From: Me, To: You Chapter 4: The Great Talk, a digimon fanfic

I do not own Digimon. Nor do I own the characters, however any characters I choose to make on my own are mine to keep!

To my true love,

Sora, I need you and look where you are, in the arms of another. Yamato, how could you do this to me? Have I not been a good friend to you? I could laugh at the amount of stupidity that both of you are conveying to me. Tonight is the New Year's party and still I feel lost and alone. Where is God when you need him?

My mother has finally stopped nagging me, well, I know that won't last. I also know that the only remote reason she has stopped is because my father is back. I wonder how long the bastard is staying. I don't hate my father, Sora. I really don't, but he showers her with so much unnecessary affection. Can you guess who she is? Here is a hint: she sure as hell wasn't born first.

Yep Sora you guessed right if you were thinking of Kari. The little bitch is hanging out with the vermin TK. I love Kari, Sora I really do, it's just that she is being so selfish. All she can think about is herself. I'm sorry Sora, I really am.

I have to go now, I feel so ashamed Sora. Ashamed. I'm so sorry. I offended you, didn't I? Well, I didn't mean too and I'm crying now, Sora. I'm crying and it's all because of you.

Sincerely,

Your admirer

Tai frowned as he saved the letter and began rocking back and forth. Wrapping his arms around himself Tai shook his head. "I'm so stupid, oh Sora, please forgive me. Forgive me, forgive me Sora." Tai continued to rock as he sobbed quietly.

Scratching her head, Val rubbed the sleep out of her eyes. It was two in the afternoon and party was only a few hours away. Smiling, Val curled up tighter in her husband's warm embrace. It was so wonderful to have him home, she felt so complete. Nothing could steal her joy away. Not now, not ever. "Baby," Val whispered softly, "Do you want to talk to Tai or should I?" Val frowned when she received no response. Turning around she found herself meeting the most beautiful, captivating reddish-brown eyes God could have ever created.

"I'm not sure," Val listened to Keiko murmur to her quietly in his deep voice. "What's wrong with him?" Instead of answering Val snuggled closer to Keiko and sighed, "The question really is: what's not wrong with him?"

After a moment of what seemed like hesitation she explained her worries over Tai's difficulty to pay attention to his chores and how hollow his eyes looked. Tai had even banned Agumon from his room at certain times of the day, at first Val thought it was because he was a growing boy who wanted his privacy to do what teenage boys did alone in their rooms. After a while, she had become suspicious of his behavior and started watching him more closely.

"Maybe if I keep him closer, I keep hoping that this phase will be over." Val concluded.

"I'll have a talk with him. I'm sure he has a lot to say that he probably doesn't feel comfortable conveying it to you just yet." Val nodded agreeing with her husband whole heartedly, figuring that some things only men could help each other with.

Tai frowned for the second time during his discussion with his father, the more he heard his father's voice the more agitated he became. The last thing Tai wanted to hear from his father was a too late tale of the facts of life. There was no need for his father to go that far. Honestly, Tai almost felt compelled to feel sorry for the poor guy.

Tai sat on his bed, his father sat across from him on his computer chair. Keiko was still dressed in his pajamas, as if there wasn't a New Year's party to attend in a few hours. Maintaining his stealth, Tai refrained from running from the room. Tai understood that listening to his father would be torture and not because he was trying to rebel. Just hearing his father's misdirected and oblivious advice almost made Tai angry.

Atlas, Tai found that he just couldn't, not when his father brought problems upon himself and this family. "Dad, you don't have to lecture me on what I already know." Tai felt regret over the harsh sound of his voice and added, "I mean no disrespect, it's just hard trying to get a girl to notice you for who you really are when there are many obstacles in the way."

"Ahh," Tai watched his father sigh understandingly. Tai hadn't meant to spill his guts like he had, it just came out. "So that's the problem? I had that kind of trouble with your mother."

"You did," Tai inquired earnestly curious, suspicion lurking in the back of him mind.

"Yes sir. I sure did, my mother, your grandmother, really thought I could do better. Mom always was a bit uppity. Even to this day, she makes little comments, but you know what Tai?" Keiko smiled reassuringly.

"What?" Tai offered when he realized that his father was waiting for some sort of response.

"Well, whenever she'd go into one of her fits I'd jump in and say 'no'. That's what I'd say and guess what Tai?"

Again Tai realized that his father wanted some sort of response, "I really don't know," Tai replied trying hard not to burst his dad's happy little naïve bubble.

"She'd stop and nod and then she would look me in the eyes and say 'nice to know that you care about her'. And you know what Tai? Do you want to know how that would make me feel?"

Tai pressed his lips in a thin line refusing to answer.

"Well," Tai watched his father frown, "I'd feel like a man. Not to mention, I felt like I was good husband standing up for his wife even when she was not present," He finished smoothly.

And what was the point of that? Tai wondered to himself feeling nauseated.

"I think you and I need some male bonding, don't you?"

"Sure," Tai answered allowed hollowly.

Damn me and my need to do the right thing. I hate putting people's needs before my own. Although, if I didn't know myself better, I would know that I was lying. Sora and Matt have absolutely no problem dating despite my feelings and yet I do nothing about it.

Tai shook his head, trying to erase the logical sense of his conscious. All Tai really wanted to do was get as far from his father as possible. Running from the one-sided conversation Tai's father was having with himself, Tai tried to concentrate on his latest email to Sora. He had emailed Sora with his proposition a few days ago and still he had heard nothing from her. What could she be doing that was keeping her so busy?

R&R