Chapter nine: Damage
I can't get by with mere imagination…
Upside down, bouncing off the ceiling, inside out, stranger to this feeling, I don't know what I should do.
I'll go crazy if I can't get next to you.
Don't get angry! My little sister was blasting her Ateens music when I was trying to type! And I'm sorry
for the lack of post card translations, here's my excuse:
Me: has the screen shot open on her computer
My mom: Hey, come downstairs and babysit.
Me: Ok.
--My mom goes upstairs, where my little sister has begun to use my computer but has managed to
freeze my media player gain.--
My sister number 2(out of 3): Uh oh.. Mom what should I do?
Mom: Restart her computer.
Sister: Ok, clicks don't save on the paint program
Me: Noooooo!!!! Faints
Mom: Gawd don't be so dramatic. Go to your room.
-----So that's how it happened it may have been exaggerated a bit though…
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It was the first day of October, and boy was it cold outside.
Nearly a week had passed since that incident…
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A clock by the bedside told it was around four AM, fog was creeping around in alleyways, yards and hills.
Mimi rolled over and rested her arm on top of a rather large lump in the covers.
She cast a sleepy look around the room before she focused on the person in front of her.
He was still asleep, good. 'Maybe I can get up without him noticing.' She thought.
She didn't want him waking up now did she?
She carefully lifted her arm and pulled the covers off of herself slowly,
Which was hard because it was so warn and cozy where she had been sleeping, especially with him there.
It was cold outside of the covers, looks like someone forgot to turn the heater on last night.
Mimi was wearing what she had worn the previous day, minus the shoes of course.
A black skirt and a long sleeved dark green shirt with a black T-shirt over it.
She sat up and let her legs hang over the side of the bed.
'Alright, I'll stand up and, as quickly as possible, get outside of the bedroom and into the living room
Grab my stuff and go home.'
Mimi but her lip, her plan was easier said than done.
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Miyako rolled over in her sleep she felt something pushing against her stomach, something round and squishy
… And moving…. Something alive…
She managed to wake herself, however her limbs were like lead meaning that the rest of her was still asleep.
'Crap, what the hell is it?' Miyako stared intently at her side where the creature had apparently frozen.
She managed to pull herself up so that her shins were under her things.
The room was dark and without her glasses Miyako's vision wasn't at it's best. She pulled the covers away
and glared until her expression changed into that of relief.
"Poromon!" She hissed. The small round bird blushed under his feathers. "I- I'm terribly sorry Miyako-San, I
Thought it would have been rude to wake you this early so I decided to just wait until you woke up.
Miyako sighed. "I can understand that…. But why didn't you wait in your basket?" She asked gesturing to
a wicker basket with an infant's blanket in it sitting in the corner of her room.
Poromon blinked, "It was cold…" He mumbled.
Miyako huffed. "So, you can't just crawl right up next to me when I'm asleep like that, you could have just
Went under the blanket that's in there, my bed isn't the only warm place. Do you know how frightening it could
Be to find some weird animal next you in the middle of the night?" She snapped.
"But you don't get angry when Koushiro-San does it." Poromon said.
"Uresai! That was a lie it NEVER happened!" Miyako seethed, she had balled her fists and was in
one of her famous temper tantrums.
"And you don't tell him to sleep somewhere else when he says it's cold." Poromon said.
"Koushiro-Kun is a different kind of friend than you are, Poromon…" Miyako said meekly.
Gee is she Bipolar in the morning or what?
"How? What kind of friend is he Miyako San?" Poromon chirped (seeing as how he's a bird and all)
'How can I explain this to someone who's parents had him sealed into some rock by a ten year old boy?'
Miyako thought.
"Ano, he's the kind of friend that you kiss." Miyako said. Poromon's eyes scrunched up while was thinking.
"That -I- kiss?!" he asked.
"No, Poromon, me only me, and he kisses me too. Understand?" Miyako said. Poromon clicked his beak.
"But you kiss and hug me too." He said.
" That's because you're like a little brother to me." Miyako said. "There are different kinds of affection."
"Ohh. Ok." Poromon went and curled up (can he do that?) by her pillow. "Good night." He said.
Miyako grabbed her glasses off of the window sill and left the room, careful not make Poromon wake up a
And follow her.
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Mimi pulled open the door slowly, Just enough for her to squeeze through. She had successfully made it to
the living room. She sighed.
She reached for her socks, which were almost thigh high, and her boots. (They were those lace- up ones you know?
They're usually brown or black and come up to under your knees.)
She had just grabbed her school bag. (Which looked like Mamimi's from FLCL 'cept Mimi's was black and red.)
She had just gotten to the front door when an arm wrapped around her waist and pulled her into a hug from behind.
"Were you going home?" He asked in a sleepy way. Mimi blushed madly. "Yes, my parents might get mad
If I don't come home to get my homework."
He let go of her. "Ok then, I can understand that. I'll see you at school."
Mimi nodded, "Ok, Goodbye Taichi Kun." She said.
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'My feet are cold… it's so late… But I have to finish this…I should shut the window… maybe then I won't be cold… '
Iori peeled himself out of his computer chair and went to shut his window, after all it was cold and rainy outside,
or at least it was. Now it was just foggy.
Iori had forgotten to do his homework and was trying to get it finished before he had to go to school,
Which started at seven thirty.
"Aw forget it!" He whined, Upamon rolled under his pillow at the end of the bed.
"I'll just get Miyako San to do it for me on my way to school…" Iori stretched and scratched his side.
With that he shut off his computer and staggered into bed only to have his mom wake him up nearly
Three hours later.
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Next chapter: Mimi explains and Sora has terrible news.