Aunt Mimi,

Mom says that she wants to kill daddy? Should I be worried? Dad says that mom's just in a bad mood because she doesn't feel well but she looks like she means it sometimes.

I told mom that I wanted to be a model and she said that I could do that if that was my dream. Then she told me the one time that she modeled with you. She showed me some pictures to. You looked really pretty. Did you really wear all that stuff in the middle of winter?

Mimi

Mimi read her godchild's e-mail with a smile on her face. She picked up her coffee cup and took a sip as she pressed the reply button.

She thought about all of her boyfriends that she had had over the years. She thought about all the clothes that were in her closet, and all the makeup sitting in her bathroom, but when she thought about her bare cupboards and the fact that she didn't have a lot of friends because she spent so much time traveling.

If Mini Mimi wanted to be a model she would be the first one to help her get her break, but no matter how glamorous it seemed she didn't really want her godchild in the kind of life that she had. It was hard to be a kid when you thought that getting everything you wanted was the way of the world.

Mini Mimi,

Wearing shorts in the winter is nothing. You have a diet all of the time and you don't have a lot of time to do the fun stuff. If you want me to be really honest my dream wasn't to be a model when I was your age. When I was younger I wanted to be a teacher like your dad, but then someone told me that I would make a really good model and before I knew it I was on the cover of magazines.

Think about it some more, little stuff. It's a fun job. It's one that you could have now if you wanted, but it's hardly as fun as it seems.

Mimi

Mimi walked away from her computer and thought about that fact that in a couple of months she was going to be walking away from the only thing she had ever done to go back home. She hadn't told anyone but she was retiring from modeling. The only one that knew was her agent, and he was doing his damndest to change her mind.
Mimi's agent made as much money because he had her and she was well aware of it, but she decided that she was going to quit for her because the truth was that she didn't want to be a model. In middle school it had been a lot of fun to have a career and have a lot of stories to tell about work. She loved being on the cover of magazines and that people recognized her and wanted her autograph.

However with age came some wisdom, and the truth was that while there were some really cool things that came with being a model, they were mostly material and they didn't keep her happy. She wanted a house, a husband, and kids and she wasn't going to find that in the life she was in now. Models didn't stay married. Models didn't have kids because it gave them stretch marks. Models didn't have a life.

No one likes you when you're a model. They're either jealous of your life or they're intimidated. Not to mention it's impossible to keep up a friendship because you're always working. But most of the most annoying thing about being a model was that your friends always expected you to be someone that you're not. Mimi was a person she wasn't a model in real life. Sometimes she didn't want to put on makeup and do her hair perfectly. Sometimes she didn't want to match. A t-shirt and jeans sounded really good sometimes, but no one wanted to see her like that.

Well except Otani. No one ever wanted to see the real her but Otani, which was ironic because he was the last person she would have ever shown her real side when she was younger. She wanted to be perfect for him so he would see how perfect they were together. And then Risa had shown up and she had been someone that Mimi had hated instantly just for the fact that she had what was never Mimi's.

Mimi wasn't in love with Otani any longer but she liked the idea of being with a guy like him. The problem was that she couldn't find another guy like him. Not in her life at least. She walked out of the door to her huge apartment and dreamed of home and thought to herself that she would give up everything she had just to have a family of her own to come home to.

Fourteen hours later Mimi let herself into her apartment and greeted the dark hollow apartment with depression. After a long day like today she really wanted someone to greet her at the door after a long day, but she didn't have the time for a dog and the last boyfriend had been enough of a nightmare that she was off men for awhile

She had greeted him in her bedroom with another woman in their bed. Her ex-boyfriend had found out what a lamp shade to the head had felt like.

She had found out how the story looked on the front cover of dozens of tabloids and then she had to explain herself to her M&M. It turned out that her life made it all the way across countries now that there was internet.

Damn it.

She liked being a good example to Mimi but not if it meant that she couldn't give her scummy ex-boyfriend what was coming to him. Lucky for her, Risa had been on her side and told her that she would explain it to her daughter and to do what she had to do.

Go Risa.

Aunt Mimi,

Mommy went to the doctor today and we got to see a picture of the baby in her tummy. It was really cool and it looked like dad wanted to cry. It was so embarrassing! Mai locked herself in the bathroom in the doctor's office and someone had to get a key to get her out. She's a pain in the butt but it was still funny. Mai pouted all the way home. Mom kept looking at the picture that the doctor took and dad said that he was going to take all the doors off the house if Mimi didn't stop locking herself in rooms.

Just a normal day.

Mimi

P.S.

DON'T call me Mini Mimi.

Mini Mimi

I'll call you whatever I feel like short stuff. Be lucky you're not tall like your mom and me.

Aunt Mimi

Atsushi,

You CRIED! That's so cute.

Mimi

Mimi,

Shut up. I'll block you. Don't think I won't. I'm getting enough of it at home. Oh and since my daughter tells you everything I figure you already know that Mai locked herself in another room, this time it was in the doctor's office.

I took the door off her bedroom, but she just locked herself in the bathroom. For obvious reasons the bathroom door stays. Risa laughed to so hard that she almost fell over. I don't know why I bother.

Atsuhi

Mimi almost spit out her drink. She snickered while she hit reply.

Atsushi,

That's impressive parenting there.

Mimi

Mimi,

You'll be happy to know that I solved the problem in a ten minute conversation. I just told Mai that for every day she doesn't lock herself in the room I'll let her watch another half an hour of television. She promised to be more careful. I am the better parent.

Stop teasing Otani. He sulked for an hour. It's a pain in the butt to get him out of one of his moods.

Risa

Risa,

I'll stop giving your husband a hard time when you start calling him by his first name.

Mimi

Mimi

I guess you'll be teasing Otani then. The kids and I played a trick on him and we locked him in our bedroom. He turned an impressive shade of red when we finally let him out.

Risa

Mimi rolled her eyes. They were all nuts.

A/N: Okay so one person reviewed this story. I'm happy with that. At least someone's reading it. Anyway, I'm still not crazy about this story but I continue to write more because... I have no idea. I'm just going to write the story until I get bored with it and hope that the story will end up having an ending.

I have a couple of One shots coming. They should be out soon.