I Think I Might Love You, II.
"I'm here, I'm here!"
Davis, who was more than extremely late, swept into Math class like a gust of wind. The Math teacher was not impressed and ordered him to take his seat. Davis immediately searched for Kari, only she was already sitting next to –
"TJ! Sitting in my seat, aren't you?"
"Funny, I don't see your name on it Davis," TK responded wittily. Kari giggles, while Davis 'grrrs' angrily like animal.
"Sit down, Davis," came Yolei's voice. She grabs his arm and yanks him into the seat beside her. "You're really late you know!"
"Gee Yolei, thanks for telling me I hardly noticed! TJ stole my seat."
"It's 'TK', you dimwit! Seriously, how many times do we have to remind you?"
Davis glared at TK and Kari sitting together, burning holes into the back of TK with his eyes.
"Look at him ... sitting there," he sneered in a low voice. "Sitting there all full of himself!"
Yolei sighed in annoyance.
"What are you talking about, Davis? There's nothing wrong with the way TK's sitting, he's just sitting!"
"He's sitting too straight."
"It's called good posture!"
"That idiot. He's trying to impress Kari with posture!"
"You're the idiot, Davis!"
Meanwhile, in another part of the building ...
Tai was sitting in the back of senior Chemistry, idly twirling a pencil in his hand. He can hardly concentrate on what the teacher's saying because he's too busy staring at Matt and Sora sitting two rows ahead. Matt kept putting his hand on Sora's knee beneath the desk ...
Suddenly, without meaning to, Tai snaps his pencil clean in half. To make his day worse, he wasn't teamed up with Izzy for Chemistry like he usually was because Izzy had today's class off to tour Becky Ford around the school. That meant Tai was teamed up with Davis's annoying sister Jun instead.
"Tai! Tai Kamiya, are you turned on?"
"Somebody throw me a lifeline, I'm drowning here!" Tai thought to himself hopelessly, before reluctantly turning to Jun.
"Ah ... you said something, Jun? Were you talking to me?"
"Who else would I be talking to! The teacher wants us to 'bunsen burn' something, where have you been?"
"Out to lunch?"
"Huh?"
"Nevermind, let's just start already."
"You're the worst lab partner ever!" remarked Jun rudely, before becoming distracted by Matt and Sora herself. "Humph! I can't believe that Sora girl stole my boyfriend."
Tai glared at Jun in severe disbelief.
"Boyfriend? He'd rather date a gorilla then you. Plus your head looks like a friggen starfish!"
"I give them another week, tops!" Jun went on to predict.
"Forget it," said Tai glumly. "Matt and Sora, they're really ... in love."
"Oh, and what makes you the expert?"
"I'm their best friend!"
"Well I know Sora's your best friend. Hey, I have a cool idea! Steal her away from Matt and then Matt will come running back to me!"
Tai felt tempted to snap another pencil in half. And Jun's neck while he was at it.
The bell rang.
That was everyone's cue to meet up in the computer room, because Izzy was going to introduce them all to Becky. On the way out of Chemistry, Matt and Sora caught up with Tai.
"Tai! Hey, Tai!" they called from behind him. Tai braced himself.
"Time to put your happy face on, Tai ... "
"Hey you two!" said Tai, grinning and turning round to face them. "Good class, huh?"
"What are you talking about dude, you were teamed up with Jun for forty-five minutes straight!" said Matt, with a pained expression. "Aren't you nauseous?"
"Nah, she was okay," said Tai, seemingly indifferent. "Except for the part where she almost burnt off my hair ... "
"I'm gonna go to the bathroom real quick," said Matt. "Meet you guys in the computer room?"
"We'll see you there," said Sora.
With Matt gone, Tai and Sora made their way down the hall.
"So how's soccer going?" Sora asked. To Tai's joy – and his dismay, she'd interlocked her arm with his.
"Doesn't she know what she does to me?" he thought, deeply anguished.
"Soccer's good!" Tai responded outloud, keeping his cool. "We could still use your skills on the field, though."
"You know I spied on you practicing the other day ... "
"Spying on me, huh?" said Tai with a smirk. Sora smiled.
"I'll come and say hi in person next time."
"You better! If you don't, I'll have make a point of spying on you playing tennis."
Truth be told, Tai always spied on Sora playing tennis ... but he wasn't about to tell her that!
"So what's the story with Izzy and Willis' sister?" Sora went on to ask.
It was a topic they'd all been discussing for the last couple of months – ever since they found out about Becky Ford, and how she was coming to live in Japan for the rest of the year and stay with Izzy's family. Izzy and Willis had been friends for a while, which is evidently how Izzy had come to know Becky.
"I don't know," said Tai honestly. "As far as I've been told, they're only good friends."
"But he's talked about her constantly ever since he knew she was coming to live here," Sora pointed out.
"Not to mention chatting to her on the internet ever day ... " Tai added.
"Right! I've never heard Izzy talk about anything so enthusiastically since he bought that new high speed modem."
Walking down the hall up ahead, Davis and the others were having a similar discussion ...
"She's apparently really into graphic design," Kari was saying to the others, in reference to Becky. "Izzy says she's really talented."
"So she's just as much of a computer nerd as Izzy then?" said TK. "Sounds like a match made in microchip heaven!"
"They're just friends!" snapped Yolei all of sudden, stopping everyone in their tracks. Davis cackled with laughter.
"Ha ha, guys check it out! Yolei's jealous."
"Shut up!" Yolei snapped again. "Izzy said they were just friends so I don't know WHY we're all speculating whether or not they're an item! Its meaningless gossip is what it is, you should all be ashamed of yourselves!"
"Gosh Yolei, mellow out!" said Davis, suppressing his laughter. "First you're crushing on Ken, then Izzy. Make up your mind!"
"Good thing Ken's out of town til the end of summer visiting his sick grandma," Kari whispered in TK's ear. "You know how he much he hates hearing Yolei go on about Izzy lately ... "
They enter the computer room.
"Guys, this is Becky!"
Izzy introduced Becky to the gang. Cody had arrived first, then Davis, Kari, TK and a disgruntled Yolei – she was the only one not quite so happy to make Becky's acquaintance.
"It's so nice to finally meet you all!" said Becky. "Willis has told me so much about you."
"Whatever he's told you about me, don't believe it!" said Davis, to which everyone laughed.
On that note, Tai and Sora entered the room. When Becky set eyes on Tai, she couldn't help but flush a little. If that wasn't enough, Tai went and walked right up to her.
"You must be Becky! Welcome to Japan, I'm Tai."
"He ... llo," Becky replied awkwardly. Luckily Sora intervened.
"I'm Sora! How are you finding school so far?"
"Still settling in," said Becky, eyes darting in Tai's direction and then quickly away again. "Everything's so new!"
Matt arrived shortly after. He went up to Becky like the others.
"Hey! I'm Matt."
"Hey! The one in the band, right?"
Matt chuckled. "I guess Izzy gave you the lowdown on us all already, huh?"
"Willis helped out," said Izzy, happy that everyone was getting along.
TK whispered to Davis: "She's pretty cute!" Davis couldn't agree more.
"I know, right?"
Kari, who'd overheard them, gave them both a stern glare.
"Not as cute as you, Kari!" Davis couldn't help but say offhandedly. Kari just turned up her chin and smirked.
Thanks for your reviews so far guys! I wanted to get chapter II up quick, so you have a better idea of where the story will be heading. See you all in chappie III :)