So like yays! New POV! This was actually the orriginal Idea I had, was to keep chaging povs per chapter but Kari became easy to write.

Well this is Tai's POV, I don't know if I portrayed him that well. He kind of has a few "Anger issues" as you'll notice.

Oh and you know how I said in the last chapter we'll see more juicy goodness? Sorry I lied...that's next chapter D

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We had been friends for so long. We would smile and laugh with each other. It seemed like we were so comfortable with just me and her. I was never really good at showing my feelings. I would somehow accidently insult her from time to time. It wasn't really the way I meant it to be. I wanted to make her happy, not upset. In truth, I really had liked her and deeply cared for her. I would find myself coming up with excuses to see her again. And that laugh of hers, more beautiful then anything I could ever imagine. It called me to was no princess though. She was rough around the edges but I think a part of me really enjoyed that about her. She was different. There was something so strong about her, yet there was this vulnerability she hid. I wanted to protect her, but never admitted to her I noticed this side of her.

Instead I just made foolish comments. I don't understand how such things can come out of my mouth sometimes. I'd dream of her from time to time. Memories of us sitting on the greenest grass, looking up at the luminescent moon and it's bright, gazing stars. Eventually, my dreams changed into a reality. I finally gathered the bravery to confess my feelings to her. I had never really been the one to hide from my fears, I had fought many beasts in the past with courage. This should be no different, I couldn't hide my feelings from her any longer.

To my surprise, she felt the same. Sora...

We began dating as friends with feelings such as ours do. We had some rough patches in here, and a minor off period. But honestly? I never really could connect to her, not that I didn't like her. Just... I could never really get her to open up to me. Was it the way I said things? I could never really get my feelings across apropriately. Why are my words always so misconstrued? I thought we were happy. I knew I was. Was it all pretend for her? Why would she even be with me in the first place then? I was happy, incredibly happy with our relationship. And oblivious to the fact there was a war going on inside of her.....

"Tai" There seemed to be a harshness to her voice, "I-I need to talk to you about something..."

A talk. Why is it that "talks" can never be about something positive? Or is it that I just have the worst of luck with them? Tears began to drip from her eyes as she clenched at her shorts. My hand caressed her cheek, wiping away her tear with my thumb.

"I can't be with you anymore. I just can't." She said with such cruelty that I felt a peicing pain in my heart, how could she have said those words so quickly, with little hesitance?

I wrap my arms around her bringing her into a hug.

"You don't mean that." I assured her.

"I can't" she repeated.

"You love me." I insisted.

"No!" She pushes me away off of her. Such a rejection made me realize that she may actually be sincere in her words. How can she be? We were happy, weren't we?

"What do you mean? Why?" My voice cracked as my throat became tighter. Was I tearing up?

"I just can't. Can't you accept that?" I became angered by her words. Accept the fact that you don't want to be with me the way I want to be with you? The fact that I thought we were happy together when it was actually a different story?

"No, I can't." The anger reflected in my voice. " I deserve an answer, an explanation why."

She silently sat there, staring off into emptiness. I patiently waited for an answer as my mind searched for the million possible reasons why someone might do this. I could only think of one thing. It flooded my mind. I couldn't keep the thought back any longer. I didn't want to know if it was true or not, however, my mind would never be satisfied until I had gotten the answer.

"Is it someone else?" I finally force out of my mouth. She looks up at me, seeming shocked at my question, unable to answer it. The silence told me everything. Could it really be someone else?

"Oh my god, it's true. There is someone else."

"It's not like that." she retorted.

"Not like that? Then tell me what it's like?" My voice sounded angered, though I tried to hold back that feeling.

"What do you want me to tell you? That I care for someone else? Fine yes, I feel for someone else. But I never acted on those feelings. The person doesn't even know I care for them"

And there it was, confirmation. Though I had made the arguement that she did care for someone else, I never expected her to confirm it. I wanted her to say it wasn't true. Just take it back...

"How long?" I felt so generic asking that question. But I wanted to know. How long had it been that she had thought of someone else? There were so many questions roaming in my head. Did you imagine them holding you, while in my arms? Did you dream of them, as I dreamed of you? These silly questions only rose my anger.

"I can't really place..."

"How long! How long have you known?" My anger was apparant in my voice. I wasn't loud, but each line seemed to have some sort of bestial growl to it. How could I have not been angry?

"Long enough..." Her head tilted to the left, obviously avoiding my gaze.

"Why can't you just give me a straight answer?"

"It's not that simple..."

"Yes it is! A week? Months? How long?" I turned her head to face me. Her eyes clenched and pulled back away from me.

"It's...been for months." She didn't give me an exact measurement, but the fact that it had even been one month...even more. How could she have left me in the dark for so long?

So then I asked the most inevitable question of them all, none of the others mattered, as long as I got this answer.

"Who- who is it?" All she does in reply is look at me with a saddened, pitied glare, softly shaking her head from side to side. She refuses to tell me? She's told me so much that she can't hold this from me. She owes it to me the answer.

"Is it Matt?...Agh! I should have seen it! I thought ya'll were over..." It suddenly rushed in on me. How foolish of me to think otherwise. He's the only other guy I can think of that she spends a lot of time with. Why did I let them hang out like that? She has fallen for him in the past. It isn't like she hadn't dated him after our first breakup... That's right, we had once before. But this one seemed different. More concrete, more permanent.

"No." She took me out of my destructive thoughts, "It isn't Matt."

I was sort of in shock. It wasn't? But he's the only explanation. Or has he been an excuse? Who else could it be?

"Then tell me who."

Tears began rushing from her eyes. Crying more then she ever did in the whole conversation. Why was she crying so much now?

"I can't tell you. I'm sorry" she rushes out the door. And my body, seemingly detached from my mind, sat there. Go after her I screamed. Pick up your legs! What are you still doing here. No matter how much I tried, I seemed paralyzed in thought.

I finally was able to escape my petrification by falling into my bed. Though I don't care to admit it, I did cry for a moment. And then found myself starring at the fan on my ceiling, it seemed slower then usual. Rotating one by one. Marching behind the other, following the same old path.

A knock sounded at my door. My body partially rose in hope.

"Tai?" Kari's voice sounded from behind the oak. "Dinner is ready Tai." I hear her footsteps as she moves away. I fall back on to the bed once again. She doesn't seem to know yet.

It didn't take long before Kari was back in front of my door.

"Tai, are you okay."

An unwanted sigh escaped from the bottom of my lips, as I gathered the energy to speak.

"Yeah, just give me a moment." The door creaks open, with a concerned Kari peeking in.

"It isn't like you to move so slow when food is involved."

"Could you just leave me alone for a moment?"

"Tai..." Kari voices reached toward me. "Okay."

She began to slowly close the door. The hinges creaking slightly.

"Wait, Kari!" Surprisingly enough I called for her. And as expected she came in, closing the door behind her. She remained next to the door awaiting nervously for what I was about to tell her. I raised myself up from my bed and sat firmly against it. Finally she came closer as I motioned my head towards my bed, inviting her to sit. She lightly places herself on my mattress.

I finally find the words.

"Sora and I broke up" I had to be careful from choking up at the end. I looked up at Kari's face, her expression seemed puzzling. She seemed as though she was both releived and saddened. Such a confusing expression, I must have misunderstood the meaning in it.

She tired to talk to me, continue on farther into the story. I refused. I only told her what she needed to know. It seemed rather odd seeking the assistance of my younger sister once again. I need to be stronger for her...

The night Sora had broken up with me was a Thursday of all days.

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The annoying nuisance of the alarm rang in my ear the morning after, my body motionless to the sound that haunted me. I tried to tune it out but it wouldn't go away. I finally got up and in my current mood unplugged it feircly from it's power, rather than press the 'off' button.

I stumbled into the shower grundgedly, attempting to wash the horrors of the day before away. Unfortunately, they don't make soap strong enough.

Stepping out of the steamy restroom, I dried myself off as I gathered clothes together. Some could compare me to a sloth as I pulled my shirt over my head and slid it down over my shoulders.

As I walked up the entrance to the school, it was desolate and silent. I did not care that I was late, in fact, apart of me had enjoyed the rebellion of it.

I stumbled throughout the day...attending classes that I had no idea were about anymore.

And then I saw him, during lunch. Matt. He knew something, he just had to have known something! Lately Sora and Matt had been all buddy-buddy with each other. Not that I minded then, Me and Matt had become closer friends then what we were in the past.

I walked steadfast towards him. His white teeth shined behind parted lips that were quickly wiped away once he realized what I was after.

"Who is it? Who is he?" He couldn't even face me as his head shifted to look down at the groud. "You know don't you, Matt? I can see it in your face."

"You should talk to Sora about this, Tai."

"Don't you think I've tried that! I tried when she was breaking up with me over some silly crush... I need to know who it is. Tell me!" My feelings took a hold of me and I grabbed him by his coat, signalling to him my desparation, my need to know.

"What does it even matter?" How could he ask me such a foolish question. What does it even matter? It matters! More then anything it matters.

"How could you say such a thing Matt! Of course it matters! My relationship with Sora wasn't just some sort of joke. You think it wouldn't matter to me why my girlfriend just decided to end things?"

"No, of course it matters Tai..."

"Then tell me who he is."

"I can't..." I can barely hear his words through his whisper.

"She's been cheating on me and you can't tell me anything. Good to see whose side you are on." I scoff at him.

"She hasn't been cheating on you Tai."

"She's been hanging out with him hasn't she? Well now that she's broken up with me he has free reign to just do whatever he wants now? No guilty concious for either of them because those feelings 'never went anywhere'" The sarcasm in my voice was made clear, or so I believed.

"She doesn't even know about her feelings yet, Tai." He scoffed, obviously oblivious to my sarcasm.

"You know what, I don't even care if- ...Wait. She?" The words he said just dawned on me, did he really say that?"

"Yeah...she. Sora. That's who I meant" He squirmed so easily, obviously uncomfortable with the situation.

"She's in love with a... girl?" I stated, completely ignoring Matt's words. The realization of his sentence crawled it's way inside me. What does this mean? Does she only like girls? Then what if our whole relationship was fake, a ruse put on by her? And even then, if she doesn't feel for men the same way, then perhaps I really have no chance to ever win her back. Dread seemed to hang over me as I fought to hold my composure.

I left go of his jacket, I had contained a firm grip on during the conversation, and headed towards the exit.

"Tai...No. Wait." Were the only words I could hear as they slowly trailed off, when my distance from Matt became greater.

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"Sora!" I yelled as my hand pounded against her door. "Sora, I need to talk to you!"

After what seemed like an eternity, she finally let me in. She seemed almost ready to cry as I noticed one of her hand grasped tightly over her phone. Part of me assumed that Matt must have called her, warned her. Well pal, I see where your alliances stand.

"Tai-" She started to speak.

"It's a girl isn't it?" I interupt her, wanting to know the answers as quickly as possible. The tear that lay lightly in her left eyelid finally fell as I questioned her. The answer was apparant on her face, to make the answer clearer, she nodded.

The answer supplied pierced me in my chest far more then I had expected it to. Does this truly mean...

"So you like girls?" I questioned further.

"It's not like that Tai..." She glance up to stare at me directly.

"What's it like then." My calm demeanor was surprising due to my composure earlier.

"I-I-I like her, I don't know about other g-girls." Did she stutter? I was slightly shocked by her nervousness.

A fearful question laid on the tip of my tongue. It took me what seemed like decades to finally encase those words into a sentence.

"Did you ever love me?" I looked away from her gaze.

"Tai, that's an unfair question." Unfair? How could she say such a word to me, the calmness I showed before was slowly breaking away.

"Unfair?! Unfair?! How could you say such a thing? Don't you think I have a right to know if all that was pretend! I've been the one treated unfairly and yet you are so willing to say that?" A moment of silence once again followed. This pattern seemed to be tiring my patience.

"I cared about you a lot Tai, that'll never change." She just had to say that, didn't she? She just had to bring hope back into my heart, didn't she? How carefully she worded her sentence though, if only I could see back then what I see now...

"Who is she?" The undeniable question of the day, the one that no one has been able to answer. Who is this mysterious love.

"Tai I can't tell you that." What? I move closer to her.

"Why? It isn't like it's some secret like it was before? I'm not just going to go tell her you know. I promise I won't no matter how much I want to." My voice sounded comforting, an attempt at convincing her to tell me who it was. But I go by my word, I promised not to tell the girl about Sora's feelings, and unfortunately I'd have to keep that word.

"It isn't like that Tai..." After all I just said, she can't tell me? I find myself pressing up against her, pinning her to the wall.

"I deserve to know Sora! I deserve to know who it is that is better then me?" If I could only control this newfound anger, I wasn't harsh to her. I didn't hold her tightly against the wall. I only applied enough presser to make it easier for her to give into my questions.

"Tai..It isn't like that." I squeezed her arm.

"I don't care what it isn't like Sora! I want to know who it is!" Tears began pouring out of her eyes as I felt the guilt wash over me. What was I doing, being so agressive towards her? I release her and begin to turn out the door. On my wait out I notice a notebook. My curiousity takes the better of me, and my index finger props it open.

"Tai, dont!" It was too late, my eyes saw everything I needed to see. It was her? How could it be her...

"Kari?" I pause a moment before I turn around, wet tears running down my cheeks, "You're in love with Kari?"

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And now, this? How could Sora do such a thing to my sister? I stood there a moment in the door way.

Kari wouldn't betray me like this, would she?

OMG...That was long.....Longer then I expected. Guess I write longer chapters now. Meh, got a bit choppy at the end there. Probably because I'm tried. Sorry about that.

I feel somewhat disappointed because I'm somewhat loosing interest in this story. Mainly because I have a couple other stories I want to start on...but alas, I am determined to finish this one!