Run away
Chapter twelve
A strange thumping sound echoed through Sora's head. She groaned and tried to pretend she couldn't hear it. Slowly her eyes opened and she drifted into the world of the living. Her head felt as though it was filled with sand that slid around inside her as she moved. Her eyes felt hot and puffy as though they had turned into blisters. The thumping sound continued followed by a muffled voice. " Sora open up it's T.K," She carefully looked around her trying to remember where she was. She was kneeling on the floor with her chest lying on the edge of the bed. She must have fallen asleep. A chilled breeze blew through the open window from the night sky. Carefully she tried to remember what had happened before she had fallen asleep. With a sudden crash of emotion she remembered the nights event, pain tugged at her heart as she remembered what she had done. " Sora come on I've got to talk to you," T.K's voice pleaded on the other side of the door. Slowly she stood up and walked across the messy room to the hotel room door. She didn't feel like seeing anyone right now. As soon as she had opened the door a crack T.K's glowing presence ran into the room, he threw himself onto Mimi's bed and sighed happily. " I have just had the best night out of my whole entire life!" he cried as he smiled dreamily up the ceiling, " Sora I owe you everything. I will always be in your debt. Oh god Sora thank you so MUCH! She's perfect, she's . . .oh god she's entirely perfect. She's wonderful, brilliant, gorgeous, kind, funny, smart, talented. She's everything that I've ever wanted. Oh god she's perfect. She's like an angle. No she's more than an angle, she's a goddess," He sighed again and grinned to himself, " I'm meeting her tomorrow morning for breakfast in the restaurant downstairs'. Then we're going to spend the whole day together. We've only got three more days, so hopefully I can try and spend as much time as possibly with her. Oh wow . . .she really is so brilliant. She's so spirited to, I've never met anyone like her before," He rolled over and grinned at Sora. It was the first time that he'd looked at her since he came into the room. He'd never seen her look so bad. Her tanned skin had gone a deathly white, which made her red puffy eyes stand out even more. Her bright hair seemed to have dulled in colour, it was frizzy and messed up. The vibrant sparkle that normal twinkled in her eyes seemed to have been rubbed away. " Sor are you all right you look terrible?" he said slowly as he stood up and walked across to her. " I'm fine," She croaked roughly on the words. " No your not you look really bad. What's wrong," He stroked her arm trying to comfort her. " I . . .I . . .I'm just not feeling very well. Think I caught a bug or something. I'm just ill that's all," " Are you sure?" He frowned at, She might look terrible but he felt there was something more going on than a bug. " Yeah I'm fine. I just need to sleep that's all," " Do want anything?" he asked kindly, " No I'm just going to go to bed. Thanks any way T.k and have a good day with Kari tomorrow," She smiled at him faintly. " Yeah I will," He said a little un surely, " Are you sure you're going to be alright," " I'll be fine, see you later T.K," " Yeah see ya," he whispered as he glanced over his shoulder at her. There was defiantly something wrong with her, he decided as he shut the door behind himself. But sleep never came to Sora. She laid awake long into the night turning over and over her troubled thoughts. " Sor are you awake," Mimi whispered as she quietly snuk in around two in the morning. Sora had pretended that she was asleep. She didn't want Mimi to start asking a hundred questions about how it had gone with Tai. Hours after Mimi had started gently snoring she still lay awake staring at the ceiling. She never heard Yolei come home.
* * * Tai's feet seemed to drift on air as he floated down a dark hallway. He had been walking for so long now that his feet no longer felt the ground beneath them. In the dull depths of his mind something told him that he was home. He fumbled in his pocket for a key and slotted it clumsily in the door. He let the apartment door swing open and stood on the threshold for a few moments trying to remember what to do next. Go inside. He stepped into the apartment and flicked on the light switch. Suddenly the living room was illuminated in welcoming familiar light. It felt like an age since Tai had been here last. He didn't remember where he'd been. After he left her hotel room he had wandered around the city in a daze. He had no idea where he was going or why, he just let his feet carry him until he had ended up on his own door step. His brain seemed empty, no thoughts or sorrow came to him. He felt nothing, it was asthough he was already dead. He didn't seem capable of tears, it was asthough the loss he had suffered was so great that he no longer could cry. Perhaps he was in shock. A thought drifted across his mind. " Oh crap," a familiar voice whispered as the lights were switched on. Tai vaguely heard a scrambling and saw Izzy's head pop up over the back of the coach. His cheeks were flushed and his normally immaculate hair was messed up into spiky tuffs. " Err hi Tai . . .um matt said it would be okay . . .he said you were both out tonight . . ." Izzy stuttered nervously. " Uh hi," Another voice said as a girl with long purple hair look over the back of the couch at him. Izzy. Girl. Couch. Weird. He glanced at the two people in his apartment and then walked into his bedroom asthough he had never seen them. His thoughts only seemed to come in quick bullet points. It was asthough he was a machine that didn't think or care about anything anymore. " That was weird," Izzy muttered as he watched Tai's bedroom door click shut. " Don't you mean embarrassing," Yolei giggled, " No, something's wrong. Normally he would of made a big scene and ripped the piss out of me. He didn't even seem to notice we were here," " He's probably just tired," Yolei suggested, " No I think there's certainly something bothering him," " Well you've got something else to be bothering with right now," Yolei whispered as she grabbed hold of his collar and pulled him on top of her again.
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A flood of bright sunlight stung Sora's eyes as she dared to open them. She pulled her sheets over her head to protect her self from the light. She heard a rustle of paper as she moved the sheets. She lifted her hand and pulled off a post stick that was attached to her forehead.
Hey sor, T.K told us you weren't well last night So we've let you have a lie in. Gone sightseeing be back for lunch. You can join as then if you're feeling better. Hope everything went well with Tai, Luv Mimi
Oh god, Sora sighed as she rolled over and pulled the covers further over her head. What was she going to say to everyone when they asked about last night? Oh yeah it went really well, I was just such a jerk that the one person I love most in the world never wants to see me again. She dug her long nails into the pillow as another wave of sadness flooded over her body. Maybe she could fake being sick for the next two days, then when the trip finished she would stay in America. Yeah she wouldn't go back to Japan, she could get an apartment with Yolei and Mimi and start a new life, where no one knew who she was. ' Oh great there you go again' a voice whispered at the back of her head, ' haven't you realised that running away doesn't solve anything,' She had been running away from all of her problems for more than a year and now they had finally caught up with her. This was stupid, this wasn't her. Did she really want to hide away for the rest of her life? All right she had made a really big mistake, but that didn't mean she should just stop living. She had to wake up and get on with her life. Start doing the things that she wanted to do. Stop holding herself back. She had to take control of her own life She threw the covers off of her sweaty body and allowed her skin to bask in the warm sunlight. Then she grabbed a pair of shorts and a T-shirt. She dashed into the bathroom and jumped into the shower. She sighed as the warm water ran over her sticky body. In the back of her mind a distant memory fluttered as she remembered Tai surprising her as he hugged around her waist and jumped into the shower with her. She remembered how sexy he looked as he kissed her with the water running down his tanned body. NO. She told herself firmly, she was going to stop living in the past and only look to the future. She shook her head and splashed more water onto her face, as though trying to wash away her memories. There was no looking back, it was time to start a new chapter in her life. Only the future mattered now.
Authors note- Well I got this one posted pretty quickly, and hopefully the next instalment will be along soon as well. Thank you so so much for all of your fantastic reviews and please please please (hope that I don't sound desperate) please please please please keep sending them!!!
A strange thumping sound echoed through Sora's head. She groaned and tried to pretend she couldn't hear it. Slowly her eyes opened and she drifted into the world of the living. Her head felt as though it was filled with sand that slid around inside her as she moved. Her eyes felt hot and puffy as though they had turned into blisters. The thumping sound continued followed by a muffled voice. " Sora open up it's T.K," She carefully looked around her trying to remember where she was. She was kneeling on the floor with her chest lying on the edge of the bed. She must have fallen asleep. A chilled breeze blew through the open window from the night sky. Carefully she tried to remember what had happened before she had fallen asleep. With a sudden crash of emotion she remembered the nights event, pain tugged at her heart as she remembered what she had done. " Sora come on I've got to talk to you," T.K's voice pleaded on the other side of the door. Slowly she stood up and walked across the messy room to the hotel room door. She didn't feel like seeing anyone right now. As soon as she had opened the door a crack T.K's glowing presence ran into the room, he threw himself onto Mimi's bed and sighed happily. " I have just had the best night out of my whole entire life!" he cried as he smiled dreamily up the ceiling, " Sora I owe you everything. I will always be in your debt. Oh god Sora thank you so MUCH! She's perfect, she's . . .oh god she's entirely perfect. She's wonderful, brilliant, gorgeous, kind, funny, smart, talented. She's everything that I've ever wanted. Oh god she's perfect. She's like an angle. No she's more than an angle, she's a goddess," He sighed again and grinned to himself, " I'm meeting her tomorrow morning for breakfast in the restaurant downstairs'. Then we're going to spend the whole day together. We've only got three more days, so hopefully I can try and spend as much time as possibly with her. Oh wow . . .she really is so brilliant. She's so spirited to, I've never met anyone like her before," He rolled over and grinned at Sora. It was the first time that he'd looked at her since he came into the room. He'd never seen her look so bad. Her tanned skin had gone a deathly white, which made her red puffy eyes stand out even more. Her bright hair seemed to have dulled in colour, it was frizzy and messed up. The vibrant sparkle that normal twinkled in her eyes seemed to have been rubbed away. " Sor are you all right you look terrible?" he said slowly as he stood up and walked across to her. " I'm fine," She croaked roughly on the words. " No your not you look really bad. What's wrong," He stroked her arm trying to comfort her. " I . . .I . . .I'm just not feeling very well. Think I caught a bug or something. I'm just ill that's all," " Are you sure?" He frowned at, She might look terrible but he felt there was something more going on than a bug. " Yeah I'm fine. I just need to sleep that's all," " Do want anything?" he asked kindly, " No I'm just going to go to bed. Thanks any way T.k and have a good day with Kari tomorrow," She smiled at him faintly. " Yeah I will," He said a little un surely, " Are you sure you're going to be alright," " I'll be fine, see you later T.K," " Yeah see ya," he whispered as he glanced over his shoulder at her. There was defiantly something wrong with her, he decided as he shut the door behind himself. But sleep never came to Sora. She laid awake long into the night turning over and over her troubled thoughts. " Sor are you awake," Mimi whispered as she quietly snuk in around two in the morning. Sora had pretended that she was asleep. She didn't want Mimi to start asking a hundred questions about how it had gone with Tai. Hours after Mimi had started gently snoring she still lay awake staring at the ceiling. She never heard Yolei come home.
* * * Tai's feet seemed to drift on air as he floated down a dark hallway. He had been walking for so long now that his feet no longer felt the ground beneath them. In the dull depths of his mind something told him that he was home. He fumbled in his pocket for a key and slotted it clumsily in the door. He let the apartment door swing open and stood on the threshold for a few moments trying to remember what to do next. Go inside. He stepped into the apartment and flicked on the light switch. Suddenly the living room was illuminated in welcoming familiar light. It felt like an age since Tai had been here last. He didn't remember where he'd been. After he left her hotel room he had wandered around the city in a daze. He had no idea where he was going or why, he just let his feet carry him until he had ended up on his own door step. His brain seemed empty, no thoughts or sorrow came to him. He felt nothing, it was asthough he was already dead. He didn't seem capable of tears, it was asthough the loss he had suffered was so great that he no longer could cry. Perhaps he was in shock. A thought drifted across his mind. " Oh crap," a familiar voice whispered as the lights were switched on. Tai vaguely heard a scrambling and saw Izzy's head pop up over the back of the coach. His cheeks were flushed and his normally immaculate hair was messed up into spiky tuffs. " Err hi Tai . . .um matt said it would be okay . . .he said you were both out tonight . . ." Izzy stuttered nervously. " Uh hi," Another voice said as a girl with long purple hair look over the back of the couch at him. Izzy. Girl. Couch. Weird. He glanced at the two people in his apartment and then walked into his bedroom asthough he had never seen them. His thoughts only seemed to come in quick bullet points. It was asthough he was a machine that didn't think or care about anything anymore. " That was weird," Izzy muttered as he watched Tai's bedroom door click shut. " Don't you mean embarrassing," Yolei giggled, " No, something's wrong. Normally he would of made a big scene and ripped the piss out of me. He didn't even seem to notice we were here," " He's probably just tired," Yolei suggested, " No I think there's certainly something bothering him," " Well you've got something else to be bothering with right now," Yolei whispered as she grabbed hold of his collar and pulled him on top of her again.
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A flood of bright sunlight stung Sora's eyes as she dared to open them. She pulled her sheets over her head to protect her self from the light. She heard a rustle of paper as she moved the sheets. She lifted her hand and pulled off a post stick that was attached to her forehead.
Hey sor, T.K told us you weren't well last night So we've let you have a lie in. Gone sightseeing be back for lunch. You can join as then if you're feeling better. Hope everything went well with Tai, Luv Mimi
Oh god, Sora sighed as she rolled over and pulled the covers further over her head. What was she going to say to everyone when they asked about last night? Oh yeah it went really well, I was just such a jerk that the one person I love most in the world never wants to see me again. She dug her long nails into the pillow as another wave of sadness flooded over her body. Maybe she could fake being sick for the next two days, then when the trip finished she would stay in America. Yeah she wouldn't go back to Japan, she could get an apartment with Yolei and Mimi and start a new life, where no one knew who she was. ' Oh great there you go again' a voice whispered at the back of her head, ' haven't you realised that running away doesn't solve anything,' She had been running away from all of her problems for more than a year and now they had finally caught up with her. This was stupid, this wasn't her. Did she really want to hide away for the rest of her life? All right she had made a really big mistake, but that didn't mean she should just stop living. She had to wake up and get on with her life. Start doing the things that she wanted to do. Stop holding herself back. She had to take control of her own life She threw the covers off of her sweaty body and allowed her skin to bask in the warm sunlight. Then she grabbed a pair of shorts and a T-shirt. She dashed into the bathroom and jumped into the shower. She sighed as the warm water ran over her sticky body. In the back of her mind a distant memory fluttered as she remembered Tai surprising her as he hugged around her waist and jumped into the shower with her. She remembered how sexy he looked as he kissed her with the water running down his tanned body. NO. She told herself firmly, she was going to stop living in the past and only look to the future. She shook her head and splashed more water onto her face, as though trying to wash away her memories. There was no looking back, it was time to start a new chapter in her life. Only the future mattered now.
Authors note- Well I got this one posted pretty quickly, and hopefully the next instalment will be along soon as well. Thank you so so much for all of your fantastic reviews and please please please (hope that I don't sound desperate) please please please please keep sending them!!!