Disclaimer:I think CCS is too girly for me to ever have made up.
Author's Note: To be honest with you, I'm not exactly in the best of moods right now. In fact, that's an understatement. I AM DOWNRIGHT PISSED RIGHT NOW! MY COMPUTER RESET ON ME THIRTEEN TIME IN A TOTAL OF TEN MINUTES, AND THEN I HAD TO RESET IT TWICE BECAUSE IT FROZE! I HATE THIS STUPID MACHINE! Despite that, please don't let my angry author's note ruin this chapter... See? I'm being nice because I updated early! Please read the important note, as it is extremely important.
To the reviewers: Watch out, guys. This chapter's gunna be the start of a giant drama fest. I originally wasn't going to update this chapter today, but because you guys are such good readers and reviewers, I decided that you deserved this. What you don't deserve is the note below. Heck, even I don't deserve that note! It's not like I wanted this to happen in the first place! Anyway, another thanks goes out to all of you! READ THE NOTE!
YOU MUST READ THIS NOTE: Due to a certain evil father who will not fix a malfunctioning computer that he gave to me along with midterm exams, I will not be able to update for at least three weeks. Unfortunately, as you may have figured, this story will be going under hiatus for an unknown period of time. It may even lead to March, but I hope it doesn't come to that. This hideously unstable computer has really lowered my writing time, and therefore updates will be diminished until this stupid thing stops reseting on me. Please enjoy this chapter, and don't give up on updates, because I AM GOING TO FINISH THIS STORY!
Chapter 25 – The Retaliation
"Y-you!"
Meilin had barely heard this curt comment and continued to sip her bubble tea happily. She felt Lei's arm wrap around her shoulders protectively. It made her feel completely blissful when he was around. Her ears ignored the stuttered word that escaped a certain person's mouth as she snuggled closer to her boyfriend. Life just seemed to easy today.
And of course, once life gets easy, it tends to become the opposite in a matter of time.
"I'm here with my girlfriend, Meilin," his delightful voice told the person informatively.
She finally decided to give the conversation a bit more attention and turned slightly. Brown hair? This was a girl Lei was talking to! Who was she! Meilin directed her focus to the face of the woman and found herself facing familiar emerald eyes.
That's…!
That's Sakura!
The Chinese female sat up straight and gawked at what exactly was happening in front of her. She could practically feel her jaw hitting the floor.
"Sakura!" she squeaked in disbelief.
No way. There wasn't a chance in hell that she was going to let Sakura interrupt her date! Oh sure, an apology to her was long overdue, but if that woman was here, there was a high probability that her boyfriend could turn around and go after Sakura. Meilin hadn't even stood a chance against her with Syaoran. His eyes had been on her from the beginning and she'd be damned if she let the cherry blossom steal another one of her guys!
-
The two men had decided to take a leisurely stroll since lunch break had rolled around. Out side they discussed matters such as Syaoran's many thousands of issue and Eriol's love life, which Syaoran flatly ignored.
"Jeez, I'm hungry. Let's get something to eat already," Eriol complained as he stood in line for some fast takeout sushi.
Syaoran sighed. The guy just had to be such a pig. "Whatever."
At least his best friend was finally listening to him. He neededto talk about this or he was going to implode and then combust. He would, seriously.
-
The words struck Sakura again. 'Meilin's going out with Lei?!' Someone up there hadto be screwing with her. She didn't think her life could get anymore messed up, but apparently, it could. This was not working out for her. One again the same thought hit her. 'Meilin's going out with Lei.'
Has the world gone looney?
She silently prayed that it had and it wasn't just her.
"Um… Hi, Meilin. We haven't had the time to properly greet each other greet each other since I got here a few days ago…" she started quickly, racking her brain for something appropriate to say.
"Yes, you're right…" Meilin replied with a weak and very unconvincing smile. "We haven't. How have you been doing?"
Not that great…
"Great! So um… I see you were fortunate enough to have stumbled upon Lei, here," she managed to force out, using all her will power to not use the word 'unfortunate.'
"Oh… Yes, I have,"
Between these words, Lei raised an eyebrow. The awkwardness of this situation was very uncomfortable to all parties. "I'll leave you two alone to get reacquainted."
"Wait! Lei!" Meilin shouted in desperation at her retreating boyfriend.
"It's fine!" the man called back. "There's no need to thank me!"
The two women stood together for a few brief seconds just watching the man walk away from them. He had left them alone with the terrible relationship that had formed because of a one-sided crush.
"So tell me, how do you know Lei?" asked the Tokyo agent, a hint of suspicion and curiosity showing in her voice.
Sakura froze at the question. "I had…a long-term relationship with him a couple of months prior to the time I moved to Kawasaki."
"I see…" was the unsatisfying response.
The round of silence resumed and they were left with an extremely unsettling atmosphere. Sakura just wanted to scream out, tell Meilin every dirty thing she knew about Lei, and she knew a lot of dirty things about Lei. Especially the parts with cheating, freeloading, and stealing money off of people he went out with.
All the horrifying images rushed back and she squeezed her eyes tight. She wanted to make them go away, all the feelings and emotions when she saw him with that woman that fateful night. That had been the night where everything went downward. Her whole life took a major slide south and she was thrown into a not-so-safe sanctuary. Only her home had held comfort, and still she'd felt scarred and betrayed. She'd hidden under the covers for days just waiting for a knight in shining armour to come when Sakura was certain none existed. How could she let the same thing happen to Meilin? It was just too cruel.
"You can't go out with him!" Sakura blurted to her ex-friend without even knowing.
"Excuse me?" Lei's new girlfriend snarled angrily, appearing to be extremely offended. "And why is that? Is it because you want him all to yourself just like Syaoran? Huh? Can't you even tolerate that fact that I have someone now?"
She blinked, processing exactly what happened. Right, she'd accidentally barfed up the 'don't go out with Lei' warning. The woman wasn't all that shocked that Meilin was being so cold towards her. She'd ruined her whole love life, and it wasn't entirely insane to accuse that same person for trying to destroy it again.
"Um… Maybe that sounded wrong. Really, Meilin! I'm trying to help you! Lei is a horrible person!" the brunette tried again. She had to get through.
It didn't appear to be working at all. The Chinese female's eyes were lit up with fury, a frown and a glare accompanying them. Sakura could tell then that Meilin didn't believe a word she said. This was going to be disastrous.
"I can't believe you, Sakura! You already have Syaoran, and now you going so low as to try and taint Lei's reputation just to get him for yourself?! You're despicable!" she screamed in full-out rage. Heads turned their way, but the two women ceased to care about the rest of the world.
"Call me what you want! You have to get away from Lei!"
"Getaway from me, you slut!"
With this, Meilin whirled and stormed off to find her boyfriend who'd abandoned her with the cherry blossom. Sakura was feeling horrendous. She was hurting Meilin again, but she had to get that gold-digging gigolo out of Japan!
"Hey, Sakura, look what I bought!" Sayuri chimed as she twirled out of the cutesy shop.
She paid her no attention and dashed from her spot, following after the fuming Meilin. This was something she had to do.
-
"HAHAHAHAHA!" Eriol cackled maniacally at his sushi nine rolls of sushi. He grinned evilly and stared at his food. "I'm going to eat you now, and there's nothing you can do about it!"
The man with glasses proceeded to laugh like a villain once again while Syaoran simply rolled his eyes. Yes, he best friend was definitely making him feel better. He grumbled a few insults under his breath, tempted to say them louder so that the navy-haired man could hear him. Indeed this was a good day.
"Hmm? What'd you say, Syaoran?"
He crossed his arms and scowled. "Nothing."
"Eh? Okay."
The answer seemed to sate the hungry man as he munched on his lunch in the middle of the streets. While Eriol made sounds of delight, Syaoran was frowning a deep, wrinkly frown of displeasure. The street was crowded and the amber-eyed man did not enjoy being pushed around by a random bunch of people. Another person curtly brushed passed his shoulder, smashing him into Eriol, which led the happy male's meal to fall to the ground.
Eriol was speechless when he saw his now dirt covered sushi being kicked around by the citizens of Tokyo. Syaoran flinched when he the eyes of his best buddy began to look as if they were on fire. The devastated man grabbed the rude person by the shoulder and pulled him back.
"Who the heck do you think you are?" he shouted, a growl coming up the back of his throat.
The man appeared to have light green eyes and dyed blonde hair. He spun around to face the person who had grabbed at him and threw a sharp look. "Don't touch me, you stupid low-life."
The Tokyo agent looked like he was going to explode now. Seriously, was he actually that hungry?
Dang it, focus!
"Eriol, just forget about him. He's not worth it," Syaoran placated the wrathful human, taking a hold of his arm and pulling him back lightly.
He did stop and merely settled on glaring for a bit, but the other participant continued to provoke the starving male.
"Oh? You two ladies are too scared to stand up for yourselves? Then I suppose I'll just leave," the arrogant prick replied airily, waving dismissively.
Even Syaoran was now beginning to lose his temper. This guy just wouldn't leave them alone! "Don't test my patience," he growled, his eyes narrowing as he gritted his teeth.
However, Eriol wasn't as calm. "WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!"
"A lady, dear maiden."
Before the navy-haired man could exert an extremely loud retort from his mouth, the Chinese male retaliated with, "Then I don't suppose you've looked in a mirror lately, oh madam."
Finally,finally, their enemy started to take on a pissed off expression. Syaoran had always been talented at comebacks and using insults against people proved to be very useful at dire times like these. This situation was proving to turn out to be a very bad lunch. There was no question about it. He had this gut feeling he was going to do something ghastly.
"You're quite the confident one, aren't you?" the now flushed mystery man asked rhetorically.
"Care to bet on that?" he challenged.
"You're on."
-
Haku's chin was placed on his hand, leaning in boredom over a sofa in the Tokyo Agency's lobby. The day was really sucking for him, and when he meant it was sucking, it was really sucking. It sucked so much it wasn't even funny. He was constantly thinking about how he was rejected by Sakura the other day—and it was sucking to think about it. He didn't want to think about it, yet it was there to think about anyway, and that sucked. Thinking about it only resulted in a lot of depressing feelings, after all, which ultimately sucked. Also, there was no one else around to stop him from thinking about it, and that sucked too.
The dirty blonde pushed the sorrowful thoughts of the refusal away and allowed himself to wonder where the heck in the world his co-workers were. It wasn't like them to just leave him here all by himself! Honestly, everyone who was fine to hang around were just gone or something. There was no doubt about it, this day sucked.
"Good afternoon, Haku," purred Rei not so seductively as she stroked his arm intimately.
OH DEAR GOD!
SHE'S BORED AND I'M THE ONLY ONE AROUND!
"Uhm… Yeah…" he croaked out awkwardly. Haku jolted off his seat and headed towards the door in fright. "I'll see you later!"
-
Sakura finally stopped running when she reached a crowd full of people where Meilin had disappeared. She briefly wondered what was happening there to have so many people gather around. Curiously, she pushed passed several bodies and eventually penetrated the whole side to get to the middle.
"Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!" the barbaric humans chanted eagerly.
She reached it just in time to see Syaoran nail Lei straight on the left cheek with a powerful punch. Inside, she was dancing and screaming with joy, but outside, she was very confused. What had happened? The cherry blossom realized that this was the place Meilin went when she saw the Chinese girl rush over to her injured boyfriend.
"Syaoran! Don't touch my boyfriend!" she shrieked and consoled the wounded man.
"Boyfriend?" the two guys asked in unison, raising their eyebrows simultaneously. They looked at each other and then back at the other two. "You've got to be kidding me."
She gaped at them, clearly offended, but glaring nonetheless. "What happened here, Lei?"
"Never mind them, Meilin. Let's just get out of here," he spat out gruffly, getting to his feet.
"Lei, what did you do?" asked Sakura as she stepped next to Syaoran and Eriol. Only he could have caused this situation. If he had doneanything to her friends, she would seriously give him a Sakaki beating.
"Don't accuse my boyfriend of anything!" retorted Meilin with a sharp look.
She didn't even regard the black-haired woman. "Just because you're my ex, doesn't mean you can harass my friends,"
"Ex?!" Syaoran exclaimed in disbelief, a giant phoney flame surrounding him, which was completely inconspicuous to Sakura.
Eriol rolled his eyes and Lei snickered. "Why would I want to harass you stupid ass friends? You're just saying that because you're obviously not over losing me."
That was the last straw. He made it sound like she was a dog who was begging at his feet to have him take her back. Her vision went fuzzy with fury and her chest burned with anger. She felt so hot that she though steam was going to come out of her ears. "Not over losing you? You were just some dickless jerk who blinded me from seeing all the hot guys out there! If you think I'm not over a pathetic, gold-digging, horn-dog like you, you've got it all wrong. Let me show you how over you I am!"
Sakura had no idea what she was thinking through her rage, but she whirled around and grabbed Syaoran's shirt collar, pulling his face close and pressing her lips to his.
Author's Note: Ah, lovely chapter, was it not? I've cooled down quite a bit now, so don't be afraid! Savor this chapter! I don't know the next time chapter 26'll be posted. I'm not even done it, and it was three quarters done last week! Sigh... I've fallen behind on my chapters because of my stupid computer. Please don't be angry with me...and...
Please review! (300 had me rolling around on the floor squealing! Thanks everyone!)
I know, the wait's going to be hard, but please bear with me. I don't know if I can even hold back from writing that long... Crap... XD
Please review! (And I shall try my very best to annoy my dad into fixing this half-useless machine! He's kinda scary when I nag him too much... Yes, I do realize I typed that twice. I'll see you in the future!)