Filling the Space
By: nightmaiden
AN: Ahhhh!! Sorry that I didn't updated soon. Writer's Block caught up with me. Hey. I'm almost done with this story. Bet you're glad. ^_^ Truth be told. Yes, I tend to swear a lot. Hey, I can't help it. Anyway, the next chapter will be the end. The final chapter of this story. Start saying good bye…I'm still not sure if I should have a song at the last chapter. Please tell me if I should. Okay, I'll let you read. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything, except Liana, Mina Blye, and William. I keep telling you that…
Chapter 9
Not to Some
Ring…
Ring…
Clicking through channels, Mimi glanced at the phone, then continued clicking.
Ring…
Ring…
She gazed at it again.
Ring…
Ring…
She signed, "Hello?"
"Mimi?"
"What do you want, Matt?"
"I…I wanted to talk to you."
"Well I don't feel like it, bye."
"Wait! Please Mimi…"
Silence.
"Meet me at the park, by the fountain in fifteen. Bye."
Matt hanged up before Mimi could respond. Angrily, Mimi dialed his phone number. It rang a couple times, but he didn't pick up. She placed the phone back.
"I don't have to go." Mimi told herself as she continued clicking between channels.
Mimi glanced at the clock above the TV. One minute passed since Matt's call. Shaking her head, Mimi looked at the television set. Seconds passed. She stole a glance to the clock. She sat up at the edge of the couch, looking at the clock. Two minutes passed. Sweat rain down her forehead. She bit her lips, casting her honey eyes from left to right. Gaining her conscious, Mimi crossed her arms over her chest and fell back down on the couch with a deep sign. She looked down to her knees. She tried to concentrate on something else than looking at the clock. She grabbed a magazine, turned on the light, and then started reading about something in drug pills, but her eyes couldn't focus on the words. Her eyes wanted to look at the clock. Then Mimi couldn't take it any more; she looked to the clock. She had only five minutes to meet Matt. Grabbing her coat, Mimi ran out the house and to the park.
The dark clouds cast a gloomy and dark feeling to the heart of town. The lights on the street poles hanged dimly over the street and partly the park. The water fountain stood from a distance. The air whispered songs of secret. The wind picked up a bit, gently blowing the trees to the left and causing Matt to tighten his coat around himself. He buttoning his coat up to his chest and dig his hands into the jean pockets. Mimi brought her arms around herself to keep away the cold breeze. They didn't look at each other, nor spoke to one another. There was some strong ruffling in the bushes near them. The wind picked up stronger. Matt looked away from it to face Mimi. She then stared at him.
"Mimi…I'm sorry."
She didn't say anything. He continued.
"Yeah, everything that happen is all my fault. I should of…"
Mimi softened her eyes.
"I…you…I should have waited for you."
Mist of tears grew in her eyes.
"Matt…" She whispered.
He looked at her, then he smiled softly. Then his smile turned into fear as they heard a gunfire near them. Quickly, Matt ran to Mimi and pulled her to the ground with him. Both their breaths wind out from their lungs as they impact to the ground hard. Time seemed to have stop as Mimi closed her eyes.
'Oh god…'
They heard someone run away from them. Matt looked around. He tried to stand, but a sharp pain feeling reached into his body. He laid back down to the ground. Mimi opened her eyes. She too looked around to see if they were safe. She looked to Matt. His eyes were shut tight. His breathing came in rapidly. She placed her hand to his chest.
"Matt?"
His whole body was shaking. He swallowed hard, then choked.
"Matt?" Then Mimi felt something wet. She brought her hand to the light to see better. Her eyes widen, her breath caught in her throat. Blood. It was Matt's blood. It slowly tickled down her hand. His chest was bleeding. The shot caught him in the chest. Mimi didn't know what to do. She panicked. She grabbed Matt's face in her hands. His blood was painted on his face as Mimi held his face. Matt half opened his eyes. His eyes lost its' color. His skin grew paler.
"Matt!"
He choked, "I'm sorry, Mimi."
"No…Please Matt, stay awake. Please…" The wind changed directions and rain started to pour down to earth.
Mimi pressed her hands hard to the bleeding wound. Tear ran down her face to Matt's neck.
"I guess…this is it…" He coughed.
"No, please Matt, don't go." Her tears came faster.
Mimi reached into her coat, grabbed her cell phone, and started dialing.
"911?…Please, you have to help me. My friend's shot. Please, you have to help him!…" Mimi choked between tears. "At the Odaiba Park. Please hurry!…No, you fuckin' moron!! You have to hurry! My friend's dying, you fucker!…" Mimi turned off her phone.
The rain melted with Mimi's tears.
"Oh god. Matt, please be okay."
"Don't be sad, Mimi. It doesn't hurt anymore." Matt breathed in.
"Oh god…Matt, please. Stay with me."
"I need to tell you something before I…Mimi, I…" Then he stopped. His breathing stopped. Mimi widening her eyes in realizing.
She shook her head, "…no…Matt? Please wake up…please…don't leave me. Please stay with me." She shook him softly.
She gathered him in her arms.
"NNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Mimi jerked herself up from her sleep. Sweat ran down her face. Her hair stuck to her face and neck. Mimi scanned around the room. It was her room. She was at home. Mimi brought up her knee and leaned against them. She released a breath she had held. She brought her hands to rub her temples. Startled, Mimi brought her hands to her face and quickly turned on the lamp light beside the bed. The bright light filtered around the once dark room, sending all that is dark back to the shadows. She could see nothing on her hands. No blood.
"It was just a nightmare." Her hands were shaking.
Mimi threw her blankets aside and walked to her desk. Grabbing her robe, Mimi made her way to the kitchen. She poured water into a glass. She drank it hungrily. Her throat had suddenly turned dry when she woke up. She sat down on a chair. She breathed in softly. The house was silence and dark. Minutes passed. Mimi ran to the phone and dial. She had to make sure. It rang. On the twentieth time, someone picked up.
"Do you know what time it is?" It was Matt's weary voice.
Mimi signed.
"Hello?"
Mimi hanged up. She looked at the phone. She picked up and left it off the hook. She had a feeling that Matt might redial and call back to whom was calling him. She sat on the couch, thinking her thoughts to herself. Twenty minutes later, when she thought it was safe to place the phone back on the hook without Matt trying to call, Mimi place the phone back. She grabbed her glass of water and returned to her dark room. Placing the water on the nightstand, Mimi climbed into her bed, and pulled the covers to her chin. She blinks as she started thinking. After a few minutes passed, Mimi fell back to sleep, hoping she would not have that dream again.
~o~
Matt wake up to three alarm clocks setting off. His droopy eyes strangely looked to the alarms. Bewildered, Matt hit all the snooze buttons. He stood up and rubbed his eyes. He yawned and stretched. Matt walked to the restroom. He did his business and walked to the kitchen. T.K. was reaching the salt when Matt stepped into the kitchen. T.K. did his famous cute smile.
"Good Morning."
"Hey…" Matt looked at his little brother strangely.
"I got eggs, bacon, and toast cooking. Want some?"
"How did you come here?"
"Umm…Dad gave me a copy of the key a long time ago. I have one too," T.K. raised an eyebrow. "Everything all right?"
"Yeah. It's just…someone called here yesterday night. I think it was Mimi."
"Mimi? I thought she wasn't talking to you…Anyway, here's your breakfast." T.K. placed Matt's dish in front of him.
Matt nodded his thanks and started eating.
"I have to go now. Kari's waiting for me at the coffee shop. See ya later, bro."
Matt watched T.K. exit out the door. He finished his meal, washed the dishes and then dressed for his classes.
~o~
"What do we do now?" Sora questioned.
The familiar aroma filled the air at the coffee shop. The lights were dim, giving the room a smooth and relaxing feeling. People walked in and out, buying coffee and chatting with their friends or strangers. The coffee shop was great known to meet new people. Coffee makers filled the air with the repeats of orders or turning on the loud machine to make coffee. A week had passed since the incident at the mall. Matt and Mimi had ignored each other and are trying to ignore their friends into talking. It was Saturday when the digidestineds and Liana decided to meet at the coffee shop.
"Dunno. The mall thing went to hell." T.K. said with a sweatdrop.
Kari nodded.
"We need a plan." Tai sipped his coffee.
"To get Matt and Mimi talk to each other?" Davis asked.
"No, Davis. We need a plan to rule the digiworld." Yolie rolled her eyes.
"But Ken already did that. Not again." Davis signed.
Ken sweatdropped. The others sweatdropped. Liana came to the table after she ran to the restroom.
"Yes, Davis. We need a plan to get Matt and Mimi together again."
"Matt's single and Mimi and William broke up." Yolie pointed out.
"But they hate each other."
"You think so?" Liana asked.
"I got an idea." Davis spoke.
The others looked at him.
Davis noted the stare his friends gave him, "Forget it." He sipped his drink.
"We could always use the 'call them both to meet us, but they instead meet each other' plan." Joe suggested.
"That'll never work. Mimi grew a habit to wait a distance from the meeting spot." Sora took a sip from her drink.
"Matt too." T.K. informed the others.
"Hmm, that's a good habit. I should keep that in mind." Tai smiled.
"We could tell them that one of them is sick and none of us can take of them, but them." Ken proposed.
"They won't buy it." Izzy said.
"Maybe we could be straight with them and talk with them into meeting each other." Cody insisted.
"That won't work either. They will just curse you off and walk away." Izzy grinned.
"You're just having funny with this ain't you, Izzy? Just shooting down our idea plans." Tai said to the red head.
"No. I'm just telling you not to waste your time." Izzy took a sip of his drink.
The group signed.
"We're back on square one." Kari said to the group.
The group signed again.
"Maybe we could lock them both together in a room." Davis suggested.
The group thought about it. They shook their heads.
"Do one of them have classes today?"
"Matt does. He's gets out about this time." Izzy said, checking his watch.
"Mimi's probably at home. Why do you ask?" Sora asked.
But Tai was cut off.
"We shouldn't bother with their lives. We should just wait until something happens."
They found Mina Blye by where they sat, coffee in hand.
"But they're our good friends. We just can't stand around and do nothing." Sora told the counselor.
"Don't worry. Things will work out. Better or worst."
"How do you know that?"
She smiled and said before she left, "Because I'm a counselor."
~o~
Another week had terribly passed on. The clouds broke apart, letting the warm sun bright upon the cold and gloomy earth. Spring was slowly making its' way to replace winter. The sunrays shot from the parting clouds. It had seemed the trees and plants alike responded to the sun by slowly raising its' branches to skyward. The morning ice slowly melted from cars and streets, making the road more slippery. The wind blew coldly with the hint of spring. The morning sun showered in a room to a bed, causing Mimi to shut her closed eyelids more tightly and throwing her blankets over her face. After a few minutes, Mimi sat up, looking rather annoyed than tired. She headed to the restroom and brushed her teeth and fixed herself up.
"Morning pumpkin. Had a good sleep?" Mrs. Tachikawa smiled as Mimi stepped into kitchen and sat herself across her father.
Mimi only shrugged, "You know what? I have to baby-sit for someone, gotta run." She stood, with her purse and heading to the door.
"But your breakfast…"
"I…I'll skip. Gotta run, I'll grab breakfast at their house. Bye." Mimi shut the door behind her.
"I thought she doesn't baby-sit anymore." Mr. Tachikawa put down the newspaper. Mrs. Tachikawa looked to the door, which Mimi had left at.
Mimi got into her car and shut the door. She sat where she was at, just looking out the window. Thinking back the three passed weeks, that had went straight to hell, tears formed around her eyes. She thought back a week ago of the dream or more likely nightmare and remembered what Matt had said.
I should have waited for you…
What's it true? Would have he waited for her?
I should have waited for you…
Mimi was taken aback. She shut her eyes and grabbed her head, "What am I thinking? It was just stupid nightmare."
Shaking her head, Mimi started the car and pulled off the curb. Driving for an hour, Mimi didn't know where to go. Looking around, Mimi turned and headed up at the park. She parked and stepped out of the car. Mimi walked around the park. The park itself was large and held trees and plants evergreen. The wind blew whispers of silence, which seem like only the birds would respond to. The cement walkway was bit icy for Mimi as she walked to the swings, the heart of the park. Taking a seat that was nicely dry, Mimi, again, was thinking over the events that happened in the pass three weeks. William had to be an ass and screw with someone else. Matt punched William, which he didn't have the right to. After that, she and Matt had a fight at the park and they were avoiding each other.
"Is this seat taken?"
Mimi turned her head and found T.K. behind another swing beside hers. She only shrugged and turned back.
"Do whatever you want."
T.K. took the seat. He softly moved the swing to match Mimi's.
Silence.
"So…"
Silence.
"Why are you here?"
"…What? I can't visit you?"
"Did the others sent you?"
"Well yeah…We're worried about you." T.K. said.
Silence.
"And partly that I care and worry about you."
Mimi smiled down to her shoes.
"First they were going to sent Izzy, but I bet you were going to curse him off, right?"
"…"
"But not to me, right? You'll like a big sister like I never had."
"That's a lame line."
"Yeah, but it works, right?"
Mimi laughed as she nodded.
T.K. smiled, "You wanna talk?"
Mimi looked over to the grassy field.
~o~
"What's bothering you, son?" Mr. Ishida glanced over to his son.
Matt signed, "Not much."
"You haven't touched your food. It's a good dish to waste. And there is something wrong. So tell me."
"I rather not talk about it."
"Come on, humor your old man."
Matt continued to poke his food, "Everything's gone to hell this pass three weeks."
"Oh? What happened?" Mr. Ishida took a bite.
"Forget it, I don't want to bore you." Matt stood up and placed his dish back on the counter.
"Where you going?" Mr. Ishida looked over his shoulder to leaving son.
"To walk." Matt shut the front door.
Matt stepped out to the cold air. He welcomed it. He stood where he was for a moment, letting the wind die down. Digging his hands to his coat pockets, Matt started down the sidewalk. His thoughts to himself. The events that had happened through his life; His parents divorced. It had been hard for him and T.K.. They try to visit each other as much as they could. The digiworld, they had been stuck there for who knows long. The experience they gained there, it became very useful. And Mimi who left to America and breaking all her friends' hearts. Mostly Matt's. He said it himself, he was devastated when Mimi left after the digiworld. And there was his band, they became very successful, but something happened and the band was breaking apart.
"I suppose it was for the best." Matt said to no one in particular.
And then there was Sora. She claimed to like him. Matt was a bit confused. He didn't know what to say. He knew Tai was heart broken as Sora didn't return his love for her. Matt and the others tried to tell Sora that she didn't love him, but love someone else who was important to her. It taken a month for Sora to see how much Tai was important to her. Sora thanked Matt and the others for letting her see more clearly and not to make a mistake. Matt was really happy to see his two really good friends together. Trying to get over Mimi's departure Matt met Liana. She was a bit on the weird side, but she was great to hang around with. He finally felt right, but then Mimi came back again, filling the emptiness that Matt had in his heart. But at that time, Matt could just sweep Mimi off her feet and ignore Liana. He had Liana and Mimi probably had someone else at America.
Matt bumped into in the shoulders. He muttered a 'sorry'
He continued walking and thinking. The misunderstood kiss between him and Mimi at the camping trip. How he wish to live that moment again. Then the breakup with Liana. He didn't understand himself. Why was he mad when he could've turned to Mimi? But he was too late, she met William because he let her slip away from his hands. And now she and William had broken up because William saw how Matt was with Mimi as friends. And Matt and Mimi hate each other. Correction, Mimi hates Matt. He could never hate her.
Matt entered the park without knowing it.
~o~
Winter was not going to give up so easily to spring. Clouds formed and covered the park in gray shadows. Mimi sat alone after T.K. had left. They talked and talked at the park. Whiling softly swinging on the swing, Mimi thought over her problems. She missed all her friends. And she missed Matt being around. Smiling, Mimi stood up from the swing. She decided to talk with Matt, to see where they were at in their relationship. Mimi turned and gasped. In front of her, Matt stood a few yards away. His black coat loosely around him. His hands in his coat pockets. His hair waved as the wind picked up and his gorgeous blue eyes lit the gray sky.
"Hey." He said.
"…Hi."
"What are you doing out here?"
"Just needed to be alone."
"Oh, then I'll…I'll just leave you alone." Matt faked a smile as he turned.
"Wait!…Matt."
Matt turned to face Mimi.
"Yeah?"
Mimi cast her eyes to the floor.
"I…"
Then thunder softly roared around the park and it started to rain.
Matt smiled at the rain, "Perfect timing, huh?"
Mimi shyly smiled to his direction, then her smile faded. Looking around, Mimi turned left and right. Scanning the park, Mimi started shaking.
"What's wrong? What are you looking at?"
Mimi had a sudden déjà vu feeling, "Could we get out of here?"
Her nightmare.
"Why?"
"Just because…" She turned.
"Wait Mimi." He grabbed her hand.
"Let go, we have to go." She tried to wiggle free.
"No, We want to talk."
"Fine, but not here."
"Mimi, stop it."
"Matt, don't be stupid!"
"Speak for yourself. Mimi, wait."
"Let go, damnit! Don't be thickheaded!"
"Oh, now I'm thickheaded? Mimi, I came to talk to you and you're acting weird."
"Damnit, let me fucking go!" Mimi yelled.
"You know what? Fuck this! Fine, I don't know to talk you ever again."
"Same here! I hate you! Just leave me alone!" Mimi snapped her hand from Matt's grip.
Opening her umbrella, Mimi made her way out of the park. Matt stood where he was as the rain poured its' cold water drops. He waited until Mimi disappeared from the park. He signed and ran after her. Mimi stepped out of the park into the sidewalk. The wind picked up. The strong wind filled Mimi's umbrella and her umbrella flew up. Gripping, Mimi held her umbrella tightly in her hands. Mimi looked left to right before crossing a street. The wind tried to grab her umbrella again. Mimi stopped and pulled down her umbrella. Suddenly a strong bright white light flashed in front of her. Matt stepped out of the park. Matt turned as he heard a car beep. Time stopped as Mimi didn't move and Matt looked onto the street.
The car hit her…
"MIMI!!!!"
Holy shit! I'm really sorry…OoO!!!! Cliffhanger…that's not good. They are just pain in the @$$. But right now, it's really useful. I'm too evil sometimes. ^_^; Review if you care to see what will happen in the last chapter.