Broken Angel01: This chapter has it all then. However, do not be upset with Matt's dad. He is angry right now. Thank you for reviewing. I love your characters by the way. I love how you write. So far, your story is the only one I have read who work the digimon in so perfectly.

gizmo-396: Matt tells Tai and his dad. Tai takes it much better then Matt's father.

Digi-Girl101: Sorry about the Yolie being bold. See I cannot spell her name. I keep getting the ie and ei mixed up. Therefore, I copied and pasted. I can't spell well, I know this and I can accept it. I do not feel that the story has mistakes so bad that you can't follow it. Am I wrong?

Stained In Negativity: Ah, criticism. I find it to be like medicine. No matter how you take it, it is bitter the whole way down, however it does help and you learn. If you think there were some very avoidable grammar mistakes when you read, you should have seen it before I made corrections! wink

Tai is a serious character but he, I feel is also a carefree spirit. He tries to make things better. Matter of fact, Davis' and Tai seem to be similar more ways then just appearances. Yes, Davis goes over board but the all the same, they have great personalities. I am aware Mimi moves to New York where she becomes a chief but her living in New York would not work in this story. There is no digimon in my stories. I cannot do digimon; therefore, there is no digi world. Mimi was only shown with the group through digi world. Very few people can do the digi world/digimon with out messing the story up and I do admire those that do but it is not me. Mimi had to stay with the group.

Since you said you would continue to read the story, I would appreciate help with any problems you find that I keep repeating. Could you do that for me? Help me fix one problem at a time?

animeluver88: Thank you! I am glad you are enjoying the story.

Nikki1: Tai is going to be there for Matt more then Matt knows it. Tai is going to grow to enjoy being a part of Matt's child's life. So will the others. Thank you for reading this story Nikki. I hope this chapter does not disappoint you.

The street before the two friends remained quiet, darkness had settled in and air held a light spray of rain that lingered on their bodies like a thin coat. Matt stared at the emptiness, trying to find the right words to flow his problem to his friend easily. He needed someone to lean onto, someone to support him in the time of doubt. Doubt about himself, does he have what it takes or would it be better just walk away from a tremendous responsibility. He knew he could not do it alone. Matt did not even know where to begin when it came to taking charge of a baby. Besides, who to say that those who are with him now will remain so when he would need them the most?

Matt sighed and took a deep breath, "Well Tai. It seems as though my life is about to change."

"I knew it!" Tai smiled in delight, "Senior High Crisis! Izzy so owes me!"

"You'll have to explain that…" Matt arched a blonde eyebrow.

"When you and Joe were having your 'talk', the others, including myself, was into a discussion about your recent odd behaviour. I came up with a very witty conclusion that it has to do with the ending of high school and the beginning of adult related issues."

"Well you have the adult issues correct but I'm not suffering from um…Senior High Crisis." Matt smirked at Tai's made up words.

"Oh." Tai frowned. "You sure? I've got money riding on Senior High…"

"You are kidding right? You're not actually betting on my problems are you?"

"What kind of friend do you think I am?" Tai smiled. "So if it's not high school, then what's going on?"

"I got a girl pregnant." Matt waited for the information to sink in; he waited for his friend's reaction.

Tai smirked for a moment until he caught the serious in Matt's eyes, "Tell me you're kidding."

Matt shook his head.

Tai sat there with his mouth slacked open for what seemed like minutes to Matt. Then his friend ran both of his hands nervously through this shaggy hair. "Man, Matt what are you going to do?"

"I don't know." Matt said softly. "I have no idea." He turned from his friend to stare ahead.

"What does your dad say about all this?"

"I haven't told him." Neither friend faced each other.

"Wow," Tai laughed nervously. "So who is she? I wasn't even aware that you are involved with anyone."

"I'm not. Not really. It was…" Matt shook his head, "Just a moment."

"Just a moment?" Tai frowned, "Care to clarify?"

"I don't know how. It was something that just happened."

"So…you have no feelings for this girl?" Tai asked.

"None. She was just someone I bumbed into while riding the subway one night. We talked and hit it off right away. We had the same ideas, the same dreams in some aspects. She invited me over one day." Matt sighed looking up at the sky, "I never thought I'd see her again. You know, just another person you forget. I mean, she is incredible looking, but…"

"But what?"

"She's older then I am Tai."

"How much older?"

Matt shook his head, not really wanting to answer. "About six months ago I had an extremely bad day. I know everyone has those days. Wasn't anything major but these little things kept happing., kept stacking up on top of each and the weight became a burden. I took a night stroll, to clear my mind and the next thing I knew, I was standing before her door. I just looked up at the apartment she was living in. I didn't even knock but she some how knew I was there and she opened the door."

"You did it that night?"

"Yeah and the next and the one after that. I couldn't get enough of her. It wasn't just the sex but she made me feel something that I never felt before. All day I thought only about her. I caught myself smiling a million times when I thought about her voice or her smile. The way she smelled…I never felt that way before."

"Love?"

"I am capable of loving someone!" Matt shot Tai his famous glare.

"That's not what I mean. I meant to say is, do you love her?" Tai asked.

"No. I don't love her and she doesn't love me. There was this amazing magnec physical attraction." Matt shrugged his broad shoulders, "Then one night we started to talk, really talk and suddenly we realize that it would never work. We have the same interest but our means of getting to where we wanted to go were completely different….and there was this age problem."

"Again with the age? How old is she? We're friends, Matt. If she is sixty-five I swear that I'll find you the medical help you need." Tai held up his right hand.

Matt gave Tai a half grinned. He could always count on Tai trying to cheer up a bad situation, "She's twenty-four. It's not old but other's won't see it that way. That's seven years older then I am. When she was my age, I was ten."

Tai whistled, "At least you don't have to worry about what her parents will say."

"Lucky me." Matt leaned back against the step, feeling the cold stone through the wet shirt he wore.

"Tai!" Kari poked her head out the door, "Mum said you should get in here out of the rain. You too Matt or go home and get into dry cloths!"

"In a minute!" Tai yelled back, watching his sister disappear through into the apartment. Tai looked back at his friend, "Is she keeping the kid?"

"No."

"Abortion?"

"No. She is going full term with it then she doesn't want anything to do with it after birth. She has given me the option of keeping it."

"Are you?"

"I don't know what I am going to do, Tai."

"What exactly do they mean by full term? It's not like they have much choice to go full term or half term."

Matt grinned, "I don't know."

"How long have you known?"

"I found out that night I was grounded. She told me at a restraunant that afternoon. I took a walk around the city and through the park. I walked until eleven before I realized how late it was and by back tracking it was about two when I got home."

"No wonder your dad has been furious with you."

"And then add this problem to it, he's going to hate me."

Tai stood up, placing his hand on his friend's shoulder, "No. Your dad won't hate you. Won't be too happy with you but he won't hate you."

"Tai!" Kari yelled again.

"I said in a minute!" Tai yelled back, once again his sister went back into the apartment. "My advice, for what its worth, talk to your dad. Let him get over the shock, the anger and then you guys can go on from there. Before you know it, the baby will be born. Maybe your dad may help you in making a discesion."

"And what if he just kicks me out?"

"He won't."

"But what if he does? What if I disappoint him so much that he doesn't want to have anything to do with me?"

"You are over reacting. Your dad isn't going to throw you out of the house. Don't get me wrong, he isn't going to do the joy dance but he won't throw you out when you need him." Tai looked back at his apartment, "This won't be easy but everyone will be there for you. You will see. Have some faith in us."

"Don't tell anyone, would you?" Matt asked.

"I won't." Tai stood up and stretched. "Wow, you're going to be a dad." Tai stood on the bottom of the step, letting the feather like rain drops brush against his face. "I think the shock is starting to wear off."

"Reality catching up with you?" Matt asked.

"Real fast." Tai sighed, remembering talk of their plans after high school. About their road trip to see the world, the girls they were going to meet, the parties they were going to throw, the thrills they sought out to explore. He watched his friend stand up and glanced over at him. "Tell your dad. We'll work it from there."

"There is no 'we' Tai." Matt shook his head, "This is my problem, not your own."

"Your problems are my problems. When you become friends, you make this unspeakable pack. You are always there for me, don't think for a minute that I won't be there for you." Tai reached out and for the first time Matt let Tai pull him into a quick, one arm embrace. "We'll get through this."

Tai watched as Matt headed towards his home before he walked up the stairs before snapping his finger in the air, "One more thing Matt."

Matt turned around with his head slightly titled.

"I get dips on being the Godfather."

"What?"

"I mean I know Tk is going to try to get that title but he's blood related. The kid needs an uncle not a uncle slash godfather. Since I am one of your closest friends, I think I should be consider the title."

Matt grinned, "I'm not evening sure I am keeping the kid, Tai."

"But if you do…"

"I'll consider you." Matt waved and turned back to his jounery home.

Tai shook his head and said to himself, "You'll keep it. You can't live with yourself any other way." He sighed and walked through his apartment door.

White, downy clouds spotted the cerulean sky and radiant sun. A breeze picked up, playing tenderly through the trees, stroking the branches, causing them to rock to the rhythm only Mother Nature can hear. People out on the street below Matt's window seem to come alive with the superb day. Matt pushed away from the window and surveyed his own surroundings. Natural light streamed in through the open window, casting shadows away, which normally dwelled in the corners of the apartment. A cool, refreshing breeze swooped into the room, a welcome to the young man who stood in the centre of the apartment. For the longest time the place felt like it was closing in on him, sucking him into darkness that he couldn't find how to escape. Dreams haunted him; reality was not to show a much better side. For over a month Matt tossed his options in his mind, an exhausting battle that had finally ended last night.

He had awakened from one of his many dreams. Sweat sliding down his face, his shirt sticking to his body when he sat up, fully awake. He knew the dreams were a side affect from his current problem. A problem he couldn't even escape through sleep. Sitting in bed that night, he realise he could not keep it up any longer; he had to tell his father. He was tired physically as well as mentally. He couldn't eat, he couldn't sleep, he was in fact making the problem worse then it already seemed to be. At least he could but it aside once it was in the open. He knew now what he wanted to do.

When morning arrived, it came with a new feeling. Matt felt lighter yet at the same time, anxious. It was Saturday morning and his father actually had the day off. Of course, it meant that he was going to sleep through the morning hours and wake up sometime pass noon. Matt learned to accept that, understanding that the long nights his father put in at work made it almost impossible for him to stay wake during the day.

Matt kept himself busy by taking his father's bankcard to go grocery shopping. Later he spent most of the day revising the band's new lyrics, trying to find the right flow of words if not finding the right words. Then there was Tai's phone call that took up a small amount of his time.

"I went out with her! I actually asked her out." Tai's voice boomed through the small cell phone Matt held in his hands.

"Who?"

"Anita. You know, the girl in your calculus class."

"Oh." Matt frowned; he could not remember an Anita in his class.

"We had a great time. We went out to this new club, saw a movie, went out to dinner, then I walked her up to her door and gave her a kiss. Believe me when I tell you, she was waiting and wanting it."

Matt chuckled as he took a seat beside the window, "Good, you had a great time. Are you going to ask her out again?" Matt listen to the pause on the other line, "Tai? You still there?"

"I mind as well tell you. I mean Anita is going to tell everyone anyhow."

"What did you do?"

"After the kiss…you know when you say good night."

"Yeah."

"I called her Mimi."

"You did."

"She said in the sweetest voice, "Good night Tai." and I replied, "Sweet dreams, Mimi."

"No you didn't."

"Yeah I did. Her mouth fell open, she slapped me in the face before I realise what I said and slammed the door shut."

"You called her Mimi?"

"That's what I said. Aren't you listening?"

"Well, yeah but I don't understand. Why Mimi?"

"I don't know. I saw her at the club but I was having a great time with Anita. I…I don't understand it either." Matt heard a thump on the other line. "She is going to tell the whole school and Mimi will find out! What am I going to do?"

"For starters, stop bouncing your head off the wall." Matt grinned, fully aware that the thumping had to come from Tai's head hitting his bedroom wall. "Tai, do you like Mimi?"

"Of course I do, we've been friends forever now."

"No, no no. I mean, do you really like her?"

"No, of course I don't like her that way!"

"Shame. She is fine. With her nice breast and those curves…"

"FINE! I like her!" Tai shouted.

"And now she is going to find it out."

"Maybe not. I like her but she isn't the sharpest tool in the box."

"You mean the shed."

"I don't have a shed, just a box."

"Err…forget it."

"Forget what?"

"The shed."

"What shed?"

"The shed and the box."

"I don't have a shed."

"I know."

"Can we get back to Mimi and me?" Tai asked.

"I think that's your problem."

"What is?"

"There isn't a Mimi and Tai." Matt sighed, "Mimi isn't all that dumb either. Most of the time I think she just pretends, a good actress if you ask me. I think she'll figure it out."

"So what do I do from here?"

"I don't know."

"What would you do?"

"Go to bed and pretend it didn't happen."

"It will be talked all over school. Not that I really care but when Mimi gets and ear full."

"Maybe you should call her first then."

"And say what?"

"Tell her what you told me. Tell her that you said her name when you were on date."

"Then what?" Tai asked, "What if she…"

"Tai. It is Mimi. She isn't going to do anything but giggled and say you're silly."

"I'll think about it."

"Good."

"Night Matt."

"Good night Tai."

"Hey Matt?"

"Hey what?"

"Good luck." Matt heard the click of Tai's phone as he hung up.

"Not hungry?" Hiroak asked his son at the table. He watched as his eldest son slowly shook his head. "It's delicious. We haven't eaten like this in a long time." He paused, watching as Matt poked his baked potato. "You went through a lot of trouble to cook this meal."

"I was bored." Matt mumbled.

"I thought you would be out with your friends today."

"No, I just wanted to stick around the apartment this afternoon." Matt glanced across the table at his father. "Hey dad?"

"Hmmm?"

"Remember when you said if I had something I needed to tell you, I could?"

"Yes." Mr. Ishida studied his son carefully.

"Well," Matt looked down at his plate and frowned at the potato on his plate, "Can I still take you up on that?"

"You always can come to me." Hiroak told him. Matt continued to stare at his slaughtered potato. "Does this have something to do with what has been bugging you for over a month now?"

Matt nodded his head.

"Good. It's about time you told me what has been troubling you." Matt's father looked over at his son, "You look like you haven't slept in weeks and you are losing weight."

"Promise you won't get mad?" Matt kept his head down but looked up at his father with his azure eyes.

Mr. Ishida gave a heavy sigh. It had been a long time since Matt looked at him like that. The last time was he was eight and sent a ball flying through a closed window, shattering the window into the living room where his brother played. Luckily, no one was hurt.

"You know I can't promise you that. I can promise that I won't be mad forever."

"That really doesn't make me feel a whole lot better." Matt grumbled and went back to stabbing his potato.

"What? So now you don't want to tell me?" Hiroak watched as Matt pushed his plate away from him. "I see." he took a bite out of his mixed vegetables. "This problem you are in, is it something I can get you out of?"

Matt shook his head.

"Is it something I need to talk to someone about?"

Matt shrugged his broad shoulders.

"You don't know if I need to talk to anyone or not?" Mr. Ishida shut up his eyebrows, "You know it will be much easier if you just told me so I can help instead of me trying to guess what is going on."

Matt stared again at his plate as it may just walk off if he blinked. After a few seconds Matt glanced up at his father, "I meant this girl." He started an already familiar story on his tongue through repetition.

"Ah, a girl then. Finally someone stole your heart!"

"No." Matt shook his head. "I'm not in love with anyone."

"She's in love with you then?" Hiroak asked.

"No."

Mr. Ishida waited but Matt did not continue, "I'm not really seeing a problem. If you don't like her and she doesn't like you, stay away from each other then."

"She's carrying my child." Matt leaned back in his chair, trying to keep a large space between him and his father.

"Excuse me?"

"We sort of had this affair…."

"An affair! Seventeen year olds do not have an affair. They have sex! In your case unprotected sex!"

"Dad…"

"What the hell were you thinking!"

"Dad…"

"We talked about this, Matt!" We talked about protections. You said you understood!"

"I did. I do…"

"Then what the hell happen!"

"I don't know…"

"You don't know." His father repeated in a statement. "Well you certainly got yourself in a mess!"

"I'm sorry." Matt said softly.

"Sorry isn't going to work this time, Matt. Sorry doesn't cover it!"

The two sat across from each other with out speaking. Matt waited for his father's next out burst. He waited for anything, yet not sure what to expect. His father had his head in his hands and his jaw muscles clenched tight.

"Dad?" Matt said softly.

"Go into the living room."

"I…"

"GO!" His father shouted.

"I need you."

"And I need to think!" His father said more harshly then he wanted.

Matt slowly picked himself up from the table and walked through the door that leads to the living room. He sat in the middle of the sofa fighting the tears he refuse to shed, surrounded in darkness, alone.