Hi! Yes. Another one. I tend to write when I'm anticipating or a little nervous about something. I'm not very sure about this yet but I'm hoping I'll update this every now and then. A little OOC. I'll be borrowing the characters and put them into a different plot. CCS is not mine! Rated T because I'm playing safe.

Do you believe in love at first sight?

I don't. And that must be why the world is mocking me. How does one feel when one is in love? Is it when the heart is beating faster? When one keeps looking at that other person and wills the time to stop? Is it when one feels that the world became a beautiful place and there was suddenly a new reason to live? Is it when one imagines how it would feel like to be with that other person for the rest of your life? Is it when you see him smiling and it breaks your heart into a million little pieces because it wasn't directed at you? If this is love, I am probably a very unlucky person.

But she simply refuses to believe that she fell in love with a stranger! Especially one who already has a very beautiful lady beside him whom he was giving his kindest smile! She was too sensible for this. Still, she couldn't get him off her mind.

3 years later…

"Tomoyo-chan? Tomoyo-chan!"

"Sorry. I was just thinking of something."

"It's unlike you to space out. I was worried."

Pretty much. Between the two of them, Tomoyo was the level-headed one. She rarely spaces out. Not that Sakura is unreasonable but this girl always has something to worry about and the worst thing about it is she rarely worries about herself. They've been friends ever since they met in grade school. Tomoyo was always that girl on one corner looking at everyone else at a distance. She was never one to speak first or to approach people. She never liked crowd. But one day, in her fourth year in grade school, Sakura who was sitting right beside her started conversing with her. She thought it was a nuisance at first. She never did like small talks. But then, she found herself engrossed in her stories that she was slowly getting fond of this cheerful girl. Sakura gathered all the people she cared about now. Her world expanded the moment she met her. And so she was there to worry for her whenever she does something reckless for everybody she cares about. She won't let her worry about this.

"Well, yeah. I was just thinking about some really troublesome thoughts from long ago. I'd best just forget about it already."

"If it's something that I can help…"

"You worry too much. I'm fine. Those were just some old thoughts I suddenly remembered." Thanks to Naoko's confession earlier about having a long distance boyfriend. She called Chiharu about it and Chiharu spread the word with permission she added. Apparently, when Naoko went tp Australia for an author's conference, she accidentally met her ex-neighbor two years older from her who migrated in grade school. They were close friends back then but they had lost contact ever since so they had a lot to talk about. When Naoko returned, he asked for her e-mail address and they've been in contact ever since until he asked her out just recently. Now Tomoyo was the only one in their circle of friends without someone. Not that no one confesses to her. She has a lot of suitors but she politely turns them all down because of her illusion. This has got to stop. She'd really end up alone. At least Sakura has a long time crush with someone who was 'real' and not just a passing stranger although she doesn't have the guts yet to confess. If you ask her, eight years of keeping it all to yourself is an awfully long time. But Tomoyo wouldn't force her. She will allow Sakura to have her pace. "Anyway, how's your final project coming?"

Sakura let out a very big frustrated sigh. "Not good. Too many things I don't understand. It's making me dizzy. I hope I can finish it on time."

"You'll pull through like always."

"Right!"

That's the Sakura she knows. Always the cheerful one. And it's contagious too. So Tomoyo was able to put aside those nonsensical worries.

When she got home, she was surprised. Her mom was there. It was a rare occasion since Sonomi Daidoji was always busy at work and would come home often very late.

And what was particularly curious about her was she was wearing an awfully cheerful smile.

"Tomoyo-chan! I've found him. You're going to meet him tomorrow! Oh I'm so excited!" Her mom said while running towards her and enthusiastically shaking her shoulder hugging her a couple of times.

"What is this about?" She has a bad feeling about this.

"Your match! Oh he's handsome and he already agreed. He's flying from…"

"Wait a minute! I don't remember agreeing to this."

"Oh I know you're going to stubbornly disagree with me so I thought I'll handle this myself. And just so you know, I won't have you ditching this man who especially flew to Japan just so he could meet you. Where are your manners?"

"You arranged a date for me? What kind of person agrees to this at this time and age?" She was exasperated. Her mom can be really meddling at times.

"A gentleman!" she answered nonchalantly. "I saw him once in one of my business trips and he was really polite not to mention a handsome young man. You'll like him! His mother and I met in one of my business trips and we've been in contact ever since. We already talked about this and she has no qualms about my proposition. So just give him a chance."

"But MOM!"

"Oh honey. Do this for me. You are turning twenty-three already this year and you haven't presented me anyone yet."

"I'm not THAT old!"

"Trust me on this. Just meet him. Tomorrow. I've reserved The Palace just for you two. 11 am. Look your best. Oh I' m going to be late for my afternoon meeting. See ya sweetie!" And she went away just like that into her waiting car looking panicky. But then before her driver started the engines, Sonomi flashed her a really big smile fit for a mother who had just sentenced her only daughter to a really troublesome turn of events.

She couldn't sleep! Leave it to her mother to meddle in her affairs. Her mom can sometimes be very annoying but she loves her anyway. She knows that whatever her mother is doing no matter how insanely outrageous it may be, it was always for the best of her, her only daughter. But this time, she might have gone overboard!

The next morning...

You have got to be kidding me! She thought when the moment she woke up, a group of maids bowed down in front of her and immediately went down to business in grooming her. She ought to give her mother a piece of her mind once this is over.

The maids were all singing their praises at the beautiful Miss in front of them. Truthfully, even Tomoyo was impressed at herself. Her hair was pulled back in an elegant loose French braid with a tiny silver butterfly pin right at the tip. The especially prepared strapless purple chiffon dress that ended in loose layers just below her knee was complementing her in ways more than one – emphasizing her porcelain white skin and clinging to her body at all the right places, And with a pair of six-inch lavender ankle-strapped stilettos, anyone would get fascinated just by looking at this classy woman. She actually liked how she looked. But that was not that point.

"I've been meaning to ask. Why do I have to dress so lavishly on a lunch date?"

"But Tomoyo-sama. Your mother specifically instructed us to make you wear it. And you look just splendid!" All five of her maids were looking at her with dreamy expressions on their faces.

"I don't want to go there looking like this! This is way too much!"

"Nonsense Tomoyo-sama! It looks perfect for you. It's about time. Your car is waiting right outside." One of her five loyal servants who were now all comfortable with her because of her constant insistence (which she somehow regretted now) pushed her outside her room while handing her a grey ruched-sleeved blazer.

Oh. Whatever! Let's just get this over with!

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He wasn't sure what was happening. One moment he was studying in his room when all four of his sisters dragged him out annoying him with their enigmatic dreamy expressions on their faces before they presented him in front of his calm mother who simply told him he was to meet a girl in Japan. And then the next moment he found himself here waiting for this someone! He had no idea what to do. He was always surrounded by girls but other than family, he was awkward with the opposite sex so what was he supposed to do. He never even dated anybody before! But there was no way he could oppose his mother.

Well, that's it for now. I'll get on with writing the next chapter. I normally post after I'm almost done with the next chapter but whatever! I'll post it now! Anyway, like I always say. Happy days! I hate worrying about something!