"I'm telling you, Eriol, this guy's sister is crazy!" Syaoran exclaimed into his phone.
"What do you mean crazy?" Eriol, Syaoran's best friend, asked.
"I mean scary crazy. It took me a lot of guts to stand up to her like I did yesterday, though I doubt she was impressed," said Syaoran, he's face scrunching up with distaste.
"Oh well, I mean, why do you care? It's no biggy," Eriol assumed.
"That's what you think. Trust me, you need to see her yourself. I mean it's like if she tries to be nice, her whole life would fall apart. She doesn't even look like a devil, she acts like one," Syaoran said. Then his face brightened up. "Hey!"
"What?" Eriol asked.
"How about you come tomorrow and I introduce you to Touya and then you'll get to see Sakura. She doesn't even let me call her by her first name," Syaoran complained.
"That's a shame!" Eriol said sarcastically.
"Tell me about it," Syaoran said normally, not catching the sarcasm.
Syaoran and Eriol were standing outside the Kinomoto residence, with Syaoran knocking on the door.
"Who is it?" a female voice asked from the other side of the door. Eriol guessed that the voice probably belonged to Sakura, the girl Syaoran was yapping about.
"Syaoran," Syaoran answered.
The door opened, revealing a very unhappy face of Sakura, her eyes travelled from Syaoran to Eriol as if asking herself, 'Who the hell is this?'
"Uh… this is my friend Eriol. Eriol, Sakura, Sakura, Eriol," Syaoran introduced.
"The name's Kinomoto, Li, and anyways, I don't give a damn even if he was the of Prince England, I'd ignore the both of you," Sakura said, walking off with the door still open, basically saying that they can come in.
Eriol closed the door behind him after him and Syaoran had just entered the house.
'That was weird,' Eriol though as he followed Syaoran into the living room.
"Where's Touya?" Syaoran asked.
"He quickly went out, but would be home in 5 minutes," Sakura answered, not moving her attention from the T.V.
Syaoran helped himself to a seat on one of the couches and motioned for Eriol to do the same right next to him.
"Don't be scared, she's nothing but a butterfly," Syaoran whispered into Eriol's ear.
"But yesterday you were saying-"
"That was then and this is now. And I guess I'm used to it right now, isn't it? Syaoran insisted. Eriol swallowed hard and nod his head in agreement.
"Okay," he answered. Just then Touya walked into the living room.
"Hey, Syaoran, who's your friend?" Touya asked while taking his coat off at the same time.
"Hey," Syaoran greeted Touya and getting off his seat. "Uh… this is Eriol, a close friend of mines and he just moved here from China and I really wanted him to meet you," Syaoran said.
"What did you say his name was again?" Touya asked.
"Eriol," Syaoran answered.
"Hello, Eriol, and welcome to my home," Touya kindly greeted with a smile.
"Hey, Syaoran has told me lots about you," Eriol began. "And he was right, you do have a lovely home."
'What's with these people and homes. Are they gay or something?' Sakura sniggered loudly causing everyone to look at her.
"What's so funny?" Touya asked.
"The big fat ZIT on your FACE!" Sakura gritted her teeth. Touya ran upstairs to check if there was anything on his face. "What a freak!" Sakura said outloud.
Touya came back downstairs looking relieved. "There's no zit on my face!"
"Sorry, I probably mistaken it for your head," kissed viciously running up the stairs to her bedroom, with a loud bang of a room shutting shut followed behind.
"What's her problem?" Syaoran asked after a moment of silence.
"It's Sakura's birthday next week," Touya said. The guys have been inside Touya's room from the last past half an hour and have been chatting about various things.
"What day?" Syaoran asked.
"The 1st of April," Touya answered.
"The month of the Cherry Blossoms?" Eriol cut in.
"Yeah, how did you know that?" Touya asked, curiously.
"Syaoran's mum is always telling us why all the months are different from each other and why they were named after so and so. Like, January is the month of the beginning coz it's the first month of the year. February is the month of love coz of Valentine's day, March is the month for praying and celebrations and for family to really get together coz Jesus rose again and stuff, and April is the month of the cherry blossoms, when all the flowers start to bloom and because of April fools day, when people get fooled by each other like pranking. And so on…" Eriol explained.
"Yep, that's my mother. On the first day of a month she'll go to you, 'why is this month named this or why is it popular?' She does it every month, every year," Syaoran said.
"You guys are lucky," Touya said.
"Why?" Eriol and Syaoran asked at the same time.
"Cause my mother died when I was young and Sakura never took life really easily after my mother died. I mean, Sakura became the only female of the house and it seemed like she could never talk to me or my father about her problems because we were guys and it would've been really embarrassing for her," Touya explained.
"Deep!" Eriol exclaimed out loud making both Syaoran and Touya turn and look at him. "Uh…" he said, turning his head sideways. "Where did that come from? There must be someone else in this room!"
Sakura kicked all the objects che could master in her room. 'Stupid Touya! Stupid Touya and his stupid friend! Stupid Touya and his Stupid friend's friend! Wait, did that just that just made sence?' Sakura thought. Who cares? Right now all Sakura feels like doing is killing her brother, because it was him that started it in the first place.
Always calling her names, getting his friends to gang up on her and stuff. 'As if life wasn't hard enough!' Sakura screeched bitterly in her mind. All of a sudden a rumbling sound could be heard. Sakura looked down at her stomach and blushed embarrassingly. 'Guess I should have argued with them after having something to eat for dinner,' Sakura thought, laughing nerversely.
Sakura began to make her way gently down the stairs, hoping that maybe there would be enough food left for her to eat and her frigging brother and his friends didn't eat it all.
Sakura walked into the kitchen. Making herself some noodles on the stove. Guess the guys had eaten up the dinner after all. Sakura turned around at the sound of foot steps, waiting to see who the person was that was going to walk in through the open kitchen.
To her dismay, it was Li.
"Hi," he said kindly. Sakura didn't say anything, she was too busy kneeling on the counter and being in her own little thoughts.
'What should I do for my birthday?' she thought to herself.
'Man, can't this girl even say hello? I'm trying to be nice for goodness sake! Hey, wait a minute,' thought Li.
"Uh…" he began, unsurely. Should he really say this? "Uh… I heard it's your birthday next week. What are you doing for it?" Li asked.
Sakura snapped out of her thoughts at the mention of her birthday. 'How did he find out that it was soon to be my birthday? And how did he find a way to say it right when she was thinking it?'
"Uh… don't know what I'm gonna be doing yet, I guess," Sakura answered simply but suspiciously. What was this guy up to?
"It's cute, actually. I mean, the month of the cherry blossom," Li smirked.
"And how did you know about the cherry blossoms?" Sakura asked curiously.
"I actually grew up with them growing in my back yard," Li answered. Is it him or were they having a civilised conversation? "And my mum practically reminds me about every single month and why they're called it and stuff. It's like a pop quiz, but I got used to it eventually," explained Li.
'His mum sound interesting. I wish my mum was still alive,' Sakura thought sadly.
Li saw this and wondered what he had done now to cause when he remembered about the death of Sakura's mother. How could he have been so blind?
"Uh… Sakura, did I say anything to offend you?" asked Li, trying to play innocent. He didn't want her knowing that he knew about her mother or maybe things just might get even more worst than it already was. Did he just call her Sakura? She didn't even do anything about it.
Sakura quickly recovered from her miss-hap.
'Can't she weakness, Sakura, can't show weakness!' she screamed in her mind.
"Um… I think I should be going. I told Touya that I was only getting a glass of water," said Li nervously. Getting a glass of water and walking out the kitchen and upstairs. Sakura listened for his footsteps fading.
Sorry I haven't updated in a long time, it's just that my computer had virus and the internet wasn't working so it took time into getting it up and ready and it meant deleting every single work I had including my stories. But I didn't care coz I had already updated my stories I didn't really care. Anyways, please review and thanks for reading my story.
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