Author's Note: This is a fic that's supposed to turn into a Mimi/Matt romance.... But not yet. Please read and review, I don't mind flames.
The guitarist and the girl with the pink hair
Matt picked up his guitar from the table that was almost completely covered by electronic devises he didn't know, but he supposed it had something to do with the sound effects.
Matt walked over to the rest of the band, who were starting amazed through the curtains to the public that had attended their gig. Matt moved a curtain a little bit so that he could have a look too.
His jaws dropped. Hundreds of screaming fans were shouting and singing. Matt stood there too excited to move, wondering if they would be able to play over all that noise. His eyes moved through the crowd looking for his young brother, T.K.
T.K. had told him he had a surprise for him, and that the surprise would be going with him to the concert. It was a pointless thing to do thought, it was impossible to tell T.K. apart from the screaming fans, even if patamon was sitting on his head.
Matt turned to the rest of the band, Jean played the drums, Van played the bass and Kevin played the keyboard
They were all grinning broadly, admiring their audience. Kev couldn't keep his eyes away from the screaming fans.
"Wow!" he said for the tenth time while he admired his public "It's... it's..." since he couldn't find the right word he went back to his "wow" state.
Van was checking his watch constantly.
"In 5 minutes will be out there" he announced looking at Matt.
"We'll do fine" said Matt trying to sound calm.
"Are you kidding? We'll be great!" said Jean smiling. Jean's self confidence was something Matt admired sometimes...
"You got me, remember?" he added. And it was something Matt hated others.
"Three minutes..." announced Van.
"Oh, great! I just remembered... I left my cymbals home!" said Jean as he hited his head against the wall.
"You mean these?" asked Matt picking up Jean's cymbals from the floor. Jean started laughing nervously while gigantic sweat drops appeared on everyone's heads.
"... A minute..." announced Van "We better get going" he added. They waited in silence, they weren't supposed to go to the stage until they were announced. A voice came like from far away and announced them, Matt took his guitar and walked after Jean to the stage. The last thing Matt heard was Jean saying "Oh, man!" right before his ears were blocked by the excited screams of the audience. Matt couldn't hold a little smile.
The tiny place they were playing at, well not so tiny, it was the size of the school's gym, was called "Rock Cafe", and Matt was completely sure that it had never been so crowded. The usual desks used to drink coffee were removed... or so thought Matt, maybe it was just that the girls were standing on them...
Matt walked over to the microphone, hoping that he could be heard over all the noise. He waited while Van gave his usual "Goodnight, the name of the place in which we are!" He looked at Van and waited for him to do their special sign.
Van gave the rest of the band a thumbs up, that was their sign to start playing. Matt took his guitar, got closer to the microphone, and did the only thing he could do in that moment.
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Matt sat alone on the stage, looking around the "Rock Cafe". A couple of hours ago it had been crowded to death, but now... Now it was empty. Completely empty aside from Matt. His band mates had just left a couple of minutes ago, Matt said he had to stay to wait for his brother, TK. He looked at the clock with the shape of a guitar that was hanging on one of the walls. 12: 48 A.M. He looked around the café, it was still empty. Matt had the feeling that TK wasn't going to appear for at least 15 other minutes. He picked his guitar from a chair next to him, and started playing. It was a slow song, too slow and soft for an electric guitar, but it sounded pretty well. It was an old song he used to play with his harmonica, but since he didn't have the smallest idea of where his armonica was, sometimes he used his guitar to play the song.
The slow music filled the cafe for around 10 minutes, before footsteps and voices interrupted them.
Matt looked around and spotted his friends walking over to him.
"Hey, Matt!" said Tai excitedly. He walked on to the stage and sat next to Matt.
"Hi, Tai... TK's with you?"
"Yup, I'm right here!" said TK's voice. Matt turned to see Tk and his friends.
"Oh, hi everyone!" Matt said putting his guitar away. Tai took it with the intention of playing it.
"This can't be too difficult" he told Matt, while horrible notes started coming out from the guitar.
"What's that supposed to be?" asked Matt trying to hold down his laughter, even if everyone else was laughing. Tai blushed a little.
"You were great!" said Sora walking over to Matt and Tai.
"Yeah, we didn't know you could play that well!" said Kari joining them on the stage, TK and the rest followed her.
"Thanks, guys" Matt said smiling at them.
"Jun couldn't come, she's sick with the flu" said Davis taking the guitar from Tai and trying to play too.
"Thank God!" thought Matt, but told Davis he was very sorry.
"Matt, about your surprise..." started TK, taking the guitar from Davis and giving it back to Matt.
"Thanks, TK" said Matt taking it.
"About it... well..."
"We couldn't find how to wrap her!" finished a girl's voice from behind Matt turned slowly to see who had spoken, afraid it could be Jun. Matt saw a flash of pink, before the person who had spoken took a seat next to him. Matt stared at the girl. She had big brown eyes and long pink hair, dotted with stars. She was wearing a skirt and a T-shirt with a star on it. She looked like...
"Mimi?" Matt asked not being able to believe it.
"The one and only!" Mimi said in a cheer full way. Matt couldn't hold himself, he grabbed her in a long hug that lasted a couple of minutes. He had to do it, just to be sure it was real. Just seeing Mimi there made him feel completely different, like when he was back at the Digiworld. It made him remember Gabumon and the other digimons, and all the adventures they had together. Matt let go on Mimi after a long hug.
"I can't believe it! What are you doing here?" he asked smiling widely.
"Visiting, for 2 whole months" she said still smiling widely "I'm staying at Sora's, I'm also going to your school!"
"You know" said Tai getting into their conversation "This deserves a pizza!"
"Only if you pay!" said Sora.
"What?" said Tai surprised "I'm not paying"
Matt got his hand into his own pocket and felt the money the "Rock Cafe" had paid him for the gig.
"Don't worry, I'm paying!" he said, as they started walking away to celebrate.
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"Hey! Matt!"
Matt looked around the long school hall, trying to find Van. Van had a very especial tone, a tone that made his voice different from any other Matt knew. He spotted Van in the door of the History classroom. Matt closed his locker and walked over to him, trying hard to keep his eyes opened.
"Hi" he said softly.
"Sleepy?" asked Van smiling. Matt nodded.
"I went for a pizza after the gig, I didn't get much... much sleep" said Matt, stopping for a yawn.
"Have you heard about the costume party?" asked Van, interrupting Matt's long yawn.
"Er... no" said Matt scratching his head nervously "Why?"
"I was wondering if you wanted to come with me?" said Van smiling innocently "It was a joke! It was a joke!" he added once he saw the horrible look on Matt's face.
"So, what about the party?" asked Matt blushing, it had been very silly from him to fall for one of Van's jokes.
"They want us to play a few songs at the party" said Van.
"Great, does Jean know yet?" he asked.
"No, why?" asked Van curiously.
"Just wondering... he'll probably want to buy a special outfit or something..." Matt said, then gave a smile to Van.
The bell, announcing that their break was over and that it was time to go back to classes suddenly interrupted their little talk. Matt sighed, he doubted that he would be able to keep his eyes open for another lesson, gave Van a "See ya!" and walked to class.
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"Matt?"
Matt had to use all his strength to open his eyes and raise his head from the table to look around, for the source of the voice. Tai was sitting next to him, holding a fork with a piece of meat on it, and starting at Matt with his mouth opened.
"Wha-?" Matt finally asked trying to hold down a yawn.
"Are you planning to eat something today?" Sora's head appeared from behind Tai and smiled at Matt.
"Eat?" Matt looked around and suddenly noticed where he was. He was at the school's cafeteria, sitting at a table with Sora, Mimi, and Tai.
"What am I doing here?" he asked. The last thing he remembered was his Math class.
"See? I told you he was sleep-walking!" Mimi told Sora and Tai, they both nodded.
The cafeteria was so crowded and noisy that Matt started wondering how he had been able to sleep with all the noise. Matt watched a couple of girls passing by, they were both carrying trays with delicious looking sandwiches. As the sweet smell of chocolate reached Matt from Sora's chocolate pudding, he realized how hungry he felt.
He started watching Mimi's vanilla pudding with a lot of interest through his hungry eyes.
"Want some?" Mimi asked noticing the way Matt was starting at her pudding and offering it to him. Matt reached for it quickly and started eating, completely forgetting how sleepy he had been felling some minutes ago.
"Where is the rest?" Sora asked suddenly trying to ignore the fact that Matt was know watching her pudding.
"Id's Fliday Soda, evedybody ish busy tuday, nod even dime fod iating" replied Tai eating his own pudding as fast as he could, so that Matt wouldn't start eyeing it too.
"Are you coming with us, Matt?" Sora asked, giving up she gave her pudding to the hungry looking Matt, too.
"Whed?" Matt asked, his mouth full of pudding. "Um-- sorry, where?" Matt took a napkin and cleaned his mouth, blushing a little while Sora and Mimi laughed.
"To the beach, we were planning to go after school" said Mimi "It's soo hot in this country!"
Matt finished with Sora's pudding and left the empty plate next to Mimi's emptied one. He was about to agree on going to the beach with them when he remembered his talk with Van.
"No, sorry, I can't"
"You can't?" Tai asked looking at him saddly. Matt, who knew Tai well, was sure that Tai wasn't really looking forward a whole afternoon sitting at the beach hearing Sora's and Mimi's conversation. "Why?"
"Have you heard about the costume party this Sunday?" Matt asked. Mimi, Sora and Tai exchanged looks before saying that they hadn't.
"You know, you get a costume... you invite someone... you go and dance... and eat..." Matt explained "Well, the band's going to play a few songs that night"
"Cool!" said Sora smiling "I love the music you play"
"Thanks" Matt said, he tried to smile at her but couldn't. A sudden wave of tiredness filled him. He could fell his eyes getting heavier at every second. He putted his head between his arms over the table, next to the empty plates that had been holding pudding.
"He's asleep?" Sora asked.
"Maybe he ate too much pudding" said Mimi's voice from what seemed like far away.
"I know what he needs! Water!" said Tai's voice from far away too. Matt could hear a chair moving and some steps that soon were gone.
"Water? What does he need water for?" said Mimi in a tone that was as soft as a whisper.
"Who knows!"
Sora's and Mimi's voices slowly started to vanish. Matt soon stopped feeling or hearing. He had finally fallen asleep, what his body had wanted all day long. It was so relaxing. He couldn't feel a thing! Well... except for the cold water that he felt pouring down his head.
Matt opened his eyes and looked up. Tai was standing next to him, smiling and holding a big jar half filled with water. Matt didn't need a mirror like for knowing that he was wet. He stood up quickly, drops of water falling down his face.
"I hate you!" he shouted at Tai, half of him laughing and half of him wanting to kill Tai. The whole cafeteria started laughing with Tai, Sora and Mimi.
Matt took off his school jacket taht was as wet as his hair and threw it at Tai.
"Hey!" Tai shouted.
"Now, who needs water?" Matt asked at Tai, without waiting for an answer he took the jar out of Tai's hands and threw the rest of the water over Tai's head. Immediately, Tai was as wet as he was. Tai started laughing with the rest of the cafeteria.
"Why did you do that?" he asked smiling "I did it for your own sake! Now you feel quite awake, don't you?"
Matt smiled at Tai. He did feel awake now, but he wasn't going to admit it. He was still holding the jar that still contained some water. He turned to Mimi and Sora grinning in a devilish way... Now he felt really awake!
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"What about this one?" asked Matt flipping through the pages of the copybook he used to write the band's songs, and stopping at a page that was filled with lyrics and notes written in blue ink.
"...'Summer dreams'?" asked Kevin looking over Matt's shoulder to the copybook he was holding "Nah, too romantic"
"And this one? 'Forever'?" asked Matt trying to hide the disappointed tone on his voice. He had been so sure... that he had more songs written in the copybook, something new and fresh to play at the costume party. But he had been wrong, all the songs in the copybooks had been played enough times. Matt really wanted to play something new for the party, or at least something impressive.
"Matty, Matty... Can't you see that the audience will be impressed just by the fact that I'M between them?" asked Jean in a I-Know-It-All sort of voice.
Matt rolled his eyes.
"Anyway, I still want something impressive..."
He looked around to see the face of his band mates. They had been sitting inside Kevin's garage for more than an hour, and still didn't know what to do for Sunday night. Kevin seemed to be bored to death, he kept checking his watch and never gave suggestions. Jean only gave ideas of what he should wear for the night. Van was the only one who really seemed interested.
"Look,, we could just play the same old songs but add something new to the show" proposed Van finally.
"Like what?" asked Matt putting his copybook away, he had already checked it 5 times.
"Like video clip, we could play it behind us while we play"
"A video clip? Sounds cool" said Kevin smiling for the first time in the whole day "We could go running through the city naked"
"Okay, you run, I'll tape" said Matt in a tone that clearly said: "I'm not doing it"
"Maybe a choreography..." proposed Jean.
"I'm not going to become a regular Backstreet boy!" said Van angrily, it wasn't something new to know how much Van hated Pop music.
"Okay, okay... Maybe we could jump from a building and--" started Jean, but stopped seeing the faces of his band mates "It was just a suggestion..."
"This isn't going to work" said Van standing up form the chair he had been sitting on "What we need is a new song... just ONE"
"That's another great idea... I already have an idea for the lyrics! What about this..." said Jean. He cleared his throat to let an awful sound, that Matt recognized as Jean's voice, out. "He's so wonderful, he's so adorable, he's so intelligent, he's so beautiful, he's so sweet, he's so--"
"Let me guess, your planning to call the song 'Jean', right?" interrupted Kevin. Jean nodded proudly, while gigantic sweat drops appeared on the rest of the band's faces.
"I'm not going to sing that, it doesn't rhyme at all!" said Matt.
"There's only a guy who can write a song in a day" said Van quickly. He stared at Matt and smiled.
"Don't even look at me!" said Matt walking away from Van.
"Oh, come on... you're our last hope! The party is this Sunday!" said Van following him. Matt started running around Kevin's garage.
"No way!"
"Oh, come on" said Van running after him. Matt stopped just before crushing against Kevin's bicycle.
"All right, all right... I'll try..." he muttered.
Author's note: Thanks for reading! I really hope you like it! I'm kind of new in this entire writing world, so if you review please give me a few pointers.... Or something. Thanks again!