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Chapter 3: Mimi's dilemma
The four of them were at a bridge on Charles River in Boston, where Sora arranged to meet Mimi. Eventually, filled with boredom at the camp, Davis and Ken decided to come along too since their jobs doesn't start until Monday.
"Where is that girl?"Tai looked at his watch, it was 30 minutes pass two, Mimi was half an hour late.
"Don't worry Tai. Knowing Mimi, she always show up late for everything. Let's wait." Sora assured him confidently.
They waited, eyes alert for anything flashy and pink. Clothing, hair, backpack, shoes, etc. Once in a while, girls with either pink shorts or shirts would run across the bridge, some with CD players around their neck, but none of them looked like Mimi.
On the far side of the bridge, Ken spotted a lady leaning against the shoulder rest, as if waiting for someone to show up. She had pure blonde wavy hair down to her chest and was fashinably dressed in a strapless tantop and a white miniskirt just low enough to cover her butt fully.
"Ken, do you see her?" Davis saw his blue eyes looking at the crowd of people on the other side of the bridge,"Ken?"
"KEN!" Davis snapped his finger in front of his face.
"Huh?"
"You were dazzing off. Who you looking at?" Ken acted innocently and said nothing, Davis turned to the direction of his glancing eyes. Immidiately, he noticed the girl, "Ah!"Davis said as his lips curved upward into a sexy smile,"she's hot huh? Dang! That girl knows how to show off her body, look at that tiny skirt!"
Ken frowned as he heard Davis's comment, "knock it off, I wasn't staring at her!"
"Sure," Davis just rolled his eyes, and continued glaring at the feminine body.
The girl searched around her surroudings, looking lost. Then she gasped as her head twisted half way to the right. "Oh my god! Sora!" the girl fled pass Ken and Davis, stopping in front of Sora, "Girl, I missed you so much. I can't believe you're actually here!"
The stranger hugged Sora as she just stood there with a frozen face, confused as hell. The blondie had sunglasses on, and as she took them off, showing her red eyes, Sora's mouth dropped open and they both screamed with excitement.
"Ah! Mimi! Oh my ga. You changed!"
"Mimi?" at the sound of her name mentioned, the three boys questioned in unison, not believing that this hot girl was actually Mimi.
"Tai! I haven't seen you for years!" It was true, ever since Mimi moved to America, she didn't stay in contact with most of the digitestined except for Sora.
"Mimi...you've...you dyed your hair bright yellow!" Tai chuckled as he reached out his arms to hug her.
"Oh right, I forgot to tell you guys. I dyed it last week because I'm writing this artical for People magazine, it's basicly a column about how blondes are discriminated for being dumb and stuff, you know, like being call dumb blondes. And I figured I can't write something I know little about, so I decide to have the experience myself, so I dyed it blonde!" Mimi told her story enthisuastically in one long breath.
"That's amazing!" Sora exclaimed as she hugged her friend again, "You're writing for People magazine? I can't believe it! You're already so famous!" The two girls jumped and screamed some more while holding each other's' hands. People walked by, backing away as if they were some weird Japanese psychos.
Davis, Ken, and Tai said nothing, only sighed at their prepiness.
After 5 minutes of expressing joy, the two finally broke off. Mimi saw Ken and remembered him from a digimon battle many years ago,"You must be Ken, Yolei's boyfriend right?"
"Yeah."Mimi reached out her hands and Ken shook it in response.
Davis smirked at her, trying to get noticed. He cleared his throat twice and swallowed before speaking,"Remember me? I'm Davis."
Mimi's face lit up by the familiar voice," How could I not! It's so nice to see you again."
Blood was flowing uncontrollably up his face and Davis's cheeks turned red as Mimi placed her hands on his back to give him a welcoming hug.
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The five of them stopped at a nearby Dunkin Doughnuts. Mimi ordered a box of jelly and chocolate doughnut for all of them. Then, they sat at a booth near the window.
"So where are you staying, Mimi?"Sora was the first break the silence.
"In an apartment downtown,"Mimi replied, "I live with my roomate, Melissa. It's really a crappy place, but it's the best we could find with our nearly broke bank accounts."
"Oh."
Out of no where, the imagery of the boy Michael popped into Sora's mind, Mimi was always talking about him on the phone when she first moved to America, but until last month, she acted like she had never known who Michael is,Mimi always changed the subject whenever Michael's name was brought up. Sora sensed that they broke up, but she didn't want to be impolite by asking her straight out. "How's Michael? Where's he going to college?" Sora just had to know.
"uh..Michael...uh, I don't know. We haven't seen each other for a while now. I think he's going to Stanford, or that's what I heard from his girlfriend."
"His girlfriend?"
"Yeah, Beth." Mimi said softly, looking at Sora, knowing she wanted to hear more, "It just wasn't working between us, I dumped him a while ago, and so he started dating someone else" she summarized, leaving out the details of how she thought Michael was cheating on her, the main reason for why they broke up. Mimi made a face that said, I'll tell you everything when we're alone. Sora clearly understood by changing the subject, "So where are we heading now?"
"To my apartment, you guys haven't met my friend Melissa yet."Mimi said as she picked up the empty food bag and made her way towards the garbage. "I'll drive," Mimi offered.
On the fifth floor of the parking place, a red convertible stood up brightly, no one expected the convertible actually belonged to Mimi. Tai widened his eyes as Mimi led them toward the car. "You like it?"She asked.
Tai touched the dirtless window as if it was made of pure gold. "I thought you were nearly broke, how did you get money to buy this?"
"It was a present, my parents gave it to me on my 17th birthday." she said as she ushered Tai into the car. When all of them were in their seats, Mimi opened the sunroof and turned on the radio to Jamin 94.5 in the loudest volume, making the car vibrating with the heavy hiphop beat, and pulled back to get out of the parking space. She drove like a monster, almost hitting another car coming in as she turned to the left, but Mimi acted like it was nothing, she sped off like a bulldozer as the red light dimmed and the green light turned on. "Shouldn't you slow down a little?"Ken shouted.
"WHAT?" Mimi tilted her head back to hear him through the loud music.
"Shouldn't you slow down a little?" he repeated, this time screaming from his lungs.
"Oh don't worry. I never get speed tickets. If a police come a stop my car, I just give them a cute face and most of them will drop it. If that doesn't work, I'll just flirt with them for a while and tell them how handsome they look. I've done that a dozen times!Those stupid policemen always buy it."
Ken was stunned, he didn't know how to reply, so he just nodded and sat back.
He felt Davis whispering hard against his face. "That girl is crazy! I like her."
Ken gave Davis a dead stare. "What do you mean you like her? You just said she was crazy!"
"I know, but"Davis stopped talking as he heard the sound of police siren behind them.
"Mimi, look what you did!" Sora turned around in frustration, seeing a police car with lights flashing.
Mimi immidiately pulled to the side of the street and stopped, turned off the music and waited for the policeman to come out. She looked at her left and saw the car door opening and an old man stepping out dressed in a black uniform. "Sorry Sora, this might take a while."Mimi apologized, then faced the officer with a light smile. "Hi sir, what's the problem?"
"Your driver's license, please."Mimi swallowed and sadden her eyes. "I'm so sorry." she said, knowing that her trick won't work on this old stubborn man. She got out her wallace and searched for her drivers license. Unfortunately, after flipping through all her cards and money, she still couldn't find it.
"Uh...I think I left it in my apartment." she managed to whisper in a funny tone.
"Then you're coming with me miss. Driving and speeding at 80 mph in a school zone is not acceptable, and you don't even have your drivers license with you."
"But I..." Mimi's face was wrinkled in frustration as her turned to look at Sora, then at her friends sitting in the backseats, who all said nothing but watched her in despair.
"You're not gonna put me in jail, are you?"
"Not unless you're license is brought to us soon. Until then, you're staying at the police station. And be prepared to be faced with a fine. "
Mimi forced a smile with her thin lips, and spoke, "how much money?"
The man laughed at her words, "Oh, I don't know. Driving without a license....a couple thousand dollars."
she sighed and turned to Sora.
"I'm sorry. I guess you guys better leave. I've caused enough trouble already. You can take the train."she spoke solemnly, opening her wallat to get out some money for their train tickets.
"No! We're not leaving you in jail until we can sort all this out." Sora carefully placed her hand on Mimi's shoulder.
"Thanks," she murmured, Sora could tell through the thick makeup that Mimi had tears into the corner of her bulging red hair. She shrugged, and then smiled back at her friend.
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(A/N: well, this chapter was sort of off the subject. But I had to fit it somewhere. I'm not a big Mimichael or mimi/anything fan and I just thought of Mimi as this crazy preppy person with a big self-confident attitude. Sorry if I offended any mimi lovers. Please review and tell me what you think. )