By My Eyes

Chapter 14 : Meteor Shower

By Riley S

"Sakura?" I looked around for the voice calling my name, only to see nothing.

"Sakura…." It called again as I start to panic. Why can't I see anything??

"Hello!!" I call out, as I shut my eyes tightly and open them wider hoping I may catch a little bit of something to see. "I can't see anything!" I yell and put my hands out in front of me to try and feel my way around. "Hello??"

"Sakura!!" The voice was growing a little louder this time, but I couldn't feel anything. I have no clue where I am, and the voice feels like it surrounding me.

"Why can't I see??" I cry out, I can feel tears forming in my eyes and I start to run in the direction I feel the voice may be in, my arms flailing in front of me, "Anyone?? HELLO!!"

"Sakura WATCH OUT!" The voice cries as I feel something hit me all over. I open my eyes to see a blurred brown color. Slowly I move away from the color to realize I am lying on the floor in my room and Tomoyo is kneeling next to me. "You okay?" She asks concerned.

"Yeah…" I say a little confused as I try to focus my vision on her slightly blurry face.

"You fell out of bed, I was trying to wake you up, and you just rolled over right onto the floor." She says with a small smile, I can tell she is trying not to laugh.

"I was having a dream." I tell her as I pull myself from the floor and walk over to my dresser, I look at the picture frame Tomoyo had put there for me earlier in the week. It was a picture of me and everyone that came to my surprise party from when I got out of the hospital. It's already been two weeks since that picture was taken. I suddenly notice Tomoyo was talking to me. "Hu? I'm sorry what did you say?" I ask turning to look at her.

She smiles kindly before repeating her question, "I asked if it was a bad one, you were breathing heavily."

"Oh..yeah…kinda." I say as I turn back to my dresser to take clothes out, I had a meeting with my therapist today. It was our second appointment; we had our first one last week. I start to pull my clothes out as I hear Fifa come into my room and my eyes start to wander in her direction.

"Sakura…clothes." Tomoyo reminds me. She had gone to my first meeting with me and the Doc had asked her to help remind me with my eyesight would start to wander off what I was doing or if someone was talking to me. He said I would have to get use to having all my senses back, and learn to focus them all to work at once in what I am doing.

"Thanks" I say smiling at her as I grab a pink shirt and a pair of jeans from my drawers, and turn to walk into the shower. I catch a glance at the other pictures Tomoyo had placed around my room White is boring she had told me the day after I was home and decided to spice up my room for me. I pick up the red picture frame sitting on the desk next to my door, it's a picture of Tomoyo Syaoran and I at the party. Syaoran has a little blush on his face and an awkward smile.

"Have you seen him yet?" Tomoyo asks as she is petting Fifa on my bed.

"No, he had a lot of work last week; I guess he missed a lot when I had my surgery so he was playing catch up. He called me last night to apologize again for canceling our plans from Tuesday." I tell Tomoyo with a sigh.

"Sakura…focus." I turn my eyes back to my Coach. His black hair was combed neatly into place and he was talking to me about work and somehow my eyes had gone to the window where a bird was sitting pecking at the flowers in the garden next to it. "Your eyes are betraying you. As I talk to you, you listen to me yet your eyes do not. You need to learn to focus your eyes on the things you talking or doing at that moment." He says as his lips form a small line.

"Sorry Coach." I say with a small smile. His real name is Matt but he had told me not to call him by his name and call him Coach since that was what he as to me.

"It's okay. You need to learn to practice just looking at who you are talking too. I will see you next week?" He says offering his hand for me to shake.

"Yep." I smile cheerfully to him as I shake his hand then turn to leave the room. Almost immediately my cell begins to vibrate in my pocket, and I pull it out and look at the screen. A picture of Syaoran Tomoyo had taken on my cell pops up. It was a picture form before I could see and it was from the first time Tomoyo had met him.

"Syaoran!" I say smiling to myself as I exit the building my appointment was in.

"Sakura, you sound happy." He says on the other line.

"Eh...leaving my Coach's office…couldn't be happier!" I laugh.

"I was wondering if you wanted to meet me for lunch. I can escape for an hour or so."

"Sounds good." I say looking over at the flowers that are in the bed next to me. I start to examine each petal and notice the way the texture of each I could see. I suddenly notice Syaoran is talking to me still. "I'm sorry what were you saying?"

I hear him laugh slightly for a moment "I was saying how about we go to Man-chuys, they have the best Mexican food."

"Okay, I am a couple blocks away I can meet you there in five."

"Sounds good, see ya then!" I hear him say before hanging up the phone.

Something was wrong. It was almost like I could feel it in my bones. Something, dread, despair, loneliness, longing? What was it? I couldn't pin the feeling. I look to my left and see Tomoyo talking to Eriol under tree. She looks like she has been crying. I look to my right and there is Syaoran with his niece and one of his sisters. His niece is playing with her new puppy teaching him to do tricks. At my feet Fifa is sleeping as if nothing is happening.

I open my mouth to call out to Tomoyo but no sound comes out. I keep trying…nothing. I watch in silence as Eriol hugs her, her tears are now feeling falling down her face and I want to run to her and giver her a hug, but as I go to move I notice I can't move. My feet feel like they are stuck to the ground.

I can feel my face start to get wet and I don't know from what, when I go to rub it my face is covered in saliva…saliva?

I quickly jolt out bed and almost fall off the bed in the process. Fifa is up by my pillows and looking at me and I suddenly realize that she was licking my face. I glance at the clock next to my bed 2:34.

Time to go back to bed.

"I had a weird dream last night." I say later in the morning as Tomoyo is making pancakes in the kitchen.

"What was it?" She asks not really looking up at me.

"You were in it…and Eriol and Syaoran." I say taking a seat at the counter watching her, "I don't remember much of it."

"Oh." She says flipping one. "Speaking of Syaoran and Eriol. Eriol told me he has barley seen Syaoran all week too. But he knows that he feels bad for not seeing you." She smiles up to me as she places a hot pancake on a plate for me. "How was lunch with him yesterday, you never told me."

"Oh he had to cancel." I say making a face. "A business meeting ran late then the stalkeratzi was outside the restaurant. I ran into one of them when I was leaving Coachs office, I think he overheard me on the phone with him."

"Ah the life of the rich and famous!"

"Minus the rich part." I laugh as the doorbell rings. "Are you expecting anyone?" I ask stuffing another bite in my mouth before getting up to get the door.

"No, you?" Tomoyo asks as she finishes up her pancake.

"No." I say as I unlock the door and open it. I'm greeted with a large bouquet of flowers thrust in my face.

"Sign please." Says a guy in his early twenties, he smiles a little flirtatiously with me before handing me the paper which I sign. "If this guy wasn't so in love with you, I'd ask you out." He says before he takes the pad of paper and turns to walk down the corridor.

"Hu?" I say as I look down at the large bouquet with is in a red vase.

"OHHHH!" I hear Tomoyo squeal behind me. "Who are they for?" She asks excitedly.

I laugh at her as I set the flowers down on the counter and retrieve the card.

Sorry for canceling our date.

I will make it up to you,

Meet me tonight at 11pm at Tinks Garden.

XO Syaoran

"OHHHH!!" I Tomoyo cries again as she snatched the note out of my hand. "A romantic midnight rendre-vous! Why didn't I get the romantic cousin!"

My eyes still don't fully focus in the dark. Things are a little blurry and it's harder for me to distinguish things. But I guess that's normal when it's dark out. So at 11pm I make it to Tinks Garden only to find it closed.

I pull out the card from the flowers and look at it, squinting my eyes to try to make out the letters. Why would Syaoran have me meet him at a closed flower shop at 11pm?

"I have a reason." I hear a deep voice behind me say. I turn around only to be greeted with warm chocolate eyes.

"What?" I say confused by his statement. I look into his eyes again and notice a small smile in them, matching the smile on his lips. I still can't get over how hot he is.

"You looked confused, I have a reason for bringing you here so late. Come on." He says grabbing my hand and leading me to an alleyway. I must have looked a little hesitant because he started to laugh at my expression. "Don't worry, up here." He says pointing to a fire escape on the side of the building.

"What?" I say now completely confused.

"Up here, there is something you have to see, hurry it starts soon!" He says pulling the latter down and starting to climb up a couple steps.

I cautiously walk over to the old looking latter before caving in and following him up. The store was only one level so it only took us a minute to climb up. Syaoran put his hand o and helped me over the last step. As I look up to thank him I notice a beautiful garden behind him.

"Wow…" I breath looking at the beautiful flowers around us.

"Yeah its great isn't it…but that's not what we are here to see." He says grabbing my hand and leading me to the center of the garden where he had set up a small picnick.

"Oh Syaoran!" I squeal.

I can hear him laugh a little behind me, "That's not what we are here to see either." I give him a confused look before he looks at his watch and smiles, then points up. "Look." He instructs.

"What are you…." I start but don't finish my sentence as I see a shooting star fly across the sky. "Syaoran…"

"Wait for it…" He says reaching over to grab my hand, both of our faces turned toward the sky as another shooting star goes, then another. Soon we are being rained on by a meteor shower.

After a couple minutes We take a seat on the blanket he had laid out, the sky still lit up with the meteor shower. "This is so nice." I finally say.

"I was hoping you would like it. I wanted to make up for yesterday. And, well….for all week." He says as he hands me a glass of wine which I gladly accept.

"It's okay I know you are busy and you have work." I smile at him. His face isn't completely focused when he is farther back, so I lean into him to see him clearer. At that time I notice a smile on his lips as he leans down and captures my lips in a kiss I have been craving all week.

I just want to say how blessed I am to have suck great reviewrs like you! You are all so understanding about my late updates and I thank you so much!

I do hope this chapter makes sence, I wrote it in two parts (a couple weeks away from each other) and I didn't go back to reread what I wrote originally before I started writing again.

I had found a new job and im working a lot ( I work 7 days this week and I have school…finals are in 3 weeks!!) But I wanted to get this up so much for you all! I saw a cute little video on google.video about our fav CCS couple and it inspired me last night.

Thank you all so so so much! 215 reviews is amazing! You are all amazing and I love you all!!

Keep up the wonderful work and I will try to as well!!

Riley S

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt