Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Don't Go Breakin' My Heart ❯ I'm Gonna Get You ( Chapter 8 )

Disclaimer: You've heard it all before, but now I own two more people! Jared and Hina! Of course, I owned them before their names were given when the whole thing happened.

Warnings: I'm still sick! Oh wait-what does that have to do with the fic? Oh well. You already know the warnings and if you didn't pay attention to them, you would have stopped when it got to Yama's journal.

Sorry I didn't update yesterday! For those who've read each chapter as it got there. I was working on another fic.

Don't go Breakin' My Heart

Chapter 8-I'm Gonna Get You

"God, Yama-why am I the only one you don't remember at all? It hurts-a lot."

Tai started crying into his pillow, trying to be quiet so he didn't wake up Matt. He felt a hand softly rubbing his back and he calmed down a little.

"What's wrong, Taichi?"

"Nothing. Sorry I woke you up."

"I wasn't sleeping much-it's no big deal. Why were you crying?"

"I was just thinking too much. It's nothing, really."

"You're sad because I don't remember you. I've tried, but I can't. I just feel so bad because you and your family have been really kind to me-and I even remembered your sister-but I can't remember you. I wish I could."

"No-don't worry about it. It's just-things were finally perfect between us and then-this happened." Tai started to cry again and sat up, rubbing hard at his eyes.

"God-please don't cry." Matt sat up, too, and grabbed Tai in a tight hug. "I'll remember you soon-just please stop crying. I promise I'll try extra hard to remember you until I finally do."

Tai nodded into Matt's shoulder and wrapped his arms around his best friend. "Thanks Yama. Even when you don't remember me, you're the best friend I could ever have."

"Anytime, Taichi. Anytime."

"Hey Tai! Over here!" Sora called from a nearby table in the cafeteria. Tai waved and ran over, almost running into the table as he skidded to a halt.

"I thought Matt was coming today," Izzy said.

"He is. In about an hour. We've got another surprise for you guys."

"What is it?" Jyou asked. "Did he finally remember you?"

"No. You'll just have to see when he gets here." The warning bell rang, signaling that they had five minutes to get to their homeroom. "Come on, guys. Don't wanna be late."

Ten minutes into second hour, there was a knock at the door, and Tai couldn't help but grin. The teacher walked over to the door and opened it, smiling when he saw who was behind the door.

"Hello. Welcome back, Yamato."

There was a gasp across the room, and Tai giggled a little. Matt walked in and Tai waved for him to sit beside him. Matt looked at the teacher for an okay before heading over to the seat.

"So, Matt-how's the walking cast?"

"It's a lot better than having to use crutches. God, did those things kill my armpits!" Tai laughed.

The class shot puppy-dog stares at the teacher, and he gave in. "Alright. You guys can have ten minutes to talk with Matt about whatever-but no more than that!"

Everybody cheered and ran over to Matt, all asking questions at different times. Only a few people stayed in their seats-they didn't like Matt much.

"Okay people-one question at a time! You're gonna make him end up in the hospital again from a brain overload!"

The teacher ended up giving them the whole hour to talk to Matt, so everybody got their questions answered-even though Matt couldn't answer half of them, so Tai answered for him.

At lunch Tai led Matt to their usual table, where he saw their friends waiting for him. They were happy for Matt having his walking cast, and were glad that he hadn't run into any trouble yet-but that didn't last long.

After lunch Matt and Tai were walking down the hall when three guys came up to them and started talking to Matt.

"So, the pretty boy is back in school, huh? I bet your friend here is the one that got you into the whole mess-am I right?"

"Hey, Riku-leave him alone!"

"Was I talking to you, Yagami? No. So why don't you go play with your friends or something? Leave me and Yamato to talk, hm?" Riku threw his arm over Matt's shoulder and turned him away from Tai. "Come with me, Ishida. You'll be a lot better off staying away from that loser."

"Actually-" Matt brought his own arm up onto Riku's shoulders. "I don't think it's a good idea for me to go with you, or to be calling my friend a loser."

"Oh? Why is that?"

Suddenly Riku dropped to the floor unconscious. "That's why. Nobody calls my friend a loser."

"What did you do to him, you bastard?!" one of the other guys yelled to Matt while going over to check on Riku.

"I just knocked him out. When he wakes up, tell him to leave me and my friends alone, or next time he might not be alive when he wakes up." Matt turned around and walked back over to Tai, who stood with his mouth agape.

Tai reached up and shoved his mouth shut before talking to Matt. "Wow. Thanks. What did you do to him anyway?"

"You know how on movies people pinch the back of peoples' necks and it knocks `em out? Well I suddenly remembered that, so I figured I'd get myself out easy."

"Cool! You never did anything like that before you got amnesia, but you wouldn't have let him get so close to you in the first place."

"Yeah, and I know why-that guy reeks! I don't think he's taken a bath in years!"

Tai couldn't help but laugh, and Matt laughed with him.

"You're getting to be more and less like your old self every day, Yama. It's great. Maybe you will remember me really soon with how things are going now!"

"Okay-I think you can continue reading your journal now."

"Are you sure? I still haven't remembered anything more."

"Yeah, I'm sure. I can't keep you from learning things about yourself, so why should I try? You'll get to read it sooner or later, so why not now? That's my logic, so here you go."

Tai handed Matt the notebook, flipped open to the page he had stopped at.

- God this is hard to write. I'm just glad I don't have to say it to anyone. Maybe it'll be better if I write it down, then I'll feel better. Okay, here goes nothing. I'm gay. But I can't tell my friends. I mean, what will they think of me? And what about TK? He probably wouldn't be able to talk to me. My mom's a total homophobe, and my dad, well, I have absolutely no idea what he'd think since he gets drunk so much. But what would Tai say if he knew? He'd probably never want to be my friend, especially if he knew that I am in love with him. I mean, how are you supposed to tell your best friend that you're in love with him, when he doesn't even know that you're gay? Should I just go up to him and say "Hi Tai. You're my best friend and I'm in love with you. Will you go out with me?" Yeah. That'd work out really well. Besides, he's probably not gay-not with the way he looks at all the girls around school. I wish I could figure out something so I didn't have to deal with this by myself. I might go crazy if I never know if Tai likes me. -

Matt continued to read until he hit the end of the journal so far. He was amazed at some of the things he'd written, and he suddenly knew why Tai was so sad.

"Taichi?"

"Yeah?"

"I told you, didn't I? Before I got amnesia. Then you said that you liked me, too. And now you're so sad because I don't remember you and what we had, right?"

Tai walked over to the couch and sat down. He slowly nodded, then told the story of what happened with as much detail as he could, retelling the part about how Matt ended up in the hospital.

"Why did you leave those details out before?"

"I figured you should read things for yourself, then I could tell you exactly how things happened. I guess I was just worried that you would freak out or something since you don't really even know me anymore."

"I'm still sorry I don't remember you. I'll be back in a minute, okay?"

Tai nodded and Matt stood up and walked into the bathroom. There was a knock on the door, and when Tai got up to answer it, he wished he hadn't, because Matt's dad was the one waiting in the doorway. He punched Tai then stepped into the house, looking around the room for Matt.

"Where is he?!"

"Leave him alone! He's finally doing better now that you're nowhere near him!"

Tai stood up and was slammed into the side of the couch, his throat held in a death grip by Mr. Ishida. "I said where is he?!"

Matt stepped out of the bathroom and his first instinct when he saw Tai being choked was to yell. "Let him go!" When Mr. Ishida looked up, Matt recognized him, and all of his memories of his father beating him came flooding back. He was frozen on the spot, too afraid to move for fear that something bad might happen-worse than what was already going on.

"So you are here, Matt." Mr. Ishida threw Taichi to the floor and walked over towards Matt, who was still too afraid to move. "Why don't you come home with me and we can talk about things?"

Matt shook his head and stepped back. "I'll never go with you, even if you are my dad." Suddenly Matt got enough courage to run past his father and to check on Tai. "Taichi? Taichi!" He wasn't breathing, and Matt knew there was only one thing he could do. He started doing CPR, hoping that it would work. "Why does this seem familiar?" As he blew into Tai's mouth, more memories came back-of the day in the hospital when his dad almost killed him, and Tai saved his life. When Matt pulled back, Tai took in a deep breath and looked up at Matt. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. I-look out!" Tai grabbed Matt and pulled him down on top of him, then stood up and pulled Matt towards the door. When Matt turned around to look at his father, he was holding a butcher knife and coming towards them. "Come on!" Tai opened the front door and ran out, pulling Matt with him. He got Matt on his back, then started running down the hallway outside the apartments, being careful to stay away from the broken railing that was coated in yellow caution tape. When they reached the end of the hall, Tai knocked on the door that was there. An old woman opened the door and Tai ran in, slamming it behind him.

"What's wrong Taichi?"

"Call the cops, quick! We've got a psycho loose that needs to be detained."

"Oh my!" The woman left the boys at the door and grabbed the phone, calling the police. She walked over and handed Tai the phone, telling him that the cops wanted to talk to him.

"Hello? Yes, there is a psycho loose over here. Well, you probably know the whole thing with the Ishida family-yes, he got loose! I don't know how, but he showed up at my door looking for Matt. That's his kid."

There was heavy pounding on the door, and yelling from Mr. Ishida. "You bring Matt out here now! Do you hear me?!"

"Of course we're afraid for our lives! He's probably all drugged up from rehab and delusional or something! Just get here already! Taichi Yagami. Yes, Matt is with me. Sure. I doubt he'd mind talking to you about what happened. Alright. Bye."

An hour later Mr. Ishida had been taken back to the hospital and the police had left. Matt and Tai sat in the living room trying to get the previous even out of their heads for a little while.

"I remembered some more stuff, Taichi."

"Oh, really? What?"

"About my dad. Almost everything, I think. I also remembered you saving my life in the hospital when he nearly killed me."

"That's good." But Tai wasn't really listening. He was too busy being worried.

TBC

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