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Chapter Five
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Tai yawned as he stared at the glass tubs filled with different substances as he lazily laid his head down on the cold lab table. He was in his last class of the day, chemistry, which also happened to be his least favorite subject. He probably wouldn't have taken chemistry if he didn't need to take another science course to graduate from high school.
"...And after you take the tub A out of the boiling water, you should use a beaker to measure two center meters of it and slowly pour it into tube B. Make sure you don't pour more than two center meters or it's going to overflow and possibly make a huge mess. You will be allowed to work with a partner so..."
Tai slowly closed his eyes as the direction his teacher was giving out to his class for the lab that they were doing that day went through one side of his ear and came right back out from the other. He knew he should be a good student and pay attention to his teacher but he couldn't help it. He was just too damn tired.
It was another cold winter day just like the day before so the school janitors had blasted the heat up in every classes due to the complains from the teachers and that was exactly why he had his head on the cold table. Every classes were just too hot now, causing him to be even more sleepy. If only he had a pillow with him...
Just as Tai was about to drift into his dream land, he snapped his eyes open as he heard his class mates moving around the lab area to get started with their assignment. And as usual, Tai began to panic, not knowing what he's suppose to do. All he heard from his teacher's direction was something about a beaker.
"Don't worry. I payed fully attention unlike you so we'll do fine," said a voice from Tai's left.
Tai turned to look at Izzy in surprise before smiling in relief. "Oh yeah. We are allowed to work with a partner, aren't we?" said Tai before grabbing a goggle to put it over his eyes just like Izzy had done a second ago. "Okay, so what are we suppose to do?"
Izzy sighed. "Did you hear a single word our teacher had said?"
"Hm... I did hear him say something about a beaker..." said Tai, adjusting his goggles. The goggles were a little too tight on him and he was very sure it would leave a bright red mark over his face at the end of the class.
"Right..." said Izzy, resisting the urge to roll his eyes and he began to retell the directions to Tai. How Tai had managed to make it pass his first grade was still a big question to him.
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"She's... back?"
"Yes. I met her yesterday and she was with Mimi."
"Oh..."
Mrs. Hinamori quietly sipped on her tea, looking outside the window of the small cafe she was in with Mr. Tachikawa. She was taking a twenty minute break from her work and Mr. Tachikawa had come to pick her up to have lunch together.
"Mimi must have been really happy..." whispered Mrs. Hinamori. She had been just told by Mr. Tachikawa that Jasmine, Mimi's mom, had came back to Japan yesterday. She had been really hoping to get a little closer to Mimi since she would be becoming her step mother in the near future but with her real mother back here in Japan, she didn't think it would ever happen. "Do you know how long she's staying here?"
Mr. Tachikawa shook his head. "No, but there's really no need to worry. I know you're worried of what might happen if you bump into Jasmine but everything will work out fine."
Mrs. Hinamori nodded her head slowly. "I know but... she was my friend and I had betrayed her by falling in love with you. I just hope she can forgive for all the troubles I had cost her."
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"No Tai! That's too much! Stop!" yelled Izzy, dropping the glass tube he was holding in his hand in order to stop Tai, but he was a little too late. The glass tube he dropped landed hard on the table and shattered into many small pieces while everyone in the class room stopped what they were doing to see the reason for Izzy's yells.
Everyone was dead silent for a moment until a loud nasty blurbing sound was heard all across the room. Izzy and Tai both immediately backed away from their lab area, making a face at the sticky blue stuff bubbling and spilling from a glass tube to all over their lab area. Everyone in the class came by Tai and Izzy's lab table to get a closer look at the mess.
There on the lab table was a broken glass tube, and next to broken glasses of the tube, there was another glass tube, where the blue substance was continuously flowing out. It was causing a huge mess on the table as well as the floor. Their chemistry teacher is definitely not going to be happy when he sees the mess.
"Everyone! Move aside!" yelled their chemistry teacher as he pushed through his students to see what the problem was. "What in the wor- ah!"
Everyone in the class held back laughters as they saw their teacher sitting on the floor, his white lab coat smudged in blue gooey stuff everywhere. It seems that he had accidentally slipped on the blue substance on the floor after trying to get pass his students.
"Who's responsible for this?" asked their teacher angrily, slowing getting up from the floor by the help of his students. He looked down at his lab coat and made a disgusted expression before he saw Tai and Izzy both raise their hands. Their teacher looked surprised. "Izzy Koushiro, you are partly responsible for this?" asked their teacher with a disbelief look on his face. Izzy had always been his top student and had never caused any troubles before so it came as a big shock to him.
"Yes. I'm sor-"
"No, it was my fault," said Tai. It really was his fault and he didn't want his friend getting in trouble for some stupid mistake he made.
The teacher looked at Tai with no surprise or what so ever. "How much of the substance in tube A did you pour into tube B?"
Tai thought for a while. "Two... inches?"
"What?" his teacher blanched out at him. "I told you to pour only two center meters! Not inches! I said in the beginning of the class that it would over flow if you put more than two center meters! Tai Kamiya, you'll stay after school today to clean this mess up and Izzy Koushiro, since it wasn't your fault for this awful mess, you will not receive any punishment. Now everybody, go back to your lab areas and start cleaning up! The bell's going be ringing soon."
Tai nodded his head, but and didn't say any thing as the teacher walked away while mumbling something about getting his lab coat washed. "Good luck with that," said Tai out loud to himself.
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Mimi Tachikawa walked into an empty science class room with a sponge and a small bucket full of water. Today was her first day of detention and the detention teacher she had just met a minute ago had assigned her to go wash the black boards of the each class rooms of the second floor near the stairs. Boy, is she going to have a great time or what?
Mimi sighed. She hated getting her hands all wet and dirty while wasting her time cleaning when she could be doing something else. Something that doesn't concern school. But than again... that's just how life is sometimes. Cruel and unforgiving.
Mimi dropped the bucket full of cold water on the floor before rolling the sleeves of her school uniform up. Than with the hand that was holding the sponge, Mimi dumped it inside the bucket, watching it as it became bigger and fatter by absorbing the water. It was an awfully boring sight.
Picking up the wet sponge, she squeezed it and walked over to the black board. She stood up on her toes and tried to wipe the top part first but unfortunately, being that she wasn't what someone would prefer to as a tall person, her arm felt as if they were going to fall off in a matter of seconds. She quickly dropped her arms to her sides and grabbed one of the nearest chairs and brought it over to the black board before stepping on top of it. Now this was much better... She no longer had to stand on her toes or strain her arms.
"What are you doing?"
Mimi jumped slightly in surprise at the sound of Tai's voice in the door way and lost her balance on the chair she was standing on. She started to wobble, her arms flying back and forth and in fright, she shut her eyes tight. Tai, seeing Mimi wailing her hands, dropped the mope and a bucket of water that he was holding and ran over to Mimi to steady her by holding onto her waist.
Seconds passed by when Mimi no longer felt like she was going to fall, she opened her eyes slowly. A light blush soon appeared on her cheeks as she realized her position. Her nose was barely brushing against Tai's.
Three seconds passed on by in silence until Tai's brain began to register how close he was to Mimi and he let go of her waist before she turned her head to the side to hide her blush. Why was she blushing any ways? Tai was her friend and it wasn't as if their lips have actually met... Although, it was pretty close...
"Uh, so Tai... What are you doing here?" asked Mimi, unconsciously tugging on a piece of loose tread on her shirt.
"Oh, I made a little mess during chemistry so I came to clean it up," said Tai walking over to his mope that was dropped on the floor along with his own bucket of water. Good thing the bucket didn't tip over or anything.
Mimi looked at him in question before looking around the class room and gasped at the sight of blue yucky looking stuff all over one of the lab tables and the floor. She hadn't noticed it when she had first came inside the class room.
When Mimi turned her eyes away from the mess and looked at Tai, Mimi turned her gaze immediately at the sponge in her hand when her eyes came in contact with Tai. Tai did the same thing as well and they remained in silence, both of them looking away from one another.
"What are you doing? Start cleaning!"
Tai jumped a little at his teacher's voice and turned around to face him. His teacher was holding his lab coat in his hands and by the looks of it, it seemed his teacher had failed miserably at trying to remove the blue smudges.
Tai nodded his head to his teacher and walked over to the mess to start cleaning while Mimi focused her attention back to the black board. She just couldn't get the thought of what might of happened if she had leaned an inch closer when Tai had helped her regain her balance... Their lips would have touched.
Mimi huffed and removed a strand of her hair that was getting in her eyes before scowling. How could she possibly be thinking about something like that? It was just wrong. Definitely wrong.
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"You like Mimi." It was a simple statement yet Tai had failed to see it that way. Who wouldn't if your friend had just said something like that to you out of the blue?
"What? Where did you get that idea?"
Matt gave a smile. "One of my friends had a club meeting so he had to stay after school and he told me while he was walking around the halls, he saw you and Mimi about to kiss."
Tai poked at his pizza before picking the mushrooms out. He was at Matt's house to work on their English project and since they got hungry, they had ordered a pizza. Tai didn't want to have mushrooms on his pizza but since Matt was the one who was on the phone ordering the pizza, he had no choice.
"We are suppose to be talking about our project! And beside, it was an accident!" yelled Tai, poking harshly at his poor defenseless pizza. He was starting to get frustrated for some reasons he did not know.
"Ha! So you guys did kiss!"
"What? No! Mimi lost her balance on a chair she was standing on so I tried to help her and we somehow ended with our faces close to one another! We did not kiss!"
"Why are you yelling and getting so defensive? I was just playing around. Gee... If I didn't know better, I'd say you really like Mimi."
Tai picked out a mushroom with his fork and threw it at Matt's face. It landed right on his nose which Tai snickered about before looking at his friend with a serious look. "I don't like her. I can't. Not in that kind of a way at least. Her dad and my mom are going to get married and it'd be wrong for me to like her in any other way than as friends."
Matt growled before wiping the mushroom off of his nose. "So you are saying that if Mimi's dad and your mom were not to get married, you would like her as more than a friend?"
Tai did not answer that. He instead, chose to pretend that he did not hear anything.
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It was finally Friday afternoon, and Mimi walked happily down the streets of her neighborhood, humming a random tune that came to her head. She had just finished serving her detention and was very happy that she would not have school for the next couples of weeks since school was being closed for winter vacation. She couldn't wait till Christmas which was just a couple of days away.
"So... you are gonna come with me aren't you?"
"Of course. I'll ride in the car with you."
Mimi stopped humming whatever song she was humming and stopped dead in her tracks. Her eyes became wide at the sight in front of her. Her dad was leaning into the face of a woman that she had never seen before.
Mimi's mouth opened to say something or at least walk up to her dad but her foot stayed frozen at the spot. What the hell was her dad doing with that woman? She had seen the woman before when she had visited her dad at his work few months ago and she really seemed nice back than so what was she doing leaning so close to her dad? It was as if they were going to kiss...
Her arms and shoulders soon gave into the weight of her back pack and they slid down her arms to land with a loud thud on the ground. Mimi's dad immediately backed away from the woman in front of him and stared at his daughter in shock.
"Mimi?" said her dad and when he saw the look on his daughter's face, panic arose in him "Mimi, I can explain!" said Mr. Tachikawa. He knew his daughter had probably thought that he was about to kiss the woman in front of him but all he was doing was checking the women's forehead. She had bumped into the car door by accident and he was leaning into see if her forehead was alright or not.
"Oh really?" said Mimi, backing slowly away from her dad. "Than I guess you'll be able to explain things just fine to Tai's mom when I tell her about this."
Lifting her heavy bag pack, Mimi began running toward the direction of Tai's house. At the moment, she didn't care about anything. She just wanted to run far away as she possibly could from her dad.
"Wait! Mimi!" said Mr. Tachikawa as he watched Mimi running crossing the street. He turned to look at his friend. "You go on ahead and tell the boss that I would be arriving a little late. I have to follow Mimi."
"Alright but I'm so sorry Mr. Tachikawa. It's all my fault your daughter misunderstood us. I'm so clumsy..." said Mr. Tachikawa's friend but he shook his head, indicating that it wasn't her fault. After giving her a reassuring smile, Mr. Tachikawa ran down the road... Without looking for any signs of cars passing by.
Mr. Tachikawa's friend gasped in fright as she saw a speeding car coming down the road. She stretched her arm to grab Mr. Tachikawa's shoulder to stop him but she was a little too late.
"Mr. Tachikawa! Watch out!"
Having heard his friend's voice, Mr. Tachikawa looked at the on coming car with wide eyes, and tried to move out of the way. However, before he or the driver of the speeding car knew what was going to happen, Mr. Tachikawa's body came in contact with the car. Blood spread everywhere as the car came to a screeching stop.
Gasping in fright, Mr. Tachikawa's friend ran up to the bloody body, oblivious to the fact that Mr. Tachikawa's was soon going to take his last breath. He was going to die.
Chapter Five
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Tai yawned as he stared at the glass tubs filled with different substances as he lazily laid his head down on the cold lab table. He was in his last class of the day, chemistry, which also happened to be his least favorite subject. He probably wouldn't have taken chemistry if he didn't need to take another science course to graduate from high school.
"...And after you take the tub A out of the boiling water, you should use a beaker to measure two center meters of it and slowly pour it into tube B. Make sure you don't pour more than two center meters or it's going to overflow and possibly make a huge mess. You will be allowed to work with a partner so..."
Tai slowly closed his eyes as the direction his teacher was giving out to his class for the lab that they were doing that day went through one side of his ear and came right back out from the other. He knew he should be a good student and pay attention to his teacher but he couldn't help it. He was just too damn tired.
It was another cold winter day just like the day before so the school janitors had blasted the heat up in every classes due to the complains from the teachers and that was exactly why he had his head on the cold table. Every classes were just too hot now, causing him to be even more sleepy. If only he had a pillow with him...
Just as Tai was about to drift into his dream land, he snapped his eyes open as he heard his class mates moving around the lab area to get started with their assignment. And as usual, Tai began to panic, not knowing what he's suppose to do. All he heard from his teacher's direction was something about a beaker.
"Don't worry. I payed fully attention unlike you so we'll do fine," said a voice from Tai's left.
Tai turned to look at Izzy in surprise before smiling in relief. "Oh yeah. We are allowed to work with a partner, aren't we?" said Tai before grabbing a goggle to put it over his eyes just like Izzy had done a second ago. "Okay, so what are we suppose to do?"
Izzy sighed. "Did you hear a single word our teacher had said?"
"Hm... I did hear him say something about a beaker..." said Tai, adjusting his goggles. The goggles were a little too tight on him and he was very sure it would leave a bright red mark over his face at the end of the class.
"Right..." said Izzy, resisting the urge to roll his eyes and he began to retell the directions to Tai. How Tai had managed to make it pass his first grade was still a big question to him.
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"She's... back?"
"Yes. I met her yesterday and she was with Mimi."
"Oh..."
Mrs. Hinamori quietly sipped on her tea, looking outside the window of the small cafe she was in with Mr. Tachikawa. She was taking a twenty minute break from her work and Mr. Tachikawa had come to pick her up to have lunch together.
"Mimi must have been really happy..." whispered Mrs. Hinamori. She had been just told by Mr. Tachikawa that Jasmine, Mimi's mom, had came back to Japan yesterday. She had been really hoping to get a little closer to Mimi since she would be becoming her step mother in the near future but with her real mother back here in Japan, she didn't think it would ever happen. "Do you know how long she's staying here?"
Mr. Tachikawa shook his head. "No, but there's really no need to worry. I know you're worried of what might happen if you bump into Jasmine but everything will work out fine."
Mrs. Hinamori nodded her head slowly. "I know but... she was my friend and I had betrayed her by falling in love with you. I just hope she can forgive for all the troubles I had cost her."
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"No Tai! That's too much! Stop!" yelled Izzy, dropping the glass tube he was holding in his hand in order to stop Tai, but he was a little too late. The glass tube he dropped landed hard on the table and shattered into many small pieces while everyone in the class room stopped what they were doing to see the reason for Izzy's yells.
Everyone was dead silent for a moment until a loud nasty blurbing sound was heard all across the room. Izzy and Tai both immediately backed away from their lab area, making a face at the sticky blue stuff bubbling and spilling from a glass tube to all over their lab area. Everyone in the class came by Tai and Izzy's lab table to get a closer look at the mess.
There on the lab table was a broken glass tube, and next to broken glasses of the tube, there was another glass tube, where the blue substance was continuously flowing out. It was causing a huge mess on the table as well as the floor. Their chemistry teacher is definitely not going to be happy when he sees the mess.
"Everyone! Move aside!" yelled their chemistry teacher as he pushed through his students to see what the problem was. "What in the wor- ah!"
Everyone in the class held back laughters as they saw their teacher sitting on the floor, his white lab coat smudged in blue gooey stuff everywhere. It seems that he had accidentally slipped on the blue substance on the floor after trying to get pass his students.
"Who's responsible for this?" asked their teacher angrily, slowing getting up from the floor by the help of his students. He looked down at his lab coat and made a disgusted expression before he saw Tai and Izzy both raise their hands. Their teacher looked surprised. "Izzy Koushiro, you are partly responsible for this?" asked their teacher with a disbelief look on his face. Izzy had always been his top student and had never caused any troubles before so it came as a big shock to him.
"Yes. I'm sor-"
"No, it was my fault," said Tai. It really was his fault and he didn't want his friend getting in trouble for some stupid mistake he made.
The teacher looked at Tai with no surprise or what so ever. "How much of the substance in tube A did you pour into tube B?"
Tai thought for a while. "Two... inches?"
"What?" his teacher blanched out at him. "I told you to pour only two center meters! Not inches! I said in the beginning of the class that it would over flow if you put more than two center meters! Tai Kamiya, you'll stay after school today to clean this mess up and Izzy Koushiro, since it wasn't your fault for this awful mess, you will not receive any punishment. Now everybody, go back to your lab areas and start cleaning up! The bell's going be ringing soon."
Tai nodded his head, but and didn't say any thing as the teacher walked away while mumbling something about getting his lab coat washed. "Good luck with that," said Tai out loud to himself.
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Mimi Tachikawa walked into an empty science class room with a sponge and a small bucket full of water. Today was her first day of detention and the detention teacher she had just met a minute ago had assigned her to go wash the black boards of the each class rooms of the second floor near the stairs. Boy, is she going to have a great time or what?
Mimi sighed. She hated getting her hands all wet and dirty while wasting her time cleaning when she could be doing something else. Something that doesn't concern school. But than again... that's just how life is sometimes. Cruel and unforgiving.
Mimi dropped the bucket full of cold water on the floor before rolling the sleeves of her school uniform up. Than with the hand that was holding the sponge, Mimi dumped it inside the bucket, watching it as it became bigger and fatter by absorbing the water. It was an awfully boring sight.
Picking up the wet sponge, she squeezed it and walked over to the black board. She stood up on her toes and tried to wipe the top part first but unfortunately, being that she wasn't what someone would prefer to as a tall person, her arm felt as if they were going to fall off in a matter of seconds. She quickly dropped her arms to her sides and grabbed one of the nearest chairs and brought it over to the black board before stepping on top of it. Now this was much better... She no longer had to stand on her toes or strain her arms.
"What are you doing?"
Mimi jumped slightly in surprise at the sound of Tai's voice in the door way and lost her balance on the chair she was standing on. She started to wobble, her arms flying back and forth and in fright, she shut her eyes tight. Tai, seeing Mimi wailing her hands, dropped the mope and a bucket of water that he was holding and ran over to Mimi to steady her by holding onto her waist.
Seconds passed by when Mimi no longer felt like she was going to fall, she opened her eyes slowly. A light blush soon appeared on her cheeks as she realized her position. Her nose was barely brushing against Tai's.
Three seconds passed on by in silence until Tai's brain began to register how close he was to Mimi and he let go of her waist before she turned her head to the side to hide her blush. Why was she blushing any ways? Tai was her friend and it wasn't as if their lips have actually met... Although, it was pretty close...
"Uh, so Tai... What are you doing here?" asked Mimi, unconsciously tugging on a piece of loose tread on her shirt.
"Oh, I made a little mess during chemistry so I came to clean it up," said Tai walking over to his mope that was dropped on the floor along with his own bucket of water. Good thing the bucket didn't tip over or anything.
Mimi looked at him in question before looking around the class room and gasped at the sight of blue yucky looking stuff all over one of the lab tables and the floor. She hadn't noticed it when she had first came inside the class room.
When Mimi turned her eyes away from the mess and looked at Tai, Mimi turned her gaze immediately at the sponge in her hand when her eyes came in contact with Tai. Tai did the same thing as well and they remained in silence, both of them looking away from one another.
"What are you doing? Start cleaning!"
Tai jumped a little at his teacher's voice and turned around to face him. His teacher was holding his lab coat in his hands and by the looks of it, it seemed his teacher had failed miserably at trying to remove the blue smudges.
Tai nodded his head to his teacher and walked over to the mess to start cleaning while Mimi focused her attention back to the black board. She just couldn't get the thought of what might of happened if she had leaned an inch closer when Tai had helped her regain her balance... Their lips would have touched.
Mimi huffed and removed a strand of her hair that was getting in her eyes before scowling. How could she possibly be thinking about something like that? It was just wrong. Definitely wrong.
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"You like Mimi." It was a simple statement yet Tai had failed to see it that way. Who wouldn't if your friend had just said something like that to you out of the blue?
"What? Where did you get that idea?"
Matt gave a smile. "One of my friends had a club meeting so he had to stay after school and he told me while he was walking around the halls, he saw you and Mimi about to kiss."
Tai poked at his pizza before picking the mushrooms out. He was at Matt's house to work on their English project and since they got hungry, they had ordered a pizza. Tai didn't want to have mushrooms on his pizza but since Matt was the one who was on the phone ordering the pizza, he had no choice.
"We are suppose to be talking about our project! And beside, it was an accident!" yelled Tai, poking harshly at his poor defenseless pizza. He was starting to get frustrated for some reasons he did not know.
"Ha! So you guys did kiss!"
"What? No! Mimi lost her balance on a chair she was standing on so I tried to help her and we somehow ended with our faces close to one another! We did not kiss!"
"Why are you yelling and getting so defensive? I was just playing around. Gee... If I didn't know better, I'd say you really like Mimi."
Tai picked out a mushroom with his fork and threw it at Matt's face. It landed right on his nose which Tai snickered about before looking at his friend with a serious look. "I don't like her. I can't. Not in that kind of a way at least. Her dad and my mom are going to get married and it'd be wrong for me to like her in any other way than as friends."
Matt growled before wiping the mushroom off of his nose. "So you are saying that if Mimi's dad and your mom were not to get married, you would like her as more than a friend?"
Tai did not answer that. He instead, chose to pretend that he did not hear anything.
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It was finally Friday afternoon, and Mimi walked happily down the streets of her neighborhood, humming a random tune that came to her head. She had just finished serving her detention and was very happy that she would not have school for the next couples of weeks since school was being closed for winter vacation. She couldn't wait till Christmas which was just a couple of days away.
"So... you are gonna come with me aren't you?"
"Of course. I'll ride in the car with you."
Mimi stopped humming whatever song she was humming and stopped dead in her tracks. Her eyes became wide at the sight in front of her. Her dad was leaning into the face of a woman that she had never seen before.
Mimi's mouth opened to say something or at least walk up to her dad but her foot stayed frozen at the spot. What the hell was her dad doing with that woman? She had seen the woman before when she had visited her dad at his work few months ago and she really seemed nice back than so what was she doing leaning so close to her dad? It was as if they were going to kiss...
Her arms and shoulders soon gave into the weight of her back pack and they slid down her arms to land with a loud thud on the ground. Mimi's dad immediately backed away from the woman in front of him and stared at his daughter in shock.
"Mimi?" said her dad and when he saw the look on his daughter's face, panic arose in him "Mimi, I can explain!" said Mr. Tachikawa. He knew his daughter had probably thought that he was about to kiss the woman in front of him but all he was doing was checking the women's forehead. She had bumped into the car door by accident and he was leaning into see if her forehead was alright or not.
"Oh really?" said Mimi, backing slowly away from her dad. "Than I guess you'll be able to explain things just fine to Tai's mom when I tell her about this."
Lifting her heavy bag pack, Mimi began running toward the direction of Tai's house. At the moment, she didn't care about anything. She just wanted to run far away as she possibly could from her dad.
"Wait! Mimi!" said Mr. Tachikawa as he watched Mimi running crossing the street. He turned to look at his friend. "You go on ahead and tell the boss that I would be arriving a little late. I have to follow Mimi."
"Alright but I'm so sorry Mr. Tachikawa. It's all my fault your daughter misunderstood us. I'm so clumsy..." said Mr. Tachikawa's friend but he shook his head, indicating that it wasn't her fault. After giving her a reassuring smile, Mr. Tachikawa ran down the road... Without looking for any signs of cars passing by.
Mr. Tachikawa's friend gasped in fright as she saw a speeding car coming down the road. She stretched her arm to grab Mr. Tachikawa's shoulder to stop him but she was a little too late.
"Mr. Tachikawa! Watch out!"
Having heard his friend's voice, Mr. Tachikawa looked at the on coming car with wide eyes, and tried to move out of the way. However, before he or the driver of the speeding car knew what was going to happen, Mr. Tachikawa's body came in contact with the car. Blood spread everywhere as the car came to a screeching stop.
Gasping in fright, Mr. Tachikawa's friend ran up to the bloody body, oblivious to the fact that Mr. Tachikawa's was soon going to take his last breath. He was going to die.