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:Eternal Sunshine:

Chapter 3: You found me!

In the real world, Tyler Kinomoto had long blonde hair, like Sirena's. Her lavender eyes were also magnificent, and always drew attention. Except when she was a nobody. Myana Tomoyo actually had black hair, but it was short. Her blue eyes were crystal clear, and quite beautiful. Mya radiated with happiness most of the time. The only time she was sad was when Tai was sad.

In the real world, Tai had an older brother, a mother and a kitten. Her older brother, Touya, was usually away at college. He rarely visited, since he hated his mother. But he always found a way to send something to Tai or come and see her. He adored his little sister, and would do anything to be around her. He wanted to protect her from the world. Mya always teased Tai that he should be protecting the world from her.

Tai was extremely clumsy. She always messed up her words. Or, at least, the old Tai did. The new Tai that had friends was still clumsy, and usually only messed up her words around boys. She was always messing up around boys.

She had just had dinner and was lying on her bed, waiting for Mya to call. Her life was ever so boring. She had a job and friends, but she never really did anything..

Her phone rang loudly. Tai was taken by surprise and jumped, which caused her to fall off the bed.

"Oww.." she said, rubbing her head. The phone rang again, and she crawled over to it and picked it up.

"H-hello..?" she answered, still muddled from the fall.

"Hello, does Tyler Kinomoto live here?"

"This is her.." she said, instantly getting depressed. This couldn't be good.

"Heya Kiddo."

Tai blinked. Who in the world..? she thought. She rubbed her head, then stopped. Her eyes snapped open. Is it..?

"Zane?"

"Good guess. Took you forever. But that's a usual thing, huh?"

Definatly Zane..

"Leave me alone. I can't think right now.."

There was a pause on the other end. She bit her lip. Please don't let him read more into that... She smacked her forehead soundly. She could hear Touya and her mom yelling again. She kicked the door closed.

"Family problems?"

Tai glanced around her room, then layed on her back. Her cell phone jingled, meaning she got a text. She didn't want to look at it, but it wouldn't shut up. She finally looked at it, then chucked it across the room. Touya wanted her to go outside. He couldn't just knock on my door and tell me to leave..?

"You still there, kiddo?"

Tai got suddenly mad, "I'm not a kid, y'know!"

"I know. I just like to tease. It's obvious your not a kid."

Tai blinked and gazed at her cieling, "How is it obvious?"

"How you act..How your..uh..d-developed.."

Tai blushed, then groaned. Apparenly Zane heard this, cause he laughed. Tai rolled her eyes. She could hear her cell phone going nuts.

"What's up with your phone?"

"Nothing. My brother wants me out of the house. And instead of walking the 2 feet to knock on my door and politely ask me to go out somewhere, he texts my phone 900 times," she said, sighing and rolling her eyes.

"Heh. You never told me you had a brother.."

"Hm..well..we haven't spoken in..what..four months?"

"True..We really need to catch up, huh, love?"

Tai smiled. She hated the endearment, unless he used it. She'd had a crush on him since he saved her character from extinction. She had almost died and lost the game because some knight character decided to pick on her. It was in Amai city, and she had been a newbie. Mya and her had gotten seperated, and Tai was asking for directions, when she happened to ask the wrong person. The guy grabbed her, and was harrassing her. The he attacked her. Zane jumped off the bridge and rescued her, deleting the guy from the game. That was the day they met..And that was the day he gained her trust and love..

"Mm..yea. I guess we do..Where to start--"

She was cut off because Touya bursted into her room just then. He looked really mad too.

"I know you got my messages!"

Tai rolled her eyes, "Yea, but the real question is, did I want to listen to them?"

Zane was laughing over the phone. Apparently this was great entertainment.

"Get outta here! I don't want you listening to mom bicker. It'll warp your mind!"

"Oo..I'm oh so scared. Touya, grow up. I've heard you yell twice as much as her. So therefore don't pin it on mom. I'll go in just a minute. Give me one minute, ok?"

"I'm timing.." he growled before slamming her door shut.

"So that's big brother, huh?"

"Yea..He's much sweeter once you get to know him..Well, he wouldn't be sweet to you."

"Why is that?"

"He thinks every guy wants to date me. So he'd think you were after me too."

"And who says I'm not?"

Tai was shocked. He'd never once said anything like that to her. He'd never flirted. Sure, he got annoyed when other flirted, but that was because he couldn't stand guys being annoying. But..

"Well, it's been a minute. I'll email you with the happenings of the past four months..Think about what I just said, alright? 'Cause, I'd hate to lose you to someone like Ryu. G'night." and with that he hung up.

Tai dropped the phone back into it's cradle. She was still shocked. She ran and got her cell phone and dialed.

"Mya here."

"He likes me."

"Who?"

"Zane.."