Sunrise333: Oh well, this is really hard for me to say after writing this fic, but I…I…I own Digimon! Gee, was I glad to get that one out.
Readers: Boo (throwing rotten tomatoes at me)!
Sunrise333: Too bad, I'm not going to say that I don't own Digimon. It's mine, mine and mine only!
Readers: Oh well, look who's here before you say another word!
Sunrise333: Oh no, it's the police. What am I gonna do?
Readers: Admit that you don't own Digimon!
Sunrise333: Fine, fine, fine. I don't own Digimon! Are you happy now?
Police: No, not yet. You have forgotten something else, I believe.
Sunrise333: Grr! You are so observant. Can't I bribe you? No? Oh well, I guess you can't have everything in life. The stunning album 'Fallen' by Evanescence doesn't belong to me. At all. The only thing I own is my laptop and the idea of this story.
Police: Have you got anything else to say?
Sunrise333: Yes, of course. I changed the title because I wasn't very happy with the way my last story was going. My stupid laptop also couldn't load the story the day I changed the title! So, here's the Chapter One of Fallen. All chapters will be based on the song found in there. I've just tied up some loose ends. Currently, I'm halfway through Chapter two. Hopefully, you guys will keep your eyes peeled for that. Sora fans, sorry, there are some character-bashing here. Truth is, I have nothing against Sora. but in every story, someone has got to be the antagonist. Anyway, happy reading and don't forget to give some feed backs since I want to better my stories.
N/A: Mimi, Yamato, Taichi, and Sora are sixteen in this fic. Miyako is in the same class as Mimi, Yamato, Taichi and Sora in this fic. Btw, I know this may sound freaky, but in since this is my fic, Hikari is Mimi's cousin and is OLDER than her. T.K. is a year older than Kari and is not related to Yamato. Sorry for the complication it may cause. :p
Introduction
I am Tachikawa Mimi, a girl who cannot recognize anyone. I feel friendless. You all know me? Why don't I? This is me, I suffer from a disease that disables me from thinking perfectly because of a road accident. The accident occurred because I ran across the road while crying…crying because my good friend received my rival's love. However, all that has become a memory, which I must forget. From now on, I must hang on with the bit of love that I used to ignore. A new life is waiting for me.
End of Introduction
Inside the furthest room of the Tashikawa residence, there stood a young girl. She had a pale, lovely Madonna face and bright cinnamon eyes that reflected the light shining from the ceiling. This young lady had lush pink hair highlighted with yellow stars and she couldn't have been older than seventeen. The wrinkles of concentration on her face though, made her look a tad older. In her hand, she was gripping a picture frame tightly.
"Who could this be?" she thought to herself, unable to remember anyone by the likes of the girl in the picture. The girl in the picture looked exactly like her except for her hair, which was light brown. "No matter how hard I tried, I still can't remember," she put the picture frame back on a small, wooden table and walked out of the house. "Oh my headache," she groaned slightly as the excruciating pain returned.
"I think you should go home now," she heard someone say from behind her. In surprise, she turned around and came face to face with a tall stranger. He had lovely chocolate eyes and a very thick bush of wild hair. However, he wasn't talking to her. Instead, he was talking to another girl who looked very near tears. "But I want to hear your answer," said the girl with the shoulder length auburn hair. She was looking at the boy with glassy, hopeful eyes.
"Like I said, there's someone else I like," he replied softly, "our relationship has ended." The auburn-haired girl seemed rather stunned. "You're so mean. On this Valentine Day, I've tried to mend our friendship," she half-screamed at him, choking back tears. As though sensing the uncomfortable tension that had settled in the air, the boy said in a pleading tone, "Please go home." Finally crumbling under her sadness, the auburn-haired girl burst into tears and started running away, but not before shouting, "I hate you, Kamiya!"
Wanting to comfort his neighbour, the pink-haired girl looked over the fence and quipped cheerfully, "Fighting, huh?" The boy looked at her in shock, as though not believing what he was seeing. "Mimi, since when were you discharged from the hospital?" he asked in pure shock. "Eh, you know me? Do I know you?" Mimi asked, clearly very confused. "What are you talking about, Mimi? I am Tai, your neighbour since young. Surely you recognize me," Tai replied in a disbelieving voice.
"There you go," Mimi said as she pushed a steaming cup of coffee towards Tai. "I'm really sorry. Just now, I really couldn't recognize you," she continued with a small smile. "Don't confuse me, Mimi. You're not serious, are you?" Tai questioned, still not believing the things Mimi had said. "I'm serious, this is my condition," Mimi tried to convince Tai, "One of the nerves in my brain cannot function in recognizing faces."
"What?" Tai exclaimed, only half-believing Mimi's words, "but as far as I know, you were alright when I visited you." Looking down in worry, Mimi then replied, "After you visited me, I went into a coma. My mother wanted to tell her but I told her not to." After pausing for a while, Mimi smiled at Tai and said slowly, "I don't want you to be unhappy because of me. I want you to continue smiling even without me."
"So once again, please forgive me," Mimi apologized once more. "A…alright," Tai said skeptically. "It's already 7, I'd better go home," Tai got up slowly and walked to the door. "Tai," he heard his name being called before he could put on his shoes. "What is it?" he said in slight irritation. "Please don't tell our classmates about my disease and please mention your name before you talk to me. Otherwise I won't recognize you," Mimi asked Tai in an apologetic tone.
After Tai had closed the door, Mimi let out a huge sigh. Finally, she decided to go to sleep for tomorrow was going to be a very long day.
The next morning
"Mom, I'm leaving," Mimi called out to her mother as she picked up her schoolbag. While she was putting on her shoes, her mother asked worriedly, "Mimi, should I send you?" Smiling in amusement at her mother's over-protectiveness, Mimi shook her head. "Don't worry, I'll be fine," she assured her mother. "If you don't feel well, ask Tai to walk you home!" Mrs. Tachikawa yelled to her daughter's diminishing form. Unbeknownst to her, her little piece of advice had sent a blush onto Mimi's cheeks.
Friendly 'good mornings' were exchanged all around the white-washed building as Mimi stepped into Odaiba High School. Feeling like a cat on hot bricks, she entered her classroom and greeted all her friends, remembering her mother's sound piece of advice.
Flashback
"Remember, Mimi, everyone in the school is you friend. Don't ask for their names, or they'll think you are a freak," Mrs. Tachikawa had warned her daughter during breakfast.
End Flashback
"Mimi!" a violet-haired girl with glasses yelled in jubilee, "At last, you're back." Everyone soon gathered round Mimi and started hugging and welcoming her back. As Mimi looked at her classmates, she felt nausea of recognition. She finally remembered…the violet-haired girl was Miyako, her best friend, while she recognized the rest as her classmates. How happy she felt to be able to recognize all her good friends.
"Why didn't you tell me you've been discharged from the hospital?" Mimi heard a deep, masculine voice from behind her. "Eh, Romeo has arrived," Miyako said teasingly, winking at Mimi. Turning around, she wondered who the stranger was. He had spiky golden brown hair and mesmerizing, sapphire eyes that you could stare at for hours. "Who could this be?" she questioned herself, "he looked so familiar."
"Mimi, why do you look so amazed?" Miyako, ever the chatterbox, started speaking again, "Don't pull that face in front of your boyfriend." Apparently she wasn't done prattling yet, "While you weren't around, he was sad, you know." The word 'boyfriend' triggered a memory in Mimi's mind. She remembered who the blonde was – Matt Ishida, the guy she was dating and the guy she lo…
"Mimi, you haven't forgotten me, right?" Matt's voice broke her out of her trance. Looking up, she saw that Matt had a worried face, a very rare thing for 'Mr. Cool Cucumber'. She couldn't help but think of how adorable he looked. While looking down, she saw a sight that nearly made her heart stop. "Oh my gosh, what happened to your hand?" she exclaimed as she grabbed hold of Matt's bandaged right hand.
"Oh nothing, don't worry," Matt tried to shrug it off. "Don't lie, Matt," Miyako chirped suddenly "His hand is injured because he had punched a mirror. He did it because your mother forbid him to visit you in the hospital." Mimi started trembling in horror. Was her mother the cause of it? Was SHE? "Is that right?" she asked in a small voice to Matt who was looking away uneasily.
Fortunately, he did not need to answer. "Good morning," Tai greeted Mimi as he entered the classroom. "Morning," Mimi replied, focusing her attention on Tai for a split moment. "What was that?" Matt grumbled and walked away as Tai started talking to Mimi.
Later, during P.E.
"Strange. Mimi, the monster class, is not in P.E.," Sora remarked, trying to spot the pink-haired girl. "Not monster, but mother," her good friend, Riana corrected her. "It's up to me, big mouth!" Sora yelled angrily at Riana. "Since she just recovered, she is allowed to skip P.E.," Riana continued, ignoring Sora's recent outburst. "I hope he isn't with Tai," Sora thought.
In the school's ward
"There, done," Mimi said in satisfaction as she redressed Matt's wound. Listen, I want to apologize after this. Next time, don't do it again," Mimi said with a pleading smile on her face. "With that face, I can never refuse, Mims," Matt said as he inched closer and closer. "Thank you, I'm really glad," he said unexpectedly, surprising Mimi very much. "Although I couldn't visit, at least you still care for me," Matt confided in Mimi, opening up a little bit more "I thought no one cared for me anymore."
As Mimi put her arms around Matt to comfort him, she thought that he had really changed. Whereas he used to be extremely secretive and aloof, he had let her in and now, he was a little bit more open towards her, instead of keeping his emotions bottled up in him. Hugging him more tightly, she realized how much she had grown to love him.
After the school ended
Uncertainly, Mimi walked out of the school alone because Matt had band practice that day. "Mimi," she heard someone call out to her. Turning around she met with a boy he did not recognize. "Ye…Yes?" she said nervously. "Aha! So my guess was correct," he said gleefully, "Your strange disease was only your imagination." Not noticing the hurt look on her face, he continued, "You still recognized your friends and I, right?"
"What are you talking about?" Mimi cried, flying off the handle, "You come here and say confusing things!" Suddenly, she felt a shot of pain on her head. "I'm going. Bye!" she said coldly and ran off. The boy (read: Tai) wasn't done, apparently. "Hey, I haven't finished!" he yelled, "later, I'll go to your house. Unbeknownst to either of them, Sora Takenouchi was listening and hanging on to every single word.
Without realizing it, her feet had brought her to the hospital where her mother usually sent her for therapy. "Mimi!" she heard her name being called. A nurse with chocolate eyes and short, brown hair, whom she couldn't recognize, was running towards her. Stopping in front of her, she paused and panted for a while. After catching her breath, she looked at her watched and said, "Eh? It's time," she said, "After this, I must get back to work."
"Come on," she said, grabbing Kari's hand and pulling her. An alarm bell rang in Mimi's mind as she struggled to free herself from the nurse's vice-like grip. "Where is this nurse taking me? I do NOT recognize her!" she let out a small scream in her mind. "LET ME GO!" she bellowed. Swerving her head round, the nurse stared in shock at the sight. "Mimi!" she let out a strangled cry. For at that moment, Tachikawa Mimi was lying on the floor in a crumpled mess, dead to the world.
End of Chapter 1
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