An: hi guys!!thanks for the reviews. keep telling me your fav coupling!sorry 'bout the cliff hanger. i hate them too!anyhow... on with the fic!

disclaimer: i don't own digimon and never will.

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Secret Child

Matt had to know. She had to tell him. She walked towards his apartment, rode up the elevator and stopped at door '186', raised her fist, and connected with wood.

She swallowed hard and waited for a sign of life on the other end of the door. Her mouth was dry and her stomach did cartwheels. She shouldn't feel nervous. If Matt didn't like it, tough. She could match him in a shouting match anyday. She remembered this feeling,though. It was the same sinking feeling she felt exactly one year ago.

(flashback)

"Matt?" Mimi asked tentively.

"What is it?" Matt asked. He could sense the nervousness in her vioce.

"M-My father got relocated to America. New York, to be presice," Mimi told him.

"Do you have to go with him?" Matt asked, not wanting to hear the answer. She nodded.

"I-I'm sorry Matt. I don't want to go! I begged them, Matt! I swear!" Mimi cried. He held her to him, not ever wanting to let her go.

"We...we could try...e-mails, visits, letters..." Matt choked out. Every word she said cut him deep. He didn't want to leave her.

"Let's hope it's enough," Mimi murmered into his shoulder. That sentence brought about a whole range of possibilities of their future together. Some niether Matt nor Mimi held to their liking.

"Mimi...I don't want to be hurt and I especially don't want to hurt you. W-we'll make this work as long as we can," Matt stated.

(end flashback)

Mimi played Matt's words over and over in her mind. 'We'll make this work as long as we can'. She knocked a second time. This time she heard movement within the apartment. Go-time. The door opened and sixteen-year-old Matt Ishida stood in the doorway. He looked the same as the last time she had seen him, except at this moment Matt's hair was messier than usual, his shirt was rumpled, and he was wearing a pair of boxer-shorts.

"Mimi! Uh what are you doing here?" Matt asked quietly.

"We need to talk," Mimi said. Her amber eyes never leaving his icy-blue ones.

"Uh, Can it wait? I don't mean to sound rude, but Sora..." Matt trailed, looking back into the apartment. Mimi got the message. She had interupted her ex-boyfriend and best friend during some alone time.

"Oh, sorry Matt! I didn't mean to barge in on you like this! If you could give me a call at 013-2244(an: i made up the number!), that'd be great. We really have to discuss something before I leave Sunday. I'll just go," Mimi requested, turning to leave.

"Hey, Mimi? Are you okay?" Matt asked at her retreating back.

"Sure, Matt. I'm fine," she said, hurrying away. He shrugged and shut the door.

Matt called Mimi on Wednesday at her aunt's. She had said that she'd rather talk to him in person than on the phone.

"Well, why don't you just come on over," Matt asked. She obliged and went to Matt's home. As she sat on the sofa facing her ex, she remembered his exact expression from the day they broke it off...

(flashback)

Two estranged lovers were casually strolling along Central Park. Things hadn't been easy and they were constantly arguing about something. Finally Matt said it.

"Are you cheating on me?" he asked. Mimi did a double take.

"Of course not!What gave you that idea!? It's absurd!" Mimi exclaimed.

"Who the hell is Mikel?" Matt asked in a dangerous tone.

"A friend," Mimi replied.

"Nothing more? Or does that card on the window-sill say 'Love Mikel' for a reason?" Matt asked.

"Matt, do you seriously believe that I would cheat on you? Don't you trust me?" Mimi asked, hurt.

"I don't know!" Matt growled,"I don't even know my own girlfriend!"

"Matt, what's wrong?" Mimi asked.

"Everything! This is so hard! This whole situation is killing me, you know that?" Matt yelled.

"Do you think it's been a walk in the park for me? Do you think I don't hate this?" Mimi yelled equal to Matt.

"Dammit Mimi! This is too hard! Remember when I said that we'd make this work as long as we could? It's not working anymore!" Matt shouted.

"What are you suggesting? That we break-up? 'Cause breaking up is starting to sound alot better than this!" she shot at him.

"Fine! Sure! Done! We're over!" Matt yelled at her. He walked her home, not speaking a word to her. Matt was on the next plane for Odaiba, Japan. Unbeknowenst to each other, both of them were crying about the loss they both just suffered.

(end flaskback)

"What do you want," Matt asked.

"Matt...you need to know that you..."

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an: and that's where we leave it. did you really think i'd give it away this chapter? sorry 'bout the cliffhanger, but i wouldn't want to spoil it for you all so soon...