Chapter One

That night, she sat on her bed, her back and head leaning against the wall with her legs to her chest. She was staring into blank space when suddenly a teardrop rolled down her left cheek. Her phone was switched off because she needed to be alone. Her room was dead silent but outside her bedroom window there were sounds of cars driving by, babies crying and dogs barking. The weather was all right but it was obvious that that night was going to rain.

Mimi Tachikawa is currently in a love triangle with Matt Ishida and Tai Kamiya. These two guys are the best of friends but their friendship was currently on the rocks because they both have feelings for her. She felt guilty though, for causing it to happen. Even though Matt and Tai are fighting over Mimi, Matt was in a relationship with Sora, Mimi and Tai's best friend. Whenever the four of them would hang out together, Tai and Mimi would get really close and sometimes get very intimate with each other, which made Matt jealous even though he already had a girlfriend.

And even though Sora was Matt's girlfriend, Matt had always loved Mimi. Sora on the other hand, knew nothing about these two guys fighting over Mimi. Mimi wanted to share this with Sora but she felt like she just could not do it because it involved Sora's boyfriend and best friend. Although Sora was Mimi's best friend, she just could not bring herself forward to confess. She knew that this is going to be a huge betrayal.

Mimi moved her head, tilting it a little bit to the left and turned on her phone that was sitting on her bed next to her. After waiting for a few seconds, she checked her phone and received five text messages from Matt and another two messages from Tai. Of course it is very typical of Tai to leave just one or two messages. He's the type that would rather call.

She opened up the messages from Tai first.
"Mimi, I tried to call you but I couldn't reach you. Please call me back, yeah?"
"I've been waiting for an hour and yet I still can't reach you. Could you pls call me? I'm getting really worried."

She went on to read Matt's text messages.
"Meems, I know that what happened today really depressed you but is it okay if we could just talk?"
"Hey, I tried calling you but I think you switched off your phone. Call me, will ya?"
"I tried calling your house but it went to voicemail. I didn't leave a message there though. Pls just call me."
"It's been hours since I tried calling/texting you. Pls call me. I'm getting really worried."
"Meems, pls call me back. I won't be able to sleep peacefully if you don't call me back. I love you."

Matt's last message made her heart shatter into pieces. Both Tai and Matt were worried but she didn't know why she just didn't want to call them at all. She didn't even want to face them; especially Sora. She wanted to get this problem over with but she didn't know how to get out of it. She kept thinking to herself, "Should I or should I not call them? And if I do call them, who should I call first?" She knew what Tai and Matt could be like. If she were to call Tai first, Matt would say, "of course, Tai's always the first one you'd call." And if she were to call Matt first, Tai would say the same thing. So she decided to send them both a text message at the same time.

She took quite some time to figure out about what to write to them. While she was thinking, she suddenly heard the door bell rang. She brought her phone with her and had her room door slightly open to peek on who the visitor was. Her mother opened the door and Mimi found out, it was Matt. Her mother greeted him in and he sat at the living room to wait for Mimi while her mother went up to Mimi's room.

As her mother went up the stairs to Mimi's room, Mimi quickly shut her room door silently and sat at her study table, pretending to use her laptop. A soft knock was heard and Mimi said, "Come in." Mrs Tachikawa opened up the door and said, "Mimi dear, Matt is here for you." Mimi pretended like she was shocked and said, "Oh? Oh okay, tell him I'll be down in a minute." She continued using her laptop, pretending to shut it down as her mother closed the room door shut. She wondered to herself, "why is it that when I was about to give my response, either of them would show up at my house?" She left her room and walked down the stairs while using her phone. Matt noticed her coming down the stairs and looked at her with a worried look on his face.

"Meems..." Matt called out with a sad tone. Mimi looked at him with a frown on her face. Matt had always been used to seeing Mimi smile and seeing her smile just made him happy. Seeing Mimi very upset just made his heart shatter into pieces. "Can we talk?" Mimi didn't utter a word and slid her Blackberry into her pocket. Instead of speaking, she looked deep into his blue eyes. Then her eyes roamed around the living room, hoping that her parents won't eavesdrop on her conversation with Matt.

"If you're not gonna say anything, I'm not going anywhere," Matt said, with a very serious and at the same time, upset tone. He did not want to leave until he and Mimi finally talked this through. He didn't like the idea of the Digidestants fighting because of this. In fact, he didn't like it when any of them argue and that included Tai and himself.

Mimi kept her mouth shut and still didn't say a word. She walked towards Matt, who was standing by the sofa in the living room and sat next to him, still choosing to stay silent. She didn't feel like talking most of the time because of whatever that had been going on between them – which was not like her at all. Even her parents noticed the change in Mimi recently; everyone did. She wasn't the same Mimi that everyone knew.

Matt was starting to slowly lose his patience because Mimi just wouldn't speak but he managed to hide it well. Matt was known very well for caring for his friends. He's loyal til the very end. He had always loved Tai like his own brother and he loved his other friends, the Digidestants, all equally. Mimi had always liked Matt because of his good looks. She would've been attracted to Matt's brother, TK who was a like a clone of Matt but he's too young for her.

"Matt..." She finally spoke.

Matt felt relieved and brightened up. "Finally, you said something. I was starting to get upset that won't." Mimi knew that Matt was felt that way towards her when she stubbornly didn't want to speak. She knew Matt's character very well even though they weren't really that close. Among all of the Digidestants, she was close with mainly just the girls but with Matt, she felt that somehow they just clicked. Until now, she never understood why Matt and Sora were in a relationship; no matter how many times Sora explained. Mimi looked at Matt's belongings for no reason and realized that he brought his guitar. "Matt, I'm sorry any of this has to happen. I thought that it was only you that had feelings for me and not Tai," Mimi said, her voice shaking.

Mimi was afraid of losing her friends, especially Sora. If Sora were to find out about this problem, she knew that it would be a huge stab in the back. "But I've always been so confused about this. If you love me, why did you choose Sora to be your girlfriend?" Mimi asked, looking very confused as she seek for answers to her unanswered questions. Matt was about to respond but before he could give her a reply, she interrupted, "The thought of you and her together just makes me more and more heartbroken. The two of you have been together for just two months but this love triangle has been going on for four months. I didn't choose you or Tai cos I know that you guys would fight. Violence always solves everything between you two and you know it damn well that violence isn't my thing."

Whatever Mimi said made Matt think. "Why did I actually choose Sora to be my girlfriend when all along I knew that I loved Mimi? This is very stupid of me." As much as Matt wanted to erase the past and rewrite everything again, he knew that he couldn't be able to. All he could do was to accept the facts that this had already happened and he had to face the consequences. Silence filled the room and Matt started to get uncomfortable. He had always hated silence but then he remembered he's alone with Mimi who is waiting for his reply.

While Mimi was waiting for a response from Matt, her mother interrupted them, "Sorry to interrupt, sweethearts but would you two like a glass of hot chocolate each since it's getting cold outside?" Mimi nodded as she looked at her mother and Matt agreed to have one too.

When Mrs Tachikawa left the living room to get their drinks done, Matt finally spoke, "Meems, as confused as you are, I actually didn't know why I chose Sora to be my girlfriend. You got me thinking for a moment there. Sora does talk a lot about Tai though..." Mimi knew what he meant by that. Sora kept telling her about how she felt that her relationship with Matt was going nowhere because all along, she loved Tai.