nEo-cHaN here!!! Tyson and I would like to thank all the reviewers for the first chapter. Thank you *sooo* much!!! ^^ I suppose I won't ramble on and make you wait longer, so on with the fic!!!

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Digimon and neither does Tyson no matter how much we'd like to pretend. But Tyson does own the idea for this story.

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'What a terrible night', Matt thought as he got ready for school in the morning. 'That was the weirdest dream ever. And still, it felt so real...' Matt shook his head and continued to get dressed. 'Lots of dreams feel real. I'm just being silly.'

When Matt got downstairs, TK was nervously poking at a leftover slice of pizza from the night before.

"I'm beginning to think this isn't edible," TK told his older brother, eyeing a speck of green on the pepperoni.

"That's what you get for trying to eat pizza that was left out all night," Matt said, rolling his eyes. He took another look at the pizza and made a face. "Suddenly I'm not hungry."

"Boys, your first day of school in Odaiba!" Natsuko said excitedly, coming into the kitchen with two brown paper bags. "Don't forget your lunches!"

Matt peered into the bag to find two slices of pizza. "Gee... thanks mom."

TK looked horrified when he looked in the bag, but quickly changed his expression when their mother turned around. "Thanks mom," he echoed.

"You boys should be off to school now. You don't want to be late!!"

"Bye mom," Matt said, turning to walk out of the kitchen.

"What about breakfast?" his mother asked.

"Uh... I already ate," he lied.

"Oh, alright. Have fun at school, honey!"

"Sure," Matt said. He slipped on his shoes, grabbed his skateboard, and left the house.

Hopping onto his skateboard, Matt started down the street. Once he'd gotten out of the area, the gloomy mood he'd had lifted and his thoughts became more optimistic. 'Maybe it won't be so bad. I'm probably just paranoid because it's a new house. Maybe they're right, maybe it *was* just a nightmare.'

Matt was broken out of his thoughts when he found himself on the floor next to his skateboard.

"Sorry," he said to the person he'd practically ran over, helping her up. "I guess I wasn't looking where I was going."

"It's alright," the girl said, brushing off her clothes. She shook her pink hair out of her face and looked at Matt. "Are you new here? I don't think I've seen you around before."

"I just moved here," Matt explained. "It's actually my first day, I'm supposed to be going to school."

"Really? What school?"

"Odaiba High."

"Cool! I go there too! We can walk together!"

"Alright," Matt agreed. "I'm Matt."

"I'm Mimi. Your first day is gonna be so cool, everyone will love you!!"

"Why?"

"Let's put it this way, you're not exactly hard on the eyes. And you're not mean or anything, so I don't see why there would be a problem."

"You're really nice, you know that? And you're not 'hard on the eyes' either."

Matt and Mimi smiled at eachother.

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"Who is *that*?"

Matt and Mimi had just walked into the school, and already people were beginning to question Mimi. One girl was latched onto his arm, batting her eyelashes at him.

"Who's your amazingly hot friend?" she asked Mimi.

"That's Matt," Mimi said, "and would you kindly step away?"

"He's so cute," the girl gushed. She sighed dreamily. "I'm Sora... call me!!"

Giggling, she pulled out a pen and wrote her number on his hand then winked, blew a kiss, and skipped away.

Matt stared after her. "That was very... scary."

"Don't pay any attention to her," Mimi said, "and whatever you do, *don't* call her. She'll stalk you for life, if she already doesn't plan on it."

'Creepy', Matt thought with a shiver.

Mimi introduced Matt to some of her friends before the bell rang. It just so happened that Mimi was in his first class, so he didn't have to walk around trying to find it. Unfortunately, his teacher was a balding man with glasses who droned on and on.

"Is he always like this?" Matt whispered to Mimi in disbelief.

She nodded sympathetically. "Yup. He really doesn't seem to get that we ignore him. But he never checks the homework, so we never have to do it."

"Cool."

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TK looked around at the unfamiliar faces and sighed inwardly. 'Time to make friends, I guess.'

He began to walk towards a group of people who looked friendly when someone put their hand on his shoulder and said hello. TK turned around to face a girl with short brown hair.

"Hi," he responded. "I'm TK."

"I'm Kari. This is my friend Miyako."

TK noticed that there was a girl standing beside Kari with purple hair and said hello to her as well.

"Sit down," Kari said, motioning to a seat beside her. "Let's talk."

"Where do you live?" Miyako asked as TK sat down.

"666 Madison Avenue," TK replied, then got nervous when the two girls stared at him. "What?"

"You live *there*?!" Miyako squeaked.

"Yeah... why?"

"Weird things happen in that house," Kari told him. "No one's lived there for a long time. People say that someone was murdered there."

"Sometimes as night the lights flicker on and off," Miyako added. "And you can see a shadow in the window. If the wind is blowing and you listen carefully, sometimes you can hear a boy's voice screaming and begging for help. Someone even heard gunshots there."

TK was beginning to get freaked out. He gulped. "Are you sure?"

Both girls nodded.

"Great," TK said, "I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight."

Kari giggled. "Don't worry, they might just be rumors. If anything strange happens, though, you'll know why."

"Where do you guys live?" TK asked.

"Actually, I don't live too far from you," Kari said. "I live at 3101 Westshore Drive. It's an apartment building just down the street."

"I live in a house around there," Miyako added.

"Where did you guys hear those stories about my house?" TK asked, getting back on the subject.

"Oh, everyone knows about it," Kari said.

"My brother told me some of them," Miyako said. "He goes to Odaiba High and he says that once he and his friends went inside the house and a ghost chased them out."

"You have a brother? Kari, do you have any siblings?" TK asked.

"Oh, I'm adopted," Kari said.

"Oh! Sorry," TK said awkwardly. "Can I ask what happened to your real parents?"

"I don't know," Kari said with a shrug. "I was adopted when I was really little, so I don't remember them at all."

"Oh."

"Miyako and I should come over sometime," Kari said, "I'm not scared of that house. Are you, Miyako?"

"I guess not..." Miyako said slowly.

TK nodded. "We'll see."

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At lunch, Mimi invited Matt to sit with her and her friends. He accepted, of course, and she introduced him to the people she hadn't already. Luckily, Sora was nowhere to be found. Mimi's friends greeted Matt cheerfully and he instantly felt welcome. Soon they were all chatting like old friends.

Matt laughed at a joke someone had just told, along with everyone else. He shook his head, still laughing, and took a sip of his drink.

"Don't touch me!!"

With a start, Matt managed to avoid spilling his drink and put it down. He looked at Mimi, but she was talking to someone else. 'Then it couldn't have been her,' Matt thought with a frown. 'So...?'

"Matt, what's up?" Mimi's friend asked.

"Huh?" Oh, nothing. I just... remembered something."

Her friend seemed to accept that and let the subject drop, beginning to tell a story. Matt stared down at his drink for a moment, then shook his head. 'You're just hearing things. Nothing to worry about.'

"Stop it!!"

Matt froze and looked around slowly. Who was saying those things?

"Please!! Stop!!!"

"Matt?"

Matt jumped and turned to Mimi, who was looking at him with a concerned face.

"Are you okay?"

"Fine," Matt said quickly. "Don't worry."

Mimi gave him an odd look, but shrugged. "If you say so."

Matt shook himself out of his daze and payed attention to what everyone was saying, joining in the conversation again. He ignored the faint calls in the back of his head. Maybe if he ignored them, they'd go away.

"Please...help me..."

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"Yoohoo!! Ma~att!!!

Matt froze when he walked into his next class and heard that voice. He turned slowly to find her smiling brightly and waving at him. Taking a deep breath, he began to walk towards her. She couldn't be *that* bad... could she?

"Hi, Sora," Matt said with a forced smile, approaching her seat.

"Hi, Matt!! I saved you a seat!!"

"Gee... thanks." Reluctantly, Matt sat down next to the red-haired girl.

"I saw you carrying a skateboard," Sora said, "do you skateboard?"

'Obviously,' Matt thought. "Yeah."

"Ooh, you're athletic!!!"

Matt stared at her for a moment. 'Is she *serious*?!'

"I play tennis," Sora told him, "last week my team got to the championships because *I* won the last game for us!! We won this trophy, and *I* got to keep it, and-"

"Oh, you know what? I've kind of got an eye problem... yeah, I have to sit close to the front. Bye!"

Matt stood up and hurried closer to the front of the room, sitting in an empty desk. Immediatly, the girls around him started giggling and one moved a desk over to be next to him.

Matt sighed and put his head in his hands. 'There's no escape...'

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"I think I'm going crazy," Matt announced to his brother that afternoon when he got home.

TK looked up from where he was getting a drink. "Huh? Why?"

"I keep hearing these voices," Matt said, shaking his head.

TK looked at his brother oddly. "...voices?"

Matt sighed. "Never mind."

"Food!!" TK suddenly exclaimed, making Matt jump. TK grabbed a loaf of bread from the fridge and held it up like a trophy.

It was Matt's turn to look at his brother. "And *who*'s the crazy one?"

"Yay, we don't have to eat pizza anymore!!!" TK paused. "I never thought I'd say that."

"A lot of things I never thought would happen are happening," Matt muttered. He then raised his voice. "I'm gonna go up to my room."

TK nodded, very involved in making himself a sandwich. Matt rolled his eyes and headed up the stairs.

As he was walking to his room, he heard something and paused in entering. He turned to the direction the voice had come from. Curious, he walked into the room across the hall. Looking around, he didn't see or hear anything. With a shrug, Matt began to walk out.

"No!!!"

Matt stopped short, whirling back around. 'I heard something that time for *sure*.'

"Please, just leave me alone!!"

"Who are you?" Matt asked aloud. "*Where* are you?"

"STOP!!!"

Matt jumped, stumbling back against the wall. That last cry had been more intense and louder than any other so far. Without another thought, he bolted out of the room and down the stairs. TK stared when his brother came running into the kitchen.

"What the...?"

"I'm going out," was all Matt said as he walked out of the kitchen and put on his shoes.

"Where?" TK questioned. "You don't even know the area!!"

Matt hesitated for a split second, then grabbed his skateboard from the closet and slipped on his jacket.

"Well, I'll learn."

He walked out the door, closing it rather forcefully behind him.

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Deep in thought, Matt stared at the ground as he travelled along the sidewalk.

'I know it wasn't just my imagination. That last voice was too real. But if I'm not dreaming, then that would mean...'

With a shiver, Matt dismissed the thought. 'Don't be silly,' he scolded himself. 'Ghosts don't exist, remember?'

Shaking his head, Matt made a sharp turn on his skateboard and headed in the direction he'd came from.

'Tk probably thinks I've gone insane. I'd better get back there.' Matt shook his head again. "Ghosts. Yeah right.'

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A/N: And so ends chapter two!!! Hope you enjoyed, and there's a little button down there that may be useful... reviews please!!! See you in a while, because next chapter is Tyson!!!

~*nEo-cHaN