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THE MIXUP
Chapter Seven
By flipstahhz
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"So...where do I sleep?" Kari questioned as she studied the face of her brother, Taichi Kamiya. Tai had basically given her a tour around their warm welcoming home and hadn't even told her where she was to be accommodated at.
Without answering, the brunette male walked down the hallway and turned into his bedroom leaving the curious girl to follow him. She hadn't been in his room yet.
As soon as she walked in, she smelt a horrible aroma of BO.The room was filled with clothes scattered all over the room, and she guessed disgusting smell was coming from the filthy socks that were hanging by the open window. Basketball and Soccer posters were pasted messily on the walls. This was truly the messiest room she had ever laid eyes on. Hikari choked back the urge to throw up as she surveyed the room once again, then looked at the other surviving being in the room.
"TK and I haven't actually cleaned in a while," Tai excused as embarrassment was evident in his tone. " I guess you're the first girl to actually come in, since our Mom who has yelled every time she entered and simply gave up coming in here.You can chose where you want to sleep. Either the top or bottom bunk."
"Is top alright?" she asked, " I don't like sleeping at the bottom."
"You're complete different from TK," sighed Tai with a grin. " I usually force him to sleep at the bottom, but since you're new and all…you deserve a chance."
Kari laughed with amusement.
She was happy that she wouldn't be living in a practically empty house. At least her real mother, father and brother were with her…though she had a tinge of sadness as she thought of Yamato and her mother. Kari hadn't quite gotten along with her father because she practically saw him once a month and she'd usually be with her brother to make things more comfortable.
"Make yourself at home, since you are here," winked Tai. " I'm going to meet your brother, I mean Yamato… and we're probably going to hang out somewhere. Want me to pass anything to him?"
"Yeah, tell him that he sucks. And he owes me twenty bucks that he hasn't returned for two months!" Kari giggled. " Where are you guys off to, anyway…it's a school night if you haven't realized."
"Watching a movie."
"Are you guys are gay?" Kari stuck out her tongue.
"Now I think I'm starting to take Takeru's advice seriously," Tai nodded his head to himself.
"WHAT?" Kari glowered. "What did he say about me? What advice?!"
"He said to watch out. And because he said that you are an animal," he gave a sly sneer.
Within seconds, Kari had made her way on top of the older boy and held her fist in front of him. "I am not an animal!"
"I never said it," Taichi pretend to be nervous. " It was TK! He just told me the truth about you!"
"Tai…you're asking for it…" Kari warned with a jeer evident in her warm brown eyes.
"Asking for what, the truth? That you arereally a massive giganticbaboon?!" he teased.
Kari shot her fist out to her brother, but for her, unfortunetly missed. Instead, her fist slammed and lanted onto the bundle of clothing that had been stacked on top of each other that towered over herself. Shethen noticed thatTaichi was out of the room in a flash before she had attempted to throw a second punch at him.
"Bye! See you tonight sis!" he called behind his back, as he swiftly ran away from her.
Now that Tai had left the room, it left Hikari staring at the "not so very" tidy room. Even though she had experienced Matt's unhygienic self…it wasn't as bad as this. Probably, two growing teenage boys weren't supposed to be brought up in the same room together.
"That's it!" Kari huffed to herself, " I can't take it! I'm cleaning this junked room right NOW! After all, he said to make myself at home…a little spring cleaning won't do any harm."
She gave a cheeky-like smile.
The smile was devilish, yet innocent.
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Tai shook his head as he wiped the beads of sweat that was appearing on his forehead as he jogged around the block. He had lied to Hikari…
He was just not used of a 'girl' as a companion since he had grown up with only mother, which didn't pass as a girl. He felt bolts of uncertainties when he was left alone with his sister and he needed air and time to think about his future and where he stood with her…
"Tai? You... alright?" questioned a strangely familiar tone.
Hesitantly, the brunette turned around to face a female with auburn hair. "Hey Sora."
"What's up? You look down," Sora commented, Yamato had filled her in on what occured the previous night. "Is it about TK?"
"Yeah, I guess it is," Tai sighed quietly. " I don't think I can handle this change. I don't even think Hikari likes me. I don't think…"
"Stop thinking negatively, and think of the things you can do to strengthen your brother-sister relationship," Sora beamed. "Kari may find it hard to open up because Yamato and her parents got divorced when they were both young, that may be why Matt can be sometimes distant…if ya know what I'm saying."
"Yeah, I know, " Tai shrugged. "Thanks for helping me out, Sora."
"No Problems, I need to get to the florist shop now…so I'd better go…nice bumping into you," Sora waved as she turned the opposite direction.
"Bye!"
Tai walked a few paces and suddenly noticed that he already made it home. He let out a deep sigh and made his way backup the stairs to his family's apartment and knocked on the door. He waited patiently.
"Who is it?"
"Tai…"
Immediately, the door swung open to reveal a familiar looking boy with golden locks and the same startling blue eyes.
"TK? What are you doing here, bro?" questioned Tai in disbelief then he smirked. " Couldn't live without me? How'd you get in the house?"
"I needed to return something to your sister and you know the spare keys that Mom keeps under the mat," TK replied in an equally mocking tune. " I also need to get some clothing which I forgot to bring with me."
"Ohh…I see."
"Where's Mom?" it was Takeru's time to ask.
"She went out to buy some groceries and dad is still at work, doing nightshift," Tai responded. " You'd better hurry up and get you're stuff. Mrs. Takaishi will be worried if you're out late."
"She hasn't arrived yet," TK said. "Don't worry."
"She might come back, come on…let's go get you're clothes."
"Sure thing."
As the two boys walked down the hallway to Tai's room, there was a sign stuck on the door, which read ' do not come in.'
"Since when did our room have signs?" queried TK suspiciously.
"Probably Kari…" Tai spoke thoughtfully then began to yell, "KARI CAN YOU OPEN THE DOO-?!"
The door was thrust open to reveal a rather tired looking girl, her pink cheeks giving evidence from her exhaustion.
"Hey guys..sup?"
"What happened to yo-"
"TO THIS ROOM!" exclaimed Takeru as his eyes darted in every direction.
Astrong essencesuddenly hit him as he observed what happened to his beautifully messy bedroom.
"Well…I wanted to clean itsince it was all messed up. Seriously, I don't know how you can actually live in this pile of junk. By the way, Tai, your clothes are in that wardrobe and mine are in the others. The clothing by the desk, I figured, were TK's since they're smaller than your size," instructed Kari as she pointed at the newly cleaned areas.
It was a dramatic change. Everything looked, new, tidy and different! Even the bunk bed was arranged in new positions. Everything was " clean."
"How'd you move that heavy bunk bed by yourself?"
"Girl power," Kari giggled as she notice TK roll his eyes. "Why are you here anyway."
"To give you this," TK handed a digital camera to her that she accepted. "You forgot it and carelessly left it on the floor."
"I'm careless now?" Kari shot back. " If you talk careless, you'd think why you were careless in keeping your room tidy!"
"I liked it like that!" TK huffed dangerously back.
Being the oldest one there, Taichi stepped in the middle of the squabbling two. " Guys, I think you need to stop. This is really childish and retarded if you go on like this…come on, you know much better than this…"
"So you're taking her side now…since you're her 'new' brother," taunted TK as he snatched the pile of clothes beside the desk. "Bye!"
"TEEKA-" Tai was interrupted by the loud slamming of the door..
Tai turned around to face the innocent girl, sitting on the chair nearby.
"What?" she glared.
"Let's just say thesmell of roses always gets TK angry," Tai explained and excuse as he dropped down next to her. " Family relationships are sure hard stuff."
"Trust me, I think I already know," Hikari spoke softly.
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If Hikari was going to make some arrangements to his room, he might as well do the same to hers. The cream calming walls had to stay, but the stuffed animals… He safely misplaced the toys into a drawer and found some sticky tape then decided to pin up the posters of his favorite basketball team on the empty ocean-like walls, identical to his thoughtful eyes.
"TK? ARE YOU HERE?" yelled a woman's voice.
TK pulled the door open to meet face to face with his true mother.
She gave a sigh of relief, " I thought you wouldn't come. I'm real sorry for coming home late because I had to stay in a couple of hours in completing a article on fashion today. How'd you get in the apartment?"
"Don't worry about coming home late, it's all cool..and Kari was the person thatgave me her spare keys to get in the apartment," TK shrugged. "I've been wondering…do you know where Matt is?"
"Matt?" Ms. Takaishi frowned, " Well, Matt doesn't live here with us Takeru.After the separation withyour father and myself when Yamato and Hikari were younger,there was an arrangement. Hikari was to stay with me, while Yamato was to live with your father."
"Ohh. I see," TK understood. "So he's not coming?"
"Yeah, he'll becoming…don't you worry about it!" Ms. Takaishi smiled as she gave him a welcoming embrace, which she expected him to escape from since Kari and Yamato did that whenever she hugged them. "Why did you ask anyway?"
"Just wondering," TK beamed bag as she let go of him. "It's just really quiet around here. Back home, it's always loud with Tai snoring or arguing with me…I never thought that Kari lived only with you. I thought she also lived with Yamato or something, no offence or anything..."
"None taken," she smiled back as she peeked into the under constructed room, "It does kind of look different when those toys are gone, it kind of creates more space from my point of view - good thinking. I think I'd bestleave you organizing your new room, for I need to cook all of us some dinner."
Without another word, sheslipped from his sight and went off to the kitchen preparing their supper. TK went back to his work, as he changed the doona to a pale blue color instead of the pale yellow with flowers scattered on it, which Kari had gotten used to.
As he changed the sheets, he observed a small notebook fall onto the wooden caramel like floor. He gazed around the room, then with hesitation picked up the book. In the front cover it depicted 'My Journal.' His fingers tingled to open it, since he still had the taste of revenge and jealously from the issue with Tai, Kari and himself when he went back to his old apartment.
He cheekily thought to himself…It doesn't say…'private' or 'my diary…' a Journal is nothing close to a diary, right?
His mind played in his head, the temptation was drawing to him. Takeru felt his fingers run down the book, as he was about to open the cover…
"TK, dinner time!"
He dropped the journal under his pillow and walked to the kitchen where three plates were set up.
Seeing the look on her son's face, Ms. Takaishi explained. "Matt rang up and told me he'd have dinner here…so I prepared another meal. Just sit down, you can - That's probably him now, I'll get it."
She got up, like she said she would, and opened the door to see an identical figure by the doorway that looked suspiciously like Takeru himself. His spiked up dirty blond hair stood in different directions as his warm, yet cooling, eyes glanced at his brother.
"Hey Mom, Takeru," he greeted.
"Hey Yamato," TK smiled.
"It's Matt to you," Yamato winked.
"Then it's TK to you," TK gave a lopsided smirk.
" Can we eat now? I'm famished!"
"Sure, the food's all set…take a seat next to TK," she smiled as she observed how her two sons acted towards each other, her eyes were about to well up in tears…but she had to be strong. They were almost a family, they just needed a father…
"Sorry for not coming earlier, I had band practice," Matt said as he gulped some food down.
Conversations spreaded through the table that night. TK found Matt compelety different to Tai…he was different, and that was the only word that he could find to explain his brother. Even though it was nighttime, Matt had actually come to see him, then again Matt had told him that he couldn't visit everyday because their father would tell him off. Takeru's mother became furious, by that time Matt thought it was best that he left.
They farewelled each other and Ms. Takaishi instructed TK to go and get some sleep since it was a school night.
So TK made himself comfortable on his bed then remembered the journal. Mischievously, he opened up to the latest entry…
Dear Journal,
I need to go somewhere tonight so I'm kind of in a hurry (mind the messy writing). It's been a while since I've written in this book, but I thought that I needed someone to talk to since no one's home (Mom's at work again and Matt hasn't visited in ages). It's been my first day at Odaiba, and school is pretty much the same - though I already have a rival that is really irritating.
I think I've got a crush on someone…but I can't really say the name since it might fall into the wrong hands and Matt might know him…
I love staring at him, and watching his hair cascade over his eyes…hiding some of his warm expression. I don't know why, but I can't keep my eyes off him.
He seems so happy, yet so sad. I want to go up to him, and ask him what's wrong…but I never can.
I think his name is Ta-
I need to go, sorry for leaving a cliffhanger for you…
Lots of love
Hikari Takaishi
xoxox
TK smirked…the secret admirer that she had to like was her own brother…It had to be Tai…it had to…since many girls had fallen in love with his soccer lover of a brother…Taichi Kamiya…
He was unaware that he was completely off the track as he placed it into his bag, he was going to use this false information for something big.
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I think that's it for now. While writing this, I decided to stick to the genre I've been writing too…so it will have a bit of this and that. Hmmz…I hope this 'longer' I think chapter coped up for the months I've missed in updating this! Thanks for reading
flipstahhz
NEXT CHAPTER: TK and Daisuke talk to each other, and TK reveals Hikari's secret to him….
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