Chapter 4: A Bad Morning
Thanks for the reviews people!! it's so nice to come home and find some nice review alerts, a great birthday present thanks! They were a big stress reliever as to going to a new school in a different town and all that soon. I've been having writer's block on all the other fics and this is the only one I could continue without getting a headache. Anyways..Enjoy...
kanilla: awe, thank you so much!! I was going to wait until the weekend to update but since you said you were waiting right there.... I started on this immidiately for you.
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theladyknight: I don't know where I thought of the 25th floor on a 20 floors building thing, whatever, glad u thought it wasn't dull.
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R/R...
I always knew sooner or later Mimi would pull something like this. With her in the house, I wouldn't be too shocked if she burnt down the whole city. Last month, she busted the sanding machine by accidently sanding over the wire. Not to mention the time she put a metal spoon inside the microwave along with a dozen frozen chicken legs and heated them for ten minutes until the spoon finally exploded. And did I mention she cleaned my underpants in the dishwasher by mistake?
Well, this is Mimi alright. Now I have to buy another toaster thanks to her clumsiness.
The corner of the tabletop beside the stove where our toaster was suppose to be was replaced by a flazing fireball. What a sight to see when you woke up six in the morning.
"Meems, what are you doing?" I gasped as I saw her trying to put out the fire by flapping around uselessly with Matt's jacket. "Stop, stop, stop, stop! You can't use that jacket!" I shouted out and held her back. But I was late by a split second before it joined the fire, catching a spark of flame that extended from the sleeve.
Mimi squirmed and instantly dropped the jacket on the tile floor.
"Quick, grab it and put it in the sink." I commanded. She sniveled even more and shook her head.
"It's burning... I can't touch it! Besides, I just got my nails manicured yesterday."
"God! What's more important? This jacket or your nails?"
"My nails of course!" She snapped back like it was an easy answer. Thought so.
I did the work for her and ran over to the kitchen sink, which did not have any space with a stack of unwashed dishes. Instead I had to bring it to the bathroom.
"No, not my bathtub! I won't allow you to put that burning thing in my spa! " Mimi screamed after me and raced me to the shower room. Without wasting another second I slung it into her pink bathtub and turned on the water. Mimi slapped her forehead and cursed.
"Sora! That tub cost me four thousand bucks!"
"Whatever," I rolled my eyes and watched as sprinkles of water put out the burning sleeve of Matt's jacket, leaving a trace of smoke. I'm in trouble now....
The whole kitchen counter was on fire by the time I dashed back to deal with the toaster. Oh my goodness. Out of panick, I stumpled and tripped on a telephone extension cords. A loud scream escaped as I hit the floor on my rib bones. "I'm getting to old for this..." I brought myself back and rubbed on my forehead where a big clump of pain was replace by the bumping into the floor. My frown curved up to a smirk as my orbs landed on a fire extinguisher cased inside in the wall, sealed off by glass.
Fire extinguisher! Of course.. "Mimi, get back here I need help!"
I screamed at the top of my lungs. "Mimi?" She didn't answer back.
I took out the fire extinguisher and sprayed wildly at the fire, finally managed to put it out without her help. All there was left was a black clump that shriek to have half size compared to what our toaster use to be.
"Meems?" Mimi make no sound. I hurried to the bathroom. Great... what did she do now?
My roomate was eyewided. Staring blankly at the jacket.
Oh my god! Was it black before? I thought. No, it was definitely yellow... but how did it change color?
I swallowed again and again. Halfway down the sleeve it was covered in black spots, still smelled like smoke. Mimi stuttered something in a hoarse voice, "Sora, this is Matt's jacket isn't it? Odaiba stadium, July 2001, a rock concert two summers ago.... I remem...mem...member. This is the jacket he wear! Oh my goodness, I even kept a picture of him from that concert. There's no doubt he wore this."
She looked at me with bloodshot crimson orbs. I slightly nodded and walked over to kneel beside her.
"How did you get this? You didn't steal it did you?"
I stared at the ceiling and muttered a maybe hopefully she didn't hear me.
"YOU STOLE IT!! How could you? Didn't I warn you about how much trouble you can get into?"
"You wouldn't believe me when I told you I meet him. That's why I brought it back..." My voice trailed off to a mutter.
"Awe, Sora." Mimi wrapped her arms around my neck and hugged me indeed. Damn, that was the longest hug I ever received in ten years, she finally let go."You didn't have to bring this. I'm your best friend, you know I would believe anything you say, right? I was just caught up with my own issues yesterday. Sorry."
She certainly picked up a great time to apologize, after she destroyed it leaving me with all the blames."What should I do now? I can't give this back and say I burnt his jacket." I said.
She shrugged, "Beats me. I'm out of idea."
"Thought so." I rolled my eyes and took it away, taking a glance at it to see if it was fixable.
"What?"
"Uh, nothing important."
The next hyperly excited voice came as quite a surprise. "I got it!" I jerked and almost drop what was in my hand when Mimi exclaimed at the top of her lungs.
"Wait here." She fled pass the living room to her drawer, drew a small bottle out and brought it back to me. I waited for her, anxious to hear what kind of crazy idea she had in mind that would save me.
"Here." She handed me a small bottle.
I took it and read off the label. Both eyebrows raise, followed by a giggle that couldn't be held back even if I zip my lips shut. "Hairdye?"
"Yeah," she shrugged and smirked, "Trust me, if this thing can dye hair, it'll work on leather too." She spoke like a professional as if she tried dying clothes before.
"I guess it's worth a try." I said mindlessly. Mimi grinned and bit the plastic cover off the bottle.
"Uh, I have to get to work now, you stay here and fix this." I told Mimi.
"Good luck with impressing your prince charming!" Her voice echoed throught the whole complex. I grabbed a key and took off. Right, I don't need to impress anyone... just hope Mimi won't screw this up even farther than she did already....
Now that that's taken care off... I'm cranked up the car engine and glimpsed at the time, it was way past my working hour. I'm late again!
I was going to write more but my arm hits from typing because I twisted it during volleyball practice. Forgive me. Anyways here a preview of the next chap.... I hope this make up for the shortness.
There's absolutely no way I can take another second serving this morons like I'm some kind of slave. That's it... "Look sir, you don't need to waste your previous time getting me fired, because I quit! That right! I'm quitting this freakin' job..."
Hehe... review please!
