Chapter 8 - Hurt

"This is what I have planned, and you all will do well to listen." Shenji announces to her throng of followers.

"Yes ma'am," They chorused.

"Good, now after 3rd period is over, I will quickly and swiftly pull Eriol to the empty room in the science hall and you all will distract Tomoyo for about 10 or so minutes and then one of you will let it slip that you saw Eriol follow me to specified room and then...the games will begin" Shenji finishes with an evil laugh.

Silence ensues and when Shenji does not hear the expected response, she glares at the other girls, promising an evil fate if they did not go along.

"Oh my god Shenji, you are brilliant! There is no way this plan will fail!" yells one of the girls. The others nod fervently in agreement.

The ring leader simply sports a smug look and walks to class with her followers trailing behind. 'This is going to be perfect...'

"Eriol! Hurry up, we are going to be late for class!" Tomoyo yells back at her boyfriend as she drags him along by the arm.

"My ARM is still attached, dear." He bites out a sarcastic remark. He doesn't mean to sound so bitter, but he was hardly able to get a wink of sleep

Tomoyo arches an eyebrow to him and continues dragging him into the classroom and then she finally relinquishes his arm.

"Is something the matter?"

"No, of course not." Eriol winces at his tone and turns to apologize to his best friend but she quickly sits in her seat and faces the front of the class, completely ignoring him, before he can even get a word out.

`Damn it...' Eriol groans and proceeds to fold his arms and drops his head to the table as he remembers exactly why he couldn't sleep.

'Where have you been?' Smiling as he recognized Tomoyo's voice, he turns to greet her but what he sees has him stumbling back a few steps.

There in all her glory, was his best friend. But today, she looked different, and he couldn't stop his eyes from roaming over her body. She wore a light blue summer dress that met just above her knees and hugged her curves in all the right places. But what had him standing there in stupor was not his beautiful companion, but at the arm that was slung possessively over her waist. As his eyes traveled up the arm to the face to whom it belonged to, Eriol sucks in a breath as he feels the green-eyed monster envelop him in a rage.

'Tomoyo is supposed to be mine! What is she doing allowing that idiot Misoru hug her like that. I am her boyfriend...well kind of, but thats not the point!'

"Come on baby, let's go get your favorite ice cream."

Tomoyo nods. "Okay!"

Eriol then watches in horror as she leans up towards Kage to give him a kiss. "Mm..I love-"

He then wakes up from his nightmare, screaming at Tomoyo to not do it.

"Ughh…"

Tomoyo glances curiously over at her bestfriend. She had to admit, it did hurt her feelings when Eriol snapped at her like that because she couldn't remember a time when he ever snapped at her in that way. She felt silly when she felt the telltale prickling behind her eyes. She quickly averted her gaze the second she felt her tears coming.

'Oh no…what if he's finally tired of me?'

She kept running possibilities as to why he was feeling so irritable through her head and before she knew it, the bell rang, signaling the end of class. As Tomoyo quickly packed away her things, there was a commotion, not paying too much attention to it, she continued until she finished. When she finally looked up, expecting Eriol to be leaning across his desk like he usually does, but instead, there was a group of girls staring back at her. Feeling uneasy, she slips out of her seat and makes her way towards the door to look for Eriol before she gets stopped by a hand.

"Wait! Uh, I like your hair today Tomoyo, what did you do to it?" A random girl screams trying to block the exit.

"Nothing really, it's like how I always have it. Nothing special." Completely bewildered, Tomoyo makes another attempt to leave.

Another hand grabs her back. "Oh I love your hairpin! Where did you buy it?" And it continued like this, a game of pulling Tomoyo back and asking a random question. Finally after the girls asked every possible question on any item she was wearing, Tomoyo was able to make her way out of the room. Before she was out of earshot, she hears one of the girls say that she saw Eriol following Shenji to a random classroom in the science hall.

"That's ridiculous." A nagging feeling pulls at her though. 'Maybe that's why he was acting like that earlier.' Tomoyo makes up her mind and walks towards the specified classroom, all the while, not believing that Eriol would meet with her. 'He said he would never talk to her, even if she were the last girl in the univerise.' As she nears, she hears voices drifting out from the classes. Wide-eyed, she comes around to look into the classroom and can only stare in shock.

"Shenji! What in the hell are you doing? I left Tomoyo behind, she must be wondering where I am." Eriol jerks his arm away and gets ready to walk back out the door before Tomoyo comes looking for him. 'I have to apologize.'

"Oh Eriol, I just had a few questions for you and then you can go back to your girlfriend." She bites out the last word but Eriol doesn't notice.

"Yeah okay get on with it." Shenji grins and sits on a table and crosses her legs, her skirt rising a few inches. 'Too easy'

"Well, I just wanted to know a couple of things about our celebrity couple, you know, like how you guys started having feelings for one another and how your relationship has been so far."

Eriol coughs. "Well uh, we are best friends you know, and eventually we came to see each other as more than friends and decided to give it a shot, and it has been great since then. Now if you'll excuse me.."

"No wait!" Shenji runs up to him and as she looks at the door she sees a shadow. 'Perfect timing.'

Shenji spins Eriol around and before Eriol can ask what she was doing, she kisses him full on the lips. As shocked as Eriol was, he notices Shenji sporting a rather smug look. He then notices that her gaze is on something behind him. He dreads the worst as he slowly turns around. 'Please don't be who I think it is.'

She was rooted to the ground. She commanded her feet to move but they remained frozen. She couldn't believe it, all this time, she knew Eriol didn't reciprocate her feelings, but to let her know this way was just wrong. 'Even though I'm not his girlfriend, he could have shown me some kind of respect.'

"Tomoyo! It's not what it looks like!" Eriol reaches out to Tomoyo but it seems this action pulls her back to reality. Shaking her head furiously, she turns on her heel and dashes away. He could barely hear it but it broke his heart all the same. "It's okay Eriol, I should have known you never felt the same way, but to hurt me this way…"

"Wha-…YOU!" He turns to Shenji with a murderous glare. "What are you playing at? Is this your sick joke of getting us to separate because I wouldn't go out with you? Well are you satisfied now? Look at what you've done." Eriol barks out, venom dripping with every word.

Shenji stumbles back in shock. She had never seen him so angry before, in fact, no one has. "I-I'm sorry, it was just to teach her a lesson for taking you away from me!"

"If I were to belong to anyone, the last person would be you. Now heed my last words, never ever interfere with me and Tomoyo again. You'll regret ever setting foot in this school." With those final words, he strides out the classroom in search for Tomoyo.

'I'm royally screwed,' were his last thoughts as he ran through the front doors of the school only to see Tomoyo getting in her ride as it sped off towards the direction of her home.

Yes! I know it has been ages ! And I really do apologize to all my readers that have been reading and waiting for an update but finally, after a century (haha) here it is! I do realize that I've made Eriol's behavior and character a bit more darker and scarier that I should have but I'm giving something a try. I do hope you all like this angsty chapter. Do review! And Thank you again