Just to Make them Jealous Part 7

*******************************************************************

I lay in my bed…

Everything that had happened was spinning through my head.

He let go to save me…

I remembered screaming, I just couldn't stop screaming.

When I looked down to see him… I just saw a limp form.

It looked so… so lifeless.

I remembered Taichi pulling me up.

He tried to hug me, but I pushed away.

I just ran down the remaining steps, jumping off the first floor landing.

I ran to him…

"YAMATO! YAMATO! Please wake up!"

I had sat there waiting for everyone to come.

Mimi had gasped when she saw Yamato.

His arm was twisted at a strange angle.

And both of his legs looked mangled.

I remember Jyou… He checked Yamato's pulse…

Before he could tell us an ambulance had come…

The paramedics quickly moved Yamato onto a stretcher.

They let me come too.

Jyou, Mimi, Koushiro and Taichi were left to be questionned by the police.

I was stifling sobs, the paramedics wouldn't tell me his condition, and I was too afraid to ask.

When we got to the hospital a nurse took me to the waiting room.

I called my mother…

She came, and we sat there for so long.

I felt safe in her arms…

I just cried and cried.

Then the doctor came out…

*****************************************************************************

It was horrible, so horrible in both ways.

That Yamato was badly hurt… maybe even…

No he couldn't be, please no I silently whispered.

And in the other sense bad, that he loved Sora enough to do that.

To sacrifice his life for hers

I was badly shaken up.

After the police had come, and the ambulance had left I had just collapsed.

My mom and dad came, and took me away.

I didn't remember much after that I had fainted.

I woke up and blinked a few times, just to put everything in focus.

I was in a hospital room.

"OH MIMI!" my mom squealed "You're OKAY!"

I struggled to prop my self up "I'm fine, what happened?"

"Oh you blacked out in the car! The doctor said it was just exhaustion"

Well I was tired.

Suddenly a thought struck me…

"Mom?"

"Yes darling?"

"What hospital is this?"

"Odairu General"

I remembered the ambulance, with the word 'ODAIRU' painted on it in bright red letters.

"MOM! Yamato is here!"

"Huh? What happened to him?" she asked

I instantly began to tell her the story, I cried at many of the parts.

My mom took me into a hug.

"We'll find out how your friend Mattie is RIGHT NOW!" she said enthusiastically.

She ran into the hall and around the corner.

I laughed, I had a great mom, maybe a bit absent-minded but wonderful.

She came back with the doctor.

"What is it that you wanted to know?" the doctor asked cheerfully.

"Well" I said, a little weakly "there was another boy with me, and he's here, I need to know his condition"

"Okay Mimi, what was the patients name?"

"Yamato Ishida" I had to force his name out, I wasn't sure if I wanted to know… what if he was…

"Oh" the doctor said, his face turning from smiling to grim…

"He's…"

*****************************************************************************

I'm the leader! I should have been the one to do that.

Yamato, he was my best friend.

I thought of all the times we had disagreed, and fought.

But also of all the good times we had together.

I put my head in my arms and the tears just started flowing.

I tried to stop them, I had the crest of courage…

I couldn't let anyone see me like this.

I heard a car pulling up close to me, two cars.

"TAI!" I heard a voice call.

Kari, my mom, and my dad ran out and hugged me.

"I'm so gald you're okay!" my mom said, replacing her worried face with a relieved smile.

"Taichi!" that was a voice I didn't want to hear…

How could I tell him?

It was Takeru he was pulling his mom toward us.

His face was so grim, I was used to seeing him happy and smiling.

I heard a screech and a minivan pulled up next to me.

Mr. Ishida jumped out.

"Where is Yamato?" He asked, frantic with worry.

"Oda..iru- General Hospital" I stuttered

His mother gasped and covered her face.

"Please Taichi! Tell me what happened!"

I explained the whole story… how he had let go…

I didn't mention Sora though I didn't want the Ishida's to blame anything on her.

Takeru's mother dragged him into the car.

And Mr. Ishida jumped into his van.

I turned to face my parents

"I have to see Yamato." I said gravelly.

My father nodded, we all got into the car and drove to Odairu General.

We burst through the doors, I saw Sora and her mother there along with the Takeru, and his parents.

I ran over "Any news?"

Mr. Ishida put a hand on my shoulder

"He's…

*****************************************************************************

Where was I?

It was as if I was in space.

I saw darkness, an empty void almost.

Then I saw light…

Something in my mind beckoned me to go forward.

But my heart said, STAY BACK.

A soft music was playing, as if someone was strumming a harp.

I heard a voice, somewhere… it was so distant… but so familiar…

"Yamato go back" it whispered

"It's not time yet"

I struggled to understand

My mind remembered the incident it remembered all of the pain

Here I felt so painless.

Something shimmered in front of me.

A pale creature… striped… horn?

"Gabumon?" I said wearily

"Yes Yamato" he said in his quiet voice

"Where am I?"

"Yamato, you know where you are… you know what happened"

Yes, he knew… the impact had been hard

Too hard for him to endure

"I'm…" the words stuck in his throat, he fought back tears.

"Please Matt" Gabumon beckoned

"Please fight… you can still live"

"But I'm so tired Gabumon, there's so much pain"

Gabumon shook me

"Yamato! Think of everything you're giving up!"

I saw Takeru there, smiling at me as I came home from school.

I saw my father, who had always supported me and given me my space.

I saw my mother, I knew she loved me, I loved her too, but I had never shown it…

I saw Taichi, my best friend. I had so much respect for him…

I saw Mimi and her smile, her always cheerful mood…

How she was always ready to make someone happy…

Then I saw Sora… My Sora…

The one I loved the one I had given my life for.

Gabumon gently turned my head with his paw.

I saw Sora, I actually saw her.

She was sitting next to my bed, holding my hand and crying…

"I want to go back Gabumon" I said weakly

"But I can't, I just can't fight it anymore"

Then I started crying.

Cries of despair, of defeat, of love…

Suddenly I saw Gabumon's eyes tear up.

"Yamato, I love you more than anyone I have ever met before, you were always a wonderful friend, and you were always there for me"

"Gabumon…" I said

"It's time for me to save you, one last time" his airy voice pierced my mind.

"GABUMON NO!" I shouted, realizing what he had in mind

"Yamato I have to do this for you! You have your whole life ahead of you! Without you I wold have been nothing!"

I just cried, "please no Gabumon… please no"

But he didn't hear me.

He just howled, first his arms disappeared, then his torso, then everything.

All that was left was a swirling blue dust.

It came into me, his energy, his will to let me live.

I felt so much stronger

Now I had to fight, Gabumon had given up his life for me, and I had to fight.

I swam through the darkness, away from the light

"Thank you Gabumon" I whispered

*****************************************************************************

"I'm afraid he's dead." The doctor said.

All of us gasped these were the words I had feared for so long.

My mother was still hugging me, but I threw off her arms.

I ran, I just ran until I was completely exhausted.

Then I cried.

"How could this happen!" I asked myself

But I knew it was my fault.

He had died for ME.

I stood up and walked back to Yamato's room.

Just looking at his limp body made me feel sick and sad… just so sad…

"Oh Yamato please don't leave me!" I whispered

Tears were streaming down my face, each drop fell on him, and soon it looked as if tears were streaming down his face too.

I hugged him as best as I could.

I just kept on whispering "Yamato don't leave me, please no"

Suddenly my heart opened up, I realized that I loved him.

More than words could ever express.

"I love you Mattie-chan!" I said in a loud voice.

Wherever he was I hoped he had heard me.

Then I turned away…

"I love you too Sora" a voice said weakly.

I turned to see Yamato, blinking feelbly.

"YOU'RE OKAY!" I shouted.

"Yep, Never felt better"

I punched him teasingly.

Then I became serious again.

"But I thought you were…"

He began to cry

"I was Sora, but an old friend helped me out…"