How about a date?

Stirring around in her bed Mimi lazily looks around her new room; grunting at all the still unpacked boxes. She throws off the sheets in disgust; she always hated hot mornings in the summer. Groaning and changing position once more she catches an unfamiliar scent in the air.

Pancakes, eggs, bacon...her mother rarely cooked and as unusual as it was; it was not an opportunity you'd want to miss!

Mimi gets up and curiously walks down the hall and into the kitchen where she finds her mom gliding around the room and humming a catchy tune; how peculiar.

"Someone's in a good mood." Mimi stands at the entrance of the kitchen.

Her mother twirls around, making an abrupt stop. "Yes, yes I am." She grins.

"And why exactly?" Mimi questions her mother while piling a generous amount of scrambled eggs on to her plate.

"I have a date."

"With who?"

"Dan."

"The moving guy?" She nearly chokes on a piece of bacon.

"Yup."

"Gross!" Mimi pushes way her plate in staged disgust.

Her mother giggles and spins around. "Ana Fujiyama." she sighs.

"Don't you think it's a little early to think about marriage?" Mimi retorts, hoping to burst her mother's bubble, after all, it was her job as her daughter to do so. "And what kind of last name is Fujiyama?" She takes a bite of her biscuit.

Narrowing her eyes, Ms. Tachikawa walks to the counter and begins to pour herself a cup of coffee. "You start school tomorrow."

"Must I?"

"Of course."

"But I don't know anyone!"

There was light tapping at the door and Ms. Tachikawa strolls down the hall to answer the call where Sora politely waits to be welcomed.

"You know Sora." Ms. Tachikawa places her arm around Sora's shoulders. "Help yourself to some breakfast dear." She informs her.

All the while Mimi remains frozen in her chair as she had become stiff since the moment Sora walked in.

"Hi." She watches the red-head's uncertain expression while taking a plate Ms. Tachikawa had given her. "Are you ready?"

Mimi concentrates on Sora's pouty lips. They're moving but she can't hear a thing.

"Are you deaf?"

"What?"

"I said are you ready."

Mimi processes the question and comes back to reality. "Does it look like I'm ready?" She looks down at her pink pajamas.

Sora suppresses a light giggle and sighs. "Well, hurry up." She picks up her fork. "Get ready!"

After finishing breakfast and taking the quickest shower of her life, Mimi dressed herself in dark jeans and a light pink t-shirt.

"You know there are other colors besides pink." Sora leaned against the door frame; scrutinizing her new friend's outfit.

"Yeah but pink is the best!" Mimi opens her closet and exposes her all pink wardrobe. Sora sweatdrops.

"How about yellow?"

"Eww."

"I like yellow."

Mimi wipes the pained expression off her face. "I guess it's alright."

Sora smirks and stands up straight. "Come on, they're waiting for us." She doesn't wait for Mimi and walks out the door.

"Huh?" Mimi runs after her. "Who's waiting for us?" She shouts at Sora who was already at the elevator.

"I told the guys to meet us at the park."

"Guys? You never said we would be meeting guys!"

Ding! They reach the ground floor.

"Relax Mimi. They're just my friends." She leads the way through the crowded streets.

"Friends?" Mimi watches Sora ecstatically wave at a group of guys at the center of the park.

"Sora!" A tall, naturally tanned boy with massive hair waves the red-head over.

"Hi Tai." Sora replies; equally excited.

They exchange a bear hug; the situation seeming a little odd to Mimi. Best friends or lovers?

"Hey Sora." It was a pale blonde's turn to greet the crimson eyed beauty.

"Hi Matt." Sora mumbles and tenderly hugs the blonde which caused Tai to grow a bit bitter.

"Ok! That's enough." He squeezed in between the two.

"Oh!" Sora blurts out. "This is Mimi! She just moved here yesterday." She presents Mimi like a prize making her blush like a tomato. "She lives in our apartment building Tai."

"Really? Well, welcome to the club! I'm Tai."

"Thank you." Mimi shakes his hand.

"I'm Matt." The blonde didn't seem too interested in the new comer. "And that guy over there." He turns over to an oak tree about 10 feet away and points at a young boy with maroon hair typing away at a yellow laptop. "Well, we just call him Izzy."

Mimi scrutinizes the boy; why would you spend the remaining of the weekend on the computer?

"Izzy!" Sora shouts.

Izzy hesitantly looks up and smiles. "Hey Sora." He smirks.

"Come here I want you to meet my new friend."

Mimi perks up; delighted that Sora considered her a friend.

"This is Mimi."

Looking at her from head to toe, Izzy drops is lap top and extends his hand out. "Well, hello Mimi." He kisses her hand. The others chuckle.

"Well!" Tai interrupts. "It's about time you found yourself a girlfriend Sora!"

Mimi tenses up and stutters. "Girlfriend?"

"Yeah, Sora only hangs around guys." Izzy informed. "I'm afraid people have started to suspect that our little Sora here is a dyke."

"Izzy!" Sora pushes him.

"What! It's true!"

"Well, I personally know that she likes guys." Matt wraps his arms around Sora's slim waste and in return Tai punches him in the arm. "Dude it was a joke!" Matt whines and rubs his bruised arm.

Sora rolls her eyes and smiles at Mimi. "Don't pay attention to them." Tai and Matt had begun fighting. "They're always like that." She and Izzy watch them as it were the most natural thing in the world.

"Well I don't know about you guys." Izzy interrupts. "But I'm hungry."

"Good idea Izzy; let's eat!" Sora agrees.

Mimi looks at Sora in bewilderment. "But Sora you just ate!"

The boys stopped fighting and looked over at Mimi. "Sora eats a lot." Tai offers an explanation.

"Yeah, she sure can put it away!" Matt jokes and receives death glares from both Sora and Tai.

Making her way to Mimi and pushing Matt in the process, Sora smiles."Come on! We know a great burger place just down the street." she grabs her arm and begins to lead the way. "You guys coming or not?" She shouts back.

"Coming!" The three boys shout in unison.

They walk quite a distance from each other; girls in the front and boys in the back and it is at this time that Sora decides to "talk" to Mimi like normal girls do.

"Hey Mimi, what do you think of Izzy?"

"Izzy?" Mimi looks back to see Matt and Tai walking behind Izzy and peering over his shoulder; looking at something in his laptop.

"He's cute I guess."

"I think he likes you."

"Really?"

"Yeah, you should go out with him." She looks back at the boys and then at Mimi. "He needs a girl and maybe you can stop him from downloading all that porn on his computer."

"Hey!" Apparently Izzy had heard Sora's last comment. "It is not porn!"

"Oh right!" Matt takes the device away from him. "What was that fancy term you call it?"

"Erotica!" Tai supplies the answer and snatches the computer away.

Sora walks back to them and closes the lap top in their faces. "You guys are sick."

"I don't really watch porn." Izzy mumbles an explanation to Mimi who sympathetically smiles at him.

"Whatever; let's just hurry up and eat." Tai puts his hands in his pockets and walks ahead; Matt and Izzy follow him and it is now the boys who are in front.

"So how about a date?" Sora nudges Mimi with her elbow.

Mimi's honey eyes widen. "A date?"

Sora furrows her eyebrows at the girl's reaction. "Yeah, with Izzy." Her eyes narrow and Mimi visibly relaxes.

"Oh!" She exclaims. "Umm, sure."

"Great!" Sora giggles and grabs her hand; running to join the guys.