HI!! Thanks for all the reviews guys!! I'm sorry it took me a little longer to update, I was just having writers block, I knew what I wanted to write, I just couldn't find the words hehe, but here is the chapter! I hope you guys like it and I hope it clears out some doubts you've had about Sakura's and Koji's relationship. So read on!

CHAPTER 10

Sakura opened the door to her house and the first thing she noticed was that the answering machine had the red light beeping, she moved closer to it and noticed she had 6 new messages.

That was a lot of messages for her to get in one afternoon.

She pressed the button to hear the messages and a loud cry filled the room, startling both herself and Syaoran who was just behind her.

"SAKURA KINOMOTO!! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU? WHY DO YOU HAVE A CELL PHONE IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT WITH YOU OR ANSWER IT? I JUST DON'T UNDESTAND WHY YOU DO THAT TO ME IN THIS TIME OF NEED!"

Sakura looked at Syaoran who looked just as startled as she did. They both started laughing but then the second message began.

"I'm pretty sure you figured out the previous message was from me, Tomoyo, your dearly beloved friend who is ABOUT to suffer from a NERVOUS BREAKDOWN!"

Syaoran and Sakura exploded in laughter; they were most certainly not expecting that from Tomoyo.

Sakura checked her purse and realized that indeed she had forgotten her cell phone. She didn't even want to go check how many messages she had there.

As the third message began Sakura just pressed the 'delete all' button and looked at Syaoran with apologetic eyes.

"I'm sorry, you know how Tomoyo can get… I think I'll call her now", she said picking up the phone and dialing her friend's number.

Syaoran decided to give her some privacy and went upstairs to his room.

"SAKURA?!" a hectic voice said on the other end of the phone.

"Hey Tomoyo, I'm sorry I didn't answer your phone calls, I went to town and I forgot my cell", she said trying to sound as calm as possible.

"Yeah I figured something like that had happened", Tomoyo said laughing; she didn't seem to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

"Um… yeah I went with Syaoran to have lunch", Sakura added, Tomoyo was acting too cool to be true, so she had to tell her something she knew would impress her.

"Yeah I thought so, he wasn't answering his phone either so I figured you guys were together"

That didn't sound like Tomoyo at all. Tomoyo would freak out at the idea of Sakura going out by herself, Tomoyo would still be screaming like a crazy paranoid person. And Tomoyo would make a huge deal of the fact that she had just spent an afternoon alone with Syaoran in town.

"Ok, who are you and what did you do to Tomoyo?" Sakura asked suddenly concerned for her friend's mental health.

"Sakura! Don't be silly!" Tomoyo said laughing.

"Why aren't you freaking out? I went out without my phone, I didn't answer your calls, you are not acting like Tomoyo would act", Sakura said more confused than ever.

"Well, I figured since you weren't answering either one of your phones, and Syaoran wasn't answering his phone either, you guys must have gone out, and I wouldn't trust you to be alone with anyone but Syaoran, he should know how to protect you in case something happened", Tomoyo said in a relaxed tone of voice.

"Um… Ok", was all Sakura managed to say. "So, what was the emergency?"

"Oh yeah! I'll be by your house tomorrow morning to make the final fitting on you dress, then we are going to go buy the shoes, it's a two hour drive to the store but I finally found the perfect shoes for you!"

"Yey", Sakura said sarcastically, "I can't wait", a nervous smile on her face.

"Oh don't be such a pain in the ass Sakura! You'll have fun, and besides you are going to look so hot you are going to thank me later… of course you won't look better than me, but you'll be pretty close".

Sakura smiled at her friend's comments, she knew there was no contradicting Tomoyo, the wedding was in just a week, and she wanted everything to be perfect.

The only thing that wasn't ready was Sakura's outfit, everything else was completely ready. But Tomoyo had decided to be a good friend and relax a little with Sakura's dress. She didn't want Tomoyo to go over the top, and Tomoyo had agreed to that.

"Ok, ok", Sakura told her friend, "the rehearsal dinner is in two days right?"

"Yep, I have your outfit ready for that too, so don't worry", Tomoyo added a little too fast, but Sakura managed to hear the words perfectly.

"What do you mean you have my outfit for that too?? Isn't it just a rehearsal? Why do I have to wear something special? I have nice clothes here!"

Sakura heard Tomoyo laugh on the other end of the phone and started feeling a little nervous. Tomoyo just wasn't able to forget about her clothes! She always had to pick something special for her.

"Don't worry, you'll love, it", Tomoyo began, "I know you have nice clothes, I bought most of them! I just wanted you to wear something new; we are all wearing something new that evening, so don't get so worked up"

That was new, Tomoyo calming Sakura.

"Ok…" Sakura said a little doubtful.

"I'll see you tomorrow then?" Tomoyo asked.

"Yep", Sakura answered before they said goodbye and hung up the phone.

She took a deep breath and threw herself on the couch placed next to her. She loved Tomoyo, but she knew she was going to have to build up her patience for the next day. Tomoyo was just too perfectionist when it came to clothes, and she was almost done with her dress.

She would probably finish it tomorrow. The other thing that worried her was the shoes. If just the drive was two hours long she didn't even want to know how much time it would take them to finally pick them.

She walked upstairs and was headed to her room when she saw that Syaoran's door was open. She moved in closer to see what he was doing, and she was surprised to find him reading a book on the bed. He raised his head to look at her.

"So what was the emergency?" Syaoran said laughing,

Sakura smiled too, noticing how he had used the same words she had used with Tomoyo.

"Oh nothing, she just wanted to tell me that she'll be here tomorrow morning to make the final fitting on the dress, and then we are going shoe shopping!" She said trying to sound excited, but her voice gave her away, causing Syaoran to smirk.

"Not a fan of shopping are you?"

She considered her answer for a second, and walked in the room, sitting on the border of the bed.

"No, not really, I've had Tomoyo around all my life so she just kinda bought my clothes".

He laughed at her comment, making her smile.

"Sakura can I ask you a question?" Syaoran said suddenly, looking a little grim.

"Shoot", she said getting comfortable in his bed.

"What is going on with you and Koji? I mean at first I thought you hated him, but you let him get to you too much and he doesn't act like a guy who is over his ex would act", he noted.

She took a second to figure out which was the best possible answer for his question. She wasn't pretty sure herself. She knew that she didn't love Koji, not anymore; but she still had all those good memories of their relationship, and it was hard for her to separate the good Koji with the bad one.

"Well… I'm over him", she began, "it's just that… haven't you ever been in relationship where you love the other person, but they end up breaking your heart so you are forced to stop loving them?"

She noticed he wasn't answering so she went on.

"Well, I loved him, and he broke my heart, and I learned to not love him. That was easier than I thought it would be. Now when I see him I am more than sure that I don't want him back! He's an ass, but then I remember all those good times we had together and it just… it's kind of sad. But it's just that, sadness, I don't long for him anymore. So believe me, if I had the chance to go back with him I wouldn't do it, I know the type of guy he is now, but I'm not going to taint all those nice memories I have just because he cheated on me. He wasn't always and ass".

She finished, locking her stare to the ground.

"Well that's ok I suppose, I actually believe you are very brave… and smart. People usually just try to forget all about their relationships when they break up, and I think it's just plain stupid to do that, if they were dating in the first place it was because they had a good time together". He told her, making her raise her stare.

"Hey! You know exactly what I mean!" She said cheerfully, "I just think it's too sad to remember a past relationship with hatred and anger, I think it's better to just forgive and move on, you know putting yourself first obviously, the fact that you forgive them doesn't necessarily mean you have to go back with them", she added.

He smiled sweetly at her. He really liked her optimistic personality; it was the one thing that differentiated her from almost every other person he knew. Sakura was just a positive person, and that positivity made her a wiser person than she though.

Maybe he had assumed things he shouldn't have, about Sakura and Koji. It seemed like they had a nice relationship, until the whole 'cheating thing', but Sakura was mature enough to understand that she had to move on, she had to forgive him more for her sake than his. It was just the obvious that she would feel affected by his presence, especially when their break up was so fresh, but he was sure that Sakura would be able to put that behind her.

Syaoran thought that maybe then, maybe if Sakura got over the whole situation and decided to move on with her life, maybe then he would be able to be there for her the way he suddenly wanted to.

He hadn't planned to grow fond of the girl, but it had happened somehow. And he found himself wanting her to grow fond of him too.

"Hey do you want to see a movie?" Sakura asked when she realized she had nothing else to say, interrupting Syaoran's thoughts.

That was the first thing that came to her mind.

"Um… sure, what do you have in mind?" He asked her

"We could go to the video to see what they have", she offered.

They both got up and, once again, left her house. This time Sakura drove the car.

"You know you could drive faster", Syaoran added all of a sudden.

"I'm driving fast enough", she responded bluntly, "it's not my fault you drive too fast, so my normal driving seems to slow for you".

He smirked at her comment, and looked at her with those piercing amber eyes.

"You could let me drive and we'd get there faster", he told her trying to look charming.

"Nope, you've driven around all these days, now it's my turn".

"Can I drive on the way back?" He asked a little hastily.

"NO!" She responded raising her tone of voice while she smirked "you are my guest! And I've making you drive all these days, so now I'm driving", Sakura paused for a second and then looked at him briefly before locking her eyes on the road again, "well maybe tomorrow you can drive, if Eriol is not driving us to that stupid shoe store… you can drive then".

He rolled his eyes at her comment and laughed to himself. She was so funny, and weird. Whenever she wanted he was his guest whom she had to look after, and whenever she didn't feel like it he was just some guy in her house who could cook.

She sure made things interesting though.

They picked several movies, some action and some comedies, and then Sakura drove them back to her house. They spent the rest of the day just laying on the couch, watching the movies, they even ordered pizza to avoid the whole 'cooking' subject.

When Sakura looked at her watch if said 1:00 a.m. so that was their cue to go to bed.

The next morning Sakura was pleasantly laying on her bed, dreaming of rainbows and butterflies when she started hearing a weird distant sound, a sound that just wouldn't shut up and was making her shift from her pleasant dream to a waking state.

She finally noticed it was her cell phone ringing, and when she was able to think clearly she recognized Tomoyo's ringtone.

"What?" Sakura said in her sleepy voice, "Tomoyo it's too early, you can't possibly expect me to wake up right now", she complained.

"It's 11.30 Sakura, it's almost lunch and you have to wake up now because I'm standing in front of your house, I have a beautiful dress in my hands that needs to be fitted and I'm carrying too many boxes with all the things I'll need to fit the dress do get up and OPEN THE DOOR!" Tomoyo said to her friend.

"You are here?" Sakura said still trying to understand her friend's words.

"I did say I was standing in front of you door didn't I?" Tomoyo said sarcastically.

That girl was not to be meddled with when it came to clothes, or her wedding.

"Ok, ok, I'll be right there". Sakura hung up the phone and started stretching in her bed.

When she finally managed to sit down she looked through the window in her room, it was pretty sunny outside so maybe Tomoyo wasn't lying about the time.

Sakura managed to make it downstairs and she opened the door to find her friend standing outside with a huge smile on her face. Tomoyo was indeed carrying the dress, and a whole lot of boxes where she kept her pins and needles and stuff she used to make clothes.

"Ok, go take a bath while I arrange everything", Tomoyo ordered her.

"Ok", Sakura said still too sleepy to say anything else.

"Hey where is Syaoran?" Tomoyo asked, stopping Sakura right on her track.

"Um… sleeping?" Sakura said doubtfully.

"At this time? Syaoran barely sleeps! There is no way he's sleeping right now", Tomoyo continued.

"I'll go check" Sakura said moving clumsily up the stairs and standing in front of Syaoran's room.

She knocked the door but no one answered, so she opened the door slightly and noticed that the room was empty. A little confused, she walked in the room to see if he left a note of something like it but the room as too organized.

"Sakura!" Tomoyo screamed from downstairs "Syaoran left you a note on the fridge!"

"He what?!" Sakura screamed back to her friend.

"He left a note! He said he would go jogging and then he would go to the river for a while!" Tomoyo screamed to Sakura.

"OK!" Sakura responded.

That was weird. Maybe he didn't want to bother her so he left by himself.

She was going to call him but she finally decided there was no point, so she went straight to the bathroom to have her shower.

Twenty minutes later Sakura walked downstairs wearing a pair of yoga pants and a small top comfortable enough to wear inside the house.

Tomoyo had arranged her living room into a small dressing room. She had taken the large mirror from Sakura's room and hung it in one of the walls. She also placed her sewing machine on the table, and she spread out all the thread, needles, and pins she would need to use. The dress was hanging on a hook on the wall.

"Ok, so I'm ready", Sakura told her friend whose face lit up with her words.

"Great! Now take of those pants and that shirt and put the dress on", Tomoyo commanded.

Sakura was about to take the dress and go to the bathroom but Tomoyo stopped her right on her tracks.

"No, you need to put it on here, so I can help you, that way I'll make sure you won't ruin the material" Tomoyo explained.

"Tomoyo I'm more than capable of putting on a dress without ruining it", Sakura complained.

"I know, I just don't want to take my chances, now strip".

Sakura laughed at her friend and then proceeded to take off her pants and her shirt, displaying her colored Victoria's Secrets boy short panties and her pink bra.

Tomoyo grabbed the dress and climbed on a chair to help Sakura get in the dress without wrinkling it. It was a difficult mission, but they managed to do it, and after a few painfully uncomfortable minutes Sakura turned around to look at herself in the mirror.

The dress was just beautiful; Tomoyo always had the best taste.

Sakura just stood there, looking at her reflection in the mirror, watching Tomoyo place pins here and there, she actually did look good in that dress.

"So", Tomoyo began, "How has it been? Living with Syaoran?" She asked casually.

"It's been nice, he cooks, he like to watch the same movies I watch, he's funny", she paused for a second to look down at her friend who seemed to be paying more attention to the dress, "well, he's a great guy", Sakura finished.

"Yeah he is isn't he? I thought you'd get along with him, ever since I met him I always felt that he would be the perfect guy for you", Tomoyo said nonchalantly.

"Aren't you getting a little ahead of yourself?" Sakura asked Tomoyo.

"Yeah, I am", Tomoyo confessed, "but when two people are meant to be they will eventually end up together, I always thought Syaoran was perfect for you, and you for him. He's suffered a lot, he's met a lot of girls who date him only for his money, so he's kind of lost his faith in women, but you are different Sakura, and I have always been sure that you have the perfect personality to make him believe in love again".

Tomoyo paused for a second, finishing up with the pins and standing up to look at her creation. Then she smiled kindly to her friend.

"And he's perfect for you because he's a guy that has too much love to give, and you are a girl who knows how to appreciate love… besides, he's hot and you know it", she said with a devilish grin on her face.

"Yeah…", Sakura said meditating over her friend's words, "he is hot". She finally said.

She had never thought of it that way. She knew she liked Syaoran; she had tried to not see him in a romantic way because she thought that he was a player, but now she understood. He kept himself away from girls because he had been hurt, just like she had been hurt.

He was kind enough to help her with her own charade without asking for anything in return. He really was an exceptional guy.

She looked at Tomoyo, trying to see if her friend was guessing what was on her mind, but Tomoyo was just placing the thread in the sewing machine.

He heart started beating faster as the thoughts started forming in her head. She liked Syaoran, she liked him a lot, and if Tomoyo was right… they were perfect for each other. They understood each other perfectly; he understood her whole Koji dilemma better than anyone else.

He knew right away what she meant when she said that she didn't want to hold on to an awful memory of her relationship, he even agreed with her. Maybe he really was the perfect guy for her.

She just wished she could be the perfect girl for him and that the universe could find a way to get them together for real.

Hi! so how was it?? I hope the whole Sakura/Koji things got cleared, I wanted to make sure it was clear that she felt ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for him, I just believe that it's too sad when a relationship ends and they end up forgetting all those good memories for a mistake like cheating. I'm a forgive and move on kind of girl. If you are not then try to bear with me.
Anyway, I hope the chapter was to your liking, and I really, really, really hope you'll leave me a review telling me what you thought, you guys have no idea how much those reviews help, specially because I sometimes think things are clear but thanks to your reviews I can develop things a little bit better.
So see you guys next chapter!