Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon. If I did, Taichi would have had the balls to confess to Sora. Argh!! Sorry about that.


No Wings To Fly

by

Marie Darkholme

2. Shattered Pieces

I coughed when the smoke entered my lungs for the first time. Kay laughed as he made a smoke ring with his cigarette. I punched him playfully in his shoulder and tried again. This time I managed not to cough as much, and I felt the smoke making his way out of my mouth.

"You're a fast learner." Kay said. I smiled. I had always been a fast learner. I took another breathe and watched the smoke fill the air around me, rise in the sky and disappear. Suddenly it was like the entire world was gone and there was only me and the soothing of smoking.

"What is this stuff?" I asked Kay. This time was his turn to cough.

"You don't know what this is?"

I shook my head. "So what is it?" I tried once more, though it seemed difficult to Kay to say what it was.

"We're smoking a joint." He replied.

My turn to cough. I didn't know that that was drug. Well, it didn't matter anyway. It made me feel good. I took another breathe and tried to make a smoke ring like Kay. Several failed tries.

I felt Kay watching me. I looked at him. He wasn't looking, he was actually staring. I was embarrassed. Was my way of smoking so interesting or did I have ashes in my hair?

"What?" I asked getting really tired of his continuous stare. But he didn't reply. He kept staring. I looked into his green eyes that seemed to be locked in me. I passed my hand in front of his eyes. "Hello? Anyone there?" I asked playfully. Then, Kay grabbed my hand. I couldn't figure what he was doing.

"You're so beautiful, Sora." He said. As the words came out from his mouth, I felt my cheeks burning up. No one had ever told me that.

"Thanks!" I said. Then, like he thought he did something wrong, Kay released my hand and looked at the ground. "I'm sorry!" he said. I didn't understand why he was saying sorry since he hadn't done anything wrong, but anyway, I continued smoking my joint and he continued smoking his.

Every breathe I took seemed to take me into the sky and then nothing else mattered. I just floated there. Kay was near me. He seemed to be having the same experience.

Suddenly, he started laughing loudly. I didn't know why, but I too felt like laughing and after a few seconds we were both laughing our heads out.

The party indoors seemed to continue without troubles. My friends had completely forgotten me, but, at the time, I didn't really care. I just wanted to smoke peacefully. I wondered why I had never tried it before. It was so good and made me feel so well. I cursed the nights alone crying in my bed. If I had tried it then...

I was feeling so happy, that I decided to go to the party. By that time I had completely forgot about Taichi and his girlfriend. I stood up and dragged Kay with me. "Where are we going?" he asked.

"To the party of course."

We entered the garden. Mimi and Yamato were slow dancing together. I blinked at my friend. She had wished she could slow dance with him tonight. Next to them were Koushiro and Jyou, who seemed to have lost their dance partners because the two blond twins were now dancing with two other guys.

I went to sit by their side. Kay had hold onto my hand. I didn't mind. We sat at the table. I smiled to my two lost boys, but they seemed to be more interested in our hands.

"Are you two...?" Koushiro asked. I quickly released Kay's hand. "No!" Koushiro shrank his shoulders. "Sorry, but it seems like everyone is dating someone except for Jyou and I." He sadly replied.

"But Mimi and Matt aren't dating either." I told them, but to my big surprise, they shook their heads. "Where have you been, Matt just sang a few minutes ago a song dedicated to Mimi telling her he loved her." Jyou said.

I looked at the couple again and noticed that was something different about them. I smiled. Mimi was so lucky. It was then that I remembered Taichi. I looked around trying to spot him, but I couldn't.

Kay looked at me and gave me the face are you looking for him. I nodded and he sighed. It was then that I started thinking about Kay's behaviour towards me. But I remained silent so my suspicions remained that, just suspicions.

"Where's Tai?" I asked Koushiro and Jyou. The blue haired leaned against the chair in a reflexive position. "I think he and Tsubane went outside." He said. My eyes dropped slightly, but no one, except Kay noticed.

"Yeah, no wonder. With that babe, I wouldn't be in here either." Koushiro said. My heart sank. Koushiro talking about ...babes? Man!

"Right again, my friend, but don't forget that you aren't the all mighty soccer, half time singer and guitarist, Taichi Kamiya." Jyou replied and then they both started laughing.

I felt as if I had been put in a cold shower. The dreaming effect of the joint was starting to disappear. Tears filled my eyes, but I couldn't let my friends know about it, so I excused myself to the bathroom.

I rushed in and closed the door behind me. I looked at myself in the mirror and punched it so hard that broke scratches appeared in it. I looked at my clothes. I wore a pair of blue jeans and a crimson t-shirt. How could I even be compared with that astonishing woman in that sexy black dress?

I punched the mirror harder and it broke in a myriad of pieces. It made a lot of noise but I guess with the music no one heard it. I looked at the pieces in the floor. It was ironical how they resembled my heart.

I was shaken off my thoughts by a knock in the door. "It's busy!" I yelled. "Sora, are you okay?" a voice said from the other side of the door. I leaned against the opposite wall of the said mirror. Kay. This was starting to be very annoying and yet, kind of sweet in a way.

I opened the door, closing it again, without giving him a chance to see the broken mirror. "What?" I asked almost yelling again. My polliteness was over. Kay looked at me, without any kind of surprise or anger. Somehow that amazed me. This guy, that barely knew me, wasn't angry at me even though I yelled and treated him like garbage.

He took my hand, and only then I noticed it was bleeding. My hand was bleeding quite a bit. With my hand on his, Kay opened the bathroom door and pushed me in. Then he closed the door again. I was too surprised to react.

He looked at the broken mirror. "I wouldn't want you mad at me." He said, but I was still frozen in my surprise that grew every passing second. Kay picked my hand up and washed it. Then he tried to see if there were any shattered pieces in it. I watched him as he took care of me.

He picked a scarf from his pocket. A green scarf, like his eyes and bandaged my hand with it. "Maybe you should go home now." He told me. My eyes were still fixed on him.

"Yeah, maybe I should."


Thanks for reviewing my prologue. I hope you liking it. I know that this was suppose to be a Taiora but I'm not finished yet so wait. I'll will update as soon as I can. Please review this chapter. It's good to know that someone appreciates our work.

PS: This chapter was edited.