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Last updated: 21.o5.o5
Aino Yuy: Yes, I tend to do a lot of errors. Haha. It's just I'm real lazy to proofread considering time is a big issue with me. I should get a proofreaders, jokes. You love drama? Haha… I do too… but I think the future chapters will be more dramatic that I can't handle it myself. Thanks for reviewing .smile.
PrincessSakuraTenshi12, lottie11, Blondie121147 & KoumiLoccness: you guys! Thanks for reviewing. I feel loved. Hehehe…I'm still uncertain why I haven't practically bored everyone yet. Thanks a lot, and I do wish ya all like this chapter
Mrs.Ishida-to-you: Hehe. Thanks for the review. New Zealand? Yeah, it was a great trip…though I wished my family could have went out more and drained our money at shopping. A pity it was only for 4 days. In my dictionary, I don't even consider that as a holiday. Haha…
Kuroi Black Nightingale: Like I said on the previous email I sent you, we could have met up! Arghhh…LOL . so close, yet so far…and we were probably in the same area! How crazy, mate! Hehe. Hope you like this chapter!
Theladyknight: Sad that their friendship faded? Hmm…it'll rekindle again .smile. yeah, the valentine's thing…that happened to me. I freaked out. But that's another (well sort of) story. Everything resolved? My…that seems like a long way to go. Lol. Thanks for reviewing again!
Tai-for-you: Haha…I'm confusing a lot of people, these days. Sorry Hope you like this chapter
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My apologies for the lateness in delivering, to you, an update. I've rewritten this chapter numerous of times…since I wasn't happy with its progression. Another reason school. It's draining me, literally. Writing this chapter will probably make me less stressed and at peace. Haha. And since it's been a while since I've written a new chapter (Unveiling the Forgotten, an exception) I've been tending to daydream a lot and have gotten more stories tangled up in my head. Majority of them are not Digimon, but are just some pieces of my own. Or, I could simply place the characters as these people. Also, I've tried to make a site, but I want to get my studying for biology exam (in three weeks!) out of the way first then I'll go back to the site AND updating! Bleh, I talk too much. See you at the end of this chapter!
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Do You Still Think of Me?
PART ONE – Fragments of memories
Chapter Three
By Flipstahhz
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2005
Their holidays were finally over…
The windows were wound down, letting the strong breeze mess with the two boy's hair as they drove through the main street of Odaiba. Taichi Kamiya let the vehicle turn sharply around the curb, almost sending Yamato Ishida out of the window.
"Jeez, watch it! Watch where you're going, Kamiya!" Matt cursed.
"Your loss," his best friend gave a smirk. " You were supposed to have on your seatbelt, anyway."
It was strange how the two had still remained close friends. As soon as Yamato and Taichi had entered high school, things were much different. When Taichi had first entered the gates of their only boy's school, he had instantly signed up for the soccer tryouts. A week later he had a firm position in the soccer team and had become rather popular for being the youngest member and sometimes seized the chance to show off a bit. Even though he had become popular, he decided that he would only train with his soccer friends and hang out with Matt, the majority of the time. Taichi wasn't that thick headed to know that the members in the soccer team were a bunch of users after getting to know them more better.
Yamato was a different story. Ever since beginning high school, he had been a whole lot quiet, independent and unsociable. The only form of sociability was with Taichi. Most of the time, the only person who he would speak to, was Tai. They had still hung around each other for four years straight and did not intend to break their tight friendship.
" What's up? Why so moody, Taichi. You can't hide anything from me."
It was true; it was like Matt had read his friend's mind. Yamato had observed how his friend had his fingers tightly fastened to the steering wheel, knuckles almost turning white, and how he kept losing focus on his driving once every few minutes. He knew that whenever Tai had something on his mind, his focus was always wavering.
" Don't you think it's disturbing?" he frowned, wrinkles creasing on his forehead, " It's like violation of men's rights!"
Matt didn't need a second chance to think about what Tai had said, " Violation? Where do you come up with all this? To me, I believe it's just another lousy beginning to yet another phase of our lives – being a senior. Also we had to change campus."
(a/n: okay, just to get to the point. Sora and Mimi go to an all girl's school up to year 10. So do Tai and Matt, but the opposite gender. The two schools are connected, and when the pupils become seniors the two year levels – boy and girl – combine into on big level in a different campus. Back to the story…)
The brunette dug his back into the leather seat, eyes focusing on the road. " No that. It's just…being with all these girls of a sudden. It's going to be weird, don't you reckon?"
"Hell yeah. But we've been with a bunch of girls for a long time," Matt didn't understand why Tai had become worked up over the situation.
" Sorry Mr.-I-have-a-whole-bunch-of-girl-fanatics-craving-for-my-ass-which-is-why-I'm-used-to-it. But people, like me…aren't used to a bunch of girls coming into our lives so rapidly."
"I think you should take that back, you hypocrite player," the blond headed adolescent chuckled, " We go clubbing once in a while, and I catch you dirty dancing with some girls."
Yamato was never a fan of the dance club scene. He'd only go if Taichi had dragged him into it, free booze, or his band had a gig.
"But that's a different issue. The booze effects me. At school…it's different. And it will be weird. I don't think I can study now…all male environment is more comfortable. I don't need any women in my life, ever since Hikari hit puberty…females can be scary."
"Well…I gotta give it to you in that one," he agreed with a broad grin.
" Also, to add, now you have to look good everyday. I mean…even Mimi and S-."
"Sora…" Matt ended with a frown, grin turning upside down.
He had never gotten over her. Everything had simply clashed in the wrong timing. Matt had developed a small crush on her a while back before high school. When they begun it…their closeness had crumbled. Even back in elementary, his parents had begun fighting. As an older brother, he tried his best to prevent and protect his younger brother – TK – from coming across it. While the fights began to worsen, he had settled a strange relationship with Sora, over the Internet. He finally gained the guts to give a pretend confession on Valentine's Day to her almost two year ago, but he was rejected. She only saw him as a brother. He would have not given up on her if they wouldn't avoid each other whenever they crossed paths, and also there was the reason that she liked 'Taichi' after seeing her write his name on the whiteboard years back.
And he still loved her…
He thought the years would heal lustful feelings over her, but it never did. He could never get over her. She was always on his mind, and he hated the feeling. He couldn't take not seeing her everyday. It was driving him insane.
If he had the chance he would have instead restored their friendship, but he couldn't. Especially, at that time, his family had finally collapsed a week later– watching as his younger brother was torn away from his arms. Perhaps keeping all this in, had caused him to become really unsociable.
Only last year, he had forced himself to become more sociable and had let a few more people know the real him. Yamato had advanced his admiration for music and learnt how to play the electric guitar. Soon enough his teacher had teamed him up with three other members and were a band, currently known as The Teenage Wolves. The group was formed a year ago, and had become incredibly close. They were well known throughout Odaiba and were described as one of the hottest youngest bands. The lyrics he sang, weren't his own. But he didn't mind…any music was a form of relaxation to him…and anyway to let go of reality and not think about her.
That was how he slipped into a dark state of depression. He always thought of the past. He missed his family being together. And how had been dragged out of innocence into knowing the evil cruel corrupt world. Depression had killed him and it left him confused…he forget who he was. All he knew was about her. In admittance, Yamato had experimented a lot with drugs but wasn't foolish enough to get completely addicted. (The only thing he was addicted to was his packets of cigarettes, but there was nothing else besides that. News paper articles had gossipped that he was a drug addict, was not a virgin and was the stereo typical ' bad boy.' He didn't really care what the media said.)
All in all, he was over everything. Taichi had helped him out of depression by knocking some sense into him, literally – almost sending him unconscious. He had come to realize that even though the world had turned against him, he still had his brother to live up for…he didn't want TK to follow his footsteps and feel the pain he gone through. He was glad that he was more happier, and at least the girl he liked shared the same feelings for him and that they were completely inseparable. (even though Taichi hated to admit it as well)
"So this is the new campus."
"That's right," Taichi commented staring as students were walking in and out of the building. He parked the car; they both got out of it and locked the doors.
" TAI, YAMATO!" a girl screamed.
The girl was a metre away, her pink dyed hair tied back in a ponytail with a large smile pressed onto her face. Next to her was another girl with auburn shoulder length hair who appeared more hesitant. The girl with pink hair looked excited with her eyes glittering she began to fasten her pace closer towards the pair.
" SORA, MIMI!" Tai yelled back, " What happened to your hair?"
" Ha! I dyed it over the holidays," Mimi giggled. Sora, on the other hand, stared around uncomfortably with a soft blush appearing on her cheeks.
" Can't believe we're going to be in the same schools again," Tai exclaimed. " This will be interesting."
"Yeah," Yamato spoke in agreement his eyes darted at the crowds of people filling the school, trying to avoid contact with the two females in front of him.
" Yo! Blondie!" a familiar voice called somewhere in the crowd.
"Jay!" Matt realized the second lead guitarist in his band.
" Hey ladies and Tai," he gave a wink as they all exchanged hellos.
"Where's Kent and Bri?"
"Bri…" Jay laughed, " Is well…sort of flirting with all the girls."
"Typical," Tai stated. He as the rest knew, Bri – the drummer - loved attention…especially attention with girls.
"And Kent?" Matt questioned.
"That's the thing," Jay scratched his head nervously, unaware how the lead would take the news. " He's over at America to visit some family…which means we can't really play at any gigs…"
To his surprise, Matt remained calm. " We all need a rest I guess. I think it's best of if we have a break for good."
"You mean…break up?" Jay's eyes widened.
" I mean…we don't need to use this popularity as an advantage. And I'm getting sick of singing songs that don't mean anything to me, with people going crazy over it. I think it's just wrong."
"Yeah…but break up?"
" Jay, face it," Matt sighed. " We truly don't have a future at this, with all the competition around. Before we know it, we'll be an old band that people laugh at. It was good fun, while it lasted. But don't you think we've grown out of it?"
The raven headed boy kept quiet, thoughtfully. " You do have a point. Guess my parents have been not really happy with my grades dropping ever since we've been practising so much. We've put so much effort in it…that we let this dream make us ignorant of reality. I don't think I can handle playing at gigs for the rest of our lives…especially when our fan base might leave us."
"You guys got a point. Why don't you just play a gig once in a while and focus more on your studies? I've dropped out of soccer the end of last year. This will be our last years at school, and I don't want to regret anything," Tai added. " Let's give it our all."
"You're right," Matt responded to them. " But if we do get back together…let's right our own lyrics."
"Agreed," Jay laughed. " I gotta go, can't wait to burst Bri's bubble. Pretty sure his ego's gunna drop way down."
" My bet's on that."
"Later blondie, Tai and Mimi!"
"Ciao. See you at class."
Where's Sora? The blond headed boy glanced around unaware that the girl had slipped away while they were talking. He raised his eyebrow.
"Am I hearing things right, the Teenage Wolves are going to break up!" Mimi exclaimed. " That's terrible!"
Tai chuckled. " Terrible for you."
"Oh," Mimi glanced around, " She was here just a minute ago. Do you guys happen to know where Sora is? Guess she still isn't used to our little reunion."
"Yeah," Matt had finally spotted her, she was walking into the school. " She's going in school."
"I'll catch you two later, I'd better see where she's off to! Take care!" Mimi giggled.
The brunette stared after her then glanced back at Yamato. " I still don't get why she had to dye her hair pink! Seriously, pink of all colours?"
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She stared at the mirror. Her heart was beating rapidly. Why had she been so embarrassed back there? Why was she running away? What was she scared of?
Yamato?
Probably. She wanted to be angry with him, but she couldn't. She hated how he talked to his new friends in his band and completely avoided everyone else there. But then again, she was a hypocrite. She had started ignoring him…
She sighed, a frown pursing on her cherry shaded lips. She couldn't stand standing there with all of them together again. Matt, Tai, Mimi and her - it just wasn't the same anymore. They all had changed so much, and their differences had grown enormously. She didn't want to remember, she wanted to forget the past and move on. But how could she when the past always found its way back to her? She hated the system of how her school had to join up with the boy's school. But she couldn't avoid everything…she had to face everything. And she was anxiously frightened about the whole ordeal. It made her sick.
Was she going to continue to think in her own mind, or was this all going to change as being a senior? If she were to survive this, it would be a miracle. But she swore to herself that she would try to avoid him for the two final years of schooling. As if that would ever happen…
The bell rang
How long had she been in the toilet for?
She pushed the door open and was astounded as the hallways buzzed with people. She had missed where she was supposed to be going, what she was supposed to be doing and where her locker was. What was she going to do now?
"Sora! Oh my, I've been looking for you all over the place. It's already period one! You need to get to class!"
She gave a sigh of relief. Glad that she had bumped into Mimi. " I would get to class if I knew what I had!"
"That's where I come in handy," Mimi thrust a piece of paper into her hands. " That's the timetable. We haven't been allocated lockers yet. I really need to get to class. See ya at recess, Sora!"
"Thanks. I owe you," she murmured. Some first day she was going to have…she was already late for class!
She read her timetable to herself, " Period 1 is English. Room 44. That's beautiful. I don't even know where all the rooms are."
She took minutes looking around the campus, but still couldn't find her room. Then she walked into him…him of all people.
"Great," she sighed, trying to not stare at him. She could smell the smoke from his cigarette circling around him, making her feel even sicker. He was smoking on school grounds. So what? He could get away with everything. " Why aren't you in class."
" I'm amazed that you even spoke to me," he replied quietly and dodged the question. " What class have you got?"
"English," she replied.
"Me too."
It was awkward. She wanted to get out of this conversation as quick as possible, so she stopped beating the bush.
"Do you happen to know where room 44 is?"
"Yeah, it's opposite the gym. You can't miss it. T-thanks," she answered gratefully.
"And Sora?"
She winced, she hadn't heard him say his name for a long time. And it hurt.
"Yes," she whispered.
"Tell the teacher I'm going to be a bit late? I promise I'll come."
"Whatever…" she scoffed, walking away.
It infuriated that he was using her. But that was her longest conversation she had with him for such a long time. And she had sworn to herself she would avoid him. It pissed her off that he was playing the typical 'rebel' by coming late to class, it pissed her off that she was going to cover up for him. She followed the direction he told her and found her room. She nervously walked in, to see all her classmates staring at her then began to chat. She didn't know anyone here. The girls from her previous campus were flirting with boys or were the girls that she hadn't become friends with.
"Sora! Sit over here!" a familiar voice exclaimed.
To her surprise she saw Tai. She felt more comfortable being in his presence than in Yamato's or any other boy's. She seated next to him.
"Where's the teacher?"
"He's late."
"Oh," she replied. She pulled the books from her bag and placed them neatly onto her desk.
"Perfectionist. You're still the same," Tai laughed.
"I guess…" she gave a weak smile. She tiredly let her head fall onto the desk as the noisy class waited for their teacher. Soon enough, she had to lift her head from the desk and pay attention.
Seconds later, the teacher had arrived. He looked rather flustered as he began rummaging through his papers to find the roll. He began to call every pupil's name. He ran through the roll and when he got to Yamato's name, no one replied.
"Does anyone know where Mr. Ishida is?"
Sora nervously began to speak up. She never spoke in class, she was more like the people to be daydreaming or half asleep. She wasn't fond of attention.
" Umm…he's coming a bit late…he had to see a teacher."
The teacher nodded, while Tai gave her an unsteady glance.
"Already? We just started today…" Tai commented. " So much for focusing on our studies."
"Nuh…he'll be hear soon," Sora said uncertainly. " He said he'd be a bit late."
"I see," the brunette replied. " Nice cover. Though I thought he should have told me that he was going to be lat-."
Sora doubtfully felt uneasy. What if he didn't turn up to class? What if he didn't keep his promise? Would she get told off for covering him up…
"Sorry I'm late, Sir." A boy walked in.
"Take a seat Mr. Ishida."
He did, sitting on the other opposite side of Tai and mimicked a 'Thanks' to her.
He had kept his promise.
That's all that mattered at that moment…because this was the Yamato that she knew…and loved…
She smiled.
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Oh my golly. I finally released this chapter. Before anyone says when I'll be updating again…it will be in more than 3 weeks considering I'm giving my priority, now, to study for my exam. This will be my last update until then. I hope you liked this chapter…please review!
Lots of love
Flipstahhz
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