Just Friends

CCS fanfic

Part one: Before the big change

Syoaran Li sat at his desk and looked up at Sakura, his best friend, who he was in love with. She looked at him and gave him one of her warm smiles. Syoaran blushed and smiled back, his retainer flashing in the light, and then he sadly frowned when she went to join her boyfriend, who was a jock. He sighed, and decided to write down how he felt for her in a letter and stick it in her year book.

It was their second year in middle school, and it was the last day of school. He looked at the desk beside him and saw Eriol, well at least he wasn't as unpopular as he was. Sometimes he even felt sorry for him. Eriol also seemed to be in love with Sakura, well that was understandable. Sakura Kinomoto was perfect. She was beautiful, kind, smart, athletic, caring, forgiving, tough, and most of all, she was everyone's friend.

Syoaran spent his break writing the letter, and then he took her yearbook, signed it of course and stuck the letter in. She was having a party today, and she told him to give it to her there. Syoaran pushed his glasses up (A/N Yes at this part of the story he has glasses and braces, don't worry, that wont last long, he will return to gorgeous Sakura-worthy Syoaran soon) and put the book in his bag.

He went outside and saw a group of jocks trying to dunk Eriol's head in the toilet. Syoaran went to them and said, "Come on, let him go."

They all exchanged looks and laughed. "All right," the captain of the football team said.

Syoaran helped Eriol up when they dropped him to the ground but they grabbed him instead. They all laughed and led him to the bathroom as he struggled to get out of their grasp. "Let….me….GO!" he exclaimed.

At the end of the school day he was soaking wet. He went home and had a shower. After he got out, he saw his kid brother laughing at him and calling him names like 'Stick Bug', because he's thin and he has huge glasses. He kicked him out and started shaking the water out of his hair. He looked at a billboard with loads of pictures of Sakura and him, and one with Sakura, her boyfriend, and him pushing Syoaran out of the picture. "I won't stand a chance." Syoaran said.

He looked at the time and saw it was time for the party. He wore a black shirt over a red and black striped T-Shirt and worn out jeans, and combed his hair, but it wouldn't become neat. He looked at himself in the mirror. "She will at least like you as a friend, Li!"

He sighed and wore his sneakers and then picked up the yearbook and his skateboard. His mum stopped him on his way out. "At least wear a jacket, it's cold outside." She said lovingly.

He groaned and put on a jacket. "And don't stay up too late!" she said.

He nodded and went out and rode there on his board. On his way a car stopped next to him. It was the most popular car. He looked next to him and saw Sakura's boyfriend. "Hey, Li." He said. "Want to come with us?"

Syoaran knew what was coming, but maybe this time they meant it. "Rea-" he began.

"Psych!" they all said in unison.

He sighed and continued skating down the sidewalk. He thought of all the times he would skate down the same path with Sakura, she in her roller blades. He kicked harder and went over every detail of the letter in his mind. He got there and kicked the end of his board and caught it. He knocked on the door and Sakura answered. "Syoaran!" she said.

He smiled, "Hi Sakura."

She said, "What? I can't hear you! Let's go upstairs."

He went upstairs to her room and they both closed the door, she immediately collapsed backwards on her bed and said, "It's finally summer!"

"Yea…" he said.

She got up and looked at him, concerned. "Syoaran, is something the matter?"

"Actually-" he was cut off by Eriol who walked in with a guitar.

"Sakura! I wanted to share something with you!" he said.

"And what's that?" she said, "Oh you play the guitar? How wonderful!" she exclaimed intertwining her hands together.

Eriol nodded enthusiastically. "I wrote you a song."

"Really?"

"Want to hear it?"

This all was happening as Syoaran was building up his irritation. "Sure!" Sakura said.

Eriol placed his fingers on the string and began singing, "Sakura's smiles…."

They all flinched, he made a discord then started over and over and over and over again. "Sakura, it's really nice, if you give me time I could…" then he went red with embarrassment and ran away.

Sakura frowned. "Poor Eriol…" she said.

"Sakura…I want to tell you somethi-" he was cut off (A/N Yet again) by Sakura's boyfriend.

"Hey, baby!" he said, pulling her into a kiss.

Syoaran looked away because he was hurt. The yearbook was on Sakura's bed, beside another one. It was hard to tell which one was hers, that is, unless she just looked inside and read his letter. He looked at them again when they stopped lip-locking. Her boyfriend, whose name was Daisuke, then said, "So, did you sign my yearbook?"

"Of course," she said handing him one of the yearbooks.

"Thank you, do you want anything to drink?"

"SA-KE!" she said.

Syoaran sweat-dropped, there was no way Sakura can hold alcohol well. At least Sake had little. He left and Syoaran said, "As I was going to say, I left you a letter in there."

"You did? How sweet!" she said.

She opened the book and said, "Very funny, Syoaran, where's the letter?"

"What do you mean "where's the letter"? It's right there!" he said picking up the book. "Oh no this is-"

A/N

I know you must all hate me for making Syoaran sound nerdy, but this is before the big change. Anyway I took the main idea from a movie called, "Just Friends" obviously, if you guys are interested. Anyway, he's only nerdy for the first part of the book, which is around two-three chapters. Then he shall return to the Syoaran we all know and love, as for Eriol, think about it….Anyway, this story might sound to it's worst but I'm trying, and don't judge it until you know what it's about.

Disclaimer: I do not own CCS, owning it would be in my dreams. GO CLAMP!!! Or "Just Friends" for that matter (and I mean the movie!)

Alex