Ch. 23 Izzy And Mimi
"Izzy!" Mimi quickly turned around and had sight of him.
"Hi Mimi!" Izzy had a nervous laugh.
"I didn't know you could be so low, taking a girl with a pretty face. I should have asked you from the start why you like me. Now I don't need to, good-bye Izzy. I don't want to waste my time with you. I thought you were different, but you're just another one of those shallow freaks! I thought I could trust you, but I can't, not now, not ever!" Mimi stormed out of the room.
"No, Mimi, it's not like that…I'm going to kill you Tai!" Izzy quickly turned and tackled Tai.
"It was for your own good!" Tai jumped back up, pushing Izzy down.
"I didn't even do anything!" Izzy punched him in the stomach.
"You're the one who acted so shallow in the 8th grade!" he pushed Izzy into a bookshelf, the impact was hard, it knocked over the shelf. The books fell onto Izzy.
"Izzy!" Sora and I ran over to him.
We searched through the books, trying to find Izzy.
"Oh Izzy! Are you ok?" I asked as we freed him from the pile of books.
"My cuts will heal, it's my heart that can't be fixed," Izzy admitted.
"Yolei, take care of Izzy, Kari and I are going to go look for Mimi. I will fix my mistake…Tai, you're coming with us, you too Davis," Sora instructed.
"I'm not going anywhere!" Tai protested.
"You have no choice! You're going to fix what you did, or…Or, you just better fix this," Sora said.
All Tai did was give us this dirty, it's not my fault look.
"Tai, you messed up big time…Davis, this is what I was talking about, when sorry can't heal the wound. What you said Tai, it was hurtful, Izzy didn't get to voice his side. You are going to need to do more then just say I'm sorry. What you did was a terrible mistake, you showed Sora how rude and inconsiderate you can be! I would be amazed if she stayed with you!" I yelled at him.
"Fine, I'll come, but I'm not doing any kind of talking!" Tai decided.
"We wouldn't want you to," Sora smiled as she opened the door, Davis, Tai, and I followed.
"Where would she be?" Davis asked.
"Huh? Do you hear that?" I asked looking around the hall.
"Hear what?" Davis looked confused.
"That crying, it's Mimi, just follow me and don't say a word!" I walked down the hall and opened a door. It was a closet, in there was Mimi, crying.
"Go away Izzy!" Mimi yelled, thinking we were Izzy.
Tai and Davis jumped back. Sora and I sat down by her.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I thought it was Izzy. He's the last person I would want to talk to, not that I feel like talking," she explained.
"You don't need to do any talking, just listen to us, comment went you want, and answer questions only if you want to," Sora instructed.
"What do you need?" Mimi wiped her tears.
"What Tai said was a huge mistake. Mimi, what Izzy did was three years ago, things change. I wasn't at the dance, and I was mad at Tai around that time, but I know Izzy would never sink that low! You never got to hear Izzy's side, what happened to him. He told Kari, Davis, and I," Sora started.
"What's his story? Did she pay him to do her homework?" Mimi sarcastically asked.
"Jennifer ruined Izzy's life! She changed the name on his work to her name; she did that for tests too. He failed all of his classes that month. She stole his laptop! She told rumors about him, secrets that he never told, that he kept locked inside. Izzy thought she like him, he didn't know she was just using him. He's not one of those shallow freaks! He's smarter than that, he just didn't know," I was angry.
"Kari, calm down," Davis put his hand on my shoulder.
"I can't! Not when Mimi is ruining Izzy's and her own life because of something that happened when she wasn't even here!" I could not stand to be in that closet, so I walked out, slamming the door behind me.
I paced in the hallway.
"Davis is right, I need to calm down," I was talking to myself.
"Talking to yourself?" Davis asked me.
"No, I mean yes, I mean, I don't know any more," I replied in a confused way.
"Next time just be a little nicer," he informed me.
"I'm sorry, but when Mimi thinks being without Izzy will make everything better, she's dead wrong! I know Izzy doesn't like her for her pretty face…I read it before!" I remembered the disk Izzy made for her, the one that told Mimi about him liking her.
"What is it?" Davis was puzzled at my statement.
"Just come on, I have to tell Mimi," I quickly opened the closet door.
"Kari!" Tai quickly stood up and scanned me.
"No time to chat Tai, I have to talk to Mimi," I looked at her.
"I'm not ruining my life," is all Mimi said.
"Mimi, Izzy doesn't like you for only your looks, he thinks you're cool. Izzy didn't think he was good enough for you, he thought he'd never see you after summer camp," I remembered.
"You can't prove that!" she yelled at me.
"Yes I can!' I snapped.
I opened the door.
"Where are you going?" Mimi asked.
"Follow me if you want the proof," I walked out the door, everyone followed me out.
We walked back to the room where Izzy was.
"Izzy, give me your laptop!" I yelled right when I opened the door.
"Why, never mind…Here," he swiftly took it out, handing it to me.
"Thanks…Let me just do this, and, perfect!" the file of the disk I took from Izzy four years ago was saved in the computer.
"What are you doing?" Izzy asked.
"Showing Mimi that you like her for more than her face," I walked out of the room.
"A computer?" Mimi asked as I walked out of the room.
"Just read what's on the screen, see if you remember it from a couple of days ago," I said.
"I don't really know why, but I find you really cool…Why does he have to be so mean yet so nice at the same time?" Mimi was miserable.
"Because I have friends like Kari that will help me out in my time of need," Izzy was in the doorway, listening to our every word.
"That's life for you, no…That's destiny for you. Sometimes we follow the wrong path; sometimes we take the right road. If you have some good friends and you follow the wrong path, you might just find out that you found the right road again," I said.
"I didn't like my destiny at first. It got bumpy once I found out that I was adopted. Then I found you Mimi, my life was back on track. Now it's a little bumpy again," Izzy admitted.
"You were adopted?" Davis randomly questioned.
"Yes, but after summer camp, I started to get to know my family a little better. I over heard them talking before summer camp, they weren't even going to tell me. I wouldn't have learned about my real parents until this year knowing my adopted parents, but that's a little off the topic," Izzy explained.
"Izzy's right, about the off topic part," Mimi agreed.
"Mimi, I do have one thing to say," Sora jumped in.
"What?" she rudely asked.
"It was three long years ago, people change. Jennifer has, she was once a popular person, now she's a total wiz kid, just like Izzy. Need more examples? Take T.K., he was once a sweet, little guy that couldn't stay away from Matt. Now he's not as kind, he gets into fights and tries to be strong," Sora told her.
"Izzy has changed, when I met him at summer camp he was just a computer wiz, he believed in aliens and weird stuff like that. Now he's trying to be cool, getting into fights, yet he still has that computer wiz touch," Mimi said.
"Did you have to tell them about the alien thing?" Izzy questioned.
"Look to the future, don't fall back," Davis quoted me.
"I see two different futures, one with Davis and one without. The one without isn't very nice, the one with him is great, a true family I see," I thought about the future.
"I see only one future, and that's with out Izzy!" Mimi stormed into the room.
"She's making a big mistake," I whispered in Davis's ear.
"Thanks for trying Kari; I guess it just wasn't enough. I guess she wants someone that hasn't sunken so low as I did three years ago," Izzy was disappointed.
"She's still selfish, just like she was four years ago. I bet she's the only one who hasn't changed in our group," Sora was mad.
"You haven't, you're still as caring and kind as you were at summer camp," Izzy protested.
"I guess you're right," she decided.
"I want to talk to Jennifer," I quickly said.
"What? You can't do that," Izzy shook his head.
"I have to; Davis thinks it's a good idea. I want to find out what happened to her, why she changed into a smart person. Do you have her number?" I questioned.
"I do, we were partnered up to be, if you need help buddies," Sora dug out a piece of paper from her bag and handed it to me.
"Cell phone Izzy, please Izzy," I put my hand out.
"Just don't make this worse," he handed me the phone.
"Hello…Is this Jennifer…Hi, you don't know me, but I'm a friend of Sora, she's in your math class…I want to talk to you about Izzy…Could we meet tomorrow…After school…Sounds great…Thanks a lot, you have no idea how much this is going to help," I hung up the phone.
"You're going to meet her? This is terrible!" Izzy moaned.
"Everything will be fine; I'm just going to talk to her about when you were in the 8th grade. I won't say anything that will send rumors, I promise," I told him.
"I trust you, so I won't worry, not that much," he smiled.
"Are we kicked out of that room?" Sora asked.
"I don't care; I'm going in there any ways!" Davis opened the door for us.
"Thank you Davis," we walked in together.
Davis and I walked over to Willis and Cody.
"I'm so sorry Willis, I didn't know it was going to be like this, they have no respect," I said.
"I don't really know the older kids; I just came here to see you, Davis, Yolei, Cody, and T.K.! I liked it when we were just acting like little kids, when we were just playing around in the water. Right now, I just don't want to get involved with this mess," Willis admitted.
"I wish I hadn't either, but for some reason, I always get involved!" I smiled.
"We should leave, go into a different room, be by ourselves. It would be fun just hanging out with each other. Yolei and T.K. should come; we could be our own little team, like we were in America. It would be fun, I don't think the others will miss us," Davis decided.
"Sounds great, I'll get Yolei and T.K., we'll meet on the stage," Cody instructed.
Davis, Willis, and I walked down the hall.
"This is all my fault, the thing with Mimi and Izzy. It wouldn't have started it I didn't say that thing I said on the video," Davis blurted.
"It started with you and me fighting, we left to that secret place, then Sora and Izzy did that joke. Tai told Mimi about Jennifer, and then a big mess started," I remembered.
"I don't think we should be blaming anyone," Willis decided.
We walked onto the stage.
"This is all my fault, I made this happen!" I yelled.
"No, don't say that," Davis tried to calm me.
"If I didn't tell you, no one would have known, nothing bad would have happened," I felt weak.
"You were crazy before you told me! You wouldn't have made it!" Davis snapped.
I couldn't believe it, I was feeling weak. I felt like I could just die. I fell to the ground and started to cry, and the funny thing is that it felt good.
"I didn't mean to make you cry, you just tell me what is bothering you, I'm ready to listen…Please Kari, don't start locking things inside again!" Davis pleaded.
"I don't know what it is…I feel like it's all my fault, yet I feel happier then ever," I sobbed.
The door to the stage room opened.
"Kari, oh my, what did you do Davis? Never mind…It will be ok Kari," Yolei tried to comfort me.
"What if it isn't? What will happen if my life doesn't turn out right? I'm nothing without Davis, and I'm nothing without my friends," I was mad and sad.
"What do you want for the future?" she asked.
"I want to become a kindergarten teacher and have a family. I want to be with Davis still, I want a family that is perfect, and I only see it with him," I told her.
"What about you Davis?" Cody asked.
"I want to have a noodle stand, and after that, I just want what is best for Kari," he admitted.
"That is sweet," Yolei smiled.
"I think you'd make a great teacher Kari, and Davis, I don't know why you want a noodle stand, but if that's what you want, you should get it," T.K. told us.
"You guys are lucky, you know what you want for your future, I have no clue what I want. I know I want to know what K.C. thinks about me, but that's it," Cody confessed.
"I don't think we should be talking about that far in the future. There is a long way to go until we're grown-ups, what, we're in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade?" Willis mentioned.
"We are young, I'm only 12, I have six more years until I'm 18," Cody told us.
"Kari and I are 13, we have five more years," Davis explained.
"And I'm 14, I have only four more years, that isn't a long time," Yolei hesitated.
"I'm the same age as Kari and Davis, that means I have five years," T.K. said.
"That goes for me too, five years, but what about the others?" Willis asked.
"Tai is 16, Izzy, Mimi, Matt, and Sora are his age, they have two years," I calmly said.
"Joe only has one, right? He's a year older than Matt and the others, four years older than me…Is my math right?" T.K. questioned.
"That's right, that isn't a long time, it's kind of sad to know that we only have a short amount of time left until we have to go to college. Six years, being the longest, isn't a long time. All I know is that I want to spend all the time I can with you guys! Next year, Yolei will be in high school, the rest of us will being moving up a grade," I miserably announced.
"We'll make it through, we always do," T.K. told me.
Everything got quiet. It was driving me crazy.
"Is there like a radio somewhere?" I blurted out.
"I'll put on a CD," T.K. got up and walked behind the curtain.
"That's much better!" I smiled when T.K. came back.
"There was only one CD, I don't know what it's of, but it must be Matt's," T.K. told us.
The music started to play it was a calm rock song.
"It sounds like something you could dance too," Willis pointed out.
"That's a great idea! Kari, would you care to dance?" Davis asked me.
"Dance? I'm not that good," I said.
"She's a great dancer, don't let her lie, I've seen her before," Yolei told him.
"I don't care how good you are, it's who I'm dancing with that counts!" Davis smiled and stood up. He held out his hand to help me up, he really wanted to dance.
"Ok, but I'm not that good," I got up with Davis's help. We walked over to an empty space, I saw T.K. take Cody behind the curtain, wonder what that was about.