AN: I can check my SAT scores now… but… I'm so scared! Lol, yeah, I'm a wimp, and so it's true, I have unbelievably low self-esteem. Thank you all so much for your wonderful reviews.
Hey, is the Quick Edit thing on Fanfiction.net messing up anyone else's story? Cuz some of my spaces and symbols just won't show up! -- Hmph…
Summary of A Midsummer Night's Dream – Okay… apparently, I forgot the summary, clumsy me, so I'll just stick it in here. I'm not going to summarize the whole thing because that's just way too long, and in order to follow along with the story, all you need to know would be the parts where Sora is in. -
Sora (Titania), is queen of the fairies. She and the king of the fairies (Nick) are disputing over who gets possession of the little slave boy. Titania refuses to let the boy go, because the boy's mother used to be one of her closest friends. In fury, Oberon, king of the fairies, commands one of his followers, Puck, to apply nectar from a flower on Titania's eyes when she sleeps. The nectar allows the person to fall instantly in love with the next thing they see when they wake. Unfortunately for Titania, the first thing she sees was a vain man named Bottom (yes, Bottom). The man has been transformed by Puck to have the head of a donkey, so that's what Titania means when she says "…enamored of an ass…"
As for the other characters, there's Helena, Hermia, Lysander, and Demetrius. Lysander and Demetrius also become victims of the dangerous nectar. In the beginning, Lysander and Demetrius both love Hermia, who in return is in love with Lysander. Helena is in love with Demetrius. I don't want to give away the ending (which is kind of obvious) so I'll stop here. It's a wonderful play; go read it!
Disclaimer: Digimon = not mine.
An auburn haired teen dragged her feet up the stairs to the large school. It was a beautiful day, a wonderful seventy-five degrees, partly cloudy (sorry folks, I'm not a big fan of the sun), and a light breeze. She sighed, it also happened to be a Saturday. Who would have guessed, a Saturday and what was she doing? Going to school.
Sora sulked inwardly as she stepped into the school, pausing momentarily to allow her crimson eyes to adjust to the change of lighting. Mr. Kaufmann had decided to add extra practices for the play since it was April already and spring break was just around the corner. The play was tentatively scheduled to be on the second of June, meaning they only had about one more month left.
The girl smiled as she walked down the vacant halls, the heels of her shoes echoing with each step on the neatly tiled floor. Yamato's concert was going to be held on the Friday after spring break. The thought of the blonde made her smile. Darn it! She could be with him right now! Be with Tai, Jamie, Aki, and Jeff as well. The guys had decided to practice more that day, and then afterwards go bowling. Sora was forced to decline their invitation since she had practice.
Most of the cast was already in the auditorium when Sora arrived. A cheerful brunette saw the girl instantly and rushed over to where the red head stood. "Sora! You're just in time, Mr. Kaufmann is just about to start."
She smiled, "All right, just let me take off my jacket and bag."
"Put it there, next to mine," Mimi said, pointing to a pink purse sitting in a seat by itself.
Sora nodded and placed her jean outerwear and backpack onto the seat, bending over to unzip it and retrieve her script. She instantly tensed as pair of arms unexpectedly embraced her from behind, wrapping around her waist. The familiar cologne and the tingle down her spine calmed her. She smirked knowingly, "You're supposed to be at your practice."
Yamato leaned in and kissed his girlfriend on her cheek before letting go of her and stepping back. "I couldn't stand to be away from you."
"Sweet, but you have obligations."
The singer put his hands up in defense as he felt a lecture follow. "Don't worry! The guys are here too!"
Sora couldn't help but let her eyes widen at the horrific news. "What?!" Walking up to the blonde she held out an accusing finger, "Did you bring them?"
He grinned sheepishly. "Kinda…"
"Yamato Ishida! You know I hate it when I get too much attention. They're going to see me on stage now…"
"Baby, you know they were going to see you sooner or later."
"I choose later, and don't call me baby."
"You're too shy-"
"Uh guys? I hate to break you up, but Mr. Kaufmann wants to start." A high-pitched voice said. "If you're going to watch, you can go sit in the front."
"Mimi! No!" Sora exclaimed.
The brunette giggled, "What? Why?"
"That's so close, oh man, I'm going to get all nervous now."
"Don't worry, you won't even know we're there." Yamato soothed, whispering into her ear.
I won't even know they're here, my ass. Sora thought bitterly as she stood on stage beside Kari and Takeru who were also there. Kari was a fairy waiting on Titania, while Takeru was the little slave boy, the magical couple fought over possession of. Taking a step forward as Titania, Sora began to recite her lines for the scene. "Set you heart at rest, the Fairyland buys not the child of me. His mother was a vot'ress of my order, and in the spiced Indian air by night full often hath she gossiped by my side. And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands… we have laughed to see the sails conceive and grow big bellied with the wanton wind; which he, with pretty and with swimming gait, following (her womb then rich with my young squire), would imitate and sail upon the land to fetch me trifles and return again. But she, being mortal, of that boy did die," Sora looked up, raising her chin in confidence and held a hand to her chest, "and for her sake do I rear up her boy, and for her sake I will not part with him."
Nick took a step towards the queen of the fairies, but before he could speak, a roar of shouts and applause came from the 'guests' seated in the first row.
"All right! Go Sora!" Tai and the boys shouted in encouragement.
Her cheeks colored deeply as Mr. Kaufmann spoke up to quiet the enthusiastic boys. "Gentlemen, as wonderful as it is that you are fans of Miss Takenouchi, I must ask that you keep the applause for the opening night."
"Hey man, just showing our support." Taichi replied, giving Mr. Kaufmann an apologetic look.
"Uh yes… man, continue," the drama teacher commanded the actors in a slightly baffled tone.
Sora stretched her arms and yawned, glad that the rehearsal was finally over. It was well into the afternoon now; Mr. Kaufmann had repeated each scene at very least twice and demanded it to be perfection. Amazingly, Taichi, Jeff, Aki, Jamie, and Yamato all stayed for the entire practice, without a complaint, sigh, or groan of annoyance. Even Sora was about ready to leave when one of the students had stumbled on their lines and went over the same soliloquy for at very least fifteen times.
They had done the scenes in order of the play, so after Sora's scene with Nick, Izzy, playing Demetrius and a blonde girl named Christine who was perfect for the role of Helena had their own two minutes on stage. Eventually, Mimi, playing the part of Hermia and Jyou acting as Lysander had their turn and after another two hours, the actors had finished the play.
Then Mr. Kaufmann demanded it be done again.
Sora slouched down in her seat and grabbed her water bottle from her black bag. After five hours of reciting Titania's lines, the girl drank from the bottle greedily.
"Thirsty?" A voice teased.
Turning, the auburn haired girl smiled at the boy. "Tai."
He sat down in the vacant seat beside her, "You were great up there."
"Thanks-" Sora was about to continue on, but suddenly the entire Teenage Wolves showed up.
"Sora! That was awesome!" Jeff exclaimed, leaning over to give the girl a hug.
She blushed lightly and smiled. "Aw, you guys are so nice, but you do know that it's just a practice, right?"
"I can tell you we're all definitely coming to see the play in June." Aki said surely.
"And I'm definitely going to see your kick ass concert after spring break," Sora replied, giving them a friendly wink. "Speaking of which, I believe there's still practice today?"
"Yup, we're headed there right now."
"You guys are so nice, I'm sure you'd rather be at bowling than coming here to watch us mess up."
"Yeah, but Yamato made-" Jeff was cut short when Tai's elbow connected with his stomach. "Yo man! What the-" the boy began to retaliate immediately.
"We were all glad to come, Sora." Taichi said quickly, giving Jeff a glare. The boy realized the mistake he made and quieted down.
The auburn haired girl laughed knowingly, "Where's Yamato?"
"Last time I saw him, he was lecturing Takeru. Overprotective brother gene probably kicked in." Aki replied.
"What do you mean, lecturing Ta-" Tai paused in the middle of the sentence and his face noticeably paled. He shot up in his seat instantly and frantically searched the auditorium. "Hikaru Kamiya!" he yelled, before running off to where his sister stood.
Sora laughed gaily, "You guys hungry?"
"Oh man, I'm starved!" Jeff yelled out enthusiastically as Aki nodded in agreement.
"Great, how bout you, Jamie?" the girl asked the quiet boy.
Jamie looked up at the mention of his name and smiled before nodding.
"So that just leaves Yamato and Tai. How long does the overprotective brother mode last?"
Apparently, 'overprotective brother mode' could go on forever. Sora and the rest of the band had to drag the two older siblings out of the auditorium as they yelled for the two younger teens to "Always use a condom!" and "Practice safe sex!"
Kari and TK flushed the color of tomatoes as they looked at Sora pleadingly and mouthed silent thanks to the red head.
"Man, thanks to you two, we got no time to eat now." Jeff complained as they walked to the parking lot.
"Whatever man, you'd do the same too. Who's riding in which car?" Yamato said as the group stopped in front of the two cars. "I'm driving Sora's car!" he self proclaimed and ran to the door.
Sora shoved the blonde easily out of the way and sent him a glare. "No, you're driving your car, and I'm driving mine."
The guys snickered in the back as Yamato pouted, "But baby, it's been so long since we took your car out…"
"Exactly why I should drive it, and don't call me baby." Unlocking the doors to the silver Lexus with a press of a button on her key chain, Sora turned to glance at the guys. "So who's riding with me?"
They answered simultaneously, "I AM!"
"Oh man, I'm sooooooooooo hungry." Jeff voiced aloud.
"It's one of those rare moments that I agree with you, Jeff." Aki said, while setting down his base guitar.
"I'm practically ready to go on Fear Factor and eat bugs."
"Never mind, I take it back." The amethyst-eyed boy decided upon hearing Jeff's statement.
The group decided to take a break. It was around seven at night, and considering the fact that an important concert was coming up, practices ran late, and I mean late. Taichi crawled onto the stage, "Guys, where's Sora?"
"She's not down there with you?" Aki asked.
"Nope."
"Maybe she got tired and went home."
"Sora's not the type of person who would just leave her friends."
"Maybe she got kidnapped!" Jeff suggested, prompting a slap on the arm from Yamato.
"She'll be back." The singer said confidently.
"I saw her leave a little while back." Jamie spoke up. "She left her schoolbag here, I'm sure she's comin-"
"Hey guys, why are you all clustered on stage?" a sweet voice asked.
"Sora!"
Yamato jumped down from the stage and gave her a chaste kiss on the cheek. "I missed you."
"I was only gone for a little bit, I went to-" before she could finish her sentence, Jeff had noticed what was in her hand.
"Pizza!!" he yelled enthusiastically. Jumping off stage he ran to the girl and hugged her tightly. "Sora, you are a godsend."
"I know."
After the pizza was devoured by the hungry 'animals' as Sora had described them, the guys went right back to practicing, until everything was nearly perfected. For the next week and a half, it was nothing but practice, practice, and more practice for both Sora and the guys. The auburn headed girl would be at the band's rehearsals when she could make it, and give them constant advice. In return, Yamato would go and help Sora practice her lines at her home over the weekends. Mr. Ishida even went to one of the school's rehearsals and complimented the girl on her talent. Sora had smiled widely and given the man a modest answer, prompting more praise from the headmaster.
The girls in the school flocked over Yamato like there was no tomorrow, asking him, begging him for a kiss, first row tickets, autographs, and backstage passes to the upcoming concert. It had gotten increasingly more hectic in the halls, and on the day of the performance, Sora had found him in the halls near her locker after school, glued with his back to the wall, and frantically searching the corridors for any signs of the o so adoring fans of his.
The auburn haired girl laughed and walked towards the blonde. "Yam-" before she could finish, Yamato had rushed to her side, hurriedly covered her lips with his, and proceeded to take her hand in his, rushing her out of the school.
He didn't stop running until they were safely in the seats of his BMW.
"They're… every… where!" he gasped out breathily.
Sora exhaled and inhaled deeply before looking Yamato straight in his wild sapphire eyes. "I feel like we're fugitives!"
"Oh trust me, getting caught by the cops would be so much nicer than getting caught by one of those girls."
She quieted and gave Yamato a rare sneaky smile. "Wow Yamato, how brave, how daring, how… kinky."
"Kinky?" he laughed. "Sora, what goes on in that head of yours?"
"Right now? Something like this." To show him exactly what was 'going on in that head of hers,' she grabbed him sharply by the collar and pulled him down to meet her lips, wrapping an arm around his head.
His arms went around her almost instinctively and he breathed in her jasmine scent greedily. "God, you smell good," Yamato mumbled into her hair after their lips parted.
She laughed, twirling her fingers around in his golden mane, "You're wearing the cologne I gave you."
"My big night, I have to."
"Oh? And why do you have to?"
"I think you know why," he said, answering her with a hard and demanding kiss.
The kiss was great, something that Sora could never get sick of. God, his touch was addictive. She parted her lips a bit more, allowing access for Yamato's tongue and grinned against him as he let out a small sigh of pleasure. Suddenly remembering that her boyfriend had a concert to attend to, Sora broke apart from the kiss hastily and glanced at her watch. "Shit!" she exhaled loudly. "We don't have time for this, I have to get home and change, and so do you."
"What are you talking about, there's always time for this."
"Flirt. Not unless you want to lose that record deal of yours."
Yamato weighed the options in his head. Lose the record deal, or lose quality make out time with Sora. Sora or the record deal… a sly grin tugged at his lips as the answer became clear. He glanced over at his girlfriend, his sapphire eyes twinkling merrily.
7:00pm
Yamato and Sora hustled into the concert hall, completely out of breath and looking amazingly gorgeous. Aki was the first to see them and walked over, slightly ticked off.
"You guys are late, I was getting worried." The boy said.
"Uh… sorry man, got held up…" Yamato replied hesitantly, blue eyes darting from side to side.
Aki glared at the lead singer skeptically, "Right… got held up with what? Or should I say who?" He glanced over at Sora who was blushing madly. "Sora! Is that a hickey?!"
The red head gasped at the remark and a hand quickly flew to the raw spot on her neck. Turning to Yamato she shoved him playfully with her other arm, "You gave me a hickey?!"
Aki just watched as the blonde squirmed in his spot as Sora glared daggers at him while massaging her neck. He laughed, unsure of what to do with the couple. "All right guys the concert starts in an hour, let's get in a few practices, okay?"
"Wait man, start without me first." Yamato said.
Aki looked at him and shrugged, "sure, but why?"
"I… want to talk to Sora. You know, alone."
"Whoa, okay man, I'm out."
As soon as the amethyst-eyed boy left, the auburn haired girl turned to her boyfriend. "Uh oh, am I in trouble?"
Yamato just smiled and took her delicate hand in his, smoothing the back with his thumb. He gazed up at her lovingly, but still refused to say a word.
"Yamato? Sweetie, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, I just want to… look at you more." He grinned before adding, "You called me sweetie."
Her crimson orbs searched his with anticipation. What was he trying to say to her?
"Sora?"
"Yamato."
"I love you." There, he said it. No long speech before the three simple words, no kissing, nothing. Just an honest smile, loving gaze, and he said it. Man, it felt good to finally let out those words. And this time, she was listening.
But the problem was, it had grown unnaturally quiet.
Sora stared at the blonde, completely speechless. What was she to say? I love you, too? Was it really that easy? They had been together for nearly six months; it would only be natural for her to feel it. But after convincing herself that she wasn't in love with the boy, that she couldn't be in love with him, yet, it was hard to admit that she did. Could she really just throw away all that she had convinced herself? Would that make her a hypocrite? No. She couldn't do it, not just yet. So, she said the most reasonable reply she could think of.
"Thank you."
Yamato felt as if his heart was wrenched out of his body, dropped onto the floor, stampeded on by a herd of buffalo, and then stitched painfully back in. He didn't expect her to say it, knowing that Sora took things a bit more… slowly than most girls, but he never expected how painful the sensation would be.
The look in his eyes killed Sora right then and there. Maybe she should just admit it- that she was in love with him. But it was so hard for her to say; it was just that the words wouldn't come out. Come on Sora, just sacrifice some dignity and admit it! "Yamato, I…" It was already done, what could she do? She'd have to make it up to him. Tell him when the time was perfect. You idiot, what better time to tell him other than when he's telling you? "I…"
Yamato pressed a finger against her lips, silencing her. It was as if he could read her mind; he really understood. "It's okay, Sora. I don't want you to say it unless you really want to."
"But…"
"Sh…" he said, silencing her and drawing her into a tight embrace. "This is all I need for now."
Oh God, what have I done?
AN: Oh my goodness!! How could I do something like that?! Okay, let's not write any death threats please! Look, look, I updated faster, didn't I? looks at reader hopefully