I am sorry for the long wait again. I hope this chapter will make up for the wait.
Thanks for staying with me.
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Rewind
Sakura did not understand why this was happening now. She had been fighting her feelings for Syaoran, but her guard was getting weaker and weaker. He made her heart burst with happiness. No matter how much they had bickered, she had found herself wanting more, she could not condone it due to possible future events, but thought something.
"Maybe I should tell him,"She said. "But that would make things worse." Sakura continued to sob until she fell asleep for the night.
The weekend flew by very quickly for Sakura and before she knew it she was being woken up by the alarm clock to go to school. Sakura up very drowsily raising her hands to her eyes to wipe away the night's sleep. She got out of bed, but not before groaning in pain as her bones were aching slightly this morning and made her way to her closet to get ready for the day.
She slowly dressed in her school uniform as she decided how to wear her hair. She was lucky this far in her treatments that she hasn't lost any of her hair. So she wore her hair as proudly as she could. Once she finished getting herself ready Sakura jogged down the stairs. Sakura looked around the room to notice that Toya had already left for the day so she busied herself by making a bagel and placed a slice of cheese in the middle and left the house for school shortly after and she ate on the way.
Sakura was nervous about going to school after what had happened between her and Syaoran over the weekend. She kept her fingers crossed so that she would not have to see him until it was necessary in the classes that they had together. She made it into school without any sight of him as well as to her locker. She looked around as she entered her combination and exchanged her books for the books that were needed for the first two classes of the day. She turned around to walk to class where she nearly jumped out of her skin and dropped her books in the process. It was one of the boys that picked on her and she groaned in her mind.
"Good God!" She exclaimed in fright and placed a hand on her fast beating heart as she took a deep breath.
"Sorry Kinomoto," He chuckled as he backed up as if she frightened him as well. She did not feel right about this at all.
"What are you doing?" She asked glaring at him.
"Nothing!"Saburo said as he backed up with his hands raised in to the air. She raised her eyebrow as she picked up her books and walked around him only to trip over the foot that he put out in front of her causing her to hit her elbow and made the other kids laugh at her.
She cried out at the contact of her elbow meeting the floor. Sakura kept her head down as tears sprang to her eyes from the pain. It really hurt and she was sure it was going to bruise. She ignored the laughs she stood up from the floor as she collected her thing and hurried off to class not noticing that she pasted Syaoran on the way as she kept her head down to block out everything else.
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Syaoran was leaning against the lockers talking to his friends about a planning a party for the upcoming weekend. It was the normal routine as usual: They would meet, talk, joke and then go to class. However, Syaoran was a little distracted as he had a lot of his mind. Mostly on his mind was Sakura, but he couldn't talk to his friends about it. He had a reputation to keep after all.
"Dude, are you listening?" His friend to his right said.
"Huh?" He asked coming to the present from his thoughts.
"I asked you where do you think we should have this party."Naoki repeated.
"Oh…Um we can have it at my place. My mom will be out of town so I am alone this weekend." He answered.
"Cool," he nodded then added "Well go over the details at lunch as we gotta go or we will be late and I can't afford another detention or Coach will bench me for the next game." Naokisaid sighing as the left the lockers. As they walked to class the heard a commotion from behind that made them turn around to see what it was; it was one of the basketball players picking on Sakura. He watched the banter with interest until the boy tripped her on purpose. Before she was tripped she was walking to the class that they had together and he quickly hid in the corner as he was afraid that he would lose his temper with her. He saw every emotion on her face after the fall as she tried to keep a brave face from her attacker. As quickly as it happened it was over quicker as Saburo spotted a nice looking girl and went chasing after her and Sakura got up and walked right past him not noticing that he was there.
Syaoran sighed as he walked in after her and walked to his seat. For once, they were all early for class the teacher was going to have shock today. He opened his note book to look over the homework that they were assigned over the weekend and found a mistake that he easily corrected. Naoki and he continued to talk about the party only to be interrupted by their teacher.
Their teacher came in to the classroom in a hurry. "Alright Class, we will be going to the library this morning to work on you research with your partner after I take roll," Mr. Tachinichi said as he took out his grade book and begin calling names and marking who was out. "Also I have changed something in your project, when it is finished and turned in you will be required to present it in class." He said concluding his morning announcements. "Alright let's go."
Everyone began to file out of the class room chatting excitedly with their partners exchanging their ideas. Syaoran waited by the door for Sakura who was the last on to leave the room. Together they walked quietly as a sheet of awkwardness washed over them.
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Sakura walked quietly next to Syaoran as she could not think of anything to say. She had to keep her distance; if not she will end up hurting him if her condition gets too bad. She kept her finger crossed all the time hoping she will get better, but only time will tell. She sighed outwardly as she fought with the mental battle going on inside in mind.
"What's wrong?" Syaoran asked without any emotion in his voice as he looked at her indirectly.
"What do you mean?" She asked nervously.
"You sighed, so there is obviously something wrong." He stated flatly.
"Nothing is wrong. I am just tired." Sakura lied in a soft voice.
"Alright, have you worked on your project any this weekend?" He asked.
"Not really. I did not feel like it to be honest." She answered.
"Why is that?" He asked in a somewhat angry voice.
"Did you work on your part?" Sakura asked turning the question around on him.
"Yes," He answered. "I want to be a doctor."
"I don't know what I want to be." She answered. "There are so many possibilities out there."
"What have you thought about?" He asked.
"I honestly thought about being a lawyer," She said curiously. "I also thought about being a pediatric nurse."
"I want to be a doctor for the money." He said jokingly the awkwardness was beginning to fade.
"I don't want to do it for the money; I want to do it for the goodness it could bring to people." She said ignoring his statement.
"I was joking about that. I want to be a doctor to help people get better," He said truthfully.
"Why do you want to that?" He asked as he now had to choice to look in to her beautiful face. He felt his head get fuzzy from her brilliantly green eyes. He forced his gaze away from her as he opened the door and let her walk inside before himself.
"Hey Syaoran come sit with us," Naoki called from a table where him and his partner were sitting. Syaoran went over to sit down and looked back to see Sakura standing like she was hesitant. She backed up and went to sit by herself.
"Hey would you mind if Kinomoto sits with us?" He asked seriously. "She is my partner and I need this grade to be good."
"Yeah it'll be fine," Naoki said nodding.
"Thank you. I will be right back," He said smiling as he stood up to walk over to the table.
"Hey come and sit over there with us," Syaoran stated nodding his head towards the table he come from.
"Are you sure?" Sakura asked shyly.
"Yes," He said picking up her books and carried them over to the table with Sakura walking over shyly. He noticed the surprise in Naoki's eyes, but decided to ignore him Sakura sat down and smiled shyly at everyone as she took her books from Syaoran.
"So you are Kinomoto?" Naoki asked.
"Yes," She nodded and opened her book to work on her math homework.
"Is Touya your brother?" He asked.
"Yeah," She nodded smiling at the name of her older brother.
"He works with my mom at the hospital," He said as he began writing in the notebook in front of him.
"He does?" She asked slightly alarmed.
"Yes," He smiled.
"What does she do at the hospital?" She asked interested.
"She works in the Oncology part, but she also works where ever she is needed." Naoki answered.
"What is her name?" Sakura asked.
"Aimi Misaki," He said looking at her.
"Really?" She asked excitedly.
"Yes," He smiled at her. He actually did not think she was that bad.
"I have met you mom. She is such a wonderful person." She smiled.
Syaoran looked up at this he was suddenly curious remembering the day the he went to the hospital the day she got really sick. "How do you know his mom?"
Sakura felt her jaw drop as she was suddenly without an answer. She bit her as she thought up an excuse. "I met her a few times when I had to run Touya something," She said lying again and returning a smiled at Naoki as she went back to work.
Syaoran felt his eyebrows raise, but did not say something. He felt as something was not right, but he could not put his thump on it. He was going to find out what she was hiding one way or another.
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Wow, I am so so proud of this chapter. I am actually grinning as I am posting it. I am struggling so hard to no go back and fix the other chapter as I had to look over to remember my story but I am not since I do not have the time. So! I will work harder to bring you good quality chapter.
Please read and review and I will have another chapter as soon as possible. Bare with me though as I have finals coming up again. It maybe a little long wait but no too long.
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