A/N: Sniff Almost Last chapter….

I feel sooooo bad that it took me such a long time to update, but I seriously had the most major writer's block anyone could ever had, and I had to write little by little of the story because of it and the fact that the story would turn out better that way. I'm not sure about making a sequel to this or something like that since I have no idea how to make a sequel to this is such.

Okay, my lovely utterly the best readers ever, this is the last chapter and I'm so happy that you guys like it (well, I hope), and thanks to the people that reviewed the previous chapters—Kisses to all of you!

Chapter 8-The End

Sora sighed as she dropped her stuff on the hardwood floor. She just came back from Mimi's sleepover, and she was tired as hell. The whole time they stayed up all night watching five movies, talking about boys, saying mean stuff about Matt, and talking to Tai on the phone until two in the morning since they woke him up from his "very important needed sleep", but they did mange to get invited to Tai's new girlfriend's party. Which reminded her that she had to get ready since the party is in three hours and the girls will be coming over in an hour and a half.

She rushed into the bathroom, almost slipped from her long peasant skirt, but still got into the warm comfortable shower in one piece. Sora always loved showers, and always tried to take one every chance she could, since they did remind her of the rain. And it was the perfect place to just think. Closing her eyes shut, she decided to do so…thinking.

"Come on, Sora, get down from there! You might break your neck," Sora heard a voice below. She gripped the branch and looked down to meet a pair of enchanting sapphire eyes.

"Then why don't you get up here cause I'm not going down unless you make me," she stuck out her tongue as a tease. She knew her best friend was afraid of heights, and that there was no way he was going to climb up…or she thought. Hearing a couple of grunts and silent whimpers, she looked down to see the blond slowly climbing the huge oak tree that they found in the woods just yesterday, and he had his eyes shut. She giggled and slowly climbed down, "Yamato, there's no way I'm going to let you break your neck. Let's go down before you fall," she said in a gentle voice. He nodded in agreement and joy and started to ascend back down. When both of their feet were firmly on the ground, he fell with a PLOP and pulled her down with her. The two best friends started to wrestle each other all over the dirt floor with lively laughing as they had so much fun.

Five minutes passed, and they were lying down with their back to the ground. "You are going to my tenth birthday party? Right, Sora?" he asked quietly turning his head to meet her fiery ruby eyes.

She returned the gaze, "I wouldn't miss it for the world," she whispered back, grabbing his hands into a friendly grip.

She pushed her wet hair back so it was out of her face, and then faced up with her eyes closed letting the warm droplets of water quickly fall on her. She grabbed the bottle of shampoo behind her from the small shelf and squirted a huge glob on her small hand. Applying it on her red hair, she let her own hands massage her scalp and she closed her eyes once again.

"I have to be home before 4 or my mom will find out that I sneaked out to a party that she said I couldn't go to," a twelve-year-old Sora whispered in a hush voice to the boy next to her.

"Four? In the morning?" Yamato asked, confusion written on his face, "Why four in the morning?"

"That's when my mom wakes up to go to the shop. I have no idea why she wakes up that early, but I could care less," she shrugged and continued walking hand in hand with the blond. Both were walking to one of Matt's good friend's house for a late party starting ten at night and was said to not end until six in the morning if everything turned out right. They reached the Victorian house after a ten-minute chilly walk from Sora's house, and exactly arrived at 10:30 PM. "Matt, Sora," they heard a voice call to them, "I thought you weren't coming," Tai slurred and threw his arms around Matt and gave him a peck on the cheeks as a greeting. Sora suppressed a giggle when she saw Matt's outraged face, "Arrrg, you're drunk!" Matt exclaimed as he pushed Tai off of him, but pulled him back as Tai started to fall, "And you smell like beer!" he growled, with a disgusted face.

"Where Sora?" he mumbled that it took a while for her to understand.

"Right behind you, Tai," she answered and watched him turn around and gaze at her with his chocolate eyes.

"S-SORA!" he screamed, his arms spread ready to give her an embrace. She dodged him right in time because Tai fell with a thump on the floor—fainted.

"I can't believe him," Matt muttered under his breath, "Let's go put in him in a room before something else happens to him." Sora nodded and helped Matt pick the bushy-haired guy up the stairs. Sora opened the first door she saw, but closed it immediately when she caught the sight of a high school couple taking their clothes off. "What happened?" Matt asked when he saw the look on her face.

"Nothing," she shook her head, "Hey, why not use that room instead of this one?" she suggested as she pointed the room right across where they were. Matt just shrugged and carried Tai to the room and put him on the bed. He walked out and waited at the doorframe and watched the redhead beauty sit down next to Tai on the edge of the bed.

Sora pushed Tai hard enough so he was lying sideways and then tucked him in tightly with the covers. She turned around and stared at Matt for a moment until she decided to speak, "I probably should stay here and watch him. You know just incase something happens."

Matt thought for a while thinking about it. He wanted her to himself, as selfish as it seems, for the whole night. But Sora looked like she wanted to stay with Tai, taking care of him. He silently cursed Tai, but his own selfishness won.

"Why don't you hang out with me and once in a while you can come back here and see how he's doing?" he suggested, and watched her think it over.

"Sure, that sounds good to me," she agreed, taking his hand as he led her downstairs.

Sora gasped as she realized that the water turned ice cold as she accidentally turned the dial so it pointed to the blue spot. She quickly turned it back to the red spot with a shivering hand, and calmed down when it returned to the comfortable warm water. She took hold of the conditioner bottle and applied a large amount on her hair and started to massage her head.

She was never one to do something like this—lie to the school's principal, not even the teachers—but Sora had no choice. If she told the truth, she and Matt would be in so much trouble for skipping class so they could go to a concert that they had to go to, but when it got cancelled, they both tried to sneak back to school without anyone noticing.

"Miss Takenouchi, if we find out that you are not telling the truth, you may be getting in deeper trouble than you will if you just tell us the truth," the principal said, walking back and forth in her small office.

"But I told you, it is the truth. I started to get sick on our way to school, and when I told Matt that I was sick he said that he would bring me home. I kept on telling him that he should just drop me home, but he wouldn't and send that he would never leave me home sick without my mom home, so he stayed with me," she lied.

"But then why are you here?" the principal asked, suspicion in her voice, "Aren't you sick?"

"Of course, I have a major headache. But I knew that if I acted that I felt better, Matt would just go back to school with me and so he wouldn't get in trouble," Sora explained with another lie, but she amazed herself on how well that it sounded.

"Fine, I believe you. Miss Takenouchi, you aren't one to lie to someone so I shall just let you go with a warning. Good day," the principal said, and Sora left with a sigh of relief. Matt met her at the doorway, "What happened?" he whispered. She ignored him until they reached their lockers, "I just told her that I felt sick, and you brought me home. Whatever, blah blah, whatever, and they all them stuff that just got us out of trouble," she explained as she opened her locker and took out all the stuff that she needed.

"Thank God, if I got in trouble one more time, my dad would kill me!" he yelled in relief.

"Well, then you owe me," she said as she walked away with a smile on her face.

Before she realized it, her fingers started to get wrinkly and the hot water turned colder by the moment. She shut the water off and wrapped a blue towel around her petite body and stepped out onto the chilly tiled floor.

"You look wonderful!" chirped Mimi as she entered the huge house of Sora's. The other girls, Kari and Yolei, nodded their head in agreement—approving her choice of tight-distressed jeans tucked in brown cowboy boots. A loose fitting jungle green shirt with a v-neck that goes all the way below the chest over a brown tank top, she also wore to complete the look. (I love to talk about clothes and this is one of my actual outfits…just wanted to say that) "I was going to do my hair, but I had to open the door for you girls," Sora explained, gripping a piece of her wet hair.

"Well, then go ahead. I need something to eat before we go!" Mimi said, walking to the kitchen.

Sora gripped Tai's hand tighter when she saw three guys look her way with lust in their eyes. She laid her head on the nape of his neck and sighed. "What's wrong?" Tai asked.

"Everything. The world hates me," she bluntly explained. She felt the vibration of his laugh and picked her head to look at him. "What's so funny about that?"

"Nothing," he shook his head, "You want a drink or something?"

"Sure, and if you need to find me I'll be around the place." And then they went their separate ways with Sora just walking around to find a familiar face…but not too familiar she thought as she walked into a certain blond that she did not want to see right now.

A/N: I know this doesn't seem like the ending, but I'll put the next chapter. Okay, this story is going to be nine chapters instead of eight as I thought it would be. Is that a good thing? I just thought that I didn't put a chapter in here for such a long time that I needed one fast. So here's chapter eight…and I'll try to get chapter nine quicker than it took me to put this chapter. It's not the best, but bear with me please. I know this isn't going the best chapter ever, but at least I got a chapter on.

Just for fun…I put a somewhat easy secret message in this chapter. Whoever are the first and second reviewers to get it right….I'll dedicate the ninth and last chapter to them. LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!

Love always

nickygirl