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Hopefully this will be the end. I hate drawing stories out, but somehow I always manage to do just that. It's driving me crazy!!!

I don't own that wonderful show Digimon!

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:: Friday Afternoon ::

Sora placed the teddy bear inside the little bag and tied the top strings together with a cute little ribbon. Then she grabbed a stapler and stapled the top of the bag together. After tying on some more curly ribbon she sat back to look at her accomplishment.

"For me? You're so sweet."

Sora spun around and smiled at the blonde. "Don't think so. This is for one of my dad. I know he probably doesn't want a teddy bear, but it's the best I could do right now."

"I want a teddy bear." The guy said with a puppy dog look.

"Go buy one then." Sora taunted. She winked at the guy and continued to spice up her gift. The guy walked to her side and leaned against the table. He shook his head disappointed.

"Not fair. You're missing my concert for what again?" he asked.

"I have to close up for my mom tonight because she is visiting my dad's mother who is in the hospital." Sora explained for about the hundredth time. She gave the blonde leaning against the table a dirty look. "Get up. You're going to break my mom's work table leaning on it like that."

The guy laughed and stood up straight. "Okay." He handed her a pen to write with and sighed. "So you can't come at all?"

Sora stopped working and stared him in the eye. "How many times do I have to clarify this?"

"A lot. I really want you to come!" He whined. Sora laughed and shook her head. "I'm sorry. I can't. Maybe next time okay?" The guy didn't appear happy with her decision but nodded anyway.

He glanced at his watch and sighed again. "Alright. I should be going. It's an hour till we start but Ituimi wanted to get a few rehearsals in. I'll see you later."

Sora nodded and began working on another gift for someone else. She half waved and soon was lost in her thoughts as he left. She sang quietly to herself and eventually turned on the radio.

'I really wish I could go to that concert. Everyone has bugged me enough about it already. Kourtney really wanted me to show up…' Sora paused for a moment in her work to consider closing early. 'No. I can't. Mom asked me to do this for her.'

:: Later That Night ::

Sora shuffled through the set of keys that her mom had given her for the shop key. It was supposed to be gold with "Chatnel" written on it. There were at least twenty keys on the ring and it took a while but she finally found it.

"Sora!"

Surprised Sora dropped the keys. She twisted around wide eyed to see who it was. Once she noticed that it was the blonde running towards her she sighed with relief and bent over to get the keys.

"Don't you have a concert of something?" She snapped and once more searched for the gold key. She found it easier this time and locked up the shop right as he made it to her.

"Yeah but we finished early so I begged the guys to put my stuff up for me so I could come walk you home." He said gasping obviously out of breath. Sora laughed and placed the keys in her pocket.

"I can walk home by myself you know. I'm not a child." Sora said defensively not that she really minded having him walk her home. "You always show up unmentioned. You should warn me next time."

He chuckled and placed an arm around her shoulders something she'd gotten used to by now. As Sora walked home with him poking fun at everything and making jokes she realized how much of a great friend she had made out of the guy

Sure her friends were nice (well actually they were anything but) and sure her friends and her had some great times. But the guy was just the one person she could feel relaxed with. He had become her best friend.

They made it to Sora's house within a few minutes and lingered in front of her door for quite a few minutes. The blonde was trying to tell her something serious but she kept laughing about what she'd seen on the way home and fumbled to unlock her door.

"Sora? Please this is important." He begged. Sora's laughter died into a fit of giggles and at last she managed to contain herself. But when he opened his mouth to speak again she once more erupted into laughter.

The guy rolled his eyes and sighed. "I'm sorry! It was just so funny! And it didn't help having you make jokes!" Sora managed to say through her laughter. She smiled at the guy but only got a serious frown in return and that only made her laugh even harder.

"Sora? Sora? Are you even listening to me?" The guy asked with despair. 'Fine. If I can't tell her then I'll just have to show her.' The blonde quickly seized her by the shoulders and drew her into a swift kiss.

Sora froze. When he pulled away she could do nothing but stare back at him stunned. She blinked a couple times and still didn't move even when he let go of her. He lowered his head and shrugged.

"Matt… I…" Sora gasped. "Matt!"

She took a step back. Everything came flooding back to her. Matt, TK, Kari, Joe, Mimi, Izzy! She had always remembered Biyomon but had blocked all the others out. All the memories of the Digiworld that she had managed to suppress suddenly resurfaced.

Matt. Her friend. Her best friend. The guy that had pulled her out of her pit of hopelessness. The guy who she had felt so close to so long ago was now standing in front of her and had been around her for several weeks. And had kissed her.

"You remember me!" He smiled happily and tried to hug Sora but she dodged him. She opened her door and hastily moved inside. Before Matt knew what had happened Sora had slammed the door shut and locked it.

How could this happen to her? Why of all people did it have to be Matt?

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Okay, so that wasn't the end and it was really short. But I promise to get it done next time.

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