((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 or just give Tai a hard time. Tai sighed over the counter and gazed upon his roommate pouting over for his delicious, unbelievable food. He did have to admit that his dishes were literally to die for! Well…not literally but rhetorically.

"Mimi, you and I know best that you can also cook delicious meals just as I can. Why can't you just make your own dinner?" Tai rubbed his belly imagining the dish he had earlier, oh yea, good old hamburgers. Nutritious.

"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 for her 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 looking her face. Since this would the perfect moment he would tell her something that would probably get him in trouble. He knew that every time he did something important or life changing he would always asked Mimi first for her opinion but this time he didn't ask so he had an idea on how she would react.

"Mimi, Mimi, Mimi. Making dinner is such hard work, probably harder than 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 tapping his finger on her shoulder.

"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 which made everything worse.

"And you decided on this on your own without my permission again. And who exactly are we rooming with this time?" Mimi tapped her fingers on his knee.

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

"I think you should go make my dinner now, Taichi."

Mimi removed his arm from her shoulders and placed it on his lap giving Tai her smile that told Tai 'Damn You'. There was one thing that Tai hated the most and that was making Mimi angry. When you made Mimi mad she said your full name which you really don't her to say at all. In fact the last time Tai heard her say his full name he was knocked unconscious let's not remember that time, shall we?

"Yeah, I'll go make dinner now."

Tai paced over to the kitchen feeling horrible about what he did, he knew that this house belonged to Mimi and not him. But the real problem he had to worry about was Mimi being in the same house with the two she didn't feel happy with. He knew how much Mimi and Sora didn't get along so much after their incident in high school the REAL problem was with Matt, despite the fact that he and Matt were best friends and needing a place to stay he was concerned seeing Matt and Mimi in the same house together. He'd say that she would literally rip his skin off after what happened senior year in Odaiba High School. Mimi relaxed a little bit with the thought of Tai's decision of letting the two people she didn't really get along with. I mean, what happened in Odaiba High School, happened. It's in the past for crying out! What is she going to do? Rip his skin out? PSSH, NOT!

Tai and Mimi sat at the dining table together discussing the arrival and stay of Matt and Sora. Tai knew just as well as Mimi that he always had to have standards for her, she also knew that she could do those standards without him to remind her. Tai wanted to reassure Mimi of the things she could not do while Matt and Sora stayed in her house. Mimi tried her best not to get annoyed by Tai's lecturing but it would be over soon enough.

"Please don't even think about using the kitchen knives against Matt ok?" Tai wagged his finger at Mimi who ate her dinner.

"What about forks?"

"Anything that you can stab him with is off limits, Mimi!"

"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 during grade school they would always talk to each other every day 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 than anything and anyone. He was always there for her when she needed a friend but he never got the chance to admit his feelings especially after Mimi had met Matt in the beginning of their junior year in Odaiba High School. Everything had changed when those two met it even changed Tai's and Mimi's relationship. When he found out from Mimi that they were going out, it shattered his heart. Tai and Matt stayed great friends even though his own best friend was dating the girl he loved. Even after what happened in Odaiba, he still stayed Matt's best friend despite his betrayal to Mimi. But now everything's the same, Tai loves Mimi. Mimi doesn't 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 to clean it she looked at Tai to make sure he was fine.

"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.

"Forget about it, Tai. Matt and Sora are your friends and they're welcomed here anytime." Mimi rinsed her plate wiped it dry and placed it in the cabinet over her head.

"Oh, I forgot to mention to them that this is your house and that we're roommates!"

"Tai this is exactly why you need to ask me permission for your friends to stay at my house. Just for that you get to make dinner for everyone every day until Matt and Sora leave." Mimi walked out the kitchen pacing to her room to avoid Tai's complaining.

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

"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 from his dining chair carrying his now empty plate and walked over to the kitchen counter to clean the dishes Mimi left for him to do. After wiping them dry with his favorite blue towel he saw in front of him that one orange pill bottle…the bottle that always reminded him of Mimi's pain.