Chapter 3:

"Hello is Tai there?" Mimi asked calmly.

"Yes, it's Tai."

"You were suppose to be here half an hour ago! Where are you?!" Her calmness was replaced by the heat of an angry woman. She showed no mercy as she shouted into the phone. Tai, on the other lines, flinched and pulled the phone away from his ears.

"Uh... I'll be there in one second! Sorry Meems, I overslept."

"But it's six o' clock in the evening! Geez, you overslept for a whole day?"

"Darn it, bad excuse...." Tai murmured to himself.

"What? Speak louder I can't hear you!"

"Um, nothing. I will be on my way. Bye Mimi." Tai rushed his last words and hung up as soon as he could without waiting for a response. He managed to pull himself from the videogame he had been playing for hours and shook away a heavy feeling of a brain corruption.

"Mimi's sleepover... I totally forgot! She's going to kick my ass when I get there..." Tai spoke to no one in particular and cladded himself with a brown jacket.

"Kari, I'm going to Mimi's. I'll be back tomorrow." He screamed from the bottom of the stairs.

"Tomorrow? Why? Are you two having sex again?" His sister asked.

"Hell no! I will not allow such a pittful language coming from you! And don't get any ideas, Mimi is the last person I would sleep with." Tai screamed at the top of his lungs as he sluggishly yanked the car keys away from the hook.

"Of course not! Have a good time at Mimi's." Kari said, she added on with a "Sleep well! Oh and don't forget to stop by the pharmacy to get a condom."

Tai clenched his fist, stirred up in rage by her last comment. "Kari Kamiya you little wench. I told you I'm not going to have se-- dam I'm arguing with my own sister..." Tai sighed wryly and headed for his car. As he started the engine, a flashback of the last time he left Kari alone sent itching to his skull, he scratched his head and returned to the house.

"What are you still doing here?" Tai heard his sister asking.

"When I come back, I better find you alone in this house because if I spot one..just tiny piece of blonde hair anywhere from the stove to your bathtub, believe me I will take good care of him! You got that?" He waited for a response, none came.

"You hear me? N.O T.K.!"

"Yeah yeah yeah just go.." Kari gave out a disappointing sigh. She heard his car pulling out of the private driving twisting into the streets. "What are you, my grandmom?" Once Tai is gone she rolled her eyes and called T.K.

"Hello, oh hey T.K. I was just wondering if you can come over. Huh? Of course I'm alone. Tai is at Mimi's he won't be back until tomorrow. Okay then, bye sweety. See you in a few minutes."

Tai stumpled to the front door of a pink house and ranged the bell several times. Mrs. Tachikawa answer the door. "Taichi! Come in. All of them are waiting for you upstair. Go right ahead."

"Thanks Mrs. Tachikawa." Taichi bowed and skipped up the stairs. He walked into a corridor and a hot pink door immidiately caught his eyes. He scoffed and went in, Koushiro, Mimi, and Sora were deeply sucked into their conversation to notice him right away.

"Hey, anyone care to say hello?" The bushy haired boy stood in the center of the doorway with his arms cross neatly on his chest.

"Oh hi Taichi." Sora smiled signaling him to sit down beside her.

"Boy, I'm so hungry, is there anything to eat?"

"We ordered pizza. Beef and pepperoni with extra cheese. You can take the whole box, here."

Tai blushes and took the pizza box with hesitation. "Ah, Mimi you are so considerate."

"Figured this is your favorite topping. Here's some Coke for you to gulp down with the food. And don't choke." Mimi reminded him.

Tai immidiately reached out his fingers and graped the biggest slice. "So, what are we talking about here?"

"Don't speak when you're eating Tai, you're spitting on me."

"Sorry." The coffee haired teenager flushed and covered his mouth.

"As I was saying." Koushiro cleared his throat. "I think he's gay."

Tai softened his chewing and swallowed. "Gay? Who's gay? Are you talking about me? Am I gay?" He forgot the spitting warning by shouting out in one breath, spenting half chewed pieces of pizza crust everywhere, the brunette first looked at Koushiro, then averted to Mimi, turning back and forth.

The two girls looked at each other and both giggled. "No silly, we're talking about Matt." Mimi patted him and pouted.

"Oh." He gave a sigh of relief and drooled down to his food again. "Wait. Matt is...he's gay?! C'mon, no one tells me anything these days."

Koushiro dripped down to deep thoughts and after seconds of virtual calculation in his brain he declared to the group. "There's several clues my assumption. One, don't you find it surprising that despite of his popularity he has never been involved in a commited relationship? Girl dig him everywhere. But no one, absolutely no one has been able to...

"I disagree!" Sora spatted out.

Koushiro ignorantly hushed her. "Shhh! Wait until I finish please. Two! Yamato wastes too much attention on his self appearance, an obvious example would be the hair."

"Hey!" Mimi slapped Koushiro's arm, insulted by the hair comment.

"No offense Mimi. You're a different story." Koushiro assumed to listing his comments about Matt while Sora rolled her eyes. "Three, he is in a all boys band and to my online research 30 percent of Japanese boys band consisted of at least one openly gay members, that's an unusually large number if you think about it. For all we know, Matt could be one of those other 70 percent who never public confessed anything regarding his sexual status--"

"Koushiro, you are talking nonsense!" Koushiro rolled his eyes for being interrupted the fifth time today.

He let Sora speak on.

The auburn haired girl copied his format as she reasoned. "One! Yamato is not interested in anyone because he simply haven't found the right person that met his expections yet! Two! Yamato is a friggen rocksinger, do you see any celebrity walking down the red carpet with afros? Of course he'll have to look hot in public, not every good haired guy is gay! Three! Where did you happen to find that crappy poll? I like to straighten things out with the webhoster for he is talking crap because there's nothing 'gay' about all-boys band!" Sora ended with her defense with mad snorts, leaving everyone stunned.

Tai loosened his fingers and a slice of pizza fell down to the floor. Mimi nodded in a hectic and shoved in a few applauses. Koushiro scratched his head and stared down at the food mess.

"So uh, anyone tired yet? Let's set our sleep bags and get some rest. We have school tommorrow."

"Yeah." Tai nodded.

"That sound good." Koushiro added on.

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Mrs. Haden placed my test result face down in front of me. Facedown, that could mean one thing, a failing grade. Red marks were visible from the other side of the yellow sheet. Oh crap. I lifted up the corner a bit and peeked in. 39 was written sluggishly in a pen.

"Ms. Takenouchi, I can tell this is not your best effort. I will be available before school if you need help and I suggest you get some private tutoring from a smart fellow classmate after school, let's say... perhaps Mr. Ishida? Matt, would you like to volunteer and help out this young lady?"