A/N: heya all people out there in fanfic world! this was my very first peice of longer writing, so im sharing it with everyone! Its one of my older peices of work, but im working on new ones. this is set in an alternate universe than the origional series took place in. just a warning. please R&R

Disclaimer: i do not own any characters in this story, blah de blah, all i own is the plot

Chapter 1 - An Unexpected Friend

Pissed off at the world, Sakura Avalon had tried to take her own life. She was now in the local hospital, because her ex-bitchy roommate had found her bleeding in the bathtub in their dorm. Now she owed her life to her roommate, Maddison Taylor. Sakura had hated Maddison with all her being up until about two days ago when Maddison had found her in the bathroom, hanging onto life by a thread. Oddly enough, Sakura wasn't minding at all that Maddison was now sitting by her bed, stroking her hand as though she were a small child.

"Why were you trying to kill yourself anyway, Sakura?"

Sakura stared blankly at the wall, trying to compose her thoughts.

Maddison asked the question again.

"Well," mumbled Sakura, weakly, "my mom is dead, my dad hates me, my little brother does drugs, my dad doesn't care about me, I can't find a boyfriend…"

"Were you going to continue?"

"I'm too tired. Sorry. Maybe later."

"Oh. Do you want me to leave? So you can sleep?"

"Only if you want to. I kinda enjoy your company now."

"Ok." Maddison got out her book and started reading.

"My mom always used to read to me when I was little…"

"Hmm… well if you really want to hear about the Russian Revolution…" Maddison joked with a smirk.

Sakura giggled weakly at this, "Well I guess not then."

A few minutes later, Sakura had drifted off to sleep.

In her sleep, she relived the horrible experience of the car accident in which her mother had died. She even heard the horrible sound of metal screeching against metal. She remembered it not being so much the feeling, as the sound that hurt. Sakura and her mother were both hospitalized after this. They were in the same room, in intensive care, and she couldn't sleep that night, because the pain was too much for her to handle at the young age of seven. She had heard her mother's heart monitor go flat, and she had started sobbing.

Sakura was awakened by Maddison shaking her lightly.

"Sakura! Why are you crying?"

Sakura reached up and wiped furiously at the tears that had betrayed her emotions. "It was just a bad dream. Don't worry about it."

"I have the right to worry when you start crying in your sleep. People don't usually do that!"

"You're right. Sorry." An ashamed look crossed Sakura's face as she blushed a shade of pink.

Maddison just stared blankly at Sakura. No one had ever been so nice to her since… well… ever! She had always been a misfit among the other kids in grade school because of her love for her camcorder, with which she would tape just about anything.

Sakura interrupted her thoughts. "Maddison, can I ask you something?"

"Um… depends, I guess."

"Well, I was just wondering why you were always so mean to me even though you had… no friends."

"Oh… um… awkward question. I guess I was always just really jealous of the way you could just walk up to someone and make instant friends with them."

"Wow," Sakura was a bit surprised at the other girls answer. She had always been jealous of Maddison because of her silky black hair that had just the right amount of curl to it, and her icy blue eyes, which had the ability to lure any guy into her arms. She had to suffer with short, mousy brown hair, which had always been up in pigtails since her grade school days, and her eyes of a plain green colour. She had never had one admirer in her life, and had made friends with guys instead of dating them. She was what you'd call a tom boy, and she hated every bit of it.

"You were jealous of me too, weren't you, Sakura?"

"Um… how'd you kn-"

"It's written all over your face!" interrupted Maddison, who giggled as she saw Sakura's mouth open in an attempt to explain the current situation.

"Eh… how did you know that? I'm not that predictable, am I!?"

"Well, not really. Your face just kinda had jealousy written all over it."

"Oh. I guess I'm gunna have to do something about that, hey? But yeah. I am kinda jealous of you. I mean, you are just so pretty!" Sakura whined.

"Well how 'bout we make a deal then. I'll teach you how to meet guys without becoming friends, if you teach me how to make friends." Maddison had utmost excitement in her voice.

Sakura thought about this for quite some time, but then said, "I guess, but I don't know how you could make me attractive to guys… and as for you… you already know how to make friends. Just do what you did for me!"

Maddison laughed lightly. "Well you may not know it, but Lee has been looking at you differently since Christmas! And how am I going to save another person from dying? That was a once in a lifetime opportunity!"

"That's not what I meant… what I meant was actually talking to the people. It might help. Waaait a sec… did you say Lee… as in Lee, my best friend, Lee? Um… I cant go out with him!! He's been my friend since forever! That would be totally weird!"

'I never said you had to go out with him, I was just trying to make you see that even though you don't think of yourself that highly, some people think that you are very pretty. You don't really have to be pretty on the ouside if you're pretty inside."