WEWT! Finished this chapter in a few days. Please forgive all fugly typos and fugly writing in general XD
"Sorry, Sakura. I'm having a lunch date with Eriol today." Tomoyo said apologetically over the phone.
"No, no. It's ok. I'll take this chance to have lunch with Toshio."
"Thanks for understanding. Bye."
"Bye."
Sakura hung up and sighed as she looked at the phone. Things with Toshio weren't going very well. Nothing really was. Business hadn't picked up and this was the third lunch that Tomoyo had canceled this week. She looked at her phone hard, trying to decide whether she should swallow her pride and eat alone or risk another blowup with her boyfriend.
Toshio... Sure, he was handsome, with his neat black hair and pale blue eyes. He could be sweet sometimes, but other times he could be a real dick. He was too forward for her taste and he had some serious anger issues. One of the doors to his apartment had a whole in it the size of his fist from one of their fights.
"Hello?" His deep voice came after 4 rings.
"Hi, honey."
"Hey."
"Um, I was wondering if you wanted to have lunch with me?"
"Oh, sorry. I've got a, um, lunch meeting."
"Okay." She sighed.
After their goodbyes, she hung up and looked around. How far had she gone without realizing it? She whirled around at a sudden surprised 'Hey'.
"Shaoran." She stated.
"Something wrong?"
"Why do you ask?"
"Because you're acting wierder than usual, if that's even possible."
Sakura rolled her eyes and smiled lightly at his joke. Her brother used to tell her the same thing when she was having a problem. She shook her head unconciously, as she always did when the comment came up.
"Alrighty then. Do you wanna have lunch with me?"
"What?"
"Do. You. Want. To. Have. Lunch. With. Me?" He said slowly, as though he were talking to a child.
"But you hate me."
"I don't hate you. You're just fun to tease. You don't hate me, do you?"
"No, I just find you very annoying." She smiled.
"So, lunch?"
She tapped her chin, thinking. Finally, after a few minutes she nodded. He grabbed her arm and dragged her to Pomme.
"Pomme? How do you know this place?"
"Well, I saw it a few days ago and I wanted to try it out. I figured it'd be awkward to walk in as just a guy, so I needed a girl to go with me."
"Oh, so you're just using me." She said, pretending to be offended.
"I'm not using you. I'm treating you to lunch."
"Well, why me? I'm sure you have plenty of prospects."
"To put it simply, they're all whores."
Sakura giggled at this. Shaoran watched her out of the corner of his eye and found himself liking that small little laugh. It was pleasing and the right volume. Not like the whores who laughed fakely at everything, her's was nice and it had to be earned.
"What about you? Where's seƱor boyfriend?"
Her face fell, and he immediately regretted bringing him up.
"He's got a lunch meeting."
"Oh. Well, then, he's really missing out."
"Thanks." She said, smiling sadly.
"He better watch out, I might steal you away."
"Oh, really? And how do you plan to do that?" She asked, really smiling now.
"By using my irresistable charm." He said leaning over the table and into her face.
"Er, no thanks." She said, blushing slightly.
He shrugged as he moved back to his side of the small table. When the waitress came, Shaoran ordered brioche and Sakura ordered palmier. Both had coffee for a drink. The two sat in a relatively awkward silence.
"U-um!" Sakura said.
Shaoran's intense eyes looked into her's and she had a sudden flashback of the night the week before. She muttered a small nevermind, and went back to fiddling with her thumbs.
"You're always doing that. Starting with um, and then when I look at you, you never say anything."
"You're pretty intimidating."
"Well, you have to learn to deal with that. Intimidating people are going to come into your life at a constant pace, and you'll have to talk to them."
"O-ok."
"So, what were you going to ask?"
"How did you and Eriol meet?"
"We were in highschool and were assigned to work on a science project together and we were fast friends. How about you and Tomoyo?"
"We met at a family reunion. Turns out we're like, second cousins or something."
Shaoran nodded and picked at his brioche before putting a piece in his mouth.
"Holy shit. This is amazing!" He said, incredulous.
"I know, this place is fantastic." Sakura sighed, dipping a palmier in her coffee before biting into it.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Shaoran asked hesitantly.
Sakura shook her head slightly, so slight that Shaoran almost didn't catch it. He asked if she wanted to talk about, and she shook her head again. Thinking on a way to cheer her up, he broke off a piece of his brioche and offered it to her. She looked at him questioningly.
"I want you to try it, you dolt." He laughed.
"Okay..." She said, popping it into her mouth.
"Omigod, you were right, that is amazing! Try some palmier?"
"Alrighty."
She smiled and he congratulated himself for correcting his previous blunder. He put a piece in his mouth and his eyes widened at the flavor. She looked at her watch and gasped.
"Late?" He smirked.
"Yeah. How much was mine?"
"Don't bother, I'll pay."
"Are you sure?"
"Positive, now get going."
"Thanks!" She smiled, hugging him happily.
"Er, no problem." He blushed, smelling her cherry blossom perfume.
She waved as she ran in the direction of her store, waving goodbye. Once she was gone, he shook his head and laughed.
"She has worse mood swings than my all my sisters combined."
Sakura smiled behind the counter, recalling the events from her lunch break. Shaoran could care, which surprised her. She'd figured that he was just an immature stuck up ass, but he wasn't. Thinking about it, she realized how different Shaoran was from Toshio. Toshio didn't have much beyond his looks, and even those couldn't compare to the brunette's. But Shaoran also had a personality. She was snapped out of her thoughts when a couple walked through the door.
She didn't know the woman, who had platinum blonde hair and an almost anorexic figure. But it was the man, who had his arms around her romantically that caused her eyes to widen. The one name she uttered made him turn around guitily.
"T-Toshio?"
Did you think it was Toshio? I considered for a brief moment making it Eriol but then I was like, nah. So that actually wasn't sposed to happen until later, but I got this crazy idea last night, so pay attention to the little description about him, and maybe you can figure out what's going to happen :) Please review!
