Love Wins All
Chapter 1: Haunting Memories.
It was all too wrong. He knew that he was not supposed to believe this but he could not stop himself from believing it. He could not sleep and kept tossing and turning in bed. Finally he gave up trying to sleep and sat up. He looked up at the clock. It was 3:00 am. He groaned. Why did it have to be this time when he had to wake up. And that too on this day…
He got out of bed and stared out of the window. There was not a soul in sight. The stillness was making him uncomfortable. He was trying to put away the images of three years ago which always flooded his mind this day and every time on this day he simply had to get up at this hour and then he would not be able to stop it all from coming back. Her screams. Her cries. And the fact that he had been too late. He still believed it was his fault even today when those who knew about it had tried so hard to make it think that it had not been his fault.
Everyone thought that Yamato Ishida had the perfect life. He was good looking, one of the most popular guys at college, had his own band and everyone knew that he planned to go official with his band now that he had completed college. Girls simply craved for him considering the fact that he was single- and had been so for three years. They could not understand why when he could get any girl he wanted he never paid attention to any of them. Nobody knew the real reason behind it except very few other people- the Digidestined. And in that city only Tai and Sora knew and since from today T.K. and Kari had also come there they were also in the secret.
Matt gripped the window sill tightly. He could not stop it. Those memories were flooding his mind again. Memories from three years ago. This very day, this very hour…..
Flashback (3 years ago);
Matt lay fast asleep in bed. The next day would be their first day in college. Suddenly his cell phone rang. He slowly got up and looked at the clock. 3:00 am. Who would be calling him at this hour? He saw the caller I.D. It was his girlfriend- Mimi Tachikawa.
"What happened Meems?"
"Matt…Matt."
Her voice immediately made Matt shoot up and sit upright. She seemed totally panicked and was gasping for breath and also in hysterics.
"Mimi, are you alright?"
"Matt…help me help me!" She was practically choking.
"What happened?"
Matt too had panicked now. What could have happened to Mimi? He knew that Mimi did create mountains out of mole hills but her voice that time cannot be described.
"Matt…" And then she screamed. It was a blood curdling screams and it gave Matt goose bumps. Then he heard muffled screams. Someone had probably gagged Mimi's mouth. And then the phone cut off.
Matt jumped off bed and rushed out. He was in pajamas and flip flops. He quickly got into his car and took off at full speed. There was nobody on the road at that hour so he reached Mimi's apartment in only an hour. She was sharing the apartment with Sora but Sora had gone back to Odaiba that night due to some problems with her mother. She was coming back the next day and so Mimi had been all alone that night.
Matt came to a halt at the gate. Everything was dead silent. The apartment was totally silent. The lights were switched off. He got off the car and rushed towards the house. The door was not surprisingly open. Matt rushed in. The house seemed just as it had in the afternoon when they had set it up.
"Mimi!" Matt called.
Silence.
"Mimi!" Matt called again.
Still nothing.
Matt rushed up to Mimi's room. Now the room was another story. The bed sheet was on the floor and the blanket was torn. Pillows and cushions were strewn around the room. A chair was lying upturned. Mimi's pen stand was lying broken and all around the desk pens were lying here and there. Also two three books were all spread on the desk. Some of the pages were torn. Matt entered the bath room. All Mimi's hair products, shampoos and all kinds of soaps and creams were again thrown around. And there, near the bath tub lay her cell phone. Matt simply stared at it. He walked out and his eyes wandered to the wardrobe. He was taken aback by this. All Mimi's clothes and shoes were missing. He remembered very well that they had arranged everything in the cupboard but it was all missing.
"Mimi." Matt said softly. What he had feared had happened. He had been too late. The words hurt him…..too late.
The police came after that. They searched everywhere for her but she was nowhere to be found. Finally they gave up. After about a year the Digidestined also gave up.
End of flashback
Matt was sweating now thinking of that night. Everyone had given up but he could not somehow bring himself to give up. He had some connection with Mimi and it prevented him from giving up. He would have known if –like the police said and the others though did not say anything but thought so- Mimi was dead. He could not believe that. He knew that somewhere she was alive. He would find her….somehow.
"Matt."
"Tai, what are you doing up so late at night." Matt said.
"I was thirsty. And I could not go back to sleep and well, I knew you would be up at this hour….. today." Tai said slowly.
Matt shrugged. Tai joined him by the window. Yesterday, they had graduated from college.
"So when are your auditions?" Matt said
"In a week." Tai replied. He was trying for the national soccer team. He had played at the rookie level during college and now he had his auditions in a week. "And when is your album recording?"
In a week too." Matt flashed a smile.
"Wow. Sora has her interview with that designer in a week too."
"Going to be a big day for all of us, I see." Matt said. "Well hard to believe that Sora is entering into designing. Changed a lot hasn't she?"
"Na. She is still the same old tomboy in private life."
"Calm down Sora. Calm down!" Tai held his hands up in defeat.
"CALM DOWN! MY WORLD IS FALLING APART AND YOU ARE TELLING ME TO CALM DOWN."
Matt raised an eyebrow at Tai and then got back into the book he was reading. He knew better than to interfere when Sora was in one of her tempers courtesy her mother. It was better to let Tai handle her. They seemed so perfect. They always reminded him of Mimi and himself. What Matt couldn't understand was that after being so perfect for each other, why were they still stuck at the best friend phase. Every person at school knew so did every person at college. The Digidestined knew. The Digimon knew. Even Tai's parents knew for God's sake. (He could not say that for Sora's mom though since she had a natural hating for Tai in any case.) In short everyone but Tai and Sora knew that they were simply perfect for each other.
"Sora. Come on. You have won over her for the past three years. Just last time."
Sora nodded. "I will try. But Tai…." Her lower lip began to tremble. Matt chose this moment to get up and leave.
Sora continued. "Tai she simply wants me to come back home and manage that flower shop of hers. She does not want me to experiment with my life. I want to become a fashion designer but that is not what she wants to allow me to do. She wants me to manage that stupid ancestral shop." And with that she broke down and began to cry.
Tai hugged her. "It will be fine Sora. You have struggled for three years. Just one last time."
Sora's mother had not wanted her to go to college. She had wanted her to join her in the flower business ever since she had completed high school even though Sora had been greatly intelligent. Sora's struggle had actually begun ever since she was ten. She was always forced by her mother to quit soccer which she called quite "unfeminine". But Sora had continued it through school life and even through college. Her mother was greatly furious by all this. On one thing despite her disapproval her daughter went ahead to college and then she played that sport. But Sora had somehow calmed her down. It had been thanks to all that that she had not been able to be with Mimi that night and Sora often felt angry with her mother regarding that. She had thrown up a fit about Sora's going to college. After that Sora had not been able to stay in that apartment. It reminded her of Mimi and how she had not been there when Mimi had needed her the most. She had moved in with Tai and Matt. Now T.K. and Kari had come in their tiny apartment too but they did manage somehow.
"No. It will not be one time. I will just be working under that designer for a year or two only for experience. After that I plan to have my own company. Will she allow that." It was more of a statement that a question.
Tai still held her as she wept into his chest. "Sora, life is not easy always. It will be fine. One day she will approve of you."
"She can never approve of me. She has always hated me."
"Hate is a big word Sora. She will understand you someday. Calm down. And well even if she doesn't like you. You need to like yourself. Only then can you make her or anyone for the matter like you."
"You like me?"
"Of course!"
Sora hugged him and Tai returned the hug.
"Whoa! So you guys are finally getting official!" T.K. said from the doorway.
Tai and Sora immediately pulled apart.
"No way!" They said in chorus.
"We are just friends!" Tai said.
"Best friends." Sora said.
"Aw leave them T.K." Kari said and pulled her boyfriend inside the room she and Sora were sharing.
"Hey! Sora! Do you think we would ever make a good couple?"
"We would I guess. But, well that will be a dream." Sora said shrugging.
"I wonder if I will ever get a girl."
"Same here."
"You are lesbian?"
"I meant a guy Tai!"
"Oh! Sorry!"
He was giving her a smile. A terrible smile. She knew very well what that smile meant. Even after three years it gave her chills down her spine.
"Mimi Mimi Mimi…" He said. "You must by now know what happens when I come here."
Mimi knew it very well. She could only think one thing. "When will all this get over? Help me…Matt."
Matt kicked at a stone as he walked back towards the apartment. This day always saw him as the most miserable person in the universe.
He was thinking to himself. "I know you are not dead Mimi. I will find you one day."
OK now this is going to be a weird fic. Since it is going to have sadness as well as happiness. Humor as well as sorrow and well simply all genres! I will try to update it fast and the other chapters will be longer(I hope :)) Anyways… Review :D