You Know How I Do

author's notes: Mimi Tachikawa left her friends to move to the states when she was only twelve, and (as usual) the friends all slowly lost touch with her. Years later, she's got a music career and she's getting married - but the Digi-destined know nothing about it. What happen's when they find out and finally (after years apart) get in touch? Written in the style of a romantic comedy. Mimi/OC, Mimi/Yamato, Sora/Yamato, Sora/Tai, Kari/TK

Prologue

A young girl with honey-brown hair and wide ruby-brown eyes stood near a large window in an airport, surrounded by her best friends in the entire world. She was moving away from the only friends she'd ever known - going to an entirely different country, with her family. They were here to see her off and say their goodbyes.

Rain pelted the window that stretched from the floor to the ceiling, but the plane that would carry Mimi Tachikawa to America was still clearly visible. It stood outside the window like a monster, one that intended to steal the twelve year-old girl away from her friend's, the digi-destined, and take her away never to be heard from again.

"You'll write, won't you?" she asked them, her eyes wide and pleading. 'Please don't forget about me,' those eyes said. 'Please remember me.'

"Of course!" The girl who said this had golden-blonde hair that was cut short and tomboyish, and wide blue eyes that were trying their best not to fill with tears. Sora had promised herself and the rest of her friends that she wouldn't cry when Mimi left, but that was a promise that looked like it wouldn't be kept.

"Oh, Sora," Mimi whispered, digging in her purse (which hung from her shoulder) and pulling out a bit of tissue. She handed it to Sora, "Oh, don't cry."

"I can't help it. You're my, well, Mimi - you're my best friend."

Mimi smiled at Sora, nodding. "Yea, you're my best friend, too. And, just so we'll both always remember..." Mimi began to search through her purse again, before finally pulling out three long, silver chains. From all three of the chains, tiny silver bands hung. "Friendship necklaces!"

Mimi handed Sora one of the chains. Sora studied the ring, which was engraved with three words (love, sincerity, and light). The words stretched all the way around the band, lovesinceritylight never-ending.

"One's for me," Mimi explained, "and one is for Sora. And the other is for Kari."

Kari, who's dark hair was styled in the same tomboyish way as Sora's and who also possessed the same chocolate brown eyes as her elder brother, stepped toward Mimi, a tiny smile on her face. "Thanks Mimi," she said, taking the third chain and giving a little sniffle. Like Sora, Kari was having a hard time trying not to cry.

"Think nothing of it, kiddo," Mimi giggled, before pulling her powder pink cowboy hat off her head and placing it on Kari's. "You can keep that, too. To remember me by."

"Really?!"

"Yep, really." Mimi gave the younger girl a grin and then turned to look at the rest of her friends. "Where's Mr.TK?"

Yamato Ishida was not standing with the rest of the friends, but was sitting a bit away from them in one of the chairs the airport offered to travelers, holding his silver harmonica in his lap. TK was his younger brother.

The boy appeared, moving to stand beside Kari.

Mimi smiled at him. "You better take good care of Kari, mister. Make sure she doesn't get hurt and all of that."

This statement caused TK's face to turn to a bright red, but he also smiled. Underneath the pink cowboy hat, Kari blushed.

Matt watched this exchange, but broke away when Mimi looked up toward him - making brief eye contact.

Mimi turned to look at Koushiro and smiled, before digging in her purse. She pulled out a tiny, golden puzzle piece. "For you, Izzy." He looked first at the puzzle piece, then back at Mimi - face slowly turning white. The rest of the friends didn't quite understand this exchange between Izzy and Mimi, but the two of them sure seemed to understand. Mimi gave Izzy a little wink.

Next she turned to Jou, who was standing nearby - his face turning red. He thrust a red, paper heart with the word LOVE spelled out in huge, white, block letters into Mimi's hand. "MimiIreallywishyoucouldstayitwassogoodknowingyouI'llwriteyoueverdayIpromise," Jou said all of this really fast. Then he paused, before adding, "I really like you, Mimi." Then, he turned on his heel and ran away from the group.

Mimi seemed oddly touched. After several seconds, her eyes moved to Tai. "Tai."

"Mimi."

There was a bit of awkward silence, before she threw her arms around his neck. "I'm going to miss you, Tai. Really."

Taichi seemed stunned, but after a moment - returned the hug. "I'll...miss you, too."

She pulled away and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek.

"C'mon, you guys," Tai said. "Let's get going."

"G'bye Mimi!"

"We'll write you. Lots!"

"And e-mail, too."

"Bye, you guys!" she cried, waving. For awhile, she watched them walk away and then turned to where Yamato was still sitting. She tilted her head to the side, "Not going with them?"

He looked down at the harmonica in his lap for a second, before wrapping his hand around it and standing up. He moved toward her, quickly. "Mimi, I want you to have this."

"Your harmonica? No, Matt - I can't take this."

"No, I want you to have it," he thrust it toward her, much like Jou had done with the paper heart. "So you'll always remember me."

"Mimi?! Mimi, the plane is leaving soon!"

She took it from him, slowly, and put it into her purse. As soon as the harmonica was put away, she turned her ruby eyes to his dark blue ones and began to pull off her gloves. "To remember me by," she whispered, taking his hands in her own and leaning up on tiptoe to kiss his cheek, much like she had done to Tai. But her aim was slightly off, and instead the kiss landed just a bit away from Matt's lips.

As soon as she realized what she'd done, she blushed and pulled away. She was turning toward her parent's voice, when he placed his hand on her waist and turned her back around. He pushed his lips onto hers, and kissed her so hard that their teeth clicked.

It was his first kiss.

Hers, too.

"Mimi! You're going to miss the plane!"

She pulled away. "Matt, I . . . "

"MIMI!"

"I have to go . . . " she said, quickly, and turned to run away from him . . .

To Be Continued

Author's notes: I'd really appreciate it if you'd read & review, just to tell me if you like this or not. I'm posting this as a work in progress, so we'll see how it all goes.