Everything for You
Disclaimer- I don't own anything related to Digimon.
Mimi quickened her pace. 'I'm so tired...' Work had been easy the first few weeks, but suddenly, a ton of paperwork appeared out of nowhere on her desk the last couple of days. To keep up with the deadlines Taichi had set, she took what she hadn't finished, brought them home, finished them, and sent them out herself. 'The worst part is that I still haven't seen anything out of the ordinary. Just a few clients popping in here and there. More paperwork. And I haven't had dinner with Yamato in two weeks.'
Yamato didn't see a point to having dinners every week to discuss nothing. He said that Mimi should contact him when she really did have something. 'It just goes to show how one-sided our relationship is...' Mimi almost chuckled at how foolish she seemed.
The elevator dinged. It was her floor. Mimi sighed and walked to her desk. Before she could properly put her things down, Taichi buzzed her.
"Hey, Mimi? Can you come into my office for a couple of minutes? I have about 10 more stacks for you. Since you were doing so well, I decided to volunteer you for everyone else's files."
"Okay. I'm coming." Mimi put her stuff down. 'Why me?' She trudged towards the office door and then knocked.
"Come in!" Just as she walked in, a flurry of shredded paper and what looked like confetti flew into her face.
"SURPRISE!" Mimi started coughing, choking on the confetti.
"Oh geez! I'm sorry Mimi!" Taichi exclaimed as he pat her back trying to help her cough up the confetti. After she could finally breathe again Mimi laughed, "It's okay. It was my fault for taking a breath at the wrong time."
"Um...Anyway," Taichi began as he picked out shreds of paper from Mimi's hair.
"This was supposed to turn out better. I wanted to surprise you with some muffins and thank you for the great job you've been doing with all this work I dumped on you. Oh and it's our one month anniversary." Mimi smiled.
"That was quite thoughtful of you, but you DO pay me for doing this stuff. And muffins? You know I'm a cake kind of girl."
"Well...Let me make it up to you. We can celebrate the one month thing with dinner tonight."
"Um..."
"Come on. We haven't spent any time together yet. I have no idea what you've been up to all these years. We can use the dinner to catch up. And I've got details to that new client. We can talk about that if you want."
"Okay. Fine." Mimi laughed. 'There's no harm in having dinner with an old...Friend. Right?'
"Hey Sora. How's everything going over there?"
"Eh...You know how it is Mimi. Stuck in between odd jobs. Just trying to pay off the school loans."
"I'm sure you're going to hit it big. You have a great sense of fashion."
"I'm keeping my fingers crossed. So what's new with you?"
"I'm going to dinner with Taichi tonight."
"Oh..."
"What?"
"Nothing."
"We're just catching up on old times."
"Just be careful Mimi. I already thought it was a bad idea that you were going to work for him."
"Oh Sora. You worry too much. I'm not crazy emotional anymore. I'm older and more mature now."
"Okay..If you say so. I gotta get back to work. Talk to you soon. Love ya."
"Love you too. Bye."
"So...What HAVE you been up to all these years?" Taichi asked as he buttered his bread.
"Um...Not much. Just working. That's pretty much it. You?"
"Trying to make a name for myself."
"Yeah..." Mimi said as she dug into her salad.
"Um.." Taichi mumbled as he realized what that comment brought back.
"I want to apologize about that. I was stupid and mean. I should've handled it better." Taichi randomly blurted in the middle of dessert. The whole dinner didn't turn out so great. Instead of having a great time talking about everything, it had been quiet until then.
"It's okay Taichi. We weren't in the same place. I was hurt and all but I understood where you were coming from." Mimi replied quietly and looked back down at her cake. The bill then came. Taichi and Mimi both reached for it.
"I'll pay for it." Taichi said.
"No...I will." Mimi insisted.
"Mimi...I know what you get paid. Believe me...Let me pay." Mimi looked at the bill and then nervously smiled.
"Yeah...Maybe you should get this one. I'll get the next one." Mimi then passed the bill to Taichi who just laughed.
As they walked out of the restaurant, Taichi stopped and turned to Mimi.
"I'm serious. I was a jerk and..." He was cut off by Mimi putting her hand over his mouth.
"You know how you can make it up to me?" Mimi asked still keeping her hand over his mouth. Taichi shook his head no.
"You can give me a raise so I can actually afford paying the bill next time." Mimi smiled. Taichi pointed to her hand, still over his mouth.
"I'm not moving it until you agree to at least consider it." Taichi nodded yes.
"You're still the same light-hearted person after all these years..."
"Yeah. I'm leaving for China next week to meet with the new client we've been talking about for like a month and another potential client. I'm going to leave a list of things that have to be done. I'm sorry I can't bring you. Maybe next time." Taichi explained.
"Ahaha...That's okay. I'm sure I'm not missing anything much. Just boring meetings right?" Mimi looked at Taichi as she got up out of the chair.
"That's what you think." Taichi said and smirked.
'Hm...I wonder what he meant by than. It won't be too long before I find out all your secrets! Muhahahaha...Ah...I'm such a dork. Well, at least I'll get to see Yamato then.'
Author's Notes- Another sort of slow chapter. Just wanted to show some interaction between Mimi and Taichi. Sorry for such the long, LONG break in between updates. 8/13/2006