This story is a follow-up to "A Dance In The Rain." It takes it awhile for it to go to where it is suppose to go…. Hey, it is only the first chapter.
Oh, I cannot spell. I know this, I understand this, and I can live with this. wink
Cheers!
Looking for Something?
What I want from this life is not money or fame,
maybe find the right partner who won't make it a game.
Who cares what you do to waste time in your life,
or look for the pleasures... like those shared with a wife.
Clock time has no meaning, it's long and just there,
a search for your partner could find them your pair.
But what does success mean if you spend life alone...
no one to share with, a house but not home?
Are you looking for something to make life complete...
or searching for someone that you just cannot meet?
Don't count on another to answer your prayers,
you must do it yourself, for yours to become theirs.
Attracting your soulmate is a fabulous thing,
it could last to forever ...or just an overnight fling!
When you finally see them like the waves crashing down,
your mind meets temptation as the circle comes round!
Just not, right!
I am so in love! Who would have thought that I would have fallen head over hills with Matt? Okay, everyone did but us. Time was all it took; time a little rain…and a game of soccer. Oh, yeah I suppose Tai had a hand in it too but not on purpose. However, that is a different story; this story is about my best female friend trying to find the love of her life…..
"Ugh," Mimi turned around holding a sweater in front of her from the store's rack. "Sor, do you see this? Ten percent off! Can you believe it! Do you know why it's ten percent off?"
"Well," I pulled back a little to examine the sweater, "For one thing, it's too frizzy. Not fluffy but frizzy. Those patterns on it, well I can't say if they are supposed to be butterflies or beetles. Look at those sleeves! Mid-sleeves, how uncomfortable. The v-neck collar is alright if it wasn't for those over sized buttons!"
"OH MY GAWD!" Mimi covered her mouth, "You just criticized the malls clothing!" Mimi then proceeded to choke me in what she calls a hug while making a spectacle of herself.
"C a n ' t b r e a t h…" I gasped for air and waved my hands in a circle.
"Do you realise what this means!" Mimi pushed me slightly away from her, still holding on to me by my shoulders in case I made a break for it.
"That I don't have to buy that sweater?" I blinked at the blonde-haired person before me.
"No. It means you are becoming a female!" Mimi gushed in a crying fit, once more embracing me in her deadly arms.
"Mims, I've always been a girl." I felt the need to remind her of this, clearly looking like one was not enough.
"B..but you never acted this way!" Mimi sobbed.
Mimi, my dearest female best friend. I am fortunate in having two best friends. Tai, my male buddy, who never lets a moment go by with out his sweet carefree laughter and Mimi, my female over acting, but kind-hearted friend. Mims is the Queen of Drama.
"Please, let's not start that again." I rolled my eyes while trying to find the Exist sign over the door in order to escape the department store.
"Why do you always walk away from me?" Mimi threw the sweater back on the rack and raced to catch up too me.
"I don't always walk away from you, Mim." This is mostly true. "I have to work at the flower shop later in the afternoon and I want to hit all the shops before then!" I bluffed. I would really like to sit down beside one of those old people on the benches and take up space. How lucky they are right now…
"I love you!" Mimi choked me from behind.
"Okay listen up," I turned on her, my finger pointing deadly at her nose, "You really have to work on that hug of yours. Did a boa constrictor teach you how to embrace or something? I can feel my ribs shooting though my sides! Any minute they will be darting out and sticking some by-passer in the eye and I would be the one to get sued! I should not have to struggle for air like that and don't ever come up from behind to hug me again! I watch far too many murder shows for you to be doing that!"
"HEY!" a young man suddenly yelled from across the mall. He was on the top of the stairs waving his arms above his bushy head. Of course, not knowing who the 'hey' was intended for, everyone in a hearing distance glanced at the boy.
"HEY TAI!" Mimi yelled to him.
"HEY MIMI! WHATCHA DOING?" Tai yelled, cupping his hands around his mouth. Of course now all the mall shoppers paused turning to see who are the morons yelling on the top of their voice.
"SHOPPING! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Mimi mimic his communication skills. How honest of Mims, what else would she be doing at the mall?
"SHOPPING." Tai dropped his hand in what looks to be a stun expression or he was thinking, "I'M NOT SURE THOUGH!"
"For crying out loud," I took Mimi by the hand and dragged her over to where our bushy hair friend stood. We did have to weave between people who thought they should be the only person wanting to go in that direction. "We really don't have to scream at each other."
"Sorry," Tai scratched his head. "I guess I could have called you on the cell." He gave a nervous laugh, which made me smile and roll my eyes. I do not know what it is with his hair-scratching thing but it is so adorable you cannot stay upset with him for long. At times, I think he knows this and uses it at any opportunity he has a chance to get away with something. "What did you buy?"
"Well," Mimi looked in her bags, "I've got this cute little dress, a purse to go with it, some make up, shoes, hair brush, a bra with matching panties, some tampons, they were on sale where you could get a free bottle of aspirins when you bought the box…"
"Mimi, I don't think Tai really wants to know what you purchase."
"Then why did he ask?" Mimi blinked at me, then over at Tai who, once again, gave a nervous giggle.
"Err…I'm not sure," Tai's hand found its way to his bush his hair again.
"You here alone?" I asked the boy before me.
"Me? Shopping alone? In here? No way," Tai shook his head. "I came with Matt and Tk but I can't find them. Well I know where Tk might be at the moment and I'm willing to put up a bet on where Matt could be." Tai started to walk and we had no choice to follow. Well Mims wanted to go the other direction where there was a huge shoe sale going on but Matt could be up ahead. My gorgeous Matt. See, you can tell how much I am in love with him. Never before has my mind gone mushy until now.
We walked by a toy store in time to see the security person escorting a miniature Matt and Tai out the door.
"Well there the both of you are," Tai crossed his arms staring at Tk and Davis, shaking his head. "Did I just hear the mall security guard right? Did you just get kicked out of a toy store?"
"It was his fault!" Tk pointed to Davis.
"No it wasn't! It was DC's idea!" Davis pointed back to Tk.
"You didn't have to listen to me!" Tk spat.
"You called me a chicken! You said if I didn't you would tell Kari that I was a yellow belly coward! I'm not a yellow belly coward!"
"Instead I get to tell her how you got us kicked out of a toy store! Do you really think that's much better?"
"Hey," I bravely but myself between the two boys, "What happen."
"DJ told…"
"Davis pushed.." They started together.
"One at a time," I chilled both of them, "Tk what happen."
"Why does GJ get to go first?" Davis sulked. "It's because you are dating his brother, isn't it? Now he gets special favours!"
"Shut up!" Tk warned him.
"Both of you shut up," I warned them. "Davis you will get your chance for now, I want to hear Tks."
"That's because…" Davis started say but Tai stepped in.
"Davis, just be patient okay. I promise that we will hear what you have to say before anyone says anything." Tai nodded to Tk.
"Everything was doing fine. We did as you suggest Tai, to hang out with each other. We came in here; you know to check things out. When Mr. Ding A Ling decided to race though the store while pressing all the buttons to activate the toys. Trucks were moving, the trains were whistling, dolls were crying, lights were blinking and the store manger called the security creep on us." Tk crossed his arms and glared at Davis, a glare that was almost like his brothers but didn't have the same effect.
"Davis," I turned to the younger bushy hair boy.
"I did do all of that but what BJ forgot to mention that we came in here looking for a toy for my baby cousin. I wanted to see if the toy worked first so I pressed a button. It even said, "Try me." That is all I did. Then Mr. Big Shot over there told me to press all the buttons. I, of course, stated that I couldn't do that, it wasn't' right. He told me that I couldn't' do it because I was a chicken and he was going to tell the whole school about it, including Kari."
"So you did it," I asked, shaking me head.
"He helped!" Davis pointed to Tk.
"With one aisle!" Tk stated, "You did the rest yourself!"
"Uh huh, see this is way I am glad I have a sister," Tai told me.
"But it's your sister who is really causing all of this," I told him.
"How so?"
"Because if she would just date one of them, the other would move on and maybe become friends."
"It's not Kari's fault they can't think straight. I won't let her date either of them."
"WHY NOT!" Tk and Davis both asked in union.
"Because you two got yourselves kicked out of a toy store. Do you know what kind of treatment my sis would get if her boyfriend was known as one of the Toy Store Pushers?" Tai's brown eyes grew large. "She would never be able to live it down!"
I left them, not because of the scene they were making, not because I could not help but laugh at their predicament but because my blue eye boyfriend stood in one of the department stores looking through some CDS. He was kneeling down at one of the racks, looking over a CD when I crept up to him and nipped on his earlobe. He jerked up quickly, my face collided with is broad shoulder.
"Sor," He said in surprised while I stood there holding my nose hoping I wasn't bleeding. "You okay?" He asked after a moment of silence.
"You son of a bitch!", I really didn't mean to call him that, however the pain that was flowing through my face affected my mind and I needed to express my hurt. "What's wrong with you?" I asked, tears were coming to my eyes from the impact. I wasn't going to cry, the tears just came.
"Sorry, I didn't know it was you," Matt placed his hand on my shoulder and guided me to a bench in the store. "Let me see if I caused much damage."
"What do you mean; you weren't sure it was me!" I asked, taking my hand away from my face as he knelt in front of me. "How many girls come up to you like that?"
Matt merely raised an eyebrow up at me before kissing the bridge of my nose, "You will be fine. No blood, no broken bones, it's not even red." He smiled his forehead against mine. I love him so much! "Look what I found," He held up a necklace with a little heart locket that read, Forever. "I don't' know why but I…"
"It's gorgeous!" I smiled, sliding my fingers under the heart to hold it closer to my view.
"Here," Matt took the locket out of the box and helped me put it on. It settled down between my breasts with a coldness to remind me it was there.
"Thank you," I smiled up to him, "I suppose that can make up for the nose."
"Beboop." Matt gently touched my nose with is fingertip.
"I love you," I said shyly, feeling a blush rush to my cheeks.
"I love you, always have." Matt smiled back before finding my lips with his. I felt his tongue slid over my bottom lips before entering my mouth. I know I moaned into him, I pressed my body towards him. Lately our make-out sessions had gotten steamy, leaving us both breathless and wanting more.
"Better be careful or you'll get kicked out," Tai came up from behind Matt, slapping him roughly on the back. There was an exchange-taking place of some sort between Tai and Matt. A hiding secret I think only they know of, an agreement of some kind. Unfortunately, I believe it had to deal with my dating Matt and me. Tai looked after me as he would his sister and I love him dearly for that. I don't know where this relationship with Matt will take me, if it will grow or end but Tai will always be there for me and me for him.
I glanced over at Mimi who was browsing the other cds. Not intentionally, she managed to apprehend the clerk's eye. Suddenly, he became busy in fixing the cds around her, leaning forward to glance at her from the corner of his eye. I nudge Matt, nodded my head in Mimi's direction. My love just shrugged his shoulders and continued to browse a few cds in his hand. As I sat on the bench watching my best friend, I realised how much I would like Mimi to be in love as I am. To find someone as special as Matt is to me.
"Did you see her?" Tai came rushing over to where I still sat on the bench. Only reason known to him, Tai didn't see Matt kneeling on the floor until it was too late. Tai, tripping over Matt, glided about a foot in the air before crashing down on top of some carrying baskets.
"See who?" I asked him, trying to help him get his legs untangled beneath his body.
"That girl!" Tai scrambled up, moving towards the door even before his stood erected. "She just walked pass you!" He ran out of the music store and disappeared in the crowed.
"What…" Matt stood beside me, looking very cute in his bewilderment.
"I don't know," Iremember saying, he didn't even have to finish his sentence, I had found that I too was as lost as he was at the moment.