A/N~ OK, going on here from the first Dumped fic, for me things haven't changed, I am still dumped and I think a little sour now that it has had some time to sink in so I am sure that may come across in my fic. Enjoy. By the way, this is dedicated to Kate aka digitally obsessed, who takes great pleasure in flooding my email box with short one liners, I think we are well over to 200 mark and getting close to 250??
Part 2
Tai's POV
I couldn't believe it when I saw Mimi at my door I had been sitting in the living room feeling sorry for myself that Sora had dumped me and broken my heart and to be perfectly honest a bit ticked off as well that she likes someone else and how I would love to find out who this someone else is so I can kick his worthless ass. And then all of a sudden the doorbell rings and there is Mimi, her eyes bloodshot and checks tear stained and her hair was completely wind blown like she had just gotten done running the 5 mile marathon or something.
I knew the minute that I saw her that Matt had dumped her. I brought her inside and hugged her as she cried on my shoulder and the only thing I could think of saying to her was that I was sorry, but I knew that those words held little to no comfort as they had been told to me when Sora had dumped me and I had found no solace in them.
We sat on my couch for hours and I just held her and let her vent about what matt had done and not surprisingly Matt had been put on my list of people that I was gonna punch when I had my chance. I just couldn't believe him, but what really stood out the most almost in a deafening cry to be heard was that he told Mimi basically the same thing as Sora had told me. But that just couldn't be? Could it? No, that was crazy, even though it was so similar what they had both told us and even though they had both broken up with us with in a few days of each other, it just couldn't be.
When I finally felt that Mimi had calmed down a bit I offered to drive her home, much to my surprise she refused saying that she needed to walk and have some time to think. But I wouldn't hear of it, there was no way I was going to let her walk home alone at this late hour, so after I insisted she finally excepted and I drove her home.
We parted ways and I quickly went back to my place and went to bed, though I couldn't get to sleep, I was so angry and my mind was working overtime trying to find a connection between Matt and Sora but not really wanted to see the obvious and through it all my mind kept returning to Mimi and how heart broken she was, I knew that this was hard for her, I was going through the same thing myself. But with Mimi, she just seemed so fragile and I just wanted to help ease her pain. It was then that I decided that she and I could help each other, I know what you must be thinking, the old make them jealous thing, but that is not it all. Mimi and I have been friends for a long time, it is only right that we help each other through the pain that we are both going through. I had made up my mind, in the morning I would go over to her place and I would get her to go out. The fair was in town and we could go there, it would be a lot of fun and would both help us get our minds off our problems. It would be good.
Before I knew it it was the next morning and I realized that I was extremely exhausted from the night before from talking with Mimi to let my mind run wild with weird paranoid delusions and Matt and Sora and I had to laugh to myself. What was I thinking?
I quickly jumped up and thought about calling Mimi, but then knew that she would insist on staying home or make up some excuse not to go out, so I decided that I would have a better chance if I just went over there and surprised her instead. I hopped in the shower and hopped out, yes guys actually can take a 5 minute shower, unlike girls who seem to be in there half the day, I will have to remind myself to ask Kari what women do in the shower for all that time.
I threw on some clothes, my normal attire, thank you very much, grabbed a bagel and ran out the door. I made it to Mimi's house with in ten minutes, just enough time to finish my bagel. It was 10:30 so it wasn't too early and I am sure that her parents have already left for work and that she was probably even up by now as well. I rang the doorbell and because I am such an impatient person I rang it again.
"I'm coming, I'm coming" I heard Mimi yelling.
When she finally opened the door I thought for sure that I would have to scrape my jaw off the floor because there she stood in nothing but a towel and for the first time I really realized what a good body she has.
"What are you doing her Tai?" She asked, obviously oblivious that I was probably drooling at the moment.
"I thought we should go out." I stammered. "I mean, out like to the fair, it's in town right now and I thought that it would be good for us to get out and have some fun, you know what I mean?" I said as fast as I could hoping that Mimi wouldn't notice that I was blushing.
Mimi just stared at me for a moment and then nodded her head, "sure sounds like fun, let's go." She said as she started to step out of her apartment.
"Ummm.. Mimi?" I asked not sure if she realized that she was only clad in a pink towel or not.
"Yeah Tai?"
"You might want to put on some clothes first." I suggested.
She looked down and began to blush heavily before running back inside and straight to her bedroom. "Come in and sit Tai, I will only be a minute." She yelled back to me, however I had already gone inside and made myself comfortable.
About 15 minutes later Mimi finally came out of her room wearing a tight pink shirt and a pair of jean cut offs; her hair neatly pulled in a ponytail. I have to say that she looked cute with clothes on too. Oh god what am I saying? I thought I should slap myself or something, there is nothing worse then two rebounders hooking up. And that is exactly what we were too, Sora dumped me, Matt dumped Mimi and right now all I was feeling was that rebound thing and I just can't do that to Mimi or to myself.
"You ready or what Tai?" Mimi asks snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Yeah." I smile as I jump up and we head out the door.
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We had been at the fair for about 3 hours and had managed to go on the roller coaster 4 times already, I thought for sure that I would have to drag Mimi on it, but after the second time she was the one dragging me on it and we were having a blast. We were both laughing and joking, it was great. I really didn't think that I would be laughing again especially so soon after Sora had broken up with me, but here I was having a great time with a very attractive girl.
Mimi had even conned me into having our pictures done, I wasn't too thrilled about getting dressed up like a cowboy to have a black and white taken, but as soon as Mimi stepped out of the dressing room dressed as a bar maid I quickly stopped my complaining. Funny enough the pictures actually came out really cool and there were two, one for her and one for me, so we would each remember this day.
I have to say that I was also surprised at how much Mimi could put away, I thought I was a big eater, that was nothing compared to when Mimi had candy apples, cotton candy and fried bread dough. Maybe it was just her depression, I remember Kari said something about comfort food one time when she and TK had just had a fight.
Nothing could have prepared us for what was about to come though, I had finally dragged Mimi away from the food and to the Ferris wheel, one of the tallest there, I bet you could see half of the city from the top of that thing. We got our seat together and the wheel started moving slowly and then stopped so the next couple could get on. Neither Mimi or I were paying attention, we were both too busy awing at how high this thing was, when suddenly I heard a familiar laugh that froze me to the couple in front of us. Mimi heard it too.
It was Sora, there was no doubt and when I saw her, it was confirmed, she was sitting there in the seat right below us and next to her was a blonde guy and....Oh my god it's Matt. I quickly looked at Mimi who also recognized this and I saw that she was crying. I wanted to cry myself as well but I needed to be strong for Mimi, here we were both us dumped and both of betrayed by our best friends, how could life get any worse.
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Mimi's POV
How could this get worse? I thought my heart had had all that it could take and couldn't be broken anymore. And there I was sitting with Tai, suddenly feeling like maybe, just maybe things would be all right and then I hear it. Sora's laughter, I looked to Tai, because I thought for sure that he had heard it as well and that was confirmed as I saw he was looking at the couple below us and I immediately recognized it as Sora. But then what I saw next made me want to throw up, to scream bloody murder, to throw whatever I could, I saw the guy she was sitting next to, the one she was hold hands with, his blonde hair, blue eyes and cool attitude I could recognize a mile away.
My best friend and my now ex boyfriend were sitting just feet away from me, completely unaware that I was here, laughing and cuddling, while I felt like dying inside. I hadn't realized that I had started to cry until I felt Tai reach up and wipe away my tears. I looked over to him and saw that he was about to cry too, because for him it was the same his best friend and his now ex girlfriend. And all of a sudden I felt sick as I realized that we were trapped on the Ferris wheel with them, I didn't want either one of them to see me, I just wanted to go, to leave the fair, go home, just get away from them and I could tell Tai was thinking the same thing.
Tai looked down to the guy at the controls and started to wave his hands in the air, but the guy was busy and certainly was not paying attention to one weird guy waving his hands around twenty feet above him.
"Hey, mister!" Tai yelled, "hey, mister we want to get off this ride."
The guy looked up and nodded, "S'ok, ya have to wait till it comes around again, ya hear?"
"Yeah, I hear." Tai said then looked back at me, "it'll be ok Mimi, we'll get off this thing and go somewhere else, ok?"
"Thanks Tai." I said and tried to force a small smile of appreciation.
"I think it would be best for both of us if we can just get off this ride and away from them." Tai said firmly
I nodded trying not to look in there direction, but it was too late, they had already noticed us when Tai had started yelling that he wanted to get off.
"Tai?" Sora yelled.
"Mimi?" Matt yelled.
Tai and I looked at each other and then in back of us to where Sora and Matt were now sitting. They weren't smiling at us, in fact they looked shocked like they had been caught and in a way they had been.
"Tai, I can explain." Sora began.
"Don't even bother, Sora, what ever you have to say I don't want to hear it." Tai snapped
"Tai, you're not being fair." Sora said as she started to cry.
I couldn't take it anymore. "Fair? You wanna talk about fair? You were Tai's girlfriend and my best friend and now you are with Matt, how dare you!" I screamed.
"Oh and I see you are Miss Innocent, sitting here with Tai." Matt rebutted.
"Back off Matt, this was my idea to take Mimi out because she was upset when you broke up with her, unlike you and Sora, Mimi and I were loyal during our relationships." Tai said coldly.
I watched Matt and Sora for their expression after what Tai had said and neither one of them said a word, which just confirmed what I had thought, they just looked at us, guilt plagued their faces. I turned around and motioned for Tai to do the same and soon the Ferris wheel came to a stop and it was our chance to get off and leave.
Tai and I wasted no time and left and didn't look back. We were both so hurt and shocked that we didn't speak a word to each other, we just walked to his car in the parking lot, once there we just sat in silence.
"I can't believe Matt and Sora would do that to us." Tai said breaking the silence and speaking my own thoughts.
"Yeah I know. I feel so betrayed by both of them." I said quietly, " I don't think I will ever be able to forgive either one of them."
"Same here." Tai said as he broke down into tears.
I was startled by this, I had never seen Tai cry like this before, I knew he cried when he and Sora first broke up, I knew he loved and although I didn't actually see it, I knew he cried, he had to have. I didn't really know what to do, so I scooted over closer to him and wrapped my arms around him and held him tight letting him cry. I cried too. We stayed like that for a long time, in his car, in the parking lot of the fair, holding each other and crying.
To be continued.....
