I do not own CCS or any characters of the show.

The story takes place when they are sophomores in high school.

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I back-up a little ways to admire my new poster of The Fallen. He's so dreamy I think to myself, and he is. With his silky brown hair, his muscular body, his deep brown eyes...he's everything a teenage girl would want.

My name is Sakura Kinomoto and I am OBSESSED with The Fallen, a super popular punk rock band. There are four members, the drummer Eriol Hiiragizawa, the bass guitarist Takashi Yamazaki, the lead guitarist Haku River, and the vocalist Syaoran Li, and he's the all time super hotty of the band! I am Syaoran's ultimate fan, I love him so much! I have probably read every article ever written on him (but I don't believe the ones that say that he is an alien from a planet called "Zetebaba"), seen all of his concerts (on television), have all of his CD's, own all of his posters, and...I love him.

The new addition to my room is going over my bed. It is probably my favorite poster I have of them. This poster has a black background (all of their posters have a black background but with the pictures, it's even cooler) and they members are standing next to each other. Syaoran is one of the people in middle wearing a black long sleeve shirt with a skeleton head on it with black jeans holding a microphone. Eriol is another person in the middle and he is wearing a red cap with a dark green shirt and black paints and he is holding his drumsticks like a cross. Haku is the farthest to the left wearing a brown shirt with a picture of Chihiro on it (Chihiro is his super serious girlfriend. Rumor is that they are married, but they are only teenagers, then again, they might be) giving a peace sign, and last is Takashi with a black shirt with pink stripes, pink paints, sticking out his tongue. But you gotta love him. Chiharu absolutely LOOVES him, almost as much as I love Syaoran (and that's freaky!).

Ring, Ring!

"I'll get it!" I yell to my dad.

"Hello? Kinomoto residence, Sakura speaking."

"Sakura? It's Rika, and your going to love me after what I did." She said in a very hyper-perky voice.

"What happened?"

"I just won five tickets to The Fallen concert taken place here tomorrow night!

"OH MY GOD! That is totally amazing Rika! Wha...How?" my heart was totally racing now. Winning FIVE tickets to a Fallen concert...HOW AMAZING!

"I won them over the radio, but I have them and YOUR INVITED!"

"OH MY GOD! Thanks so much Rika. Oh my God, wait...I have to ask my dad. He'll say yes...please let him say yes."

I set the phone down and head downstairs towards my dad's study where he is researching a new found island of the coast of Australia, and next week, he is flying out there to study it's geography and vegetation.

I knock on the door twice and immediately he replies, "Come in."

I enter the small room. My dad is at his desk flipping through pages of a big leather book and typing things into his laptop at the same time. He must really be working hard.

Your probably thinking why he is working so hard on a new discovered island? Well, he had to study the water, animals, and other islands surrounding it to see if anything could have happened during its creation. I asked the same question yesterday when he spent dinner in here.

"Yes Sakura, what is it?"

"Dad, umm... do we have anything going on tomorrow night?" I ask in my most respectable voice.

"I do not believe we do...why?"

"Well, Rika won tickets to a concert tomorrow night, she invited me because she had more than one ticket, and I was wondering if I could go."

He turns around from his computer at this.

"That's very good that you are doing something with your friends, yes, of course you can go. Just figure out where, what time, and if I will have to take you or anything, okay?"

"Yes father." I run to give him a hug and accidentally knock over some stacks of books. I give him a "I'm sorry" look and he just laughs at me.

I jump into his arms and he gives me hug. As I pull away from him, he pokes at a paperclip in my shirt spelling the word PUNK. I made this shirt the other day, he hasn't seen it yet. He just gives me a smile, and I then run out of the room into my room, "Yes, he said yes. Oh my god, I can't believe we are going to see a Fallen concert!"

"I KNOW!" replies Rika, "It's going to be you, me, Tomoyo, Chiharu, and Naoko."

"That's so perfect that you won five tickets so we all can go!"

"I KNOW! Anyway... if you didn't already know...the concert is at seven..."

She gave me all the little details like where we were going to meet, where we were sitting, and things like that.

I was so excited, seriously...you have no idea how excited I am because...I AM GOING TO SEE LI SYAORAN IN PERSON!

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That night, I take out my Fallen T-shirt, my matching black jeans and hang them up because I was going to wear them tomorrow.

I get into bed but couldn't go to sleep, all I could think about was that I...me, I was going to see Li Syaoran in person...AND IN THE FRONT ROW!

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During school that day, Tomoyo, Rika, Chiharu, Naoko, and I couldn't wait until that night! We were so excited! Not even Victoria Spelling could bring us down today.

Victoria Spelling the most popular person in the school. She's captain of the cheerleading squad, president on the student council, president of NHS (National Honors Society), and is in practically every school-related function. In other words, she's "Miss School Spirit".

And we totally hate her! During lunch, she throws food at us, she trips us in the hallways, she gets her guy friends to put gum in our hair, and she is just a total meanie! We report her to the office, but they don't do anything about it. They say they are going to, but they won't. They won't do ANYTHING to "Miss School Spirit". They also don't like punks, they think that we "cause trouble" (which we don't because, first off, I've never gotten into a fight, we all make straight A's, and Tomoyo is going to be valedictorian of our class).

Oh, in case you already couldn't tell...I'm a punk. Ever since I was 10, I started dressing in black clothes, did my hair in weird ways, and other stuff. Tomoyo, Chiharu, and Naoko are punks too. We all love dressing in black and experimenting. Chuckle! It's funny, last month, Chiharu died her hair with this lime green color and came to school with a matching shirt, matching jeans, shoes, watch, hair ties, everything. I mean EVERYTHING! It was so funny. Yeah, it wasn't black, but we're the only people in the school that does things like this. At other schools, there are a whole group of people, but not here, just the four of us.

The last period of the day was Honors Biology 1 (I have with Tomoyo, but she sits on the opposite side of the room). Our teacher is Mrs. Hens, a lady in her late 40's, but she is really cool for her age.

Last year...this is just way to funny...she got a ponytail weave that matched her hair color, and wore it to school. You probably don't think this is funny, but it seriously is because she's this old lady running round with a weave!

Anyways...five minutes to go until the last bell. Tomoyo and I keep giving each other stares of excitement, joy, everything, because in four hours...WE WILL SEE THE FALLEN IN PERSON!

"...And that class is thermodynamics. Any questions?" Dong, dong, dong, "Oh, there's the bell, have a safe and fun weekend."

Tomoyo and I run out of the classroom, gather up our stuff, and head for Rika's house (we were all going to meet over there because her mom was going to give us a ride. Rika, Chiharu, and Naoko all have seventh period off. It sucks, they get to go home an hour early, and we both have to stay with the loser people. Lucky.)

Walking down Main St., all we can think about is the concert. People turn their heads looking at the BRIGHT pink streaks in Tomoyo's hair, but we don't care, we're seeing a Fallen concert tonight!

"I can't wait until tonight Sakura, I mean...gosh, seeing a Fallen concert."

"I KNOW! I am so ex..."I stopped dead in my tracks and looked in the bakery, but it wasn't him. I thought for sure it was him this time. I've been seeing him a lot lately... even though he's...not here anymore.

"Sakura? What is it?"

"I...I thought that...it was him." I look down at my shoes for thinking that I saw him. This was like the twelve billionth time I thought I saw him.

"It's okay Sakura," she gives me a big hug, "I would be like that too if I were you. All you can do is just think of the future, and remember him, he wouldn't want you to be sad on a day like this Sakura."

"Yeah, you're right, he wouldn't. Anyways..." but I still think about him. I know...my dad told me he was dead...but...there was never a body. We had a funeral... but I never saw a body. That gives me hope...I guess. Knowing that I never saw his body...dead gives me hope that maybe...maybe he is still alive... somewhere.

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FINALLY! WE JUST GOT INTO THE CAR AND ARE DRIVING TO THE CONVENTION CENTER! I AM SO EXCITED!

We put on their third album (an all-time favorite of all of us), crank up the volume, and sing to the song "Suicidal Love". It's SO GREAT!

Rika's mom kept giving us weird looks, but in the end, she couldn't resist singing along too.

I gaze up at the tall building in front of us with millions of people standing outside, waiting to go in. Here we are... the convention center. As Rika's mom drops us off, she makes sure we have her cell number, the home phone number, our cell phones, making sure she has our cell numbers, all that stuff, but we didn't care, WE WERE AT A FALLEN CONCERT!

Since Rika won tickets off a local radio station, she had to do this little interview with one of the DJs (we really didn't mind all that much. Come on? How could we? They were the ones that gave us the tickets, how could we complain?).

They asked her simple questions, are you a fan, how long have you been a fan, do you own any items of their band, stuff like that.

I started to get really bored because they didn't care about the three of us, they probably didn't care about Chiharu except for the fact that she HAD to interview her, so I started looking around and noticed for the first time how many punks were here. GOSH! They are so many, I never knew there so many here. And I was surprised. I thought that being a punk was a rare thing, that not a lot of people were, but I was proved wrong.

As I was looking around, I spotted a dollar on the ground. WOW! A dollar! Big money! HAHA, can't believe I am acting this way over a dollar.

As I was bending down to get it, someone knocked into me, causing me to fall over.

OUCH! I think to myself.

"Oh, I am so sorry. Are you hurt?"

At least he didn't mean to do it on purpose, he gave me his hand to help me up, I haven't look at his face at all, I was rubbing the spot on my leg that was now forming a bruise, "No, I'm fine, just a little..." and I trailed. I looked up and it was him...Syaoran Li.

OH MY GOSH! I AM HOLDING SYAORAN LI'S HAND! I AM THE LUCKIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD!

"I'm sorry, is there anything I can do? I know, how about I give you backstage passes?"

I just stare at him and give a slight nod, he must have seen it because he continued, "Yeah, I'll give you backstage passes. Are you alone? Oh, are you with the contest winner? Okay, here," and he hands me five backstage passes that he pulled out of his pocket, "you can come after the show. Oh wait, that's seven. Sorry, I have a lot in my pocket. My producer wanted me to hand them out to people." And he walks off, "Sorry again!" he yells back after disappearing into a building door.

I can't believe. I held Syaoran Li's hand, talked to him (well, he was doing the talking) and am going to see him backstage! THIS IS TOTALLY COOL!

"Was that Syaoran Li? OH MY GOSH SAKURA, YOU WERE TALKING TO SYAORAN LI!" Chiharu, Tomoyo, and Naoko all came up to me and started jumping around me, Rika just looked at me and dropped her jaw because she still was in the interview.

That was when my life changed. It's kinda funny...reaching for a dollar...can bring you happiness. That is a weird saying, isn't it? I never thought that a dollar could lead to the events that are going to happen, nor did I care at that moment. All I could think about was that I, Sakura Kinomoto, actually talked, and was going to talk some more, to Syaoran Li.

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How was it? Please R&R!