Matt walked into Tai's bedroom with messy and wet hair.

He had already got dressed in the bathroom.

He lifted his clothes to his his nose.

"Smells like ash from last nights fire." Then he turned to see what Tai was

doing.The clothes in Matt's hand fell to the ground.

Tai lowered the letter to his waist and saw Matt stepping backwards in

horror.

"Matt...I...I" Was all he could stammer.

The next thing Tai knew, Matt had bolted out the front door letting his fear

take hold.

He began to run after him but he stopped at the door then slowly turned back

to the letter while sliding down against the wall.

"Matt....." The tears tried to force their way through but he held them back.

His voice trembled.

"You couldv'e told me anything I said." In fact he wish Matt had told him.

That way Tai could tell him how he felt too.

Tai sat looking at the letter for several more minutes thinking of Matt.He read

the letter over and realised how much pain Matt must've been carrying

around with him. He began to gather himself."He has to know." He said

sternly slamming his fist into his hand,then made his way to the front door.

He slammed the door behind him and ran as hard as he could to get to the

blonde boys house.

 His voice was trembling. "I have to tell him." He repeated as he ran. 

"I HAVE to tell him."

About half way there he stopped to catch his breath.He leaned forward with

his hands on his knees.

Over his deep gulps of air he thought he could hear a light moaning sound

coming from the dark alley on his right.

Wandering over the screwed up newspapers and junk lying around he saw a

figure move slightly in the shadows, it fell lifeless back to the ground a second later.

Tai moved a little closer only to recognise his shirt on the boy he had been

chasing after.

"Matt!!!" He shouted as he ran to his side.

There was no reply.He just lay there eyes closed.

Tai sat back terrified at the state of Matt's body.

His arms were covered in bruises and cuts, his face reflected the dark blue

patches on his arms.streams of drying blood ran from his nose.His pockets

were turned inside out, who ever they were, they weren't happy to find their

victim with nothing worth stealing. He had been mugged brutally.

"Matt?" he nudged him, being carefull not to hurt him. "Matt?"

Still no reply.

Histerical, he did the only logical thing he could think of.

He ran after a woman who was passing by the alley a grabbed a hold of her

arm.

"Call an ambulance! My friend he's.......he's! "

Startled, She realised what he was talking about, the woman grabbed a hold

of him in return and lowered herself to his height."Calm down. Where is he?"

Tai pointed to the ally."He's been hurt really bad!"

"Good" She said. "Now go to him and put this over him and keep him

warm."She gave him her business jacket. "I'll be right back after I call the

ambulance okay?"

Tai Nodded and ran into the ally to do as she said.

He draped the jacket over him.

"Matt.... come on you can't leave me now!"

He picked up the blonde in his arms and began to stroke his hair.

"Matt.........?" He whispered into his ear. "Please be alright."

The bruised boy opened his eye's slightly as far as they would allow.

"Tai?" He coughed and blood came to his lip.

"Matt?!?!.....Matt stay with me, focus."

He fell limp again, passing out from the physical pain.

The silence Encased the two in a bubble where time didn't seem to exsist.

He decided to tell him how he felt right then.

"Matt?" He looked at Matt's closed eyes."my next door neighbour told me

about her two love birds that she had once" He started talking slowly to the

boy that was in his arms.

"She told me how one of her love birds got sick and slowly it's life began to

slip away. After that the love bird that was left behind became sad and

longed for it's partner so much so that it didn't eat anything in it's morning for

the one that had gone, and eventually it too passed away." his cheeks were

wet with tears.

"I don't want that to be us matt.You see it missed it's partner so much that it

felt it's life wasn't worth living anymore..... Don't you do that....don't you do

that to me Ishida.Wake up! Wake up please?"

Tai never looked up once, not even when the red and blue lights of the

ambulance began to light up the ally.

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A little short and rushed I think.

Don't worry no one dies in my stories kay?

I'll tell you when my last chapter will be.

Luckily it's not today.(Your cue to leap out of your chair and yell woohoo!)

How am I doing?