Disclaimer

Disclaimer- I don't own Digimon or it's characters. The production company does. This is just a loyal fan's work. All characters displayed in this story are owned and copyrighted by the company. Please don't sue me, Demidevimon stole my wallet! Any original characters that appear, or are mentioned, in this fic are my property and mine alone!

Another Disclaimer- I did not write or perform any of the songs used in this fic unless stated otherwise in my footnotes.

Author's Notes- So, I take it no-one was happy with my attempt at a a Yuri scene in the previous chapter? Right, I won't write anymore Yuri then. At least now, I know what I'm good at and what I'm not. And one thing I am good at is having a large gap between chapters! So, accept my apologies and enjoy!

'I'll Stand By You.' Chapter 4. A Digimon Fanfic by Jay Moss-

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The alarm clock in Sora's Bedroom erupted with a buzzing sound loudly, much to Mimi's anger. She slammed her fist onto the alarm clock, shutting it up and rubbing her eyes. Her head pounded and her mouth tasted like sandpaper. Even worse, she had no recollection of the previous evening and as she stared at the ceiling, she noticed something even more odd.

'This isn't my bedroom!' Mimi realised. 'What gives?'. She turned over and got the shock of her life as her eyes lay on Sora sleeping next to her! She rested her head on the pillow, silently in a dream. Mimi jumped out of bed with a thousand questions running through her mind!

'How? When? What? Where? Who?' Mimi was totally bewildered. She held her forehead. Her skull ached as she stared down at the floor of Sora's bedroom. By her feet were the two girls' clothes and some glass bottles. She picked up a bottle and sniffed it. 'Yuck!' Mimi thought. The stench was disgusting to her. She read the label.

"Smirnoff Vodka?" Mimi said before pausing to think. She remembered coming to the party and seeing Matt and TK for the first time in a year. She remembered Kari singing. She remembered Joe dressed as a giant heart. She remembered Sora in a cocktail dress singing. She looked at Sora laying on the bed. 'How did me and Sora end up sharing a bed?' Mimi thought. She sat on her side of the bed and ran her fingers through her hair. Everything was blank after Sora's performance as Aretha Franklin. Mimi groaned and put back on her clothes from the previous evening, staggering to her feet and about to leave when she heard Sora wake up.

"Oooohhhhh..." Sora moaned. "Why's my head hurting so much?"

Mimi turned around and ran to Sora's side.

"Sora, what happened last night?" She asked quickly. Sora tried to sit up but, instead fell back onto the bed. She made some other groaning sounds and then curled up in a ball.

"Sora?" Mimi was desperate for an answer.

"Look, Mimi. We obviously slept together. We've had sleepovers before, right?"

"Yeah but, not in the same bed!" Mimi screamed. Sora put her hands on Mimi's shoulders and used the leverage to help herself out of bed and to her feet.

"Mimi... Nothing really happened... So don't worry about it..."

Mimi shrugged Sora's hands off of her shoulders and ran out of the door. Sora stared out of her bedroom window, watching Mimi run back to her home.

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"Hello?"

"Tai, is that you?"

"Izzy?"

Tai was surprised. It wasn't like Izzy to give him a phone call . It was usually an E-Mail.

"Tai, I have something on my computer that I really think you should see..."

"If it's that penguin screensaver, I've already got it." Tai said, looking at the screen covered with penguins waddling all over it.

"No, Tai. It's something else from the party last night. Which reminds me, how's your head?"

"Don't ask, man!" Tai replied, taking a sip from his small glass of water.

"Well, come over here quick! It's imperative that you see this!"

"What?" Tai didn't understand most of the words Izzy used.

"Just get over to my place as quick as you can." Izzy told him before hanging up, abruptly.

Tai grabbed a jacket and opened the door.

"Kari, I'm going to Izzy's! Kari?" Tai shouted but, got no response from his little sister. He looked into their bedroom. Kari lay on her bunk, fast asleep. Tai smiled, before running out of the door.

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Mimi walked through the Mall, trying to clear her head. She couldn't have slept with Sora, she just couldn't have! She stared at the pavement watching her feet. She was seeing slightly double and she felt quite ill. Then, another thought hammered into her head like a pneumatic drill:

What would Matt say?

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Matt made his way through the Mall, trying to remember whether or not he had told Mimi about the girl he met at his new hometown up North. If he hadn't, he HAD to find her and tell her! He suddenly felt faint and collapsed against a wall between an electronics store and a clothes store. He shouldn't even be outside. He should be at home resting. Then, Matt looked up and saw a girl he instantly recognised walking awkwardly with her face focused on the ground.

'Mimi!'

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Mimi slowly looked up and saw Matt against a wall, holding him up. She staggered up to him. She was about to do something which took a lot of bravery but, she had to tell the truth.

No matter how much it would hurt.

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Matt bounced to the left off the wall and made his way to Mimi. 'This it it!' He thought. 'This is what I came here to say.' It was going to be difficult, he knew.

But, it had to be done for her own good.

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The two of them spoke at the same time.

"Matt, I have something to tell you."

"Mimi, I have something to tell you."

They took a brief pause to have a deep breath.

"I think we should break up." The two of them said simultaneously.

"Why?" Matt and Mimi asked each other in the same second again.

"Why do you think we should break up, Mimi?" Matt asked.

"I've seen someone else. What about you?"

"I've seen someone else too."

They both stared at each other. Neither one of them had any idea of the other's deception. They realised that they were both as bad as each other.

"So, how long have you seen her?" Mimi asked.

"I was seeing her for about a month and then, we broke up. How about you?"

"I was seeing her for about... a night."

"Her?"

Mimi jumped. She couldn't believe she'd just said that!

"I meant 'him'." She told him, lying.

Matt shuffled his feet and Mimi played with her hair. Just like when they confessed their love to each other a year ago, they were lost for words.

"I still love you though, Mimi." Matt told her. Mimi looked up at him, eyes narrowed.

"How can you say that? There's no excuse for that! You promised we'd always be in love!"

"And what's your excuse for seeing this other guy?" Matt snapped back.

"We were drunk!" Mimi testified. "But, believe it or not, I still love you more than him, Matt! But, you obviously don't love me because, you weren't drunk when you cheated on me!" Mimi was fighting back tears now.

"No, I wasn't drunk. But, straight away I regretted it because, I knew that I had betrayed the real woman I loved!"

"You really mean that?" Mimi queried.

"We've both made the same mistake. We can fix it, make it work again." Matt told her, holding her fragile hands in his. "Lightning never strikes twice, you know."

Mimi laughed slightly as a lone tear ran down the side of her face. Matt held her close and kissed the tear off of her cheek before embracing her.

"I'm really sorry, Mimi. I'll never leave you from now on."

"But, you have to leave for your new home, don't you?"

"Yeah, so?"

"Matt, my home is here, not there."

"Then, leave Odaiba and come back with me." Matt proposed. Mimi gave a shocked expression before laughing as if it was a joke. She then saw the seriousness written all over Matt's face and stopped. Matt really wanted her to go with him? What about her family and her friends?

Her friends. If they ever found out what happened between her and Sora, they'd hate her forever, especially Tai. Mimi sighed. She couldn't stay. It would be impossible. Mimi looked up and saw Matt smiling at her. That was the sight she wished she woke up to every morning. She didn't know how they could do it but, there must be someway they could bury the hatchet and start a new life. If that meant leaving Odaiba, her School, her family, her friends, was it worth it just to be with Matt?

"Well, Mimi?" Matt asked her. Mimi looked up at Matt. What else could she do?

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The door to Izzy's bedroom swung open. Tai stood at the door, out of breath from running. Izzy turned his chair around from his computer and faced him.

"Are you sure you're ready for this?" Izzy asked Tai.

"I don't know. It was you who told me to get here as quick as possible!" Tai replied. Izzy turned to the computer and ran a video clip from the previous evening from the camera he set up in the Guest Room of Sora's abode. Tai looked at it.

"So? It's just Mimi and Sora talking." Tai stated to Izzy.

"Just keep watching..." Izzy responded.

The video continued as Mimi and Sora clambered into bed together. Tai saw nothing new. The two girls continued talking until Sora put her arms around Mimi.

What followed made Tai's eyes widen with shock. He dashed out of the door with Izzy running after him.

"Tai, where are you going?"

"To get some answers!" Tai told him, slamming the door behind him.

***

Joe crawled across the floor towards the Guest Room. He had a more thunderous headache than anyone. He made his way through the mountains of clothes, wrapping paper, CDs and glass bottles into the Guest Room where he looked up and saw Sora staring out of the window.

"S... o... r... a..." Joe struggled with a simple name call. Sora didn't respond. Actually, she didn't even blink. She just kept gazing out of the window as if in a trance.

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The subway train arrived which would take Matt and TK home. Only this time, they had another passenger with them. Mimi had collected a few small things in a bag and ran away from her home to be with Matt.

"It's great that you're coming to stay with us, Mimi!" TK told Mimi, joyfully. Mimi smiled down at him. Suddenly, footsteps were heard running up the platform behind them.

"TK!" The little voice cried. TK turned around to see Kari run up to him. They hugged tightly.

"I couldn't let you go without saying 'Goodbye'!" Kari told him.

"Thanks, Kari." TK replied. Kari handed her boyfriend a box. TK took it and looked at it, trying to think what it could be.

"It's just a little gift." Kari told him. "I know how much you like to be like Matt so, I hope you'll like this but, don't open it yet! When you're on the train, you can open it."

"Okay." TK said. The two of them quickly kissed each other on the lips before Matt tugged him onto the train. Mimi went to step on but, hesitated for a moment.

"Mimi, are you coming?" Matt asked her. Mimi nodded and stepped onto the train. Suddenly, Tai sprinted down the platform to the train doors.

"Mimi! I have to talk to you!" Tai shouted as the train doors closed. Mimi leaned against the doors to try and hear what Tai was saying but, couldn't. The train began to move and then, quickly speeded off. Tai was left standing with Kari, lost for words. He would have to speak to Sora instead! He ran off to Sora's house leaving Kari waving farewell to the train in the distance.

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"SORA!" Tai shouted standing on Sora's garden. "I KNOW YOU'RE THERE! WE HAVE TO TALK!"

Joe looked at Sora, laying on her bed with her eyes wide open, staring at the ceiling.

"Sora, why won't you answer him?" Joe asked.

Sora gave no reply.

"Sora, why won't you answer me?" He asked, still getting no response from the distant-minded Sora Takenouchi. She simply stared up at the ceiling, ignoring her boyfriend calling her.

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Matt placed his jacket over Mimi, who had drifted off to sleep. Matt knew that she'd had a hard day. He hoped that their new life together would be better. An improvement. A chance for them both to change and really love each other. He kissed her lightly on the forehead and turned to TK who was staring glumly at his gift from Kari who, by the look of him, he obviously missed.

"Hey kid, haven't you opened it yet?" Matt reminded him. TK perked up and tore away the wrapping paper. Matt and TK were both surprised at what the box contained.

"Matt, it's a Harmonica! Just like yours!" He cried, happily.

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The End.

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Author's Footnotes- Okay, I guess I have mixed feelings about this final chapter. I consider it kind of rushed but, please understand that it's essential I finished this series as quickly as possible as College work is piling up by the second. So, I'll probably only post fics at the weekends when I have some time to myself. Can't really think of any final points except if you plan to review this, don't state the blatantly obvious:

I know it's rushed and I know it's dreadful.

Don't tell me that which I already know.

Thank you for your time and may God bless you all!