Chapter Three:

Two weeks later: Hong Kong

Meiling walked over to Nariha's desk and asked, "Hey, I heard another new student is coming. Let us pray that they're not a crazy psycho like you are Nariha," she teased.

"Aww…. But crazy psychos always make this place more fun."

The teacher came into the room and began to write down the lesson for the day. Once she finished she turned around to the class and began to say, "Okay class, I am not going through a formal introduction for our new student because most of you know him." The teacher acknowledged towards the door where a boy came in. His hair was chestnut brown and his eyes were penetrating amber. The boy's build was muscular and stunning. He was absolutely gorgeous in every way.

Nariha looked around at Meiling to see if she knew the handsome boy but Meiling was too shocked to notice, she was staring at the boy with wide eyes. Nariha turned back around and looked out the window. It was a nice day. The sun was shinning and was very comfortable outside.

"Mr. Li, please take any seat you want to," the teacher said. The boy nodded and took a seat in the back of the classroom. Meiling followed the boy with her eyes, her face set in confusion.

Rest of class was followed by a movie on whatever the class was learning at the moment. Nariha had no clue what the movie was on so she sat at her desk looking out the window while everyone else watched the movie or passed notes.

Finally, the bell rang and everyone went out for lunch. Nariha went over to Meiling's desk. They both went outside to a random tabled and sat down to eat. "So you know the new guy, huh?" There was a smirk on her face

"Kind of. I really didn't think he would come back here though. Ho-oy! Over here!" Meiling called as she waved at the new boy. He saw her and came to the tabled and sat.

"And… you are…?" Nariha asked clueless, she was a total loss of what to say. She was still confused at how Meiling knew the kid.

"Li Syaoran," he said very plainly.

Nariha's eyes widened for a moment then softened. "So you are related to Meiling?"

"Yeah. We are cousins," Meiling said matter-of-factly. "We used to be engaged a while ago but we had it canceled a while ago."

"Hmm? Why?"

"Well, Syaoran fell in love with someone and I wanted someone who will love me more than anyone else so we just decided it wasn't for us. Right?" Meiling continued.

"Hmm…. That's not what I remember" Syaoran said, his eyebrows furrowed.

"Haha. You've got to be kidding. How can you forget Sakura?" Meiling laughed. Syaoran still looked puzzled and she stopped short. She looked at Nariha who looked even more clueless than Syaoran.

Crap! Nariha is going to suspect something! "Oh! You must have hit your head harder than I thought!" Meiling sweat-dropped.

"Huh?" both Nariha and Syaoran said in synchronization.

"Yeah! Don't you remember Syaoran… oh well I guess you don't. A few weeks ago I sort of pushed you down the stairs and you hit your head pretty hard. You must be suffering from amnesia." Meiling continued, "Hopefully you will be able to remember after you have more time to rest and get back to normal life!"

Both of them still sat there dumfounded.

That should hold them for awhile….

After a while, Nariha turned to Syaoran, "Ahh! I never introduced myself. I'm Yamashika Nariha. Nice to meet you."

"Yeah. You too."

~*~

Later, Meiling and Syaoran said goodbye to Nariha as they went separate ways home. She turned to face Syaoran.

"Seriously, what do you mean when you say you can't remember Sakura?"

"I don't know who that is…." Syaoran said. He scowled towards the sky that was turning dark. He was starting to think it might rain tonight.

"Really! Stop joking with me! Did you get in a fight?" Meiling was starting to get seriously concerned about her cousin. It felt like he was telling her the truth, but she didn't want to except it.

"I have no idea what the hell you're talking about!" Syaoran retorted starting to get defensive.

"Really…?"

"Yes. Now come on it is going to rain soon so let's get home." Relief began to fill Syaoran as he saw that Meiling was going to drop the subject.

"When did you get here?" she asked half-heartedly.

"Yesterday."

"Why didn't you tell me?" She continued. Meiling was determined to get as much out of him as possible.

"It was early. But it was weird all of the sudden I woke up in Japan. I don't even remember how I got there in the first place." Syaoran really looked utterly clueless. He was still scowling, and Meiling remembered that before Syaoran met Sakura he hardly ever smiled, a scowl rarely left his face, and Syaoran hadn't smiled the whole day. Nothing but scowling the entire day.

It is almost like he never even met Sakura.

She continued to stare at him as if in a daze till they reached their homes. Meiling said goodbye walked into her house. In the living room her mother was sitting on the couch in front of the television watching the news. She saw the way her daughter was looking and said, "I take it you saw Syaoran today."

"Yeah…. Do you have any idea what's wrong with him?" Meiling turned to face her mother. They had exactly the same maroon eye color. Her mother shook her head slowly. Sighing Meiling turned around and walked up to her room. She looked around her room till she found a picture frame on her desk.

It was a picture of her and Syaoran with all their friends in Tomoeda. Meiling laughed when she saw how Syaoran's face was slightly flushed as Sakura wrapped her arms around his. Tomoyo, too, looked happy when she and Meiling had their arms on each other's shoulders for the picture. Chiharu was trying to smile but the truth was she was waiting to strangle Tamaki for lying about the history of the camera. Rika was off to the side with a shy smile playing on her lips. During which, Naoko was behind the scenes taking the picture. She would have to show this picture to Syaoran later and see if it sparked any memories.

"I don't just don't understand anymore…."