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Chapter 7: Make Up Your Mind Already!

He ran off into the rain, hoping to catch up with her if he had gone in the right direction. "Sakura where are you?" he called out, at least she would yell at him, even if she was mad.


She had heard him calling after her when she had gone down the steps but she had hated him at that moment. She hated herself even more for being fooled into love. She had hidden behind a brick wall jutting out from the main wall and had sat stood against it, hoping he wouldn't find her.

She had heard his footsteps fall away into the distance and she sighed hard. She had no energy to cry so she just slowly let herself down onto the ground. How could I have been so naïve? She thought helplessly.

The rain poured down onto her until she felt halfway numb. The rain was starting to get cold but she didn't really care. The only thing she could feel was her heart pounding intensely inside of her.

She heard his footsteps again; please just let him go by me…

Her eyes fluttered halfway closed as she heard him come nearer and nearer. His footsteps were right behind her when they stopped.

She heard a small thud against the opposite side of the wall behind her. Just don't look back here…she thought helplessly.

She felt her throat tingling. I would have to cough now. She thought as she tried to breathe more quietly. The feeling would go away and she was feeling tired for some reason. She tried to swallow, but it didn't help. It worsened until she couldn't bear it any more.

She took the front of her shirt and put it over her mouth. She hadn't heard it a whole lot and she had hoped that the rain had muffled it.

He stepped out from the wall. What was that? He thought as he stepped out from the wall.

She saw his feet around the corner of the bricks. She pulled herself as far up against the wall as she could go so he wouldn't see her. Just go by or something!

He ran forward a few steps, thus passing her, but he stopped and looked around. "Where did she go!" he cried out desperately.

Her foot slid out, ripping up some soggy grass with it. It was enough of a sound to get him to turn around. His eyes came to rest on her with the utmost feeling of sadness and regret in his eyes.

She looked down at her outstretched leg and cursed it mentally. He was almost gone too. "What do you want?" she asked callously.

He flinched the slightest bit at her tone and he knew he deserved more, "I don't know how to apologize for this…" he said taking a few cautious steps towards her.

"Then don't. Just leave me alone all right? I can't believe I ever liked y-…" she hadn't meant to say anything like that. "We never were together." She said, standing up slowly.

"Then what is it that you said yes to?" he asked almost accusingly.

"I don't know. Maybe it was like you said…it was just...the way things were." She turned and started to walk back to the door, but when she got to it, she was hoping that he would stop her. That he would call out to her to wait and then come back up to her…find some way of apologizing and just make it all go away.

She came back around the wall and he was coming towards her. He took a step back, "I…maybe you're right…Maybe it was just the way things were. I rushed us into this. I'm sorry. Let's just say it never happened all right?" he gave her the weakest smile she had ever seen.

Her face saddened, but hardened in an instant. How could she feel sorryfor him after doing such a terrible thing to her? "Fine." Her voice trembled to her dismay and it made warm, salty tears stream out of her emerald eyes.

She pushed the door open and felt a hand on her shoulder, "What!" she cried out as she spun around.

"I still do want to talk to you. I feel that you didn't get a fair part in the conversation. I want this to work. I want us to work, but it's going to take a little while to get there I guess." He let his hand slide off down her shoulder.

"So are we breaking up?" she gave him a dry laugh.

"Maybe we should for the time being." He said as she let the door close back again.

"I…I don't want to though…" she said softly.

"But I thought you-…"

"Syaoran…you…you are my first boyfriend and…you gave me my first kiss. I don't want to remember you as my first in two ways and that we broke up after less than an hour of getting together." She said looking at him oddly. She was looking at him with a mixture of happiness and regret.

He didn't know whether to smile at her or not, but it spread across his face slowly. "All right. Well…Do you want to go inside or what?"

"And what?" she asked, laughing sarcastically.

"Well...I imagine that everyone is looking for us…and I know Tomoyo-chan will probably want to talk to you about me…" he said looking away from her.

"Oh yeah…what should I say to her though? Because…we're kind of…separating right now and…we were just making out in front of her a little while ago…" Sakura said hesitantly.

"True…well…do you at least want to go inside? It's not exactly warm out here." He held out his hands to catch some rain drops in his hands.

"I…sure. Can we…well…we separate for a little while? You can go back in if you want…I just want to be alone for a little while I guess." She started back inside.

"I don't want to go back either…" he laughed.

She stopped and came out of the door, "Syaoran…I think we could fit together really well. You just…you make me so furious at you one second…and then the next… you just…you make me forget it." She said with passion behind her voice.

"I do? Hah, I do don't I?" he laughed quietly, "Well, you can just make me feel terrible for things I've never felt bad about before…You make me care more about what I do than when I'm with my other friends…" he admitted.

"I think a nice, calm talk like this would do us a lot of good." She smiled as she wiped the rain off of her face.

He smiled at her, "You hand is wet too you know. I don't think that will do a whole lot of good!"

"I know…but at least it will get the big rain drops off of my face." She turned around and opened the door.

He took a step forward to follow her, but she stopped and turned around again. "Yes?" he asked curious as to what she was doing.

"Well…I…I just wanted to say that… maybe I over-reacted when you were talking to me-"

"You had every right to." He said putting his hand on her shoulder. "Sakura…I…I ask you to go out with me and then 20 minutes later I tell you that basically, I'm embarrassed for us to be seen together in public? You should be beating me!" he laughed.

"Well, there's still time." She smirked.

"Well, I won't let you now! And…just so that you know…I really am sorry-I don't even think that suffices. Tell me what I have to do to show you that I'm sorry." He took her hands into his.

"Just…when we get back into school…I'm not saying include me in everything…I just want you to talk to me. All right? You don't even have to eat with me or ask me to eat with you at lunch. I just want us to talk." She said sincerely.

"Will that show you that I'm sorry?" he squeezed her hands vaguely. "Yeah…pretty much. I suppose that later on…maybe talking could go a little bit further later on." She looked up into his eyes.

"All right. I promise that I'll talk to you during school whenever I see you!" he put his hands on her shoulders.

She took half of a step forwards and seemed hesitant about it. She brought her hands up to his shoulders and then to his neck. She leaned upward as his hands slid onto her back and he leaned over.

Their kiss seemed to show forgiveness on her part and deep regret for what he had done on his part. His hands were warm and she could feel them through her shirt. "You're so warm…" she whispered delicately to him as they pulled apart for only a moment.

His hands came up to the back of her neck and he felt her shudder. "Ticklish?" he smiled.

She giggled, completely stopping the romantic moment, "A little bit. You?" she smiled as she let her finger trail oh-so-softly down his back.

"NO!" he yelped. His reflexes made him lurch forward, making himself push her back onto the wall, with himself right against her.

She laughed, but it slowly died when she realized how they were standing. He had a mysterious smile in his eye and when he leaned over to kiss her again, she burst out laughing. "Sakura…" he sighed grimly.

"I'm sorry!" she laughed, leaning her head back onto the wall. "You just…it was so...serious and…you had just…you're ticklish!" she burst into a mad fit of giggles.

He could've just sunk down onto the ground slowly if she had said anything else to ruin that moment, but he held himself up. "Is it really that funny?" he asked in a grim tone.

"Yes!" she started up again.

He pushed himself off of her using the wall and began to side step around her but she stopped him, "No! I'm sorry! Don't go inside!" she let her laughter die down and looked up at him with joy in her eyes. "I'm sorry! You just made me laugh! I didn't think a tough, sporty guy like you would be ticklish!" she smiled playfully.

"Well, then you thought wrong now didn't you?" he was trying to act like he was slightly mad at her.

"Syaoran!" she whined, "Don't be mad at me! I was only kidding!" she hugged him around his middle.

"We 'tough, sporty guys' also have softer sides you know." He looked down at her as if giving her a small punishment.

"Really? Can you show me?" she tilted her head to the side and looked up at him with a small grin across her glistening face.

He leaned down to her, but stopped short about an inch, "I don't really feel like showing my softer side though." He smiled, making her groan and punch him playfully.

"Would you just shut up and kiss me!" she commanded.

"Yes ma'am!" he grinned as he wrapped his arms around her slowly.


The day went by rather slowly as the rain continued its downpour amongst their city. Syaoran finally had to make Sakura go inside so she wouldn't get totally sick. "Sakura, your skin is cold to the touch! If you get sick, how do you think I'll feel?" he said as he pushed her inside.

"I don't want to go in! I'm fine! Inside me is warm!" she tried to go around him. "Shut your mouth and get inside!" he grunted as he caught her and pulled her back with a little difficulty as she was pulling away from him.

She finally gave up and let him lead her back upstairs. "Do you want to talk or something?" she asked, a little bit confused as to why he was bringing her back up here.

"If you want to call it talking." He smiled.

She scoffed, "Syaoran!" she said scandalously. "What is with you?"

"I just want to be with you…that's all." He smiled as they reached the top of the stairs.

She leaned back against the wall with him standing in front of her. "Well…can we just take a break?" she said somewhat regretfully to him when he was less than an inch away.

"Why?" he moaned as he let his head fall onto her shoulder.

"You gave me my first kiss and we've made out two or three times already in the same day! I just have to get used to all of these feelings…" she pulled him back towards her and held him against her.

He put his head onto hers and slipped his arms around her. "We really should get something dry to wear…" he laughed, noticing the small water puddle around them.

"From where?" she laughed.

"The uniform room…you know where you went to get your uniforms at the beginning of the year?" he tried to help her remember.

"Um…okay. I don't remember, just lead the way…I'm starting to get really cold!" she felt a shiver run through her body.

"That's why I brought you up here actually." He smiled as he leaned back up and took her hand and lead her down the hallway and around a few corners. "I hope it's unlocked…they keep the door closed and it's not exactly around any windows."

He turned the knob and it opened, "Great!" He turned a battery lamp on and he went to the left side of the room, with all of the boy's clothing on that side. He was pushing through the racks looking for his size of things.

"Well…it's not just my clothes that are wet you know…" she reminded him.

He looked up at her, "What do you mean?"

She sighed, groaned, and looked at him, obviously annoyed, "Basically…everything underneath is wet. If I put anything else on…it will just…soak up the moisture!"

"Oh! True…well…hm. That presents a problem."

He started to look through some drawers and cabinets at the front of the room and he seemed to have found something that would help them, "Would these help?" he motioned for her to come over and pointed to a drawer. She came over and looked into the cabinet.

"Yeah…"she turned bright red and shooed him away. He would have to find it all…she thought as she looked at the tags on the sports bras and shorts with built in underwear.

She pulled two of them out and hid them in front of her and closed the cabinet. She went over to the side with skirts and girl's clothing. She rushed through the items and picked out what she was wearing. "Where do we change?" she asked, retaining her red shade.

"Back there." He pointed nonchalantly to a room near the back.

"Thanks." She said quickly as she went towards it.

She opened it, went in and made sure it was locked. She found a few paper towels and wiped most of the water off before she put her newfound items on. "Ah…dry clothing." She smiled to herself.

She unlocked the door and opened it without bothering to think that maybe he had been changing out in front. "Oh!" she yelped. She turned around and smacked into the wall. "I do have pants on you know." He laughed as he came over to her to see if she was all right.

"Sorry…I just saw your back…and…I just thought I was walking in at the wrong time." She regained her red color.

"Don't be. Just think of it as a preview." He smiled.

She turned around, off the wall and almost smacked into him. "A preview for what!" she asked, taking deeper breaths.

"For later on." He winked.


heh heh heh heh...naughty little boy. haha.

okay...remember last chapter i said i was a bipolar writer? it seems so much worse now. haha. that's all i was thinking about when i was re-reading this to make sure everything was okay i was just saying to myself, "..bipolar...bipolar...BI-FRIGGIN-POLAR!" haha.

anyways...i hope you guys like my story! (even if it is a bit ah...'touchy-feely' haha).

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