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~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*The Surprise: Chapter 1*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
It had been 10 years since 4th grade. Sakura looked at the picture of Li and her at the Cherry Blossom Festival. She hadn't told him how she felt about him yet, but she was going to soon. The Winter Snow Festival was coming up, and she wanted to go with Li. Only Li could make her heart melt. He was so sweet, so kind, so cute with those dark brown strokes of hair, and those amber eyes...yet he was strong and vigorous. Sakura wished that Li would feel the same way about her, but she always thought that he and Meilin were an item. They were almost everywhere together. Meilin had always been latching onto Li, ever since 4th grade. Even though nobody agreed with her, Sakura always thought that even though Li acted annoyed by Meilin in front of them, Li truly loved Meilin. Tomoyo thought she was an idiot. "Why would he like Meilin if he likes one person--you, Sakura!?" Tomoyo always said. Sakura just shrugged and walked away.
"Why can't anybody see....why can't anybody see that I have no chance against Meilin? _;; Meilin looks pretty, and I bet Li thinks Meilin is prettier than I am. Why would he like me?" Sakura always said to herself. She never ever got an answer to that. People always said that Li and Sakura were a couple.
Sakura sighed. She looked out the window, and suddenly found herself nearly FALLING out the window. The hinges of the windows were broken in her room a week ago because of some serious training by Kero-Chan, and she nearly flew out headfirst on the ground. Kero-Chan jumped out of the sock drawer, and stared at Sakura strangely.
"Sakura, why are you leaping out of the window?" Kero-Chan asked. Sakura rolled her eyes.
"To kill myself." Sakura replied sarcastically. "What else do you think I'm doing, Kero-Chan!? It was an accident. I daydreamed and I forgot I was leaning against the window!" Kero-Chan shrugged, and went back into the sock drawer. Then, he popped out again, muffling because of the sock in his mouth.
"You're thinking about that Li kid, aren't ya?" Kero-Chan asked. Sakura blushed lightly. Kero-Chan flew out of the sock drawer, and crossed his arms. He floated in the air in Indian style, and stared at Sakura. Then he laughed. "I knew it! Sakura...if you really like that Li kid, just go over to his apartment and tell him!" Kero-Chan's advice wasn't so good at all.
"Oh Kero, what do YOU know about love!? You've never been in love before!" Sakura said quite angrily. She humphed. Suddenly, something moved inside the sock drawer. A white Kero-Chan flew out. The white one was beautiful. It had silver wings, snowy skin, beady black eyes, and golden-colored on its palm and feet. "O_O! Kero-Chan! YOU NEVER TOLD ME YOU HAD A GIRLFRIEND!"
Kero-Chan and the girl Kero-Chan laughed. "You never asked, Sakura. Anyways, this is Amy Keroberos-Chan." Kero-Chan said proudly. Amy Keroberos-Chan floated next to Kero-Chan, and a blue aura surrounded them.
"OOOOOH...you guys look so CUUUTE!" Sakura squealed. Kero-Chan and Amy-Keroberos-Chan raised their eyebrows at her. They raised their tails and twined them around the other. Then, they flew back inside the sock drawer and slept.
'If only Li and I were like them...' Sakura thought. She fought back her tears, and changed into a dress similar to what Li wears, but it is a little darker green. The rim of the dress goes below her knees, nearly touching her ankles. It has golden-silvery lining, and in the center was a picture of the yin-yan. Under the yin-yan, there were two words written on it in yellow that looked like Chinese but wasn't. The style of the writing was. "Sakura Avalon" it said. Sakura picked up her comb, and brushed out her short auburn hair. Carefully, she tied some strands of her hair in pink and red rubber bands. She opened her drawer, and took out a clear white box with sparkles on it. She opened it up, and took out a Cherry Blossom, fully pink with glitter and sparkles on it. She slipped it into her hair, and smiled at herself in the mirror. Then, she closed the box, put it back into her drawer, and left the house.

~*~*~*~*At Li's Apartment*~*~*~*~*~
"LI! ARE YOU READY YET!?" Meilin asked. She screamed on top of her lungs, yelling from the other room. Li groaned. He didn't want to go to the Winter Snow Festival with Meilin, but he had to. Nobody else would ask him, and he'd be too shy to ask any of the girls. He got up in his battle costume, and Meilin walked out in her red and white costume. She smiled, and latched onto him.
"I knew it! I knew that someday you'd want to go out with me. You love me, don't you?" Meilin asked. She was so happy to be with Li that she forgot about everything else. Like homework. Screaming at Madison. And most of all, competing against Sakura just to get Li. Now, she thought that Li was all hers. Nobody else could take him away from her. That's what she thought. "So? Tell me! Don't you love me?" She was getting angry because Li didn't reply.
"No. I don't love you. You're just my cousin. I love you, but as a sister. That's all. I have no true feelings of love as in dating for you." Li said. He didn't want to break his cousin's heart, but it was the truth. He didn't love her at all.
Meilin started to sob. She broke up into tears and ran off. She hoped that Li would follow her, catch up with her, and comfort her. Then she could take the chance to rest her head on his chest, then they might even kiss! But that wasn't going to come true. Li loved somebody else. He, himself, didn't know who, but he knew he loved somebody.
"Ugh..." Li groaned. He walked down the stairs, and headed out the door. Breathing in the fresh air, he ran all the way to school.
~*~*~*~*The Walk To School*~*~*~*~*~
"Hey Tomoyo!" Sakura yelled, as she ran quickly and caught up with Tomoyo. Eriol was standing next to her, carrying some of the books. He tilted his glasses at Sakura, and grinned.
"What's up Sakura?" Eriol said in an unusually happy voice. Sakura stared at him weirdly, then burst out into hysterical laughter.
"Okay, okay. What are you guys up to?" Sakura asked while she was laughing. Tomoyo looked at her and smiled.
"Eriol and I are getting married!" Tomoyo said cheerfully. Sakura's eyes widened. "We're going to have the wedding next month. Are you going to come, Sakura?"
"But-but-but....I THOUGHT YOU GUYS WERE ALREADY MARRIED! YOU HAD 3 CHILDREN TOGETHER!!" Sakura yelled. Tomoyo & Eriol blushed a deep crimson.
"Well, we had children before we got married." Eriol said. "It was too expensive to hold a wedding before, but now that I have the money to afford it, I can pay for the wedding!" (In case you didn't know, Tomoyo and Eriol had held a lot of weddings already for other people, and they didn't have a lot of money to afford a Grand Wedding, so they had to continue on until they had more money.) Sakura sighed.
"You guys are so lucky. First of all, you guys have three beautiful children, ESPECIALLY Rosyie. Then you have Josie and Marina. And now you guys are getting married! _" Sakura said in a sort of envious voice. (Rosyie has dark red hair with specks of yellow in it, and blue eyes. Josie has dark purple hair with violet eyes. And Marina has bluish and greenish hair with dark brown eyes.)
They all stopped talking, and ran to school.
~*~*~*~*~*~*In Class*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Today class, we won't be doing work. We are going to decide what to do during the Winter Snow Festival." Mrs. Sherioada said. Sakura was devastated. Nobody was going to go with her anyway...so she wasn't interested in talking about it. "First of all, there is going to be an Athletic Competition at the National Athletic Club Field-area. Then, there's going to be a party inside the Clubhouse party area. Right after that, there will be a Winter Festival Prom, and then you guys can all go free and wander." Li grinned. He knew Sakura would join the Competition, and so would he. They could be a team together!
'But would she want to team up with me?' Li thought. He shook his thought out of his head, and continued to listen to the teacher. After a long time, about an hour or so, the conversation was finished. They wrote essays about the Winter Snow Festival, and then they handed it in. Right after that, they did poems on the Winter Snow Festival, shared some more ideas, did some plays about them, and finally came the exciting part---choosing dance partners.
"I will pick the dance partners." Mrs. Sherioada said. Sakura was startled.
'Mrs. Sherioada is going to pick the dance partners? But aren't we....' Sakura's thought was cut off by laughter.
"I'm just kidding. You have to each ask each other out. I want you guys to have fun. Class dismissed." Mrs. Sherioada said, still laughing a little. Everybody gathered up their books, and left the classroom. When they walked out, Sakura and Li accidentally brushed against each other. Li hid his blush, and so did Sakura. Li let Sakura go first, and she thanked him with a hug. He blushed even harder, but pushed her away immediately when he saw Meilin heading their way.
"What are you doing with AVALON, Li-kun?" Meilin said, shooting Sakura a death glare. Sakura ignored her, and stood next to Li, still as a steeple ontop of a church. Meilin growled, and raised her fist.
"I'm just Li's friend, Meilin." Sakura said. She leaned against the wall, clutching her books tightly. Meilin growled angrily. She walked up to Sakura, and slapped her hard on the cheek. Sakura didn't turn back to face Meilin, for her cheek was burning with pain. Sakura's eyes filled with tears, and she knew that Meilin was happy to make her cry.
"MEILIN WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR?" Li asked. He stared at Sakura, who was covering her face with her palms, putting her head on Eriol's shoulder. Tomoyo stood next to Sakura, patting her back. Li couldn't stand seeing Sakura like that. For some reason, he felt that he wanted to walk over there and reach for her. He wanted to pull her to his chest, and hug her tightly, stroke through her hair and make her feel better. But Meilin was always in the way.
"I didn't want you to hang out with that bitch. She's probably trying to take you away from me, Li!" Meilin said. Meilin crossed her arms, and humphed. Li didn't care, and he walked over to Sakura. He held her hand, and she looked up at him with red eyes.
"Sakura....." Li said, softly. Sakura tried to stop crying, but instead, more tears flowed down her cheeks from her eyes like tiny rivers. She started to hiccup in between the tears, and choked a couple of times, trying to speak. Li hugged her, and patted her back.
'They look so kawaii together....' Tomoyo thought. She stared at Eriol, who immediately took out her camcorder. Tomoyo began to tape the moment, until Sakura and Li noticed, taking the camcorder away.
"Sakura...I'm sorry. Meilin is just too overprotective of me. She thinks that she owns me, even though we're just engaged at birth and I don't even like her." Li said. Sakura wiped the tears from her eyes, and pulled away from him. Her face was all red form crying, so he didn't notice her blushing.
"I-I-It's okay. *hiccups* I'm fine..." Sakura choked out. She coughed, thanked him for comforting her, and left.
'If only Meilin was out of the way....then maybe I could tell you Li....' Sakura thought, as she walked away from him.


-------DO YOU THINK I'M STUPID ENOUGH TO LEAVE IT AT THIS PART? Okai, so I AM going to leave it at this part. Of course, I'm going to continue the next part, but it will take a while. ^^;;; I made this chapter so long, the next chapter HAS to be long too.----

:) R & R. By the way, Mr. Killiko Jun-chan, shut the fuck up or else you will get more than a piece of my mind. Don't mess with people you don't know about. And believe me...I'm a person you won't want to mess with. :) As to Sakura-chan...O:-) You're an angel aren't ya? ^^