Author's Notes: For anyone reading "It Happened One Night" I'm currently working on the next chapter, and it should be up sometime this week, sorry for the long wait.
This fic is going to be Mimato, with Taiora, and possibly some other couples.
finally, I looked the prolgoue over and decided to edit it a bit; nothing major I just added some more information to scenes.
Prologue: That's Going to Leave a Mark
He was having a completely shit day.
His brother was being an ass, because some girl he was mildly interested rejected him and was moping around the apartment instead of just sucking it up. Takeru had bit his head off when he tried to be understanding like a good brother, and everything went downhill from there. His homeroom teacher had yelled at him for being late, Sora had to go home early because she had felt sick, he was pretty sure he'd failed a test, and he had gotten into an argument with one of his band mates.
All in all, a crappy day.
He just wanted to go order some pizza, hole himself up in his room, and play Mass Effect for the fifth time. He was in no mood to interact with people and if he didn't lock himself in his room soon he was going to chew out the first unlucky person he came into contact with. So of freaking course, as soon as he reached his apartment door, the next door neighbors' door swung open to reveal quite the spectacle.
He smirked. Oh this was just too perfect.
Stalking out of the apartment was the captain of the cheerleaders herself, Mimi Tachikawa. Her normally beautiful face was contorted with fury and she twisted herself away from the blond boy who had tried to grab her arm.
"I'm done with you."
The boy tried to argue, "But, Mimi-"
"I don't want to hear your excuses! We're through!"
His smirk had widened with that and he moved to talk Mimi as she walked past him.
"What's wrong Tachikawa, did he forget to give you flowers or something?"
She glared viciously at him. "Ishida, not now."
"Ah, you and your jock boyfriend were so cute too. How will the school get over your break up?"
"I'm warning you. Back off."
She sounded on the edge, which made him smirk more. His day was complete shit, he was in a crappy mood, and he'd be damned if he didn't spread it around to one of the popular kids who had everything come too easily to them. So when she moved to continue walking, he said, "Or what?"
He was being an asshole, he'd admit that, but he was beyond caring at that point. Besides it wasn't like she was going to do anything to him.
So it came as a complete shock to him when her fist crashed into his face.
"Shit," he hissed out, clutching his eye. Mimi just made a disgusted sounding snort and stalked off.
Fuck, when did the head cheerleader get such a great left hook?
Early the next day, he went to visit Sora to see how she was doing, and to get his mind off the punch he had gotten. That, however, ended up as a false hope as the first thing Sora said when she opened her door was: "How'd you get a black eye?"
He groaned but he eventually gave in and told her the story after they went to sit in the kitchen. Sora, though she was sympathetic, commented, "I'm not saying she was right to hit you, she wasn't, but you have to admit you were kind of a bastard to her."
He glowered. "She gave me a black eye!"
Across the table from him, Sora arched an eyebrow. "And you didn't provoke her in any way? She just decided to punch you for the hell of it. I mean it couldn't be because of anything you said."
Sora didn't know Mimi very well, she mostly just interacted with her through Taichi and Hikari, but she met her enough times to know that this display of violence wasn't in-character for her.
He flinched at her sarcasm, but he couldn't deflect her jab. To be honest, he'd been feeling slightly guilty for the things he'd said to her, but only slightly…after all, she had still been the one to give him a black eye.
"You know," continued Sora after he didn't say anything, "Hikari told me that this was the second time Mimi's ex cheated on her. She let it go the first time, because he said he got drunk at a house party, but she wasn't putting up with his excuses after the second time."
He felt a weight settle at the bottom of his stomach and felt like a complete asshole.
To his surprise Mimi was standing outside his door. They spotted each other at the exact same time and she gasped, "I actually gave you a black eye," while he blurted out, "You're not going to punch me again are you?"
He was ready for her this time. Last time, she had the benefit of surprise but he was sure he could be fast enough to either block her hit or duck out of the way.
She stared at him. "No," she exhaled slowly. "I wanted to apologize."
He blinked and awkwardly said, "It's fine."
She shot him a "yeah, right" expression and he continued, "I was having a bad day and I took it out on you. It was a shitty thing to do and I'm sorry." He still wasn't completely fine with her punching him, but he could admit that he'd been a jerk to her.
She sighed. "I appreciate that, but I shouldn't have hit you, even though you were being a huge jerk. It was immature and I just wanted to say sorry."
He nodded. "Apology accepted."
She had passed him when he called out to her, "For what it's worth, I'm sorry your ex was an asshole."
Her lips twitched as if she was fighting a smile. "Thanks."
That was that. They'd acknowledge each other in the hallways but neither of them felt compelled to interact beyond that for the rest of the school year, even before and after graduation.
Summer was going to be a different story, however.
Author's Notes: That was the prologue. The next chapter should be coming soon, and will see the introduction of more characters, like Taichi.
Constructive criticism is accepted.
