Welcome to chapter 4 : Maybe Just Friends. This chapter will focus mainly on the growing relationship between Matt and Leta, although some other characters might make an appearance.

'' means thinking

"" means talking

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Leta rolled over and looked at the clock. It was only 7:30. 'Go back to bed' she told herself. Leta laid back down and closed her eyes, but sleep wouldn't come. The sun was too bright, the birds were too loud and she was hungry. Groaning, she pushed herself out of bed, being careful not to wake Rei up. Rei shifted in bed and yawned. Leta paused. 'Great' Leta thought to herself, 'Rei is a grump if she gets woken up early.' Much to Leta's surprise Rei snuggled her pillow closer and didn't move again.

Before she left the room she put on he slippers and prayed that she would be the only one up. 'I'm not really in the mood for company this morning.'

Leta slowly walked downstairs and towards the kitchen. On the way she saw the magazine with the article on Ken Ichijouji sitting on the table where Mimi had left it. She picked it up and flipped to his picture. 'He is pretty cute' she thought to herself. 'But not as cute as...' She blushed. 'I wonder what Rei would say if she knew I liked him.' Leta heard someone in the kitchen and was about to turn around and go back upstairs when she heard a male voice yell and saw a cloud of white dust come from that direction. Setting the magazine down Leta walked into the kitchen and saw Matt kneeling on the floor, covered in white, mopping up what Leta assumed to be flour from the floor. "Need any help?" She asked out loud.

Matt looked up and frowned. "No, I don't need your help." He said. " I just had a little accident."

Leta raised and eyebrow, "Little?"

Matt sat up and looked around. Almost the entire kitchen was white, not to mention himself. Standing up and brushing himself off Matt smiled at Leta. "I guess I could use a little help." he said sheepishly

Leta walked past him and grabbed the broom. After pushing him out of the way she proceeded to sweep up most of the flour on the floor. "What were you trying to do?" she asked him.

Matt looked at the floor. "I was trying to make pancakes" he said, talking so fast and so slow that Leta couldn't understand him.

"What did you say?"

"I said I was trying to make pancakes."

"Pancakes." Leta repeated, looking around. "How did you manage to make this mess trying to make pancakes?"

Matt blushed a little. "Well, " he started "I'm not exactly the best cook." Leta mumbled something that sounded like 'obviously' and Matt stopped. "Did you say something?" he asked. Leta shook her head and motioned for him to continue. "Anyway, I saw Sora cooking once and she put the flour into this thing," he pointed to an automatic mixer, "So I did the same thing. But when I turned it on..." He looked at the big pile of flour that Leta had swept up, "well, you know."

Leta looked at him. "Yeah, I know." Grabbing the dust pan she asked him, "Did you put any milk in the mixer before you turned it on?" Matt shook his head no. "So you tried to mix the flour with what? Air?"

"When you put it that way it does sound a little stupid."

"It was a little stupid." Leta said. "But don't worry about it, we all have our moments." Leta smiled at him. "I have deal for you." Matt looked at her curiously. "If you go upstairs and change, I'll make you breakfast. Deal?" Leta asked.

A small smile crept across Matt's face. "You'd make me breakfast?"

"Only if you change."

"I'll be right back." Matt said before heading towards the door. Before he got there he turned and smiled at Leta. "Thanks." He said and walked out.

Leta blushed. 'Not a problem' she thought to herself. "Now," she said out loud, heading toward the refrigerator. "What to make?"

*****

Matt came back downstairs in a clean white shirt and a pair of jeans. When he reached the kitchen he caught the smell of bacon wafting through the air. 'Wow' he thought to himself, 'that smells really good.' Pushing open the door he found Leta bent over the stove mixing up some scrambled eggs. The steam from the eggs gave her face a light flush and Matt found himself thinking how beautiful he looked. He was so caught up in looking at her that he didn't realize that she had turned and was now looking a him. "What?" she asked, blushing a little.

Matt diverted his eyes, a pale pink coming to his cheeks. "Nothing." he said. Leta gave a small grin and went back to her scrambled eggs. 'C'mon Matt' he told himself. 'You've got a girlfriend and she's not even from your world. Get a grip!' "So," he said, walking up behind her. "Whatcha makin'?"

Leta turned her head to look at him, smiling shyly. "Well," she began. "I didn't know what you liked so I made bacon, eggs and toast." She looked at her eggs and then back at him.

"I hope that's okay." she said softly.

"That's great." he said.

Leta smiled at him. 'Control yourself' she mentally berated herself. 'I haven't been this shy in front of a guy since Ken. Besides, he's got a girlfriend. He'd never be interested in you.' "It's almost ready," she told him. "could you out those on the table for me?" she pointed to

plates and silverware she had set on the counter.

"Not a problem." Matt answered, picking up the dishes. After he set them on the table he walked to a cupboard and opened it. Pulling out two glasses he asked. "Milk or orange juice?"

"Orange Juice, please." Leta said. putting the last of the eggs onto a serving plate. "Finished." she told him.

"Great." Matt said, picking up their glasses and holding the door open for Leta. Once they were sitting at the table Leta put eggs and bacon on Matt's plate. "You know, you don't have to do that." He told her.

Leta paused. "I'm sorry." She said quietly. 'Damn it girl' she thought to herself, 'stop being so damn weak. "Matt was about to say something, but before he could Leta handed him a piece of toast. "I'm just used to doing it for all my friends." She smiled.

"What about your family?" He asked her. Leta's smiled disappeared and she looked at the floor. Matt saw her expression change and hastily said "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to."

Leta looked up and the smile was back on her face. "No, it's okay." she told him.

"Both of my parents died in a plane crash when I was a little girl."

"I'm sorry." Matt said.

"You don't have to be." Leta told him. "I don't think it was your fault.

"No" he said, "I'm sorry about bringing it up."

"Don't worry about it." Leta said. Matt tried to apologize but Leta cut him off. "I said don't worry about it." She said firmly. "You couldn't have known. Besides, it was a long time ago, I'm okay now."

They ate in silence for a while. Matt finally looked up and asked "What's your world like?"

"What?"

"I asked what your world was like." He repeated.

Leta smiled. "Actually," She began, "My world is a lot like yours." Matt looked at her skeptically. "No, it really is. I mean. There are a few differences." 'Like the Sailor Scouts' she thought to herself. "Like who's famous and what not. Technology is basically the same. I'm starting to think that our worlds are just two different versions of the same one." Matt looked confused. She smiled. "Back in my world I had this friend named Ami. She was a bit of a genius, Kind of like that Ichijouji guy." She paused. "In fact, Ami kind of looks like him. Blue eyes, blue hair, nerd." Matt laughed. "Anyway, after hanging with her I picked a few things up."

"So," Matt said, "You're a quasi-genius."

Leta laughed. "If you want to look at it that way."

"I want to look at it that way." He smiled. "Now lets hear more of your same world, different versions idea."

"Well. it's hard to explain. Especially since I really have no idea what I'm taking about." She looked over and Matt urged her on. "Okay, take one world and then give one important person one very important decision. Now he has two choices. Choice A and choice B. Each choice would have a different outcome. You still with me?" Matt nodded. "Okay, now if he chooses choice A, he ends up with my world and if he chooses choice B he ends up with your world. Do you see what I'm saying?" she asked.

Matt looked thoughtful for a moment. Then he shook his head and started laughing. "Nope. You lost me at 'choice A and B."

"That's about where I lost myself too!" She laughed.

"Still," he said. "I'd like to see your world."

"May be one day you can." Leta told him. "Now it's my turn."

"Your turn for what?" Matt questioned.

"To ask questions." She answered. " I wanna know about the Digiworld."

Matt smiled. "What do you wanna know?"

Leta closed her eyes and thought of a question. "when did you first discover the Digiworld?"

"Let's see," Matt began, "I was 10. Tai, T.K., Joe, Izzy, Sora, Mimi and I were all at the same summer camp. It was a really odd summer though. About two weeks into camp it started to snow. We were all out side when suddenly seven meteors hit the ground right in front of us."

"Meteors?" Leta said.

"Well, we thought they were meteors, but they were actually our Digi-Vices. When we picked them up the world around us kinda melted away and we ended up in the Digiworld. While we were there we learned a lot. About friendship, team work, loyalty. That sort of thing. But we also learned that if the Digiworld gets destroyed our world will be destroyed too." Matt looked at Leta. "That's why we have to get rid of the Kaizer."

"I understand" Leta told him. "Now, what about the Digimon? Where do they come in?"

"The Digimon are how we protect the Digiworld. They each have special powers and as they evolve and become more powerful their attack power goes up too."

"And your Digimon is?"

"My Digimon is Koromon." He said. "How about tomorrow I take you down and introduce you?"

"Sure." Leta replied hesitantly, recalling her first meeting with the Digimon. "Are all Digimon good?"

"No" Matt told her. "They're just like people, some good, some bad."

"That's reassuring." She laughed.

"Don't worry," Matt said, suddenly serious. "If anything were to happen, I'd protect you."

Leta stopped laughing and looked at him. She gave him a soft smile and found herself getting lost in his clear blue eyes. When he smiled back and leaned his head in a little closer, Leta blushed. But to her surprise she found herself drifting towards him.

As the space between them got smaller and smaller Matt asked himself what he was doing. Anyone could walk in. What would this look like? 'Exactly what it is.' he thought to himself. And although he knew what the consequences were he continued to move towards her. Now they were only inches apart. Matt's hand itched to reach out and caress her face, but he held it in place. Just as their lips were about to meet a familiar voice rang out from just behind the kitchen door.

"Matt. where are you?" Sora called out, just seconds before pushing the door open and walking in.

When Leta heard Sora's voice her brain snapped back into reality and she pulled away. Matt did the same. There was a moment of uncomfortable silence before Sora finally asked,

"What's going on here?"

"Nothing." Matt replied, brushing his blond hair out of his face. "I had made a mess and Leta helped me clean it up and than she made me breakfast." Leta blushed. "We were almost done, though."

"Yeah, I was just leaving." Leta stammered, picking up both plates and heading for the kitchen.

"Leta."

Sora's voice caused Leta to drop both of the plats on the ground, each of them shattering on impact. Leta turned to face her, looking down because she couldn't force herself to look Sora in the eyes. "Yes?" she asked quietly.

"I think you and I need to talk. Not now," she said, looking at Matt. "But soon." Leta nodded and bent to pick up the broken glass.

"Don't worry about that." Matt said, rushing up to help her. "You've done enough, I'll get this." His out stretched hand brushed across hers and she could feel the heat on her face. She nervously smiled, said her goodbyes and walked out of the room.

Matt turned to face Sora, but she only glared and waked out of the room. "Great," Matt said out loud. An image of Leta flashed through his mind. "Now this I didn't expect." Smiling he picked up the glass and went to find Tai.

*****

"Rei?" Leta shouted, running into their bedroom. "Rei where are you? I really need to tell you something."

"Stop yelling," Rei told her friend. "I'm right here." Leta smiled a little sheepishly and Rei asked her, "What do you need to talk to me about?"

"You have to promise not to laugh."

"Cross my heart and hope to die."

"I almost kissed Matt." Leta said quickly.

"You did what?" Rei said, "Cause it sounded like you said you almost kissed Matt." Leta blushed and nodded her head. "Why would you do that?"

Leta smiled. "I don't know, it just seemed like the right thing to do at the time." Rei looked at her friend skeptically. "I made him breakfast and we talked and he told me that he would protect me."

"Protect you?" Rei repeated. "Did you tell him that you can protect yourself?"

"No." Leta said, "I kinda like the fact that he wants to protect me. I've never had anyone say that to me before."

Rei smiled and grabbed her friends hand. "As long as your happy, than I'm happy for you." She paused, "But what does Sora have to say about this?"

Leta frowned. "I don't know. I don't even know if Matt is serious, I just..." she trailed off, flopping down on her bed. " I'm just so confused." Rei sat next to her friend and gave her another reassuring smile. Leta tried to smiled back. "What would you do if you were me?"

"I don't know." Rei said, "I guess you just have to talk to him." Rei stopped and thought for a moment. "Maybe this is what Pluto meant about our destiny being here."

Leta sat up. "You think Matt might be my destiny?"

"I don't know, but I'm sure we'll find out."

Leta laid back down, smiling. "I think I just might learn to like it here."

So? What do you guys think? Matt and Leta definitely got a little bit closer in this chapter. To bad Sora had to walk in! Will this lead to drama? Of course!

Stay tuned for chapter 5 : Say It Isn't So