"Courting Miss Mimi" -- Part 2
Story Written by Freedom Fighter
Table of Contents for Part 2
1 Three Girls and an American
2 Fighting for Attention
3 A Private Serenade
4 Scoring Love
5 Dinner and a Movie
6 A Little Too Close for Comfort
7 Ask the Love Dummy!
8 Mimi's Final Decision
Part 2, Chapter 3 - A Private Serenade
Those of you waiting for Matt to make his move, you'll be pleasantly surprised with this
installment. And yes, the title is a good clue of his plans.
But first, if at first you don't succeed... just pick yourself up and try again! No, Yolei's
not going to do an Aaliyah impression, but she is going to try and win Mimi's heart with
another scheme... in her own apartment! You've got to see this one to believe it!
Disclaimer: None of the Digidestined belong to me. I am also not responsible for any
side effects you may receive from hearing them sing. Although some of them are better
singers than others... but that's in the ear of the beholder.
***
July 14th, Odaiba High School
Mimi, Joe, Yolei, Michael, and Kari were wrapping up their night at the carnival by
playing a little bit of miniature golf. There were on the last hole. Joe, Yolei, and
Michael had decided to settle their differences on the course, so Kari and Mimi paired up
and went ahead of the trio. Joe, Yolei, and Michael watched as the two girls played their
last putts... Mimi's pink ball being about a foot away from the hole, while Kari's yellow
ball was just a mere inch or two from going in.
"Here goes nothing," Mimi said to herself as she brought her putter back and hit the ball.
Unfortunately, she doesn't hit it hard enough, as it stops just short of the hole. "Why
doesn't this stupid ball go into the stupid hole when I stupid hit it?" she muttered aloud.
"Gee... Mimi wasn't kidding when she said she wasn't any good at golf," Yolei said.
"The way she's been putting," Joe noted as Kari putts her ball into the hole, "it makes me
wonder if she's got the course record for 'most shots attempted on a single hole.'"
"You've been watching her putt?" Michael asked as Mimi turned her back towards them
to putt again. "I've been watching her butt."
"Michael!" Joe exclaimed. "You should be ashamed of yourself!"
"Now that you mention it, Mimi does have a nice butt," Yolei commented.
"Yolei!"
"Well, she does! Just look at it!"
"No Yolei, I am not going to look at Mimi's butt!"
"Are you guys talking about me?"
Joe freaked out when he saw that Mimi and Kari were walking over towards them. Mimi
looked at Joe with a smile while Kari finished filling out their scoring card.
"We were just talking about how you could improve your putt," Joe lied.
"If that's case," Mimi began, "then tell me, because I'm tired of hitting the ball and not
getting it into the hole."
"Okay, I finished four over par," Kari said, announcing her score. "And as for Mimi..."
"Kari, let's just keep my score between you and me, okay?"
"Come on Mimi," Yolei said, "it can't be that bad!"
"Well, is 20 over par bad?"
"Kari!"
"Are you serious?" Yolei questioned. "There must be some mistake!"
"No mistake." Kari reassured them by going through Mimi's scores. "Let's see: four,
three, four, four, three, five, four, seven..."
"You got a seven?"
"Michael, I told you that I wasn't any good at golf!"
"If I ever need to beat someone at golf, remind me to call you."
"That's not funny!"
"Mimi, lighten up. I can give you some lessons, if you want."
"Hey Romeo," Yolei whispered into Joe's ear, "how about paying attention to your
game? The only way you'll have a shot at winning this is if you sink this in two or less."
"Oh. Right."
Joe focuses his attention on the task at hand. He hits his blue ball, which bounces off of
several walls and stops rolling close to where Mimi's ball had been a few minutes ago.
"You were saying?" Joe smirked as Yolei and Michael stood there, dumbfounded. The
two of them tried to match Joe's stroke, but they were unable to do so. Yolei gets to the
green in two shots, while Michael takes three. Joe steps up to take his shot.
"If I sink this, Michael's out of the running and Yolei, you have to sink it on your next
putt to tie."
Michael, Yolei, Mimi, and Kari watch as Joe takes a deep breath, squares his shoulders,
and then putts the ball... right into the hole. Michael is speechless as Yolei begins to
panic. Joe puts a reassuring hand on Yolei's left shoulder.
"Don't worry. Mimi won't think any less of you if you miss this shot."
"Thanks for the vote of confidence," Yolei said sarcastically as she brushes Joe's hand
off of her and stepped up to take her shot... which was a bit closer than Joe's, but still a
good six and a half inches away.
"Oh please, for the love of God, please go in!" Yolei pleaded to herself as she closed her
eyes and hit her purple ball. Good thing she did close her eyes... because when she
opened them, she couldn't believe it. The ball had actually gone in the hole. She jumped
up and down with glee.
"It went in, it went in, IT WENT IN!" she yelled loudly. The others could only laugh as
Yolei started to dance around them. Michael grumbled as he went up and slapped his
green ball the remaining two inches into the hole.
"Calm down, Yolei!" Kari shouted, trying to hold Yolei down. "You're acting like you
just won the World Cup."
"Besides," Joe stated, "you didn't win. You and I finished in a tie."
"Who cares?" Yolei responded happily. "I beat Michael, and that's all I care about right
now!"
"You don't have to rub it in, you know," a glum Michael replied.
"We'd better get home," Kari suggested as she checked her watch. "It's almost ten
o'clock."
"I'm going to go find my brother," Joe said, waving goodbye as he runs off. "See all of
you tomorrow!"
Mimi, Yolei, Michael, and Kari wave goodbye to Joe.
"I guess we'd better go too," Mimi said.
"Yeah. Let's find my sisters."
"Can I hitch a ride home with you guys?"
"Sure thing, Kari."
"What about me?" Michael asked, as if he was forgotten by the three girls.
"You're staying at TK's place, remember?" Yolei replied.
About twenty minutes later, the group arrives back at the apartment complex. Kari stays
in the car while Yolei's eldest sister drives her home. The others head to the elevator.
Once the elevator reaches TK's floor, it stops. Michael gets out.
"I'll see you tomorrow then," Michael said, waving goodbye to Mimi, Yolei, and Yolei's
sisters.
"Okay!"
"Bye!"
The elevator door closed as Michael walked to TK's apartment. He knocked on the door.
Seconds later, he was greeted by TK.
"About time you got back! How was the carnival?"
"It was okay," Michael replied, more worried about Yolei and Mimi. "I'm afraid that
Yolei will try to persuade Mimi not to choose me," he thought.
"Come on in. I'll show you to your room. Oh, and don't bother my mom because she's
working on an article for the local newspaper."
Meanwhile, the elevator had arrived at the floor on which the Inoue family lived. Yolei
led the way to their door, where she unlocked it with her key. As the group goes in,
nobody notices someone sneaking around on the ground floor, next to the entrance of the
convenience store... which the Inoue family also owned, coincidentally. It happens to be
Matt, with his guitar in hand.
"Here goes nothing," Matt said, getting his guitar into position as if he was going to play
it. "I just hope I remember the words correctly."
Inside the Inoue apartment, Mimi was already searching through her bags to find
something to sleep with. All of a sudden, she starting hearing music playing from
outside. Actually, it was the sound of a someone strumming a guitar. Curiosity got the
best of Mimi as she tried to find a window so she could look out and see who it was.
***
I've gotta be honest
I think you know
We're covered in lies and that's okay
And there's somewhere beyond this, I know
But I hope I can find the words to say
***
By this time, Mimi's made her way to the window. She sees Matt outside and realizes
that it is Matt that is playing the guitar. Yolei quickly joins Mimi by the window.
"Who's playing that music?" Yolei asked.
"It's Matt!" Mimi exclaimed, pointing down to the ground. "And he's signing me a
song!"
"How do you know he's singing for you?"
***
Never again, no...
No, never again...
***
As Matt goes into the refrain, he quickly waves his strumming hand in the air at Mimi
before resuming.
"That's how," Mimi said.
"I can't believe it!" Yolei thought. "Matt's serenading her! Why didn't I think of that?"
***
'Cause you're a god
And I am not
And I just thought
That you would know
You're a god
And I am not
And I just thought I'd let you go
***
"You're a god? Puh-lease! Can you get any cheaper than that?"
"I think it's sweet," Mimi said, as she began to daydream about Matt.
"Oh great..." Yolei said to herself. "I'm losing her already."
As Matt is about to go into the second verse, he is interrupted as a kendo stick comes
flying down from above and just misses hitting him by mere inches. Matt looks a few
floors up above Yolei's apartment and sees Cody's grandfather yelling at him, with
another kendo stick in hand.
"Crazy kid! People are trying to sleep!"
"Yikes!" Matt exclaimed as he began to run off into the night. Mimi and Yolei laugh
hysterically as they watch the future rock n' roll star disappear into the night. Below,
Michael had also witnessed the whole thing with TK.
"My brother will do anything for a girl sometimes," noted TK.
"If only I could play some type of musical instrument," Michael sighed. "I guess I'd
better figure out something quick, or I'll lose Mimi forever."
"What? You like Mimi too? What is up with that?"
Michael didn't bother to explain his reasons as he headed back into TK's apartment. TK
follows him in, closing the door behind him.
Back upstairs...
"Matt sure does try, doesn't he?" Mimi said with a smile.
"It's too bad Cody's grandpa didn't enjoy his performance," Yolei replied, remembering
to note that for her, that was a good thing.
Yolei leads Mimi to her bedroom, where she finds a styrofoam cup set up at one end of
the room, and a golf ball and a putter at the other end.
"Yolei? What's going on?"
"Remember how Joe offered to give you miniature golf lessons?"
"Yeah. But Joe's not here."
"Who needs Joe? I can give you a free lesson right now."
"Are you sure?"
"Hey, I got the same score as Joe did! That means that I'm just as good as him."
"I guess."
"Come on," Yolei said, pushing Mimi over towards the putter. "Try it! Please!"
"Okay," Mimi said, giving in to Yolei's demands. Yolei hands Mimi the putter. Mimi
walks over to where the ball is.
"Just hit the ball into the cup."
Mimi hits the ball towards the cup using her putter. But she misses wide to the right.
"You see?" Mimi said dejectedly, turning towards Yolei. "I'm no good at this."
"Allow me to help."
Yolei goes to the other side of the room and retrieves the ball. She then returns and puts
the ball in the exact spot where Mimi hit it the first time. As Mimi lines up to take her
shot, Yolei gets right behind her. Yolei stretches her arms around Mimi's body and
overlaps her hands with Mimi's on the putter.
"What are you doing?" Mimi asked, a little worried about how close Yolei was to her.
"I'm showing you how to putt!" Yolei said with a smile. "Now focus on the hole!"
Mimi nods and turns her attention towards the hole.
"It's all in the hips, Mimi. That's the secret."
Before Mimi knew it, her hips were swaying back and forth and back and forth. She
turned towards Yolei and saw that she was moving her hips in sync with hers.
"It's all in the hips. It's all in the hips."
Naturally, this freaked Mimi out. She broke free of Yolei, scared out of her wits.
"Yolei! What are you doing?"
"It's part of the routine, Mimi. What? You thought I was coming on to you?"
"Well, you were a little too close for comfort."
"I'm just trying to help. Trust me. Try putting now."
"How can I try putting after what you just did?"
"Mimi, can you just trust me on this?"
"Okay, fine! But I'll prove to you that your little tactic didn't work!"
Mimi takes her position and prepares to putt. She then notices Yolei watching her every
movement. This spooks Mimi even more. She drops the putter and walks out of the
room.
"I'm sorry Yolei," Mimi said sadly on her way out, "but I'm not feeling comfortable at
all. Maybe I should get some sleep and try again in the morning."
"Mimi, wait! I'm sorry!"
But Mimi had already left the room. Yolei walks over to her bed, sits down on it, and
begins to sob quietly to herself.
"Where did I go wrong? Where did I go wrong?"
Yolei continues to cry as she tries to piece things together. Any chance of her winning
Mimi's affections just walked out the door.
To be continued...
Copyright Date: 12/13/01
Story Written by Freedom Fighter
Table of Contents for Part 2
1 Three Girls and an American
2 Fighting for Attention
3 A Private Serenade
4 Scoring Love
5 Dinner and a Movie
6 A Little Too Close for Comfort
7 Ask the Love Dummy!
8 Mimi's Final Decision
Part 2, Chapter 3 - A Private Serenade
Those of you waiting for Matt to make his move, you'll be pleasantly surprised with this
installment. And yes, the title is a good clue of his plans.
But first, if at first you don't succeed... just pick yourself up and try again! No, Yolei's
not going to do an Aaliyah impression, but she is going to try and win Mimi's heart with
another scheme... in her own apartment! You've got to see this one to believe it!
Disclaimer: None of the Digidestined belong to me. I am also not responsible for any
side effects you may receive from hearing them sing. Although some of them are better
singers than others... but that's in the ear of the beholder.
***
July 14th, Odaiba High School
Mimi, Joe, Yolei, Michael, and Kari were wrapping up their night at the carnival by
playing a little bit of miniature golf. There were on the last hole. Joe, Yolei, and
Michael had decided to settle their differences on the course, so Kari and Mimi paired up
and went ahead of the trio. Joe, Yolei, and Michael watched as the two girls played their
last putts... Mimi's pink ball being about a foot away from the hole, while Kari's yellow
ball was just a mere inch or two from going in.
"Here goes nothing," Mimi said to herself as she brought her putter back and hit the ball.
Unfortunately, she doesn't hit it hard enough, as it stops just short of the hole. "Why
doesn't this stupid ball go into the stupid hole when I stupid hit it?" she muttered aloud.
"Gee... Mimi wasn't kidding when she said she wasn't any good at golf," Yolei said.
"The way she's been putting," Joe noted as Kari putts her ball into the hole, "it makes me
wonder if she's got the course record for 'most shots attempted on a single hole.'"
"You've been watching her putt?" Michael asked as Mimi turned her back towards them
to putt again. "I've been watching her butt."
"Michael!" Joe exclaimed. "You should be ashamed of yourself!"
"Now that you mention it, Mimi does have a nice butt," Yolei commented.
"Yolei!"
"Well, she does! Just look at it!"
"No Yolei, I am not going to look at Mimi's butt!"
"Are you guys talking about me?"
Joe freaked out when he saw that Mimi and Kari were walking over towards them. Mimi
looked at Joe with a smile while Kari finished filling out their scoring card.
"We were just talking about how you could improve your putt," Joe lied.
"If that's case," Mimi began, "then tell me, because I'm tired of hitting the ball and not
getting it into the hole."
"Okay, I finished four over par," Kari said, announcing her score. "And as for Mimi..."
"Kari, let's just keep my score between you and me, okay?"
"Come on Mimi," Yolei said, "it can't be that bad!"
"Well, is 20 over par bad?"
"Kari!"
"Are you serious?" Yolei questioned. "There must be some mistake!"
"No mistake." Kari reassured them by going through Mimi's scores. "Let's see: four,
three, four, four, three, five, four, seven..."
"You got a seven?"
"Michael, I told you that I wasn't any good at golf!"
"If I ever need to beat someone at golf, remind me to call you."
"That's not funny!"
"Mimi, lighten up. I can give you some lessons, if you want."
"Hey Romeo," Yolei whispered into Joe's ear, "how about paying attention to your
game? The only way you'll have a shot at winning this is if you sink this in two or less."
"Oh. Right."
Joe focuses his attention on the task at hand. He hits his blue ball, which bounces off of
several walls and stops rolling close to where Mimi's ball had been a few minutes ago.
"You were saying?" Joe smirked as Yolei and Michael stood there, dumbfounded. The
two of them tried to match Joe's stroke, but they were unable to do so. Yolei gets to the
green in two shots, while Michael takes three. Joe steps up to take his shot.
"If I sink this, Michael's out of the running and Yolei, you have to sink it on your next
putt to tie."
Michael, Yolei, Mimi, and Kari watch as Joe takes a deep breath, squares his shoulders,
and then putts the ball... right into the hole. Michael is speechless as Yolei begins to
panic. Joe puts a reassuring hand on Yolei's left shoulder.
"Don't worry. Mimi won't think any less of you if you miss this shot."
"Thanks for the vote of confidence," Yolei said sarcastically as she brushes Joe's hand
off of her and stepped up to take her shot... which was a bit closer than Joe's, but still a
good six and a half inches away.
"Oh please, for the love of God, please go in!" Yolei pleaded to herself as she closed her
eyes and hit her purple ball. Good thing she did close her eyes... because when she
opened them, she couldn't believe it. The ball had actually gone in the hole. She jumped
up and down with glee.
"It went in, it went in, IT WENT IN!" she yelled loudly. The others could only laugh as
Yolei started to dance around them. Michael grumbled as he went up and slapped his
green ball the remaining two inches into the hole.
"Calm down, Yolei!" Kari shouted, trying to hold Yolei down. "You're acting like you
just won the World Cup."
"Besides," Joe stated, "you didn't win. You and I finished in a tie."
"Who cares?" Yolei responded happily. "I beat Michael, and that's all I care about right
now!"
"You don't have to rub it in, you know," a glum Michael replied.
"We'd better get home," Kari suggested as she checked her watch. "It's almost ten
o'clock."
"I'm going to go find my brother," Joe said, waving goodbye as he runs off. "See all of
you tomorrow!"
Mimi, Yolei, Michael, and Kari wave goodbye to Joe.
"I guess we'd better go too," Mimi said.
"Yeah. Let's find my sisters."
"Can I hitch a ride home with you guys?"
"Sure thing, Kari."
"What about me?" Michael asked, as if he was forgotten by the three girls.
"You're staying at TK's place, remember?" Yolei replied.
About twenty minutes later, the group arrives back at the apartment complex. Kari stays
in the car while Yolei's eldest sister drives her home. The others head to the elevator.
Once the elevator reaches TK's floor, it stops. Michael gets out.
"I'll see you tomorrow then," Michael said, waving goodbye to Mimi, Yolei, and Yolei's
sisters.
"Okay!"
"Bye!"
The elevator door closed as Michael walked to TK's apartment. He knocked on the door.
Seconds later, he was greeted by TK.
"About time you got back! How was the carnival?"
"It was okay," Michael replied, more worried about Yolei and Mimi. "I'm afraid that
Yolei will try to persuade Mimi not to choose me," he thought.
"Come on in. I'll show you to your room. Oh, and don't bother my mom because she's
working on an article for the local newspaper."
Meanwhile, the elevator had arrived at the floor on which the Inoue family lived. Yolei
led the way to their door, where she unlocked it with her key. As the group goes in,
nobody notices someone sneaking around on the ground floor, next to the entrance of the
convenience store... which the Inoue family also owned, coincidentally. It happens to be
Matt, with his guitar in hand.
"Here goes nothing," Matt said, getting his guitar into position as if he was going to play
it. "I just hope I remember the words correctly."
Inside the Inoue apartment, Mimi was already searching through her bags to find
something to sleep with. All of a sudden, she starting hearing music playing from
outside. Actually, it was the sound of a someone strumming a guitar. Curiosity got the
best of Mimi as she tried to find a window so she could look out and see who it was.
***
I've gotta be honest
I think you know
We're covered in lies and that's okay
And there's somewhere beyond this, I know
But I hope I can find the words to say
***
By this time, Mimi's made her way to the window. She sees Matt outside and realizes
that it is Matt that is playing the guitar. Yolei quickly joins Mimi by the window.
"Who's playing that music?" Yolei asked.
"It's Matt!" Mimi exclaimed, pointing down to the ground. "And he's signing me a
song!"
"How do you know he's singing for you?"
***
Never again, no...
No, never again...
***
As Matt goes into the refrain, he quickly waves his strumming hand in the air at Mimi
before resuming.
"That's how," Mimi said.
"I can't believe it!" Yolei thought. "Matt's serenading her! Why didn't I think of that?"
***
'Cause you're a god
And I am not
And I just thought
That you would know
You're a god
And I am not
And I just thought I'd let you go
***
"You're a god? Puh-lease! Can you get any cheaper than that?"
"I think it's sweet," Mimi said, as she began to daydream about Matt.
"Oh great..." Yolei said to herself. "I'm losing her already."
As Matt is about to go into the second verse, he is interrupted as a kendo stick comes
flying down from above and just misses hitting him by mere inches. Matt looks a few
floors up above Yolei's apartment and sees Cody's grandfather yelling at him, with
another kendo stick in hand.
"Crazy kid! People are trying to sleep!"
"Yikes!" Matt exclaimed as he began to run off into the night. Mimi and Yolei laugh
hysterically as they watch the future rock n' roll star disappear into the night. Below,
Michael had also witnessed the whole thing with TK.
"My brother will do anything for a girl sometimes," noted TK.
"If only I could play some type of musical instrument," Michael sighed. "I guess I'd
better figure out something quick, or I'll lose Mimi forever."
"What? You like Mimi too? What is up with that?"
Michael didn't bother to explain his reasons as he headed back into TK's apartment. TK
follows him in, closing the door behind him.
Back upstairs...
"Matt sure does try, doesn't he?" Mimi said with a smile.
"It's too bad Cody's grandpa didn't enjoy his performance," Yolei replied, remembering
to note that for her, that was a good thing.
Yolei leads Mimi to her bedroom, where she finds a styrofoam cup set up at one end of
the room, and a golf ball and a putter at the other end.
"Yolei? What's going on?"
"Remember how Joe offered to give you miniature golf lessons?"
"Yeah. But Joe's not here."
"Who needs Joe? I can give you a free lesson right now."
"Are you sure?"
"Hey, I got the same score as Joe did! That means that I'm just as good as him."
"I guess."
"Come on," Yolei said, pushing Mimi over towards the putter. "Try it! Please!"
"Okay," Mimi said, giving in to Yolei's demands. Yolei hands Mimi the putter. Mimi
walks over to where the ball is.
"Just hit the ball into the cup."
Mimi hits the ball towards the cup using her putter. But she misses wide to the right.
"You see?" Mimi said dejectedly, turning towards Yolei. "I'm no good at this."
"Allow me to help."
Yolei goes to the other side of the room and retrieves the ball. She then returns and puts
the ball in the exact spot where Mimi hit it the first time. As Mimi lines up to take her
shot, Yolei gets right behind her. Yolei stretches her arms around Mimi's body and
overlaps her hands with Mimi's on the putter.
"What are you doing?" Mimi asked, a little worried about how close Yolei was to her.
"I'm showing you how to putt!" Yolei said with a smile. "Now focus on the hole!"
Mimi nods and turns her attention towards the hole.
"It's all in the hips, Mimi. That's the secret."
Before Mimi knew it, her hips were swaying back and forth and back and forth. She
turned towards Yolei and saw that she was moving her hips in sync with hers.
"It's all in the hips. It's all in the hips."
Naturally, this freaked Mimi out. She broke free of Yolei, scared out of her wits.
"Yolei! What are you doing?"
"It's part of the routine, Mimi. What? You thought I was coming on to you?"
"Well, you were a little too close for comfort."
"I'm just trying to help. Trust me. Try putting now."
"How can I try putting after what you just did?"
"Mimi, can you just trust me on this?"
"Okay, fine! But I'll prove to you that your little tactic didn't work!"
Mimi takes her position and prepares to putt. She then notices Yolei watching her every
movement. This spooks Mimi even more. She drops the putter and walks out of the
room.
"I'm sorry Yolei," Mimi said sadly on her way out, "but I'm not feeling comfortable at
all. Maybe I should get some sleep and try again in the morning."
"Mimi, wait! I'm sorry!"
But Mimi had already left the room. Yolei walks over to her bed, sits down on it, and
begins to sob quietly to herself.
"Where did I go wrong? Where did I go wrong?"
Yolei continues to cry as she tries to piece things together. Any chance of her winning
Mimi's affections just walked out the door.
To be continued...
Copyright Date: 12/13/01