Ardour - Sequel to Welkin
by: sakuramimato (sakuramimato@chiaga-ru.net)
Disclaimer: I am not the owner of Digimon.
Author's Note: Thank you all for the great reviews! I was going to put the time in military format like in Japan, but I decided to keep it in standard 12-hour time just to make it easier.
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Chapter 06
Mimi sighed at her table and looked out the window again. Searching in her purse, she found out that she left her cellphone on her bedstand. "Of all the days.. Yamato might be held up or something.."
"Miss, are you ready to take your order?" a pale blonde hair waiter asked. He also had blue eyes, but were paler than Matt's. She shook her head and continued to look out the window. The waiter looked deeper into her reflection in the window. "Miss, did you attend Odaiba Academy?"
Hearing those familiar words, she turned her head to face him, "Yes, I did, three years ago."
The waiter smiled. "Call me if you need your order.. Mimi."
She sat wide-eyed at the retreating figure and looked forward, her eyes meeting a lit red candle as the center piece of the table. Thinking a little back to the academy, she was dumbfounded when she came up with her guess. "Was that Michael?" She shook her head in disbelief. 'It can't be.' She continued to stare out the window in search of Matt.
It was 7:45 and the streets were lined with teens out for the night. Mimi had her head rested in her cupped right hand, her left had tipping the salt shaker back and fourth. "If only Yamato were here, I wonder where he could be?"
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The lights in the Takenouchi residence were flicked open. Sora had come back from her mother's flower shop and was ready to turn in for the day, but the thought of Mimi's date with Matt made her cheeks burn red. She turned on the light to her bedroom, dropped her bag on the floor at the foot of her bed and collapsed onto her bed, burying her face in her pillow. "Why is Mimi doing this? Doesn't she know that Matt and I are together?"
She turned her head to the clock on her bedstand that read 8:17. Some hot tears rolled down her cheeks, some burning her eyes for trying to hold them beck. "He's probably enjoying their date together, regardless of what time they started."
Finding that the stinging from her tears was too overwhelming, she got out of her room and wiped her eyes dry. They were a little red from her crying. While she was washing her face in the bathroom, the doorbell rang. Patting her face with a face cloth, she called out, "Come in."
She came out of the bathroom still drying her face with the face cloth in her hand. When she saw who had entered in her apartment, she paused in her tracks. "Matt, what are you doing here?"
"Why, you aren't pleased with my being here?" he asked her cocking an eyebrow.
Sora shook her head. "No, I thought you were out at Morealli's with Mimi."
He didn't reply for a long while and looked at his watch. "Kuso. I forgot all about it!" The blow that he had forgotten was already enough for him to handle. "I was supposed to meet her an hour ago. Sora... How did you know about me and Mimi going to Morealli's?"
She turned away. "Mimi told me when you left yesterday. You should tell her why you didn't show up, Matt. It's already bad enough that you forgot about your date with her, but you're going to hurt her even more if you don't show up at all."
"Sora-chan, I didn't mean to hurt you, either." he confessed with a look of hurt in his eyes.
He exited her apartment and left the building. When he was hailing a cab, Sora ran out to the rail and called out to him, "Matt!"
He looked up as he was entering the cab and waved good-bye to her.
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"Miss?"
In surprise, Mimi lifted her finger from the salt shaker. The shaker ended up toppling over on the table with the silver cap falling off causing the salt to fall on the table. "Oh, geez."
"That's okay." the waiter assured her. He took the salt and put the cap back on the salt shaker. "Has the person you've been waiting for come yet?"
Mimi shrugged and gave out a sigh. "I guess he's not coming, Michael." (Michael from the show. ;)
"Then I guessed right." he said with a grin. "I thought you seemed like Mimi from my junior class."
"He's not coming." she said quietly as she looked at her watch displaying 9 o'clock. Rising, she blew out the candle in the middle of the table. After doing so, she walked over to Michael and gave him some yen. His eyes widened at the offer. "This should pay for the money that I must have cost this restaurant in waiting. I hope it's enough."
She went to leave the restaurant leaving the waiter frozen stiff at the tremendous offer she had given him. While she was halfway down the steps outside the restaurant, Michael had caught up to her. Taking her hand, he put the money back in her's. "Mimi, I really can't take all of this money. You don't have to owe it to the restaurant either."
He returned to his job. Mimi turned to the direction back to the hotel when she saw the familiar figure that she had hoped would show up. A single tear slid down her cheek.
"Mimi-chan?" he asked taking a step towards her. She turned around to hide the hurt from him. Walking the other direction, she headed for the park and left Yamato at Morealli's. "Gomen nasai!"
At the words he called out, she walked even faster as she tried to block out the words. 'He stood me up!' She thought to herself as she walked across the street to the dimly lit entrance of the park. Looking around for a deserted part of the park, she found that the bridge going across the river was deserted. She walked to the middle and found that it had a great view of the pond, making her calm down a bit.
A tall lamp was lit right next to her coming up from the bridge. She held it with her right hand and took a moment to recollect what had happened. A cold wind blew past making her shiver under her thin clothes. "I don't ... understand."
A tear began to form in her eyes. Acting upon it, she quickly wiped it away and felt her cheeks burn up. "I shouldn't even be crying about this. Yamato must have a reason to why he didn't show up any sooner. But.. why do I feel as if there's something else going on that the others aren't talking to me about? Everything seems to have changed. I thought Yamato would be pleased to see me back here again. I don't know anymore."
She continued to ignore the cold rushes of wind that blew past and gazed out to the pond that lay before her. A drop from the sky made her look up in an instant. Dark clouds were swirling about making it hard to see past. A couple more drops of water fell from the sky causing a drizzle. She didn't care for the rain that was falling and just stayed, her eyes transfixed on the pond's rippling water.
People were fleeing from the park to keep from getting soaked. The once dry cement paths in the park were dotted with rain droplets. The streets that were once lined with hordes of people were now empty and jammed with taxi cabs trying to get their passengers back to their homes. Not bothering to pull her hood over her head, she began to leave the park getting soaked by the rain. To her surprise, the rain no longer fell on her. She looked up and noticed that Matt was holding a black umbrella over her, his eyes pleading for forgiveness from her.
"Mimi-chan?" he asked her. She seemed to be thinking about whether or not she should respond, but he continued anyways. "I'm sorry I didn't go to Morealli's. I'd forgotten all about it."
She was displeased by his answer and walked over to the side of the bridge, resting her hands on the railing. Matt persisted and walked beside her to shield her from the rain. "Mimi, don't be upset."
'How can I not be upset?' she asked herself. 'You ditched me while I waited for you for two hours in that restaurant looking like a fool!'
"I don't want you to stay mad at me." he said. He took her hand and handed her the umbrella. "Ja ne."
She turned to look at him walking away under the rain. Arguing against herself about whether or not she should go after him, she decided not to and felt too bad for not forgiving him.
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'I can't believe how much of a jerk I was.' Matt thought as he walked on, paying no heed to his getting wet by the rain. 'I even feel sorry for hurting her like that. She must hate me now for being such an idiot.. Even though I'm with Sora now, I feel as if I still have feelings for Mimi. I wouldn't feel this bad about hurting her if I seriously didn't feel involved. Ugh, this is making me insane!'
He sighed and stared long at the hotel she stayed at as he walked past. Shaking his head violently, he stared ahead and tried to forget anything tied to Mimi. 'Sora knows about the date with Mimi, but if she knows about what happened between Mimi and I today, she'd hate me forever. God, what have put myself into? I can't even begin to start liking Mimi now! I shouldn't even be starting to like her all over again. Why is everything always getting messed up?'
Entering the apartment complex, he paid no attention to the puzzled stares he recieved as he walked into the empty elevator waiting impatiently for it to go to his floor. "I'm not going to Sora right now. She'll be wondering about what happened. I must be kidding myself about liking Mimi all over again. Heh, me? Like Mimi again? High school was nothing but a crush; whatever we felt in high school is nothing like what Sora and I feel about each other."
He entered his apartment and noticed that it was almost midnight. Thinking that the clock was wrong, he went to his room to check the news what time it was. It also displayed 11:30.
"It should be ten. It felt like forever when I was talking to Mimi." he said to himself. "This is all getting too confusing."
Checking on his dad, he noticed that he was sound asleep in his bedroom. He smiled and closed the door to his dad's room to keep from disturbing him with the hallway lights. He went to his room and changed into a dry pair of clothes to sleep in. "I'll think about all of this stuff tomorrow."
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A/N: ... Okay, rain in the summer. It happens! XD~ It's a rather long chapter. You're not bored yet, are you?
by: sakuramimato (sakuramimato@chiaga-ru.net)
Disclaimer: I am not the owner of Digimon.
Author's Note: Thank you all for the great reviews! I was going to put the time in military format like in Japan, but I decided to keep it in standard 12-hour time just to make it easier.
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Chapter 06
Mimi sighed at her table and looked out the window again. Searching in her purse, she found out that she left her cellphone on her bedstand. "Of all the days.. Yamato might be held up or something.."
"Miss, are you ready to take your order?" a pale blonde hair waiter asked. He also had blue eyes, but were paler than Matt's. She shook her head and continued to look out the window. The waiter looked deeper into her reflection in the window. "Miss, did you attend Odaiba Academy?"
Hearing those familiar words, she turned her head to face him, "Yes, I did, three years ago."
The waiter smiled. "Call me if you need your order.. Mimi."
She sat wide-eyed at the retreating figure and looked forward, her eyes meeting a lit red candle as the center piece of the table. Thinking a little back to the academy, she was dumbfounded when she came up with her guess. "Was that Michael?" She shook her head in disbelief. 'It can't be.' She continued to stare out the window in search of Matt.
It was 7:45 and the streets were lined with teens out for the night. Mimi had her head rested in her cupped right hand, her left had tipping the salt shaker back and fourth. "If only Yamato were here, I wonder where he could be?"
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The lights in the Takenouchi residence were flicked open. Sora had come back from her mother's flower shop and was ready to turn in for the day, but the thought of Mimi's date with Matt made her cheeks burn red. She turned on the light to her bedroom, dropped her bag on the floor at the foot of her bed and collapsed onto her bed, burying her face in her pillow. "Why is Mimi doing this? Doesn't she know that Matt and I are together?"
She turned her head to the clock on her bedstand that read 8:17. Some hot tears rolled down her cheeks, some burning her eyes for trying to hold them beck. "He's probably enjoying their date together, regardless of what time they started."
Finding that the stinging from her tears was too overwhelming, she got out of her room and wiped her eyes dry. They were a little red from her crying. While she was washing her face in the bathroom, the doorbell rang. Patting her face with a face cloth, she called out, "Come in."
She came out of the bathroom still drying her face with the face cloth in her hand. When she saw who had entered in her apartment, she paused in her tracks. "Matt, what are you doing here?"
"Why, you aren't pleased with my being here?" he asked her cocking an eyebrow.
Sora shook her head. "No, I thought you were out at Morealli's with Mimi."
He didn't reply for a long while and looked at his watch. "Kuso. I forgot all about it!" The blow that he had forgotten was already enough for him to handle. "I was supposed to meet her an hour ago. Sora... How did you know about me and Mimi going to Morealli's?"
She turned away. "Mimi told me when you left yesterday. You should tell her why you didn't show up, Matt. It's already bad enough that you forgot about your date with her, but you're going to hurt her even more if you don't show up at all."
"Sora-chan, I didn't mean to hurt you, either." he confessed with a look of hurt in his eyes.
He exited her apartment and left the building. When he was hailing a cab, Sora ran out to the rail and called out to him, "Matt!"
He looked up as he was entering the cab and waved good-bye to her.
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"Miss?"
In surprise, Mimi lifted her finger from the salt shaker. The shaker ended up toppling over on the table with the silver cap falling off causing the salt to fall on the table. "Oh, geez."
"That's okay." the waiter assured her. He took the salt and put the cap back on the salt shaker. "Has the person you've been waiting for come yet?"
Mimi shrugged and gave out a sigh. "I guess he's not coming, Michael." (Michael from the show. ;)
"Then I guessed right." he said with a grin. "I thought you seemed like Mimi from my junior class."
"He's not coming." she said quietly as she looked at her watch displaying 9 o'clock. Rising, she blew out the candle in the middle of the table. After doing so, she walked over to Michael and gave him some yen. His eyes widened at the offer. "This should pay for the money that I must have cost this restaurant in waiting. I hope it's enough."
She went to leave the restaurant leaving the waiter frozen stiff at the tremendous offer she had given him. While she was halfway down the steps outside the restaurant, Michael had caught up to her. Taking her hand, he put the money back in her's. "Mimi, I really can't take all of this money. You don't have to owe it to the restaurant either."
He returned to his job. Mimi turned to the direction back to the hotel when she saw the familiar figure that she had hoped would show up. A single tear slid down her cheek.
"Mimi-chan?" he asked taking a step towards her. She turned around to hide the hurt from him. Walking the other direction, she headed for the park and left Yamato at Morealli's. "Gomen nasai!"
At the words he called out, she walked even faster as she tried to block out the words. 'He stood me up!' She thought to herself as she walked across the street to the dimly lit entrance of the park. Looking around for a deserted part of the park, she found that the bridge going across the river was deserted. She walked to the middle and found that it had a great view of the pond, making her calm down a bit.
A tall lamp was lit right next to her coming up from the bridge. She held it with her right hand and took a moment to recollect what had happened. A cold wind blew past making her shiver under her thin clothes. "I don't ... understand."
A tear began to form in her eyes. Acting upon it, she quickly wiped it away and felt her cheeks burn up. "I shouldn't even be crying about this. Yamato must have a reason to why he didn't show up any sooner. But.. why do I feel as if there's something else going on that the others aren't talking to me about? Everything seems to have changed. I thought Yamato would be pleased to see me back here again. I don't know anymore."
She continued to ignore the cold rushes of wind that blew past and gazed out to the pond that lay before her. A drop from the sky made her look up in an instant. Dark clouds were swirling about making it hard to see past. A couple more drops of water fell from the sky causing a drizzle. She didn't care for the rain that was falling and just stayed, her eyes transfixed on the pond's rippling water.
People were fleeing from the park to keep from getting soaked. The once dry cement paths in the park were dotted with rain droplets. The streets that were once lined with hordes of people were now empty and jammed with taxi cabs trying to get their passengers back to their homes. Not bothering to pull her hood over her head, she began to leave the park getting soaked by the rain. To her surprise, the rain no longer fell on her. She looked up and noticed that Matt was holding a black umbrella over her, his eyes pleading for forgiveness from her.
"Mimi-chan?" he asked her. She seemed to be thinking about whether or not she should respond, but he continued anyways. "I'm sorry I didn't go to Morealli's. I'd forgotten all about it."
She was displeased by his answer and walked over to the side of the bridge, resting her hands on the railing. Matt persisted and walked beside her to shield her from the rain. "Mimi, don't be upset."
'How can I not be upset?' she asked herself. 'You ditched me while I waited for you for two hours in that restaurant looking like a fool!'
"I don't want you to stay mad at me." he said. He took her hand and handed her the umbrella. "Ja ne."
She turned to look at him walking away under the rain. Arguing against herself about whether or not she should go after him, she decided not to and felt too bad for not forgiving him.
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'I can't believe how much of a jerk I was.' Matt thought as he walked on, paying no heed to his getting wet by the rain. 'I even feel sorry for hurting her like that. She must hate me now for being such an idiot.. Even though I'm with Sora now, I feel as if I still have feelings for Mimi. I wouldn't feel this bad about hurting her if I seriously didn't feel involved. Ugh, this is making me insane!'
He sighed and stared long at the hotel she stayed at as he walked past. Shaking his head violently, he stared ahead and tried to forget anything tied to Mimi. 'Sora knows about the date with Mimi, but if she knows about what happened between Mimi and I today, she'd hate me forever. God, what have put myself into? I can't even begin to start liking Mimi now! I shouldn't even be starting to like her all over again. Why is everything always getting messed up?'
Entering the apartment complex, he paid no attention to the puzzled stares he recieved as he walked into the empty elevator waiting impatiently for it to go to his floor. "I'm not going to Sora right now. She'll be wondering about what happened. I must be kidding myself about liking Mimi all over again. Heh, me? Like Mimi again? High school was nothing but a crush; whatever we felt in high school is nothing like what Sora and I feel about each other."
He entered his apartment and noticed that it was almost midnight. Thinking that the clock was wrong, he went to his room to check the news what time it was. It also displayed 11:30.
"It should be ten. It felt like forever when I was talking to Mimi." he said to himself. "This is all getting too confusing."
Checking on his dad, he noticed that he was sound asleep in his bedroom. He smiled and closed the door to his dad's room to keep from disturbing him with the hallway lights. He went to his room and changed into a dry pair of clothes to sleep in. "I'll think about all of this stuff tomorrow."
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A/N: ... Okay, rain in the summer. It happens! XD~ It's a rather long chapter. You're not bored yet, are you?