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Chapter 7: The bet

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SAKURA'S POV

I reached my mobile with a shaky hand. It could be Silver, but he obviously wasn't the only one who had my number. But on the other hand, I hadn't been receiving messages in the last weeks since Tomoyo preferred to call me directly, all my friends were from work so I saw them often and we made plans in the relaxing room, as Tomoyo liked to call it; and the last person that usually sent me messages was none other than Kei, for obvious reasons he stopped doing it.

As I decided to read the message, my mobile rang again and I jumped, in the process throwing my phone. After I got up from my fall I went for the little piece of technology and instantly started reading the message:

From: Tomoyo

Kura!! I need you to

come to my house NOW!

I can't lie; I was really disappointed, and also a bit angry. So I decided I wouldn't send a message to Silver until he sent me one. I was about to check if I had another message since it had beeped twice but Tomoyo started calling to my phone and then hanging up before I could answer, which meant it was something urgent.

And about Syaoran I would have to call again in the afternoon, he had told me that was usually when he was working, if I was lucky, today wouldn't be his day off nor his sister that owned the pizza place would answer for him or I'd get him in problems.

I got out from my house and walked to the bus stop, yeah I was 22 and still with no car. It had been raining all night long and so I got more free baths that I would have wanted which didn't exactly help my illness.

When Tomoyo opened her door and saw me she started laughing and I just got inside annoyed. Ten minutes later she was still laughing and finally yelled a: WHAT?!

She calmed a little before answering, and well what she said didn't exactly help my mood.

"You-you look like…a WET MOUSE!" She yelled and started laughing all over again. At least she had said mouse and not rat, but still!

"Tomoyo!!" I complained and she started getting more serious, after all, I almost never got angry and I usually didn't mind so much if someone laughed at me, so me getting mad at her for doing so made her realize I wouldn't be my patient self today.

"Sorry. It's just that you look so pretty even wet!"She exclaimed trying to fix what she had said moments earlier. I didn't believed her though since I'm more than used to hearing her say how pretty I am and all of that and the first time she had said it I actually believed her since she has always been my best friend and I trust her, besides she is the most honest person I know. But now, after hearing it from her so many times I just stopped thinking it was true.

"Yeah sure." I replied sarcastically but before she could start trying to convince me she was telling the truth I changed the subject.

"Anyway, what's the emergency?" I smiled as she started speaking really fast, something she tended to do when she was either excited or...when she had a plan. I prayed internally that it wasn't the last thing, her plans always were about me doing something embarrassing or that I didn't liked.

"You do realize I didn't understand anything you just said, right?" She immediately stopped talking and smiled mischievously at me before she resumed speaking, this time a bit slower so I could hear her clearly.

"I got you a….prepare yourself Kura, a DATE!!" She actually yelled enthusiastically the last part while I felt as if was about to faint. So it was a plan, and it included me, I'm sad to say my prayers weren't answered.

The last time I had gone to a date she had arranged for me, against my will in fact, I had finished with my own personal stalker. Tomoyo, since she had been the one to blame, had to tell the guy I had disappeared and she convinced him I might be in an island in the Caribbean Sea. Now that I thought about it, it was quite funny; he probably was still looking for me.

But the point was that after that…incident, I thought my best friend would come to her senses and stop getting me dates. Unfortunately, I thought as I saw her jump excited around the living room, the incident had the exact opposite effect.

I sighed before going after her following to her room. It was strange that when we were kids she was actually the calmed one and I was the childish one, well she still was the calmed one except when it came to my love life. At least I had grown up and became more mature, although in rare occasions I became all childish again, but I'm getting off the subject.

"Tomoyo, what do you mean date?" I asked impatiently. She stopped jumping and sat in one of her sofas, inviting me to do the same so she could tell me.

"A date Sakura, don't tell me you already forgot about them? Oh no!! I'm already too late to help you!!" She said alarmed and with wide eyes. I rolled my eyes and shook my head; she relaxed and resumed her talking.

"Well, since you finally are over with that Kei, I thought you could start getting to know someone worthy." As always she remembered me of how much she disliked my ex boyfriend, she was the only one that was happy when we broke up, but she was such a good friend that she had put aside her dislike for him and she had even talked to Kei to try to convince him to think if the break up was really necessary.

"Don't you remember what happened the last time you got me a date?" I asked calmly.

"Yeah of course, it was hilarious! And you know it."She laughed and before I could say something she continued speaking.

"Anyway, this time I got you something much better. Good looking, smart, funny…in other words, perfect." She looked at me expectantly waiting for some type of reaction.

"Wow, then why don't you go out with him? Cause it's a he right?" I asked alarmed and now it was her turn to roll her eyes.

"A) You know why I can't go out with him and B) Yes, obviously is a he" She smiled waiting this time for me to say I agreed and I groaned.

"Do I really have to go out with him?" I pouted and tried to put puppy eyes. I didn't really got the reaction I wanted, that she said I didn't have to, but that was too much to ask for. Instead she happily, and really fast, took her camera out and took a picture of me.

"Unless you get a date on your own, you're going to the one I arranged" That was the only thing she agreed, but it was actually kind of a trap since she knew I didn't have guy friends except for some of my coworkers and they were either happily married or with girlfriends. I was about to complain when I remember I had two new guy friends that could do me the favor to pretend going out with me: Silver and Syaoran. I smiled.

"How about a bet? If I don't get a date on my own, I'll model for the Radio's fashion show and go out with your friend" Tomoyo squeaked and instantly agreed. I smiled even more at thinking how she would react when I told her the consequences of me getting someone to go out with.

"But, if I do get a date you'll go to a dinner with the guy you got me first." My cousin and best friend stopped squeaking and paled. She started shaking her head in disagreement but I argued she had already accepted and after some convincing she reluctantly accepted.

I left Tomoyo's house quite happy, even though she told me I had to get a date before the next weekend was over (today was Sunday) and that she was going to prepare me for it, I was happy because I had an excuse to see Syaoran again. I was so happy I walked back to my house even though it was raining and I was still sick.

As my house came to view I started running, and when I got there I went directly to the phone since it was already past noon and maybe Syaoran's shifted had already started. As I waited for someone to pick up the phone I checked my mobile to see what time exactly it was.

"Moonlight Pizza" A masculine and familiar voice answered. But before I could say something I saw I still had a new message that I had forgotten to check, I had received if just after Tomoyo's, and it was from Silver.

SYAORAN'S POV

"Hellooo?" I asked again wondering if the person in the other line was still there. I was about to hang up the phone when I heard a cough.

"I'm sorry, ehh is Syaoran there?" A girl's voice asked timidly.

"Yeah, who's calling?" I asked cautiously and I felt my heart starting to beat faster at the thought of Sakura. We hadn't talked in what seemed a long time and even if I had tried to call her I couldn't, I didn't have her phone number and if I even tried to look for it on the computer I didn't wanted to imagine what my sister would have done to me.

"Sakura. Look I'm sorry to disturb…again, I know this phone it's just for clients but-"I laughed interrupting her, so it had been her when Fuutie had answered the phone.

"Don't worry Sakura, it's me." I told her and she sighed relieved. We talked for a while about what we had done during the day.

Shiefa hadn't noticed I had been using the phone for a while now, but I didn't thought I had too much time so I said that to Sakura and told her my house number, well my personal line, although I didn't spend much time in there but at least it was something. She gave me her house number also, and then she just stopped talking abruptly.

"Syaoran, could you do me a favor?" She asked quite…nervous?

"Yeah sure, just spit it out" I said.

"Will you go on a date with me? Before you say no, PLEASE, if you don't my best friend will force me to go out with some stranger! PLEASE!!" She said alarmed and I started laughing thinking what kind of friend as her best friend, probably someone I could easily become friends with if she made this kind of things to Sakura.

"Yeah, no problem. I like to help my friends" I told her and winked even thought she wasn't here, but I guess she knew 'cause she started laughing.

"Thanks a lot! I'll call tomorrow night to your house to tell you the plan, all right?" She told me happier this time.

"Okay, until tomorrow then."I said goodbye and she did the same before hanging up.

Again that day, I worked in a really good mood and Shiefa didn't even notice I had broken the phone rule, my sister just looked glad that recently I had been in a happier mood. And I smiled even more when I went back home and found at that Amber had answered to the message I had sent her on the morning:

From: Amber

I've been thinking 'bout u too

R u going to the radio's fashion show??

'Cause I am…

I turned on the radio and until I had written down the radio's number I went to sleep with a smile on my face.

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