Disclaimer: I don't own anything, only Eriol's grandpa, Katleen, and Soji!! Just unleash my imagination….
Waiii… I'm so happy dancing around the room. Thanks for reviews from all of you, guys… thanks a lot!!! You really brighten up my day… So, here is my promise to all of you!!
My Fair Lady Is My Maid, chapter 6
By green-mermaid
Tomoyo thought today would be just another normal day and normal morning. A normal Eriol who didn't want to get up although his alarm was ringing. A normal alarm which got broken for the 100th times already. A normal yelling Tomoyo who finally must go upstairs and woke up the 'prince'. A normal breakfast which sometimes got burned because of Tomoyo needed 20 minutes for waking Eriol up and ignored the breakfast. And also a normal morning of Eriol yelling at her because of the burned food and lecturing about how she wasted the money, energy and food (which he actually often did it).
But, this morning, it was not normal. Thirty minutes before 7 am, the abnormal Eriol already on his seat at dinner table, with abnormal eagle eyes, kept looking directly at Tomoyo. There was no broken alarm. There was no burned breakfast. There was no yelling. But, there was a confused Tomoyo.
"Have you got food-poisoning? Do you eat something bad at school? DO you REALLY wake up by yourself? OR are you not sleeping last night?" Tomoyo put calmly the breakfast, still with her curious face. Her eyes narrowed as he looked at the prince.
"What are you trying to say actually?" Eriol grumbled, showing his displeased to the girl.
"Nothing, really. It just weird to see you up so…"
"So what?"
"So early and messy," Tomoyo looked away; pretending that she hadn't said honestly to Eriol about he appeared this morning.
"Are you picking a fight with me or something? I'm in my normal way,"
"Uh-huh, if you recognize that in normal days you have magpie hair, panda eyes, and a bear glare, it is a good thing. But, you do have this kind of dark aura coming out from you," Tomoyo calmly poured green tea to her cup. "Do you want some? It is said it could balanced your body and mind,"
"I'm finished!!" Eriol jumped from the table and stomped to his room.
After a while, Tomoyo could hear a harsh sound of 'BLAM'. She still held the teapot confusedly and asking to nobody, "What's wrong with him, anyway?"
"So,… do you mean that Takao teacher is actually bald?" Soji asked to the three girls (Naoko, Rika and Chiharu) in front of him.
"WAIT. More important than that, Shinagawa-kun,…" Tomoyo spoke up but hadn't forgotten to pick Sakura's octopus sausage and making the girl whined to her.
"Soji,"
"What?"
"Call me Soji. Is there something you want to say, Tomoyo-chan?" Soji smiled.
Tomoyo quivered a bit when the lad using –chan suffix to refer her but didn't complain at all. After all, the meaning of –chan by Soji and –chan by Eriol were very different. "Uh… okay, Soji-kun, why are you here?"
"To have lunch with you all? Isn't it obvious?" Soji answered easily.
"Do you know that bento actually had a dark and mysterious mystery? In Shogun era, people put a small paper, written the plan of rebellion, inside the bento. So, it was prohibited in that era," Yamazaki put his serious face in front of the bento group.
Soji blinked once when Yamazaki did so. Chiharu was about to whack her boyfriend before Soji continued him. "Ahh… your knowledge is very wide. What you said was true. According to Heian historian, they also said that a bento with umeboshi meant that the guerilla will held in the noon, and with octopus sausage means that they will attack from eight directions,"
"Is it… true?" Sakura looked at her octopus sausage.
"Of course it's not, Sakura," Tomoyo sighed. But, it is indeed make Yamazaki found his 'soulmate' in making lie pranks and make Chiharu stops whacking for a while.
"Anyway, what was you just said before, Tomoyo-chan?" Soji turned back to the raven-haired girl after Chiharu back to her business of choking Yamazaki (while actually the boy still telling lies).
"Nevermind. It doesn't really matter again right now," Tomoyo sighed. She was too tired to have another attack of confusion for that day.
"Since I'm moving to Tokyo, there is no way I'm not going to school, right? And I think it's quite a good idea to go to the same school as you and Eriol. Sorry not telling this to you sooner," Soji smiled disappointedly.
The expression of Soji made Tomoyo's cold heart melted. "It… It's not that I don't like you being here, Soji-kun. On the other hand, I think it's a good thing, except, Yamazaki now had a his lie partner,"
"I think it's quite interesting," Soji looked at Yamazaki once more (who started a new lie). Tomoyo didn't give any comment to this, speechless.
On the other hand, the coming of Soji in the same class as Eriol and Syaoran made the other students came to 2-A just to see the three most handsome boys in the school. The entire girls in 2-A squealed and never stopped smiling all-day-long. All the boys in 2-A, on the other hand, admitted their lost and didn't want to have a seat near the three of them, unless they want other saying stuff like "look at the guy beside him. OMG, it's look like heaven and hell," Aside from the crowd looking at the two boys inside the class, the boys looked like enjoyed the lunch break (ignoring the crowd completely).
"Something is wrong," Syaoran mumbled.
"What is wrong?" Eriol ate his lunch box (made by Tomoyo).
"How come these days, you always bring your own bento, write your assignment in computer perfectly, and nice and neat clothes everyday," Syaoran looked at Eriol, top to below. "And you also didn't forget to bring your pencil-case!!"
"Isn't it what a high scholar usually does?" Eriol's eyebrow rose.
"But, you're not a normal scholar. Forget about your family background, you're actually quite a clumsy in small stuff, in example: your pencil-case. You always don't bring it. And thanks to your brain, you can do a task in 15 minutes which everybody needs 1 hour to do it. Not to forget, you're a canteen person. You are a type that won't cook except being cooked. But, these days,… everything is different," Syaoran narrowed his eyes, looking at his best friend.
"Hah?! It's just your hypothesis, right? You can't judge a person in instant, Syaoran. I might make you to the court," Eriol shrugged ignorantly.
"My assumption is… that…"
Eriol gulped. He pretended to be as calm as he could.
"You have another secret girlfriend other than Kaho!!" Syaoran nodded, proudly to himself.
"WHAT?! I'm not that kind of guy, okay!? There is no way I will double Kaho," Eriol hissed to the auburn boy.
"It's just my assumption,… Sheesh…" Syaoran hissed back. "Anyway, do you know that new-guy?" Syaoran pointed Soji by his thumb.
Eriol looked up and saw his step cousin. "Yes. He is my step-cousin. Why?"
"Nothing really… It's just I felt that he might a two-sided coin. He might become kind and gentle. On the other hand, he might also become dark and mysterious. Quite frightening, actually," Syaoran ate his fried rice calmly.
"No way…" Eriol chuckled. "Soji is always like that since he was a child. He always smiles and kind to people. Just like a different side from me,"
"Don't you remember what I said to you before, Eriol? I said you might also two-sided coin. Maybe, he is the different side of you as you are the different side of him. Just be careful of him," Syaoran warned him.
Eriol didn't say anything at all. After all, being a heritance of an old Chinese clan, Syaoran's instinct was more than other people's. At first, Eriol didn't want to believe his friend's word but his friend's instinct was more than a coincidence, if it was to tell as a coincidence.
"Heeh? You guys still eating?"
A familiar girl voice entered Eriol's brain when he was thinking about Syaoran's sentence just now. Eriol looked at the source of the voice. She remembered once Syaoran said her name…. it was… Sukaru Konomita? Or something like that…. Sort of.
"Kinomoto-san," Syaoran couldn't say anything except that one word. Eriol took a glance to his friend and smiled devilishly. If only he had his camera with him now,… Syaoran's face was all red. His lips stick together and his eyes following Sakura. He didn't move an inch and almost looked like a statue.
"Anou…. Li-kun, are you okay? Your face is red," Sakura looked at the Chinese boy considerately.
A light bulb lighted as Eriol saw the couple. "Hey, Kinomoto-san, can I ask you a favor?"
"Eh?"
"Syaoran said to me just now that since morning he felt like vomiting and he had a high fever. Can you bring him to the clinic?" Eriol tried his best not to show his devil smile.
Syaoran quickly looked at Eriol, disbelief that his friend would tease him using Sakura. He might look bad in front of Sakura, right?
Tomoyo took a glance to her master and smiled knowingly. She would stop the drama in front of her at once if only Sakura didn't love Syaoran that much. And looking at Syaoran's behavior when he saw Sakura, it's obvious that the lad shared the same affection towards the emerald eyes girl.
"It's okay, Sakura. Besides, we study by ourselves for the next class. Takao sensei is absent today," Tomoyo sat on her seat (in front of Eriol).
Eriol looked at the lavender girl for a while and shrugged as their eyes met.
"Uhhh… okay then. Li-kun, can you stand up?" Sakura positioned herself at beside Syaoran, making redder the lad.
"What?! No… I mean, yes… I mean…"
Tomoyo giggled at this but didn't say anything. After a while, the couple(-gonna-be) went outside the classroom, heading to the clinic.
"I think you won't cooperate with me, just now," Eriol released a breath.
"If Sakura didn't like that Chinese guy, I wouldn't cooperate," Tomoyo answered him calmly. She took out her English textbook from her bag.
"Heh… so I see the reason," Eriol sulked.
"What are you two talking about?" Soji asked.
"Hiiragizawa-kun is complaining about his lunch," Tomoyo said quickly, lied to the lad. Eriol quickly looked at the calm girl disbelievingly. When he thought Tomoyo wasn't as bad as he thought, she quickly changed into her usual face, devil as ever to Eriol.
"NO!!! I'm not complaining about lunch," Eriol yelled. Tomoyo stuck out her tongue to him. Soji tilted his head, feeling confused of the fight.
"Whatever. I want to return this book to the library," Tomoyo completely ignored the latter.
Eriol gave her a slight grumbled but didn't say anything.
"I'm going with you! Is it okay for you, Eriol?"
Eriol looked at the tawny-haired boy. The conversation between the two of them last night rang inside his mind again.
"If you're not treating Daidouji-san well, I won't hesitate to take her from you," Soji looked straight to Eriol's dark blue eyes, showing his seriousness.
"It's up to you. Not that I have the right to stop you go to the library anyway," Eriol shrugged.
Tomoyo looked at the tense air between the two of them. "Are you going, Soji-kun?"
"I'm going. Can you show me the way?" Soji showed his usual smile to the lavender girl.
Eriol looked away as he saw the couple went outside the class. Inside his heart, he felt uneasy feeling, but he couldn't figure out. First name basis, already? She even hasn't called me by my first name.
"What is it, Eriol?" Kaho tapped Eriol's shoulder slightly.
Eriol quickly returned his body, facing the reddish-brown haired girl in shock. His eyes were bigger as he was in alert state. Kaho looked at the boy silently. Her hand was still hanging in the air. She was quite startled by Eriol's sudden move.
"Sorry… I am just, thinking," Eriol gave a fake smile to the girl.
"Mmm, it… it's okay, really," Kaho replied him lightly. She shook her head calmly.
After a while, she noticed that the lad looked at the entrance door of the classroom again, with the eyes of fond to somebody. Kaho followed Eriol's eyes direction before she remembered that she met Tomoyo and hew new classmate went heading to the library happily.
"Could it be…?" Kaho asked to herself.
"What do you say, Kaho?" Eriol asked to the girl who stood beside him.
"Nothing," Kaho smiled. "Anyway, are you free this week? How about going to the new theme-park?"
"Sounds fine to me," Eriol replied her gently.
AT THE LIBRARY
"You seems go along well with Eriol," Soji asked, taking a book from a Physiology part.
"Haah?! Are you sure? There is impossible that I will go along well with him, right?" Tomoyo laughed.
"In this life, there is no word of 'impossible', Tomoyo-chan," Soji faced him. "You know the author of this book?"
"Seiji Shinagawa?" Tomoyo looked at the pen-name.
"My dad. He is an ideal dad, a kind husband, a good child, a cooperative friend. He is flawless. Everybody said, 'there's nothing would overcome him in this world. He is so kind that there is no way he would die soon'. But, in the age of 40, he died," Soji shrugged.
"Sorry… about your dad,"
"No, it's okay. It's not your fault, anyway. But, the point is, in this life everything might be upside down. You might be not like something today, tomorrow, you realize you might be like that thing, don't you think?" Soji put the book back to its shelf.
"Probably," Tomoyo shrugged.
"But, in this case, I hope what you've said is true," Soji faced Tomoyo. He walked towards the girl and cornered her. Tomoyo's back was shelf and her space with Soji was only a few inches apart.
"Ha ha… what do you mean by that, Soji-kun?" Tomoyo tried to look away. She thought of Soji's saying as a joke. Another pun that he had enough with Yamazaki today.
"It means that I like you," Soji looked at Tomoyo's eyeball intensely. He locked his light brown eyes with the lavender eyes.
- To Be Continued -