Why do you like me?

By Akane-tenshi

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Summary : Mimi and Matt had disliked each other at first sight. But what happens if their souls switched? Is there something more deep inside? A mimato and taiora.


"What the-?"

"Have my eyes deceived me?"

"No way! I didn't know it was possible!"

All eyes were on them. How was it possible for Mimi and Matt to be walking side by side down the hallway without much bickering? Matt avoided the gaze of his fellow schoolmates and tried to pulled the short skirt, that Mimi had put on him, down to his knees. The pink skirt was way too short and tight. Thank goodness that she had re-dyed her hair back toits original color or his eyes will hurt from the color of pink.

"Would you cut that out!" Matt hissed getting quite irritated. "Can you please walk properly! People will think I'm a girl!"

Mimi paused in her tracks and glared at him, "Me! What about you? I don't drag myself when I walk! I'm very poise for your info! Look, we both have a reputation to uphold. If you're going to make a fool out of me, you'll gonna regret it. Deeply."

"You have a reputation? I could hardly tell."

She sent him a deadly glare.

"Fine!"

"Matt! Matt honey!" Mimi froze. A chill went through her body as the high-pitched voice drew nearer. That girl could break glass. Suddenly, she was being glomped by a certain someone that she hated. Her mortal enemy : Jun. "C'mon honey or we'll be late for class!" Jun clinged on Mimi's arms and pulled her down the hallway.

Matt couldn't help but smirk. Boy was he glad that his wasn't himself. He quickly joined them in class and took a seat behind Mimi and Jun. She was having a hard time keeping Jun's hands off her. He could see the disgusted look on her face as Jun shamelessly flirted with her and continuously batted her eyes. The smirk on his face was soon wiped off when a blonde guy whom he despised, from the bottom of his heart, sat beside him.

"Hey Mimi!"

"H-H-Hi Mi-Michael." Matt stammered nervously. He have to be careful with this guy. He acted awfully familiar with Mimi the other day.

"What are you so nervous about?" asked Michael with a laugh.

"Er-" Matt didn't need to answer him as the teacher had already walked in.

Michael smiled at him and gave him a wink, "Don't forget."

A blank look dawned upon his face. What wasn't he suppose to forget?


"Boy I'm glad the day's over!" said an exhausted Matt as shut his locker and turned to his body. "Listen, this is what we're going to do. Until we find something toswitch back our souls, you're going to stay at my place and I'm staying at yours."

Mimi scowled, "But I don't want to stay over at your place. Your room is so messy and it's not pink! I won't be comfortable staying with your dad and I have a responsibility of looking after my mum. She is really sick, even though she doesn't show it. I'm worried about her."

"I'll look after her and don't worry about my dad. He usually gets home for dinner and he's off to his room to do his work. Now, we both go back to each of our houses together to get our stuff. We need to go together so your mom won't be wondering why Matt is stealing her daughter's stuff and vice versa. Sometimes my Dad comes home from the office to check on me. Maybe after that you could whip up dinner for my dad and I'll do the same for your mother."

"Well, I erm-" stuttered Mimi, becoming quite flustered. Before she could let another word escaped from her lips, Matt already had a sickeningly, annoying grin on his face. Well, that used to be her sickeningly, annoying grin. "What?" She snapped.

"Don't tell me you don't know how to cook!"

"For you info, I can cook and I will prove it to you!"


"Mimi, what are you putting in the soup?"

"Salt of course!"

"That's sugar for crying out loud!"

"Ack! Well, this should help! Vinegar should lessen the sweet taste!"

"Mimi, cooking doesn't work that way!"

"Who cares? Now I can put in the carrots!"

"Why are there chips of wood going in the soup with the carrots?"

"Oops! I think I accidentally cut them out from the cutting board when I was chopping the carrots. Now for the potatoes!"

"There's still skin on them! Are you trying to poison my Dad! And did even even wash the vegetables?"

Mimi missed a beat, "You need to wash them?"

A long pause fall between them as a gust of wind brushed passed.

"That's it! Out of my kitchen!"

Mimi frown as she stomped into Matt's room. She was just trying to prove that she could cook. "Stupid Matt. Mister I-can-cook-better-than-you. Who does he think he is? If he's the best cook in Japan then why didn't he appear on Iron Chef!"

She wrinkled her nose as she began to pick up Matt's room. Her arms were full with his stray clothes and when she saw his 'laundry bin' her heart gave a lurch. Like she said before, they were in serious need of a washing machine. The pile of clothes was unlike anything she'd ever seen.

"Matt, when this is all over, I'll make you pay for this. You just consider yourself lucky I can't stand sleeping in a messy room..."

With that Mimi began her mission, pulling out a bottle of lysol and praying that God gave her strength.


After battling with something, that she was not so sure was human, underneath Matt's bed, Mimi slumped to the floor, sighing. She had managed to scratch the surface of the room from Hell.

"Hey I'm finish with the cook..ing..." Matt stared at his room and his jaws dropped. "What did you do to my room?"

"I cleaned it and you're very much welcome!"

"But I like my mess just the way they were before!"

"Too bad that I don't like them huh? Don't worry, I didn't throw any of your stuff away. If you pile up your things nicely you'll see that you will need much less space," advised Mimi.

Matt was about to say something but prevented himself from doing so, "We're heading for your place in fifteen minutes."

Muttering a 'jerk' Mimi forced herself to stand up again and opened the window.

"Hey Matt!"

Mimi was surprised to see Tai on the sidewalk with an ice-cream cone in his hand. Some people have all the luck. "Hey Tai!"

"Wanna go crash my place and listen to some music?"

She was having the biggest crisis of her life-time and all he thinks about is music! "How could you even think of listening to music at this point? There are more important things right now than music!" Mimi yelled and shut the window.

A few seconds later, she heard Tai shouting frantically, "Drink plenty of water Matt! You need water to survive! Water! Drink them!"

"Whatever!"


After packing my personal things, I slunged my bag on my shoulder and looked back in my room. I was going to miss this place. I then proceeded to the next room and poked my head in. My mum was having a peaceful slumber. There's something you ought to know about my mum: she's beautiful. Even on her bad days she looks like an angel in rags. So forget pretty, or attractive, or any of those other half-hearted adjectives. My mum is stunning, stunningly beautiful. People turn to look at her in the street. We all look at her, especially Dad. I knew she misses Dad badly. She doesn't always look back though. It's as if there's a sign in her eyes saying sorry, gone out, call back later.

I closed the bedroom door and clambered down the stairs where I found a bored Matt slumped on the couch and flipping through the channels. He had already changed into my really expensive knee-length skirt and button up blouse. "What's the point of having cable if you don't even have any good channels?" His eyes flickered towards me and then back to the television: some quiz show or other, lots of noisy laughter.

"Hear me out Matt," I said in a serious tone and planted myself on the sofa. "I really need you to take care of my mum. She really needs someone to take care of her and please keep this place clean. Oh, and no going through my wardrobe, especially my drawers!"

Matt was really mad at me for saying that as his face was flustered with fury, "I'd like you to know that I'm not a pervert and nobody would want to look at your unsexy, old-fashioned under garments even if you paid them a billion yen!"

I felt my face heat up and his comment. How dared he! "Here I am, trying to trust you and there you are acting like one big jerk!"

Suddenly the door bell rang, causing the both of us to jump. Who would come over at this time? I glared slightly at Matt "I think you better get that. I don't think any of our friends would want to see 'me' here!"

He stood up and opened the door. I hid myself behind the sofa and looked at the ajar door. Someone should just shoot me right now. There stood Michael at the steps with his charming smile on his face. How could I forget? We were suppose to go for our date today.

"What are you doing here?" Matt blurted out rudely.

Michael gave out a chuckle, "Mimi you're such a joker! Another reason why I love you!"

"Lame!" muttered Matt through gritted teeth.

"So are you ready for our date?"

"Eeehhhhh!"

"Michael..." I found myself saying his name out loud. I looked at Matt. There was no way that he was willing to go out with Michael but if he doesn't, then this is going to be the third time this week I've to stood him up. I know Michael love me deeply and I'm trying to return his love. I really do but now, my mum needs my attention more than he does. Sometimes I wish I could just explain it to him but he just won't understand. It looks like I was going to break his heart again. Might as well break up with him.

Matt turned to me and his face softened. He seems to be deep in thought and I was a part of it. What happens next really surprised me. Matt suddenly clinged to Michael's arm and said, "What are we waiting for? Let's go!"

Was he out of his mind?

The door was shut and I froze. What if Michael tried to kiss him or even worse.

A rather disturbing image went through my mind. Michael, who had a wolf's nose, fangs, ears, tail, hungry eyes and a huge tongue dripping with saliva was ready to pounce on a naked Matt with only a piece of cloth around his body. Wait a minute! That's my body thank you very much!

'Michael! No! You don't understand! I'm not who you think I am!'

'Don't worry Mimi... everything will be all right once I make you mine!'

Just as he was about to pounce, I cleared my mind. Michael is not a pervert. He wouldn't do that... would he? My mind was shouting for me to chase after them but my legs wouldn't move. I started panicking as the scene started going through my mind again and again. I grabbed the edge of the sofa and pulled myself up. Damnit! Why can't I move? Tears started to form in my eyes.

"Matt... I'm coming! I know Michael wouldn't do that to you but I just want to make sure you're all right." I tried pulling myself off the ground harder. "No! Matt!"

Rrrrriiippp! I looked down at my pants and saw that a small piece, near the bottom, of it was torn. It got stuck under the leg of the sofa all along. If Matt could see me now, he'll probably never stop teasing me! "That was so embarrassing. No time to change. I gotta find Matt!"


"Gee Tai, how should I know what's wrong with Matt! I'm not his servant you know! Hmm, Mimi's house sure looks quiet. Do you wanna stop by?" Kari asked just when the wind blew her hat away. "Hey! My hat!" She chased after her her hat in the other direction. "Don't just stand there Tai! Help me get my hat back!"

But Tai was too distracted by Matt frantically running out of Mimi's house. He watched his friend until he disappeared around the corner.

"So do you wanna stop by or not?" Kari had returned with her hat perched on top of her head.

Tai blinked, "I don't think now's a good time. I gotta get home and drink lots of water."

"What are you talking about? Sometimes I even wonder why I bother hanging out with you!"


Mimi hid in the bush nearby and peered at Matt and Michael sitting outside the ice-cream parlor. To the eyes of others, they looked like the perfect couple but in reality, both of them are actually guys and that made Mimi have a sickening feeling in her stomach. She quickly move to the nearby table, covered her face with the menu and tried listening to their conversation.

"Wow this is delicious!" Matt commented as he began to slurp down his sundae.

Michael looked quite taken back by this. He usually found Mimi quite lady-like.

"Finish! Can I have another one?" he asked. Without waiting for Michael's answer, he called for the waiter and started pointing at everything on the menu. "I want this one and that and this one and oh, this one too!" Slamming the menu on the table, he looked up at the waiter and smiled. "I want everything on the menu!"

"What?" Came Michael's sudden outburst. "Mimi, are you feeling ok?"

"Of course I'm-" Before he could finish his sentence, he felt someone grabbed his hand and was being pulled away quickly.

Michael raised an eyebrow, "What the-?"

"Here's your order." The waiter placed every single sundae on the table and had a 'you-better-pay-for-this' look on his face.

The blond looked sideways and pointed upwards, "Look! A naked lady falling from the sky!"

"What? Where- Hey! Come back here!"


The two of them panted heavily as they reached back to Mimi's house. When Mimi had finally catch her breath, she shoot Matt a dirty look. "You jerk! What do you think you're doing! I was so worried about you and you're spending Michael's money!"

"Hey it's not everyday a guy could eat a sundae! It's embarrassing you know!" Matt retorted.

"Yeah but that's no reason to rip off his money! Even though I can't return Michael's feelings, I still care about him. Please, I'm begging you," Mimi lowered her head pleadingly, trying to hold back her tears with her fist clenched tightly my her side. "Don't hurt Michael."

Matt was silent.

Mimi continued, "Why am I telling you this? You'll never understand. But Matt, thank you."

"What for?"

"For putting your pride aside," She relaxed her body and looked up at him with a smile. "And going out with Michael. I know you did it for me..."

"Tsk. Whatever."


Ok, now you all know I'm not dead... or am I? Sorry for the long wait... I always say that nya... but I really meant it. I've been really busy, read my profile for more info. I promise I'll put up the next chapter as soon as possible! Review nya!

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