Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ In The Moonlight ❯ Chapter 3

Kari placed her key in the door to her family's apartment. She didn't know why she panicked when she found out about Sora and Matt but she hoped she was wrong.
Holding her breath as she opened the door. Relief spread over her as she looked in to the darkened apartment. No one was home which meant that Tai must still be out with Sora.
Kari flicked the light switch and the lights lit up the apartment. It was then that she noticed her brother's shoes.
"Tai! Are you home?" Kari yelled into the apartment as she took off her shoes.
Slipping into her slippers, Kari walked along the hall towards Tai's room and knocked on the door.
"Tai? Are you in there?" Kari called though the door. After a few moments of silence Kari turned the knob and pushed the door open.
There, on the floor in front of her, lay a picture frame. The glass from it was shattered and pieces of it lay on the ground around it. Carefully trying not to cut herself, Kari picked up the frame. It was the picture of Tai and Sora she had taken earlier that year. Now the image had scratches and cuts on it from the broken glass. Kari remembered how Tai had gone out to buy a frame and then happily placed it on his bedside table.
Kari turned to look across the room where the bedside table stood. There lay Tai on his bed. He made no movement but his eyes just stared at her.
Kari walked over to him and sat on the bed beside her older brother.
"Tai, are you okay?" Kari asked.
Tai looked at her and then stared out the window. After a moments silence, he spoke.
"No Kari, I'm not okay" Tai said.
Kari reached out and lovingly ran her fingers though his hair. She smiled sadly at him.
"TK accidentally found out last night and he told me. I don't know how but I knew that something was wrong." Kari spoke softly.
Tai reached up and grabbed Kari's hand. He held it in his.
"Kari, you're a great sister." He said trying his hardest to smile.
Kari bit her lip "Do you want to talk about it?"
Tai sighed. He dropped her hand and ran his own though his hair.
"No, I don't want to talk about it. I was stupid and I decided for some strange reason to tell Sora about my feelings. I mean why not? So there I go, confessing my love and expecting her to return it and she's dating my best friend." Tai spoke softly and Kari had to strain to hear his words.
"You really care for Sora." Was all Kari could say.

***

As he told Kari about what happened it all felt like a dream to Tai. As he said the words it all seemed so far away. He felt almost silly, like he had no right to be so selfish. It almost seemed like a joke that he could just laugh away. But this was not joke. It was the sickening reality that he had to live with. How could he ever look at Matt again? How could Matt not have known that Sora was his?
"Yeah Kari, I do care for Sora a lot" Tai replied.
He watched as Kari got up and walked towards the door.
"I'll let you have some time to yourself" he heard her say.

***

Matt looked at the empty desk in front of him. The desk where his best friend should have been seated. It was not the third day of school that Tai had missed and Matt was starting to get worried. He was worried about Sora because she wouldn't talk to anyone but him now. The light in her eyes was dimming and he would catch her staring out the window or at Tai's empty seat multiple times a day. Sora loved him, he knew that but Tai was her best friend, she was pretty messed up about the whole thing. The night before they had talked about it and Sora had said she still wanted to be with him. Sora had said that he was her true love.
Matt looked that the empty seat again. He was worried about Tai. He had called his place the last few nights but Kari kept saying Tai didn't want to talk. Tai had completely withdrawn from the world. That couldn't be healthy.
Matt sighed and looked up at Sora once again. She looked up and he caught her eye. They both smiled weakly at each other.

***

Tai was alone. He didn't have the will to go to school. He had stayed home the past three days. He didn't want to see Matt and Sora together.
His mom and dad were at work. Kari was at school. He didn't have their worried eyes watching his every move. He hated their worried eyes.
The more Tai though about it, the more he realized he didn't have the will for anything anymore.
Tai looked that the pill bottles in front of him.

***

"I hope that your idea works" Kari said as she and TK entered her families apartment. TK had said he'd come over after school that day and see if maybe he could get Tai to talk to Matt.
"I'm sure it will. They'll work it out I'm sure. Before you know it, the three of them will be hanging out like it was before" TK said and squeezed Kari's hand.
"Here I think he's in his room still. Let's go see." Kari said as they walked though the apartment.
"Tai? Tai I'm home!" Kari yelled. They reached his bedroom door and she knocked.
"Tai? Tai are you in there?" Kari spoke though the door.
"Maybe he's sleeping?" TK said.
"Yeah, I'll go check." Kari said and opened the door to her brother's room and saw him on his bed. He was sleeping in such a weird position.
"Tai? Tai wake up!" she said. He wasn't moving. It was then that she realized he wasn't breathing. Kari looked around his room and saw all the empty pill bottles. She started to scream.

***

TK held Kari close. The paramedics and police had left and Kari's parents were now home. He could hear Kari's mom crying in the next room. TK was sitting on Kari's bed with her. Kari had stopped crying but she hadn't spoken since she had walked into her brother's room. TK didn't understand now Tai could have done it. It wasn't like him to be that way.
TK looked down at the note in Kari's hand and read if for the billionth time.

Sora, I loved you.
Matt, I trusted you.
Kari, Forgive me.
Now I enter in the Moonlight.

~End