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"Fine!" Sora stood up from the muddle, brown water rushing off of her clothing. "I get to kick off!" She strolled over to the ball.
"How do you figure?" Tai asked.
"Because of that puddle, you owe me one!" Sora smiled, "I kick off."
"No you don't! You have Matt!" Tai pointed to the other boy who stood off to Sora's left looking up at the sky.
"Fine!" Sora threw up her arms, "Matt you are on Tai's team."
"Whatever," Matt walked over to Tai's side.
"Like hell he is!" Tai pointed to Sora's side and Matt walked back over, "I get to kick off!"
"I am kicking off Tai, learn to live with it!" Sora crossed her arms. Matt sighed and walked over to Tai's side again.
"I'm kicking off; you kicked off the last time!" Tai accused.
Matt stopped and looked at them, "Hey, I don't have to play. I didn't want to in the first place…"
"Shut up and get over here!" Tai pointed to his side of the field.
"Whatever," Matt walked back over the white line again. Before he even turned around, Sora kicked the ball sending it passes him.
"HEY!" Tai yelled at the red head, "We weren't ready! Matt wasn't even at his goal post!"
"Too bad!" Sora yelled as she kicked the ball towards her goal.
"Stop the ball Matt!" Tai yelled as both boys took a spot beside Sora to try and steal the ball from her.
"Sorry boys…" She nailed the ball into the net. "One goal for me and zip for you!" She walked smugly to her side of the field.
"What are you grinning about?" Tai swatted Matt on the back, "We just lost that one!"
"Um..nothing." Matt gave a shrugged and walked to his spot in the goal. Before him, Sora and Tai battled it out. The ball never did reach the goal post again; everything took place at the middle line of the field. Rarely did the ball move close to either's goal but it never made it. Sora and Tai were an equal match for each other. Matt couldn't understand why they didn't receive more bruises then they had from the game. They kicked each other when they missed the ball; the grass was wet and slippery causing them both to fall hard several times. When the ball bounced off of their bare flesh, Matt could hear a wet slapping noise and he knew it would leave a welt on whoever received the blow. Finally, once they were played out they strolled over to where Matt sat on the grass, in the middle of the goal.
"Um…sorry," Sora put her hand on Matt's shoulder as she lowered herself on the grass. "Guess we got carried away out there."
"Yeah, you must be bored." Tai sat on Matt's other side.
"Ah no. Actually I found it very entertaining." Matt smiled at both of them, "And I remember why I didn't want to play in the first place."
"Ugh!" Sora looked down at her muddy clothing, "Mom is going to kill me when she takes a gander at me!"
"I thought the same about my mom, that's why I'm going over to Matt's place." Tai smiled, "To get clean clothes and to dry off. At least I would look decent when I go back to my place. Mom won't think I got mugged or anything likes that."
Sora looked over at Matt who had lay down on the grass so the rainwater would fall on his face. "Can I come over too?"
"I don't care," Matt looked up at her. She smiled down at him and over at Tai.
"Maybe we can get him to cook up something hot," Sora smiled.
"Have you seen his refrigerator?" Tai leaned back against the wet grass like Matt, his hands behind his head, "there isn't anything in there. Well I think there was this mouldy fruit."
"Um…that was liver," Matt told him.
"That's grosser then I thought…"Tai sighed.
The three lay on the grass while the rain poured over them. Their eyes close and there minds drifting off.
I like this, Tai thought, Just the three of us. Enjoying a rainy day better then anyone else in the city. I can relax with them...I think we should have more rainy days. Dreary days are long gone...I wonder who thought up the word dreary...That would make a good pet name for Kari's cat. No it would but if you say it enough time it does sound sort of okay. Dreary Dreary Dreary Dreary Cheery Dreary Cheery...I think I need food.
I can't believehe islaying this close to me, Soraglanced at the corner of her eyes to watch Matt. What am I thinking? He's my best friend! I am starting to sound like Mimi! I don't think he's cute...not with his golden locks that fall across his foreheadand those beautiful blue orbs...sigh...did I just sigh in my head!
If I close my eyes real tight I can hear her breath beside me, I can smell her perfum...Matt suddenly open his eyes to see a raindrop coming directly at him, I can't do this. She's my friend and besides she likes Tai. I need to stop thinking about her.
"We can stop at the store," Sora copied the boys by laying back, her face tilted up at the sky as ran drops splashed against her face.
"Looking the way we do?" Tai asked.
"Sure, why not?" Sora shrugged.
"Got any money?" Tai asked.
"Not much," Sora replied, "You?"
"Just change…" Tai sat up and looked down at Matt who had his eyes close. "Hey Matt?"
Sora turned on her side to face him, "Matt? Do you mind?"
"I have to buy the food and cook it too?" Matt mumbled.
"I knew you would understand!" Sora kissed his cheek and stood up. "I am starving!"
She just kissed Matt! Tai glanced over at Matt who now had his eyes open wide. My best friend just kissed my best friend!
Did she kiss me? Matt looked up watching Sora talk but not really hearing her. It wasn't a real kiss but it was a kiss all the same. Could she….nah. He stood up and looked down at Tai, "You coming?"
I kissed him! Okay it wasn't the kiss I wanted to give him..I can't believe I actually did that. I didn't think about it, I just acted on an impulse. Wow! This is so not like me! Sora kept her stare forward, not even wanting to look back at the other two boys, what if he didn't want me to kiss him. What if he thinks it meant something more? Well it did but he doesn't have to know that it did.
"Um…yeah," Tai pulled himself up and walked behind his two friends. He watched as Matt kept glancing at Sora, then look away. Sora would say something and look over at his direction but blushed when he made eye contact with her. This isn't good. They should never have dance. I don't like this… Tai nudge himself between the two, talking about how he was hungry for a huge greasy hamburger that his mother refuses to make. Matt and Sora rolled their eyes.
"Look the fountain is on!" Sora pointed to the town's fountain that was over flowing with rainwater but still managed to spit out a sprout of gushing water. "Tai give me your coin!"
"What fore?" Tai fumbled in his pocket, bring a coin in the palm of his hands.
"For a wish, silly!" Sora rolled her eyes and walked over to the fountain. Matt stepped on its ledge and started to walk around the edge of its beam. Water flowing over his sneakers.
"What are you going to wish for?" Tai asked, grinning as Matt almost lost his balance, hisarms flapping wildly ashetried to regainwhat he almost lost.
"I don't know yet," Sora shrugged, standing before the fountain with her eyes shut tight and her hand grasping the coin in her palm.
"Wish I was a millionaire," Tai told her.
"Wish on your own," Sora told him, her eyes still shut. Matt was now on directly across from them, still walking on the beam.
"Hurry up and make a wish!" Tai told her as he walked away from her, towards Matt.
"Don't rush me!" Sora warned him.
"What would happen if we put fish in here?" Tai asked Matt.
"I guess they would just swim around," Matt shrugged, looking down at Tai.
"We should stop at the fish store and buy some goldfish or something. Wouldn't it be cool?" Tai followed Matt around the rim of the fountain. "Do you know what this rain reminds me of?"
"Water?" Matt asked.
"No," Tai shook his head, "That movie 'It' where the kid sailed his paper boat down a drain and the clown tore off his arm."
"Still don't like clowns much do you?" Matt grinned at Tai. He now made a full circle and Sora still didn't fling her coin in the fountain yet. Tai picked a coin out of his pocket and flicked it into the fountain.
"Did you make a wish?" Matt asked.
"Yeah," Tai looked over at Sora, "I wished Sora would hurry up and make a wish."
"FUNNY!" Sora told them, her eyes still closed. She pulled her hand back to give the coin a good toss. Her goal was to have it bounce off the center statue of the fountain and drop into the water. What happen was her fist collides with Matt's stomach making him fall into the water. "MATT!" Sora covered her mouth.
"But I like that wish better," Tai laughed.
"It's not funny Tai!" Sora jumped in the fountain. "I am soooo sorry Matt! I didn't know you were standing there!"
"I told you to make a wish!" Tai was still laughing.
"Are you okay!" Sora reached Matt and helped him up. He held his hand to his stomach while he coughed up the water he drank. Sora started to pound his back. "You okay!"
"He will be once you stop beating him up!" Tai, still laughing walked into the fountain also to help Matt out. "You know some people just flick their coins in to the fountain but no, not Sora. She had to toss it like a hand gernade."
"Shut up Tai!"Sora hissed at him.
"I'm okay..." Matt let his two friends help him out of the fountain. "The statue broke my fall..."