Things couldn't get any worse for Matt Ishida, He was left with no place to live but with the help of his friend, Tai, he found a place for him to live with a hot redhead of the name Sora. The catch? "All you have to do is pretend to be gay!"

A.N.: This is my first fic hope you guys like it!

Disclaimer: I own nothings!

Chap. 1-A place to live

"So did they found out what was the cause of the fire?" Tai Kamiya, the blonds' best friend, asked him after he had made his way into Matt's working desk.

"No, not yet," he responded not taking his eyes off the monitor of his computer as he typed in a fast rate, punching in numbers, "they are still investigating, they are not sure where the fire started."

"Oh, I see," Tai said nodding to the blond while tapping the side of his coffee mug.

"Thanks again for picking me up," Matt said taking a moment to stop his fingers and turning his chair so it could face Tai, who was leaning against a dividing wall on his right arm while he held his cup of coffee with his right hand. He blew on it to let it cool, he tried taking a sip and automatically burned himself. "Ow ow, yeah any time buddy." He responded, slowly touching his burned lips for comfort.

"I promise when I find another place to live I will leave your apartment as soon as possible."

"Matt, your apartment building burned down just last night. You don't have to rush things right now. You went through a lot, just try to take it easy for now. You are living with me."

"I know, but I can't just stay there forever, I mean, three people can't live in a two bedroom apartment."

"I know what you mean, I told Davis if it was okay if he could share his room, he seemed hesitant at first but he agreed when I told him what had happened."

"He probably has his porno magazines and videos in there, or even worse, pictures of your sister."

"Hey, hey, don't make me punch you," Tai warned as he curled his free hand into a fist, "or don't make me change my mind about your living arrangements with us."

"I kid!" Matt said defensively to the brunette, waving his hands around as he saw his friend get a little annoyed, "it was just a joke, calm down."

"Well I'm not worried about Davis at all; I'm more concerned about your brother, who's actually the one dating my sister. "

"Seriously, you saw it coming, those two are inseparable, even if you wanted to you couldn't rip them apart. I mean it's been four years since they dated. I'm surprised he hasn't proposed."

"For a good reason, he should know that she's my little sister."

"Kari is not a little girl anymore, she doesn't need to be protected by her big brother; she has a boyfriend that cares deeply about her. Maybe it's not the time to be engaged but when it comes, brace yourself."

"You're right; it's hard to believe she's all grown up." For a moment he stood in silence looking up at the ceiling then resumed to his coffee.

"I'll tell you what," Tai began after calming down a bit, "I'll help you out; if I find a place I'll let you know, that way you don't have to worry about having to share a room with Davis."

"I would gladly appreciate that, Tai. Lunch is on me, also do you think you can give me a ride to the dealership I have to pick up my car; they had to fix the headlights and change the battery."

"Absolutely, we can go and pick it up after work, well I have to go back to work before Steve shows up and starts bitching about lack of labor."

Tai had just turned to leave when a tall black hair, skinny, man with thick-wide glasses wearing a white short- sleeve button-up shirt and a black tie with matching dress pants appeared in front of Tai, Tai let out a small quiet scream, almost dropping the remaining of his coffee. "Shit! Steve! A little warning before you creep up behind people, please! You almost gave me a heart attack."

"What where you two talking about? " He demanded shifting his eyes left to right from Tai to Matt, his lips thinning when he would pause to speak, "Hmm? Have you guys finished your report on the sales you made?" He had a rapid lofty voice, as if he was always in a hurry to boss everyone around. "If you have time to have a lovely chat then I'm pretty sure you guys are done with the monthly charts that were due five minutes ago."

"For your information, Steve," Matt emphasized his name with such dislike, his arms crossed, "We turned our charts already to Thomas in time and we are now finished with our monthly sales report, and we are going to turned them in at the end of our shift, so you can go now and antagonize somebody else's life or better yet, why don't you go and keep doing your job as a kiss-ass to Thomas. I'm pretty sure he loves to hear all the negative feed-back you tell him about us."

Steve's eyes daggered into Matt's, but the blond wasn't going to let anyone push him down, he too looked at him back with such stinging eyes. Steve had no other words to say and with a red fuming face he turned around and left.

"Holy shit, Matt. You stood up to that twig, everyone here is afraid to say anything because he runs crying to the boss."

"What is he going to do about it? He's not in charge of this company so he can't do shit, I'm not scared of his skinny ass; if I could I would kick it, or break his neck. Besides, Thomas hasn't said anything to me so I'm not really worried."

"He also tells HR about everything."

"He complains about everyone and everything, even HR is tired of his bitching, the only reason they keep him around this company is because his sales are top chart. He knows how to sell. He's just a horrible person to hang out with."

Tai let out a hardy laugh before saying bye to Matt and returning back to his own working table.

At the end of their shift, Matt and Tai left the job and went straight to pick up Matt's car. For the last week, he had to ride the subway to get to work until his car got fix due to some idiot hitting him from behind and breaking his taillights, causing such an impact that the battery died out and the car stopped running. The bad driver left the scene and Matt wasn't able to claim it on his shitty insurance, which reminded him that he needed to change insurance company. Then last night his whole apartment building went down to flames and the remaining of brick, wood and ash was the only thing that stood at the concrete. He had called Tai at 3 in the morning to come and pick him up. Luckily for Matt, Tai was still up on his Xbox playing online when he had received the called. Not luck, but good probability that Tai was still up, because Matt Ishida's luck had ran out long ago.

Both friends had decided to stop by to eat at a small restaurant after Matt picked his old Honda and like Matt had promised, lunch was on him.

After Tai tried to order almost the whole menu and the waiter had left with an exhausting look after trying to keep up with the orders being thrown at him and finally both orders written in his notepad, the brunette turned to the blond and said, "I'm surprised you were able to get a few things before the whole thing went down."

"I was able to because I ended up waking up to pee and I smelled something smoky, I went and looked outside and I saw some amber coming out from the air bends in the hallway, I put some pants on, grabbed some clothes and my guitar and left the building, some of my neighbors where already outside and some were inside warning people to get out of the building. It was a horrible apartment building anyways; eventually, something was going to happen to it."

The waiter had returned a few minutes with their drinks and told them there order would be coming shortly; they thanked him and proceed to their conversation.

"The firemen got there, took out the remaining of the fire and began to explore the scene; reporters came and started to ask my neighbors what had happened. Each of them said their own versions. I tried to get away but one of them got hold of me and I had to tell them my point of view."

"You mean, you're going to be on the news? When was the last time you were on TV? Years? How did it feel to be back on the screen? Did it remind you of the good old days?"

"Shut up Tai! It's not funny!"

"Come on, I'm just joking around. I'm sorry man. "

"No, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have snapped. I mean, it shouldn't bother me at all, but it sounded like you were teasing me."

"Not at all. Why couldn't you just get away, I mean they can't force you to not go at the camera. You could have just said, sorry man I don't want to be on TV."

"Well that was the problem; I was so use to being in camera and the paparazzi that I knew how to handle it. I don't know it just came out like an instinct."

Tai looked at his friend for the longest. In his head he would have never thought Matt would be living the life he was living today. Ten years ago, he was making the money, getting the girls, living the good life. His band was making bank, The Teen-Age Wolves were what young girls wanted; they were the type of band you would throw your panties at. The band was such a hit they had made three excellent albums winning them music awards and after 8 years of outstanding performance they had a world tour. After the tour was done, everything changed. His band mates were druggies, alcoholics, sex addicts, they no longer cared about the fans or the love of making good music, all they wanted was the money. They abused the system enough for them to break the band and going broke. Not knowing where else to go, Matt decided to go back to his hometown where he found Tai, he helped Matt by getting him the job he still has, and with the money he had left from his glory days, he was able to find a place to reside. Now that building is no longer a place to live. Things really turned around for the worse. Tai had thought after seeing his friend on his most down point. But he vowed to help his friend in the worst of times. And he will find him a place.

The waiter had finally returned with the big order they had placed, the big order Tai had placed.

"Great! I was starving!" Four plates were placed in front of Tai whereas a single plate was placed in front of Matt.

"Itadakimasu!"

Of Tai went without stopping for a second, Matt looked at his friend devour the first plate in seconds, his mouth widening enough for the plate to touch his mouth and scrapping the remains of the food with his chopsticks down his throat, he took a sip of water, swallowed and sighed happily, he looked at his friend with a smile the grabbed the second plate and resumed the same cycle all over again.

"I should be used to seeing you eat like this but I can't stop being amazed on how much you eat and still being a fucking skinny stick," Matt was marveled at the sight. He had not touched his food yet as he watched his friend dispose of his food like a garbage disposal.

Tai mumbled something almost spilling out the chomped up pieces of food inside his mouth.

"Oh man! Tai, don't talk with your mouth full!"

"Msmorry!" He gulped what he had in his mouth and said, "I'm sorry, what I said was I probably have a monster in my stomach, that's why I'm so hungry all the time."

"More like a black hole! A monster would never be able to keep up with all the stuff you put in that stomach of yours. Hey, you got that from somewhere."

"What?"

"That saying, you got it from somewhere."

"Oh, yeah I did, Adventure Time. Jake said it, remember? We were watching it together at my place the other day."

"More like you made me watch it."

"It's a good show!"

"It's a cartoon!"

"Come on Matt, where's your inner child. It has to be somewhere inside, it just needs to come out and play."

"There's no time for that now."

"Well you were good enough to remember that I got it from somewhere, so that's a start, I need you to show you the world, anyways, you should stop talking now and finish your food or its going to get cold."

"Ha, more like it's going inside your mouth if I don't eat it."

"Or that, I mean, if you aren't going to finish it I'll eat it."

"You never changed, Tai." With that he picked up his chopsticks and started to eat.

When bellies were fulfilled and happy, the two friends decided to head out, after almost dropping the check because of how much it was, Matt paid the waiter and they both left the restaurant, leaving one happy owner and waiter. The blond decided not to complain about it, his friend, since kindergarten, has been there in his worst moments, this was the closest he could repay him.

As they headed to their own designated cars, Tai paused to the vibration of his phone, he reached in and looked at the caller ID, "Hmm, It's Sora, I wonder what she wants." He slid the screen with his finger and answered, "Yello'?"

"Hey Tai sorry to bother you right now but I have a favor to ask you."

"And what is this favor you speak of? Do I get a reward afterwards?"

"That depends if you are able to complete such favor."

"Oooh, free food has always been my weakness," He grinned, looking back at Matt and giving him a thumbs up, Matt rolled his eyes at him, how in the world would he be talking about food when his stomach was about to explode?

"Alright then, do me a favor and go over my mom's flower shop and pick up my portfolio of my sketches, I left them there last night when I was visiting, right now I'm busy with some arrangement plans with our dear friend's wedding so I figured since you are closer to my mom's business I should let you go and fetch them, I'll call her to tell her you are on your way, you do that and dinner is on me the next time we hang. Kay? Thanks you're the best, bye." Click.

"Uh, okay then I guess I'll do that. Sorry Matt I'll catch up with you later, that was Sora, I don't think you remember her; she was in our kindergarten class. I threw up on her hat once; she was the one who slapped you with her hat because she thought you were laughing at her for putting the hat on with my gooey stuff.

"Oh! That was her?" Matt asked remembering the redhead girl who always wore a hat to school. He never talked to her but he always saw her around. He recalled that day when she angrily came to him and yelled, "You think that was funny?" and before Matt could answer, the hat slapped him across the face leaving a red mark on his cheek and some slime sliding down his face. Through middle and high school they never spoke but he remembered her walking through the halls. He figured she still remembered that 'dreadful' day and decided to never speak to him again.

"Yeah, that was her. So I'm going to do that and I'll see you in the apartment later."

Tai went inside his car and drove off the opposite direction while Matt went the other way and headed to the apartment. When he arrived Davis was on the couch playing his Xbox.

"Yo! Matt! Wanna play some games with me?"

Matt walked in and placed his keys in a small basket where he left all the stuff that he had in his pockets.

"Sure, what game are you playing?"

"FIFA sports '12."

"I should have known. Alright, let's do this."

"Ugh! I can't believe I lost! Again! I don't understand!" He threw the control angrily at the floor and covered his face with both hands.

"Dude, it's just a game. You might be good playing the real thing but admit it; you suck at playing it when it comes to video games."

Davis finally removed his hands from his face showing off his animated teary eyes, runny nose and big frown. "But why?"

"Well, maybe you don't have a lot of practice with your fingers, unlike me; I use my quick fingers because of my skills at the guitar and my constant non-stopping typing at work."

"That doesn't mean anything! Whahh! I'm going to shower." Davis got up from the sofa stomping towards the bathroom from his defeat.

At that moment Tai came in from his errand, he had this huge grin on his face, his eyes sparkled of some kind of secret he knew and couldn't wait to tell someone, "Matt! My dear friend! You just got lucky today." He ran towards Matt and sat next to him.

"Hmmm, I beg to differ, I have to say I haven't been lucky for the past years."

"Well, let's just say that today you are in luck. So, I went to my friend Sora's mom's flower shop and picked up her stuff, then I went to her apartment and dropped it off, we talked for a little while after she offered me something to eat and-"

"Wait, you still ate over there?" Matt interrupted his friend, "We just ate! How did you manage to make room for more?"

"I used her restroom first, that helped. Anyways, that's not important, what I was saying, we were talking and then she said that she has a spare room in her apartment. I asked her if she was looking for someone to rent it, she said not really but if I knew someone that needed a place to stay she would be glad to help-"

"That's great! How much is she charging?"

Tai held a finger out to Matt, "Hold out a minute, I'm not finished yet, there's a catch."

"Damn, there's always a catch."

"She only wants a girl as a roommate, you don't really qualified to be her roomy."

"What the hell Tai? How does that make today my lucky day if she is looking for a female roommate?"

"Well that's the thing. How much are you willing to do to want this place?"

"Anything!"

Tai ended getting up from his spot; he looked at the ceiling and looked back at his friend? "You sure want this?"

"Yes!"

"Okay, I ended finding a loophole while I was at her place looking at the ceiling. I said, maybe I can catch an idea if I stare long enough with concentration, then I snapped my fingers and I said, I know the right person. I have the perfect plan." He sat again besides him, "The reason why she wants a female roommate is because one of her past roommates was a guy and he didn't like the way he would leave things around. He made such a mess and he would constantly hit on her. I mean I don't blame him, she's hot. So she ended up kicking him out, with my help. She was afraid he would do something. "He grinned a little, Matt looked at him scarily; the way Tai grinned at him was a little creepy, he didn't like the idea of Tai getting an idea at all. It could mean anything chaotic. "Um… okay, what are you trying to tell me? What do I have to do?"

"All you have to do is pretend to be gay!"

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