DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Digimon series nor it's containing characters. They all belong to Akiyoshi Hongo. Aki is mine though, as is the plot, and any other characters you do not recognize.


Title: What is Love?
Author:
Aoi Megami
Chapter: 6
Chapter Title:
False Realizations


"Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust to hope, and to endure whatever comes."

Why don't I like the girl I see?

The one who's standing right in front of me?

Why don't I think before I speak?

I should've listened to that voice inside me

I must be stupid must be crazy must be out of my mind

to say the kind of things I said last night

Sora had also skipped her class, like Matt, Mimi, and Aki did. She was to troubled to go to her next class. She was in the girls' bathroom, staring at herself in the mirror.

She felt bad. But she was in love. People do crazy, and selfish things when they're in love. Making Mimi stay away from Matt is beyond cruel. And she knows that. Now that her mind's clear enough to register whet she had done and what had happened, she felt horribly bad. Not only for her, but for what she did.

Now she doesn't know that she should do. Continue on pursuing Matt, and make Mimi stay away. Or, let them be happy together. But Mimi was right, what if Matt doesn't feel anything for Mimi, and that it was her that he was in love with?

But that look he gave her. He never, not once, had given her that look. That look of a longing love, filled with promises, togetherness and happiness. She felt cold, she felt like she was the bad person even though she was the one who was betrayed by her own friend.

But did she? Did Mimi Tachikawa betray her? Not that she remembered. All she remembered is that Mimi likes Matt as well, I mean who wouldn't, right? A lot of girls like Matt, but she didn't feel threatened by their feelings. So why is it that when she found out that Matt gave Mimi that look, did she felt afraid, alone, and heartbroken?

"He loves her." Sora whispered to herself as she clutched the bathroom sink. "Gomenasai Mimi," Sora's eyes were watering. "I'm such a bad friend." she whispered, then ran out of the bathroom.

Cannot touch, cannot hold

Cannot be together

Cannot love, cannot kiss,

Cannot have each other

A depressed Yamato Ishida, leisurely walked in the school theater, where his band was suppose to meet for practice.

"Matt, where were you?" Ricky asked Matt, when they finally saw their leader appear.

"I was out, sorry," Matt mumbled. "I was late." he whispered. His head was bowed low, his usual blue diamond sparkling eyes, were dull and lifeless, he was beyond depressed.

"You alright?" Derren, who was their base player asked him.

"Yeah." Matt straightened up and looked at them with confidence, what a leader should be. "Let's get started.


"Mimi?" Aki tried to console his cousin. "I told you so." he whispered.

"I love him." Mimi whispered.

"I know."

"How come I didn't?" Mimi asked harshly.

"Because you were denying it, because of your friendship with Sora." Aki said.

"I wish I never got involved!" Mimi cried in her cousin's arms.


"So who did you ask to go to the Dance with you?" Ricky asked Derren.

"Anna Hattori." Derren answered.

"Eian's baby sister?" Ricky asked in disbelief.

"Yup, and she said yes!" Derren replied happily. The band was taking a five minute break after playing a couple of songs, they had this break because Matt had to excuse himself quickly away from the group, or he would break down in front of them.

"She's hot." Ricky said.

"I know." Derren nodded.

In the bathroom, Matt splashed water straight in his face to wake himself up, he stared at his reflection in the mirror and saw that his eyes are starting to become red.

"Shit." he harshly whispered.

"Matt." T.K., his little brother entered the bathroom.

"What are you doing here? Aren't you suppose to be in class right now?"

"I was excused."

"Why?"

"Your band mates called me."

"Why?" Matt asked again, much more confused this time around.

"They said you weren't acting normal, well, you never do, just not the usual weird you." T.K. teased.

"Haha, very funny."

"Aniki, what's the matter?" T.K. asked seriously this time.

"It's nothing."

"You asked her, didn't you?" T.K. continued on, pretending not to hear his brother's last statement. "What'd she say?"

"She doesn't feel the same way I do about her."

"Sora-chan doesn't?" T.K. asked in disbelief. This has got to be a dream.

"NOT SORA!" Matt hollered. He was sick and tired of all the people round him, assuming that it's Sora's the one he loves. She's nice and everything, but no matter how he looks at her, she'll only be a friend. He'll never look at her the way he looks at Mimi.

"Mimi-chan?" T.K. asked, even more confused. "This has got to be a dream." he whispered, and tried pinching himself a couple times. But he wasn't waking up. "Ok, not a dream." he said and turned to his brother. "Since when?"

"Read the article!" Matt mumbled.

"That long?"

"Yeah."

"Wow, aniki I," T.K. was at a loss for words. "Tell me what happened." T.K suggested.

And Matt did.

"She was crying?" T.K. asked.

"Yeah." Matt replied.

"Since before you even asked her to go to the dance with you?"

"Yeah." Matt replied again.

"That's weird." T.K. rubbed his chin.

"Why?" Matt asked, with a little bit of hope in his voice.

"Because, last time I remember, Izzy and Jyou like Mimi and they asked her out. And Mimi was close to both of them, and when she turned them both down, she didn't even shed a single tear, but she felt bad though." T.K. said.

"What are you trying to say?"

"That something's going on that Mimi isn't telling you. That's why she's having a hard time trying to turn you down."

"Then,"

"Then there might be a little bit of hope left for you." T.K. smiled at. "But you have to find a date first." T.K. said. "You're going to be a laughing stock, if one of the most popular guys in school was dateless." T.K. laughed and then turned to leave the bathroom.

"T.K.," Matt called. T.K. stopped walking and turned to his brother.

"Don't worry, I won't tell a soul." he smiled at him and left. Matt smiled, at the shut door, where T.K. had just left.

"I need to talk to her." Matt said, finally getting what T.K. had meant. He dashed out of the bathroom and out of the theater.


"Sora?" Matt called when he found her emerging from the girls bathroom.

"Hey?" She greeted.

"Are you ditching?"

"Well, just skipping a class that's all." she said.

Silence.

"I need to talk to you." they said in unison.


Sora and Matt were alone in an unoccupied classroom, the tension was building as both teens struggled to get the words out of their mouths.

Sora's stared at matt, who was starting to pace back and forth. "What's wrong?" she asked him. Sora was there to tell Matt that Mimi loves him too, and also to make Matt choose between Mimi and her. She needed to know.

"I…"

"Umm…"

Both looked at each other in the eye.

"Do you want to go to the dance with me?" Matt blurted out. Sora stood there shock beyond belief.

"W-what?" she stuttered.

"Do you want to go to the dance with me?" Matt asked again. T.K. was right, he needed a date for the dance because he doesn't want to be the laughing stock of the whole school. But he also needed to tell Sora, that he loves Mimi and not her, for he knew the girl's feelings for him, and the perfect time to tell her is at the dance.

"S-sure." Sora still stuttered. She was so happy, and here she thought, she was about to make the biggest mistake of her life. You see, Sora had decided to give Matt up, once she's sure that it's Mimi that he loves. But here he is, just like it was said in the newspaper, he was going to ask the girl of his dreams to the dance. And he did, he asked her.

"I'll pick you up at 7:30 then, next Friday." Matt said before turning to leave. "Oh! And before I forget, wasn't there something you also wanted to talk to me about?" he asked her.

"Huh? Oh! No, never mind." Sora flashed him a smile. Matt smiled back and left the room. Words cannot describe the feelings that Sora's feeling right at that very moment.


"Did you hear?" Aki asked Mimi when they finally reached their house. T.K. was the only one who walked them home because Matt was still at his band practice.

"What?" Mimi asked as she plopped down on their living room sofa.

"Who Yamato Ishida is taking to the dance?" Aki said as he sat on the love seat next to the couch.

"What? When?" Mimi straightened up from her position to get a better look at her cousin.

"Just after lunch." Aki answered. "Rumors spread really fast."

"But I di-" she paused, still gazing confusedly at her cousins eyes.

"Of course she said yes to him." Aki continued ignoring his cousin's last statement.

"Who?" Mimi asked desperately.

"Sora." he stated, then watched as tears gathered in the corners of his cousin's eyes. This time, words cannot describe what Mimi was feeling right at that very moment.


REFERENCE:
Italicize Quote (A verse from the Bible; 1 Corinthians 13, 4-13)
First Italicize/Bold Quote (Lyrics from the song; Mirror Mirror by M2M)
Second Italicize/Bold Quote (Lyrics from the song; How Can I Not Love You by Joy Enriquez)