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When the Last Teardrop Falls
Part: One
Chapter: Fourteen
"Welcome back to school class," Mr. Terada smiled looking across the classroom. "I hope you all had a fun Winter Break," he continued stretching his arms onto his lecturer. The class cheered, moaned and yawned. Mr. Terada laughed at his response.
"Is there anything someone would like to share with the class?" Mr. Terada asked the students with great interest. The class immediately went silent.
"Aw come one kids, you were all chatting just a minute ago," Mr. Terada whined. The class remained silent.
"Will someone say something?" Meilin ordered standing up from her seat. "This is a great opportunity to miss part of class!!" she swung her arms around. Everyone including Mr. Terada sweat dropped.
"Well since you're standing, would you like to share anything with the class Meilin?" Mr. Terada asked casually. Meilin glanced at Li, who was gazing at the back of Sakura's head.
"Nothing I can tell Sir," Meilin replied politely and sat down in her seat. This remark caught Li's attention. He stared at Meilin feeling a little guilty, but he couldn't control his feelings for Sakura. He slouched down in his seat.
"Well I have a question," Nikki raised her hand gracefully.
"Okay, let's hear it," Mr. Terada sat down comfortably in his chair.
"Does anyone remember that day when all those snowmen mysteriously appeared in the park?" Nikki addressed the class. The class began to whisper to eachother.
"Does anyone know how they got there?" Nikki asked shrugging her shoulders. Sakura turned around to look at Li and smiled. Li grinned back and they both began to laugh a little.
"I have a hypothesis," Zachary extended his hand into the air ever so gracefully. The class cracked and groaned.
"Not another one..." Chelsea, Madison and Nikki moaned.
"Perhaps the abominable snowm-" Zachary began in his usual scientific tone.
"Um, NO!" Meilin interrupted.
"Like I said, it was just a hypothesis," Zachary reminded.
"Sure..." Meilin rolled her eyes. "Just like all the other ones,"
"Hey! Cafeteria food is more nutritious tha-" Zachary faught back.
"Okay enough of that class," Mr. Terada jumped in. Zachary and Meilin both calmed down again turning their attention back to the teacher.
"I said that I would only spend the last few minutes of this period talking about your vacations, now class is over, dismissed," Mr. Terada waved the class out of the room. The students packed up their stuff and headed out into the hallways.
"Hey Sakura!" Li called out from the crowd.
"Yes Li?" Sakura asked making her way though the crowd of students.
"Look what I brought with me," Li smiled and opened his locker. Sakura took a peek. Laying there was the Christmas present she had made for him a little over a week ago. Sakura smiled and hugged him.
"I'm glad you like it," Sakura blushed placing a piece of hair behind her ear.
"Of course I like it," Li laughed. Sakura still was still looking at the ground. Li curved his index finger and brought up Sakura's face until their eyes met.
"Because you made it," Li whispered still smiling at her. Sakura nodded her head and took his hand.
"Come, it's my turn," Sakura giggled pulling Li' to her locker. She opened it and there stood his gift to her.
"I'm glad you like it," Li laughed.
"Of course I like it," Sakura laughed too replaying the past two minutes. Li caught on and lowered his head to stare at the ground. Sakura giggle playing along. She tilted her head and bent her knees a bit to look under his face until their eyes met.
"Because, you gave it to me," Sakura laughed. Li laughed along and brought his head back up. Sakura stood back up straight but her laugh was replace by a simple smile. Li sighed still smiling at her. Sakura eyes seemed to twinkle for a split second. This caught Li's attention causing him to fall into another trance. Sakura noticed this and she too fell into a trance. Sakura leaned forward and tilted her head once more. Li slowly took a step towards her. Sakura closed her eyes and continued to come forward. Li too closed his eyes and tilted his head in a perfect angle to kiss her. Their heads were incredibly close at this point, lips almost touching and then...
"There you are Sakura!" Madison screamed turning the corner. She then noticed what exactly was going on just as the two separated.
"Oh, don't let little old me stop you two," Madison smiled crossing her arms. "Please do continue," she waved her hand. Sakura and Li glared at her for two reasons. Stopping them, and teasing them.
"Fine then, let's eat," Madison shrugged pretending that she didn't know how they felt for eachother. The "couple" glared at Madison as she walked away. As soon as she was out of sight, they slowly looked back at eachother nervously.
'Should I tell her how I feel now?' Li asked himself still staring at Sakura.
'Should I tell him how I feel now?' Sakura bit her bottom lip nervously.
'No I can't...it's too risky...' Li sighed sadly. Sakura was about to say something until Li spoke.
"I'm sorry about that," Li scratched his head in emarrassment. "I didn't know what came over me," he concluded making up an excuse. Sakura's face turned sad and she slowly lowered her head.
"No problem Li," Sakura smiled weakly.
"Well, I'll see you later I guess," Li shrugged and walked away. When he turned the corner Sakura felt a small tear fall from her emerald eyes down her rosy cheek.
"I love you Li..." Sakura whispered softly and turned away.
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Li ran up and down the halls looking for Madison. He had fire in his eyes, as he burned up the floor below him. He scanned every classroom and window searching for his victim. Finally he spotted her near the library. Li quickly ran up to her tapping her shoulder.
"Mmm?" Madison turned around to see two piercing amber eyes stare right back at her.
"Did you want to give me away back there?!" Li tried to keep quiet since they were in the library. Madison shrugged and picked up a book heading towards a work table. Li followed still awaiting an answer.
"Well did you?!" Li tried not to yell. Madison looked up at him from behind her novel and carefully put it down.
"No," Madison replied calmly.
"Then what do you call that?!" Li waved his arms around in frustration.
"I was simply doing what I had to do Li," Madison shrugged still calm.
"What do you mean?!" Li took a seat next to her.
"Well," Madison sighed turning her whole attention to Li. "You see, if I didn't tease you two in any way, Sakura might have suspected something," Madison explained. Li blinked in confusion.
"You are both well aware that besides photography, you two are my next favourite hobby," Madison laughed picking up her novel again. Li started to get the picture and he too calmed down a bit.
"Okay okay, I'm sorry," Li plopped his head onto the table. "I guess I'm starting to become a little paranoid," he chuckled a bit.
"A little bit?" Madison took her attention away from her book just to ask that one question.
"Fine...a lot," Li corrected himself after catching Madison's glare. She became satisfied and continued her reading.
"I better get to class," Li groaned and picked himself up from his death postion.
"Just tell her Li, and all the frustration, confusion, and paranoia will be over," Madison smiled. Li sighed and headed to class.
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"You seemed a little down today during the last period of school Sakura, what's wrong?" Madison asked worriedly as they exited the building.
"I'm confused..." Sakura hesitated.
"Oh?" Madison tried not to give any of her "information" away.
"Well, sometimes I think Li likes me, but sometimes i don't..." Sakura added reluctantly.
'Sometimes she can be slowly than Li...' Maidson thought sadly. "Well, what makes you think that Sakura?" Madison asked casually.
"Well last night he gave me my present and-" Sakura began to explain.
"What?! He gave you a present?!" Madison interrupted again pretending she didn't know a thing.
"Yes....and he was there when I opened it," Sakura smiled gazing into deep thought.
"Wait...he was there?" Madison asked confused. This time she didn't have to pretend that she didn't know anything that was going on, because this time, she really didn't know what was going on.
"Yeah, and I opened my gift around 1:45am!" Sakura tried not to blush.
"Whoa! Tell me details!" Madison stopped walking. Sakura explained everything that had happened. Madison kept on gasping and smiling. At some points she was laughing. Neither of them had a clue that Li was the type of guy who would do such a thing. But it was an even bigger shock to Madison because she knows about Li's feelings towards Sakura.
"I never knew that Li would do such a thing!" Madison laughed.
"Me neither," Sakura smiled.
"But then, what makes you think that he doesn't like you?" Madison asked in confusion once again.
"Well, he always pulls away whenever....you know," Sakura sighed.
"Whenever you guys are like this close to kissing?" Madison squeezed her index finger and thumb together to show just how close they were.
"Yeah," Sakura lowered her head.
"That doesn't mean that he doesn't like you," Madison pointed. "Maybe he's just nervous," she shrugged.
"So do you think he likes me?" Sakura brought her head back up to look at her friend.
"I...uh..." Madison stumbled over her words. 'I promised Li I wouldn't tell her anything,' Madison thought.
"Oh, so he doesn't," Sakura sighed and began to continue walking home.
"Sakura," Madison called after her. Sakura stopped walking at sound of her name and slowly turned around.
"Yeah," Sakura said softly.
"He...he..." Madison closed her eyes tightly. "He...does like you," she concluded reluctantly. At fist Sakura didn't know what to think. Was Madison talling the truth? Or was she lying? Even if she was telling the truth, was she just trying to make her feeling better? Or was there something Madison knew that she didn't know?
"Nice try Madison, you almost got me there," Sakura smiled weakly and walked home. Madison stood there in shock.
"But he does..." Madison sighed and turned around to head home. "Oh well, I tried," She shook her head sadly. "Now the rest is up to you Li..."
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"I bet anyone that Sakura think that I don't like her," Li threw himself onto his couch.
"Well, I'm not surprised if you were right," Meilin rolled her eyes.
"Really?" Li gulped sitting up.
"By the way you've been acting around her, you could kill her with confusion," Meilin popped another yama ball into her mouth.
"So what do you think I should do?" Li sat a little closer to Meilin.
"Do you really want to know?" Meilin had a huge grin on her face.
"Without giving me away Meilin," Li smiled but still rolled his eyes.
"Uh, that's hard Li," Meilin laughed. "You don't want her to feel like you don't like her, but you don't want to give youself away at the same time," she re-capped.
"Uh...yeah..." Li thought about what she had just said. Meilin just sweat dropped at Li's reply.
"Well I must admit," Meilin took in a deep breath. "You two ARE made for eachother," she shook her head sadly.
"Thanks...I think..." Li blinked in confusion.
"Well Li, I think either way, you will eventually have to tell Sakura," Meilin shrugged.
"I said only if I'm forced to," Li reminded.
"I know, but you've had so many opportunities to tell her!" Meilin shook him in annoyance.
"And in not one opportunity was I ever forced to tell her," Li added.
"UGH!" Meilin crossed her arms.
"I didn't know that you wanted me to end up with Sakura so much," Li teased. Meilin glared at him.
"I just want to see you happy for once in your life Li-kun," Meilin replied sadly.
"I'm happy right now," Li concluded.
"Are you really?" Meilin questioned.
"I...uh...well..." Li looked down.
"I thought so," Meilin smiled proudly. "When are you leaving?" she inquired.
"April..." Li replied reluctantly.
"April!?" Meilin exclaimed. "But, that's, but, that's," she stuttered.
"Sakura's birthday month? I know," Li sighed looking out the window.
"So you HAVE to tell her before then!" Meilin jumped un and down worriedly.
"Yeah, right, and when would this be?" Li laughed.
"Valentines day is coming up Li, and the dance will follow," Meilin smiled at him evily. Li gulped.
"I have an idea," Meilin grinned eyeing Li.
"What kind of idea?" Li asked nervously.
"You would really have to trust me," Meilin sat closer to him. Li gulped down his courage.
"Why? Is the almighty Li finally afraid of something?" Meilin teased knowing that Li couldn't refuse a challenge. Li immediately shook all his fears away and nodded confidently.
"Bring it on," Li grinned.
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I know that this chapter is really boring. But this is like a cool down from my
last few chapters. My Christmas chapters were a little "much" with kawaiiness requests. So this
chapter just takes the story down a notch. I just hope it wasn't too boring.
In the next chapter Meilin's plan takes place. It has to do with Sakura (duh) but what is
it? But more importantly will Li go through with it? *KAWAII ALERT*
Sakura has a little chat with her father about...Li?! What will become of that? And at the
and, Kero says something that may confuse some readers.
When the Last Teardrop Falls
Part: One
Chapter: Fourteen
"Welcome back to school class," Mr. Terada smiled looking across the classroom. "I hope you all had a fun Winter Break," he continued stretching his arms onto his lecturer. The class cheered, moaned and yawned. Mr. Terada laughed at his response.
"Is there anything someone would like to share with the class?" Mr. Terada asked the students with great interest. The class immediately went silent.
"Aw come one kids, you were all chatting just a minute ago," Mr. Terada whined. The class remained silent.
"Will someone say something?" Meilin ordered standing up from her seat. "This is a great opportunity to miss part of class!!" she swung her arms around. Everyone including Mr. Terada sweat dropped.
"Well since you're standing, would you like to share anything with the class Meilin?" Mr. Terada asked casually. Meilin glanced at Li, who was gazing at the back of Sakura's head.
"Nothing I can tell Sir," Meilin replied politely and sat down in her seat. This remark caught Li's attention. He stared at Meilin feeling a little guilty, but he couldn't control his feelings for Sakura. He slouched down in his seat.
"Well I have a question," Nikki raised her hand gracefully.
"Okay, let's hear it," Mr. Terada sat down comfortably in his chair.
"Does anyone remember that day when all those snowmen mysteriously appeared in the park?" Nikki addressed the class. The class began to whisper to eachother.
"Does anyone know how they got there?" Nikki asked shrugging her shoulders. Sakura turned around to look at Li and smiled. Li grinned back and they both began to laugh a little.
"I have a hypothesis," Zachary extended his hand into the air ever so gracefully. The class cracked and groaned.
"Not another one..." Chelsea, Madison and Nikki moaned.
"Perhaps the abominable snowm-" Zachary began in his usual scientific tone.
"Um, NO!" Meilin interrupted.
"Like I said, it was just a hypothesis," Zachary reminded.
"Sure..." Meilin rolled her eyes. "Just like all the other ones,"
"Hey! Cafeteria food is more nutritious tha-" Zachary faught back.
"Okay enough of that class," Mr. Terada jumped in. Zachary and Meilin both calmed down again turning their attention back to the teacher.
"I said that I would only spend the last few minutes of this period talking about your vacations, now class is over, dismissed," Mr. Terada waved the class out of the room. The students packed up their stuff and headed out into the hallways.
"Hey Sakura!" Li called out from the crowd.
"Yes Li?" Sakura asked making her way though the crowd of students.
"Look what I brought with me," Li smiled and opened his locker. Sakura took a peek. Laying there was the Christmas present she had made for him a little over a week ago. Sakura smiled and hugged him.
"I'm glad you like it," Sakura blushed placing a piece of hair behind her ear.
"Of course I like it," Li laughed. Sakura still was still looking at the ground. Li curved his index finger and brought up Sakura's face until their eyes met.
"Because you made it," Li whispered still smiling at her. Sakura nodded her head and took his hand.
"Come, it's my turn," Sakura giggled pulling Li' to her locker. She opened it and there stood his gift to her.
"I'm glad you like it," Li laughed.
"Of course I like it," Sakura laughed too replaying the past two minutes. Li caught on and lowered his head to stare at the ground. Sakura giggle playing along. She tilted her head and bent her knees a bit to look under his face until their eyes met.
"Because, you gave it to me," Sakura laughed. Li laughed along and brought his head back up. Sakura stood back up straight but her laugh was replace by a simple smile. Li sighed still smiling at her. Sakura eyes seemed to twinkle for a split second. This caught Li's attention causing him to fall into another trance. Sakura noticed this and she too fell into a trance. Sakura leaned forward and tilted her head once more. Li slowly took a step towards her. Sakura closed her eyes and continued to come forward. Li too closed his eyes and tilted his head in a perfect angle to kiss her. Their heads were incredibly close at this point, lips almost touching and then...
"There you are Sakura!" Madison screamed turning the corner. She then noticed what exactly was going on just as the two separated.
"Oh, don't let little old me stop you two," Madison smiled crossing her arms. "Please do continue," she waved her hand. Sakura and Li glared at her for two reasons. Stopping them, and teasing them.
"Fine then, let's eat," Madison shrugged pretending that she didn't know how they felt for eachother. The "couple" glared at Madison as she walked away. As soon as she was out of sight, they slowly looked back at eachother nervously.
'Should I tell her how I feel now?' Li asked himself still staring at Sakura.
'Should I tell him how I feel now?' Sakura bit her bottom lip nervously.
'No I can't...it's too risky...' Li sighed sadly. Sakura was about to say something until Li spoke.
"I'm sorry about that," Li scratched his head in emarrassment. "I didn't know what came over me," he concluded making up an excuse. Sakura's face turned sad and she slowly lowered her head.
"No problem Li," Sakura smiled weakly.
"Well, I'll see you later I guess," Li shrugged and walked away. When he turned the corner Sakura felt a small tear fall from her emerald eyes down her rosy cheek.
"I love you Li..." Sakura whispered softly and turned away.
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Li ran up and down the halls looking for Madison. He had fire in his eyes, as he burned up the floor below him. He scanned every classroom and window searching for his victim. Finally he spotted her near the library. Li quickly ran up to her tapping her shoulder.
"Mmm?" Madison turned around to see two piercing amber eyes stare right back at her.
"Did you want to give me away back there?!" Li tried to keep quiet since they were in the library. Madison shrugged and picked up a book heading towards a work table. Li followed still awaiting an answer.
"Well did you?!" Li tried not to yell. Madison looked up at him from behind her novel and carefully put it down.
"No," Madison replied calmly.
"Then what do you call that?!" Li waved his arms around in frustration.
"I was simply doing what I had to do Li," Madison shrugged still calm.
"What do you mean?!" Li took a seat next to her.
"Well," Madison sighed turning her whole attention to Li. "You see, if I didn't tease you two in any way, Sakura might have suspected something," Madison explained. Li blinked in confusion.
"You are both well aware that besides photography, you two are my next favourite hobby," Madison laughed picking up her novel again. Li started to get the picture and he too calmed down a bit.
"Okay okay, I'm sorry," Li plopped his head onto the table. "I guess I'm starting to become a little paranoid," he chuckled a bit.
"A little bit?" Madison took her attention away from her book just to ask that one question.
"Fine...a lot," Li corrected himself after catching Madison's glare. She became satisfied and continued her reading.
"I better get to class," Li groaned and picked himself up from his death postion.
"Just tell her Li, and all the frustration, confusion, and paranoia will be over," Madison smiled. Li sighed and headed to class.
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"You seemed a little down today during the last period of school Sakura, what's wrong?" Madison asked worriedly as they exited the building.
"I'm confused..." Sakura hesitated.
"Oh?" Madison tried not to give any of her "information" away.
"Well, sometimes I think Li likes me, but sometimes i don't..." Sakura added reluctantly.
'Sometimes she can be slowly than Li...' Maidson thought sadly. "Well, what makes you think that Sakura?" Madison asked casually.
"Well last night he gave me my present and-" Sakura began to explain.
"What?! He gave you a present?!" Madison interrupted again pretending she didn't know a thing.
"Yes....and he was there when I opened it," Sakura smiled gazing into deep thought.
"Wait...he was there?" Madison asked confused. This time she didn't have to pretend that she didn't know anything that was going on, because this time, she really didn't know what was going on.
"Yeah, and I opened my gift around 1:45am!" Sakura tried not to blush.
"Whoa! Tell me details!" Madison stopped walking. Sakura explained everything that had happened. Madison kept on gasping and smiling. At some points she was laughing. Neither of them had a clue that Li was the type of guy who would do such a thing. But it was an even bigger shock to Madison because she knows about Li's feelings towards Sakura.
"I never knew that Li would do such a thing!" Madison laughed.
"Me neither," Sakura smiled.
"But then, what makes you think that he doesn't like you?" Madison asked in confusion once again.
"Well, he always pulls away whenever....you know," Sakura sighed.
"Whenever you guys are like this close to kissing?" Madison squeezed her index finger and thumb together to show just how close they were.
"Yeah," Sakura lowered her head.
"That doesn't mean that he doesn't like you," Madison pointed. "Maybe he's just nervous," she shrugged.
"So do you think he likes me?" Sakura brought her head back up to look at her friend.
"I...uh..." Madison stumbled over her words. 'I promised Li I wouldn't tell her anything,' Madison thought.
"Oh, so he doesn't," Sakura sighed and began to continue walking home.
"Sakura," Madison called after her. Sakura stopped walking at sound of her name and slowly turned around.
"Yeah," Sakura said softly.
"He...he..." Madison closed her eyes tightly. "He...does like you," she concluded reluctantly. At fist Sakura didn't know what to think. Was Madison talling the truth? Or was she lying? Even if she was telling the truth, was she just trying to make her feeling better? Or was there something Madison knew that she didn't know?
"Nice try Madison, you almost got me there," Sakura smiled weakly and walked home. Madison stood there in shock.
"But he does..." Madison sighed and turned around to head home. "Oh well, I tried," She shook her head sadly. "Now the rest is up to you Li..."
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"I bet anyone that Sakura think that I don't like her," Li threw himself onto his couch.
"Well, I'm not surprised if you were right," Meilin rolled her eyes.
"Really?" Li gulped sitting up.
"By the way you've been acting around her, you could kill her with confusion," Meilin popped another yama ball into her mouth.
"So what do you think I should do?" Li sat a little closer to Meilin.
"Do you really want to know?" Meilin had a huge grin on her face.
"Without giving me away Meilin," Li smiled but still rolled his eyes.
"Uh, that's hard Li," Meilin laughed. "You don't want her to feel like you don't like her, but you don't want to give youself away at the same time," she re-capped.
"Uh...yeah..." Li thought about what she had just said. Meilin just sweat dropped at Li's reply.
"Well I must admit," Meilin took in a deep breath. "You two ARE made for eachother," she shook her head sadly.
"Thanks...I think..." Li blinked in confusion.
"Well Li, I think either way, you will eventually have to tell Sakura," Meilin shrugged.
"I said only if I'm forced to," Li reminded.
"I know, but you've had so many opportunities to tell her!" Meilin shook him in annoyance.
"And in not one opportunity was I ever forced to tell her," Li added.
"UGH!" Meilin crossed her arms.
"I didn't know that you wanted me to end up with Sakura so much," Li teased. Meilin glared at him.
"I just want to see you happy for once in your life Li-kun," Meilin replied sadly.
"I'm happy right now," Li concluded.
"Are you really?" Meilin questioned.
"I...uh...well..." Li looked down.
"I thought so," Meilin smiled proudly. "When are you leaving?" she inquired.
"April..." Li replied reluctantly.
"April!?" Meilin exclaimed. "But, that's, but, that's," she stuttered.
"Sakura's birthday month? I know," Li sighed looking out the window.
"So you HAVE to tell her before then!" Meilin jumped un and down worriedly.
"Yeah, right, and when would this be?" Li laughed.
"Valentines day is coming up Li, and the dance will follow," Meilin smiled at him evily. Li gulped.
"I have an idea," Meilin grinned eyeing Li.
"What kind of idea?" Li asked nervously.
"You would really have to trust me," Meilin sat closer to him. Li gulped down his courage.
"Why? Is the almighty Li finally afraid of something?" Meilin teased knowing that Li couldn't refuse a challenge. Li immediately shook all his fears away and nodded confidently.
"Bring it on," Li grinned.
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I know that this chapter is really boring. But this is like a cool down from my
last few chapters. My Christmas chapters were a little "much" with kawaiiness requests. So this
chapter just takes the story down a notch. I just hope it wasn't too boring.
In the next chapter Meilin's plan takes place. It has to do with Sakura (duh) but what is
it? But more importantly will Li go through with it? *KAWAII ALERT*
Sakura has a little chat with her father about...Li?! What will become of that? And at the
and, Kero says something that may confuse some readers.