"Too Late" By: Gabumon_Gurl
Matt sighed. "How can I tell her?" he thought. "I
can't, that's what.
Every time I try I mess up."
He glanced over to the hotel room bed she was sleeping
in. Her hair was
'down' . He loved her
even more this way. The sun had just come up, and it
shined in through
the window, making her hair sparkle.
He grabbed one of they two keys for the room, and
walked down to the
lobby. He grabbed one of the donuts from the cart
there and sat down on
one of the chairs. A girl with short black hair and
green eyes looked at
him, then looked away when someone called her. She
then went by the
pool.
He sighed again, thinking what a nice life she must
have. He took a
closer look through the glass walls of the pool and
saw Gabumon stretched
out in a deck chair, looking content. He finished his
donut, then
grabbed another one and walked back to the room.
Mimi was still sleeping, though he noticed she had
turned over because
when he sat back down in the chair he had been in
before, he could now
see her face. Every now and then her lips moved,
mumbling something.
He sighed once more, wrote a note on a piece of paper.
Meanwhile Mimi
was having a wonderful dream. Her and Matt were
sitting on the beach at
night, watching the stars. He told her he loved her,
and she told him
she loved him too. She then woke up.
She kept her eyes closed for a while, hoping it would
someday be like
that. She then opened her eyes. She stretched and
looked around. No
Matt. She grabbed a key and walked down to the lobby,
where she knew
there would be the donut cart, and she figured that's
where he was.
She didn't notice the note on the small table in the
corner. Matt
wasn't there either. She went up to the front desk.
"Did see a man with spikey Brown hair come by here?"
"No, sorry ma'am." She walked back down to the room
and layed back down
on the bed.
"He just went out to get something, he'll be back
anytime now," she
thought to herself. She got up to get her brush, and
noticed a piece of
paper under it. She read it. This is what it said.
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My Dearest Mimi,
Mimi, I have failed you. I have always wanted to
tell you how I
really feel, but I just never could. I'm sorry my
love, but I can't live
this way. Don't try to stop me from doing what must be
done... that is
if you wake up soon enough. I will see you in the
afterlife. I will be
waiting for you. I love you,
Matt
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Mimi looked horrified. She didn't know exactly what he
had ment by it
all, but she knew it wasn't good. She started packing.
She felt for the gun she had hidden under the bed for
protection, and it
wasn't there. She thought Matt must have taken it,
then didn't think
anything of it.
She went into the bathroom to do her hair, and saw one
thing that would
be stuck in her mind for the rest of her life.
There lay Matt, surrounded in his own blood, the gun
in his hand. She
began to cry as she took Matt's hand and kissed it.
At his funeral all she did was cry. The only people
there were Izzy,
T.k., Kari, Joe, Sora, and surprisingly Tai.
Sora was actually
crying, and Tai and Joe looked sadly at the ground.
Izzy and Kari
were also looking to the ground.
Kari came up to her and and tried to comfort her
. After
everyone left, she placed a solitary rose on the top
of his coffin and
walked away. She wondered if he had regreted it the
moment he was dying.
She would never know.
******
It's been over a week, and I still can't get that
image out of my mind.
I still wonder if he regreted his decision as he was
dying. I feel so
bad, and I never imagined a life without him. I'll
tell you one thing,
it's horrible. I haven't gotten any decent sleep since
that day. I can
maybe sleep for an hour or two, but something always
wakes me up. This
morning I was going on a record-breaking three hours
when...
BRRRRRRRRRRRING!!!
I sighed. I picked up the phone and said a weak
"Hello?" Of all the
people who could have called, it was Sora. I started
to wonder what was
up, when she said,
"I know you're wondering why I'm calling you, and how
I even got your
number in the first place. Well, AT&T 00 Info got me
your number, and
I'm just calling to see how you're doing."
By now I was pretty much awake. "Well, I'm pretty
tired," I said, hoping
she wouldn't ask much else. She must have sensed that
I didn't want to
talk much.
"Oh, if you don't want to talk about it, that's fine
with me. I know
what you're going through. Have you ever heard of my
Sister? She was the only one that was nice to me, her
name was Serena.
She was kinda the odd one out, she loved Digimon,
but was killed in the digiworld
.Biyomon was hers, and that's why she
picked me as her human partner,"
Sora said to me.
She sighed. I could see she was trying to make me feel
better, but over
the phone it wasn't working well.
"I know this sounds kinda crazy to be coming out of
me, but how would
you like to come over?" I asked.
"Sure! Can I bring Joe? If you hadn't heard, Joe
and I walked off on
Tai."
I thought a moment. Joe? Hmmm... maybe. "Well, I
guess so," I said,
almost surprised I didn't say 'no way'. I gave her
directions, and she
said she'd be over around 2 PM. That gave me 3 hours.
I took a shower,
and tried to get myself looking at least half-way
decent. After that I
decided to take a nap until my visitors arrived. I had
a strange
dream...
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Matt was there. But yet again, he wasn't. It was only
his voice.
"Don't worry Mimi. I'll protect you. This isn't just a
dream, Mimi, I'm
able to go into your mind while you're sleeping. I
love you, Mimi, stay
strong. Stay strong for me, would you? I can contact
anyone, I've
already talked to Sora, and Joe too. I told them to
watch over you.
They have a stronger ability of that than I now do.
Don't refuse them.
I'll be waiting here for you, and until then, I will
see you in your
dreams..." he said.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Then I woke up to a knock at the door.
"Coming!" I said as I fixed my hair a bit.
"Hello!" Sora said as I opened the door. Joe walked
in behind her.
"This is where you live? I pass by here all the time!"
Joe said.
"I hope you don't mind that I have the radio on..." I
said hopefully.
"Nope, as long as it's Z104!" Sora said and giggled.
I nodded.
"You two are weird... I like Y105!" Joe said. Sora
almost broke into
a fit of giggles.
"I've known you for this long, and I *never* knew you
liked country,
Joe!" she burst out. Myself, I was almost laughing
too. Joe's face
turned red.
"Well I think the Dixie Chicks and SHeDAiSY are good!
Not to mention
pretty cute... and Faith Hill..." he mumbled. I looked
at Sora, and we
both burst out laughing.
"Faith Hill already *has* a husband," I said.
"Oh yeah? Like who?" Joe asked. I rolled my eyes.
"Like Tim McGraw!" I said.
"Oh... maybe I don't like his music anymore..." he
mumbled, which made
Sora and I laugh even harder. It may sound like I'd
completely
forgotten about Matt. Yeah right. I was thinking
about him the whole
time. Was the dream really real? Should I ask Sora
and Joe? I have to
admit, for what a brat Sora used to be, she's totally
changed. I had
made a new friend, Joe. Kinda odd. I mean they were my old
friends, right?
"Hey, where do you two *live*?" I asked. I relized it
was kinda nosey,
but it was too late to take it back.
"Wherever we happen to be," Sora said.
"Why don't you two stay here for awhile? I have the
room... I have a
spare bed, and one of you can stay on the couch." I
was almost surprised
at myself for being so nice, but it was the least I
could do... I'd been
so lonley lately anyway, and Matt *had* said that he
had told them to
watch over me, right? If he really had, they would say
yes. Joe looked
at Sora , who shrugged.
"Sure, what would it hurt?" Sora said. I smiled.
"I don't mean to be rude, but what about Palmon and Gabumon?"
Sora asked.
"They basically left us. You saw Gabumon and Palmon at the
funeral, right? Well
after it they came to me and said they were leaving."
I said. I knew I couldn't have gone on with my life with them
getting in the way.
"So Gabumon And Palmon left ya huh? That's good,
then we can be
friends without having to worry about *having* to be
Bothered," Joe
said. We just talked for the longest time, until Joe
said, "I'm tired.
I'm going to bed."
He offered to take the couch, so Sora and I left the
living room and
were about to each go to bed, when I remembered I had
something I had to
ask her.
"Sora?" I asked. She turned around and looked at me.
"Yes?" she asked.
"Can you come here for a sec? I need to talk to you,"
I said. I hoped it
didn't sound to weird. It must not have, because she
agreed and sat down
on my bed. I sat down.
"Yes?" she said after about a minute.
"Ummm... did you have any weird dreams last night?" I
finally asked. She
gave me a weird look.
"You mean he..." she started.
"Yeah, did he really tell you to protect me?" I asked.
She nodded.
"Yes, he did. I did it because I knew he loved you,"
she said. I sighed
and walked up to my window.
I looked out at the millions of stars in the dark
night sky. "I'm
sleeping out there... you can take my bed, it's more
comfortable," I
said as I grabbed a pillow off my bed and a blanket
from the closet.
"You want to stay out there alone? If you do I won't
follow you, but if
you would like company, I'll come too if you like,"
Sora said. I
smiled.
"You can come if you like," I said as I opened the
screen door. I spred
the blanket out on my back lawn and put down my
pillow. It was very nice
out, you didn't need any blanket to cover up with at
all. Then Sora
came out, and set up a bed for herself a few feet
away.
I just looked up at the stars, wondering if Matt was
looking down at
me. I finally fell asleep, and that was the best night
I had had in a
long time. I had another dream...
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Thank you, Mimi, I knew you wouldn't refuse. They're
your best friends now,
they will help take care of you if you help take care
of them. Tonight I
have no dreams for Joe, but I do have one for Sora.
I will tell her
that you will help her if she helps you. She really is
a nice little
girl, isn't she? There's someone else who wants to
talk to you," Matt
said.
"Hello," a girl's voice said. "Hello, my name is
Serena. I heard Sora
telling you about me. I have never been able to talk
to her like I am
talking to you now. Maybe with Matt's help I can
finally talk to her
again. I just wanted to say you were so lucky to have
spent time with
Matt, and please, take care of my little sis for me."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
With that, I woke up. I looked over at
Sora and
watched. She was
sleeping so peacefully. I knew she must have been
talking with Matt,
and I watched as she smiled in her sleep. 'Shes
finally talking with
Serena again' I thought as I lay my head back down and
looked back up at
the stars. Everything was going to be okay.
******
A few years passed by. Sora and I got along just
fine, she stayed with
me at my house until that day. But first I'll tell you
about the night
before. It was a normal day. I fell asleep, and for
the first time in
weeks, Matt talked to me.
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"Mimi, I'm only warning you because I love you. Say
goodbye to your
loved ones. Something bad will happen, I'm not lying.
Sora knows too. I
didn't tell her any more than I'm telling you now. Be
strong for me."
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I woke up to find Sora awake too.
"Does this mean we're going to... er.. um..." she
asked. I shrugged.
"I don't know... maybe," I replied. It sounded pretty
dumb, but I didn't
care. We were in the same room because we really
didn't have enough
money for a three-bedroom house, so we just had two
seperate beds in the
spare room while Joe had my old room.
"You're going outside?" Sora asked. I nodded. She
looked afraid.
"Don't worry, it'll be okay," I said.
"Thanks..." she said, her hand over her stomach.
"That's where I can get to him the best. He knows my
questions and when
I fall back asleep he'll answer." Sora followed me,
still obeying
Matt's request to watch over me. I smiled at her, and
drifted off to
sleep.
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"Yes, I wanted to tell you, but I couldn't find the
words. It will be
both of you, and Joe may be there too, because
someone else is going
to be in the car. I can't make out who. But it will be
short and
painless. I'm looking forward to being with you,
Mimi. Don't be
scared about it, the after life isn't bad. And don't
tell Sora, but
Serena and I aren't the only ones looking forward to
seeing her. And I'm
not the only one looking forward to seeing you. I must
go now. It's
perfectly alright to cry. Remember, I'll be waiting."
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It's okay to cry? He knows me better than that. I
hardly ever cry. Okay,
without him around, I cry a little more than I used
to. But not that
much more. I woke up like always, but quickly drifted
off into a
wonderful sleep. I awoke the next morning to a
baby-blue sky dotted with
puffy white clouds. Sora was still asleep. I just
looked up into the
sky and wondered.
Were we really going to die? Matt had said that
someone will be in the
car with us. Does that mean we'll die in a car crash?
And who's the
other person? Is it really Joe? I don't know who
else it would be.
Sora woke up and later suggested we go to the
cemetary to see Matt one
last time before we went to *really* see him. Well, we
went, and guess
who was there? T.K. and Kari!
"Hello," I said. Kari let go of T.K.'s hand (which
she had been
holding) and smiled at me. I giggled. She was
blushing! "Geez, Kari, I
don't mind! Hold his hand," I said. Sora nodded.
"Yeah, you two look cute together," she replied.
Kari blushed again.
Reluctantly, T.K. took her hand back. She smiled at
him.
"Kari... I... er, we... uh... I mean..." I said, but
could hardly spit
it out. Sora burst into tears. T.K. gave me a
questioning look. "Its
hard to explain..." I said, and he nodded.
"Mimi, last night I had a weird dream... is that what
this is about? I
mean this may sound odd, but Matt told me you, Sora,
and two others
won't live to see tomorrow," Kari said, looking
worried. I simply
nodded and she broke down crying the same way Sora
had. T.K. held Kari
in his arms while she softly wimpered into his
shoulder. She lifted her
head after awhile and looked at me.
"Aren't you scared?" she asked. I shook my head.
"No... but you wouldn't understand. I'll finally get
to see Matt
again... I'd like to see you go this long without
seeing T.K.!" I
screamed, and started crying because I thought of the
day he left me
flashed back into my head.
"Well, do you know who the other people are?" she
asked me.
"No, to tell you the truth he didn't tell me there
would be *two* people
in the car. He said only one," I said as she listend
carefully. Sora
had stopped crying and pointed out that it was almost
lunch time. She
asked if T.K. and Kari would like to come eat with
us. They agreed
and hopped in the back seat. I had a feeling I knew
that one of them, if
not both, were coming with us. I also had a feeling we
wouldn't make it
till lunch. How right I was.
All of a sudden, there was a flash of colors right in
front of the road,
and I heard Sora scream first, then Kari. T.K.
and I both looked
next to us, and saw Sora and Kari. Dead.
"What about us? Didn't Matt tell you we are going
too? I'm wounded, but
it's nothing deadly, and I need to be with
Kari!"
T.K. screamed,
which was quite a mouthful, to be coming from him.
Then we both turned
to the sound of a familiar, childish laugh.
"Tai? What the heck are you doing here? Go away," I
said. He just
snickered.
"I staged all this. That flash of colors was not a
person, but rocks
flying past you. All four of you must die.
But since you two
didn't die, like planned," Tai said, holding up a gun,
"I will have to
kill you." T.K. and I looked at him.
"Well do it already! We don't have all day to wait for
you, though we
know how slow you are!" T.K. said.
"Yeah, and I hope you get killed by Greymon, you
stupid creep! You'll
pay, Tai Kamiya! We'll get you in your dreams!" I
shouted. And with
that, Tai snickered again, and lifted up a second gun.
He shot both off
at once, and the bullets hit around the same time.
The next thing I remembered, Matt, T.K. and Kari
were standing over
me.
"Mimi! We thought you may never wake up," Matt
said. I smiled at him.
Serena was there too, and so were Gabumon and Agumon.
"Agumon? Why are you here?" I asked.
"Tai killed me," he said.
"Oh that's terrible! Anyway I can relate. How do you
think I got here?
He's a nutcase!" I said, and Agumon smiled. Gabumon
just looked at me.
"Hey Mimi," he said, "Welcome home." I looked at him.
"You can talk... like, normal?" I asked. "Yeah. Any
digimon can. They
just have to go learn it. Agumon's in Class 2...
there are six classes.
I took Class 6 right away, because that's all about
the proper way of
talking, which I hadn't learned," Gabumon said.
"Mimi?" I heard a voice say. I was startled.
The voice, I remembered it. It was murky in my
mind, something from
long ago. I looked and saw a woman there, with orange
hair and the same
brown eyes as mine. Then it clicked.
"Mom?" I gasped. The image started getting
clearer. I was small,
six or seven, when she died. I remembered almost
nothing about her. Then
this boy came over to me, he looked about 23. He had
grey eyes and
gold-streaked hair.
"Hello," he said. "Uh... hi..." I said, still in the
shock of seeing my
mother who hadn't really said much yet.
"My name is Maromu, but most people call me Michael,
or Mike for short.
I'm... I'm your older brother," he said. I opened my
mouth to speak, but
nothing came out. "You're probably thinking, 'I never
had a brother,
what is he talking about?'," he said. I wondered how
he could keep so
calm. "I died when you were only about a year old." I
was still
speechless. Why wasn't I ever told I had a brother?
This made me wonder.
I was about to tell him about everything, when I
noticed something.
Where was Sora?
"Where's Sora?" I said. Mike looked at me oddly,
probably wondering why
that popped out of my mouth at such a moment.
"Umm... I think she went to her room. It's funny, they
have apartment
kinda things here."Mike
said.
"Her room? What for?" I asked. "I don't know. She was
crying though. I
can tell you want to know... her room is 362 or 364,
because yours is
363," Mike said. I nodded.
"Thanks. I'll be back. Matt, can you come with me?"
He nodded and we
walked over to the apartments, and found the 300s
building. "I think
she's probably in 362," Matt said.
"Me too. Oh Matt, it's so good to see you again! But
before we find
Sora, I have something to ask you. Why did you do it?
I loved you so
much, Matt, how could you have done that to me?!?!" I
said, practically
screaming by now. I guess it was because of the years
of anger towards
him for it, or I just wasn't in the best mood, or
something else. Either
way, he looked sincerley sorry.
"Mimi, I was so sorry. I regreted it the moment I came
here. I mean I
love it here, sure, but I'd rather be with you," he
said, looking at the
ground. I hugged him and told him I forgave him,
and we walked on. We found room 362.
Just then, T.K. and Kari came running towards us.
"Mimi, Matt! Come quick, and I mean really quick.
Someone needs to talk
to you," Kari said after she caught her breath. We
looked at each
other. "I know you're wondering who, but there's no
time. Just come!"
Kari said. I shrugged, and we followed them, running the
whole way. When
we got there, Joe came up to us.
"Joe! Why in the world are you here?" I asked.
"I'll tell them," T.K. said to Joe, who nodded and
said his thank
yous. T.K. took Matt and I aside. "He's here to find
Sora. He killed
himself after her funeral. Time up here is slower,
we've already been
dead a week, down there," T.K. said.
"Why does he need to find Sora? She won't even talk
to me," I said.
"You ask," T.K. said, and went back over by Kari.
Then Joe came.
"So you want to find Sora, eh?" Matt asked. Joe
nodded. "I've
already accessed why you're here," Matt said. He
looked at me. "And
you, you'll be able to do stuff like that in about how
long it took me
to talk to you after I died. You'll be able to do that
too, soon." Matt
smiled at Joe.
"So, do you think... do you think it survived?" Joe
asked. Matt
nodded.
"Of course. Unless she was shot in the stomach, which
she wasn't even
shot at all. She broke her neck. It should be fine." I
looked from Joe
to Matt, then back to Joe.
"Am I missing something?" I asked.
"This will be your test. Ask yourself, 'Why is Joe
here?' over and
over again in your mind. If you'll ever be able to do
stuff like I can,
It should come," Matt said.
'Why is Joe here? Why is Joe here? WHY is JOE
here???' I thought.
"Oh my god..." I said.
"I see that it came to you," Matt said.
"Sora's... pregnant? I mean she's only 15 years
old!Holy crap, Joe!
What the heck was wrong with you? What the heck were
you thinking?!?!?"
I screamed.
"Mimi! Settle down! It wasn't Joe," Matt said.
"Oh... sorry Joe... really I am. But how did you
find out?" I asked.
"It's okay. The doctor called, cuz I guess she went in
the other day,
and they weren't exactly sure, so they had to do some
tests. The minute
they called me and told me they came back Positive I
knew I had to do
something. I really lo-... er, I mean *like* her, and
I knew I couldn't
live by myself because I'd die of lonliness, so I
killed myself. It
wasn't so fun, but here I am. We have to go tell her,"
Joe said.
"Well who was it then?" I demanded.
"I don't know... but whoever it was, I'd kill if I
weren't dead!" Joe
said.
"Well, we can find out now," I said as we walked up to
her door.
I knocked. "Who is it?" she screamed harshly.
"Joe, Matt, and Me," I said.
"Mimi? Oh alright, come in," Sora said, and unlocked
the door. Her face
was stained with tears and Joe immediatly said
something.
"Sora? What's wrong???" he asked before he told her
anything about the
baby.
"You wouldn't understand, Joe... nobody would."
Joe sat down next to
her.
"Would it have anything to do with why the doctor
called me? And aren't
you wondering why I'm here?" Joe asked.
"I know that you know how the tests came back, and I
know why you're
here," Sora said.
"Joe and Sora have both really grown up. " Matt whispered to me.
I smiled.
"I know. Don't forget I lived with those two for three
years," I said.
"Sora, so you know the tests came back Positive?"
Joe asked.
"POSITIVE??? Oh great!!! I was hoping I was worried
over nothing," Sora
said.
"Sora..." Matt said.
"Yeah Matt?" Sora said.
"Things are different here than they are on Earth,"
Matt said.
"That's not what I'm scared about, Matt. It's the
father," Sora said.
"And the father is who? I have been dying to know!" I
said. Sora
sighed.
"Izzy." Sora said. I gasped really loud, cuz what
she said,
"Yeah. That was my reaction when Joe told me it was
positive!" I
nodded.
"Sora, like I was saying, things are different here.
You can't change
the fact you're going to have a baby, but you can
change the father if
you want to," Matt said. Her eyes grew wide.
"I can?" she asked.
"Yes. But that person has to be living here," Matt
said. Sora smiled.
"Umm... Joe? Can I talk to you?"
Matt sighed. "How can I tell her?" he thought. "I
can't, that's what.
Every time I try I mess up."
He glanced over to the hotel room bed she was sleeping
in. Her hair was
'down' . He loved her
even more this way. The sun had just come up, and it
shined in through
the window, making her hair sparkle.
He grabbed one of they two keys for the room, and
walked down to the
lobby. He grabbed one of the donuts from the cart
there and sat down on
one of the chairs. A girl with short black hair and
green eyes looked at
him, then looked away when someone called her. She
then went by the
pool.
He sighed again, thinking what a nice life she must
have. He took a
closer look through the glass walls of the pool and
saw Gabumon stretched
out in a deck chair, looking content. He finished his
donut, then
grabbed another one and walked back to the room.
Mimi was still sleeping, though he noticed she had
turned over because
when he sat back down in the chair he had been in
before, he could now
see her face. Every now and then her lips moved,
mumbling something.
He sighed once more, wrote a note on a piece of paper.
Meanwhile Mimi
was having a wonderful dream. Her and Matt were
sitting on the beach at
night, watching the stars. He told her he loved her,
and she told him
she loved him too. She then woke up.
She kept her eyes closed for a while, hoping it would
someday be like
that. She then opened her eyes. She stretched and
looked around. No
Matt. She grabbed a key and walked down to the lobby,
where she knew
there would be the donut cart, and she figured that's
where he was.
She didn't notice the note on the small table in the
corner. Matt
wasn't there either. She went up to the front desk.
"Did see a man with spikey Brown hair come by here?"
"No, sorry ma'am." She walked back down to the room
and layed back down
on the bed.
"He just went out to get something, he'll be back
anytime now," she
thought to herself. She got up to get her brush, and
noticed a piece of
paper under it. She read it. This is what it said.
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My Dearest Mimi,
Mimi, I have failed you. I have always wanted to
tell you how I
really feel, but I just never could. I'm sorry my
love, but I can't live
this way. Don't try to stop me from doing what must be
done... that is
if you wake up soon enough. I will see you in the
afterlife. I will be
waiting for you. I love you,
Matt
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Mimi looked horrified. She didn't know exactly what he
had ment by it
all, but she knew it wasn't good. She started packing.
She felt for the gun she had hidden under the bed for
protection, and it
wasn't there. She thought Matt must have taken it,
then didn't think
anything of it.
She went into the bathroom to do her hair, and saw one
thing that would
be stuck in her mind for the rest of her life.
There lay Matt, surrounded in his own blood, the gun
in his hand. She
began to cry as she took Matt's hand and kissed it.
At his funeral all she did was cry. The only people
there were Izzy,
T.k., Kari, Joe, Sora, and surprisingly Tai.
Sora was actually
crying, and Tai and Joe looked sadly at the ground.
Izzy and Kari
were also looking to the ground.
Kari came up to her and and tried to comfort her
. After
everyone left, she placed a solitary rose on the top
of his coffin and
walked away. She wondered if he had regreted it the
moment he was dying.
She would never know.
******
It's been over a week, and I still can't get that
image out of my mind.
I still wonder if he regreted his decision as he was
dying. I feel so
bad, and I never imagined a life without him. I'll
tell you one thing,
it's horrible. I haven't gotten any decent sleep since
that day. I can
maybe sleep for an hour or two, but something always
wakes me up. This
morning I was going on a record-breaking three hours
when...
BRRRRRRRRRRRING!!!
I sighed. I picked up the phone and said a weak
"Hello?" Of all the
people who could have called, it was Sora. I started
to wonder what was
up, when she said,
"I know you're wondering why I'm calling you, and how
I even got your
number in the first place. Well, AT&T 00 Info got me
your number, and
I'm just calling to see how you're doing."
By now I was pretty much awake. "Well, I'm pretty
tired," I said, hoping
she wouldn't ask much else. She must have sensed that
I didn't want to
talk much.
"Oh, if you don't want to talk about it, that's fine
with me. I know
what you're going through. Have you ever heard of my
Sister? She was the only one that was nice to me, her
name was Serena.
She was kinda the odd one out, she loved Digimon,
but was killed in the digiworld
.Biyomon was hers, and that's why she
picked me as her human partner,"
Sora said to me.
She sighed. I could see she was trying to make me feel
better, but over
the phone it wasn't working well.
"I know this sounds kinda crazy to be coming out of
me, but how would
you like to come over?" I asked.
"Sure! Can I bring Joe? If you hadn't heard, Joe
and I walked off on
Tai."
I thought a moment. Joe? Hmmm... maybe. "Well, I
guess so," I said,
almost surprised I didn't say 'no way'. I gave her
directions, and she
said she'd be over around 2 PM. That gave me 3 hours.
I took a shower,
and tried to get myself looking at least half-way
decent. After that I
decided to take a nap until my visitors arrived. I had
a strange
dream...
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Matt was there. But yet again, he wasn't. It was only
his voice.
"Don't worry Mimi. I'll protect you. This isn't just a
dream, Mimi, I'm
able to go into your mind while you're sleeping. I
love you, Mimi, stay
strong. Stay strong for me, would you? I can contact
anyone, I've
already talked to Sora, and Joe too. I told them to
watch over you.
They have a stronger ability of that than I now do.
Don't refuse them.
I'll be waiting here for you, and until then, I will
see you in your
dreams..." he said.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Then I woke up to a knock at the door.
"Coming!" I said as I fixed my hair a bit.
"Hello!" Sora said as I opened the door. Joe walked
in behind her.
"This is where you live? I pass by here all the time!"
Joe said.
"I hope you don't mind that I have the radio on..." I
said hopefully.
"Nope, as long as it's Z104!" Sora said and giggled.
I nodded.
"You two are weird... I like Y105!" Joe said. Sora
almost broke into
a fit of giggles.
"I've known you for this long, and I *never* knew you
liked country,
Joe!" she burst out. Myself, I was almost laughing
too. Joe's face
turned red.
"Well I think the Dixie Chicks and SHeDAiSY are good!
Not to mention
pretty cute... and Faith Hill..." he mumbled. I looked
at Sora, and we
both burst out laughing.
"Faith Hill already *has* a husband," I said.
"Oh yeah? Like who?" Joe asked. I rolled my eyes.
"Like Tim McGraw!" I said.
"Oh... maybe I don't like his music anymore..." he
mumbled, which made
Sora and I laugh even harder. It may sound like I'd
completely
forgotten about Matt. Yeah right. I was thinking
about him the whole
time. Was the dream really real? Should I ask Sora
and Joe? I have to
admit, for what a brat Sora used to be, she's totally
changed. I had
made a new friend, Joe. Kinda odd. I mean they were my old
friends, right?
"Hey, where do you two *live*?" I asked. I relized it
was kinda nosey,
but it was too late to take it back.
"Wherever we happen to be," Sora said.
"Why don't you two stay here for awhile? I have the
room... I have a
spare bed, and one of you can stay on the couch." I
was almost surprised
at myself for being so nice, but it was the least I
could do... I'd been
so lonley lately anyway, and Matt *had* said that he
had told them to
watch over me, right? If he really had, they would say
yes. Joe looked
at Sora , who shrugged.
"Sure, what would it hurt?" Sora said. I smiled.
"I don't mean to be rude, but what about Palmon and Gabumon?"
Sora asked.
"They basically left us. You saw Gabumon and Palmon at the
funeral, right? Well
after it they came to me and said they were leaving."
I said. I knew I couldn't have gone on with my life with them
getting in the way.
"So Gabumon And Palmon left ya huh? That's good,
then we can be
friends without having to worry about *having* to be
Bothered," Joe
said. We just talked for the longest time, until Joe
said, "I'm tired.
I'm going to bed."
He offered to take the couch, so Sora and I left the
living room and
were about to each go to bed, when I remembered I had
something I had to
ask her.
"Sora?" I asked. She turned around and looked at me.
"Yes?" she asked.
"Can you come here for a sec? I need to talk to you,"
I said. I hoped it
didn't sound to weird. It must not have, because she
agreed and sat down
on my bed. I sat down.
"Yes?" she said after about a minute.
"Ummm... did you have any weird dreams last night?" I
finally asked. She
gave me a weird look.
"You mean he..." she started.
"Yeah, did he really tell you to protect me?" I asked.
She nodded.
"Yes, he did. I did it because I knew he loved you,"
she said. I sighed
and walked up to my window.
I looked out at the millions of stars in the dark
night sky. "I'm
sleeping out there... you can take my bed, it's more
comfortable," I
said as I grabbed a pillow off my bed and a blanket
from the closet.
"You want to stay out there alone? If you do I won't
follow you, but if
you would like company, I'll come too if you like,"
Sora said. I
smiled.
"You can come if you like," I said as I opened the
screen door. I spred
the blanket out on my back lawn and put down my
pillow. It was very nice
out, you didn't need any blanket to cover up with at
all. Then Sora
came out, and set up a bed for herself a few feet
away.
I just looked up at the stars, wondering if Matt was
looking down at
me. I finally fell asleep, and that was the best night
I had had in a
long time. I had another dream...
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Thank you, Mimi, I knew you wouldn't refuse. They're
your best friends now,
they will help take care of you if you help take care
of them. Tonight I
have no dreams for Joe, but I do have one for Sora.
I will tell her
that you will help her if she helps you. She really is
a nice little
girl, isn't she? There's someone else who wants to
talk to you," Matt
said.
"Hello," a girl's voice said. "Hello, my name is
Serena. I heard Sora
telling you about me. I have never been able to talk
to her like I am
talking to you now. Maybe with Matt's help I can
finally talk to her
again. I just wanted to say you were so lucky to have
spent time with
Matt, and please, take care of my little sis for me."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
With that, I woke up. I looked over at
Sora and
watched. She was
sleeping so peacefully. I knew she must have been
talking with Matt,
and I watched as she smiled in her sleep. 'Shes
finally talking with
Serena again' I thought as I lay my head back down and
looked back up at
the stars. Everything was going to be okay.
******
A few years passed by. Sora and I got along just
fine, she stayed with
me at my house until that day. But first I'll tell you
about the night
before. It was a normal day. I fell asleep, and for
the first time in
weeks, Matt talked to me.
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"Mimi, I'm only warning you because I love you. Say
goodbye to your
loved ones. Something bad will happen, I'm not lying.
Sora knows too. I
didn't tell her any more than I'm telling you now. Be
strong for me."
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I woke up to find Sora awake too.
"Does this mean we're going to... er.. um..." she
asked. I shrugged.
"I don't know... maybe," I replied. It sounded pretty
dumb, but I didn't
care. We were in the same room because we really
didn't have enough
money for a three-bedroom house, so we just had two
seperate beds in the
spare room while Joe had my old room.
"You're going outside?" Sora asked. I nodded. She
looked afraid.
"Don't worry, it'll be okay," I said.
"Thanks..." she said, her hand over her stomach.
"That's where I can get to him the best. He knows my
questions and when
I fall back asleep he'll answer." Sora followed me,
still obeying
Matt's request to watch over me. I smiled at her, and
drifted off to
sleep.
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"Yes, I wanted to tell you, but I couldn't find the
words. It will be
both of you, and Joe may be there too, because
someone else is going
to be in the car. I can't make out who. But it will be
short and
painless. I'm looking forward to being with you,
Mimi. Don't be
scared about it, the after life isn't bad. And don't
tell Sora, but
Serena and I aren't the only ones looking forward to
seeing her. And I'm
not the only one looking forward to seeing you. I must
go now. It's
perfectly alright to cry. Remember, I'll be waiting."
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It's okay to cry? He knows me better than that. I
hardly ever cry. Okay,
without him around, I cry a little more than I used
to. But not that
much more. I woke up like always, but quickly drifted
off into a
wonderful sleep. I awoke the next morning to a
baby-blue sky dotted with
puffy white clouds. Sora was still asleep. I just
looked up into the
sky and wondered.
Were we really going to die? Matt had said that
someone will be in the
car with us. Does that mean we'll die in a car crash?
And who's the
other person? Is it really Joe? I don't know who
else it would be.
Sora woke up and later suggested we go to the
cemetary to see Matt one
last time before we went to *really* see him. Well, we
went, and guess
who was there? T.K. and Kari!
"Hello," I said. Kari let go of T.K.'s hand (which
she had been
holding) and smiled at me. I giggled. She was
blushing! "Geez, Kari, I
don't mind! Hold his hand," I said. Sora nodded.
"Yeah, you two look cute together," she replied.
Kari blushed again.
Reluctantly, T.K. took her hand back. She smiled at
him.
"Kari... I... er, we... uh... I mean..." I said, but
could hardly spit
it out. Sora burst into tears. T.K. gave me a
questioning look. "Its
hard to explain..." I said, and he nodded.
"Mimi, last night I had a weird dream... is that what
this is about? I
mean this may sound odd, but Matt told me you, Sora,
and two others
won't live to see tomorrow," Kari said, looking
worried. I simply
nodded and she broke down crying the same way Sora
had. T.K. held Kari
in his arms while she softly wimpered into his
shoulder. She lifted her
head after awhile and looked at me.
"Aren't you scared?" she asked. I shook my head.
"No... but you wouldn't understand. I'll finally get
to see Matt
again... I'd like to see you go this long without
seeing T.K.!" I
screamed, and started crying because I thought of the
day he left me
flashed back into my head.
"Well, do you know who the other people are?" she
asked me.
"No, to tell you the truth he didn't tell me there
would be *two* people
in the car. He said only one," I said as she listend
carefully. Sora
had stopped crying and pointed out that it was almost
lunch time. She
asked if T.K. and Kari would like to come eat with
us. They agreed
and hopped in the back seat. I had a feeling I knew
that one of them, if
not both, were coming with us. I also had a feeling we
wouldn't make it
till lunch. How right I was.
All of a sudden, there was a flash of colors right in
front of the road,
and I heard Sora scream first, then Kari. T.K.
and I both looked
next to us, and saw Sora and Kari. Dead.
"What about us? Didn't Matt tell you we are going
too? I'm wounded, but
it's nothing deadly, and I need to be with
Kari!"
T.K. screamed,
which was quite a mouthful, to be coming from him.
Then we both turned
to the sound of a familiar, childish laugh.
"Tai? What the heck are you doing here? Go away," I
said. He just
snickered.
"I staged all this. That flash of colors was not a
person, but rocks
flying past you. All four of you must die.
But since you two
didn't die, like planned," Tai said, holding up a gun,
"I will have to
kill you." T.K. and I looked at him.
"Well do it already! We don't have all day to wait for
you, though we
know how slow you are!" T.K. said.
"Yeah, and I hope you get killed by Greymon, you
stupid creep! You'll
pay, Tai Kamiya! We'll get you in your dreams!" I
shouted. And with
that, Tai snickered again, and lifted up a second gun.
He shot both off
at once, and the bullets hit around the same time.
The next thing I remembered, Matt, T.K. and Kari
were standing over
me.
"Mimi! We thought you may never wake up," Matt
said. I smiled at him.
Serena was there too, and so were Gabumon and Agumon.
"Agumon? Why are you here?" I asked.
"Tai killed me," he said.
"Oh that's terrible! Anyway I can relate. How do you
think I got here?
He's a nutcase!" I said, and Agumon smiled. Gabumon
just looked at me.
"Hey Mimi," he said, "Welcome home." I looked at him.
"You can talk... like, normal?" I asked. "Yeah. Any
digimon can. They
just have to go learn it. Agumon's in Class 2...
there are six classes.
I took Class 6 right away, because that's all about
the proper way of
talking, which I hadn't learned," Gabumon said.
"Mimi?" I heard a voice say. I was startled.
The voice, I remembered it. It was murky in my
mind, something from
long ago. I looked and saw a woman there, with orange
hair and the same
brown eyes as mine. Then it clicked.
"Mom?" I gasped. The image started getting
clearer. I was small,
six or seven, when she died. I remembered almost
nothing about her. Then
this boy came over to me, he looked about 23. He had
grey eyes and
gold-streaked hair.
"Hello," he said. "Uh... hi..." I said, still in the
shock of seeing my
mother who hadn't really said much yet.
"My name is Maromu, but most people call me Michael,
or Mike for short.
I'm... I'm your older brother," he said. I opened my
mouth to speak, but
nothing came out. "You're probably thinking, 'I never
had a brother,
what is he talking about?'," he said. I wondered how
he could keep so
calm. "I died when you were only about a year old." I
was still
speechless. Why wasn't I ever told I had a brother?
This made me wonder.
I was about to tell him about everything, when I
noticed something.
Where was Sora?
"Where's Sora?" I said. Mike looked at me oddly,
probably wondering why
that popped out of my mouth at such a moment.
"Umm... I think she went to her room. It's funny, they
have apartment
kinda things here."Mike
said.
"Her room? What for?" I asked. "I don't know. She was
crying though. I
can tell you want to know... her room is 362 or 364,
because yours is
363," Mike said. I nodded.
"Thanks. I'll be back. Matt, can you come with me?"
He nodded and we
walked over to the apartments, and found the 300s
building. "I think
she's probably in 362," Matt said.
"Me too. Oh Matt, it's so good to see you again! But
before we find
Sora, I have something to ask you. Why did you do it?
I loved you so
much, Matt, how could you have done that to me?!?!" I
said, practically
screaming by now. I guess it was because of the years
of anger towards
him for it, or I just wasn't in the best mood, or
something else. Either
way, he looked sincerley sorry.
"Mimi, I was so sorry. I regreted it the moment I came
here. I mean I
love it here, sure, but I'd rather be with you," he
said, looking at the
ground. I hugged him and told him I forgave him,
and we walked on. We found room 362.
Just then, T.K. and Kari came running towards us.
"Mimi, Matt! Come quick, and I mean really quick.
Someone needs to talk
to you," Kari said after she caught her breath. We
looked at each
other. "I know you're wondering who, but there's no
time. Just come!"
Kari said. I shrugged, and we followed them, running the
whole way. When
we got there, Joe came up to us.
"Joe! Why in the world are you here?" I asked.
"I'll tell them," T.K. said to Joe, who nodded and
said his thank
yous. T.K. took Matt and I aside. "He's here to find
Sora. He killed
himself after her funeral. Time up here is slower,
we've already been
dead a week, down there," T.K. said.
"Why does he need to find Sora? She won't even talk
to me," I said.
"You ask," T.K. said, and went back over by Kari.
Then Joe came.
"So you want to find Sora, eh?" Matt asked. Joe
nodded. "I've
already accessed why you're here," Matt said. He
looked at me. "And
you, you'll be able to do stuff like that in about how
long it took me
to talk to you after I died. You'll be able to do that
too, soon." Matt
smiled at Joe.
"So, do you think... do you think it survived?" Joe
asked. Matt
nodded.
"Of course. Unless she was shot in the stomach, which
she wasn't even
shot at all. She broke her neck. It should be fine." I
looked from Joe
to Matt, then back to Joe.
"Am I missing something?" I asked.
"This will be your test. Ask yourself, 'Why is Joe
here?' over and
over again in your mind. If you'll ever be able to do
stuff like I can,
It should come," Matt said.
'Why is Joe here? Why is Joe here? WHY is JOE
here???' I thought.
"Oh my god..." I said.
"I see that it came to you," Matt said.
"Sora's... pregnant? I mean she's only 15 years
old!Holy crap, Joe!
What the heck was wrong with you? What the heck were
you thinking?!?!?"
I screamed.
"Mimi! Settle down! It wasn't Joe," Matt said.
"Oh... sorry Joe... really I am. But how did you
find out?" I asked.
"It's okay. The doctor called, cuz I guess she went in
the other day,
and they weren't exactly sure, so they had to do some
tests. The minute
they called me and told me they came back Positive I
knew I had to do
something. I really lo-... er, I mean *like* her, and
I knew I couldn't
live by myself because I'd die of lonliness, so I
killed myself. It
wasn't so fun, but here I am. We have to go tell her,"
Joe said.
"Well who was it then?" I demanded.
"I don't know... but whoever it was, I'd kill if I
weren't dead!" Joe
said.
"Well, we can find out now," I said as we walked up to
her door.
I knocked. "Who is it?" she screamed harshly.
"Joe, Matt, and Me," I said.
"Mimi? Oh alright, come in," Sora said, and unlocked
the door. Her face
was stained with tears and Joe immediatly said
something.
"Sora? What's wrong???" he asked before he told her
anything about the
baby.
"You wouldn't understand, Joe... nobody would."
Joe sat down next to
her.
"Would it have anything to do with why the doctor
called me? And aren't
you wondering why I'm here?" Joe asked.
"I know that you know how the tests came back, and I
know why you're
here," Sora said.
"Joe and Sora have both really grown up. " Matt whispered to me.
I smiled.
"I know. Don't forget I lived with those two for three
years," I said.
"Sora, so you know the tests came back Positive?"
Joe asked.
"POSITIVE??? Oh great!!! I was hoping I was worried
over nothing," Sora
said.
"Sora..." Matt said.
"Yeah Matt?" Sora said.
"Things are different here than they are on Earth,"
Matt said.
"That's not what I'm scared about, Matt. It's the
father," Sora said.
"And the father is who? I have been dying to know!" I
said. Sora
sighed.
"Izzy." Sora said. I gasped really loud, cuz what
she said,
"Yeah. That was my reaction when Joe told me it was
positive!" I
nodded.
"Sora, like I was saying, things are different here.
You can't change
the fact you're going to have a baby, but you can
change the father if
you want to," Matt said. Her eyes grew wide.
"I can?" she asked.
"Yes. But that person has to be living here," Matt
said. Sora smiled.
"Umm... Joe? Can I talk to you?"
