Once Upon A Velet Moon: Chapter 1
Do You Really Know Me?
Author's Note: Okay, this is a little Sora bashing but, I'll make up for it in future chapters I promise. Sora-fans don't kill me! I like Sora too! Honest! Well just to let you all know that this is all in Mimi's POV. Well most of it anyways. Mimi is 16, Sora is 17, Taichi=17, Yamato=17, Koushiro=16, Jyou=18, Hikari and Takeru=14, Miyako=14, Daisuke=14, Iori is 11. Okay now on with the story.
~Mimi~
We were all together. We meaning the all the digidestined. Even the new ones, except Ken. Well we were just at Sora's house hanging out. Jyou and Koushiro were talking about some science thing with Iori just sitting listening, Daisuke, Taichi, and Yamato talking about some soccor team and Takeru and Hikari were talking about something by themselves. Miyako, Sora and myself were watching television and talking about anything that popped into our heads at the moment.
I saw a extremely cute dress on t.v. and started talking about it. Then this commercial came on about those less fortunate children in different countries. I guess something happened in that head of Sora's becuase she suddenely snapped. She whirled around and slapped me. At first I was shocked, then stunned, then hurt. Not because of the pain, but because one of my best friends had just hit me. I noticed it had become really quiet. They must have either heard or seen Sora slap me.
I saw angery tears in her eyes. It was evident on her face that she was angry at me.
"How can you be so self-centered Mimi!? You worry about fashion and clothing, when children worry about when their next meal is going to be and if they are even going to get food!" She yelled at me. I couldn't believe what she said to me. She actually believes that I don't care or even think about the less fortunate.
"Mimi, you have to admit she has a point." Jyou said. I turned my head to look at his face. He was taking her side too? I touched the place where her hand met my cheek. It stung as I caressed it.
"You spend too much time worrying about yourself," Takeru started. I turned to look at him. Was this the same Takeru that was always so cheerful and hardly had anything negative to say about anyone?
"and you spend less time worrying about those who don't have what you have." Hikari finished. I could have realized that if Takeru was in it then she was too.
I looked around at everyone and the just nodded their heads. That is everyone except Yamato, Miyako and Iori. They just stared at me and then looked at the ground. That hurt me worst than anything the others had said. Just by saying nothing, meant that they agreed with what the others said and more. I would have thought that Miyako would have said something in my defense, but I guess I was wrong. I closed my eyes, to try and stop the tears that were ready to spill from my eyes.
"Is that what you all really think?" I whispered. I whispered it so low at first that I thought no one could hear me. It was the only thing I could do to stop myself from breaking down right then and crying.
"Is that what you all really think?" I asked again. Only louder this time. No one said anything so I looked around at everyone and saw it in their eyes. They all believe the samething. That I was a ditz, an airhead. That I only cared about myself and my clothes. They were wrong though. Very wrong.
I only started acting more ditzy than usual because of my family life. Lately things haven't been going so great at my house. My parents and I have been having arguements every night and they were starting to get to me. The way they would completly ignore while I was around, the way they would only grunt or nod to acknoledge me. It really hurt. I would cry myself to sleep at night and the way my baby brother would come in and try to comfort me when they wouldn't, it was just too much.
I tried to play everything off by showing people what they wanted to see. The cheery, bright eyed girl. The airheaded, ditzy girl that everyone knew. I couldn't show them the real me. The me that cried herself to sleep. The me that ached when I saw people that were starving or dying. I thought that at least my close friends would know the real me or at least part of it, but I guess I was wrong. They didn't know the first thing about me.
"If you think that then you don't know the first thing about me. I would have thought that my closest, so called 'friends' would understand a little bit about me, but I guess I was mistaken. The way you tell me I wouldn't understand what you are talking about, when I probably know more about it then you know." I stared at Jyou and Koushiro before continuing.
"Have any of you ever seen my report card? The way I get all A's? The way my teachers say that I do oustanding work? No you haven't, but you are so quick to say "You don't understand". But guess what. You don't understand. But that isn't even the point." I gave a small laugh and shook my head.
"You think I have no compassion. I probably have more damn compassion than all of you combined." I stood up and made my way to the door, by then the tears were flowing freely down my face. When I got to the door I turned around and looked at all them. I heard a few gasps when they saw the tears, but at that point I didn't really care. I only cared about telling them what I felt for once, about expressing myself even if this was going to be my last time.
"You know many people ask themselves do they really know themselves. I already know myself, but the question is: Do you really know me?" After I said that I opened the door and started running. I just ran. I didn't know where I was running to, I just knew I had to get away. Away from all the pain, the misunderstanding and them. The ones that caused most of the pain. My family and my friends. It started to rain, I barely saw people scurring away to get out of the rain. I couldn't feel the rain. I couldn't feel it as it's fists beat against my skin, I only felt the harsh cold wind. The wind that filled every part of my body. It consumed me. It became me. I became it.
Before I knew it I was at my secret place. A place I went to get away from everyone. As far as I knew, no one knew about it. It was the only thing that was really mine. I had saved fifty dollars everytime I went shopping. After a month I have 600 dollars. I had started saving when I was 13 and now I was 16. So every month I saved 600 dollars. By the time I was 15 I had 14,400 dollars. I had 900 hundred saved up already before I started saving again.
My secret place was a little cottage with a large amount of land around it. It was all mine. The place was so far out that it was almost in the country. I didn't realized that I had run so far, but now I was glad. No wonder my legs were hurting, but at least no one could hurt me here. I had a house, a garden, a place of my own. I would enroll in the nearby high school and finish my education. I would keep to myself and if people wanted to become my friends that was that. I wouldn't be the cheery, ditzy "fake" Mimi Tachikawa that people expected. I would be the "real" Mimi Tachikawa. I had a place of my own and it felt wonderful. I didn't care about those I left behind. They didn't care about me, they cared about everyone else, not me, never me.
But that doesn't matter know, because I'm finally free. Free to be me and free to do what I wanted to do without worrying about what people would say. At first I was a caged bird, but no I am free. For once I was happy, truly happy.
~Sora~
After that big show Mimi put on everyone grew silent. I guess we really didn't know what to say. After a while, everyone started saying they had to go. Making up some excuses about why they had to leave. When they were all gone, I walked into my room and thought about what happened. Mimi needed to know that she needs to start thinking about others not just herself. It was better that she learned it the hard way, right?
I may have been a little harsh, but she needed it. My mom came in a little later and we talked about how her flower shop was going. After talking for 30 minutes she left and I went to bed. I had pushed Mimi from my mind and went to sleep, only thinking of how my day would be tomorrow.
~*~*Next Day*~*~
When I woke up, I found my mom gone with a note saying she would be home in time to cook dinner. I took a shower and brushed my teeth. When I walked into the kitchen I heard the phone ring. I walked over and picked it up expecting it to be Mimi.
"Hello?" I said into the reciever.
"Hello, Sora?" I heard Mrs. Tachikawa, Mimi's mother.
"Yes this is Sora, how can I help you Mrs. Tachikawa?" I asked being as polite as possible.
"Sora, have you seen Mimi? She didn't come home yesterday, and her father and I are really worried. She's never done anything like this before." It sounded like she had just finished crying I could hear her start up again.
"No, I haven't seen Mimi since yesterday."
"Do you know anywhere she would go? We've called all her friends and they haven't seen her either."
"Have you called Miyako, Iori or Daisuke?"
"Yes, everyone."
"Then I really don't know where she could be."
"Oh, well thank you for all your help Sora. Goodbye."
"Goodbye." I was just about to hang-up when I heard her continuing.
"Oh, but if you see her will you tell her that we're looking for her and to come straight home?"
"I'll do that Ms. Tachikawa. Goodbye." I hung up the phone and leaned against a wall for support.
My best friend is missing. Where could she have gone? Is she ok? Thoughts were flying through my head. It didn't make any sense. Mimi was always the bubbly cheerful girl that everyone counted on when they were feeling low. She wouldn't so carefree that she would get herself hurt or anything, right?
I got on the phone and called everyone and told them to meet me at the park in an hour. As soon as I finished calling everyone, I got on the phone and called my mom. I told her I might be late coming home. The park wasn't very far so I sat down and began to think of where she could be.
"She couldn't be at the mall, that is only open so long and they wouldn't let her stay there over night. Where are you Mimi?" I asked. I knew that I wasn't going to get an answer, but I wanted, no needed to know where she was. Is it was because of me that she's gone? Is it because of something someone said? If only I knew why she was gone.
An hour later we were all at the park. Jyou and Koushiro were chatting like usual, and Yamato and Taichi were talking about god knows what. Everyone else was in their own little world or chatting silently with the person next to them.
"Hey where's Mimi?" Daisuke asked.
"Probably shopping or at home doing her hair." Jyou said. I looked at him and then looked at everyone.
"That's what I called everyone here to discuss." I said.
"We're here to discuss Mimi?" Taichi asked.
"Then why isn't Mimi here?" Takeru asked. All these questions were piled upon my own questions. I was begining to get a headache.
"Mimi isn't here because no one can find her!" I yelled. Wasn't that obvious? They were called right?
"What do you mean no one can find Mimi!?" Takeru asked. I saw that he was shocked and afraid for her.
"I mean actally what I said. No one can find Mimi. It's as if she has just vanished. Her parents said they haven't seen her since yesterday." I replied looking at the ground.
"What?!" Taichi exploded. I knew it was coming.
"She could have been hurt or killed, while we were at home in our beds sleeping peacefully!" Taichi yelled.
"We have to look for her!" Jyou yelled.
"Yeah, but where? Ms. Tachikawa already called me and said that she's called everyone of you, and she says she's called every where she thought Mimi would be." I explained. It was all my fault. She wouldn't be gone if I hadn't lost my temper yesterday. It's all my fault. That's the reason why Mimi isn't here with us right now.
"We have to try again. Mimi could be somewhere we would never guess. We have to look in places we know Mimi would hardley ever go." Miyako said. Talking for the first time since we've been here.
"She's right. Mimi is much smarter than we give her credit for." Koushiro said nodding his head.
"Fine, Jyou, Koushiro you check the library. Takeru, Hikari, Daisuke you guys check the west side of town. Miyako, Iori you check the police station and see if they've seen her. Sora, Matt and I will go to the Tachikawa's and see if they have any other information about Mimi. Okay? Okay. Let's get going!" Taichi was starting to sound like a detective, even though he was smiling, I knew he wasn't okay inside. I know Taichi too well.
We all went our seprate way. I heard Miyako start crying. Mimi was an idol to her. She was afriad. Afriad for Mimi and what would happen to her if she didn't find Mimi. Everyone has their idols, but what happens when they lose that idol? What becomes of the person? I shook my head to try and clear all my thoughts. We started walking. No one was talking. It just didn't seem right, not having Mimi there. Everyone counted on her.
"It's all my fault." I whispered. I knew they heard me because they both stopped and looked at me.
"Why did you have to go?" I cried out to nobody.
"Why?!" I screamed and then collasped into tears. Taichi gathered me in his arms.
"It's alright Sora. We'll find Mimi and bring her back, before you know it." He soothed. I looked into his eyes and smiled.
If only I could believe him. Things would be so much simpler.
Finished with the first part! I promise this one won't be more than 8 parts at the most. Well better start on the next part! Ciao!
~Katsuhiko
Do You Really Know Me?
Author's Note: Okay, this is a little Sora bashing but, I'll make up for it in future chapters I promise. Sora-fans don't kill me! I like Sora too! Honest! Well just to let you all know that this is all in Mimi's POV. Well most of it anyways. Mimi is 16, Sora is 17, Taichi=17, Yamato=17, Koushiro=16, Jyou=18, Hikari and Takeru=14, Miyako=14, Daisuke=14, Iori is 11. Okay now on with the story.
~Mimi~
We were all together. We meaning the all the digidestined. Even the new ones, except Ken. Well we were just at Sora's house hanging out. Jyou and Koushiro were talking about some science thing with Iori just sitting listening, Daisuke, Taichi, and Yamato talking about some soccor team and Takeru and Hikari were talking about something by themselves. Miyako, Sora and myself were watching television and talking about anything that popped into our heads at the moment.
I saw a extremely cute dress on t.v. and started talking about it. Then this commercial came on about those less fortunate children in different countries. I guess something happened in that head of Sora's becuase she suddenely snapped. She whirled around and slapped me. At first I was shocked, then stunned, then hurt. Not because of the pain, but because one of my best friends had just hit me. I noticed it had become really quiet. They must have either heard or seen Sora slap me.
I saw angery tears in her eyes. It was evident on her face that she was angry at me.
"How can you be so self-centered Mimi!? You worry about fashion and clothing, when children worry about when their next meal is going to be and if they are even going to get food!" She yelled at me. I couldn't believe what she said to me. She actually believes that I don't care or even think about the less fortunate.
"Mimi, you have to admit she has a point." Jyou said. I turned my head to look at his face. He was taking her side too? I touched the place where her hand met my cheek. It stung as I caressed it.
"You spend too much time worrying about yourself," Takeru started. I turned to look at him. Was this the same Takeru that was always so cheerful and hardly had anything negative to say about anyone?
"and you spend less time worrying about those who don't have what you have." Hikari finished. I could have realized that if Takeru was in it then she was too.
I looked around at everyone and the just nodded their heads. That is everyone except Yamato, Miyako and Iori. They just stared at me and then looked at the ground. That hurt me worst than anything the others had said. Just by saying nothing, meant that they agreed with what the others said and more. I would have thought that Miyako would have said something in my defense, but I guess I was wrong. I closed my eyes, to try and stop the tears that were ready to spill from my eyes.
"Is that what you all really think?" I whispered. I whispered it so low at first that I thought no one could hear me. It was the only thing I could do to stop myself from breaking down right then and crying.
"Is that what you all really think?" I asked again. Only louder this time. No one said anything so I looked around at everyone and saw it in their eyes. They all believe the samething. That I was a ditz, an airhead. That I only cared about myself and my clothes. They were wrong though. Very wrong.
I only started acting more ditzy than usual because of my family life. Lately things haven't been going so great at my house. My parents and I have been having arguements every night and they were starting to get to me. The way they would completly ignore while I was around, the way they would only grunt or nod to acknoledge me. It really hurt. I would cry myself to sleep at night and the way my baby brother would come in and try to comfort me when they wouldn't, it was just too much.
I tried to play everything off by showing people what they wanted to see. The cheery, bright eyed girl. The airheaded, ditzy girl that everyone knew. I couldn't show them the real me. The me that cried herself to sleep. The me that ached when I saw people that were starving or dying. I thought that at least my close friends would know the real me or at least part of it, but I guess I was wrong. They didn't know the first thing about me.
"If you think that then you don't know the first thing about me. I would have thought that my closest, so called 'friends' would understand a little bit about me, but I guess I was mistaken. The way you tell me I wouldn't understand what you are talking about, when I probably know more about it then you know." I stared at Jyou and Koushiro before continuing.
"Have any of you ever seen my report card? The way I get all A's? The way my teachers say that I do oustanding work? No you haven't, but you are so quick to say "You don't understand". But guess what. You don't understand. But that isn't even the point." I gave a small laugh and shook my head.
"You think I have no compassion. I probably have more damn compassion than all of you combined." I stood up and made my way to the door, by then the tears were flowing freely down my face. When I got to the door I turned around and looked at all them. I heard a few gasps when they saw the tears, but at that point I didn't really care. I only cared about telling them what I felt for once, about expressing myself even if this was going to be my last time.
"You know many people ask themselves do they really know themselves. I already know myself, but the question is: Do you really know me?" After I said that I opened the door and started running. I just ran. I didn't know where I was running to, I just knew I had to get away. Away from all the pain, the misunderstanding and them. The ones that caused most of the pain. My family and my friends. It started to rain, I barely saw people scurring away to get out of the rain. I couldn't feel the rain. I couldn't feel it as it's fists beat against my skin, I only felt the harsh cold wind. The wind that filled every part of my body. It consumed me. It became me. I became it.
Before I knew it I was at my secret place. A place I went to get away from everyone. As far as I knew, no one knew about it. It was the only thing that was really mine. I had saved fifty dollars everytime I went shopping. After a month I have 600 dollars. I had started saving when I was 13 and now I was 16. So every month I saved 600 dollars. By the time I was 15 I had 14,400 dollars. I had 900 hundred saved up already before I started saving again.
My secret place was a little cottage with a large amount of land around it. It was all mine. The place was so far out that it was almost in the country. I didn't realized that I had run so far, but now I was glad. No wonder my legs were hurting, but at least no one could hurt me here. I had a house, a garden, a place of my own. I would enroll in the nearby high school and finish my education. I would keep to myself and if people wanted to become my friends that was that. I wouldn't be the cheery, ditzy "fake" Mimi Tachikawa that people expected. I would be the "real" Mimi Tachikawa. I had a place of my own and it felt wonderful. I didn't care about those I left behind. They didn't care about me, they cared about everyone else, not me, never me.
But that doesn't matter know, because I'm finally free. Free to be me and free to do what I wanted to do without worrying about what people would say. At first I was a caged bird, but no I am free. For once I was happy, truly happy.
~Sora~
After that big show Mimi put on everyone grew silent. I guess we really didn't know what to say. After a while, everyone started saying they had to go. Making up some excuses about why they had to leave. When they were all gone, I walked into my room and thought about what happened. Mimi needed to know that she needs to start thinking about others not just herself. It was better that she learned it the hard way, right?
I may have been a little harsh, but she needed it. My mom came in a little later and we talked about how her flower shop was going. After talking for 30 minutes she left and I went to bed. I had pushed Mimi from my mind and went to sleep, only thinking of how my day would be tomorrow.
~*~*Next Day*~*~
When I woke up, I found my mom gone with a note saying she would be home in time to cook dinner. I took a shower and brushed my teeth. When I walked into the kitchen I heard the phone ring. I walked over and picked it up expecting it to be Mimi.
"Hello?" I said into the reciever.
"Hello, Sora?" I heard Mrs. Tachikawa, Mimi's mother.
"Yes this is Sora, how can I help you Mrs. Tachikawa?" I asked being as polite as possible.
"Sora, have you seen Mimi? She didn't come home yesterday, and her father and I are really worried. She's never done anything like this before." It sounded like she had just finished crying I could hear her start up again.
"No, I haven't seen Mimi since yesterday."
"Do you know anywhere she would go? We've called all her friends and they haven't seen her either."
"Have you called Miyako, Iori or Daisuke?"
"Yes, everyone."
"Then I really don't know where she could be."
"Oh, well thank you for all your help Sora. Goodbye."
"Goodbye." I was just about to hang-up when I heard her continuing.
"Oh, but if you see her will you tell her that we're looking for her and to come straight home?"
"I'll do that Ms. Tachikawa. Goodbye." I hung up the phone and leaned against a wall for support.
My best friend is missing. Where could she have gone? Is she ok? Thoughts were flying through my head. It didn't make any sense. Mimi was always the bubbly cheerful girl that everyone counted on when they were feeling low. She wouldn't so carefree that she would get herself hurt or anything, right?
I got on the phone and called everyone and told them to meet me at the park in an hour. As soon as I finished calling everyone, I got on the phone and called my mom. I told her I might be late coming home. The park wasn't very far so I sat down and began to think of where she could be.
"She couldn't be at the mall, that is only open so long and they wouldn't let her stay there over night. Where are you Mimi?" I asked. I knew that I wasn't going to get an answer, but I wanted, no needed to know where she was. Is it was because of me that she's gone? Is it because of something someone said? If only I knew why she was gone.
An hour later we were all at the park. Jyou and Koushiro were chatting like usual, and Yamato and Taichi were talking about god knows what. Everyone else was in their own little world or chatting silently with the person next to them.
"Hey where's Mimi?" Daisuke asked.
"Probably shopping or at home doing her hair." Jyou said. I looked at him and then looked at everyone.
"That's what I called everyone here to discuss." I said.
"We're here to discuss Mimi?" Taichi asked.
"Then why isn't Mimi here?" Takeru asked. All these questions were piled upon my own questions. I was begining to get a headache.
"Mimi isn't here because no one can find her!" I yelled. Wasn't that obvious? They were called right?
"What do you mean no one can find Mimi!?" Takeru asked. I saw that he was shocked and afraid for her.
"I mean actally what I said. No one can find Mimi. It's as if she has just vanished. Her parents said they haven't seen her since yesterday." I replied looking at the ground.
"What?!" Taichi exploded. I knew it was coming.
"She could have been hurt or killed, while we were at home in our beds sleeping peacefully!" Taichi yelled.
"We have to look for her!" Jyou yelled.
"Yeah, but where? Ms. Tachikawa already called me and said that she's called everyone of you, and she says she's called every where she thought Mimi would be." I explained. It was all my fault. She wouldn't be gone if I hadn't lost my temper yesterday. It's all my fault. That's the reason why Mimi isn't here with us right now.
"We have to try again. Mimi could be somewhere we would never guess. We have to look in places we know Mimi would hardley ever go." Miyako said. Talking for the first time since we've been here.
"She's right. Mimi is much smarter than we give her credit for." Koushiro said nodding his head.
"Fine, Jyou, Koushiro you check the library. Takeru, Hikari, Daisuke you guys check the west side of town. Miyako, Iori you check the police station and see if they've seen her. Sora, Matt and I will go to the Tachikawa's and see if they have any other information about Mimi. Okay? Okay. Let's get going!" Taichi was starting to sound like a detective, even though he was smiling, I knew he wasn't okay inside. I know Taichi too well.
We all went our seprate way. I heard Miyako start crying. Mimi was an idol to her. She was afriad. Afriad for Mimi and what would happen to her if she didn't find Mimi. Everyone has their idols, but what happens when they lose that idol? What becomes of the person? I shook my head to try and clear all my thoughts. We started walking. No one was talking. It just didn't seem right, not having Mimi there. Everyone counted on her.
"It's all my fault." I whispered. I knew they heard me because they both stopped and looked at me.
"Why did you have to go?" I cried out to nobody.
"Why?!" I screamed and then collasped into tears. Taichi gathered me in his arms.
"It's alright Sora. We'll find Mimi and bring her back, before you know it." He soothed. I looked into his eyes and smiled.
If only I could believe him. Things would be so much simpler.
Finished with the first part! I promise this one won't be more than 8 parts at the most. Well better start on the next part! Ciao!
~Katsuhiko