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"I missed this place."
At long last she's back home. Sakura gazed at the imposing structure that rose before her, a lighthouse that seems to reach the sky.
She just got off the plane but decided to make this side trip before going home. She missed everything about this place but most especially the lighthouse.
Sakura dug in the pockets of her jeans and took out an ornate key. A smile formed in her lips as she turned the key over her palm.
Clutching the key in her breast Sakura approached the entrance of the lighthouse almost light headed. Facing the door of the lighthouse, she hesitated afraid and excited at the same time as to what lies behind the door.
Hands trembling she inserted the key in the lock of the door. Wiping her sweaty hands in her jeans, Sakura was just about to reach out for the knob when…
ANSWER ME! ANSWER ME!
The atmosphere of the moment suddenly went crashing down. Sakura sighed, took a deep breath and tried again.
ANSWER ME! ANSWER ME!
Sakura closed her eyes and gave up trying to get back the mood. She took another deep breath for patience and answered her phone.
"SAKURA!" Meiling screeched on the phone.
Sakura flinched and extended her hand holding her phone away from her poor ear and waited for her friend to finish screaming her name. Her eardrums might suffer damage from Meiling's shriek.
Believing that it was safe Sakura returned her phone to her ears. "Hi Mei what's up?"
"You tell me what's up! You are going home and you did not tell any of us. Even me and Tomoyo your best friends?" Meiling demanded.
"Sorry about that. I did not want to make a big deal out of it so I just kept quiet. Knowing you and Tomoyo I know you'll make too much fuss about it. Heck you might even throw a welcome back party." Sakura answered shivering at the thought.
"Well…I can't deny that but still you should have told us." Meiling said in a much calmer tone now.
Sakura laughed at her friend's response. "I'm sorry okay. To make it up to the two of you why don't we get together in my place for a sort of pajama party and then you can help me unpack my things and your gifts. Will that be enough to appease your highnesses?"
"Fine…but as an added bonus we can do anything to you tonight."
Sakura closed her eyes in prayer dreading the coming disaster but she has no choice. "Looking forward to it…" Sakura answered mustering all the excitement that she can.
"That's a deal then. I'll just call Tomoyo and I'll be over your house in fifteen minutes okay. Bye now."
"Gotcha. Bye."
Sakura sighed. She gazed at the door of the lighthouse longingly but she has to get going. When Meiling said fifteen minutes she meant fifteen minutes.
"Well I guess you have to wait for the next time." Sakura said to the lighthouse and pat the door of the lighthouse like it was a pet. She has to hurry home before her friends become more pissed off and make tonight's pajama party experience much worse.
LATER…
Ding Dong
A blur shot out of nowhere as Sakura opened the door and she suddenly found herself suffocating from a rib-breaking hug with flying paper bags in the background.
"Uh…Mei I know you miss me but…can you loosen a little or I might really say goodbye forever…"Sakura choked.
"Oh sorry…Waaaaaaah Sakura I really missed you." "Apparently." Sakura responded while rubbing her bruised ribs.
"Anyway where's Tomoyo?" Sakura asked looking around for a walking video camera.
"Well I tried contacting her cell phone but she doesn't answer so I tried calling their phone. It was the butler who answered and told me that his mistress was having an important dinner with her parents and that she will be late in coming to Miss Kinimoto's house but she will surely come."
"An important dinner with her parents…Hmmm sounds ominous to me…"
"I know right…uh can you help me with these."
Meiling was picking up the mysterious paper bags that scattered during her flight to hug Sakura. Sakura approached the scattered bags and started picking up things cautiously. She was afraid as to what they maybe.
"What exactly are these things?" Sakura asked while holding up a weird sort of metal contraption that looked like a cross between a brush, a curler, and god knows what else.
"Fufufufufu…you did say we can do anything to you right…fufufufu…It will be for your punishment later Sakura."
"Yeah right…" Sakura answered a goose bumps rising behind her neck from Meiling's sinister look.
MUCH LATER…
"It's already really late and Tomoyo's not here yet. Hmmmm…curios…what do you think Sakura?"
Sakura would have answered that she was also worried and wondering but her face is currently cemented in some weird mixture that Meiling smeared on her face so she just contented herself with a nod in her friend's direction.
"I wonder…" Meiling was just about to declare her suspicions when the doorbell sounded.
"She's here!"
Both girls scrambled to the door, green slivers falling in Sakura's wake. Meiling opened the door revealing a smiling Tomoyo and a lady bodyguard who was hidden behind a stack of what appears to be a stack of clothes wrapped in plastic.
"Place it here on the couch and place my suitcase there. That's all thank you. You may now leave."
"But my lady…" "You may now leave Michelle…You don't have to worry about me. Mother also said that I may have my privacy with my friends for tonight." Tomoyo said pointing at the door. She was starting to emit a dark aura of some kind that her lady body guard seems to sense.
"As you wish my Lady." The lady body guard bowed and left.
Tomoyo waited for the sound of the car leaving before she turned back to face her friends smile still in place and the dark aura was still growing. Sakura and Meiling looked at each other at a loss for words.
Suddenly Tomoyo hugged them both and was soaking their clothes with her tears. She was bawling like never before; all her poise forgotten.
"Tunuyu r u ukay?" Sakura asked trying to get comprehensible words out with her unmoving jaw and cheeks.
Tomoyo now a bit calmer but still crying looked at Sakura and then Meiling and with wavering voice asked.
"Is that a mud pack with honey and sea weed and lime?" Meiling looked at Tomoyo with a worried look and nodded.
Tomoyo looked at Sakura's mud pack examining it for a few seconds and…continued bawling again. "It's okay. It's okay. I'll also apply some on you later." Meiling said in a very sympathetic tone while patting Tomoyo's back reassuringly.
"Really." Tomoyo surfaced once more, expression radiant while gazing at Meiling for a few seconds and started crying all over again. Sakura almost smacked herself but refrained to do so. Her friend must really be in dire straits to be crying like this.
So instead she also patted Tomoyo's back and waited for her to calm down which was a while and her tears had already melted half of Sakura face mask.
"Tomoyo I know your upset but can I have a time out for a bit. Green slime is already oozing down my face." Sakura said feeling ickier by the moment.
"Um... me too. I think I need a change of clothes." Meiling added while looking down the front of her shirt which was already soaked through.
"O-okay. I think I already cried enough." Tomoyo was back to her graceful rich young lady normal self. She is now sniffing daintily in her hander kerchief.
"Give as a minute and we'll solve that problem of yours. Although you're pretty cute when you're crying, I still think that you're much cuter smiling."
Sakura patted Tomoyo's head and Tomoyo looked at her with eyes sparkling. Meiling who was watching in the sideline just looked at the odd scene with an off feeling she can't quite explain.
MUCH MUCH LATER…
"Okay Tomoyo now that you are calm why don't you tell as what happened."
The girls are now in Sakura's bedroom sitting in her bed waiting for Tomoyo's bombshell to drop. Tomoyo sighed and started to tell her story.
"Woah. You're ENGAGED and to none other than the legendary one-week-love-affair prince Eriol Hiragizawa…unbefreakinglievable!" Meiling said looking at Tomoyo with something like awe in her face.
"Thank you Mei for labeling my nightmare." Tomoyo slumped back in the bed feeling hopeless by the moment.
"Wait Mei you know Tomoyo's fiance?" Sakura asked curios at the identity of Tomoyo's suppose to be future husband.
"Well who doesn't know the Eriol Hiragizawa. I mean any person who has enough estrogen in their body knows him and has drooled when seeing him at some point in their life. He's like the ultimate- badass-straight-from-any-girl's-dream heartbreaker of the town. "
Tomoyo looked at Meiling with an eyebrow raised.
"Oh well you know me I'm not normal so I'm unaffected." Meiling shrugged. The other two girls just looked at her with a yeah-right kind of expression.
"Okay…but why do you call him one-week-love-affair prince?"
"We'll you see there is a legend here about Eriol." "Legend?..."
"It's like this…
It starts with Monday. When he sees a girl that he likes, he will approach her with the skills and tools of a seasoned predator.
Come Tuesday he will start the campaign of storming that poor girl's defenses showering her with all of his attention.
Wednesday that girl will be irrevocably in love with him.
Thursday, if you're, lucky enough he will make you his girlfriend.
Friday will be the glorious glorious day of being his special someone.
Saturday things will start to cool off where the girl tries to hold on to him to no avail.
By Sunday it will be it's time to wake up princess. Fairytale dream has ended. Prince Eriol has ridden into the sunset in his white charger.
And that is Eriol Hiragizawa's great bad boy legend."
"Wow…" Is all Sakura can say.
Tomoyo moaned and covered her face with a pillow.
"You mean all of his conquest only last for one week?" Sakura asked.
"We'll not really…It usually lasts for say 3 weeks give or take a few days. The legend actually started when this super hot super popular idol girl became his girlfriend for a week. What I just said was pretty much their love story."
"Wow…and that person is Tomoyo's fiancé?" Sakura said amazed in this urban legend of a guy. "I know right. Wow doesn't really cover it." Sakura and Meiling gazed at Tomoyo like she was some rare endangered species.
Tomoyo just moaned again in response.
"Okay so your fiancé is Mr. Bad Boy Extraordinaire. What is the problem then Tomoyo? Whatever it is I promise we will help you."
Slowly Tomoyo lowered the pillow covering her face and looked at her two friends. A blush was slowly spreading across her face.
"Our parents left as alone together after the dinner so that we can talk and know each other. When we were alone I-I told him that I already ha-have someone special and to make it worse when I said that to him he just laughed and-and told me that if-if I can prove that I really have a boyfriend then he will personally call off the engagement and that if I was just-just lying he-he will…" Tomoyo couldn't seem to continue what she was saying.
"He will what?" Meiling who was now dying from the suspense demanded.
"He sa-said tha-that he will make-make me his gi-girlfriend and go-go on wi-with the engagement."
Tomoyo burst into tears and was enthusiastically crying again. Sakura and Meiling looked at each other. They don't know what to say. Never did they think that Tomoyo can actually get herself in such a messy situation.
"Okay so your parents set you two up in an engagement and you told him that you already have a boyfriend and you need to prove that to him because if you don't, you girl will be the official girlfriend of the most sought after guy in town…Honestly friend I don't see a downside."
Meiling said trying to lighten things up but Tomoyo just cried more earnestly. Sakura frowned at Meiling.
"What?" Meiling shrugged. Sakura rolled her eyes at her.
"It's okay Tomoyo we'll help you." Sakura patted Tomoyo's head. "But I don't want to be his girlfriend. I don't want to be engaged." Tomoyo sniffed.
Sakura smiled at her and wiped her tears away.
"Don't worry we'll find a way somehow. Right Mei?" Sakura gave Meiling a look that told her that jokes and contradictions are out of the question. Meiling nodded awkwardly.
"Yeah sure, we will definitely help you pass up the biggest catch of the season."
Sakura glared at Meiling. Meiling immediately looked away and smiled at Sakura's direction. Sakura sighed. This really is not her best day. Who knew that her homecoming will be so full of excitement and shocks and headaches…
"Okay so the problem is you don't have a boyfriend right?" Sakura asked Tomoyo.
Tomoyo timidly nodded. She has calmed down now and has stopped crying.
"So this means we have to find you a boyfriend…an express boyfriend." Meiling finally accepted the fact that her friend does not like to be the one-week-love-affair-prince's princess and tried to be helpful this time.
"But that's kinda hard Tomoyo. You or me or Sakura don't know a lot of boys, especially available ones who will be willing to be your pseudo boyfriend. Well I do know a lot of boys would be willing to do that. I mean…"
Tomoyo vigorously shook her head. If she was to pretend to be going out with someone that will involve holding of hands, dating in public, and other things she doesn't want to think about. The thought of doing it with some stranger is terribly terrifying. Her interaction with boys in that level is next to zero.
"… is out of the question." Meiling sighed. Sakura sighed. Tomoyo also sighed.
The room was silent for a moment when suddenly Tomoyo broke into giggles. Sakura and Meiling looked at her alarmed thinking that their friend suddenly lost her mind.
"Uh…Tomoyo are you…are you okay?" Sakura asked Tomoyo and looked at Meiling for help. Meiling just raised her shoulders in response. She doesn't know what to do.
"It's okay. I haven't lost my mind. It's just that this situation reminds me of that time when we were still kids. Remember the sleeping beauty play. I was Aurora that time but the student who was to play the prince's part got sick on the day of the presentation so you had to find me another prince. Our teacher almost panicked because no one knew the prince's line except for Sakura who practiced with me all the time. So in the end Sakura became my prince."
The three of them laughed at the memory. How can they forget that day. Everyone was running around trying to find a replacement for the prince. Their teacher was freaking out. No one knew the prince's lines. Their teacher had no choice but make Sakura the prince as she is the only one who memorized the script after helping Tomoyo practice her lines.
The play was a big hit. Sakura and Tomoyo's acting were amazing since they have always been practicing together. Sakura really did pull off the role of the prince. She really looked like a prince with her short hair and lopsided grin. She was so good at it that after the play to her frustration her classmates and all the other girls had a crush on her.
"That's it! Sakura will be your prince." Meiling suddenly exclaimed.
Sakura looked at Meiling puzzled. She couldn't follow Meiling's line of thought. Tomoyo on the other hand was looking at Meiling with shining eyes, clearly understanding what she meant.
"You're right! Nobody knows that she's back and how she looks like now and I don't mind holding hands with her." Tomoyo agreed enthusiastically.
"Wait what do you mean…" and understanding dawned.
"Wait a minute. You don't mean that I will be done to pretend as Tomoyo's boyfriend."
Sakura looked at Meiling then Tomoyo. Both were staring at her expectantly.
"Well Sakura that's the idea…" Meiling said grinning like a cat that ate the canary.
"Are you crazy?" Sakura exploded. Of all the outrageous ideas they can think of, why this? She was a girl for goodness sake. What will they do make her look like a guy with make-up and clothes. Sakura looked at her two friends again. Apparently they were thinking of the same thing. Sakura closed her eyes and moaned.
"Please Sakura…Will you be my prince and rescue me from this dilemma?"
Sakura slowly opened her eyes and saw Tomoyo's puppy dog eyes. She moaned. She can never resist Tomoyo's puppy dog eyes. She has no choice but to say yes.
"I'm totally wacko for doing this but…fine I will be your prince."