Karush: Nope, cannot happen. This story is based on Matt becoming a father. You can hate the mother but we cannot change the plot. Besides, Sora might like Matt as a father. (hint).
Broken Angel01: This next one is a slow chapter, sorry.
Stained In Negativity: I still expected an update from your story. I see that you did, which is good, I need to something to read tomorrow and Broken Angel updated her own story so I now have two I must read!
FallenArchangelDD: Thank you for your reply. It is one of my favourite chapters in this story also. I was up very late writing that up. Now I find I am up late again.
JyouraKoumi: As always, thank you very much for your replies. Any story I write, even if I get one review, I know you are reading them.
Digi-Girl101: Still reading then. I have not bored you so far. Good.
wolf's lament: I hope I put a few humorous parts into the next chapter. However, it is only a chapter to bring on the next stage for the story.
"You can't leave us here!" Matt glared at the pretty brunette that stood boldly between Matt and the pink, whined up, Barbie looking vehicle.
The small group stood in front of the dimmed out diner trying to make sense out of Mimi, who proved to be more maddening then they had first expected. The sky was dark; the air was light and would have been enjoyable with dry clothes. Mimi refused to let Sora, Tai and Matt into her car, so they stood in the parking lot, shivering, teeth chattering, cheeks flushed with cold, begging to be warm.
Mimi just stood before them with her arms crossed, her head moving back and forth and her legs apart in a stance.
Tai thought she looked beautiful with her hair bouncing around her shoulders, the crest of the moon at her back casting a pale spot light into the darkness. She was an angel of the night, shining before him.
Sora thought she was being ridicules about the whole situation. It wasn't practically for them to be standing in a disserted parking miles from the nearest authorities. The diner could be picked for a robbery and there they were four teenagers. Good look ones at that! No telling what the perverts might be thinking! Sora swallowed and looked around, trying to glimpse what was behind the darken trees.
Matt felt that the lake was a prefect place to drop off her body after he killed her. There were plenty of rocks to weigh down her body. Of course he might get jail time but was he really going to miss thirty years? Hell, he could always put in a plea of insanity. Tonight was not the night for her to pull off one of her spoiled tantrums. He was freezing! The insects were using his blood as a Popsicle treat! He glared over at Tai, who for some odd reason held the most ridicule grin that Matt had ever seen the boy make, and Tai had made several disturbing faces since Matt had known him.
"Don't be silly, Matt." Mimi rolled her eyes. "I would never do that to you friends!"
"Glad to hear that but…" Matt looked helpless.
"You just told us we couldn't get in!" Sora cut her blonde friend off looking distraught.
"Well, yes. Not as if you cannot get in but not like you are now. I mean, look at yourselves! You people are all wet! My seats will absorb your um…"
"Wetness?" Tai asked.
"Yes, your wetness. Thank you."
"No problem." Tai beamed.
"Whose side are you on?" Matt shot Tai a death glare.
"Err…yours." Tai slipped his hands in his jean pockets.
"Want to act like it then?" Matt hissed.
"Excuse me." Mimi snapped her fingers in front of Matt to get his attention back to her. "We are talking about my car and how my car will have a repulsive stench to it. I cannot have that. I can't be remembered as the girl with the stinkest car seats."
"I don't think stinkest is a word." Matt told her.
"The point is!" Mimi glared at Matt. "You simple cannot ride in my car like that." She pulled Sora's tennis bag out of her trunk. "Sora you can put your practice cloths on. I know you were all sweaty in them but at least we can keep the windows down if need be to let the fowl aroma circulate out of the car."
Sora glared at her friend, snatching the bag out of her hands. "And where am I supposed to change? If you hadn't notice, the diner is closed!" Sora threw her hands in the direction of the diner.
"Change on the other side of the car." Mimi blinked at Sora, not understanding what the big deal was; after all, they are in a deserted parking lot. "I won't let the boys look."
"That's fine for her but what about us?" Matt asked.
"Oh don't be silly Matt. You can't fit into anything she wears and you would simple look ridiculous!" Mimi giggled.
Matt started to walk towards her with outstretched arms but Tai stuck his hand out, hitting Matt in the chest.
"Careful." Tai warned his friend. "She is the only one with the car keys."
"I have a blanket and a towel in the car. You two can stripe down to your boxers or…" Mimi blushed, "Whatever it is you wear under jeans."
"What?" Matt asked.
"Don't be modest, Matt." Mimi smiled, "I understand that you don't mind taking your pants off…"
"Okay." Tai stepped between the two. "Enough. Mimi you cannot expect us to take our clothes off. Not with out you offering to slip out of your own clothes."
"Okay, now you are walking." Mimi spun on her heels.
"Thanks a lot!" Matt hissed at Tai.
"Can't blame me for trying!" Tai kept on smiling. "Fine, for you Meems We'll shed our cloths."
Sora came around the other side to see Matt shivering in a cover and a towel draped around Tai's waist.
"Wow Mimi. Two boys in fifteen minutes? Not bad." Sora winked.
"Let's go." Mimi smiled and bounced to her car, unlocking all the doors. Matt and Tai carried their clothes and shoes, wincing over the loose stones, before they reached their side of the car; both boys were cursing Mimi under their breaths.
"Hang your pants out the window," Matt advised his friend.
"I am not going down an interstate with your pants draping out my windows!" Mimi shouted.
"Please," Matt rolled his eyes. "I'm not walking into my apartment while trying to jump into a wet pair of jeans!"
"I've done it before," Tai shook his head. "You can evacuate an elevator door real fast trying to do that stunt.''
"Fine! But if we get pulled over…."
"You can explain to the officer why you have two naked boys in your car." Tai smiled over at his friend.
"Whatever…" Mimi put the car into gear and spun out of the diner.
The way home was long, with an assortment of twist and turns on a rural road. Matt loved it. He put his head back to view out of Mimi's sunroof. With half closed eyes, he listen to the hum of the car as it glided down the road easily. He loved the night with the stars above, the shadows no longer lurking behind corners but covering the land, the clear crisp air, and the gentle clean breeze. It felt, as the road was only theirs to travel. No one existed but them and the world was theirs for the taking. He loved the darken hours were time seem to slow to a stand still. Life seems more real and not played out for a show as people seem to do during the day.
Sora glanced over at the blonde hair boy beside her as she felt his head fall against her shoulder. The boy's eyes closed lightly, his eyelashes thick and blonde against his cheek. A tender brush of his hair, soft and pale against the light of the night, caressed against Sora's cheek. She watched his chest move, slow and even as he slumbered. Darkness, she did not mind it as much as some did. She preferred the dawn over it all. A twilight between day and night where shadows were long and people seemed happier and more relaxed and the sun shone in a reddish hue. The night was a trap, seducing the romantic souls and feeding the hungry souls with the same passion. Night was exotic, a thing that Sora knew nothing about. She took in a deep breath of the night airs before snuggling down the seat, her head pressed against the top of her friend's. She let her eyes close, only to rest them against the heavy feeling, she thought to herself.
Tai glanced back at the seat, a slow smile tugging at the corner of his lips. His two best friends were leaning against each other; sleep had caught up with both of them in the car. In the back seat, the windows rolled up against a pair of jeans that flapped in the air to dry as they drove. Tai turned his eyes to the girl at the wheel. The windows down on both sides in the front seats caused a slight chaos of swirls of wind which made Mimi's hair dance before Tai's eyes. Her soft brown strains rose off her shoulders, circle before falling back against her shoulders, only to repeat. Mimi tried to calm her long main, tucking her hair behind her ear or brushing it aside. He vision her during the mornings, just waking up and not yet perfect but magnificent in his eyes. With her hair arranged against the pillow, her skin flushed, her eyes holding fresh memories of her night dreams…..he turned quickly to the window and stuck his head out to allow the cool breeze to slide over his face.
"What are you doing?" Mimi laughed, trying to pull Tai back inside the car.
"Just enjoying the night." Tai answered, closing his eyes as he did so. The wind blowing hard in his face and through his hair made him forgets of his daydream. Almost.
Mimi giggled, turning her eyes back on the road. Soon they would come into the city. Mimi wrinkled her nose. She hated the city at night. Things lurked and waited behind ever corner. The roads were vacant, the streets empty of pedestrians. The night covered things that you would normally see like a thick blanket, slowly smothering you. She never understood the people that came out of their dwellings during the time of the day when light was scarce. She bit the bottom of her lip before reaching over and pulling Tai back in.
Once pulling into the school's parking lot, where Matt and Tai abandon their own vehicles, the girls slipped out of the car as the boys slipped their clothes back on, with some difficulties. Tai came out of the car with his shirt and pants inside out. Matt still was having trouble, as he exist, trying to find which way his shirt was suppose to go.
"Here," Sora took control of Matt's shirt and rearranged the material to fit over him correctly. "We don't want your father thinking you were doing something that you weren't."
"Well, this is good-bye then." Mimi smiled. "See you boys in a few hours!"
"Huh?" Tai looked over at Matt.
"She means tomorrow." Matt mumbled.
"Sleep!" Tai smiled, "I love sleeping."
"I know you do." Matt watched as Sora climbed into Mimi's contraption.
"Almost as much as food. I think I like sleeping more." Tai bit the inside of his cheek. "Right now I defiantly would pick sleep over food."
"I fine that hard to believe." Matt laughed.
"Hey, Matt." Tai stopped in his tracks. "She didn't give me a good-night kiss."
"I'm not either!"
He couldn't see his victim but he knew he was there under the shield of invisibility. Slowly, the lonely boy crept out from his hiding place, rolling on the ground to dart behind another object. Still, his victim did not move. The boy started to have doubt; perhaps his victim moved and now was vacating another area. The blonde hair boys slid close to the ground, pulling himself along the ground with his elbows. He slowly reached a hand up and grabs his victim's invisible cloak, pulling off and jumping on top of his victim. He pinned the other's arms down above the victims head and leaned his face close enough to feel him breath.
"What the hell are you doing?" Matt looked directly into the blue eyes of his brother.
"Just waking you up." Tk leaned back to give his brother space.
"You are a scary individual." Matt bucked his brother off, turned on his side and pulled the covers back over his head.
"Hey Matt?"
"What?" Matt growled.
"You're not going back to sleep are you?" Tk poked his back.
"Yes, now go away."
"You can't go back to sleep."
"Watch be, but watch from a corner in the room. You're bugging me."
"But Grand-père and Grand-mère are going to take us out for breakfeast."
"What?" Matt pulled the covers from his head.
"Grand-père and Grand-mère are taking us out for breakfast or petit déjeuner!" Tk smiled down at his brother.
Matt glared at his brother for a moment. "Could have warned me."
"You were sleeping." Tk shrugged.
"Whatever." Matt sat up on his bed, placed both feet on the carpet. "What do you think of the name Ryoko?"
Ryoko is a character from Broken-Angel's story called "Following the Footsteps of Destiny". This is one of the stories that I have been reading. Broken Angel 01 gave me permission to use this character as Matt's child. In her story, also this character is Matt and Mimi's child whois now involved in an adventure in the digi-world with other friends. In my opinion, this story is very close to season one (my favourite season). Thank you again, Broken Angel!