Welkin
by: sakuramimato (sakuramimato@hotmail.com)

Disclaimer: I'm too tired.. do I have to mention that I don't own Digimon? *yawns*

Author's Note: If you haven't noticed, but if you've just started reading the fic on the 9th or 10th (September 02), I have revised the chapters and fixed up all of the typos and grammatical errors. I spent an hour reading each and every word that I wrote and added commas, letters, etc so that the story would be almost typo-free.

This must be a little late in the fic, but Mimi calls all of her friends by their original Japanese names while some of the others call them by their American nickname (Mimi, Japanese names; others, American series names). She adds -kun to Yamato's name as a pet name she calls him. Oh, and another thing, Michael is the Michael from the show, but I made it so that he never met Mimi in his whole life. ;) Triangles, you might presume.

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Chapter 10

IT was almost four hours since Matt had left the dorm and Mimi was lying quietly on her bed catching up on some books that she had to read for her class. Noticing that it was now a few minutes past 11 and that the Union would be vacant by that time, she closed her books and neatly put them in a pile to rest on her bedside drawer. She glanced over at Matt's empty half of the room (empty since he wasn't there, his walls are filled with posters of him and his band) and left the room. She soon noticed that she left a couple minutes too early because a kid across the hall called her name out. She sighed in disappointment to see the light-blonde haired boy running up to her in the hall. She locked the doors and greeted him with a polite, "Hello."

It took him a few seconds to catch his breath. "I was wondering if you'd like to go hang with me around school. The pool is inaccessible right now, but we can think of other things to do along the way before the day ends and school starts its whole course again."

"Umm, why not?" she replied helplessly cracking a weak grin. 'I should've left a few minutes later. What if Yamato-kun sees me like this? I'll probably get sick again and instead of falling into Yamato-kun's arms, Michael will be worried half to death about me. I wonder why Yamato-kun left. Did he want me to suffer with Michael?'

Michael took her hand and pulled her through the hallways to the elevators. She had asked him a couple of times where he was going to take her, but he replied that they would talk it over at lunch. The elevator came and the two stepped in. He was talking to her non-stop about homework and such and she only kept half of her attention to it. 'This is going to take forever... I want to go hang out with my friends, but Michael will just pull me back in his direction. Does he even have any friends? Geez, I chose the worst time to leave my dorm. If only Yamato-kun hadn't left..'

The two were now standing at the bottom floor of the hostel and were making their way out to the school grounds. Michael led her to the academy building and entered through the back. The two were standing at the entrance of the Student Union and were looking around for a good place to sit. There were three people eating lunch together and some people at the register. The two of them took a seat near the back. Some high decorative plants cleverly kept them from view by some people.

"So, what would you like to eat?" Michael asked her drawing small circles on the table with his finger.

She shook her head, "That's okay. I can go get my own lunch I have enough money." She smiled and stood up to go to the register. No one seemed to be taking orders, but she waited patiently.

"Hey, Mimi. What would you like for lunch?"

Mimi looked up and saw that Yolei was in her working uniform again and had a huge grin plastered onto her face. "Hey, Miyako."

"I'm glad you're finally feeling better! I guess Matt must have told you what I said here yesterday. I don't think he likes me as a friend anymore." Yolei confessed. "But anyways, what are you doing here for lunch?"

"I'm here with a friend, but I'm not really sure if he's a good friend." Mimi started. "Yamato-kun left me in the dorm a few hours ago and hasn't come back since. I was taken aback by his actions, but I'm sure we'll have something talked about later on. Besides, it doesn't really matter that much."

Yolei had a strange sparkly look in her eyes. She took hold of her friend's hands, "You two would make the perfect couple! I have to get you two together! I've been waiting for something this great to happen and it has! Hmm, I'll get you two together before the Winter Ball rolls by and you two will be the standing Winter Princess and Prince! I can see it now -- Tachikawa Mimi and Ish --"

Mimi was sweatdropping at the embarassment her friend was putting her in.

"Tachikawa Mimi and who?" Michael blinked coming from behind Mimi. Yolei's jaw dropped.

"Hai.. no one, Michael. My friend and I were just talking. That's all!" Mimi lied.

Michael looked at her with a puzzled look in his eyes. "You look cute when you lie, but I can see some truth in that."

"Mimi, who's your friend? He's really cute!" Yolei asked loudly in her ear. "He looks so adorable! Is he your date because I saw you come in here with him!"

A group of high schoolers came into the Union. A guy with blonde hair walking in front stopped and stared at the three. Mimi gaped and felt like running away. 'Oh, my gosh.. What is Yamato-kun doing here?! What if he heard anything that Michael said to me?'

A strange silence fell upon the large group. Matt turned away and took a seat at the table the group usually sat at. Some scattered remarks were said among the DigiDestined that followed him and Mimi, Yolei, and Michael were left silent.

Mimi dropped her head slightly, tears welling up in her eyes. "Yamato-kun thinks I'm an idiot now.."

Yolei watched her friend and Michael rest his hand on her shoulder and she brushed it off. A small tear trickled down her cheek and she turned so that the other two wouldn't see her crying. "I'm leaving. Thank you so much, Michael. Have a great day."

"Wait, Mimi! What about lunch?" Yolei called to her.