My Brother's Friend/ Chapter 2
Sakura has been sitting in the living room trying to solve a math equation for a half an hour, but still can't find her way around it.
The front door opens and steps in are her brother and his "New Friend."
Sakura didn't even bother to turn around because she already knew that her brother would greet her with a joke to do with her, a.k.a. 'insult.'
"So what do you think about her?" Tori asked Li.
Li shrugged his shoulders as if he didn't care. "She's all right I guess. But not my type," Li answered.
"I thought she was well fit," Tori said, over excited. "Oh! Hey, monster," Tori greeted as soon as he noticed Sakura sitting on the couch.
"Whatever," Sakura muttered, not being bothered to do anything.
"Hi," Li greeted Sakura. Once again Sakura didn't care, all she cared about was getting the maths equation solved.
After not getting any answer from Sakura, Li turned to Tori looking confused. As if reading Li's mined, Tori said, "Maths problem. She's like this whenever she can't solve an equation, meaning the whole thing."
"Is that it?" Li said. "I can help her out," Li offered, making his way to Sakura, but Tori grabbed him back.
"Don't, she'll hurt you. I tried myself and I couldn't look at her in the eyes for like 3 days," Tori warned.
"You're exaggerating," Li sighed as he carried on making his way to Sakura.
"Okay, it was 3 hours, but I'm warning you. When she's through with you, it will be 3 days," Tori pointed out in a joking manner, well to Li it was.
Li sat down next to Sakura and looked at her wearily. Even though she couldn't see Li because she wasn't looking up, Sakura could still feel his presence and stares on her.
"What?" Sakura bit viciously, but not loud.
Li tried not to look offended. "I just heard that you might need help with your math," Li said, a little bit too cheerful. 'Ok, Li. Just slow down here.'
"Yes I would. I can tell that my brother has filled you in then?" Sakura said, mockingly.
"Um... sort of," Li said.
Sakura looked confused. "Sort of? If it's sort of, then who told you the whole thing?"
"Um...I...Tori...you," Li stuttered, getting confused, making Sakura smirk mysteriously.
"I guess you're not the right person to help me with my math if you're confused yourself, Li!" Sakura sneered.
"Look, Ok!" Li blurted out. No one has made him this baffled or even angry before with just a little mix. "I am here to help you, so if I were you, I'll be happy!"
Sakura rolled her eyes seeing that her fun was already over. "Get over with it then?" Sakura ordered, but Li had already known that she has given in. "Just great, I'm gonna be getting boring help from one of theĀ people despise of," Sakura muttered, as Li took her math paper from her to see what he could do.
"Ouch!" Li put on a fake hurt face. "Anyways, chop, chop. We want this over and done with. All right," Li said, rubbing his hands gracefully together with excitement as he started informing Sakura how to do it, making sure she gets it right. For some reason this felt like satisfaction to Li, but for Sakura it felt like torture.
Time past as Li taught Sakura how the math equation should be like and the easiest way of it as well. When they had finished, Sakura almost saw heaven. She grabbed her paper from Li and thanked him, not even giving him a smile even though he was brave enough to help her.
"And your welcome too," Li said under his breath almost in a sarcastic tone.
"Whatever." Said Sakura, "Anyways," Sakura continued, "I don't really like maths and its all a load of crap to me. I mean, everyone already knows their 123s and stuff, what's the point of a big fat equation when it'll be easier to just do timesing or adding and no algebra," Sakura finished. She hasn't glanced at him ever since she's finished her maths homework.
Tori emerged from the kitchen with a sandwich in hand as he ate it. "I guess you guys are finally finished," he said, walking up to them to see the work they have produced.
"Yeah, I actually had a great time," said Li, with a big smile on his face.
"Probably because you're such a geek with a low life that evolves around maths," Sakura mumbled loudly, a bit too loud for Li's comfort.
This time when Li looked hurt, he looked hurt for real. No-one has ever said something like this to him in his life. People are normally happy that he's around at least and make a big deal that HE was helping them with something. Why was Sakura so mean to him?
"That was nice," Li said sarcastically.
"Look, Li, in case you haven't figured it out already then I'll just give you the 'in 4 1(Information)'. First of all, if I don't get along with my brother, then don't expect me to get along with any of his friends," Sakura spat.
'Ouch.' Tori though, just standing there. 'She hasn't forgotten that I'm standing right here, ya know?'
"Second of all, I don't need anyone, just so you haven't noticed, I do have myself to be happy with, ya know?" Sakura said.
"All right," Li played it cool. "Now that you've said yours, I'm gonna say mine. Firstly, I'm nice to anyone I see because I'm friendly and I like being social. Secondly, no one can survive just being to themselves unless there's a story behind it," Li counted back. "Oh! And I almost forgot, it's Syaoran to you, Missy!"
"But what if I don't want to call you that?" Sakura roared slightly.
"Call me what?" Li said, pretending to look confused.
"To call you that," Sakura said.
"Call me what?" Li asked once again, still pretending to look confused.
"Syaoran, god-damnit!" Sakura shouted.
"I'm sorry, I thought you didn't want to call me that," Li smiled gracefully.
Sakura fumed, giving up as she threw her arms in the air and stamped out of the room and upstairs. There was a loud bang! as she shut her bedroom door.
"I guess I won this round," Li snickered, with Tori joining in.
Hope you guys liked this chapter. I'm sorry, but it took me a long to finally think of a chapter that would be out of reach. Oh yeah, just so you guys know, Sakura's 15 years of age.
