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Chapter 4: Seeing Ghosts?

"Sora what the hell happened to your window!"

The girl groaned at the sound of her mother's shrieking voice and opened one of her eyes to look at the smashed window. She had managed to clean up the glass off the floor but her window was still shattered. She had thrown an extreme amount of blankets on her bed the night before just to keep from freezing during the night, only now she had woken up feeling hotter than ever.

"The storm broke the glass." Sora said muffled turning her head towards her pillow.

She heard her mother sigh. "Well what a mess. Luckily it seems that storm was just a fluke thing and it's nice and sunny out today!"

"It is?" Sora asked surprised lifting her head from her pillow. She forced herself to get up and looked outside her window. Sure enough it was bright and sunny out without a trace of snow left on the ground. It was if the storm had never happened. "Is that even possible?"

"Oh dear the weather is a very confusing thing, now get up you have school."

School…which meant facing the real world, or semi real world in Sora's eyes. She sighed. "Yeah I'm getting ready."

Sora felt like it was déjà vu walking down the street towards the school just as she had yesterday. It was if the storm had never happened, as if she had never gotten those phone calls and her crest hadn't shown in the window. The only evidence that she had that the whole thing had been real was the fact that she had a very broken window in her room.

"Sora!" She turned at the sound of her name to see a short haired blonde girl running towards her. She recognized the girl, her name was Alli, she was an athletic girl who played soccer for the school's team but Sora never really spoke to her as she played tennis now.

"Are you ready for the big soccer game this afternoon? I'm soo excited." Scratch that apparently now she still played soccer.

Sora smiled. "Of course can't wait." She felt her heart racing; she hadn't played soccer in years she was going to make a complete fool of herself trying to play in a game.

Alli smiled widely. "Great because if we win today we will get to play in the Tokyo Tournament!"

More pressure, now she not only had to play but play well enough to win so they could make it to the tournament

"Hello ladies." Sora's heart skipped a couple beats at the sound of his voice. She turned and he was looking right at her, waiting for her to say something. His younger sister Kari was standing there quietly next to him.

"Hello Tai. Are you coming to our big game this afternoon?" Alli said a little too friendly and Sora suddenly felt jealous.

"Wouldn't miss it for the world." Tai said with a wide smirk. "Takenouchi you feeling better? You were a bit out of it yesterday." His voice had a hint of sarcasm.

Sora rolled her eyes. "I'm fine I just wasn't feeling well."

"Clearly." He turned to Alli. "I'll be cheering you guys on today." He gave her a wink and then pushed through the two of them and continued walking towards the school.

Kari waited a moment and sighed. "Don't mind him; he's just full of himself." Then she hurried after her brother.

Alli sighed next to Sora. "Sora I know you hate that guy but he's just so cute."

So Sora hated Tai…it made some sense considering how cocky the boy was, he was always cocky…though. Then again they became closer through the digital world; she saw a warmer and sweeter side of him, with his courage and strength. Had he lost that without the digital world? Or had she just failed to see it because they had never gone.

Either way she knew one thing for sure, without the digital world she had lost her relationship with Tai.

"Why are you being mean to her, just yesterday you were saying how strange she was acting by telling you that you told her you loved her, hasn't she been through enough?" Kari asked catching up to her brother as they walked away from Sora and her friend.

"It's just such a habit and so easy to annoy her." He said with a sigh.

"You're so immature." Kari told him rolling her eyes.

"No I'm fun." Tai corrected.

"You're acting like a jerk to her, that's not fun. When are you going to grow up Tai?"

"Geez calm down Kari, you always take everything so seriously."

"Well life is a serious thing!"

"Not always."

Kari sighed and looked at him seriously. "You know someday you're going to go through something that's going to make you grow up and see that the world isn't a big joke. We'll have this conversation after that and you'll see how much your answers have changed." They approached the school and she headed in by herself.

Izzy put the picture down next to him as he heard the computer lab door open behind him. He'd caught himself looking at the picture of the red haired lady and the baby for a while wondering if it was his real mother and this was a clue to who his real parents were.

"Hey Yolie I was just researching the…" he began as footsteps came up from behind him but a voice cut him off.

"I'm not Yolie but I am looking for her." He turned to see Mimi standing there looking at him. "Is she your girlfriend or something, you're always with her?"

Izzy rolled his eyes and turned back towards the computer. "No she's not my girlfriend. She's my friend, that's all."

"Yeah okay, because girls and guys are such good at being "just" friends." She said sitting on the desk holding the computers annoying Izzy.

"Must you sit there? And anyway they can be just friends, just because you and your friends can't handle being around a guy without dating him doesn't mean others can't."

She just glared at him for a moment then looked down and saw the picture of the red haired lady and baby next to her on the table. She picked it up. "Is this you as a baby? You look just like your mom."

Izzy looked up feeling a bit shocked. "Huh oh that's not my mom."

Mimi scrunched her face while looking at the photo. "Really? She looks a lot like you."

Izzy couldn't help but feel slight happiness stir inside him. Mimi thought he looked like that woman, maybe it was his mother. "What?" Izzy asked noticing Mimi continued to stare at the photo.

"She looks familiar."

"She does?" Izzy asked a little too quickly and with enthusiasm in his voice. Mimi looked up at him a bit confused.

"Yeah, but I can't think of where from." She said putting the picture back down.

"Oh…" Izzy said not hiding the disappointment in his voice. "Let me know if you remember."

"Sure…" She said slowly still looking confused as the door opened and Yolie walked in.

"Mimi…" She didn't bother to hide the tiredness in her voice at the sight of the girl, Mimi didn't seem to notice though as she jumped off the table and came over to her.

"So as I was also as head of the school dances committee this year I have more pictures for the yearbook, and then will have more from prom of course when that happens." She started shuffling through her bag. "I have a pile here for you to go through; it includes pictures of homecoming queen, which was me as you may remember, and king so all those should be in the yearbook as well." She pulled out a package of pictures and handed them to Yolie.

"Thanks…" Yolie said feeling unenthusiastic. Mimi nodded and headed out the door. "I'm sure you loved her being here." Yolie said with a smirk.

Izzy rolled his eyes in response.

"Come on she's not that bad." Yolie said sitting down next to him.

"Yeah from your tone of voice you also seemed so happy to see her."

Yolie shrugged. "She's very friendly and pretty I just wish she wasn't always so self-centered and bombarding me of pictures of herself to put in the yearbook."

Izzy shrugged. "She doesn't understand that other people have problems, she needs to learn to care more about other people."

"Well it's not like that's going to suddenly happen." Yolie told him. "She'd have to go through something life changing."

"Kari!"

The girl turned to see her bushy haired friend running towards her. "Hey Davis did you end up calling that girl from last night?"

He looked down sadly. "She gave me a fake number…"

"Ouch." Kari said and she patted him on the back. "Sorry."

"It's okay." He said with a sigh. "Of course I'd feel a lot better if only somebody would date me. Even a pity date at this rate would be okay…"

"Davis we went over this we're only friends."

"Yeah but I thought I'd just give the pity thing a shot." He said shrugging. "Hey isn't that the guy you were talking to at work yesterday? Why's he talking to loner Ishida?"

Kari looked over to where Davis was looking and saw TK with Matt Ishida. Matt Ishida was known as being the school's loner, he wasn't a really happy dude and no one ever crossed paths with him. Loners were the type of people you wanted to stay away from.

"I have no idea." Kari replied. "Let's go find out." She grabbed Davis' arm and started pulling him towards the boys.

"Oh I'd rather not…Kari!"

"Hi Tk." Kari said as she walked up to the boys dragging Davis along. "Hello Matt."

"Hi…" The older blonde boy said awkwardly looking down at the other one. "I'm going to go Tk, think of what I said."

"Whatever." Tk muttered as the older boy walked away. He turned to Kari and Davis. "Um hi."

Kari smiled. "I didn't really get a chance to introduce you to my friend Davis and I thought I should. So Tk this is Davis, Davis this is Tk."

"Hi…" Tk said awkwardly to the spikey haired boy who just gave a head nod in return.

Kari just continued to smile. "So Tk are you and Matt Ishida friends?"

"Not exactly…" Tk said looking at the ground.

"Kari, Ishida doesn't have any friends." Davis said rolling and Tk looked up and gave him a dark glare. "Wow dude sorry I was just trying to lighten the mood."

"Well don't." Tk said and turned to walk away.

"Kari that guy has a serious attitude why are you nice to him?" Davis asked her once Tk had walked away.

"He's new here, Davis. I mean it must be hard on him not to have any friends."

"He doesn't look like he wants any."

Kari gave him a look. "Everyone wants friends Davis."

"Okay girls this game is huge and practically depends on whether or not we're in the tournament so don't screw it up!" Alli yelled next to Sora who had just learned that not only was she still playing soccer but she was also co-captain of the team with Alli. Her heart was racing and never so much had her nerves been peeked to play a sport. "Sora you want to say anything else?"

Sora awakened from her daydream to look at the team before her. She thought about her old days playing soccer as she spoke, "Just put all your heart into it you guys and try your best today. If we lose I want to know we lost while playing our best."

Alli smiled. "Right! Now put your hands in everyone on three, one-two-three GO TEAM!"

Sora looked at the field as they walked out of the locker rooms and down to where the game was going to be played. She had remembered all the times she had sat on the bleachers cheering on Tai while he played. Now looking at the bleachers it was like her life had become unrecognizable. And to make matters worse she saw Tai sitting up there watching.

"The guys' team wanted to come to support us today." Alli told Sora catching her looking up at the bleachers. "Sweet right?"

"Yeah." Sora said seeing Tai turn his head and look at her. She turned her head quickly hoping he didn't catch her staring as they walked over to the bleachers.

"Okay girls let's do this." Alli said clapping her hands together. "Tina and Lea I want you on defense. Jenna striker. Sora and I will be forwards todays and the rest of the starters you know your places. Fight hard girls!"

Sora could literally feel the sweat dripping down her face from nerves. Of course she was a starter…she was captain after all.

She headed off onto the field into her position. Come on Sora you can do this, you played soccer for years! She thought watching the other team take their positions on the field.

The whistle blew and a girl on the other team quickly took the ball. Sora started running back towards her but she kicked it to her teammate. Lea ran up and got the ball away from her kicking it back to Alli who turned quickly and started running up the field.

"SORA GET OPEN!" She yelled speeding up.

Sora followed her and sped up and became open as Alli passed the ball. She took it and started running towards the goal feeling her adrenalin pumping faster when the other team's defense member tripped her and stole the ball.

She quickly jumped back up and ran to grab the ball back from the other team happily succeeding. She turned to head back to the goal running faster and her heart beat as she heard the crowd cheering her name. She had forgotten how good it had felt. She inched closer to the goal ready to shoot when it happened.

The red haired goalie changed before her into a familiar green monster with a club in his hand. Sora stopped horrified. "HELP US!" Ogremon said to her and a gust of wind blew and she fell to the ground as Ogremon became the goalie again.

"Sora?"

"SORA ARE YOU OKAY?"

She heard her teammates yelling to her and the crowd's confusion but she couldn't move off the ground. It was like she was frozen solid.

"Sora." She felt Alli's hands on her arms looking at her seriously. "Sora what wrong? What happened?"

"Didn't you see him?" Sora asked in shock her voice shaking.

"See who?" Alli asked confused.

Sora pointed to the net. "You had to of, he was big and green and…"

"Sora nobody besides that goalie was there…"

A/n – Yeah it's been MONTHS. Sorry, I know I have no excuse but I've just been so busy with college stuff and graduation. It's really hectic… Anyway I apologize and will upload again as soon as I can. So sorry again!

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