Foreword

Ok here’s the dealio. I’m Mimi’s Pet Chameleon, as it says so up there. But you can just call me Chame, much easier. This story I wrote about three years ago. Personally it is my all time favorite story I have ever written. Thing is I haven’t been to this site in literally two years. I was beginning highschool and around 16 years old. Now I’m 19 and in college. So it’s been a while. Last time I was here the Anime/Manga section was literarily less than half the size it is right now. I was here when Digimon was by the far the ruling category in the entire site. Heck, last time I was here no one had even heard of say…Naruto. So yeah, I am literally an old timer. Anyway I was thinking about this story the other day and it called my attention. I remembered all the ideas I had for it and decided to take a looksie around. And I decided to take another shot at it. This story is called into the night apparently, which is weird cause it has absolutely nothing to do with the actual story. Now I haven’t written for fun in a long while so I might be rusty so be patient with me. Enjoy.

And one more thing…MICHI still rocks! HA!

Into The Night

Chapter 1 – Deception

“Gimme another one!” a young girl yelled slamming down a small glass over a sleek wooden counter. She was sitting by herself in a tall stool in a small building, various people were sitting a few seats down the line of neatly placed stools, but apart from them the place was completely empty. A man behind the counter grabbed the glass and began to dry it with a plain white cloth. After it dried, he poured the contents of a tall green colored bottle into the tiny glass and placed on the counter. The girl snatched it like it was some kind of treasure and gulped it all down. She winced at the horrible taste, but managed to keep it down. “Do you know what it’s like?” The girl said to the man behind the bar.

“No.” The man said simply and without interest, already used to these kinds of situations, but as always he listened warily to what she had to say.

“To trust someone so much, and have them betray you?” The girl said to no one in particular. The bartender listened, but didn’t have much interest. “Just yesterday everything was…perfect. You know what it’s like to be mocked for what you are or what you did?” She continued lowering her head into her arms, she then pushed the tiny glass flagon forwards. “More please.” She said sternly, motioning to it.

“I don’t think so, you already had 10, you still haven’t paid, and we should have closed a few minutes ago, even the usual drunkards are gone.” The bartender said firmly.

“Gimme one more an’ I’ll pay. I swear.” The girl pressed on lifting her palm as if under oath, but the bartender shook his head. “Oh come on, just one more?” She said woozily.

“Please miss, just pay so you can leave, you’ve had enough to drink already.” The bartender told her decisively, becoming increasingly irritated. She just got up and walked towards the door, ignoring the demanding man trying to get his payment. She was already halfway outside into the cold, snow ridden, night, when a hand on her wrist stopped her from going on. “You can’t leave without paying, you hear!” The same bartender said not letting go.

“Let me go!” The girl struggled to break free but it was no use, he was by far stronger then her, besides, her head felt to airy to find a way to break free.

“What’s going on here?” Another man said nearing the two, he was tall and slender; his hair was light hazel, a perfect match to his eyes, but the color seemed to drain out of them thanks to the dark bags under his eyes. “Mimi? What are you doing?” The young man questioned now right in front of the two.

“Do you know this girl?” The bartender asked out of rash impulse. The youth nodded slightly. “She drank eight shot drinks, she owes me ¥3,980 yen!” The bartended said very agitated.

“I drank nine, actually…plus the second one you said it was on the house.” Mimi said blearily with an as-a-matter-of-fact tone in her voice, while she used her index finger on her free hand to scratch her cheek.

“Nine. Make that ¥4,140.” The bartender corrected and slightly surprised at the girl’s honesty…or her drunkenness.

“You gave her what? Did you even ask for an I.D.?” The guy said not believing what was happening right before his very own eyes.

“Of course I did!” The bartender yelled defended. The guy cocked his eyebrow and noticed a small plastic corner at the girl’s jacket pocket. He reached for it and saw it was a driver’s license with her photo on it.

“21? She’s 16 for crying out loud!” He said clearly outraged.

“Listen bud. Sixteen, twenty one, seventy three. I don’t care, she drank the liquor she has to pay!” The bartender argued.

“You are one sick man” He shook his head feeling now very agitated, he dug his hand into his back pocket and pulled out his wallet, he picked exactly the drink’s fee and shoved into the bartenders hand, who shoved Mimi out of his bar. She began to stumble and seemed even unable to stand still, it was more of a sway from side to side. The guy caught her just as she was about to fall. She had to look up just to peer into her savior’s eyes; feeling very surprised at his generosity, but immediately understood why he had been so nice:

“Hello Tai…wha’ brings you here?” Mimi said unsteadily trying to get he balance back, but it was useless.

“I was just passing by and saw you. What in the world were you thinking! Going into a bar like this and at this time of the night?” Tai said feeling very shaken by what had just happened. “You’re stumbling drunk!”

“I ain’t drunk; I just had a wee bit.” She retaliated simply.

“It doesn’t matter, you’re just lucky I found you. Come on I’ll take you home.” Tai told her firmly. But when he gave but one step he felt a tiny feeling of coldness reach his face. Right on the tip of his nose a snowflake melted into a small droplet of water. Tai looked up and inspected the clouds above them, many more snowflakes were beginning to sway from where the first on had come. “This is great…well I gotta get you indoors, and your apartment in on the other side of town. My apartment is much closer. I’ll take you there, are you okay with that?” Tai said to a half listening Mimi, who nodded and took a step towards Tai, but before she could complete a second one, her already half open eyes closed completely, as in slow motion her body fell limply forwards, only to be caught by Tai. He picked her up with ease, apart from being relatively small; she weighed less than a feather. He gently placed one of his arms under her knees and the other one under her back and began to walk in the direction of his apartment.

By the time they got to Tai’s place the snow fall had turned into an all out storm. Tai stumbled to open the door and carry Mimi at the same time. The dark apartment seemed to be completely deserted, but of course everyone was already asleep, it was indeed very late. Tai tenderly placed Mimi’s limp body on a couch in the living room of his home. He threw a blanket over her and kneeled down by her, just staring at her.

“I don’t know how, but you manage to surprise me every other day.” Tai whispered at the fast-asleep girl who sighed deeply in her slumber. He then pushed a lock of honey brown hair away from her face and placed his hand on her forehead. Her temperature seemed fine, only thing she was gonna have to worry about is a terrible hangover for next morning. Tai hesitantly grabbed the phone that sat on the coffee table and dialed Mimi’s house number. It had been a long time since he dialed that number. He actually had to go through his mom’s agenda and look for it.

“Hello?” A woman’s voice said into the receiver, she seemed to have been crying for her tone of voice.

“Mrs. Tachikawa? This is Taichi Kamiya, sorry for calling so late.” Tai said feeling a bit bad for calling at this hour, “I just called to say that I found Mimi, I think she should stay here for the night, that snow storm isn’t looking any prettier.”

“Oh thank goodness. We were so worried. My husband had to come back in because of the snow. He was out looking for her. Thank you so much for finding her.” Mrs. Tachikawa said feeling a lot more comfortable. “Is your mom okay with it?”

“…Yeah I told her, she says it’s fine as long as I called you. Don’t worry about a thing; I’ll take her home first thing in the morning.” Tai outright lied before hanging the phone. Finally, he could get some rest. He almost ran up to his room and slumped into his bed. He barely stared at the ceiling for two seconds before falling fast asleep.

There we go. So this is almost the same as the original first chapter I submitted long time ago. Just tweaked and polished some stuff that was kinda ambiguous. The real new writing will be coming after chapter 5. So the good news, chapters 2-5 will be updated quickly. So till later, toodles.