Now the plot thickens. This is the chapter where most of the similarities with Arpulver's fic are, and where it begins to follow the song a nit. But, with out furthur ado, I bring you Chapter 3.

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One Week

Chapter three: The night of the party and the next morning

Tai couldn't believe it. Sora was actually kissing him. They continued in the embrace for quite some time when Sora stopped, and backed up just a little bit.

"Why don't we sit down." Sora said, and Tai, whose mind was still reeling couldn't do much more than agree. They sat down on Sora's couch, and continued kissing. Before long, Sora had stood up again, and was leading Tai into her bedroom. Tai only thought about it for a minute that he would be sleeping with Sora in her boyfriend's bed, before his hormones took control, and Tai was only in it for the ride.

Tai was completely caught up in the moment, as was Sora. Even if one of them had wanted to stop at this point, it just couldn't be done. An hour later, Sora lay her head down on Tai's chest and she clung to him, sleeping in his arms.

"I love you Sora. I always have, and I always will." Sora smiled as Tai put an arm around her, and she soon fell asleep. Her only thought was how right this felt. For the first time since Sora had moved out of her parents' house, she felt completely at home. Nothing could worry or scare her at that moment. She was completely safe.

Tai thought he would sleep easily that night. He had the girl he'd always loved at his side, and he'd finally told her he loved her. What was more, was that she loved him too. He soon realized though that he wouldn't sleep well that night. At first he thought that Sora's breathing would calm him, and help him fall asleep. Instead, with each breath she took he could only think about how that's where Matt had been every night for years, and that he had betrayed his best friend. After at least an hour of lying staring at the ceiling, Tai got up. He did his best to make sure Sora wouldn't wake up, as he crept to the door to step outside.

Tai walked outside, and stood over looking the city for a few minutes. The fresh summer breeze was cooling, and he could hear the sound of the city. But his mind was elsewhere. He kept wondering how well Matt was sleeping, blissfully unaware that his best friend had just slept with his girlfriend.

Tai was jolted from his thoughts by the sound of the door opening. He turned around to see a tired looking Sora walking out towards him.

"What's the matter?" Sora asked she walked over to Tai and put a hand on his shoulder. Tai looked at her for a moment.

"Sora, you're Matt's girlfriend. And we just slept together."

"Yeah, but I was about to break up with him anyway."

Tai looked at Sora, surprised.

"Why is that?"

"Well," Sora began, "I know why he's gone. He's buying an engagement ring."

"Um, yeah, but isn't that a good thing? He really loves you."

"Yeah, but I don't love him as much as I did. And I'm not ready to get married yet. I'm only nineteen."

Tai looked at her for a moment.

"That," Sora continued, "And I realized something tonight."

"What's that?"

"You're the one I love."

Tai was in even more disbelief. Sora actually loved him.

"So, how did you know Matt was going to ask you to marry him?"

"I overheard him talking to his dad on the phone."

"Oh."

"So how did you know?" Sora asked.

"Knew what?"

"That Matt was getting a ring."

"I didn't say I knew."

"But you didn't act surprised."

"Yeah, well, I called Matt before the party and he told me."

"Is that part of why you feel bad about…"

Tai turned around to face Sora. He couldn't help but think of how beautiful she was.

"Kind of…" He said.

"Well I guess you should go then." Sora said, in a joking manner.

"I don't feel that bad about it." Sora laughed, and Tai kissed her.

"Once Matt gets back," Sora said, "I'll break up with him. I want to be with you."

Tai looked at her, then walked over to her door, and grabbed the flowers he had gotten for her.

"I got you these." He said.

Sora picked them up, and smelled them.

"Oh Tai! These are beautiful! Where did you get them?"

"Well, I just happened to walk past Yolei's families convenience store on the way here…"

"Is that why you were late?"

"Kind of."

Sora hugged Tai.

"Thank you."

"No problem Sora."

Sora began to rest her head on his chest, and he looked down, happier than he'd ever been. 'This is actually happening' he thought, as he looked at her.

"Come on Sora, let's go inside."

"Yeah, okay."

The two went inside, and Tai was finally able to fall asleep. However, now it was Sora who couldn't sleep. She lay with her head on Tai's chest, listening to his heartbeat. 'I know I love him, but what kind of person is he to sleep with the girl he knows his best friend is going to propose to?' She thought. She looked at his face, and seeing how happy he was, she forgot anything bad about him.

'If it makes me this happy to just see him happy, then I must really be in love with him.' Sora thought. And with that thought, she drifted off into sleep, not to be awakened by her alarm clock in the morning.

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Tai woke up, and looked at the Alarm clock. It read 9:48. He reached over Sora, and turned it off. He didn't want his beautiful angel to be awakened until she woke up on her own. She was probably really tired. They had both been up late the night before.

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Sora woke up smelling bacon and pancakes cooking. To her surprise, she had not been woken up by her alarm clock, as was the norm. She turned to look at Tai next to her, only to find he wasn't there. She looked at her clock. 11:43. It was late for her. However late it may have been, between the party, what she had done with Tai, their talk outside, and her fretting for a while, it had been 4:00 AM before she had finally fallen asleep. She found herself very tired, but got up anyway.

She wandered into the kitchen, where she saw Tai cooking breakfast. Sora's heart sunk. Seeing Tai there, it reminded her of how Matt would normally make her breakfast on the weekends. It wasn't missing Matt, it was a feeling sorry for being with Tai behind Matt's back that made Sora's heart sink. She stood in the doorway to the kitchen for a moment.

Tai turned around to walk to the fridge, and he saw Sora standing there. He walked over and kissed her.

"Good morning," he said as he went over to the fridge to get out an egg, "Please, enjoy the last seventeen minutes of it."

He seemed to be completely over feeling guilty. Sora sat down at the table, and let out a sigh. Tai turned around, and put down the skillet. He walked over to the table, and pulled out a chair so it was facing Sora. Tai sat down in it.

"Is something wrong?"

"I was just thinking about Matt," Sora said, then realising she could have worded it better.

"Why? Changed your mind about loving me?" Tai said as he got up.

"It's not that," Sora said, "I do love you. It's just that I feel bad about doing this behind his back."

"Well, you didn't seem to feel too bad about it last night."

Sora stood up angrily. "Well, you didn't seem to be too okay with it last night, so don't accuse me of changing my mind!"

Tai walked over to her, and held her. "That's not how I meant it. I meant that we did it and it's over, and the most we can do is be honest to Matt about it, and then move on."

Sora looked up at Tai. "I don't want to tell Matt. I just want to call him right now and break up with him, and start my life with you."

"If you don't want to tell him, then we won't. But he'll find out sooner or later. And it's better if we're the ones who tell him."

"You should have stopped me last night," Sora said.

"Why? I thought you said you meant it that you loved me!"

"I do, but if you had stopped me, I could have broken up with Matt before we did any more than kissing."

"Oh, so it's all my fault! You could've stopped too!"

"Tai, if you had stopped me, there would be no doubt that we could stay friends with Matt and be a couple. Now we have to pick one or the other."

"You're the one in the relationship! You should've stopped! I wasn't cheating on anyone!"

"Tai, I'm really mad at you."

"Well then fine, I'll leave!" Tai stood up to leave, just as Sora was about to get up to stop him. A look of horror was spread across Tai's face, and Sora turned to see what was scaring him. She was looking right at Walter, who stood near the door with a disgusted look on his face, holding a stack of papers.

"Hey Walt," Sora began before Walter put down the papers.

"I can't stick around," Walter said, "I'll leave the lyrics here."

Sora breathed a sigh of relief, and Tai wiped sweat off his brow.

"By the way," Walter said as he pulled out his cell phone," I'm calling Matt."

End of Chapter three.

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So, this chapter contains about all of the similarities to Arpulver's fic, and now that I read it over, aside from that last part between Tai and Sora, it isn't all that similar. So, next up is chapter 4.