Since people seem to still be reading this story after all these years (I uploaded this story in 2002, for goodness' sake!) I have gone through and made some revisions to the grammar and such, as well as changing two of the songs I used. My notes still name the old songs, in case you wondered what they were. Please enjoy and review if you have anything to say.
This is alternate-universe and out-of-character. I have also added in my own characters.
All the CCS
characters belong to CLAMP.
The songs belong to the artists
credited with them.
No magic in this story, no Kero or Yue or cards. Meilin is not related to Syaoran in this story. S+S, E+T pairings. Other pairings involve original characters.
Everybody Wants You
Chapter One: The
Challenges
Sakura walked into the first day of senior year with her best friends. Tomoyo and Lisah had been her friends for years. Meilin had once been the fourth member of their little group, but she was hanging out in Syaoran's crowd now. See, last year Syaoran had been not-very-popular. He had more than a few friends, but he wasn't exactly with the 'in' crowd. Then he joined the soccer team and suddenly he left his old friends behind and became every girl's dream. Except Sakura, Tomoyo, Lisah, and Meilin.
Meilin had managed to join his new circle, under the direction of her three friends. Meilin was their little spy. She helped Sakura, Tomoyo, and Lisah crash the popular kids' parties. No one could figure out who was telling them. Nobody suspected Meilin because there had been a public argument between the four friends, as vicious as it was fake. No one had forgotten it.
The bell rang and the students filed into their homerooms, their teachers giving them their assigned seats. Sakura sat next to Tomoyo and in front of Lisah. Meilin, Syaoran, and Eriol were across the room. The teacher began the announcements. After a few normal first-day topics, she smiled at the class, more energetic than the Monday morning should have allowed.
"Senior year seems to be a popular year for kids to drop out, what with all the pressure about college," she told them. "So this year we are starting an event that will happen every Friday night, and only Seniors can attend." The class was now looking at her eagerly.
"These events are not mandatory. They are called Karaoke Challenges. Groups of friends, or just one person, does karaoke with a song, challenging another group or person to answer it. It's just for fun and to boost student morale. You will learn more about it at the assembly in… well, I guess we can head out now," the teacher finished and herded everybody to the assembly room. There the principal greeted all the seniors and explained the concept of the Karaoke Challenges. All day long, the topic of choice was the Challenges.
On Thursday, Syaoran and his friends ran into Sakura, Tomoyo, and Lisah in the hallway after school.
"You three are so annoying, following us around like groupies!" a boy named Yamazaki said, smirking. His girlfriend Chiharu scowled at the three girls. Sakura cursed at him and Syaoran told her to shut up, glaring.
"Make me, Li!" she shouted, glaring right back. He suddenly grinned.
"I know one way to shut you up, Kinomoto. You get on the Challenges and I dare you three to actually sing a song without the real singers in the background. Let's see if you can make me want to challenge you back," he said.
"We accept," Sakura said, and the three girls walked away.
"You're fighting a girl here," Lisah shouted, turning to walk backwards down the hall. "Don't expect to win. You're even fighting three all by yourself. I'd feel sorry for you if you weren't so pathetic," she told Li. As she turned, she caught Meilin's eye. Meilin winked at her.
Friday night came and most of the twelfth grade showed up in the school's theater. A couple of groups went before Sakura and her friends had their turn. When they got on stage, Sakura turned on her microphone, a wireless headset. The school had spared no expense.
"Okay, we have to get the projector on, wait a sec please." The projector in the back of the auditorium came on, putting words onto the white screen behind the girls. It read 'Everybody Wants You by SHeDAISY'. The projector was hooked up to a laptop, so it would cause pictures to appear on the screen as the song played.
"Okay everybody, this song is responding to a challenge yesterday from Syaoran Li. I just know everyone is going to love it," Sakura said. Tomoyo, and Lisah turned their microphones on as the music came on. They began singing in a sarcastic tone, Sakura singing lead. The screen started displaying not-very-flattering pictures Tomoyo had taken of Syaoran back when they'd all been friends.
Everybody wants you?
(they laugh)
Paper-faced, sterilized
Ravenous enough to
swallow the lies
What on earth did we do
Before this town
invented you
With life exaggerated
You must be so elated
How does it feel now that
Everybody wants
you, everybody wants you
You're so ideal now that
Everybody
wants you
Will you even cry, cry, cry
Falling from that high,
high, high
Everybody wants you
Through the gloss, looking smooth
Flash a
smile that climatizes the room
But all the hype and hot air
Can't
cover up what's under there
You're stylishly contagious
Until
they flip the pages
How does it feel now that
Everybody wants
you, everybody wants you
You're so ideal now that
Everybody
wants you
Will you even cry, cry, cry
Falling from that high,
high, high
Everybody wants you
What will you do
When they don't, don't,
don't want you
And how will you feel
When you have to get
real
Is this picture all too vivid
Cause you look a little
livid
How does it feel now that
Everybody wants
you, everybody wants you
You're so ideal now that
Everybody
wants you
Will you even cry, cry, cry
Falling from that high,
high, high
Everybody wants you
Yeah, yeah everybody wants you
Everybody
wants you, everybody wants you
Everybody wants you, everybody
wants you
Everybody wants you, everybody wants you
Oh,
everybody
Everybody wants you, wants you
Yeah yeah, everybody
wants you
As Sakura, Tomoyo, and Lisah finished the song, Syaoran was obviously fuming. Everyone was laughing. The girls walked off stage and changed back into their normal clothes.
They left the girls' dressing room only to find Syaoran and two of his friends waiting for them. Eriol and Toby joined Syaoran in being speechless. The girls looked great in their hip-huggers and halter tops.
Sakura grinned at Syaoran and walked up to him, purposely invading his personal space.
"Something wrong?" she asked innocently. Too innocently. Syaoran shook his head 'no' and Sakura backed off. Lisah sighed. She went up to Toby, putting one hand on his shoulder, falsely affectionate.
"Now this is how you intimidate men," she said. Lisah slowly got closer to Toby, who backed up until he was pressed against the wall. Lisah moved her body up against his until their lips were millimeters apart. She paused, then finally whispered, "Do you have the time?"
She pushed away from him and returned to her friends, leading them down the hallway. "And that, ladies, is how it's done," she said loudly. Her friends giggled. They could have never guessed what they'd be doing by that time next week.
