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This is a fun chapter I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.
~*~Chapter 11- The One With the Embarrassing Stories~*~
Tai sat next to the unconscious Sora on the floor. He was patting her face and splashing water on her.
"Sora, wake up!" Tai said smacking her again and making her eyes open.
Sora shot up and looked around the room in shock. Tai gave her an awkward look and picked up the phone.
"Matt? Yeah, she's awake. You'll be here around eight? Alright. See ya, man," Tai said and hung up the phone.
"Matt!? Oh my gosh!" Sora said and started babbling about everything that was going through her head at that moment.
"Whoa, chill out girl! What's going on?"
"Matt wants me to meet his parents! ME meet the KING and QUEEN of a damn European country! What do I do!? How should I act around them!?"
"Calm down, Sora! So you're meeting two rich, famous people, so what! You're an amazing person and if they can't see you for that then they're blind and stupid."
"Awe, Tai... thanks."
"Anytime," Tai said with a smile, "Now, get up and go get ready! Matt will be here soon."
Sora stood up and walked upstairs.
* * *
Not too long later Sora found herself sitting in Matt's car on her way to meet his parents. She was dressed casually: a pair of dark blue jeans, a white spaghetti-strap shirt with a button-down shirt pulled over it that was tied up just below her boobs. Wow, can we say "Dress to impress"?
"You okay over there?" Matt wondered seeing her dazed expression.
"What? Oh, yeah I'm fine," Sora replied.
"They'll love you, baby. Stop worrying about it."
"Ok... I'm sorry."
"Don't be sorry, you didn't do anything. Just be you."
"I'll try..."
* * *
Matt held Sora's hand and they walked into Matt's mansion. She felt her heart beating faster and faster as they approached the living room where everyone was commencing. They walked in and the room got silent as everyone looked at the couple. Sora could feel her face turning red so she turned and looked down at the ground until the embarrassment had lifted. 'They're all going to hate me...' Sora thought.
"Yamato, back so soon?" A man that couldn't have been older than 45 stated breaking the silence, "I see that car I bought you is good for speed."
"Yes, sir," Matt replied with a smile on his face.
"And you, my dear," the man said getting up and walking over to the two, "you must be Sora. Yamato has told us so much about you. It's always 'Sora this' and 'Sora that'. I was beginning to think he was making you up!"
A smile escaped the girls pink colored lips as Matt turned bright red from embarrassment.
"Father!" Matt said still red, "Anyways," Matt said changing subject quickly, "Sora, I'd like you to meet everyone. This is my father, as you already know, the woman over there on the couch is my mother, my brother Takeru, or Tk as he prefers, is sitting next to my mom, and my aunt, uncle, and cousins: Francis, Alexandria, Christina, and Paulo. And everyone, this is Sora Takenouchi, my girlfriend."
"It's nice to meet you all. Matt's said a lot about you," Sora said with a courtesy bow.
"Awe," Matt's aunt, Alexandria (34), said, "She's so polite! That girl's a keeper!"
"She's very well-mannered and makes a good lasting first impression," King Ishida (Malcolm, 44), said.
"Not to mention she's so incredibly beautiful! Your hair color is so naturally beautiful! Who does your fiery red highlights?" Queen Ishida (Nancy, 41) commented causing Sora to blush.
"It's natural, actual," Sora said modestly.
"Ah! And so beautifully done!"
"Yeah, she's a hottie," Tk (18) said receiving a death glare from Matt.
"Takeru!" Nancy scolded. She believed that it was improper to use slang terms such as "hot" and "sexy" to describe a woman.
"You're doing good," Matt whispered into Sora's ear so only she could hear him, "They like you already. My mom talked about your hair, you're on a role. She's got a weird obsession with hair color."
Sora smiled and whispered back, "That's good. I'm glad they like me so far."
"Hey you two, no secrets. If you have something to say, then tell everyone! We'll have a big secrets party!" Francis (36) said with a laugh.
Matt rolled his eyes, "I'm sorry, Sora. You'll have to excuse my uncle. He likes to joke around about everything."
"Well, I am the black sheep of the family!" Francis replied as everyone laughed.
'This is going so much better than I thought it would' Sora thought as she looked around the room and admired everyone.
* * *
Sora was sitting on the over-sized chair in the living room with her feet pulled up underneath her and Matt sitting to her side with his arm on her shoulders and around the back of the recliner. She casually sipped some of the hot tea that was in the cup she held as she giggled and listened to all the stories Matt's family was sharing. It had obviously been a while since Matt had seen them so they were all catching up by putting humor into every situation. 'I could really get used to this lifestyle' Sora thought half way daydreaming as Nancy began speaking to her.
"Sora, dear?" Nancy said trying to get her attention.
"Oh, um, yes, ma'am?" Sora replied once back to reality.
"Tell us what you do for a living."
"What I do for a living?"
"Yes, dear. What do you want to do with yourself?"
"Huh, well lets see... currently I'm working to be a fashion designer like my mother-"
"Your mother is a fashion designer!? Does she have a brand in Europe?"
"Yes, actually. Her line is called 'Amore Suo Stile' which is actually Italian for 'Love Your Style'. My mom is very fond of the Italian language and culture that's why she named her clothing line after it."
Everyone gasped making Sora feel really uncomfortable.
"Amore Suo Stile! That's one of my all-time préféré clothing lines!" Nancy said excitedly. (A/N: préféré means favorite in French. Oh, by the way if I am ever wrong about these words please tell me because I have no clue whether I am or not. I get them off a website that translates English words into other languages.)
"A-are you serious?" Sora asked amazed that the queen of France was infatuated with her mother's clothing line.
"She's obsessed with that clothing," Matt said to her.
"It's true. That woman loves to shop," Francis said, "And I'm her brother-in-law for God's sake! I have been for about 13 years now!"
"Look at that, Sor! You and my mother have something in common! How cool," Matt said causing everyone to laugh.
"I'm glad, well actually, honored that you shop for my mother's clothing style," Sora said.
"It's a small world, isn't it? I've actually met your mother more than once. I'm surprised she never mentioned you," Nancy said taking a sip of her tea.
"Well she doesn't really talk about me unless someone asks. We don't talk very much anymore and it kind of upsets her, you know?"
"Oh, I see. But tell me, did you used to model for Versace?"
"Ah, the good old days," Sora said with a smile on her face.
"I knew I recognized you from somewhere! When you first walked in the room I thought 'Wow, this girl has a stunning resemblance to Versace's December cover-girl' and I believe I was right in thinking that it was you!"
"Yeah, but that was a long time ago. I don't model for them anymore."
"Why not, dear? You're the most beautiful model they had, in my opinion at least."
"Thanks but I just wasn't willing to change myself to be something I'm not. They wanted me to the all-time, work as many hours as you possibly can, model. I was 18. I just wasn't ready to deal with that much pressure. What with them always telling me to my face 'Be like this, look like this, think like this'. It just wasn't me and never would have been."
"You're so honest. That's what I love about you. You were absolutely right to have left them. Never let anyone try to change who you are. You're a special person and you're beautiful just the way you are and if anyone ever tells you different then they're too blind to see the best thing that's standing in front of them. Versace lost a good girl and I bet they're scolding themselves every day for not having you with them anymore."
"Hey, Sora. Didn't Mimi mention that they actually tried to get you to come back to them?" Matt asked.
"Yes, they did, but I refused. I wasn't going to go crawling back to them," Sora replied.
"Looks to me like they're the ones that went crawling back to you, my dear," Malcolm stated.
Sora smiled and let everything they were saying sink in. They were accepting her for who she was and not some fake bimbo that everyone else expected her to be. It made her feel good know that they were so supportive of her feelings and actions.
Alexandria yawned, "Well, it is getting kind of rather late. I think it's time that we be heading to bed now. Up to bed you go, children. We'll see you in the morning, Yamato and Sora."
Paulo (11) and Christina (7) stood up from the couch and followed their mother upstairs to the three guest bedrooms they would be staying in.
"I agree, it is getting late. I shall be going to sleep now as well. It was nice meeting you Sora. I hope we can do something together and get to know each other better tomorrow," Nancy said getting up and leaving as well.
"Goodnight, your... highness?" Sora said with a confused look.
" 'Your highness'? Oh, Sora, dear! Don't call me that it makes me feel like an old ruler or something! Please, just call me Nancy or mom, if you prefer," Nancy said with a laugh as she exited the room and found the stairs.
"Party poopers," Francis said as a yawn escaped his lips.
"They're the party poopers, uncle Frank?" Tk said with a laugh. (Tk's nickname for him is Frank), "You're yawning! Are you tired too? It's not even 11:30 yet!"
"Well, I'm not as young as I used to be. When you get to be my age you get tired faster."
"Your age? Try being 44 with a 20 and 18 year old! Then see how tiring life is!" Malcolm laughed.
"Hey, we're not that bad," Matt said.
"Not that bad, huh? You, Yamato, were a hell-raising child," Malcolm stated.
"No I was not!" Matt shouted in defense.
"Oh yeah?" Malcolm directed his attention towards Sora, "When Yamato was a kid he would always have to get his way or he would go insane. I remember one time distinctly when he was five. He wanted this new toy that'd just come out and at the time we were in the process of moving so we told him no. He threw a dang fit! He ripped off all of his clothes and ran through the house screaming at the top of his lungs! He eventually climbed on top of the refrigerator and refused to come down until we bought the toy for him. We had to actually go out and buy to toy because every time we tried to get him down he would growl and bite us. The thing that gets me the most is that once we got the toy he played with it for about a week and then didn't want anything to do with it anymore!"
Everyone in the room laughed and Matt turned cherry red.
"I never did that!" Matt shouted in defense at the embarrassing story his father had just told.
"You mean he actually ripped his clothes off and ran around the house naked because of a stupid toy!?" Tk said almost crying in laughter.
"Well it wasn't as bad as you, Takeru," Malcolm said causing Matt to pay close attention.
"What are you taking about? I never did anything embarrassing. I was the good kid," Tk said trying to cover everything up for himself.
"Yamato only did the no clothes thing that one time. You, however, went through a stage of no clothes."
"Excuse me? I did not!"
"Oh, yes you did! When you were three I guess you saw Matt in the whole process of running around the house naked that you thought it was the cool thing to do. We would put clothes on you and leave to room for a minute and the next thing we knew you were running outside in the backyard with your bare butt showing for the whole world to see! You would not wear clothes period! That little phase went on for about three months and you just wanted to be naked!"
This time it was Matt's turn to laugh and Tk to turn bright red. Sora was giggling as quietly as she could because she didn't want to seem rude but everyone else was busting out laughing so she decided it was alright for her to do it too.
"Not only did he run around the house naked, he would jump through the neighbors sprinkler with his wang flying everywhere!" Malcolm said.
"CAN WE CHANGE THE SUBJECT, PLEASE!?" Tk pleaded.
"You two did so many embarrassing things. We were scared to call you our kids."
"What else did they do, Malcolm?" Francis asked curiously.
"Well, there was this one time I recall that Nancy and I were having a get-together with some of our close friends and my sister (she was only 17 at the time) was watching Yamato and Tk (they were about 4 and 7 then) that night. We were all sitting in the living room talking and enjoying our cups of coffee and suddenly little naked Tk comes running in the room with one of his mothers sanitary napkins. We didn't realize what he was holding at first until he opened it from the package and stuck it to the TV and ran away laughing. Not only was it embarrassing but our friends thought it was just about the cutest thing they'd ever seen. I never did understand Tk when he was a child," Malcolm said.
"Why are you talking about me!? Say something embarrassing about Matt!" Tk said, once again bright red.
"Oh, I have a great story about Matt! When he was ten he went through a "superman" stage. His whole room was superman. Superman bed sheets, superman pillow cases, even superman action figures and posters! Well, one night Matt had eaten too much and he started sleep walking. He tends to do that when he eats too much. But anyways, we had once again been having a get-together with our friends and Matt came strolling into the kitchen where we were all sitting and he was dressed like superman! He had a pair of underwear on the had a large "S" on it and a red cape hanging from around his neck. We all focused our attention on him and couldn't understand what he was doing. The next thing we knew he was standing over the oven taking a wiz! Oh man it took a while to get that smell out of the kitchen!"
That one was the one that made Sora crack. She couldn't hold it in any longer and so she busted out laughing. Matt turned to her beat red and started screaming.
"It's not funny! Why are you laughing!?" He said.
"I'm sorry!" Sora said continuing to laugh, "I just can't help it! You are too cute!"
"Well I don't think it's very funny..." Matt said and looked away with a hurt face.
"Oh, God, baby I'm sorry!" Sora said now feeling sympathy towards him. She tried to get his attention but he wouldn't look at her. "Baby, please look at me, I'm really sorry."
Sora at this point had her left hand resting on his right knee and her right hand under his chin. She turned his face so he was looking at her.
"I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to make you upset," Sora apologized, even though it wasn't really her fault, "Please don't be mad at me sweetie."
Matt looked into her ruby eyes and instantly melted seeing the hurt that she was feeling. His tension disappeared.
"I can't stay mad at you," he whispered but everyone in the room heard it.
Sora smiled and leaned forward. She gave a kiss on the lips; not too short, not too long. Just perfect.
"I'm glad because I don't want you to be," Sora replied after she pulled away from him.
The two smiled at each other until someone in the background made a coughing noise. They looked over at Francis.
"Would you two like to be left alone?" Francis asked.
"Sorry," they both said and turned red.
"Well, Yamato I think it's time you be bringing Sora home. It's getting rather late and don't you both have schooling tomorrow?" Malcolm asked.
"Yeah, I have one class," Matt said.
"I have two so I won't get home until around noon," Sora said.
"Well you can plan on all of us getting together tomorrow so don't make any other plans!" Malcolm said.
"Yes sir," Sora replied with a giggle.
"Alright *yawn* I'm going to turn in for the night. Drive safely Yamato and Sora I hope to see you tomorrow! Goodnight everyone," Malcolm said and left.
"I'm turning in too. Bye guys. It was nice meeting you Sora," Francis said and left.
Tk sat on the couch and bopped his head like he was listening to music or something. He then looked over and noticed Matt giving him a "Go away" look and he eventually caught on.
"Oh, well I'm going to sleep too! Night guys!" Tk said and left.
"You ready?" Matt asked her.
"Yep. Lets go."
* * *
Matt walked Sora to her door and she got the key out to unlock it. Once it was unlocked she turned to him.
"You want to come in for a little bit?" Sora wondered.
"No, I have to get back and get some sleep before class tomorrow," Matt replied.
"Ok, I understand. I had a really, really good time tonight. I didn't think I would warm up to your family as quick as I did."
"They LOVED you, Sora. Oh my God I have never seen them act that way toward and of my girlfriends before. There's something about you that they like. Be thankful for that. If they didn't like you they would have told you straight to your face."
"Well, thank God they didn't I don't take rejection very well."
Matt let out a laugh, "Well I guess I better get going. I love you, baby."
"I love you too," Sora replied with a smile.
"I'll see you tomorrow."
Matt leaned forward and gave her kiss. He hugged and then walked away and Sora went into her house. She leaned against the door after she shut it and let out a big sigh. She was having unexplainable feelings for Matt. 'He's the one. I know it.'
~*~*~TBC~*~*~
Omg! That chapter took me so long to write! My fingers are killing me lol! I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of mistakes in here but I really don't care cuz I'm tired of typing. Please review!