I RECOMMEND YOU READ THIS!!!!!!!!
Okay. Disclaimer first: I don't own Digimon or the characters, and I have no connections with the people that do. If I did own the show or the characters, I'd be happy and throwing it in my friend's face that he was so slow, but I don't now do I?! This is why it's called FANFIC! The only characters that are mine are the ones that are made up!
Okay, now that I'm no longer going psycho, this chapter isn't rated R (well what would be considered R), but what comes in later chapters is. I spent a lot of time coming up with this chapter after the original first one came out being a little off-sided and I noted it wouldn't make sense without this chapter. I know what shonen-ai and yaoi are, but I continuously get confused with each idea, so I'm saying this: This story is about male/male love and male/male sex, so if you guys are sensitive on the subject, it is best that you run with your little tail between your legs right now. I don't mean to jump on anyone's back, but seriously it's irritating to see when people flame others for their fanfics and that's just stupid. Anyway . . . this chapter was fun to write.
The dream stage is like an actual dream, so since a dream just jumps from scene to scene without a "stop button" and without pausing, the dream sequence is just like it.
[ text]=flashback w/this chapter.
** text ** =thoughts
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Chapter 1
Taichi sat in his seat on the airplane. He buckled himself in and let himself drift into his own thoughts as the stewardess gave them basic instructions. He looked outside the window and took his final gaze at Australia. It had been fun for him, especially meeting the people he did, especially Sonia. Sonia was an interesting girl. He reached into his jacket and pulled out an envelope. Her voice then reached his thoughts.
["Alright, Tai-Dye, here's my 'Talk to you later.' There are no 'good-bye's with me, remember that, just 'Talk to you later's. Open it when the plane is off the ground, no sooner, no later. If you open it before, I'll kick you in the ass with the telepathic powers I don't have yet. My address is there and so's my e-mail address, if you want to write. If you're up for a long-distance call, my home number's in there too," Sonia said.
The twenty-year-old Mexican-American girl pulled Tai into a tight embrace. What she did as a kid, he didn't want to know.
"Sonia! I can't breathe!" he yelped.
"Ah! Sorry," she said letting him go. "Sometimes I don't know my own strength, but I do know that you better let me know you got home safe, somehow. Si no lo haces, you just wait and see what I have up my sleeve, Tai-Dye. Damn, I'm going to miss punking you around."
"Yeah, well you're going to have to do it to your brother now. I know he isn't going to like it, but he called you Baka."
"Ah, no! Ese hombre. He's going to get into more trouble than your sweet- ass is with the boys. Speaking of sweet-ass, you tell your hot boyfriend that I said 'konnichiwa.'"
A loud voice in the speakers rang through the airport. "Now boarding flight 710 for Japan in gate 21."
Tai smiled and shook his head. "That's my flight, Nia. I'll tell Yamato you said 'hello.'"
"No, I said to say I said 'konnichiwa' and that's what I expect to be said or I'll kick your ass with the telepathic powers I don't have yet."
"You know what I meant!"
"I know, Tai-Dye." She pulled him into another strong embrace before muttering her "talk to you later."
"I'm going to miss you too, Nia. I'll e-mail you once I'm home. I'll tell Yamato you said 'konnichiwa.'"
"Alright. Aishiteru."
Tai laughed. "Do you have any idea what that means?"
"No, but it sounds nice, so aishiteru."]
Tai laughed. He started to open the letter when he felt something kick him. He turned around and saw a kid struggling with his mother. Tai shrugged it off and began to open the letter again when another kick got him. The kid was already strapped to his seat and he looked irritated. ** Must be the telepathic power Nia was talking about. ** He settled himself into the seat more comfortably and slowly drifted into sleep, droning out the stewardess further than he had already done. This was how he was going to keep out the fact that he was on a plane.
** Dreaming is nice, very nice . . . **
Tai was sitting on a bench right outside the cabin across from the lake at the camp he volunteered at. He wasn't the only one volunteering. Once Yamato heard that he was going to volunteer, he decided to try it, too. Oddly enough, Tai was relieved Mat decided to volunteer, too. But there he was, alone on the bench, his attention focused on the little bear that had been carved onto the seat by Jet, one of the older volunteers. Son of a du- da-du had been daring everyone to do stupid things. There was no doubt on Tai's mind that he was next, as well as four other people he knew.
"Hey Tai!" Mat yelled as he poked Tai's sides, making him jump at least two feet off the bench, then land on his butt right behind where he had been sitting. Mat sat down on the bench and waited for Tai
"What the hell you raging lunatic?!" he yelled back, trying to smack Mat's head as he rubbed his butt.
"Well, if I'm a lunatic then that makes you . . . I have no idea what that makes you."
"That makes me pissed off that you-"
"Got dared by Jet to go skinny dipping tonight?"
"You . . .. What?"
"I was dared by Jet to go skinny dipping tonight, but I want to get him back for making Marky eat the three day old cheese that got him sick. Are you with me?"
"What?"
Tai stood up and sat next to Mat. He gave him a questioning, evil look.
"What are you planning to do?" he asked mischievously.
"Details later. Right now, I've got all the younger volunteers with Marky, Makoto, Haiji, and me. The others don't want anything to do with Jet, even if he is a cool guy . . . when you get past all the pranks and dares and baka shit."
"Yeah, right."
"Seriously. But come to Marky's cabin during lunch and we'll give the full details. Catch ya then, Tai."
He watched Mat run off before he stood up and found himself in Marky's room. He sat down on the floor and placed his food in front of him. He hadn't even touched his lunch when Mat began to tell them the entire plan.
"Okay, first, Tai are you willing enough to jump into the lake at midnight?"
"Why?"
"I'm going to pretend to drown. How long can you hold your breath?"
"I don't know, but with how dark it's going to be, they're not going to know whether or not we surface to breathe."
Mat let out a wicked smile and looked at Tai. "Tai, you know you're my best friend and I'd do anything for you, right? Do it with me!"
"What!"
"Pretend to drown. We'll scare the crap out of Jet, especially when we act like it never happened, like we were never there."
Tai gave him a questioning look. Yet, even then, he couldn't say no. Especially with the fact that he didn't like Jet and he was looking forward to getting revenge for Marky. "Fine. You owe me if I get sick."
"Yes! Okay, now, Marky since you're in no condition to go out during the night, you're going to leave your cabin open. It's closest to the lake and it's better. Makoto, you hide some clothes for me and Tai close to Marky's cabin, and please put it in a plastic ziploc bag! Haiji, you keep flashlights handy for everyone. Now, I'll jump into the water first and swim out a few feet. I'll act like I'm in trouble and I'll go under. Tai, you start to flip out and jump in. You go under, okay, and then don't go back up."
"I honestly have no idea how long I can hold my breath, what if I drown?"
"Hey, I'm going to be right underneath the . . . no, he'll look there . . . okay, look, we're going to have to swim out a few feet, so . . ."
Tai was now standing next to Haiji and Makoto at the lake, watching Mat undress in front of everyone. ** Damn! ** Tai suddenly felt that the water was very inviting. Jet was standing with a similar expression on his face. There were at least four other volunteers around him.
"You ready Yamato?"
"I wouldn't have agreed if I wasn't . . . even if it was against my will." He took a deep breath. "Here I go! Banzai!"
Mat jumped in with a cannon ball, trying to splash Jet.
"You guys should come in, the water's great! Freezing, but great!"
He swam out a few more feet and started to fidget around. The flashlights were being directed toward him now and he started to make a bigger scene.
"Yamato, are you alright?" Haiji yelled out.
"No! Help!"
He smiled as he dunked his head under the freezing water. ** I have no idea how long I'm going to be able to hold my breath. ** He opened his eyes and saw the lights above his head. Luckily the water was a bit murky. He glided over to the right and let his foot above the water.
"He's over there!"
He lifted himself up and made a scene, again. "Help me! Something has my foot!" He dunked his head back under the water. Tai couldn't help just staring. He felt Yamato was really going to drown. Makoto tapped Tai's side as he rushed forward and directed his flashlight to where Yamato had been.
"Do any of you guys see him?" he asked.
"He's going to drown," Tai stated in a serious tone. "He's seriously going to drown. Aren't you going to help him? You dared him to do it, Jet. Help him! Fuck you guys!"
"Tai, don't!" Jet yelled.
Tai dove into the water fully clothed, barely having time to kick off his shoes. He lifted his head above the water as quickly as he had dove in.
"SHIT! It's cold!"
He started to swim out when he realized that he had no idea where Mat was. He looked at Haiji and saw five flashlights on the water. ** Sons of du-da- du's. Mat you didn't think this through, baka! Where the hell are you?! If you die, I'm going to kill you myself. ** Tai dunked his head under the water again, but couldn't see Mat. He lifted his head again, taking a deeper breathe, and went under again. He felt something grab his leg and he was about to scream when hazy blue eyes met his own. Yamato pointed out somewhere and began to swim, Tai following him. The coldness of the water was taking its toll on both tof them. Tai's breath escaped him and he shot out of the water, coughing slightly. Mat lifted his head above the water a fair distance away from the lights and took a needed breathe of air, coughing.
"Mat, you okay?" Tai whispered. "I seriously thought you were going to drown."
"Yeah, I just held my breath too long. Waiting for you to jump in was driving me nuts. I thought I was going to drown, too. I nearly panicked," Mat whispered back. He looked back to the peer and laughed. "Check out the commotion with the flashlights. Can you hear Jet?"
"No, but let's get out of the water. You've been here longer than I have. You might get pneumonia or something. Where did Makoto hide the clothes?"
"Just a few more feet from here."
They were out of the water the following second. Mat was out first and was already getting the towels that were placed in the ziploc bag. Tai stayed in the water a little longer, keeping his head down. Yamato turned around to hand him the clothes, but noted he was still in the water.
"What the hell, you want to get sick?"
"Huh?" Tai asked, being shaken out of his trance with the water. "Oh, no. But considering my, um, yeah, I'm going to stick it in here."
"You're what? Oh, you mean your rapidly shrinking penis due to the coldness of the water? Quick solution to that: Get out. The longer you stay in there, the quicker it's going to become a raisin."
"No! It's not that! It's-"
Yamato walked into the water and pulled Tai out by force, spotting Tai's "minor" erection through his soaked shorts. Tai blushed a bright red, but . . .
"Tai, I'm greatly honored at your offer, but I'm afraid I must refuse," Mat said. He leaned closer to Tai's ear. "That shouldn't really happen until I start to play with you on the seventh month of our relationship."
"Our wha-?"
It was Mat's turn to be bright red. He placed his hand behind his head, but didn't look away from Tai.
"Look, I know you've had a crush on me for a while. I've had one on you since . . . I have no idea when I noted that it was a real crush, but why do you think I chose you to join me in the stunt?"
"You said it yourself, I'm your best friend."
"Yeah, but I also know you haven't been jumping in the lake for the past week half naked at eleven during the night. I have, so has Makoto, Haiji, and Marky. It's not the reason why Marky got sick, by the way, it was the cheese."
Tai let out a small laugh and he started to undress himself so as to get into clean, dry clothes, much like Mat had already been doing.
"Tai, I asked you since I know you can't say no and I really needed to speak to you about it or I would have been feeling bad. Especially if I let a beautiful, wonderful person such as yourself, slip through my fingers."
Tai's face continued to get redder as Yamato continued to speak. Mat spotted this and decided to go along with it, as Tai was already fully naked. "And a beautiful body, might I add. If you wish to jack off, you might as well do it now, before you put on your clean clothes. Don't be embarrassed. I nearly had one during class, once." Tai's face was so red, he was scared Jet and the others would be able to spot him at the distance they were in. Yamato laughed lightly and turned around, giving Tai a full view of his ass. He turned around and continued to walk back to the water, so as to do what Mat had suggested. Mat tried to keep in his wild laughter as Tai tried to suppress his own sounds. Mat took off whatever clean clothes he had put on and walked back into the water.
"I might as well do this while your add it."
"Hmm?" was all Tai could manage before Yamato pulled him in for a long kiss. He pulled away from Tai and waited for a reaction. "Okay. That was interesting."
"That's it? No 'let's do it again' or 'Sure, I'll be your boyfriend as long as your mine' or-"
Tai kissed him back. He pulled away, leaving Yamato slightly stunned. "Shut up. Now can I please continue to whack the willie before I don't get the chance to control it."
"Sure, but only if you don't point at me like that again. At least until we're both sure what we want to do."
Mat walked out of the water and was now walking into Marky's cabin, fully clothed, with Tai behind him, also fully clothed and shaking. Mat grabbed the closest blanket he could see once inside and threw it around Tai.
"I told you to get out of the water," Mat whispered harshly.
"That was before you told me to jack off," Tai whispered back.
"Yeah, but I never said to get back into the water!"
"Well . . . shut up."
Mat shot him a big smile before giving Tai another kiss. "Get some sleep."
Their heads didn't hit the bed to go to sleep as they walked down a dirt road toward Haiji. Jet was nowhere to be seen. Yamato let go of Tai's hand momentarily and ran up to his other friend.
"So, how'd he take it?"
Haiji smiled. "He's in the lake right now, trying to find your body. We told him it's no there, but he won't believe us."
Mat looked evil as he grabbed Tai's hand and ran toward the lake. He stopped and started to walk like nothing happened. He leaned close to Tai before they entered the visible part of the lake.
"Act like nothing happened. We were in our cabin all night long, sleeping. You didn't feel good, so I stayed with you."
"Why lie about it? We did and I don't feel good."
"Damn, you got sick. Well still, we were never at the lake."
They walked slowly toward the lake, when Mat pointed at Jet, who was barely emerging from the water. He acted like he asked Tai a question before yelling "Jet! What are you doing? Taking a bath?"
Jet erupted from the water and ran up to both of them, still holding hands. "You're fine? Thank god! I thought you drowned. I thought you were fine to do it, but I guess you weren't and then he jumped in and I thought you both drowned and-"
"Jet! What are you talking about?" Yamato asked with a bewildered expression.
"You jumped in the lake last night and you kept going under. I thought you had drowned I was going to tell Mr. Tao this morning, but I thought I could find you along the shore, still alive, but I didn't so I went to look for your body."
"What? I wasn't at the lake last night."
"What?"
"Dude, I didn't jump into the lake. There was no way I was going to do a ludicrous thing such as that, so I just avoided you."
"But you were there, so was he and Haiji and Makoto."
"Tai wasn't at the lake. He was in the cabin with me. He felt sick, but we went to visit Marky before sun down and we played card games before we left for our cabin. I have no idea why you're acting crazy, but it's not funny. C'mon Tai, let's nab some food."
They started to walk away when Tai leaned close to Mat. "I thought we were just going to make him think you drowned."
"Don't worry. We're all in on it. We're going to ask him how it felt to get pranked later on when Haiji and Makoto say that they had jumped into the water and Haiji nearly drowned."
"This if fucked up."
"So's Jet, but it's only until lunch."
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Tai felt someone shaking him awake right after he felt someone kick him. He opened his eyes and just heard one voice speaking to him.
"Excuse me, sir, but we're landing in five minutes or so. I hope you enjoyed your rest while on the flight," the stewardess said.
Tai stretched his arms above his head and nodded. In a few minutes, his feet will be touching solid ground. It felt good to be home.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I love this story. It's really fun to write. I thought of the basic story line during class, so I'm thanking my English teacher for the time to think after the quiz I failed, anyway.
Some translations (for those of you that don't know, and oh, I know some of the accent marks are going to be missing when I use Spanish, so you'll have to forgive me for that and if my Japanese translations are incorrect, please correct me and I got them off other sources. I'm still learning!): Spanish: Si no lo haces: If you don't do it. Ese hombre: That guy or That man.
Japanese: Konnichiwa (You guys that need the translation really need to read the text): Hello. Aisiteru: I really love you.
Personal (yes I'm trying to clean up my basic language skills): Son(s) of du-da-du(s): Son(s) of a bitch(s)
Okay. Disclaimer first: I don't own Digimon or the characters, and I have no connections with the people that do. If I did own the show or the characters, I'd be happy and throwing it in my friend's face that he was so slow, but I don't now do I?! This is why it's called FANFIC! The only characters that are mine are the ones that are made up!
Okay, now that I'm no longer going psycho, this chapter isn't rated R (well what would be considered R), but what comes in later chapters is. I spent a lot of time coming up with this chapter after the original first one came out being a little off-sided and I noted it wouldn't make sense without this chapter. I know what shonen-ai and yaoi are, but I continuously get confused with each idea, so I'm saying this: This story is about male/male love and male/male sex, so if you guys are sensitive on the subject, it is best that you run with your little tail between your legs right now. I don't mean to jump on anyone's back, but seriously it's irritating to see when people flame others for their fanfics and that's just stupid. Anyway . . . this chapter was fun to write.
The dream stage is like an actual dream, so since a dream just jumps from scene to scene without a "stop button" and without pausing, the dream sequence is just like it.
[ text]=flashback w/this chapter.
** text ** =thoughts
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Chapter 1
Taichi sat in his seat on the airplane. He buckled himself in and let himself drift into his own thoughts as the stewardess gave them basic instructions. He looked outside the window and took his final gaze at Australia. It had been fun for him, especially meeting the people he did, especially Sonia. Sonia was an interesting girl. He reached into his jacket and pulled out an envelope. Her voice then reached his thoughts.
["Alright, Tai-Dye, here's my 'Talk to you later.' There are no 'good-bye's with me, remember that, just 'Talk to you later's. Open it when the plane is off the ground, no sooner, no later. If you open it before, I'll kick you in the ass with the telepathic powers I don't have yet. My address is there and so's my e-mail address, if you want to write. If you're up for a long-distance call, my home number's in there too," Sonia said.
The twenty-year-old Mexican-American girl pulled Tai into a tight embrace. What she did as a kid, he didn't want to know.
"Sonia! I can't breathe!" he yelped.
"Ah! Sorry," she said letting him go. "Sometimes I don't know my own strength, but I do know that you better let me know you got home safe, somehow. Si no lo haces, you just wait and see what I have up my sleeve, Tai-Dye. Damn, I'm going to miss punking you around."
"Yeah, well you're going to have to do it to your brother now. I know he isn't going to like it, but he called you Baka."
"Ah, no! Ese hombre. He's going to get into more trouble than your sweet- ass is with the boys. Speaking of sweet-ass, you tell your hot boyfriend that I said 'konnichiwa.'"
A loud voice in the speakers rang through the airport. "Now boarding flight 710 for Japan in gate 21."
Tai smiled and shook his head. "That's my flight, Nia. I'll tell Yamato you said 'hello.'"
"No, I said to say I said 'konnichiwa' and that's what I expect to be said or I'll kick your ass with the telepathic powers I don't have yet."
"You know what I meant!"
"I know, Tai-Dye." She pulled him into another strong embrace before muttering her "talk to you later."
"I'm going to miss you too, Nia. I'll e-mail you once I'm home. I'll tell Yamato you said 'konnichiwa.'"
"Alright. Aishiteru."
Tai laughed. "Do you have any idea what that means?"
"No, but it sounds nice, so aishiteru."]
Tai laughed. He started to open the letter when he felt something kick him. He turned around and saw a kid struggling with his mother. Tai shrugged it off and began to open the letter again when another kick got him. The kid was already strapped to his seat and he looked irritated. ** Must be the telepathic power Nia was talking about. ** He settled himself into the seat more comfortably and slowly drifted into sleep, droning out the stewardess further than he had already done. This was how he was going to keep out the fact that he was on a plane.
** Dreaming is nice, very nice . . . **
Tai was sitting on a bench right outside the cabin across from the lake at the camp he volunteered at. He wasn't the only one volunteering. Once Yamato heard that he was going to volunteer, he decided to try it, too. Oddly enough, Tai was relieved Mat decided to volunteer, too. But there he was, alone on the bench, his attention focused on the little bear that had been carved onto the seat by Jet, one of the older volunteers. Son of a du- da-du had been daring everyone to do stupid things. There was no doubt on Tai's mind that he was next, as well as four other people he knew.
"Hey Tai!" Mat yelled as he poked Tai's sides, making him jump at least two feet off the bench, then land on his butt right behind where he had been sitting. Mat sat down on the bench and waited for Tai
"What the hell you raging lunatic?!" he yelled back, trying to smack Mat's head as he rubbed his butt.
"Well, if I'm a lunatic then that makes you . . . I have no idea what that makes you."
"That makes me pissed off that you-"
"Got dared by Jet to go skinny dipping tonight?"
"You . . .. What?"
"I was dared by Jet to go skinny dipping tonight, but I want to get him back for making Marky eat the three day old cheese that got him sick. Are you with me?"
"What?"
Tai stood up and sat next to Mat. He gave him a questioning, evil look.
"What are you planning to do?" he asked mischievously.
"Details later. Right now, I've got all the younger volunteers with Marky, Makoto, Haiji, and me. The others don't want anything to do with Jet, even if he is a cool guy . . . when you get past all the pranks and dares and baka shit."
"Yeah, right."
"Seriously. But come to Marky's cabin during lunch and we'll give the full details. Catch ya then, Tai."
He watched Mat run off before he stood up and found himself in Marky's room. He sat down on the floor and placed his food in front of him. He hadn't even touched his lunch when Mat began to tell them the entire plan.
"Okay, first, Tai are you willing enough to jump into the lake at midnight?"
"Why?"
"I'm going to pretend to drown. How long can you hold your breath?"
"I don't know, but with how dark it's going to be, they're not going to know whether or not we surface to breathe."
Mat let out a wicked smile and looked at Tai. "Tai, you know you're my best friend and I'd do anything for you, right? Do it with me!"
"What!"
"Pretend to drown. We'll scare the crap out of Jet, especially when we act like it never happened, like we were never there."
Tai gave him a questioning look. Yet, even then, he couldn't say no. Especially with the fact that he didn't like Jet and he was looking forward to getting revenge for Marky. "Fine. You owe me if I get sick."
"Yes! Okay, now, Marky since you're in no condition to go out during the night, you're going to leave your cabin open. It's closest to the lake and it's better. Makoto, you hide some clothes for me and Tai close to Marky's cabin, and please put it in a plastic ziploc bag! Haiji, you keep flashlights handy for everyone. Now, I'll jump into the water first and swim out a few feet. I'll act like I'm in trouble and I'll go under. Tai, you start to flip out and jump in. You go under, okay, and then don't go back up."
"I honestly have no idea how long I can hold my breath, what if I drown?"
"Hey, I'm going to be right underneath the . . . no, he'll look there . . . okay, look, we're going to have to swim out a few feet, so . . ."
Tai was now standing next to Haiji and Makoto at the lake, watching Mat undress in front of everyone. ** Damn! ** Tai suddenly felt that the water was very inviting. Jet was standing with a similar expression on his face. There were at least four other volunteers around him.
"You ready Yamato?"
"I wouldn't have agreed if I wasn't . . . even if it was against my will." He took a deep breath. "Here I go! Banzai!"
Mat jumped in with a cannon ball, trying to splash Jet.
"You guys should come in, the water's great! Freezing, but great!"
He swam out a few more feet and started to fidget around. The flashlights were being directed toward him now and he started to make a bigger scene.
"Yamato, are you alright?" Haiji yelled out.
"No! Help!"
He smiled as he dunked his head under the freezing water. ** I have no idea how long I'm going to be able to hold my breath. ** He opened his eyes and saw the lights above his head. Luckily the water was a bit murky. He glided over to the right and let his foot above the water.
"He's over there!"
He lifted himself up and made a scene, again. "Help me! Something has my foot!" He dunked his head back under the water. Tai couldn't help just staring. He felt Yamato was really going to drown. Makoto tapped Tai's side as he rushed forward and directed his flashlight to where Yamato had been.
"Do any of you guys see him?" he asked.
"He's going to drown," Tai stated in a serious tone. "He's seriously going to drown. Aren't you going to help him? You dared him to do it, Jet. Help him! Fuck you guys!"
"Tai, don't!" Jet yelled.
Tai dove into the water fully clothed, barely having time to kick off his shoes. He lifted his head above the water as quickly as he had dove in.
"SHIT! It's cold!"
He started to swim out when he realized that he had no idea where Mat was. He looked at Haiji and saw five flashlights on the water. ** Sons of du-da- du's. Mat you didn't think this through, baka! Where the hell are you?! If you die, I'm going to kill you myself. ** Tai dunked his head under the water again, but couldn't see Mat. He lifted his head again, taking a deeper breathe, and went under again. He felt something grab his leg and he was about to scream when hazy blue eyes met his own. Yamato pointed out somewhere and began to swim, Tai following him. The coldness of the water was taking its toll on both tof them. Tai's breath escaped him and he shot out of the water, coughing slightly. Mat lifted his head above the water a fair distance away from the lights and took a needed breathe of air, coughing.
"Mat, you okay?" Tai whispered. "I seriously thought you were going to drown."
"Yeah, I just held my breath too long. Waiting for you to jump in was driving me nuts. I thought I was going to drown, too. I nearly panicked," Mat whispered back. He looked back to the peer and laughed. "Check out the commotion with the flashlights. Can you hear Jet?"
"No, but let's get out of the water. You've been here longer than I have. You might get pneumonia or something. Where did Makoto hide the clothes?"
"Just a few more feet from here."
They were out of the water the following second. Mat was out first and was already getting the towels that were placed in the ziploc bag. Tai stayed in the water a little longer, keeping his head down. Yamato turned around to hand him the clothes, but noted he was still in the water.
"What the hell, you want to get sick?"
"Huh?" Tai asked, being shaken out of his trance with the water. "Oh, no. But considering my, um, yeah, I'm going to stick it in here."
"You're what? Oh, you mean your rapidly shrinking penis due to the coldness of the water? Quick solution to that: Get out. The longer you stay in there, the quicker it's going to become a raisin."
"No! It's not that! It's-"
Yamato walked into the water and pulled Tai out by force, spotting Tai's "minor" erection through his soaked shorts. Tai blushed a bright red, but . . .
"Tai, I'm greatly honored at your offer, but I'm afraid I must refuse," Mat said. He leaned closer to Tai's ear. "That shouldn't really happen until I start to play with you on the seventh month of our relationship."
"Our wha-?"
It was Mat's turn to be bright red. He placed his hand behind his head, but didn't look away from Tai.
"Look, I know you've had a crush on me for a while. I've had one on you since . . . I have no idea when I noted that it was a real crush, but why do you think I chose you to join me in the stunt?"
"You said it yourself, I'm your best friend."
"Yeah, but I also know you haven't been jumping in the lake for the past week half naked at eleven during the night. I have, so has Makoto, Haiji, and Marky. It's not the reason why Marky got sick, by the way, it was the cheese."
Tai let out a small laugh and he started to undress himself so as to get into clean, dry clothes, much like Mat had already been doing.
"Tai, I asked you since I know you can't say no and I really needed to speak to you about it or I would have been feeling bad. Especially if I let a beautiful, wonderful person such as yourself, slip through my fingers."
Tai's face continued to get redder as Yamato continued to speak. Mat spotted this and decided to go along with it, as Tai was already fully naked. "And a beautiful body, might I add. If you wish to jack off, you might as well do it now, before you put on your clean clothes. Don't be embarrassed. I nearly had one during class, once." Tai's face was so red, he was scared Jet and the others would be able to spot him at the distance they were in. Yamato laughed lightly and turned around, giving Tai a full view of his ass. He turned around and continued to walk back to the water, so as to do what Mat had suggested. Mat tried to keep in his wild laughter as Tai tried to suppress his own sounds. Mat took off whatever clean clothes he had put on and walked back into the water.
"I might as well do this while your add it."
"Hmm?" was all Tai could manage before Yamato pulled him in for a long kiss. He pulled away from Tai and waited for a reaction. "Okay. That was interesting."
"That's it? No 'let's do it again' or 'Sure, I'll be your boyfriend as long as your mine' or-"
Tai kissed him back. He pulled away, leaving Yamato slightly stunned. "Shut up. Now can I please continue to whack the willie before I don't get the chance to control it."
"Sure, but only if you don't point at me like that again. At least until we're both sure what we want to do."
Mat walked out of the water and was now walking into Marky's cabin, fully clothed, with Tai behind him, also fully clothed and shaking. Mat grabbed the closest blanket he could see once inside and threw it around Tai.
"I told you to get out of the water," Mat whispered harshly.
"That was before you told me to jack off," Tai whispered back.
"Yeah, but I never said to get back into the water!"
"Well . . . shut up."
Mat shot him a big smile before giving Tai another kiss. "Get some sleep."
Their heads didn't hit the bed to go to sleep as they walked down a dirt road toward Haiji. Jet was nowhere to be seen. Yamato let go of Tai's hand momentarily and ran up to his other friend.
"So, how'd he take it?"
Haiji smiled. "He's in the lake right now, trying to find your body. We told him it's no there, but he won't believe us."
Mat looked evil as he grabbed Tai's hand and ran toward the lake. He stopped and started to walk like nothing happened. He leaned close to Tai before they entered the visible part of the lake.
"Act like nothing happened. We were in our cabin all night long, sleeping. You didn't feel good, so I stayed with you."
"Why lie about it? We did and I don't feel good."
"Damn, you got sick. Well still, we were never at the lake."
They walked slowly toward the lake, when Mat pointed at Jet, who was barely emerging from the water. He acted like he asked Tai a question before yelling "Jet! What are you doing? Taking a bath?"
Jet erupted from the water and ran up to both of them, still holding hands. "You're fine? Thank god! I thought you drowned. I thought you were fine to do it, but I guess you weren't and then he jumped in and I thought you both drowned and-"
"Jet! What are you talking about?" Yamato asked with a bewildered expression.
"You jumped in the lake last night and you kept going under. I thought you had drowned I was going to tell Mr. Tao this morning, but I thought I could find you along the shore, still alive, but I didn't so I went to look for your body."
"What? I wasn't at the lake last night."
"What?"
"Dude, I didn't jump into the lake. There was no way I was going to do a ludicrous thing such as that, so I just avoided you."
"But you were there, so was he and Haiji and Makoto."
"Tai wasn't at the lake. He was in the cabin with me. He felt sick, but we went to visit Marky before sun down and we played card games before we left for our cabin. I have no idea why you're acting crazy, but it's not funny. C'mon Tai, let's nab some food."
They started to walk away when Tai leaned close to Mat. "I thought we were just going to make him think you drowned."
"Don't worry. We're all in on it. We're going to ask him how it felt to get pranked later on when Haiji and Makoto say that they had jumped into the water and Haiji nearly drowned."
"This if fucked up."
"So's Jet, but it's only until lunch."
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Tai felt someone shaking him awake right after he felt someone kick him. He opened his eyes and just heard one voice speaking to him.
"Excuse me, sir, but we're landing in five minutes or so. I hope you enjoyed your rest while on the flight," the stewardess said.
Tai stretched his arms above his head and nodded. In a few minutes, his feet will be touching solid ground. It felt good to be home.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I love this story. It's really fun to write. I thought of the basic story line during class, so I'm thanking my English teacher for the time to think after the quiz I failed, anyway.
Some translations (for those of you that don't know, and oh, I know some of the accent marks are going to be missing when I use Spanish, so you'll have to forgive me for that and if my Japanese translations are incorrect, please correct me and I got them off other sources. I'm still learning!): Spanish: Si no lo haces: If you don't do it. Ese hombre: That guy or That man.
Japanese: Konnichiwa (You guys that need the translation really need to read the text): Hello. Aisiteru: I really love you.
Personal (yes I'm trying to clean up my basic language skills): Son(s) of du-da-du(s): Son(s) of a bitch(s)