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Good Match-
Part #5

He spent all day home from school the next day. His mind was too clouded to even think of working on math problems. Things were not going the way he had wanted them to, that had never happened to Matt Ishida before, except, of course, for his parents divorce.


Matt sat solenmly on his bed, plucking his guitar strings in an effort to keep himself calm, but this time what usually would have calmed him only made him more agitated.


'I'm the lead signer in a band that has Odaiba in the palm of their hand. I'm the hottest guy in school and every girl wants a piece of me, hell, I get more Valentines' Day cards in one day then anyone else can possibly get in there entire lifetime! So why is it I'm not happy...without her...' He quickly reviewed his last thoughts.


His eyes snapped open. 'Damn, I'm real full of myself, aren't I?'


His thoughts flew back to Sora for the millionth time that day. He remembered her as she would shake her head at his egotisticle comments, or sigh as he began rambling on about how many girls had given him love letters that day, and how that was more than last week.


'She must think I'm some self-absorbed jerk. Gawd I hope she's wrong...'

~~~~Tuesday, at school~~~~

The morning had crawled by without Matt to liven up all the classes he was in. Girls were beginnning to get nervous and Sora knew that by tomorrow, Matt would have enough chicken noodle soup to fill an oil tanker. 'Still, ' she thought 'maybe I best go see if he's alright after school...'


Her teacher had begun writing their assignements on the board and she hurriedly scribbled them down on a spare piece of paper before heading out to meet her friends in the cafeteria for lunch.


She was accosted by Jun, Matt's 'biggest' fan, at the door to her class. She sighed inwardly and rolled her eyes before asking what Jun wanted.


"Just to know what you've done to my Mattie. He isn't at school today and I know you asked him to Homecoming. I bet he's transfered schools by now because you're stalking him. You're with him everywhere...I'm sure that's not his choice!"


To this day Sora still couldn't believe how fast Jun could come to conclusions. She had learnt by now, though, to just let her think whatever she wanted to- even if the entire school would probably know what that was by tomorrow (She had a the reputation of having a big mouth).


Sora shifted her books to be held under her other arm as she answered Jun, just to be ready to get a few hits in if needs be.


"Yes Jun, that must be it...I feel so terrible about taking your Mattie away from you that I might just cry!" She bent her head down and placed her hand over her forehead, so Jun couldn't see the laughter in her eyes, before pushing her way through the crowd that had accumulated around them and heading towards her locker to retrieve her well-deserved lunch.


Jun didn't follow her down the hall so Sora figured Jun had excepted what she had said as the undeniable truth, why else could 'Mattie' have left? Sora laughed giddily as she turned the corner, 'Maybe I should have tried out for the school play, but then again, Jun isn't that hard to fool...' She was still laughing when she entered the cafeteria to join her friends five minutes later.


Mimi and Joe seemed too deep in conversation to notice her, Sora assumed it was about the dance and decided it was best not to disturb them...And listening in was always fun too!


"....do you really think Tai did? I mean...that's why Matt isn't here today, right?"


"No, I don't really think thats why he's not here Mimi. I think he's more embarrassed than anything. He's hurting where he didn't realize he could before..."


"How do you know so much about that Joe?" Mimi was obviously trying to act casual, but Sora heard the anticipation in her voice.


"Well...I just..." Sora could practically see the beads of sweat form on Joe's face as he searched for something to concentrate his attention on. His gaze fell upon Sora.


"How long have you been there?" he asked urgently. Mimi snapped her head to the side, the same frantic expression plastered on her face as well as Joe's.


"Long enough to hear that Tai has done something to Matt that has embarrased him so much that he won't show his face at school anymore. So whats knew?" Mimi and Joe both sighed in what seemed to be relief before hearing about the Jun incident.


"No one'll believe a word she says about you Sor. Especially when Matt comes back tomorrow, Jun'll be kicking herself" said Mimi enthusiastically.


"That would be a sight. And what makes you so sure he won't be away from school tomorrow too? Matt doesn't seem to get over embarrassement easily if you haven't noticed..."


"Trust me, he'll be here tomorrow. There're some things he'd miss too much to stay away from for long..." Mimi snickered as Joe flashed a smile her way. Sora decided not to interrupt the moment by asking them what Joe had meant by that.


They spent the rest of the lunch hour discussing Homecoming and who would be going with who. They didn't mention Matt for the rest of their meal, although Mimi and Joe would steal occasional glances at one another when Sora mentioned something like hoping to get a corsage the same colour as her dress from her date.

~~~~Tuesday, After school~~~~

Sora had told Joe, Mimi and Izzy (whom had been in the computer lab at lunch) about her plans to see Matt after school as they were walking home.


They had all pre-warned her as she left them and turned towards Matt's appartement about his rabid fans and reminded her that they might be a little 'miffed' (putting it lightly) at her if they had heard about her from Jun already- which was a definite probability.


Sora simply brushed off their worry as she turned on her heel and waved them goodbye. She wrapped her coat tightly around her slim body as she began walking into the wind.


About half way there, not having anything on her mind had made her begin to think about the warnings her friends had given her. But she shrugged it off once more as it occured to her that if he had really transfered schools to escape a stalker, he would have moved houses too.


But all the same, as Sora neared the house, she wrapped her coat more tightly around herself (if possible) and bent her head down to avoid the eyes of all the girls walking towards her with an air of sadness around them. They had obviously been turned out. Sora couldn't help but smile to herself.


When she reached her destination, she also realized that getting in through the door would be futile, since Matt was probably not answering it anyway- a swarm of his fans were hovering around it.


She shook her head and smiled to herself as she changed directions and turned towards Matt's bedroom on the other side of the building, she remembered a tree being there...


10 minutes later Sora was up the tree and knocking frantically on his bedroom window. It was too much to hope for it to have been open.


Her efforts were rewarded however when Matt sidled slowly up to the window and almost passed out from shock as he pulled open the drapery to see who was sitting in a tree smiling at him. He felt his face get warm as he unlatched the window and helped her climb in.


"What are you doing here?" he finally gasped. Sora laughed at the surprised expression on his face before answering him.


"I just wanted to make sure you weren't sick or dead or anything. You do remember our promise, right? I can't very well go to the dance with you if you're stiff and blue, now can I?"


It took a moment for what Sora had just said to register in his mind. He felt the lump in his throat vanish instantly and he suddenely felt guilty that he had missed school over a stupid little thing like thinking Sora would go to Homecoming with Tai.


"You mean you haven't been asked yet?" he managed to say. His brain was swimming and he felt he could kiss her right there on the spot, he would deal with the consequences later. The only thing stopping him was that she begun talking again about how people had asked her but they just weren't 'right'.


"I'm not that much of a reject that no one'd ask me...But out of the guys that have- I'd much rather go with you"


Matt almost laughed out loud. He would make sure to rub this in Tai's face later on, after the dance.


Sora got up suddenly and walked towards his desk. Matt's room was quite small, only large enough to fit a bed, a dresser, and a desk. It was also quite a mess, littered with papers that had obviously been rejected songs for his band and his clothes from the past three days. The only thing remotely clean about this room were the 6 or 7 bottles of gel all neatly lined up in a row on his dresser.


Sora laughed inwardly as she passed her eyes over these before reaching his desk where there were a couple of songs scribbled on sheets of paper and his guitar. The all-famous guitar that he never let anyone touch- except himself of course.


Before anything could be said on his part, Sora had reached down and hastily picked it up. She walked towards him with it in her hands and couldn't stop herself smiling as he gulped in obvious fear that she would drop it any time now.


"Oh relax. I'm not that clumsy...Mattie." His face turned pale as Matt registered the name Jun could be heard calling all around school grounds during the day.


"Do you want me to serenade you or something? Because I'm not feeling too well..."


"Oh come off it! You're perfectly fine and I have no idea why you couldn't bring yourself to come to school today. Its a bad habit to start picking up you know..." said Sora warningly. She reached Matt without any accidents and made him scoot towards the center of the bed before sitting in front of him.


"Now how do you play this thing?..." Sora tweeked a string and could almost feel Matt cringe at the sound. She laughed. "Well aren't you gonna teach me? Or am I on the right track..." She plucked another string as it gave a twanging sound.


Matt quickly crawled towards her and hesitated before wrapping his arms around Sora from behind, taking her hands to place them on the guitar in the right position. He was worried that Sora could feel his heartbeat quickening, but she gave no sign and he relaxed slightly breathing in her sweet sent.


"You know" he whispered quietely, even though no one was there "You must be special. I don't let just anyone touch my guitar, let alone play it"


The skin on the back of her neck prickled but she had time to reclaim enough sense to answer him, almost sarcastically: "Thats only because I'm one of the only people that doesn't buy your 'touch-the-guitar-and-your-dead' routine" She hoped that he hadn't seen the blush that had by now spread across her face and was so red that she could be the one leading Santa's sleigh.


"Do you want to learn or not? Because there are other things we could be doing..." Matt had meant the last bit to come out seductively, but had only managed a sort of chocked whisper. For some reason, he was nervous saying things like that around someone he wished were doing 'other' things with.


"Oh come on Matt. You should know by now you can't seduce me, now are you going to teach me or not, because I can always go home and leave you all by yourself..." She mentally slapped herself. Sora knew she had no intention of going home but her comment had obviously had some effect because Matt tightened his grip on her hands.


"Now lets start somwhere easy because I can tell you don't know very much about music" Sora rolled her eyes "So let's see...I know, how about Jingle Bells! That was the first song I learnt how to play."


"You mean you're not going to teach me the different places your fingers go or anything? You're just going to dive in?"


"Well if thats the way you want to put it..." Matt could almost feel the heat radiating off of Sora from her slip of the tongue. "Anyway, I always find it better to just start and see how much talent you have first off"


Sora didn't answer, but let Matt guide her hands over the strings. She was still embarrassed over her 'way of putting it'.


About 15 minutes later, Matt let go of her hands and told her to play on her own. Unfortunately for Sora, she had been paying more attention to her instructor than her instructions and played almost as bad as she had at the beginning.


Matt shook his head as Sora forced out a smile, turning towards him.


"We are going to keep doing this until you get it right!" He tried to sound exasperrated, but couldn't help think that he came off a bit too pleased.


They practised for another hour before Sora finally played the last string off the song and fell back on top of him, her head resting on his shoulder.


"Well, I'm up for a snack. How 'bout you?" Sora tilted her head up at him. He looked as if he were frozen in place. She sighed and kissed him lightly on the cheek. "Thanks for the lesson, by the way. I guess I'll be going home..."


Sora waited for him to say something, but he just lay rigid. She got up a bit disappointedly and began walking back towards the way she had come.


"Actually, I think I'll go out this way. It'll give something for your fans to think about" She left the room without waiting for his reply and Matt heard the door close before he sat up and brought his hand to wipe the sweat off his face.


"Smooth, Matt, real smooth..." He put his guitar back on his desk and headed into the kitchen to make a call to Joe, Matt felt he needed to hear about this.


~~~~The End of Chapter 5~~~~

A/N: So how was that? Did you catch the Christmas stuff I tried to add? Oh, before I forget, I'd like to thank everyone who reviewed my last chapters and I hope you'll do it again, the nice stuff boosts my self-confidence. 'Till next time - minda