((Chapter 1: His Feelings))

"Can you make dinner now?"

"No."

"Can you make it now?"

"No."

"Can you…make it now?"

"No. If you're going to ask me that question again, which I know you will, my answer will be no."

"But Tai, I'm always hungry you should know that by now!!" Mimi slammed her body onto the couch feeling like she could cry not eating dinner. Tai simply sighed over the counter and gazed upon his roommate pouting over for his delicious, unbelievable food.

"Mimi, you and I know best that you can also cook delicious meals just as I can. Why can't

you make dinner yourself? Besides, I already ate my dinner." Tai rubbed his belly smiling picturing the food he made earlier. Oh yea, good old hamburgers. Delicious.

"Because I'm tired from working 6 hours straight from work and your sister didn't help me out at all when she suppose to and then she made a deal that if I worked an extra hour you would make me dinner!" Mimi glanced at Tai with such childish eyes.

"Wait, Kari said that I would make dinner for you?" Tai arched his brow.

"Yes…" Mimi dragged herself to the floor tired.

Tai walked over to Mimi sat by her and placed his arms around her neck and looked at her, "Mimi, Mimi, Mimi. Making dinner is such hard work, probably harder then your fashion career. If I make dinner for you, will you promise me that you won't get mad for what I did?"

"What did you do?" Mimi was curious.

"I got a phone call from my office yesterday," He began slowly.

"Go on."

"And, well, two of my oldest friends asked me if they could stay at our place for the next month or so, because of their vacation time,"

"And you said yes."

"Well, yea I kinda did Mimi." He tried smiling at Mimi, only to be more afraid of her facial expression.

"And you decided on this on your own, again with out my permission, again. And who exactly are we rooming with this time?" Mimi tapped her fingers on his knee.

"Well see that's the thing," Tai sighed. "It's Matt and Sora."

"I think you should go make my dinner now, Taichi." Mimi grabbed his arm and placed it on his lap shaking her head. There was one thing that Tai hated the most, making Mimi mad. When you made Mimi mad, she said your full name, which you really don't her to say at all.

Tai shook his head. "Yeah, I'll go make dinner now." Tai paced over to the kitchen feeling bad. He knew how much Mimi hated Sora and Matt well, just Matt really, but they were his friends and they did need a place to stay, but he just couldn't bare the pain with Mimi even around Matt in one room. She would literally rip his skin off for what happened on their senior year of Odaiba High School.

Mimi relaxed a little and thought about Tai's decision of letting the person she hated stay at her house. I mean, what happened in Odaiba High School, happened. It's in the past for crying out loud! What is she going to do? Rip his skin out? Pssh, no.

Tai and Mimi sat at their table together discussing Matt's and Sora's staying. Tai knew he had to have standards for Mimi, but he knew her better, she can do it without his help! Or could she? Tai wanted to make things clearer for Mimi so why not start making certain rules for her?

"Especially Mimi, no grabbing the butcher's knife and stabbing Matt while I'm gone ok?" Tai wagged his finger at Mimi who ate her dinner.

"Fine." She rolled her eyes.

"You rolled your eyes."

"What?"

"You just rolled your eyes, you don't mean it. Say it again without rolling your eyes!"

"I won't do that Tai." She closed her eyes.

"You rolled your eyes when you closed them! Mimi!"

"Tai!" She wagged her finger at Tai mocking him. "I won't do that ever in my life! It would ruin me and my fashion career!"

Tai glanced at Mimi nodding his head. Tai and Mimi grew up together in the same neighborhood and became great friends until grade school; they would always talk to each other about their day everyday when they walked together after school. Tai hadn't realized it until his last year of being a sophomore that he loved Mimi Tachikawa more then anything. He was always there for her when 

she needed a friend, but he never got the chance to admit his feelings especially when Mimi met Matt in the beginning of their junior years in Odaiba High School. When he found out from Mimi that they were going out, it shattered his heart. Tai and Matt were great friends, even though his own best friend was dating the girl he loved for years. Even after what happened in Odaiba, he still Matt's best friend even though he betrayed Mimi. But now, everything is still the same. Tai still loves Mimi. Mimi doesn't even know.

"Tai,"

"Tai."

"Tai!"

"What?" Tai snapped back to reality.

"You ok there Tai? You spaced out on me for a moment." Mimi picked up her plate walking to the kitchen and started washing her plate,

"No, Mimi I'm fine. I was just thinking about what I did and I'm sorry for not asking you permission if Matt and Sora could stay here with us." Tai twisted his body to angle where he could see Mimi.

"It's ok Tai. Matt and Sora are your friends and they're welcomed here anytime." Mimi rinsed her plate and placed it in the cabinet above her head.

Tai smiled at Mimi and remembered something. "Oh, I forgot to mention that this is your house and that we're roommates. Yea."

"Tai this is why you ask me permission for your friends to stay at my house. Just for that you get to make dinner for everyone everyday until Matt and Sora leave." Mimi walked out the kitchen pacing to avoid complaining from Tai.

"Aw come on, Mimi!" Tai watched her walk out of the kitchen wagging her finger at Tai.

"I'm going to relax and read my book in my room, Tai." Mimi came and hugged him. Tai loved it when Mimi hugged him. It made him happy, like all of his worries where gone forever. It tickled him when her curly bouncy cinnamon hair moved around his neck. She gave him a peck on the cheek and left the dining room for her own room.

Tai stud up getting out from the dining chair, walked over to the kitchen counter and saw an orange bottle filled with small white circular pills reminding him of her pain.