Hey! Sorry for the horrendous wait. High school sitl sucks, I've got doctor's appointments upt he ass and people harrassing me to eat, and clubs all over the place. I know, excuses excuses, but it's true. anyways, this chappie will take alittle twist, and maybe next chappie I'll be able to put in some major fluffiness. Here are my thank you's...

To -Glittery-Bubbles- Haha, thank you for the review! I love the fluffy ones that are so mushy but you luv 'em anyways. I hope you enjoy this chappie as much!

To absolutgirl- sorry... I'm not patient either... I'm such a hypocrite. Half the time when I review, i put 'update soon!' at the bottom, but I wait about a million years btween updates. :P

To RuRi-RuRi-728- haha,t hat's what I think! You can't go wrong with Matt. Sorry.. this cahppie isn't MEANT to be that humourous.. jsut to get something done, but I hope you still like it!

To lazygirl- ooh, double review! Thanks! And thank you, hopefully this plot twist will add some more humor to my little ficcie...

To luvisgood- hehe, I know, I'm so incredibly lazy. Sorry for the wait!

To Princessstephanie- And what's sad is that probablyhalf the male population think exactly like him. Lol:P

Tp PaochiCute- Damn thing didnt show your email. anyways, I LOVE your story The Sweetest Revenge! Lol, It's been so long,y ou probably already knew that. Anyways, hopefully this chappie nad the next chappie will be good... something finally gets done!

to Kikyotheevilmaiden- Well, it wasn't as bad as the first 2 weeks... I'm sitll adjusting though. anyways, sorry for the long wait... AGAIN. God, I GOTTA get things together and start updting regularly. I have about THREE more stories I'm itching otput up but I dont want to until I finish this and a few of my other fics! :(

To JyouraKoumi- hehe, alrighty then. Sorry, but I find Sorkeru a bit... well... different... haha,

Enjoy! Tell me if there's any crap in this chapter! It'd really help, thanks!

Mrs. Ishida presents...

Chapter 8

Matt's POV

It's been a few hours, I don't know exactly how many. I'm so bored I don't even feel like writing. I'm just sitting here, staring at the dusty wooden floor, waiting for something to happen. And waiting. And waiting. And then, Mimi decides to stop admiring herself in her little compact thing, and lay down next to me. Which surprises me, seeing as there's dirt on the ground. I look over at her, and I have to smile a little when I see her staring up at me with wide eyes. It's her 'face', the one she uses either when she's trying to get something or trying to make me laugh.

"What are you doing, Mimi?" I ask, laughing a bit, which makes her smile a little.

"You looked so sad and lonely over here, so Mimi decided to be a nice little girl and cheer you up," she explained.

"Ah. That's not the only reason, is it?" I ask, sooo tempted to lay down next to her. Aw, crap.

"Well, it is a bit drafty over there anyways. And besides, I'm bored." she says, stretches, and yawns.

"Me too." I reply. She giggles a little.

"What?"

"This reminds me of when we were little, and we'd have these really competitive staring contests," she said thoughtfully, and added with a smirk, "And I always won,"

"You did not," I replied, mock glaring at her.

"Oh yes I did. You were just too much of a manly man at age 6 to admit defeat to a girl," she teased, sticking out her tongue at me.

"Oh shut up. Come on, I'll prove to you I'm better at a staring contest than you ever were," I said with a smirk. She grinned.

"You're on," she said, and with that, we started the match. At first, it wasn't much trouble for me. I could stare into her eyes all day long. Wow that was mushy. Straight out a chick flick. She's making me go soft, damnit. Next thing you know I'll be holding her on the front of a big ol' boat singing something sappy and romantic in her ear.

Mimi POV

I will win. this'll be easy. Truthfully, I did win every single match when I was a kid. It wasn't that hard. I had always found his eyes, if not rediculously beautiful, intriguing. I think about a minute in, my eyes were starting to sting, but I couldn't lose my title! I'll win, I know I will!

Matt POV

I think we've been going for about a minute now, and it's getting a little hard. But she won't beat me! Honestly, I never won a staring contest against her; we both know it. But I'm determined to win this one. Except for one thing's going wrong. My foot's falling asleep, and starting to hurt like hell. I gotta shift or something. That doesn't help, so I jsut lay on my side and stretch out, so I'm laying completely parallel to her. Oooh, this is fun. Wait a minute, she just blinked! Ha!

Mimi POV

He's shifting. Oooh, goodie, he's weakening. It won't be long now. I keep on thinking 'I so have this in the bag' to myself, until he decides to lay down. Next to me. Practically right up against me. So I can feel his breath on my face. It kinda, sorta, REALLY surprises me. That wasn't fair, I wasn't expecting that! He got to my weak spot!

"You blinked Mimi!" he says warmly with a grin.

"What? I did no such thing!" I retort, crossing my arms, but since I was laying on my side, I fall over. He laughs a little at me.

"Yes you did, and you know it. Admit it, you lost to me," he says proudly.

"Whatever," I say with fake anger, but I can't help but smile a little.

"Say it," he says, still grinning. I shake my head and cross my arms, while still laying on my back.

"Say it, Mimi, you lost!" he pokes my stomach, which is oh-so-ticklish, which makes me jump.

"Stop it! Fine, I lost!" I laugh.

"Good. Now you have to do whatever I say," he said with a smirk.

"What? Where do get that idea?"

"Remember, when we were little, you'd force me to be your slave all day whenever I lost at anything to you?" Oh yeah, I forgot that tiny detail. Crap.

"Well Matt, that was years ago. You really don't expect me to be your slave all day, do you?" I asked, raising one eyebrow.

"Why yes I do, in fact. It's only fair, Meems," he said, winning the argument.

"Okay," I sighed, streching, "what do you want me to do?" He smiled as he looked off into the distance, thinking.

"Well, I don't know... uhh..." I started laughing.

"You insist on me being your slave, and then you don't even have anything for me to do!"

"Oh shut up," he replied hastily, turning a bit pink. "Or else I'll just have to tie you down!" he laughed, and stretched over me to grab some pillows and blankets that were on the other side of me. This wasn't good. I was underneath him, with him stretching over me, just inches above my face. And as soon as he reached back, I don't know, he got this funny look on his face. He'd lost all the humor out of his look, and was looking down at me seriously; not angrily or annoyed, just seriously. it was a while that we just sat there, once again, just staring back into each other's eyes, not saying a word but connecting better than we could if we were talking. I wasn't aware until it was too late to turn back that he was slowly shifting, placing one arm on one side of me to hold himself up, and then resting his head on my chest, wrapping his arms around me. My arms automatically slid up and around him, one on his back, one tangled in his hair. And we just lay there. For quite a while, but not long enough. I think both of us were wondering 'what the hell is going on?' but another, bigger part of us was silencing that and blocking it out.

Matt POV

I can't hear the dripping sound anymore. I wonder if that's because I'm used to it, or the sound of her heartbeat is just blocking out every other sound. It seemed one minute, I was playing around with her, and then I couldn't help myself. I was so caught up, I wasn't even thinking of the consequences of laying on her, But surprisingly there were none. She took me in her arms like nothing was wrong. But hey, I ain't comlaining. I'm not even thinking. I'm just laying here, completely relaxed, and separated from the strss and trouble of the world. As far as I'm concerned, Mimi and I are the only 2 people on the planet.

"Matt, why do we keep doing this?" she asks vaguely, yet strangely, I know what she's talking about. I raise my head so my chin is resting on her chest.

"I don't know. We both know we still have something for each other," I said back, and there was a pause, before she answered,

"In a physical sense, yes," Actually no, but I can't just go telling her I still love her if she doesn't love me back, now can I? You know girls, they like to either have a meaningful relationship, or, like Mimi, like the physical part of the relationship. Sad but true.

Mimi POV

That has to be one of the biggest lies I've ever told. Of COURSE I still have something for him, and it's more than physical. But you know boys, they want sex, and that's it. Sad but true.

Matt POV

There was another long pause, and I just had my head resting on her chest, listening to her heart beat. I wantd to say something, but I wasn't sure if she'd like it so much. Finally I just decided that if I didn't now, I never would, and it would kill me.

"So why don't we do something about it?" I raised my chin back up on her chest.

"Like what? What can we do? We broke up once, and like we both agreed, we only still feel this way because we're tied up on each other physically," she explained, and I think I detected a hint of anger or something. What was he mad at? She couldn't possibly be thinking I only want her body, could she? Will I never understand this woman?

"Yeah, but if we stay here with each other and do nothing, especially after admitting how we feel and having this conversation, we'll go insane,"

"yeah I know... but what are we supposed to do? Make some sort of a pact?" she snorted. A pact? I wan't even thinking that, but that could work...

"A pact?"

"Yeah, maybe we could make somehting saying we can slobber all over each other and have it completely on a 'friend' basis," she continued giggling to herself. Mimi can be... how shall I say it... thick at times, but it's surprising how she can think when she's not trying.

"Mimi, that's it!"

"Matt, I was kidding," she said, one eybrow raised. I think the look on my face must've been convincing, because after a while she asked, 'Seriously?"

"Seriously. I think that could work. That is... only if oyu really want to do that... I mean, I don't want to force you into anything or make you do this if you have any doubts at all-"

"Matt..." she said smiling softly, cutting me off, "I think that'd be great, at least for the time being,"

"For the time being," I replied, smiling also.

"So, in this... 'pact', we can be friends, but we'd be..."

"Friends with benefits, you could say," I chuckled.

"Friends with benefits. And once we get back to school, everything could get back to normal," I really wasn't looking forward to that, but at least I get this much time with her.

"Right,"

"Alrighty then,"

"And now, we have to seal the deal," I finished, grinning.

"I guess we do," and, very un-Mimi-like, she pulled her head up to mine and kissed me rather deeply. Not that I minded, it's just that I wasn't expecting this from Mimi.

Mimi POV

Every woman in the world would tell me I'm making a msitake... to leave my heart open to him again, when he made it pretty clear he only wanted me physically. But I jsut couldn't help myself! He was right... I wouldv'e gone crazy if I couldn't do anything about how I was feeling. So for what little time we have left with each other, I get to, at least in my mind, pretend he cares for me. School will be hell and I'm sure I'll have some sort of a breakdown, but until then, I'm jsut gonna enjoy this while it lasts.

So, what do you htink of the 'friend with benefits' pact? Crap, or romantic? Personally, if Matt weren't in love with her, I'd so make her realized she's getting the crap end of the deal. Anyways, sorry for the long wait. I wanted to get this out before Veteran's Day. I know most of y'all ain't vets, but if, by some slim chance there are, I decided to make this for your day. Kinda like a present. So tell me if this chapter sucks. I'm writing this instead of re-writing my sucky book report, but who cares? I've got one week left! Wheeee! Lols, review please! Thanks!