Finding Love Ch. 7
"Why are you blushing?" Asked Mimi. "I'm not blushing, I'm just hot!" Said Cassandra quickly. Mimi and Sora looked at each other and pretended that nothing happened. T.K walked by the three girls and sat down with the other guys and he noticed Jenny. "Hey T.K!" Said Jenny in the sweetest way possible. She wanted to use T.K as a plan to get to Matt. "Um, hi... What are you doing here?" Said a confused T.K in the nicest way.
"Well, nice to see you, too!" Said the mad Jenny. T.K stares at his quiet brother and is worried about Jenny being here. He knows and sees how Matt is uncomfortable around her and somehow speculates that he still likes her. "Hey bro! Did you find a suitable 'long-term' girlfriend yet?" Asked the cute T.K. "I love having you here bro but tell me exactly why are you here?" Replied Matt. "Mom called and told me to come down and help out a bit. Not to forget, she wanted me to see if you are choosing the right one since you know... She isn't exactly fond with your taste in girls..." Matt laughs since he knows what T.K is talking about. "Don't worry. I could pick my own girlfriend and so far you haven't missed a bit." T.K is averting his gaze at Mimi, Sora and Cassandra. "Who are they? They are hot!" Said the curious T.K. "Ohhhhhhhh." Said the other four boys. "Ohhhhhhhh what?" Replied T.K. "Do you want me to tell them to come over so you could talk to them?" Asked Jenny because she wanted to have a closer look at Mimi, Sora and the mysterious girl. "Nah, it's fine... I'm just going to chill. Hey! Want to race?" Asked T.K. "Sure!!!!" Said all the other four guys. The five guys asked the person who is in charge of the swimming pool if they could have the pool cleared out so they could race. The person of course said yes.
"All the people in the swimming pool could you please get out!" Said the swimming pool manager while sweat dropping. There are lots of groans and complaints from the guys since most of the girls wanted to watch the 5 cuties race.
"Who do they think they are? Just emptying the pool so they could swim! How obnoxious and snobby!" Said the annoyed and curious Mimi since she won many gold medals in school swimming competitions. "Well, we just have to wait and see who is the fastest and then you could challenge him!" Said the laughing Sora and she quickly looked at Tai's hunky chest stretching. "What do you mean by Mimi challenging one of them?" Asked Cassandra. (Cassandra is wearing a bikini, sunglasses, and a hat. She has really long light brown hair. She's 5'6" and a half) "Well, Mimi here is a really fast swimmer." Said the too proud Sora of her friend. "Ohhh." Said Cassandra wondering if she could possibly beat Matt. Matt basically won all the swimming competitions and he beat my brother who is considered really fast. (A/N-Who is Cassandra?)
One Two Three. All five boys jumped into the pool. All the girls are cheering for their favorites. So far, Tai is the fastest then T.K following Matt, Michael and last Paul. Sora somehow feels proud that Tai is the fastest so far. Out of nowhere, Matt ZOOMS to first and won. All the girls started squealing for Matt's victory.
"Matt!! Here, a towel and a carton of apple juice." Said the happy Jenny because this exact moment happened last year. She knew that Matt would win.
"Thanks." Said Matt trying to avoid Jenny's gaze.
"It's not fair. I was this close beating your ass, Ishida!" Said the laughing Tai.
"I was close too." Yelled T.K.
"You guys must have been dreaming." Replied the happy Matt.
"How come I'm always last?" Screamed the joking Paul.
"Because you're slow!" They all said it in unison.
Mimi sat down and sipped her juice until she heard the loud Sora "Hey! Ishida, Mimi wants to challenge you and I bet she could beat you!"
Mimi started choking because she would have never thought Sora meant what she said before.
"Sora, are you sure Mimi is up to it? She seems scared, I mean scared enough to choke." Said the concerned and surprised Matt.
All the people are staring at Sora and the choking Mimi. Matt simply ignored Sora's request until Jenny said "Mimi can't even run! How do you expect her to swim?" Jenny purposely said it to make Mimi mad so she would race with Matt hoping that Mimi would embarrass herself. No one is surprised at Jenny's remark but Mimi still didn't reply until Cassandra said "Mimi, I think you could do it. I mean if Sora believes in you that much to challenge Matt then I believe in you."
"Why aren't you challenging him? Are you scared?" Said the taunting Jenny, which made Matt mad so he told her to shut up.
"I'm not scared, it's just that I don't feel like challenging Matt." Replied Mimi while she is walking away to put her clothes on.
"Well, I thi-" "Be quiet don't bug her if she doesn't want to." Said Matt stopping Jenny midway.
All the girls are staring at Mimi and wondered why she's being so mean to Matt. They could tell that Mimi isn't interested in him therefore the competition isn't all that big luckily.
"Why don't you want to challenge him?" Asked Sora when the three of them are walking by the five boys and Jenny.
"I'm tired and not to forget I haven't even ate breakfast." Replied the tired Mimi.
"Oh, I knew you wouldn't chicken out. By the rate Matt was swimming before, I know for sure you swim faster." Said Sora.
The boys heard it and thought Sora was just bullshitting.
"I'll challenge him once I finish eating lunch." Said the anxious Mimi.
All the audiences in the swimming area wanted to see Mimi race against Matt so they automatically gave her their lunch hoping she could finish it in 10 minutes.
Matt is laughing at how anxious the audiences are to see them race and suggested Mimi to eat faster. Mimi didn't want to eat their lunch. She was really hungry and wanted to eat good food. But when she tried walking away from the multitude of people they kept stopping her therefore she gave in.
10 minutes later.....
Mimi and Matt are both on the start line and on the count of three they both jumped in. The audiences are easily divided: the females are cheering wildly for Matt and the males are cheering wildly for Mimi except for their friends.
Once they jumped in, Mimi was ahead and then Matt and then Mimi and then Matt. Suddenly, Mimi started to swim her usual rate, which is a lot faster than now and she won! Matt was going easy on her and could not believe Mimi was going easy on him at the beginning. He wasn't ashamed that he lost since he wasn't giving it his all but he was surprised at how fast Mimi swims. Jenny's mad at Mimi's victory and just shrugged it off and gave Matt kisses on his cheeks hoping that Matt would feel better. Oddly, Matt didn't even notice Jenny kissing him he was too busy staring at Mimi laughing to Sora and Cassandra about winning the race. Matt walked over there and shook her hands.
"You are pretty impressive, Mimi!" Said Matt and Mimi could tell he meant it.
"Thanks, you are too and I'm not stupid."
"I never called you stupid!"
"I mean, I know you weren't giving it your all since you deduced that I was going to be slow. I guess I proved you wrong." Said the smiling and cheerful Mimi.
Matt wanted to kiss her when she said it, mostly because of her intelligence and he also wanted to. He kissed her lightly on the cheeks because he was too afraid to kiss her on the lips 'cause you never know what would Mimi do.
Mimi was surprised at the peck she received "What did you that for?"
"I want to show you how much I appreciate racing with you." He said smiling and walked away.
All the girls who thought Mimi wasn't going to be "competition" are afraid especially Jenny.
"Matt kissed you!" Said Cassandra.
"It's no biggie. If he kissed me, kissed me, I would have hit him." Said the joking Mimi.
"I bet all the girls hate you now." Said the sarcastic Sora.
"Nah, they know that I don't go for too cute guys especially him." Replied Mimi.
"Why?" Asked the curious Cassandra.
"Well, it's obvious, guys like Matt and Tai just simply play with girls' hearts and after they get what they wanted they are just going to dump them." Said Mimi and Sora in a knowing way.
"Well, I think you are wrong. Matt and my br- umm Tai are not like that." Said Cassandra.
"How do you know? Do you have a boyfriend?" Asked Mimi.
"First, I just know and yes I have a boyfriend."
"Is your boyfriend cute? I mean hot like Matt, Tai, Michael, Paul and T.K." Said Mimi trying to prove something to Cassandra.
"He's up to that level. I knew you would think that they are hot." Said Cassandra.
"Of course they're cute but I'm not attracted to them." Said Mimi.
"Why not?"
"Like I explained before!" Said the annoyed Mimi.
"Cassandra, where's your room?" Asked Sora.
"I just got here so I left my stuff with my parents."
"How old are you?"
"17"
"Why don't you stay with us? We are going to have so much fun. We could do each other nails and all." Said Mimi with a glint in her eyes.
"Oh my thank you. You guys don't know how much that means to me!"
"Do you want us to help you get your suitcases?" Asked both of the girls, laughing at how sincere Cassandra is.
"NO! I mean, I don't want to waste anymore of your time. I could get them myself. I'll go now. Um, where's the room?"
"4f" They both said it and looked suspiciously at how fast Cassandra said NO. "I'll meet you there. Bye!"
While Cassandra was walking away she accidentally bumped into a tall someone. "Umm, I'm sorry mister."
"It's okay," said a sweet and nice T.K
Cassandra saw who it was and lowered her hat downer.
"Have I seen you before?" Asked T.K bending down. When he bent down, Cassandra lowered her hat and ran away leaving the confused T.K
--Cassandra's Parents' Room--
"Any luck?"
"Actually I made friends with Mimi Tachikawa and Sora Takenouchi. I highly believe one of them suit Tai." Said Cassandra imagining one of the two girls with her brother. She thinks Tai matches Sora more but didn't say it to her mom.
"Thank you Kari for going undercover. You can't believe how big of a help you are. It is the greatest plan ever. I hope you understand, I don't want you not to have fun because you are forced to spy on all the girls.
"It's okay mom. I think it's going to be fun. Mimi and Sora asked me to stay with them! Also I don't want Tai to end up with the wrong girl. Doing this is just perfect! They would never guess that I'm Kari Kamiya therefore I could see all the girls' "real" side instead of the make pretend crap to get Tai's heart."
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ Author's Note: Just to make it clear! Cassandra is Kari. Kari is using Cassandra as her undercover name. YES! she is dating T.K. Wonder why she kept lowering her hat when she sees him! PLEASE REVIEW. I promise in the next chapter more romance (Taiora and Mimato)
"Why are you blushing?" Asked Mimi. "I'm not blushing, I'm just hot!" Said Cassandra quickly. Mimi and Sora looked at each other and pretended that nothing happened. T.K walked by the three girls and sat down with the other guys and he noticed Jenny. "Hey T.K!" Said Jenny in the sweetest way possible. She wanted to use T.K as a plan to get to Matt. "Um, hi... What are you doing here?" Said a confused T.K in the nicest way.
"Well, nice to see you, too!" Said the mad Jenny. T.K stares at his quiet brother and is worried about Jenny being here. He knows and sees how Matt is uncomfortable around her and somehow speculates that he still likes her. "Hey bro! Did you find a suitable 'long-term' girlfriend yet?" Asked the cute T.K. "I love having you here bro but tell me exactly why are you here?" Replied Matt. "Mom called and told me to come down and help out a bit. Not to forget, she wanted me to see if you are choosing the right one since you know... She isn't exactly fond with your taste in girls..." Matt laughs since he knows what T.K is talking about. "Don't worry. I could pick my own girlfriend and so far you haven't missed a bit." T.K is averting his gaze at Mimi, Sora and Cassandra. "Who are they? They are hot!" Said the curious T.K. "Ohhhhhhhh." Said the other four boys. "Ohhhhhhhh what?" Replied T.K. "Do you want me to tell them to come over so you could talk to them?" Asked Jenny because she wanted to have a closer look at Mimi, Sora and the mysterious girl. "Nah, it's fine... I'm just going to chill. Hey! Want to race?" Asked T.K. "Sure!!!!" Said all the other four guys. The five guys asked the person who is in charge of the swimming pool if they could have the pool cleared out so they could race. The person of course said yes.
"All the people in the swimming pool could you please get out!" Said the swimming pool manager while sweat dropping. There are lots of groans and complaints from the guys since most of the girls wanted to watch the 5 cuties race.
"Who do they think they are? Just emptying the pool so they could swim! How obnoxious and snobby!" Said the annoyed and curious Mimi since she won many gold medals in school swimming competitions. "Well, we just have to wait and see who is the fastest and then you could challenge him!" Said the laughing Sora and she quickly looked at Tai's hunky chest stretching. "What do you mean by Mimi challenging one of them?" Asked Cassandra. (Cassandra is wearing a bikini, sunglasses, and a hat. She has really long light brown hair. She's 5'6" and a half) "Well, Mimi here is a really fast swimmer." Said the too proud Sora of her friend. "Ohhh." Said Cassandra wondering if she could possibly beat Matt. Matt basically won all the swimming competitions and he beat my brother who is considered really fast. (A/N-Who is Cassandra?)
One Two Three. All five boys jumped into the pool. All the girls are cheering for their favorites. So far, Tai is the fastest then T.K following Matt, Michael and last Paul. Sora somehow feels proud that Tai is the fastest so far. Out of nowhere, Matt ZOOMS to first and won. All the girls started squealing for Matt's victory.
"Matt!! Here, a towel and a carton of apple juice." Said the happy Jenny because this exact moment happened last year. She knew that Matt would win.
"Thanks." Said Matt trying to avoid Jenny's gaze.
"It's not fair. I was this close beating your ass, Ishida!" Said the laughing Tai.
"I was close too." Yelled T.K.
"You guys must have been dreaming." Replied the happy Matt.
"How come I'm always last?" Screamed the joking Paul.
"Because you're slow!" They all said it in unison.
Mimi sat down and sipped her juice until she heard the loud Sora "Hey! Ishida, Mimi wants to challenge you and I bet she could beat you!"
Mimi started choking because she would have never thought Sora meant what she said before.
"Sora, are you sure Mimi is up to it? She seems scared, I mean scared enough to choke." Said the concerned and surprised Matt.
All the people are staring at Sora and the choking Mimi. Matt simply ignored Sora's request until Jenny said "Mimi can't even run! How do you expect her to swim?" Jenny purposely said it to make Mimi mad so she would race with Matt hoping that Mimi would embarrass herself. No one is surprised at Jenny's remark but Mimi still didn't reply until Cassandra said "Mimi, I think you could do it. I mean if Sora believes in you that much to challenge Matt then I believe in you."
"Why aren't you challenging him? Are you scared?" Said the taunting Jenny, which made Matt mad so he told her to shut up.
"I'm not scared, it's just that I don't feel like challenging Matt." Replied Mimi while she is walking away to put her clothes on.
"Well, I thi-" "Be quiet don't bug her if she doesn't want to." Said Matt stopping Jenny midway.
All the girls are staring at Mimi and wondered why she's being so mean to Matt. They could tell that Mimi isn't interested in him therefore the competition isn't all that big luckily.
"Why don't you want to challenge him?" Asked Sora when the three of them are walking by the five boys and Jenny.
"I'm tired and not to forget I haven't even ate breakfast." Replied the tired Mimi.
"Oh, I knew you wouldn't chicken out. By the rate Matt was swimming before, I know for sure you swim faster." Said Sora.
The boys heard it and thought Sora was just bullshitting.
"I'll challenge him once I finish eating lunch." Said the anxious Mimi.
All the audiences in the swimming area wanted to see Mimi race against Matt so they automatically gave her their lunch hoping she could finish it in 10 minutes.
Matt is laughing at how anxious the audiences are to see them race and suggested Mimi to eat faster. Mimi didn't want to eat their lunch. She was really hungry and wanted to eat good food. But when she tried walking away from the multitude of people they kept stopping her therefore she gave in.
10 minutes later.....
Mimi and Matt are both on the start line and on the count of three they both jumped in. The audiences are easily divided: the females are cheering wildly for Matt and the males are cheering wildly for Mimi except for their friends.
Once they jumped in, Mimi was ahead and then Matt and then Mimi and then Matt. Suddenly, Mimi started to swim her usual rate, which is a lot faster than now and she won! Matt was going easy on her and could not believe Mimi was going easy on him at the beginning. He wasn't ashamed that he lost since he wasn't giving it his all but he was surprised at how fast Mimi swims. Jenny's mad at Mimi's victory and just shrugged it off and gave Matt kisses on his cheeks hoping that Matt would feel better. Oddly, Matt didn't even notice Jenny kissing him he was too busy staring at Mimi laughing to Sora and Cassandra about winning the race. Matt walked over there and shook her hands.
"You are pretty impressive, Mimi!" Said Matt and Mimi could tell he meant it.
"Thanks, you are too and I'm not stupid."
"I never called you stupid!"
"I mean, I know you weren't giving it your all since you deduced that I was going to be slow. I guess I proved you wrong." Said the smiling and cheerful Mimi.
Matt wanted to kiss her when she said it, mostly because of her intelligence and he also wanted to. He kissed her lightly on the cheeks because he was too afraid to kiss her on the lips 'cause you never know what would Mimi do.
Mimi was surprised at the peck she received "What did you that for?"
"I want to show you how much I appreciate racing with you." He said smiling and walked away.
All the girls who thought Mimi wasn't going to be "competition" are afraid especially Jenny.
"Matt kissed you!" Said Cassandra.
"It's no biggie. If he kissed me, kissed me, I would have hit him." Said the joking Mimi.
"I bet all the girls hate you now." Said the sarcastic Sora.
"Nah, they know that I don't go for too cute guys especially him." Replied Mimi.
"Why?" Asked the curious Cassandra.
"Well, it's obvious, guys like Matt and Tai just simply play with girls' hearts and after they get what they wanted they are just going to dump them." Said Mimi and Sora in a knowing way.
"Well, I think you are wrong. Matt and my br- umm Tai are not like that." Said Cassandra.
"How do you know? Do you have a boyfriend?" Asked Mimi.
"First, I just know and yes I have a boyfriend."
"Is your boyfriend cute? I mean hot like Matt, Tai, Michael, Paul and T.K." Said Mimi trying to prove something to Cassandra.
"He's up to that level. I knew you would think that they are hot." Said Cassandra.
"Of course they're cute but I'm not attracted to them." Said Mimi.
"Why not?"
"Like I explained before!" Said the annoyed Mimi.
"Cassandra, where's your room?" Asked Sora.
"I just got here so I left my stuff with my parents."
"How old are you?"
"17"
"Why don't you stay with us? We are going to have so much fun. We could do each other nails and all." Said Mimi with a glint in her eyes.
"Oh my thank you. You guys don't know how much that means to me!"
"Do you want us to help you get your suitcases?" Asked both of the girls, laughing at how sincere Cassandra is.
"NO! I mean, I don't want to waste anymore of your time. I could get them myself. I'll go now. Um, where's the room?"
"4f" They both said it and looked suspiciously at how fast Cassandra said NO. "I'll meet you there. Bye!"
While Cassandra was walking away she accidentally bumped into a tall someone. "Umm, I'm sorry mister."
"It's okay," said a sweet and nice T.K
Cassandra saw who it was and lowered her hat downer.
"Have I seen you before?" Asked T.K bending down. When he bent down, Cassandra lowered her hat and ran away leaving the confused T.K
--Cassandra's Parents' Room--
"Any luck?"
"Actually I made friends with Mimi Tachikawa and Sora Takenouchi. I highly believe one of them suit Tai." Said Cassandra imagining one of the two girls with her brother. She thinks Tai matches Sora more but didn't say it to her mom.
"Thank you Kari for going undercover. You can't believe how big of a help you are. It is the greatest plan ever. I hope you understand, I don't want you not to have fun because you are forced to spy on all the girls.
"It's okay mom. I think it's going to be fun. Mimi and Sora asked me to stay with them! Also I don't want Tai to end up with the wrong girl. Doing this is just perfect! They would never guess that I'm Kari Kamiya therefore I could see all the girls' "real" side instead of the make pretend crap to get Tai's heart."
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ Author's Note: Just to make it clear! Cassandra is Kari. Kari is using Cassandra as her undercover name. YES! she is dating T.K. Wonder why she kept lowering her hat when she sees him! PLEASE REVIEW. I promise in the next chapter more romance (Taiora and Mimato)