So it's Sunday, so that means update time! Yay! Short note today, just our disclaimer.
I do not own digimon (I mean if I did I'm pretty sure I'd be modestly rich, and not having to write fan fiction =))
Chapter 4 I'm a Jerk
Matt
I watched Tai limp away from us after Sora grabbed my arm. I was really starting to get pissed, at Sora. Yea I know, getting pissed at your girlfriend for obviously wanting to spend time with you, and sending the one guy who could steal her away from you, falls under the odd category, but I couldn't help it. No matter what Sora kept telling me I still felt pretty bad about the whole situation with Tai. If it wasn't for the fact that I really did like Sora, I probably would have broken everything off with her when she told me she liked Tai.
That day made me feel horrible. Tai had been my best friend since we got back from the digital world, and what he didn't tell me I could figure out pretty well myself. I mean after all I was supposed to be some sort of super friend since I had the Crest of Friendship. So I knew pretty well that Tai really liked Sora. Of course, just about everybody else, except Sora, did, so it wasn't too much of me being a super friend.
I had really wanted to try and get them together, and Mimi had planned to help me, but before we could really get the plan together Mimi left for America, leaving me on my own. That's when everything sorta changed. I decided to still go through with the plan, but on my own now, so I needed to get to know Sora a little bit better to be able to facilitate my plan (that was so I could do Mimi's half of the plan). Of course as I got to know Sora I developed my own crush on her.
I sorta felt pretty bad as I developed that crush, since I really viewed Sora as Tai's girl, but did my best to bury it. Of course me being the selfish teenager I was immediately stopped the plan to get Tai and Sora together. I know what you're thinking, what a jerk, but I couldn't help it. I could accept that Tai and Sora belonged together, but I couldn't help facilitate that.
Things went fine for a while until that fateful Christmas concert.
~Flashback~
I was just finishing the last little bit of prep work for the concert and was about to relax for a bit when Sora came barging into my dressing room.
"Sora, you know this is a guy's dressing room." I said as she stormed into the room, but I stopped when I saw the look on her face. "What's up Sor?"
She looked at me, and hugged me, starting to cry into my shoulder. I just sat there holding her for a few minutes, waiting for her to calm down. When she was done crying she explained about her encounter with Tai. I didn't really understand that she liked Tai, so I didn't get why she was so upset, I just assumed it was because she thought it would ruin her and Tai's friendship. I couldn't really help getting excited as she told me that she'd told Tai she was going to wait at the concert for me, and that she'd rejected Tai. In my mind that meant that Sora was now fair game, and I promised to take her out for some ice cream after the concert to try and cheer her up.
~End Flashback~
I really should probably have the Crest of Jerks, but those next few days I couldn't really think. Most of you probably remember how being a teenager was, you didn't really stop and think about your decisions, you just did what you wanted, and that's exactly what I did.
After me and Sora started dating I really expected Tai to flip out on me, but I guess he's a better friend than me, because he just acted like nothing was wrong. He would hang out with the two of us like normal, and was always there to help both of us whenever we needed it. That is until the day Sora figured out that Tai had liked her the entire time she'd liked him. She didn't really seem to be able to stand being near him, she'd get beyond pissed anytime she saw him, and she never would tell me why. Me being the selfish guy I was, I just left things alone. I couldn't help it, as much as I didn't like it, and felt like a jerk, but I just couldn't help it, until that Sunday.
I looked at Sora, completely surprised. She'd just made her best friend from when she was six, not to mention the guy she'd liked for the longest time, cry for absolutely no reason, Tai hadn't done anything, except maybe hurt himself, and Sora flips on him like he'd been doing something horrible. She pulled me to the bench we'd been sitting on, and sat down, but I just stared at her.
"What?" She asked in a sweet voice, one that usually had me doing anything she wanted, but I just couldn't take it anymore.
"What is your problem?" I asked her quietly, crossing my arms.
"Nothing's my problem." Sora said innocently, acting as if she hadn't just made Tai limp away crying.
"Really? Because you sure as hell aren't acting that way." I replied, getting a little angry. How could she not think there is a problem?
"You mean Tai?" She asked, a look of anger crossing her face when she mentioned Tai. I nodded and she continued, "He was spying on us, or something like that Matt, he's still jealous about us."
I looked at her and really had to exercise a lot of self-control to not yell at her. "Really Sora? That's what you think?"
"Yes Matt, why else would he be here, and just happen to bump into us?" She asked, starting to get angry herself.
"I don't know, maybe he was just up for a stroll in the park, after all you've told me how the two of you used to do that all the time." I started, and Sora opened her mouth to argue, but I just kept talking. "And did you notice that he was limping, he obviously hurt himself up there." That seemed to cause Sora to stop for a second. "And it's not just today I'm talking about Sora, you've been acting completely horrible to Tai for the last few months. Anytime he tries to talk to you, you either ignore him or just yell at him; honestly I don't see why he even tries to talk to you anymore." I was breathing rather hard now, why was I getting so worked up by this?
"It's nothing he doesn't deserve." Sora replied, and that just finished it with me. I could bury my own guilt for causing part of this rift between Tai and Sora, but I couldn't take her blaming him for it, Tai was the one least responsible for this whole thing, he had been just a little slow dealing with his feelings, but it wasn't like Sora had coped with hers any better.
"I can't believe you Sora." I said finally, and rather coldly. "You really think your best friend deserves to be treated like a piece of crap just because he didn't want to ruin the friendship the two of you had?" I was raising my voice at the last part. "What does that say that you deserve Sora? Because last time I checked that was the same reason you never told him about your feelings!" I turned and left after finishing. I didn't want to be around Sora at that point, because if I stayed there I'd probably break up with her, which is something I still didn't really want to do.
That thought actually got me thinking about the whole situation. It wasn't really completely my fault but I did feel a little responsible for it, ok I felt really responsible for it, so I decided to start the change that could maybe fix the whole thing, the one thing that I really didn't want to do. When I got back to our apartment complex, I went to the Takenouchi's floor, and waited outside Sora's apartment.
Of course I ended up chickening out at the last second. Sometimes I really wished that I had some more of Tai's Courage, since he seemed to be able to be a much better friend than I was. I headed for the stairs, knowing that Sora never used them unless me or Tai made her. That's when I ran into Kari.
"Matt!" She says as she opens the door in front of me, and then shoots me a dirty look. I know what that's for. Kari had always hoped that Tai and Sora would get together, and I'd always stood in the way of that. It had mellowed a bit when she started dating T.K., but I'm sure when Tai came home it hadn't helped much.
"Hey Kari, what's up?" I ask, hoping to maybe avoid any yelling.
"Oh not much, just having to try and cheer my brother up yet again thanks to your girlfriend!" She said very angrily, and I winced.
"Yea, about that, I'm really sorry for the way Sora's been acting…" I start to say, but was cut off by Kari.
"Matt don't make excuses for her. I'm not really mad at you; I'm just really pissed at her. Do you know why?" Kari asked, catching me by surprise.
"Uh, maybe?" I reply, assuming she's going to tell me because of how horrible Sora is.
"Well you remember that day that Tai and Sora always spend together?" She asks, and I stop to think for a minute. Oh yea, they always get together to celebrate the day that Tai saved Sora from Datamon. I think, and then it hits me. Tai asked Sora if she remembered what day it was, and when she'd said the date is when he'd gotten upset, not when she yelled at him.
"That wasn't today was it?" I ask her, and she nodded, knowing that I understood. "I really can't believe her."
"Yea, well she's hurt my brother one time too many, I'm about to give her a piece of my mind." Kari said walking forward.
Kari
I stepped forward after saying that, but Matt held his hands out to block me. "She's not home Kari."
"What?" I asked a little surprised, since I'd assumed Matt had dropped her off.
"I left her in the park after telling her how bad she was acting towards Tai." Matt replied, and I actually smiled a bit.
"Good for you Matt, I knew you'd come through for Tai!" I was happy one of Tai's closest friends was working to help him. Matt just smiled a bit. "Hey you want to come down and say hi to Tai, I'm sure he'd like to see you, and you could try some of Davis's noodles!"
"Well Kari I was going to come until you said Davis's noodles." Matt said with a laugh.
"Hey, don't knock them till you try them!" I replied, knowing that he'd be pleasantly surprised. Matt nodded and we both headed down the stairs.
Tai
I really did appreciate Davis, he knew how to get me and Kari to laugh again. He may not be the best person to talk to about emotions but he really was good for cheering you up. I hadn't forgotten about the incident with Sora, but I was able to sit in my house and laugh at Davis stupid ideas.
"Nice kitty, you don't want to attack your friend Davis." Davis told our household cat, Miko. Davis was currently trying to get Miko to try out his latest noodle recipe, but unfortunately for Davis that had involved borrowing Miko's food bowl, something the cat really didn't like.
"Nice kitty…ouch!" Davis shouted as Miko pounced, scratching Davis and causing him to throw the bowl up into the air, resulting in him being covered in noodles.
I fell over laughing as I looked at Davis blinking covered in noodles. Before I could stop laughing the door burst open, and Kari entered followed by Matt. They stopped viewing the scene in the living room.
Matt looked at me, surprised to see me rolling on the ground laughing.
"Does Tai usually show how depressed he is by laughing?" Matt asked, confused.
"No," Kari replied, starting to laugh as she got a good look at Davis. "But Davis is really good at cheering me and Tai up, quickly."
I stopped laughing at this point. "Kari! Matt!" I said in greeting, giving Kari a hug, and then hugging Matt.
"Hey Tai." Matt said as I let go of him. I could tell that he was surprised that I was so happy to see him.
"It's been too long dude." I said, choosing not to bring up earlier.
"Yea, at least for just the two of us." Matt replied. At this point Davis made his official appearance, holding a bowl of noodles.
"Here you go Matt, some noodles for you to try." Davis said with a lopsided grin that looked oddly like mine. Matt looked at the noodles, but shrugged and tried them, having the same reaction that me and Kari had, quickly finishing them.
"Geez Davis, where'd you learn to cook this well?" Matt asked obviously surprised. Davis just laughed it off, and the four of us went into the kitchen to talk and eat more noodles. I even managed to forget that I was supposed to be spending this time with a different person for a while.
And here's the long author's note I'm sure all of you were missing from the beginning. I figured I needed to cut out all the super long notes, so I'll only do one. I'm sure a lot of you are disappointed that Kari didn't get to rip Sora a new one, but something like that will happen. I'm doing my best to keep everyone in (what I feel is) their character, so it's not going to be the tongue lashing of the decade, just the best Kari can do. So now we've been introduced to all of the main characters, (haha a Taiora with Matt as a main character where he's not the bad guy, that got to have some of you choking in suprise, lol) now we can really start the plot rolling, and get a really big plot point out next time. IT's exciting. But enough rambling, now to review responses!
JadeBrycin2116: Thanks, and yea, Sora really is being just a tad inconsiderate, just wait until you see her reaction when she finally remembers. And sorry you didn't get to see Kari go at Sora, as I said, something like that will come in a chapter or two.
TaioraWarrior: Thanks yet again, your making feel like I have a lot of expectations to measure up too lol, and yea, now you get to see a bit of Matt's view (or what I think Matt's view should be at least.) Personally I never really blamed Matt for any of the situation. Honestly the only person who could be blamed is Sora (or rather the writers, my theory is they put all the males names into a hat and drew to see who they'd give relationships too.). I know that's sorta odd for a Taiora fan, just like you said, but Sora went to Matt, not Matt going to her, that's the unfortunate cold hard facts (that the writers decided would be good) I really only blame the writers, but anywho, as I've said a time or two, you'll get you Kari being angry in a chapter or two, (and if you want to read a story where she gets really mad, read Second Chances for Sora by WhoseLiner. The story kinda takes a cop out for getting Tai and Sora together, but it's a good read, and has a great Kari pissed at Sora thing going on.) I won't comment on Sora's reaction when she remembers, but it'll be good (I hope).
The-Melodious-Nocturn: Glad you're enjoying it. Don't worry things will get happier (for some people) eventually.
Supershooter: Thanks. And yea, it's something I saw another author say once, any good Taiora avoids bashing Matt, plus he's one of my favorite characters, and as I said above, it's not like he was doing anything active to steal Sora (that we know of) so I can't hate him for no reason, and my stories will reflect that.
Until next time everyone!
