karone-sakura: Thank you for the review. Yeah it was short but I hadn't wrote for awhile and I thought even a little is better then nothing. I'm glad you did enjoy it and that the shortness didn't kill you off...I mean, I could use your reviews for the future chapters. This story doesn't have many more...

Soramon: I know, it was short but hey...I did give a warning. I am caught updoing other things but still felt the story should have something since it had been awhile. However, not as long as some of my other stories...oi. I am enjoying this story, I enjoy writting it. There is no pressure no thick plots to explain, just friends and a little romance. Thank you for reading and for bebooping your mum. Keep the Beboop alive!

theladyknight: I enjoyed your review. I like using Tai as a character because he took on a personality where not only can he give it out, he can take it with a grin on his lovely face. He has one of the best traits about him which...makes him even less human then he is already! He's almost perfect. Matt has that get out of my face stance with him. The two of them shouldn't get along as well as they do yet, a lesson in life is given by keeping them as friends.

Well...I wouldn't be writing all of this if the next chapter wasn't up! I hope you enjoy the game between Matt and Sora.

"What are you doing?" Sora gave a little frown as she watched Matt move up the slide. They had been playing shoots and ladders for forty-five minutes and neither of the two had made it to the top of the board. "You can't do that."

"Why not?"

"Ladders you go up and slides you go down."

"You can go up slides." Matt told her.

"Not in this game you can't."

"Why do I have to keep going down?"

"Because you keep landing in the same spot."

"So let me move up!"

"Then that would be cheating."

"It's only a kid's game! Someone needs to win."

"Yes and it will be won by playing fair."

"I don't like this game."

"Stop pouting!" Sora rolled her eyes, "You don't like it because you aren't winning. You are supposed to be here!" She took his figurine and moved it down the picture slide.

"If I keep moving down, I'll never make it to the top."

"Really sucks to be you, doesn't it?" Sora stuck out her tongue and Matt snapped at her. "Did you just try to bite my tongue!"

"Just let me move up the slide this one time." Matt ignored her.

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because…"

"Because you want to win. I just want to make it out of this spot. I've been stuck between these two rows for the last ten minutes!" Matt explained.

"You can't ask people to let you cheat."

"I tried not asking and you still made me move down the stupid slide." He threw his hands in the air.

"I can't believe you are acting this way!" Sora grinned at the blonde-haired person.

"Me?" Matt raised an eyebrow, "You are the one that is acting like this is a tournament!"

"No I am not."

"You certainly are. Only four minutes ago you jabbed me in the ribs while I was throwing the dice. Ten minutes ago you were throwing popcorn at me. Twenty minutes ago, you tried to bite my hand and a half an hour ago you made death threats towards my snail if I rolled a higher number then you!"

"It was an accident about the ribs and you just misunderstood me."

"Like hell. How about when you passed me? What was the victory dance all about?"

"I….I was got up in the moment."

"But I want to move ten spaces from where I am, still um…" Matt counted the little boxes between him and Sora, "it would be twenty spaces behind you."

"And by giving you those ten spaces could cost me the game."

"AH!" Matt pointed at her, "You are doing it again!"

"What?"

"Can't you just play a game for fun?"

"I think this is fun."

"As long as you are winning."

"Me? Yeah, you are the one begging to let you cheat!"

"To move ten spaces from where I am, not to move before you!"

"Cheating is cheating no matter how you look at it."

"You are very scary person…"

"And you Mister are going to lose this game," Sora rolled the dice and moved her eight spaces, "Doubles I roll again."

"Who ever made that rule? Is it even a rule for Candy Land?" Matt flipped the box over.

"No wonder you are losing." Sora laughed, "See these big words?" She reached over towards Matt to show him the lettering on the box, "It says: Shoots and Ladders! Not Candy Land."

"Pretty much the same idea," Matt shrugged.

"You think?"

"Yeah, I always get stuck in the glum stuff and pretty much stay there until the game is over…" Matt watched her roll from her second turn, only moving three more spaces. "Wow, that was worth a roll."

"Until you get pass the slides, I wouldn't make any comments on what I roll."

"You take this game too far."

"Because I play by the rules and I won't let you cheat?"

"It isn't cheating if you don't win and I wasn't asking to win. I was asking not to go down the bloody slide!" Matt explained.

"It's cheating when you don't go down the slide." Sora told him, "Besides when I was younger, I always wanted to go down the slides. I thought my little charaters would enjoy it more then always having to go up the ladders."

"Did you know they are cardboard cut outs?"

"Of course I did but to me, they had feelings." Sora sighed, "Didn't you ever think your toys had feelings?"

"No…what kind of feelings would a truck have?"

"How about any toy soldiers?"

"Didn't play with toy solders." Matt told her.

"Well when ever I went to visit Tai, all of our toys had feelings and had personalities even these little 'cardboard cut outs'," Sora tilted her head, "What happen to the other characters?"

"What characters?"

"These! The cardboard cut outs we were just talking about! Matt, please don't tell my all the blonde jokes are true!" She held up her marker, "There are suppose to be four I think. You only have two."

"Oh those," Matt gave a small smile; "I suppose all of my toys were adventurers. Tk and I tied them up with string and threw them over the balcony side. Bungee jumping freaks. However these two survivors were drinking heavily." He pointed to the two pieces on the game board, "The other two felt they should not be jumping. So drunken cardboard pieces stayed on the floor to help care for the bungee rope. It was a bad mistake…a fatal mistake."

"Fatal, huh?" Sora rolled the dice and moved three more spaces.

"Yeah, the rope broke and they fell to their doom. These two were charged for murder by the state of Candy Land King and Mr. Green however, the Judge Tk found them to be innocent because I could not come up with enough evidence. Hey…"

"That is a cute story." Sora smiled. "Is there a Candy Land King?"

"You just rolled!" Matt ignored her. "It was my turn."

"If three minutes go by and the roller does not roll the next person in line to roll…which would be me, can roll."

"You're making up rules!"

"No I am not."

"I've never heard of that before!"

"Come on, you said it yourself! You were never a big player of this game where I played all the time."

"You made up rules!"

"No I didn't!" Sora rolled again.

"Why did you just roll? That's three times in a row!"

"Because now it is officially my turn to roll. Before, it was your turn but you know.. .You snooze you lose. Therefore, I took your turn for you. Now it's my turn."

"This isn't fair."

"Because I wouldn't let you cheat?"

"Yes! You can cheat but I can't!"

"I'm not cheating, Matt!" Sora's mouth dropped, "I am playing by the rules."

"You're rules!" Matt snatched the dice from her hand.

"It's my turn! You can't steal turns!"

"But you stole mine turn!"

"Yes but I did if fairly."

"How was making up a rule to steal someone's turn fair? You didn't even warn me that you were making up a new rule!"

"You don't have to give warnings that you are stealing a turn with legal reasons."

"What's legal about stealing my turn? Stealing and legal never are in the same sentence! Illegal maybe but not legal." Matt fumed.

"You waited too long."

"I didn't know that was a rule!"

"Really, Matt. You should know the rules of a game before you volunteer to play them."

"I didn't volunteer! I wanted to play a video game, something you can't cheat at!"

"Now now…It's alright. I didn't let you cheat in this game did I?"

"No because you were too busy cheating yourself!"

"Just give me the dice."

"No."

"Matt, the dice."

"My roll."

"No it isn't," Sora lunged at Matt, trying to take the dice from him.

"Back off!" Matt raised his hand in the air so she couldn't reach.

"Grow up!" Sora replied.

"Me? It looks like you are the one who needs to grow a few more inches." Matt smiled as Sora kept stretching to reach the dice making her chest brush against his side.

"Haha, that was so clever! Do you come up with these little sentences yourself?" Sora pushed him backwards and hurried to pin his hand that held the dice. "Sucker!"

Matt closed his fist tighter around the dice.

"I'll tickle you!" Sora warned him.

"Not ticklish," Matt grinned as Sora tried to peel his fingers away from the dice. She glared at him for a moment before making good on her threat.

"Oh my god!" She sat on top of him after trying all the tickle spots a person could have hidden under their clothes, "You're not ticklish! That isn't human!"

"There are a lot of people who aren't ticklish…bet you're not one of them!" Matt gave a half grin before pushing her on her back and finding a spot on her side that made her scream with laughter.

"Stop!" Sora gasps for air, "I give! I give!"

"Do I get to go up the slide?"

"NO!" She giggle some more, rolling over to get her side away from his fingers. He reached down to found the special spot behind one's knee that made Sora buckle up in a ball. "STOP!" She giggled.

"Do I win?"

"HELL NO BOY!" Sora pushed him away, wiping her eyes.

Matt put his finger on his lip, "Shh….you'll wake up the salvia troll."

"The saliva troll now huh?" Sora took a few deep breaths, turning her head towards Matt. He lay beside her, his arm propping up his head as he stared down at her. , watching her with his poker face stare.

"You have beautiful eyes," Sora whispered. Matt didn't wait, he leaned down, his lips brushing against hers, barely touching. Sora closed her eyes, opened her mouth slightly, waiting for Matt's tongue to slide pass her lips.

"SHOOTS AND LADDERS!" Tai suddenly popped up his head.

"The Slopering Troll has awoken from his slumber." Matt looked down at the now wide eyes girl and gave her a wink…

"Huh?" Tai scratched his head, "Why didn't you wake me? I love this game! Me and Kari, we played it all the time when we were kids!"

"Matt is trying to cheat; he wants to go up the slides."

Tai turned to the other boy; his chocolate brown eyes grew huge, "Man! That is so very wrong! You are really messed up."

"It's a board game!"

"You can't go up the slides in Shoots and Ladders!" Tai shook his head, "You go up the ladders and…"

"Down the slides, I know!" Matt sighed.

"Why would anyone want to cheat in this game?"

"No idea," Sora shook her red head. "But let me tell you, I am completely shocked that this person is even our friend."

"What?"

"You can't cheat in a game, Matt." Tai slapped his back.

"It's not a real game…it's a stupid board game!"

"Stupid or not, you are a cheat and cheaters have to move to the beginning of the game."

"I didn't cheat! She wouldn't let me!"

"I couldn't help you get corrupted!" Sora gasped, "What kind of a friend would I be?"

"I don't know what kind of a friend you are now!" Matt stood up.

"Where are you going?" Sora asked.

"I'm done playing! It's a stupid game!" Matt went to his room and slammed the door shut.

"Don't mess the room up!" Sora yelled.

"Wanna start all over?" Tai asked.

"Sure, you can be Matt." Sora gave him Matt's figurine.

"I don't want this one…" He looked through the box.

"Matt and Tk only have two. Seems the others went bungee jumping over the balcony and the cord broke."

"Huh?"

"Long story," Sora grinned. "You can roll first since," She made her voice louder so Matt could hear; "I WON THE LAST GAME BECAUSE OF POOR SPORTSMENSHIP!"

"IT'S A STUPID GAME!" Matt gave a shout from his room.

"My favourite game was Trouble and um…that game you take bones from this guy with the red nose." Tai frowned when he rolled two's.

"Operation," Sora took the dice and made her move on the board.

"Hey, I had doubles! I get to roll again."

"Are you sure?" Sora raised her eyebrows, "It doesn't say so on the rules."

"Because the rules are simplified for the children, you and I are not children," Tai leaned closer to her, "Besides I over heard that you took your double roll with Matt…"

"Did you?" Sora gave a nervous laugh and put the dice in the hand Tai held out towards you.

"Yes I did." Tai gave another toss, "So…who ate all the popcorn?"