CHAPTER 2: The Dream.
Matt began to sweat all over. What the hell happened? He had not had that dream for many days now. In fact he had only had it for like a few weeks after the incident but after that he had gained control of himself. Maybe he was thinking a little too much about the incident these days. Or something was definitely going on….
It was 6:00 am at that time. He had to go for band practice at 8:00. He would maybe as well just get ready and leave. He was having an uncomfortable feeling. Within an hour he got ready grabbed his guitar and left the place leaving a note for the others who were still asleep.
As Matt drove through the road his thoughts again seemed to go back three years back. Something was not really fitting. Whoever kidnapped Mimi, why did he do so? All her clothes and shoes too had been missing. It was not like most kidnappings which were merely done for the sake of ransom money. But there hadn't been any such case regarding Mimi and her clothes were missing. This indicated that the assaulter had intended her to live with him. Could it possibly be one of Mimi's fan boys? No…. They couldn't possibly go that low….or could they? He shuddered to think if his theory was true what might be happening with Mimi.
With these thoughts he reached the old rented room which his band members and he were using for practicing. He noticed a car parked outside. It belonged to the second lead in his band….Derek. It was 7:15 exactly. What was he doing there so early? And well Derek was the last person he wanted to speak to at the moment. He did not really like Derek. He seemed to have too much of an attitude and Derek too did not really like Matt. The reason was quite unknown. The other three members thought that it was because Derek wanted to be the lead and it was jealousy. But Matt knew that was not the case since after Mimi's disappearance he had gone completely into his shell for a year. And in that state of depression he had wanted to quit the band and so had offered Derek to take his place as the lead singer and guitarist but Derek had refused saying he did not think that he wanted to be the lead singer for the band.
Matt shrugged. He did not want to sit in the car and it was very cold outside. The warmer in the car did not seem to be working or he was simply feeling a chilling feeling inside him. Whatever it was he did not exactly want to think about it so he got out of his car and made his way towards the room. On the door there was a paper stuck which said 'Teenage Wolves'. Matt did not exactly find the name appropriate since they were no longer teenagers and had wanted to change it but the others wanted to stick to it.
As he neared the door, Matt heard a loud thud. It seemed to come from the other end of the room. He quickly opened the door and reached in. He found Derek standing by the window. Derek had brown hair and brown eyes, the same color as Tai's but he looked nothing like Tai(and I do not say that just because of those wild hair). His eyes hardly ever twinkled. He even smiled rarely. He had a weird faraway look on his face. As if he is cruel….. T.K. had once said. And according to Davis he looked like Ogremon. True, Derek was about four or five years older than Matt and the other members but he looked at least twenty years older. The drummer, Kevin had actually introduced him to them. He was some distant cousin of his.
"What are you doing?" Matt said.
"Um…..standing." Derek said. Humor definitely did not suit him.
"I heard a noise. Like something fell with a great force. " Matt said putting down his guitar. He stared at him with narrowed eyes suspiciously just like a cop stares at a thief. Matt noticed Derek flinched a little at the mention of something falling.
"Um…..It was that chair." He pointed to an over turned chair lying there.
"I can't believe it was that wooden chair which made such an alarming noise by falling on a wooden floor."
"Well what else do you think it could be Matt?"
"You should know better, I suppose."
"Well, I don't, okay?"
Matt was about to open his mouth to say something else but just then the others came in and he thought better of it. Later he simply forgot about it. He had many other more important things on his mind anyway.
"What did she say, Sora?" Kari asked.
"She threw another fit. And then she cut the phone. Now she is not receiving my calls."
They were talking about Sora's mother.
"Why don't you go and see her." T.K. said.
"No, T.K. If I go I will not be able to return. I know it and I will end up spending my life as a florist just like she did. Why can't she understand that I have my own dreams and ambition and I don't want to work in a flower shop? I don't even know the names of half of those bloody flowers. I guess one of them is called Baby's Breath. Imagine! It appears more like Dragon's breath to me! And those roses make me think of some whirling pit! Yeah yeah yeah! I know I own the crest of love and all but why the hell do people need to express their love through roses! If someone doesn't give a girl roses it means that they don't love her! LOL! I hate does rosy rosy pictures anyways! And then there are those pansies! Ugh! And don't get me started on the carnations….."
"Whoa! Cool it!" Tai said exiting the game he was playing lying on the couch and getting up. "So much anger! I seriously wonder how you have gotten so far without having blood pressure problems. Oh God! You are all red in the face."
"I am in a good mood to commit a murder. You want to be the victim, Tai?" Sora said.
"Um….Drink some water." T.K. said thrusting the bottle of water towards her. Sora really could do anything in her temper.
"Thanks!" Sora said as she began to drink and then exhaling and inhaling slowly to calm herself.
Tai looked at her sadly. She had not been like that before. She had always been the motherly and caring figure but she slowly got more and more frustrated. Her mother made her that. She had become short tempered. Sora and temper were two words which simply never went together but now they walked hand in hand. He would sometimes see the old Sora when they would play soccer or when they would laugh and talk i.e. when she forgot about her troubles. Tai so much wished he could do something for his friend but in this case all he could do was give her moral support. She had to do the rest on her own. Probably if he talked to her mother, Sora might be caged for all he knew. He didn't know why but she always seemed to hate him and he had not even done anything to her!
"Sora! You need to deal with all this calmly and coolly. It is not going to help if you get all hot and bothered like that." Tai said in a more serious tone this time.
Sora nodded. "Yeah! Sorry guys. Sometimes my temper gets the better of me."
Kari leaned forward and hugged Sora.
This is Sora. The real Sora. Behind all that anger and fits and all that she is still somewhere deep underneath the caring and sweet girl she used to be. Tai thought.
Just then the door opened and Matt stormed in. He always seemed to make an entrance. He placed his guitar somewhere in a corner and sat down with the others.
"All okay Matt?" Kari said.
"I had the dream again." He said.
There was dead silence for a minute. You could even hear the ticking of the clock.
After a minute of uncomfortable silence Tai finally opened his mouth. "But….you have not had that for years now."
"I know… Maybe I was thinking too much about it….."
"Was it exactly the same Matt? I mean Mimi screaming in the darkness…." Sora said.
The dream began to come back to Matt. Mimi used to call out his name loud and she seemed to be in a dark as night background of some sort but this time it had been somewhat different…
"Not exactly the same."
"What was the difference?" T.K. asked. He sometimes really got worried about his brother. He somehow had not gotten over Mimi like everyone else had. Even Mimi's parents had moved on and were living life, they could not exactly be called happy but they were definitely better than his brother. He was really clinging on to the past…..badly.
"This time she was in a room. A hotel room of some kind and as usual she was screaming for help….my help." Matt swallowed hard. He did not want to cry in front of everybody. "I know you guys don't believe that she is alive….but I do and….."
"Matt, I believe she is there." Sora said.
"Huh…" Matt said.
"I do. I just so wish I had been there that night. Probably it is my conscience but I just somehow can't imagine Mimi…." Sora paused. She was struggling to say the word. Finally she did. "…..dead."
"I don't know what I believe but I will definitely help you if there is any chance that Mimi is alive and we can find her." T.K. said.
"Me too. It'd be the best thing that can happen if we do get Mimi back." Tai said.
"Unanimous!" Kari said.
"You mean you guys will actually help me look for her?" Matt said.
All four nodded their hands. Though besides Matt only Sora believed that Mimi was still alive. Tai, Kari and T.K. were really not sure about what they believed but since Matt was so apt for trying, it would not hurt to try since they had not really done much the last time.
"So…Mission Mimi begins!" Tai said.
So how was it? This one won't be as long as 'Roses and Thorns' somewhere like 6 or 7 chapters and I'm posting another story today. It is not very romantic but it will only be a 3 chapter story. It is about a prank and will have some Taiora and Mimato. Do check it out! And don't forget to review!
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