1 Elusive Angel
-By Yo-yo
Disclaimer: I wish I owned Digimon, but since I don't, I'll just sit here in the dark room and cry with shame!
A/N: Sorry that this is a little juxtaposed, but I forget things easily, so I wrote each part of this fanfic @ different times and in different spirals. Oh yeah, and Ken isn't gay, they're just wrestling like guys do, nothing sexual. And sorry it took so long, but w/ painting, rowing, all the clubs I'm in, and the 9-¼ hrs. of volunteering I still have to do, I can't really find the time to type this. Good thing I have boring classes to @ least write these up in! Thanks for reading, R&R pleeezzz!
ULTIMATE ROWING!!!!!!!!! TAIORA 4 LIFE!!!!!!!!!!
Chapter III
"…Nights I've spent staring out the window, watching the stars. Like flecks of glitter, sparkling on a black velvet cloth, expanding past eternity, calming my soul. My body relaxes as its cold air touches me, yet does not disturb the warmth rising within me.
"Closing my eyes, I dreamed I was in a vast field of snow. Blue shadows cast over the enchanting mounds, making the scene almost heavenly. The snow, brilliantly white, draped with its innocent beauty. And then the realization fell on me…it was love…"
Silence blanket over the class as she put down her paper. Even Professor Wang couldn't comment on the beauty captured by her words.
Finally she stood up, "Good job Ms. Takenouchi," she turned to rest of the class, "Would anyone like to comment?"
Sunny raised her hand, "I would."
"OK."
"Well, the way that she describes the contrast between light and dark, using glitter and black velvet, it's brilliant! And then she contrasted with the dark sky with the brilliant white snow. It makes sense; it makes you dream up yourself in the same place, that same moment, with her, seeing what she's seeing. You feel totally at peace with yourself."
Sora gave a thankful smile to her friend. She was so preoccupied by what everyone would think that she lost all confidence in herself.
"Tai?" she asked surprised.
"Usually, the darkness is seen as a blanket meant to cover lies and secrets, but she unveils the negativity. She makes darkness revealing. She exposed the beauty, unseen by day, the beauty our eyes won't let us see as we are flawed…"
Everyone gasped in surprise. Tai Kamiya never paid attention in English (Japanese class…whatever, whatever the equivalency is in Japan) class, and never said anything that profound in his life!
Tai felt his ears start to burn as he looked back at the comic book sitting in his lap. Even though he was ignoring them, he could still feel their eyes burrowing into him, trying to figure him out.
Sora pushed back her carrot hair as she made a quick beeline to her seat and sat down. Turning, she looked cautiously at Tai. Even though they still hung out, they never mentioned the incident that happened the night of the Fair. They went on as if nothing happened, making sure that there were no awkward moments.
Brrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiing! The bell rang.
Gathering her books, Sunny met her beside her desk.
"Did you finish your Bio?"
With a cocked eyebrow, Sora looked at her friend, "Do I ever do my Bio?"
"Good point." They laughed.
Walking to their lockers, the girls kept chatting. Soon, a whole swarm of sophomores ran past them towards the office.
"What's up with them?" asked Sora, stopping at her locker.
"What's today?"
"Thursday."
"Oh yeah, that paper assignment is being posted on the office door today."
"What paper?"
"The one Prof. Wang has been talking about for the past week. Do you ever pay attention?"
"Only when it's convenient." Sora smiled.
"C'mon, maybe we're partners!" she smiled taking her hand before she could discard her books, and pulled her towards the office.
Before they even saw the paper, they found Matt being pushed aside. A grim look was on his face. Walking to the two girls, his face lightened up. "Hey guys!"
"Hey." They replied.
"So who'd you get?" Sora blurted out.
"Cho, like one of the biggest homophobes on the planet! I'm going to get it changed!" he scowled.
"What 'bout us?" Sunny asked.
"Well, you're with Diana," he said to Sunny; turning to Sora a broad grin stretched on his face, "surprisingly, you're with Tai."
"Tai?" Sora asked.
"Yeah, did you give a bribe to Prof. Wang?"
"It's obvious I didn't have to, but I was sure that some fan of his would have. No offense to Tai, but I was hoping to work with Li."
"Why Li?" Matt asked, a grin on his face, "Has my little Sora started to notice the male species?"
"God, why is everything so dirty with you guys? I wanted to work with Li because last year we worked together on the Frosh Project, and he was really cool. We were planning to work together, we worked together really well…"
"That's true…" Sunny commented, "they did actually get the top grade in the whole class!"
"It's not like working with Tai will be a giant disappointment, he is my best friend and we do work together great! My heart was just really set on Li."
Matt and Sunny both flashed each other knowing glances as they saw her strawberry red face.
~***~
"…So anyway Sunny…what the?!…Who just threw popcorn at me?…Don't turn your back on me Yolei, I know it was you!" Sora cried from her seat on the couch.
"Davis, stop trying to touch me!" Kari scowled, brushing him off of her.
"I'm not…" Davis began.
"Cody, stop saying that!" Sunny laughed.
"If you touch my sister again, I'll kill you!" Tai warned.
"Hey T. K., go long!" Sunny called tossing him a pillow.
"Hey, no death threats to Davis." Sora smiled, punching Tai playfully.
"Hey, Ichijoji (can't spell)," Matt called, "why are you such a lame?"
"Sora, these guys are idiots!" Kari called.
Ken threw a piece of popcorn at Matt.
"Isn't that evident, look who's here!" Asked Sora, indicating Tai.
"Hey." Tai cried, fully understanding her.
"Ken, I'm not blind, I saw that!" Matt scolded over the group.
"I was only playing!" Sora grinned with that adorable one that made him melt to a puddle of emotions.
"Yeah, well what 'cha gonna' do 'bout it, Sissy boy?" asked Ken throwing up his arms.
"Oh brother!" Kari whispered ducking, just as Matt flew over her head and tackled Ken.
A grin curled Sora's lips. Things felt so right at this moment, sitting there with her friends all around her. Tai and Davis were having a heated argument over who they thought was the better soccer player. Matt and Ken were wrestling playfully on the floor. Kari and Yolei were throwing popcorn at each other. Cody and Sunny were having a tickle fight next to her, and T. K. had just joined in on the mock fight with Ken and Matt.
Sora tucked the flannel blanket closer to her. She watched the silent black and white movie before her, feeling the comfort of her silence in a room of chaos.
As Ms. Takenouchi walked through the room, a smile curled her lips as she saw how they interacted with each other. It was like they were all siblings. Then she noticed her daughter, curled up and cozy on the couch; a blanket wrapped around her, a pillow underneath her head, and a smile on her face.
Ms. Takenouchi smiled to herself as she put her keys in her purse. She loved having the apartment full of kids, especially these ones.
"Guys, I'm going ok? Have a good night!"
Everyone stopped what he or she were doing and looked up. Soon, a flood of, "Bye Ms. T," and, "See ya'," and from Davis, "Can you bring me back a sandwich?", came from the kids. After the flood of farewells, Sora sat up and smiled, "Bye mama."
~***~
They spent all night laughing and joking around. Finally after no less than a dozen tickle fights broke out, half were between Tai and Sora, they decided they had to go.
"Sora, I had a great time." Davis smiled walking out the door.
"Hey Sor," Matt grinned standing from his seat on the floor, his hair ruffled, "Tonight was fun, I'm definitely looking foreword to another night like this one!"
"Yeah I bet!" she grinned hugging him as he turned to leave with his brother.
"Bye Sor, thanks." T. K. smiled as they exited.
"Sor, we had fun, it was great hanging out with the group again!" Ken said escorting Yolei and Cody out of the door, "Yeah, we had a great time, thanks!" they smiled leaving together.
Kari turned to her brother. "Tai, I think it's time to leave, we've both got school in the morning."
Tai looked at his little sister. "Tell mom I'm coming late, I'm going to help Sora clean up and we've got to discuss some things for our project."
"Ok," she said eyeing them suspiciously, then turning and leaving.
"Ok, well I guess I'll leave. I was going to spend the night here, but since you two are going to be studying, I think I'll run while you two are still neutral. Sor, Tai, I'll see you both at school tomorrow, buh bye."
Both the uncertain teenagers watched as their last friend left the apartment leaving them alone. As the realization struck them that they were both staring at the closed door, they immediately turned their backs to each other and began picking up.
Finally picking up all the popcorn and other junk foods from the floor and furniture, they decided to begin their assignment.
Sora and Tai's assignment was to write a thesis on the idea of a modern Utopia. As they spent all night arguing on their topic and how to present the opening, they finally settled on an agreement and set to work.
Miraculously they had gotten enough information and had compiled it into a first draft that very night! They sat in the blue lazy boy recliner reading it over with their heads together.
They were only on the second page when Sora's eyelids grew heavy and she fell into a deep slumber with her head lying softly on Tai's chest. He had an almost irresistible impulse to bend down and kiss her; he knew that it would not only frighten her, but would destroy her confidence in him.
He breathed in her intoxicating scent, making him feel dizzy as he drowned in a pool of ecstasy. His lips were dangerously close to her skin as her breathed in each sweet breath that escaped her perfectly curved lips.
As if he were in some kind of trance, he dropped the report from his right hand and raised it to her neck. Slowly, he stuck out his index finger and began to stroke the softness of her neck, ready to taste the sweetness of her against his tongue.
Almost suddenly, Sora began to stir. She didn't open her eyes, only a smile curled her lips and she nuzzled a little deeper into the hallow of his shoulder.
A smile suddenly framed Tai's face as he looked at her. So peaceful and innocent; it was as if the Greek Goddess Aphrodite had taken human form and came to earth in his arms.
Soon his thoughts betrayed him and he fell into a deep sleep beside her without even tasting her.
~***~
It was Tai who had woken first the next morning. He had opened his eyes and was surprised to find his hand up the black of her baseball shirt, stroking her soft bare skin.
A smile adorned her face as she slept in content, looking just as peaceful as ever.
Tai observed her…there was an ethereal look about her, and she had no awareness of how alluring and enticing she was. One of her long legs was wrapped around his, and her arms wound around his torso. A small chuckle escaped his lips as he noticed her little navel peeking from her cropped t- shirt.
As he chuckled, she stirred awake. Her eyes opened slowly, as if she were a rose, just ready to bloom. They were huge, bright and twinkling as she laid them on him. The smile still shone on her face as she whispered a small "hello."
"Hey." He smiled back.
Suddenly, as if she'd snapped out of a trance and the realization hit her like a big rig, she planted a frown on her face. "What happened?" she asked pushing away from him, aware of his hand up her back.
"Nothing Sora." He said, his smile vanishing, "Don't worry, it was totally innocent. We both fell asleep and woke up like this."
"Yeah." She said walking to her bedroom, "it's time to get ready for school."
~***~
Sora groaned as she entered the abyss deemed her school. Plastered over the walls were hundreds of posters advertising the school's cotillion.
"What?" Asked Matt coming from behind.
"This!" she groaned again, indicating the posters.
"The cotillion, oh that's such a punishment!" he remarked sarcastically.
"Matt shut up! It's not that, it's the principle of the whole thing…" she began.
"Oh please," he smiled cutting her off, "you're just pissed 'cuz you don't have a date!"
"So what?"
"So are you hoping that Tai will ask you?"
"No way!" she laughed grimacing. "So do you have a date…?"
"Sorry, Sor, you should have asked me a while ago…."
"Who could have possibly asked you to the dance?" she interrupted, a little miffed.
"Hideo actually." he smiled as if please with himself, "After Sunny and I got off the hurlie whirl at the Fair."
"I'll see you later." She mumbled, brushing past him as she stalked to her locker.
~***~
"So are you going to the cotillion?" asked Sunny, pulling her untidy curls into a loopy ponytail.
"I wish," she groaned, "but nobody's asked me, and Matt is going with Hideo."
"Hideo! He's pretty cute for a gay guy!"
"Shut up!" Sora smiled, knowing that Sunny was right.
"Damn, what would it be like to get laid by a gay guy?"
"More info than I could handle!" Sora smiled at her friend's remark.
"You know who I wished I could go with?" Sunny began, without waiting for her reply, she continued, "…Ryan Phillipe…"
"Ah…Brandon Boyd from Incubus would be my number one choice." Sora grinned, a pleasing picture popping up in her mind's eye.
"God, do you remember back when guys were simpler to understand?"
"Yeah, one grunt meant food, two grunts meant sports…"
"You're such a spaz!" Sunny smiled.
"…Well I don't know what you mean, guys have always been a mystery to me…"
"All except one guy…"
"What?" Sora asked, a quizzical look on her face.
"Most guys have been a mystery to you, except for one…"
"And who's he?" she asked, almost sure she knew the answer.
"The one you kissed at the Fair."
"HE TOLD YOU!" she fumed.
"No, it was written on both your faces. You two looked so…I can't explain it with words, but you were kind of devastated! The little bit of soul that was peeking through your eyes was a mixture of pleasure and guilt. They looked as if something incredible happened, but it was too… too surreal for you two to let it progress… it was really weird." Sunny smiled, glancing at her friend's shocked face.
"Tai's like a brother to me, it's kinda' incestuous for us to be together, plus he doesn't even think of me in that light…"
"…But you think of him like that…"
"I never said that!" she whispered looking away from her friend.
"Sora, c'mon, I'm not that stupid! The way that you two look at each other… nobody can mistake those long gazes of yearning. If other people weren't in the room, you'd probably throw his ass on the floor and rape him…"
"Oh my God, that is so…ewwwu, stop talking!" Sora shivered.
"I'm just speakin' truth." She smiled.
"I think I'm going to be late for practice, we'll talk then…" she smiled turning around. "Oh yeah, who are you going with?"
"Wonder boy himself, Tai." She smiled.
"Oh." Sora whispered as her face fell.
"Don't worry, it's not a date, it's totally platonic!"
"Whatever, bye Sunny." She whispered stalking off in the direction of the locker rooms.
"He loves you." Sunny whispered, more to herself than anyone else.
A/N: sorry, this seems just chopped short, 'cuz it basically is, but if I had left the rest of the chapter, it would be way too long to read. And I would shoot myself from the excessive typing. Buh bye. Peace out all –Yo-yo
-By Yo-yo
Disclaimer: I wish I owned Digimon, but since I don't, I'll just sit here in the dark room and cry with shame!
A/N: Sorry that this is a little juxtaposed, but I forget things easily, so I wrote each part of this fanfic @ different times and in different spirals. Oh yeah, and Ken isn't gay, they're just wrestling like guys do, nothing sexual. And sorry it took so long, but w/ painting, rowing, all the clubs I'm in, and the 9-¼ hrs. of volunteering I still have to do, I can't really find the time to type this. Good thing I have boring classes to @ least write these up in! Thanks for reading, R&R pleeezzz!
ULTIMATE ROWING!!!!!!!!! TAIORA 4 LIFE!!!!!!!!!!
Chapter III
"…Nights I've spent staring out the window, watching the stars. Like flecks of glitter, sparkling on a black velvet cloth, expanding past eternity, calming my soul. My body relaxes as its cold air touches me, yet does not disturb the warmth rising within me.
"Closing my eyes, I dreamed I was in a vast field of snow. Blue shadows cast over the enchanting mounds, making the scene almost heavenly. The snow, brilliantly white, draped with its innocent beauty. And then the realization fell on me…it was love…"
Silence blanket over the class as she put down her paper. Even Professor Wang couldn't comment on the beauty captured by her words.
Finally she stood up, "Good job Ms. Takenouchi," she turned to rest of the class, "Would anyone like to comment?"
Sunny raised her hand, "I would."
"OK."
"Well, the way that she describes the contrast between light and dark, using glitter and black velvet, it's brilliant! And then she contrasted with the dark sky with the brilliant white snow. It makes sense; it makes you dream up yourself in the same place, that same moment, with her, seeing what she's seeing. You feel totally at peace with yourself."
Sora gave a thankful smile to her friend. She was so preoccupied by what everyone would think that she lost all confidence in herself.
"Tai?" she asked surprised.
"Usually, the darkness is seen as a blanket meant to cover lies and secrets, but she unveils the negativity. She makes darkness revealing. She exposed the beauty, unseen by day, the beauty our eyes won't let us see as we are flawed…"
Everyone gasped in surprise. Tai Kamiya never paid attention in English (Japanese class…whatever, whatever the equivalency is in Japan) class, and never said anything that profound in his life!
Tai felt his ears start to burn as he looked back at the comic book sitting in his lap. Even though he was ignoring them, he could still feel their eyes burrowing into him, trying to figure him out.
Sora pushed back her carrot hair as she made a quick beeline to her seat and sat down. Turning, she looked cautiously at Tai. Even though they still hung out, they never mentioned the incident that happened the night of the Fair. They went on as if nothing happened, making sure that there were no awkward moments.
Brrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiing! The bell rang.
Gathering her books, Sunny met her beside her desk.
"Did you finish your Bio?"
With a cocked eyebrow, Sora looked at her friend, "Do I ever do my Bio?"
"Good point." They laughed.
Walking to their lockers, the girls kept chatting. Soon, a whole swarm of sophomores ran past them towards the office.
"What's up with them?" asked Sora, stopping at her locker.
"What's today?"
"Thursday."
"Oh yeah, that paper assignment is being posted on the office door today."
"What paper?"
"The one Prof. Wang has been talking about for the past week. Do you ever pay attention?"
"Only when it's convenient." Sora smiled.
"C'mon, maybe we're partners!" she smiled taking her hand before she could discard her books, and pulled her towards the office.
Before they even saw the paper, they found Matt being pushed aside. A grim look was on his face. Walking to the two girls, his face lightened up. "Hey guys!"
"Hey." They replied.
"So who'd you get?" Sora blurted out.
"Cho, like one of the biggest homophobes on the planet! I'm going to get it changed!" he scowled.
"What 'bout us?" Sunny asked.
"Well, you're with Diana," he said to Sunny; turning to Sora a broad grin stretched on his face, "surprisingly, you're with Tai."
"Tai?" Sora asked.
"Yeah, did you give a bribe to Prof. Wang?"
"It's obvious I didn't have to, but I was sure that some fan of his would have. No offense to Tai, but I was hoping to work with Li."
"Why Li?" Matt asked, a grin on his face, "Has my little Sora started to notice the male species?"
"God, why is everything so dirty with you guys? I wanted to work with Li because last year we worked together on the Frosh Project, and he was really cool. We were planning to work together, we worked together really well…"
"That's true…" Sunny commented, "they did actually get the top grade in the whole class!"
"It's not like working with Tai will be a giant disappointment, he is my best friend and we do work together great! My heart was just really set on Li."
Matt and Sunny both flashed each other knowing glances as they saw her strawberry red face.
~***~
"…So anyway Sunny…what the?!…Who just threw popcorn at me?…Don't turn your back on me Yolei, I know it was you!" Sora cried from her seat on the couch.
"Davis, stop trying to touch me!" Kari scowled, brushing him off of her.
"I'm not…" Davis began.
"Cody, stop saying that!" Sunny laughed.
"If you touch my sister again, I'll kill you!" Tai warned.
"Hey T. K., go long!" Sunny called tossing him a pillow.
"Hey, no death threats to Davis." Sora smiled, punching Tai playfully.
"Hey, Ichijoji (can't spell)," Matt called, "why are you such a lame?"
"Sora, these guys are idiots!" Kari called.
Ken threw a piece of popcorn at Matt.
"Isn't that evident, look who's here!" Asked Sora, indicating Tai.
"Hey." Tai cried, fully understanding her.
"Ken, I'm not blind, I saw that!" Matt scolded over the group.
"I was only playing!" Sora grinned with that adorable one that made him melt to a puddle of emotions.
"Yeah, well what 'cha gonna' do 'bout it, Sissy boy?" asked Ken throwing up his arms.
"Oh brother!" Kari whispered ducking, just as Matt flew over her head and tackled Ken.
A grin curled Sora's lips. Things felt so right at this moment, sitting there with her friends all around her. Tai and Davis were having a heated argument over who they thought was the better soccer player. Matt and Ken were wrestling playfully on the floor. Kari and Yolei were throwing popcorn at each other. Cody and Sunny were having a tickle fight next to her, and T. K. had just joined in on the mock fight with Ken and Matt.
Sora tucked the flannel blanket closer to her. She watched the silent black and white movie before her, feeling the comfort of her silence in a room of chaos.
As Ms. Takenouchi walked through the room, a smile curled her lips as she saw how they interacted with each other. It was like they were all siblings. Then she noticed her daughter, curled up and cozy on the couch; a blanket wrapped around her, a pillow underneath her head, and a smile on her face.
Ms. Takenouchi smiled to herself as she put her keys in her purse. She loved having the apartment full of kids, especially these ones.
"Guys, I'm going ok? Have a good night!"
Everyone stopped what he or she were doing and looked up. Soon, a flood of, "Bye Ms. T," and, "See ya'," and from Davis, "Can you bring me back a sandwich?", came from the kids. After the flood of farewells, Sora sat up and smiled, "Bye mama."
~***~
They spent all night laughing and joking around. Finally after no less than a dozen tickle fights broke out, half were between Tai and Sora, they decided they had to go.
"Sora, I had a great time." Davis smiled walking out the door.
"Hey Sor," Matt grinned standing from his seat on the floor, his hair ruffled, "Tonight was fun, I'm definitely looking foreword to another night like this one!"
"Yeah I bet!" she grinned hugging him as he turned to leave with his brother.
"Bye Sor, thanks." T. K. smiled as they exited.
"Sor, we had fun, it was great hanging out with the group again!" Ken said escorting Yolei and Cody out of the door, "Yeah, we had a great time, thanks!" they smiled leaving together.
Kari turned to her brother. "Tai, I think it's time to leave, we've both got school in the morning."
Tai looked at his little sister. "Tell mom I'm coming late, I'm going to help Sora clean up and we've got to discuss some things for our project."
"Ok," she said eyeing them suspiciously, then turning and leaving.
"Ok, well I guess I'll leave. I was going to spend the night here, but since you two are going to be studying, I think I'll run while you two are still neutral. Sor, Tai, I'll see you both at school tomorrow, buh bye."
Both the uncertain teenagers watched as their last friend left the apartment leaving them alone. As the realization struck them that they were both staring at the closed door, they immediately turned their backs to each other and began picking up.
Finally picking up all the popcorn and other junk foods from the floor and furniture, they decided to begin their assignment.
Sora and Tai's assignment was to write a thesis on the idea of a modern Utopia. As they spent all night arguing on their topic and how to present the opening, they finally settled on an agreement and set to work.
Miraculously they had gotten enough information and had compiled it into a first draft that very night! They sat in the blue lazy boy recliner reading it over with their heads together.
They were only on the second page when Sora's eyelids grew heavy and she fell into a deep slumber with her head lying softly on Tai's chest. He had an almost irresistible impulse to bend down and kiss her; he knew that it would not only frighten her, but would destroy her confidence in him.
He breathed in her intoxicating scent, making him feel dizzy as he drowned in a pool of ecstasy. His lips were dangerously close to her skin as her breathed in each sweet breath that escaped her perfectly curved lips.
As if he were in some kind of trance, he dropped the report from his right hand and raised it to her neck. Slowly, he stuck out his index finger and began to stroke the softness of her neck, ready to taste the sweetness of her against his tongue.
Almost suddenly, Sora began to stir. She didn't open her eyes, only a smile curled her lips and she nuzzled a little deeper into the hallow of his shoulder.
A smile suddenly framed Tai's face as he looked at her. So peaceful and innocent; it was as if the Greek Goddess Aphrodite had taken human form and came to earth in his arms.
Soon his thoughts betrayed him and he fell into a deep sleep beside her without even tasting her.
~***~
It was Tai who had woken first the next morning. He had opened his eyes and was surprised to find his hand up the black of her baseball shirt, stroking her soft bare skin.
A smile adorned her face as she slept in content, looking just as peaceful as ever.
Tai observed her…there was an ethereal look about her, and she had no awareness of how alluring and enticing she was. One of her long legs was wrapped around his, and her arms wound around his torso. A small chuckle escaped his lips as he noticed her little navel peeking from her cropped t- shirt.
As he chuckled, she stirred awake. Her eyes opened slowly, as if she were a rose, just ready to bloom. They were huge, bright and twinkling as she laid them on him. The smile still shone on her face as she whispered a small "hello."
"Hey." He smiled back.
Suddenly, as if she'd snapped out of a trance and the realization hit her like a big rig, she planted a frown on her face. "What happened?" she asked pushing away from him, aware of his hand up her back.
"Nothing Sora." He said, his smile vanishing, "Don't worry, it was totally innocent. We both fell asleep and woke up like this."
"Yeah." She said walking to her bedroom, "it's time to get ready for school."
~***~
Sora groaned as she entered the abyss deemed her school. Plastered over the walls were hundreds of posters advertising the school's cotillion.
"What?" Asked Matt coming from behind.
"This!" she groaned again, indicating the posters.
"The cotillion, oh that's such a punishment!" he remarked sarcastically.
"Matt shut up! It's not that, it's the principle of the whole thing…" she began.
"Oh please," he smiled cutting her off, "you're just pissed 'cuz you don't have a date!"
"So what?"
"So are you hoping that Tai will ask you?"
"No way!" she laughed grimacing. "So do you have a date…?"
"Sorry, Sor, you should have asked me a while ago…."
"Who could have possibly asked you to the dance?" she interrupted, a little miffed.
"Hideo actually." he smiled as if please with himself, "After Sunny and I got off the hurlie whirl at the Fair."
"I'll see you later." She mumbled, brushing past him as she stalked to her locker.
~***~
"So are you going to the cotillion?" asked Sunny, pulling her untidy curls into a loopy ponytail.
"I wish," she groaned, "but nobody's asked me, and Matt is going with Hideo."
"Hideo! He's pretty cute for a gay guy!"
"Shut up!" Sora smiled, knowing that Sunny was right.
"Damn, what would it be like to get laid by a gay guy?"
"More info than I could handle!" Sora smiled at her friend's remark.
"You know who I wished I could go with?" Sunny began, without waiting for her reply, she continued, "…Ryan Phillipe…"
"Ah…Brandon Boyd from Incubus would be my number one choice." Sora grinned, a pleasing picture popping up in her mind's eye.
"God, do you remember back when guys were simpler to understand?"
"Yeah, one grunt meant food, two grunts meant sports…"
"You're such a spaz!" Sunny smiled.
"…Well I don't know what you mean, guys have always been a mystery to me…"
"All except one guy…"
"What?" Sora asked, a quizzical look on her face.
"Most guys have been a mystery to you, except for one…"
"And who's he?" she asked, almost sure she knew the answer.
"The one you kissed at the Fair."
"HE TOLD YOU!" she fumed.
"No, it was written on both your faces. You two looked so…I can't explain it with words, but you were kind of devastated! The little bit of soul that was peeking through your eyes was a mixture of pleasure and guilt. They looked as if something incredible happened, but it was too… too surreal for you two to let it progress… it was really weird." Sunny smiled, glancing at her friend's shocked face.
"Tai's like a brother to me, it's kinda' incestuous for us to be together, plus he doesn't even think of me in that light…"
"…But you think of him like that…"
"I never said that!" she whispered looking away from her friend.
"Sora, c'mon, I'm not that stupid! The way that you two look at each other… nobody can mistake those long gazes of yearning. If other people weren't in the room, you'd probably throw his ass on the floor and rape him…"
"Oh my God, that is so…ewwwu, stop talking!" Sora shivered.
"I'm just speakin' truth." She smiled.
"I think I'm going to be late for practice, we'll talk then…" she smiled turning around. "Oh yeah, who are you going with?"
"Wonder boy himself, Tai." She smiled.
"Oh." Sora whispered as her face fell.
"Don't worry, it's not a date, it's totally platonic!"
"Whatever, bye Sunny." She whispered stalking off in the direction of the locker rooms.
"He loves you." Sunny whispered, more to herself than anyone else.
A/N: sorry, this seems just chopped short, 'cuz it basically is, but if I had left the rest of the chapter, it would be way too long to read. And I would shoot myself from the excessive typing. Buh bye. Peace out all –Yo-yo