~THE GOOD LIFE: MATT'S STORY, PART 3~
Hullo, everyone! Welcome to Part 3!
As you can so obviously tell, Yamato is my FAVORITE character, closely followed by Mimi. Which means...I LOVE MIMATO!!
I still do not own Digimon, and I still own the plot.
This story is rated PG-13. It is rather depressing. This part is less depressing than the other three, but still...
Let's get something straight. This story is an alternate-reality story. In this story, Matt and T.K.'s parents are not divorced, but still together. Matt, Mimi, Tai, Izzy, Joe, and Sora are in high school. T.K. and Kari are in middle school.
PLEASE READ THE FIRST TWO PARTS OR YOU WILL GET LOST.
PLEASE REVIEW!! Send E-Mails to crescent87@hotmail.com
~THE GOOD LIFE: MATT'S STORY, PART 3~
BY VENUS163
Matt followed without saying a word. His father nudged him warningly before turning to a couple equally dripping with makeup. "This is my wife, Linda," Mr. Ishida said in a fake happy tone. "Linda, this is Jonathon Tachikawa."
"And this is my wife, Marian," Mr. Tachikawa introduced in an equally fake tone. "Marian, this is Nathaniel Ishida."
The women shook hands, pretending to be cheerful.
Matt felt his mother push him roughly in front. "This is our eldest son, Yamato," she said sweetly. "Our younger son, Takeru, is standing with Hikari Kamiya," she said, pointing.
Matt watched as Mrs. Tachikawa pushed someone in the exact same manner in front of her. "And this is our daughter, Mimi."
Matt prepared for the worst, but he jumped. "Mimi?" he gasped.
Mimi's eyes widened. "Matt?"
"Am I missing something?" Mr. Ishida said in a joking tone but rather stiffly.
Matt turned to the adults. "Um, Ms. Tachikawa and I have met before."
Mimi curtsied gracefully to his parents. "Indeed we have," she said softly.
"Delightful!" her mother announced.
Matt offered Mimi his arm. "Would you care to take a walk?"
"I'd be delighted," she answered. Excusing themselves from their parents, they swiftly walked onto the balcony.
Matt grinned. "You're Mimi Tachikawa?"
Mimi smiled. "And you're Yamato Ishida?" She laughed. "Ironic, isn't it?"
"Sure is." He sat her down in a nearby chair. "So, our parents are very alike, aren't they?"
"You're telling me!" She looked over at him and suddenly took his hand. "You know, Yamato..."
"Please keep calling me Matt," he pleaded. "I don't know who you're talking to when you say Yamato."
She gave him a winsome smile. "Matt, I'm so glad it's you," she said earnestly. "My parents always talk about you, and I start to wonder who is so perfect. I didn't want to come today, but now..."
"I know how you feel," he told her. "My parents are always going on about how the Tachikawas' daughter is a perfect angel, and that I should learn from her. They were right. I SHOULD learn from her."
Mimi giggled. "Perhaps." Then she grew serious. "If I know my parents, they're going to start yelling at me about not telling them that I knew Yamato Ishida."
Matt nodded. "And mine about how I knew Mimi Tachikawa."
She smiled, but turned pale. "We need a good story that will please both pairs of parents."
"You're right. Um..." Matt began to think.
"I've got it!" Mimi said suddenly. She whispered quickly into Matt's ear.
Matt grinned. "That's brilliant!"
"Do you think your brother would be willing to help?" Mimi asked worridly.
"T.K.? 'Course he would." Matt proceeded to wave to his brother, who immediately got the message and started to walk over.
"What is it, Matt?" he asked. His eyes fell on Mimi, and he started. "Whoa, is this the famous Mimi Tachikawa? That was you?"
Mimi smiled sweetly. "Would you do a favor for us, T.K.? It's really simple..."
T.K. grinned goofily. "Sure. Anything."
Quickly Mimi proceeded to explain to T.K. what they wanted him to do. "Could you do that?" she asked when she had finished.
"Of course, Ms. Tachi-"
"Call me Mimi, or else," Mimi said threateningly.
Matt snickered. "You better, T.K."
"Alright, Mimi. I'll do it."
"Oh, thank you, T.K.!" she cried. She leaned over and kissed his cheek. "It's really nice of you..."
Matt tried to calm the sudden surge of anger and something else...
Mimi linked her arms through both Matt and T.K.'s. "Well, let's get going!"
Strategically, they stood at the punch bowl, only a couple feet from where their parents stood, talking.
"So, how'd you meet?" T.K. asked loudly.
Matt was relieved to see that both sets of parents had turned towards them. "Well, we bumped into each other in the park. Of course, I didn't know who she was, and she didn't who I was..."
"The only thing we knew about each other was that we each came from rich families," Mimi interrupted, relieving Matt. "I told him to call me Mimi, and he told me to call him Matt, so we met several times, not knowing who the other really was...until tonight."
T.K. laughed perfectly. "Seriously?"
"Seriously," Matt answered. "I had the shock of my life when I got introduced to her and found out she was really Mimi Tachikawa!"
"And I when I found out he was Yamato Ishida!" Mimi added.
"Interesting. Mimi, have you met Hikari Kamiya?"
"No, but would you introduce me to her? She sounds just lovely."
"Of course."
The three walked away gleefully, congratulating each other on the success of their plan.
Later, as it grew close to midnight, Matt took Mimi's hand. "Would you let me walk you to school Monday?" he asked quietly.
"Of course, Matt. Isn't it amazing school starts again in two days?" she replied.
"I know. Time just flies by." He kissed her hand. "Good-bye, Mimi."
Mimi blushed prettily. "Good-bye, Matt."
Matt blissfully stared out the window on the drive home.
His father cleared his throat. "I heard how you and Ms. Tachikawa met, Yamato."
Matt tore his gaze from the window and nodded. "So?"
"I'm just proud that my son went and made her aquaintance without being forced to," he said gruffly.
Matt nearly jumped. That was the first nice thing his father had ever said to him. "Thanks," he said softly.
Matt walked besides Mimi, carrying her bookbag, and listening with rapt attention to something she was saying. He would never tire of listening to her musical voice.
"...and so, that's how it happened," she finished. "Wicked cool, huh?"
"Uh-huh," he answered, gazing at her. He would never completely understand how he became so blessed by meeting this angel.
Mimi blushed. "What is it?"
Matt shook his head. "Nothing." He then straightened. "Do you want to sit together at lunch?"
Mimi sighed in relief. "I'm so glad you asked. My friends have been avoiding me, like I'm getting weird or something, so I would have had to sit alone if you hadn't asked."
Matt nodded. "So have mine. I'm just glad I have someone who understands me, and is my true friend," he said, looking at her again.
Mimi said nothing, but a small smile graced her lips.
Matt followed her to her locker. He watched as she twirled her combination. "I had a lot of fun last Saturday at the party, you know. I've never had so much fun before. Everyone was so boring...Uh!" she grunted, trying to get her locker open. "Oh great! It's stuck!"
Matt carefully put her bookbag onto the floor. "Let me try," he asked her.
Mimi stepped back, and Matt took a hold of her lock. With one strong pull, the lock unstuck, and her locker swung open.
Mimi flashed him a grateful smile. "Thanks, Matt."
"You're welcome," Matt answered gruffly, her smile causing him to melt.
"Well, you better get to your locker, too," Mimi told him, "or else you'll be late to class. I'll see you in music, alright?"
Matt nodded. "Yeah."
It took him double the usual amount of time for him to get to class, for he was thinking of Mimi.
Taichi Kamiya, Kari's older brother, walked up to him. They had never been very close, but they got along. "So, are you going out with Mimi Tachikawa?" he asked.
Matt answered truthfully, "I wish. We're just friends."
Taichi's friends Koushiro Izumi and Jyou Kido walked over.
"Did you know that there's a high probability of friends going out?" Koushiro asked him.
"No..."
"Does she like you?" Jyou asked eagerly.
"Yes..."
"Does she like you like you?"
"I dunno..."
"You're okay, Yamato," Taichi laughed. "You're okay."
"We didn't know before," Jyou explained, "because you seemed so distant."
"We finally managed to talk to you, and look what happened!" Koushiro explained.
Matt felt tears in his eyes, but he blinked them away. "It's just that I never had any true friends before. The guys I hung out with pretended to be my friends, but they never really were. My first true friend was Mimi."
Taichi nodded. "Well, you'll have three more friends, Yamato. Call me Tai, call Koushiro Izzy, and call Jyou Joe."
Matt grinned. "And you guys call me Matt."
The boys were forced back to their seats when the teacher walked in, but Matt didn't care. He had friends.
"...so I'm starting to feel something else for her, but she doesn't know," Matt whispered to his new friends at lunch. "And I don't think she wants us to be anything more than friends."
"Have you asked her?" Tai asked.
"No..."
"Than how do you know?" Joe asked.
"Psychics are very rare..." began Izzy.
"Matt!"
All four boys looked up to see Mimi and another girl walk towards them.
Matt immediately stood up and pulled out a seat for her. "Have a seat, Ms. Tachikawa."
Mimi giggled. "Thank you, Mr. Ishida."
The girl laughed. "You're right, Mimi, he is a perfect gentleman."
Matt snickered as Tai got up and also pulled out a seat. "Please sit down, Ms. Takenouchi."
"Why, thank you, Mr. Kamiya."
"Tai's had the biggest crush on her for the last year," Joe whispered confidingly to Matt.
"Hey Matt, this is my new friend Sora Takenouchi," Mimi introduced.
"Hello, Sora. And Mimi, they are my new friends, Taichi Kamiya (Tai), Koushiro Izumi (Izzy), and Jyou Kido (Joe)."
"Hello," Mimi replied sunnily.
"Tai," Matt asked, suddenly remembering the night of the party, "are you protective of your little sister?"
"Yes...why?"
"Um...my little brother kinda sorta has a thing for her..."
"WHAT??"
"Don't worry about it, Tai," Mimi said, casually eating some salad. "Takeru Ishida is a perfect angel. Sure, he has a crush on Hikari, but he's had it for ten years, and they're still friends..."
"Where'd you find that out?" Matt asked, stunned.
"Oh, Takeru confided in me about his girl troubles," Mimi answered airily. "See, he really likes Hikari, but he's scared that if he makes a move, he'll scare her away, so he's kind of at a standstill."
"And what'd you tell him?" Tai asked in a strained voice.
"Oh, not to do anything yet. When both are ready. I think Takeru liked that idea, so as far as I know, they're still friends."
"Good advice, Mimi," Sora complimented. "I'd have said the same."
"You should see T.K. at home," Matt laughed. "There's a Hikari Kamiya shrine in his closet. He thinks that I don't know about it, but I found it a year ago..."
"A SHRINE??" Tai spat out his soda. "TO MY SISTER??"
"Oh, I've seen it," Mimi assured Tai, "and it's nothing obsessive. All the pictures of her he could get his hands on placed in a box, anything and everything that reminds him of her, even in the slightest way...oh yeah, I forgot the letters."
"LETTERS? AS IN LOVE LETTERS??"
"Love letters? When'd he start writing those?" Matt asked curiously.
"He says he started a couple months ago," Mimi answered frankly, "but I think some date back to the third grade. But they're all so sweet! He told me to pick some and read them..."
"What'd he write?" Tai asked, in a VERY strained voice.
"Um, he kept writing about how beautiful she was, and how kind and lo..." Mimi took one look at Tai before saying, "...caring. A little poetry, good for a first try, and some quotes..."
"AND THAT'S NOT OBSESSIVE??" Tai roared.
"How did you get T.K. to show you all that stuff?" Matt asked.
"He wanted to prove how much he really cared about her," Mimi answered, her hands clasped together. "It was so sweet, and I knew that he would NEVER hurt her, not for anything. And you should have seen the way he'd look at her picture..."
At that moment, the teachers on lunch duty made it clear that lunch was over.
Mimi smiled. "Oh, I had a great time. See you guys later!" She and Sora walked off.
Tai got up sullenly. "Someone's obsessed with my innocent little sister..." he grumbled.
Matt, Izzy, and Joe looked at each other, then started to laugh.
~END OF THE GOOD LIFE: MATT'S STORY, PART 3~
~TO BE CONTINUED...IN THE GOOD LIFE: MATT'S STORY, PART 4~
So, what's going to happen between Matt and Mimi? Is Tai going to get with Sora? What's with T.K. and Kari?
Yay! So, did you like? Send all reviews to crescent87@hotmail.com
I promise, romance in the last part.
-Venus163
Hullo, everyone! Welcome to Part 3!
As you can so obviously tell, Yamato is my FAVORITE character, closely followed by Mimi. Which means...I LOVE MIMATO!!
I still do not own Digimon, and I still own the plot.
This story is rated PG-13. It is rather depressing. This part is less depressing than the other three, but still...
Let's get something straight. This story is an alternate-reality story. In this story, Matt and T.K.'s parents are not divorced, but still together. Matt, Mimi, Tai, Izzy, Joe, and Sora are in high school. T.K. and Kari are in middle school.
PLEASE READ THE FIRST TWO PARTS OR YOU WILL GET LOST.
PLEASE REVIEW!! Send E-Mails to crescent87@hotmail.com
~THE GOOD LIFE: MATT'S STORY, PART 3~
BY VENUS163
Matt followed without saying a word. His father nudged him warningly before turning to a couple equally dripping with makeup. "This is my wife, Linda," Mr. Ishida said in a fake happy tone. "Linda, this is Jonathon Tachikawa."
"And this is my wife, Marian," Mr. Tachikawa introduced in an equally fake tone. "Marian, this is Nathaniel Ishida."
The women shook hands, pretending to be cheerful.
Matt felt his mother push him roughly in front. "This is our eldest son, Yamato," she said sweetly. "Our younger son, Takeru, is standing with Hikari Kamiya," she said, pointing.
Matt watched as Mrs. Tachikawa pushed someone in the exact same manner in front of her. "And this is our daughter, Mimi."
Matt prepared for the worst, but he jumped. "Mimi?" he gasped.
Mimi's eyes widened. "Matt?"
"Am I missing something?" Mr. Ishida said in a joking tone but rather stiffly.
Matt turned to the adults. "Um, Ms. Tachikawa and I have met before."
Mimi curtsied gracefully to his parents. "Indeed we have," she said softly.
"Delightful!" her mother announced.
Matt offered Mimi his arm. "Would you care to take a walk?"
"I'd be delighted," she answered. Excusing themselves from their parents, they swiftly walked onto the balcony.
Matt grinned. "You're Mimi Tachikawa?"
Mimi smiled. "And you're Yamato Ishida?" She laughed. "Ironic, isn't it?"
"Sure is." He sat her down in a nearby chair. "So, our parents are very alike, aren't they?"
"You're telling me!" She looked over at him and suddenly took his hand. "You know, Yamato..."
"Please keep calling me Matt," he pleaded. "I don't know who you're talking to when you say Yamato."
She gave him a winsome smile. "Matt, I'm so glad it's you," she said earnestly. "My parents always talk about you, and I start to wonder who is so perfect. I didn't want to come today, but now..."
"I know how you feel," he told her. "My parents are always going on about how the Tachikawas' daughter is a perfect angel, and that I should learn from her. They were right. I SHOULD learn from her."
Mimi giggled. "Perhaps." Then she grew serious. "If I know my parents, they're going to start yelling at me about not telling them that I knew Yamato Ishida."
Matt nodded. "And mine about how I knew Mimi Tachikawa."
She smiled, but turned pale. "We need a good story that will please both pairs of parents."
"You're right. Um..." Matt began to think.
"I've got it!" Mimi said suddenly. She whispered quickly into Matt's ear.
Matt grinned. "That's brilliant!"
"Do you think your brother would be willing to help?" Mimi asked worridly.
"T.K.? 'Course he would." Matt proceeded to wave to his brother, who immediately got the message and started to walk over.
"What is it, Matt?" he asked. His eyes fell on Mimi, and he started. "Whoa, is this the famous Mimi Tachikawa? That was you?"
Mimi smiled sweetly. "Would you do a favor for us, T.K.? It's really simple..."
T.K. grinned goofily. "Sure. Anything."
Quickly Mimi proceeded to explain to T.K. what they wanted him to do. "Could you do that?" she asked when she had finished.
"Of course, Ms. Tachi-"
"Call me Mimi, or else," Mimi said threateningly.
Matt snickered. "You better, T.K."
"Alright, Mimi. I'll do it."
"Oh, thank you, T.K.!" she cried. She leaned over and kissed his cheek. "It's really nice of you..."
Matt tried to calm the sudden surge of anger and something else...
Mimi linked her arms through both Matt and T.K.'s. "Well, let's get going!"
Strategically, they stood at the punch bowl, only a couple feet from where their parents stood, talking.
"So, how'd you meet?" T.K. asked loudly.
Matt was relieved to see that both sets of parents had turned towards them. "Well, we bumped into each other in the park. Of course, I didn't know who she was, and she didn't who I was..."
"The only thing we knew about each other was that we each came from rich families," Mimi interrupted, relieving Matt. "I told him to call me Mimi, and he told me to call him Matt, so we met several times, not knowing who the other really was...until tonight."
T.K. laughed perfectly. "Seriously?"
"Seriously," Matt answered. "I had the shock of my life when I got introduced to her and found out she was really Mimi Tachikawa!"
"And I when I found out he was Yamato Ishida!" Mimi added.
"Interesting. Mimi, have you met Hikari Kamiya?"
"No, but would you introduce me to her? She sounds just lovely."
"Of course."
The three walked away gleefully, congratulating each other on the success of their plan.
Later, as it grew close to midnight, Matt took Mimi's hand. "Would you let me walk you to school Monday?" he asked quietly.
"Of course, Matt. Isn't it amazing school starts again in two days?" she replied.
"I know. Time just flies by." He kissed her hand. "Good-bye, Mimi."
Mimi blushed prettily. "Good-bye, Matt."
Matt blissfully stared out the window on the drive home.
His father cleared his throat. "I heard how you and Ms. Tachikawa met, Yamato."
Matt tore his gaze from the window and nodded. "So?"
"I'm just proud that my son went and made her aquaintance without being forced to," he said gruffly.
Matt nearly jumped. That was the first nice thing his father had ever said to him. "Thanks," he said softly.
Matt walked besides Mimi, carrying her bookbag, and listening with rapt attention to something she was saying. He would never tire of listening to her musical voice.
"...and so, that's how it happened," she finished. "Wicked cool, huh?"
"Uh-huh," he answered, gazing at her. He would never completely understand how he became so blessed by meeting this angel.
Mimi blushed. "What is it?"
Matt shook his head. "Nothing." He then straightened. "Do you want to sit together at lunch?"
Mimi sighed in relief. "I'm so glad you asked. My friends have been avoiding me, like I'm getting weird or something, so I would have had to sit alone if you hadn't asked."
Matt nodded. "So have mine. I'm just glad I have someone who understands me, and is my true friend," he said, looking at her again.
Mimi said nothing, but a small smile graced her lips.
Matt followed her to her locker. He watched as she twirled her combination. "I had a lot of fun last Saturday at the party, you know. I've never had so much fun before. Everyone was so boring...Uh!" she grunted, trying to get her locker open. "Oh great! It's stuck!"
Matt carefully put her bookbag onto the floor. "Let me try," he asked her.
Mimi stepped back, and Matt took a hold of her lock. With one strong pull, the lock unstuck, and her locker swung open.
Mimi flashed him a grateful smile. "Thanks, Matt."
"You're welcome," Matt answered gruffly, her smile causing him to melt.
"Well, you better get to your locker, too," Mimi told him, "or else you'll be late to class. I'll see you in music, alright?"
Matt nodded. "Yeah."
It took him double the usual amount of time for him to get to class, for he was thinking of Mimi.
Taichi Kamiya, Kari's older brother, walked up to him. They had never been very close, but they got along. "So, are you going out with Mimi Tachikawa?" he asked.
Matt answered truthfully, "I wish. We're just friends."
Taichi's friends Koushiro Izumi and Jyou Kido walked over.
"Did you know that there's a high probability of friends going out?" Koushiro asked him.
"No..."
"Does she like you?" Jyou asked eagerly.
"Yes..."
"Does she like you like you?"
"I dunno..."
"You're okay, Yamato," Taichi laughed. "You're okay."
"We didn't know before," Jyou explained, "because you seemed so distant."
"We finally managed to talk to you, and look what happened!" Koushiro explained.
Matt felt tears in his eyes, but he blinked them away. "It's just that I never had any true friends before. The guys I hung out with pretended to be my friends, but they never really were. My first true friend was Mimi."
Taichi nodded. "Well, you'll have three more friends, Yamato. Call me Tai, call Koushiro Izzy, and call Jyou Joe."
Matt grinned. "And you guys call me Matt."
The boys were forced back to their seats when the teacher walked in, but Matt didn't care. He had friends.
"...so I'm starting to feel something else for her, but she doesn't know," Matt whispered to his new friends at lunch. "And I don't think she wants us to be anything more than friends."
"Have you asked her?" Tai asked.
"No..."
"Than how do you know?" Joe asked.
"Psychics are very rare..." began Izzy.
"Matt!"
All four boys looked up to see Mimi and another girl walk towards them.
Matt immediately stood up and pulled out a seat for her. "Have a seat, Ms. Tachikawa."
Mimi giggled. "Thank you, Mr. Ishida."
The girl laughed. "You're right, Mimi, he is a perfect gentleman."
Matt snickered as Tai got up and also pulled out a seat. "Please sit down, Ms. Takenouchi."
"Why, thank you, Mr. Kamiya."
"Tai's had the biggest crush on her for the last year," Joe whispered confidingly to Matt.
"Hey Matt, this is my new friend Sora Takenouchi," Mimi introduced.
"Hello, Sora. And Mimi, they are my new friends, Taichi Kamiya (Tai), Koushiro Izumi (Izzy), and Jyou Kido (Joe)."
"Hello," Mimi replied sunnily.
"Tai," Matt asked, suddenly remembering the night of the party, "are you protective of your little sister?"
"Yes...why?"
"Um...my little brother kinda sorta has a thing for her..."
"WHAT??"
"Don't worry about it, Tai," Mimi said, casually eating some salad. "Takeru Ishida is a perfect angel. Sure, he has a crush on Hikari, but he's had it for ten years, and they're still friends..."
"Where'd you find that out?" Matt asked, stunned.
"Oh, Takeru confided in me about his girl troubles," Mimi answered airily. "See, he really likes Hikari, but he's scared that if he makes a move, he'll scare her away, so he's kind of at a standstill."
"And what'd you tell him?" Tai asked in a strained voice.
"Oh, not to do anything yet. When both are ready. I think Takeru liked that idea, so as far as I know, they're still friends."
"Good advice, Mimi," Sora complimented. "I'd have said the same."
"You should see T.K. at home," Matt laughed. "There's a Hikari Kamiya shrine in his closet. He thinks that I don't know about it, but I found it a year ago..."
"A SHRINE??" Tai spat out his soda. "TO MY SISTER??"
"Oh, I've seen it," Mimi assured Tai, "and it's nothing obsessive. All the pictures of her he could get his hands on placed in a box, anything and everything that reminds him of her, even in the slightest way...oh yeah, I forgot the letters."
"LETTERS? AS IN LOVE LETTERS??"
"Love letters? When'd he start writing those?" Matt asked curiously.
"He says he started a couple months ago," Mimi answered frankly, "but I think some date back to the third grade. But they're all so sweet! He told me to pick some and read them..."
"What'd he write?" Tai asked, in a VERY strained voice.
"Um, he kept writing about how beautiful she was, and how kind and lo..." Mimi took one look at Tai before saying, "...caring. A little poetry, good for a first try, and some quotes..."
"AND THAT'S NOT OBSESSIVE??" Tai roared.
"How did you get T.K. to show you all that stuff?" Matt asked.
"He wanted to prove how much he really cared about her," Mimi answered, her hands clasped together. "It was so sweet, and I knew that he would NEVER hurt her, not for anything. And you should have seen the way he'd look at her picture..."
At that moment, the teachers on lunch duty made it clear that lunch was over.
Mimi smiled. "Oh, I had a great time. See you guys later!" She and Sora walked off.
Tai got up sullenly. "Someone's obsessed with my innocent little sister..." he grumbled.
Matt, Izzy, and Joe looked at each other, then started to laugh.
~END OF THE GOOD LIFE: MATT'S STORY, PART 3~
~TO BE CONTINUED...IN THE GOOD LIFE: MATT'S STORY, PART 4~
So, what's going to happen between Matt and Mimi? Is Tai going to get with Sora? What's with T.K. and Kari?
Yay! So, did you like? Send all reviews to crescent87@hotmail.com
I promise, romance in the last part.
-Venus163