Hey guys, sorry about not updating in awhile. No excuses, im just sorry. L ß see? Sorry. Welp, here's chap 4 all nice and ready for you to read .. Chapter five might be a long one. Read Review Enjoy

To Love Two

It Starts, Chapter 4

-- T.A.

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Taichi sighed. He was in his third period class that he shared with Matt, and Matt had yet to show up.

Taichi sighed again and looked out of the window. Sora had also been mysteriously absent from their first period class. Sora was never absent, well, for as long as Tai had known her.

Taichi stared at a bird that was perched on one of the windowsills. 'Where could Matt be? He's usually never THIS late to school .. Maybe he's sick?' Taichi frowned while still staring at the bird. 'I hope he's not sick, I don't want anything bad to happen to Matt. Does that bird have a blue beak??' At this Taichi leaned closer to the window trying to get a better look at the bird.

"MR. YAGAMI!!!!!!!" was screamed right next to Taichi's ear. Taichi jumped then sat up, pin straight in record timing.

"Yes sir!"

The teacher gave Taichi an annoyed look as the rest of the class snickered.

"I would appreciate it, Mr. Yagami, if you would please join the rest of the class and actually pay attention." He pointedly looked down at Taichi. Taichi was known for never paying attention in any of his classes. The teachers just figured he had a short attention span.

Taichi looked up at the teacher, "Yes sir" and gave the teacher a toothy grin.

The teacher sighed and walked back up to the front of the class, continuing his lesson.

Taichi paid attention for about two minutes. Then he found himself staring at the bird again and thinking about Matt.

The teacher sighed and shook his head, 'I give up.'

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The last bell of the day rang and Taichi sprung to his feet. He ran to his locker as quick as he could, packed all of his homework, then made a mad dash for the door.

He was gonna go visit his Matty and see if he was okay. He hadn't shown up the whole day and Taichi was really starting to worry about him.

"Hey, TAICHI!!" someone screamed down the hallway right before Tai flew out the door.

Tai spun around on his heals and looked to see where the voice came from. He saw a hand wave at him through a crowd of students and smiled when Quinn appeared and starting walking towards him.

Taichi laughed as Quinn had to dodge a few fan girls on his way. Out of Matt's band members, Taichi had to say that he liked Quinn the best. He was the most level headed out of all of them and Taichi had known him since elementary school. He also had been on Taichi's soccer team for a year, but he quit. Probably because of the band, Taichi never knew.

"Hey Quinn," Taichi gave him five, "Walking home today?"

Quinn smiled, "Yup, Sis has the car today, I get it tomorrow. How bout you?"

Taichi shrugged, "Walked here this morning, it was nice out."

Quinn shook his head, "You're the only person I know, Taichi, who would pass up driving a convertible to walk."

Taichi shrugged again and smiled, "You want to join me?" Quinn and Tai lived on the same block, so once in awhile they would walk home together.

Quinn smiled, "Sure, I was headed home anyway."

They walked out of the school and down the block in comfortable silence. After a minute or so Taichi broke it.

"I think I'm gonna stop by Matt's and see if he's okay. He didn't show up to school today."

"Really?" Quinn looked over at Tai, "He looked okay last night at band practice," a thought struck Quinn and he smiled, "Maybe Sora cooked him something and he got food poisoning."

Taichi laughed, "She probably made her famous chicken and rice, that could make anyone sick."

Quinn laughed, "Dude, did you ever actually finish a plate of that stuff?"

"Yea I did once, boy did I learn my lesson." Taichi laughed, "I was puking for a week after that."

Quinn's eyes widened, "Really?! Jeese then I'm glad I didn't finish it. I told her and Matt I was full. That I had eaten dinner earlier at my house."

"Really?" Tai looked at Quinn with a huge smile, "I gotta use that next time she offer's me anything. Hey here's the park, let's cut through. It's easier that way to get to Matt's."

Quinn and Tai turned into the park and started walking down the path that leads to the lake and circle's around to the other side of the park. They were again enveloped in a comfortable silence as they watched other people in the park. When they got down to the lake's edge Tai picked up a hand full of pebbles and as they walked along the edge he would occasionally throw one in.

Everything was going fine and dandy until Quinn stopped short and Tai ran into him.

"Ow, Quinn! Why'd ya stop??" Taichi pouted.

Quinn smirked, and as he pointed to a couple making out on a bench a little further in front of them he said, "Taichi, I don't think you have to worry to much about Matt."

Tai's gaze followed Quinn's pointed finger to the couple. He frowned. It was Matt, and at this realization Tai started to boil.

Before Tai knew what he was doing he had chucked a pebble, rather hard, at the back of the offending blonde's head. Of course it hit it's target.

Matt went stiff.

Quinn's eyes were the size of baseballs as he looked from the back of Matt's head to the raging Taichi.

In a small voice he asked, "Um .. Taichi .. Do you realize what you just did?"

Tai didn't answer, he was seething in rage, 'How dare he make me worry about him all fucking day when all he was doing was skipping school and making out with that floozy?!'

Sora looked over Matt's shoulder quizzically, wondering why her boyfriend had stopped kissing her. She smiled and waved when she saw Tai and Quinn.

That's when Matt started to slowly turn around, a death glare firmly planted on his face.

Quinn gulped when Matt's gaze landed on him. That was it, he didn't need this drama, Quinn grabbed Taichi and ran for it. What Quinn didn't see though was that when Matt's gaze locked with Taichi's, his face had faltered and for a moment he looked like a deer caught in headlights.

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And the action starts.

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--T.A.