*I'M JUST A TOM BOY (A boy's best friend)*

This is the same old shit everyone is sort of required to write. Yup, you guessed it. My plot, my story, but NOT my characters. Please enjoy, and if you don' t, I don't blame you cuz' I think it sucks too.

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PROLOGUE…If a dog is a man's best friend, then a boy's best friend is...

I was sitting at my desk at home, doing homework. How pathetic. My brain was blank, my hand was cramping worse than a….well it was painful anyway, and I was on the same problem I had been on for hours. I won't explain the difficult mathematical equation to you , but I had tried and tried to uncover its mysterious solution for far too long. Slowly I leaned back in my chair and tilted my head up to the ceiling with my eyes closed in thought. I felt my mind and body relax and opened my eyes once again to see….a face?

"What the fu-" I screamed, and was cut off when my chair flipped over backwards. I had seen the blurred image of a face smiling down on me, and was caught off my guard. "Mom, is that-…er…" my head was spinning, but I could tell the image was not my mother.

"Sora, you loser, I'm not your mom." The figure bent down and gently pulled me up to my feet.

I gazed at the strange figure a while longer before I recognized the chocolate brown hair and slim physique. "Tai?" I squinted and reached out a hand to stabilize myself. "What the hell are you doing in my room?"

He smirked and pushed me onto my chair before he sat on the mess of sheets I like to call my "bed". "Your mom let me in. I just came in here to see if you were busy, or not." He glanced at the papers on my desk and smirked again. "Seems like you are though. Can't get past the first problem either?"

"Nope. Did you?"

"Heck no, are you kidding? I suck at that stuff." My friend ran a hand through his bangs and looked back at me. Tai was my best friend, who I had known since….forever. He had a mess of wild brown hair that could not be tamed, and light brown eyes that any girl could get lost in. I, of course, did not see him as an attractive boy, but rather a buddy whom I could play soccer with and converse with about weird things. He spoke in a hopeful tone, "Are you gonna keep pluggin away at the books, or is there any hope you might come out and play a little soccer with me?"

Play soccer, or study. Play soccer or-"Awww, with that smile, who could resist?" I smiled and rolled my eyes. "Just give me another sec on this problem, and we'll go. Okay?"

"Okay."

I turned my chair and leaned over the numbers before me. Who was I kidding? There was no way I would figure out this shit anytime soon. "Ah, I'll get back to this later. Let's ditch this funk." I said and pushed my chair away from the desk to stand up. In second I had grabbed my ball, a pair of old socks, my soccer shoes, and we were out the door laughing.

At the field, Tai and I practiced for a while, like we usually do, dribbling, shooting, and juggling the ball in between corny jokes and wrestling matches (between him and me, of course). I was, "as usual" beating him at everything, and he was showing off his "skills" whenever a "cute" girl walked by. As soon as he got a decent crowd of females watching him, he got the idea of asking a few other guys to play with us. There was a short "flirting" session for Tai before the girls left, and by the time that happened, he had picked up ten different numbers and was boasting his ability to "pick up chicks" (as usual).

"You are such a freakin' pig, Tai. You know you'll never call any of those girls back. You're a dick, and you already have a girlfriend."

He smiled. "Yeah, but she's cheating on me anyway and we both know it."

I frowned and cocked my eyebrow in confusion. I had a feeling that there was another reason for why Tai was in my room this afternoon. "That's nothing to laugh about, you freak. I never knew she was cheating on you. Why didn't you tell me?"

He bent his head down in way that made me regret my thoughtless remark and looked at the ground, "I don't know," He no longer wore a shirt and wiped his toned chest with a sigh as spoke again, "which reminds me, Sora. I have to ask you about something important."

For the next fifteen minutes Tai explained to me the real reason for his odd visit to my room. I just knew there was another reason. His girlfriend, Valerie Nip, was cheating on him with another soccer player, who had been on the school team with Tai this year. His name was Bryce, and I remembered him vaguely from the championship game Tai played at the end of the season. Basically all I could remember was that he had black hair, green eyes, was supposedly good looking, and had a golden foot for shooting although not a great soccer player in general. Tai was naturally angry, as any boyfriend being cheated by his girlfriend would be, and wanted my help to get revenge on the two people who had ruined his junior year (in high school).

"I don't know, Tai," I said with uncertainty, "I'm not exactly the best person to ask about how to get revenge." I hoped he would understand and move on from that slut of a girlfriend without involving me.

My hopes went down the toilet the very next second, "Sora, you gotta help!" He pleaded. "You're the only person, who would possibly be willing to help me and you're pretty smart too."

"Thanks, Tai. I love you too."

He chuckled. "What I mean is that, you're smarter than me, which doesn't say much, but I need your brain power to pull-off this great plan I made." He bit his bottom lip and stared at me with those lovely brown eyes. "Pleeeeaase?" He begged.

"Depends," I said sternly and folded my arms in front of my chest. "What exactly do you want me to do?"

"Oh nothing much." He said looking back at the grass. "So will you help me?"

"I don't know, Tai, I-"

"Pleeaase? I'll help you with you're math grades if you do."

"What?!" I said flailing my arms about. "I thought you said you sucked at that kind of stuff!"

"Well that's what I thought at first," He chuckled with a blush, "But it turns out that the only reason I got bad grades before was because I never did the homework and always fell asleep in class. I'm actually pretty smart when I take the initiative to listen and come to take the tests and quizzes. I even managed to pull an A minus for first semester."

I stared in shock and finally regained consciousness. "Well, Tai-" he gave me another "sad puppy eye" look and pouted his slender lips. My heart sunk at the sight of his sad brown eyes and hopeful expression. "Oh, …..I…fine." I huffed. "I'll help you." I sighed and he smiled with a look of satisfaction. I knew it would cost me, but I had to help a friend in need.

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