A/N: GLAD TO KNOW SOMEONE LIKES MY FIC. WELL, HERE'S CHAPTER TWO. JUST
SO U KNOW, I LIKE IT WHEN THEY ARGUE SO ANYWAY, ENJOY.
The next day at dotcom.
"I want to talk to you." Jason said as he approached Mimi who was sitting by the counter, unsuccessfully trying to enjoy her break.
"I'm working." She lied.
"It'll only take a minute." Jason insisted.
"I really don't have time for this." She sighed as she got up and walked back to the counter, ignoring the fact that she had ten more minutes left in her break.
"Well, you're going to listen anyway." He said pulling her aside.
"Jason, do not make a scene. Unfortunately, unlike some of us, I need this job." She declared bitterly.
"If you would just listen, I won't make a scene." He hissed. "Geez, Mimi, sometimes you can be so difficult."
Mimi rolled her eyes. "Difficult? Jason, don't even get me started." She warned, glaring at him.
"Fine! I'm not here to argue with you." He continued.
"Really? I didn't know that." Mimi said sarcastically.
"Mimi!"
"Okay, you don't have to yell."
"I'm not yelling." He argued.
She sighed, rolling her eyes at him. "Whatever."
"Will you just listen?" He snapped. She was being stubborn and as cute as she was when she glared at him, Jason just didn't have the patience.
"Okay, geez." She mumbled.
"Look, I just want to say sorry for whatever Jan did or said to you. I confronted her about it and I made sure that she won't bother you again." He explained.
"Jason, I do not need you defending me from your ex girlfriend." Mimi declared, rather annoyed.
"Jesus! Nothing I do is ever good enough is it? What the hell do you want from me?" He exclaimed angrily.
"No, actually, what do you want from me?" Mimi declared. "What are you doing, Jase? What is this? What game are you playing now?"
"I'm not playing anything." He defended himself.
"Oh, really? Then why the sudden interest in me?" Mimi insisted.
"I don't know, Meems. What the hell do you want me to say?" He asked. Jason was beginning to feel that this was hopeless.
He had come here wanted to make it up to her but obviously, she wasn't going to let him.
Mimi had a point. What did he really want? As much as Jason wanted to answer her, he couldn't.
He didn't know what he was so attracted to her all of a sudden.
Hell, he didn't know a lot of things. But he knew he liked her.
Plain and simple.
Mimi sighed. "I'm going back to work." She said, darting away from him before he had time to protest.
"Urgh!" Jason groaned, wanting to punch something, preferably Jan. She always had to ruin everything.
This time he wasn't going to let her. He walked over to Mimi, bracing himself for another major rejection and more verbal sparring.
"Look, I want to make it up to you." He said, sounding confident despite the fact that he was just waiting for her to say no.
"Go away."
"I owe you that much since Jan ruined it last night." Jason insisted.
Mimi sighed heavily. "Look, you don't have to do this. I honestly, don't care. Now go." She said.
"But I want to." He argued softly, slightly grinning at her.
"Will you just leave?" She gritted her teeth. Despite the fact that she was trying to be serious and look mad, Jason's grin was making her smile.
"Meems, come on." He said clasping his hands and kneeling in front of her.
"What are you doing? Get up!" She hissed. He was making another scene again and people were stopping to stare at them, completely mortifying Mimi.
"I am not getting up here until you give me another chance." Jason declared, still on his knees. "If you don't have fun tonight, I swear never to bother you again." He said.
"You promise?" Mimi asked. Now, that was a thought.
"I promise." Jason replied.
"Okay, deal."
"Okay." Jason smiled, abruptly standing up. "I'll pick you up at the same time."
Mimi nodded.
She was so going to regret that.
Two days later..
"I'm guessing you didn't talk to Jason." Philip stated as he scooted beside her around the small circular table at dotcom.
"No." She said flatly.
"What is it with you two?"
"What is with what? There's nothing between us, Phil. So, where's Chloe?" She asked desperate to talk about something other than Jason Welles.
"She's meeting me here. Had to do some shopping with her mom first." Philip replied. "So, anyway, what happened with you and Jase?" He continued.
"Nothing! Why does everyone think that something happened?" She asked irately.
Philip chuckled, smiling at her. "Because according to Jason, you guys kissed." He said.
"What!" Mimi asked, wide eyed and shocked. "What? When did he tell you this?" She demanded.
"Well, I can't remember exactly.."
"Philip Kiriakis, if you don't tell me now, you'll regret it." She warned.
"Geez, Meems, you're just as tough as Chloe." He chuckled. He suppressed the laughter that was threatening to escape him when he saw how seriously mad Mimi looked.
"Actually, he told me yesterday. He was having some issues." Philip explained.
"Issues?" Mimi echoed worriedly.
"Well, yeah. Between you and him. I swear to you, the dude likes you." He said.
Mimi frowned at him. "Did he put you up to this?" She demanded. "Oh, I am so going to kick his ass."
"Meems, chill. He likes you and you like him too."
"What? Philip, where the hell did you get that stupid idea?" She demanded, scowling at him.
"It's obvious. He goes all different when he talks about you, like mushy." Philip grinned at the rather girly word.
"Really?"
"Yeah. And see, you like him too. I can see it. I don't understand why you're avoiding him." Philip declared.
She sighed as she twisted her mouth into a pout. "I don't know Phil. It's just weird. Jason is Jason. In my mind, he's still Jan's boyfriend. Her second in command. It doesn't really give him points in my checklist." She confided. Philip Kiriakis had always been a like a brother to her or an obnoxious cousin that has looked out for her since they were kids.
"You have a checklist?"
"Philip, that's beside the point." She declared. "And why would he want me?" She added uncomfortably.
"I know what he's done but that's in the past now. You two should talk this out. It'll make everything so much easier. And give him a chance, Meems. He might have been Jan's second in command but not so long ago, you were too and we gave you a second chance, right?" He smiled tightly. "And Meems, you'd have to ask him about the second one. Honestly, I don't see anything not to like."
Mimi nodded and wondered where all that sudden wisdom came from. Philip had always been hot headed and thought after he acted. Suddenly, he becomes a genius in relationship issues. Chloe must have done something to evoke this side of Philip's.
"Hey, guys!" Chloe said, interrupting. "So, Meems, did Jason call you yet?" She asked as she sat next to Philip who quickly gave her a kiss.
"No and I don't care." Mimi sighed. Philip gave her a knowing look but she shrugged it off and declared that she was going to get some hot chocolate.
"What was that about?" Chloe asked.
"Oh, nothing. She likes Jason but is in denial." He blurted out.
"Oh." Chloe smiled.
"Well, they would make a good couple." Philip said softly.
"Who would make a good couple?" Jason interrupted, standing behind them.
"Oh, hey, Jase. We were just talking about Mimi and this new guy that she's eyeing." Philip grinned.
Chloe narrowed her eyes at him but decided to go along with it.
Hell, it would be fun to see what Jason would do.
Jason's face seemed to have lost all color the minute he heard the words Mimi and new guy put in the same sentence without his name in it.
"Jealous?" Chloe giggled.
"What? Why the hell would I be jealous?" He said, hoping that Philip didn't tell her about the kiss he had planted on Mimi's lips not so long ago. "I'm going to get something to drink." He mumbled.
Mimi came with a cup of hot chocolate in her hands, completely unaware of Jason who was walking towards her.
"Argh!" She screamed, spilling the coffee on her shirt.
"Oh my God, Mimi." Jason gasped, shocked.
That must have hurt.
Mimi glowered at him, her face contorted between pure fury and inexplicable pain.
"God, weren't you looking at where you were going?" She snapped. The heat from the coffee made her skin sting and that combined with her confused emotions about him was turned into a anger.
"I said I was sorry. Are you okay?" He asked, hastily wiping the dark chocolate form her very white shirt.
She groaned, frustrated and embarrassed and completely annoyed. Everyone was staring at her; he was rubbing napkin on her shirt and there was hot chocolate on her.
"Get off me!" She said shoving him away angrily before she bolted out the store, Jason trailing beside her.
"Mimi!" He called after her. It was cold and she had nothing but a shirt on.
"Go away!" Those seemed to be her most favorite words to him.
"You forgot your jacket!" Jason said as he caught up with her. Being a football player had its advantages.
Mimi stopped short, grabbed her jacket from him, put it on, hastily and kept on walking.
"I said sorry." He said lamely.
"You owe me a shirt." She declared icily.
"Okay, what color?" He asked.
"What?" She asked, slightly confused.
"I asked what color. For the shirt that I owe you."
"Oh, God. Never mind. Just get away from me." She mumbled as she kept on walking.
"Mimi, why the hell do you hate me?" He asked, holding on to her arms and forcing her to stop.
"I don't hate you, Jason. You just happen to enrage me a lot." She refused to look at him.
"We so have UST." He chuckled lowly.
"We have what?" She demanded. She was still angry with him but Jason, standing there in front of her, grinning yet again like an idiot, his eyes looking at her, his hands on her arms; she just wanted to kiss him.
"Unresolved sexual tension." He clarified.
Mimi went pale for a second then blushed. "You jerk!" She said yanking herself from him. "I can not believe that I even li--never mind!"
"What? I like you too." He blurted out.
Shit! He thought. That was not supposed to come out.
"What?" She asked startled.
"Nothing." He said.
"No. What did you say?" She demanded.
"I said I like you." Jason repeated.
"Oh."
"Well, say something." He demanded.
"Jason, I don't know how to say this to you-" She began but he cut her off.
"You know what, forget that I even said that." He quickly declared. God, this was horrible. He had poured out his heart to her, which he never did and she didn't even like him. Jason just wanted to die right there on the spot.
"But I was going to say that I feel the same." Mimi insisted.
"You do." He whispered; the cute familiar smile the Mimi had always welcomed creeping back on his face.
"Yes." She smiled shyly.
"Good because I've wanted to do this again." He whispered, pulling her close to him and kissing her suddenly.
It surprised her but she didn't resist it. A kiss was a kiss and if it came from Jason it was welcome.
"So, who's this new guy I've been hearing about?" He whispered as he stopped kissing her for a second.
"What new guy?" She asked.
"Oh, I see. This is all Phil's work." He chuckled, kissing her again.
"Yeah." She agreed to whatever he was talking about. "So you really like me?" He asked, wanting confirmation.
"Yes, I do but you still owe me a new shirt." Mimi chuckled; completely oblivious of Jan, who watching them not too far away.
"You're going to pay for this." She hissed as she kept on glaring at them, madness and jealousy in her eyes.
The next day at dotcom.
"I want to talk to you." Jason said as he approached Mimi who was sitting by the counter, unsuccessfully trying to enjoy her break.
"I'm working." She lied.
"It'll only take a minute." Jason insisted.
"I really don't have time for this." She sighed as she got up and walked back to the counter, ignoring the fact that she had ten more minutes left in her break.
"Well, you're going to listen anyway." He said pulling her aside.
"Jason, do not make a scene. Unfortunately, unlike some of us, I need this job." She declared bitterly.
"If you would just listen, I won't make a scene." He hissed. "Geez, Mimi, sometimes you can be so difficult."
Mimi rolled her eyes. "Difficult? Jason, don't even get me started." She warned, glaring at him.
"Fine! I'm not here to argue with you." He continued.
"Really? I didn't know that." Mimi said sarcastically.
"Mimi!"
"Okay, you don't have to yell."
"I'm not yelling." He argued.
She sighed, rolling her eyes at him. "Whatever."
"Will you just listen?" He snapped. She was being stubborn and as cute as she was when she glared at him, Jason just didn't have the patience.
"Okay, geez." She mumbled.
"Look, I just want to say sorry for whatever Jan did or said to you. I confronted her about it and I made sure that she won't bother you again." He explained.
"Jason, I do not need you defending me from your ex girlfriend." Mimi declared, rather annoyed.
"Jesus! Nothing I do is ever good enough is it? What the hell do you want from me?" He exclaimed angrily.
"No, actually, what do you want from me?" Mimi declared. "What are you doing, Jase? What is this? What game are you playing now?"
"I'm not playing anything." He defended himself.
"Oh, really? Then why the sudden interest in me?" Mimi insisted.
"I don't know, Meems. What the hell do you want me to say?" He asked. Jason was beginning to feel that this was hopeless.
He had come here wanted to make it up to her but obviously, she wasn't going to let him.
Mimi had a point. What did he really want? As much as Jason wanted to answer her, he couldn't.
He didn't know what he was so attracted to her all of a sudden.
Hell, he didn't know a lot of things. But he knew he liked her.
Plain and simple.
Mimi sighed. "I'm going back to work." She said, darting away from him before he had time to protest.
"Urgh!" Jason groaned, wanting to punch something, preferably Jan. She always had to ruin everything.
This time he wasn't going to let her. He walked over to Mimi, bracing himself for another major rejection and more verbal sparring.
"Look, I want to make it up to you." He said, sounding confident despite the fact that he was just waiting for her to say no.
"Go away."
"I owe you that much since Jan ruined it last night." Jason insisted.
Mimi sighed heavily. "Look, you don't have to do this. I honestly, don't care. Now go." She said.
"But I want to." He argued softly, slightly grinning at her.
"Will you just leave?" She gritted her teeth. Despite the fact that she was trying to be serious and look mad, Jason's grin was making her smile.
"Meems, come on." He said clasping his hands and kneeling in front of her.
"What are you doing? Get up!" She hissed. He was making another scene again and people were stopping to stare at them, completely mortifying Mimi.
"I am not getting up here until you give me another chance." Jason declared, still on his knees. "If you don't have fun tonight, I swear never to bother you again." He said.
"You promise?" Mimi asked. Now, that was a thought.
"I promise." Jason replied.
"Okay, deal."
"Okay." Jason smiled, abruptly standing up. "I'll pick you up at the same time."
Mimi nodded.
She was so going to regret that.
Two days later..
"I'm guessing you didn't talk to Jason." Philip stated as he scooted beside her around the small circular table at dotcom.
"No." She said flatly.
"What is it with you two?"
"What is with what? There's nothing between us, Phil. So, where's Chloe?" She asked desperate to talk about something other than Jason Welles.
"She's meeting me here. Had to do some shopping with her mom first." Philip replied. "So, anyway, what happened with you and Jase?" He continued.
"Nothing! Why does everyone think that something happened?" She asked irately.
Philip chuckled, smiling at her. "Because according to Jason, you guys kissed." He said.
"What!" Mimi asked, wide eyed and shocked. "What? When did he tell you this?" She demanded.
"Well, I can't remember exactly.."
"Philip Kiriakis, if you don't tell me now, you'll regret it." She warned.
"Geez, Meems, you're just as tough as Chloe." He chuckled. He suppressed the laughter that was threatening to escape him when he saw how seriously mad Mimi looked.
"Actually, he told me yesterday. He was having some issues." Philip explained.
"Issues?" Mimi echoed worriedly.
"Well, yeah. Between you and him. I swear to you, the dude likes you." He said.
Mimi frowned at him. "Did he put you up to this?" She demanded. "Oh, I am so going to kick his ass."
"Meems, chill. He likes you and you like him too."
"What? Philip, where the hell did you get that stupid idea?" She demanded, scowling at him.
"It's obvious. He goes all different when he talks about you, like mushy." Philip grinned at the rather girly word.
"Really?"
"Yeah. And see, you like him too. I can see it. I don't understand why you're avoiding him." Philip declared.
She sighed as she twisted her mouth into a pout. "I don't know Phil. It's just weird. Jason is Jason. In my mind, he's still Jan's boyfriend. Her second in command. It doesn't really give him points in my checklist." She confided. Philip Kiriakis had always been a like a brother to her or an obnoxious cousin that has looked out for her since they were kids.
"You have a checklist?"
"Philip, that's beside the point." She declared. "And why would he want me?" She added uncomfortably.
"I know what he's done but that's in the past now. You two should talk this out. It'll make everything so much easier. And give him a chance, Meems. He might have been Jan's second in command but not so long ago, you were too and we gave you a second chance, right?" He smiled tightly. "And Meems, you'd have to ask him about the second one. Honestly, I don't see anything not to like."
Mimi nodded and wondered where all that sudden wisdom came from. Philip had always been hot headed and thought after he acted. Suddenly, he becomes a genius in relationship issues. Chloe must have done something to evoke this side of Philip's.
"Hey, guys!" Chloe said, interrupting. "So, Meems, did Jason call you yet?" She asked as she sat next to Philip who quickly gave her a kiss.
"No and I don't care." Mimi sighed. Philip gave her a knowing look but she shrugged it off and declared that she was going to get some hot chocolate.
"What was that about?" Chloe asked.
"Oh, nothing. She likes Jason but is in denial." He blurted out.
"Oh." Chloe smiled.
"Well, they would make a good couple." Philip said softly.
"Who would make a good couple?" Jason interrupted, standing behind them.
"Oh, hey, Jase. We were just talking about Mimi and this new guy that she's eyeing." Philip grinned.
Chloe narrowed her eyes at him but decided to go along with it.
Hell, it would be fun to see what Jason would do.
Jason's face seemed to have lost all color the minute he heard the words Mimi and new guy put in the same sentence without his name in it.
"Jealous?" Chloe giggled.
"What? Why the hell would I be jealous?" He said, hoping that Philip didn't tell her about the kiss he had planted on Mimi's lips not so long ago. "I'm going to get something to drink." He mumbled.
Mimi came with a cup of hot chocolate in her hands, completely unaware of Jason who was walking towards her.
"Argh!" She screamed, spilling the coffee on her shirt.
"Oh my God, Mimi." Jason gasped, shocked.
That must have hurt.
Mimi glowered at him, her face contorted between pure fury and inexplicable pain.
"God, weren't you looking at where you were going?" She snapped. The heat from the coffee made her skin sting and that combined with her confused emotions about him was turned into a anger.
"I said I was sorry. Are you okay?" He asked, hastily wiping the dark chocolate form her very white shirt.
She groaned, frustrated and embarrassed and completely annoyed. Everyone was staring at her; he was rubbing napkin on her shirt and there was hot chocolate on her.
"Get off me!" She said shoving him away angrily before she bolted out the store, Jason trailing beside her.
"Mimi!" He called after her. It was cold and she had nothing but a shirt on.
"Go away!" Those seemed to be her most favorite words to him.
"You forgot your jacket!" Jason said as he caught up with her. Being a football player had its advantages.
Mimi stopped short, grabbed her jacket from him, put it on, hastily and kept on walking.
"I said sorry." He said lamely.
"You owe me a shirt." She declared icily.
"Okay, what color?" He asked.
"What?" She asked, slightly confused.
"I asked what color. For the shirt that I owe you."
"Oh, God. Never mind. Just get away from me." She mumbled as she kept on walking.
"Mimi, why the hell do you hate me?" He asked, holding on to her arms and forcing her to stop.
"I don't hate you, Jason. You just happen to enrage me a lot." She refused to look at him.
"We so have UST." He chuckled lowly.
"We have what?" She demanded. She was still angry with him but Jason, standing there in front of her, grinning yet again like an idiot, his eyes looking at her, his hands on her arms; she just wanted to kiss him.
"Unresolved sexual tension." He clarified.
Mimi went pale for a second then blushed. "You jerk!" She said yanking herself from him. "I can not believe that I even li--never mind!"
"What? I like you too." He blurted out.
Shit! He thought. That was not supposed to come out.
"What?" She asked startled.
"Nothing." He said.
"No. What did you say?" She demanded.
"I said I like you." Jason repeated.
"Oh."
"Well, say something." He demanded.
"Jason, I don't know how to say this to you-" She began but he cut her off.
"You know what, forget that I even said that." He quickly declared. God, this was horrible. He had poured out his heart to her, which he never did and she didn't even like him. Jason just wanted to die right there on the spot.
"But I was going to say that I feel the same." Mimi insisted.
"You do." He whispered; the cute familiar smile the Mimi had always welcomed creeping back on his face.
"Yes." She smiled shyly.
"Good because I've wanted to do this again." He whispered, pulling her close to him and kissing her suddenly.
It surprised her but she didn't resist it. A kiss was a kiss and if it came from Jason it was welcome.
"So, who's this new guy I've been hearing about?" He whispered as he stopped kissing her for a second.
"What new guy?" She asked.
"Oh, I see. This is all Phil's work." He chuckled, kissing her again.
"Yeah." She agreed to whatever he was talking about. "So you really like me?" He asked, wanting confirmation.
"Yes, I do but you still owe me a new shirt." Mimi chuckled; completely oblivious of Jan, who watching them not too far away.
"You're going to pay for this." She hissed as she kept on glaring at them, madness and jealousy in her eyes.
