Nothing!
There was simply nothing going on the room. All of them were exhaling and inhaling slowly and slowly. Their hearts were beating very fast. Their reflexes were not yet accepting the fact that they were in serious danger. They were facing a lack of words at the moment. Mimi felt as if she might faint. They were stunned from what had just passed.
"OK will someone say something?" Tai said.
"How 'bout 'we are totally screwed'" Matt said.
"Listen…..Could that guy have played our trick back on us." Sora said.
"Meaning?" Tai said.
"I mean just to pay us back he hoax called us." Sora said.
"Hey that is a possibility." Mimi said. "Maybe he really did not have a son or his son was home if he did."
They all saw a gleam of hope and began to feel better. There were sighs of relief.
"Yeah! And besides he did not tell us the location or anything. He must have been kidding us." Matt said wiping drops of perspiration from his forehead.
"Huh…For a moment I thought…" Mimi shook her head. "We should have listened to you Sora."
"Well all I know is that I am never playing this game again." Tai said.
"Yeah…" Matt said. "OK guys so will you all stay tonight?"
"Eagerly." Mimi said winking at Matt.
"Alright." Tai said.
Sora nodded.
"So….." Mimi said playfully looking at Matt.
"Don't tell me you're bored again." Matt said.
"What if I say I am?"
"Are you?"
"Yes! I am!"
She swept forward and kissed him. Her pink dyed hair tickled Matt's face and he laughed.
"What?" She said.
"Your hair smells good. " Matt said. "By the way when are you letting them get natural again."
"You don't like it as it is now?" Mimi said looking a little hurt.
"No. I was just asking. You draw conclusions a little too fast Meems." He said playing with her. 'But aren't you over obsessed with pink?"
"I love pink." Mimi said making a face.
"Wow! That face will make even Jun look good!"
"MATT!"
"Sorry!"
"By the way Matt, did she really break into your house the day before school closed?"
Matt looked alarmed suddenly. "Wh…How did you know?"
"Did she?"
"Um…..yeah. Dad left a window open and she jumped in."
Mimi suddenly laughed imagining Jun jump into Matt's house like a burglar then got serious again.
"So what did she do?"
"Well she made her way to my room. I was in a deep sleep. Then she started to shake me up. I was only semi conscious and then to see somebody who actually looks like a red haired Medusa shaking you up like hell. I thought somebody was about to strangle me to death or something like that…Oh come on I was half asleep you can pass that on. I almost screamed then I realized that it was Jun! And I was like 'What the hell are you doing?' and then her reply was 'But Mattie.' I wish she'll stop calling me that. "You ignored me all day….' Then I said 'So you come trouble me at night Jun?' Then she made that stupid face of her. I wonder when she is going to learn that emotional blackmail doesn't work on me. Then she was just about to settle down in my room but I could not have taken that and grabbed her and literally kicked her out though I would have liked to throw her down the window she entered by but I abstained from doing so. Anyway she was almost in tears and I shut the door at her face."
Mimi had tears in her eyes from laughing.
"And what more? I thought that after my impudence she will quit following me like a dog with a wagging tail but that girl seems to have not even 0.1% self respect." Matt rolled his eyes. "Well how did you know? Please please don't say she is going about the whole school saying she broke into my house!"
"No! Davis told me. He reads her personal diary you know!"
"What else did he say?"
"He told me that her diary has your name more than it has thes and ises."
"She seriously creeps me out sometimes. It feels as if she is stalking me sometimes! Don't you think she would fit in as the fourth witch of Macbeth?"
"Matt…"
"Yeah?"
"I wanted to ask you…about something you said."
"Hmm?"
"Emotions have no effect on you?"
"No No No! I meant blackmail. The kind which Jun puts on! How can you even compare her to yourself! You know my entire life comes to a standstill if you shed even a tear."
"Yeah Sorry!"
Matt pulled her very close to himself abruptly. He did it so suddenly that it caused Mimi to give a loud gasp.
"Aw….if you get that scared from me then what would you have done with Johnny!" Matt said kissing her neck and lips. Mimi nuzzled her face into his shoulder.
"It is not a joking matter Matt. It could have been serious."
"It is serious!" Tai's voice came from behind them causing Matt and Mimi to jump apart.
"There is something called knocking man!" Matt said.
"You will forget all about etiquette once you hear this." Tai said entering Matt's room.
Flashback
Tai and Sora were sitting in the Ishida's living room. Actually Tai was sitting and Sora was partially sitting and partially lying with her head settled on Tai's chest.
"You really got to change that perfume Tai." Sora said.
"Aw…..I love it."
Sora pouted.
"But not as much as I love you." He said and kissed the pout.
"That's so sweet Tai." Sora said petting Tai's cheek too lazy to actually get up.
Tai winked.
"So what else do you love me more than?"
"Everything." Tai said. "There is nothing compared to you and I love nothing more than you." Tai winked at her again.
"Oh you are too cute." She said pulling his cheek.
"Hey! Don't do that. Cute?"
"You can act like a hunk as much as you want but to me you are out rightly cute."
"Not as cute as you!"
"OK now stop flirting with me."
"I am not flirting with you baby. I am flattering you."
"Whatever!"
"Flirting is what you were doing with that guy." Tai continued.
"Which awoke the J Factor in you?"
"No way! I was not jealous."
"Oh yes you were!"
"Was not!"
"I could see it in your eyes and you said so yourself that you were upset."
"Um…" Tai was caught off guard. "Alright I was upset but that doesn't mean I was jealous."
"Oh so why were you upset?"
"'Cause that guy was flirting with my girlfriend."
"That is upset with jealous."
"Is not!"
"Is too." Sora said gently getting up and kissing Tai on the lips. 'Admit it." She whispered. "I like it. That really shows how much you care for me."
"Yes I was."
Sora smiled "I knew it. By the way I am wondering what that guy must be doing presently at the club."
"Serves him right to make a fool of himself." Tai said rolling his eyes.
"Aw..Tai."
"Don't pull my cheek again." He said catching her hand which was about to reach his cheeks and kissed her knuckles.
"Mean…"
"No!" Tai said and grabbed her. She tried to escape and succeeded and ran away from him. Tai immediately jumped up and followed her. After running almost all around the living room, Sora finally collapsed on the sofa and Tai jumped over her and grabbed her again. This time Sora made no effect to run away. He brought his lips close to hers and they were just about to meet when all of a sudden the phone rang.
Tai and Sora were alarmed.
"Whoa! The phone is really a scary thing to me." Sora said nervously.
"MA….." Tai was about to scream for Matt when he was cut short by a yell from Sora.
"Tai!" She gasped and pointed towards the phone. He leaned over her and saw the caller I.D. "Its him…."
Tai swallowed hard and clicked the speaker button. "H…Hello."
"Arranged the money." His voice sent a chill down both of their spines. Tai inhaled sharply.
"Look. Mr. Johnny. I told you before we are just kids. High school students. We were kidding around."
"I don't believe you." He said sharply.
Sora clutched at Tai's hands frightened by his sharp tone but she somehow found her voice and said "But we are high school students. How can we kidnap somebody? We are just teenagers."
"What teenagers today can do, I know very well." The man said in his booming voice.
"Tomorrow."
"What tomorrow?"Tai shook his head. Why the hell did his voice have to quiver at this time of all times?
"I will meet you boy! See you!"
Dead tone in the back ground.
"What now Tai?" Sora looked at him fear in her eyes.
"I will go call Matt and Mimi and then let's see what'll happen." Even Tai was unable to hide the fear creeping in his eyes.
End of flashback
Tai narrated the entire episode minus the part about him and Sora making out and their talks of course!
"Oh crap!" Matt said.
Mimi was clutching Matt's hand. "What now?" She said.
"Come down. Let's think about it." Tai said.
Sora looked up as the others joined her in the living room. They all sat down staring in different directions not knowing what to do. Mimi was on the verge of tears, she buried her face into Matt's shoulder to keep from crying.
Then the door bell rang and all of them jumped out of their skins.
"What the hell!" Matt said.
"Johnny said he will meet us soon." Sora said her red eyes wide. Tai pulled her close to himself.
"He traced our address….." Matt said.
The door bell rang again causing them to almost fall over.
"We'll have to see. We just can't sit here waiting for him to break the door or something." Tai said. The others nodded. They all slowly left their comfortable positions on the sofa. All of them moved cautiously towards the door in the midst of which the doorbell rang again causing them Tai who was right in front to stop abruptly and everyone behind him to bang straight into him. Sora almost fell over but Tai quickly caught her.
"Tai…." Matt groaned.
"Sorry." Tai gave him a pathetic look.
The doorbell rang a fourth time and all of them jumped again. They finally made it to the door. Tai was about to open it but Matt hissed at him "Check through the eye hole first." Tai nodded and looked out. He then heaved a sigh of relief.
"It's your father Matt." Tai said.
All of them exhaled with relief. Matt made his way to the front and opened the door.
"What were you doing?" His father said. Then he saw Tai, Sora and Mimi. "Oh! Hi kids!" They were so in a daze that they forgot to reply. "Why did you all take so long to open the door? What happened you all are sweating?"
Reflexively all their hands went to their fore heads. They were really sweating badly as if somebody had thrown a bucket of water all over him.
"Um….you see Mr. Ishida we were….uh we were….." Tai said.
"Playing Tag!" Matt added.
"Tag?" Mr. Ishida said looking amused.
"Actually you see Dad Tai wanted to remember the good old days." Matt said.
"What…." Tai received a kick from Sora.
"Yes so we were running about the whole house and that is why we are sweating so badly. You see it is so hot Mr. Ishida." Sora said.
"And we got so engrossed in it that we did not hear the doorbell." Mimi said.
"Oh…..um great. Are you all staying?" Mr. Ishida said.
"They are Dad." Matt said. "Oh and you don't need to worry about dinner we have ordered pizza."
"Alright. Have fun." Mr. Ishida said moving up into his room.
All four of them flopped down on the sofa. "Phew…" Matt said wiping the drops of sweat on his forehead.
"Wait it isn't phew for you as yet!" Tai said. "Why the hell did you have to say that it was my idea to play tag?"
"Aw come on Tai we have bigger problems than that, don't we?"
"We'll see about that later. But seriously why me?"
"Well I suppose that talk about tag when I asked you if you want to play that was still roaming in my head and I just blurted out whatever came in my head! We couldn't have let Dad know about what we had actually done and who we were thinking he is!"
"You could have said it was anyone's idea!"
"I told you I was not thinking! And anyways what does it matter? He will forget about it in a few minutes, I assure you. You are acting as if I went on stage and announced that on the mike! Dude chill!"
Tai was about to say something else but the doorbell rang again.
"What now?" Mimi said.
"It'll be the pizza boy guys. Come on!" Sora said and she got up before anyone could say anything and made her way to the door. She was being a bit more practical than the others in any case. She opened the door without thinking and turned to face the others. "It is the pizza boy." She said pointedly.
After they had paid the bill and had all settled down in the living room they began to discuss the topic which had come like a storm in their lives.
"Is it not possible that he is still kidding?" Mimi said.
"That would be too much of a hope. He sounded very serious and maybe it would have passed for the first time that he was playing our own game on us but this time he did mean business." Tai said.
"What now?" Sora said.
Everyone was silent. Nobody had the least idea what to do about this. Finally Tai broke the silence.
"Come on! We just can't sit like this!"
"Well then give us some brilliant idea Mr. Know-It-All-Leader." Matt said.
A heated argument was about to begin between Tai and Matt but then the phone rang again startling everyone.
Matt looked at the caller I.D. "Um…Sora it is the guy whom you called."
Sora rolled her eyes. "He must be waiting at the club." Sora said pressing the speaker button. "Hello?"
"Hey Chick you did not come! You cheated with me."
"I have a boyfriend and I am not coming to meet you so goodbye Mr. Whatever." Sora said cutting off the phone.
"Whoa! Mood swing Sora?" Matt said.
"I was in no mood to deal with him." Sora said.
The phone rang again. "Um….It is him again." Matt said.
"I'll deal off with him." Tai said pressing the speaker button.
"Hey Chickie."
"Listen you don't you dare call here again. I am warning you."
"But dude I am at the club by the lake."
"Then go jump in the lake and don't call again or else you've had it." Tai cut off the phone.
"Aw…..I am never going to do this again." Mimi said moaning.
"Who is?" Tai said.
The phone rang again. "Bloody hell! It is him again!" Matt said.
"Damn It!" Sora banged the phone hard and suddenly it stopped ringing. "Oops!"
Matt picked up the phone receiver. Nothing. It was dead.
"Sorry Matt. I just lost it out there." Sora said.
"It's alright at least that Johnny won't be calling us anymore."
Mr. Ishida came out of his room just then. He picked up the phone.
"Dead?"
"Yeah Dad." Matt said.
"How? I had to make an important call."
"What happened to your cell phone?"
"No charging."
"As usual." Matt whispered.
"Well I will go charge it." He went back into his room. 'And I will call the telephone man today also."
Their eyes widened.
"But isn't it too late Dad?" Matt called.
"They have late night services." He called back.
Matt slapped his head. "Why can't he ever charge his phone?"
"Listen why do we want our phone dead to ignore his calls. We can ignore them just like that." Tai said.
"And how do you plan to ignore them 'just like that'?" Matt said.
"Let's not pick his calls. He will get tired of trying." Tai said.
"Oh." Matt said.
"It is a good idea." Mimi said. Sora nodded.
"Great!" They began to feel a little better. They ate the pizza and began to behave and feel a little normal.
They all were watching T.V. which was in the living room again when the doorbell rang. This time Mr. Ishida opened the door. None of them bothered to look up.
"Yes?" Mr. Ishida said.
"Hello Sir."
That voice…..it made them all snap up their heads and turn to look at the door. The man on the door was a bulky kind of man very muscular and strong looking. He had a rusty brown hair color with bloodshot eyes brown colored. In short he was a scary looking man. The typical villain from the movies.
"I am from the phone repair company. My name is Johnny."
So what do you think Johnny will do now? Review! And yeah sorry to all Jun fans it's just that I have developed a sudden hating for Jun! I meant to put this up long back but my laptop crashed. I was really worried that I will lose this and I worked for a week on this. I will post the chapter for the other story soon. It is all ready in my head I only have to write it.
Ilovemattishida; Thanks! Sorry about that! I'll try to work on it!
Mimatolove; Thanks! Yeah! It is from 3 idiots. I plan to write a one shot based on one of its scenes also.
Missylea; Thanks!
