Okkkk... first of all, I'm so sorry for being so late, but I was cut off my inspiration... plus, I've been quite busy... I'm already in college!!! O.o!!! Well, technically, my first day is next Monday but still, it's been crazy... plus, I went on vacation, and made this tour around my country. (I visited five states in 2 and a half months!!! It was so cool!) And finally, here I am, with a new chapter to my story. Hope you all like it! Oh, but before starting the chapter, there's a few ppl I have to thank.

AMYANGEL- thank you! I particularly like that line too, it's the key to the whole story!!! wink, wink

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and a special thanks to CeruleanNasuti for giving me a very important lesson! thank you so much!

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The two girls looked at each other for a few seconds, and then the bell rang. Mimi stood up and quickly gathered her things, as if nothing had happened. "Oh, that went fast! Umm... don't forget to bring a notebook tomorrow!" Miss Amy screamed as the students hurried to get out of the room.

Tai turned over to Matt, "Hey, man! Are we together in the next class?"

"I don't think so..."

"In that case, do you mind?" Tai asked.

Matt looked at his best friend. "Sure, not at all... we do have Biology together, though... that's after lunch."

"Then I'll se you at recess. Later!"

Mimi was about to go out of the classroom, when someone called her name. "Huh?"

It was Tai. "Hey, Mimi... um, do you want me to walk you to your next class? So we can know each other better?"

"Sure..." she replied and gave him a quick smile.

The boy smiled, "Good! What class do you have next?"

They both started walking; Mimi looked at her schedule, "Mmm... World History with Bruce Harrison."

"Hey, I'm in that class too! We'll also be classmates there!"

Mimi smiled, "Why are you so nice to me?"

"Well, you're new... and newbies here need people to talk to." Tai looked at her, "Plus, you seem nice."

"Thanks, you seem nice too."

Neither said anything until Tai quietly asked, "Mimi, were you really like that?"

"Like how?"

"You know... like Sora?"

"Well... yeah, I kinda was, I'm not exactly proud of it though... but that's a long story. But to sum up, I kinda had this thing with a boy that changed me... I mean, it made me realize how wrong I was. So that's why I decided to be an 'ordinary' girl."

"Oh, I see, but can I tell you something?" Tai saw the girl nod. "You're anything but ordinary."

"Really?" The girl looked at him, Tai nodded. "How so then, Tai?"

"Well... you're the first girl I've met who actually stand up to 'miss popular'... I mean, all the other girls either want her to like them or they're totally afraid of her."

Mimi laughed hard. "Afraid? Of her? Of what, her perfectly manicured nails?"

"Hey! They're really sharp!" He whined.

The girl eyed him curiously and tried to cover a smile, "And you would know that because...?"

"'Cuz she has slapped me several times." He lowered his face. She couldn't help it, he was so adorable she started to laugh. "Hey! What'ya laughing about?"

Mimi stopped laughing and looked at him with a big smile on her beautiful face. "It's just that you're so funny and cute... but let's rewind a little, she has slapped several times?"

"Yeah, well, let's just say she's not very fond of me."

"That bitch! Why did she slap you anyway?" In that instant, Sora walked pass them and she glared at her back.

"Just because I told her she was slut."

"Hmm, well... that's not exactly nice." She turned to look at Tai in the eye.

"Well, she called me an asshole before."

"Sound to me like two little kids fighting... with much stronger words, that is." Mimi shrugged and kept walking.

"Well, you weren't there... you can't imagine how horrible it was." Tai scowled, being reminded of Sora wasn't something he loved the most.

"I bet every moment with that woman is horrible."

"You're right there." They both arrived to the room 107, Tai stepped in front of the brunette and opened the door for her to go inside.

"Thank you, such a gentleman." She smiled warmly at him and he felt something inside him... what was this funny feeling? He looked at her back and followed her closely. She sat almost at the back of the classroom, and Tai sat behind her, like at Math class. He rested his chin on his desk and went into la-la-land. He looked at her intently. What was it about her? He barely knew her and he was already feeling different around her. She was beautiful, indeed, but he had been with even more beautiful women; however he had never felt an attraction as strong as he was now feeling for her.

She turned her head to the side and looked at him from over her shoulder. She had felt him staring at her, and he kept doing so. She didn't mind, she thought he was a good guy, but she wanted to figure him out. She smiled at him again, yes, she decided she liked him.

Tai saw her smile at him, and he felt as if his stomach had made a flip flop. Sure, he had seen more appealing women, but none like her. With one smile from her he felt happy, with out any apparent reason. What had she done to him? He was in some sort of trance; he just simply couldn't tear his eyes away from her lovely face, her exciting russet eyes and her silky soft auburn mane.

Then he saw her moving her mouth, but heard no words. He blinked a couple of times before realizing he had dazzled. "The professor's here, he asked you your name."

"Uh? Oh yeah, Kamiya Tai." The tanned boy saw his professor nod and continue to speak about something he wasn't interested in. The only thing he was interested in had beautiful long hair, shapely legs and was sitting right in front of him.

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Matt was leaning on his locker. Ten minutes of lunch time had already passed and no sign whatsoever of Tai. He looked at his wrist watch and sighed; he passed a hand over his face and looked to the sides, searching for his friend. Every day they met where their lockers where and then went together to the cafeteria to sit with some other friends. And it was very odd that Tai was late, he always wanted to be the first one to arrive to the cafeteria so he could buy a piece of pepperoni pizza.

He waited for another five minutes before sighing in defeat. He walked on his own to the cafeteria and sat next to some friends.

"Yo, Matt... Where's Tai?" asked Fred, a muscular guy with jet black hair and some freckles on his nose and cheekbones. He raised his hand and shook Matt's.

The blonde shrugged, "I was waiting for him, as usual, but he never arrived. I thought he would be already here."

Joseph, a dark boy with beautiful chocolate eyes looked up at Matt, and also high-fived him. "Hey. Well, I just had Global Awareness with him, and he spent all the class talking to the new girl. What's her name?"

"Mimi." Erin, a white guy with reddish hair turned to Joseph.

"Oh, yeah, Mimi... Damn, she's hot." Joseph smiled at his friends, still thinking about the new girl.

Everyone at the table agreed with him. Matt frowned at them. Erin looked at him. "Oh c'mon, Matt, dun tell me you dun think he's hot! With that tight little ass of her swingin' around as she walks by... I'm telling you, when I was walking behind her I had to summon all my strength for not reach a hand and grope her." He smirked.

Matt's frown deepened. "That's disgusting, Er."

"Yeah, plus you know the real reason why you didn't do that is because Tai was walking right beside her, and he would have beaten the shit out of you." Fred snickered at the flushing face of Erin.

"He would not... although he is quite possessive about stuff..." Erin scratched his head his eyes closed in embarrassment.

"Possessive? Why would he be possessive about a girl he's just met?" Matt asked confused, not fully understanding what his friends where saying.

"Well, see for yourself, bro." Joseph nodded at him, motioning him to look behind him.

Matt turned around and found Tai who was holding the cafeteria's door open for Mimi to get in. He couldn't figure out what they were saying, but an enormous smile covered both of their faces. Mimi walked in and Tai followed her close by, then he grabbed her hand and whispered something in her ear that made her explode into laughs. She looked at the wild haired guy and hugged his arm and continued laughing as they walked. Matt stood straight, his hands where turned into fists, his nails almost broke his skin because of how hard he was griping his hand. He didn't know what was going on, why was he so mad at seeing them together and having a good time? She didn't even know the girl! I'm not interested in girls right know, why am I feeling like this? It's not as if she was my girlfriend or something, I'm not jealous... yeah, I'm not. He kept looking at them and loosened his fists a bit, but when Tai grabbed her waist and pulled her to him his fists tightened again. He glared at his friend, he didn't know why but he just didn't like the way his hand was resting on her hip. I am...

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Mimi kept laughing at something that Tai had said, until she felt someone's eyes on them. She turned around and her eyes met a tall blonde guy, who she recognized as Tai's friend, Matt. She smiled at him, but got no response. Must have no idea who I am... She shrugged and turned to Tai. "Hey, your friend Matt is over there." She said signaling to where the blonde stood.

Tai turned his head to the side and saw Matt and his other friends. "C'mon, Meems, let me introduce you to my friends."

"Ok." He grasped her hand and she let him draw her to the table where his friends where. When they reached their table she smiled at all of them. Tai let go of her hand and turned to look at his friends. "Guys, I want you to meet Mimi... Mimi, these are Erin, Joseph, and Fred..." he said motioning with his head which name belonged to whom while Mimi shook each of their hands, "you remember Matt, right?"

She smiled and turned to the blonde. "Of course I do." His face softened somewhat, but he didn't smile or anything.

"So you're new here, right? Were you transferred from another school, or what?" The man she recognized as Fred asked.

She turned around to look him in the eye before she answered. "Kind of... I moved into town last week..." she sat down next to Joseph, and smiled again at them. Tai wasted no time in taking the empty seat next to her, and moved even closed to her, smiling widely.

"She's from New York." Tai added.

"Oh, really? And what brings you all the way to California?" Joseph asked her.

"My dad got transferred... and since it's just Dad and me, I had to tag along." She shrugged.

Erin looked at her and started babbling. "Your parents got divorced? That sucks. My folks got divorced two years ago, they where acting kinda strange until I found out that-"

"My mother died five years ago..." Mimi said suddenly.

Erin's mouth was hanging open and he blinked a couple of times. He stuttered, "You know, Matt's parents are divorced too."

"Mimi, you have to excuse Erin here, he doesn't handle this type of news well... plus, he's somewhat stupid, if I may add." Joseph glared at his friend. "Anyway, I'm sorry about your mom."

"Yeah, me too..." said the others.

"Don't be, it wasn't your fault..." she smiled reassuringly. "Anyway, I got here last week and I really haven't had the time to see the town. I spend most of the time rearranging my room. I know nothing, except coming here from my house. Besides that, I'm lost."

"Yeah, so I'll be showing her around." Tai grinned at his friends as if he'd just won something. "Just like I did right now, I showed her around the school."

"Tai was kind enough to tell me where everything is..." Mimi whispered to Joseph, like she believed Tai was so adorable.

"Well, Tai is the cutie-pie of the group." He sarcastically stated as he rested his chin against his fist and looked boringly at his friend.

Mimi didn't catch the sarcasm in his voice and closed her eyes happily, "Is he really? That's nice. Well, I'm going to get something to eat, I'm starving. Anyone what's something?"

"We already ate... thanks." Fred answered.

She nodded and went to see what kind of food his place sold.

"So that's why you didn't show up at our lockers." Matt said flatly.

"Oh, sorry man, I completely forgot... but you know... I was busy..." He lifted his eyebrows suggestively as he nodded towards the girls standing in the lunch line.

"Of course you where." He eyed the girl in question.

"Oh, c'mon man! I like this girl..."

Tai was cut off by Matt, "Tai... everyday you like a different girl."

"But she's... different, Matt. You'd understand if you got to know her. I bet you'll like her, she's awfully nice."

"Man, if you didn't know these two you'd think they were a couple..." Fred whispered to Erin who nodded and chuckled.

"Plus, she's very interesting; you two would have lots in common. She is a cool girl, not at all like that Sora." Tai's voice dangerously toned down when he said the redhead's name.

"Then I doubt she's nice."

"Oh, dude... don't start that again, Sora's not cool!" Joseph whined at his blonde friend.

"Damn, speaking of the devil." Erin muttered.

Tai groaned when he saw the bitch queen coming their way, followed by three girls, her personal fan club. "Shit!"

Sora walked swinging her hips from side to side, looking at nearby tables while putting a strand of her hair behind her ear and "Hi Matt, Erin, Joey..."

"Actually, it's Joseph-"

Sora didn't even looked at him as he continued with her fake smile, "Fred... Bush-hair." She turned to look icily at Tai.

He clenched his teeth immediately but didn't say a thing. Joseph frowned and touched his shoulder. "Tai..."

"Sssh! Shut up." He whispered, "I've seen this on discovery channel before, manipulative shrews will eventually go away if you stay real quiet and don't move at all."

Everyone at the table chuckled—even one of the three followers of Sora—save from the other two followers, Matt and Sora herself. She smirked at Tai with disgust and said, "Ha-ha, very funny, but I'm not here to talk to you." She turned around and dedicated a big smile at Matt. "Hey, Matt... I haven't seen you since math... and since we don't have any classes together in the morning, why don't we hang around at lunch? That way we can catch up."

"Yeah, you can catch up on how many times she had to reapply her nail varnish, or how many tests she failed in the morning." Tai say offhandedly with a shrug.

Sora was about to open her mouth but Matt beat her to it. "That wasn't nice."

"It wasn't meant to be nice."

The girl's eyes sparkled up with flames. "Look, you asshole-"

"Sorry it took me so long, but the food there looked doubtfully edible, the only thing that seemed normal was this apple pie... I brought everyone a piece." A cheerful voice said behind her, she turned around to face the new girl.

Her eyes opened widely in disbelief as she stared into two honey pools, "You!" She pointed with her index finger at her and turned furiously to Matt. "What is she doing here?!"

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TBC...?

Hey! You like? Hope so... there's something big coming up! See Sora's behavior towards everyone! Also see Tai's and Mimi's developing friendship and Matt's developing... jealousy? The real story about Mimi and how she used to be, what happened to her and why did she become this way. All in the next chapters...so if you wanna know the rest, just click on the little button beneath this ad and leave a review! The more reviews I get, the faster you'll get a continuation.

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