DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN CCS.
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Heartbreaks
Written by: anime16
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Chapter 2: A Friend.
Syaoran walked towards his seat, clearly ignoring the wails of the love-struck girls and slight glares of the annoyed boys around him. Sakura glanced up, offering him a small smile. He looked away, choosing to ignore her like the other girls. He saw from the corner of his eyes that her face fell, showing defeat. He chuckled a bit and sat down on his chair.
He put his bad on the side and propped his head on his hand. He saw a girl with yellow headband in her long raven hair took out her pen and poked the brunette girl in front of him.
"What is it Tomoyo-chan?" Sakura smiled at her friend, turning her whole attention to her.
"You're late again," Tomoyo said sternly.
"I woke up late...my brother didn't wake me up on time," Sakura replied, still smiling.
"But you're also late yesterday, and the day before yesterday and the day before the day yesterday...you're practically late all week," Tomoyo raised an eyebrow, sending her precious friend a so-how-can-you-explain-that-to-me-huh look. Syaoran inched forward so he could eavesdrop on them.
"My brother had been a pain for a week, refusing to wake me up on time," Sakura chuckled. "Don't worry yourself with petty things Tomoyo-chan."
"I'll wait..." Tomoyo trailed off, looking away from her friend. "I'll wait until you're ready to explain what's been going around you these past few days."
Syaoran saw Sakura gave her friend a sad smile before looking away from her.
"That's why...you're the greatest best friend I could ever have," Sakura murmured. And Syaoran did hear that.
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"That's all for today," Terada-sensei smiled to his students. He looked ahead and saw Syaoran staring at Sakura's back while the latter was staring outside with a dopey smile etched on her lovely face. He grinned and coughed loudly, grabbing everyone's attention.
"Sakura-chan," Terada-sensei called out. Sakura yelped a little before looking up to see his teacher's smirk.
"What is it Terada-sensei?" she asked politely.
"Can you be Syaoran's tour around school?" Terada-sensei uttered. "He's new around here and might get lost at the vastness of this school. So please..."
Sakura tilted her head, thinking of what she's going to respond. For a moment she thinks of refusing since the boy gave her a cold shoulder when she smiled at him. She sighed and said, "Ok, I'll give him a tour around school."
"Great! Do that during lunch time!" Terada-sensei said.
"Wait Terada-sensei!" a girl raised her hand and stood up. "I want to tour Li-kun around school too."
When that girl said that, almost all girls stood up too, demanding the same. The boys growled and send a glare towards Syaoran.
"Girls," Terada-sensei bellowed. "I already chose Sakura. That's it."
With that, Terada-sensei walked out of the classroom.
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The class bell rang, signalling the start of a long lunch break. Sakura stood up from her seat and went beside Syaoran.
"Let's go...we'll eat lunch first before I tour you around the school," Sakura said, smiling down at him. He shrugged and stood up, putting his hands inside his pocket and brushed past Sakura.
She stood there dumbfounded and slightly grimacing at Syaoran's retreating back. Then he turned around and said, "Well...aren't we going to eat?"
Sakura merely gaped at him. He sneered and turned his back on her again. She muttered curses under her breath. She pulled her eyelid down and put her tongue out. Then she made faces while looking at his back.
He suddenly turned around again. "What are you doing?" he raised an eyebrow. "We're supposed to eat now."
Sakura blinked and pretended to caress her face lovingly. "Ah...I'm so pretty," she laughed nervously. "What a beautiful face I have!"
"Obnoxious," she heard him say before exiting the room. "I'll wait for you outside after you finish admiring your face."
She clenched her fist and mumbled under her breath, "Bastard."
"Sakura-chan, do you want me to go with you?" Tomoyo asked.
"No, I'm alright. That guy just seriously needed a lecture about manners," Sakura rubbed her aching temples. She went towards the door and said, "See you later Tomoyo."
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"So this is the way towards the cafeteria," Sakura uttered. "While going there, I would like to point out the some important places on the way there."
She received a mere shrug from him which infuriated her.
"T-This is the student council room," she pointed at the right. "That's where you go when you have complains."
Then she pointed to the left and muttered, "Comfort rooms...you know its purpose."
"And..." before she could continue, they heard whispers around them.
"...that's Shaoran Li, a mistress son," they heard someone said.
"...lucky bastard...he had just won over the whole Li clan," another had uttered.
"...he was sent here to study everything..."
"...he has to learn manners and etiquettes...something he haven't learn from his mistress, peasant mother..."
Syaoran clenched his fist and was about to attack the person said that when he felt something touched his fist, loosening it.
"Don't...they're not worth it," a tiny voice said. He looked at his side and saw Sakura staring down at his hands. Then she looked up.
"Don't worry about them. You have us...you're classmates," Sakura smiled. "You know...you just have to prove to them that you're a worthy heir and that your mother is a wonderful person."
He closed his eyes, forgetting the taunts and insults that had hurt him and his mother. When he opened it again, Sakura could see a renewed determination on it. She smiled.
"By the way, my full name is Sakura Kinomoto. You can call me Sakura," she said.
"You know my name already," he muttered.
"Let's go! I'm starving," she dragged him towards the cafeteria.
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"I heard you're from Hong Kong," Sakura said out of the blue. They were eating their lunch outside, away from the pry eyes and nosy people. They just sat there, under the Sakura Tree, enjoying each other's company.
"Yes," he replied. "It was so beautiful there."
"I wished I could go there someday too," Sakura muttered sadly.
"I know you can," Syaoran said. He watched her face broke a smile and then tears suddenly came out from her eyes. She quickly wiped it and looked away.
"What's wrong?" Syaoran asked.
"Nothing," she whispered. He sighed.
"Maybe when we grow old enough...I'll take you there by myself," he mumbled. She giggled and looked at him again, "You're making promises to someone you just met."
"It's because you're so pessimistic. Just now you thought that you could never go there, right?" Syaoran said.
"Life is so short. You never know when your life will be taken away from you..." Sakura trailed off and looked at the carefree clouds on the sky.
"You're young Kinomoto-san. There are so many possibilities ahead," he said. She gave him a wry smile.
"Being young doesn't mean you have so much time in your hands. But you, Li-kun...had a bright future ahead of you...You're the heir of the Li clan. Even though you're a self-conceited jerk, jackass, cold, failed attempt to be cool..."
"Spare me with your insults Kinomoto-san," Syaoran rolled his eyes. Sakura chuckled and stood up, dusting her skirt.
"Let's go...we have to get this tour started," she said with a smile.
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