Chapter 2

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Disclaimer: I do not own CCS because I'm not a member of CLAMP, but if I were, I would change a lot of things in the plot line. For one thing, get rid of Kaho, so that Eriol and Tomoyo could be together. (Glares at Kaho)

Ah, how lucky I am today.

I grab a pamphlet lying on the table and put it to my face. Maybe he won't see me, who knows? I mean…okay, so who the hell am I kidding? He's going to recognize me with pamphlet or no pamphlet on my face. Or else he just thinks I'm a freak…

Never hurts to try, right?

Something pops into my head.

Well, I was pretty close on the name Sho…it starts with the same character! Well, not really, but it does start with the same letter if you spell it out in romanji. Yea…this is the reason I'm a secretary and not a big time paying lawyer.

Syaoran comes up to where the three of us are standing and shakes hands with Aiba-kun. I'm behind Eriol, still holding up the pamphlet to my face. I must look like a total idiot, but I don't care. I just don't want him to see me.

Eriol and I are still pretty stricken. Li Syaoran's face brightens up when he sees Eriol standing right in front of him. Eriol has this look of I can't believe you of all people are here. So do I.

"Hiiragizawa?!? Is that you??!" he says, eyes widening. He takes a couple steps towards him, whereas I take a couple steps back.

"Li..." Eriol manages to reply. He's giving the same look. I'm still behind Eriol, holding the pamphlet to my face. If he doesn't see me now, he'll never see me! Mwuahahha, and then there might be some chance that he's not my boss. I mean, there's got to be another section that's lacking a boss... Right?? RIGHT??

I convince myself that there is.

"It's been awhile!" Syaoran notes. Eriol nods back.

"It has! I mean, in your e-mails, when you said you would be going to come to Tokyo, I didn't think you meant this company!" Eriol says, amazed.

"I didn't know you were going to be here!" Syaoran replies. "Who's that behind you?"

He glances behind Eriol and notices me. Oh crap. Heck, I bet he doesn't even remember me. I still have the pamphlet on my face, so there's probably a chance that he hasn't even seen my face yet, unless he has x-ray vision.

"Why do you have a pamphlet on your face?" he questions, looking oddly at me.

"N-no reason..." I reply, nervously. Yea, he thinks I look like a freak.

I am a freak.

"Can I at least see you? I don't think I'm that mean." he asks. I slowly put down the pamphlet. I bet he doesn't recognize me. I bet I look totally different! I mean, 30 minutes can change a lot...yea...no.

He smirks, "I didn't know you also worked here too, Kinomoto-san," he has this smug look which me want to punch his face.

"It's a small world after all," I mumble back, looking away from his glaze.

"too small,"

"Li-san, I'm sorry to interrupt, but the only thing I have left to show you is your office," the man besides Syaoran says. I've never seen him before. Maybe he's new? Or he's just too high in status for me to see him. I have a feeling it's the latter.

"Okay, I'll only be a minute," Syaoran replies to the man; he looks at me. "So, what do you do here? Surely you couldn't be a lawyer..."

Yea, he really hasn't changed. Still that arrogant little brat. Maybe I can like…kick him when no one looks.

Why did I even go out with him in the past?

"I'm a secretary at Banking…" I mutter.

"What?" he asks. He has this look of surprise. That couldn't possibly mean…NO...

What the hell did I ever do to you Kami-sama??!??!

"Why?" I decide to ask.

"You're a secretary in Banking??" he asks, scanning me. I nod. He smirks, and says to the man, "Tegoshi-san, no need to show me there anymore."

Tegoshi looks a bit taken back, "excuse me?"

"I've got my secretary right here, she can show me," Syaoran replies back smiling. He pats me on the back of my shoulder.

No I can't, I'm busy right now. Have to do it a different time!

"Your secretary?" Tegoshi looks at me. His dark brown eyes meet mine. I try to smile. He probably thinks I'm playing hooky or something.

"Yep, so she can just show me the rest of everything!" Syaoran replies. His hand is still on my shoulder, and his grip is pretty strong too, almost like saying, 'I have you under my control now. You cannot run or hide from me!!'

His grip on my arm is unmoved. What? Does he think I'm going to run or something? He thinks he knows me so well.

Okay, he's totally right. I do want to run away...

Tegoshi nods, "that's no problem at all, have a good day and welcome to Tsubasa incorporation!" he smiles and leaves the four of us.

"So I'm totally lost," Aiba remarks, after Tegoshi is gone from the office, "do you guys know each other?" he points to the three of us. We haven't moved a single step and we all look at Aiba-kun.

"We used to go to school together," Eriol answers.

"Really, so you're classmates," Aiba says, interested.

"Yep," I say simply. Please don't press into the matter, Aiba-kun. As much as I love you, don't go on about it. If you do, I swear, I will go to your office and strangle you. I try to relay my telepathic thought to Aiba-kun.

"So when –" his cell phone rings suddenly.

I love cell phones, they always interrupt people, and it's awesome! Especially when they are about to yell at me, which actually happens a lot. I'm a bit clumsy; sometimes I wonder why the old boss even kept me. Maybe it was because of those chocolates I kept dropping off at his desk.

Syaoran, taking this time, says to me, smirking I might add, "so, Kinomoto-san, would you do me the favor of showing me to my office?"

I give him a look and finally agree. Aiba is still on the phone and Eriol has hurried off to meet some of his clients as I leave Eriol's office and start leading Syaoran to his office.

We go into the elevator and Syaoran says, "fancy seeing you here, ne?"

"I thought I'd never see you again," I reply. It's true, now I really wish I just had a one-night stand with some random stranger instead of my ex-boyfriend. "So why Tsubasa?" I ask; I look up. He's playing with his tie. What a freaking dork. Actually it's kind of cute, but I don't think he's listening to me at all. Stupid…

"I don't know," he confesses, "My mother said it was a nice company and had ordered a interview with these people before I even knew it. Next thing I knew, I'm in a plane flying back to Tokyo."

Neither one of us are mentioning our relationship or our breakup.

"Why are you here?" Syaoran asks. "I never imagined you as a secretary…"

Stupid arrogant bastard.

Did he just become arrogant all of a sudden or is it I just never noticed when we were dating? His ego must have inflated a lot when he went to Hong Kong.

I shrug, "Eriol said there was an opening for a job in his building. I didn't have a job, so I took this one. This is just something I'm doing to get some money. This isn't what I really slaved for college to do."

"So what do you want to do?" he asks.

"I don't know, I'm still thinking…just not this…" I reply. He nods, about to speak when the door opens to the next floor. We walk out and the department is right there. I lead him into his own office, which now is totally empty.

"So, if you just need anything, my desk is right outside," I mumble. I'm trying only to answer him in one-syllable words…I didn't know it was that hard to think of so many one-syllable words when there are so many two-syllable words that makes life easier.

He nods and sits in his new leather chair. He turns on the iMac in front of him.

I'm about to leave when he says, "Sakura-san,"

I turn around and look at him, "hai?"

"It's uh, great to see you again," he says back to me, "It's really been a while since I've seen you. You look great."

"Arigatou," I reply. I walk out of his office and sit in my chair, waking up the computer from sleep mode. I immediately start typing an e-mail to Tomoyo.

Honestly, deep inside, I am kind of happy. Syaoran really does look great, except he does seem to be more arrogant than before. I mean, it was his fault that our relationship didn't last because he had to freaking go back to Hong Kong. It was his fault for not calling me. He was the one that said we could try the long distant relationship. I agreed, and I called him. He never picked up but I'm pretty sure that he should have had it on his cell phone or something that I called him. HE should have called back. I blame him for the failure of our relationship. End of story.

"So how was work?" Tomoyo asks. She had just finished getting all the details about my drunken night, to which I don't tell her who the mysterious man is that she and Eriol had seen whisking me off in the night. Eriol's such a liar…what ever happened to "I was worried about you! We didn't know you were gone!!" This is another reason I'm not a big time paying lawyer. I can't lie.

We're sitting in a café near the company having coffee. She's waiting for Eriol to get off work and I'm kind of waiting for a ride because in the morning, I ran to the building.

"You'll never guess whom I met today," I look at her. She has raven colored hair with amethyst eyes and milky white skin. She is gorgeous.

"Who?" she asks, stirring her straw slowly in her ice coffee.

Sometimes I wish I could just switch lives with Tomoyo. She has a perfect man, a perfect house and money. She's beautiful and she super smart, and knows exactly what she wants to be in life: a fashion designer. She's already getting her works published in all the biggest fashion magazines and has her own brand.

Me? I'm broke, no man, a crappy apartment and has no idea what to be in life.

Awesome, just awesome.

"Li Syaoran," I reply.

"Li Syaoran??" she asks incredulous.

"Yep," I say, "and best thing is that he's my boss…"

"No way…" Tomoyo says, eyes wide. "What's he doing here in Tokyo?? I thought he was still in Hong Kong!"

"To come and torrent me" I reply.

"And he's your boss?" I nod. "What's he like now? Has he changed?"

"His ego inflated." I mutter.

"But what about his looks?" she looks interested.

"About the same, I guess, matured a bit," I reply. "He got taller."

"Ah, so he's still hot," Tomoyo says nodding. "I've got to meet up with him again! I guess I'll drop by during lunch sometime…"

"Yep." I nod too, not really listening. Hold on… "Wait! What? No! Tomoyo-chan, he's my boss and my ex-boyfriend!! What the hell am I going to do?? He's going to torment me and everything!!"

"Sakura-chan, I'm sure it won't be that bad," Tomoyo replies. She takes a sip of her iced coffee as I rant on. "He's not going to torment you…he won't even be mean to you! I mean, you guys have known each other since elementary school!"

"So what? He's still going to do torment me!! I mean, he's probably going to embarrass me with all my early blunders and tell people all those secrets about me!!" I say frantically. It's probably true.

Another reason for me to hate Syaoran being my boss.

"He's not!! It's not going to be that bad!!" Tomoyo protests.

"Yes it will. His job will entitle him to boss me around and not get in trouble for it." I reply. "He gets paid to boss me around!!" I paraphrased.

Tomoyo laughs. She obviously does not understand what kind of a situation I'm in here.

"First of all, you guys aren't in much of a bad relationship right now!" Tomoyo says, "I mean, so you guys broke up. It wasn't because of something worth killing someone over. He's not going to boss you around because of you being his secretary!"

"Well, I hope you're right…" I say, taking a sip of my tea, "you know, it's not my fault that we broke up. It's his fault!! He was the one that was like I think we should break up and stuff after a month he left!!"

"Wouldn't that be great if you guys got together again? You guys were so cute in middle and high school!" Tomoyo says.

"No…" I reply. He's back, yet, he's been gone from my life for almost a decade. He's changed. I mean, he still does look like the same old Syaoran we used to know; but I'm definitely not going to go out with him. Heck, he's practically a stranger now.

"Come on! It'll be great!!" Tomoyo says. Great, now I've got her fired up because of Syaoran and me.

"No it won't! I say.

"You know, one night stands with your ex's are acceptable," Tomoyo replies, nodding. She did not just say that.

"Who the hell says that??" I ask. She shrugs.

"I'll second that," a voice comes from behind me. I almost drop my drink. I look back to see Eriol and Syaoran standing behind me.

"Syaoran-kun!! I haven't seen you in forever!!" Tomoyo says, smiling. She jumps up and hugs Syaoran tightly. "Sakura-chan was just telling me about your arrival."

"Has she really?" Syaoran looks at me. "I hope she's been telling you good things,"

I roll my eyes. Syaoran has gained a bit of charm too.

I wonder if I can buy a voodoo doll…

"Syaoran just moved here a week ago," Eriol explains, "he's not used to Tokyo yet, so I thought we could give him a ride,"

"Eriol-kun, we have dinner with kaa-san today!! I don't think we have time to give Syaoran-kun a ride!" Tomoyo says suddenly.

"Crap! I completely forgot!!" Eriol says, putting his hand to his head. "Gomen, Syaoran!" he looks at his watch. "Should we be going now?" he asks Tomoyo, who nods.

"Sumimasen!" Tomoyo apologizes to Syaoran who shakes his head. "Sakura-chan, could you show Syaoran-kun how to get home? You know this place pretty well!"

Tomoyo…Maybe I should get 2 voodoo dolls.

"Un," I reply. "I guess…"

The two walk out of the café, hand in hand, and disappears from my sight. Maybe what she was saying was a lie.

I should get 2 voodoo dolls; 3, just in case.

"Sakura-chan!" I hear a sing-songy voice in front of me. He's sitting in front of me, poking my drink.

"Yes?" I reply. I look up to see him taking a sip out of my tea. How dare he?? That was MY drink, which I paid for!! OH! I got a way out of the bill! "You're going to have to pay for that…" I say to him as he puts down the drink.

"What??" he says, looking at me.

"You drank that, so you're going to have to pay for it!" I reply, smoothly. "I'm not a walking bank here…I'm a secretary who's getting paid just above minimum wage, and you're a big time lawyer who's getting paid by the hour. Who do you think should pay?"

"But, I just drank a little!" he protests.

"There was half left, and now it's almost gone!" I retort, "Do the math!"

"You're bad at math…how did you figure that out?" he brings up. Screw him. So I am bad at math.

"That's completely irrelevant! And how do you know?? Maybe I was bad! But did you ever think that maybe I improved in college!!" I retort. I've really got to think this over before I open my mouth, don't I?

"No, because I was your tutor in middle and high school and I know how much you suck at math…" he replies. Ah, I forgot that he did tutor me.

Screw him. His voodoo doll will be the first to go…

I glare at him as best as I can as he finishes up my tea. "Pay for Tomoyo's drink too," I say to him once he puts down his drink.

Actually, I can't believe I'm sitting with him, chatting. Why aren't I gone right now? Why aren't I on my way home right now?

"Cheapskate," he mutters as he digs out a 1000 yen and puts it on the table. "Happy?"

I'll choose to ignore those comments, because I am that nice. But that doesn't keep me from glaring at him.

"I'm leaving," I say, "I'll see you tomorrow,"

"Wait, what?? What about me?? I have no idea how to get home from here!" he says, standing up as I walk towards the door.

"Use a map," I reply when I'm right besides the door.

"You're so mean, Sakura-chan!" he says, following me outside. "Are you just going to leave me here?? To starve and become homeless??"

"You have a credit card," I mutter. "Make use of it."

"I'll tell the staff everything I know about you," he says suddenly. I stop midway. We're right in front of the office building.

Yea, definitely, his voodoo doll will go first. Now how shall the doll die?

"You wouldn't dare…" I say, turning back to face him. He has a smirk on his face. Typical. "If you do that, I'll spill secrets about you!"

There's got to be something good that I could use in our 3-year relationship. Something…something…

I can't think of anything useful. It's usually me making the stupid mistakes and doing the stupid things…he really hasn't done anything that embarrassing.

Bluff it, Kinomoto! Bluff it!

"You don't have any," he says simply. "I, on the other hand, have the information needed to blackmail."

I glare at him. "Of course I have secrets about you!"

He leans over. His lips are very close to my ears that if I move, he'll be kissing my ears. I shiver and he whispers, "no one's going to believe the things you make up. You suck at lying and making up stuff, remember?"

Just you watch Li, I will become better at making up stuff. One day, I'm going to make you go around in circles with my lies. Mwuhahahahahha…

"You're never going to improve at lying Sakura-chan," he replies, reading my mind.

Freaky; so how does one become a mind reader?

"Come on!! I have no idea how to get home and you're just being cruel!" Syaoran says. God, something else in him has changed too. He has become a bit clingy, well, just a little. "Come on, we're friends, ne??"

I sigh frustratingly, "Fine, where do you live?"

"I knew you'd come through!" Syaoran says to me. "It's because I'm too cute for you, ne?"

My eye twitches.

The next day, I'm sitting in my office, looking at my e-mails. I'm still twitching about yesterday's news. And I'm not that happy with any of the news I received yesterday.

One, my boss is Li Syaoran, a.k.a., my ex-boyfriend. He wasn't that bad yesterday, but I'm pretty sure it'll become worse, not to say I still haven't 100-percent forgiven him for our broken relationship.

Second, I find out that Syaoran lives near me. Not next door or anything, but like just a street away from where I live.

Great, he even said he might drop by or something. I just stared at him like he was an complete idiot. I know he's going to drop by just to annoy me, not for "business-related" things.

Syaoran walks in right after I send off my e-mail to Tomoyo. He's wearing a light blue dress shirt and a darker blue tie. I have a thing about ties; I absolutely adore them. Call me crazy or something, but whoever thought of ties, I have to applaud them.

But even wearing a tie, I don't care much about Syaoran. He goes into his office after giving me a greeting and comes back out.

"Do you have coffee?" he asks me.

"No," I answer back.

"Can you get me some?" he asks. I stare at him. I am not a freaking waitress or a Starbucks.

"There's a coffee maker over there," I point to the door. "It's right across from the door if you go outside."

"Well, the thing is, that I have something to do…" he says, trailing off. Yea, right. That's such a lie.

"Whatever," I stand up, frustrated. I'll give anything to get away from his gaze. Maybe I can spill it on him later or something.

This is going to be a hell of a day.

I love summer vacation. You're supposed to do nothing. It's like your homework, which to me is 100-percent all right.

I'll try to get the next chapter up ASAP…

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