Chapter 5: The Truth
Ken led Sora into a small coffee shop.
He sat her down and ordered two cups of coffee.
He gave one to Sora and took one for himself.
"Thank you for saving me again," said Sora.
"It's fine really," replied Ken. "I need to ask you though, why did you walk away?"
Sora, who was taking a sip from her coffee, stopped and placed it on the table. She lowered her head.
"I walked away because, because," mumbled Sora.
"Sora please," begged Ken. "I need to know."
"It's because I was embarrassed to be his friend," said Sora, who had tears running down her face. "No one liked him. He was an outcast, and I thought that if someone found out I was his friend then I would become an outcast too."
Ken examined the crying face of Sora. He took a sip of his coffee and thought to himself, this day jut keeps getting better and better.
"I'm so stupid," said Tai to himself. Tai was walking through the rain, heading for home.
"Ken was just trying to help and I hit him! Argh! What's wrong with me!"
Tai saw an empty can on he ground in front of him and kicked it.
Tai cried out and had tears flowing from his eyes. Tai fell to his knees and punched the ground.
Why? Thought Tai to himself. Why, why, why. Why does my life have to be so hard?
Suddenly Tai felt a foot come in contact with his face. Tai fell back from the kick and looked up.
"Hey Tai," said a familiar voice.
"Matt," mumbled Tai.
"It's not just me," said Matt.
Two more figures appeared aside Matt.
One was short and had light brown hair.
The other was tall and had blue hair with glasses. Izzy and Joe.
"It's pay back time for the humiliation you gave us that day," said Matt. "And this time we're going to kick you're but."
Matt's foot crunched into Tai's stomach and Tai screamed.
Izzy kicked Tai in the side of the head and Joe the other side.
"How do you like that?" spat Matt.
"You piece of garbage!" cried Tai in anger as he kicked Matt in the groin.
"Matt stumbled back and Ta punched both Joe and Izzy in the right knee.
With all three distracted, Tai jumped up and the brought both of his arms down onto Matt's head.
Matt crumbled to the ground and Joe attempted to strangle Tai. Tai stepped on his foot and elbowed him in the face. Joe let go and stumbled back and Tai punched him square in the jaw.
Izzy charged forward and punched Tai in the stomach with both arms. Tai stumbled back and kicked upwards, his foot catching Izzy's chin. Izzy fell back and Tai kicked him.
At this point Matt had gotten up and was charging towards Tai. His fist hit Tai right in the center of his back and Tai fell to his knees.
"I've got you now," said Matt who was raising his arms for another attack.
Tai flew his arm back and his elbow copped Matt in the groin. Matt stopped moving and Tai got up and kicked him in the groin.
Matt fell to the ground and Tai examined the three men on the ground.
"You better not come for me again," warned Tai as he stuffed his hands in his pockets and walked off.
To be continued:
