~THE GOOD LIFE: MATT'S STORY, PART 4~
Hi, everyone! Welcome to the last part of Matt's story. All the romance is in here. Nothing graphic, just wholesome romance.
I DO NOT OWN DIGIMON, AND I NEVER WILL, BUT THE PLOT IS MINE, AND ALWAYS WILL BE!!
It's rated PG-13, due to a depressing plot. I'm sorry, but I just HAD to torture T.K...
Cliffhanger for T.K.!! If you want to know about him and Kari, you have to wait for their part of the series.
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, and Joe are in high school. Sora is too, but she's not mentioned in this Part, just in Part 3. She'll be mentioned more in Mimi's Story. T.K. and Kari are in middle school.
Send all reviews to crescent87@hotmail.com
The next parts that are going to be up is Mimi's story.
Well, let's read MIMATO!!
~THE GOOD LIFE: MATT'S STORY, PART 4~
BY VENUS163
"Where have you been?" Mrs. Ishida demanded as soon as Matt opened the door. "I was..."
"My fault, Mrs. Ishida," Tai said smoothly, coming inside behind him. "I insisted he come over to my house to do homework."
"We did all of it," Joe added.
"It went rather quickly," Izzy put in.
Mrs. Ishida immediately put on a big, fake smile. "Oh, then that's alright. Come in, Taichi, Koushiro. You too, Jyou."
Matt gestured toward the stairs. "We're going up to my room." The three boys shrugged and followed him up.
Tai immediately elbowed him. "Where's Takeru's room? I've gotta take a look at his shrine to my little sister!"
Matt glanced at his watch. "Okay, T.K.'s not going to be home for an hour. I guess we can check it out." Carefully checking for servants, he flung open the door to T.K.'s room.
He gingerly opened the closet door. "I just hope he hasn't rigged anything..."
Tai threw himself onto the cardboard box. Carefully opening it, he took out a handful of papers. "I'm going to start with the letters," he said matter-of-factly.
"I'll look at the pictures," Joe volunteered.
"I'll take whatever's left," Izzy said.
"And I'll stand guard," Matt added.
After a few moments of silence, Matt broke it. "Tai, why don't you read them aloud? I want to know what my brother wrote."
"Alright." Tai cleared his throat. " 'My dearest Kari'... DEAREST?? WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS??"
"Just keep going," Joe demanded. He was curious, just like all the boys.
"Fine...Ahem. 'My dearest Kari, have you ever thought about soulmates? Two people destined to be with each other for the rest of their lives? I have. I wish that you were my soulmate, though I know very well that it is impossible. You are impossibly beyond my reach, though I can dream of you and love you from afar' ...LOVE??"
"If you keep stopping I'll read them!" Matt snapped.
Tai nodded. "Alright, alright. Now, let's see...ah, here it is. 'You are as beautiful and as perfect as a rose, but without its thorns. Kind, loving...none of those words can describe you, as no words can describe what I feel for you, for they are all too small.
" 'I wonder if you feel the same way as I do, though I know perfectly well that you do not. I am just Takeru Ishida, a childhood friend to you, and it hurts me to know that, but I am happy if you are happy.
" 'I fell in love with you the first time we met, Kari. Do you remember? We were six. You came and sat in the sandbox with me at the playground. We dug holes together.
" 'I realized that I loved you three years ago. A neighborhood bully had been bullying you, and you had started to cry. It hurt me to see you cry. I went and chased the bully away, and then I comforted you. And I found out that I'd rather die than see you cry, ever again. You stopped crying and gave me a big smile. It was then I knew that I loved you.
" 'Kari, I would rather die having loved you than live a thousand years without having met you. You are my angel, whether you want to be or not. I would give my life if it would make you happy in any way.
" 'It is inevitable that you fall in love with someone else in the future. I wish you happiness, Kari. Forget me. You do not need my love for you hanging over your head. But if he hurts you in any way, Kari, I'll be there.
" 'I'll always watch over you and love you, but from a distance. No matter what happens- to me...or to you, I will eternally love you. With me, my first love is my last love, and a doomed love at it, too.
" 'If you ever need me, my beloved Kari, just call and I'll be there for you. Otherwise I'll just disappear from your life, claiming only a small corner of your friendship, though I wish for more.
" 'This letter was never supposed to reach you, but if it does... I just want you to know that I meant every single word. My love for you will last for forever and a day...until summer turns into winter...until there is no love in the world...until the day I breath my last breath.
" 'Your friend, Takeru Ishida. April 24- Our anniversary as friends.' "
Tai lowered the letter, trembling. Joe had long ago abandoned the pictures, likewise Izzy had forgotten the other contents of the box. Matt sat, open-mouthed, in the doorway.
"April 24," Izzy said, breaking the silence. "That was yesterday."
"He's so young..." Joe murmured.
"I-I never knew..." Matt breathed. "He was my brother, and I never knew..."
Tai was staring at the paper in his hand. "He-he truly cares for her," he choked. "He truly loves her. He loves her enough to give her up for life because he thinks she's happy the way she is."
Wordlessly, Matt started putting everything back in the box.
Joe began to help. "We don't have the right to invade his privacy any further," he whispered.
"He seemed so innocent," Izzy said, helping them out. "But he already had to go through one of the biggest hurts that life could offer him."
Tai gathered the letters and put them on top. Closing the closet door, he said hoarsely, "I will have no objection to you and Kari any longer."
The three boys walked out of the room and started heading towards Matt's room.
"Hey, Matt!"
Matt jumped. "Oh, hello T.K."
His little brother seemed perfectly happy. "I saw Mimi. She told me to say hi to you."
"Alright."
"Oh, hi Tai, Izzy, Joe. Didn't see you there. See ya guys later! I'm getting some ice cream." With that, T.K. bounded down the stairs.
They walked silently on. Matt shook his head, trying to forget the haunting glimpse of pained love that he had seen in his brother's eyes.
Matt walked slowly along. He had been extra nice to T.K., but he knew that it could never make up for what he was going through.
He had no right to complain about his life anymore. T.K. had it ten times worse. Unloved by parents, his only friend Kari. In love with Kari, but knowing that it could never work out.
Matt realized that he had walked to the bench where he had first met Mimi. She was there, too. Sitting on the bench, hunched over.
He hurried to her. "Are you alright, Mimi?"
She looked up at him, her beautiful eyes awash with tears. "No..." she choked, as fresh tears began to fall.
Sitting next to her, he held her face in his hands and brushed away her tears with his thumbs. "Please, Mimi, don't cry. I can't stand seeing you cry!"
Mimi tried to smile, but only ended up crying some more. "Matt..."
Matt did the only thing he could do: he put his arms around her. Soothingly, he stroked her soft hair, inhaling her scent of rose. He felt her trembling fingers clutching his shirt, wetting it with her tears.
Matt felt very strange. A warmth spread through his body, and there was a funny ache in his heart. As Mimi's sobs quieted, he thought back to T.K.'s letter... ' 'I realized that I loved you...you had started to cry. It hurt me to see you cry...I comforted you. And I found out that I'd rather die than see you cry, ever again...'
Mimi looked up at him, tears still on her cheeks. She gave him a smile.
'...You stopped crying and gave me a big smile. It was then I knew that I loved you...'
Matt pulled her closer. He inhaled her scent again. He loved her. He loved Mimi, alright. He realized it like T.K. had, when she had been crying and then gave him a smile. Her beautiful smile.
"Matt?" A soft voice whispered.
"Yes?"
"Oh Matt, what am I going to do?"
Matt relunctantly pulled away from her. "What is it?"
"It's my parents, Matt," Mimi said, the tears starting again. "They've gone and gotten me engaged."
"ENGAGED??"
"Yes, Matt," Mimi whispered. "An arranged marriage. It's some rich guy in Tokyo that I don't even know. I want to marry for love, though, not for money, my parents, or duty..."
"Then don't marry him."
"How? There's no way out of it."
"Do you love him?" Matt asked quickly.
"What?"
"Do you love him?" he repeated.
"No..."
"Are you in love, though?"
"In love? Yes..."
"Then marry the guy you're in love with."
"But...but I don't think he knows how I feel."
"Do I know him?"
"Yes."
"Tell me who he is," Matt demanded passionately. "I'll go and hammer some sense into his head. He'd be crazy not to be in love with you. I'll..."
"Matt..."
"...you're so beautiful and perfect, who would not love you..."
"Matt..."
"...I know guys who would kill just to get you to smile at them..."
"Matt, it's you!!"
Matt froze. "What?"
"Matt, I love you!" Mimi put her face in her hands and began to cry again.
Matt felt as if his heart was flying. Mimi loved him, she really did! Forcing himself back to Earth, he gripped her arms. "Mimi, do you really mean it? Are you in earnest, or are you torturing me?"
"I mean it, Matt, I love you!"
Matt put his finger under her chin and pushed her face up. Her eyes were shut tight. He cupped his hands under her chin and started to kiss her tears away.
Mimi slowly opened her eyes. "Matt..."
He caressed her cheek. "Oh Mimi, you don't know how much what you've said means to me! I thought that you could never love me, you were too good for me, and now that I know that you do, I'm just so happy...Mimi, I love you."
He gazed into her eyes, searching. Love, surprise, happiness...they all swirled around in confusion in her beautiful brown eyes.
Leaning down, he kissed her soft pink lips.
She stiffened at first, then started to kiss back. Her arms went around his neck, her fingers drowning in his hair. Matt encircled her waist in his arms and began to stroke her back.
Alas, all good things must come to an end. They pulled away, having run out of air. They stared at each other, breathing heavily.
Matt waited tensely, a hundred negative 'what-ifs' running through his mind. Mimi looked unusually serious.
Then suddenly, a smile graced her face. "Oh Matt, you really do care! I thought you didn't..."
Matt kissed her again. "I love you, Mimi. I'd..." remembering T.K.'s letter, he quoted, "... 'rather die having loved you than live a thousand years without having met you.' "
"Oh, how sweet!" she exclaimed. "Did you make it up?"
"No, it's from T.K."
"I didn't know he was so eloquent."
"Neither did I." They looked at each other, and laughed.
Matt suddenly thought of something. Sliding off the bench, he knelt in the dirt in front of Mimi and grasped her hand. "Mimi Tachikawa, I'll have to ask you to wait a couple years, but...will you marry me?"
Mimi laughed and cried at the same time. "Yes, Matt! Oh, yes!"
He stood up and pulled her up with him. Pulling her close, he kissed her.
They stood that way, arms around each other, for a long time.
Finally, Mimi pulled away, obviously relunctantly. "We better get home, you know."
Matt wanted to stay, but knew she was right. "I know. I'll walk you home." Taking off his coat, he draped it over Mimi's shoulders, than put an arm around her.
Suddenly he felt cold inside. "What about your parents?"
"I don't know," she whispered, snuggling closer to him. "I'll just have to tell them about you and hope that they like it."
"And if they don't?"
"Too bad." Mimi said, smiling at him.
Matt smiled back, but inside he was wondering if he had done the right thing.
When they arrived at Mimi's house, Matt was shocked to see his parent's car parked outside.
"I wonder what Mom and Dad are doing here," he said aloud.
"Probably on business. Come on in," Mimi said, dragging him inside.
The butler showed both of them into the living room.
Mrs. Ishida and Mrs. Tachikawa both got up. "Yamato! Mimi!"
Mr. Tachikawa stormed towards his daughter. "Mimi! Do you have any idea of what you've done? Mr. Sugamora was here, and he left quite vexed. What do I tell him, huh? His fiance isn't there to meet him. I'll be lucky if he wants to keep the engagement..."
"Dad, I'm not marrying Mr. Sugamora," Mimi said quietly but forcefully.
Mr. Tachikawa stopped in his tracks. "What?"
"I'm breaking our engagement," Mimi said loudly.
"What?" Mrs. Tachikawa demanded, looking aghast. "Why?"
"Because I don't love him."
"What does love have to do with this?" her mother shrieked.
"Mom, I'm not marrying Mr. Sugamora because I'm in love with Yamato," Mimi said, putting an arm around Matt's waist. In response, he put an arm around her shoulders and brought her closer to him.
Mimi smiled. "We're engaged."
It was the Ishidas that broke the silence.
"Yamato, is this true? You proposed to Mimi and she accepted?" Mr. Ishida asked, Mrs. Ishida nodding furiously besides him.
"Yes, Dad," Matt answered. "I love her." He gazed down at the angel besides him, and smiled at her. She smiled back.
Mrs. Tachikawa suddenly rushed towards them. "This is great! Just marvelous! That Mr. Sugamora wouldn't have done at all," she said, shaking Matt's hand and kissing her daughter's cheek.
"Just imagine," Mr. Tachikawa said proudly, "the Ishidas and the Tachikawas uniting! Perfect! I'm all for it!"
Mrs. Ishida kissed her son on the cheek. "Yamato, I'm very proud of you."
Mr. Ishida said nothing but looked very pleased.
Mr. Tachikawa rubbed his hands together. "We must celebrate! First, I must call Mr. Sugamora and tell him that the engagement is off. Of course, this needs to remain a secret until you graduate from college. Then..."
His voice faded into the background as Matt gazed at Mimi. He knew, even if his parents didn't love him, that Mimi always would, and because of that, life was now good to him.
His gaze traveled to T.K., who had stood silently in the corner. In his eyes was a look of jealousy.
"T.K.," Matt whispered, "I hope you and Kari work out as well as Mimi and I did."
~END OF THE GOOD LIFE: MATT'S STORY, PART 4...END OF MATT'S STORY PERIOD!!~
~TO BE CONTINUED...IN THE GOOD LIFE: MIMI'S STORY~
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Thanks, Ja!!
-Venus163
Hi, everyone! Welcome to the last part of Matt's story. All the romance is in here. Nothing graphic, just wholesome romance.
I DO NOT OWN DIGIMON, AND I NEVER WILL, BUT THE PLOT IS MINE, AND ALWAYS WILL BE!!
It's rated PG-13, due to a depressing plot. I'm sorry, but I just HAD to torture T.K...
Cliffhanger for T.K.!! If you want to know about him and Kari, you have to wait for their part of the series.
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, and Joe are in high school. Sora is too, but she's not mentioned in this Part, just in Part 3. She'll be mentioned more in Mimi's Story. T.K. and Kari are in middle school.
Send all reviews to crescent87@hotmail.com
The next parts that are going to be up is Mimi's story.
Well, let's read MIMATO!!
~THE GOOD LIFE: MATT'S STORY, PART 4~
BY VENUS163
"Where have you been?" Mrs. Ishida demanded as soon as Matt opened the door. "I was..."
"My fault, Mrs. Ishida," Tai said smoothly, coming inside behind him. "I insisted he come over to my house to do homework."
"We did all of it," Joe added.
"It went rather quickly," Izzy put in.
Mrs. Ishida immediately put on a big, fake smile. "Oh, then that's alright. Come in, Taichi, Koushiro. You too, Jyou."
Matt gestured toward the stairs. "We're going up to my room." The three boys shrugged and followed him up.
Tai immediately elbowed him. "Where's Takeru's room? I've gotta take a look at his shrine to my little sister!"
Matt glanced at his watch. "Okay, T.K.'s not going to be home for an hour. I guess we can check it out." Carefully checking for servants, he flung open the door to T.K.'s room.
He gingerly opened the closet door. "I just hope he hasn't rigged anything..."
Tai threw himself onto the cardboard box. Carefully opening it, he took out a handful of papers. "I'm going to start with the letters," he said matter-of-factly.
"I'll look at the pictures," Joe volunteered.
"I'll take whatever's left," Izzy said.
"And I'll stand guard," Matt added.
After a few moments of silence, Matt broke it. "Tai, why don't you read them aloud? I want to know what my brother wrote."
"Alright." Tai cleared his throat. " 'My dearest Kari'... DEAREST?? WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS??"
"Just keep going," Joe demanded. He was curious, just like all the boys.
"Fine...Ahem. 'My dearest Kari, have you ever thought about soulmates? Two people destined to be with each other for the rest of their lives? I have. I wish that you were my soulmate, though I know very well that it is impossible. You are impossibly beyond my reach, though I can dream of you and love you from afar' ...LOVE??"
"If you keep stopping I'll read them!" Matt snapped.
Tai nodded. "Alright, alright. Now, let's see...ah, here it is. 'You are as beautiful and as perfect as a rose, but without its thorns. Kind, loving...none of those words can describe you, as no words can describe what I feel for you, for they are all too small.
" 'I wonder if you feel the same way as I do, though I know perfectly well that you do not. I am just Takeru Ishida, a childhood friend to you, and it hurts me to know that, but I am happy if you are happy.
" 'I fell in love with you the first time we met, Kari. Do you remember? We were six. You came and sat in the sandbox with me at the playground. We dug holes together.
" 'I realized that I loved you three years ago. A neighborhood bully had been bullying you, and you had started to cry. It hurt me to see you cry. I went and chased the bully away, and then I comforted you. And I found out that I'd rather die than see you cry, ever again. You stopped crying and gave me a big smile. It was then I knew that I loved you.
" 'Kari, I would rather die having loved you than live a thousand years without having met you. You are my angel, whether you want to be or not. I would give my life if it would make you happy in any way.
" 'It is inevitable that you fall in love with someone else in the future. I wish you happiness, Kari. Forget me. You do not need my love for you hanging over your head. But if he hurts you in any way, Kari, I'll be there.
" 'I'll always watch over you and love you, but from a distance. No matter what happens- to me...or to you, I will eternally love you. With me, my first love is my last love, and a doomed love at it, too.
" 'If you ever need me, my beloved Kari, just call and I'll be there for you. Otherwise I'll just disappear from your life, claiming only a small corner of your friendship, though I wish for more.
" 'This letter was never supposed to reach you, but if it does... I just want you to know that I meant every single word. My love for you will last for forever and a day...until summer turns into winter...until there is no love in the world...until the day I breath my last breath.
" 'Your friend, Takeru Ishida. April 24- Our anniversary as friends.' "
Tai lowered the letter, trembling. Joe had long ago abandoned the pictures, likewise Izzy had forgotten the other contents of the box. Matt sat, open-mouthed, in the doorway.
"April 24," Izzy said, breaking the silence. "That was yesterday."
"He's so young..." Joe murmured.
"I-I never knew..." Matt breathed. "He was my brother, and I never knew..."
Tai was staring at the paper in his hand. "He-he truly cares for her," he choked. "He truly loves her. He loves her enough to give her up for life because he thinks she's happy the way she is."
Wordlessly, Matt started putting everything back in the box.
Joe began to help. "We don't have the right to invade his privacy any further," he whispered.
"He seemed so innocent," Izzy said, helping them out. "But he already had to go through one of the biggest hurts that life could offer him."
Tai gathered the letters and put them on top. Closing the closet door, he said hoarsely, "I will have no objection to you and Kari any longer."
The three boys walked out of the room and started heading towards Matt's room.
"Hey, Matt!"
Matt jumped. "Oh, hello T.K."
His little brother seemed perfectly happy. "I saw Mimi. She told me to say hi to you."
"Alright."
"Oh, hi Tai, Izzy, Joe. Didn't see you there. See ya guys later! I'm getting some ice cream." With that, T.K. bounded down the stairs.
They walked silently on. Matt shook his head, trying to forget the haunting glimpse of pained love that he had seen in his brother's eyes.
Matt walked slowly along. He had been extra nice to T.K., but he knew that it could never make up for what he was going through.
He had no right to complain about his life anymore. T.K. had it ten times worse. Unloved by parents, his only friend Kari. In love with Kari, but knowing that it could never work out.
Matt realized that he had walked to the bench where he had first met Mimi. She was there, too. Sitting on the bench, hunched over.
He hurried to her. "Are you alright, Mimi?"
She looked up at him, her beautiful eyes awash with tears. "No..." she choked, as fresh tears began to fall.
Sitting next to her, he held her face in his hands and brushed away her tears with his thumbs. "Please, Mimi, don't cry. I can't stand seeing you cry!"
Mimi tried to smile, but only ended up crying some more. "Matt..."
Matt did the only thing he could do: he put his arms around her. Soothingly, he stroked her soft hair, inhaling her scent of rose. He felt her trembling fingers clutching his shirt, wetting it with her tears.
Matt felt very strange. A warmth spread through his body, and there was a funny ache in his heart. As Mimi's sobs quieted, he thought back to T.K.'s letter... ' 'I realized that I loved you...you had started to cry. It hurt me to see you cry...I comforted you. And I found out that I'd rather die than see you cry, ever again...'
Mimi looked up at him, tears still on her cheeks. She gave him a smile.
'...You stopped crying and gave me a big smile. It was then I knew that I loved you...'
Matt pulled her closer. He inhaled her scent again. He loved her. He loved Mimi, alright. He realized it like T.K. had, when she had been crying and then gave him a smile. Her beautiful smile.
"Matt?" A soft voice whispered.
"Yes?"
"Oh Matt, what am I going to do?"
Matt relunctantly pulled away from her. "What is it?"
"It's my parents, Matt," Mimi said, the tears starting again. "They've gone and gotten me engaged."
"ENGAGED??"
"Yes, Matt," Mimi whispered. "An arranged marriage. It's some rich guy in Tokyo that I don't even know. I want to marry for love, though, not for money, my parents, or duty..."
"Then don't marry him."
"How? There's no way out of it."
"Do you love him?" Matt asked quickly.
"What?"
"Do you love him?" he repeated.
"No..."
"Are you in love, though?"
"In love? Yes..."
"Then marry the guy you're in love with."
"But...but I don't think he knows how I feel."
"Do I know him?"
"Yes."
"Tell me who he is," Matt demanded passionately. "I'll go and hammer some sense into his head. He'd be crazy not to be in love with you. I'll..."
"Matt..."
"...you're so beautiful and perfect, who would not love you..."
"Matt..."
"...I know guys who would kill just to get you to smile at them..."
"Matt, it's you!!"
Matt froze. "What?"
"Matt, I love you!" Mimi put her face in her hands and began to cry again.
Matt felt as if his heart was flying. Mimi loved him, she really did! Forcing himself back to Earth, he gripped her arms. "Mimi, do you really mean it? Are you in earnest, or are you torturing me?"
"I mean it, Matt, I love you!"
Matt put his finger under her chin and pushed her face up. Her eyes were shut tight. He cupped his hands under her chin and started to kiss her tears away.
Mimi slowly opened her eyes. "Matt..."
He caressed her cheek. "Oh Mimi, you don't know how much what you've said means to me! I thought that you could never love me, you were too good for me, and now that I know that you do, I'm just so happy...Mimi, I love you."
He gazed into her eyes, searching. Love, surprise, happiness...they all swirled around in confusion in her beautiful brown eyes.
Leaning down, he kissed her soft pink lips.
She stiffened at first, then started to kiss back. Her arms went around his neck, her fingers drowning in his hair. Matt encircled her waist in his arms and began to stroke her back.
Alas, all good things must come to an end. They pulled away, having run out of air. They stared at each other, breathing heavily.
Matt waited tensely, a hundred negative 'what-ifs' running through his mind. Mimi looked unusually serious.
Then suddenly, a smile graced her face. "Oh Matt, you really do care! I thought you didn't..."
Matt kissed her again. "I love you, Mimi. I'd..." remembering T.K.'s letter, he quoted, "... 'rather die having loved you than live a thousand years without having met you.' "
"Oh, how sweet!" she exclaimed. "Did you make it up?"
"No, it's from T.K."
"I didn't know he was so eloquent."
"Neither did I." They looked at each other, and laughed.
Matt suddenly thought of something. Sliding off the bench, he knelt in the dirt in front of Mimi and grasped her hand. "Mimi Tachikawa, I'll have to ask you to wait a couple years, but...will you marry me?"
Mimi laughed and cried at the same time. "Yes, Matt! Oh, yes!"
He stood up and pulled her up with him. Pulling her close, he kissed her.
They stood that way, arms around each other, for a long time.
Finally, Mimi pulled away, obviously relunctantly. "We better get home, you know."
Matt wanted to stay, but knew she was right. "I know. I'll walk you home." Taking off his coat, he draped it over Mimi's shoulders, than put an arm around her.
Suddenly he felt cold inside. "What about your parents?"
"I don't know," she whispered, snuggling closer to him. "I'll just have to tell them about you and hope that they like it."
"And if they don't?"
"Too bad." Mimi said, smiling at him.
Matt smiled back, but inside he was wondering if he had done the right thing.
When they arrived at Mimi's house, Matt was shocked to see his parent's car parked outside.
"I wonder what Mom and Dad are doing here," he said aloud.
"Probably on business. Come on in," Mimi said, dragging him inside.
The butler showed both of them into the living room.
Mrs. Ishida and Mrs. Tachikawa both got up. "Yamato! Mimi!"
Mr. Tachikawa stormed towards his daughter. "Mimi! Do you have any idea of what you've done? Mr. Sugamora was here, and he left quite vexed. What do I tell him, huh? His fiance isn't there to meet him. I'll be lucky if he wants to keep the engagement..."
"Dad, I'm not marrying Mr. Sugamora," Mimi said quietly but forcefully.
Mr. Tachikawa stopped in his tracks. "What?"
"I'm breaking our engagement," Mimi said loudly.
"What?" Mrs. Tachikawa demanded, looking aghast. "Why?"
"Because I don't love him."
"What does love have to do with this?" her mother shrieked.
"Mom, I'm not marrying Mr. Sugamora because I'm in love with Yamato," Mimi said, putting an arm around Matt's waist. In response, he put an arm around her shoulders and brought her closer to him.
Mimi smiled. "We're engaged."
It was the Ishidas that broke the silence.
"Yamato, is this true? You proposed to Mimi and she accepted?" Mr. Ishida asked, Mrs. Ishida nodding furiously besides him.
"Yes, Dad," Matt answered. "I love her." He gazed down at the angel besides him, and smiled at her. She smiled back.
Mrs. Tachikawa suddenly rushed towards them. "This is great! Just marvelous! That Mr. Sugamora wouldn't have done at all," she said, shaking Matt's hand and kissing her daughter's cheek.
"Just imagine," Mr. Tachikawa said proudly, "the Ishidas and the Tachikawas uniting! Perfect! I'm all for it!"
Mrs. Ishida kissed her son on the cheek. "Yamato, I'm very proud of you."
Mr. Ishida said nothing but looked very pleased.
Mr. Tachikawa rubbed his hands together. "We must celebrate! First, I must call Mr. Sugamora and tell him that the engagement is off. Of course, this needs to remain a secret until you graduate from college. Then..."
His voice faded into the background as Matt gazed at Mimi. He knew, even if his parents didn't love him, that Mimi always would, and because of that, life was now good to him.
His gaze traveled to T.K., who had stood silently in the corner. In his eyes was a look of jealousy.
"T.K.," Matt whispered, "I hope you and Kari work out as well as Mimi and I did."
~END OF THE GOOD LIFE: MATT'S STORY, PART 4...END OF MATT'S STORY PERIOD!!~
~TO BE CONTINUED...IN THE GOOD LIFE: MIMI'S STORY~
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