Chapter Two
Tai sat on the sofa yawning every few minutes, his eyes being forced to stay open. It was almost three in the morning and he was waiting for his mother who should of arrived home over an hour ago. He was a little worried and hoped that the snow outside wasn't causing her any trouble getting home. The snow had stopped many hours ago but considering the amount of snow outside, he guessed that they won't be having school tomorrow either. It's been years since they had a snow storm like this and Tai decided to enjoy it to the fullest and take the advantage of schools being closed.
He and Kari along with few of their friends had went out earlier that day and played in the snow like they did when they were young. The only person that didn't come was Mimi. It seemed Mimi was being distant with everyone for few months now and Tai was beginning to worry for his friend. He knew her parents had gotten divorced as well and wondered if that had anything to her being distant toward everyone. She seemed to be doing fine in school like nothing was wrong but it was a complete different story when they were outside of school. It was as if she was afraid to let her feelings show to anyone and she always acted like nothing was wrong when Tai could clearly see that there was something always bothering her. She had... changed.
Tai felt himself drifting slowly to sleep. He hasn't gotten much sleep lately, worrying about Kari and all. He had forced Kari to go to bed few hours ago despite all of her complains. She had wanted to stay up and wait for their mom as well but Tai knew Kari needed to get some sleep. She probably stayed up all night yesterday worrying about the letter they got from their grandmother.
"Tai, shouldn't you be sleeping?" Tai's eyes snapped opened and saw his mother standing in the door way with someone behind her. It seemed he had dozed off for few seconds and didn't hear the door open.
"Oh, uh, I was waiting for you," said Tai looking at the figure behind his mother. His mom caught Tai's eyes wandering off to the person behind her and smiled before she stepped aside for the person to come in. It was Mr. Tachikawa. Wait, Mr. Tachikawa? What's he doing here?
"Hi, Tai. How are you doing?" asked Mr. Tachikawa as he came into the living room with a gentle smile. For some reason, his smile looked a little... different. It reminded Tai of one of those smiles his father used to give him before his mom and dad got divorced.
"I'm doing fine. What are you doing here?" asked Tai as if he was accusing him for doing something wrong before he could stop himself. He just hoped that he didn't sound like he didn't want Mr. Tachikawa to be here or anything. However, to Tai's relief, Mr. Tachikawa didn't seemed to notice as he was busy unzipping his black winter coat before sitting down on the opposite sofa.
"I met your mother while I was walking home and she invited me here because I had a little trouble getting home with all the snow."
Tai nodded his head, feeling that something wasn't quite. He was sure that Mimi's dad only lived few minutes away unless Mimi had recently moved to another place without telling him so what was the point of his mom inviting him here? He shouldn't had much trouble getting home since it's very near from here. While Tai was deep in his thought, his mother came into the living room few moments later, changed into a simple shirt and jeans. She smiled at Mr. Tachikawa. "So, will you be staying here for tonight? It's a little late don't you think, Tom?"
Tom? Since when did his mom call Mimi's dad by his first name? "Oh no. I couldn't do that. I don't want to give you any trouble."
"Nonsense. I'll get you some blankets and you could sleep out here. It's very chilly outside," said his mom with a cheerful smile that Tai hasn't seen in a while. His mom was smiling at Mr. Tachikawa like they were very close friends or something. But surely he would of known by now if they really were close friends unless they've been keeping their friendship a secret. But why would they do that? This is just weird.
Mr. Tachikawa looked a little unsure about his decision but when he saw Tai's mom smiling at him, he smiled back. "Thank you. That'd be great. I guess I should call Mimi and tell her than..."
"Oh no. I'll call her," said Tai quickly when he saw Mr. Tachikawa digging through his pocket for his cell phone. He hasn't talked to Mimi in a while and he did not want to stay in the same place with his mom and Mr. Tachikawa. It made him feel uncomfortable for some reason.
"Thank you, Tai. Just tell her I'll be there tomorrow morning." Tai quietly nodded his head and left the living room as quickly as he could after picking up the telephone on the coffee table. As he began walking to his room, he heard his mom and Mr. Tachikawa starting a conversation. He was curious as to what they were talking about because his mom had begun laughing at something Mr. Tachikawa had said but he knew better than to eavesdrop.
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Mimi stared off at her ceiling, wondering where her dad was. She wasn't very much worried or anything but she knew she'd sleep better tonight if she knew where he was. She couldn't really sleep any ways because she kept having these odd dreams and whenever she tried to remember what those dreams were about, she just couldn't. She had been having those dreams for over a month now and all she knew was that they were very unpleasant and... sad.
Suddenly a ting of unhappiness came over Mimi as she remembered back to earlier today. Sora and Joe had called her to come and hang out with them and everyone else but she had refused. She could still remember the disappointment she had heard in their voices as she hung up and stared out the window where most people in her neighbor were clearing the snow from their side walks with a shovel in their hands. She wasn't very sure why she had refused except that she just wanted to be... alone. She knew she was avoiding everyone for quite a while now but it just couldn't be helped. Except for when she's in school that is.
Mimi turned sideways in her bed to face the wall of her room as she found the ceiling one of the most boring things in the world. She didn't even know why she was staring at it in the first place. Her mind was screaming the word "bored" over and over but there really wasn't anything she could do at this time of the night. She hasn't watched T.V. or went on her computer for weeks because she no longer felt any enjoyment in them and she doubt that she would now. Actually now that she thought about it, she couldn't find any enjoyment in her life. The happiness she once felt was gone. It was as if her old self had been shattered in to little pieces so that could no longer put them back. She just couldn't help but hate herself for everything she did and didn't do.
Why was she acting like this? Isn't she suppose to be a shopping freak who loved the color pink? Had she somehow gone mad after her mom had left? What would Palmon think of her if she came to the real world and saw her now? It's been months since Mimi had last seen Palmon and she hoped that she wouldn't have to see her any time soon. Palmon would probably worry her head off if she saw the way she, Mimi Tachikawa, had been acting lately and faint if she found out that she no longer can find any enjoyment in shopping.
The phone began ringing which brought Mimi back to the real world and out of her thoughts. With a groan, Mimi stood up from her bed and grabbed the phone that was right next to her computer.
"Hello?"
"Hey Mimi!" said the person on the other line.
"Tai?" said Mimi in surprise as she looked around her room for a clock until she realized that she didn't have one in her room. She mentally smacked herself on the head before reminding herself to get one sometime soon. Mimi opened her bedroom door and looked out the hall way where there was an old wooden clock hanging on the wall. She thought it looked stupid for an old clock to be hung in the middle of the hall way but she didn't say any thing about it since it was her dad's idea. She looked at the clock once and shut her door quietly. "It's three in the morning. What's up?"
"Yeah, I know and I was worried you might of had fallen asleep," said Tai and when no responds came from Mimi, he continued. "I just called you to tell you that your dad's going to spend the night at my house."
Silence took over and Mimi couldn't help but frown. "What? What's he doing there?"
"Something about not being able go home because of the snow," answered Tai with a shrug. He couldn't really understand it either.
"But it won't even take him ten minutes to get here! He must have a crack somewhere in his brain."
"Uh... Maybe but my mom invited him to stay. They seemed to be very close friends."
"Huh? Since when were they friends? I mean I've never heard him mention your mom to me or anything," said Mimi and she slumped down on her bed, sending her long hair flying everywhere. Mimi immediately brushed them away from her eyes with a huff. Her hair was really starting to annoy her. She did thought about cutting them many times but she just couldn't do it because she knew she would miss it too much.
"Well any ways, your dad told me to tell you he would be there tomorrow morning."
"Alright... like I care," said Mimi, the last three words coming out as a low whisper so Tai wouldn't be able to hear her.
"Hey Mimi? Do you want to hang out together tomorrow. I doubt we would have school and I haven't really seen you in a while. Well besides in school but you never seemed to really talk all that much any more."
"Oh well... Sure." She had already refused to go out with her friends earlier that day and she thought it wouldn't be very wise to refuse again or he'd start asking her questions as to why she was... probably being distant with everyone. She didn't quite know how she would be able to tell him that she just wanted to be left alone and make him understand. She wasn't even sure why she wanted to alone... Maybe it's because of her mom. Maybe when she left her months back, she just...
"Ok, so I'll come over your house and we could go to the park or something. Gee, we haven't done that in awhile," said Tai, breaking Mimi from her thoughts.
"No!" said Mimi in a hurry. Her house was messy as a dumpster, besides her room, and she didn't want her friend to see how her life was at home. No one has been at her house for months now because she hasn't invited any. "I mean... no. I'll go to your house."
"Oh. Ok, I'll see you around... one?"
"Yeah, I'll see you than. Bye." With that said, Mimi hung up the phone and dropped it on the other side of her bed. Well, she wasn't sure if she really wanted to hang out with anyone tomorrow or the day after that but at least she found out where her dad was. It was still a shock to her that her dad would be at Tai's house out of all of the other places he could be but she knew there was no point about wondering why he was there. It's his life after all and definitely not hers.
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Mimi sighed before shoving her hands inside her pocket. Tai had positively not told her that few of her other friends were going to meet her and Tai at the park. After she had arrived at Tai's house around one, they went out to the park where they met Yolei, Davis, Matt, Izzy, Sora, T.K., Kari and Cody. It wasn't that she didn't like her friends or any thing but... it was just hard being around many people outside of school after wanting to be left alone for so long.
"Mimi! Wow, it's been such a long time since I've seen you outside of school," said Yolei all too cheerfully. Yolei was acting as if she hasn't seen Mimi in years which amazed Mimi a little bit considering that they always ate lunch in school together with their friends. Maybe she had been avoiding everyone a little too bit.
"Hey guys," said Mimi and everyone greeted back besides Davis who was trying to start a conversation with Kari. Even after all these years, he still had that crush on her. It was obvious to any one with eyes that Kari did not feel the same way about him and Mimi often wondered if Davis knew that himself. She sometimes felt sorry for him whether that was a good thing or not.
"Where's Joe and Ken?" asked Tai who was still standing next to Mimi.
"Ken's busy and Joe's off somewhere. So any ways, what do you guys want to do?" said Matt looking at everyone.
Everyone thought for a while. There was no point of all ten of them going to the movies or get something to eat since not everyone had brought money and the only thing around the park was snow and more snow. "I don't know. We could just walk around for a while, thinking of something we could do," said Davis with a shrug and everyone agreed.
As they walked around the park talking to one another, Sora had noticed some younger kids edging away from them as if they were some kind of a gang that went around beating up people. Sora couln't help but point that out to her friends and some of them laughed while picturing themselves threatening the little kids for their lunch money or something.
Kari was happily chatting with T.K. while Davis was giving off a lot glares at T.K. who seemed to have either not noticed or was just ignoring him. Probably the second choice because no one can possibly ignore the glare that he was giving off. Sora was walking ahead of everyone with Izzy, Yolei and Cody and they were engaged in some kind of a conversation that Mimi could not hear. She was standing next to Matt and Tai in the back, walking silently while the snow crumpled with every step she took. The sun was shinning brightly, melting some of the snow to Mimi's disappointment. Most of the snow was being cleared away from the road and the side walks which most likely meant that the school would be open the next day. Mimi sighed. She didn't do all of her homework yet thinking that they may have another day off.
Tai stopped in the middle of his sentence while he was talking to Matt and glanced at Mimi who he had just heard her sigh. Matt looked at Mimi too and he stared at her for a while before a small smile was formed on his lips as he bent down on his knees to gather some snow in his hands. Tai looked at Matt in a questioning way before he smiled at well, bending down to gather some snow in his hands.
Mimi was too busy locked in her thoughts that she hasn't noticed what her two friends were doing next to her and before she knew what was going on, two snowballs came flinging at her head. Mimi gasped at the sudden coldness and looked at Tai and Matt who were snickering uncontrollably. Anger flared inside Mimi as she quickly brushed the snow off of her head and gathered some snow in her hands. Without bothering to make the snowball round, she hit it directly at Tai's face who had immediately stopped laughing.
Tai blinked two times as Matt laughed harder than ever, pointing his right finger at him with his left hand holding on his stomach before he was also hit in his face by a snowball. Mimi laughed, looking at her two shocked friends and she felt all of her worries lifting away from her. Everyone turned their attention to Mimi and the two other guys with snow covering their faces at the sound of Mimi's laughter.
"What did you guys do to yourselves?" asked Kari and she couldn't help but let out a small laugh.
"What did you do that for?" asked Matt to Mimi who now had stopped laughing.
"What? You guys did it too," said Mimi motioning to her head which was covered by snow just few moments ago as Matt and Tai brushed off the snow from their faces.
"Oh, well... It's was Matt's idea so he should be the one hit with the-" said Tai but before he was able to finish his sentence, he was hit by another snowball in his face. Tai could feel his face stinging from the coldness of the snow and he shook his head couples of times, letting the snow fall from his face. "Hey! Who just-"
Unfortunately, Tai was hit by another snowball and before he knew what was going, snowballs flew from every direction. Everyone was throwing snowballs at one another, ducking behind benches and Trees.
Davis was hiding behind a tree, aiming his snowballs only at T.K. who was standing next to Kari. He wanted to be the one standing next to Kari as she and T.K. were both throwing snowballs at their brothers. Mimi was running as Izzy and Sora chased her around with snowballs in both of their hands. Izzy threw his snowball which nearly missed Mimi and she turned around to stick her tong at him until she bumped into Tai. They both fell to the ground as snowballs continued to fly everywhere.
"Sorry about that!" said Mimi as she got up on her feet and brushed the snow from her coat. But Tai wasn't going to forgive her for that. Tai gather snow in his hands before he got up with a evil look on his face. Mimi ran, not liking the look on Tai's face. "Tai! I said I was sorry! It was an-"
"Ha! I got you!" said Tai as Mimi quickly brushed off the snow from her shoulder. He wasn't able to hit her face like she had done to him but it was good enough for him.
"Tai! I'm going to get you for that!" Mimi picked up some snow and this time, it was Tai who was running away from her. They ran around in circles as Tai and Mimi tried to dodge the snowballs that came at them from the others and trying not to bump into anyone while Mimi held the snowball in her hand in a threatening way.
Mimi couldn't help but smile as she chased Tai around. It was the first time she had truly felt happy in weeks or perhaps even months since the day her mom had left her.
She would treasure this day forever.
Tai sat on the sofa yawning every few minutes, his eyes being forced to stay open. It was almost three in the morning and he was waiting for his mother who should of arrived home over an hour ago. He was a little worried and hoped that the snow outside wasn't causing her any trouble getting home. The snow had stopped many hours ago but considering the amount of snow outside, he guessed that they won't be having school tomorrow either. It's been years since they had a snow storm like this and Tai decided to enjoy it to the fullest and take the advantage of schools being closed.
He and Kari along with few of their friends had went out earlier that day and played in the snow like they did when they were young. The only person that didn't come was Mimi. It seemed Mimi was being distant with everyone for few months now and Tai was beginning to worry for his friend. He knew her parents had gotten divorced as well and wondered if that had anything to her being distant toward everyone. She seemed to be doing fine in school like nothing was wrong but it was a complete different story when they were outside of school. It was as if she was afraid to let her feelings show to anyone and she always acted like nothing was wrong when Tai could clearly see that there was something always bothering her. She had... changed.
Tai felt himself drifting slowly to sleep. He hasn't gotten much sleep lately, worrying about Kari and all. He had forced Kari to go to bed few hours ago despite all of her complains. She had wanted to stay up and wait for their mom as well but Tai knew Kari needed to get some sleep. She probably stayed up all night yesterday worrying about the letter they got from their grandmother.
"Tai, shouldn't you be sleeping?" Tai's eyes snapped opened and saw his mother standing in the door way with someone behind her. It seemed he had dozed off for few seconds and didn't hear the door open.
"Oh, uh, I was waiting for you," said Tai looking at the figure behind his mother. His mom caught Tai's eyes wandering off to the person behind her and smiled before she stepped aside for the person to come in. It was Mr. Tachikawa. Wait, Mr. Tachikawa? What's he doing here?
"Hi, Tai. How are you doing?" asked Mr. Tachikawa as he came into the living room with a gentle smile. For some reason, his smile looked a little... different. It reminded Tai of one of those smiles his father used to give him before his mom and dad got divorced.
"I'm doing fine. What are you doing here?" asked Tai as if he was accusing him for doing something wrong before he could stop himself. He just hoped that he didn't sound like he didn't want Mr. Tachikawa to be here or anything. However, to Tai's relief, Mr. Tachikawa didn't seemed to notice as he was busy unzipping his black winter coat before sitting down on the opposite sofa.
"I met your mother while I was walking home and she invited me here because I had a little trouble getting home with all the snow."
Tai nodded his head, feeling that something wasn't quite. He was sure that Mimi's dad only lived few minutes away unless Mimi had recently moved to another place without telling him so what was the point of his mom inviting him here? He shouldn't had much trouble getting home since it's very near from here. While Tai was deep in his thought, his mother came into the living room few moments later, changed into a simple shirt and jeans. She smiled at Mr. Tachikawa. "So, will you be staying here for tonight? It's a little late don't you think, Tom?"
Tom? Since when did his mom call Mimi's dad by his first name? "Oh no. I couldn't do that. I don't want to give you any trouble."
"Nonsense. I'll get you some blankets and you could sleep out here. It's very chilly outside," said his mom with a cheerful smile that Tai hasn't seen in a while. His mom was smiling at Mr. Tachikawa like they were very close friends or something. But surely he would of known by now if they really were close friends unless they've been keeping their friendship a secret. But why would they do that? This is just weird.
Mr. Tachikawa looked a little unsure about his decision but when he saw Tai's mom smiling at him, he smiled back. "Thank you. That'd be great. I guess I should call Mimi and tell her than..."
"Oh no. I'll call her," said Tai quickly when he saw Mr. Tachikawa digging through his pocket for his cell phone. He hasn't talked to Mimi in a while and he did not want to stay in the same place with his mom and Mr. Tachikawa. It made him feel uncomfortable for some reason.
"Thank you, Tai. Just tell her I'll be there tomorrow morning." Tai quietly nodded his head and left the living room as quickly as he could after picking up the telephone on the coffee table. As he began walking to his room, he heard his mom and Mr. Tachikawa starting a conversation. He was curious as to what they were talking about because his mom had begun laughing at something Mr. Tachikawa had said but he knew better than to eavesdrop.
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Mimi stared off at her ceiling, wondering where her dad was. She wasn't very much worried or anything but she knew she'd sleep better tonight if she knew where he was. She couldn't really sleep any ways because she kept having these odd dreams and whenever she tried to remember what those dreams were about, she just couldn't. She had been having those dreams for over a month now and all she knew was that they were very unpleasant and... sad.
Suddenly a ting of unhappiness came over Mimi as she remembered back to earlier today. Sora and Joe had called her to come and hang out with them and everyone else but she had refused. She could still remember the disappointment she had heard in their voices as she hung up and stared out the window where most people in her neighbor were clearing the snow from their side walks with a shovel in their hands. She wasn't very sure why she had refused except that she just wanted to be... alone. She knew she was avoiding everyone for quite a while now but it just couldn't be helped. Except for when she's in school that is.
Mimi turned sideways in her bed to face the wall of her room as she found the ceiling one of the most boring things in the world. She didn't even know why she was staring at it in the first place. Her mind was screaming the word "bored" over and over but there really wasn't anything she could do at this time of the night. She hasn't watched T.V. or went on her computer for weeks because she no longer felt any enjoyment in them and she doubt that she would now. Actually now that she thought about it, she couldn't find any enjoyment in her life. The happiness she once felt was gone. It was as if her old self had been shattered in to little pieces so that could no longer put them back. She just couldn't help but hate herself for everything she did and didn't do.
Why was she acting like this? Isn't she suppose to be a shopping freak who loved the color pink? Had she somehow gone mad after her mom had left? What would Palmon think of her if she came to the real world and saw her now? It's been months since Mimi had last seen Palmon and she hoped that she wouldn't have to see her any time soon. Palmon would probably worry her head off if she saw the way she, Mimi Tachikawa, had been acting lately and faint if she found out that she no longer can find any enjoyment in shopping.
The phone began ringing which brought Mimi back to the real world and out of her thoughts. With a groan, Mimi stood up from her bed and grabbed the phone that was right next to her computer.
"Hello?"
"Hey Mimi!" said the person on the other line.
"Tai?" said Mimi in surprise as she looked around her room for a clock until she realized that she didn't have one in her room. She mentally smacked herself on the head before reminding herself to get one sometime soon. Mimi opened her bedroom door and looked out the hall way where there was an old wooden clock hanging on the wall. She thought it looked stupid for an old clock to be hung in the middle of the hall way but she didn't say any thing about it since it was her dad's idea. She looked at the clock once and shut her door quietly. "It's three in the morning. What's up?"
"Yeah, I know and I was worried you might of had fallen asleep," said Tai and when no responds came from Mimi, he continued. "I just called you to tell you that your dad's going to spend the night at my house."
Silence took over and Mimi couldn't help but frown. "What? What's he doing there?"
"Something about not being able go home because of the snow," answered Tai with a shrug. He couldn't really understand it either.
"But it won't even take him ten minutes to get here! He must have a crack somewhere in his brain."
"Uh... Maybe but my mom invited him to stay. They seemed to be very close friends."
"Huh? Since when were they friends? I mean I've never heard him mention your mom to me or anything," said Mimi and she slumped down on her bed, sending her long hair flying everywhere. Mimi immediately brushed them away from her eyes with a huff. Her hair was really starting to annoy her. She did thought about cutting them many times but she just couldn't do it because she knew she would miss it too much.
"Well any ways, your dad told me to tell you he would be there tomorrow morning."
"Alright... like I care," said Mimi, the last three words coming out as a low whisper so Tai wouldn't be able to hear her.
"Hey Mimi? Do you want to hang out together tomorrow. I doubt we would have school and I haven't really seen you in a while. Well besides in school but you never seemed to really talk all that much any more."
"Oh well... Sure." She had already refused to go out with her friends earlier that day and she thought it wouldn't be very wise to refuse again or he'd start asking her questions as to why she was... probably being distant with everyone. She didn't quite know how she would be able to tell him that she just wanted to be left alone and make him understand. She wasn't even sure why she wanted to alone... Maybe it's because of her mom. Maybe when she left her months back, she just...
"Ok, so I'll come over your house and we could go to the park or something. Gee, we haven't done that in awhile," said Tai, breaking Mimi from her thoughts.
"No!" said Mimi in a hurry. Her house was messy as a dumpster, besides her room, and she didn't want her friend to see how her life was at home. No one has been at her house for months now because she hasn't invited any. "I mean... no. I'll go to your house."
"Oh. Ok, I'll see you around... one?"
"Yeah, I'll see you than. Bye." With that said, Mimi hung up the phone and dropped it on the other side of her bed. Well, she wasn't sure if she really wanted to hang out with anyone tomorrow or the day after that but at least she found out where her dad was. It was still a shock to her that her dad would be at Tai's house out of all of the other places he could be but she knew there was no point about wondering why he was there. It's his life after all and definitely not hers.
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Mimi sighed before shoving her hands inside her pocket. Tai had positively not told her that few of her other friends were going to meet her and Tai at the park. After she had arrived at Tai's house around one, they went out to the park where they met Yolei, Davis, Matt, Izzy, Sora, T.K., Kari and Cody. It wasn't that she didn't like her friends or any thing but... it was just hard being around many people outside of school after wanting to be left alone for so long.
"Mimi! Wow, it's been such a long time since I've seen you outside of school," said Yolei all too cheerfully. Yolei was acting as if she hasn't seen Mimi in years which amazed Mimi a little bit considering that they always ate lunch in school together with their friends. Maybe she had been avoiding everyone a little too bit.
"Hey guys," said Mimi and everyone greeted back besides Davis who was trying to start a conversation with Kari. Even after all these years, he still had that crush on her. It was obvious to any one with eyes that Kari did not feel the same way about him and Mimi often wondered if Davis knew that himself. She sometimes felt sorry for him whether that was a good thing or not.
"Where's Joe and Ken?" asked Tai who was still standing next to Mimi.
"Ken's busy and Joe's off somewhere. So any ways, what do you guys want to do?" said Matt looking at everyone.
Everyone thought for a while. There was no point of all ten of them going to the movies or get something to eat since not everyone had brought money and the only thing around the park was snow and more snow. "I don't know. We could just walk around for a while, thinking of something we could do," said Davis with a shrug and everyone agreed.
As they walked around the park talking to one another, Sora had noticed some younger kids edging away from them as if they were some kind of a gang that went around beating up people. Sora couln't help but point that out to her friends and some of them laughed while picturing themselves threatening the little kids for their lunch money or something.
Kari was happily chatting with T.K. while Davis was giving off a lot glares at T.K. who seemed to have either not noticed or was just ignoring him. Probably the second choice because no one can possibly ignore the glare that he was giving off. Sora was walking ahead of everyone with Izzy, Yolei and Cody and they were engaged in some kind of a conversation that Mimi could not hear. She was standing next to Matt and Tai in the back, walking silently while the snow crumpled with every step she took. The sun was shinning brightly, melting some of the snow to Mimi's disappointment. Most of the snow was being cleared away from the road and the side walks which most likely meant that the school would be open the next day. Mimi sighed. She didn't do all of her homework yet thinking that they may have another day off.
Tai stopped in the middle of his sentence while he was talking to Matt and glanced at Mimi who he had just heard her sigh. Matt looked at Mimi too and he stared at her for a while before a small smile was formed on his lips as he bent down on his knees to gather some snow in his hands. Tai looked at Matt in a questioning way before he smiled at well, bending down to gather some snow in his hands.
Mimi was too busy locked in her thoughts that she hasn't noticed what her two friends were doing next to her and before she knew what was going on, two snowballs came flinging at her head. Mimi gasped at the sudden coldness and looked at Tai and Matt who were snickering uncontrollably. Anger flared inside Mimi as she quickly brushed the snow off of her head and gathered some snow in her hands. Without bothering to make the snowball round, she hit it directly at Tai's face who had immediately stopped laughing.
Tai blinked two times as Matt laughed harder than ever, pointing his right finger at him with his left hand holding on his stomach before he was also hit in his face by a snowball. Mimi laughed, looking at her two shocked friends and she felt all of her worries lifting away from her. Everyone turned their attention to Mimi and the two other guys with snow covering their faces at the sound of Mimi's laughter.
"What did you guys do to yourselves?" asked Kari and she couldn't help but let out a small laugh.
"What did you do that for?" asked Matt to Mimi who now had stopped laughing.
"What? You guys did it too," said Mimi motioning to her head which was covered by snow just few moments ago as Matt and Tai brushed off the snow from their faces.
"Oh, well... It's was Matt's idea so he should be the one hit with the-" said Tai but before he was able to finish his sentence, he was hit by another snowball in his face. Tai could feel his face stinging from the coldness of the snow and he shook his head couples of times, letting the snow fall from his face. "Hey! Who just-"
Unfortunately, Tai was hit by another snowball and before he knew what was going, snowballs flew from every direction. Everyone was throwing snowballs at one another, ducking behind benches and Trees.
Davis was hiding behind a tree, aiming his snowballs only at T.K. who was standing next to Kari. He wanted to be the one standing next to Kari as she and T.K. were both throwing snowballs at their brothers. Mimi was running as Izzy and Sora chased her around with snowballs in both of their hands. Izzy threw his snowball which nearly missed Mimi and she turned around to stick her tong at him until she bumped into Tai. They both fell to the ground as snowballs continued to fly everywhere.
"Sorry about that!" said Mimi as she got up on her feet and brushed the snow from her coat. But Tai wasn't going to forgive her for that. Tai gather snow in his hands before he got up with a evil look on his face. Mimi ran, not liking the look on Tai's face. "Tai! I said I was sorry! It was an-"
"Ha! I got you!" said Tai as Mimi quickly brushed off the snow from her shoulder. He wasn't able to hit her face like she had done to him but it was good enough for him.
"Tai! I'm going to get you for that!" Mimi picked up some snow and this time, it was Tai who was running away from her. They ran around in circles as Tai and Mimi tried to dodge the snowballs that came at them from the others and trying not to bump into anyone while Mimi held the snowball in her hand in a threatening way.
Mimi couldn't help but smile as she chased Tai around. It was the first time she had truly felt happy in weeks or perhaps even months since the day her mom had left her.
She would treasure this day forever.