Thanks everyone who read. I felt so guilty about that little chapter I felt I needed to hurry up with this next one. I sat down and I thought about it and as of right now, I believe I know where I am going with this story!
Finally, the ordered food arrived. Two large cheese pizza, three pepperoni pizzas and one with everything. The boys quickly grabbed for the piece they were eyeing, a few hissing and growling later, they settled down with their slice. Sora, Mimi and Kari exchanged fearful glances and slowly reached in the middle of the table to receive what ever was left behind. Before Matt could take the cheese off his slice, Tk reached over and started to pull it off.
"Hey!" Tai growled, chewing on a mouthful.
Tk stuck out his tongue and placed the cheese on top of his pepperoni pizza. "Good," Tk mumbled between swallows.
"What's the point in eating pizza if you only eat the sauce and crust?" Davis asked.
"Shut-up," Matt settled back into his chair.
"You have to be more simple with him," Tk told his brother, he leaned over the table to see pass Kari and raised his finger to his lip, "SHHHH!" then Tk turned to his brother once again, "He doesn't understand two-worded words."
"I don't think two-worded words is a word it's self." Matt peered over at his brother.
"Shut-up DG!" Davis gave Tk a death glare.
"Not while we are eating!" Tai glared at both boys.
They continued to chatter with each other while the pizza in the middle of the table slowly started to disappear. One by one, the group of friends sank into their hard chair, their hunger satisfied. Only four slices remain before them, yet not one felt the need to finish it off my cramming their mouth anymore.
"Man, I'm full." Davis sighed, pizza sauce dribbled from the corner of his mouth.
"That was very satisfying,'' Izzy agreed, slurping on his fountain soda.
"Give me twenty minutes and I'll be able to finish the rest!" Tai smiled lazily.
"You sure?" Matt raised his eyebrow.
"Absolutely! Mum is going to attempt to make meatloaf tonight." Tai shook his head with pity.
"You better be saving me a few more slices then!" Kari pointed at her brother, "There is no way you'll leave me starving and having to eat Mum's food!"
"Too bad Joe had to miss this," Mimi sighed and Izzy glanced at her quickly before quickly glancing elsewhere.
"Yeah," Tai nodded. "Where is he? We never get to see him much now that he's in college."
"I'm guessing he is at home with a pile of books," Matt shrugged.
"We should do this more often," Mimi smiled more to herself then at anyone. "Just plan it in advance so everyone can be here."
"I enjoyed myself. It's been awhile since I went out with any of you," Izzy agreed with the blonde sitting next to him.
Tai grinned wickedly, "Well, you know Iz. You could always double date with Matt and Sora."
"Tai…" Matt gave the other boy a glanced. I glanced over at my best friend; suddenly I felt tension started to rise.
"But I'm not dating anyone,'' Izzy's face started to turn red.
"And the only person to blame is you." Tai shook his head. "You would think that someone as intelligent as you are would be able to pick up on things much quicker. OWWW!" Tai glanced over at Matt who gave him a hard kick under the table. "What?"
"You know what!" Matt spoke softly. "Knock it off."
"I have no idea what you are talking about," Tai beamed innocently at the other boy before returning his conversation towards Mimi and Izzy. "So how is the studying going? Is he getting better at kissing?"
"WHAT?" Tk grinned, leaning over the table to see Izzy's face. "Way to go Izz!"
"You mean they are doing it!" Davis' mouth open.
"SHUT-UP!" Kari slapped Davis. "No one said such thing!"
"TAI!" Matt yelled.
"I..I think..I need to be somewhere,'' Izzy stood up to leave.
"Hey don't go!" Tai reached over the table to grab his friend's sleeve, "I'm sorry man."
"It's alright; I have stuff I should be doing." Izzy pulled loose and turned to walk away. Tai launched a crossed the table in a last effort to stop the red head from leaving. The table rocked a little and Tai put his hand down to balance himself, his palm went right into a slice of pizza. The pizza slid underneath the weight, knocking Tai flat on the table. His arm swung widely and tipped over everyone's soda. Matt, Sora, Kari, Tk and Mimi rose while soda spilled down their pants.
"TAI YOU IDIOT!" Matt grasped Tai by the collar.
"Come on! It's only soda! I've got pizza all over my sport jacket!" Tai peeled a slice off his jacket.
"You don't get it do you!" Matt hissed.
"What? That you are over reacting!" Tai slapped Matt's hand away from his collar. "What a surprise!"
"HEY!" Tk put a hand on Matt's shoulder. "Not here."
"You are an inconsiderate little bastard!" Matt growled.
"At least I'm not the one with wet pants," Tai grinned until Matt's fist knocked him in the cheek. I covered my mouth, everything seem to happen in slow motion. Matt's fist sliding forward, smacking Tai hard on the cheek. Tai's head flicked back for a moment.
"OH GOD!" Mimi grabbed her purse and stood away from the table. How I wanted to hide, to shrink down to a little lady bug and fly home.
"I'm going down!" Davis yelled at the same time, finding a safe place under the table.
Tai touched his cheek gently, stun at first but his anger rose quickly. He stood up on the table and jumped on Matt, knocking the blonde back on the bench. The bench tipped over, sending both of the boys sliding into another groups table.
"I'm not with them!" Mimi yelled at everyone who was watching.
"KNOCK IT OFF!" I yelled at the two boys that rolled around in slaughter pizzas. I tried to make a grasp at Tai while Tk went for Matt, but the floor was slippery with pizza ooze, sending both of us flat on our ass. Davis reached over the side of the table and collected the undamaged pizza, then taking himself as well as the pizza back under the table. "Throw a good one in there!" He yelled at Tai.
"SHUT UP DAVIS!" Tk hissed.
"TAKE IT OUTSIDE OR I'LL CALL THE COPS!" One of the cooks came around the counter, "NOW!" He griped Matt and Tai, shoving them to the door. "Both of you will be paying for the damage AND for the food I have to give my customers because you two decided to wear it!" He hissed at them both, pointing his chubby finger at them. "I've known you boys for a long time and I am ashamed to have to call your fathers about this!" He turned around, slamming the door behind him.
"Great, now I'll be grounded!" Tai threw up his hands, telling the group who followed them out.
"You are so thick headed!" Matt shouted at Tai.
"Let it go, Matt." I ran my fingers through my hair. I was completely covered in pizza topping, the smell of grease, mushrooms rose to my nose.
"I'm thick headed! You're the one who threw the first punch!" Tai shouted back at the blonde.
"Here we go again…" Mimi folder her arms, glancing around her as people slowed down walking pass the two boys.
"This is by far the best pizza I had in a long time," Davis slurped up a pizza slice he saved from the fight. Tk rolled his eyes.
"You had no right to say what you did!" Matt told Tai.
"What I said? Is this what everything is about? What I said to Iz?" Tai pointed to his own chest, "Iz was fine with it! What the fuck is wrong with you?"
"Like hell he was! If it didn't bother him so much he would had laughed it off and stayed!" Matt shouted. "You just can't seem to use that head of yours to think, can you?"
"Guys…" I bravely step between them. "Tai will talk to Izzy about it and make everything right like he always does. Everyone knows Tai puts his foot in his mouth but he'll ease it over." She gave everyone a small smile.
"Sure," Tai clenched his jaw.
"Unbelievable," Matt shook his head, turning his back towards the group while running his hands through his thick hair.
"Drama boy," Tai crossed his arms in front of him, shaking his head.
"Matt," I said softly, reaching up to grasp his shoulder. Matt shrugged loose from my fingers, turning to me with his blue eyes blazing with anger.
"No..I'm not dealing with you right now, Sor!"
"What?" I know my mouth dropped, I didn't know what else to say.
"No," Matt shook his head and started to walk away.
"What the hell is that suppose to mean!" I asked.
Matt turned around, pointing over at Tai, "Are you around him so much that you are becoming as dense as he is!"
"Excuse me!" I put my hand on my hip. Where did he get off saying that I was dense!
"Oh yeah…this is getting good!" Davis took leaned against the pizza pallor. Mimi and Tk glanced over at him before turning their attention to their other friends.
"You can't say that about her!" Tai yelled, backing me up.
"Tai…" Kari came over to her brother, grapping his shirttail. "Leave it."
"How dare you say that to me?" I yelled at my boyfriend.
"How dare I? You are the one that seems to feel he needs defended all the time. You are always making fucking excuses for him!" Matt accused me.
"No one is making bloody excuses for me Blondie!" Tai growled, trying to untwine Kari's fingers from his shirttail.
"You have no right to say that! I didn't do anything other to stand for my friend!" I told him.
"And what the hell am I?" Matt asked. I didn't know how to answer that. Matt's my friend and a little more. The confusion I had didn't show in my silence and after a moment, he nodded his head, "Yeah, that's what I thought!" He started to walk away from the group.
"Can you believe him?" Tai asked astonished. "Why does he have to be complicated?"
"He's not," Tk, told the brunette, "Just that you hadn't tried to understand." Tai glanced at the younger blonde-haired person but didn't say anything.
My lips felt tight together, my head hurt and my eyes burnt. I folded my arms in front of my, watching as Matt slipped out of my view.
"Do you want me to go talk to him?" Tai came up and stood beside me after a moment. I shook my head no; I didn't trust myself to speak. There was no way I was going to cry over this. I am stronger then that!
"Watcha doing TJ?" Davis asked. I turned to watch Tk, who found himself a water hose and started to run it over his body.
"I'd rather go around completely wet and have people wonder why I'm wet, "He smiled up at us, "Then go around with a wet spot in front of my jeans and have everyone wonder if I spilt something or if I couldn't hold it a moment longer."
We all smiled at his humour yet it was forced all the same. My visions before me begin to blur and before I could help it, tears started to flow.
"Sor…don't,'' Tai reached out for me. I tried to tell him I was fine but when I open my mouth, a sob came out. I turned and fled from the group.
I walked aimlessly around, not knowing where I was going, not caring. The argument kept running through my head. Rehearsing it in my mind, I wished I could had said things differently, I wish I could had said something. I don't know when, but Tai did catch up to me. He found me sitting on the park bench, our bench. Right under the great oak tree. My face felt stiff from my tears, my head hurt from the tension.
"You okay?" Tai asked me softly, taking a seat next to me. I had my legs underneath me; he put his own out before him. I gave him a nod, kept looking at the empty field of green before me. "Sure?" Tai asked again. I turned to him, all red eyed but a light smile on my face.
"I'm fine," I sniffled, returning to my empty view.
"I'm sorry, Sor." Tai looked down at his fingers, "Um…I guess I should think before I open my mouth."
"You think?" I asked bitterly. I looked over at him, his soft brown eyes were focused on his palm, his cheek started to bruise from the punch.
"I don't know what else to say," He lifted his eyes up to fine mine. I smiled gently and grasped his hand in mine.
"I know you are, Tai."
"Did you two um…" He looked out at the sea of grass, "Break up or something like that?"
"I don't know," I smiled bitterly, "He won't answer my call…." I started to cry again, I didn't want to be one of those weepy girls yet there I was, crying on my best friend's shoulder. My cell phone fell out of my hand and lay between us, facing down and holding no promises of a phone call.