alright fans. Here is chapter 10, I know it has been a long time but I have been working on chapter 10, 11, and 12 all at the same time. Mainly because what happens here is very important to the next two chapters. So keep this chapter in mind once those come up.
Chapter 11 and 12 happen one night after the other basically, the school festival. So enjoy...the tell all...
Chapter 10: The Tell All
Its been a few days from the sleepover I sighed loudly as I fell back onto the many cushions. My mind started going over the dreams that I had. Maybe I did have something going on with Li, I did think about telling Tomoyo about those dreams...I very soon decided against it. I closed my eyes as more thoughts about those dreams came to me. Maybe I would be able to change the guy to someone else. I could never remember tastes, smells, it was always actions, that never did make any sense. My phone rang. I checked it casually I sat back up as Tomoyo's voice came over the phone loud and clear.
"Hey I am waiting for them outside of school are you sure about this?"
"If they want to be friends with all of us they both have to know."
"Sakura not even Yamazaki knows that much about the situation. He only knows the reason why you can't talk. And you want to tell Li-kun and Eriol-kun Everything."
I could hear the uneasiness in her voice as she talked.
"Look, I know what is in the contract with, If Li-kun wants to be an ally he has to know everything."
"Are you going to..."
"No," I could tell where her mind was going. My eyes turned to the other girls in the room. "Everyone will see that on my birthday."
"Sakura, this is a huge risk." I heard Tomoyo yell out their names. "There is more on the plate here than just your reputation."
I rubbed my forehead with my free hand with an exasperated sigh. All of them were putting their reputation on the line, those two boys had to keep everything that they were about to tell them and placed it the center of the round table, this could be worst idea I had ever come up with.
I sat quietly with the rest as we could hear them going up the stairs. Their footsteps echoing down the hall as the three walked. I recognized Tomoyo's footsteps easily, so light and gentle with every step. I caught myself smiling at her feet slowly arriving at the door. My eyes went to the middle of the table where four cellphones laid, soon three more will be added.
"Please place your phones on the middle of the table when you enter." Tomoyo's sure voice echoed in the quiet room. "You both will sit in the open spots we will explain things to you."
The door felt like it took forever for it to open. Tomoyo entered the followed close behind with Eriol-kun and Li-kun. I felt all of the girls turn to me I could even feel their unsure looks. Asking me one question was I sure? Even now I was starting to doubt myself and this decision. I was brought back to reality as I heard three phones added to the pile. A long silence hung in the room until a fimilar catchy tune rang out.
"Sakura I think that's your phone."
I pulled out my phone, glanced at it, a text. I sighed softly as I quickly responded back. 'Call ya later tonight -Squirt' Simple and to the point. I placed the phone back in the middle and turned it off. I knew he was not going to stop until he talked to me. I relaxed a little more as Tomoyo talked.
"You are here because we have to talk to you to explain everything you will be encountering in the legal documents you will be receiving from Sakura." She paused. "She herself will answer any personal questions. Now onto what you are here for."
Tomoyo reached behind her and pulled up two abulms of pictures. I recognized one as being from my childhood but the other was a blank black cover. "To tell Sakura's story we have to go back to when she was a little girl." Tomoyo opened the abulm to show a very young girl with light brown hair in a kindergarden uniform with a shy smile across her face. Her bright green eyes smiling at the camera.
"This is Sakura Kinomoto at the age 5. This picture was taken at Tomeda Elementary on the first day of classes." She flipped to show various pictures of me pointing at the camera, laughing, even a cute picture of me falling down and crying. I stiffled a giggle. I glanced up to see both boys glancing at me, I silenced rather quickly.
They both continued to flip through my memories. I smilied softly as Tomoyo continued. "When Sakura was 10 her father decided to remarry. He introduced Kaori and Momoko to Sakura." She stopped at a picture with me and Momoko smiling at the camera with frilly hats on. "This is the last picture with Sakura smiling like that. The next day her dad was put in the hospital. Sakura and Momoko were 10 ½ ."
I turned my head away as I heard the page turn. "About two months later her dad had died and Kaori got parental custody. We all thought that Sakura would return to at least somewhat normal, but what we got was a version that was worse." Tomoyo flipped the page as I heard all of the other girls gasp. "Sakura stated the you know everything. This will be in the legal documents me, Sakura and her guardian made sure of it."
I turned back slightly to view the picture. I frowned at the beaten shell of a girl. "This was the only picture she allowed me to take. Sakura stayed with our family that she could heal a bit. Me and my mom sent her back with a fake smile on her lips. Until May of the following year I got a letter from Sakura, only one sentence on it. 'T. I am frozen in hell see you in two years. S." Tomoyo shut the abulm with a soft thud. "The Sakura you two know is the Sakura that was created during those two years. We girls realized that something happened during her time away." My eyes went to Tomoyo as she glanced over at me. I licked my lips as I carefully picked my my next option. I took a deep breath in as my fingers fidgeted in front of me. I looked over everybody in the room, it was now that I had to explain to those there what had happened.
"I was sent to a private school." I stated softly hoping all of them heard it. "It was located outside of Tokyo. I was in the same classes with Momoko. I thought it would be fun carefree boy was I wrong." I sighed as my thoughts came together, "My 'sister' made it a point to make my years there a personal hell." I almost wanted to kick myself for using air quotes but it had to be said. "I found out that she had already been attending the school and had a pretty big influence there. I don't know how but she got all the teachers, staff, and students to support her crazy antics."
I grabbed the blank cover and glanced at it. "Part of me wants to burn this...another part of me wants to show everybody that wrote something in this just what a fucking slut can do." I shrugged as I tossed the book to the boys. Eriol's fingers graced over the cover.
"A yearbook?" He questioned.
"Sharpies can cover a lot but that is black paint. Everytime I was mad at Momoko during those two years I'd paint a new coat on to release frustration."
"How many layers are on here?" Li-kun asked. I glanced at him with a small smirk.
"Lost count after 50 that was about halfway during the first year." I moved my head a bit as the hood kind of fell back. Eriol opened the book to see large words that would have put any normal person over the edge. Eriols eyes went to me.
"They wrote that on the first page you see." I nodded
Li-kun grabbed the book and read it. "Is this why you want me involved?" His eyes glanced me over quietly.
"No, my reason for you is Momoko. The girl has a thing for your type." She paused as she showed her fingers, "Good looking, smart, athelitic, and rich...I assume you have money because you live on your own."
"How did you know I lived on my own?" Li-kun asked generally looking over me. I shrugged as I fidgeted with my fingers.
"Tomoyo told me she has been to your place tons of times." All of us turned to Tomoyo and Eriol, I wanted to giggle at the blush that was growing on both of their faces.
"Really Tomoyo, you are getting embarassed about something that like that." I lightly stated as I strecthed my arms above my head. As the hood from the dark hoodie I wore fell back and revealed a version of myself. No glasses hid my eyes, no makeup to make me seem paler, I did still wear the grey contacts to make my eye appear jade...that concept of myself I more willing to keep. My hair however was black, pulled back in a crummy bun.
"You would too Sakura."
"I will not, I have more sense than that to be embarassed about going over to a boy's place."
"Sakura, are you sure?" Tomoyo gave me a specitcal look. I opened my mouth to respond when my mind went blank...evil mind, how could you stop in mid thought... I ended up just placing my head on the table with a long sigh.
"Who is Takero to you?" Li-kun's voice asked me. He sounded a bit irrate but who wouldn't Takero was as pompous jerk.
"Scum on this planet." I answered without moving my head. I streached my arm across the table.
"What was he to you?" His voice asked again. He really is persistant on knowledge of Takero.
"Why do you care?" I moved my head slightly to look at him with narrowed eyes.
"Tomoyo informed us that you went to the same school with him. She sounded sad when she said that." He stated, not moving a muscle. I watched his sutble movements in hopes to find out why the topic of the scum of earth...
I sighed loudly as shrugged my shoulders sitting up to only lean on my hand as my other played with the phones. I didn't meet anyones gaze because up to this point only Tomoyo knew the history with him. "Takero Hiroshi was my first love."
My eyes gazed aver all their reactions nothing...I sighed again. "Takero was at one point everything you say to be." I pointed to Li. "Every girl wished to be with him in some way. Momoko was always by his side. I started to like him because he was nice to me. He didn't treat me like the other boys did, I felt special. I had in my mind that we were a couple, held hands went on dates, but I was still unsure about crossing that line."
"You mean kissing...Sakura how old were you?" Rika asked curious about my virgin lips...
"Three weeks before the first year ended, the class went on an overnight trip to the mountians. Very relaxing. The first night Takero tried to kiss me but I got nervous and ran. The second night however did not go that way. I was outside watching the stars in a quiet alcove when I heard something behind me, I turned to see Takero with his deep blue eyes...I smiled and went back to watching the stars." I paused as I gathered up thoughts. "Too put it lightly he forced himself on me. I managed to get back to reality and run out there. The next day at school, pictures were posted of me in my underwear and Takero feeling me up with his lips planted on mine. I became known as the School Slut easy to bang." I rolled over to face away from the group. "I disappeared from the school the last three weeks, came back the next year invisible. I was content. No one noticed me. I existed wonderfully unnoticed." I kind of glared at Li. "Until you came along."
"Do you resent me that much?" Li asked as he raised his eyebrow at me.
"She called you the airsucker." Tomoyo stated with a smile.
"Air sucker?"
"Yeah, when you entered a room that first week, all the girls would inhale instantly. It sounded like the air being sucked out." I stated plainly.
"That wasn't the only nickname you had for him." Chiharu smiled poking my arm.
I sighed as I closed my eyes softly. "Air Sucker was first, then Parrot, then Li-Bird and I have settled on alli recently."
"Alli really isn't a nickname."
"So." I stated plainly "Alli works for me as a nickname."
"Is there anything else that I need to know."
"Nope." I stated as laid my head down on the table with a sigh as my fingers moved across in a simple pattern. I felt the girls glare on me as I moved my head slightly to try to glare back. Did not work. "What?"
"What about him?" Chihiru stated her eyes focused on me, glaring at me for not wanting to talk. Her fingertips patted the table wanting me to talk.
I closed my eyes and sighed as I straightened my back, my hands sliding on the table as I did. "Fine," I opened my eyes and stared at my hands. "He is my guardian. He is my brother the only family I have left. I don't see him often but when I do it's usually means that I have to be away for weeks." I pulled the pink phone from the pile as I fell back on the floor not really caring about what others thought.
"We should exchange numbers, so that we can keep in contact with each other." Tomoyo stated as she took a phone from the pile. She turned it on I noticed the black casing and a picture of Tomoyo on the lock screen. I smiled as I turned on my phone, waited while I heard the chiming sound for it to turn on.
"Sakura has code names for everyone." Rika said as she pulled a pink iphone from the pile. I heard her phone turn on as I smiled as started typing the two new code names in my phone.
"Really?" Eriol-kun's voice asked.
"Yeah, it's so we text each other about each other and no one who we are talking about." Tomoyo stated. "Everyone has codenames. Before you were li-bird and fish, Momoko is Evil Queen."
"Why do you do that?" Li-kun's voice asked.
"So just in case someone gets a hold of our phones they see codenames. Not all of us have the same code names on each others phone." Rika showed her phone contacts, Chihiru showed her phone contacts, Tomoyo showed hers. I thought about showing mine but decided against it because of the new names I had added.
Li and Eriol looked over all them seeing the same number for different names on each phone. "What about Momoko?"
"She does not have Sakura's cell number or any other number for. If she needs to get a hold of Sakura she either finds one of us or spreads a rumor and Sakura finds her."
"She does that?"
"Normally she does not care and likes to keep things to herself." I stated as I sat back up grabbing the table as I kept my contacts open. "Number?" I glanced at both of them.
Both quietly gave their numbers as each of us gave ours to them. Silence ebbed in the room as thumbs typed onto phones, Tomoyo took a picture of me as I glared at my phone to see test text messages from Li and Eriol. They now knew a little bit about what is going on, what makes me who I am, and about Takero. I wanted them two leave me be and go home.
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Preview of Chapter 11
Frustrated she turned with the cloth a bit peeved she was not able to "practice" with Li. She tossed the given cloth on a table for her lackeys to do all the work as she sat down and thought. I did not really think that she had the brain capacity to think. I smiled at the idea of her thinking of anything.
I quietly finished up my current vase as I heard a tune that indicated a text. I placed the finished vase aside as I crawled to my bag under the open window. I pulled out my phone, quickly noted 2 messages, one from Li, one from... I opened the second one hoping for something exciting. I read one word.
"Outside."
If you want to know more...you just have to wait for chapter 11 which should be out soon!
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