Title: Ship of Dreams- part 2: With Arms Wide Open
Genre: Romance (Mimi/Tai)
Censor: PG-13 for language
Author: Trinity
Email: Taichigrl@hotmail.com
Site: http://welcome.to/everythingkamiya
Dedication: The Queen of Takari, Lys, da most awesome poetry writer! I luv ya grl! (Her author name is ~Lys~ now GO pikapooch, and read her schtuff!!!!)
(A/N: I got the title from the Creed song- With Arms wide open ^^
I hopie u likey the ficcie!! ja ne, Trin)
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He stared at the pills, scowling. What would she be doing with these? Could she be......? He decided to check it out in science class.
"Tai, you're gonna be late for school!!!" Mrs. Kamiya yelled. Tai shoved the bottle in his pocket and left for school.
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"Ask her.............. " Tai told himself. He was driving her home, like he did every day.
"Bye Tai!" Mimi said as she hopped out of the car and crossed the street.
"Bye Mims!" he called after her. Tai put his right hand around the seat next to him and looked behind him so he could back up.
He saw that Mimi had left her book bag in the backseat. He looked around for her, and saw her on the oppositte side of the street a few hundered feet in front of him.
He drove parallel to her path and called out to her, but she couldn't hear him. Tai decided to follow her home and give it to her there. "Might as well ask her about the pills then too."
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He went up to the door of apartment 715, the door that he had seen her walk through only 15 minutes before. He rapped on the door, once, twice, three times.
When no one came to the door, he rang the doorbell, once, twice. Still no one answered.
He slowly put his hand on the sun-warmed doorknob. He turned it, quickly, and pushed the door open cautiously. He went in and said, "Mimi?"
He heard a door open and then close. He turned and saw Mimi. She was clinging to a towel that was clinging to her thin wet body, water droplets were glistening on her light brown hair like a golden halo.
"Tai... What are you doing here? How did you find me?" she asked, fear creeping into her voice, worry creasing her brow.
He placed her book bag gently on the floor. "You left your book bag in the car..." He said, fumbling with the small bottle in his pocket.
"Oh, well... Why don't you stay for dinner? Let me go and get dressed .. I'll be right out." She said, trying to force a smile.
"Er... okay..." Tai said as Mimi turned around and went down some hall. He heard the door open and close again.
He looked around the small apartment. There was an old chair in one
corner of the room he was standing in, and a small couch in the middle of the room, facing a tiny window.
The "family" room opened into a small kitchen with a small table with one chair sitting at it.
He glanced towards the direction in which Mimi had left. He guessed that the hall led to a bathroom and a bedroom.
"So, Tai, what can I get for ya? I'm not the best cook in the world, but I manage.." Mimi had come out of the bathroom, she was dressed in a pair of white cotton boxers that had smiley faces on them and an oversized t-shirt that had Korn's logo on it.
"Uh... I"m not really that hungry... I just needed to talk to you about something." Tai replied slowly.
Mimi looked at him and saw the pain in his eyes. She walked over to him, and put her arms around him. Realizing that he wasn't responding, she backed away cautiously and asked.
"Tai, what's wrong? Please tell me what's bothering you!"
"I'm hurting her. Might as well get it over with now, before it gets worse." He told himself.
He pulled his hand out of his pocket, taking the small pill bottle with him, and slowly let his grip on it go.
The pill bottle fell to the floor and bounced once before slowly rolling across the floor to Mimi. One by one she read the letters as they rolled towards her. M-i-f-e-p-r-i-s-t-o-n-e........
"Oh my god... he knows..." she thought, as she slowly slid down the wall
to the floor, tears streaking her face pink.
"Mind telling me why you have abortion drugs, Mimi?" Tai asked. "Why didn't you tell me you were pregnant?" He said, impatiently.
Mimi just put her face in her hands and sobbed. "I...l....." She
stammered.
"I don't want an excuse Mimi...... To tell you honestly, I wouldn't have been mad at you! God damn it, Mimi, let me into your life!"
Tai realized that he was hurting, not helping, so he shut up at that. He sat down next to her and put his arm around her comfortingly. "I'm sorry, Mims.... I didn't mean to yell like that, I just want to know what's going on......" He looked into her eyes, but she just turned her head away, her cheeks burning with
shame.
She turned back towards him, looking up into his pleading brown eyes. She gave into the large uniquely brown pools and sobbed into his shirt. He subconsciously pulled his fingers through her silky hair.
"Well..... It all started when... I was going out with this guy that I really cared for. He was my world, and I thought that there was absolutely nothing that
could happen to force us apart. One night, he took me out to dinner, like he always did and then we went to a movie. When he was driving me home, he took the long way and then pulled over his SUV and..... he....." Her voice drifted off as another
fit of tears came on.
"Shhh.... Mimi... it's okay... it's me...." Tai said comfortingly. He tilted her damp chin up towards him and looked into her puffy red eyes. He slowly kissed her tears away, one by one. "he... he raped me!!!!" Mimi cried, her voice quavering.
She sobbed loudly, the tears coming faster now. She looked up at Tai, who had suddenly stopped rubbing her hair.
He had a look of shock on his face. He quickly tried to cover up the surprise on his grief-stricken face , but he didn't do it too well. He slowly began fingering her hair again, so she continued, anger and sorrow filling her voice.
"Well, no offense, but he, being like a guy, bragged to his friends that he "got
some." They, in turn, told their friends, and somehow parents found out. They told my parents that I had "slept around." My mom and dad confronted me, and when I
tried to tell them that I had been raped, they didn't believe me..... My mom made me get a pregnancy test, and when it turned positive, they... kicked me out....."
"Why would they do such a thing?" Tai asked, anger tainting his voice.
"I don't know...All I knew was that I was out on the street with no money, and no shelter... and I was carrying a baby.." Mimi replied sorrowfully.
"When did all this happen?" Tai asked, inquisitive as always.
"So that's why there's no one here....." he thought.
"About two weeks ago....After they kicked me out, I decided to come back here... I found a job that paid decently, and the landlady of this place was generous to let me live here for fairly cheap...So.. now you know, Tai... "
"I had no idea... I'm sorry, Mimi.... But why didn't you contact me sooner? You know I would've let you stay at my place." Tai had no idea what to say, he was so dumbfounded.
"No, Taichi... it's just..... " Mimi's voice trailed off, not knowing what exactly to say.
"Why are you trying to lose the baby?" Tai asked.
"Because..... it'll remind me too much of what happened!! This baby is what screwed up my entire life!" Mimi yelled, her voice filled with angst.
"Mimi, you don't understand what your doing! First there was the bulemia..."
Mimi cut him off," You ... you knew about that?? But.. but how?" Her voice quavered a little.
"I'm not THAT dense, Mimi, contray to popular belief.... I noticed the frequent trips to the restroom after eating something. Jeez, Mimi, you know that your body will do everything it possibly can to keep that baby alive! If you try to starve yourself, then your body will kill itself to support this." Tai placed his hand on Mimi's thin abdomen.
"Tai, I know, I stopped because it wasn't working... That's why I got the mifepristone..."
"Which you don't know the side effects of! What if you die because of it!" Tai cut in.
"What if I die in childbirth, Tai? And even if I don't, I have NO way to support this baby... It will grow up without a father... Tai, I'm 16 years old... What will people think of me?"
"They won't think anything, I won't let them..." Tai said sincerely.
"Don't let an innocent child not have a chance to live.. I mean, Mimi, it's your choice, but.." Tai gulped for air. He knew that it wasn't the best way to lead his life, but... somehow, it was right...
"Mimi, I'll support you, and your baby, if.. if you'll let me."
"Tai, I couldn't put my burden on you... That would be wrong..." Mimi said.
Tai leaned down and kissed her lightly on her forehead. "But I want to..."
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Tai looked down at the sleeping form in his arms. So much had happened...He sighed slowly. He had held her in his arms while she sobbed, drenching his shirt, until she had fallen asleep.
The light shone on her forehead, the source coming from somewhere behind her, making her long, thick eyelashes dapple little patterns on her now dry, but still tear-stained cheeks.
He slowly picked her up gently, making sure she stayed asleep and began looking for her bedroom.
He ventured through the small apartment, finding the bedroom quickly. He
gently laid her down on her bed, and then sat down beside her, his back leaning against the rather uncomfortable wooden headboard.
He studied her softened features until he fell asleep.
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They awoke suddenly to a woman's sharp voice.
"I don't believe you, Mimi! I come over here to forgive you, to take you back in, and I find you in bed with this... trash! You're back to your whorish ways again, I see. You can't talk your way out of this one, young lady..." Mimi looked at her mother with fresh tears in her eyes.
" Mom.. you don't understand! Tai is a great guy who cares about me! He came over because he was worried about me!! Nothing happened, Mom! You have to believe me!" Mimi sobbed.
Tai glared at Mimi's mother. How could she hurt his Mimi like that? Weren't mothers supposed to support their children no matter what? And who was she calling "trash" anyways?
"Quit staring at me like that, young man. I suppose you're feeling pretty smug right now... You just got laid by my little girl..." Mrs. Tachikawa sneered.
"Mrs. Tachikawa, Can I talk to you? Please, we really need to get some things cleared up..." Tai pleaded.
Mimi's mom smirked. "Follow me." She turned on her heels and went out into the living room.
Tai whispered to Mimi, "Don't worry, everything is going to be okay.."
"Tai, she won't listen to you.. She doesn't listen to anyone but herself!" Mimi said quietly.
"I made an A in Law..." Tai replied, before pecking Mimi on the forehead and following Mrs. Tachikawa.
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Tai slowly held out his hand, gulping with nervousness. "Hello, Mrs. Tachikawa, er..." He paused. He could feel the sweat trickling down the back of his neck. "I'm Taichi Kamiya."
" I know who you are, Mr. star soccer player.." Mrs. Tachikawa sneered, her eyes narrowing. She looked him up and down slowly.
"My, My... Mimi sure does pick handsome ones to lay with. I mean, first there was..."
Tai cut her off. "Look, I didn't sleep with Mimi! I care about her, I respect her, and anyone," he shot Mrs. Tachikawa a glance, "and I mean ANYONE who tries to harm her or disrespect her, will have to go through me first." He said it so sincerely, that he could see in Mrs. Tachikawa's eyes that even she had been
affected by his words.
He went on. "You knew she was pregnant, why didn't you take her to a doctor? Did you know that she tried to starve herself to abortion? Did you know that that would have killed her had she realized that it wasn't working? I found mifepristone pills in her purse!"
Mrs Tachikawa got a shocked expression on her face. She groped for a harsh word, a smooth comeback, but neither would come to mind. "That's right, Mrs. Tachikawa, one of the strongest abortion drugs ever created...( A/N- not really.. I'm just saying that for effect...Gomen- read on) ... Anyways, I convinced her not to take them..."
Mrs. Tachikawa breathed a small sigh of relief. "...and she's going to keep the baby." Tai finished.
His russet eyes were flashing wildly with triumph. He had won her over.
"What? She's 16 years old!! She can't support a baby! She can barely support herself!" Mrs Tachikawa screamed at him. "My God, I don't believe you're letting her do this to herself!"
"What I don't believe is how you'd deny an unborn child's chance to live! It doesn't matter what kind of evil that it was conceived in..." Tai yelled with a voice level equal to Mrs. Tachikawa's screech. He calmed down slightly, lowering his voice. " As for the money... I have decided that I'll support Mimi and her
baby."
"What? You're going to marry her? After she was....tainted?"
"I plan to, yes. Not now, we're both too young, but I promise you this, if Mimi will have me, I will marry her once we are both finished with our schooling."
Mimi's mother had a smile pulling at the corners of her puckered mouth. "Well... I can't deny you Mimi, if she means that much to you..."
" So you'll let her back into your family?" Tai asked carefully.
"For the time being, yes..." Mrs. Tachikawa looked at him auburn
eyes twin to Mimi's.
"Thank you, Mrs. Tachikawa." He paused, before sealing the deal with a compliment. "I can see where Mimi gets her beauty."
"Flatterer..." Mimi's mother muttered, smiling slightly.
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Mimi had heard the conversation, and had tears shining in her eyes. She didn't believe what Tai had just done for her. She sighed a sigh of happiness. Life finally looked good...
Her eyes perked as she heard her mother's now kind voice. "Mimi, I know that you're at the doorway..."
Mimi ran out into the living room, into her mother's open arms. Tears ran down her face at the happy reunion.
Tai stepped back from the two hugging women and smirked. He caught Mimi's eyes for a moment and sent her a look that plainly said, "I told you so...."
He turned towards her and opened his arms. She broke the embrace with her mother and ran into Tai's open arms....
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Well I just heard
The news today
Seems my life
Is gonna change
I close my eyes
begin to pray
And tears of joy..
Stream down my face
With Arms wide open
Under the sunlight
Welcome to this place
I'll show you anything
With arms wide open
Now everything has changed
I'll show you love..
I'll show you anything
With arms wide open
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Sorry guys, no cliffhanger there... *sigh* this one was not nearly as good as part 1, in my opinion... But it wasn't THAT bad, was it?? (It wasn't as long, either ::hears claps in the background:: HEY!!!!! Only one part left to go *sniffle* I know y'all are sad!! ha.. yeah right... Send me your feedback and review PLEASE!!!!!!
Email: Taichigrl@hotmail.com
Webpage: http://welcome.to/everythingkamiya (It's a Tai shrine.. what else? lol)
Luv y'all,
Trin