as they picked up their books, and walked to class.
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Sora sat in her third-period science class, waiting for the bell to ring. She had just finished her test—which was a real nail-biter, by the way—and there was only five minutes of class left. She threw a glance at Mimi, who was writing furiously. Sora hoped that they both did okay.
Across the room, Mimi flipped her paper over. She looked up at Sora, and made a face. 'That was so hard' she mouthed to Sora. 'I know…how do you think you did?' Sora mouthed back. Years ago, they had perfected the art of silent-talking back and forth. (A/N: my friend and I can do it, which is why I included it in the story. It comes in pretty handy when you don't feel like doing work.) Mimi made a face, telling Sora she probably didn't do so well. The bell rang, and everyone piled out of the room after handing in their tests.
"I hate science…it's my least favourite class ever," Mimi groaned as they walked down the hall. They were about to turn the corner to their lockers when a boy came flying from the other direction, and smacked into Mimi. She fell to the ground, and her books flew everywhere.
"Sorry," he said, and helped her up. He collected her books, and looked into her eyes.
"N-no problem," Mimi said. She smiled flirtatiously, and twirled a piece of hair between her fingers. "I'm Mimi," she said still flashing her dazzling smile.
"Brad," he said, smiling back. "I gotta get to class. Hey—are you going to Tom's party tonight?" Mimi nodded. "Well…maybe I'll see you there then," he said hopefully.
"Yeah, maybe," Mimi said as he waved goodbye. She waved back, and he ran off to his class.
"He was cute," Sora said once Brad was gone.
"Yeah…I guess he was," Mimi said, trying to hide the fact she was obviously interested in the guy. As the girls continued walking, Sora threw a quick glance behind her, and saw Paul standing a few feet away, glaring at Mimi. He got jealous whenever Mimi looked at another guy…Sora wondered what he would do when she flirted with them. Something about the look in his eyes scared her.
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Fourth period dragged on slower than Sora had ever seen it before. It was not only history—her least favourite class—but it was that last class on a Friday, right before a party she was dying to go to. Tom, one of the most popular guys in school, had invited her and her friends to the party he was throwing that night while his parents were out of town.
She had none of her friends in that class, so she didn't even have anyone to talk to, or roll her eyes at. She yawned, and realized how tired she was. She had barely gotten any sleep last night, because, well…it was too complicated and she didn't want to think about it right now. She tried to focus on the lesson, but history was just too boring! Her eyelids began getting very heavy. The last thing she remembered was the teacher using a pointer to show the class something on the overhead, before she fell asleep…
SMASH
Sora's eyes flew open as her teacher smashed the pointer against her desk.
"Ms. Takenouchi, would you mind repeating what I just said for the class?" Sora's teacher asked, smugly. Sora searched her brain for something, anything, that could possibly be the right answer. She couldn't even remember what class she was in, let alone what they could be talking about. She cursed herself for falling asleep.
"I'm sorry, I don't really know," Sora said.
"Since it's Friday and I don't feel like staying after school before the weekend," her teacher began. Yes! Sora thought. She's not going to give me detention, after all!"We can hold our detention on Monday, after school." Sora sighed, and nodded. The teacher went back to the lesson. Sora glanced up at the clock, and saw that there was only one minute left to go. Thank God. There's no way I can get in trouble with only one minute left.
RING RING RING
Sora cringed as she heard the sound of a cell phone ringing. She cringed even more when she realized it was coming from her purse. She wasn't supposed to have a cell phone with her during school hours…especially not turned on!
"Ms. Takenouchi, I presume that's you again?" Sora's teacher said dryly. Sora nodded, and held her breath, waiting for it to come. "I'll see you Tuesday and Wednesday after school next week, as well." Sora nodded, as the bell rang. Why couldn't the bell have run just 30 seconds earlier? She collected her books, and rushed out of the room before she got more detentions.
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Sorry that this chapter doesn't really have a point to it…and doesn't seem like it has anything to do with the story, but it does! I promise.