Chapter 2: Letting Go
Its been a week now since Tai hasn't spoken to anyone, not even his own sister.
"I...I shouldn't have told him..." Sora regretted.
"No. You only told him the truth... The truth can hurt, but living a lie is worse." young Cody reassured her.
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Tai had a wonderful future planned. He was going to be somebody that would make 'her' proud of him. But now he didn't care. He felt like he wanted to disappear.... to be a nobody. He wanted to get as far away as possible, to where the pain couldn't reach him. But he knew he couldn't escape it, it would follow him no matter where he ran. Though, he could run away from the one who inflicted him with this bewildering pain. Maybe if he got away from 'her' then it'd hurt a little less. Tai then remembered something. He started going through his drawer and the mess of papers on his desk. Then he found it. A letter inviting him to join a soccer team in the U.S. He didn't give it much thought when he first received it, though he didn't feel like running away from Odaiba then. Now he desired to leave. To get away....
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But no one else wanted Tai to go. Everyone tried their best to convince him to stay, everyone that is except the one who could have persuaded him around.
Kari, Sora, Izzy, Cody, T.K., Joe, and Davis were all there to see him off at the airport. Tai then made his rounds to say his good byes to each of them. His final farewell was to Sora.
"Goodbye Taichi." she said sobbingly while trying not to get choked up in her emotions. "I....I don't want you to go..."
Tai then embraced her in a devoted hug, "Then give me a reason to stay....." he tenderly whispered in her ear.
Sora drew his head back to get a look into his gentle eyes. She thought of a lot of reasons in her mind. But she knew none were the answer Tai would have stayed for. Then she reluctantly shook her head slowly and answered, "I'm sorry Taichi........I..I can't"
Then he withdrew from the hold to her body.... He let it go....He let her go...
He still felt the misery as he walked through the terminal, taking one last glimpse at 'her', the one who could have prevented this.....
"You all still think I made the right choice?" Sora questioned her friends still standing there with her at the airport's entrance.
"Tai's a strong guy." T.K. spoke up, "He'll be fine..."