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Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
PART I: Enter the Mind of Syaoran
By: Angelic-Essence
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Summary: Syaoran and Sakura are best friends. She has never kissed a guy before. So she turns to him to assisstance. But what'll they think of each other in this situation?
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Syaoran's Thought: So we were studying together when she asked me that startling question... I have no idea what she was doing when she suddenly wanted to ask ME for help... I have to admit, I was nervous... but why should I be? I mean, I've kissed plenty of girls before... so why exactly am I panicking? Oh... maybe it's because I fear Touya beating me to a bloody pulp if he ever found out about this! Yeah, that's it... wasn't it?
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It was 8 years ago when I first met Sakura. How you ask? It was a normal 'Move In and Get Greeted By the New Neighbors' thing. You know, same old stuff you'd see in movies and whatnot...
The moving truck finally pulled into the driveway of our new home. I was totally bored since there had been absolutely nothing to do during the ride and grumpy because of the damn heat! It's practically 100 degrees!
So I got out of the car as my butler went to retrieve the luggage from the back and my mother and sisters went to tour the house. I followed them. The house was fairly big, I admit but I liked the old one better... many fond memories. Quite quickly not long after I shut the door, about 10 minutes later, since I hadn't moved from the bottom of the stairs, someone knocked on the door. Since Wei was still placing the luggage upstairs, I went to answer it.
"Hello!" a girl greeted as soon as the door opened. I looked at her. It was a girl with auburn hair and emerald eyes.
"Uh, hi," I said bluntly.
"I'm Kinomoto Sakura! Your new neighbor! I saw that you just moved in so I thought I'd drop by! And my father wanted me to give you this," she said cheerfully giving me a fruit basket. How nice it is to have nice neighbors...
"Thanks."
I was about to tell her off in a split second before she started talking again.
"So what's your name?" she asked sweetly.
"My name is Syaoran... Li Syaoran," I answered.
"It's nice to meet you!" she said shaking my hand suddenly. And thus began a friendship... or something like it.
So just HOW did we become best friends? Well, according to what I remember, that summer when I moved in with my family, it was my birthday quite shortly afterwards... and I happened to invite Sakura over... when my mother proposed I invite her since she had called her a 'sweet, innocent child.' In which she was but that wasn't exactly what I thought of her back then. It was rather I thought she was just a nice girl...
"Happy birthday Syaoran!" Sakura cheered.
"Thanks," I replied. It was kinda strange to be alone with a girl I hardly knew for a week... yet here I am while my mother and sisters, who surprisingly didn't glomp her, were talking with her family. I met her brother. Man he was creepy. The guy kept staring at me while I talked with Sakura. Did he already have a grudge against me or what?
"Say Syaoran..."
"Huh?"
"I got you something. I hope you like it!" she said happily as she handed a medium sized package to me. I took in uneasily. You see, I never really get presents... I was pretty isolated back at home in Hong Kong...
So I unwrapped the package. I stared at it for a moment.
"Oh..."
"So you like?" she asked eagerly. I hesitated for a moment. It was a stuffed dog... or something like that... I admit it was cute.
"It's cute," I replied. She beamed.
"I'm glad! To be honest, I wasn't too sure what to get you," she laughed. For the first time I was with her, I smiled.
Okay, so it was a sappy sort of start... sort of. That's when we became friends. We always hung out with each other through junior high. Then high school... oh yes... that's when our hormones begin to spur... effecting your actions. And other peoples' of course.
So all through freshman, sophmore and junior year, we were chased by our opposite genders. But the funn thing is, Sakura never went out with a single guy. I always asked her why (you see, I always went out with girls... but never really liked any of them). Her reply? Simple:
"I'm not interested in guys."
Ha! I bet she just did that just so whoever she dated didn't get to meet her brother. Good thing too. I already go through meeting the guy every morning whenever we walk to school together. But that's 3 years we're talking about here... sure, when we were younger, dating didn't apply in our lives. But we have matured... physically. Heh, puberty sure took it's toll on us... makes me wonder the real reason to why she doesn't date though. I mean... so far other than Sakura, i haven't met a girl who hasn't gone out at least once.
But then again, why am I thinking about this?
So the point in me mentioning this... so we were both studying at her place. Touya went to his work place and Sakura's father had some work to do. So we were alone... in her room.
Now we were just doing our work and stuff... I came over occasionally since I'd rather stay here than my house. Why? Because ever since that little birthday present thing, my sisters who had witnessed it found us cute together (Sakura was pretty dense so she doesn't know). So they'd crack a joke about us to me (naughty jokes, mind you). I found it quite irritating... I mean, that's been happening for the past few years we became friends. I realy wonder how they DON'T get tired of it!
Anyway, back on topic.
So we were doing our work, studying... and eating also. We were doing an English assignment. We had to write a book report. Yeah, simple assignment isn't it? For us seniors. But for us, that wasn't an issue. We're top in the adademics and athlletics too. So the teacher let us pick a book of our liking and write about it, summarize and write our opinion of it (2 page essay). I took a glance of her book and raised an eyebrow. The cover had read 24 Guys in 7 Days.
"Why are you reading something like that?" I found myself asking her. She looked up from the book.
"I found it interesting when I read it at the library. Don't worry, it's fictional!" she said.
"Of course I wouldn't worry about that. I just think it's strange."
"Why?" she asked curiously.
"Well, you could get any guy you wanted. You're a guy magnet," I pointed out.
She laughed. "It's just a story. Not a guide of 'how'. Why're you asking anyway?"
Pause right there. That's a good question! I don't know why I asked. It just... happened! Was there a reason behind the question? I have no idea but I stuck by the answer of...
"No reason. Just wondering."
Classic right? Mmhmm...
So she shrugged and went back to reading. So what was I reading? Nothing special... it was something called 1985... an alternate reality thing takes place in the book... boring... but it was better than those sappy books Sakura was reading.
And then it happened!
So we were still doing our report. Due to my boredom I took a glance at her in which she raised an eyebrow at the book and nodded slowly. It must've been quite interesting, in my observation. She the placed the book down and looked at me.
"Hey Syaoran... Can I ask you something?" she said to me. I nodded. "How does a kiss work?"
I nearly dropped my head to the floor. I was the one laying on the ground... she was on her bed at the time.
I blinked several times and then stared at her. "W-What?"
She rolled her eyes. "I asked, how does a kiss work?"
"Why're you asking me?"
"Because you've been out with girls on dates before while I haven't yet. So I wanted to ask you."
True, she got me there. But to me, it was a bit embarassing because she, as in Sakura my best friend, was asking me how to kiss... or more specifically, how to french! Normally a guy would jump at a chance to kiss a girl. But of course, I'm not like that. I mean c'mon! I've known her for too long! So what am I supposed to do in this situation?
"Uhh... well... to be honest, I don't know how to explain it."
Which was perfectly true. So now that should be the end of her curiosity... or so I had been led to believe.
She looked as if thinking for a moment. "Then show me!" she said brightly.
Now just hold it right there! She says it like it's no big deal... but what about me? No wait, WHAT about me? Why am I panicking about teaching her how to kiss? Oh wait, that's a stupid question. I think we all know why.
1) she's my best friend.
2) It involves some tongue.
And last but not least,
3) that's just plain wrong.
Nothing to do with looks I tell you right now! I mean sure she's a total babe... and again, I bring up the point of us being best friends.
"WHAT?"
"What?" she asked innocently.
"What do you mean 'what'? Kissing is a big deal... and your brother would kill me!" I exclaimed. I swear I am probably red in the face right now.
She laughed. "Are you actually nervous about kissing little ol' me? I've seen you kiss a bunch of other girls without hesitation before."
I looked at her incredulously. "Hello? We've kown each other for a long time!"
"And your point being...?" she asked slowly while looking at me. I opened my mouth to answer but she continued, "It's just a kiss. I promise Touya won't kill you. I'll even hold him back while you run."
What! She had planned to bribe me like THAT?
"That's not the point! I mean..."
"You're not comfortable kissing your best friend."
"Exactly!"
"I see..."
Okay... so I disappointed her. But she pulled out her secret weapon against me... that's right, her secret weapon! One that no one can resist when she's asking for something!
She was giving me the puppy face. I tried to look away.
"Don't even try that!" I said warningly.
"But Syao-kun..." she whined. "It's just a small one."
"You can do it with another guy."
"But I don't trust other guys like I trust you..."
True. I didn't trust other guys with her either. Maybe THAT'S another reason why she never went out with other guys...
I sighed and turned back to her. She was still making the puppy face. "Okay, fine! I give! But I'm taking you with me if Touya kills me!"
"Yippy!" she cheered like she was young again. "And stop worrying so much!"
So... HOW did I get dragged into this mess again?
So I sat on her bed next to her and took a deep breath. I was pretty nervous...
Then I turned to face her. Okay, now it was strange. It was only now I realized her natural facial features; she was beautiful. Now that I didn't notice before... I mean, she is a guy magnet. But seeing it upclose, I can see why guys go after her... maybe besides those things...
"Okay, so now what?" she asked. Oh yes, I forgot, I had agreed to teach her how to kiss. Great...
"Well... I can't explain it... but it's a natural feeling when you're kissing. You'll just have to see when we... uhh... well, kiss."
"Oh, okay."
It's one reason why I like her as my best friend, she's a carefree type and likes to take challenges... and a reason why she's in top women's athletics at school. But in this case, it's one thing I'm not grateful for...
I took another deep breath and let it out, leaning towards her face. There was a smell lingering in the air around her... what was it, strawberry? I know she doesn't use perfume...
Before I closed my eyes, she leaned towards me also.
And thus our lips met. At first it was... interesting. I tasted her lips. Her lips had cherry flavored lip gloss. And we suddenly started kissing with a deeper meaning. At first I really wanted to pull back. I think she got the idea but my body wouldn't respond to what my brain wanted to do. So we both explored each other's mouths, our tongues lashing at each other.
Then it made me wonder, was she a natural at this? Was she faking not knowing how to kiss? But then I thought it over. Why would she fake not knowing how to kiss? I admit, I liked kssing her but wait! This isn't right!
I was first to pull back for some air. It seemed the lip lock was too much for our lungs to handle.
"Well... uhh... I think you got the idea," I said nervously with a fake cough.
"Mmhmm..." she grinned. "Seems like I was right in my suspicion."
HOLD IT! WHAT SUSPICION? was the first thing that came to my mind when she said that. I dreaded what she meant. I don't even know why!
"What do you mean?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Oh right, I was just testing something, here," she said cheerfully and handed me the book she was reading and pointed something on a page.
So I read the sentence... and my eyes grew wide.
"WHAT! You wanted me to kiss you just to see if we used our tongues?" I said in outrage. But most of all quite embarrassed. I mean, I could've just said yes if she just asked instead of... well, the kissing. Not that I minded.
And here I was beginning to think I... liked her. The kiss brought up a new thought in my mind though. Something changed in me that might effect us... in the near future.
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A/N: So here I am... first day of school... it's 10PM right now as I'm writing this... so let's talk about how this suddenly came up when I'm supposed to be on writer's block (since I haven't updated Unrequited Love)...
I was at school... I didn't want to go to the cafeteria... I'd rather avoid a food fight... lol... so I went to the library. I help the librarians with a friend there so it's nothing knew. So we were looking through some new books that just came in... and I came across a rather interesing Romance Comedy book call '24 Girls in 7 Days' by Alex Bradley... And I tell you, it's quite funny. If I wanted to, I could write a story for Syaoran and Sakura based on it... hahaha... one of the chapters inspired me to write this one-shot and voila! Thus this coming into existance. o.O
I admit, it's nothing new but I had to write it. The way the author wrote it was too funny (to me). I still consider myself on writer's block... so for those who read U.L, you might have to wait. I'm still expecting to get bombarded with homework this week... high school sucks...
Last note: 24 Guys and 7 Days I just made up in opposite for the book I was reading. I wasn't really sure what to pick else wise. lol