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Okay peoples, chapter two out of four. I had to change it just a little because I realize now that if I put everything I was going to do in just three chapters it would throw everything out of whack! A few things. I didn't understand what this one review said, but this is a Mimoe/ Mimato thing, which means that both Joe and Matt like Mimi, and Mimi can't decide which one. What does that French stuff in the beginning? Sorry, I'm monolingual. Solemnest ingles con muy poco espanol. For all those who can't speak Spanish, I made an attempt at saying "Only English with a little Spanish." Makes it easy for Jewel to say stuff. ANYWAY, read on, fanfic soldiers!
Love Song Part 2
Giggling as she ran up the stairs, Mimi Tachikawa opened the door and plopped on the pillow, burying her face to smoother the laughter and not to wake her parents. Behind her, two curious pairs of eyes watched.
"I take it the date went well, chica?" The light-haired brunette sat up, rosy and cheerful, clutching the pillow tight to her stomach as she shook with laughter.
"Jewel, I have just met the most…" Suddenly giving her two best buds a curious look, Mimi cocked her eyebrows. Sora gestured to her yellow pajamas with little pink piggies on them.
"Today's Friday, which means "Sleepover Night." Again, her eyebrows raised.
"Sora, we don't have a Sleepover Night." A mischievous grin appeared on the older girls face.
"We do now." Jewel shrugged sheepishly and pulled on the edge of her short, purple nightgown.
"We had to tell your parents something to let us spend the night and take in all the juiciness, muchacha. So tell me, was Senor Joe all that and a bag of papas or was that guapo chico outside your savior? Dimé!"
Letting the surprise subside, Mimi proceeded to tell them all that happened, not leaving out anything, if not adding just a little bit more to make it more interesting. After the story, Joya laughed.
"Wow. I didn't know Joe had it in him. I would have loved to see that!" Sora looked smitten, a lovely shade of pink coloring her cheeks.
"I would have loved to see that guy you were talking about…" Her voice trailed off at the strange tone in her voice. The truth was, Sora didn't have eyes for anyone, except the occasional magazine hottie, but this, as Jewel would have put it, was "La Mira de Amor." Mimi's brow furrowed immediately.
"No way, Sora. Get your own hot blonde singer!" Sora immediately snapped out of her trance and frowned.
"I wasn't talking about him. I was talking about that Tai person." Jewel and Mimi exchanged glances with a broadening smile.
"Why Sora? You think he's cute or something?" The carrot-top turned an offbeat shade similar to her hair, but said nothing. Jewel clapped her hands together and squealed in a high pitch voice.
"¡Tai! ¡Tú tienes muy guapo! ¡Alto, moreno, y guapo! ¡Y romantico tambien! ¡Oh, Tai! ¡Mi amor! ¡Yo quiero ser contigo hasta el fin de hora!" Both of the older girls cast Jewel either a dark or confused look. The younger girl shrugged before cracking a wide smile.
"Sora, mi amiga, yo se tú sabes que yo hablé." Sora frowned again, trying to surpress her up and coming grin and turned away, pretending to be mad as they both casted a glance at Mimi. The exasperated girl next to them threw up her hands in defeat.
"I give up! I'll never understand what you too are saying!" Jewel shrugged again, a warm smile spreading like soft butter under a knife.
"¡Que lastíma!"
"Enough with the Spanish already!"
":giggle:"
(Time for a little lesson in espanol, people!
Guapo chico ~ handsome boy
Papas ~ slang for 'chips'
Muchacha ~ girl
Chica ~ girl
¡Tai! ¡Tú tienes muy guapo! ¡Alto, moreno, y guapo! ¡Y romantico tambien! ¡Oh, Tai! ¡Mi amor! ¡Yo quiero ser contigo hasta el fin de hora! ~ Roughly tranlated, I think it means:
Oh Tai! You're very handsome! Tall, dark and handsome! And romantic also! Oh Tai! My love! I want to be with you until the end of time! (sounds so much better in Spanish)
Dimé ~ (pronounced Dee-may, not like the coin, a dime) Tell me
Sora, mi amiga, yo se tu sabes que you hable ~ roughly translated, I think it means:
Sora, my friend, I know you know what I said.
Que lastima! ~ What a shame!
That is the lesson for today viewers!)
That Monday, Mimi seemed on cloud nine. She actually didn't mind the pop quiz in Socialogy, or the annoying jabber of Mr. Corinish in Post-Physics. At lunch, she happily bought a 'below standards' Ceasar Salad and sat down at her usual bench with Joe.
"Hi Joe." She chriped happily and opened her lunch, slowly picking at it with a fork. Joe gulped down a piece of sushi and wiped his mouth with a napkin before staring Mimi in the eye.
"Mimi. I want to applogize. I really tried to get that girl away from me, seriously. But she got her friends to gang up on me. Please don't be angry." The girl stopped smiling and cocked her head.
"Are you implying that I'd get jealous?" Joe shrugged immediately and looked down at his California rolls.
"I wasn't sure. I mean, last time I had to take Loraine to the dance you seemed pretty steamed."
Mimi shrugged carelessly.
"What does that have to do with anything?" Her companion remianed silent, lost in his embarrassment. Mimi turned all smiles again and shrugged.
"It's okay. I wasn't mad." The girl popped a piece of letuce in her mouth and chewed silently.
"Besides, if you hadn't have gone off I might not have met my new friend Yamato." Joe spit out the piece of shashimi he was chewing and nearly had a heart attack from inhaling the wasabi sauce.
"Yamato? Who's Yamato?" Mimi giggled slightly and rested her head on her cheek.
"You're cute, you know, when you panic like that. Joe, Yama is just a good friend of mine. He drove me home on Saturday like a gentleman. I trust him, he'd never hurt me, and he's sweet. Don't worry, I'm a big girl; I can take care of myself." Before the girl could throw her half eaten salad away, the blue haired med student's hand lashed out and grabbed her wrist gently.
"Mimi-san, that's what I'm afraid of. What if one day you can't take care of yourself? If anything ever happened to you…I don't know what I'd do with myself…" Ashamed, the student looked down and appolized.
"Gomen, Mimi-san. I'm getting ahead of myself. Arigato, Ja ne." And with that, Joe Kido hurried off towards his next class. Mimi stood there for a moment, holding her wrist in her hand with a small look of wonder.
Friday Night again at Club "Rock This Way"…
"I can't believe I let you guys talk me into this…" Mimi started slowly as she waited for Matt's band, which turned out to be called "Rebellious", and performed at this club only on Friday nights. Jewel smiled happily and moved to the groove.
"I'm glad we did chica. This fiesta is jammin'! Right Sora?" Sora was too busy looking around for a certain guy with droopy brown hair and chocolate brown eyes and a bronzed completion whose name starts with T and end in I. Mimi rolled her eyes.
"Earth to Sora!" Sora Takenouchi came crashing back to Earth from her (enter that certain person's name here)-circulating satellite.
"Huh? Oh um, yeah, it's great." Jewel shook her head.
"Hey chicas, I'm going to go and get some drinks or something okay? Hasta." Suddenly, the applause died down and Tai and another guy with bright red hair stepped out on stage.
"Hey minna! Give it up for our lights coordinator the Iz-man!" A loud cheer erupted from the crowd.
"Hey Sora! Matt's on next! Sora?" Sora's crimson eyes were super glued on the brown haired figure on the stage.
"And now, the moment all you ladies have been waiting for…Rebel…ous…" Tai trailed off as he caught sight of the girl sitting near Mimi with red hair and eyes. You know those moments when time seems to go in slow motion just so you can capture the image? Well, in this case, time just seemed to make a dead stop.
Matt's band walked through the curtains, gear in hand. Tai noticed, of course, but never took his eyes away from that…girl…
"Here…they are…WAHHHH!" Tai fell off the stage. Mimi gasped and glanced over at Sora.
"Sora do you think he's ok- Sora? Sora…?"
"Oh my gosh are you okay?" Sora Takenouchi asked down to the fallen and confused brown haired guy as she clasped his hand gently in efforts to pull him away from the cheering crowd. The wide, boyish brown eyes of Taichi Yagami slowly opened as he caught sight of his dream girl. Hearts and stars suddenly appeared everywhere.
"I am now…"
"Oy chica. Where's Sora?" Mimi giggled slightly and pointed towards a corner, where Tai and Sora were talking…well, actually, they were star gazing into each other's eyes and sighing every thirty or so seconds while saying nothing what so ever. Jewel laughed and pulled herself up onto the tall, barstool chairs and set a soda in front of her amiga.
"So muchacha, which one is the illustrious Yamato Ishida?" Mimi smiled softly and pointed to the singer on stage. They were in the middle of singing a song "Bullet Proof" (if you didn't notice, all the songs that Matt's band sings in his fic are from the Goo Goo Dolls' CD, "Dizzy up the Girl".). The tall, slender blonde glanced in Mimi's direction and winked. The brunette turned a pale pink. Jewel licked her lips mockingly.
"Ooh…spicy.." Mimi snapped her attention to the girl and frowned. Jewel smiled.
"Just kidding, chica. I think I've got my eyes on that hottie right there." Excusing herself, the Chicana stood and walked over towards group of people, one brown haired girl, a blonde and maroon haired guy. Her older friend watched her go before turning her attention back to the stage.
"Hola." Joya Briseno cooed out with a smile. The two boys looked over in surprise, but the girl seemed completely at ease.
"Hi. Are you knew here?" The slender brown haired girl asked. Jewel nodded.
"My name's Jewel. Yes, I am new here."
"My name's Hikari Yagami. This is Takeru Takaishi and Daisuke Motomiya. TK's brother is performing up there. Why don't you sit down with us?" Not taken back in the least bit by Hikari's openness, the Latino girl nodded and pulled up a chair between her new found friend and the second boy mentioned, Daisuke.
Just then, Matt announced another song.
"Konbanwa, minna-san!" The crowd cheered wildly, more so a reddish-purple haired girl with a white shirt that had 'Rebellious' printed in by letters.
"Our last song is going to be a new one called Slide, that I thought of about a week ago after I met someone special…" The musician smiled softly and looked over towards his princess, who sat sipping a cherry coke, a modest smile on her face. The blonde started up the easy chords of the song.
Kari pulled the hand of her blonde companion with a flirtatious smile.
"Come on TK, let's dance." Smiling in return, the two walked out towards the dance floor. Daisuke seemed a little crushed.
"Hey Dai-"
"Call me Davis."
"Okay Davis. You seem kind of triste. ¿Bailamo conmigo?" Davis shrugged and took her hand.
"I don't speak Spanish, but if you're asking me to dance, sure." The two joined the dance floor.
Could you whisper in my ear
The things you wanna feel
I'll five you anything
To feel it comin'
Do you wake up on your own
And wonder where you are
You live with all your thoughts
Mimi stood up and cheered as she also joined the dance floor by herself and danced around with some of the other fans while Yamato sang his heart out.
I wanna wake up where you are
I won't say anything at all
So why don't' you slide
Yeah, we're gonna let it slide
Don't you love the life you've killed
The priest is on the phone
Your father hit the wall
Your ma disowned you
Don't suppose I'll ever know
What it means to be a man
Something I can't change
I'll lie around it
I wanna wake up where you are
I won't say anything at all
So why don't you slide
The red haired guy came down to survey everything on the bottom level. Mimi recognized him and walked over, smiling happily.
"Hi!" The girl yelled over the music, causing the guy to jump. He smiled and nodded back, gesturing a hand shake to her.
"My name is Mimi! What's your name?"
"Call me Izzy!" The young man yelled back with a smile.
"Okay Izzy! Good job on the effects! They're wicked cool!" Izzy nodded his thanks, and with a final smile, waved and went back upstairs on the over hang to adjust some new shades of color in the club.
And I'll do anything you ever
Dreamed to be complete
Little pieces of the nothing that fall
May put your arms around me
What you feel is what you are
And what your are is beautiful
May do you wanna get married
Or run away
And I'll do anything you ever dreamed to be complete
Little pieces of the nothing that fall
May put your arms around me
Whatyou feel is what you are
And what you are is beautiful
May do you wanna get married
Or run away
As the last part of the refrain played, the loud custom of cheers echoed through out the building and a ways down the street. In the midst of everything, Mimi saw Yamato wave to her and mouth to her 'Back Stage'. Smiling softly, she nodded and waved back as the band regressed back into the curtains.
"Better tell Sora where I'm going to be…" The auburn haired med-student approached the table where, to no surprise, Tai and Sora where still sitting in the exact same position.
"Hey Sora, Hey Tai."
":sigh:"
":sigh:"
"I'm gonna be back stage okay? Don't leave without me."
":sigh: Sure…"
":hum: Okay, bye…"
Receiving a big sweatdrop, Mimi nodded slowly and walked off towards the backstage entrance off to the side of the server's bar.
Back there, 'Rebellious' was packing up. Matt caught sight of the young woman and smiled, finished packing his guitar in it's case and bid his friends goodbye before jogging over towards her.
"So, what did you think?"
"You guys were great! Everyone loved it!"
"Did you?" The girl cocked head to the side and uttered in a small voice,
"Of course I did." Another profound smile crossed his face as the blonde nodded.
"Good."
And that's how it pretty much went for the next following weeks between the two. On the weekdays, our heroine seemed to be normal, not so flirtatious anymore, but cheery and happy. And while Joe seemed to get more suspicious about this 'Yamato' character, Yamato got more and more interested in Mimi herself. And pretty soon, Mimi found herself feeling the same way. Of course, neither was going to be the first to say so.
Friday Night…
Mimi Tachikawa and Matt Ishida sat on the porch swing they'd recently discovered behind the building in a comfortable silence. How they were sitting would have given anyone the impression that they were dating, but then, they weren't, so as long as the two knew it, they'd agreed that it didn't matter. So while Mimi let her head rest on Matt's shoulder and while Matt quietly strummed one of his many old guitars trying out new song ideas, they enjoyed each other's company in peaceful tranquility. Finally, Mimi broke the silence.
"Matt?"
"Yes?" The blonde stopped strumming his guitar and leaned back, shifting this way and that until he was sure that his companion was comfortable, then closed his eyes.
"If I ask you this question, you won't freak or anything right?" One of the icy blue eyes opened and glanced uneasily at the eighteen year old woman, one year younger than he.
"No." Mimi sighed gently.
"Matt…I'm pregnant." Matt's eyes widened beyond proportion (we're talking like above and beyond Sailor Moon eyes) before finally easing down to a low tremble.
"Okay…" He managed to utter out. Mimi smiled and snuggled a little closer with a giggle.
"Just kidding. I was just testing to make sure you're ready." A rather loud sigh dispersed from a rather relieved blonde who made a quick, uncomfortable squirm after such a scare.
"Matt…I think, I should tell you something that I've been thinking about for a long time. It's just kind of a question that I've been thinking about since…that night I first met you, you know." The auburn haired girl paused, trying to predict what her companion was thinking, but received nothing from him so she continued.
"This is just a really stupid question but, how come you never try to kiss me?" Yamato glanced down slightly, just enough to see her face wondering up at him, honey brown eyes sparkling in the moonlight. The blonde musician shrugged.
"Because…I don't want you to be uncomfortable or feel pressured into something you don't want. I'd never want you to feel that way, Mimi. I-" The nineteen-year-old cut off suddenly and looked away.
"Never mind." The girl realized him from her soft embrace and looked up, confused.
"What?"
"Nothing. Forget I said it."
"Please, I want to-"
"Just drop it!" He shouted suddenly and looked down with an expression Mimi couldn't read. Sighing quickly, the blonde stood and grabbed his guitar.
"I'm sorry…I just…" Shaking his head roughly he turned and left.
You can imagine how Mimi must have felt, left sitting there completely stunned on a slightly rocking porch bench, just being left for a reason she didn't understand. Surprisingly though, for the first time in her life, she felt no emotion. Like a deadpan or mime, she stood and walked silently home, having no ride home that cold Friday Night and simply went to sleep, not uttering a word to a concerned Sora and Jewel. And Mimi never cried.
End of Chapter 2
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