Chapter 2

The two weeks that Sakura stayed at Tomoyo's and Syaoran's house were very fun and embarrassing. Lots of tripping, falling, spilling things, and blushing was involved, mostly the times at Syaoran's house. Luke finally went back to school, and Sakura was at Tomoyo's house all of the week. 12 people had come to visit Sakura, and only 4 came to see Syaoran. Apparrently, people didn't think a broken leg was any reason to stay home from school. Sakura packed up her things from Tomoyo's house and was driven to her house. Her head didn't hurt anymore, and she didn't have to wear a head wrap. All of her clothes were washed and ironed. The house was cleaned from top to bottom. The fridge and pantry had been stocked, and Tomoyo's number was on speed dial. Of course, so was Syaoran's. Tomoyo had also sent 5 of her housemaids over to Sakura's house, making the whole place feel like a mansion. Since the housemaids were there, Sakura was allowed to stay there alone.

Sakura woke up at 6:30 the next morning, which she was not used to. She looked around her room. An outfit was already laid out, and the clothes that she had worn the day before were washed and hung up. She got dressed and went out into the kitchen, where a breakfast of pancakes, bacon, and eggs was waiting for her. Of course, there was a 3-gallon jug of orange juice, too. Sakura ate heartily and went outside to wait for Yukito to pick her up, and instead there was a limosuine waiting for her. She rode to school excitedly, for she had not seen Syaoran in a week. After all, she liked him.

Going into the classroom was a hard thing that morning, too. The whole class, except Syaoran, was waiting outside with a cake and party balloons.

"WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL, SAKURA!" they all said in synchronization. It was quite hard to fight her way into the room, with all the balloons and people hugging her. She enjoyed it, of course, but she was going to be late.

The party finally squeezed into the classroom, still trying to glomp Sakura at the same time. But Sakura wasn't paying attention to them anymore. She was looking for Syaoran. She finally emerged from the crowd, and there he was, at his desk. He was looking right at her, with an amazed, dazed look. He then realized that she was looking at him, and hurridely looked away, once again blushing. Sakura sat down at her desk and began to unload her backpack.

"Where's Tomoyo?" asked Syaoran, who was avoiding looking at Sakura.

"I dunno, I didn't come to school with her. I'm back at my house again, since I'm going to school now."

"Really?" Syaoran looked very excited, for some reason. "Are you going to be ok by yourself? Because, you know, I'm not doing anyhthing tonight...and-"

"You want to come over to my house because you're worried about me, right?"

"N-not-not really..." Syaoran murmured.

"It's ok, I wanted someone to come over anyway. I have the 1st season of carcaptor sakura on DVD!"

"Oh goodies! I love cardcaptor sakura!" Tomoyo said as she hung over Sakura's shoulder. "It is the english version, right?"

"Oh Tomoyo...I didn't see you there... and it's the Japanese version, so you wouldn't really wanna watch it, right?"

"Well, I do love the english version and I do hate noisy gatherings(oh ho ho ho ho!)... how many people did you invite?"

"Just Syaoran, so far..."

"I KNOW! Let's make it a welcome back Sakura party! We can have it at my house, I have a flatscreen! And cake! Yay cake!"

"You do know I hate cake, right?"

"Oh yeah, that's right. Oh well we have fudgesickles!"

"I'm allergic to fudge-"

"OI EVERYBODY! WELCOME BACK PARTY FOR SAKURA AT MY PLACE TONIGHT! BRING FUDGESICKLES!"

"Too late," Syaoran whispered.

"Yeah, I figured that part out."

The rest of the day was spent talking about the party decorations and food and games. Sakura wasn't too excited about it, because all that she wanted to do was tell Syaoran how she felt about him. And at noisy gatherings, that's quite hard.

"5 MINUTES TILL GUESTS ARRIVE PEOPLE! MAKE THE FINAL ARRANGEMENTS!" Tomoyo screamed from the kitchen. She emerged with a huge tray of cookies, popcorn and chocolate. It took 2 housemaids to carry all the sodas. There were beanbags and chairs placed all over the living room, ready for cardcaptor sakura season 1. Dozens of decorations scattered the house, expertly hung and placed. A huge 10-foot tall ice sculpture was in the corner of the living room for some reason. The surround sound stereo was turned on, the lights ready to be turned off, the humongous flatscreen just waiting to be used. Guests started to arrive not only from the 6th grade class, but the whole school. Everyone who was anyone was coming, and amazingly enough, with PRESENTS! The most frequent present was fudgesickles.

Once everyone was seated and ready for the movie, Tomoyo got up and stood in the middle of the TV.

"Everyone, thank you for coming and thanks for bringing presents! We are about to present CARDCAPTOR SAKURA: SEASON 1 EPISODES 1-35! Good thing today's Friday, cause these things are 30 minutes each! Enjoy!"

The first episode started to play, and not even 5 minutes in, Sakura felt someone touch her shoulder.

"Come with me. I have something to tell you." It was Syaoran.

Sakura was startled. Of course, she had seen Carcaptor Sakura 3 times now, but she still loved it. But if Syaoran was with her, all alone, she'd be there in an instant.

They moved out of the room silently and into Tommoyo's bedroom. There they sat down on the bed and Sakura waited for Syaoran to say what he had wanted to.

"Sakura, you probably haven't noticed, but," Syaoran began slowly. Sakura was listening intently, wondering if something had happened.

"Well, I-"

Suddenly there was a crashing sound from the living room.

"AAAAAAGGGHHH! MY SHIRT! THIS THING WAS 67 BUCKS!"

"It's ok, I have an extra shirt in my room, I'll go get it-"

Tomoyo opened the door suddenly, revealing a surprised Sakura and a VERY embarrassed Syaoran behind it.

"Wh-what are you DOING IN HERE!" Tomoyo now looked furious, forgetting completely about the $67 shirt that was ruined downstairs.

"Uh-um-well-" Syaoran began, looking very embarrassed.

Sakura had to save him from this embarrassment. She could not bear to watch him look so awful. But what to do? She couldn't think of anything. But then-

"I took Syaoran up here to tell him that I love him!"

The longest pause heard in human history then took place. The people downstairs heard, too, and were awestruck. But the most surprised look of all was Syaoran's. It was undescribable.

Then Sakura dared to look at Tomoyo. She looked like she was about to blow up with anger. Sakura looked back at Syaoran now, who was looking at Tomoyo now. He looked as amazed as she did. Nobody spoke, nobody moved, nobody dared to even breathe. Then Sakura finally realized what she had just said. She was so shocked at what she had just said that she couldn't move. She had saved Syaoran, but at what cost? To be talked about for the whole entire year? To be laughed at when walking to class? She couldn't stand it anymore. She ran out of the room, tears streaming down her face. She didn't care what she ran into, which included the ice sculpture. All that she cared about was getting away from all of it. She ran for what seemed like forever, and finally stopped to look up. She was in the middle of the woods, lost, and it had turned dark outside. She didn't care. She had seperated herself from Syaoran, and that was all that mattered. She stood there for quite some time, and her emotions eventually calmed down. She then realized that she was in the middle of a woods without a flashlight or a compass. She decided to just walk one direction and hopefully get somewhere. She stared at the ground the whole time, and it seemed like no time at all before she emerged out of the woods. She was in downtown Tomoeda, and she had no way of getting back to her house. She had other choice- she began to hitchhike. She stood at the side of the road for half an hour, and nobody stopped for her. She began to walk.

"Do you need a ride?" suddenly she heard from a car. The window to the driver's seat was cracked just enough to hear what was going on outside.Sakura was surprised, but extremely grateful.

"Oh, you don't mind? That would be great!" She didn't see the face of the driver, but they began to talk again.

"Then just hop in the back of the car and we'll be going." the car door to the back seat opened, and Sakura stepped inside.

"Thank you so much-" she began, and then realized who was in the back seat with her.

Tomoyo.

Once again, Sakura was completely speechless. Tomoyo was staring at her with the same heated gaze she had seen at the party.

"We need to talk," she said through clenched teeth.