I'm so sorry I haven't updated this!!!!!! The worst thing in the world happened! My computer broke! I cried every night because I couldn't write!!! Ok, maybe it wasn't that serious but still! It sucked. I love my computer! Horrible month. I'm so poor too that I finally just got it fixed. I hope any of you reading this still remember this story and continue to read it.

KoumiLoccness – I agree about Jyou. I always liked Jyou but they always make him the bad guy since they always make Jyou like Mimi. And I also agree with you about the height thing. It'd be weird if Mimi was taller. o.O

Flywheel Shyster and Flywheel – I'm sorry that you're dead. I hope chapter 8 will bring you back to life.

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Digimon: Almost

Chapter 8: Big Ideas

Tai walked into school Monday morning slowly. He was prepared to talk to Sora today. Agumon had gone back to the Digital World with the others, but the long week with him had helped Tai a lot. Agumon made him realize that he needed to set things straight with Sora. He hoped she would listen, and that he wasn't too late. She might not want to listen to him after he just left her there that night. He had left her outside her house with barley a goodbye. It had killed him to do it though, and maybe if she understood why he had done it, she wouldn't be too angry. He held his breath as he went down the same hallway he went down every day, always hoping to catch a glance of her, the hall where her locker was. It was always out of the way from his classes but he always liked to see her, if only for a moment.

He looked at her locker and sure enough, there she was. He wasn't sure what he was going to say. Should he start telling her everything or would that scare her away? Perhaps he should just say hi and walk away. Then the next day say a little more. He could work up to being her friend again and then tell her everything.

As he was walking and thinking he was getting closer and he still had no idea what to say. Then before he knew it, his chance was gone. He had almost made it. He had almost had enough time to say hi and keep walking. But just as he was about to pass her, Matt came. Matt came over and kissed her on the lips quickly before stopping to talk to her longer. Tai didn't stop walking, he just kept going. To most people it wouldn't look like anything. He sighed.

Tai hadn't thought about Matt. That probably wasn't a very good thing to do. Matt was his best friend. How could he try to steal his girlfriend? He knew that Matt liked Sora a lot. Then something else occurred to him. How much did Sora like Matt? Did she like him a lot too? What right did Tai have to come in and ruin everything? What if he ended up making things confusing for Sora and painful for Matt?

Tai groaned as he continued to walk to his next class. Whatever he wanted didn't matter. If he got what he wanted he'd be selfish. He'd be causing other people pain. Pain that he knew too well and didn't want to pass on to anyone. Especially not the girl he loved or his best friend.

He continued to walk until finally he realized that he was in the wrong hallway. He wasn't even sure where his random walking and thoughts had taken him until he realized he was back in the hallway he started in. And there she was. Sora was still at her locker and Matt was gone. Now would be the perfect chance. He took a step but then stopped. What about everything he had just thought about? He was standing in the middle of the hallway not moving, probably looking stupid. That was when he looked up and saw Sora staring at him.

He had no idea what to do yet so he figured the best plan of action was one he did far too much. He ran away. He turned around and walked down the nearest hallway there was. He wanted to hit himself in the head for looking so stupid. He should've been paying attention to where he was going.

Just then the bell rang and Tai groaned again. Now he was late too. Could the day get any worse? As he began walking to his class that he knew the teacher would not be happy in, he noticed a big poster on the wall. He looked over at it. It said, "TALENT SHOW FRIDAY NIGHT! If you think you can sing or dance or do any strange or funny act, then sign up by Thursday to be in the talent show! Show everyone what you can do up there!"

Tai suddenly got an idea. It was a little stupid but it just might work. A way to talk to Sora without anyone knowing, even her. And if she listened hard enough, maybe he'd get his answers. And if she would rather be with Matt he won't have to hear her say it. She just wouldn't even talk to him. There was only one problem . . . Tai couldn't sing!!

***

Mimi was at the airport ready to leave Saturday night when she called up her parents and asked them if she could stay longer. They were a bit confused but they seemed to understand since it had been a long time since she had seen her old friends. She was glad about that but then she had to call Yolei. It would be hard to stay if she didn't have a place to stay. Yolei agreed to let her stay at her house until she was ready to go home.

"Yolei, I've made a decision." She said as she sat on her bed. After that day at the mall in the beginning of her vacation here, she had told Yolei and Ken everything. They had listened with heavy hearts and then told Mimi about Operation Tofu. They said they weren't supposed to tell her so she couldn't say anything about it. Mimi told them she wouldn't say anything if they didn't. She didn't want everyone knowing about her and Izzy because she didn't want them to try to fix her problems.

"What?' Yolei asked.

"It's the same decision that's caused me to have to stay in Japan longer." She told her. Now Yolei was interested. She sat up on the floor and turned to Mimi, closing a magazine in one quick motion. "Well what is it?" she asked impatiently.

"I'm not leaving Japan until I'm happy." She said proudly. Yolei was still a little confused.

"And what do you mean by happy?" she asked.

"I guess until I've talked to Izzy and really got through to him. But I don't just want to come out and say it to him. Otherwise, he might not feel the same way and it'd be awkward."

Yolei chuckled. "Mimi, how do you talk to someone without talking to them?" she asked, finding Mimi's rant a bit amusing.

"I don't know yet." She told her.

"You could write a letter." Yolei suggested.

Mimi shook her head. "No, I don't like that. Not personal enough."

"How much more personal can you get?" she asked.

Mimi thought more. "Something poetic."

Yolei laughed. "A poem?" she asked.

Mimi shook her head. "No, I can't write a poem. Plus that's too sappy for Izzy. Can you picture him sitting and fawning over a poem?" she asked doubtfully.

Yolei laughed. "Maybe you should buy him a computer." She teased. Mimi rolled her eyes.

Then Yolei jumped up. "I've got it! A song! You're good at singing, right?"

Mimi looked at her funny. "A song isn't a bad idea but if you haven't noticed, we don't live in a musical. I can't just break out into song out of nowhere!"

Yolei laughed. "No silly, our school is having a talent show!"

Mimi for once felt like the smart one. "Once again, in case you haven't noticed, I don't go to your school." Yolei rolled her eyes.

"I know that too, but you can still compete if you use my spot. You see people from the school can get friends or family members to compete as long as they aren't competing. Kinda like giving someone your spot. I mean, I wasn't going to be in it anyway but still, you can sing." She explained. Suddenly Mimi didn't feel like the smart one anymore.

"Ohhh. I get it. Yolei, you're a genius!! But are you sure Izzy will be there?" she asked. Going to a school talent show didn't seem like something he would do. If it was the science fair, that might be a different story but why would he come to watch people sing and dance?

"Oh, he'll come. Me and Ken will just drag him along. And don't worry, we won't tell the others anything. They'll just have to hear for themselves." She said with a smile. "Now just one thing to do." She got up and pick up a box on a shelf. She opened it and inside was a bunch of CDs. "Pick a song."

Mimi shook her head. "Oh I don't need those. I have a song picked out already that's perfect."

***

Joe began having a staring contest with his phone. Izzy had told him the whole story but begged him not to tell anyone anything. But he knew that Yolei and Ken had talked to Mimi and he wanted to call them and tell them to find out what was going on. But he didn't want to break his promise to Izzy. His staring contest wasn't going well either. The phone was winning. Finally he picked it up and dialed Yolei's number. It's not like she'd tell Mimi anything. Plus he'd only be helping Izzy if it turned out Yolei had some good information.

The phone rang for a bit until someone finally answered the phone. "Hello?" she said.

"Yolei, I have to tell you something!" He would've gone right into the story but he was cut off.

"This isn't Yolei, Joe. It's Mimi." She said happily.

"Oh, Hi Mimi. Um, didn't you go home yesterday?" he asked, wondering why she was still here.

"Yeah well, I figured I needed more time here since I haven't seen you all in so long that one week isn't enough to hang out with everyone."

"Oh. That makes sense. Well, where's Yolei?" he asked. He wasn't sure if he'd be able to tell Yolei anything with Mimi there but he had already asked for Yolei so he couldn't just hang up now.

"She's inside, what did you want to tell her? I'd be happy to give her the message."

'Crap.' He thought to himself. What could he possibly say? Then he got an idea. "Uh, well, I just wanted to tell her something I saw on the news. Her favorite tofu brand was recalled!" he said quickly. He knew it was the stupidest thing he could think of but he figured if he added something about tofu, she'd knew what the call was about without Mimi knowing.

"Really?" Mimi said questioningly. "Why was it recalled?" she asked innocently.

"Umm, it was giving everyone, um, nose bleeds." He made up quickly.

"Oh man, wouldn't want too many people getting those. I'll be sure to tell her right away. So I'll go now and tell her what you said, Nice talking to you Joe! Bye!" she said and hung up. Joe put the phone on the receiver. He hoped Mimi hadn't seen through his lie. He had never been a very good liar. He always got nervous and lied about stupid things. Like today, he had made up the stupidest story ever. He sighed. He hoped Yolei understood his message though and would call him back when Mimi wasn't around.

***

Sora sat at her lunch table staring off into space. Yesterday had been a weird day. Tai had been in the hallway, just standing there. He kinda looked like he had seen a ghost. But he was looking at her, not a ghost. She had really gotten her hopes up that he would talk to her today. After her talk with Kari and TK she thought things would be different, but then she had to remember that just because she had had great friends talk to her, didn't mean that someone had talked to Tai.

Her thoughts were interrupted when there was suddenly a hand waving in front of her face. She shook her head and looked over at Matt. "Sorry. Staring off into space again." She said with a chuckle. She just hoped that one of these days this excuse wouldn't be seen through. She really didn't need it to happen today.

"Are you sure?" he asked. 'Of course he sees through it today.' She thought to herself sarcastically. He continued. "I mean, you stare off into space a lot. Are you sure you're ok?" He asked. Sora just laughed and nodded. "I'm fine Matt. I just have a lot on my mind, between school and the flower shop. I was thinking about everything I have to do today. The list is not comforting." She told him. He laughed. "Ok. Well, as long as you say you're ok, I believe you. Just remember that you can always talk to me about anything, ok?" Sora smiled and nodded.

"I know Matt. Now I'm gonna get to my next class. If I'm late today my teacher's gonna kill me and lunch is gonna be over any second." She told him. Just then the bell rang and she knew she had a good 5 mins to get to class before it would ring again. He kissed her goodbye before heading in the other direction.

***

Tai picked up the phone and dialed Matt's number. He had a solution to his not being able to sing problem. He had written a song and he knew Matt's band could perform it for him. They could just say he wrote it and everyone would hear his words, without him having to make a fool of himself, trying to sing. It was a little wrong of him to make Matt sing a song for him to the girl he loved. It wasn't like Matt would know though so he figured it didn't matter.

"Hello?" Matt answered.

"Hi Matt! It's Tai." He told him.

For awhile all he heard was silence. He though Matt had hung up on him for a second. "Tai? I can't believe you called me?" he said in shock. That explained the silence. He hadn't talked to Matt for awhile now. He really hadn't talked to anyone. He probably should have thought of that before now but it was too late now.

"Yeah, I know. I've been really busy lately, haven't really got a chance to talk to anyone really. I'm sorry to call out of nowhere and ask you for a favor but I need to ask you for a favor." He told him. Matt just laughed. "Yeah, it's defiantly you. Sure Tai, anything." He said still chuckling a bit.

"It's about the talent show…"

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Sorry it's kinda short but nothing really happens in this chapter. The next chapter will have a lot more. I'm also sorry for my stupid computer breaking! I really hope I still get lots of reviews and my old readers still come back and read more of this! Please review!!