*Tries to remember how long it's been since she updated this fic.* Sorry to anyone who has been waiting for a new chapter I've just been so unbelievably busy --;; Anyway, I hope you all like this chapter and this is dedicated to Anime Queen, for constantly bugging me to update --;; :P Please review (

Chapter 9

I woke up the next morning; blankets that had once been over me were strewn all over the bed and the floor. Apparently I'd been hot.

I looked around the strange room, it certainly wasn't mine, it did however look familiar.

My eyes snapped over to the door as it began to open and a red head squeezed itself into the gap.

"I'm up." I said.

She smiled and walked in looking unsure of herself.

"Are you ok now? Did I do the right thing? I mean, I didn't call the hospital like you asked me not to, but you were in such a mess I was scared you wouldn't wake up and."

"Sora!" I held up my hands in defence. "I'm alright, honestly. Just a few bruises, nothing serious."

"Nothing serious!" She began. "Matt do even remember how bad you were last night?"

I smiled up at her and laughed slightly. "You really shouldn't yell at your patient, it's not very relaxing."

She rolled her eyes at me. "You scared me okay." She muttered.

"Sorry."

I watched as she got up and moved over to the window to open the curtains. The bright sunlight seemed to burst through the window lighting up every corner of the room and making me snap my eyes shut.

"Sorry." She mumbled, trying to block the sunlight making its way over to me.

"Doesn't matter."

We stood there for a while in silence until she walked over to me and sat down on the bed. Crossing her legs she looked over at me. I was busily shading my eyes from the sun again and didn't realise she was looking at me until she shifted her weight.

I looked up at her; she had an odd expression on her face.

"What?" I asked.

"I was just thinking."

"About?"

"About how hard it is for us to talk to each other now."

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"See." She laughed.

I smiled up at her and shook my head.

"You're a mess." She stated, gently running her hand over my left eye. I don't know why I did it, I guess it was a reaction, Sora touches me I touch back. But my hand went to hers, holding it to my face.

She looked straight into my eyes and right then I realised just how much I'd hurt her.

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It was two days later before I saw him again. He'd left my house almost as soon as he'd woken up claiming that his parents would suddenly be worried about him. I sighed as I turned the corner and saw him with that gang. I stood there staring at him for a while, I knew he knew I was there as he froze in mid sentence, but he still refused to come and talk to me. Shaking my head I turned on my heel and decided to take the long way round to class.

Yamato's P.O.V

I got out of Sora's house quickly that day; I couldn't bear to see what I'd done to her. I kept remembering when we'd been together and she would laugh at my jokes and I'd see that sparkle in her eyes. The one that held her innocence and love for everything, but when I'd looked at her that day it wasn't there. And it was my fault. She was right, I knew she was. She'd been through hell this past year and I'd been the one to put her there. I just wished I could tell her I'd done all of this for her.

I was stopped in mid thought by a bunch of people coming to talk to me, I began to talk to them and Sora coming down the corridor. I started to say bye to them and decided to go and talk to her when I saw something that made my heart stop in my chest.

Just next to the lockers a few metres behind Sora was my step dad and he was grinning at me. I began to shake my head when I noticed that Sora had turned to walk in his direction. I wanted to call out to her, tell her to stop, to go the other way but she'd already gotten past him and he had turned to follow her.

Trying desperately to shake off the people who were attempting to get my attention I made my way through the crowds of people, which seemed to have become denser in an attempt to annoy the hell out of me. In my desperation to get to her before he did I started to shove people out of my way. I knew no one would complain but I still couldn't get through quick enough.

"Would you move already!" I yelled into the crowd.

And they did. I started to run through to last place that I'd seen her. If anyone was annoyed at me for yelling at them they hid that fact well. I guessed they knew that if they said anything they'd regret it sooner or later. I wasn't proud of the fact that people standing up to me would cause them to be beaten and hated by the whole school but I really didn't have the time to reflect on how screwed up my life was. I had to get to Sora.

I got out of the school and ran towards the old tennis courts, I remembered how she liked to walk round that way when things were troubling her. So I guessed it would be as good a place as any to look first as I had no idea where she was.

I sprinted round the outside of the science building and out onto the field and I saw a red headed person talking to a brown-haired, over-weight man. I clenched my fists. 'If he's laid one finger one her, I swear.'

I pushed myself to go faster and had soon cleared the field, slowing down as I reached them I ran up behind Sora bringing my arms around her waist and putting her behind me. I then turned to him, glaring into his hard brown eyes.

"You stay away from her." I warned.

"Matt." She protested. "He was just asking if I'd seen you recently."

"Yeah." I mumbled. "Come on, you need to get to your lesson."

She began to protest again but I'd already begun leading her away. I knew he'd found out just what he'd been hoping to by talking to her- that I was still hopelessly in love with her. I also knew I was about to face another beating like the rest. however it wasn't that that was worrying me. It was the way he was looking at Sora as I glanced back at him.

Finished! Okay, it's not very long but my chapters never are. hope you all enjoy this and I'll try to update again sometime this year :P

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