Disclaimer : I don't own Digimon and its characters. Bandai© owns them. I adapted 'My Tutor Friend' from a Korean movie.
Chapter Five : Closer
The policemen handcuffed Yamato.
One of Taichi's friends might have reported him to the police.
Mimi watched as Taichi was being taken away by the police.
So what's wrong about having a rich family?
Your parents are always out and your siblings are too busy.
Mr. And Mrs. Ishida are out so is TK.
So tentatively, they were the only ones home at that time.
Mimi sighed and drove home with her motorcycle.
"Name?"
"Yamato Ishida," Yamato replied to the police offer's question.
"Age?"
"21."
"What College University?"
"I'm in highschool."
"And you're proud of that?" the police raised his brow.
Mr. Ishida arrived in the police station.
"I'll bail him out," he said, looking at Yamato sternly.
The next morning, Mr. Ishida slammed a plane ticket in front of Yamato.
"Go back to America," he told him.
"No, I don't want to," he said.
"Go back I said!"
"No! Go back yourself if you want!" Yamato replied.
"I'm too old to go back to America and study dummy!" his dad said.
Yamato sighed and crossed his arms.
"If you don't wanna go then I'll cancel your credit cards," his dad said calmly.
Yamato suddenly knelt in front of his dad and held on to his hand.
"Father, please! Not that," Yamato pleaded.
His father shook his hand away from him and clapped his hand once.
Seven guys in black suit appeared.
"You called for us, sir?" the other one asked.
"Clean out his pockets," Mr. Ishida ordered.
Yamato took one step back.
"Don't go near me…if you do, you'll die!" he tried to scare them but tough luck.
A luxurious car stopped by 'Yuri's Poultry Shop'.
Mrs. Tachikawa went out of the shop.
The passenger's seat's window slid down.
"Hi, Yoko, good evening," Mrs. Ishida greeted.
Seated on the coffee table, Mrs. Ishida sobbed in front of Mimi's mother.
"Oh my god, Yoko," she sobbed. "I think I was a bad mother!"
"Huh?"
"I know Yamato loves to fight a lot but he's a good boy, I know it," Mrs. Ishida said.
How come can she say that her child is good if he loves to fight? Mrs. Tachikawa thought.
"So, what happened?" she asked.
"He ran away!" Mrs. Ishida sobbed. "It's been a week! I'm so worried."
Mimi was listening from the back door.
She frowned and then proceeded back to her bedroom.
Mimi and Sora stood in front of the waiting area in the airport.
Sora held a small poster with the words : Michael, welcome back.
There were lots of other people in the waiting area, waving their hands as their loved ones approach them.
Sora waved the poster higher.
Mimi was silent, as if she was thinking of something.
Suddenly, Sora shook her arm.
"Hey, here comes Michael! There he is!" Sora said.
Mimi smiled weakly and waved her hands to him as he approaches them.
"This is given to me by Yamato-kun," Miyako told her friends, showing them the silver necklace.
Miyako and her friends were in a café together with Yamato, Davis and Ken.
"You want me to buy you one?" Davis asked Hikari, Miyako's friend.
"Shut up. Can you even afford to buy a necklace as expensive as that one?" Hikari said.
One of Miyako's friends caught Miyako's attention.
"Hey, can I try it on?" she asked.
Miyako shot her a stern look.
"Think it'll look good on you? Of course, you can't. This is mine," Miyako said.
But then Yamato was silent all the time.
"Yamato-kun, is there something wrong?" Miyako asked.
Yamato stood up.
"See you all tomorrow, I need to do something," he said.
Yamato climbed on his room's fire exit.
He found his cellphone lying on the center table without battery.
So he replaced the battery of his cellphone.
Upon turning his cellphone on, he found out that there are five unread messages stored.
Hi! Where did you go? – Mimi
Hungry? I'm eating right now. Want some? – Mimi
I'm impressed---at 21, you ran away from home! Isn't that supposed to be for younger kids? – Mimi
Hey! Heard you were being offered to go to America. Since you don't want it, will you lend me the offer instead? – Mimi
Are you there? We have a class today, dummy! – Mimi
Yamato smirked upon reading the messages.
Suddenly, his phone rang.
"Hello?"
"You answered at last!" the voice from the other line said.
"Hey," Yamato said. "Who do you think you are to fill my cellphone with messages?"
"Don't you feel happy that someone remembered you?" Mimi asked.
"Whatever," he said.
"Let's meet in your house!" Mimi proposed. "I'm on the way to your house anyway."
"You missed me, didn't you?" Yamato teased.
"Today's Tuesday so we have classes. You have to attend our session or else you're dead meat!" Mimi said.
As they were talking on the phone, Mimi was already in front of the Ishida Mansion. She didn't know that Yamato was already upstairs, a few minutes ahead of her.
"So you still wanna continue studying?" Mimi asked.
"Uh-huh…for my old dad," Yamato replied over the phone.
"You love him, don't you?" Mimi asked. She was already inside the house, ascending the stairs towards his room.
"Maybe you're right," Yamato said.
Mimi was already in front of his bedroom door.
"I knew it! I knew that there was some good side in you," Mimi said as she opened the bedroom door.
When she stepped forward, she saw Yamato slumped on his sofa, holding his phone over his ear.
"Hi," Mimi said, smiling. She removed the phone from her ear so did Yamato.
She sat on her usual place and smiled at him.
"Well, look who's here. You used the fire escape, didn't you?" Mimi said.
Yamato grinned, "Yeah."
Yamato's bedroom door suddenly opened.
"Ms. Tachikawa, Yamato's not---," Mrs. Ishida paused when she saw her son.
Mr. and Mrs. Ishida sat together in front of Mimi and Yamato.
A small coffee table separates their seats.
"Yamato, let's talk this over," Mr. Ishida said firmly. "You should go to America---the education is better there."
Yamato heaved a sigh, "No."
"Sir, I guess you should respect Yamato's decision," Mimi butted in.
Mrs. Ishida looked at her.
Mrs. Ishida crossed his arms.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"I know that studying abroad is better but if he doesn't want to then things would even be worse," Mimi said.
Mr. Ishida gave her a calm look. "And?"
"Since you're not there to be with him while he's studying, he could be a drug addict!" Mimi exaggerated.
Mr. Ishida cringed but let her continue.
"And---and then be a member of the Mafia! Or worse, he could even form his own group of terrorists!" she added.
Mr. Ishida looked more nervous. She's got a point there anyway.
"Dad!" Yamato called.
Mr. and Mrs. Ishida turned to him.
"If I get an average grade of 50 on my tests this semester then you'll have to backfire your plan of sending me to America," Yamato proposed.
Mrs. Ishida's jaws dropped.
Mimi gave him a confused look.
"What are you talking about? Do you know what you're saying?" Mr. Ishida asked.
Mimi continued to stare at him perplexedly. "Yamato---"
"A deal is a deal! I'll be responsible of whatever happens," Yamato said firmly.
"What has gotten into you!" Mimi asked angrily as both of them went back to his bedroom. "How can you raise an average of 8 to a 50! It's impossible!"
"So what will you do if I get a 50?" Yamato asked, challenging her.
"You? Get a 50? Even God can't help you! You're a mess Yamato Ishida!" Mimi outraged.
Since Yamato committed to his proposal, it gave her another problem. She has to help him pass the finals or else all her patience and hardships for the past two months will come out of nothing. What will her friends and family say? What if Mrs. Ishida asks for the service fees back?
"I'll get a 50, I know it," Yamato said proudly.
Mimi grabbed her purse.
"Fine then, do it yourself! You can speak English fluently so what is an English tutor to help anyway?" Mimi said and turned on her heel.
"Wait up!" Yamato stopped her.
She turned.
"I can speak English but I can't read most of it and can't write it well! Reading and writing is more important in exams than speaking it!" Yamato reasoned out.
Mimi sighed.
"Okay," she said. "I'll help you."
a/n : Chap 5 done! Four more chapters to go. Thanks for the ones who reviewed my story and also to those who despise it since you were my inspirations! Thanks to LilixTrixee, cutielicious, bubbles05. I appreciated your reviews!