Reviews:
Vigatus: I'll have to think about how Tai would get back at Tk and Davis or maybe leave that up to Kari. I can't show how Tai comfort his sister with out Sora being present because she's the one telling the story. I'm thinking of another story though where Tai is the main character and maybe he will have a review of this story or maybe I'll attach his point of view in the end. I'm not sure yet and I know it doesn't really make sense in words but in my mind it does. Thanks for the review and I'll think about your suggections, it would be more humor back into the story.
Soramon: Yeah Tai is getting the short end of the stick in this story. He's trying to be the hero to everyone and putting off his own romance. However, that might change towards the end.
JyouraKoumi: I hope this story does make you proud. It would never had been written if you didn't suggest something with Izzy and Mimi.
Cheers and thanx for the reviews everyone.
Story:
The next day I ran into Tk going to school. We walked for a while before Tai snuck up behind us and mimicked a Mim's death hug on me.
"Hey there," I squeezed out of the arm lock. "I tried to call you last night." I took notice that Tai and Tk weren't greeting each other or making eye contact as they normally did, in fact, Tk steps were getting larger. He couldn't be that excited about going to school.
"That would be the fault of searching for my sister, my upset sister!" Tai hissed in Tk's directions.
"Oh, right." Must think of way to change subject.
"What's your problem Tai?" Tk turned around, "You don't want me or Davis to date your sister and now we are both out of the picture, so stop harking on me about it! I heard it all yesterday!"
I had to admire Tk for bravery but he took the wrong time to show it to Tai.
"Who would have thought that it would be this nice in December" I took in a deep breath, "I so love the smell of cold, fresh air. Don't you?"
"My problem is the way you two went about your little so called plan!" Tai came inches from Tk's face, pointed his finger into Tk's chest. "You two couldn't have discussed this between the both of you? You two had to go and humiliate my sister in a middle of a party! No one wants to know that they're not wanted and no wants that knowledge to be announced among their peers! Now today she has to face them all, knowing about the whispers, the snickering and the lies that are going on behind her back!"
"We didn't' think that it would…" Tk swatted Tai's finger away from him.
"That it would go down the way it did?" Tai arched his eyebrows, "Guess what, it has."
"We were tired of her toying with us and we thought that this would be easy on her and on us. She wouldn't make a decision and we don't want to date the same girl! Our friends thought we were pathetic trying to get the same girl."
"You two are pathetic! Did you ever think why she didn't want to pick between you two? Did it even accrue to you that maybe she didn't want to hurt your feelings or Davis? All she was trying to do protect your feelings and look where it got her? In the end it was the same people she was protecting that hurt her! I'm starting to think the only reason either of you even like Kari is because of the other and you two are in a competition to piss the each other off!" Tai growled.
"Tk you better hurry up or you'll miss your basketball group up ahead…" I shooed him along to his team-mates.
"Whatever,'' Tk rolled his eyes and stormed away from us.
"A little hard on him, weren't you?" I looked up at my friend.
"You didn't see my sister," Tai said softly. "Not only that but I missed out on a date with my girlfriend," Tai took notice to a rock on the sidewalk and gave it a kick. I watched as it skids across the road to the other side.
"So you finally got a date with this mystery girl?" I turned to face him again.
"Well…no."
"Okay," I said slowly.
"I mean I might have if I went to the mall yesterday. I might have seen her, I might have asked her number and she might have given it to me. I might have even asked for her name and I might have been able to call her last night asking her out on a date. That didn't happen because I was searching for my sister." Tai glared at the Blondie that was still in our view.
"You know," I gave him a little jolt in the arm, "You are going to have girls come in and out of your life but Kari will always remain there. She's going to remember what a great big brother you are and…"
"Hell she will!" Tai glared at me, "She's going to marry some guy and have a zillion kids. She's going to tell them all how their uncle blew his one chance of dating his future wife to go after her while she sulked over two boys she won't even end up marring!"
He went over the other side, lost any kind of sanity he ever had! Now the poor unknown girl is his fiancée! "Well…, hey do you remember what you told me about Matt?"
"That he grinds his teeth before he starts to yell at me?"
"Um…no."
"That he bites your finger if you bebop him?"
"No. I didn't know that? Since when?"
"Since last Tuesday." Tai shook his head, "Kept yelling about personal space and I shouldn't interfere with it or his fist in going to interfere with mine."
"Oh. No it was about…"
"How he turns to classical music to help him sleep better?"
"No but isn't that so cute? Now I find myself listening to it, thinking that he's closing his eyes about…" I noticed Tai had stopped and was now glaring at me. "Um, no not that either."
"That he is weird like his brother?"
"You never said that!"
"Well he is!"
"No it was about how he kept pulling away from us and how something would come up, bringing us back together again. That he was destine to be with me and me with him. That's how it will be with this girl, if you two aren't meant to be, then it will be so." I smiled sweetly, best advice Tai had ever given me.
"I lied." Tai said flatly, "I read that out of a poem I had to memorize for school. I just changed a few words around to make it sound as if it was my own. I got tired of you two exchanging glances and zoning out into space. I had to do something for the gang, you two were getting in our nerves. It sounds good and all but, it wasn't true. You always had someone else that connected you to Matt. Either Tk. or I there was always someone, I have no one but the security people tape, which she might or might not be on. Even if she is, that only proves that she does exist and hopefully someone knows her. My future wife is out there and I don't know how to find her, Sor."
"Tai you are getting worked up about someone you don't even know. She could be an awful person! She could be a man dressed as a woman for all you know."
"I know, I'd say the same thing if it were someone else. However, Sor, it was in the eye contact. We held it and we shared something. I would have never believed in it but this is love at first sight. I know we belong together and I honestly think she knows it too."
"Then why isn't she tracking you down?"
"I don't know. Maybe she isn't as persistence as I am. Maybe she didn't feel it, maybe…," Tai smirked, raising his eyebrows.
"Maybe you freaked her out?" I grinned.
"In a way, maybe I did. Maybe she did feel it and maybe it did scare her. I don't know but I will find her and I will let her know how I feel."
"Tai, you might be setting yourself up for heartbreak." I warned him.
"Isn't that how love always end?" Tai smiled, "A couple either breaks up or one dies on the other. Sure, it might take eighty years for that person to die but they do and in the end, someone is left crying over the departure of the other. I have nothing to lose then anyone else that is in love. Maybe more if I don't find her though."
"You do realise that this is kind of romantic."
"No it isn't. It's a mystery that needs solved."
"No, Tai. It's romantic." I laughed as he made a face.
"Just don't be telling people that!" Tai frowned. "I don't want them to think I'm some sappy dweb!"
"Your secret is safe with me," I wrapped my arm around his. "Oh speaking of romantic, Mimi kissed Izzy last night."
"She always was kissing him. Remember the lips stick on his face? It's her…"
"I know but this time it happens in front of me. That means she is pushing it into the public. Be prepared because not only is your sister the talk of the school, Mimi and Izzy will be sharing the spot light too."
