Chapter 4
Mimi was hanging out by the lockers with Miki and Megumi before school started. She noticed that they were wearing the boys' uniform jackets. "Don't we look so fetch?" Megumi said.
"After we saw how cute you looked in Izzy's jacket, we took our coworkers' uniforms," Miki said.
"What can I say? I just make trends happen," Mimi said in a mocking posh tone. The girls cracked up. "So whose jackets are those?" Mimi leaned toward them to read the embroidered names. "Damon, Norstein. I know Thomas is pretty cool about lending people stuff, but Marcus? I heard he almost stabbed some guy's hand with a fork over some fried eggs," Mimi grimaced.
"He gets possessive with food, but he doesn't really care about his clothes," Megumi said. "He thought it was a bit weird that I wanted it, but he gave it to me like that," she snapped her fingers.
"Oh, makes sense now," Mimi tapped her head with her pointer finger.
"Okay, we have to head to class now. Meet us at lunch?" Miki picked up her textbooks.
"Definitely!" Mimi said.
"It's a date!" Megumi giggled as the girls headed to class. Mimi stood by the lockers for a little bit. The vice principal walked by but did a double take. She gave Mimi a stern look and walked away.
"That was weird," Mimi shrugged.
Izzy walked into his first period class, ready to fall asleep on his desk. He was up all night, letting his worries keep him awake. Meeting up with Matt after school didn't make matters any better, it just gave Izzy more to stress about. At least he could take a little nap in first period. He sat behind a tall, buff girl so the teacher couldn't even see Izzy. He put his head down and dozed off.
"Izzy...wake up," he heard a sweet voice call to him. "Wake up!" he jerked his head up to see Mimi.
"Huh?" he said, still groggy from his nap.
"Well, if that doesn't wake you up, maybe this will," Mimi sat on his lap and pulled his face close to hers. She began to kiss him passionately, as her hands combed through his red hair. His arms hung limply by his sides; he just couldn't move at all. "I guess you need a little more than that, don't you?" Mimi bit his lip, and she pressed herself harder against him, which caused the chair to fall back.
"Whoa!" Izzy felt himself falling backwards. Suddenly, he woke up and he fell out of his chair for real. The whole class started laughing, even the teacher was cracking up.
"I'm sorry, but that was funny as hell! I didn't even know anyone sat behind Amazon there," the teacher howled.
"What a dork!" some classmates said.
"Whoa, whoa! Guess who I am?" another classmate heckled, frantically flapping his arms. The teacher also started joining in, mocking Izzy.
Izzy was frozen in embarrassment, as his face turned into the same deep red shade as his hair. He just couldn't get up from the floor. Awesome. You know it's bad when the TEACHER is making fun of you. I am such a loser.
He glanced over at Mimi, who had her head turned away from him. Even better, she's probably pretending I don't exist. I don't blame her, Izzy got up from the floor and packed up his stuff. Class wasn't even going to be over for another twenty minutes, but he didn't care.
"Careful, Izumi! We wouldn't want you to fall over again," the teacher said. The whole class cracked up.
"That's not funny," Mimi said in a cold voice as she stood up from her seat.
"Oooh, don't sic your girlfriend on us now!" a guy with wavy, brown hair pretended to be spooked. Both Mimi and Izzy blushed at that comment. "Honestly, Mimi. Who knew that the princess would settle for less?"
"You don't even know what you're talking about! He's a great guy," she said defiantly. The class started to murmur.
"Mimi, you can stop now. I'm fine," Izzy shook his head and walked out of the room. Mimi slumped in her seat and hid her face.
Way to go, you officially freaked him out.
"Mimi! Over here!" Megumi waved to her from the lunch table. Mimi smiled and walked over to her.
"Hey guys, what's up?" Mimi sat down.
"Notice that more girls are wearing the boys' jackets?" Miki said, stirring her straw in her carton of chocolate milk.
"What? There weren't that many people doing that this morning," Mimi looked around the cafeteria. Sure enough, half of the girls were wearing jackets. Even funnier, half of the boys weren't. Even Sora had a jacket on. "Sora!" she called out to her. Sora turned around and walked over to Mimi's table.
"Hey Mimi, what's up?"
"So I see you're wearing Matt's jacket," Mimi said with a sly look in her eyes.
"Yeah, it's cute. Some of the girls on the tennis team decided to call it the boyfriend jacket trend," Sora put her hands in her jacket pockets.
"What?" Megumi spat out her water in shock.
"Yeah. A lot of girls are wearing their boyfriends' jackets. So when you wear a guy's jacket, it kinda shows the school that you're dating the guy," Sora explained.
"Noooooo! I don't want anyone to think I'm going out with Marcus!" Megumi whined. Sora was a bit scared by her reaction.
"Don't worry! I'm pretty sure no one will think you two are official," Sora tried to reassure her. "I'll see you guys later, I promised I was going to sit with Matt," Sora pointed to where he was sitting. Mimi looked over and saw Izzy looking in her direction. She smiled at him but he blushed and whipped his head back to face Matt.
"I don't think it's a good idea to go on with this plan," Izzy said.
"Why not?" Matt shoved his tray to the side. Izzy explained what happened earlier that day. "So even the teacher was cracking jokes? Damn, that's pretty brutal," Matt winced as Izzy went through the details.
"But the worst part about it was Mimi," Izzy facepalmed himself.
"How come?"
"Well, she stood up for me but then Ryan said something about her being my girlfriend and she looked mortified. She's probably embarassed to be associated with someone like me," Izzy groaned.
"Dude, you know she's not like that. She defended you for a reason," Matt said. "Even if she doesn't think ahead most of the time. You're her friend. That's something."
"I don't know," Izzy muttered. He looked behind him and stole a glance at Mimi's table. She shot him a friendly look, but Izzy got nervous and turned back around.
"Izzy's still got it," Matt smirked. "So that means you're coming over after school, right?"
"I guess," Izzy said grudgingly. "You think I still have a chance?"
"Yep," Matt said.
"Hey guys, whatcha talking about?" Sora stood over the table.
"Nothing, Izzy's coming over to help me with physics," Matt slid over to make room for her.
"Okay," Sora said suspiciously. She couldn't help but to think that everyone was hiding something from her.
