Title: In your presence

Author: children of the Revolution

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.

Warnings: Shoujo-ai (girlxgirl, but I guess you already know that if you've come this far...)

Rating: Pg

Chapter: 3/3 "Autumn"

Authors note: I'm so sorry! I know I should have updated this days ago...but...better late than never...?

Ah well, here it is at last. The third and last chapter.

Thanks to kellyQ for your reviews. :)

R&R (And go on and flame too, if it makes you feel better... ;P)

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Eventually school started again.

Mimi greeted her best friend but Sora only smiled and continued talking to Yamato about something. Mimi leaved them alone and went to her other friends.

After all, Sora hadn't met their blond friend for the whole summer, and Mimi had mailed her almost every day of summer vacation. The first days they almost never left their computer screens. And when they were told by their parents to shut their computers down and go to sleep, they continued through their mobile telephones.

At four a.m, that first day after their confessions to each other, they had still been awake and watched the sunset together from their respective bedroom windows.

That had to be the most romantic moment in her life, this far. Mimi sighed happily as she took a seat in the cafeteria in between Jyou and Hikari.

This was almost to good to be true.

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'She isn't...avoiding me, is she?'

After a week had come and gone and Sora still didn't talk to her, Mimi decided to talk to her other friends about it. She couldn't give them all of the information, if she did Sora would definitely never talk to her ever again, but this silence drove her nearly insane.

Yamato was nowhere to be found so she decided to go for Taichi instead.

"Tai?"

He turned his head and smiled in recognition. "Hi there Mimi."

"Um... Do you, by any chance, know what's wrong with Sora?" He frowned.

"Something's wrong with her?"

"Well, she don't talk to me anymore and I just...wondered if you knew anything?"

"You know her way better than I do, I don't think I'm the best person to ask... Maybe you should talk to Yamato instead? He is her boyfriend after all."

Time stopped.

"He...is what?"

"She hasn't told you? They've been together for almost a week now."

"They..." She shook her head in a vain attempt to clear it. "I gotta go. See you Tai."

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She tried to act as normal as possible around them, even if it always felt as if her heart would break in two every time they hugged or kissed in front of her. And they seemed to do that all the time. And Sora still didn't talk to her. Only a quick 'Hi' in the corridors, if she was lucky. That was almost more unbearable than the fact that Sora loved someone else.

She had lost her best friend.

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A couple of months after that, Mimi found a letter on the doormat when she came home. It couldn't be from anyone else than Sora.

She went up to her room and opened the letter with shaking hands.

I remember everything. What you meant for me back then. You were the only one I could talk to. I mean really talk to. I needed you and you were there. Thank you.

All the things she read didn't connect with her brain. Her head was in such turmoil.

I still need you of course. But I am such a coward.

Round and round.

I always wanted to be in your presence.

On and on. She was sorry, she said. For ignoring Mimi. She wondered if they could go back to beeing friends. If Mimi could forgive her.

I need all of my friends and you are my friend, just like Hikari, Jyou, Koushiro, Takeru, Taichi and Yamato. I love all of you.

The letter dropped to the floor. Mimi closed her eyes and leaned back against the wall. Then, for the first time since the beginning of the summer, she cried.

.:End:.