Chapter 2

Mimi felt like she was in a whole new dream world when she looked at the handsome blond gentleman. He had ruggish good looks, with a strong chin, and warm sea-blue eyes. He also had his hair spiked at the edges so it gave him that rocker edge. She had never felt entirely so helpless in her life. This gentleman just swept her off her feet without realizing it. And yet, there was an air of familiarity with him, like she knew him or saw him somewhere before.

Sora looked strangely at her friend, who was gaping at her date. "Yoo-hoo, Mimi, are you there? Oh my gosh, I am so sorry, Mimi does that sometimes, she does zone out of it a little bit."

Sora laughed nervously as the blond man shifted his eyes toward the ditzy Sora. "It's alright, some people tend to do that towards me."

Mimi flinched in anger. He sounded so arrogant, so sure of himself, so.confident. No one was going to speak to Mimi Tachikawa that way! She flipped her auburn hair back seductively as to toy with the young man who couldn't have been more than twenty years old. Angry at the way the guy was acting, she replied, "Well, I wonder what they must see in you."

The blond man only grinned, amused at her response while Mimi fumed. She sat down crossly as the man carefully glanced down at whom he had made so furious. Sora's eyebrows arched as if asking for approval in Taichi and Mimi. Mimi coolly glanced at the menu and tried hard to ignore her surroundings. Taichi nodded to Sora as if in disdain. Mimi thought he just did that because he was secretly in love with her. Taichi tried to break the ice and started some conversation. "So, Sora, where did you guys meet?"

"Oh, um we meet at the craziest place! He was at this model convention, and I was the reporter. We got to talking about everything and we just got interested in each other!"

The man replied in his charming, smooth voice, "Yea, I was modeling and I guess some corporate magazine wanted me to be in their story or something. I think it's quite strange."

Mimi could've almost ripped her menu and start smacking that guy's head. He was just so arrogant! Geesh! The waiter went up to them and asked them what they wanted to eat. Mimi glanced down and said, "Taichi, dearest, why don't you order for me?"

The man glanced at his menu and said, "Sora, dear, I do hope that you are old enough to order for yourself, unlike some people."

While the rather mysterious man started talking with his nonsense, Mimi could only think. Sora was strong, willful, and beautiful. Why didn't she pick Taichi first of all. It was so obvious that she was so desperately in love with Taichi, her bad relationships with men kind of proved that point. She wanted to break up with Taichi so many times, yet his eyes always stopped her before she could make the words out.

Their relationship was more or less based on lies. Full of holes, Mimi sometimes just felt suffocated in the relationship because it was pointless. They fell in love so long ago that it felt like that the only reason they were together was to be together. She had read so many times in books how the girl just stayed with the guy just so they could live in a stifling relationship. Mimi needed passion and desire. She couldn't live a life of lies. Sooner or later, the bed of lies will fall to the ground.

Maybe it would be then that everyone could have their fairy tale ending..

Taichi broke the talking and ask the waiter, "Mi novia y yo queremos las especialidades de la casa.y.La sopa de la dia por favor." (My girlfriend and I will have the house specials and the soup of the day.)

The waiter bowed and said, "Si, y Ustedes, que quieren?"

He gently nodded to the man and Sora. Sora spoke first. "Yo quiero la frijoles, por favor."

The blond man wrinkled his nose in disgust and asked Sora why she had picked out of all things, beans. "Camarero, yo quiero bistec, por favor."

The waiter bowed and went towards the kitchen. Suddenly, to both Taichi's and Sora's amazement, the blond man said something that was rather shocking. "I don't see why you brought me here. I mean, Sora, it's so obvious you're into the guy, but must you drool on my lap? God, woman!"

The entire guests at the table dropped their chins. This was such a rude saying, Mimi thought. I mean, it was a common knowledge that Sora and Taichi did have feelings for each other, yet.they were supposed to have been never voiced. It was so obvious that Sora yearned for Taichi, but Taichi, being the uber gentleman he was, never addressed the issue. Like, if someone was divorced, you would ease around the "delicate issue."

They all stared in shock at each other, too embarrassed to say anything. The blond man stood up and walked towards Mimi and said, "Come on, let these two lovebirds share some time alone."

In a whirlwind, Mimi found herself dragged to the man's expensive car. As far as Mimi could tell, it was a very old Thunderbird, fire-red, just like his personality. "Oh by the way, Sora never introduced us properly, my name's Yamato."

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