A/N: Yes I'm back! It took me what like three months but I'm back!! So okay I last left off with Mimi mad at Matt and Sora for kissing, okay so I realize that Mimi is acting extremely immature but I'm trying to show that Mimi isn't perfect, she's short-tempered and very stubborn sometimes, but in the end she realizes her mistakes and tries to make it right. There are going to be a few surprises in this chapter and it's probably going to end up being like a 3 chapter thing. Just read it you'll understand!
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Normal Pov:
Mimi Tachikawa approached the front door of her best friend's house, of course she practically lived there and under most circumstances she would use her spare key and enter the house as if it were her own. But this was different, her and Sora never got into fights, as in ever! They were like Super Best Friends or something because even if they did get into arguments they were like 2 seconds long and they ended up compromising. This time she would have to ring the door bell and tell Sora she was sorry for all the mean things she said. Mimi took a deep breath
Ding Dong Ding dong
There was shuffling sounds coming from the other side, the sound got closer and closer until the door opened, revealing Sora's maid Florence.
"Ah Miss Tachikawa, come in" She said in her Irish accent.
"Miss Takenouchi is in her room, you may go up and see her" Florence said, walking away.
"Okay Mimi if Sora wants to talk to you she will, don't push it" Mimi mumbled to herself, while climbing up Sora's many stairs that led up to her bedroom.
She paused at her bedroom, Sora's music was turned up really loud, she was playing Metallica, Sora only blasted Metallica when she was mad or bumming about something, the day her mom died, Sora played three Metallica albums nonstop track to track before moving on to the Cure. Sora never cried when her mom died, she didn't cry at the funeral or when they were scattering her ashes, she didn't cry when her dad began dating again, or when he remarried, she just played Metallica, the difference was Mimi was there to comfort her, they sat their for hours not saying anything just listening to James Hetfield's voice blare over her speakers.
She knocked softly, of course Sora didn't hear that, so she let herself in, Sora was laying on her bed reading a book by Ayn Rand. She looked up, with no expression on her face, she picked up the remote to her stereo system and lowered the volume.
"You're playing Sad but true, you're that hurt?" Mimi asked softly, that was the first song Sora played when her dad told her he was remarrying, it was track number five off of Metallica's The Black Album.
"I'm not hurt" Sora said coldly, picking up her book.
"Sora I'm sorry, you know me I say or in this case write really stupid things that I don't mean" Mimi apologized, sitting at the foot of her bed.
"Mimi it hurt that you said all those things to me, when you failed to even tell me you made out with Tai, isn't that a little hypocritical?!" Sora said, her voice emotionless, her face expressionless.
"I know and I'm sorry Sora, I know if it was me I would be so mad and not forgive you but please Sora be better then me and forgive me, you've always been the better person Sora, always had a better personality then me, please Sora I'm really really sorry" Mimi said honestly, her eyes tearing up a little.
"Okay Mimi fine I forgive you" Sora said putting her book down. Mimi could tell she really hadn't though.
"You didn't mean that Sora, tell me what I can do to really make you forgive me?" Mimi asked.
"Look Meems, we're best friends chances are we always will be, its gonna take a little time for me to completely forgive you but as of now consider us Sora and Mimi again" Sora said, this time sincerely, with a light smile on her face.
"Really!?" Mimi squealed, jumping to hug her.
"Yes really" Sora laughed hugging her back.
"Now let's change the depressing music" Mimi said happily, jumping off the bed and going over to Sora's vast C.D collection, arranged in alphabetical order.
"Yes the Bangles!" Mimi exclaimed with a smile, taking out The Black Album and putting in September Gurls, her favorite Bangles album.
Soon Manic Monday was blaring from the speakers, Mimi lifted Sora off the bed and the two began dancing and it was like old times again.
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"Bye Sora, I'll see you in school" Mimi waived, opening the front door.
"You sure you don't wanna stay for dinner?" Sora asked.
"Yea I gotta get home, I'll see you later hun" Mimi hugged her, before leaving.
While walking home from Sora's, Mimi decided to give Matt a ring, see what he was up to, if he was still pissed at her or not.
"Hello?" A lazy voice answered.
"Hi" Mimi said.
"Who's this?" Matt asked, he was probably just being stupid, but Mimi decided to have a little fun.
"I can't believe last night meant nothing to you Matt Ishida and to think I gave you my virginity!" Mimi exclaimed in mock anger, making her voice high pitch and extremely breathy.
"Okay Mimi what's up?" Matt asked in a bored tone.
"Just wanted to see what you were up to" Mimi shrugged.
"Getting ready for practice" Matt replied.
"Now? It's like eight!" Mimi said surprisedly.
"I know we had a double today, any particular reason you're calling?" Matt asked again.
"Are you mad at me?" Mimi asked.
"No" Matt replied.
"You busy?" Mimi asked, but as soon as she did, she heard someone else's voice, a girl's voice. Mimi couldn't make out what she was saying or who it was but she immediately felt like an idiot.
"Well a little" Matt replied sheepishly.
"Okay well don't keep her waiting, I'll see you tomorrow" Mimi said, flipping shut her phone.
Mimi wrapped her arms around herself, it was cold out and kinda creepy, hers and Sora's houses weren't too far apart but the distance seemed longer at night, when it was dark, and no one was around, with the eerie streetlights as the only source of illumination. She started walking a little faster, getting the feeling some one was following her. Mimi knew it was probably all in her head, because the place she live was probably the safest in all of Japan but it never hurt to be too careful.
Reaching the front door of her house she fumbled with her bag trying to find her keys as quick as possible. When Mimi went to go unlock the door, she found it was already unlocked.
"I could've sworn I locked this door before leaving" Mimi said to herself confusedly, carefully stepping into her house, her phone in one hand, opened and set to 911.
"Hilda! Hilda!" She called to her maid. No answer.
"Hilda!" Mimi said a little louder, going into the kitchen, she didn't find anyone there, the backyard door was left open.
A thousand and one scenarios were running through Mimi's head at this point, all of them more gruesome then the next. She quickly grabbed her car keys and ran out the door and into her car. Mimi tried putting the key into the ignition but it wouldn't go in, soon she realized it was the wrong set of keys, she had the keys to her Porsche instead of her Corvette. Mimi jumped out in a hurry, running out of the garage, that's when she ran into who ever it was that, she assumed, had previously been in her house.
She let out a high pitched scream before looking into the face of her "enemy".
"YAMATO ISHIDA YOU HAD ME SCARED OUT OF MY MIND I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO DIE WHAT THE FUCK COULD HAVE POSSESED YOU TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!!!!!" Mimi yelled at the top of her lungs, on the brink of tears.
"Sorry Mimi I didn't mean to scare you, I came to check up on you on my way to practice, you sounded weird on the phone so I thought maybe something was wrong" Matt said apologetically.
"Wait so you went into my house?" Mimi asked.
"What? No I just got here" Matt replied.
"Oh god Matt, we have to leave I think there's someone in my house" Mimi said, her voice quivering.
"Mimi don't be stupid, come on let's go check it out" Matt said, heading towards her house.
"Please Matt I'm telling you, I never left the door unlocked, and the back yard door it it was wide open, Matt please it's dangerous" Mimi tried to tell him.
"Come on Meems, it'll take two seconds" Matt said, before stepping inside. Mimi reluctantly followed, at least if she was with Matt she'd be safe.
Matt got a bat from inside the closet before proceeding out of the Foyer and into the family room.
"See the problem with your house is that it's so damn big, you shouldn't be living her by yourself" Matt said, wandering out of the family room and into the movie room.
After inspecting the movie room, they went into the living room, then kitchen again, then into the formal dining room and all four downstairs bathroom and 3 bedrooms.
"No one needs this much living space" Matt said seriously, looking at the time.
"You're house is bigger then mine is" Mimi contradicted.
"Yea I know and I think my house is a really big waste of space too" Matt replied, making his way up the glass spiral staircase that led upstairs.
"I hate these stairs" Mimi said honestly.
Once they got upstairs right there in the middle of the floor was Hilda lying in a pool of blood.
Mimi screamed at the sight of her late housekeeper almost drowning in her own blood. At that point Mimi couldn't tell what was going on she couldn't breathe or move, she heard Matt's voice calling her name, but it sounded distant and unclear, then nothing.
Mimi woke up to the sounds of a lot of voices, and a distant siren, heading in their direction, she opened her eyes to see she was lying on her couch in the living room.
"Matt! Matt!" She yelled, hoping to god he was alright and what she had seen had all been in a nightmare and this was her waking up from it.
Matt came in as soon as heard.
"I'm here Mimi" He said sitting next to her.
"Matt is she dead?" Mimi asked.
"Yes Mimi she is" Matt replied solemnly, not looking her in the eye.
"I I can't stay here Matt I'm not safe I can't" Mimi cried.
"No one's gonna let you stay here Mimi" Matt said softly, kissing her forehead.
"You you swear?" Mimi hiccupped.
"Do I really have to?" Matt asked genuinely.
"No I believe, I guess I could stay with Sora" Mimi replied softly, her head was pounding, her heart was still beating 1000 beats a minute but was slowly calming down, she just couldn't understand why anyone would want to harm her, her of all people?! What did she do to anyone and killing her housekeeper, if there was anyone in the world that didn't deserve to die it was poor sweet Hilda who did as she was asked and never complained, always did her job with a smile, in fact she was probably the only maid her mom had kept employed for this long, a whole 6 months which was a record to her mother.
"Mimi, Mimi" Matt's voice called, snapping her out of her thoughts.
"Sorry" Mimi mumbled looking up at him with cloudy hazel eyes.
"This is Detective Joseph Ranford, he's gonna ask you some questions" Matt told her.
"I wasn't here, anything I saw I saw with you" Mimi said shaking her head furiously. "Look I'm right here and he already asked me the same questions, this is going to help put the murderer behind bars" Matt tried reasoning.
"Fine" Mimi sighed.
The man who Matt introduced as Detective Ranford sat in the seat next to Mimi, he had green eyes, light brown hair and a caring face. He was probably her father's age.
"Miss Mimi I would just like to know, do you know of anyone who has any kind of pure hatred towards you, enough to want to kill you?" He asked.
"Um no I think I'm nice to everyone and no one has ever expressed any kind of resentment towards me" Mimi replied quietly, tears lining the brim of her eyes.
"You dad maybe? As I hear he's an extremely big business man, people of power tend to make a few enemies" Detective Ranford asked.
"I don't know anyone who wouldn't like Daddy, any how he's hardly ever here, he's always on business trips anyone trying to get revenge on him or something would surely know that" Mimi told him honestly.
"Well they might not have been trying to kill him, I'm sure the attacker knew that your father wouldn't be at home, I think that whoever it was wanted to use you as a way to get to your father, maybe extort money from him or something, I don't think he/she was actually going to kill you, probably use you as bait" He analyzed.
This only made Mimi feel worst, it made her feel sick to her stomach. All the color had left her face, she was as pale as the off-white blanket that was around her. Her eyes were devoid of any emotion except fear.
"Look you've had a rough day, why don't you go home with Ishida and we'll let you decide where your temporary living arrangement is going to be as long as its not back here" Detective Ranford said kindly. He wrote down a few little notes on his clipboard before taking out the papers and putting them in a file. He gave Mimi a light smile before proceeding out of the living room.
"Did they at least move her body?" Mimi asked, getting up and going closer to Matt.
"Yea the paramedics came and took her approximate time of death before taking her somewhere" Matt replied.
"Do you want to get some of your stuff or should I ask one of the detectives to get it for you?" Matt asked gently.
"No I'll um get it, are you sure you're okay with me staying with you?" Mimi asked unsurely.
"Yes Mimi of course I'm okay with it I wouldn't have it any other way" Matt said honestly, putting his arms around her small frame.
"But there was that girl that was at your house, what about her?" Mimi asked, shivering slightly.
"Claire? Well she has her own home" Matt replied awkwardly.
"Fair enough" Mimi shrugged, not wanting to press the subject.
Mimi finally had gathered up the courage to go into her own room, a room she had once loved and adored was the same room she was scared to death to go into. There was yellow tape all around the site of Hilda's murder, her blood still an immense stain on the other wise stunningly white carpet. Mimi accompanied by several police men went into her room and gathered her stuff as quickly as possible, she packed a suitcase of 2 weeks worth of clothes at least since she had no idea when she would be able to return to her own house, her toothbrush, car keys, phone, shoes and 4 of her many bags. Mimi just wanted to get out of her house as soon as possible and she hated that feeling, of being terrified in her own home, a place that's should've felt like the safest place on earth for her.
"We can go" Mimi said to Matt.
"Okay sure" Matt said getting up.
The ride to Matt's house was a quick and quiet one, he only lived about 5 minutes away by car.
"Is your mom home?" Mimi asked.
"Yea she is but she actually has to catch a plane soon, some flight to Brazil, she told me but I wasn't really listening" Matt told her with a slight grin.
Then he started to look in his pockets, but his face quickly faltered, like he forgot something.
"You don't have your keys right?" Mimi asked, slightly arching an eyebrow.
"No" Matt said.
"You'll never change" Mimi smiled, ringing the doorbell.
Tk answered the door, he probably knew what was going n because as soon as he saw Mimi, his expression basically said I'm-so-sorry.
"Hey" Mimi said meekly.
"Come on in guys" Tk smiled, the way only Tk could.
Matt's mom was standing in the Foyer with her Louis Vuitton luggage at her feet, wearing her fur coat and Burberry scarf, she was obviously leaving some where because her eyes were feverishly eyeing her watch. Her face softened as soon as she saw Mimi.
"Oh sweetie, Matt told me, I'm so sorry, I'm meeting Richard and from there we're going to see your parents, we're going to have all of this straightened out in less then two weeks I promise" Nancy said honestly, hugging Mimi.
"Thank you" Mimi said sincerely.
"I mean to think anything like this could happen in our neighborhood, it's appalling, but not to worry as I said we're all going to take care of it, and you listen you aren't going to go any where near the house till we do, your life is the most precious thing right now, make sure you stay right here, promise?" Nancy asked seriously.
"I do, but I was thinking of staying with Sora" Mimi told her, she liked the offer but she wasn't sure if she could accept it.
"Sora's going to live here too for a while, with her parents not being there and all we don't think it's safe for any of you right now" Nancy told her.
"Sora's coming here?" I asked confusedly.
"Yes honey she is, now I want to be here for you I feel badly but your parents want to get this all sorted out they're extremely worried, now you don't stress about anything, nothing is going to happen to you here, live your life like you normally would and forget his ever happened, okay?" Nancy said convincingly.
"Okay" Mimi smiled, giving Nancy another hug.
"Okay sweetheart call your parents, they wanted me to have you call them first thing but I thought I would put my two cents in first" Nancy said with a slight smile.
"And you my boys…" Nancy said looking and Tk and Matt.
"No parties, no drinking, aside from Mimi and Sora no girls, no drugs or cigarettes, no playing baseball, hockey, football etc. etc. in the house, no breaking anything, no sliding down the banisters, no trying to lock each other in the freezer, no skateboarding, nothing that involves wheels is allowed in the house, no pets, anything I miss?" She asked raising an eyebrow at the two.
"Oh yea and no Wrestling! Matt almost pushed Tk down three flights of stairs and Tk almost broke Matt's nose once" Nancy said shaking her head at the two of them.
"We just play around Mom" Tk defended.
"Yea we're guys, that's how brothers bond" Matt added, putting Tk in a head lock.
"Matt let go of your brother, I'm not joking I want you to listen ok?" Nancy asked.
"Yes Mommy" The two of them said together.
"Okay bye kids, have fun and stay out of trouble" Nancy said, kissing Tk and Matt and giving Mimi yet another hug. They all waived goodbye to Nancy as she headed out the door to the car waiting outside.
"Yo Mimi throw me your lighter" Matt said, closing the door behind his mom.
"Where are all of yours? You buy a new one everyday" Mimi asked skeptically, going into her back pocket to retrieve her newly bought pink sparkly lighter.
"Shit I need a new pack" Mimi cursed, throwing her lighter to Matt, he caught it.
"Come out, I'll give you one" Matt said over his shoulder.
Once they finally reached Matt's backyard door, they sat out on the deck.
"You okay?" Matt asked, giving Mimi a cigarette.
"Sure, whatever life goes on" Mimi shrugged, lighting hers.
"Positive?" Matt asked, grabbing it from her.
"Hey look a shooting star" Mimi said quickly, closing her eyes and putting her hand over Matt's.
"Did you make a wish?" Mimi asked.
"No, I don't believe in that shit" Matt said honestly.
"You suck" Mimi pouted.
"Matt, I'm going out with Angelica tonight, I'll be home later" Tk said, sticking his head out of the backyard door.
"Yo it's like 11:00 man" Matt said.
"Yea that's early for you" Tk grinned.
"Use a condom" Matt grinned back.
"You're an ass" Tk said, blushing a little, before getting ready to leave.
"Wait Tk is it Angelica with the big…" Matt insinuated.
"Hell yea" Tk smirked.
"You guys are disgusting" Mimi commented, stubbing her cigarette into the ash tray.
"Alright man, I'll get in later" Tk said leaving.
"I think Tk should ask Kari out" Mimi said once she was sure Tk was gone.
"Yea why?" Matt asked, stepping on his cigarette.
"She's into him, always has been" Mimi shrugged.
"Then she should tell him" Matt said confusedly.
"Girls aren't like that" Mimi explained, getting up.
"They should be" Matt complained, following her in.
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3:30 Am
Mimi woke up sweating an panting, her throat felt scratchy and dry, she couldn't breathe, and it was like all the air escaped her lungs. She ran into the kitchen for some water before collapsing into one of the chairs. Too scared to go back into the guest room she was previously sleeping in, decided to go upstairs, to the only place she knew she'd feel safe.
Opening the door quietly, she tiptoed in. The sudden illumination startled the inhabitant out of his sleep.
"Are you okay?" He asked alarmingly.
"I'm scared" Mimi whispered.
"Okay, well do you wanna take my room?" Matt asked.
"Can I just sleep with you?" Mimi asked.
Even this late, Matt still felt the need to be a jackass.
"Well who am I to turn down a late night booty call" Matt grinned.
"No jerk, not like that just you know in the same bed" Mimi clarified.
"Aw you got my hopes up" He play pouted, making some room for her.
"Yea yea" Mimi rolled her eyes, getting into his bed. Instantly she fell asleep, hoping maybe this time when she wakes up it really will all be a dream and she could go back home with out fearing for her life.
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A/N: Review please, I realize it took a while but you know at least it's up right? Once again thanks to all you loyal reviewers and I hope you keep reviewing, tell me what you think of this new plot twist.