I know I didn't update for a long time but I've been busy with work … like the rest of the world …¬¬; Sorry for anyone who was interested and pining for more info … Anywayz here ya go.
Anywayz R and R nicely and I'll give you cookies and/or Matt x Tai slush – or Sora x Matt fluff whatever floats your boat. Tell me who wants TaixMatt and who wants SoraxMatt? If you want someone else … Well tell me that too … Thankies to all the lovely people who reviewed me! You made me so happy! Here have lollys!
Oh and here's another warning - there is gonna be shounen ai, yaoi etc. (Unless lots of people tell me not to )
Disclaimer: I do not own these lovely and angsty full characters.
"Wake up sleepy head!" Matt woke with a jerk. Sora was leaning over him a broad grin on her face.
"Ummmm … Hello." He said blushing, trying to reach for the trousers on the floor … that were no longer there … "Have you seen …" He looked at her face. It was far too innocent. "Sora …"
"They're in the drawer." She said. They stared at each other for a moment.
"Oh! You wanted me to get them for you, right." Slowly she stood and walked to the drawer taking out a pair of jeans and some briefs. She put them on the bed. They stared at each other again.
"Fine." She said standing and walking out of the room. "I seen it all anyway. Your duvet fell off in the night." She heard a yelp and a thud as Matt fell on the floor and snickered. "Only joking."
"Thanks for cleaning my room Sora. I really appreciate it. He wrapped his arms around her in a tired embrace. She smiled and looked up into his eyes. They stood together for a little while before Sora kissed his lips. With a little squeeze Matt pulled away.
"Don't you have a shift tomorrow? … Umm later?"
"Yeah." She sighed, stopping herself from kissing him again. "I should go home and sleep." Matt saw the look she gave him but pretended not to.
"Yeah you wouldn't want to fall asleep at the tills eh? Not with the way you snore I mean."
"Hey!" She started tickling him playfully until he taken up in the game pushed her down by mistake and they found themselves on the floor. Sora's heart began racing. Perhaps he would. Her eyes closed a little and her lips pouted almost by themselves.
Matt looked down. He wanted to kiss her, it was so obviously what she wanted but at the same time. Suddenly he could see Tai's saddened face. Matt kissed her on the forehead and rolled off her. Laughing nervously.
"So when can I see you next?" Sora stood confused and a little hurt but shook it off as she looked into his anxious face.
"I know. Let's go to the cinema on Tuesday. Just you and me. And we can go shopping!" Matt laughed.
"And what makes you think I'd do that hmm?"
"I'll bribe you with cookies!"
"You think cookies will buy a whole day of my time huh? When I have another concert on in a weeks time?"
"Chocolate chip cookies, baked with love …" She said enticingly.
"You win." He hugged her and gave her a kiss on the cheek. "See you at the mall."
"Have you lost weight Matt?" She asked as she prepared to leave. "You feel thinner y'know." And with that she left for sleep. Matt stared after the door and then went to the full-length mirror that hung in his bedroom, which was now, thanks to Sora, beautifully clean. Slowly he raised the jumper he was wearing over his head and let it fall in a heap at his feet.
He had always been on the scrawny side but now his ribs protruded from his chest. He fingered them gingerly. When had he last eaten? Last night? The day before? Why wasn't he hungry? Slowly he put his jumper back on thinking about making a sandwich but he just didn't want anything to eat.
Suddenly he felt something in the back of his throat. Feeling nauseous he stumbled into the bathroom and began to wretch over the bowl. Nothing came up, except for a painful gurgling. He felt his muscles contracting again and again but there was nothing there. Eventually tears streaming he collapsed on the floor exhausted. After a few moments he blacked out.
Tai kept hammering at the door. "Matt! Matt! Let me in! Hey Matt!" Suddenly the door caved in under his fists and he fell to the floor. He looked up expecting Matt to come and yell at him but he couldn't hear anything. "I know he's in," Tai thought, "and I've been knocking for 10 minutes and he's usually a pretty light sleeper … Maybe he's in the shower …" As he thought this all kinds of images filled his mind. Blood began pouring out of his nose.
He started swearing under his breath looking for tissues. Holding his nose tightly he made his way to the bathroom where he stopped dead. Matt was there in a little heap. Tai watched as Matt's chest rose ever so slightly before lying still. He felt his heart pounding and his mind seemed to be filling with fog.
What was going on? Panic gripped him. Tai leant over rolling the body around so that he could see Matt's face. Blood dripped from his nose and splashed Matt's cheek. Absent-mindedly he grabbed some tissue paper and dabbed at his nose. Matt looked wrong, obviously, considering he had apparently fallen asleep in the bathroom. But that was insane. He must be unconscious.
Tai straddled him to get a better look. His face was drawn and the skin under his eyes was discoloured with tiredness. As Tai lifted Matt's head tenderly he stared at the face, which had been haunting his dreams for the past weeks. He put down the tissue, his nosebleed having stopped almost as quickly as it had started. He was just about to wipe the blood off of Matt's face when a noise made him start and look around. Sora had just walked in with a look of horror on her face.
Her heart almost stopped. She had decided to come back to Matt on the pretext of having left her jacket. Sora had started yearning for the warmth of Matt's body almost as soon as she left the flat. It was only when she was half way home that she knew she wouldn't be able to sleep. So she had turned around and walked back. The door had been wide open. For a moment she thought Matt had heard her coming up the stairs and was about to jump out at her, but he hadn't. As she walked into the bathroom she found out why.
Tai was on top of Matt, his arm lifted to Matt's face, which was smeared in blood. He turned to her with a worried face.
"Sora I,"
"You bastard." He stared at her incredulous. Had she really just said that? "You couldn't leave him alone could you?" Her voice was dangerously low.
"I was just,"
"Not one word Tai! Not one word." Tai stood up, carefully lowering Matt's head to the ground. "What have you done to him?" He stared at her feeling his anger rising, couldn't she see Matt needed help right now? That there wasn't time for a personal fight. He opened his mouth and spat
"I thought you didn't want me to say a word." She strode forward and slapped him around the face, the sound lingering in the air.
"How dare you? How DARE you? You've got no right to hurt him like this. It's nothing to do with him!"
"It's everything to do with him." She slapped him again on the other cheek.
"What's happened to you?" She asked, barely able to suppress her anger. "You've changed Tai. You've turned into a total and utter bastard you know that? Since that party … What did you say to him?" Tai's hand had raised to his cheek automatically where he fingered the mark she had left on him. Then he pushed past her.
"Matt needs an ambulance."
"But he doesn't need you!" The words tore through him with the force of a bullet. Was this how Matt had felt when he said those things? The shock was so much he was barely able to move. Forcing himself to walk, he reached the phone and dialled the emergency number. Sora had been watching him but quickly turned to Matt who was lying on the ground. She knelt beside him staring at his face. At least the hospital was so near that it would take barely any time for them to arrive she thought. Barely ten minutes on foot. She looked longingly at Matt's closed eyes, willing them to open and focus on her. But they didn't. Slowly she began to wipe away the drying blood. It didn't seem to have come from anywhere, there was no bruising. As she puzzled Tai stepped behind her.
"I came 15 minutes ago. Matt didn't answer the door so I kept knocking. I must have been knocking pretty hard. The door fell open. I got a nosebleed. I came in here and found him. Some of the blood spilt onto his cheek. That's what happened." Sora was silent for a moment before she asked in a voice of ice.
"What did you say to him, after that party?"
To Be Continued … (One day … ¬¬)
In manga this always seems to be happening and I think it's a funny concept. Plus I get nosebleeds at the randomnest (no not a word) times … like the shower … So this has a little meaning for me … Umm sorry you probably didn't want to know that … Heh heh heh …;
