**Hello, this is the seventh chapter of "Moving On". This is the last chapter besides my epilogue, so be happy! We're going to find out if Sora and Matt find each other and get back together! Cross your fingers, everyone, because this is definitely going to be a nerve racking experience!**

Moving On
Chapter 7

Matt woke up and sighed softly. He stared at his surroundings, the beige colored carpet and the matching walls, which were bare. He looked at the boxed littering the floor around him. This wasn't his room, it was someone else's room. Matt sat up and put a shirt on, then wrapped his dark blue robe around him. The apartment was chilly this morning. . . . . too chilly. Matt shivered involuntarily and walked out into the living room, where Kari and TK cuddled under a blanket watching TV. Matt sat down beside the couple, and Kari offered part of the blanket to Matt, who refused it quietly.
"No thanks. By the way, why is it so cold here?" Matt asked, his teeth beginning to chatter. TK observed his brother, and quickly leapt out from under the blanket, retrieving another blanket, and tossing it to Matt before he jumped back under his blanket, shivering. Kari laughed lightly, and Matt smiled for the first time since he found out Sora was with Tai.
"The super just came up here and said the heat system has broken. We're out of heat until this afternoon." TK replied, bringing the blanket around his neck.
"It's November! It's freaking freezing outside, and you two are living without heat?!" Matt cried in shock. Kari and TK nodded, and Kari trembled.
"You two should go to Tai's or Mimi's or something." Matt said, getting up and walking into his room, emerging later with his bags.
"Where are you going? Are you leaving Odaiba?" TK asked, hurt by Matt's sudden departure. Matt nodded, and started walking to the door.
"I have to go. There's nothing here for me anymore." Matt said dejectedly. Kari and TK nodded sadly and watched Matt walk out the door. He returned about three seconds later and sorted through the mail, retrieving a small letter.
"Sorry, I forgot my airline ticket. I'll call you when I get home, okay? But for now, go to Tai's. It's warm there, and I don't want my brother, sister in law, and nephew or niece to catch a cold." Matt said, closing the door behind him. TK looked at Kari sadly, knowing the truth.
"Sora's marrying Tai, isn't she?" Kari asked. TK nodded, and Kari looked down at the blanket.
"Aren't you happy?" TK questioned, taking one of Kari's hands in his. Kari smiled slightly.
"Of course I am. But Sora isn't in love with Tai. She's in love with Matt. It's just something us girls can see better than you guys." Kari clarified. TK nodded, understanding the situation completely.
"He's never going to know it though, because he's gone forever." Kari said sorrowfully. TK agreed, and Kari layed her head on his chest as they sat in silence, watching the news.
Sora woke up and looked at her clock. Eight o'clock, too early to call TK's, especially on a Saturday. Sora got dressed and walked into the kitchen, searching for something to eat. Sora settled on cereal, and sat down to eat it, but couldn't. There was some sort of nagging feeling inside her, like something wasn't right. Sora picked up the cordless phone and dialed TK and Kari's apartment.
"Hello?" TK said into the reciever. Kari looked over at TK, who was listening intently to whoever was on the other side.
"And I said no. I can't marry him, TK, because I love your brother. I love Matt!! Where is he, TK? Is he sleeping?" Sora finished. She listened to TK gasp on the other line, and Kari ask what was wrong. Sora tried to hear what TK was saying to Kari, but he had covered the line with his hand.
"Sora, this is Kari. Um, I don't know how to tell you this, but Matt's gone. He left for Britain about forty five minutes ago. I'm glad you called now, because we're heading to Tai's house to warm up. Our heater has broken in our building." Kari explained sadly. Sora started to cry softly, tears falling onto the table and splattering onto the wood.
"Oh, Kari. I never got to tell him I loved him." Sora mourned, more tears falling from her cinnamon eyes.
"Then there's only one thing to do." Kari said decisively, taking on Tai's commanding tone.
"What's that? He's gone." Sora said. Kari smiled and hugged TK tightly.
"Go get him." Kari said as she hung up the phone. Sora looked determinedly at the phone and grabbed her coat, sprinting out the door seconds later.
Matt walked down the street, his heart heavy. He had come so far to see her, to hold her in his arms and kiss her for an eternity. But she was happy with Tai. She was marrying him for goodness sake! Matt kicked a small stone and shifted his luggage in his hands. He was nearing Sora's apartment building, and was deciding on whether or not to go talk to her.
"I still have an hour before my flight, I might as well say goodbye." Matt said softly to himself as he stopped and pressed the buzzer to be let in. After the door opened, Matt walked in and crossed into a hall to aske whether Sora was home. As he did so, Sora rushed down the stairs and out the door, missing Matt completely. Matt struggled with his bags as he lugged them up three flights of stairs to Sora's room.
"This is it." Matt said as he knocked on the door. He heard nothing, not a sound. He knocked again, hoping she was simply sleeping in. Again, no one came to the door. Matt gave up and trudged down the steps, exiting the building and walking on down the street.
Sora stopped by TK and Kari's apartment in time to see them piling into TK's SUV. Sora flagged the couple down. TK rolled down Kari's window and smiled brightly.
"Did you find him?" TK asked. Kari smacked him on the arm and looked at Sora sympathetically.
"No, I haven't. I don't know where he's going. What flight did he say he was leaving on?" Sora asked. Kari shrugged, as did TK.
"He didn't say. I'm sorry, Sora." Kari said sadly. Sora nodded and watched TK drive away slowly.
"I'm going to find you, Matt." Sora stated determinedly, walking quickly down the street toward the airport.
Matt sat down on the hard plastic seat and lamented silently. The airport was fille dwith people of every tongue and every nation. He looked up at the monitor, looking for his flight number. It was running on time.
"Soon I'm going to be home with my friends. I'll find someone, and fall in love with her. I'll forget all about Sora. Wait, who am I kidding? I'm head over heels in love with her! How can I just forget someone like that?" Matt thought, imagining Sora's face in his mind. An old woman sat down next to Matt and smiled sweetly at him. Matt smiled back wistfully, turning his attention back to the screen.
"Hello, son. My name's Miriam. I just love making new aquaintances while I wait for a flight. What's your name, young man?" the woman asked kindly. Matt looked down and smiled at the friendliness of the woman.
"My name's Matt Ishida. Nice to meet you, Miriam." Matt replied politely. Miriam grinned and pulled out some knitting.
"You sound like you're from Great Britain. What brings you to Japan?" Miriam asked.
"I came here to find my first and only love. I had to move away and leave her three years ago, so I came back to get her." Matt said, sounding distant.
"And she's moved on, hasn't she?" Miriam asked curiously. Matt nodded, looking at the floor.
"I don't feel like moving on. I feel like being with her. Like we used to be. It wasn't supposed to be this way." Matt added.
"You're very much in love, I can tell." Miriam stated confidently. Matt blushed and stared at the kindly old woman, unable to believe he was devulging his feelings to her, a total stranger.
"She makes my world turn. Every time I see her, I melt. When I hold her, I feel like we are the only people in the room. Looking into her eyes, I see a future for both of us. She is the love of my life, and I've lost her." Matt blurted. There, he'd said it. Everything he'd been feeling for three years was said in two or three simple sentences. Miriam looked at Matt and pulled him to his feet.
"Go back and get her. No matter what the cost. True love will prevail!" Miriam cried. Matt watched the woman leave and walk toward a terminal where people were getting off a flight. An elderly man walked off and held Miriam tightly, like the world would end if he let go.
"He must be feeling like I do." Matt thought as the reunited couple walked by. Miriam turned and winked at Matt before they blended with the crowd of people walking everywhere. Sighing, Matt sat down again onto his chair.
Sora sprinted through the gates, searching for Matt's flight number, which she'd gotten from an employee of the airport.
"I can't miss him. I can't!" Sora said as she hurried.
Matt listened as the final call to board was announced. He trudged up to the attendant and handed him his ticket, walking into the corridor and getting on the plane.
Sora stopped at the gate and checked the number. This was the right place.
"Where's the plane to Britain?" Sora asked, her voice shaking with fatigue from all the running she had done. A petite flight attendant pointed, and Sora's heart sank through the floor. The plane had taken off. Crying, Sora slid down to the floor beside the window, holding her head with her hands. A hand touched her shoulder, and she looked up to see two dazzling blue eyes.
"Matt!!" Sora cried happily, leaping into his arms and holding him tightly. Matt held Sora close, afraid to let go.
"I thought you were gone." Sora whispered, looking into Matt's face, tears rolling down her cheek. Matt wiped the tears from her face with his thumb and smiled.
" I couldn't leave without fighting for you. I love you, Sora." Matt said quietly. Sora grinned and took Matt's hands in hers.
"There's not going to be a fight. I'm not marrying Tai. I love you too much." Sora confirmed gently. Matt looked at Sora in shock, then got down on his knee, still holding Sora's hand.
"Then marry me. Please." Matt pleaded, pulling a small band with a tiny diamond topping it out of hs pocket.
"This is three years old. I had bought it for our second date, but we never got to that. So I saved it for when I returned, and this is as good a time as any to give it to you, my only true love." Matt said, slipping the ring on Sora's finger. Sora pulled Matt up into a blissful kiss, which was applauded by the people who had stopped in the airport to watch the scene. Neither Sora or Matt heard the clapping, to them there were only the two of them in the whole world.

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