Just To Let Me Down
Author's Explanation: Well,
this was supposed to be a sitcom every Monday type of fic. Then I was at the beach for a week (which I
mentioned) and then there was the discovery that my parents don't really think
the internet's important when there's no school. The bums. So now I am
illegally uploading this from a computer at my summer job. We'll just say that the show was getting
great ratings, so it went on hiatus, but it's back now. I know, bad analogy. I'm sick of my sitcom idea, but I'll still stick to the schedule..yeeaaaaaaa…
Just to let me down
(let me down)
and mess me around
~The Foundations (From
Build Me Up Buttercup)
O Mistress Mine, Where
Are You Roaming?
O Mistress mine, where
are you roaming?
O, stay and hear; your
true love's coming,
That can sing both high
and low:
Trip no further, pretty
sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers
meeting.
Every wise man's son
doth know.
What is love? 'tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath
present laughter;
What's to come is still
unsure;
In delay there lies no
plenty;
Then come kiss me,
sweet-and-twenty,
Youth's a stuff will
not endure.
~Shakespeare
Matt was back to reading the
newspaper, though his mind wasn't quite as focused on it as it had been
before. He broke the silence he had
initiated.
"So my fiancee is currently
at the home of the guy you are currently obsessed with-"
"It iz love," she
interrupted.
"Catherine just let me
finish. So Sora's with Tai. And I've got Tai's number. You could have looked it up in the goddamn
phonebook all the time. It's Tai
Kamiya. You can go do it right now."
"I just thought you might
have wanted to zpeak to Zora, since you have not spoken to her and all…"
You know that's not the
reason. The reason is that you'll be
all tricky and make up some sketchy reason why I can't talk directly to her or
something and then some way or another you'll end up talking to him
while I'm just left even more rejected than before. And don't say that it doesn't make any
sense, because you've already got some sneaky thing all planned out and—"
This time Mimi
interrupted. Matt and Catherine were
both quite surprised. "I don't think
there's any possible way you could get more rejected Matt. I think the whole clichéd leaving you at the
alter bit that only happens in movies and then the man of honor part that only
happens in soap operas has made you reach the pinnacle of rejection. I honestly don't think you could get
rejected any further. But who's this
'him' you and Catherine are talking about?"
Matt had just moved his mouth
into the beginning formation of the T-sound when something hard banged him in
the shin.
"George," replied Catherine.
"Ow! That really hurt. And he's not George he's—"
"George," said
Catherine.
"Ow! How'd you manage to place
it in—" Another kick.
"We were having a private
conversation about George, one of Matt's friends whom Matt zinks is not good
enough for me."
"I don't—ow"
"But—ow!"
"Mimi—OW!"
"George!" screamed Catherine.
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"You know, this was the first
time in a while that all the digi-destined have gotten back together."
"Yes it has been," Sora said
absently.
"Every single one of us,
Matt, TK, Izzy, Joe, you, me, Mimi…Catherine, Davis…" he trailed off.
"Is there something you're
hinting at?" she turned around and looked at him warily.
"It's just nice is all," Tai
replied.
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"Mimi, if you wouldn't mind,
could you please find zee waiter and ask him for more tea for zee table? I am awfully shy with strangers and I
stumble with my English sometimes."
Mimi was eyeing the two of
them very suspiciously. "I suppose so
Catherine, if you get so nervous…"
"Merci beaucoup. Zee how nervous I am getting already? I have forgotten my English. If you could please hurry, Mimi, and go
now…"
"I've got it Catherine. I'll see you two in just a minute."
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"Actually, remember the
Halloween party?"
"I was there," she replied.
"Quite a few of the
digidestined were there too."
"Oh I remember. I met Catherine. And I hadn't seen Mimi in such a long time."
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"Catherine, those really
hurt. Where'd you learn to kick like
that?"
"Do not tell Mimi!" she
hissed.
"What? Why not?"
"I'm, I am just a very shy
person. You cannot tell her about Tai!"
"What did I hear about Tai,
Catherine?"
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"You and Mimi hardly ever
talk anymore. It's such a shame. Two people who were such good friends…"
Sora dismissed his
thoughts. "It's been ages. People drift."
"Do you two even keep in
touch at all anymore?"
"We've spoken on the phone
just a little."
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"Oh, Catherine is just madly
in love with him," Matt said, ignoring Catherine's glare.
Mimi giggled.
"Zhere is not one zingle
funny zing about love!"
"I do remember you having
quite a time over my rejection at the altar, Catherine."
Catherine clasped her hands
over her heart so dramatically that you couldn't tell if she was being serious
or funny. "Zis is true love."
"Um Catherine, when was the
last time you spoke to Tai?" Mimi asked innocently.
"At zee wedding
rehearsal. It was at zat Halloween
party though zat I first saw him after so many years…."
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"Why the sudden
interest? When were you so interested
in this stuff?"
"Just trying to have a
conversation is all."
"Oh."
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"You know," Mimi began
nonchalantly, "I saw Tai at a party."
Catherine's face paled
considerably.
"He even asked me for my
number."
Catherine's face paled
considerably more.
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"So you still have that phone
number?"
"What phone number?"
"It's not too important. Oh, if you really want to know, Mimi's…."
She sat up and looked at him
intently. "Do you have a crush?" she
half-smiled.
"Well, I'm not sure
really. We talked a little at the
party, and she gave me her number."
"And did you call her?"
"Well then I kinda lost the
number."
"You lost it?"
"It was a Halloween
party. I was wearing some rented
costume. And then when I returned the
costume I must have returned the number."
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Matt smiled. "Well look at that. Let's see if I can get this clear. You are madly in love with my fiancee's man
of honor, whom she has spent the past few days with. Not only that, but whom you fell in love with at the same party
where he asked for, not yours, but Mimi's number. But you still want to confess your love to him. Except you do not know his phone number
because he never gave it to you. But
that would be fine (except for that whole shy bit) because you can look up his
name in a phonebook. Except I am
willing to bet, since when you told me you were in love with him you
mispronounced his last name, that you do not know how to spell it. You most definitely do not know Japanese
characters. And your mentioning of Tai
seems to have rekindled some type of interest for him in Mimi. So you are in quite a predicament it
seems. Almost like a soap opera. Are you in love with me too? Or Sora maybe? There's that gay character we need. Don't say it's a love triangle between you, Mimi, and Tai, where
you love both of them and they love each other? And not you?"
When Matt looked at her, with
a superior smirk on his face, he expected Catherine's face to be bright
red. He expected her to immediately
come back with a retort just as mean.
"You probably shouldn't have
included that last gay love triangle bit, Matt," Mimi said quietly, as she
mechanically downed a packet of Sweet & Low without thinking.
"If you two would please
excuse me, I need to visit the ladies' room," said Catherine, her face paling
back to its normal color, as she eyed Matt's cell phone suspiciously.
To Be Continued
A/N: What does Matt do? What does Mimi do? What
does Catherine do? What does Sora do? What does Tai do?=P ::sigh:: I
really wish I knew.
Geezus, I've made them a
whole lot meaner than I planned. And
I'm starting to sense a new couple that was completely not part of my
plans. It was all planned out and I
screwed myself over. I'm never writing
in chapters again! As always, please review. It's fun to hear what people think, because it's always the opposite of
what I'm thinking^^