A/N: I must be totally out of my mind or I must be getting sick… whatever the case is, this is my 10th posted fic! Hey, that's a record for me! I hope I get reviews for all you lovely ppl out there. Anyway I must WARN you… I haven't edit this fics, it has a lot of grammar horrors and mistakes so please read at your own risk. But if you wanna read just for fun, then I'm sure you will!
Disclaimer: Why do I bother to say that I don't own them! You are all smart, you know that I don't!!
Before I met you.
By: ~Sakura Angel ~
Chapter 1: Always keep your promises.
~Happiness is to have someone... ~
"Will you write?"
"Of course I will... I promise."
It had been almost a week since that promise was made. And it had been kept...
The young Sakura Kinomoto opened the envelope the moment she arrived to her bedroom and slid out the letter that was made in a purple stationary with different ornaments.
Dear Sakura-chan,
This is my first week in England, sorry I couldn't write to you any sooner but with the moving and unpacking I didn't had much time left.
How are you? How are things in Japan? I hope they are great as always.
England is a wonderful country. I haven't got the chance of seeing all of it, but what I have seen has left me breathless. It's very rainy and foggy around this time of the year, but I love it that way.
I have moved into an apartment building located in London. It's not that big but it's very comfortable and it's also very near to the school that I would be attending to. That way I won't have to take a bus to school.
This week I have unpacked all my belongings and I bought new furniture with the help of my mother's friends that are helping me here.
I'll be starting classes this Monday and I'm very nervous. Although Ms. Lockhart (My mother's friend) insists that my English is very good, I know that my Japanese accent won't help too much in school! I can only hope I do well... When do you start school?
Well, I have to go now. I still have to finish doing some unpacking and this afternoon I'm going to buy the school uniform.
Write back to me soon.
Love,
Tomoyo.
PS: Say hi to all the guys there! Special regards to Li-kun! ^_~
Sakura let out a sad sigh as she folded the letter and placed it back on the envelope.
A week ago, Tomoyo had left to England as an exchange student for a year. A long year, Sakura thought to herself as she put away the letter in the first drawer of her desk.
How can she actually survive a whole year without seeing her best friend in the world? Of course that Tomoyo had promise to write every week and come to visit in Christmas, but it just wasn't the same.
Not to have her around to tape her all the time and make those lovely costumes. It was going to be strange and Sakura knew that.
That was probably the reason why she looked for comfort in another close friend of hers. She smiled as she remembered that he had always been there for her when she needed help or just a friend.
Who ever thought that Li Syaoran will be such a comfort in a time like that? Not her exactly, at least she wouldn't think that a year ago.
He had return from Hong Kong to finish his studies in Japan, since he had also make a whole bunch of friend that he ever dreamt of having in his home. Although he seemed a little different in his personality (He smiles more often), his nice looks had remained.
His eyes were still the same old amber with this tiny hint of red in them. His auburn hair was as messy and long as ever, it seem that he haven't got the care enough to cut it, but Sakura often tells him that he looks nice with long hair.
Sakura, herself, had also grow up. She had turned into a full 17 year old girl, precious emerald eyes, shoulder length honey-brown hair and a slim figure with every curve on it's place. Although Syaoran used to tease her telling her that she was as flat as a board.
She smiled again as she remembered that the last time he had told her that, he had ended up falling off the stairs of his apartment building and breaking an arm. Well, at least he stopped teasing her... for a while.
They both have become very good friends since he came back, but probably not as close as they were that week that Tomoyo had been away. It was like he was trying to fill in for her place and he had manage to do so very well. Not that he will make costumes for her and tape her around but... he and manage to keep her mind off the hole that was left in life.
Sakura got up from her bed and walked over to her desk. She had to answer the letter right away and tell her about the week she had had. But before she could even write the first word, a familiar knock on her window made her stop.
"It's open!" She cried and started her writing.
The window opened but no one came in. Instead, a voice answered her.
"Well I wouldn't mind a little help since I have a cast on my arm!!"
Sakura giggled and walked over to the window, where she found Li Syaoran hanging on the branch of a tree trying to reach the window.
"Well you could be a little civilize and use to door, can you?"
"I'm already here! And besides, your lovely brother is downstairs..." He said rolling his eyes as he mentioned Touya.
"How do you know?" Sakura asked raising an eyebrow.
"I saw his car downstairs, so are you gonna help me or not?"
"Hmmm..." She said acting like she was thinking hard. "I don't think I should. I mean, what if my brother comes in and find a boy inside my room? Actually I don't think I should since you called me flat chested!"
"Hey... I already said I was sorry about that! I even broke my arm for that!"
Sakura giggled at his desperate look, so she just help him reach the window and enter the room.
"Thank you..." Syaoran said bending over trying to catch his breath.
"Anytime." She said as she sat back down on her chair next to her desk. "So, what are you doing here?"
"Oh, I just came to check out my girlfriend."
Sakura glared him. "Excuse me?"
"I came to see my girlfriend." He repeated winking at her.
"In your dreams, pal!" Sakura exclaimed laughing.
"Well, every guy in school thinks I'm your boyfriend so I was thinking that maybe we should give them something to talk about."
"Every guy and every girl I'm certain! The only ones who know that's not true are Yamasaki, Chiharu, Rika and Naoko!"
"Maybe it's because we hang around a lot."
"A lot?? A lot is way too little for our hanging out! And besides, you're shooing away any guy that wants to go out with me."
"Tomoyo told me to take good care of you." He shot back laying down on her bed, next to her teddy bears.
"By what? By threaten to death all the guys in school?" Sakura asked turning to see him.
He was obviously not paying much attention to her since he was playing with her teddy bears.
"Hey, is this one new? I kinda of like it..." Syaoran commented when he took a gray teddy bear that he had given to her before he left Japan when he was 12 years old.
"Baka! You gave me that one!"
"I know..." He said smiling.
"You are such a kid sometimes..." Sakura murmured turning her attention back to the letter.
"Why, Sakura... you hurt me deep in my heart! How can you think so little of me?" He asked acting hurt and holding his chest.
Sakura only eyed him and continued writing her letter.
"What are you doing?" He asked when she didn't answer him.
"Writing a letter." Sakura said not stopping.
"To who?"
"Tomoyo."
"She wrote to you too?"
"Of course she did! And stop talking you're distracting me."
"Fine." But before five minutes have passed her interrupted her thoughts again. "Can I write that letter with you?"
"What?"
"It's just that I forgot to answer back so now that you are writing we can send one from both of us."
Sakura sighed. "Ok, come over."
Syaoran smiled as he walked over to the desk and sat next to her in the same chair. They could barely fit in there.
"Dear Tomoyo-chan..." Sakura read out loud. "Thank you for writing to me. Right now I'm with Syaoran... Syaoran, say hi!"
Syaoran them proceeded to take the pen away from her and write to her. "Hi, Tomoyo!"
"Hey... since when are you calling her by her name?"
"She told me to call her by her name before she left."
"Yeah, well... anyways!"
As she continued writing the letter, Syaoran took away from her the pen and wrote every now and then. Of course that this generated a little fight for the pen that had ended up when Sakura fell from the chair and hit her bottom hard.
Once they were done they left the house (through the window) and walked over to the nearest letter box and sended the letter.
"So, wanna go get an ice cream or something?" Syaoran asked as they walked back to the park.
"Sure." Sakura answered smiling at him.
She definetly like they way she and Syaoran had their friendship going. In such a little time he had turned into his best friend and she knew that he will remain that way for a long time.
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England was indeed a lovely country. It was cold, foggy and rainy during November, but then again that was just the perfect combination for Tomoyo Daidouji.
That day she was walking toward her new apartment after a long day shopping for her new books, notebook and school instruments.
The next day she was going to start her classes in the new school in England and she was already nervous about meeting the new people.
It was going to be hard, she was aware of that, but that was risk that she decided to take when she offered herself to be an exchange student for a year in that country.
As she entered the building, they rain started to fall outside. She was glad that she made safe and dry to her new home.
She stopped for a while in front of her letter box and took out the few letters she had received. Most of them from her friends in Japan.
She climbed up the stairs to the second floor, entered her apartment and left all her things on the couch to read the first letter.
Dear Tomoyo-chan,
Thank you for writing to me, right now I'm with Syaoran-kun... say hi, Syaoran-kun! Hi, Tomoyo! It's good to have news from you and it's good to hear that you like England!
Japan has been the same as it always had been. Only a little depressing since you are gone. Yeah, that's true... Anyway! Everyone has been great. School starts next week and we already have to do our summer homework. *Whines* I don't wanna start school! There, there, Sakura... it's gonna be alright... Ano, as you can see Sakura is still the same little girl you left. Mou! Like it has been so long since she left. Whatever... Oh, well... not everyone is great. Syaoran-kun broke his arm last Wednesday and now he's wearing a cast. Guess who's fault was it? *Eyes Sakura* Hey, I didn't do anything to you! Well, you practically push me off the stairs! You call me flat-chested! Aren't ya? Baka! *Pouts* Aww... you know I'm kidding. *Hurt puppy eyes* Yeah right... anyway, we have been pretty much fine. Missing you lots of course and we hope that you have great start in school! You are very lovely person so I'm sure you won't have trouble getting a lot of friends! As long as you don't forget the friends you have here...
I hope you answer us back soon and... about what you wrote to me... it's not funny!
Hoe? What did you guys talk about? Nothing! See you soon and good luck in school!
Love and kisses fromSakura and Syaoran.
Tomoyo laughed as she read again the last part Syaoran wrote. She remembered writing to him something about he and Sakura making a nice couple. She spend almost her last two weeks in Japan making those two get together for good, but she had only succeeded in making them closer than ever. She knew that they loved each other, but neither of them seemed to figure it out yet.
Only time could decided that and she hoped that time would hurry up and make them realize the feelings that they had for each other.
But then again, love was a complicated matter to everyone. It had also been complicated for her, but nowadays that special person she used to have in her heart had left for good. At least that's what she hoped.
Tomoyo carefully folded the letter and slid it back to it's envelope. She should start organizing her books and notebooks and then she could finish reading her other letters.
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A/N: Ok, that's all for chap 1. So what did you think?' I hope you like it, but you know I can't read minds so leave your reviews. It's not too much work, right??
Ok, so for next chapter it's their first day in school both for Sakura and Tomoyo. What will happen? New people to meet? New friends to make? Don't miss it, there's a special… and 'evil' guest!