Pockets Full of Posies
AN: Ah, you saps, you choose the easy way out, the happy romantic ending ;) You're just like me! ^_^ Don't get too happy just yet, remember, posies we're used to cover up the smell of the dead ;D
"Everything, lies…can't trust…anyone…Tai…Mimi…Matt" she mumbled under her breath, tossing and turning ever more violent. "NO! NO! NOOO!" she screamed. She woke up with a jolt and was sent flying backwards in her chair, impacting the floor at a rather nasty angle.
"Sora!" Tai yelled, dropping instantly to the floor to help her up.
"Don't touch me!" she shouted and maneuvered out of the chair, still rubbing her banged head.
"What are you doing here?" she asked accusingly, glaring at Tai.
Tai looked at her strangely, seriously questioning her sanity. "I came over to help you with your application to TAGAT…you fell asleep a little while ago but I didn't wake you up, you've been really stressed out lately," he said with concern.
"Application for TAGAT?" Sora breathed softly with disbelieve. She walked over to the desk in front of the fallen chair and sure enough, there was her application for TAGAT, only partially completed. She lifted up the piece of paper gingerly, half afraid to actually realize the truth.
She looked over the paper with a scrupulous eye. "You mean…it was all a dream?" she whispered.
"From the way you were screaming, it sounded more like a nightmare," Tai told her with a half-smile. "Are you okay?"
"I guess I am," she answered, running the "dream" over again in her mind, trying to figure out what was real and what was fake and what it all meant.
None of it happened, Tai didn't hurt you. She tried to tell herself….but the "dream" had been so real. She had felt so hurt.
"Taichi…in the dream…in the nightmare…"she started cautiously.
"I did something didn't I?" he realized frightfully, "I did something to hurt you?"
She nodded slightly and then looked towards the ground.
"Sora," he said very seriously, realizing how much this dream had upset his friend, "You know I would never hurt you. Never."
"I…I…know," she admitted. That had been the craziest part of the dream. She had been so lost and confused. Tai changing his attitude towards her so suddenly had knocked her completely off guard and she had never been truly able to understand it.
It was a dream, she assured herself, it was all a dream. When she finally accepted it, those were the most wonderful words she could have heard. For the first time, she cried because she was happy and she rushed up to Tai and threw her arms around him.
"Oh Taichi-kun, I thought I had lost you…I thought you hated me…and you fell in love with Mimi and you got so mean and I was all alone and…and…" she said quickly, crying onto his shoulder.
Tai squeezed her tighter. "Sshh…Sora, it's okay. It was just a dream. I'm here now. It's okay."
"Taichi, I know you don't believe in love," she whispered fearfully, gathering her strength by being in his arms, "I never did either…but when I thought I lost you…it was like losing my whole world…and honestly, I don't know if that's love…but if it's not…then I don't know what is."
He laughed happily, hugging Sora tighter, and leaning down quickly to give her a long anticipated kiss.
"And all this time I thought you'd say I was stupid if I told you the same thing," he said.
Sora smiled and blushed. As if knowing she needed to hear the words to confirm it all, he said them.
"I love you, Sora."
"I love you too, Taichi." she admitted almost shamefully.
"No more TAGAT?" Tai asked hopefully, still holding his best friend in his arms.
"No more TAGAT," Sora promised, balling up the application and throwing it into the trash.
As Tai grinned devilishly and kissed her once again. Yes, it was safe to say the "nightmare" had ended up more blessing then burden after all.