C.L: Hey guys! It's my second chapter for my second story. I'm going to update Escaping Destiny over Thanksgiving. This chapter is written in Sakura's POV. I do not own CCS. Please enjoy :)

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Sakura's POV

I work really hard to earn money. I like the feeling of accomplishment, you know? That little feeling of pride at the end of the week when I get my pay check, it's just screaming, "Yay! You earned this".

So, I really don't like being late to anything. The summer after fourth grade, I got my act together. Okay, maybe not all of it, but I finally didn't sleep in. I was actually on time for school. Scratch that. I was early for school. I finally didn't arrive right before the bell rang.

I blamed it on jet lag.

You see, my father was, and still is, an archaeologist. He traveled around the world and went to dig sites to find ancient artifacts and all that great things. I helped him with his team sometimes. We spent weeks in the middle of the Pyrenees, looking for old Roman artifacts. During my trip to Italy, I was able to visit the old city of Pompeii. The city was destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius.

I totally got off my original topic. Sorry, I just love history.

Anyway, the whole jet lag thing, I was jet lagged for a long time when I came back to Japan, the country in which I reside. My brother teased me about just being a lazy kaiju or in English, monster. I stomped on his foot when he told me that and he was in pain. Everyone's happy.

Skipping random parts of my life, I got a job as a waitress at this fancy hotel resort. They paid good money. The best part of this job was the employee uniforms. They are not ugly! They're actually pretty cute. I know right? Isn't that amazing?

I'm just your average sixteen-year-old girl. I love to hang out with my girls, talk about boys, and watch sappy romance movies. I'm not your girly-girl type, though. I love to play Halo, Resident Evil and sports. It's because I grew up with males. It was just my father, my brother and I. My mom passed away when I was barely three. It's okay, I hardly knew her. It's my brother that was hurt; he was ten when she passed.

I worked by the pool. It was this cute little restaurant that was family oriented. It did make sense because kid's love swimming in swimming pools.

It was a hot summer day. I was serving iced tea to the guest lounging by the pool. I was less than a foot away from the water. I was going to go back to the restaurant to get more tea. All I had with me was the tray. Then a projectile hit me.

It was a football. (The American one. Not soccer.). It hit me in the head. I fell on the deep end of the pool, which was 8 feet deep. I suffered a possible concussion, and as soon as my body hit the water, my back received most of the impact; I got the wind knocked out of me.

I was unconscious after 10 seconds. Yay, I drowned. Not for long though.

The next thing I remember was seeing this gorgeous, amber-eyed boy, dripping wet from saving me. I think he was the lifeguard? I started coughing up water. Then I passed out.

I woke up in the infirmary, AKA the staff clinic). Miss Nakamoto, the nurse, told me to take the day off and tomorrow too. She said I suffered a pretty good blow to the head and I could get really bad headaches if I do not take it easy. She told me not to worry. She already informed my supervisor, Mr. Sasayama. He's really cool, but he can get pretty uptight.

I headed straight for home, in this case, my aunt's other home in Tokyo. You see, my family lives in Tomoeda, this cute little town a couple of hours away from Tokyo. My aunt Sonomi owns this toy company. Her daughter, Tomoyo, who is my best friend, is an aspiring fashion designer. She's really good. She had been making clothes for me since she first learned how to sew.

I was staying with her over the summer. We usually kept each other company. Touya, my brother, had already gone off to college. He's about to finish his law degree. He pops in every now and then just to check on Tomoyo and I. He's really horrible because he's so over protective.

When I got home, Tomoyo started worrying about me. She started fussing and wanted to play Florence Nightingale. It was horrible, she was the one giving me the frequent headaches. Of course, I didn't have the heart to tell her that so I just told her that I was tired and I wanted to go to sleep. She seemed to buy that and left me alone for a while.

She woke me up later, though. It was dinnertime. She made me some beef stew. It was pretty good actually. I usually helped her make dinner. I was a little bummed out. It was something that we had done together since childhood. That was how we helped each other cope with the loneliness. Her father died serving in a war and her mother was usually busy. I had no mother and dad was usually out of the country. That left us with Touya. He was the parent, the dictator, and he possessed a control-freak-like quality.

Tomoyo told me that I had a visitor while I was sleeping. She told me he was cute. She asked me if he was my boyfriend. I just looked at her, trying to tell her with my eyes: "Does it look like I want or have a boyfriend". Tomoyo laughed at me.

I asked Tomoyo who it was. She told me that he didn't give a name, but he looked decent—hot was the term she used, actually. She told me he asked how I was doing. She then described to me that the boy had messy brown hair and amber eyes. Then went on about how he and I would make such a cute couple.

While she was dragging on about a relationship between him and me would be so adorable, I was thinking of who he was. I knew perfectly who he was. He was the one that dragged me out of the pool. The lifeguard!

I needed to thank him for saving my life when I went back to work.

But of course, I didn't need to do that. He came back to check up on me the next day. He brought flowers...

Aww. That was so sweet of Li! I wish someone would bring me flowers. Ha ha ha. Anyway, thanks for reading this chapter. Please review :D