A Daydream to Remember

Author's note:

In this story:

Lysander-Matt (If you're confused or can't remember which character is which, you'll find out who each person is because I introduce them with the character they play- e.g. Taichi Demetrius Kamiya, Yamato Lysander Ishida, etc.)

Hermia-Mimi

Helena-Sora

Demetrius-Tai

Theseus-school principal

Egeus-school deputy headmistress

Matt

"…And so… we have to thank… these wonderful students… for such a great performance… and some other students… who helped organize… this birthday party… tonight…"

As I looked around, seated in the dark school hall, I noticed that the bright disco ball which hung from the ceiling shone a bright white light onto everyone's faces. They were all almost asleep, and some even were. I wanted to shout out something disruptive like "Hey man, you're not Shakespeare, screw the soliloquies!" but it was lame and I couldn't think of anything better because I was half-asleep. As I was still nodding off at the principal's loooong birthday speech, I felt someone fall on my shoulder.

"Oh, sorry Matt, I must've dozed off," said the beautiful pink-haired girl as she yawned really cutely and arose from my shoulder. I just smiled at her and put my arm around her, bringing her closer to me, feeling calmed as I saw her manage a weak smile.

Her name was Mimi Hermia Tachikawa, which reminded me of an Athenian princess. And yet, with her chocolate brown eyes and her soft pink hair accesorized with golden twilight gems of the night, I thought she was as beautiful as one. She is my girlfriend of countless time, and it was quite an interesting story you must hear which finally stopped that stupid goggle-boy Taichi Demetrius Kamiya, or Tai, my best friend, from interfering in our relationship. It was so interesting, in fact, I'm not even sure if it was a daydream or for real.

Basically, my school deputy headmistress is an evil, nasty, fat cow. After a disco she organized about two-and-a-half months ago, she was enraged because she had never seen teenagers acting so intimately with their dates. The next day, the grey-haired, fat, fifty-year-old rhinoceros had an hour-long lecture about this 'inappropriate behavior'. From then on, anyone who behaved thusly in the school grounds would have a letter sent home to their parents. It was enough to ban it for good.

Since everyone was afraid of that so-called woman whose image I associate with a wicked witch, this rule was strictly followed. But soon, after a while, people began to forget. And unfortunately for me, so did I. It was that horrifying lunchtime about one-and-a-half months ago when the bell rang for us to go to class.

"Oh my gosh, biology exam," Mimi stressed, picking up all her study materials. "I'll meet you and the others at the front gate in an hour. See ya."

"Good luck in your exam," I said, giving her an automatic kiss. It wasn't too obvious because I wasn't fully pashing her, but it wasn't a quick sharp one either, just an ordinary kiss. What seriously pissed me off was that, that big, fat, nasty hippo just happened to walk past and both of us didn't see her coming. She went totally ballistic and sent us to the principal, who sent an unstoppable fax instead of a letter home to our parents, and told us to see him every day at lunchtimes for the next month. Mimi was cruelly forced to miss her biology exam that day.

When I got home that day, I got a really weird reaction from my dad. He thought that Mimi was my best friend, and that I was going out with June, my friend Davis' sister. I almost screamed in shock. Uhuhuhuh *shudder* who would want to go out with her? She wanted to go out with me, though. I just shrugged and sent her away, but I never did go out with her. I almost scolded my dad for not realizing why I spent all of my holidays at her place or had her over for endless hours, and that our phone bill was crammed with calls to the same number. I just sighed and dragged myself into my room, falling onto my bed.

A few minutes later, Mimi rang. She sounded really strange, and I found out why when she told me that she was forced to call me by her parents. She said her parents were enraged to hear this and that they didn't want her to continue seeing me. Like my dad, they thought we were best friends and didn't mind, but the fax had a massive impact on our future with each other. Mimi started sobbing as she told me her parents did allow her to go out with Tai, because he was a good influence on her, but they thought I was a cold, unsocializing, rebellious kid with an attitude. I blushed as I heard this, because I knew it was true.

Because Mimi was a good student and begged the teachers to have pity on me, we weren't put into separate classes, but we were put into separate corners in the classroom. The whole grade heard about what happened and I couldn't be more embarrassed if I walked into a classroom and everyone eyed me and thought of me as not a good person after all. I began avoiding Mimi eventually because I got so depressed, and she would cry to herself because she thought I didn't care about her anymore. Eventually she stopped crying and just went on with her life, until fate and chance brought us back together.

Us being apart was an advantage for Tai, who had a huge crush on Mimi. I don't know how anyone could ever like him, because I didn't think he looked too spunky or anything. He looked okay, with his big messy brown hair, tall figure and bright brown eyes... but I thought I looked a lot better than he did (oops, there's my selfish attitude again. Sorry) and it wasn't a wonder Mimi chose me instead of him. Not that I'm boasting, of course... I'm also thankful to Mimi's best friend, Sora Helena Takenouchi, for being there for us.

Sora had a crush on Tai. She was actually quite beautiful, with her cute medium-brown hair with light brown streaks in a short do and dark brown eyes. I don't understand why Tai didn't like her, she was pretty enough. She was more determined to get her hands on Tai than anything, (not literally...) but he rejected her cruelly because he was in love with my girlfriend! Since Sora was a good distraction for Tai, and Mimi didn't like Tai, Mimi and I began to speak to each other again. She rang me one night and we began devising a plan.

"The two of us will arrive in the morning and speak to the deputy headmistress so she'll know we're here, then we'll leave school before lunchtime and hide in the national park just a few blocks away. We won't turn up at the principal's office, he'll send students to look around for us but they won't find us because we're no longer in the school grounds." Mimi giggled the next day to Sora. "We'll be missing, and they'll go nuts! She'll be so worried that maybe she'll get a life and let us off."

"That's a considerable idea," Sora agreed, waving goodbye as she walked away down the roadside footpath. As she walked away, we noticed that she was whispering to herself; but we couldn't make out the words formed by her quivering lips. However, although perhaps out of our own imagination, we seemed to hear the name 'Tai'.

To be continued...