Sora's Birthday Wish Part 4
By Firenze
If you haven't, read parts 1, 2, and 3 first!
Oh yeah, some people guessed they would be playing Spin the Bottle, and I was thinking that at first, but then I changed my mind at the last moment, so…since it isn't that, you have to know what it is by now.
Notes from the author to people who reviewed: (Artemis Tiger, that would be funny if it were Hide-and-Go-Seek! Maybe Follow the Leader…) (InSaNePiKaChU, what are you thinking??? Seven Minutes in Heaven? Hey, this is for little kids too!)
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"We're going to play Truth or Dare," Sora replied firmly. "If anyone doesn't want to, then you can go back to the party."
Matt's band didn't want to, but Matt did. All of their other school friends didn't want to play either. In the end, it was just the Digidestined and Daisuke. Mimi was so excited to play that she forgot about really hurting Tai for him pushing her, telling her to shove off, and calling her "Pinky." Tai was just relieved she had forgotten. Joe agreed since everyone else was playing.
"Great!" Sora replied. "Me first. I pick…Mimi!"
Mimi smiled. "Yay!"
"Truth or dare?"
"Hmmm…" she thought. "I pick…truth!"
"Who do you like?" Sora asked, giggling.
Mimi got a dreamy look on her face. "This really, really cute American boy named Scott…but I kind of like Matt too."
Matt grinned proudly. He loved having girls liking him, even if it was Mimi you were talking about.
"Chalk up another to Matt's fan club," Tai said.
"You're just jealous," he replied pompously. Tai rolled his eyes.
Mimi clapped her hands. "My turn! I pick…Joe! Truth or dare?"
"Ummm…" he said worriedly. "I don't know. I think I'm allergic to playing this." Everyone groaned.
"Just pick," Sora said firmly.
"Truth," he answered after the longest time of annoying them with excuses.
"Ummm…what scares you the most?"
"Great, Mimi, now he'll take forever to answer this too," Tai muttered.
And Tai was right. It took forever for him to come up with any answer.
"Just make something up!" Tai begged, practically falling asleep.
"Joe, by the time you're done, we'll be as old as you," TK pointed out. Everyone laughed.
Joe. "Oh, sorry. Ummm…probably a really evil digimon. I'm not to sure."
Daisuke looked confused. "An evil digi-what?"
"Never mind," Kari told him.
"Or an evil digimon with it's head severed and blood, brain fluid, and other stuff oozing out the part where the neck should be, and his eyes coming out of his sockets, and brains coming out of his nose and ears, and blood pouring out of his mouth, and then –" Matt said, making everyone queasy.
"That's enough, Matt," Sora said, looking kind of pale.
Joe slightly whimpered and visibly cringed, just at the thought of that. And I'm supposed to be a doctor… he thought. Everyone else laughed at him. "Anyway, I pick Izzy."
"Truth," he said.
"Oh come on," Tai groaned. "Will someone pick dare?" They ignored him.
Joe thought for an even longer time. "Would you ever try to meet a girlfriend on the Internet?"
"Of course not!" Izzy said indignantly. "Well, not again. I already have an cyber girlfriend, who needs another?"
The kids looked impressed. Izzy had a girlfriend?
"How many times did you lie to get her to be your online girlfriend?" Matt teased.
Izzy's cheeks tinged pink. "Tai. I dare you to –"
"Hey, don't I get a choice?" he asked.
"Well, you said you wanted someone to pick dare –" TK pointed out.
"Okay, then. What is it, Izzy?"
He was smiling. Not a good thing for Tai. "I dare you to kiss the girl you like the most who's sitting in this circle."
He paled very quickly. "What if I don't like any of the girls in this circle?" Nobody, except Sora and Daisuke, was convinced.
"It's Mimi or…Sora," Matt said. "That's just gross to kiss your sister."
Kari looked revolted at the thought. "So anyway, Tai, you have to kiss her." By her, you know whom she meant.
"Right now?" he asked frantically. "I had it all planned out. I was going to tell her at sunset, so it would be, you know, mushy and romantic and stuff," he made up very quickly. "Then I was planning to do it then…"
The others raised their eyebrows in amazement. Tai…romantic? And still, Sora remained quite oblivious that everyone else knew he was talking about her. I never thought Mimi was his type…she thought to herself.
"But we'd never get to see it," Kari protested.
"Who cares? At least I'm going to do it, just later, I promise. Just give me a different dare for now, Izzy," Tai said.
"Never mind, chicken," Matt said.
Tai growled. "Okay, I pick you, Matt. Truth or dare?"
"Dare," he said, without hesitation. "And I won't wimp out."
"I dare you to make out with any girl here!" Tai shouted.
"NO WAY!!!" Matt, Mimi, and Sora cried at the same time.
Tai crossed his arms. "Right, you won't wimp out," he said sarcastically. "Fine, I dare you to make out with a tree."
"A tree?" he asked with incredulity.
"Yes, a tree. That nice medium sized one over there."
Matt, who didn't want to look stupid, was about to disagree, but he didn't want to be chicken either. He made out with one of Sora's trees for a while. Kari snapped tons of pictures with her camera.
"Nasty," he said, spitting out bits of bark a few moments later. The whole group was doubled over and clutching their stomachs with laughter. Mr. Big Shot didn't seem so cool now!
"Okay, TK, truth or dare?" he asked coughing up part of a leaf. Everyone was in hysterics.
TK didn't want to make out with a tree or anything remotely similar, so he chose truth.
"Do you like anyone?" Matt asked, grinning.
"I'm not interested," he admitted. "Lots of girls flirt with me –" the group oohed – " but I'm not looking for anyone right now."
"That's cool," Joe said. "You are pretty young."
"Well, I pick Daisuke," he decided. "Truth or dare?"
"Truth," he also picked.
"Who do you like?" TK asked, even though he, and everyone else, knew already.
He blushed and muttered something inaudible.
"What?" Tai asked.
"Can you repeat that?" TK requested.
"Kari," he whispered as quietly as possible.
"Who?" Kari asked. Even she knew, but this was probably going to be another funny moment.
"I can't hear you, dude," Matt lied, pretty much close to laughing. "Shout it out at the top of your lungs!"
"I LIKE KARI!" he yelled loudly, even over the music coming from Sora's CD player. Everyone at the party laughed at him.
Daisuke was bright crimson. "I pick..." They were running out of people. Now only Kari and Sora were left. "Kari," he chose.
"Dare," she said, still giggling.
"Uhhh…uhhh…"
"And you can't dare her to kiss you!" Matt joked, making Daisuke blush again.
He really wanted revenge, and though he hated to take it out on Kari…he couldn't as well embarrass Sora on her birthday. He racked his brain for a dare she wouldn't have the guts to do, and if she did it would be very awkward for her. "Well, Kari…I dare you to sit on some boy's lap," he said. "And not Tai."
She blushed, and was going over a quick process of elimination in her head. I can't do that to TK, I'm not allowed to sit on Tai's lap, definitely not Daisuke or Matt, not Joe or Izzy… "I can't pick," she said finally. "Just choose anyone and I'll do it, I swear."
"And not yourself," Tai reminded Daisuke.
Daisuke blushed for a record shattering time. "Ummm…how about…Izzy?" he suggested. Since it couldn't be himself. And it would never be TK.
"Well, okay," she said, and sat down in Izzy's lap.
"Not exactly my kind of a laptop," he said lamely. Everyone laughed again, even though the joke was pretty pathetic, coming from Izzy and all.
Kari looked a bit uncomfortable, to Daisuke's delight. "Okay, I pick Sora. "
"Dare," she said in a faraway voice. She wasn't really paying attention. She was pretty much just dazing off and partially daydreaming about someone.
"Hug your best friend." Sora was going for Mimi, but Kari slyly added, "Your best friend that's a boy." And everyone knew that was Tai, who actually was her best friend anyway.
"Okay, I'll make it quick," she said.
"I'm not done!" Kari lied. "For thirty seconds!"
She groaned. "Thirty seconds?" How can you hug anyone that long? And I bet they know that my best friend who's a boy is Tai! Actually, she was nervous, not mad. Her heart was beating a thousand times faster, and she felt butterflies in her stomach.
Tai's palms were sort of sweaty. It was definitely him Kari meant, and was a bit annoyed at her. He was anxious for her to hug him, though, but pretty nervous too.
Sora reluctantly hugged Tai. Kari again took as many pictures possible. When the two drew apart after two minutes (the others were purposely not keeping track of time), they were both bright scarlet.
"Well, everyone's gone already, and I'm very sick of this very quickly. I was planning to play Spin the Bottle because some girls really wanted to —" To kiss Matt, no doubt, she realized — "but I don't, so we're opening presents now."
"What, no cake?" Kari asked.
"We're a bit old for a birthday cake with candles," Sora explained. "HEY!" she called to the people. "Present time!" Everyone cheered for some reason.
Sora walked over to the table with all the presents stacked on it. "Who's should I open first?" she wondered. Everyone shouted something different. "How about I open them in the order the people arrived?" she suggested.
"Just open them!" Mimi cried. "A present is a present!"
She smiled. "Okay, okay. Matt came first so…" She found a small box from Matt. "What is it, Matt, your picture and signature?"
He just gave a cool, half-grin that made girls melt.
She found a small card and opened the envelope. "It is your signature!" she giggled. Everyone else laughed. "She's so lucky," the girls said enviously.
"It says 'Happy birthday' too," Matt protested.
"I know, I was joking." She tore the gold wrapping paper off the small box and found some pretty hairclips. She and Tai looked at each other, silently giggling to themselves.
"What, you don't like my lucky hat?" she asked Matt, pretending to be offended. He just scratched his head in confusion.
Next, Sora opened the cards from Matt's band members. All in all, she got around 4,000 ¥.
From TK, she got a nice card that said, 'I HOPE you have a very happy birthday!'' and a brand new soccer ball. "Thanks, TK!" she said gratefully. She had wanted a new soccer ball for the longest time.
From Matt's fans, she got a bunch of make-up and nail polish that she knew she would pass on to Mimi later on.
From Izzy, she got a nice, expensive, soccer computer game. Typical of Izzy.
Mimi gave Sora a bunch of make-up and girly stuff from the U.S. It was nice, and she was very grateful, but she'd never actually use it.
She got a whole assortment of things from her school friends, stuff she liked, other girlish stuff, and around 3,000 ¥.
Joe gave her a nice, new, shiny, tennis racket. She would use it from now on when she played tennis.
Daisuke and his sister gave her a cool sports bag to use for soccer, tennis, and anything else, which she knew would be very useful. Already, she put the soccer ball and tennis racket inside.
Finally, Kari gave her a scrapbook she had been working on for months, to remind her of the Digiworld. It had been three years since they had been there, and they all thought they would never return. It was very nice, and Sora almost thought she would tear up looking at the pictures.
Everything was so great, and her party was finally perfect and fun – for Sora too.
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A/N: Sorry I had to break it up again. Sorry that last line is corny, but that's where I split the two parts. A basic rule of mine is: any time a fic gets more than 6 or 7 pages long; I split it up.
But no worries, the next part will be last, I promise, with definite Taiora, and it'll be out tomorrow or even later today (I told you they were all finished at the same time). So look out for it!
So review, or tell me what you think, set fire to my house with your flames, sing a nice little song, whatever (you don't even have to review, just say "hi" or something). I just thrive off reviews, okay?
Disclaimer: (I hate these!) Blah, blah…everything and everyone in this fic belongs to, Digimon, belongs to Saban and FOX Kids…blah, blah…who cares?