Dear Diary,

I can't believe I actually fell for that boy's trap.

He really led me on to think he liked me. I feel used, but we never even went out. And when I went to the bonfire with him, my best friend, Chiharu, just tells him I went on two dates with my friend! I even had to lie about it in front of him. Is that why I now know the evil truth?

It turns out my crush, Syaoran Li, is in love with a snobby, pure-make-up girl named Kaho Mizuki. Even his mother, Yelan, who is best friends with my mother, Nadeshiko, called the girl he likes a bad word. I'm so confused at the moment.

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Syaoran is my best friend. I've liked him sense I've first seen him, on the first day of 6th grade, in Independent Studies. He had shaggy, purposefully-messy brown hair, and amber eyes. He was too-innocent-for-his-own good.

"Sakura-Chan, how on Earth did you get a spare?" Syaoran gave me a 'thumbs up' at the bowling alley earlier today. That smile was one of the 1,000,000 things that I loved about him.

"I guess I'm just like that!" I winked at him and sat down with my other friends, Chiharu and Tomoyo.

Lately Chiharu had been being really mean. She would tell people mistakes I had made, and make me sound like a fool. Sometimes she would correct me, but then I would prove her wrong. Is that what friendship is supposed to be like? I would think not. Good thing I have my other best friend, Tomoyo. I think Chiharu may be jealous of our new-found closeness.

Chiharu and Tomoyo really wanted me to go out with Syaoran. Practically everyone at our school had. But, the only thing hindering what we could find out was that Syaoran would never tell who he liked. Sometimes, I thought it was me...like the time on Valentine's Day, when I got him a bigger chocolate than anyone else, and whenever he carried my books. But maybe that's just what friends do...

"Syaoran-Kun, you never answered your 'truth' question yesterday!" Chiharu grinned evilly.

"I didn't want to..." He looked at Chiharu, Tomoyo and I.

"Well, we know she's shorter than you, anything else?" Tomoyo smiled.

"Well, she was in your group before you guys had that fight...actually, she may still be in your group." His eyes seemed to be wandering into mine, but...it must've been a hallucination, because Tomoyo and I hadn't become good friends until the Summer time.

At that moment I discarded the information and moved on. It wasn't until later, when we all went to the arcade that I noticed what he meant.

Apparently, from what my friends had found out, he liked a snobby, mean girl named Kaho Mizuki. A LOT of guys did, I was surprised he liked her.

I got home and curled up in my reading corner, which then I drew an image of a girl crying, with tears dripping to the ground. The image didn't look like me, which I was glad about, because then people would ask about what I had experienced.

I hate it when people get involved in what isn't their information.

When Chiharu and I were much better friends, we would go to nail salons, and if any of the ladies would finish one of our nails' before the others', we would try talking, and if they looked up, we would say NUNYA!

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My mom found me in my reading corner. She wasn't one who liked seeing me cry at all.

"Sakura-Chan, why don't you give your friend Eriol Hiiragizawa a call? He likes you and you like him!

"Okaa-San, I like Syaoran-Kun...I don't care if he doesn't like me." I said to her.

Those are some of the things a teenage girl has to deal with, I guess.

Periods are nothing compared to this.

-Sakura