Snowbound
Part 4: Snowballs
By: Lurker248
Matt walked out onto the porch. He sat down thoughtfully on the steps, remembering what had just happened. 'I had almost kissed Mimi� so what?' He thought to himself. "It's probably nothing," he said aloud.
"What's nothing?" Sora asked, walking towards him. "If it's about Mimi, you're in SERIOUS denial."
"Well then I'm not in denial. 'Cuz it's not about Mimi."
"Yeah� I believe you." Sora said.
Matt got up from where he was sitting, and brushed his pants off. "OK, where's everyone else?"
Sora pointed. "They're over there, waiting for you. Mimi's already there."
Matt ran up to the rest of the gang, carefully avoiding Mimi's sight, and trying his best not to look at her.
Sora elbowed Mimi, and mentioned to Matt. Mimi shrugged.
"What are we standing around for?" Tai said impatiently. "Let's go!" He picked up a handful of snow, and packed it together tightly. He threw it at Sora. "Gotcha!" He yelled playfully. He ran off, before Sora could get him back.
"Argh!" Sora yelled, brushing the snow off of her coat. "I'm gonna get you!" She ran off after him, grabbing some snow.
Tai ran back to the group, panting, closely followed by Sora. Hey, let's have a snowball fight! We can ski or whatever tomorrow."
"Sure!" T.K. agreed. He made a snowball, and launched it at Matt. "Gotcha, big bro!" He laughed, and ran behind a tree.
Joe ran off, in the direction of the porch. He reappeared a few seconds later, a snowball in his hands, running in front of the DigiDestined. While he passed them, he threw it at Kari. He ran, laughing. T.K. ran after him, with a snowball in his hands.
Meanwhile, Tai was busy making a huge snowball, to throw at Matt, while Izzy ran behind T.K. and Joe, trying to hit one of them with a snowball. Sora just looked around, watching everyone. Mimi was watching Matt out of the corner of her eye, and Matt had given up trying not to look at Mimi, and decided to try to talk to her.
"Hey Mimi!" Matt yelled to her, waving to her.
Mimi looked startled, and looked directly at him. "What?"
"Can we talk?"
Mimi shrugged. "Sure. About what?"
"About all the stuff that's happened�" Matt replied. "Just come here with me, so we can talk in private."
Mimi stiffened. "Uh� OK, sure." They both walked to the porch, and Matt sat down. He mentioned for Mimi to also.
"OK, I know that all this stuff that's happened� is a little weird." Matt started. "But I just wanna say, can we just forget about it? 'Cuz I know it's been troubling both of us. And I want BOTH of us to have a great vacation. So what do you say? Friends?" He held his hand out.
Mimi took his hand, and shook it. "Yeah� Friends," She said in a semi-depressed tone. 'Or maybe more�' She thought to herself.
Matt got up, still holding Mimi's hand. He helped Mimi up, and pulled her towards him, and gave her a little hug.
"By the way," Matt said to her. "Take this!" He laughed, and threw a snowball at her.
Later, everyone sat in the lounge, after the snowball fight. Everyone had some hot chocolate, and they were sitting by a lit fireplace. Joe sat in a red armchair. Izzy was sitting on the floor. Matt and Mimi shared the couch, with Sora on the end. Tai sat opposite of Joe, in another armchair, While T.K. and Kari were talking by the window.
Matt glanced to the window, seeing snow fall outside. "Hey everyone," He said.
T.K. looked annoyed that Matt interrupted his talk with Kari. "What?"
"It's snowing again. Hard."
"What's your point?" Tai asked.
"Nothing. I'm just saying."
"Do y'all wanna do something? I have an idea," Tai said.
"Oh please, not another idea of Tai's!" Sora joked.
"Now you see what I live with everyday." Kari said playfully.
"This time it's a GOOD idea!" Tai replied. "Scary stories!"
"Well I guess I'll try to get through it. I hate scary stories!" Mimi answered, shuddering. She scooted closer to Matt. Matt smiled.
"That would be a good idea if there were any scary stories that we all didn't know," Matt said. "And all the other stories we don't know aren't that scary."
"Well do y'all know 'bout the devil's secret name?" Tai asked. "I don't think it's really that scary. It's about this little orphan kid. He's at this camp, and there's this bully that always picks on him. They decide to tell ghost stories, just like we are right now." Tai stopped, and looked around. "Well after a few stories, he decided that he should tell one. He told them about how he had met the devil, and how the devil had told him his secret name. If anyone said the name, the devil would come up and take him or her. Of course, the bully didn't believe him, and thought that his story was just FAKE. So he wanted to try it. The orphan took a sheet of paper, and wrote down the name. So the bully took the sheet of paper, and yelled out the name so loud, that no one hears him.
Nothing happened, so he just smiled triumphantly at the orphan, and said, 'I told you it was fake.' After that, the boy goes into the woods, to get more firewood. A few seconds later, they heard him scream for help, and some sort of animal. They went after him, but they didn't find anything. He was gone.
The orphan smiled, and said, 'My parents didn't believe me either.'" Tai looked around. "You wanna know what his name is? It's-"
"That's OK, we don't really want you to get taken," Matt interrupted. Everyone laughed.
"Yeah�" Mimi said. "Well I think it was scary.
"A lot of things scare you, Mimi," Tai said. "And I'm tired. I'm going to bed. Goodnight, everyone. Hope you don't say his name!"
Mimi shuddered, and grabbed the closest thing to her. Which happened to be Matt's arm.
(Author's Note- OK, I'm gonna explain why I had such a non-scary story scare Mimi at the end.)
Tai walked in the direction of the stairs, but circled back, without letting anyone see him.
"Well that really wasn't fun," Joe said. "So what do you guys want to do?"
"I dunno," Izzy said.
"Just talk, I guess," Mimi said, still holding Matt's arm.
"You know, you can let go of me know, Mimi," Matt said, laughing. Everyone started cracking up, and Mimi just had an embarrassed look on her face.
"Sorry, Matt," she said, letting go of him.
Tai leaped up from behind the couch, and grabbed Mimi. "Haha! I'm the devil and I've come to take you!" Mimi screamed, and punched Tai on the shoulder.
"Never do that AGAIN!" she yelled at him. Matt and Sora laughed.
She turned back to the rest of the group. "So what do you guys want to talk about? Any suggestions?" she asked.
"I dunno," Sora answered. "I'm going to bed anyway. I'm tired from chasing Tai so much today." She laughed, and headed to her room.
"Yeah, me too," Tai said. "I'm tired from RUNNING from Sora." He followed Sora upstairs.
"I'm going to go up too, so I can use my laptop when I get up," Izzy said, getting up from his place on the floor. "See everyone in the morning."
"Me too. Early to bed, early to rise. So I can get this skiing thing over with," Joe said, following the rest of the gang.
At that point, everyone left except for T.K. and Kari, who were still talking, and Matt and Mimi.
"You really think that story was scary? Matt asked
"Yeah�" Mimi answered. She moved closer to Matt, and he put his arm around her.
"Don't worry about it," Matt said. "It's not true."
"Yeah, I know." Mimi said, yawning. She laid her head on Matt's shoulder. "I'm sleepy."
"Yeah, I know. Me too," He answered. He sat there, staring into the fire, thinking.
Mimi looked out of the window. "It's still snowing," She said softly. "You think we're going to get snowed in?"
"Probably not," Matt said, playing with her ponytail.
Mimi yawned one more time, and got up. "I'm gonna get some sleep, so I can get some energy for tomorrow. See ya in the morning."
Matt looked sad that Mimi had gotten up. "Goodnight. Don't let the story scare you!" He yelled after her. He yawned, and went back to his thinking.
Author's Note: Yeah, this part is FINALLY done! Well, I told you Matt and Mimi would get close, and they did. And like I said, I'll tell you why I chose such a non-scary story. I asked my brother for ideas. He gave me these: The Devil's Secret Name or something that would only scare Mimi. A fashion story (Hehe.) Here's what I came up with:
"Lemme start with a story," Tai said. "It's about this killer. He went around killing people in ski lodges, and stuff."
"So?" Mimi said,
"Did I mention? He was wearing� stripes and plaid!"
"AHHHHH!!!!"
Haha, that was weird, wasn't it?