By the time lunch was ready, the group had managed to clean up the place, and if not better then it was before the kids came through the door. It may have taken them awhile, but in the end, the kids were proud of themselves and couldn't wait to dig into their lunch.

"What is this?" Max asked.

"It's best not to know what you are eating, but just to eat it knowing that you'll live to see tomorrow," Tk told him.

"What's wrong with my cooking little brother?" Matt asked.

"Nothing at all!" Tk spooned in a mouthful of noodles.

"Ha ha, you're his little brother!" Brain pointed at Tk.

"So?"

"Oh, never mind," Brain dug into his plate of food.

"Hurry up!" Tai rushed the kids, "Let's pretend we are on fear factor! First one wins, gets second on desert!"

"Let's make it harder, no using your hands!" Matt smiled.

"You do realise that I will beat you." Tai told him.

"Only by a default." Matt shrugged.

"GO!" Tk yelled.

"What does a default have to do with anything?" Tai asked.

"I'm in!" Max and Sammy inhaled their lunches. Beth took to slurping up her noodles but Suzie just sat back and watched. She took notice that Sora was actually the one ahead of everyone else.

"Your mouth is bigger and it's going to cause me to lose." Matt replied.

"How is my mouth going to because you to lose and it isn't that big?" Tai glared.

"Almost done!" Tk yelled.

"Because you don't know when and how long to keep your mouth shut!" Matt smirked.

"I don't know when to keep my mouth shut? Remember that the next time you piss Sora off and ask me to smooth things over for you!" Tai said smugly.

"I don't need you to smooth anything over between Sora and I!" Matt voice rose.

"You guys are going to lose," Beth, told them, shaking her curls.

"Then how about last week when you forgot about your dinner date and you ask me to make up an excuse? I believe I had to go and "talk" to her before she gets too "upset". Do you remember that?"

"WHAT?" Sora looked over at her boyfriend.

"How many times did I have to help you out of a jam when you wanted to bail out of her tennis matches? I think that more then makes up for what I asked you to do for me!"

"WHAT?" Sora looked over at her best friend.

"I WON!" TK shouted.

"YOU GUYS MAKE ME SICK!" Sora threw down her tablecloth, pulling away from the table and stormed out of the room.

"Now look what you made me do!" Matt shouted at Tai.

"I didn't make you do anything!" Tai shouted back.

"Not only did your stupid mouth make me lose, as I said it would, you managed to get Sora pissed off at me!" Matt stormed away from the table, "SORA! Let me explain!"

"Don't listen to him!" Tai hurried off to find his best friend.

The children just sat around looking at each other, "Dessert?" Tk asked, passing around some pudding cups.

"This is desert?" Max asked looking gloomy.

"Just be happy that there was something after dinner kid," Tk rolled his eyes.

Once five o'clock rolled around, the kids were all zonked out either on a chair, half the sofa or they curled up on the floor. Sora sat between two sleeping children on the sofa glaring at the television set as she willed it to bust in flames. Matt sat on her left in a chair, glaring at the top of his sneakers and Tai, watched his best friends from the corner of his eye…waiting from one of them to speak.

"I don't have any expertise in this matter, but I had heard talking helps!" Tai tried to put on a bright smile.

Matt picked his eyes up and glared at Tai, Sora barely glanced at him.

"I'm not sure where I heard it from. Maybe it was from my mother or grandmother perhaps. OR by chance I might have caught a statement made by Dr.Phip," Tai continue, "I could just narrow it down to commonsense too if need be…"

"Do you think we lack common sense?" Matt raised an eyebrow.

"I can't believe you Tai!" Sora flashed daggers his way with a glare of her eyes.

"No, I didn't mean that!" Tai shook his head, "But listen, how are you going to figure what's bothering you if you don't talk about it?"

"You are a complete moron." Matt slowly shook his head.

"What?" Tai asked, looking across the room at his friend.

"We are pissed because we had a fighting during dinner and cause what dumbo; you were in on it too!" Matt told him.

"How can we be having an argument if no one is arguing?" Tai asked.

"Do you try to be this anal or is it something that comes and goes?" Matt asked.

"I'm not gay!" Tai stood up.

"I didn't say you were!" Matt told him.

"You said anal!" Tai informed him.

"Since when does that mean you are gay!" Matt asked.

"Shut up or you'll wake the children up!" Sora yelled.

"How can you ask us to shut up when you start to yell also?" Tai asked her.

"How else am I going to be heard over your big mouth?" Sora asked.

"I don't have a big mouth!" Tai argued.

"The hell you don't!" Matt threw in, "This whole mess started because of your fucking mouth!"

"No it didn't!" Tai denied.

"Think about it," Sora put in. "No before you open your mouth one more time, think about dinner."

"Can you remember that far?" Matt asked him.

"Of course I can…we lost the eating contest!" Tai told them.

"Why?" Sora asked.

"Because your lover boy picked a fight!" Tai pointed over at Matt while glaring at Sora.

"Can we just drop it?" Matt leaned back into his chair and started flicking the channels.

"We are fighting because you don't care about my tennis matches and my "Lover Boy" likes to use you when he has forgotten about me or when he is running late. Remember "Smooth it over" remark?"

"Oh, yeah!" Tai beamed, "That's why none of us were speaking to each other!"

"Has anyone, anyone at all ever mistaken your head for a soccer ball?" Matt asked.

"What's that suppose to mean?" Tai frowned and scratched his head.

"Ignore him," Sora rolled her eyes. "He's being an incentive jerk!"

"You knew that before we started dating so don't bring it up now," Matt told her.

"See…" Sora once again glared at the TV set as Matt surfed through the channels. "Give the remote a break, would you?"

"You want it?" Matt asked bitterly.

"Forget!" Sora mumbled something about men under her breath that the other two boys didn't quite get.

At last the door knocked as the first parents arrived to pick up there children. Payment was exchanged as well as thank you, do this again some time, and a monkey in a tree was discussed. Finally, with the children home, Tai started to divide the money up between them.

"Hey where is Davis?" Tai looked around.

"Still in the closet," Tk told him, "No rush, is there?"

"Well…" Tai frowned.

"Can I at least have my share before you get him out?" Tk asked.

"Okay…" Tai started to count out his share.

"We have to be going," Matt stood up and stretched, "See you this weekend Tk?"

"Uh huh…"Tk nodded his head as he put his money away, "Maybe you can Sora can double date with Kari and me!"

"Sure," Matt smiled, "If you ever ask her…"

"I will!" Tk told him.

"You two are leaving together," Tai watched as Matt put a hand on Sora's lower back, leading her towards the door.

"Well, we came together…" Matt frowned.

"Yeah but…." Tai started to say.

"Don't worry, I'll make sure I walk in a well lighted area so she doesn't take advantage for me," Matt winked at his friend.

"I trust her…I don't trust you but you two…" Tai frowned, "I thought you weren't talking to each other."

Sora smiled at Matt before looking at her best friend, "Sometimes, we don't have to talk Tai. We will be okay. I'm still mad at you and Matt but don't we always work things out?"

"Yeah…."

"Nite!" Matt and Sora slowly closed the door.

"That's cool." Tai smiled at the door.

"What?" Tk asked, grabbing his jacket.

"Your bother and my best friend. They'll be alright won't they?" Tai stated.

"Yeah..Nite Tai."

"Nite Tk."

"Tell Kari I'll talk to her soon, would you?" Tk asked.

"Sure."

"I have to pee!" Davis yelled from the bathroom closet. "Please let me out!"

End……