Theladyknight: I never miss a chance to be out in a summer rainstorm. I hate thunder and lighting but to have just a heavy down pour of rain is the best. I recommend it to anyone, take a walk by yourself or with a friend in the rain. I'm glad you enjoyed the soccer part…I'm not a sports person so I went through that blindly…I'm glad it past for at least semi okay.
Karone-sakura: Glad you find it amusing. I always look for a good humor storoies and I try to write them also but my stories never seem funny to me, even though I try.
Blueicepop: I love reading stories with different characters pairing up but for me, it will always be Sora and Matt.
JyouraKoumi: Okay is good….
Rileyyy: glad you took notice to it. This story doesn't even come close to your own. I hope to read a new up date from you soon!
Eiliriel: I will work on my gloomy Matt and try to bring him to a more cheerful mood. Hopefully Sora will be able to be some help there.
THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO REVIEWED…and for shrugging off my mistakes.
"I'm fine," Matt shrugged Tai's and Sora's arms off his shoulder only to lose his balance and head backwards to the water again.
"MATT!" Sora reached out for him to help him regain his balance with the result of her falling down with him. The fountain's water splashed over its rim with the force of the fall and Tai stood in the middle, doubled over with laughter.
"Man! I wish I had a camera!" Tai yelled.
"SHUT UP!" Sora and Matt struggled to sit up but Sora kept getting her legs tangle with Matt's legs and falling hard against him, sending his head underwater.
"Sorry!" She pulled the boy to surface by his shirt collar.
"It's alright," Matt spit out some more water.
"This keeps getting better!" Tai howled.
"OH!" Sora hit the surface of water, "Stop standing there like a bamboo and help us out!" She held out her hand towards him.
"Bamboo? Relax," Tai grabbed her wet hand to help pull her up as Matt rise from his own watery bed. Halfway up, Sora's hand slipped through Tai's and she fell backwards against Matt, sending him down in the fountain again.
"AGGGH!" Matt pushed her off. "Just sit there until I get up!"
"Now Matt," Tai shook his finger at his friend, "That's not a gentlemen thing to do!"
"Whatever!" Matt stood up with out any more problems and turned around to help Sora up. She put both of her hands into his and let him pull her up. "Stay!" He told her as he walked away from her. Once he was a five feet in front of her, he turns to wink at the red hair. Sora crossed her arms, rolled her eyes then slapped Tai in the back to wipe off his grin.
"What are you laughing at!" She demanded.
"Nothing…"Tai held up both of his hands as he walked away from her. "When ever you think that I might be in need of assistants…say I am drowning, call for help!"
"I'm not a klutz!" Sora told both of the boys as they slipped out of the fountain.
"No one said you were," Tai told her, still grinning from ear to ear.
"But you both thought it!" Sora walked towards the rim of the fountain and both boys grabbed an arm to lift her over the top.
"You don't know what we were thinking," Tai told her.
"Yeah I do!" She hit Tai. "Jerk!"
"Sora!" Tai rubbed his arm and gave her his best puppy dog look. "That stung!"
"I didn't hurt you!" She told him. Feeling guilty, she rubbed the red mark she left on his arm, "Sorry…"
"Guys…"Matt stood by a street lamp running his hands over his back pocket of his jeans, "My wallet…"
"Huh?" Tai turned towards him.
"I lost it.."Matt walked back over to the fountain to scan the bottom for a black wallet.
"What does it look like?" Sora asked.
"It's a wallet." Matt lifted an eyebrow.
"REALLY!" Sora eyes widen.
"There!" Tai pointed to the base of the fountain. "See it!"
"Yeah," Matt sighed giving a side-glance at Sora, "Please don't try to save me again…"
"Honey I wouldn't save you now if you were the last human in the world!" She spat.
"Hell I'm going after it!" Tai jumped on the rim of the fountain, "That's the wallet that is going to buy me some dinner!" He then jumped into the shallow fountain, tackling the wallet. The wallet put up quite a fight, flipping Tai on his back to dunk him several times but Tai managed to get in some good wrestling moves against the wallet, body slamming it, smacking it against the statue before it sent him into a death roll.
"Stop showing off," Sora rolled her eyes but she was grinning at Tai's drama act in wrestling a man-eating wallet. She glanced up at Matt who had an open grin on his face, showing of his perfect teeth. She bumped her hip against the side of his leg to get his attention. Matt looked down at her, winked at her eye rolling, and nods in Tai's directions.
Tai bounced out of the fountain, holding up Matt's wallet, "I won!" He said, panting for breath.
"I'm impressed!" Sora cooed.
"Come on," Matt strolled off, leaving Tai and Sora there with his wallet.
"That dude is way to trusting," Tai looked at Sora.
"Come on," Sora nudged his rib cage with her elbow, "It's not like we would spend his money."
"I don't mean that," Tai opened it up, "I meant not thinking we wouldn't look in it."
"So the male species look in each other wallets?" Sora asked.
"Sure," Tai shrugged, "He has three credit cards…why would he have three? I don't even have one."
"That one is a bank card, he only has two. Ooohh…a phone number with out a name! Mysterious!" Sora looked down at it, "It's not familiar to me. How about you?"
"Um…"Tai glanced down at her hand, "Nope, the number doesn't register…HEY!"
"What?"
"You don't suppose that Matt has…nah" Tai shrugged.
"Has what?" Sora asked, looking up at her best friend.
"Do you think he has other friends?" Tai's beautiful brown eyes were hug.
"NO WAY!" Sora stopped, "How could anyone have different friends when they are our friend!"
"So right!" Tai grinned and Sora giggled. "You do realize that I have now remembered this number and I shall give this person a call."
"What are you going to say?" Sora asked, grabbing Matt's wallet out of Tai's hand. Tai waved at Matt who was now about ten feet away from them.
"I don't know," Tai shrugged, "I'll know when I say hello! Hey maybe I'll ask if Matt is there."
"Aw look!" Sora showed Tai a picture Matt had in the back of one of the folds of the wallet.
"Hey that's us!" Tai grabbed the picture to look at it better,
"About five years ago!" Sora giggled, "Your hair still hasn't tamed down any!" She reached up to run her hands through his now wet hair.
"Look at you and that stupid hat!" Tai pointed to the picture.
"This picture is an embarrassment to us!" Sora gasped. "I think we should burn it in a secret ritual!"
"Black candles and all, huh?"
"Sure!"
"I don't know any chants."
"I don't know any rituals."
"If we tried, we might damn ourselves…"
"Yeah…better hide it back in his wallet." Sora stuffed it back in it's originally place, "You know Tai, I'm surprised he has a picture of us in here."
"I'm not," Tai shrugged.
"You're not? Really?" Sora looked up at him, "Matt doesn't seem like the picture carrying guy."
"Only to you and that's because you don't know him that well." Tai started to count Matt's cash.
"I've known him as long as you have!"
"Yeah but I know him better," Tai gave her a quick glance.
"You do?"
"Sure….thirty one dollars," Tai held up the cash. "that should get us something good to eat, wouldn't you say?"
"He opens up more to you doesn't he?" Sora asked, "He is kinda stand off with everyone else."
"No he isn't. I'm just stubborn, I keep talking and talking and talking until he has to talk to get me to shut up..." Tai glanced up in Matt's direction, "It takes a while but once you get him talking, you'll be surprised. He's just…I don't know. Somewhere in his life, he felt the need to keep his dreams and idea's to himself and he doesn't know how to share them anymore. Talk about the stars and the moon and that kid never shuts up."
"The stars and the moons?"
"And music…."Tai frowned and looked down at Sora's thoughtful face. "There is a lot more to Matt then what meets the eyes."
"I bet there is…"Sora sighed with a soft gaze in her eyes that Tai didn't like.
"What else has he got in there? Ah…lookie here!" Tai flipped through the other folds and held out a silver package.
"Is that?" Sora pointed to the square wrapper.
"Yep," Tai smiled, "HEY MATT WHO IS THIS FOR!" Tai waved the packaged condom in the air; Matt turned around and shrugged with a grin on his face.
"You are so embarrassing!" Sora covered her head with her hands. "I am never letting you near my purse!"
"Yeah…I've already dug through it," Tai put Matt's wallet in his back pocket and ripped the condom open.
"When? Where! You ass!" Sora slapped him.
"Tomorrow…I am going to think back and count how many times you hit me today!" Tai hissed.
"You can't count that high," Sora joked.
"I can certainly try to do so," Tai gave her a warm smile.
"Tai…"
"Huh?"
"Is Matt a virgin?"
"Um…."
"Are you?"
"Um…" Tai gave her an uncomfortable smile, "I guess not."
"You guess not? You have to guess if you are or if your not?"
"No.."Tai shrugged.
"Why haven't you ever told me? Who was it and are you still seeing her behind my back?"
"Behind your back?"
"Well we are friends right?"
"Yeah."
"And you and me, we always been up front with each other, never held a secret from each other."
"Yeah."
"Then I find out that you had sex and you didn't even tell me!"
"I didn't think you wanted to know and besides, I wasn't going to call you up and say: 'Sora you wouldn't believe this but I was at a party and this girl actually came on to me and we had sex in some strangers bed!', now would you really like a phone call like that two in the morning?"
"You went to a party that I wasn't invited too?"
"Did I say I was at a party?"
"Very clearly you did."
"I didn't mean too…can I take it back?"
"No, you already said it!"
"I'm sorry," Tai mumbled.
"What are you doing?"
"Nothing…"
"Tai?" Sora watched as he blew up the condom and tied it shut.
"HEY MATT!" Tai cried out, now waving the condom balloon in the air.
"Give me my wallet back!" Matt walked up to them. Tai sighs and look down at Sora, before handing over Matt's wallet.
The blond hair boy open his wallet, producing a ten dollar bill, "It's yours IF you tie that to your belt hoop and go into that store to purchase something for us to eat."
"Seriously?" Tai asked, grinning and taking the ten out of Matt's hand. "This is too easy."
"I'm not going in," Sora giggled.
"Better believe it!" Tai scorned at her, "You'll make me look stupid giggling like that!"
"You don't need me to make you look stupid," Sora, grinned at Tai went through the grocery store. He paused at the door and looked back at his friends.
"Did you two notice when the sky got dark?" Tai asked.
"I think about thirty minutes ago when what little light we had from above went out." Matt told him.
"Ah…and the night comes," Tai pushed open the door, waving to the cashiers.
"Do you realise that you called me 'Honey' back there?" Matt asked, leaning against the side of the grocery store window, his arms crossed in front of him.
"Do you realise that I was being sarcastic?" Sora leaned against the window also, but to peer inside in search for Tai. "But if it makes you feel better, you still my special boy." She turned to glance at Matt. "Are you blushing?"
"No!" Matt shook his blonde hair.
Sora grinned but let the matter dropped to turn continue her search for Tai. "Matt, 'Honey'…these cashiers are totally checking out your ass."
Matt turned to see a few young girls at a register, giggling and waving at him. He gave them a shy wave back.
"Don't do that!" Sora slapped his hand, glaring at the girls who giggled more, "You are only encouraging them!"
"GOOOOOD evening!" Tai came up to a register, empting all of his belongings on the converter belt. "How are you?"
"Good evening," The girl grinned. "Was it raining that hard?"
Tai looked down at his soaking wet clothing, his jeans had mud smeared in the threads and grass stains ran up his leg and over his backside and there was a huge hole in the knee of his pants. His shirt wasn't much better; he gave a sigh and shook his head, "No it wasn't raining this hard."
"Then how did you get that wet?" She asked, running his items through the scanner.
"I went through a car wash but…"Tai gave a drastic sigh, "You are going to think this so really stupid…"
"No I'm not," the pretty girl turned to bag his groceries. "Let me guess, you went through the automatic car wash and you left your windows open, right"
"No…I forgot my car," Tai shook his head, "So that's twenty-three fifty huh?"
The girl stared at him for a moment, "You're joking!"
"No…"He pointed to the screen, "Twenty-three fifty. See."
"No about the car wash!" The young girl folder her arms. "As dirty as you are, you didn't go through a car wash and you didn't forget your car!"
"The dirt? Nah, that came after the car wash. I had to wrestle this old woman at the park. It's dangerous in there!"
"An old lady…"The girl raised her eyebrows, "Why did you wrestle an old lady?"
"For this!" He flicked the blown up condom on his belt loop, "She wanted it."
The girl peered at the condom for a moment and a faint blush rose to her cheeks. "She was fighting you for a…um…that?"
"Yeah!" Tai gave her his best serious look. "After I blew it up too!"
"Why would an old lady want a condom?"
"To blow it up herself!" Tai's eyes grew large, "What else would you do with a condom?"
"Do you realise that you let him go in there and pick out food for you to cook? He doesn't even know how to cook!" Sora moved away from the window as she caught sight of Tai waving to them and heading for the exist door.
"That was fun!" Tai beamed, "I will have to do this again some time!"
"Really?" Sora rubbed her hands over her arms, "I'm getting cold."
Tai looked around, "Yeah, it does seem like the temperature had dropped."
"Come on," Matt took a bag from Tai, "Let's go home. You two can call your folks from my place."
"I am going to sleep over,'' Tai told him, "I even brought breakfast food!" he held up a bag for proof.
"Does he always make plans with out telling you?" Sora looked over at Matt who was searching in the bag he carried.
"All the time," Matt gave her a quick smile. "You can stay too you know."
"Yeah, my parents would like that!" He held up her hand as she was talking on a phone, "So Mom, listen. I went out in the rain with Tai and Matt where they tackled me in the mud, I later drowned Matt in a fountain and Tai blew up his condom…anyways I am totally wet and hungry and it's dark so I'm like spending the night with them!''
"Sounds good to me!" Tai pulled her close to him as they walked down the street.
"Dad would kill the both of you." Sora laughed, snuggling against her friend for warmth. "Tai you smell like dirt."
"So do you…"Tai patted her head, "So do you?"
"Why don't you tell them you are at Mimi's?" Matt asked.
"Lie to them? I never…."
"Except the time you snuck out of the house to go fishing in the middle of the night…" Tai told her. "And you blamed it on me."
"And that time you were grounded but snuck out anyhow and told them that Tai abducted you." Matt reminded her. "Your parents must really hate Tai."
"Hate me?" Tai stopped walking, "How could anyone hate this handsome face!"
"Come on; just tell them you are at Mimi's. I can throw your cloths in the wash with mine and Tai's."
"What am I going to wear?" Sora asked.
"Honey, you don't have to wear anything!" Matt winked at her, in returned she slapped him.
"It's about time you hit someone else…,"Tai mumbled.
"I'll give you some of my cloth to wear. You can sleep in my bed, Tai can have the couch and I'll sleep in dad's room." Matt held up a bottle of mustard.
"What?" Tai asked, "I like mustard!"
"Whatever…"Matt put it back in the bag.
"Why do I have to sleep on the sofa?"
"Do you want to sleep in Dad's room?" Matt quirked up an eyebrow, "That will be something if he comes home to find you in his bed."
"Oi…"Tai sighed.
"You can sleep in Matt's room and I'll sleep on the sofa?" Sora told him.
"So you'll spend the night?" Matt asked.
"NO!" Tai shook his head, "Things go in that room and they never return!"
"What?" Matt looked at him.
"His room is worse then…um, well it's really bad! Paper wads are thrown everywhere. Cd's are scattered all over the floor, if there is a floor! It's hard to tell because of thecloths laying everhwereand empty food trays have now grown their own legs and are taking a permit residents under his bed. There is a whole community there now!"
"Don't listen to him, it isn't all that bad." Matt smacked Tai in the back of the head.
"What is up with all of this Tai abuse!" Tai asked his two friends.