The Meaning of True Love Written by: SeungLee Co Written By:

Disclaimers: I don't own Digimon it belongs to Saban and Toei, but I sure wish I did.

Chapter Four - Saved by the Ring

Mimi entered the apartment with a huge smile on her lips and began to dance around in the living room. Palmon and Gabumon were still quite puzzled by their human counter parts behaviors. It is something that the digimon have yet to get use to seeing and hearing. Matt closed the door, as he was the last one to enter and just looked at the dancing girl in his living room.

Matt chuckled as he watches Mimi dance around from happiness to see her friends before school was to take place; it warmed his heart that he was the one who had arranged everything. The others had told her that he had planned everything earlier that week knowing that Mimi was going to live with him and attend school with the gang.

At the sound of Matt's chuckle it brought Mimi back to reality and began to blush. She stopped dancing around as Matt stepped up to her with a warm smile. He lifted her face so she would meet his gaze, he had a smile that reached his eyes, and boy was his eyes sparkling with something Mimi had never seen before.

"Matt," Mimi began as she placed her hands on shirt that was at his waist, as he placed his hands on her shoulders.

"Yeah?" Matt whispered being locked into her gaze.

"Thank you for today, everyone told me it was you who had it all planned," Mimi whispered with an unknown tone that she didn't even recognized. "It was wonderful and just perfect, and having Palmon as a surprise was great."

Matt just smirked as he placed a kiss on her forehead and it made Mimi suck in a lot of air in surprise. Mimi's heart was beating against her chest, as if it was trying to jump out of her chest, but she was pulled closer to Matt as their chests were pressed against each other. Almost by extinct Mimi wrapped her arms around Matt's waist as Matt loosely wrapped one arm around her waist and the other tightly around her shoulders.

Mimi was becoming nervous by all of what was going on, it felt like it was going in slow motion. Mimi's eyes felt heavy as they began to close as Matt's face came closer. He placed butterfly kisses on her eyelids, and small kisses down her cheek. The two of them seemed to be in their own world and forgetting they had an audience of two watching them in shock.

Palmon looked over to Gabumon with a questioning look and whispered, "Isn't Matt still with Sora?"

Gabumon shook his head, "No, does Mimi know?"

"No, she doesn't know, she thinks he's still with Sora." Palmon saw Mimi's hands fisting up Matt's shirt that covered his back. "Should we tell her?"

"I think it's best Matt tells her," Gabumon said and nearly lost his eyes as they were about to pop out as Matt made his descent to kiss Mimi's lips.

As Matt's lips brushed Mimi's the phone began to ring. Mimi began to pull away as the phone continued to ring as Matt seemed perfectly fine to let the answering machine to catch for whoever was calling. Mimi pulled away and turned her gaze to the ground.

"Aren't you going to get that?" Mimi asked shyly all of a sudden.

"Let the machine get it," Matt whispered into ear as he had pulled into a tight embrace.

Mimi shook her head and backed away from Matt's embrace, "Get it."

Matt sighed in defeat and walked over to the phone that rested on a small table, "Hello?"

~ "Matt?" ~ A voice asked over the line, it was none other than the deep rich voice of his father.

"Dad?" Matt exclaimed in shock to hear his father after about a week that he left to go on an out of town business trip. "Why haven't you called till now? Are you ok?"

Matt's father just chuckled at his son's antics about him, ~ "Yes, son I'm fine. I've been busy with a lot of work, but that's not why I called. I called to see if Mimi finally arrived." ~

Matt turned to look at Mimi who had an eyebrow quirked up at wondering why he was looking at her with a strange smile, "Yeah, dad she's here. Gabumon is here and so is Palmon."

~ "Well, I'm glad that she came safely.but Matt." ~ Matt noticed the change in his father's tone of voice from one of playful teasing to one of seriousness. ~ "Matt, you're eighteen year old with a lovely girl for about a few months with your 'old man and I don't want you to do anything that might." ~

"DAD!" Matt said in pure shock, he knew where his father was leading with this conversation. Mimi and the two digimon turned their gazed toward to the young blonde who had a look of pure shock and horror written on his face.

~ "Matt, you're a guy and I once was your age too! But Matt if you do something, be sure to use protection." ~ Matt's father's voice said sternly.

"Dad."

~ "Matt, just remember what I said, ok?" ~

"Yea, sure dad. If something is to ever go down that road, I'll make sure. Happy?" Matt was turning a many shades of red as his friends watched him with curious looks.

~ "I fell somewhat reassured. Anyway...I should be home either December or January. Sorry that this is gong to be such a long trip, but you know how business gets. But I do know you and Mimi can manage without me." ~

"Dad, don't worry. We'll be fine, it's only for a while right?" Matt shrugged as he turned his back to the group that continued to wonder what the conversation was about.

~ "Alright, take care son. I'll talk to you later." ~

"Alright, bye dad." Matt said as he hung up to phone back onto its charger to finally turn back to his friends. ~ Where would dad get an idea that Mimi and I would ever go that far? I mean you don't sleep with your best friend, unless you took the relationship further.but I don't think it would go that far. ~

"So was everything ok?" Gabumon asked as he walked up to his friend.

"Yeah, but dad is going to be out probably the longest time this time. Besides, Dad just wanted to make sure Mimi came in alright." Matt said as he patted his digimon friend on the head.

"Well, now he knows. But it is kind of getting late, so we should all get ready for bed. I want to take a hot bath," Mimi stopped as she felt a tugging on her skirt and looked down to Palmon. "Us girls are going to take a bath."

"Well, just don't hog all of the hot water. I would like to take a shower sometime this century." Matt said with a wink as Mimi threw a couch cushion as him as she and Palmon went on their way into the bathroom. As Mimi disappeared into the bathroom Matt sighed and plopped himself down onto the couch.

"Matt, do you have feelings for Mimi?" Gabumon asked as he made his way over to the couch and sat down next to Matt.

"I really don't know what I feel, except that when I'm with her I feel complete. She is different, I mean when she saw my tattoo yesterday she apparently didn't mind that I had one." Matt sighed as he closed his eyes and leaned his head back on the couch. "I wish I knew how she felt, considering she is going to be staying here."

"You know she does consider you her best friend, and plus she think you are with Sora but you probably already knew that."

"I know, but I wonder if she noticed that I was no where near Sora, and just beside her today?" Matt asked as he looked at his friend. "Women are impossible, so hard to read and understand."

"You know, I heard from Palmon that Mimi says that about guys," Gabumon chuckled as Matt made a face. "I guess it goes both ways."

"You're probably right."

"You know, you almost kissed her." Gabumon stated simply.

"I know, but if that phone hadn't rang I probably would have." Matt said as he looked at the clock as the minutes tick by with Mimi and Palmon in the bathroom.

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Well.they are sure getting friendly, he almost kissed her! Yikes, kekeke, Palmon is going to have a heart to heart with Mimi in next chapter.so stick around.