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CHAPTER TWO: Take it, Make it

Flashback of six years ago

"What are you asking ME FOR?" A fourteen year old boy with black hair exclaimed furiously.

"But I-" Responded a thirteen year old girl with short auburn hair.

"But WHAT?" He cut her off.

The couple is in an empty classroom after school hours. The rays of the setting sun insolently peaked through the window panes, disturbing the dimness and gloominess of the room.

"Ranma!" The girl cried out his name.

"Look here Sakura," he ran his hand thru his jet black hair, showing irritancy, "if we keep on fighting like this, this obviously isn't working out..!"

He shook her head in disbelief and disagreement to his previous statement. "But everyone said-"

"You always give importance to what others say," he cut her off again, "don't you believe what I SAY?"

A tear glistened in one of her eyes. "You, Akane… Shampoo… and even that girl who sells pancakes…" she tightened her fists "…they all-"

"You're my girlfriend, SaKUra." He stared at her. No sympathy was visible in his face. "Just think of it as that." He dogmatically ordered.

She shot up her head and loudly said "HOW RANMA?" She is almost at the ends of her wits.

He was pissed. "Sakura, just do it!" He made it sound so easy. It was never easy for a thirteen year old girl. Tears began to well up in her eyes but still he just shouted "Don't give a shit what others say, just listen to me!"

'PAK!' Ranma got hit with a rolled up newspaper on his head. Hard.

"OW!" Ranma whined while he rubbed his head.

"Shut up!" Someone with brown hair happened to shout at Ranma. That guy took Sakura's hand and began to drag her towards the exit of the empty classroom.

Sakura just let Syaoran drag her. She just let him bring her anywhere.

Anywhere.

She didn't even bother to look back at her supposed to be boyfriend because she didn't have to see to know that he was just dumbly standing there and rubbing his head. She knew he didn't give a damn about her…but she didn't believe that thought as well.

"Will you stop crying now?" Syaoran, age fifteen, calmly said to her when they arrived by the school gates. "People will think I made you cry…" the moment came when he felt he had to let go of her hand.

She continued to sob and she was slowly falling upon him. He took a quick deep breath and tightly held her shoulders. "Don't trust him." He stated as if it was the answer to some mathematical equation.

Her wrists wiped off her nonstop flow of tears. "Why?" She asked thru sobs.

"The rumors are true." He continued to stare into her crying eyes, trying his best to knock some sense into her. "He- really- IS- Akane's- fiancé."

"WHAT?" She let go off his grasps upon her shoulders and began to march off back to the school building. She planned to kick some ass but to no avail, she was caught before she had managed to take another step.

"Going back there isn't going to change a thing." He said matter-of-factly after he caught her left arm. "He'll still be Akane's fiancé and there isn't anything you can do about it." His amber eyes once again pierced through emerald ones. "I told you not to trust him."

"Then who am I gonna trust?" She whined like a little kid asking where her lollipop is.

"Me."

End of flashback

Sakura ran her fingers thru her bangs.

She wears her everyday University uniform as she continues walking down the street. 'Pock, Pock, Pock' her one inch non-stiletto heels made palatable sounds. It also echoes the sound of walking alone.

Don't get her wrong, she isn't an emo for taking the chance of being a loner. She knows where her best friend is, she just isn't in the mood to meet up with him at the moment.

"Sakura!" Woops, so much for 'not wanting to see him at the moment.' She turned her head to look at the familiar person who just called her.

"Hey." She greeted lowly.

Syaoran stood at the other side of the street. She hoped he wouldn't see her but it's too late for hoping she guesses. His left hand rested upon his left hip and his right hand scratched his awesomely good looking messy hair. "Is that all you have to say to me?" He asked boringly. She knows how to interact with him whenever he begins to act that way. She just smiled and shrugged her shoulders. And then she knows what would happen next, "C'mon inside, I'd like you to meet someone." He would invite her to join him so that she could meet another girlfriend of his. "Chidori's great, Saks." He stated after she crossed the street and stood in front of him.

"Like always." Her words were plain but there was a mischievous smirk on her lips. What did she mean, he thought. Anyways, he led her inside a café and there she saw a red headed girl seated at the center of the room.

"This is Chidori." He introduced her the moment Sakura stood by their circular table. "And this-" Syaoran forced Sakura to sit in front of his girlfriend "is Sakura."

"Hi, nice to meet you..!" Chidori waved at her.

"Charmed."

"Anything you want, Saks?" He casually said as he slouches on his seat and begins to read the newspaper.

Sakura lamely waved a hand "No, noth-"

"A strawberry milk shake, please." Syaoran ordered to the waiter.

"Syaoran," She lightly grasped his right arm, "I said I won't have anything."

At that, he looked back at her and made a disbelieving face. "Tch!" He uttered as if she just said the weirdest thing ever. He turned to the waiter again. "Make that Grande and add vanilla powder. Loads."

She just pouted for a tad while and then she was back to normal.

"So!" Chidori made a single clap. "Why don't we all go see a movie some time?"

"Ok…" Syaoran dropped the newspaper on the table and took a sip of his coffee. "How about tonight?"

"Great! Tonight it is..!" Chidori agreed with a loving face.

"Tonight?" Sakura apologetically smiled. "I can't go tonight."

"Oh? You have plans?" Chidori asked her.

"No." Syaoran answered for her. "She doesn't have plans tonight." He talks like he is her personal secretary.

"No Syaoran, seriously, I can't go." She calmly looked at him. She may be starting to get pissed.

"You can go with us tonight." He told her dogmatically. "I'm sure."

"One Grande strawberry milkshake with extra vanilla powder." A waiter suddenly walked in and placed the milkshake on the table in front of Sakura. She stared at it for a while then her gaze shifted to the amber eyed boy in front of him.

She sighed in her defeat. "Yeah yeah…" She lowly uttered with droopy eyes. Syaoran flashed his victory smirk and Chidori nodded in glee.

Just before the sun has begun to set, Sakura walked out of the café and was followed by the couple. She lazily stepped by the end of the sidewalk and patiently waited for a cab. "So…" she felt a hand caress her long auburn hair "what time will I be picking you up?"

She turned around. "I'll be able to make it there on my own." She faced him. "You don't have to pick me up."

Shock was visible on Syaoran's face. He wasn't disappointed or felt rejected. To be honest, he was just shocked. And being shock itself is a surprise…even for him. "Really?" Was all he could utter.

"Yeah!" She exclaimed and entered the cab that happened to stop by.

"Okay..?" He was childishly pouting, staring at her as she shuts the cab door at their faces. "See you later." He slowly said.

And then the cab drove off.

That evening, Syaoran, along with Chidori, found Sakura standing by the cinemas. He had his hand resting on his girlfriend's shoulder and he grinned more when he saw his best friend. He let go of his girlfriend and hurried off to his best friend. "Hey!" He beamed at her and handed her a miniature Butterfinger.

"I love Butterfinger!" Sakura cheered and immediately tore open the plastic packaging of the mini chocolate bar.

He smiled, finally seeing sparkles in her eyes. They were dull and empty this morning and he always knew how to cheer her up. He had always thought that he was the cure. The cure to all her problems.

"Candy." A guy walked in. "It will make you fat." A light blue haired guy slowly snatched the Butterfinger from Sakura's hands.

Syaoran was nothing more than surprised and offended. His territory was being intruded by some random guy…or so he thought.

"Ohhh…" Sakura whined not-so-disappointedly. She regained her composure. "Syaoran and Chidori..!" She called the couple standing in front of her. "This is George." She rested her hand on his right shoulder. "My boyfriend."

Syaoran raised an eyebrow. 'Boyfriend, is it?' He thought. He smirked as he waited for George to stretch out his hand to shake his. There is no way Syaoran Li would stretch out his hand first for another man.

"Well, he was seeing me for some time now and I just said what the heck..!" Sakura adored her boyfriend.

It was a battle of egos. Eventually, one gave in. "Nice to meet you." George manly stretched out his hand and Syaoran shook hands with him.

Syaoran's amber eyes examined George's blue ones. "Yeah." He responded in a single word.

"Alright! Let's all go catch the movie..!" Chidori exclaimed and the four were off.

Continuation of flashback of six years ago

"You?" the girl asked.

"Yeah." Syaoran cockily smirked at her. "Don't you believe me?"

"Well… We've been friends for two months now…" She slightly looked away as a slight blush erupts in her pretty emerald eyed face. "And you've always been there for me."

"…" The boy just watched her.

Her face lit up and encircled her arm around his arm. "Thank you..!" She said whole heartedly and walked off with him.

The sun has completely set and the two were happily walking home.

End of flashback

Inside the movie house, there sat Chidori, Syaoran, Sakura and George respectively.

'When I woke up tonight I said I'm gonna make somebody love me, I'm gonna make somebody love me. And now I know, now I know, now I know, I know that it's you. You're lucky, lucky, you're so lucky.'

END OF CHAPTER

Author's Notes/ Disclaimers: Ranma Saotome from Ranma 1/2; Chidori Kurama from Ayashi no Ceres; George Koizumi from Paradise Kiss.

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