Past and Present Chapter 6
Taichi's Secret
"Yeah right you're nothing but a cheating whore," Kyandii spat at her.
Sora scowled at her in anger, "How dare you!" she wound up and slapped Kyandii across the face. Kyandii held on to her cheek, looking at Sora in shock all at the same time.
"I can't believe you did that," Kyandii said as she slowly let go of her cheek it still stung from where Sora had slapped her.
"You've gone too far…I'd never cheated on my husband." Sora told her angrily.
"Like hell! You seduced my boyfriend and I'm not going to give him up with out a fight!" as she said those last words, she attacked Sora, who screamed as Kyandii pulled her hair.
"LET GO!" Sora screamed, she then kicked at Kyandii's legs causing her to fall onto the ground. Sora quickly ran to her phone, but Kyandii put her foot out and tripped Sora who fell she hit her head on her desk but not hard enough to fall unconscious.
Much to Sora's dismay she had to fight Kyandii, they rolled on the floor struggling with each other. Kyandii trying to strangle Sora and Sora trying to prevent her from doing so.
Taichi who had just came back from his early morning walk about to his patients walked down the hallway toward his office. Until he heard crashing and banging coming from Sora's office, he raised his eyebrows at the door he peeked up and down the halls before going to Sora office door.
That is when he heard Sora scream; he quickly entered and stopped, as Sora's closed fist was about to hit his girlfriend, "SORA!" he cried.
Sora and Kyandii both looked at him. Sora brought her hand to her side and got off her, Kyandii began to cry.
"Taichi… I just came her to invite her and Ryo out…she tried to hurt me!" she cried as he helped her up, and she threw herself on him.
Sora's mouth dropped open in shock she was accusing her of starting this.
"Sora, what are you doing!" he cried.
"She attacked me first!" she said shouting at him still disbelieved.
"You could have hurt seriously her," He scolded her; he helped Kyandii up off the ground.
"Taichi, she lying…she came her accusing me off…" Taichi cut her sentence off when he had slammed the door shut.
Taichi's office…
Kyandii sat down on the couch, "I'm sorry about this morning Taichi," she said to him.
"It's okay, I thought you were going to leave me though," He said to her.
"No of course not I was upset, people make mistakes," She replied.
"Tell me what just happened in there," He asked her softly, as he put his hands on hers.
Kyandii brought her hands to her face, and started to cry.
"It was horrible Taichi she called me all these names all I wanted was to asked her and Ryo out to go on a double date with us," She said tears falling down her cheeks.
Taichi frowned, "Well why did she attack you?" he asked.
"She's…trying to steal you away from me Taichi, I know it," she cried, even harder.
Taichi looked to the ground he remembered kissing Sora then he shook his head, "Why would she want to steal me from you she's married Kyandii," He replied, "And besides I want you not her," He told her.
Kyandii hugged him she still had tears in her eyes then slowly a smile crept on her face, Sora going to have a lot coming to her because she won't win Taichi away from me she thought.
Sora grabbed an ice pack from one of the nurses and held it to her head for the time being, she could not get back to work, "I can't believe her!" Sora cried annoyed. There was another knock at the door, Sora groaned annoyed at the fact that she had so many interruptions today and it was only morning still.
"Come in," she called.
"Hi Sora, I hope I'm…what happened to your head?" Hikari asked as she went up to her.
"I hit my head on the desk this morning," She replied somewhat drained.
"How did you hit your head?" Hikari questioned her not believing she real story.
Sora frowned at her, "Fine if you must know Kyandii stopped by for a brief visit and accused me of a few things."
Hikari groaned, "Accused you of what?" she said dryly.
"It's not how it seems, we fought she tripped me and I fell and hit my head off the corner of the desk," Sora said quietly.
"Come on, lets go to the cafeteria," Hikari suggested. Sora nodded and they both left her office.
"Are you absolutely sure you are all right?" Taichi said making sure, she was okay and that she did not have a conclusion of any kind.
"Yes I'm fine thanks Taichi," she said smiling at him then gave him a kiss on the lips. "I'll see you later tonight and we could finish what we started here this morning," she winked at him and turned to leave his office.
The moment she had gone Taichi gotten upset he could not figure out why she was doing this to him was it because she was still in love with him and couldn't let another woman have him.
Taichi shook the thoughts out of his head and wanted to go talk to Sora so he left his office and went across the hall. He knocked once on the door but there was not any answer. He turned the knob out of curiosity to see if it was open and indeed, it was. However, as soon as he tried to go in his pager went off. He looked at it, sighed, and continued down the hall toward the nurse's station.
"Sora I obviously want to help you out you know, I'm not only Taichi's sister but I am a friend of yours too," Hikari said to her from across the table.
"I'll tell you what happened exactly then. Kyandii accused me of starting a fight with her! When in fact she was the one that was calling me names to begin with!" she said in a whisper to Hikari.
"Well why was she calling you names?" Hikari asked confused to the whole situation that was going on.
"She was accusing me of stealing Taichi away from her," Sora said turning her glaze away from Hikari's.
"That's ridiculous, why would she say something like that?" Hikari questioned.
"I don't know, she said that Taichi said my name some time. So then she called me a cheating whore and that was when I snapped and then I slapped her hard in the face," Sora said explaining to her friend the incident.
"Sora, you should have just left it at that. She was probably trying to push your buttons and it worked," Hikari said.
"No, but thing was that Taichi believed her! She was the lair!" Sora said upset.
Hikari looked at her frowning, "What do you mean was Taichi their as well?" she asked.
"Yes he was and he acts like I was the one that attacked his precious Kyandii," Sora said bitterly.
"I can talk to him on your behave and insist that you didn't do anything to her but she did something to you?" Hikari suggested.
"What's the point he won't believe you anyways," she said looking at her hands then look up and saw Kyandii staring at her she stared back until Kyandii turned away.
Hikari stood up, "Okay I'm going to leave I got an afternoon class to attend."
Sora stood up as well and walked her toward the elevators, "Drive safe okay," Sora said to her. Hikari smiled back at her friend as the elevator doors closed then she got back to her office.
Around 2pm that afternoon;
Taichi had wanted to talk to Sora about this morning but whenever he had gotten a chance, he had been called away to an emergency. Now there was nothing in the way of going to her office, he began toward her office and stopped in front the door and knocked.
"Taichi, go away," Sora stated firmly from the inside of her office.
Taichi frowned he opened the door and walked into her office.
"DO YOU MIND, WHAT IF I WAS IN HERE WITH RYO?" Sora said furiously.
"I wouldn't have cared a whole lot would I?" he said just as angry.
Sora looked at him, "Your really putting it all the stops out huh Taichi?"
"Just like what you did to Kyandii this morning. You could have hurt her terribly!" he shouted angrily at her.
"What I did? Excuse me Taichi but obviously, you have not thought that she could be the wrong doer in this case have you?" Sora said to him still with the angry look in her eyes.
"That's what she told me Sora okay!" Taichi said shouting.
"What kid of bull did she feed you Taichi? That I was the first one to attack or it was my entire fault because I'm jealous," she said.
"I don't know are you Sora?" Taichi asked.
"What is that supposed to mean?" she asked.
Taichi frowned he looked to the door then back to Sora, "she said that you were planning to steal me away from her."
Sora got up from her seat, "That is bull shit story that she made up! I never did anything to her. She accused me of cheating on Ryo and she called me whore Taichi that's when I got pissed off and I slapped her."
Taichi grew frustrated and slammed his hand on her desk angrily, as they had been standing right next to it while they were arguing, he then felt a sharp pain in the palm of his hand, "OW!" he cried. He looked to the palm of his hand and there was a tack that had gotten stuck in his skin he took it out instantly, "What are you doing with tacks randomly laying on your desk like that!"
"You don't go slamming your hand on anyone's desk," Sora retorted but with a sigh she added, "Let me clean it for you then."
She took out the first aid kit in her desk and wiped away the blood that had dried and placed a Band-Aid on it but she saw a scar on his wrist she went to roll his sleeve up when he pulled his arm back suddenly.
"What are you doing?" he asked alarmed.
"I just want to see your arm for a second if you don't mind?" Sora said watching his expression carefully.
"Fine," Taichi said he handed his arm over to her. Upon examining his arm further she saw a vertical scar running up his arm to the middle of his elbow. She looked over at his right arm to see if there was on there but she couldn't see because Taichi suddenly pulled his arms both away from her, "What are you looking for?" he asked nervously.
"What did you do Taichi?" Sora said in a state of worry as she looked up at him.
"I was in a car accident and pieces of glass fell onto my arms and cut them," he said calmly.
Sora shook her head, "No Taichi a car accident does not leave cuts like that, unless it was self inflicted.." Sora said trailing off she looked up at him, "Taichi you didn't," she said when the horrid reality hit her.
"I didn't what?" he asked carefully.
"You know what I'm talking about Taichi. Did you try to kill yourself?" she asked tears almost threatening to fall. Taichi got up but Sora had pulled him back down, "Tell me the truth Taichi!" she said tears filling her eyes.
"No, Sora I didn't," he said it was best that she did not know the truth. No one knew about this dark secret that he planed to put away forever.
"I know you Taichi and I can see right through your lies," Sora said watching him closely.
"Wrong Sora, if you'd known me then you could have seen that I was in love with you!" he yelled in anger Taichi then stopped realizing what he just said. He looked away from her the pain came back to him he didn't want to remember anything about this time at all. How Yamato and Sora got together his moving to the US then what he had done one cold Californian night that almost ended his life.
"I'm sorry Taichi," Sora said.
"You aren't sorry. Why are you doing this? I put that past behind me for a reason and you go and trudge it all up again. The past hurt me, you have no idea what I went through," he said.
"I didn't mean too," Sora said feeling guilty.
"Sora, you don't have to say anything. It happened that's it and I'm still here. I was strong enough to recover from the injuries and my broken heart so you can drop it!" Taichi said shouting the last sentence out.
"Taichi, please let me help. Please let me help you," she said repeating herself. Taichi looked at her hesitantly. "Taichi tell me what happened," she said pleading with him this time.
Taichi frowned and sighed giving in, "Alright, but this stays in this room between us. If Hikari or my mom and dad find out about this, I don't even want to think about that," he said seriously.
"I promised I won't," Sora said agreeing.
Three that evening…
Mimi, Hikari where sitting in Hikari's parents house. Takeru was watching the television beause he didn't want to have to do anything with Sora or Taichi and it just annoyed him when Hikari started up about the two.
"Are you serious Hikari?" Mimi said shocked.
"No kidding, Sora had a bump on her head to prove it. Only thing is that Taichi thinks that she is the one who attacked Kyandii," Hikari said with a slight frown.
"But that's good now they are fighting and there is no chance they will even put a move on one another," Mimi said delightfully.
Hikari smiled slightly, "But let us resume with the bride maid's gowns," she said a little happier.
Mimi jumped up from her seat, "I got to grab my stuff from the car, I'll be right back," she said exiting out the front door.
Taichi looked at Sora then sighed, "I'll tell you just what had happened. That night my girlfriend of two years dumped for another guy, that together reminded me of what happened here again, I felt crappy because I was on verge of exams and I was tired of studying..."
Flashback the night of April 4th 2008 …..
"Taichi man come on….I'm sorry about Rianna but you can't be slopping around here like a zombie all night," John told him.
"John who?" Sora questioned.
"He's a friend I met, my dorm buddy since I started med-school," He said.
"Sure I can why can't I? I'm obligated too," Taichi mentioned..
John shrugged "Okay fine go ahead and slouch…I'm going to the club." John turned and left going toward the pub. Taichi smile faded from his face, he looked drained and to make matters worst it began to rain heavily. Taichi didn't even bother to run out of the rain either.
As he walked; back to the dorm images began to resurface. Images of Sora and Yamato hugging each other, kissing…
"Get out! GET THE HELL OUT!" he screamed he grabbed onto his head, the memories kept on coming. He shook his head and made is way back to his dorm in one piece once he entered he took his drenched shirt off and threw it onto the ground. He went directly to the bathroom flipping the lights on and leaving the door opened he looked at himself in the mirror.
"I'm a wreck a mess…. and it's all about him…he's too hip he's the cool dude of course Sora picked him he was popular and I wasn't….I never was….nor with I ever be." He replied.
Taichi breathed in and went to the bathroom drawers rummaged through them until he found a razor he then put it on the counter. He filled the sink with warm water, he took a razor from the counter. Picking it up he put the blade to the inside of his wrist then closing his eyes and made a vertical cut up the to his elbow, the blood draining into the sink or warm water, he shakily took hold the razor in his bloodily hand, and cut another vertical cut up his right arm.
Dropping the razor into the sink, he stumbled back. He sat up against the wall of the bathroom; the blood was all over the place the counter, carpet, on the washroom floor and the toilet.
Taichi heard the door open of his dorm room faintly "Taichi, have you seen my wallet?" John asked, he made some noise as he was in search of his wallet. When he didn't hear a response from Taichi he got a little worried.
John getting suspicious called Taichi again, "Taichi don't ignore me…I asked you where my wallet is." He replied annoyed. John shook his head and started to the bathroom "…Oh Shit! TAICHI!" He went over to him "What did you do!" he said almost upset and shocked.
"What… do… you… think…" he replied slowly. "Well I'm not letting you go; it's not your time," He took two towels and wrapped them around both arms. Then he got up to call the 911.
End of flashback…
Sora looked at him horrified, "It was all because of me too," she said.
"It's old Sora I wasn't exactly smart when I did it," he said calmly.
"How long were you in the hospital?" she questioned.
"About a month until they were fully healed then I had my room mate watching me like a hawk afterwards," Taichi said solemnly.
"The scars would be visible though," she said confused slightly.
"Sora the reason I stayed a few more years in the states is because of the scars, I had to get skin grafting done to reduce the signs of them so when it came time to come home I would look completely normal." He said.
For a moment there was silence either of them didn't know what to say or do, Sora was first to make a sound, "I don't know what to say to make things better. But I know for one thing is for sure that is that I'm sorry for the pain I have caused you. I'm so glad to your friend, for saving your life. Else you wouldn't be here now," she said feeling tears in her eye she look down at her hands.
Taichi stood up and decided not to approach her, "Sorry Sora but I have to go, Kyandii is expecting me," he said then walked out the door.
Sora stood there for the longest time trying to decide what to do. She ran to the door and called after him, "Taichi wait!" she shouted she ran toward the elevator doors where she saw him waiting.
Taichi turned around and saw her running toward him, she stopped a couple of feet away from him trying to catch her breath, "Taichi, I'm sorry. I want to make it up to you some how," she said hopefully.
"How, Sora you haven't shown your self-control. The shower incident was probably no accident at all, something tells me you probably enjoyed that. Hitting Kyandii was just too far," he said still bitter about the fight earlier.
"I did not start it!" she said strongly.
"That is not the story I got from Kyandii. Frankly I don't care who started it or not, you won't change my mind okay?" he said still angry, "Good bye Sora," he said then the elevator doors closed.
Sora walked back to her office, gathering her stuff she left and locked it. Sora was upset that Taichi refused to listen to her side but she wasn't about to let Kyandii win, "I know one thing Taichi, Kyandii is a lair and she will end up hurting you in the end and I for one will not let that happen," she said to herself.
To Be Continued…