Mimi's Surprise

Mimi woke up early as usual to the sound of birds chirping out her window. 'What a beautiful day', she thought. Getting out of bed, she walked to her closet and fished out her uniform, wrinkling her nose in disgust at the maroon color of it.

'What bad taste these schools have! I can't believe I have to wear this!' her mind complained.

Getting dressed, she turned on her computer and checked her emails. There were only a few, but they were all junk so she hit delete and headed over to the washroom. She did her daily morning rituals and headed to the kitchen, where her mother was waiting for her with breakfast.

She ate her cereal in silence, listening to the birds chirping outside. After she was finished, she put her bowl in the sink, grabbed her bag, and headed off to school. On her way, she saw Izzy walking and decided to join him.

"Hey Izzy!" she called out.

"Good Morning Mimi!" he replied and waited for her to catch up with him. "What's up?" he asked her once she was walking beside him.

"Oh, nothing. Just trying to fool myself into liking these stupid uniforms!" She said while motioning to the pleated skirt and blazer she had on.

"Oh, come on, they're not that bad. Hey, we have computers first thing today! Isn't that great?!" Izzy exclaimed.

"Computers? First thing in the morning? Today? That's so useless! I just checked my e-mail this morning!" Mimi sighed exasperatedly.

Sighing Izzy responded, "Mimi, we're not in computer class to check our e-mails!"

Looking at him with one eyebrow raised she responded, "You may not be" before walking ahead.

Izzy stood there shaking his head for a few moments in disbelief at the girl he was walking with. Yes, Mimi was a pretty girl and he had to admit, he did feel somewhat attracted to her, but she wasn't exactly the person he would match wits with. Noticing she had stopped and was waiting for him, he quickly sped up his pace to catch up with her.

He rest of the walk was mainly in silence, and when they reached the school, they both headed up to the third floor computer lab for class.

"Good morning class!" called out the sharp voice of their teacher, Mr. Fukushima.

"Good morning Mr. Fukushima!" called back the class.

"Now, I want you to take this course seriously! I am going to teach you some of the most important lessons you'll ever learn in your life! Forget everything else! Computers is the only thing that matters!" he told them. "Today, I'll start by handing out a project! You must build and program your own Lego robot, as well as make an advertising website for it! You will work in pairs! You may choose your pairs! Out on the table, you will find all the materials you need, that is all!"

Mimi, who had taken a seat next to Izzy, whispered in his ear, "Want to be my partner for the project?"

Izzy, too stunned to reply immediately, and slightly caught off guard by Mimi coming so close, blushed and barely managed to stutter out a response. "Uh, uh, y-yeah, su-sure."

She smiled at him. "Great! Thanks!"

Over his shoulder Izzy could see Tai looking desperate because now he didn't have a partner to work with. 'Oh well', Izzy thought, 'I'll worry about that later'.

As the class progressed, Izzy was surprised to see that Mimi knew a lot of what to do. She had drawn the design for the robot with some help from Izzy and had gotten all the parts they needed to program the robot. When the class had finished, Mimi and Izzy had almost finished building their robot. As soon as the bell had rung, they cleaned up quickly and waked out of the computer lab.

Izzy was just about to push open the door to the stairs, when he noticed that Mimi was walking straight ahead. Puzzled, he called out to her, "Hey Mimi! Aren't you eating lunch with us?"

Turning around to look at him, she replied, "Yeah, I am! Here, come with me! I want to see what activities this school has!" Obediently, Izzy followed her, and soon they found the bulletin board that listed all the school's clubs, activities, and teams. When Mimi saw them all, her jaw nearly dropped to the ground! There were so many things she could do and she wanted to participate in everything! In the end, she signed up for the Spring Play, the Fashion Show, the Volleyball team, Swim team, and Basketball team.

Looking to her right, she saw Izzy, his brow furrowing. Concerned she asked, "Hey, what's wrong? You look so angry"

"Huh?" He looked up, obviously woken from his trance. "Oh, nothing, there's so much to do, I don't know what to choose!" he smiled sheepishly at her.

Smiling back she replied, "Yeah, there's a lot. But here, I'll help you choose. Do you want to be on any teams?"

"Well, I would like to try out for some of the teams like Swim team, Chess team, and Mathletes" he replied.

"Ok, then sign up for those. How about clubs?"

"Computer club obviously, and yeah, I think that's it for now."

"Ok, see? We're getting somewhere!" she said smiling at him.

"Yeah, we are, thanks" he smiled back.

A few moments later, a girl bumped rudely into Mimi.

"Hey!" Mimi cried. "What was that for?"

"Oh sorry," the girl replied a little less than politely, "I didn't see you there"

"Oh, ok" Mimi replied. "Hey! Aren't you that girl in our computer class?"

The girl sneered at her unpleasantly before replying, "Yeah," she began angrily but lit up when she noticed Izzy was there. "Oh, hi Izzy! Yeah, sorry about that Mimi, I was just having a bad day! To answer your question, yeah, I am in your computer class! My name is Chizumi Haruka!"

Not noticing that the girl was lying through her teeth by acting nice Mimi replied, "Nice to meet you Chizumi! I hope we become good friends, and I'm sorry that you're having a bad day!"

Chizumi shook her head. "Oh no, it's fine! I just had some stupid argument with my friend this morning. I'll be fine! Say, do you guys want to eat lunch with me? I think my friend's still mad at me, and I don't want to face her just yet".

"Oh sure we will!" Mimi replied. "Isn't that right Izzy?" she asked turning to him.

Izzy, caught off guard for the second time today at Mimi being so close, blushed and answered, "Sure! But wait, what about the others?"

"Oh, like they're going to really notice us gone for one lunch hour! Having lunch with Chizumi is more important than hanging out with them today!" Mimi scolded him.

"Oh, Right. Yeah, I guess I see your point" he replied.

They followed Chizumi to a spot on the opposite side of their friends. Faking tears, Chizumi thanked them again for being so kind to her. She took note, rather disgustedly, that Izzy had only seemed to follow when Mimi had asked him too.

The three had lunch together and after saying their goodbyes, left for afternoon classes. Mimi had cooking and art while Izzy had PE and Geography.

Mimi was happy that her classes for the day hadn't been that hard or tiring. Last period was art, and so she got to work on touching up the design of the robot and starting on some fashion design sketches.

Pleased with the work she had accomplished by last period, she happily packed up and left for home.

On her way out, she met Sora who was just leaving from Math, across from her art room. "Hey Sora!" Mimi called to her friend.

"Hi Mimi!"

"How was your day?" Mimi asked her.

"Pretty good, where were you and Izzy at lunch today?"

"Oh, some girl in our Computer class got into a fight with her friend and so we decided to hang out with her"

"Oh, ok. Well, I have to go meet up with Matt, he's taking me to rehearsal before the concert."

"Have fun!" Mimi called after her friend.

Continuing on her walk home, she smiled and hummed to herself. Today had been a very good day, she concluded. Though that Chizumi girl seemed real bitchy at first, she had proven to be a really nice girl, and Mimi was sure that they'd become pretty good friends. Lost in thought about the day, Mimi barely realized that she had reached home. Rushing upstairs, she took off her uniform, took a shower, and changed into some house clothes, before turning on her computer and checking her e-mail. Disappointed and a bit peeved, she noted that most of them were still junk mail. Happily though, she noted that she had received one from Matt, Izzy, and one from an unknown address.

Opening up the one from Matt, she read, 'Concert today at 9:30, don't be late!'

"Matt, blunt and to the point as always!" she thought, but said out loud.

Next she opened the email from Izzy.

It read, 'did you finish the robot design drawings? If you did, come to the computer lab tomorrow morning before class starts, and we'll scan them. I started designing the website, and it already looks pretty cool! I was hoping to do the more technical stuff so that you could focus more on building the robot during class. I know that we aren't supposed to do this project at home, but this'll be our little secret, ok? ;) Are you going to Matt's concert tonight? If so, I'll see you there!'

Smiling, Mimi shook her head. Doing a school project at home, that was Izzy's idea of mischief. But she had to admit; it was a pretty brave thing of him to do, well, for him. She'd actually liked working on this project with him so far, and was pleased to know that she'd not only have fun working with him, she'd get good grades too!

Finally, she opened the email from the unknown sender. She checked the email and saw, (cherryblossoms.x.o. 'Hmm, I wonder who this is…' she thought.

Getting down to the body of the message she read, 'Stay away from Izzy, or else. You'll do what I say if you know what's good for you, dumb bitch.'

She raised her eyebrows at the message. A threat? From someone who had a crush on Izzy? This was way too weird for her. She racked her brain for any evidence of who it might be, but no one really seemed to stick out in her mind. This was beyond strange. But whoever it was, she assumed that they were in her computer class, because who else had seen her work with Izzy?

Then again, she thought, they did eat lunch together with the rest of the digidestined every day. Uggh, this was much too confusing right now. She didn't really want to tell the others unless absolutely necessary, but she decided that she might ask Izzy if he knew anyone that had a crush on him. Or maybe he could tell her how to find out who they were just by their email. While trying to figure out who the sender was, she looked up at the clock on her wall, which read 7:30.

'Oh crap!' she thought, 'I have to get going!' And after quickly changing, she bolted out the door, oblivious to the computer screen turning black, and a little red pacman popping up, with a bomb in his hand.