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Chapter 4: Ice Cream and Jealousy

Sora reflected as she stuffed chocolate ice cream into her mouth that going to a Tachikawa for help wasn't very useful. "Either they think that money can solve everything. Or they ply you with ice cream and tissues and useless chick flicks." She glanced at the screen where a young blonde girl was crying causing her mascara to run off her face. This immediately set her off again. "Oh Mimi, everything is so hopeless," she sobbed. Mimi appeared from the kitchen balancing two bowls, a container of ice cream and some spoons. "There, there Sora," she muttered comfortingly dumping everything down on the sofa. "It'll be all right. Now why don't you just tell Mimi what's wrong," she continued while filling her bowl with more chocolate ice cream.

"Well Mimi you see it's all because of…" she glanced up at Mimi's face which was now fixed intently on the screen. "Mimi!" she cried.

Mimi put her hand up instinctively. "Two minutes Sors Lets just see them kiss and make up." Sora huffed impatiently and turned away. She didn't want to see how everything had turned out dandy for the two lovers. It just made her feel worse. She crumpled up her tissue and threw it on the ever-growing pile.

There was a big smooching sound from the T.V. and a rapturous sigh from Mimi who turned around to meet Sora's murderous gaze.

Mimi looked a little taken aback. "Um Sora? Why don't you tell Mimi all about it now?"

Sora was about to snap at her and then looked around the darkly lit room. The T.V. flickered and the piles of junk (mostly consisting of tissues and chip packets) made the breath hitch in her throat.

"Oh Meems. I'm going to die an old, fat, ugly bachelorette!" Mimi immediately put her arms around Sora and pulled her in for a comforting hug.

"Don't be ridiculous darling. You're beautiful and everyone loves you. Why would you end up alone?"

"Because I only truly love one person and he DOESN'T LOVE ME!" Sora wailed even louder. Mimi felt a bit frightened.

"Sora, Sora, Sora, I am absolutely sure whoever you are talking about loves you deeply."

Sora looked up. "Really," she sniffed.

"Positively! And what's more I'm sure I can set you two up on a date for tomorrow!"

Sora brightened even more. "You mean you know who it is?"

Mimi smiled gently. "Of course I do Sora. I know things like this, but if it makes you feel better why don't you tell me?"

Sora looked down blushing. "Well actually it's…Koushirou."

Mimi's head snapped up horrified. "What?"

Sora giggled happily, "Just joking silly! It's Tai of course!"

Mimi put a hand over her heart dramatically, "Don't you ever scare me like that again! EVER!" she added for good measure before she could continue however Sora butted it in with a

"But how did you know Mimi? Was I that obvious? Was I like drooling all over him and now he's put off me forever?" Hearing her voice become close to tears again Mimi was quick to reassure her.

"No, no! Of course not! It's just a girl thing I promise you! Now why don't you-" she said making quick plans in her head. "-watch 'Sadie's Broken Heart Part III' while I go make some phone calls k'?" Sora nodded cheerfully.

"And then when I come back, we'll clear up this mess," she added looking around distastefully. Before Mimi could walk away however Sora grabbed her hand.

"Mimi how do you know he truly likes me? Because I…I don't want to live on a false hope."

Mimi saw her friend's eyes shining and felt a pang in her chest. "What would it be like?" she wondered. "To have someone love you so much, and to love them in return. I'm going to spend my life pushing people together without ever having anyone for myself." Momentarily an image of Matt's face flashed in front of her

"A Labrador puppy, a pink car or a box of Hershey's kisses." She almost giggled. It had been so cute to see him disoriented like that but then just as quickly she snapped back to reality. There were more pressing things to worry about after all. Taking Sora's hand in hers she knelt down and said as softly and sincerely as she could.

"I know it Sora because I know you two are meant to be together. I've seen smile you have when you see him. I've seen his concern for you when you hurt yourself. I've even seen the blushes you two share when you 'accidentally' touch each other but more then that I've seen the look in both of your eyes when you look at each other. And it's love there Sora. Pure and simple."

Sora dropped her hand, the smile lingered but there was a little bit of awe in her face as well. "You've changed Meems. Really and truly you have."

Mimi grinned. "If you mean I'm not the conceited, selfish bitch I once was I thank you. And now I must be off. Things to do, people to meet, places to be…you know the drill." Sora pushed her away playfully.

"Go on then. Just don't forget that this particular friend of yours is very glad to have you back."
"I'm glad to be back," thought Mimi as she walked towards the phone. "There's nothing like friendship to get you feeling warm and fuzzy inside."

She picked up the one and dialled Matt's number too distracted to realise she already knew it off by heart. A girl picked up and said sweetly, "Hello?"

Mimi's heart did a double take. What was a girl doing over at Matt's apartment so late? Trying to keep her voice steady she asked, "Can I speak to Matt please?"

"Sure," the girl replied. "He's a little busy but I'll pass him the phone."

"Busy!" thought Mimi viciously. "Busy doing what I wonder! Getting the whipped cream perhaps?"

Matt's voice came on the phone sounding out of breath and rather flustered. "Hey Matt speaking."

"Hi Matt it's Mimi," she replied unable to keep the sharpness out of her voice.

"Oh sorry Mimi. I was just getting the whipped cream."

Mimi gaped mouth open. What? Did he know what he was saying? Was he so crude as just to admit it to her like that?

"Mimi?" came his voice sounding a bit irritated now. "Are you still there? I was just saying I was getting the whipped cream for my soufflé you know. I'm busy cooking. Tai and Kari have come over for dinner."

Mimi was lost for words again but for a different reason this time.

"MIMI? Look if you just called to hear my voice, that's really nice but it's hard to whisk eggs and talk at the same time so if you could call later please…?"

Finally regaining the powers of speech Mimi cut him off. "Nonsense. I have something important to talk to you about."

Matt groaned, "Is this the matchmaking thing again? Because really Mimi I'm sure we can talk about it-"

"Shh! I've just made an important discovery. Sora likes Tai! Well actually I knew that already," she fluffed her hair. "But Sora admitted she likes Tai! And I sort of well…promised her a date with him tomorrow morning."

There was a sound of a bowl breaking and what sounded like repressed cursing. "Honestly Mimi! Do you even think before you make a comment?" Matt's voice came back on sounding decidedly frustrated.

"Of course I do!" said Mimi feeling offended. "Just not all the time. Anyway it's not that hard! All you have to do is convince Tai that he likes her and…"

"Convince him!" said Matt loudly. "There's no need for that. It's going to be a relief for all of us. He's head over heels for her already. Maybe if I do this he'll finally shut up. It's been Sora this. Sora that the whole evening! I wonder how Kari puts up with it!"

"She's his sister. It's what sisters do. She probably finds it amusing to find her brother in such dire agonies."

There was silence on the other end.

"So anyway you'll tell Tai to go out with Sora?"

"Of course I will. It shouldn't have been too hard anyway. I mean Sora's a nice girl, she's got pretty hair and long legs and a cute butt…"

To her surprise Mimi felt a bitter feeling rising up within her, "Shut up Matt!" she shouted and her voice sounded rather deadly even to herself.

"I was just joking Mimi," replied Matt sounding taken aback. "You're not jealous are you?"

"I-I..."

Matt chuckled. "Oh come on admit it Mimi. You know you want me. You want to hug me, and touch me and kiss me…"

Mimi slammed the phone down hard, breathing fast. It wasn't the fact that Matt was saying those things that bothered her…it was the fact that she wouldn't mind doing those things one bit.

And that in itself was very scary.

I hope you like this! It took me ages to write, major writers block or something I suppose. Next time will be Sora and Tai's date but don't worry there will be plenty of Mimi and Matt as well. Oh and don't forget to review thanks! Ages since I updated this so I hope there are still readers. See ya!