-blinks- Well.... Congrats to Visions!! You guessed it right on. ^__^ And for you, a Taiora will be in progress shortly after I'm finished with this story. Of course, Taiora always! I'm certain they were meant for each other, and after I'm done, I hope you'll like it. I'm not too good of a writer, but I try. -shrugs-
Anyway, the second chapter is here. Enjoy! And as always, please review?
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Sora tossed in her sleep, desperate to get comfortable in the soft, linen sheets.
She rested her warm face against the coolness, but her crimson eyes remained open. She stared straight ahead at the dark outlines of her room furniture as she cuddled her cheek into the feather pillow, unblinking, occupied with her thoughts.
Thoughts that kept her awake.
At first, she had only thought about her life growing up as a child. Her father never being there, her and her mother's stormy relationship, the tomboy she always was, playing soccer with Tai as kids, going to the digital world for the first time.
But then, her thoughts progressed. She thought about tennis, and about the woman she had become, the woman she'd have to be for the rest of her life, and the woman she felt she had always been because of her motherly ways. She knew she didn't want to spend her life half-alone, she didn't want to have one like her mother's and father's relationship, but there was only so much she could do to prevent that.
Starting now, she had better start thinking more about it.
And that was the reason her thoughts kept her awake for hours on this night.
She felt as if her life were suddenly going to take an incredible downfall, the way rocks go up into the air as they're thrown, then lightly tap against a glass window before hurdling backs towards the ground.
The rock tapping against a window with a soft yet persistent sound.
Tapping...
Tap...
Wait.
Was that a rock tapping on her window?
Sora sat up in her bed, her face wary, her brows knotted in concern, yet curiosity. Her hands came to rest gently beside her delicate form as she tilted her head slightly and stared at her window, waiting for another one. Was it her imagination?
No! There was another one. Sora watched the rock as it came up and rattled against the glass, then fall gently back down. What on earth was going on?
Sora leaped from her covers, pulling her oversize T-shirt down over her exposed, firm bottom as she dashed to the sliding glass openings of her bay window.
It was only Tai.
Sora leaned over her window ledge and peered down past the three stories into Tai's upturned, sweet face, and she smiled brightly, her eyes crinkling. Of course. He had done this once before, when they were freshmen. Tai had been afraid Sora was infatuated with Matt, him being the teen idol rock star, but she wasn't. She was only being kind in bringing him cookies one night, trying to establish their old friendship since they had so much in common. A troubled childhood, singing, Tai. The goof, he never grew up.
He was always just a kid at heart.
Though his spectacular body told otherwise...
Sora flushed at her thoughts, but she waved down at Tai slowly, her hand enjoying the cool night as it fluttered her greeting to her boyfriend. Then Tai began to do something very unexpected, and Sora's eyes widened in fear for his safety.
He began climbing the gutter line leading to right beside Sora's window.
Sora whispered loudly into the night. "Tai! What are you doing?" Her hands cupped over her mouth.
"Huh?" Tai stopped and looked up for a minute.
"Shhh!"
"Oh, woops. Sorry," he whispered back, then resumed climbing. Sora gasped as he approached at a surprisingly fast pace. Sora shook her head in exasperation, then reached down to lend a hand.
Once Tai was inside her room, safely sitting on the ledge seat of Sora's bay window beside her, she reached over and hugged him tightly, completely moved by his careless, and thoughtless, act of love.
Tai smiled down at her darkened red hair as she nestled into his sweater-jacket, his strong arms encircling her shoulders. But then Sora pushed him back roughly, stood up, and put her hands on her hips.
She faced him with a threatening look on her face, enhanced by her darkened room, and it somewhat frightened Tai. Especially after the dream he'd had just a few minutes ago...
"Now will you tell me, just what exactly do you think you're doing?"
Tai smiled sheepishly. "Coming to see you. I love you, Sora!"
"Tai! Keep it down!" Sora spoke in her loud whisper.
"Oh, sorry. Forgot."
Sora put a hand on her head as if to soothe a headache. "Oh, my mom would slaughter me if she came in here and caught you." Tai suddenly became serious, and he got to his feet to softly place his arms around her, comforting. Sora lost her breath and a redness crept up to stain her cheeks gently as she felt Tai's lean, muscular arms enclosing her vulnerable form. Her T-shirt pulled and lifted just a bit from the hug, exposing some of her golden flesh.
"Tai..." she breathed.
Tai buried his face in her coppery hair, breathing in her scent, reveling in what he had almost lost in his imagination. He couldn't get enough of feeling her fit into him, feeling his arms draped around her, protecting her...
Then he remembered why he had come over.
He backed away, held her at arm's length, his expression suddenly full of excitement as he gazed happily into her deep, dilated eyes. He almost forgot his need to secure his love for her, his need to protect her from everything she had to go up against in the future, both emotionally and physically, for the rest of her life.
"Sora..." he began, ready to spill everything, barely containing the words.
But he was cut off by a soft knock on Sora's door.
"Sora?" Faintly, her mother's voice called softly in a questioning manner. Both of the teenagers' eyes widened beyond normal capacity, and both began to sweat insufferably.
The door creaked open, inch by inch, slowly, torturingly. Sora sweated upon hearing every creak.
Tai sweated every inch it opened, until finally Mrs. Takenouchi's head peeked across the threshold.
Silence.
Nobody moved, nobody breathed. Mrs. Takenouchi stared at her daughter, stared at Tai with his hands rested upon her daughter's shoulders, noting how her daughter's T-shirt revealed the lower half of her backside.
She didn't breathe.
She merely noted the young couple, frozen at her intrusion, staring back at her with a terrified look of shock, of fear, and then she slowly backed out of the room, shooting one last glaring look of death at Tai.
Then they both finally breathed as the click of the door closing echoed almost too loudly in Sora's room.
Tai's breath burst from him in an audible sigh, and he lowered his head to pant in relief, his hands still clutching Sora's timid shoulders.
Sora rolled her eyes to the ceiling, breathing finally as well. "Oh boy, am I going to hear it in the morning..."
Tai looked back up at her, intent on getting through this in one night. He was serious once again. "Okay, now. I was getting to something important... Um, Sora?"
"Yes?" Her voice was quiet, tired.
"You haven't told her yet?"
She shook her head sadly. "Tai, I couldn't bring myself to. Not yet."
"You don't have very long before she finds out herself. You better tell her while she still has trust in you."
Sora looked at Tai, surprised. She had never heard Tai say something serious like that, something responsible. Worse yet, he had never really been responsible for anything in the real world except Kari, and soccer. Her eyes held the surprise as they gazed back into his, she did indeed see the seriousness in the ashy brown as he said those words to her.
"Tai." She had to say something to confirm her hopes about him. "What about you? It's...it's part you, too. Will you be able to..."
Tai cut her off, much to her delighted amazement once again. "Sora, I take my full responsibility for this. I'm ready. That's what I'm over here to tell you. I couldn't wait longer, I can't wait longer. Sora, I want to get married."
Everything left Sora.
Her breath expelled in a gasp. All her worries, her concerns. Everything she had been scared of in the past few weeks, it was gone. All of it. Those last six words fixed it all.
"Sora, I want to get married..."
Sora fainted, went completely limp in Tai's arms as he caught her with a delighted, successful laugh. Then Sora laughed as well, Tai pulling her up and twirling her around, her shirt lifting gaily as she was spun around in the circumference of her room.
By the time they were both dizzy, they were laughing in tune with each other, singing an eternal song together, sinking onto the bed wrapped in each other's arms.
They began a kiss like no other, one that surpassed all the greatest, most romantic kisses in history.
Several minutes, though it seemed like several hours, went by. Tai leaned over to whisper gently into her ear, his warm breath caressing the tender and sensitive areas of cartilage, forcing Sora to shiver all the way deep down inside of her.
"Let's go get married...now."
Sora whispered back.
"Now?"
"Now."
"In the middle of the night?"
"Right now."
"But Tai..."
"No buts. Let's just do it now."
Sora's eyes drooped lovingly, slowly, compliant. She nodded her head ever so slightly as she let the sea of emotions light her way out of the darkness...
Anyway, the second chapter is here. Enjoy! And as always, please review?
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Sora tossed in her sleep, desperate to get comfortable in the soft, linen sheets.
She rested her warm face against the coolness, but her crimson eyes remained open. She stared straight ahead at the dark outlines of her room furniture as she cuddled her cheek into the feather pillow, unblinking, occupied with her thoughts.
Thoughts that kept her awake.
At first, she had only thought about her life growing up as a child. Her father never being there, her and her mother's stormy relationship, the tomboy she always was, playing soccer with Tai as kids, going to the digital world for the first time.
But then, her thoughts progressed. She thought about tennis, and about the woman she had become, the woman she'd have to be for the rest of her life, and the woman she felt she had always been because of her motherly ways. She knew she didn't want to spend her life half-alone, she didn't want to have one like her mother's and father's relationship, but there was only so much she could do to prevent that.
Starting now, she had better start thinking more about it.
And that was the reason her thoughts kept her awake for hours on this night.
She felt as if her life were suddenly going to take an incredible downfall, the way rocks go up into the air as they're thrown, then lightly tap against a glass window before hurdling backs towards the ground.
The rock tapping against a window with a soft yet persistent sound.
Tapping...
Tap...
Wait.
Was that a rock tapping on her window?
Sora sat up in her bed, her face wary, her brows knotted in concern, yet curiosity. Her hands came to rest gently beside her delicate form as she tilted her head slightly and stared at her window, waiting for another one. Was it her imagination?
No! There was another one. Sora watched the rock as it came up and rattled against the glass, then fall gently back down. What on earth was going on?
Sora leaped from her covers, pulling her oversize T-shirt down over her exposed, firm bottom as she dashed to the sliding glass openings of her bay window.
It was only Tai.
Sora leaned over her window ledge and peered down past the three stories into Tai's upturned, sweet face, and she smiled brightly, her eyes crinkling. Of course. He had done this once before, when they were freshmen. Tai had been afraid Sora was infatuated with Matt, him being the teen idol rock star, but she wasn't. She was only being kind in bringing him cookies one night, trying to establish their old friendship since they had so much in common. A troubled childhood, singing, Tai. The goof, he never grew up.
He was always just a kid at heart.
Though his spectacular body told otherwise...
Sora flushed at her thoughts, but she waved down at Tai slowly, her hand enjoying the cool night as it fluttered her greeting to her boyfriend. Then Tai began to do something very unexpected, and Sora's eyes widened in fear for his safety.
He began climbing the gutter line leading to right beside Sora's window.
Sora whispered loudly into the night. "Tai! What are you doing?" Her hands cupped over her mouth.
"Huh?" Tai stopped and looked up for a minute.
"Shhh!"
"Oh, woops. Sorry," he whispered back, then resumed climbing. Sora gasped as he approached at a surprisingly fast pace. Sora shook her head in exasperation, then reached down to lend a hand.
Once Tai was inside her room, safely sitting on the ledge seat of Sora's bay window beside her, she reached over and hugged him tightly, completely moved by his careless, and thoughtless, act of love.
Tai smiled down at her darkened red hair as she nestled into his sweater-jacket, his strong arms encircling her shoulders. But then Sora pushed him back roughly, stood up, and put her hands on her hips.
She faced him with a threatening look on her face, enhanced by her darkened room, and it somewhat frightened Tai. Especially after the dream he'd had just a few minutes ago...
"Now will you tell me, just what exactly do you think you're doing?"
Tai smiled sheepishly. "Coming to see you. I love you, Sora!"
"Tai! Keep it down!" Sora spoke in her loud whisper.
"Oh, sorry. Forgot."
Sora put a hand on her head as if to soothe a headache. "Oh, my mom would slaughter me if she came in here and caught you." Tai suddenly became serious, and he got to his feet to softly place his arms around her, comforting. Sora lost her breath and a redness crept up to stain her cheeks gently as she felt Tai's lean, muscular arms enclosing her vulnerable form. Her T-shirt pulled and lifted just a bit from the hug, exposing some of her golden flesh.
"Tai..." she breathed.
Tai buried his face in her coppery hair, breathing in her scent, reveling in what he had almost lost in his imagination. He couldn't get enough of feeling her fit into him, feeling his arms draped around her, protecting her...
Then he remembered why he had come over.
He backed away, held her at arm's length, his expression suddenly full of excitement as he gazed happily into her deep, dilated eyes. He almost forgot his need to secure his love for her, his need to protect her from everything she had to go up against in the future, both emotionally and physically, for the rest of her life.
"Sora..." he began, ready to spill everything, barely containing the words.
But he was cut off by a soft knock on Sora's door.
"Sora?" Faintly, her mother's voice called softly in a questioning manner. Both of the teenagers' eyes widened beyond normal capacity, and both began to sweat insufferably.
The door creaked open, inch by inch, slowly, torturingly. Sora sweated upon hearing every creak.
Tai sweated every inch it opened, until finally Mrs. Takenouchi's head peeked across the threshold.
Silence.
Nobody moved, nobody breathed. Mrs. Takenouchi stared at her daughter, stared at Tai with his hands rested upon her daughter's shoulders, noting how her daughter's T-shirt revealed the lower half of her backside.
She didn't breathe.
She merely noted the young couple, frozen at her intrusion, staring back at her with a terrified look of shock, of fear, and then she slowly backed out of the room, shooting one last glaring look of death at Tai.
Then they both finally breathed as the click of the door closing echoed almost too loudly in Sora's room.
Tai's breath burst from him in an audible sigh, and he lowered his head to pant in relief, his hands still clutching Sora's timid shoulders.
Sora rolled her eyes to the ceiling, breathing finally as well. "Oh boy, am I going to hear it in the morning..."
Tai looked back up at her, intent on getting through this in one night. He was serious once again. "Okay, now. I was getting to something important... Um, Sora?"
"Yes?" Her voice was quiet, tired.
"You haven't told her yet?"
She shook her head sadly. "Tai, I couldn't bring myself to. Not yet."
"You don't have very long before she finds out herself. You better tell her while she still has trust in you."
Sora looked at Tai, surprised. She had never heard Tai say something serious like that, something responsible. Worse yet, he had never really been responsible for anything in the real world except Kari, and soccer. Her eyes held the surprise as they gazed back into his, she did indeed see the seriousness in the ashy brown as he said those words to her.
"Tai." She had to say something to confirm her hopes about him. "What about you? It's...it's part you, too. Will you be able to..."
Tai cut her off, much to her delighted amazement once again. "Sora, I take my full responsibility for this. I'm ready. That's what I'm over here to tell you. I couldn't wait longer, I can't wait longer. Sora, I want to get married."
Everything left Sora.
Her breath expelled in a gasp. All her worries, her concerns. Everything she had been scared of in the past few weeks, it was gone. All of it. Those last six words fixed it all.
"Sora, I want to get married..."
Sora fainted, went completely limp in Tai's arms as he caught her with a delighted, successful laugh. Then Sora laughed as well, Tai pulling her up and twirling her around, her shirt lifting gaily as she was spun around in the circumference of her room.
By the time they were both dizzy, they were laughing in tune with each other, singing an eternal song together, sinking onto the bed wrapped in each other's arms.
They began a kiss like no other, one that surpassed all the greatest, most romantic kisses in history.
Several minutes, though it seemed like several hours, went by. Tai leaned over to whisper gently into her ear, his warm breath caressing the tender and sensitive areas of cartilage, forcing Sora to shiver all the way deep down inside of her.
"Let's go get married...now."
Sora whispered back.
"Now?"
"Now."
"In the middle of the night?"
"Right now."
"But Tai..."
"No buts. Let's just do it now."
Sora's eyes drooped lovingly, slowly, compliant. She nodded her head ever so slightly as she let the sea of emotions light her way out of the darkness...