Disclaimer: No offense, but if anyone thinks I own CCS by now they're dumb.

Author's Note: Yeah, there's a cliffhanger for you, but it's not exactly challenging to figure out whom Sakura sees in the doorway! Maybe Sakura will go to work for the first time in this chapter. Don't know yet! Let's see how it plays out! (Is it really chapter ten already?)

Really sorry for the delay. It's not the reviews, I swear. It's just fanfiction wouldn't let me update last week for some weird reason and so I had to wait an extra one. Unfortunately, this got me a bit tired of writing this fic and so I'm taking a hiatus which will last for up to 2-4 weeks. Sorry about this. Don't worry too much though. I have every intention of finishing this. Just check every Friday and chapter eleven's bound to show up soon.

To the reviewers: And I thought it wouldn't be a challenge to figure out who was at the door. OH MY! Falls over. I CANNOT believe that nobody guessed it. If you remember minor details from a certain chapter I'm sure you would've gotten it. Okay, so it wasn't THAT MINOR! Groaaan! Well, thanks for the reviews! Yay!

Chapter 10 – What is Said Cannot be Unsaid

It was very complicated for Sakura to even process the fact that he was actually here, standing right in front of her. At first, she'd been speechless, but after he greeted her she wanted to respond with something witty that'd humiliate him. Another urge was to kick or sac him really hard for being such a jerk and that last peaceful one was to ask why he was here. Then there was that option of crying, but that was just sad and really old news. Sakura decided to combine them, excluding the violent one although it was sorely tempting.

"Why, hello Lei," she greeted with mock cheeriness. "My, what is your pathetic, cheating ass doing in my doorway?"

The man, known as Lei, sighed and brushed a hand through his fine, black hair. He blinked and observed Sakura through his dark blue eyes, which used to make her want to kiss him. Today, feeling those same eyes on her made her feel like there was poison eating through her flesh. Anything to make him stop staring.

"Wow, Sakura," Lei started with a low voice, "you look great."

"And you look like you've just finished some business with a couple of whores," Sakura insisted as she smiled rainbows of falseness.

"Erm… right. Look, Sakura, I'm sorry about before okay? I've missed you a lot," he told her genuinely, but she could easily tell he was fibbing by that glint in the corner of his eye.

"Sure," she replied airily, her voice dripping with sarcasm, "and I've missed you about as much as a pig misses taking a bath."

"Sakura, you're using sarcasm, aren't you?"

"I don't know, am I?"

By this time Sakura's eyes were about rolling thirty times a second and she thought they might fall out of their sockets.

"Sakura!" came Fujitaka's gentle voice. "Who is it?"

"It's… It's—uhm…" she trailed off, caught off guard this time from her father's call.

Apparently, she didn't have to answer this because her dad came to the front door at that time. Sakura was looking at the ground, but when she heard the scraping noises of his slippers on the hardwood stop, she knew he was right there. She slowly lifted her head as much as she dared to just to see his face. The two men stood man to man, looking each other in the eye.

"Who might you be?" her dad asked in his regular tone of voice, so very welcoming and friendly.

"He's—" Sakura started, but was cut off by Lei.

"I'm Sakura's boyfriend," he told the man with the glasses calmly.

She was about to point out that he was, in a very well emphasized "EX-boyfriend," mostly on the ex part, her stupid cheating ex, but Fujitaka beat her to it.

"Well, that's good to know then. Why don't you come in?" he asked with the natural kindness coming off.

"Thank you," her EX-boyfriend said as he graciously closed the door behind him and kicked off his shoes, placing them next to each other neatly.

This was when she began to burn with rage inside. Was this guy trying to come out as the 'perfect' boyfriend or something? Gosh, why was her dad ever so nice? Sakura guessed that every extremely nice guy had to come with the price of letting a person that someone close hated the most into their house.

I can survive… I'm okay… I can do this… Aw, what am I talking about?

I cannot do any of this stuff.

Bad karma…ugh…

Her father was now leading Lei into the kitchen on the topic of sports. If Lei continued to act like a gentleman, her dad was going to like him. She had to figure out a way to get him out of here.

-

Syaoran tossed his cell phone somewhere that he didn't know, but frankly, he didn't care. He blamed it for that horrid day anyway. He couldn't get Sakura out of his mind or that dilemma with Eriol and Tomoyo. He couldn't even figure out how they ever looked like such a good and happy couple. Yesterday they had been smiling and kissing like there was no tomorrow and today Tomoyo informed him that Eriol was insanely insecure and that display of argument he'd seen earlier was confirmation.

And Tomoyo a fan girl of his? Why, he didn't think he could even imagine it in his wildest dreams. It was way too far out. Syaoran had always thought of Tomoyo as the girl that Eriol liked. Man, Eriol was insecure over that? He should've sucked it up and realized that his former fan girl was in love with him instead of accusing her of going out with him.

All those people were right.

Love was complicated.

So Sakura… Eriol, as Tomoyo had told him, would write an email to her and tell those stupid lies that he'd made up and convinced himself so easily to believe. All he had to do was type one up before Eriol did and send it. Besides, it was the perfect time to do all that apologizing for not showing up to bid her farewell in the morning.

Stubbornly forcing his exhausted body to get up and turn on his computer, he briefly wondered what Sakura was doing, feeling right then and there. She was probably having a great time catching up with her dad.

Oh well. He couldn't mope around now! He had work to do.

-

Scheming was one of the things Sakura had absolutely no talent at doing, so it was obvious that it was becoming quite a trouble to think up a way to get Lei out of her supposed sanctuary. Whatever she thought of always seemed to end up crashing and burning like a paper airplane into a fire. It could be that Sakura just had bad luck, or it was more likely that she just didn't plan things out very well.

I'll count them off.

One. Off dating and liking boys after Lei: Failed. Two. Avoiding Syaoran: Failed miserably. Three. Sneaking out of the office: Failed. Four. Helping Meilin: Failed. Five. Not having feelings for Syaoran: Failed very miserably. Six. Getting transferred without anyone knowing: Extremely failed. Seven. Being happy enough back at home: Almost succeeded except when Lei showed up.

That was one heck of a failed plan list.

Okay, so maybe it was her. Another plan would just mean more failures so it was hopeless to even try. Also, she'd probably cry again if there were another bombing of her scheme.

I guess I should just let this one play out.

Sakura spun suddenly spotted her laptop sticking out of one of her bags, practically begging her to be opened. She could resist it herself as she put it on her desk and switched it one. This would be all right since she hadn't been on here for a while anyway. It was time she checked her email.

When she logged on she found two emails that immediately caught her eye. One was from Eriol, whom she figured didn't like her much since he barely talked to her, and the other was sent by Syaoran in which made her heart race in excitement.

Yes, she was going to read Syaoran's first. Definitely.

I sicken myself for being so lovesick.

From Syaoran:

Hey Sakura,

This is a formal email, which I usually don't do, but it's you, so…yeah… Anyway, first off, I'm really, really, really sorry that I couldn't see you before you left. See, Tomoyo phoned me and then I hung up on her 'cause I was getting out to go to the office to see you, but then when I was in my car I realized that she was gunna kick my pretty ass if I just randomly stopped talking. So I was gunna call her, but then I didn't have my cell phone 'cause I left it at Meilin's house on our last date. Then I went to get it as fast as I could, but the slut tried to make a move on me therefore resulting in me being extremely late. That's how it went and this paragraph was really strange.

Now, how's it been at the office? Disastrous. After you left the day just started getting worse and worse. I hung around with Tomoyo and man, Eriol just flipped when he saw us talking. I never thought that my 'best friend' had major issues since his now ex used to be in my fan club… You're not part of that, right? I mean, you do hate me (apparently, but I know you secretly love me) after all. Well, Eriol's gunna send you an email too that will probably say some stupid lies like Tomoyo cheated on him with me since he flipped, eh? Just warning you, so don't you believe what the dude writes.

Honestly, I already miss you; ya darn cute and evil cherry blossom. You're the devil. ;)

Mail me back, oh evil one!

Syaoran, the man of your dreams.

Syaoran, message end.

Sakura found herself giggling lightly at his sarcastic cockiness, but quickly stopped it. God, she was giggling? Could she be anymore like a schoolgirl? There were more serious issues at hand anyway.

So what did Syaoran mean about Eriol telling lies and going absolutely crazy? It did seem very realistic as the guy practically never let Tomoyo out of his sights. And over this they'd broken up? Wow, Sakura really needed to let her crush know that his writing was unclear and it was confusing her like mad. Perhaps if she read Eriol's email she'd get a better sense of what was going on.

She clicked on the email eagerly, ready to find out that juicy bit of information.

From Eriol:

Damn it Sakura, there's tons of crap going on at work.

Tomoyo is cheating on me with Syaoran. I was looking for her all morning and then I see them come in together at lunch, talking and enjoying themselves practically right after you left. I could instantly tell that they were close.

I know that Syaoran likes you, but don't be fooled by his pathetic charms. He's just a stupid man slut.

Eriol.

Eriol, message end.

After viewing this, Sakura felt the puzzle was a bit more put together. Okay, Eriol was insecure or paranoid or whatever because Tomoyo was previously one of Syaoran's fan girls even though she'd almost everyday and night, but the moment he could not locate her he went berserk.

The whole situation was completely ludicrous to Sakura. Everyday she'd seen Tomoyo and Eriol eating each other's faces off and he breaks their ties because of a thing like that?

Ridiculous.

The unstable relationship boy was actually slightly sensible at one point, however. At least he faced his problems head on (unlike her), although they were just scenes in his head, and did something, confronting Tomoyo as it occurred to her. This, Sakura gave him full credit for even if he was such an idiot.

Nonetheless, there was still that little twitching feeling that bothered her in the corner of her brain. That annoying tiny piece was telling her that it was true, that Syaoran and Tomoyo were together and happily kissing at the same moment.

But she had strong feelings for Syaoran, and that meant she couldn't give up on him.

At least, for now.

-

Tomoyo, at that moment, was not sticking her tongue in Syaoran's mouth and currently, that thought would disgust her. What she was really doing was pouring water out of her teary eyes. Her relationship with Eriol had gone down on bad terms for a pointless accusation that he believed. She was angry, stressed, and full of sorrow. Tomoyo almost wondered how her tear glands could manage all that water that was presently leaking down her face.

She wanted to hit something and take out all her frustrations, but she wasn't that type of girl so all she could do was cry and wail into her pillow. It wasn't doing much good for her, but it made her feel at least a bit better.

A phone call was what she needed, so she dialed a long distance number that she hadn't used in a while that was answered in Kawasaki.

-

She didn't want to get up that morning; needless to say, Sakura did not sleep very well. Tomoyo had called her last night sobbing throughout that whole conversation which left her worrying the whole night. That twitch in her mind was now not bothering her anymore. The phone call had washed the feeling of her friend cheating with Syaoran away as she heard the full details of yesterday's incident. There was but one conclusion.

Once again, it was her fault.

It was just another failed plan because she thought that her leaving would solve everything yet all it did was make things worse.

But maybe Meilin had finally gotten her chance with Syaoran.

Whatever happened, she couldn't dwell on this any longer. She needed to get ready for her first day at work or at least look physically prepared. Sakura was certainly not mentally prepared.

This is going to be a fun day.

Yes, I'm sure it'll be.

Negative karma loves me.

Just perfect.

Once Sakura was changed out of her pajamas and into her nice, professional work clothes, she headed downstairs only to find her worst enemy standing in the kitchen.

"What are you still doing in here?" she hissed as she shot a dirty look his way.

"Your father asked me to stay the night, so I did," Lei replied coolly. "Anything to stay in the same house as you."

"Pervy stalker!" Sakura accused, angry that her father was too nice.

"Don't deny that you love me," he told her cockily.

She rolled her eyes as she made her way to the water filter, pouring the liquid into a cup she'd gotten. The nerve of this guy! Syaoran teased her maybe, but this guy was just a stupid jerk.

"Your nether regions are going to get kicked by me sooner or later," she informed him, eying him cautiously.

"So sure about that?" Lei asked her in arrogance.

"What is said cannot be unsaid," she told him. "It'll happen eventually."

Fortunately, before Lei could piss her off even more, her father called her so she hastily ran into the living room where Fujitaka was sitting.

"Morning!" she greeted brightly.

"Good morning to you as well, sweetie," Fujitaka returned with a soft smile. "Now about your boyfriend, I think he's very nice."

"EX—" she started before her supposed-to-be-polite father interrupted.

"I think it would be nice if you married him."

Sakura stared at him in complete shock, unable to get a single word out of her mouth. The question was, what should she do next: faint or scream?

Author's Note: Don't know who Lei is? Reread chapter one (the chapter in which I now hate the most looking back). I don't think this is my best chapter, but it's alright. More to come in a matter of weeks! BWAHAHAA! I do, however, apologize too! You guys are the greatest!

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