YES! IT'S FINALLY HERE!!!!! ^-^ DarkSaint has been a VERY busy shoujo.... schoolwork.... school itself.... dance.... Youth Group.... new Tae kwan do class... @_@ All this adds up to me taking over a month to put up this next part. And yes I am VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY sorry for making y'alls wait for so long!
Anyhew, recap from the last chapter is that Jun's (of course) bein' her obnoxious self, and a mystery girl has jumped in to help shoo her away from Matt...or at least she did once. Who is she? Why is she helping Matt? Will Jun EVER get over Matt?!!! Probably not. But the rest is in this lil chapter! ^-^ So have fun! And please remember to R/R!
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Disclaimer: Yeah, yeah, yeah...I don't own Digimon nor anything else owned by anyone else that could be in this fic. I just own the girl, and Mr. Fryuko...and the plot line.
Author's Notes: By the way…when you get to the 'note' section, Matt writes in bold, Tai writes in bold and italics (sloppy writing), and the girl writes in italics.
Snowed In: A Night Where Matt is Trapped in the High School with Jun Motomiya
(A/N: Oh I'm not giving anything away now am I?
"Matt? MATT!"
"ISHIDA, do you copy?!"
"Huh, who? Oh...hey Sora."
The brown-eyed girl smiled a second. "You were zoned out all the way down the hall!"
"That's nothing!" Tai laughed as he shoved a book into his locker. "You shoulda seen him first period! Mr. Yatoshi yelled at him for literally five minutes before he even blinked!"
Matt mumbled something under his breath as he pulled out his Health book, and Tai just laughed all the more. "Spoke like that a few times to himself, too!"
Matt glared daggers at Tai as his enchanting blue eyes frosted over with ice. Tai fell back a step in mock-fear, as Sora laid a hand on her blond friend's shoulder.
"Matt…are you alright?" she asked, the caring, maternal presence in her voice showing through.
He smiled at her a moment. "Yeah... Just got a few things on my mind," he assured. With a wicked smile he added, "Mom," to which Sora gave him a playful smack on the arm.
"Yeah..." Tai chimed in again. "His brain is set to 'Seductive-yet-Freaky-Girl-in-Hallway' mode."
Sora couldn't help but smile a little. "Really? Our Matty has finally got a crush on someone?"
"Yep! Pretty good choice too...'sides the freakiness. Learned from the master!" Tai commented as he smiled and slipped an arm around Sora's waist. She in turn rested her head on his shoulder as the three walked down the hall.
Matt rolled his eyes again and sighed. "Whatever..." It was true what Tai had said about him thinking of her. But as more than just a mystery girl that happened to help him in a time of need, Matt just couldn't see past that. Then he noted the serene and joyful glow that shown from both his friends' faces. Almost as if the world had no wrong to it when the two were together. And the more he watched, the more his eyes saw himself holding that brown-haired girl, and a smile betrayed him as it crept up onto his face. Alright…so maybe he did see her as more than a mystery...
Wait a sec. Me…and that girl? Ishida, you gotta stop fantasizing before your whole image turns into…He glanced at Tai, who was currently pinned up against the wall near their classroom door by Sora. As the two shared a kiss and people stared, Matt shook his head…that! Then again...it might be nice to actually hold a girl in his arms and show her how much he cared for her. At least one that would see him for who he was and wanted to be; not just some popular stereotype...
"Argh..." Matt grumbled, running his hand through his hair. "Knock it off...."
Tai looked over at his friend. "Oh well gee, is the 'hot Rock Star' jealous of the buffed-up athlete and his goddess of a woman?!" then ducked as Matt jokingly swung a fist at his head.
Sora giggled a little. "I have to get to class anyway. Have fun Tai... See ya Matt." she said as she turned and walked further down the hall to her next class.
Tai sighed and watched her go before being grabbed by his shirt collar. "ACK!"
"C'mon lover boy...I'm sure the world will keep turning if you're apart for three classes!" Matt joked as he dragged Tai into the classroom and threw him into his seat.
"Doubt it," Tai straightened himself from Matt's usual roughhousing and sat down. "Sora and I are the ones who keep the world from falling to pieces."
Matt turned around in his assigned desk a few seats ahead of Tai. "No…that's my bro and your Venus of a sister!"
Tai had to chuckle. "True, my sister is a captor of all fool-hearty boys, yet that which we speak of 'tis not composed mere mortals alone."
"Ah..." said Matt, mimicking Tai's phony medieval accent. "Then be it an enchanter?"
"Nay..."
"Be it a sorcerer of any sorts?"
"Nay..."
"A god then?!"
"Thrice I say 'nay,'" Tai stopped a moment to think. "I take that back...a god is possible…but still nay, the world could...possibly...still go on without it."
Matt was getting fed up with the riddle, but the strange way of speech kept a smile on his face. "Then pray tell, what is this mystical force which controls day and night, the moon and stars, and torments the minds of young mortal men?"
Tai smiled at his simple, one word answer. "Love." He took a look at his friend before adding, "'All you need is love.'" Matt groaned at the obvious Beatles and John Lennon reference. "Hey! Gimmee a break! My mom's a closet fanatic!"
"Between the Beatles and 'Cooking with Fungus,' I can now see where most of your messed-up genes come from!" Matt laughed.
"Heh, heh, heh–shuddap..." Tai sarcastically grumbled and glanced towards the door. His frown perked up suddenly as he raised his fist into the air and shouted, "WHOO-HOO! SUB!"
The substitute teacher walked to the front of the classroom and placed his things on the desk, giving a glance to the ecstatic, brown-haired teenager. "Well, I'm glad someone's happy to see me here. Even if it is the person who broke the score board with his 'World-record super-powered soccer kick...'"
"Eh-heh..." Tai slowly lowered his hand as he sunk deeper into his desk.
Matt and a few other students laughed as the bell rang and more students hurried to their desks. Mr. Fryuko checked to make sure everyone was seated before checking his roll sheet for missing students. Upon looking up, he noticed almost everyone having a conversation with someone across the room. If there was one thing he couldn't stand, it was across-the-room talking. After all, they weren't in his Gym class at the moment.
"Alright." he said. "Since I'm such a nice guy…and you all seem to want to chit-chat with your buddies…choose your own seat."
With a few 'yes!' and 'alright!'s', the students began switching around. Matt was the first to bolt out of his seat, plopping down right in front of Tai.
"We'll only do this if you pay attention to MOST of the lesson!" shouted Mr. Fryuko over the shuffle.
"This is sweet. No straining our necks to talk!" Tai cheered.
Matt nodded his head. "Yeah. Now I can just turn around and slap ya to get your attention." The two laughed a second before Matt looked up to see a completely empty desk to his left...and Jun making her way towards it. It was moments like these that he really hated having 10th and 11th graders together in the same Health classes. "Damn..."
"Ehh...shit." Tai muttered, noticing exactly what Matt had. "Well...maybe your warrior princess in shining armor will come and save you again."
"Yeah right." Matt grumbled and counted down. "Three...two...one..."
"Hey there sweetie!" No way. He wasn't that lucky! Matt adverted his eyes back to his left, and sure enough there was the brown-haired girl sliding into the desk, just steps ahead of Jun. "Sorry I'm late...but I see you still saved me a seat!"
Matt smiled, both in relief and in an over exaggeration to get Jun away. "Of course! No prob."
The girl smiled before glancing up at the older girl with a smirk. "Hey Jun. Nice outfit. Good idea wiping off most of that make-up. Didn't really suit you."
Jun glared a moment and stomped back over to the other side of the room, slumping into her seat. That girl had already taken her Yamato once today, and this second pull on the leash was twice too many on her list.
"Well, it's nice to see you've decided to join us, Ms. Togachi. I trust we didn't disrupt your personal agenda too much." the sub's voice sounded. "Would've been nicer however if you had been here at the bell..."
The girl just smiled sarcastically. "I'm so sorry, Mr. Fryuko! Just that long
walk all the way from C-Wing to B-Wing was treacherous.
Mr. Fryuko just scratched off her name from the absentee list and pointed at her. "Watch it, Togachi."
"Yes, sir," she grinned.
Matt chuckled a little at the girl's mouth. He opened his book as the teacher began talking, but found he couldn't stay focused. Matt kept sneaking glances over at the girl, trying to see if he could figure out more about her, yet as inconspicuously as he could.
She seemed pretty focused on the lesson, however her eyes
seemed to keep twitching his way, looking past him to the windows. So she
either wasn't truly interested in the teacher's words, or she had a tendency to
fade into her own world a lot. A dreamer…she must be fairly creative then...
After a few minutes of more silent observation, Matt
concluded that she seemed to be a pretty happy and good-natured kid. And she
did look pretty when she smiled at Mr. Fryuko's dumb jokes. But that look would
fade a little each time she touched her wrist at all, and he found he couldn't
stand that look of agony.
Matt found his train of thought was disrupted as he was
thwapped upside the head by Tai. He looked on his desk and read the small note
which read:
thank yoU tai PerhapS i'll do tHat when i actUally 'wanT'
a girl 'bad'
He folded it up and swung his hand backwards, hitting Tai square in the eye. At the muffled 'Ow!', he leaned back and whispered, "Gomen..."
Tai rubbed his eye before attempting to read Matt's handwriting. Though blurred by a few tears of pain, he made out most of it and scribbled on the open area below Matt's. He passed back the small paper and Matt shook his head as he read.
.o Sorry my ass! So when ya gonna make your move?
*winkwink*
Then he wrote a reply, drawing a figure of some sort, and sent it back over his head again.
Tai's response came back...
Riiiiiiiiiiight. Well get movin' Ishida!
Whatever! P
P x2 Do it!
And with Tai's final comment, the note was disposed of. Matt pulled out another sheet of paper from his notebook and picked up his pen to write. Taking a quick glance at Mr. Fryuko, he slid his hand across the isle and set the note on the girl's desk. She immediately glanced at it, looking up at Matt for a moment before opening the folded paper.
She smiled and let out a small laugh before signing her answer. Also looking to make sure the teacher was preoccupied, the brown-haired girl tossed the note back onto Matt's desk.
Well...that solved the payment question. Now for Matt to just say thanks for the help and be done with it. ...Or should he try to keep a conversation going? After all, Mr. Fryuko wasn't much of a teacher outside the gym. Matt passed back the note, which started a small chat between the two.
Why call me anything? But if you must, I guess Togachi's
good enough.
In mid-toss of the next message, Matt felt Tai reach forward and grab the note, throwing it back in the blink of an eye.
This a private convo or can I join?
Matt rolled his eyes and was about to reply when Togachi snagged the note from his hands. "Alright. Let's just play the 'grab-the-note-from-Yamato' game..." He mumbled. Togachi read the note and passed it back to Matt, who wrote his own answer before sending it back to Tai. He shot a look of pain at Matt before penning another message.
Matt glared at Tai before tossing the note back.
The boys' small conversation was interrupted as the girl took the note from Tai, handing it to Matt again.
Matt quickly showed it to Tai and tossed it back to her, ensuing once again in a long conversation.
Oh, I'm so happy to oblige...
I told you she doesn't have one
Matt tossed the note to Togachi, nearly being caught by Mr.
Fryuko. He watched as the girl's hand flowed over the paper, taking her time to
draw careful yet quick strokes.
He looked over her sketch with a keen [1] view.
Bravo
So she can draw. Big deal! I cried! Name?
You've hurt my feelings! Why should I tell?
Because we don't want to get on our knees and beg
Try me...
You're kidding...
Define "we" Tai
Go on...
"Argh.." Tai's eyes shifted around the room to assure everyone was busy. Quickly and silently, he dropped to his knees and mouthed a pleading speech, throwing in a painful face and a phony tear or two.
"Mr. Kamiya." Tai blinked and looked up to see Mr. Fryuko and most of the class staring at him. "Something wrong?"
"Uh... um... n-no! Not at all! Just... showing.... umm... one way toooooooooo get a friend to... not commit suicide!" Tai babbled. Then he started his act up once again. "Please! Oh please! Please! Please! Don't commit suicide! I'm begging you! You don't know what you'll be missing!"
The class laughed at his antics while Tai continued to attempt to get himself out of trouble. Finally, the teacher stepped in and stopped the charade.
"That's enough Mr. Kamiya. You push the 'begging' method to the limits! Get in your seat and stay there."
"Yes sir!" Tai stood and straightened his outfit for the second time that period, scrambling into his desk right before Mr. Fryuko yelled at him again.
"As I was saying..."
Tai wiped his brow before picking up the note to write
again.
Alright. If THAT wasn't humiliating enough, then I
don't care whether you tell me your name or not! I'm NOT doing that again!
She shot him a look of pity before writing on the paper, sending the note to Matt.
Aww...well.... I guess... *is looking at the Rock Star patiently*
I don't do pathetic
It's not too hard of a part for you, anyway
though you Can tell How I'd love to see a fAmous 'ishida
- kamiYa' bAttle... I think the rest of the clAssroom'd rather pass
AGAIN with the coded writing! ¬_¬ It's a conspiracy
dammit! [2]
Oh, settle down Tai! Leave the Rock Star to his peace
And I'm still. Not. Believing. You.
Well gee, as much as I should be flattered with the idea
of being the Rock Star's girlfriend, I'll have to pass
But that does put a damper on my plan to keep Ms.
Motomiya distanced from you...
You've got my attention! We best buds suffer her wrath
too ya know! [3]
Yes I know. It involves the Rock Star, you, any other
close friends who might come in contact, and some girl. Still interested?
Yeah
Just an idea, but why not ask a girl to just hang around
with you for a while? I mean, make it look like something's happening when
Jun's around, but in actuality you two would just be talented actors putting on
a show.
Damn straight! And she'd have to be someone we'd see
every day at least once to keep Jun off...
Yeah, that would probably help you
There's that "we" again. I'm not so sure about
this
Meaning I don't want to do this
Oh come on! You have a chance to blow Jun off and
you're going to let it pass!? Think Matt! Just a few days of saying
"hi" in the hall and looking in love and Jun'll be lost for at least
the rest of the year! Hey Chaya, you'd do this for him, right?
Tai tossed the note onto Chaya's desk and she looked over their small argument. She glanced up at Matt, who just shook his head slightly, then moved her green eyes to Tai. He just smiled and gave a thumbs-up. Well... she thought, You did suggest this...
Chaya pulled out a new sheet of paper, seeing as the first
was full by now, and scribbled something. She folded both pieces together and
silently slid them to Matt. He read Tai's passage first and glared
quietly.
Tai smiled slyly as he watched Matt's eyes go wide.
Matt re-read the words in deep thought. It seemed like she was willing to help, she had started this charade on her own after all. But then again he knew nothing about Chaya and vice-versa. That would make it pretty hard to seem like a couple. The decision was up to him and it was hard to call.
He looked up and met Chaya's eyes. They seemed to hold a
silent conversation for a minute, each one attempting to see how the other
truly felt about the situation. Meanwhile Tai kept adverting his view from the
girl, to the boy, to Chaya, to Matt, and back to Chaya again. If only he could
understand what the two were deciding!
Finally, he watched as Chaya slowly blinked her eyes and nodded her head slightly. Matt ran a hand through his blond hair and looked past Chaya. He spotted Jun facing their direction. The daggers in her eyes were as apparent as the red lipstick she used, and the corner of his mouth shifted upwards into a half-grin that could melt even the coldest of hearts. That one face had decided it all for him.
Matt maneuvered his pen over the paper, forming a small sentence. He folded up the note, setting it in Chaya's hand.
Chaya nodded a moment and penned her confirmation.
Why not? We're putting on a show aren't we? Small note in
your locker to read when Jun's around
Ehh...On the cheek maybe. But a kiss…Only if absolutely
necessary to throw her off
Alright
Tai dropped the paper back into Matt's hand after reading over the 'rules and regulations'.
No. They'll pretty much stay out of your hair.
I'll pass the word. Get Joe first! He's got a class
with her and she might as him something
Yeah... Hey times almost up. We all set?
Yes. One week duration
Yep
Okay then. Sign off!
"Hair gel" 'Open all the doors and let you out
into the world'
"Okay that's all. Get outta here." Mr. Fryuko said as the bell rang.
Matt stood up and folded the papers into small squares. "Couldn't have said it better myself. So, who keeps it this time?"
"Not me!" Tai said. "I took the last five!"
"Well I'm not taking it."
Chaya rolled her eyes and took the notes from Matt, crumpling them in her hand. "Tell me, do you usually do this every period? Write notes and…beat up on each other?"
Matt and Tai eyed each other. "Yeah."
"Pretty much."
"Uh-huh..." Chaya stepped up to the trash can and dumped the note in. "Perhaps I should reconsider my application."
Matt noticed Jun still glaring nearby, so he stepped in front of Chaya as the three entered the hall. "No! That is uhh...."
"'That is uhh...'" repeated Chaya, allowing herself to be 'trapped' between the tall blond and the wall. Portraying the hopelessly-in-love damsel wasn't her favorite option, but Jun Motomiya's red face was simply divine to relish in.
Tai nudged his friend in the side and gave him a wink, causing Matt to smirk a little. He faced Chaya, leaning against the wall next to her. "I'd really hate it to have to break up with you so soon."
By the time he was done with his comically sincere line,
Matt found that he was even holding her hand, and she was almost as sincerely
looking directly into his eyes. Whoa...waaaaaay
too far into the act, Ishida. Abort! Abort!
"Yeah, I do." Chaya smiled. She kissed his cheek lightly before turning to walk to her next class. "Later Rock Star..."
Matt blinked a few times as he watched her stroll away. What the HELL had just happened?!
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^-^ Well, that's part II! I hope ya liked it! And sorry if
you couldn't understand that medieval talk up there. o.o; I kinda watched
'Romeo and Juliet' right before writing that part...heh...
DarkSaint