Ch. 4: Odaiba High
MONDAY MORNING
~Mimi's POV~
*BEEP**BEEP**BEEP**BEEP* My alarm went off at 6:30 AM. Well this should be interesting. My first day back to Odaiba schooling. Not to mention I know no one. Oh well, I'll just have to make myself popular again. No biggie. I put on my black low risers, going 2 inches below my belly button, and my pink glittery shirt with criss-cross on both of the sides, which also went two inches above my belly button. I put on my belly necklace, and my heart locket that Michael gave me, and my new open-toe 4 ½ inches heels and walked into my bathroom. "Ok, I took my shower last night so I would be ready in the morning. HAIR! Make-up! Action!" I yelled as I pumped up the stereo, which already had my Britney Spears cd in it. I turned it "Overprotected" and pulled out all of my nessesities.
~Matt's POV~
"Matt get up!" My dad yelled through the door. I moaned and threw the pillow at the door. He walked in a minute later and pour ice cold water over my face. I jumped up and wiped it off.
"Dad!! What are you doing!" I screamed. He laughed and walked out the door, shutting it behind him.
"Stay out of your bed!" He yelled down the hall. I rolled my eyes and put on my clothes. I went to the bathroom and brushed my teeth, and gelled my hair. I walked downstairs and got my keys.
"Later, dad." I said walking out the door. He grunted and continued eating. "Another gay Monday morning at Odaiba High." I moaned as I pumped up some of my Linkin Park.
~Mimi's POV~
"Bye, grandma, I'll see you after school!" I yelled behind me as I shut the door. "At least I still have my baby!" I said as I jumped in my car. I pumped up my Britney Spears again and drove down the road to Odaiba High School. Teenagers swarmed everywhere in front of the school. Groups of different people, it was simple to pick out the Jocks, the Goths, and the geeks. 'Where will I be? Probably alone in the corner!' I thought. I pulled into the student parking lot and parked my yellow car. People stared at me like I was an alien. I quickly noticed something was wrong, everyone is wearing uniforms. I nearly screamed, its bad enough that I had to change schools and move, but now I can't even wear the clothes I want! And the uniforms aren't pink!!!!! I put the hood on my car and locked the doors. I casually walked inside the school and sat down in the office. People filed through the doors as the bell rang, they were watching me, I know they are. I was wearing that guy's jacket, I had pulled half of my hair back into a ponytail, and the rest was down and curled, I had two pieces spiral curled in the front, shaping my face. I put on glittery blue eye shadow and light pink lip stick.
Just then, who was to walk in, 'the guy'. He walked in slowly and confidently and walked to the secretary. She told him to sit down and wait his turn. He sat down across from me, wearing his forest green uniform. He had his blonde hair gelled. I just sat looking at a magazine, I felt like I was in a doctor's office. I watched him out of the corner of my eyes. He looked up at me.
"Wait a second..." He said. I looked up from my magazine. He smirked. "Your the bench girl!" He smiled.
"Bench girl? I have a name. And its not bench girl." I snapped back at him. He pulled his head back.
"Your mad at me?" He questioned. I rolled my eyes.
"Well, your a bright one..." I didn't get to finish when the principal came out and called me in to his office, "Miss Tachikawa." I put down the magazine and dropped my backpack, and walked into the office.
"Miss Tachikawa, I will make this as brief as possible so you can hurry on to your classes. We have a uniform here. You will be asked to wear a skirt, and a jacket, a tie if you prefer. You can do as you wish with these uniforms, but they must be appropriate. Here is your schedule and you will be asked to wear your uniform to school tomorrow. That is all. Any questions, come see me. Go out to the secretary and she'll give you a pass into your first class." He said after he handed me my schedule.
I walked out and grabbed my backpack, and walked out with my excuse. I found my locker and put my only current possesion in it, my backpack. I kept on his jacket and followed my schedule into my first class. I wasn't nervous, I'm good at first impressions, besides my stomach looks really good today, I think I'll them drool a little. I walked through the open door to my new history class. The whole class stopped and looked at me, I smiled a bit and walked up to the teacher and gave him my excuse. Some guy's jaws dropped, others whistled and howled, but their girlfriends slapped them for doing so. He handed me the book that I would be using and told me to take a seat in the back. I did and ended up sitting in between to preppy looking girls. They watched me as I sat in the seat. I looked at them and smiled softly. One smiled back, and the other just propped her nose up and looked to the front of the class. I felt very confident while sitting in the back of room wearing the only shred of color in a room full of green.
"Class, I'll be back. Sit tight and talk amungst yourselves." The teacher said as he walked out and shut the door. Almost immeadiately everyone turned and faced me. I felt like deer in headlights. One stood up and walked toward me. 'Oh great, he's in my class!' I thought as I rolled my eyes. The blonde put his hands on my desk and leaned against it.
"Hey Tachikawa.." He began, everyone seemed to listen as he spoke, as if he were some sort of god. He continued, "You have my jacket." I stood up and took it off. He talked in a way that made me want to smile, but I scowled instead, he was trying to embarrass me.
"Hey, don't talk to me like you know me. 'Cause you don't." I said as I threw his coat on the floor and stepped on it with my foot. I smiled cockily and sat back in my seat. The girls next to me smiled and whispered to me, "Wow, no one has ever done that to him! He's the most popular guy here!"
"You wanted you jacket, right? Well you can get it yourself." I told him as I straightened my back and crossed my legs. He narrowed his eyes and scowled as he bent down to pick it up. "Don't try and put me down on the first day, because I'm just as good as you are."
He sat back down at his seat and eyes me the whole way there. Geez, who does this guy think he is. Trying to make me look bad on my first day. The teacher walked back in and sat down in his chair.
"I'm not in the best mood and I know you won't listen anyway, so just continue talking." The teacher said to the class. Everyone cheered and gathered with their friends. The blonde seemed to have the most surrounding him, mainly girls. I just dug my hands into my pockets and felt a piece of paper, I pulled it out and turned it over. It was a picture of Michael, Nina, Anna, and me. We were at a dance. I smiled at the picture, just as someone came over and ripped the picture out of my hands. Ironically, it wasn't blondie. I stood up immeaditaly and looked at the person in shock. This is not my day!!
"What are you doing! Give it back!" I said trying to snatch the photo out of his hand. He pulled the photo out of my reach. I pulled back and placed a hand on my hip.
"Hey, is this your boyfriend, baby?" He asked me. I scowled.
"Yes it is." I told him. Trying to grab the photo again, but I couldn't.
"Not anymore!" He yelled, causing everyone to stare at me. He ripped the picture into little pieces and threw them on the floor. I bent over to pick them up when another person pushed down, I fell on my knees and when I tried to get up, they did it again.
"Look, stop! Let me up!" I yelled at them. Everyone was silent, and the teacher was sleeping. Just then a guy came over and helped me up.
"What's your problem you guys! She's new here. Is this how you guys try to get dates, no wonder you never had any." He said as he pushed me behind him. The two men scattered and went back to their seats. "Ok, nothing to watch. Go back to you cliques." He said as I sat down, he sat in the chair in front of me. He had brown hair and deep brown eyes, he was a good looking guy, I smiled.
"Thanks for helping me." I told him. He smiled and scratched the back of his head.
"No problem. Those guys are trouble. The first one is Blake, the second is Randall. They're the dumbest guys here. What's your name?" He questioned.
"I'll tell you when you tell me yours." I smiled. He grinned and moved closer.
"Tai." He said as he put his hand on my desk. I smiled and nodded. I looked up to find that blondie was staring. I grinned sarcastically and waved, he shook his head and turned to talk to his friends.
"Wait! Did you say your name was Tai?" I said intently, he smiled and nodded. "Tai Kamiya?"
He smiled, "I guess you've heard of me." I laughed.
"Not yet, but your ego is just as big as it was when you were ten!" I said in the middle of laughing. He looked at me in a confused way.
"What are you talking about, when I was ten?" He squinted his eyes and tried to think of an answer.
"Did my looks change that much from when I moved to America?!" I laughed at him. His eyes widened and shook his head as his jaw dropped.
"No way! Mimi! Mimi Tachikawa!?" He said excitedly as he pushed his brown hair out of his eyes. "I can't believe it, what are you doing in Japan! This is amazing."
"I was forced to move back here because of emotional reasons. So how is everyone else!" I asked him, impatiently wanting to know the answer. He smiled and sat upright.
"Well, everyone's great, I think. Izzy has been valedictorian since last year in 9th grade, Joe went off to a Medical University, Sora is popular and the star of her soccer team, T.K and Kari are still dating and are in 8th grade, I'm on the football team, and Matt... well I guess you already know what happened to him."
"What are you talking about, I haven't even seen Matt." I told him. He laughed and pointed to Blondie. A thousand things ran through my head, and only one thing stuck out, 'I haven't seen him in five years and this is how he treats me! He tries to humiliate me in front of his preps?' I laughed at myself and put my forehead in my hand. He laughed at me.
"You mean you didn't know? Well.. For a second there I though you were on my side." He smiled.
"Well, I take it he doesn't know I'm here, right?" I smiled, Tai just laughed and shrugged.
"Not likely. Well, he's the most popular guy in Odaiba High, and you just earned yourself some major points with the popular chicks, 'cause you stood up to Matt. Although, I can tell you that one of them won't be too happy. She had the reign until you got here and stood up more than she did. She rejected his date offer, you crushed his letterman jacket." He smiled even more, at the thought. "Why did you have his letterman jacket? Are you two dating?"
"OH! No! Not at all. You saw the way we acted toward each other." I smiled.
"I thought you were just fighting." He said while raising his shoulders, in a yawn.
"No, I took a walk when I got here on Sunday morning. I ended up walking by his house and sitting on the bench. He came out and started talking to me. He gave me his jacket because it was raining and I was getting really cold. Then we got into an argument and I stormed off, not giving his jacket back." Tai just laughed at me and turned to Matt. He looked back and smiled. I started again, "Do you know if there is a street race soon? If Odaiba is anything like New York, you'd have street races on Monday nights. As well as like Wednesdays and Fridays and Saturdays."
"You got exactly right. There are races on all of those nights, and those nights only. Unless there is a grudge match. You race?" He asked, a little surprised.
"I do. But don't tell anyone. I'm not supposed to. That's why I was sent here, to get away from that type of stuff. Like the drugs." I smiled. Tai did too. Just then the bell rang and everyone picked up their books and walked out. "Hey, Tai. Who are those girls that I was sitting next to? You know the red head and the brunette?" He thought and then smiled again.
"The red head is Sora, and the brunette is Leah." I smiled eagerly and ran out of the class. I went to my locker, which was already swarmed with men. I rolled my eyes and smiled politely. I pushed them aside to twist the lock combination. The men surrounding me, pushed each other to get next to me.
"Hey, you wanna go out on Saturday?" One asked. I laughed and put my History book into my locker.
"One, you don't know my name, two I'm busy, three I don't date street racers." I said as I shut my locker hard, and shoved through the crowd. I noticed Matt was watching, but he wasn't in the crowd. He turned and walked away, with a girl with dark blonde hair on his arm. I rolled my eyes and walked the other direction to my next class, Physics. I walked in and talked to the teacher who gave me my book. I took my seat next to Sora, who still doesn't recognize me. I turned around and smiled at her and the brunette, Leah.
"Hi girls." Said, Sora greeted me with a huge smile and the other smiled as well, not as welcoming. "I'm Mimi."
"I'm Sora, and this is Leah Tomoya. Your name is Mimi, right?" Sora asked while smiling, I nodded and smiled. "That's really cool, my best friend when I was ten, her name was Mimi. Mimi Tachikawa."
"What, and I'm not your best friend now, Miss Sora Takenouchi!?" I said jokingly. Her eyes widened as she smiled even more. She jumped up and hugged me as tight as she could, leaving Leah to sit in confusion.
"Oh my gosh! Mimi! Your back! This is so great! I can't wait to catch up. We should do something tonight!" She offered. Leah just sat and stared at us. I pointed at Leah, Sora looked and smiled. "Leah, this is my friend Mimi Tachikawa. She was my best friend since we were kids, until she moved to New York City, in America. And she's back! Isn't it great!" She said. Leah nodded agreeingly.
"Oh gosh! I forgot to ask you, do you guys want to go to that new mall?" I asked them, their faces brightened for about a milli-second and then they drowned again.
"Well of course, but it doesn't open until next week." Leah said.
"Well, that's too bad, for anyone but us!" I smiled, they looked at me oddly. "My Aunt and Uncle own the mall and said I can go in and buy anything and everything I want for free! Before it opens. And I can bring my best friends with me!" Their eyes widened immeadiately and hugged me again. They were shocked, a happy shocked, but no the less they were shocked.
"SHOPPING!" All three of us screamed at the same time, after we had looked at each other. Everyone looked us and raised their eyebrows. We laughed and talked about different things, catching up on things and I got to know Leah a little.
"So have you seen the rest of the group, yet?" Sora asked eagerly, she had this shine in her eyes that made me laugh at anything she said. I shook my head.
"Well, I've seen you, Tai, and Matt. Tai helped me out by getting rid of some guys who were trying to ask me out, I guess. Then Matt and I met the first day I moved here, on Sunday morning, then he ended up giving me his letterman jacket cause I was cold and raining. Then we got into an argument and I stormed off still wearing his jacket, so it ended up that he was in my first period class and tried to humiliate me in front of his preps. I don't think he would've done it to me if he knew it was me. But I haven't seen Izzy or Joe or T.K and Kari. I would like to see them though." I smiled at her. She formed a smile on her tan face and giggled a little after she looked at Leah.
"Well here comes your next friend to see. Hey Izzy!" Sora called as he looked. She waved and motioned for him to come over. He put his books on his desk in the second row and walked over to Sora and Leah.
"Hey ladies." He said as he shoved his hands in his pockets. He smiled and cocked his head at me. "Sora, who's this?"
"Hey Izzy!! Guess who moved back from America? Mimi!" Sora said smiling. Izzy popped his head back up and smiled at me. I laughed and stood up.
"Hi Izzy! Oh my gosh, it is so great to see you again!" I said as I hugged him. Izzy and i sat down and started talking with the rest of the group.
~Matt's POV~
As soon as the bell rang for first period to be over, I was out of there. That brown haired chick was in my class, I can't believe this. I try to make her feel bad and it backfires. But anyway, she was on her way to her locker and there was a swarm of guys there and she didn't take any of their date offers. But I hooked up with Madison at her locker. I saw that girl looking at me and her as she was pushing through her admirers. I don't know, I couldn't tell whether she gave me a look of jealousy or if she was just angry. Either way, she was staring. So Madison decided she would sit with me during second period English.
"So are we still on for tonight?" I asked her, she smiled.
"I don't know, what are we going to do?" She asked me, while fidgiting with my tie. I smiled.
"I told you already, there is a drag race I have to be at." I told her, her smiled wiped off and she gave me a scowl and a sigh. 'That can't be good...' I thought. "Baby, you know racing is important to me!"
"I know that, but we went to one last night!" She rolled her eyes at me and sat on my lap. I wrapped my arm around her waist. I sighed and kissed her cheek.
"Madison, you don't have to come with me, but I have to go, its important to me." She stood up and glared at me.
"And what! I'm not important to you! Is that it, Matt!? Well, fine! I know what its like to have something important to you, but I have to sacrifice it every once in a while! Learn how to do so, or your gonna be lonely, Matt Ishida! Learn!" She yelled at me. She grabbed her books and put them on another desk and walked out of the classroom and into the hall.
"Madison! Come on, baby!" I said as I ran out of the room after her. I turned to go out the door and she wasn't there anymore. "Crap.. This can't be good for us.."
"Hey Ishida!" I heard someone call me from in the room. I turned around to see who it was, and it was none other than Tai Kamiya. "Hey, man! Long time no talk!" He said jokingly. I rolled my eyes and walked back to my seat.
"What is it, Tai?" I said, I didn't even turn to look at him. I just sat and looked at the ground. "Why is that you decide to come out of your social outcast ways now, just to talk." I smirked.
"I don't have to tell you this you know, but I just figured you'd wanna know that Mimi's back America. But I guess you don't want to know." He smiled dumbly. I immediatly looked up and over at him, he was laughing. I scowled at him.
"What do you mean, Mimi's back!?" I yelled as I got up and walked over to him. He was still laughing, I think he enjoys torturing me. "We are talking about the same Mimi, right?"
"How many Mimi do you know, who go to America?" He asked me, I smiled a little. 'Mimi's back, huh? This could be interesting.'
"Well, I guess you don't know that you already met her. And might I add, she's not too happy with you... at all." Tai told me. I looked at him, puzzled. He laughed again. "She's the chick who stomped on your letterman jacket. She seems to be quite a feisty one, if you ask me." Tai continued. I laughed at him and sat down.
"So with you telling me this, does it mean that your not mad anymore?" I asked him. Having a grin on my face. He shrugged.
"I didn't say anything, Matt. But, I guess so. It was a stupid thing to fight over. It turned out that Margaret didn't like either of us, she just wanted to be popular. Guess it didn't work, huh?" We both laughed. Tai was my best friend since forever, until last month when we got into a fight with each other over a girl who just acted to like us, so she could be popular. It didn't work, she ended up falling in the pool at a party and got Sora and Leah's outfits wet. You get them mad, there's no hope for you. "But you can't like her, Matt. You've got a girlfriend. But you still got me! I guess we just proved that we're friends forever, if we got through that!" He said to me, I laughed and we did our hand shake.
"Wow, Mimi's back. Oh and by the way, I'm not sure about me and Madison. She just gets so mad at me, because of the drag racing thing. I told her I had to go 'cause its important to me and she goes off into this whole, 'I'm not important to you!?' thing. I don't get her sometimes. I need a girl who understand that type of stuff.
"Yeah I guess." He said as I went back to my seat. I can't believe Mimi's back. I slouched in my chair as the teacher came in. Teaching another boring lecture on how to use good grammar. You'd think we'd be out of this whole grammar thing, since we're in 10th grade. Guess not though.
MONDAY MORNING
~Mimi's POV~
*BEEP**BEEP**BEEP**BEEP* My alarm went off at 6:30 AM. Well this should be interesting. My first day back to Odaiba schooling. Not to mention I know no one. Oh well, I'll just have to make myself popular again. No biggie. I put on my black low risers, going 2 inches below my belly button, and my pink glittery shirt with criss-cross on both of the sides, which also went two inches above my belly button. I put on my belly necklace, and my heart locket that Michael gave me, and my new open-toe 4 ½ inches heels and walked into my bathroom. "Ok, I took my shower last night so I would be ready in the morning. HAIR! Make-up! Action!" I yelled as I pumped up the stereo, which already had my Britney Spears cd in it. I turned it "Overprotected" and pulled out all of my nessesities.
~Matt's POV~
"Matt get up!" My dad yelled through the door. I moaned and threw the pillow at the door. He walked in a minute later and pour ice cold water over my face. I jumped up and wiped it off.
"Dad!! What are you doing!" I screamed. He laughed and walked out the door, shutting it behind him.
"Stay out of your bed!" He yelled down the hall. I rolled my eyes and put on my clothes. I went to the bathroom and brushed my teeth, and gelled my hair. I walked downstairs and got my keys.
"Later, dad." I said walking out the door. He grunted and continued eating. "Another gay Monday morning at Odaiba High." I moaned as I pumped up some of my Linkin Park.
~Mimi's POV~
"Bye, grandma, I'll see you after school!" I yelled behind me as I shut the door. "At least I still have my baby!" I said as I jumped in my car. I pumped up my Britney Spears again and drove down the road to Odaiba High School. Teenagers swarmed everywhere in front of the school. Groups of different people, it was simple to pick out the Jocks, the Goths, and the geeks. 'Where will I be? Probably alone in the corner!' I thought. I pulled into the student parking lot and parked my yellow car. People stared at me like I was an alien. I quickly noticed something was wrong, everyone is wearing uniforms. I nearly screamed, its bad enough that I had to change schools and move, but now I can't even wear the clothes I want! And the uniforms aren't pink!!!!! I put the hood on my car and locked the doors. I casually walked inside the school and sat down in the office. People filed through the doors as the bell rang, they were watching me, I know they are. I was wearing that guy's jacket, I had pulled half of my hair back into a ponytail, and the rest was down and curled, I had two pieces spiral curled in the front, shaping my face. I put on glittery blue eye shadow and light pink lip stick.
Just then, who was to walk in, 'the guy'. He walked in slowly and confidently and walked to the secretary. She told him to sit down and wait his turn. He sat down across from me, wearing his forest green uniform. He had his blonde hair gelled. I just sat looking at a magazine, I felt like I was in a doctor's office. I watched him out of the corner of my eyes. He looked up at me.
"Wait a second..." He said. I looked up from my magazine. He smirked. "Your the bench girl!" He smiled.
"Bench girl? I have a name. And its not bench girl." I snapped back at him. He pulled his head back.
"Your mad at me?" He questioned. I rolled my eyes.
"Well, your a bright one..." I didn't get to finish when the principal came out and called me in to his office, "Miss Tachikawa." I put down the magazine and dropped my backpack, and walked into the office.
"Miss Tachikawa, I will make this as brief as possible so you can hurry on to your classes. We have a uniform here. You will be asked to wear a skirt, and a jacket, a tie if you prefer. You can do as you wish with these uniforms, but they must be appropriate. Here is your schedule and you will be asked to wear your uniform to school tomorrow. That is all. Any questions, come see me. Go out to the secretary and she'll give you a pass into your first class." He said after he handed me my schedule.
I walked out and grabbed my backpack, and walked out with my excuse. I found my locker and put my only current possesion in it, my backpack. I kept on his jacket and followed my schedule into my first class. I wasn't nervous, I'm good at first impressions, besides my stomach looks really good today, I think I'll them drool a little. I walked through the open door to my new history class. The whole class stopped and looked at me, I smiled a bit and walked up to the teacher and gave him my excuse. Some guy's jaws dropped, others whistled and howled, but their girlfriends slapped them for doing so. He handed me the book that I would be using and told me to take a seat in the back. I did and ended up sitting in between to preppy looking girls. They watched me as I sat in the seat. I looked at them and smiled softly. One smiled back, and the other just propped her nose up and looked to the front of the class. I felt very confident while sitting in the back of room wearing the only shred of color in a room full of green.
"Class, I'll be back. Sit tight and talk amungst yourselves." The teacher said as he walked out and shut the door. Almost immeadiately everyone turned and faced me. I felt like deer in headlights. One stood up and walked toward me. 'Oh great, he's in my class!' I thought as I rolled my eyes. The blonde put his hands on my desk and leaned against it.
"Hey Tachikawa.." He began, everyone seemed to listen as he spoke, as if he were some sort of god. He continued, "You have my jacket." I stood up and took it off. He talked in a way that made me want to smile, but I scowled instead, he was trying to embarrass me.
"Hey, don't talk to me like you know me. 'Cause you don't." I said as I threw his coat on the floor and stepped on it with my foot. I smiled cockily and sat back in my seat. The girls next to me smiled and whispered to me, "Wow, no one has ever done that to him! He's the most popular guy here!"
"You wanted you jacket, right? Well you can get it yourself." I told him as I straightened my back and crossed my legs. He narrowed his eyes and scowled as he bent down to pick it up. "Don't try and put me down on the first day, because I'm just as good as you are."
He sat back down at his seat and eyes me the whole way there. Geez, who does this guy think he is. Trying to make me look bad on my first day. The teacher walked back in and sat down in his chair.
"I'm not in the best mood and I know you won't listen anyway, so just continue talking." The teacher said to the class. Everyone cheered and gathered with their friends. The blonde seemed to have the most surrounding him, mainly girls. I just dug my hands into my pockets and felt a piece of paper, I pulled it out and turned it over. It was a picture of Michael, Nina, Anna, and me. We were at a dance. I smiled at the picture, just as someone came over and ripped the picture out of my hands. Ironically, it wasn't blondie. I stood up immeaditaly and looked at the person in shock. This is not my day!!
"What are you doing! Give it back!" I said trying to snatch the photo out of his hand. He pulled the photo out of my reach. I pulled back and placed a hand on my hip.
"Hey, is this your boyfriend, baby?" He asked me. I scowled.
"Yes it is." I told him. Trying to grab the photo again, but I couldn't.
"Not anymore!" He yelled, causing everyone to stare at me. He ripped the picture into little pieces and threw them on the floor. I bent over to pick them up when another person pushed down, I fell on my knees and when I tried to get up, they did it again.
"Look, stop! Let me up!" I yelled at them. Everyone was silent, and the teacher was sleeping. Just then a guy came over and helped me up.
"What's your problem you guys! She's new here. Is this how you guys try to get dates, no wonder you never had any." He said as he pushed me behind him. The two men scattered and went back to their seats. "Ok, nothing to watch. Go back to you cliques." He said as I sat down, he sat in the chair in front of me. He had brown hair and deep brown eyes, he was a good looking guy, I smiled.
"Thanks for helping me." I told him. He smiled and scratched the back of his head.
"No problem. Those guys are trouble. The first one is Blake, the second is Randall. They're the dumbest guys here. What's your name?" He questioned.
"I'll tell you when you tell me yours." I smiled. He grinned and moved closer.
"Tai." He said as he put his hand on my desk. I smiled and nodded. I looked up to find that blondie was staring. I grinned sarcastically and waved, he shook his head and turned to talk to his friends.
"Wait! Did you say your name was Tai?" I said intently, he smiled and nodded. "Tai Kamiya?"
He smiled, "I guess you've heard of me." I laughed.
"Not yet, but your ego is just as big as it was when you were ten!" I said in the middle of laughing. He looked at me in a confused way.
"What are you talking about, when I was ten?" He squinted his eyes and tried to think of an answer.
"Did my looks change that much from when I moved to America?!" I laughed at him. His eyes widened and shook his head as his jaw dropped.
"No way! Mimi! Mimi Tachikawa!?" He said excitedly as he pushed his brown hair out of his eyes. "I can't believe it, what are you doing in Japan! This is amazing."
"I was forced to move back here because of emotional reasons. So how is everyone else!" I asked him, impatiently wanting to know the answer. He smiled and sat upright.
"Well, everyone's great, I think. Izzy has been valedictorian since last year in 9th grade, Joe went off to a Medical University, Sora is popular and the star of her soccer team, T.K and Kari are still dating and are in 8th grade, I'm on the football team, and Matt... well I guess you already know what happened to him."
"What are you talking about, I haven't even seen Matt." I told him. He laughed and pointed to Blondie. A thousand things ran through my head, and only one thing stuck out, 'I haven't seen him in five years and this is how he treats me! He tries to humiliate me in front of his preps?' I laughed at myself and put my forehead in my hand. He laughed at me.
"You mean you didn't know? Well.. For a second there I though you were on my side." He smiled.
"Well, I take it he doesn't know I'm here, right?" I smiled, Tai just laughed and shrugged.
"Not likely. Well, he's the most popular guy in Odaiba High, and you just earned yourself some major points with the popular chicks, 'cause you stood up to Matt. Although, I can tell you that one of them won't be too happy. She had the reign until you got here and stood up more than she did. She rejected his date offer, you crushed his letterman jacket." He smiled even more, at the thought. "Why did you have his letterman jacket? Are you two dating?"
"OH! No! Not at all. You saw the way we acted toward each other." I smiled.
"I thought you were just fighting." He said while raising his shoulders, in a yawn.
"No, I took a walk when I got here on Sunday morning. I ended up walking by his house and sitting on the bench. He came out and started talking to me. He gave me his jacket because it was raining and I was getting really cold. Then we got into an argument and I stormed off, not giving his jacket back." Tai just laughed at me and turned to Matt. He looked back and smiled. I started again, "Do you know if there is a street race soon? If Odaiba is anything like New York, you'd have street races on Monday nights. As well as like Wednesdays and Fridays and Saturdays."
"You got exactly right. There are races on all of those nights, and those nights only. Unless there is a grudge match. You race?" He asked, a little surprised.
"I do. But don't tell anyone. I'm not supposed to. That's why I was sent here, to get away from that type of stuff. Like the drugs." I smiled. Tai did too. Just then the bell rang and everyone picked up their books and walked out. "Hey, Tai. Who are those girls that I was sitting next to? You know the red head and the brunette?" He thought and then smiled again.
"The red head is Sora, and the brunette is Leah." I smiled eagerly and ran out of the class. I went to my locker, which was already swarmed with men. I rolled my eyes and smiled politely. I pushed them aside to twist the lock combination. The men surrounding me, pushed each other to get next to me.
"Hey, you wanna go out on Saturday?" One asked. I laughed and put my History book into my locker.
"One, you don't know my name, two I'm busy, three I don't date street racers." I said as I shut my locker hard, and shoved through the crowd. I noticed Matt was watching, but he wasn't in the crowd. He turned and walked away, with a girl with dark blonde hair on his arm. I rolled my eyes and walked the other direction to my next class, Physics. I walked in and talked to the teacher who gave me my book. I took my seat next to Sora, who still doesn't recognize me. I turned around and smiled at her and the brunette, Leah.
"Hi girls." Said, Sora greeted me with a huge smile and the other smiled as well, not as welcoming. "I'm Mimi."
"I'm Sora, and this is Leah Tomoya. Your name is Mimi, right?" Sora asked while smiling, I nodded and smiled. "That's really cool, my best friend when I was ten, her name was Mimi. Mimi Tachikawa."
"What, and I'm not your best friend now, Miss Sora Takenouchi!?" I said jokingly. Her eyes widened as she smiled even more. She jumped up and hugged me as tight as she could, leaving Leah to sit in confusion.
"Oh my gosh! Mimi! Your back! This is so great! I can't wait to catch up. We should do something tonight!" She offered. Leah just sat and stared at us. I pointed at Leah, Sora looked and smiled. "Leah, this is my friend Mimi Tachikawa. She was my best friend since we were kids, until she moved to New York City, in America. And she's back! Isn't it great!" She said. Leah nodded agreeingly.
"Oh gosh! I forgot to ask you, do you guys want to go to that new mall?" I asked them, their faces brightened for about a milli-second and then they drowned again.
"Well of course, but it doesn't open until next week." Leah said.
"Well, that's too bad, for anyone but us!" I smiled, they looked at me oddly. "My Aunt and Uncle own the mall and said I can go in and buy anything and everything I want for free! Before it opens. And I can bring my best friends with me!" Their eyes widened immeadiately and hugged me again. They were shocked, a happy shocked, but no the less they were shocked.
"SHOPPING!" All three of us screamed at the same time, after we had looked at each other. Everyone looked us and raised their eyebrows. We laughed and talked about different things, catching up on things and I got to know Leah a little.
"So have you seen the rest of the group, yet?" Sora asked eagerly, she had this shine in her eyes that made me laugh at anything she said. I shook my head.
"Well, I've seen you, Tai, and Matt. Tai helped me out by getting rid of some guys who were trying to ask me out, I guess. Then Matt and I met the first day I moved here, on Sunday morning, then he ended up giving me his letterman jacket cause I was cold and raining. Then we got into an argument and I stormed off still wearing his jacket, so it ended up that he was in my first period class and tried to humiliate me in front of his preps. I don't think he would've done it to me if he knew it was me. But I haven't seen Izzy or Joe or T.K and Kari. I would like to see them though." I smiled at her. She formed a smile on her tan face and giggled a little after she looked at Leah.
"Well here comes your next friend to see. Hey Izzy!" Sora called as he looked. She waved and motioned for him to come over. He put his books on his desk in the second row and walked over to Sora and Leah.
"Hey ladies." He said as he shoved his hands in his pockets. He smiled and cocked his head at me. "Sora, who's this?"
"Hey Izzy!! Guess who moved back from America? Mimi!" Sora said smiling. Izzy popped his head back up and smiled at me. I laughed and stood up.
"Hi Izzy! Oh my gosh, it is so great to see you again!" I said as I hugged him. Izzy and i sat down and started talking with the rest of the group.
~Matt's POV~
As soon as the bell rang for first period to be over, I was out of there. That brown haired chick was in my class, I can't believe this. I try to make her feel bad and it backfires. But anyway, she was on her way to her locker and there was a swarm of guys there and she didn't take any of their date offers. But I hooked up with Madison at her locker. I saw that girl looking at me and her as she was pushing through her admirers. I don't know, I couldn't tell whether she gave me a look of jealousy or if she was just angry. Either way, she was staring. So Madison decided she would sit with me during second period English.
"So are we still on for tonight?" I asked her, she smiled.
"I don't know, what are we going to do?" She asked me, while fidgiting with my tie. I smiled.
"I told you already, there is a drag race I have to be at." I told her, her smiled wiped off and she gave me a scowl and a sigh. 'That can't be good...' I thought. "Baby, you know racing is important to me!"
"I know that, but we went to one last night!" She rolled her eyes at me and sat on my lap. I wrapped my arm around her waist. I sighed and kissed her cheek.
"Madison, you don't have to come with me, but I have to go, its important to me." She stood up and glared at me.
"And what! I'm not important to you! Is that it, Matt!? Well, fine! I know what its like to have something important to you, but I have to sacrifice it every once in a while! Learn how to do so, or your gonna be lonely, Matt Ishida! Learn!" She yelled at me. She grabbed her books and put them on another desk and walked out of the classroom and into the hall.
"Madison! Come on, baby!" I said as I ran out of the room after her. I turned to go out the door and she wasn't there anymore. "Crap.. This can't be good for us.."
"Hey Ishida!" I heard someone call me from in the room. I turned around to see who it was, and it was none other than Tai Kamiya. "Hey, man! Long time no talk!" He said jokingly. I rolled my eyes and walked back to my seat.
"What is it, Tai?" I said, I didn't even turn to look at him. I just sat and looked at the ground. "Why is that you decide to come out of your social outcast ways now, just to talk." I smirked.
"I don't have to tell you this you know, but I just figured you'd wanna know that Mimi's back America. But I guess you don't want to know." He smiled dumbly. I immediatly looked up and over at him, he was laughing. I scowled at him.
"What do you mean, Mimi's back!?" I yelled as I got up and walked over to him. He was still laughing, I think he enjoys torturing me. "We are talking about the same Mimi, right?"
"How many Mimi do you know, who go to America?" He asked me, I smiled a little. 'Mimi's back, huh? This could be interesting.'
"Well, I guess you don't know that you already met her. And might I add, she's not too happy with you... at all." Tai told me. I looked at him, puzzled. He laughed again. "She's the chick who stomped on your letterman jacket. She seems to be quite a feisty one, if you ask me." Tai continued. I laughed at him and sat down.
"So with you telling me this, does it mean that your not mad anymore?" I asked him. Having a grin on my face. He shrugged.
"I didn't say anything, Matt. But, I guess so. It was a stupid thing to fight over. It turned out that Margaret didn't like either of us, she just wanted to be popular. Guess it didn't work, huh?" We both laughed. Tai was my best friend since forever, until last month when we got into a fight with each other over a girl who just acted to like us, so she could be popular. It didn't work, she ended up falling in the pool at a party and got Sora and Leah's outfits wet. You get them mad, there's no hope for you. "But you can't like her, Matt. You've got a girlfriend. But you still got me! I guess we just proved that we're friends forever, if we got through that!" He said to me, I laughed and we did our hand shake.
"Wow, Mimi's back. Oh and by the way, I'm not sure about me and Madison. She just gets so mad at me, because of the drag racing thing. I told her I had to go 'cause its important to me and she goes off into this whole, 'I'm not important to you!?' thing. I don't get her sometimes. I need a girl who understand that type of stuff.
"Yeah I guess." He said as I went back to my seat. I can't believe Mimi's back. I slouched in my chair as the teacher came in. Teaching another boring lecture on how to use good grammar. You'd think we'd be out of this whole grammar thing, since we're in 10th grade. Guess not though.