Chapter Seven

Secrets

Sakura woke up, something cold was falling on her face. She opened her eyes and noticed that it was water, it was starting to rain.

"Syaoran, wake up" she whispered, pushing him.

He woke up, yawning, and looked at her.

"Fuck! We have to take the bed inside quickly, before it starts raining more heavily" he said, jumping to get up.

They put the mattress back inside together, in the same place it was the night before. Syaoran went back to bed and stared at Sakura, who was standing, her arms crossed on her chest.

"Well... I should go to the sofa bed. If your mother wakes up and sees me here with you, she will think badly of us."

Syaoran rolled his eyes and lifted his hands, making a sign to Sakura so she approached him.

"Even if my mother comes in and sees us hugging on the bed she wouldn't think anything bad, she is the only one who understands us and she knows what I feel for you."

"Are you sure?" she asked, still not sure.

"Yes, it's alright. Come to bed, the alarm sounds in one hour" he groaned, looking at his phone.

Sakura smiled and lay down on the bed next to Syaoran. The boy hugged her again and, a few minutes later, both of them were already lost in their dreams.

When the alarm rang, the two friends thought that they had been sleeping for just five minutes.

"It's seven in the morning for real?" Sakura asked with a morning voice.

"Yeah, I wish we could sleep a little more. Come on, you are first to shower."

Sakura stood up and picked her uniform, leaving the room to the bathroom.

Half an hour later, both of them were on the bus with a sleepy face.

"I will kill you if you fail the exam, Syaoran" Sakura growled with a bad mood.

He smiled, looking through the window.

"Then I have to pass it, yes or yes."

"Indeed" she said, punching his shoulder.

They got off the bus and ran to the high school, they were just on time.

"It sucks that you have to do this every day" she mumbled, thinking that her friend had always to run everywhere so he didn't lose the bus to his town.

"I know, but my birthday is in three weeks and my mum is going to give me a motorbike. Buses are over for me" Syaoran answered, raising his eyebrows.

Sakura frowned.

"I don't like motorbikes, Syaoran. They scare me."

"You'll like mine, and you have to ride it with me. Don't you trust me?"

"Of course I do, but I don't trust motorbikes."

Syaoran giggled, they were already entering the building.

"You'll be safe with me and you know it."

Sakura sighed, she would have to get used to the idea of riding his motorbike sometimes.

When they entered the class, Meiling looked at them with a serious face. She was not happy to see them together.

They went to sit at their desks, the teacher was coming. Syaoran ruffled Sakura's hair and she turned around with a death stare.

"Thanks for helping me with this exam, I owe you one" he said, winking at her.

"I'd settle for you never doing that to me again" she grunted, trying to comb her hair with her fingers.

Syaoran arched an eyebrow in a mocking way and Sakura grimaced.

The teacher came and told them to put everything inside their backpacks, they were only allowed to have a pen, a calculator and blank folios on their desks.

"Good luck" Sakura heard behind her.

"Good luck, Syaoran" she breathed while the teacher was distributing the exams.

Both of them smiled when they saw the questions, they had practised almost all of them the previous day.

All the class started to write, it was the last exam before Christmas and they were looking forward to finishing it and enjoy two weeks off of school.

Syaoran went to Russia for Christmas to visit his father, and Sakura spent New Year's eve in Tomoyo's house, with Naoko, Meiling, Chiharu and Rika.

Sakura met Rika that night, she was from another high school in a town near Tomoeda and was Chiharu's and Meiling's friend. The six girls spent the night telling stories and laughing all the time. Tomoyo's mother gave them a champagne bottle and a little box with a surprise inside, but they could only open it at midnight.

Shortly after that, Tomoyo's parents and big brother left, leaving the six girls all alone.

When the clocks said it was midnight, they opened the bottle and filled six cups. In that moment, Sakura heard the sound of a new message from her phone, when she looked at it she saw it was a message from Syaoran, wishing her a new happy year and telling her that he was missing her.

"I haven't heard from him for a couple of days, he's always telling me that he is really busy and that he has a bad connection there."

Sakura looked up when she heard Meiling's words.

The girl stared at her with her brow furrowed, looking at the phone she had on her hand.

"Hey, Sakura... have you heard about Syaoran lately?" Meiling asked.

Sakura put down the phone and tried to show a poker face.

"No, not really" she answered softly.

She didn't like lying but she didn't want to get her friend into trouble. To think that Syaoran had sent a message to her before his girlfriend made her feel special.

After the toast, the six girls opened the little boxes. Sakura flushed when she saw what was inside: a purple tanga with the words "Happy 2013" at the front. Her friends had the same piece of clothing but in different colours.

"I have no idea where I'm going to hide it so my parents will never see it" she murmured, making her friends laugh hard.

They put the tangas over their dresses and took several pictures with their phones, grimacing and posing in a funny way.

"These photographs cannot be seen... they stay between us, okay?" Tomoyo said, giggling.

The other five girls nodded, smiling.

When they got tired, they put on their pyjamas and went into Tomoyo's bedroom, where the floor was covered with three big mattresses.

Sakura lay down with Tomoyo, sharing one of the mattresses, and all of them continued to talk about boys for a while until they fell asleep.

Sakura arrived quite early the first day back to high school. She was meeting Syaoran there because he wanted to show her something.

When she was close to the high school's gates, she saw Syaoran seated on a silver gray motorbike. She ran into him and both fused in a big hug.

"Did you miss me?" Syaoran asked with a mocking voice.

She punched him on the chest.

"Of course I missed you, silly boy" she answered, pulling away and looking at his motorbike.

Syaoran stood up so she could see it better and Sakura made a face, it was beautiful but she didn't like motorbikes at all... they were dangerous.

He opened the seat and picked up two helmets.

"The blue one is mine, and the red one is for you."

Sakura widened her eyes with shock.

"For me? You mean for Meiling" she answered, crossing her arms on her chest and frowning.

Syaoran shook his head.

"Meiling will use it sometimes, but I bought the helmet for you."

Sakura felt a weird feeling inside of her, it happened to her a lot when she was with Syaoran. It would be long before she discovered that it was happiness, spreading through her body when she felt how much her friend loved her.

She hugged him again and, after storing the helmets, both of them walked to the high school.

"Don't tell her what you just said to me" Sakura advised Syaoran.

"I wasn't going to" he said with a serious face.

"You know... On New Year's eve she was complaining because she had been a couple of days with no news from you and you didn't wish her a happy new year" Sakura mumbled as they walked past the corridors full of students.

Syaoran rolled his eyes.

"She's so tiring, she wants me to be always looking out for her and that's so boring" he groaned with annoyance.

"Are you getting bored of me too?" Sakura asked, her heart sinking.

Her friend giggled and wrapped an arm around her neck, pulling her closer to him.

"No, you are different and you know it."

Sakura smirked and they entered their classroom.

When she saw Meiling's brow furrowed, she moved away from Syaoran and ran into her desk, sitting down. A few seconds later, she heard Syaoran sitting behind her.

"Don't you ever do that again, Sakura. If seeing us like that bothers her, it's her own problem" he whispered next to her ear.

"But I don't want her to hate me" she answered, turning around to look at his eyes.

"She doesn't hate you, she's just jealous and she has to stop or I'll get tired of her very soon."

Sakura sighed and greeted Tomoyo, who had just entered through the door.

The school day was quiet, when it ended Syaoran forced her to get on his motorbike to try it, taking her on a little ride around the neighbourhood.

When they came back to the school's gates, most of the students were still there. Sakura felt Meiling's cold gaze on her again as she hopped off the bike and gave Syaoran her helmet.

She said goodbye to him and ran to where Tomoyo, Joshua and Chiharu were waiting for her. The four of them went home, hearing Syaoran and Meling shouting at each other behind them.

Iahine07: We'll see how their relationship evolves, little by little. They are really good friends right now :)

Hope you like the story, another chapter next week! I have published this story in Spanish, and it has 54 chapters.