30Just To Let Me Down
Author's Explanation: Well, this was supposed to be a sitcom every Monday type of fic. Then I was at the beach for a week (which I mentioned) and then there was the discovery that my parents don't really think the internet's important when there's no school. The bums. So now I am illegally uploading this from a computer at my summer job. We'll just say that the show was getting great ratings, so it went on hiatus, but it's back now. I know, bad analogy. I'm sick of my sitcom idea, but I'll still stick to the schedule..yeeaaaaaaa…
Just to let me down (let me down)
and mess me around
~The Foundations (From Build Me Up Buttercup)
O Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming?
O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low:
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting.
Every wise man's son doth know.
What is love? 'tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure;
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come kiss me, sweet-and-twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.
~Shakespeare
Matt was back to reading the newspaper, though his mind wasn't quite as focused on it as it had been before. He broke the silence he had initiated.
"So my fiancee is currently at the home of the guy you are currently obsessed with-"
"It iz love," she interrupted.
"Catherine just let me finish. So Sora's with Tai. And I've got Tai's number. You could have looked it up in the goddamn phonebook all the time. It's Tai Kamiya. You can go do it right now."
"I just thought you might have wanted to zpeak to Zora, since you have not spoken to her and all…"
You know that's not the reason. The reason is that you'll be all tricky and make up some sketchy reason why I can't talk directly to her or something and then some way or another you'll end up talking to him while I'm just left even more rejected than before. And don't say that it doesn't make any sense, because you've already got some sneaky thing all planned out and—"
This time Mimi interrupted. Matt and Catherine were both quite surprised. "I don't think there's any possible way you could get more rejected Matt. I think the whole clichéd leaving you at the alter bit that only happens in movies and then the man of honor part that only happens in soap operas has made you reach the pinnacle of rejection. I honestly don't think you could get rejected any further. But who's this 'him' you and Catherine are talking about?"
Matt had just moved his mouth into the beginning formation of the T-sound when something hard banged him in the shin.
"George," replied Catherine.
"Ow! That really hurt. And he's not George he's—"
"George," said Catherine.
"Ow! How'd you manage to place it in—" Another kick.
"We were having a private conversation about George, one of Matt's friends whom Matt zinks is not good enough for me."
"I don't—ow"
"But—ow!"
"Mimi—OW!"
"George!" screamed Catherine.
"You know, this was the first time in a while that all the digi-destined have gotten back together."
"Yes it has been," Sora said absently.
"Every single one of us, Matt, TK, Izzy, Joe, you, me, Mimi…Catherine, Davis…" he trailed off.
"Is there something you're hinting at?" she turned around and looked at him warily.
"It's just nice is all," Tai replied.
"Mimi, if you wouldn't mind, could you please find zee waiter and ask him for more tea for zee table? I am awfully shy with strangers and I stumble with my English sometimes."
Mimi was eyeing the two of them very suspiciously. "I suppose so Catherine, if you get so nervous…"
"Merci beaucoup. Zee how nervous I am getting already? I have forgotten my English. If you could please hurry, Mimi, and go now…"
"I've got it Catherine. I'll see you two in just a minute."
"Actually, remember the Halloween party?"
"I was there," she replied.
"Quite a few of the digidestined were there too."
"Oh I remember. I met Catherine. And I hadn't seen Mimi in such a long time."
"Catherine, those really hurt. Where'd you learn to kick like that?"
"Do not tell Mimi!" she hissed.
"What? Why not?"
"I'm, I am just a very shy person. You cannot tell her about Tai!"
"What did I hear about Tai, Catherine?"
"You and Mimi hardly ever talk anymore. It's such a shame. Two people who were such good friends…"
Sora dismissed his thoughts. "It's been ages. People drift."
"Do you two even keep in touch at all anymore?"
"We've spoken on the phone just a little."
"Oh, Catherine is just madly in love with him," Matt said, ignoring Catherine's glare.
Mimi giggled.
"Zhere is not one zingle funny zing about love!"
"I do remember you having quite a time over my rejection at the altar, Catherine."
Catherine clasped her hands over her heart so dramatically that you couldn't tell if she was being serious or funny. "Zis is true love."
"Um Catherine, when was the last time you spoke to Tai?" Mimi asked innocently.
"At zee wedding rehearsal. It was at zat Halloween party though zat I first saw him after so many years…."
"Why the sudden interest? When were you so interested in this stuff?"
"Just trying to have a conversation is all."
"Oh."
"You know," Mimi began nonchalantly, "I saw Tai at a party."
Catherine's face paled considerably.
"He even asked me for my number."
Catherine's face paled considerably more.
"So you still have that phone number?"
"What phone number?"
"It's not too important. Oh, if you really want to know, Mimi's…."
She sat up and looked at him intently. "Do you have a crush?" she half-smiled.
"Well, I'm not sure really. We talked a little at the party, and she gave me her number."
"And did you call her?"
"Well then I kinda lost the number."
"You lost it?"
"It was a Halloween party. I was wearing some rented costume. And then when I returned the costume I must have returned the number."
Matt smiled. "Well look at that. Let's see if I can get this clear. You are madly in love with my fiancee's man of honor, whom she has spent the past few days with. Not only that, but whom you fell in love with at the same party where he asked for, not yours, but Mimi's number. But you still want to confess your love to him. Except you do not know his phone number because he never gave it to you. But that would be fine (except for that whole shy bit) because you can look up his name in a phonebook. Except I am willing to bet, since when you told me you were in love with him you mispronounced his last name, that you do not know how to spell it. You most definitely do not know Japanese characters. And your mentioning of Tai seems to have rekindled some type of interest for him in Mimi. So you are in quite a predicament it seems. Almost like a soap opera. Are you in love with me too? Or Sora maybe? There's that gay character we need. Don't say it's a love triangle between you, Mimi, and Tai, where you love both of them and they love each other? And not you?"
When Matt looked at her, with a superior smirk on his face, he expected Catherine's face to be bright red. He expected her to immediately come back with a retort just as mean.
"You probably shouldn't have included that last gay love triangle bit, Matt," Mimi said quietly, as she mechanically downed a packet of Sweet & Low without thinking.
"If you two would please excuse me, I need to visit the ladies' room," said Catherine, her face paling back to its normal color, as she eyed Matt's cell phone suspiciously.
To Be Continued
A/N: What does Matt do? What does Mimi do? What does Catherine do? What does Sora do? What does Tai do?=P ::sigh:: I really wish I knew.
Geezus, I've made them a whole lot meaner than I planned. And I'm starting to sense a new couple that was completely not part of my plans. It was all planned out and I screwed myself over. I'm never writing in chapters again! As always, please review. It's fun to hear what people think, because it's always the opposite of what I'm thinking^^