Author note: Hi guys, this is Crystal Vegetta. This is my first Cardcapters fan fic, so please take it bear with me. I'll stop now, so get on with da story!

Chapter 1

"Stupid asshole school!"

Sakura Avalon had woken up to the sound of her alarm clock and screamed having just remembered that she would be starting her new school. In her mind she already hated it. She could hear her mother yelling her name from the kitchen.

"Sakura get up right now, you're late!"

She checked her alarm clock again. "Shit!" she swore. She was indeed late.

"Coming mum!" She called back.

Sakura grumbled and slowly got out of the bed. She sleepily walked over to her dressing table and sat down. She sighed as she picked up her brush and dragged it through her golden brown hair in front of the mirror. Through the mirror, she saw a seventeen year old girl staring back at her. Her hair had grown a lot over the last six years and cascaded down her back to her waste. Her emerald green eyes sparkled, and her cherry lips at the moment were etched with as frown.

When she'd finished dressing, she ran down the stairs, two steps at a time, and yelling good-bye to her mother, hurried to school on her roller blades.

*

"Settle down class, settle down." Miss McKenzie calmly said. The noise in the classroom gradually died down. "As you may already know, today we're having a new student amongst our mist, Sakura Avalon."

Sakura slowly walked into the classroom, petrified with fear. She looked up and saw that everyone 's gaze was upon her. Sakura forced a smile however no one returned it instead they gawped at her.

"Take a seat at the back over there." Miss McKenzie told her gently.

Sakura gratefully took her seat; glad she no longer had to endure the staring any longer. She hated being the new kid.

*

It was soon break time. Sakura decided she would stay in the classroom since she wasn't going to have anyone to talk to. She sat down at her desk. She would rather sleep anyway. However, before she could get settled she felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned round and behind her stood a girl with raven hair about as long as hers.

"Hi, my name is Madison Taylor, you must be the new student Sakura." She said. She held out a hand, displaying perfectly manicured fingernails, which Sakura took. Sakura observed the girl. She couldn't help but feel that the girl had a snobbish air about her. Madison was about to continue, but she suddenly paused and turned to look sideways.

"What are you staring at, bitch!" She hissed.

Shocked, Sakura turned left and saw that she was shouting at a girl who had short brown hair and wore glasses which were slightly too big for her. She looked taken aback and was clutching a large book tightly to her chest.

"I wasn't staring at you." The girl whimpered.

Madison slowly walked up towards the girl, with her hands on her hips. The girl's face now had a look of pure fear and she backed away until her back was touching the wall. The girl gulped as Madison smirked enjoying the petrified look on the girl's face. Madison leaned in closer until her nose was almost touching that of the girl's.

"P-please d-don't hurt me." The girl begged trying to shield herself with her book.

"Your pathetic!" Madison sneered. "Don't you ever look at me again, you don't deserve to. You don't even deserve to be in the same room as me, let alone breath in the same air. Why don't you take that little book of yours and crawl back under the rock you came out of."

Madison laughed as the girl began to cry and walked swiftly back to Sakura.

"So um, who was that girl you were shouting at?" Sakura asked, by now a little frightened of her.

"That geek?" She rolled her eyes. "Um, I think her name's Nukkie. No not Nukkie, Nikki. Her name is Nikki.

"Oh."

"Why did you ask?"

"No reason." Sakura mumbled, feeling increasingly sorry for the girl called Nikki, who was still sobbing in the corner.

"Anyway, I absolutely love your hair, who does it for you?" Madison asked, changing the subject completely.

"Um, I do it myself."

"Really?" Madison asked astonished. "Do you like my hair?" As she asked her, Madison twirled her hair slowly with her pale and delicate fingers. She twirled it as if to say 'you'll regret it if you don't say 'yes'.'

"Yeah, it's nice," said Sakura quickly.

"I know. Mother takes me to the best hair salons in the country. She also takes me to the best beauty salons. I even have my very own personal beautician who comes to see me every day after school. That's why I have perfect skin."

Sakura forced a smile. She was beginning to like the girl less and less every second.

"So Sakura want to be my friend?"

"Um, sure," she said feeling she didn't have much choice.

*

Eventually lunchtime came and Sakura sat with her new 'friend,' in the school's dining hall.

"Everyone thinks it's easy being rich. It's not. People get jealous of you, though I can't blame them. Who wouldn't want to be in my shoes?" Madison sighed as she ate her salad she'd brought from home. Sakura couldn't believe a person could be so vain. "But it's so hard. Do you know how hard it is to decide in the mornings what colour lipstick to wear?"

"Sakura nodded absentmindedly. 'This girl hasn't got a clue what the hard life is really like,' she thought. Bored of listening to the girl's 'dilemmas,' Sakura gazed around the hall. 'English schools sure are different to Japanese ones.'

"- And then, I threw my dinner at him and told my butler, 'go find some other dead end job! He begged on his knees for his job back and I laughed at his face. That old bastard was such a loser!" Madison shrieked with laughter, however she stopped when she saw that Sakura wasn't laughing with her. "Sakura, weren't you listening?"

Sakura had a look of pure disgust etched on her face.

"What's wrong with you?" Madison demanded impatiently.

"Oh, um, I have a bit of a stomach ache. I er, got to go." She lied

"Whatever. Just make sure your back in class, later. I don't want to look stupid on my own in class."

"Yeah, sure." Sakura muttered through gritted teeth.

*

The bell rang, signalling the end of the school day. It started to rain. Sakura roller bladed alone, glad to be going home. School had been absolutely boring and now she had a super bitch for a 'friend.' She couldn't think of how things could get any worse. Just then a black limousine pulled over beside her. Madison stuck her head out of the window and waved.

"Hi Sakura. I would give you a lift home but I don't want to get my limousine dirty. See ya!"

The limousine drove away and splashed Sakura, who was already soaking wet, with dirty water.

"Fucking bitch!" she cursed.

The rain was getting heavier and Sakura knew she had to hurry home. Deciding it would be quicker to take a short cut, she roller bladed through an ally, which would lead straight to her home. It twisted and turned like a maze and Sakura found that she kept falling over rubbish, which covered the floor. Her cloths were clinging to her body and her hair was sticking to her face.

Sakura hated her new school and wished she were back in Japan. The ally was deserted and she cried out in frustration when she fell head first into a puddle. 'Why does everything bad have to happen to me?' She thought bitterly. Sakura got up and saw that her white skirt was completely covered in mud. 'I hate my life,' she screamed inwardly. 'It's nothing but a pile of shit and so fucking boring. I wish it could be more exciting. I wish it could be different!"

Sakura continued to skate. As she turned another corner, between two bags of rubbish, something glowing caught her eye. As she neared it, the glowing intensified. She, bent down, reached out and her fingers wrapped around a small, cold object. As the glows died away, she saw that the object was tiny gold coin. It was engraved with strange writing she didn't understand and in the centre was a small crystal heart.

Suddenly, She could hear a low rumbling noise and felt the ground shaking. It was getting louder and the ground shook harder. She screamed in horror as the ground beneath her gave way. The little coin flew out of her hands, as she fell rapidly not knowing what was going to happen to her, when she landed if she survived.

Author note: So that was my first chapter. What do you think? Please, please, please review I'd really appreciate them.