Cherish, I will by: Cherry's Love
A/N Sorry for the late update! School + Exams = Headache. But don't worry it's all over now.
My beta DEVILZ CHIK, I love you so much!
►Once upon a book◄
Normal POV
"Ohayo, Cherry." Syaoran greeted as he put his hand on the locker next to her to support his weight. Students were rushing but Syaoran didn't mind being late.
Cherry took her books and closed her locker before greeting the man next to her. "Hello Syaoran."
He eyed her thick books. "May I?" he offered to take her books to their next class.
"No thank you, I can handle this." she tugged her books closer to her, looking overprotective for her books. She tugged a non-existed hair behind her ear and narrowed her eyes at her watch.
Syaoran frowned.
"Okay… Well, did it hurt?" Syaoran asked Cherry unexpectedly and Cherry gave him a confused look.
"Huh, what do you mean?" she asked curiously.
His frown slowly turned into a smirk and he repeated himself, "Did it hurt? When you fell from heaven?"
She opened her mouth to say something but went against it. Instead, she giggled "It's not going to work on me Syaoran."
Syaoran was shocked but he quickly replaced that emotion with a huge grin.
"Hey, you laughed!" he said out loud.
"Is it that surprising?" she questioned, arching an eyebrow.
"Hell yeah!" he answered proudly."I made you laugh." He still could not believe it himself.
She rolled her eyes and started walking.
"I'm just joking; you know you're kind of cute when you're annoyed?" he continued.
Cherry sighed and started walking faster.
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"So is Cherry your new target?" Eriol asked casually. School hours were over so there are not many people around who would be interested in their conversation.
"Well she's…interesting," Syaoran answered. "Unlike the rest, my charms aren't really working with her…yet."
Eriol smirked. "Finally someone challenging, eh? But I must say she's quite a beauty."
That caused Syaoran to glare at him. "Get your own," he said plainly.
Eriol laughed in amusement as he put his hands up to defend himself. "Okay, okay."
"When are you telling her anyway?" Syaoran asked, turning the conversation towards Eriol now.
"Soon–," Eriol was cut off when Mei Ling barged into the conversation.
"Tell who what?" she inquired, interested.
"Oh nothing… It's just Eriol telling me how he's planning to tell Tomoyo some things," Syaoran chuckled and placed his chemistry book back in his bag.
Mei Ling was grinning from ear to ear. "Well, you better tell whatever you want to tell her soon, Eriol, 'cause she just got herself a date."
Eriol's eyes almost popped out after registering what Mei Ling said.
"She what?!" he demanded.
Mei Ling smiled innocently. "She got a date." she emphasized the last word. You can see that she was enjoying herself. Syaoran tried to stop himself from bursting into laughter.
"Tomoyo got a date?!"
"I got a date?" Tomoyo asked out of nowhere. Her eyes widened in shock.
"You got a date?" Eriol stared hard at Tomoyo. He was trying to keep his cool but he could not help but panic. Is he too late?
"When did I get a date?"
"So you don't have a date?"
Tomoyo shook her head. "No, I don't have a date."
Eriol let out a deep breath as his lips formed a silent oh. Tomoyo and Eriol then glared at Mei Ling who was laughing nervously. "What? I thought you were going out with Daichi today? "
Tomoyo rolled her eyes. "I'm going out with Daichi and Chiharu later to discuss a project."
Eriol sighed in relief but Tomoyo narrowed her eyes at him. "Why are you so worried?"
"Yeah, why are you so worried?" Mei Ling, who was grinning, decided to rub it in.
Eriol laughed. "Well," he looked at Syaoran and mouthed 'Help.'
Syaoran, being the kind person he is, sighed and held Tomoyo's shoulder, making her face him. He looked at her seriously and began, "Tomoyo, he is worried because—"
"Don't you dare…" Eriol threatened Syaoran but Syaoran ignored him and continued.
"—because he is jealous and he had been madly in lo—"
He was cut off when Eriol's hand smack his mouth. Mei Ling immediately burst into laughter at the sight of that.
"You were the one who wanted me to help you."
Syaoran shot Eriol a glare as he licked his sore mouth. Eriol glared back at him. "But not this way!"
"Whatever." Syaoran said as he rolled his eyes.
"You're jealous of what Eriol?" Mei Ling teased, "I'm sure Tomoyo would like to know…"
"…" Eriol glanced at Tomoyo and looked innocently puzzled and decided that it was best that he change the subject. He did not want to tell her now; he wanted it to be special, something unique. He looked around the room nervously and something caught his eye.
"Syaoran, she's staring at you."
He nudged Syaoran and pointed somewhere, signaling for him to look. The two other girls also followed where his finger was pointing at. There she was, sitting under a cherry blossom tree with a book on her lap. Without warning, her emerald eyes met certain amber ones and she instantly turned to face the other direction.
Mei Ling looked at Eriol and raised her eyebrow. "The new girl? Cherry, right?"
At that very moment, a huge grin broke across Syaoran's face as swings his bag over his shoulders and made his way out of the cafeteria to the huge cherry blossom tree. But he was stopped by a teacher who needed him and his friends to get some stuff from the teacher's room. Eriol took Tomoyo home and Mei Ling decided to tag along, despite the fact that Eriol was glaring at her the whole time.
Syaoran cursed silently because when he returned to the tree, Cherry was gone. He sat in his Aston Martin for a while before he reversed his baby out of her spot. Not wanting to go home at that moment, he suddenly found himself driving around town.
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When he entered the library, all the females there had their eyes glued on him. Syaoran had always been a fan of books, when he was not too busy wooing girls or getting into trouble, you would find him reading. He walked over to the fictional section and scanned through the books. On the very top shelf was an ancient binding that stood out against the other books. He plucked it from the shelf and flipped through the pages.
Vampires
He read though the myth; the way the book described the creature reminded him of someone. Beautiful, graceful, incredible speed. Syaoran mentally slapped himself in the face for thinking about that, but why did he thought of Cherry when he read it? Besides, her skin is not that cold and her eyes are a beautiful shade of emerald, not red. He chucked the book back into the shelf before exiting the place.
Syaoran walked towards his car but he paused at the sound of the soft, angelic voice. He recognized it immediately. It was her, the one who had been on his mind for the whole day. Walking into the dark alley, he saw her pinned to the wall by a boy around their age.
"Release me, Akira. I thought you knew better than to threaten me." Syaoran heard Cherry sneer scornfully, those emerald eyes were now dark and filled with hatred.
Syaoran was in fury as he ran towards them.
"You heard her, now let her go." Syaoran said as he fights the urge to hit him.
Akira turned to look at Syaoran for a second before whispering into Cherry's ears.
"This is not over," Akira spat, "You are mine." With that, he disappeared into the alley.
Syaoran stared at the alley for a moment before turning to Cherry. He noticed one thing about that guy; his eyes were red.
"Are you alright?" he asked Cherry.
She slowly nodded.
They stood there in silence. Syaoran figured that Cherry was not going to say anything else so he decided to break the stillness.
"So…who is he?" he asked carefully.
"No one you should know," she answered before asking, "What were you doing here?"
Syaoran smirked, "I could ask you the same question."
She turned, about to walked away, when he said, "Have I done anything to offend you?"
She looked at him, surprised by his question.
"Excuse me," she said, blinking as she turned to face him again.
He walked closer to her.
"What have I done to offend you?" He repeated his question again taking one step towards her.
"Nothing." They were standing nose to nose now.
They stared at each other and before he even knew it, he was drowning in her emerald eyes.
Her lips were warm and soft against his as he claimed them in a kiss. There was something in the kiss that he wasn't able to put his finger on it. She remained motionless for a few moments before she pushed him away. Her eyes widened in shock. In a blink of an eye she was gone.
Syaoran was dumbfounded for a few reasons.
First, Cherry pushed him away; no one had ever pushed Li Syaoran away.
Second, her lips were burning hot yet but it was ice cold at the same time.
Third, she just disappeared in front of his very own eyes.
But did that really happened? Or was it just a dream?
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To be continued…
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