Well Here we go! About time n'est pas? Anywayz enjoy the Taito. Lolly. Oh and look they have ages now! Heh heh …Disclaimer: These guys aren't mine. I merely hijack their bodies and minds. Oh and Be warned of the Shounen ai.
Matt raised an arm to cover his face from the sunlight. It was pleasantly warm and he could hear the breeze coming through the window. He didn't have a window. Matt's eyes snapped open.
"Well?"
Tai was sitting there. He was smiling at Matt through the tears that had spilled. Matt sat up so quickly that Tai instinctively leant forward to him.
"Matt." Slowly Matt raised his hand to wipe the tears from Tai's face. His eyes closed and he rolled his cheek into Matt's hand. Matt blinked surprised and suddenly Tai's eyes were open and his face was growing warm to the touch. Tai stood and turned, wiping his face.
"Good to have you back." Matt felt a little charge of disappointment as he let his hand fall back to the bed. Affection from Tai did not come often.
"Why … ?" Matt's voice was hoarse and he raised a hand gingerly to his throat. His hands touched a chain of silver. He looked down at it and felt something twinge in his stomach. It was Tai's chain, the one Matt had given him for his 20th birthday. Tai had turned.
"Why? Why didn't you tell me?" Matt's forehead crinkled in puzzlement.
"Tell you what?"
"Don't give me that. Why haven't you been eating?" There was a very long pause while Matt thought.
"Here." He was fiddling with the clasp at the back of his neck but Tai stayed his hand. Another long pausewhile they looked into eavh others eyes.Matt leant forward a little not quiteaware of what he was doing. Tai felt his hands aching to twine themselves aroundhis neck and to lean inslowly and ...
"Tell me what's wrong." Tai said as steadily as he could closing his eyes trying to block out his instincts. Matt sighed and looked away.Eventually he leant back on his pillows forcing himself to relax a little. Tai was his friend ... His ...best friend. He'd understand.
"It's … Sora."
Tai felt his heart plummeting. The tears that had so recently stopped threatened to fall again. He nodded stiffly.
"You can tell me." But Matt had been looking around taking in the hospital and most importantly perhaps, the nurse who was walking towards them shaking her head smilingly.
"You should have come and got me when your friend woke up Tai." She said as she came up to them. She was attractive, with long blonde curls that bobbed as she walked.
Tai looked on annoyed at the interruption.
After 15 minutes of routine questions and examinations Tai's patience snapped.
"Is this really neccessary? Can't I just take him home?" The nurse grinned wickedly.
"Well I daresay that you will have some privacy when you get home and it does seem that there is nothing wrong except lack of nourishment. Luckily this hasn't been going on very long so as long as you promise to start eating regularly and healthily again, you can go and enjoy some special time with your beau."
"Tai's not my beau." Matt said blushing.
"Well you certainly fooled me!"He's been drooling over,"
"Great, thanks, grab your clothes Matt, we're GONE!" Tai shouted drowning out the nurses words. She sniggered as Matt stared at him and Tai blushed yet again.
"Well fine. Just take your "friend" for a meal before bedtime. Oh and don't tire him out ok?"
After grabbing a take away from McDonalds on the way back, they had eaten in near silence, neither knowing what to say, but as they entered Matt's flat, via the new door Matt brought up the courage to speak.
"Listen Tai, you've been really great but,"
"No you listen Matt, I've been in hell trying to understand what could make you so miserable and the only thing I can think of is," He took a deep breath. "It's what I said to you isn't it? After the party. It's my fault."
"No Tai!"
"Well what else could it be!" Tai's voice was full of anguish and Matt heard it reverberating in his very soul."You said it was Sora but she's crazy about you! She ... she loves you! You have hundreds of fan girls who worship the ground you walk on and friends who adore you. And then there's me." Tai's voice crumpelled in on itself. "There's me."
"Yes." Matt sounded a little dazed, but continued "That's the problem." Tai looked up completely stunned. Tears filled his wide frightened eyes. "You're the problem Tai." Matt repeated slowly, wrapping his arms around himself, tears tricking down hischeeks. "You see ... I don't love Sora. I love you." He took a deep breath keeping his eyes averted. "It took me awhile to realise but ... whenever Sora kisses me I think of you. You ... make me whole Tai. Damnit, I'm gay! Sora's wonderful but you ... Everything we've been through together it,"His voice suddenly gave out, and he sobbed into the wall. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry, I know you love Sora, I should have told her, but,"
Tai strode across the distance in a matter of secondsand pulled Matt stunned into his chest.
"Matt." His voice too was choked with emotion. Matt looked up and they came together in a long passionate kiss, slowly slipping their arms around each other.
"My Matt." Tai laughed into Matt's cheek, the tears falling from two pairs of eyes. "My beautiful Matt. It's you, you fool. Always you."
To be continued ... Yaoi to come ... Lolly.
