Meaningless Snapshots 3 of 15: Meeting Again
All of the chosen children were gathered together.... Well, all except Mimi. It was always a possibility that she, now living so far away, wouldn't be able to make it to their memorial meeting. Even planning to do so, who knew what might come up. Hikari was happy to see the others... But just the same, she was sad about missing the chance to see Mimi.
Looking downwards, Hikari twirled her digital camera in front of her by the strap. She sighed. "What's wrong, Hikari? I thought you'd be taking pictures of everyone with your new camera!" Taichi said.
"It's nothing, Onii-chan," Hikari said. She tried to force her face to look happy, but then...
"You guys! Everyone, I'm here!"
"Ah! It's Mimi-san!" Takeru exclaimed.
Hikari didn't have to try to look happy as she saw Mimi running towards them. Her face really lit up. Feeling almost in a dream state, Hikari headed toward Mimi.
But then she saw Takeru greet her, then her exchange hugs with Sora, and Jou even walked up to her, he seemed to have a lot to say. Soon they were a group of 8, and Hikari didn't have room to say even a hello. Well, of course Mimi had other people she wanted to talk to.
Hikari stood to the side, fading into the background. She played around with her camera, taking some candid shots of Taichi and Koushirou. Then she clicked around on her digital camera, happy to be able to look at them right away. And then she heard a giggle behind her.
"Ah! Mimi-san!" Hikari exclaimed.
"Taichi-san and Koushirou-kun are so funny looking there!" Mimi said.
Koushirou blushed a little bit, but Taichi just looked annoyed. "Hey, Hikari, stop doing weird stuff. Let me delete that picture!" Taichi reached for the camera.
But it was Mimi who snatched it away, holding it out of Taichi's reach. "Oh no, no, no! Hikari-chan is going to e-mail me this. It's waaaay too good to be wasted by just deleting it."
"Ug. I guess it can't be helped when Mimi makes up her mind about something. No big deal, anyway," Taichi said and gave up.
Taichi walked away, and Hikari looked up at Mimi hopefully. "Can I really?" she asked.
"Hm?" Mimi said.
"Can I really have your e-mail?"
"Of course!" Mimi said. "We're not in the dark ages any more, we can keep up with each other from anywhere in the world. Hikari-chan, you know how to use e-mail by now, right?"
"Yes," Hikari said.
"Good, then you can send me that picture... And maybe a few others! I've been making a scrapbook of us, and it would really help."
"Um...." Hikari said. She held her camera out like she was going to use it, but she couldn't get out her question.
"What is it, Hikari-chan?" Mimi asked.
"Could I take... Well, I'd like to maybe take a good picture of you, Mimi-chan..."
"Well, there's no way I would let you get away with not taking one!" Mimi said. Hikari looked up, suddenly looking much happier. Mimi giggled. Being able to change Hikari's emotions was so much fun. "There is one condition though," she said.
"Oh... What's that?" Hikari said tentatively.
"You have to let me take one of you, too! I can't go without a snapshot of this photographer, after all."
"Sure!" Hikari said, and gave a huge smile.