Taichi:

Alright, great. School Yippee.

Mom came in. "Taichi, are you ready yet?"
"Huh?" I said. "Oh yeah." I picked up my backpack. Hikari appeared at the door.

"I can't wait to go to school." She smiled. "I can see Takeru."

"Yeah. You'll have fun."
"You will to. You can see Yamato and Sora."

"Yeah, well…" That, I was not looking foreword to. I headed out the door, my eight-year-old sister close behind.

Yamato and Sora are my best friends. But…we've been having a small problem. I'm not sure if Sora knows about this problem, but I really hope not. It would really ruin life as I know it.

She can't know.

I mean, maybe she knows I have a crush on her. But she doesn't know that I like Yamato to.

Yamato knows. And he loves me back. But he doesn't know about Sora.

"Taichi!" Hikari yelled. "Hurry up!"

We walked to school. I opened the door, and Hikari scampered in, bounding to the grade school.

I walked to the middle school. Yamato ran up to me. "Hey Taichi."

"Hi." I smiled at him. "How ya doin'?"

"Good. You?"

"Good."

"I can't believe how exited Takeru is to get to school. Mom drove us both today, we live kinda far. The kid just couldn't wait."

"Same with Hikari."

"It's sweet, I guess. They want to see each other right?"

"Yeah. Hey d'ya know where Sora is?"

"She's over there."

Sora was talking to some girl. She saw us, said goodbye to the girl, and walked over. "Hey guys."

"Hey Sora." We mumbled in unison.

"Whats up?"

"Not much." Yamato said.

"Same with me. Whats up with you?"

"Nothing really. Summer has been sorta boring." Sora yawned.

"I got to do, one exciting thing all summer." I groaned. "And that was with my family."

"What did you do?" Yamato asked.

"My family went water-skiing. It was fun, but halfway through the trip Hikari got sick so we had to go home."

"That sucks." Sora said.

"We'd better get to class." Yamato said, suddenly.

He was right. We did need to get to class.

So we walked to homeroom. We were all in the same homeroom, which sucks.

I wish I didn't love them both. In fact, I wish I didn't love either of them. Everything would be so much easier then.

But I love them…both of them. They are the most important people in the world to me.

I can't have them both…that's what sucks the worst.

The homeroom teacher droned on about stuff, and when he finished, we walked over to Science.

Ms. Diyato, the science teacher, explained that she has a tradition where on the first science class, we never do anything, it's free period.

I walked over to Yamato, and Sora. I picked up Sora's hair, and started playing with it. It's weird, but I really like playing with peoples hair.

Sometimes I do it to Yamato to. They don't mind, which is good, because I do it all the time. It's a weird habit, but they're both used to it.

Sora is talking to Yamato about this movie.

Oh, god, Yamato, shut up!

They are talking about the movie me and Yamato saw together. We saw it a…date…we had a date every night for one week. Sora can't know!

"When did you see it Yamato?" Sora asked. "I saw it over the summer, with some friends."

"I saw it sometime over the summer."

"Taichi." Sora looked at me. "Did you see it? If you didn't you should. It's really good."

"What was it called again?"

"It's called Megumi's Cross."

"Oh…no, I didn't see it."

Yamato stared at me. "What are you talking about, of course you did, we saw it last week."

"You did?" Sora looked at me warily. "How come I wasn't invited?"

"You already saw the movie, didn't you?"

"Yes, but I didn't tell you guys about it then. Besides…" Sora was deep in thought. "Taichi, weren't you grounded all last week? And Yamato, you were sick weren't you?"

Those were just excuses we made up not to see Sora.

"Uh…yes…" Yamato said.

"My parents lifted the grounding, and Yamato got better. And we wanted you to come to, but we figured you already saw the movie."

"You could've at least asked me."

"Sorry."

"Taichi…" Yamato whispered. "Maybe we should just tell her."

"No. We can't, she can't know."

"Know what?" Sora demanded.

"Nothing." I yelled. Oh, god, this is to close. Sora cannot know, never, I cannot let her find out!

"Taichi and I…" Yamato began. Before he could say another word I hit him.

"Shut the hell up, Yamato!"

"Taichi!" Sora was screaming now. "Leave him alone! I don't know what is wrong with you, but I don't like it!"

Yamato glared at me. Then he looked at Sora, and told her. "Taichi and I have been going out."

She smiled. "Whats really going on?"

"Just what I said."

"Yeah right!" Sora exploded. "My two best friends, going out, my two boy best friends, huh, yeah, very funny guys! You guys can't be that nasty!"
Nasty…she thinks it's nasty…

Yamato started crying. Just a few tears, something that could come from yawning. But I knew it was crying. And so did Sora. We'd known him long enough to be able to figure that out. And we both know, that because Yamato had cried so much as a little kid, he would do anything not to cry now. If you made Yamato cry, you've really done something wrong.

"I…" Sora trailed off. "I didn't mean…"

"Shut up Sora." I said icily. "If that's your opinion you can forget about being our friend."

Then Sora started crying. "That's not fair, all I wanted to begin with is to be friends."

I looked at my two crying friends. I hate it when I'm the only one who doesn't seem upset. It looks like it's all my fault. I didn't say anything. What could I say?

Ms. Diyato dismissed us.

I spent the rest of the day thinking about this. Well, not really thinking, because I didn't come up with anything productive. I basically ranted in my mind.

Oh god, this is really screwed up.

At the end of the day, I went and got my sister, and we walked home. She couldn't stop talking about seeing Takeru again. Why did she have such luck with friends and I didn't? It's not fair.

I walked home, and booted up the computer. An IM from Yamato popped up. He'd IMed me an MP3. Wonder what it is?

I clicked on the MP3. It was a song by Smashmouth. Well, the chorus to one anyway. It was the chorus to 'Why Can't We Be Friends?'

That was sweet Yamato, but it's not that easy.