Catch a Falling Star
By: Kat
A/N: THIS IS MY FIRST DAYS FIC EVER SO DON'T KILL ME PLEASE. I'D LIKE SOME SUGGESTIONS. I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHERE THIS IS GOING BUT I LIKE JASON AND MIMI BEING PAIRED SO I THOUGHT I'D DO SOMETHING TO PUT THEM IN THE SPOTLIGHT FOR ONCE. THEY DON'T BELONG TO ME. YOU KNOW THE DRILL SO DON'T SUE ME. ENJOY.
Jason Welles strolled into dotcom with an easy stride and the trademark grin on his face.
"Lockhart, looking good." He said.
Mimi groaned, rolling her eyes as she continued to refill the napkin dispenser. "Great." She grumbled, practically shoving the napkins.
"Not happy to see me, Lockhart?" Jason asked as he leaned on the counter.
"Jason, I would rather go to hell than see you." She said, her intense green eyes glaring at him.
"You're cute when you're mad, Meems. Did you know that?" He asked cockily taking Mimi aback for a second.
"What do you want, Jason?" She asked.
"How about you and me, tonight?" Jason suggested, still grinning like an idiot.
A cute idiot, Mimi thought. Stop that! Mimi mentally yelled at herself. He is a jerk who made your life hell. She reminded herself.
"Not a chance." She said. "Why don't you go back to Jan and beg her?" Mimi added harshly. Ever since Jan and Jason broke up, Jason had taken every opportunity to bother Mimi.
"No, Mimi, actually, I don't want Jan anymore, ever." The firmness in his voice startled her.
"Jason, are you going to order or not because others would like to get their food." She said glancing at the line that was starting to form behind him.
"Not until you agree to go out with me." He said stubbornly.
"You're not going to stand there all day." She argued.
"Actually I intend to and these people are going to be pissed because of you. All you have to say is one little word." He grinned.
"Jason!" She hissed. He was really testing her patience and she was getting embarrassed by the stares that were being sent to her.
"Meems."
"Fine! Fine, now go!" She said hastily, practically pushing his arm off the counter. Mimi sighed sharply.
She was so going to regret that.
"Pick you up at eight. See ya, Lockhart." He said as he walked away, not missing a beat.
Boy, did she hate him.
Later in the afternoon.
"Hey, Meems, wait up!" Belle called as she and Chloe caught up with Mimi who didn't look too happy.
"Bad day, huh?" Chloe asked.
"More like bad week." Mimi groaned.
"How about we cheer you up with a girls' night, my house?" Belle suggested but Mimi shook her head.
"Can't. I want to go but I have a-" Mimi started to explain but Belle cut her off.
"Date! You have a date!" Belle said enthusiastically. She squealed happily and proceeded to hug Mimi.
"Good for you Meems. So who's Mr. Wonderful?" Chloe asked curiously.
"Don't congratulate me yet. It's Jason." Mimi replied sullenly.
"What?" Belle asked, shocked.
"As in Jan's lackey?" Chloe piped in.
"Yeah." Mimi groaned.
"Meems, I know that you haven't had a date in a while but Jason?" Belle stated, looking confused and somewhat disgusted.
"He kind of talked me into it-more like blackmailed me into it actually." Mimi explained.
"Oh." Belle mumbled.
"Call him and tell him that you're not going to make it." Chloe suggested.
"Did that already. His parents said he isn't home. They probably think I'm stalking him since I called his house three times already." She groaned. "I can't just tell him to go away when he comes to pick me up. As much as I want to, I can't."
"Oh, well, try to make the best of it." Belle said.
"I would have more fun with my teeth being pulled without anesthesia than spend time with Jason." Mimi declared bitterly.
"I know. Anyway, call my cell when you get home or if the date gets worse and you need to vent all your anger." Belle offered.
"Oh, I will." Mimi promised unhappily.
"And if you ever want to break a couple of bones from Jason's body you can always count on me." Chloe said.
"Chloe, you wouldn't hurt a fly but thanks." Mimi smiled as she turned to her street to walk to her house.
"Bye Meems!" Belle said as she and Chloe waved, walking away.
Later that night, Lockhart residence.
"Mimi, your boyfriend's here!" Connor yelled from the bottom of the stairs.
Mimi came running down the stairs, her soft auburn curls framing her face. "He isn't my boyfriend." She corrected her brother icily. "Let's go." She said to Jason who was now staring at her.
"You look great, Meems." He said as he walked to the car.
"Whatever." She said as she quickly put on her beige sweater, warming herself from the chilly autumn air.
"Seriously." He insisted and Mimi just nodded absently.
"Hey, you okay?" Jason asked as he backed his car out of the driveway.
"I'm fine." She replied.
Jason decided not to push it. "Where do you want to go?" He asked.
"I don't know. This was your idea." She said; the fiery glint still in her eyes.
"Hey, if you want me to take you home, I will." Jason declared.
"No. Whatever. I'm out anyway." She sighed, closing her eyes, giving Jason a chance to get a good look at her.
She looks gorgeous. Jason thought. What? This is Mimi-the girl you grew up with. You hate each other.
"How about we watch a movie?" Mimi suggested, interrupting his thoughts.
"Okay." He said.
They watched Triple X and Mimi immediately loved Vin Diesel and would not stop talking about him.
"Wasn't he gorgeous, Jase?" She asked him as they drove to the Brady Pub to get some food.
"Umm, I wasn't looking at him that way." Jason replied with a small chuckle.
"Well, he's still gorgeous. All those stunts. I bet he did most of them. And that body." She sighed dreamily and Jason couldn't help but smile at her eagerness.
In the Brady Pub.
"Maybe we shouldn't be here." Mimi suggested, spotting Jan with her other lackeys in one of the booths.
"No, let's go." Jason insisted taking her hand and leading her to a table.
"Are you sure?" She asked as she took a seat across from him, noticing the daggers that Jan was sending her.
"Jan can't do anything. Besides, she and I are through." Jason declared firmly.
Mimi nodded, not really convinced. From the way Jan was looking at her, it looked like she was about to walk over to Mimi and stab her with a fork.
Jason ordered for them.
"Relax." He said taking her hand, startling her with his sudden gesture but Mimi didn't pull her hand away.
"This isn't one of your games, is it, Jase?" She asked suspiciously. Jason was known for a lot of things and using people to hurt others was just one of his many despised talents.
"No, but she should see that I don't need her or want her. God, she was the biggest mistake in my like, Meems." He said sounding incredibly sincere which made Mimi smile.
Hopefully he was telling the truth and he wasn't just out to hurt Jan and using her to do it.
"We all make mistakes." Mimi declared and Jason nodded. He excused himself to go to the washroom and Jan used that opportunity to approach Mimi.
"Well, well, if it isn't Mimi the homeless." Jan said coldly. "What are you doing with Jason, Meems? Trying to claw your way into his family's bank account?" Jan sneered and her friends began to snicker.
"What do you want Jan?" Mimi asked, matching Jan's icy tone.
"Let me tell you something Lockhart. You stay away from Jason or else." Jan said, pointing a long red fingernail at Mimi's face.
"I think Jason can decide for himself who he wants to spend time with." Mimi retorted. Jan was pushing her buttons and Mimi was very close to losing her temper, despite how calm she appeared.
Where the hell are you Jason? She wondered silently. She was so going to kick his ass for getting up, leaving Mimi vulnerable to Jan.
Jan scoffed, narrowing her eyes at Mimi. "Don't even think that Jason Welles would ever like you- a nobody who happens to be poor. You are just meat, Mimi, a little side order before he gets the good stuff." With that said, Jan whirled around, leaving Mimi to stare at her, her eyes glassy from the tears that were threatening to fall.
"Hey, Meems, sorry I took so long." Jason said cheerfully as he took his seat.
Mimi stood up abruptly. "I want to go home." She said, trying not to look at him.
"What? Why?" He asked, baffled by her sudden change of attitude.
"I want to go." She insisted firmly.
"What about our food?" Jason asked.
"I don't care. I'll pay for it. Let's just go." She said hastily. She didn't want to stay here and look at him. She didn't want to cry in front of him and lose her pride because it was all she had left and she didn't even have a lot of that.
"Okay." Jason relented, still confused.
"What happened?" He asked as they drove over to her house.
"Nothing. I'm just tired." Mimi lied, hugging herself.
"You're a bad liar, Meems." Jason declared.
"Well if you know I'm lying then you should have figured it out that I don't want to tell you." She snapped.
"Okay. It's either you tell me what happened or you're not getting home at all." He said, stopping the car abruptly.
"Jason, keep driving!" She yelled angrily.
"No, something must have happened because we were having fun and then you just went all icy on me." He insisted, refusing to move the car. He was determined to sit there for as long as they had to. She was going to explain to him, why she was acting so strange.
"Jason, people are honking at us and you're going to get a ticket if you don't move!" She exclaimed angrily.
"No." He said stubbornly.
"Fine!" She said as she tried to open the door to get out but Jason pulled her back.
Mimi yelped and despite her attempts to control her tempers, she lost it and she started hitting him.
"I hate you!" She said but Jason caught her wrists.
"What the hell did I do to you?" He demanded, angry that she was hitting him.
"Everything! You had made me miserable for as far as I can remember. You and Jan, always making it hard for me. I bet tonight was one of your plans." She said vehemently as she yanked her hands from his grip. She scooted over as far as she could from him and folded her hands in front of her, refusing to look at him.
"What?" He asked, baffled.
"Nothing. Congratulations. You and your demon queen succeeded to make my life miserable again. Now take me home!" She said angrily.
"What the hell are you talking about? Did Jan do something to you?" He asked.
"As if you don't know." She retorted.
"Well, in fact, I don't." He argued.
"Jason, I want to go, now!" Mimi ordered irately.
They drove in silence. Jason was gripping the steering wheel so tightly that he looked like he was about to yank it off and Mimi refused to even glance his way. She plastered her eyes to anything besides him.
They reached her house twenty minutes later, Mimi sighing in frustration and Jason refusing to say another word.
Mimi looked at him, truly pained and sorry. Sorry that she even let herself think that underneath the bad boy, there was a little kindness.
Unfortunately, she was wrong.
"Bye, Jase." She said as she stepped out of the car. Jason said nothing. Just nodded, looking just as sorry and still somewhat confused.
It had been a good night. It had started out so well and just when she was having a lot of fun and actually letting herself enjoy Jason's company, Jan had to come along and ruin everything.
Mimi sighed as she walked to the door. Despite the fact that she was starting to like him, see him as a person, she knew there was no chance in hell she would let herself fall for Jason Welles, because deep inside her, she knew that if he really did turn out a good person, Jan Spears would always come along to ruin him again and Mimi would hate him even more.
Unfortunately, that was how their world worked.
By: Kat
A/N: THIS IS MY FIRST DAYS FIC EVER SO DON'T KILL ME PLEASE. I'D LIKE SOME SUGGESTIONS. I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHERE THIS IS GOING BUT I LIKE JASON AND MIMI BEING PAIRED SO I THOUGHT I'D DO SOMETHING TO PUT THEM IN THE SPOTLIGHT FOR ONCE. THEY DON'T BELONG TO ME. YOU KNOW THE DRILL SO DON'T SUE ME. ENJOY.
Jason Welles strolled into dotcom with an easy stride and the trademark grin on his face.
"Lockhart, looking good." He said.
Mimi groaned, rolling her eyes as she continued to refill the napkin dispenser. "Great." She grumbled, practically shoving the napkins.
"Not happy to see me, Lockhart?" Jason asked as he leaned on the counter.
"Jason, I would rather go to hell than see you." She said, her intense green eyes glaring at him.
"You're cute when you're mad, Meems. Did you know that?" He asked cockily taking Mimi aback for a second.
"What do you want, Jason?" She asked.
"How about you and me, tonight?" Jason suggested, still grinning like an idiot.
A cute idiot, Mimi thought. Stop that! Mimi mentally yelled at herself. He is a jerk who made your life hell. She reminded herself.
"Not a chance." She said. "Why don't you go back to Jan and beg her?" Mimi added harshly. Ever since Jan and Jason broke up, Jason had taken every opportunity to bother Mimi.
"No, Mimi, actually, I don't want Jan anymore, ever." The firmness in his voice startled her.
"Jason, are you going to order or not because others would like to get their food." She said glancing at the line that was starting to form behind him.
"Not until you agree to go out with me." He said stubbornly.
"You're not going to stand there all day." She argued.
"Actually I intend to and these people are going to be pissed because of you. All you have to say is one little word." He grinned.
"Jason!" She hissed. He was really testing her patience and she was getting embarrassed by the stares that were being sent to her.
"Meems."
"Fine! Fine, now go!" She said hastily, practically pushing his arm off the counter. Mimi sighed sharply.
She was so going to regret that.
"Pick you up at eight. See ya, Lockhart." He said as he walked away, not missing a beat.
Boy, did she hate him.
Later in the afternoon.
"Hey, Meems, wait up!" Belle called as she and Chloe caught up with Mimi who didn't look too happy.
"Bad day, huh?" Chloe asked.
"More like bad week." Mimi groaned.
"How about we cheer you up with a girls' night, my house?" Belle suggested but Mimi shook her head.
"Can't. I want to go but I have a-" Mimi started to explain but Belle cut her off.
"Date! You have a date!" Belle said enthusiastically. She squealed happily and proceeded to hug Mimi.
"Good for you Meems. So who's Mr. Wonderful?" Chloe asked curiously.
"Don't congratulate me yet. It's Jason." Mimi replied sullenly.
"What?" Belle asked, shocked.
"As in Jan's lackey?" Chloe piped in.
"Yeah." Mimi groaned.
"Meems, I know that you haven't had a date in a while but Jason?" Belle stated, looking confused and somewhat disgusted.
"He kind of talked me into it-more like blackmailed me into it actually." Mimi explained.
"Oh." Belle mumbled.
"Call him and tell him that you're not going to make it." Chloe suggested.
"Did that already. His parents said he isn't home. They probably think I'm stalking him since I called his house three times already." She groaned. "I can't just tell him to go away when he comes to pick me up. As much as I want to, I can't."
"Oh, well, try to make the best of it." Belle said.
"I would have more fun with my teeth being pulled without anesthesia than spend time with Jason." Mimi declared bitterly.
"I know. Anyway, call my cell when you get home or if the date gets worse and you need to vent all your anger." Belle offered.
"Oh, I will." Mimi promised unhappily.
"And if you ever want to break a couple of bones from Jason's body you can always count on me." Chloe said.
"Chloe, you wouldn't hurt a fly but thanks." Mimi smiled as she turned to her street to walk to her house.
"Bye Meems!" Belle said as she and Chloe waved, walking away.
Later that night, Lockhart residence.
"Mimi, your boyfriend's here!" Connor yelled from the bottom of the stairs.
Mimi came running down the stairs, her soft auburn curls framing her face. "He isn't my boyfriend." She corrected her brother icily. "Let's go." She said to Jason who was now staring at her.
"You look great, Meems." He said as he walked to the car.
"Whatever." She said as she quickly put on her beige sweater, warming herself from the chilly autumn air.
"Seriously." He insisted and Mimi just nodded absently.
"Hey, you okay?" Jason asked as he backed his car out of the driveway.
"I'm fine." She replied.
Jason decided not to push it. "Where do you want to go?" He asked.
"I don't know. This was your idea." She said; the fiery glint still in her eyes.
"Hey, if you want me to take you home, I will." Jason declared.
"No. Whatever. I'm out anyway." She sighed, closing her eyes, giving Jason a chance to get a good look at her.
She looks gorgeous. Jason thought. What? This is Mimi-the girl you grew up with. You hate each other.
"How about we watch a movie?" Mimi suggested, interrupting his thoughts.
"Okay." He said.
They watched Triple X and Mimi immediately loved Vin Diesel and would not stop talking about him.
"Wasn't he gorgeous, Jase?" She asked him as they drove to the Brady Pub to get some food.
"Umm, I wasn't looking at him that way." Jason replied with a small chuckle.
"Well, he's still gorgeous. All those stunts. I bet he did most of them. And that body." She sighed dreamily and Jason couldn't help but smile at her eagerness.
In the Brady Pub.
"Maybe we shouldn't be here." Mimi suggested, spotting Jan with her other lackeys in one of the booths.
"No, let's go." Jason insisted taking her hand and leading her to a table.
"Are you sure?" She asked as she took a seat across from him, noticing the daggers that Jan was sending her.
"Jan can't do anything. Besides, she and I are through." Jason declared firmly.
Mimi nodded, not really convinced. From the way Jan was looking at her, it looked like she was about to walk over to Mimi and stab her with a fork.
Jason ordered for them.
"Relax." He said taking her hand, startling her with his sudden gesture but Mimi didn't pull her hand away.
"This isn't one of your games, is it, Jase?" She asked suspiciously. Jason was known for a lot of things and using people to hurt others was just one of his many despised talents.
"No, but she should see that I don't need her or want her. God, she was the biggest mistake in my like, Meems." He said sounding incredibly sincere which made Mimi smile.
Hopefully he was telling the truth and he wasn't just out to hurt Jan and using her to do it.
"We all make mistakes." Mimi declared and Jason nodded. He excused himself to go to the washroom and Jan used that opportunity to approach Mimi.
"Well, well, if it isn't Mimi the homeless." Jan said coldly. "What are you doing with Jason, Meems? Trying to claw your way into his family's bank account?" Jan sneered and her friends began to snicker.
"What do you want Jan?" Mimi asked, matching Jan's icy tone.
"Let me tell you something Lockhart. You stay away from Jason or else." Jan said, pointing a long red fingernail at Mimi's face.
"I think Jason can decide for himself who he wants to spend time with." Mimi retorted. Jan was pushing her buttons and Mimi was very close to losing her temper, despite how calm she appeared.
Where the hell are you Jason? She wondered silently. She was so going to kick his ass for getting up, leaving Mimi vulnerable to Jan.
Jan scoffed, narrowing her eyes at Mimi. "Don't even think that Jason Welles would ever like you- a nobody who happens to be poor. You are just meat, Mimi, a little side order before he gets the good stuff." With that said, Jan whirled around, leaving Mimi to stare at her, her eyes glassy from the tears that were threatening to fall.
"Hey, Meems, sorry I took so long." Jason said cheerfully as he took his seat.
Mimi stood up abruptly. "I want to go home." She said, trying not to look at him.
"What? Why?" He asked, baffled by her sudden change of attitude.
"I want to go." She insisted firmly.
"What about our food?" Jason asked.
"I don't care. I'll pay for it. Let's just go." She said hastily. She didn't want to stay here and look at him. She didn't want to cry in front of him and lose her pride because it was all she had left and she didn't even have a lot of that.
"Okay." Jason relented, still confused.
"What happened?" He asked as they drove over to her house.
"Nothing. I'm just tired." Mimi lied, hugging herself.
"You're a bad liar, Meems." Jason declared.
"Well if you know I'm lying then you should have figured it out that I don't want to tell you." She snapped.
"Okay. It's either you tell me what happened or you're not getting home at all." He said, stopping the car abruptly.
"Jason, keep driving!" She yelled angrily.
"No, something must have happened because we were having fun and then you just went all icy on me." He insisted, refusing to move the car. He was determined to sit there for as long as they had to. She was going to explain to him, why she was acting so strange.
"Jason, people are honking at us and you're going to get a ticket if you don't move!" She exclaimed angrily.
"No." He said stubbornly.
"Fine!" She said as she tried to open the door to get out but Jason pulled her back.
Mimi yelped and despite her attempts to control her tempers, she lost it and she started hitting him.
"I hate you!" She said but Jason caught her wrists.
"What the hell did I do to you?" He demanded, angry that she was hitting him.
"Everything! You had made me miserable for as far as I can remember. You and Jan, always making it hard for me. I bet tonight was one of your plans." She said vehemently as she yanked her hands from his grip. She scooted over as far as she could from him and folded her hands in front of her, refusing to look at him.
"What?" He asked, baffled.
"Nothing. Congratulations. You and your demon queen succeeded to make my life miserable again. Now take me home!" She said angrily.
"What the hell are you talking about? Did Jan do something to you?" He asked.
"As if you don't know." She retorted.
"Well, in fact, I don't." He argued.
"Jason, I want to go, now!" Mimi ordered irately.
They drove in silence. Jason was gripping the steering wheel so tightly that he looked like he was about to yank it off and Mimi refused to even glance his way. She plastered her eyes to anything besides him.
They reached her house twenty minutes later, Mimi sighing in frustration and Jason refusing to say another word.
Mimi looked at him, truly pained and sorry. Sorry that she even let herself think that underneath the bad boy, there was a little kindness.
Unfortunately, she was wrong.
"Bye, Jase." She said as she stepped out of the car. Jason said nothing. Just nodded, looking just as sorry and still somewhat confused.
It had been a good night. It had started out so well and just when she was having a lot of fun and actually letting herself enjoy Jason's company, Jan had to come along and ruin everything.
Mimi sighed as she walked to the door. Despite the fact that she was starting to like him, see him as a person, she knew there was no chance in hell she would let herself fall for Jason Welles, because deep inside her, she knew that if he really did turn out a good person, Jan Spears would always come along to ruin him again and Mimi would hate him even more.
Unfortunately, that was how their world worked.
