I was with my best friends when he appeared. Lauren, Sienna, Bethany, Amy and I were all hanging out at the park after we had gotten some lunch at a hot dog stand. We decided to go into the trees and explore around a bit.
"Maybe we'll find a bunny rabbit out here" Sienna had said," I always wanted a pet bunny!"
"Sienna," Amy had replied slowly, "generally people don't find cute, little white bunnies with big floppy ears just sitting around in the forest, normally they run away."
"I know that!" Sienna had shot back, "But I still want a bunny!"
The rest of us had laughed then, not at Sienna, but with her. We all knew that if she really wanted it, one day Sienna probably would have a bunny. We continued to wander through the forest of the park.
It started to get dark. Nobody noticed. As the shadows lengthened Beth finally spoke up.
"We're lost, and it's dark out" she said.
"And I'm hungry!" Lauren added. I heard them speak and reluctantly let go of my daydream.
"What are you talking about? We just had lunch like a half hour ago!"
"Emily look around you!" Amy said "It's got to be like almost six o'clock by now! We had lunch nearly four hours ago!"
"How did it get so late without any of us noticing?" I asked, speaking more to myself than anybody else.
"Well I don't know," Sienna said, "but I don't really care because while we were walking I had the most wonderful daydream about this gorgeous blonde guy and…umm, crap I can't remember…"
"You had a daydream too?" Lauren asked, "So did I! There was this ninja and he…umm…Damnit all I can't even remember his face!"
"I wonder if that's why we don't remember…" I muttered, again hardly speaking to anybody but myself.
"Wait Emily, what did you just say?" Bethany asked me.
"Oh I was just thinking, were we all daydreams this afternoon?" I asked. "We know that Lauren and Sienna both did, and so did I so I was thinking maybe we all did."I finished.
"Your right I did daydream this afternoon!" Bethany exclaimed.
"And what about Amy, did you daydream Amy?" I asked. She didn't answer.
"Amy? Were did she go?" I asked. There was a rustling in some bushes behind us.
"Amy, is that you?" Bethany asked into the darkness.
"I'm tired." Sienna mumbled.
"Well don't be! We can't go to sleep in the middle of a forest and we have to find Amy!" Lauren said shaking Sienna so she could not fall asleep.
"Hey look," Sienna mumbled, falling asleep besides Laurens efforts to keep her awake, "Amy is over there, next to those bushes. And she's…" Sienna yawned, "snoring."
"What?!" I turned to see that Sienna was right; Amy was just over near the bushes, asleep. I went over to her and shook her, she didn't wake up. "Guys! Come help me wake her up!" I called to the others. They didn't say anything.
"Guys?" I turned to see them all asleep, their heads resting on each-others shoulders. "What the hell?" I said into the darkness. "Why is everybody so tired?" I couldn't think of anything else to do so I just dragged the sleeping Amy over to everybody else and sat down next to them all.
"What happened? How come they won't wake up?" I asked the darkness again. But the darkness answered.
"They won't not wake because I will it to be so." Replied the young male voice in the dark.
"Who are you?" I asked him.
"I did not expect you to ask me that." He replied.
"Who are you?!?" I repeated
"My name does not matter, but your name does." He said.
"What? You say your are making my friends sleep because 'you will it to happen' and now you want me to tell you my name? You're crazy!"
"Actually," he said calmly, "I would prefer I didn't have to ask you your name, personally I prefer to learn about you through your own mind,"
"What the hell are you talking about?!?" I cut in.
"I'm saying," he continued, "that usually I would just conquer somebody's mind to learn of their usefulness, but with you my power seems to be…limited." I stood and stared into the dark trees, trying to find the place from were his voice came.
"You will not find me out there." He said.
"Oh really?" I challenged, "Then would will I find you? Tell me who you are!"
"You will find me," he said, "right here."
And were before there was just empty air, there now stood beside me a boy. No, not just a boy. The boy.
The boy from the daydream I had been so reluctant to leave. But how was that possible? I had never met him before! He was just my imagination! My mind's creation of perfection! He couldn't be real, I wanted him to be but it wasn't possible.
I closed my eyes, and counted to five, then opened them again. He was still there, he was real, the same as in my daydream. His messy brown hair, his strange eyes, the right one deep and brown as the finest chocolate, and the left one, a dazzling pool of electric blue.
"Syaoran" I whispered, testing his name.
"Yes? It seems you have answered your own question about my name…"
"How?" I asked, my voice barely audible.
"Well, it seems that although I am not able to conquer your mind I am able to project certain thoughts into it." He answered simply.
It was too much, I was confused, I was tired and I was scared, terrified even, though I had no idea why.
As I fell into a faint, into the forgiving blackness of unintentional sleep, I wondered vaguely if it was because of him that every-body else had had fallen asleep. Through the blackness I felt arms wrap around me, stopping me from falling to the ground, then my mind was consumed in darkness.
