Nikki1: Good question about the lanuage. I don't know any Japanese so I made Matt speak a few words to suggest that they are speaking French. I didn't want the whole conversation in French because not everyone that is reading this story can read that language. My personal opion would be that the boys speak fluent French because of their mother must be French and it is easier for children to start speaking a different lanuage then an adult. However, I wouldn't put it past their grandparent to try and learn a little of their grandchildren native lanuage.

BabyDark: Glad you like it. I don't know how much together Sora and Matt will be in the end but they will be moving in that direction.

Curtis Zidane Ziraa: Thank you for your review. I am glad you are enjoying this story.

Stained In Negativity: I was going to seek you out. I have a touch of writers block and was unsure if I should even post this chapter, I was going to seek out your advice. This chapter is to only to keep the story going but you know how sometimes you write the first thing that comes to you and end up damaging the story? That was about to happen. I deleted my work so many times but I think I am safe with this chapter. Just slow in coming.

FallenArchangelDD: Sure I guess Tai could be a pain in the ass once in awhile, other times others can be. It is a part of our world we can contribute to the stories we write. Thank you for your review and continuing to read my story.

JyouraKoumi:I am trying but I don't understand the colour scheming of the stories. How can you label one story blue and another a different colour?

Digi-Girl101: Writer's block is to blame for the delay!

gizmo-396: HAPPY BE-LATED BIRTHDAY! I hope all of your wishes come true.

BladeMasterAd: You'll be just as disappointed I'm afraid. I had no idea how to go on from the last chapter. So this next one is to only keep the story going until I find the path I was on when I started this story. Give me a few chapters and the drama will be back.


Matt leaned back, feeling the bleacher behind him prod into his back as he fixed his eyes at the tennis court before him. Closing his eyes against the sun's rays, he let the feeling the warmth of the sun heat his face. Tai was sitting beside him, watching the practice below. Matt opened one eyes as Tai yelled something down to the red head, which merely waved at them in return.

"She's good." Tai squinted against the sun's glare. He waited for his friend's reply but after hearing none, he glanced over.

"She's good." Tai repeated himself.

"How can you even tell?" Matt asked; bring his hand up to shade his eyes from the sun.

"Haven't you been watching her?"

"Yeah but the sun." Matt pointed up to the circular blaze above them. "Why couldn't we seat over there?" Matt nodded to the belchers stands across from them.

"Because I always sit here, besides the sun would be in her eyes and she wouldn't be able to see us."

"But we can't see her."

"Still she can see that we are here, that's all the matters." Tai shrugged. The two boys grew silent while they continue to watch Sora practice with her tennis mates. Tai took a deep breath and glanced over at Matt.

"What?" Matt asked.

"Mimi." Tai nodded to a girl climbing the bleachers towards them.

"Oh. Did you ever tell her about your date?" Matt asked.

"Yeah but I made it as I did it on purpose. Told her the date went bad, that I didn't enjoy myself and by making my date pissed, I wouldn't be under any obligations for a second date."

"Did she fall for it?"

"I think." Tai scratched his head. "Hey Mims!" He yelled as she drew closer to them.

"Hi Tai, Matt!" She settled herself between the two boys. "Poo. This is an awful view."

"That's what I told him." Matt mumbled.

"I always sit here." Tai growled.

"Do you two want to share my snack?" She offered them an apple wedge and a peanut butter cookie. "I made the cookies in Home Ec. today."

Matt and Tai exchanged worried looks. They never sampled any of Mimi's cooking and she never offered until today.

"Guys." She titled her head slightly looking over at Matt who was studying the cookie with a frown. She then turned to Tai who just smiled stupidly at her. "They're good. Izzy ate some!"

"Izzy would eat anything." Matt sniffed the cookie, which caused Mimi to punch him lightly on the arm.

"Don't be a jerk." Mimi scolded him. "Tai you will try it, won't you?" Mimi blinked sadly, her brown eyes shining hopefully at his direction. He lost all train of thought and simple nodded and took a bite of the cookie.

"Good." He kept nodding his head.

Mimi smiled brightly at him and looked over at Matt who took a nimble of the rim of the cookie. "Honestly Matt, it won't kill you!"

"Caution never should be over looked." Matt told her.

"Now you think of caution?" Tai cracked a smile.

"Shut up." Matt glared over at him.

"Look," Mimi grabbed Tai's half-eaten cookie and took a large bite from it. "See. Nothing is wrong with the cookies." She handed Tai's snack back to him.

"Nothing is wrong with THAT cookie but who is to say there isn't something wrong with this cookie?" Matt quirked up an eyebrow.

Tai looked down at his cookie; pink lipstick marked where Mimi took a bite.

"Fine." Mimi swiped the cookie from Matt's hand. "Here Tai can eat it."

Tai took the cookie Mimi shoved in his direction and now stared at both cookies, unsure if he should continue eating and if so, which one.

"Hey I didn't say I wouldn't try." Matt reached in front of Mimi to grab the cookie from Tai. "Just said that I should use caution."

"Well anyways." Mimi watched the boys nimble on her cookies with pride. "I actually came up to talk to you, Matt."

"To Matt?" Tai frowned.

"Oh, well I have a question for him." Mimi smiled, placing a hand on Tai's bare arm.

Tai felt his cheeks flush as he looked down at Mimi's manicure fingertips.

"There is a rumour going around school. Of course you know how people always come my way to tell me what they heard or saw…"

"Yeah." Matt smirked. Mimi was the most admired girl at school. She was a stunning girl and girls wanted to be close to her, hoping some of her style would rub off her onto them. Having a story to tell provided them a few small moments with Mimi as they clued her in.

"Well a few girls saw your father buying a baby seat. So of course everyone knows what that means." Mimi blinked at him.

"What does everyone know?" Matt asked, exchanging a glance with Tai.

"Duh." Mimi rolled her eyes. "You honestly don't have to keep secrets from me, Matt. I think it's great that your father has finally moved on and having a brother or sister this late in your youth isn't a big deal…."

"Huh?" Matt and Tai looked over at Mimi.

"What?" Mimi looked back at them, her eyebrows knitting in a frown fully aware they were exchanging secrets by glancing at each other.

"My dad isn't having a kid." Matt shook his head with a smirk. "Is that what everyone is saying?"

"Well…yea," Mimi pouted, "He's not? Then what's with the car seat?"

"Nope. I think his old man is done, Meems." Tai smiled.

"Then…" Mimi looked at the two boys again. "You two are hiding something from me!"

"Not really." Matt looked down at the tennis court as the tennis players gathered in a circle to hear the coaches remarks.

"Just tell her." Tai sighed, leaning back on the bleachers.

"Tell me what?" Mimi looked over at Matt.

Matt took a bite out of the apple wedge she had given him and glanced over at Tai.

"Just tell her." Tai told him again. "She's going to find out."

"What am I going to find out?" Mimi looked over at Tai now.

"I'm not telling, Matt is." Tai nodded in his friend's directions.

"What's going on Matt?" Mimi whipped her head around to face Matt. Strains of hair slapped Tai in the face.

"I got this girl pregnant, Mims." Matt looked over her.

"You're going to be a father?" Mimi's brown eyes grew large. "Who is she?"

"You don't know her." Matt stared as his red head friend came out of the dressing area.

"How do you know? I might know of her! Or I might know of her."

"You don't."

"But I might."

"But you don't."

"I won't know if you don't tell."

"I won't tell because you don't know her."

"You are being bull-headed. Of course you don't know if I know because you don't know everyone that I might know."

"And let us leave it at that, shall we?" Matt lifted an eyebrow.

"Don't give me that look." Mimi pointed her long slender finger at Matt. "Well at least tell me when she's due."

"I don't know. About three months."

"Three months!" Mimi's brown eyes grew large, "I don't know if I can get a baby shower organized in three months!"

"A what?" Matt glanced over at her.

"You need a baby shower." Mimi rolled her eyes, "Honestly sometimes you can be so clueless."

"I am not having a baby shower." Matt warned her.

"Of course you are! I would throw the mother-to-be one but you will not tell me who she is! Besides you owe me and you owe me a baby shower!" Mimi scolded the older boy. "Oh, we have to go baby shopping too!"

"How the hell do I owe you one?" Matt shook his head.

"You kept making wise cracks about my cookies!" Mimi hissed at him.

"How does that link to a baby shower?" Matt asked.

"Honestly Matt." Mimi shook her head. "You are getting a baby shower whether you like it or not."

"What exactly happens at a baby shower?" Tai asked.

"You'll see."

"I will?"

"Matt's your friend, Tai." Mimi battered her long lashes and Tai nodded his head. "So of course you will be there, right." She smiled as Tai kept nodding his head. "Great. Oh…"

"What?" Tai frowned as he watched her pout.

"I um…" Mimi glanced down the belchers as Sora bounced towards them.

Tai took Mimi's hand, leaning close to her, he whispered, "I told her." Tai gave Mimi's hand a quick squeeze before releasing it.

"Hi." Sora smiled brightly at them.

"Good practice!" Tai jumped up giving her a brief hug.

"Thanks." Sora put her hands through her wet hair and looked over at Matt. "Hey."

"Hi." Matt stood up but looked away.

"How awkward." Mimi sighed. She placed her arm through Matt's and Tai is leading them down the steps.

"Keep up Sora." Mimi yelled, tossing her hair once more. "I was thinking that you two boys take me out to dinner."

Sora frowned as she watched her friend slink her arms through Matt and Tai. Once again, Mimi was guaranteeing herself centre of attention. Sora rolled her eyes and followed more slowly behind the trio.

"I've got an idea, why don't you buy us dinner?" Tai looked down at the girl in his arms. He loved the way her little hands wrapped tightly around his arm, how a flowery smell seems to float around her. Mimi was every guys dream. She had a soft innocent look but Tai knew better, he knew her better then most. Mimi was a manipulator. She would lower her eyelashes, blink up at a person and give them a small shy smile and poof, putty in her hands.

"Me? I don't think so. You boys eat like pigs!" Mimi smiled sweetly at Tai. She gave Matt a side-glance but never played her games with him. Matt never fell for Mimi's antics. While Tai found it to be amusing, Matt found it to be annoying.

"Tell you what," Mimi slowed down, leaning her shapely body into Tai, "I'll drive you two to dinner."

"Hell if she drives, I'll pay." Matt volunteered.

"Seriously?" Mimi looked up at him with wide eyes.

"As long as I don't have to get in the car with him." Matt nodded in Tai's direction.

"It's a deal!" Mimi squealed and turns around to find her red hair friend tagging long. "Matt's buying us dinner, Sor!"

"Wonderful." Sora grumbled still walking behind her friends.

The boys slowed down as they reached the parking lot. Mimi's little car stuck out from all the other cars there were parked.

Tai looked down at Mimi's little BMW and started to scratch his head. "How do you get in?"

Matt stood beside him, biting his bottom lip. "It's pink." He finally said.

"Very good!" Tai patted Matt's shoulder. "Now again, what colour is the sky?"

"I didn't know it was pink." Matt looked over at Tai, ignoring his last question. "I thought it was yellow."

"Does it look yellow?" Tai pointed to the little car.

Matt followed Tai's hand, his eyes looking over the mini car again. He slowly shook his head. "It's pink."

"It was yellow, last week!" Mimi gave them a brilliant smile, "But Daddy paid for it to be repainted pink."

"Why would he do that?" Matt wrinkled up his nose.

"You still want to ride in this?" Tai asked.

"Hey!" Mimi pouted.

"Barbie car or the manly jeep?" Tai asked Matt, nodding to his mud splattered jeep parked a few cars down from Mimi's.

"Can we walk?" Matt asked.

"Excuse me, but I just had practice and I'm starving. I'm not walking anywhere." Sora pushed the two boys towards the car. "Get into the little pink buggy so we can eat!"

Matt pulled the seat up and slide in the back. Tai waited until Matt arranged his long legs before he pushed the seat back into position.

"The seats are pink!" Tai's mouth open.

"Yep!" Mimi giggled, shutting the door once Sora settled in the back seat.

"Why would you even think of doing this to a car?" Tai shook his head.

"What's wrong with it?" Mimi asked, "It's my car."

Mimi backed out of the parking lot, beeping her horn at a few friends she knew before heading out of the parking lot. Tai found a paper lunch bag and placed it over his head.

"Is there any more?" Matt smiled as Tai waved out the window.

"Nope. Anyone staring?" Tai asked hopefully.

"The whole world." Matt winked over at Sora.

"Tai you look ridiculous!" Mimi shouted, slapping Tai's arm.

"I feel ridiculous in this car!" Tai playfully slapped her back.

"Ouch! I'm going to bruise now!" Mimi rubbed her arm.

"No you're not. I didn't hit you that hard." Tai pulled the paper bag slight off his face to look at her arm.

"Look!" Mimi poked her arm. "There is already a red mark!"

"Well stop poking yourself!" Tai touched her arm.

"Ouch! That hurts!" Mimi pulled away.

"Eyes on the road!" Matt told her.

"Your friend is abusing me!" Mimi shouted back to Matt, looking at him through the review mirror.

"I barely touched you!"

"Red mark!" Mimi pointed to her arm again.

"Such drama." Sora rolled her eyes, giving Matt a small smile.

"Day and life of Mimi and Tai." Matt replied.

"Yeah, I guess." She glanced out the window. She always ran out of things to say to Matt. Tai took control of all of their conversations but Matt, well he was different. He never offered more then you asked. When a question was asked, Matt would try, and most of the time succeeds in answering the question with a yes or a no.

Matt was seated at an angle so he could stretch out his legs towards the middle of the BMW. Tai, who is almost the same height, had to push his seat back as far as he could to keep his feet on the floor and his knees from hitting the dashboard.

The position Matt sat gave him the opportunity to observe Sora. Maybe it was the talk he had with Izzy or the fact he was actually absorbing her appearance or maybe it was just the light, whatever the cause was, Matt realized how very pretty Sora had become since their childhood.

He liked women with sophistication, the stylish type. He was attracted to the kind of girl who seems to float in front of you, the type who seems to glow with seduction. The kind of women who did not over dress or barely wore anything at all; he enjoyed the type that wore enough clothing to give them that alluring presentation. He never thought Sora was that type. She played rough with the boys at school, with Tai. She never wore make-up, she had a habit of biting her nails and the paint, if she wore any, was always chipped. The sexiest thing in her closet, and Tai and Matt both looked, were a pair of jeans that had a slash just a little below the back of her thigh.

Today however, Matt was able to picture her as the person she was becoming, far from the soccer playing tough girl. She was breathtaking. The air from the BMW's air vent hit her hair slightly, the soft red strains bounced around her face slightly. Light reflected against her eyes, causing her to blink her long lashes rapidly. Her skin was fair, a slight row of light freckles scattered around her nose giving her an innocent look.

"So, I heard about your news." Sora turned quickly to look at Matt.

Her ruby lips open slightly, waiting for him to speak. He said not a word but continue to stare at her in silence.

She took it wrong and gave a deep sigh after a moment of silence. That was Matt for you. She blew her bangs out of her eyes. "I um..been thinking and I believe you are doing a admirable thing. I mean most people would love the alternative to turn the other cheek. You always hear how one of the girls at school is now single mothers, the fathers never sticking around to find out the kids name. I'm glad you're not like that, Matt."