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Double Lives
Summary: Sakura is a 16 year old dork at her school. She is not very popular and is often teased for being late all the time. She does have one really good friend named Tomoyo Daidouji though who could be the most popular girl in school if she decided to. But, instead she would rather stay with her dear childhood friend Sakura. Syaoran Li is the most popular guy in school, too confident for his own good. He has known Tomoyo and Sakura his whole life and, has teased Sakura ever since she was a little girl. But, little does everyone know, Sakura is the girl that everyone is dying to be friends with, especially the guys. She is a legend on the internet but, a nobody in the school. What could happen?
Chapter Ten: Life Suddenly Changes
Sakura's POV
I woke up in the morning, bright and early for once, but so sore that I could barely move. Syaoran Li was a monster and thanks to him and that damned training session, I feel nearly crippled. How nice.
I got out of bed quickly and made my way into the bathroom adjoining my room; I got my pajamas off and slipped into the shower. I needed one if I was going to be able to make it through the school day. My whole body was just so sore. When I was finished I wrapped a towel around myself and left the bathroom, I tripped on the cord of the curling iron, as usual.
I got up quickly and grabbed my uniform from wear it hung neatly in my closet. I dressed slowly, slipping into the black pleated skirt and the white sailor shirt carefully, I tied the bow around my neck, and the ribbon that laced around my neck was hidden by the collar. I slipped into my socks, grabbed my bag and made my way as slowly as I possibly could down the stairs.
I made it down it what had to be the world's slowest recorded time ever; if not slower.
My shoes were waiting for me just inside the door as they always do, except there was a little piece of paper in one of my shoes, I took it out and slipped my foot in, I was about to crumple it when I noticed the writing. It was a note.
'Sakura-chan, I need to talk to you. Meet me at biggest tree behind the school at lunch.'
'-Syaoran'
I sighed. Why does he have to seem so serious? I mean, it's just a stupid talk; he talks to me all the time now. Why does he talk to me all the time now? And why does this talk seem so serious? Gasp! Does he want to talk about sixth grade? I am so not talking about that. I will never ever even think about it again, let alone talk about it. Who does he think he is? What is his problem? He is so demanding! Sheesh! I can't believe I ever had a cru-I was interrupted by my onii-chan.
"You've been standing there like a great gaping idiot for about ten minutes now, kaijuu. You're going to be late."
I barely had time to stomp on his foot before making a run for it out the door, but I managed.
My feet were pounding down Sakura Boulevard and the petals from the flowers on the trees were falling around me and blowing around in the wind. Fall was coming and it wouldn't be long before the cherry blossoms would be gone. I'd just have to enjoy them while I still could, but I didn't have time right now.
I put on an extra burst of speed even though my legs were burning and the rest of body was protesting strong enough to go on strike. Heh…that's kinda funny. My body, going on strike against me…what a weird thought. Wait! I must focus! I must make it to school!
My breath was coming in pants by the time I reached the school gate. There were still students milling about so, I wasn't exactly late. I smiled to myself as I strolled forward carefully. There was a throbbing pain in my side and I grimaced. I had managed to cramp up. Damn.
I sighed as I made my way to the front doors; the strap of my book bag was digging into my shoulders so I slipped my other arm into the second strap. That felt a bit better.
I pushed through the doors and headed off to my first class of the day, Syaoran looked at me and winked when I entered the room, and somehow, I felt like the center of the joke. Why am I not surprised?
Eriol's POV
I stood there waiting for the dark haired beauty of my dreams. Yes, of my dreams. I had had dreams of her already that was how much she affected me. I think I finally understand how Syaoran must feel to be affected by Sakura-chan so.
Her door opened and for a moment my thoughts stopped. Delicate face with delicate features, long dark eye lashes with a gentle curl that framed her brilliant amethyst eyes. They were like jewels. Her long raven hair fell past her waist and shone with a tint of some kind of grayish-purple color in the sunlight. Her hair was like a rare silk, and softly curled at the end.
My eyes rand down the rest of her body before I could stop myself. Gorgeous. Plump breasts, I am a man after all, of course I noticed, small waist, and long, smooth, creamy legs that just made me want to run my fingers along them. The school uniform's skirt did not help. Why did it have to be a mini? I can only take so much.
I let my eyes find their way back to hers, she had a light blush dusting the tops of her cheeks as she stood there staring at me, a modest smile playing about her lips. There were many things that could be said and I knew in that one moment, I was hers and she was mine.
"Hey…" The greeting rolled lazily off the tip of my tongue and her smile grew slightly more confident, somehow more real, more Tomoyo. I sighed and held an arm out for her. She skipped over to me and took it, a bright smile now making her face glow. Kami-sama, she was beautiful.
"Hey yourself, I'm sorry if I made you wait, but we should be going now, shouldn't we?"
I smiled. Genuine.
"Anything you say, love."
Again, that's right, love. Not to mention, she was now officially my girlfriend. Since last night, anyway. I figured if I was helping Syaoran get the girl of his dreams, I may as well get mine while I was at it. Besides, Syaoran actually seemed to be doing quite fine on his own. And this was the first day that Tomoyo and I would walk to school together as a couple. Yep, as a couple.
She swatted at my arm playfully and shook her head as she stared up at me in amusement. I could see her fighting the urge to stick her face right into mine to try and pry the thoughts out mf my head through my eyes. She has no idea how much I wish she really would try to do that.
I had to fight the urge to shake my head at myself as I stared back down at her. She pouted.
"Hmph! You're no fun! Sakura-chan and Li-kun are so easy to read, but when I look into your eyes, they give nothing away. Neither does your face." She crossed her arms and stared moodily down at the ground. I raised an eyebrow.
"Tomoyo-chan, I have to try really hard to keep from revealing my every thought to you. I've never had to be so guarded about my expressions before, but if you want me to let that guard down, I will."
She looked up at me and I smiled, kindly. She nodded her head and I took a deep breath and let my thoughts cross my face. She seemed to gasp and a moment later she turned away with her crimson blush on her face. I touched her shoulder lightly and she looked at me out of the corner of her eye.
"Why, Eriol-kun, I do believe you're looking at me in an awfully ungentlemanly way."
I had to chuckle at that and I wrapped my arms around her waist, I whispered in her ear.
"You said you didn't want me to be careful with my expressions around you. It's all pure honesty from here on out." I kissed her on the cheek and I knew she was smiling.
She turned to face me and pecked me on the lips before skipping forward with her hands folded together behind her back. We were already at the school and I hadn't even noticed. I shook my head and followed after her. I'd follow her almost anywhere.
But, for now, to class would have to do. Also, she mentioned something about a plan for Sakura and Syaoran on the phone last night. She had seemed relatively excited about it. And she had promised that after it succeeded, we could have out first date. I grinned and began to jog to catch up with her. I wasn't letting her get away from me all that easy.
Sakura's POV
It was lunchtime and I had to get to the meeting place Syaoran had decided on. I wasn't even sure if I wanted to meet with him. Jeez, life is so confusing.
I skirted around the edge of the school building and I could see the small forest of trees in back. They were all so big, but none were as big as the oldest Sakura tree on the school grounds. It towered over the rest. I made my way slowly towards it.
I heard him before I saw him, I could hear a strange scratching sound and as soon as I saw what he was doing, I bonked him on the head with my fist.
"Syaoran Li! That tree has done nothing to you! So, stop carving into it!"
He gave me a bored look and slipped the small knife he had been holding back into his pocket. It was one of those switch blades I think. He shook his head and flopped down on the ground. When he looked up at me, there was a devilish smirk on his face.
"So, Saku, how's business?"
And that was all it took. My eyes went wide and I let out a gasp, I covered my mouth with my hands and took a couple steps back from him. My legs seemed clumsy and unable to move after that. I dropped to my knees. It was more of a shock than I realized it would be if someone found out.
"What?"
I stared at him from a few feet away and the smirk left his face.
"You didn't do a very good job at hiding it, I just asked what your screen name was and you told me. I've seen Saku's screen name on the school web site before. I even checked to make sure, they were the same." He just stared at me as if willing me to explain something to him. I drew a blank and looked down at the ground no longer wanting to meet his scrutinizing gaze.
"What exactly do you want me to say?"
I looked up and he shook his head.
"Nothing…" A grin spread across his face. "However, I happen to know your secret…and that does tend to give one a little leverage…I want you to do one thing that I tell you to do, no questions asked."
I let out a long sigh, closed my eyes, and nodded my head slowly. He didn't have to say that he would tell the whole school if I didn't agree. It was implied. Could he be anymore of a jerk?
"What do you want me to do?" His grin somehow grew wider.
"I'm not going to ask you to do it now. I'll ask at the time that it serves me best. Is that clear?"
"That you're a jerk and you deserve to die for using poor defenseless females? Crystal."
He just shook his head and let out a low chuckle as he stood from the ground. He took a few steps towards me and offered me a hand up. I took it. It probably wouldn't be a very good idea to get him angry with me right now.
"Don't worry, I promise it won't be that bad, Sakura-chan. Besides, if I wanted you to suffer, I could use training to accomplish that. You must be very sore, right? Why don't you try taking a hot bubble bath tonight and then use cocoa butter. It tends to help with the stiff muscles and such."
I shook my head and stared at him as if he had grown another head.
"What?" His answer seemed to snap something in my brain.
"What the Hell is with you? Why are you acting so strange lately? I mean, were you really going to kiss me before your mother showed up? Why? And why are you being so nice? Why do you care about my well being? Yeah, I'm sore as hell, but I figured that would be the least of your concerns if one at all. I was so sure you hated me and you always seemed like you really did up until a few weeks ago! Are you finally starting to feel guilty about sixth grade or something?!"
I slapped a hand to my mouth to hut myself up. I hadn't wanted to bring that up. It brought back a memory I wasn't very fond of. He sighed and reached a hand out to me, but stopped. His eyes hardened.
"This has nothing to do with sixth grade or with guilt."
He walked away. And I remembered
A young teenage girl with honey brown hair placed both of her pom poms in one hand as she took a quick drink of water to help cool her body down. She was wearing a pink and white pleated mini skirt that had special spandex underwear that matched the pink in the skirt for when the girls did flips and such and so they're underwear didn't show. She wore a shirt that was white on top and cut down in a triangular shape and the rest was pink. The shirt had three pink letters on the white part. 'TJH.' The shirt showed off in her flat tummy and the girl smiled to herself as she noticed a boy watching her from across the gymnasium.
She ran over to him and stopped about two feet away from him and his face went a bright shade of red as he gave her a startled look.
"S-Sakura…!"
Sakura gave him a brilliant smile before wrapping her arms around his neck and giving him a kiss on the cheek. She pulled away and he turned his face away, it was an ever darker shade of red.
"Thank you so much for coming Syaoran-kun! You have no idea how much it means to me…especially since Tomoyo-chan and Meiling-chan couldn't be here."
She gave another brilliant smile and he turned his crimson face to her giving her a glare. She sighed and shook her head sadly.
"I know, I know. Call you Li-kun."
He nodded. She shrugged.
"Well, anyway, what did you think? Did I do good? Do you think I'll make it onto the squad?!"
She seemed so damned excited about it and it actually made him happy to see her happy, but then he noticed some of the eighth grade boys staring at Sakura in a leering way. Her cheerleading uniform was way too short. She waved a small, delicate hand in front of his face to get his attention back. He sighed.
He wanted to tell her that she did great, that she'd make it for sure, that there was no way she wouldn't make the team. And that was the truth, But, the truth meant the eighth grade boys staring at his Sakura. It meant boys from other schools making eyes at his Sakura and wolf whistling whenever they saw her butt or something. He did not like that.
The more he thought about, the angrier he got. He was tuning out everything that Sakura was saying she seemed to be calling to him, asking him something. He snapped.
"WHAT?!"
She seemed to cower away from him and her eyes flicked nervously around the room. Somehow, that just pissed him off even more.
"What? Are you checking how many guys are staring at your butt? Can't let it be less than at least ten, right?!" the words startled even him. He didn't mean to say them.
She glared back at him, suddenly indignant.
"Of course not, Syaoran! You know I'm not like that!"
Syaoran's face was flushed and he seemed absolutely livid.
"I don't know anything! You're always wearing such trampy clothes! You're just another slut that tries to disguise it by acting all sweet and innocent, but then you go and wear the cheerleading uniform that barely covers your rear end, you join the gymnastics team with a uniform that's basically a swim suit! All this skin tight and skimpy crap! You're just another one of the stupid bimbos in this school! And by the way, you have no talent! Your tryout sucked! Kimiko did way better than you did! In fact, screw you, Kimiko asked me to walk her home! I think I will!"
And he walked off. She watched him walk over to Kimiko and take her hand. He never looked back, but he knew Sakura was crying. He knew she was sobbing. He knew he had finally broken her. And it broke something in him too.
Syaoran's POV
Yeah, aren't I just the most suave guy you have ever met? I managed to make the girl I love cry again. And I'm not looking back. Because if I look back, I'll just run to her, but she won't want me. And that will hurt more than anything else possibly could.
I walked away from there quickly. I could still hear her sniffling, but I would make it up to her. I wouldn't make it so easy for her to hate me. I would make it up to her for now, for sixth grade, and for everything since then.
I'm going about it in a very peculiar way though, don't you think?
A/N: Wewt! Yeah baby! This si me again and guess what I did for you mesh lovelies?! I posted another chapter! And I just posted one esterday! I figured I owed it to you guys since it took me so damn long to get the other one up. Hopefully this makes me no longer a free fire zone? Right? Hehe! This chapter actually seemed pretty sad to me...and I decided to add in a bit of Tomoyo and Eriol, I need to get them in there some more, you know? And as for Meiling? Well, she's been with her Auntie Yelan...they have plans of their own...MWAHAHAHAHA!! Wow...who isn't tryign to get Sakuran and Syaoran together? Well, besides his fan girls. But, other than that...wow...! And Syaoran knows that Sakura is Saku and it freaked her out adn now she has agreed to do one thing for him. Only, she has no idead what it is and when he is going to make her do it. Hm...what shall I do? Do any of you care to make a guess? By the way, I was thinking, sleepover at Meiling's! What do you guys think? It's either that, or a day at the amusement park. So, make your choice when you review.
A) Sleepover at Meiling's a.k.a Syaoran's.
B) A trip to the amusement park with the gang.
Read and review! I hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it! Wewt!
