Hello my loyal readers!! Yeah...it's called an ego trip! ) I have updated again! Okay this chapter is in Sora's point of view... so yeah that's why it's in italics. We finally find out what the delio (I don't know if anyone uses that word anymore) was between Matt, Mimi, Tai and Sora. Yup yup yup! It's finally here! Let us all rejoice with a round of applause... and by giving me a cookie! ) The rest of the chapters are going to be like the one's before, in the third person. So... that's it! Hope you enjoy! )

Disclaimer: Don't own, don't pretend too! Hope I did, though... so sad I don't... (

AN: I e-mailed someone but I forgot who, because they wanted to know what happened between them ahead of time and I don't remember what I wrote, so if that person reads this, you'll know why. This was the best I could do, so be gentle! Please! )

Chapter Ten: Rumors

Rumors… all they do is cause trouble…nothing but a fun way that the popular kids use to pass the time…but yeah…they'll never know what it feels like to be on the other side… especially five years ago…

I remember it was cloudy, and I was trying not to fall asleep in class. It's not that math class was boring; it was just too much to remember. I was grateful once the bell rang. I practically ran to the lunchroom to wait for the guys.

"Hey, you guys," I greeted them as they walked up.

"Hey, Sora," They all said in unison.

"Whoa, did you practice or something?" I laughed.

"Yeah, Matt was the one that organized it." Tai teased. "After all, he is the one with the musical skills."

I rolled my eyes, he was such a dork, but he was our dork.

"Do you guys want to eat outside, or something?" Matt asked.

"I don't know," Mimi answered.

"It looks like it's about to rain." Tai said, looking out a window. "But, I'm game."

"What do you think, Sora?" Matt asked me.

I shrugged.

"Whatever you guys want," I said.

At the end of a long paper, scissors, rock game, mainly because Tai wouldn't admit defeat, we stayed inside.

"You cheated," Tai complained.

"How do you cheat in paper, scissors, rock?" Mimi asked.

"I don't know, but you did."

"Whatever Tai," she said, giving her the 'talk to the hand' sign.

I was about to dig in to my sandwich when Matt called me.

"Hey, Sora," he said.

I looked sideways at him, my mouth agape, and only inches away from my sandwich.

"Can I talk to you?"

"Sure." I said, as I placed my sandwich down, despite the desires of my growling stomach.

"But not here, outside," he pointed to the hallway.

"All right," I said and followed him.

Tai and Mimi were so involved in their argument they didn't notice us leave.

"So what's up?"

"Uh…" he hesitated. "How do I say this?"

"You can start by just saying it." I suggested.

Matt looked nervous, and was pacing. I found that odd because he was never nervous, he was usually cool and collected, hot headed, but composed.

"Okay," he stopped. "Here's the thing…I think…I might have a crush on Mimi."

Whoa! Didn't see that coming, but can't say I didn't find it strange that he would actually like her, I mean, he was the most popular guy in our class, and Mimi was the popular girl, they just go together. Like peanut butter and jelly…mmm… my sandwich…

"Seriously?" my eyes were wide with surprise.

Matt nodded.

"Well…that's great. Do you want me to tell her for you?"

"No!" He yelled. "Don't say anything, not yet, it's a secret, no one besides you knows, so just don't say anything, alright?"

I nodded. "I promise," and raised my right hand. "Girl scouts honor, although I was never in the girl scouts but you know…"

He seemed more calm, "Thanks."

"No problem."

Little did I know that keeping a promise like that would ruin everything.

It was after school when everything broke loose. I was at my locker when Matt came up to me, fuming.

As his friend, I thought I might cheer him up.

"Hey, Tomato," I said. That was the nickname I had given him, since his name Yamato reminded me of tomato, the tuh-mah-toh pronunciation, I would just call him tomato. I was the only one that was allowed to call him that, one, because no one knew that was one of his nickname, and two, because if 

anyone ever called him that he would beat them until they were unconscious…so would I. How dare they steal my nickname?

"What's wrong," I asked.

"Why did you tell Tai that I liked Mimi?"

I furrowed my brow, "No I didn't. Where'd you hear that?"

"From this kid in my gym class, he said that you told Tai, and that now he's going all over school telling everybody."

"But I-"

"Sora!" I heard Tai yell my name.

Now what?

"Why are you telling everybody that I told about Matt and Mimi? I didn't even know that he liked her."

"I didn't say anything!" Where were they getting this from?

"How could you, Sora?" Mimi suddenly appeared.

"How could I what?" I was getting frustrated.

"How could you tell everyone that I was going out with Matt and Tai, at the same time?" she asked, outraged.

"I never said anything!" I defended myself.

"Then why is everyone saying that you did say all those things?" Matt asked.

"How am I supposed to know?" I asked.

"It's one thing for you to start these rumors, but it's a completely different when you blame someone else." Tai said.

"I thought you were our friend, Sora." Mimi said, she was on the verge of tears, her reputation was obviously ruined, and the worse thing was that she thought it was my fault.

"Mimi…I am your friend, how could believe what everyone is saying?"

"Because they sound pretty convinced. At first I thought, 'fine, maybe they are just making it up' but then I overheard you telling Jun that Matt liked me, and well that was obviously true."

"I never said that!"

That's when I remembered, Jun had asked me what kind of girls Matt liked and remembering that he liked Mimi I said that he liked girly girls, like Mimi.

I sighed. Why did I have to open my mouth? I didn't even like Jun; usually when she asks me things about Matt I just ignore her. Why I didn't that day, I don't know.

"So it is true." Mimi said. She stormed off, leaving me with Matt and Tai.

"Why would you blame me for spilling Matt's secret?" Tai asked.

"But, Tai, I never…"

"Just save it, Sora." Tai said as he walked away.

"How could you betray me like that?" Matt said. "I trusted you, I confided in you and this is how you treat me, by telling everyone that I liked Mimi?"

"But I never said anything, it was a misunderstanding," I tried to explain, despite the fact that I was crying.

"You're a liar and a traitor, and I don't want to see you again." With that, he stormed off and left me there, crying and with my heart broken.

It wasn't until weeks later, that they finally realized that it was Jun who started those rumors. Obviously she wanted Matt to like her so badly that she was capable of breaking our friendship, and it worked, until the truth came out.

But by then it was too late. I had called, gone to their houses, in addition stayed there until nightfall, begging for their forgiveness. By the time they realized it wasn't me spreading those rumors, I didn't want to have anything to do with them.

Matt was the only one that got off easy, the next day after the rumors, all the girls were there to comfort him, and in return, hated my guts. I guess that's why I could never stand Matt, because he was the only one that didn't get affected as badly. He was the victim in this story, not me. I was completely innocent, and still, I was the most hated person out of our entire class.

Tai and Mimi didn't bother me that much, they had suffered the repercussions; Tai was called a tattle-tale, and Mimi…she had some of the worse nicknames ever. But nothing was compared to what I was being called and how I was getting treated. Tai and Mimi knew they weren't any of those things, but the judgmental eyes that all three would stare at me with, convinced everyone else that I was.

All the girls would push me whenever I was walking in the hallways. I would get called names like, "traitor"," liar", and they're most popular one "the loser with not friends". It was bad enough that I got picked on by the girls, but then I also had to confront the girls from Matt's fan club.

They would push my lunch on the floor, while I was playing soccer they would falsely claim that I pushed them just so when the referee said that it wasn't true they would call me a liar. And that was in just the few weeks after the rumors.

That summer was the most horrible of all. They just wouldn't leave alone. Like I had begged them, they begged me. But it was nothing in comparison to one person begging than to three at the same time.

When eight grade started, I didn't hang out with anyone anymore, why should I have? My reputation was ruined, including Mimi's and Tai's. But once everything was cleared out, they went back to being the same care-free people I used to hang out with.

Jun got off easy to. I mean she did have to face the humiliation of having Matt scream at her, in front of everyone. But her fan friends were there to comfort her. I almost went up to high fived the guy, but when he turned to face everyone, he had the same stare from the day he stopped talking to me. He was betrayed again and more importantly he was betrayed and in the process lost his best friends.

I would've thought that all three would've hung out again, but I was wrong. I guess they decided the rumors were much bigger than them. Supposedly, they were the love triangle of our class and that Tai and Matt were in constant argument because of who she would stay with.

As for me, I turned bitter and reclusive. Once I started high school, I was the social outcast, getting good grades, being a geek, not talking to anyone, and to add to my awkwardness, I joined the school paper.

That's where I met Izzy. At first I was cold with him, I didn't want to get to close to anyone and then get hurt again. But the dork won me over and he soon became my best friend. He was the only person that I would hang out with. Tai and Mimi would try to talk to me, but I would just shrug them off.

Matt would try, but after one time that I yelled my head off at him, he didn't try to talk to me again…that is until that weekend that we hung out…

I guess the reason that I didn't want to hang out with them again was because I was scared that I would loose them again. That something might happen, and that we would all get hurt again. I guess, my way of protecting them was to drive them off… as crazy and neurotic as that might sound...

I just don't want to get hurt again…