Chapter 10. it still hurts…

After schools' festival Saya and Tristan took Troy and Ayumi for sight-seeing, shopping, etc. After the week was over Ayumi and Troy left for Spain with Ayumi promising to take a transfer here in the next year so she could be close to her best friend and boyfriend.

A few more weeks passed by but still whenever the thought crossed her mind she'd sulk, she still couldn't figure out the reason why. She blankly stared at the bored, and the equations written across it, but her mind wandered in her own kingdom of thoughts. She was lost.

"Moving away…" she whispered to herself. 'I moved away from my family, but that was the different thing right? Why is it such a big deal for me…?' she sighed, 'Sakura said he'll keep visiting, why am I thinking about it so much' she banged her head on the desk lightly. 'it's not like I'm in love with him… AM I?' Her face heated up with a worried look and got her face off of the desk, 'No, no-no-no it can't be, I like him, but he's like a brother to me' she slapped herself for thinking like that. 'it's not like I fell from the tree and stuck in his arms of love… NO, THAT'S NOT iT… THAT'S JUST NOT iT! OKAY so I did fell from the tree but I'm certain it's not love…' another worried expression was written right across her forehead, 'I don't even know what's love, I mean he's my sensei and I'm too young, he'd probably reject me saying you're like my younger sister, and you even study in the same class as my sister, you're my neighbor, you're my student, you're my deceased best pal's younger sister…' she counted all the excuses on her fingers… 'Wait why am I counting things again? Oh right summing up why he'd reject me, and why am I doing that again?' she made a disgusting face for herself. 'I'm going nuts… I shouldn't think like that at all… Okay think about something else… The teacher writing equation on the board… Oh this lecture is so boring… I wish it was Kinomoto-sensei's lecture… Not again?' She slapped her head by now, 'Baka baka baka… get your head out of the gutter! He's not into kids! I'm not a kid, I'm a teenager and a high schooler, but someday I'll be his wife and we'll have kids…' a smile spread across her lips but then again her battle /world war iii was being watched by almost everyone in the class.

"WHAT iS WRONG WiTH ME!" she let out an exasperated yelp…

"I'd like to ask the same Tsuchiura-Chan…" The teacher asked while his attention did not budge from the board… "Detention!", everyone couldn't help their laughter.

After detention Saya was just about to reach the gates of her High School when she heard someone calling her name, she turned around to find Eriol, Sakura, Syaoran, Tomoyo and Meilin making their way towards her.

"Hey there! What were you guys upto?" Saya gave a simple smile.

"Nothing the guys had a long soccer practice session and girls had…"

"Cheerleading Practice!" Meilin squealed and threw her arms over Eriol and Saya.

"Someone's quite cheerful today…" Saya stated.

"Oh yup that's me! Guess what?"

"You threw the baton at the cheerleading coach?" Everyone laughed remembering the time when Meilin had mistaken threw the baton on the coach which landed her in the first aid wing of the high school.

"I did that on purpose! And no I didn't do that this time…"

"I was just kidding Mei-Chan"

"I know, but you know what? Our school's going for a trip! I'm so glad!" Meilin almost choked Eriol and Saya.

"Mei-Ch… you'r… suffocat…"

"Oh sorry! I got carried away…"

"Gee I never knew you were so strong Mei-Chan!" Eriol said massaging his neck.

Mei giggled and went to talk to Tomoyo… Syaoran and Sakura were holding each other's hands and were also talking about the trip...

"So you coming?" Eriol asked noticing she was still quite spaced out.

"I guess so" She gave a smile.

The pairs kept talking to each other and were discussing about the trip all the way, what no one noticed was that a certain pair of midnight blue eyes were glued on the pair walking up quite farther than them… Saya and Eriol.

it still rang in her mind, the words Naoko said on the first day of the High School… "There Tomoyo-chan you're future boyfriend's flirting!" Unbeknownst to anyone Tomoyo did had feelings for Eriol, everyone used to just kid about them, but no one seriously thought it through.