Here's chapter three! I hope that you like it! Oh, just so you all know, THIS CHAPTER IF FULL OF TAIORA!!!! Hehehe.
*Heaven* Chapter 3
They looked at each other for minutes, searching each other's soul. The two teens were speechless as they stared into the depths of each other's hearts. Words were not needed as Tai and Sora talked to each other with soundless words. Within those few minutes Tai felt her pain as he had never felt it before. It almost felt as though she was dying from the inside out. Starting with her heart. Tai wrapped Sora within a warm embrace and held tighter yet as she began to hopelessly cry onto his chest and into his heart. With loving movements, Tai softly stroked her silky flaming red hair. He then led the crying Sora to her bed where he continued to comfort her with gentle words.

"I know you hurt Sora, but we'll find a way."

Tai held Sora as the last tears fell from her crimson eyes. Sora caught her breath and looked at Tai. He noticed that she was holding tightly onto the poem that he had written for her. She looked down at the poem and read it again, as if she had to memorize it. She looked back at him and Tai feared that it would be a never ending war of glances between him and the poem. He worried that Sora would be scared of him for revealing his true feeling towards her. Or maybe she didn't understand what it meant. But then why would she have opened the door for him. Tai ran and re-ran these question through his mind so many times that he barley noticed Sora get up off the bed and place herself onto the windowsill.

The curtains were still pulled over the window. Tai began to really take in the depressing mood of her room. Besides the faint light from her bedside lamp, no light was present anywhere else. It was gloomy and dark in every corner of the once happy room. As Tai continued to look around her bedroom, he began to feel the hurt within his heart becoming more intense as he looked from one thing to another. He was brought out of his trance by the sound of a soft sigh from the lips of Sora.

He stared at her sitting on the sill. For the first time he noticed that much of the area surrounding her was covered with photos of her parents and of her friends. Tai walked to her and quietly sat down by her side. Time seemed to move slowly for the two as the looked upon the faces of each picture that surrounded them in a garden of memories. Tai noticed that most of them were of Sora and her parents. There were also scattered pictures that were of the digidestined. He watched as Sora gathered many of the pictures and put them back into a box. But she had left one out.

It was a picture of Tai and her at one of Matt's few outdoor concerts. Tai remembered it being fall at the time. Him and Sora were bundled up in sweatshirts and hats. Tai smiled when he saw that Sora was wearing his school Varsity Soccer sweatshirt in the picture. He smiled even more when he remembered that Sora still had it.somewhere. But the smile faded as he looked at Sora's face. She was looking at the picture too. She placed his poem by the picture along with something that she had been hiding in her hand. It was the hairclip that he had given her for her birthday a few years ago. She set the three items next to each other in front of both her and Tai. She then looked at him with sad and tear filled eyes.

"You're all that I have, Taichi."

Tai felt his own tears forming from within the depths of his chocolate brown eyes as he looked at the expression that she held upon her face. It was a filled with depression and heartbreak. Tai had never seen Sora look so utterly and completely lost. He searched her eyes once more, hoping to find something. anything that could help him save Sora from the pain. Tai realized that he had to truly express his feelings for her.

"Your parents were some of the greatest people I have ever known in my entire life. They were always so kind in everything that they did in life, be it a making donations to a charity, or just bandaging up our knees after we got hurt when we were younger. Your mom made some of the best cookies this side of Odabia, and your dad told the best stories ever known to any child. I loved them like they were my own parents, Sora."

He placed his hands on each side of her face and wiped the tears away with his thumbs.

"It hurts me, too."

Tai wrapped his arms around her as they both cried. Sora cried for the loss of the two most beloved people in her life. But she also cried because Tai was hurting too. She could feel it in him now as they held each other. He was suffering the same as she was. They needed to be with each other to ease the pain. Sora could already feel some of the hurt drifting away as she cried within the embrace of his arms as he soothed her. Taichi continued to speak to her.

"Two years ago, when we were freshmen, do you remember going to the Winter Dance with me?" Tai felt her gently nod her head against his shoulder.

"When I came here to pick you, you weren't quite ready yet, so your mom and I talked. She told me how handsome I was and how she could hardly recognize me. It seemed like I was waiting for you to get ready for hours, and I think your mom noticed my anxiousness. So she told me how nervous you were and how you two had spent hours trying to find the perfect dress. It seemed so unlike you to act that way, but then you came out of your room, and I remember that could hardly move as I looked upon this new Sora. There was something about you that night that made my spine tingle whenever you looked at me and made my knees go weak whenever you smiled."

Sora looked up at Tai with a smile. She looked intently at him and her eyes begged him to continue.

"As you r mom pushed me towards you, she gave me some advice. 'She just as scared as you are Taichi. Don't be afraid, there isn't a need to be.' I wasn't really sure what she meant at the moment, but as we danced together that night, I understood her. but I was still scared. I couldn't find the courage that night Sora."

"What were you so afraid of?" She asked softly, hoping this meat what she thought it did.

"To tell you what I found the courage tonight to tell you."

She looked at him with questions in her eyes. What had he told her? Sora watched as Tai reached over to the poem and pick it up.

"You did read this, didn't you? I.I'm in love with Sora. I don't want you to be hurt anymore. I need you. I need you to help me too."

Sora's mouth was slightly open as she stared at Tai with unbelieving eyes. Did he really just say that to her? Sora had waited forever to hear those words from him. With a loving smile she looked at Tai and reveled what she had been so afraid to say also.

"I'm in love with you too. I love you so much, Tai. I've waited my entire life for you. I have always wanted you to feel the same way as I did. I was scared too." She said with a sad grin upon her beautiful face.

With his famous crooked smile on his face, Tai leaned in for their first kiss. Her lips were soft to the touch, and Tai's rough hands stroked her face lovingly. The kiss became more passionate when the two lovers realized that they had been too afraid for too long. The need for the other was so strong, and they moaned into each other's mouths as the kiss became opened mouthed. The two stopped and leaned their foreheads together with their eyes still closed and smiles upon their lips.

"Happy Birthday, Sora." He softly whispered to her. Sora had almost forgotten about it.

"You're the best birthday present I've ever gotten. Well. maybe not at great as this." Sora reached over to where Tai had just picked up the poem. She took the hairclip and put in her fiery red hair. They both laughed softly over the thought of the fight and how stupid it really was. It was a bittersweet memory for Sora. She had thought that she'd lost the most important person in her life. She remembered thinking that Tai would never like her in the same way she liked him because of the things he had said. She also remembered the e-mail he had sent her. It was the most breathtaking thing that anybody had ever written to her and one of another thing that was very precious to Sora. She still had it saved on her computer.

Tai took Sora's hands and looked lovingly into her eyes.

"Are you ready?" He asked.

Sora looked past Tai at the door behind him. She could hear the voices of her friends talking quietly in the room beyond the wooden frame. A look of unsureness came upon the features of her face. Sora knew that she could be with Tai now, but was she ready to face everybody?

"Sora. I'm not asking you to just forget about your parents. I never want you to forget them, you know that. But. we all really miss you so much. We just want you to be happy again Sora."

As Tai's word came out of his mouth, she realized then just how much she missed all her friends. She had forgotten about this family, and she loved them all so much that she felt unworthy of their friendship because of the way she had been avoiding them. Sora slowly sighed at smiled at Tai. If it hadn't been for him, she would still be wasting away into a deep depression.

"Yeah. I'm ready."

They walked together through the door and to their friends. It was time for Sora to be with all the people that never stopped caring for her. It was her birthday after all. A day to spend with loved ones.
That is the end of chapter three everybody! Did you like it? There is only one way to tell me! I think you all know what that is! R&R! (And for all you people who really care, I really scared myself while writing this chapter. In this last paragraph, where it say, "It was time for Sora to be." I did something and accidentally deleted the space between "Sora" and "to", and it looked like... Should I dare type it?!!? SORATO!! GASP! I can't believe I typed that. I have to go wash my hands now.) Chapter four up soon! ~dorkiss