Music of the Heart
disclaimer: i do not own digimon or take credit for the characters. they
belong to fox kids, toei, etc.
author's note: this is set when the adventures in the digiworld are over.
if you don't know who these characters are, don't bother to read this
because i assume you do. oh yea, when you see < & >, it indicates matt
thinking to himself. hope you like my first fan fic! ^_^
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Seventeen year old Matt always had trouble sleeping. Even when he was
exhausted, it took him at least half an hour to fall in a light and
dreamless sleep. In those 30 minutes, sometimes he thought about Mimi.
Matt had a secret crush on Mimi, but didn't dare to tell her. He often
wondered if she felt the same way about him.
On a Sunday night, for the first time in his life, Matt quickly fell
into a deep sleep. Also, for the first time that he could remember, he
dreamed.
(Begin dream)
Matt was in a dark and empty room by himself. The only light shone
directly above him. "Hello? Anyone here?"
Only his echo replied. Suddenly from no where, Matt heard someone
singing. He looked to see where it was coming from. "Hello? Is anyone
there?"
The singer was hidden in the dark. She sounded like
she was around his age. She
sang sweetly and clearly, but she wasn't singing any words.
"Where are you? I won't hurt you."
The singing stopped.
"Wait! Don't go! I just want to know who you are!"
Matt could sense a figure approach him slowly. He stood calmly in the
light and waited for her to reach him. She started to sing her wordless
song quietly, and Matt knew that she was close. He could finally make out
an outline, but it didn't help him identify who she was. The figure
stopped walking and stood in front of Matt hidden in the dark. A piece of
paper floated face down to the ground at Matt's feet. He took his eyes
away from the girl and bent down to pick the paper up. "Here, you dropped
this."
He looked at where the girl was standing and was momentarily blinded by
a sudden light filling the room. "Hey, what the -- ?"
The girl was gone, and in his final moments of his dream, he was holding
the paper she dropped still face down.
(End dream)
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At school the next day, Matt's mind drifted back to his dream. His
thoughts were interrupted by a voice.
"Matt, your turn is coming up. Sora, you're next" Mr. Matsumoto was the
music teacher, and it was him that brought Matt back to reality.
"Oh, ok." Matt looked at Sora for an idea what Mr. Matsumoto was talking
about.
"Your musical presentation. You didn't forget, did you?" whispered Sora
as she walked past him to the front of the class.
"Course not," he lied.
In music class, their "test" was to play a musical piece in front of the
class. Mr. Matsumoto had warned the class that if they weren't ready to
give their presentation on the day he called on them, they would get an F
on the final and fail the class.
Matt was starting to panic, but he was excellent at hiding emotion. He reached into his pocket and pulled
out a silver harmonica. Matt searched his
pockets and backpack, but he couldn't find it.
Matt looked down at his desk trying to think up of a song that he could
play impromptu, but nothing came to him. Out of the corner of his eye, he
saw a piece of sheet music near his feet. He bent down to pick it up. The page
had no title, words, or an author written on it. He skimmed the page and
nearly fell out of his chair from disbelief.
PART 2
Clapping erupted as Sora finished her piece and walked back to her seat.
It was Matt's turn.
In a daze, Matt walked to the front of the room and put the sheet on the
stand in front of him. He drew a small breath, put the cold metal to his
lips, and began to play. He played tentatively at first, not really sure
of what will come next, but as he progressed in the song, he stopped
looking at his music and closed his eyes. He saw his dream once more. She
was walking closer and closer to him, but her face was still veiled in
the dark. He saw the piece of paper that fell from her hand and land at
his feet.
Surrounded by the serenity of the music flowing through him, he kept his
eyes closed and played with his heart and soul. Too soon the song was
over, and he opened his eyes. A ten-second silence was broken by the
class giving him a standing ovation.
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School was out, and Matt stood at his locker thinking about the music.
He was about to leave when he heard a familiar sound. A
girl was singing. Not any girl; it was the girl.
Matt took out the crumpled sheet of music, but he didn't need it. He
already knew that the girl was singing the exact notes he held in his
hands.
Matt walked down the hall, trying to follow the source of the voice. He
walked past a window facing the soccer field. He took a double take and
noticed that Sora was out there having soccer practice.
Matt strained to hear the voice again. It seemed to have stopped. He jammed his hands in his
pocket and started heading for the exits.
He clenched something cold in his pocket and realized that it was his
harmonica. Suddenly he had an idea. Matt took out his harmonica and
started to play the song. For a few seconds he did this and stopped to
hear if she would pick up where he left off.
She did. Matt followed her voice back to the music room where his "miracle"
happened. The singing was coming from inside the empty room. He opened
the door and quietly stepped inside. It was dark in the room, and the
windows were blocked by boxes and other clutter in the room. The only
light came from a small window unblocked by clutter to permit a small
square of sunlight in the middle of the room. The girl was standing at
the far end of the room in darkness. She stopped singing and waited for
his harmonica to play.
Matt quietly played his harmonica. The girl froze realizing that they
were in the same room. Matt walked towards the patch of light and stopped
at the edge so that he was still in the shadows. She did the same. He
stopped playing to ask the girl the question that was on his mind all
day. "Who are you?"
The girl didn't reply.
The girl took a little breath and walked into the light just inches away
from Matt. With her eyes looking straight at him, she said with a quiet
voice, "Hello, Matt."
PART 3
It took Matt a minute to realize who was standing in front of him.
"Mimi! Is that you?!"
Mimi smiled. "The one and only."
"Wow, you sing really well."
"You're not half bad on that harmonica either."
Matt blushed slightly at the compliment. "Hey, let's go somewhere to
talk about this. I've been at school long enough." No matter how well
Matt did on his music finals, he didn't (and never would) like school.
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Outside, Mimi and Matt walked around quietly in no particular direction.
Matt broke the silence first. "So, how do you know the song?"
"Actually, I don't know. It just came to me yesterday. I've been trying
to find out what it's called, but it seems like no ones knows it...
except for you." Mimi paused for a minute. "Well, what about you? How do
you know how the song goes?"
"It just came to me yesterday, too." Matt told Mimi everything from his
dream to where they were now. He left out the part in his dream where he
almost saw the girl. "I just wish that there's words to this song. It's
been driving me crazy trying to figure out what's the point in all this."
"Hmmm... Maybe the point isn't to know what the words are."
"What do you mean?"
"You don't need words to understand a song. Music is the universal
language. You of all people should know that."
Matt let Mimi's words sink in. "Yeah, I guess you're right. What do you
think of when you hear the song?"
They stopped walking to sit down on a bench. They ended up walking to
the park where Matt liked to go when life was overwhelming him. The sun
was just starting to set as Mimi turned to face Matt. Her expression told
Matt that she was serious. "I think of a guy and a girl a lot like us.
The guy likes the girl a lot, but never tells her how he feels. Later on
in life, he finally gets the nerves to tell her how he feels. But she's
gone --"
"Gone where?" Matt interrupted.
"I don't know. She's just gone. The poor guy feels like she's slipped
past his fingers. Things would have been so much different if he had only
told her..."
Matt couldn't meet Mimi's steady gaze. He was silent for a while.
"What about you, Yamato? What do you see?"
Matt was surprised. She had never called him by his real name before. He
was only called Yamato by angry teachers or by his parents. Even so, it
was the most beautiful thing he had heard right behind Mimi's singing and
his harmonica.
"I see a girl. She's singing the song."
"Yes, that was the dream. What do you see beyond that?" Instead of being
annoyed by such obvious answers, Mimi was patient with Matt. He was
having a hard time trying to put his thoughts into words.
"She's sad. So sad. It almost makes me want to cry with her."
"Why is she so sad?"
Matt found the words. "There's a boy involved. The girl really likes the
guy. She wants to tell him that she likes him, but she's scared that
he'll reject her. They don't talk for a while, and eventually they just
drift apart. She's totally convinced that he won't like her now, and
that's where I see her now. She's heartbroken thinking about how things
could have been."
"That girl needs to get over with him!" Mimi snapped.
"Mimi, there's more." It was Matt's turn to be patient. "The girl in my
dream... I saw her outline. I couldn't tell who she was because it was
dark, but I remember that outline." The sun had set directly behind Mimi.
All Matt could see of Mimi was her silhouette. "When I saw you back at
school, your outline matched the one in my dream perfectly. I wasn't
sure... I thought that I might have been mistaken or something. But now,
your silhouette has convinced me more than ever."
"Convinced you of what?"
"That you are the girl in my dream."
PART 4
Mimi's sudden anger at the girl was replaced by confusion. "Me? Who am I
all depressed about?"
"I don't know. I was hoping you could tell me."
Now it was Mimi who couldn't meet Matt's steady gaze. "Matt, I..." she
faltered and turned away from Matt. She faced the sun set. The sun was
dipping slowly behind the horizon, giving the sky a rich glow of colors.
"Mimi, we both know what the song means." Matt put his hand on Mimi's
shoulder. Mimi looked at Matt's resting hand and turned to face him but
looked down. Matt continued, "I've been killing myself trying to find the
meaning and the point of this, but it's right in front of me... It's
you."
Mimi's eyes flickered. Matt moved his hand from Mimi's shoulder to
tenderly tilt her face up. "The song is a warning, Mimi. The guy and girl
are us. You and me."
"So you're saying that you...?" Mimi's voice drifted off.
"Yes, I like you. I have for a long time. I don't know if it's love, but
I do know that I have never felt this way about anyone. The song was
showing me what would happen if I never told you. I don't want to lose
you, Mimi. You mean too much to me." Matt hoped Mimi didn't see the
single tear he wiped away on his face.
"Oh, Yamato..." Mimi didn't see the tear on Matt's face, because she had
tears in her eyes that were in danger of falling. Mimi threw her arms
around Matt and held him tight. She placed her head on his chest and
curled up in his arms. The tears she was holding back flowed freely. "I
never thought... All this time you've liked me."
"Mimi, you're the sad girl in my dream. Are you depressed because of
me?"
Mimi nodded. Her tears were falling, but her voice was steady. "I've
liked you ever since we met back at the digital world. I'm not sure if
this is true love either, but I know that this is more than puppy love.
When we were able to go home and live our separate life, we didn't talk
as much anymore. I thought I was losing you."
Matt held Mimi tighter. "But we have each other now."
"Yes, we do."
Mimi's tears stopped falling. The last tear caught the remaining
sunlight and twinkled like a star. Matt gently wiped away her tears. She
gave a little smile.
"Yamato, it wasn't a mistake that we were the only people to know this
song. It's like we were fated to be together and this music brought us
together. The music came from our heart."
"I think that a force greater than fate brought us together."
"You mean love?"
Matt looked down at Mimi's sparkling eyes. He smiled. "Sure."
Mimi giggled and kissed Matt's cheek quickly. She turned around to face
the setting sun. With Matt's arms around her, she sighed happily. Matt
blushed redder than the sky, but he had never been happier. Together,
they watched the sun disappear under the horizon.
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author's note: ta da! hope you people like my lil fan fic. hope it wasn't
too cliché-ish for you guys. sorry if some parts don't make sense or are
irrelevant. hey, this is my first time writing a fan fic & i was making
it up as i went along. :P i know it's not much, but it's a start! Ü i'd
really appreciate some comments or feedback ... ^_~ hehe!
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