Runaway
Chapter fifteen
Tai squinted through the rain that blurred his windscreen as he drove towards the airport. He could almost feel the anticipation humming from Kari's body. He pulled up at the drop off point outside the terminal and turned off the engine.
" Are you ready?" He asked as he turned to Kari. She was clutching on to her rucksack for dear life. She seemed to be bursting with excitement but drowning with worry at the same time.
" I think so," She whispered as she smiled nervously at Tai. He reached forward and drew her into a hug.
" Kari everything will be fine, I know it will. Now I want you to go and have the best time of your life. But remember what ever happens I'll always be here for you,"
" Thanks Tai," She whispered as she tried to hold back tears of happiness. Just half an hour ago she thought that she was going to die with sadness, she thought her life was over. But Tai had come and turned everything around. He had gone to Izzy's and brought Yolei's plane ticket so that Kari could go with T.k. She couldn't describe how grateful she was to Tai right now. She owed him everything.
" I love you," She sobbed as a tear rolled down her cheek on to Tai's shoulder,
" Love you too," Tai hugged her tighter and then let go, " Go on, you don't want to miss your plane,"
Kari smiled and whipped the tear from her cheek. She grabbed her rucksack and dashed out of the car, through the pouring rain into the airport.
* * *
" Flight 639 to Hawaii will be boarding in ten minutes," A squeaky voice announced over the airport speaker system,
" Finally," Sora muttered, the sooner they left the better. She needed to go before all these memories bombarded her again. She remembered sitting in this same airport waiting to go to Sanfransico more than a year ago. She had just posted her goodbye letters to her friends and that horrible letter to Tai. She never meant a word that she had written in that letter. She didn't mean any of it.
The rain that lashed against the airport windows seemed fitting for the dismal mood of the group. Everyone seemed to be either grieving over the loss of Yolei or another person that they had left behind. Mimi was already scribbling a letter to matt, she had borrowed the pen and paper from T.Ks. Normally while they waited for a flight T.K would fill the time by writing the novel that he was working on. But right now he didn't look asthough he would ever pick up a pen again.
He was huddled up in his chair stroking the photo that he clutched in his hands. Sora's heart sunk, she knew just how much it hurt to leave a love one behind.
" T.K!" A familiar excited voice cried. Sora looked up to see Kari running across the departure lounge. A confused look crossed T.K's face as she threw herself on top of him.
" Kari . . .Kari what are you doing here?" he asked slowly,
" I'm coming with you!" She cried shrilly, she grinned and started kissing him all over his face,
" Your coming with us," T.K mumbled as though he was trying to make sense of her words, " Your coming with us . . .YOU'RE COMING WITH US!" He screamed as the words finally made sense to him.
He pulled her into a huge hug and a long deep passionate kiss.
" But how.. When . . .what happened," He asked still bewildered,
" Tai brought Yolei's plane ticket so that I could come with you!"
" Oh my god Kari this is the best thing that's ever happened to me!" He yelled as he hugged her tighter.
" Flight 639 is now boarding," The speaker system announced.
Sora grinned at T.k and Kari, they were so happy together and so right for each other. That was such a wonderful thing for Tai to do . . .
" Come on guys, we've got to go," Sora reminded them as the others grabbed their luggage. T.k and Kari looked happy to go anywhere as long as they were together. She was like that once . . .
* * *
Tai sighed as he rested his head on the steering wheel of his car. He watched the drop's of rain flood down his windscreen, like teardrop's he thought.
" When you really love someone you can't let them go," His own advice ran through his head. Maybe he was right about something for once, maybe he shouldn't let her go . . .
But she was the one who wanted to go. She was the one that ran away, she didn't want to be with him.
But he loved her so much . . . he couldn't just let her go.
* * *
Sora waited in line behind Joe and the other passengers to board the plane. A few more minutes and she would be far away from this place, far away from him . . .again.
She sighed deeply, oh why did everything have to go so wrong. Right now they could be planning their wedding, instead they were about to be on opposite sides of the planet . . .again.
She glanced behind her at the crowd in the departure lounge, she wondered if he was thinking of her, if he wanted her back . . .Oh god she loved him.
Her heart leapt into her throat suddenly beating a mile a minute. Through the crowd her eyes had spotted a thick tuft of unruly spiky hair. Time seemed to stand still as she waited for the person to move closer. It couldn't possibly be him, not here, not now, not after all of the things she had said.
Her feet seemed to glide towards the crowd without her even noticing. Suddenly she was standing right in front of him, he was only a foot away, she never thought she would be this close to him again. His chocolate eyes looked down on her with a deep sadness. An invisible current seemed to be pulling her towards him. For a moment she tried to fight the longing and desire that she suddenly felt. But she couldn't hold herself back anymore.
Suddenly she was in his arms holding him tighter than she ever had before, he was kissing her hair rubbing his face in it. She breathed in his familiar manly scent like she would never smell anything again. She couldn't hear anything around her, the busy lounge disappeared. The only people left in the world were she and Tai, and that was just the way that she wanted it to be. She grabbed a hand full of his shirt and clutched it to her body.
" You're going to miss your flight," Tai whispered and he gripped hold of her.
" I can't go," She managed to murmur,
" You have to,"
Suddenly she seemed over come with a huge flood of sadness, she couldn't breath with the crushing weight of depression pressing against her lungs. Utter despair flowed through her veins, she was sure she would die if she left now, her life was over.
" Please please don't make me go," She cried as she flung her arms around his neck,
Tai kissed her neck softly as tears started to flood down her face, he stroked her silky hair and kissed her cheeks.
" I can't make you stay or go. What ever you do is up to you," he told her softly,
" I'm so sorry Tai. I'm sorry for everything that I've ever done to you. I love you so much. I've never stopped loving you and I never will,"
" I love you more than anyone in the world Sora and I'll always be waiting here for you,"
" Last call for Flight 639," The announcer called again,
Sora pulled away from Tai and stared into his eyes for a second. She knew that he could see straight into her soul with one quick glance. He could see and feel for himself everything that she felt. He was the only person in the world who knew her better than she knew herself.
" You're going to miss it," he whispered again,
" Will you really wait for me?" Sora asked knowing that he would never go back on his word.
" Of course I will, I'll be right here when you get back,"
Sora leant upwards and kissed him quickly, she threw her bag over her shoulder and walked slowly towards the flight entrance,
" See you soon," she whispered,
" See you soon," He replied with a little smile as he watched her walk away.
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Now I know that you're all desperate to find out what happens next so here's the epilogue
* * * * * * * * * *
One year later
Sora grinned as Tai kissed the sapphire ring that she wore on her finger. She squeezed his hand and gave him a quick peck on the lips. He grinned even more and wrapped his strong arms around her light frame.
" AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!" Tai suddenly screamed as someone pulled the back of his shirt and dropped a hand full of sand down his back. " DAVIS YOU DICK!" Tai cried. He leapt off of the blanket that Sora and him had been sitting on, "Sorry babe got to go," Tai yelled over his shoulder as he started to chase Davis across the beach.
Sora rolled her eyes, some things never change. She reached out and took a sandwich from the picnic basket that Yolei had prepared for their picnic on the beach.
Beside Sora Yolei sat behind Izzy with her arms wrapped around his waist as he bounced their three-month-old son Tommy on his knee. They looked like the perfect family, happy, in love and totally devoted to each other. After only living together for a month Yolei had become pregnant. It was a shock for everyone but Yolei and Izzy were over the moon. They were made for each other in every way. Even though Sora had been a bit apprehensive about their relationship to begin with. Now she knew Yolei had made the right decision when she stayed. Sora had never seen either of them as happy as they were now. They were more in love than ever and they both adored their baby son. Sora knew that they would stay together forever now.
Next to Yolei Kari laid in T.K's arms. They were both laughing and smiling at each other as they watched Tai pin Davis to the ground. When their trip had ended they had both stayed in America for a couple of months. They had moved into a small apartment in Sanfransico and got jobs so that they could afford to fly back to Japan. Once they had enough money they had moved back to Obabdia and found an apartment just a couple of blocks from Izzy and Yolei's. Kari had gone back to college to train to become a teacher and T.K was in the process of having his first ever novel published. Even though they didn't have very much money at the moment, they couldn't be happier. They were just as much in love as they were when they first met.
Sitting opposite Sora was matt and Mimi. They were arguing with each other as they scanned a newspaper for apartments. Apparently Matt wanted a four bedroom pent house and wouldn't listen to Mimi's irritated snapping about not being able to afford it. Ever since Mimi had left Japan she had constantly written to matt. Then when she got home he had started calling her every week, then the phone calls had progressed to every night, with a letter everyday as well. When Mimi had left Japan they had both decided that they were better off as friends. But the more time she spent apart from matt, the more she realised how much she liked him. They went on for eleven months saying that they were no more than friends. Until one night while they were on the phone matt blurted out of the blue, that he loved her and wanted her to come and live with him. To Mimi's surprise she found her self-saying yes. So a couple of weeks later Mimi flew back to Japan and moved into Matt's old apartment with him. They were in the process of trying to find their own place, but Sora had an idea that it might take a while at the rate that they were going.
And as for Sora and Tai well . . .. Even though Sora had tried her hardest not to think of tai, she had found herself counting the days until she would return home again. As soon as her flight had landed back in Japan, she had run into Tai's arms and promised herself that she would never leave them again. That very night tai had taken her down to the beach and underneath a full moon and a sky full of stars he had proposed to her again. And this time she had accepted.
Sora found herself grinning as she watched Tai run back towards the group. He was so gorgeous, his muscular legs hit against the sand as he ran, making his hair bounce in a goofy kind of way. He grinned back at her as he saw her watching his eyes sparkled with happiness. Sora felt a rush of love for him as he came closer. Sometimes it seemed un real that she was going to spend the rest of her life with such a wonderful man. They had been through so many things together, they had both hurts each other in un believable ways, but now finally he was hers. Sometimes she felt that she couldn't possible deserve him. But every morning when she awoke to him lying peacefully beside her, she knew that neither of them would rather be anywhere else in the whole world. He was her whole world. That would never change. She was going to spend the rest of her life loving him and being loved. She would never want to run away from that again.
Authors note- Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I finally finished it!!!!!! This is the longest fic and perhaps the best I've ever written. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did writing it. I want to say a really really BIG thank you to every one who has reviewed this fic over the months. THANK YOU!!!!!! Well that's all from me, I don't know when I'll get AROUND TO WRITTING ANOTHER, BUT I WILL EVENTUALLY!!!! PEACE AND LOVE :)
Tai squinted through the rain that blurred his windscreen as he drove towards the airport. He could almost feel the anticipation humming from Kari's body. He pulled up at the drop off point outside the terminal and turned off the engine.
" Are you ready?" He asked as he turned to Kari. She was clutching on to her rucksack for dear life. She seemed to be bursting with excitement but drowning with worry at the same time.
" I think so," She whispered as she smiled nervously at Tai. He reached forward and drew her into a hug.
" Kari everything will be fine, I know it will. Now I want you to go and have the best time of your life. But remember what ever happens I'll always be here for you,"
" Thanks Tai," She whispered as she tried to hold back tears of happiness. Just half an hour ago she thought that she was going to die with sadness, she thought her life was over. But Tai had come and turned everything around. He had gone to Izzy's and brought Yolei's plane ticket so that Kari could go with T.k. She couldn't describe how grateful she was to Tai right now. She owed him everything.
" I love you," She sobbed as a tear rolled down her cheek on to Tai's shoulder,
" Love you too," Tai hugged her tighter and then let go, " Go on, you don't want to miss your plane,"
Kari smiled and whipped the tear from her cheek. She grabbed her rucksack and dashed out of the car, through the pouring rain into the airport.
* * *
" Flight 639 to Hawaii will be boarding in ten minutes," A squeaky voice announced over the airport speaker system,
" Finally," Sora muttered, the sooner they left the better. She needed to go before all these memories bombarded her again. She remembered sitting in this same airport waiting to go to Sanfransico more than a year ago. She had just posted her goodbye letters to her friends and that horrible letter to Tai. She never meant a word that she had written in that letter. She didn't mean any of it.
The rain that lashed against the airport windows seemed fitting for the dismal mood of the group. Everyone seemed to be either grieving over the loss of Yolei or another person that they had left behind. Mimi was already scribbling a letter to matt, she had borrowed the pen and paper from T.Ks. Normally while they waited for a flight T.K would fill the time by writing the novel that he was working on. But right now he didn't look asthough he would ever pick up a pen again.
He was huddled up in his chair stroking the photo that he clutched in his hands. Sora's heart sunk, she knew just how much it hurt to leave a love one behind.
" T.K!" A familiar excited voice cried. Sora looked up to see Kari running across the departure lounge. A confused look crossed T.K's face as she threw herself on top of him.
" Kari . . .Kari what are you doing here?" he asked slowly,
" I'm coming with you!" She cried shrilly, she grinned and started kissing him all over his face,
" Your coming with us," T.K mumbled as though he was trying to make sense of her words, " Your coming with us . . .YOU'RE COMING WITH US!" He screamed as the words finally made sense to him.
He pulled her into a huge hug and a long deep passionate kiss.
" But how.. When . . .what happened," He asked still bewildered,
" Tai brought Yolei's plane ticket so that I could come with you!"
" Oh my god Kari this is the best thing that's ever happened to me!" He yelled as he hugged her tighter.
" Flight 639 is now boarding," The speaker system announced.
Sora grinned at T.k and Kari, they were so happy together and so right for each other. That was such a wonderful thing for Tai to do . . .
" Come on guys, we've got to go," Sora reminded them as the others grabbed their luggage. T.k and Kari looked happy to go anywhere as long as they were together. She was like that once . . .
* * *
Tai sighed as he rested his head on the steering wheel of his car. He watched the drop's of rain flood down his windscreen, like teardrop's he thought.
" When you really love someone you can't let them go," His own advice ran through his head. Maybe he was right about something for once, maybe he shouldn't let her go . . .
But she was the one who wanted to go. She was the one that ran away, she didn't want to be with him.
But he loved her so much . . . he couldn't just let her go.
* * *
Sora waited in line behind Joe and the other passengers to board the plane. A few more minutes and she would be far away from this place, far away from him . . .again.
She sighed deeply, oh why did everything have to go so wrong. Right now they could be planning their wedding, instead they were about to be on opposite sides of the planet . . .again.
She glanced behind her at the crowd in the departure lounge, she wondered if he was thinking of her, if he wanted her back . . .Oh god she loved him.
Her heart leapt into her throat suddenly beating a mile a minute. Through the crowd her eyes had spotted a thick tuft of unruly spiky hair. Time seemed to stand still as she waited for the person to move closer. It couldn't possibly be him, not here, not now, not after all of the things she had said.
Her feet seemed to glide towards the crowd without her even noticing. Suddenly she was standing right in front of him, he was only a foot away, she never thought she would be this close to him again. His chocolate eyes looked down on her with a deep sadness. An invisible current seemed to be pulling her towards him. For a moment she tried to fight the longing and desire that she suddenly felt. But she couldn't hold herself back anymore.
Suddenly she was in his arms holding him tighter than she ever had before, he was kissing her hair rubbing his face in it. She breathed in his familiar manly scent like she would never smell anything again. She couldn't hear anything around her, the busy lounge disappeared. The only people left in the world were she and Tai, and that was just the way that she wanted it to be. She grabbed a hand full of his shirt and clutched it to her body.
" You're going to miss your flight," Tai whispered and he gripped hold of her.
" I can't go," She managed to murmur,
" You have to,"
Suddenly she seemed over come with a huge flood of sadness, she couldn't breath with the crushing weight of depression pressing against her lungs. Utter despair flowed through her veins, she was sure she would die if she left now, her life was over.
" Please please don't make me go," She cried as she flung her arms around his neck,
Tai kissed her neck softly as tears started to flood down her face, he stroked her silky hair and kissed her cheeks.
" I can't make you stay or go. What ever you do is up to you," he told her softly,
" I'm so sorry Tai. I'm sorry for everything that I've ever done to you. I love you so much. I've never stopped loving you and I never will,"
" I love you more than anyone in the world Sora and I'll always be waiting here for you,"
" Last call for Flight 639," The announcer called again,
Sora pulled away from Tai and stared into his eyes for a second. She knew that he could see straight into her soul with one quick glance. He could see and feel for himself everything that she felt. He was the only person in the world who knew her better than she knew herself.
" You're going to miss it," he whispered again,
" Will you really wait for me?" Sora asked knowing that he would never go back on his word.
" Of course I will, I'll be right here when you get back,"
Sora leant upwards and kissed him quickly, she threw her bag over her shoulder and walked slowly towards the flight entrance,
" See you soon," she whispered,
" See you soon," He replied with a little smile as he watched her walk away.
* * * * * * * * *
Now I know that you're all desperate to find out what happens next so here's the epilogue
* * * * * * * * * *
One year later
Sora grinned as Tai kissed the sapphire ring that she wore on her finger. She squeezed his hand and gave him a quick peck on the lips. He grinned even more and wrapped his strong arms around her light frame.
" AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!" Tai suddenly screamed as someone pulled the back of his shirt and dropped a hand full of sand down his back. " DAVIS YOU DICK!" Tai cried. He leapt off of the blanket that Sora and him had been sitting on, "Sorry babe got to go," Tai yelled over his shoulder as he started to chase Davis across the beach.
Sora rolled her eyes, some things never change. She reached out and took a sandwich from the picnic basket that Yolei had prepared for their picnic on the beach.
Beside Sora Yolei sat behind Izzy with her arms wrapped around his waist as he bounced their three-month-old son Tommy on his knee. They looked like the perfect family, happy, in love and totally devoted to each other. After only living together for a month Yolei had become pregnant. It was a shock for everyone but Yolei and Izzy were over the moon. They were made for each other in every way. Even though Sora had been a bit apprehensive about their relationship to begin with. Now she knew Yolei had made the right decision when she stayed. Sora had never seen either of them as happy as they were now. They were more in love than ever and they both adored their baby son. Sora knew that they would stay together forever now.
Next to Yolei Kari laid in T.K's arms. They were both laughing and smiling at each other as they watched Tai pin Davis to the ground. When their trip had ended they had both stayed in America for a couple of months. They had moved into a small apartment in Sanfransico and got jobs so that they could afford to fly back to Japan. Once they had enough money they had moved back to Obabdia and found an apartment just a couple of blocks from Izzy and Yolei's. Kari had gone back to college to train to become a teacher and T.K was in the process of having his first ever novel published. Even though they didn't have very much money at the moment, they couldn't be happier. They were just as much in love as they were when they first met.
Sitting opposite Sora was matt and Mimi. They were arguing with each other as they scanned a newspaper for apartments. Apparently Matt wanted a four bedroom pent house and wouldn't listen to Mimi's irritated snapping about not being able to afford it. Ever since Mimi had left Japan she had constantly written to matt. Then when she got home he had started calling her every week, then the phone calls had progressed to every night, with a letter everyday as well. When Mimi had left Japan they had both decided that they were better off as friends. But the more time she spent apart from matt, the more she realised how much she liked him. They went on for eleven months saying that they were no more than friends. Until one night while they were on the phone matt blurted out of the blue, that he loved her and wanted her to come and live with him. To Mimi's surprise she found her self-saying yes. So a couple of weeks later Mimi flew back to Japan and moved into Matt's old apartment with him. They were in the process of trying to find their own place, but Sora had an idea that it might take a while at the rate that they were going.
And as for Sora and Tai well . . .. Even though Sora had tried her hardest not to think of tai, she had found herself counting the days until she would return home again. As soon as her flight had landed back in Japan, she had run into Tai's arms and promised herself that she would never leave them again. That very night tai had taken her down to the beach and underneath a full moon and a sky full of stars he had proposed to her again. And this time she had accepted.
Sora found herself grinning as she watched Tai run back towards the group. He was so gorgeous, his muscular legs hit against the sand as he ran, making his hair bounce in a goofy kind of way. He grinned back at her as he saw her watching his eyes sparkled with happiness. Sora felt a rush of love for him as he came closer. Sometimes it seemed un real that she was going to spend the rest of her life with such a wonderful man. They had been through so many things together, they had both hurts each other in un believable ways, but now finally he was hers. Sometimes she felt that she couldn't possible deserve him. But every morning when she awoke to him lying peacefully beside her, she knew that neither of them would rather be anywhere else in the whole world. He was her whole world. That would never change. She was going to spend the rest of her life loving him and being loved. She would never want to run away from that again.
Authors note- Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I finally finished it!!!!!! This is the longest fic and perhaps the best I've ever written. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did writing it. I want to say a really really BIG thank you to every one who has reviewed this fic over the months. THANK YOU!!!!!! Well that's all from me, I don't know when I'll get AROUND TO WRITTING ANOTHER, BUT I WILL EVENTUALLY!!!! PEACE AND LOVE :)