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Cherry: Same disclaimer applies here too!

Chickles: very short and sweet.

Cherry: Thank you. On with the fic!

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"Sakura!" Tomoyo came running up to Sakura at school with Meiling in tow.

"Hey guys!" Sakura smiled. She had cheered up a great deal since last night and was ready to face school.

"So I heard you agreed to the talent show!" Meiling said smiling. "That's wonderful! We'll be great!"

"Well I really didn't have a choice did I?" Sakura smiled. "But I was practicing last night."

"Great! Hey after school want to come over to my house to practice?" Meiling asked as they walked towards the classroom doors.

"Sure! I've got perfect costumes too!" Tomoyo giggled.

"Hehehe perfect!" The bell rang and they all sat down. Sakura was half listening to her teacher drone on and on about trigonometry when she felt a pair of eyes on her. She turned to where the eyes were coming from. It was Tom. He was glaring at her. He obviously had thought she would have been a total wreck again. Sakura smiled with satisfaction.

"He doesn't have a hold on me anymore." Sakura thought to herself and returned back to daydreaming about the talent show.

RING!

The bell rang and signified the end of the class. Sakura grabbed her books and turned to

go when someone grabbed her arm. She turned around. It was Tom.

"Hello Sakura." He said eyeing her strangely.

"Hi Tom, what do you want?" Sakura said in a sarcastic way.

"I was wondering how you were doing? I mean you did seem a little upset." Sakura was about to answer when a blonde girl skipped up and hooked arms with Tom. It was Elizabeth, her best friend who stole Tom.

"Oh hi Sakura!" She said in a bimboish way.

"Hi Elizabeth, oh you asked how I was doing?" She turned back to Tom. "I'm just wonderful" Sakura said with a smile and a wink and then turned and skipped out the door. Tomoyo and Meiling were waiting for her.

"What did he say?" Tomoyo asked dragging Sakura into an empty classroom with Meiling.

"He was wondering how I was doing." Sakura smirked.

"Really? When you left he looked a little…agitated…what did you say?" Meiling asked sitting on a desk.

"I told him I felt wonderful." Sakura shrugged and Tomoyo laughed.

"That's right Sakura!" They all laughed and headed to their next class. Sakura noticed that Tom was avoiding her gaze for the rest of the day. She smiled to herself. "That's right, I'm absolutely wonderful…"

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After school the trio headed over to Meiling's house and practiced what they were going to do for their performance. After Sakura skated home to find Touya sitting with a girl in the living room.

"Hey Touya, hey Lauren!" Lauren was Touya's girlfriend and they had been going out for about a year or so.

"Hey Squirt." Touya smirked.

"Shut-up." Sakura stuck her tongue out at her impossible brother.

"Hey Sakura! What's new?" Lauren's cheery voice broke up the argument.

"Hehe nothing much, I'm going to be in the talent show at the Summer Carnival!"

"Really! I'm so going to watch!" Lauren laughed.

"Sure!" Sakura smiled and left to go to her room. Sakura plopped down on her bed and smiled. She liked her brother's girlfriend. She was really pretty and nice too. Sakura loved it when she came over. She pulled out her books to do her homework and went to go sit at her desk. She opened her desk to search for a piece of paper. Instead of finding paper, she found a picture of her and Tom. She picked it up and looked at it. It was at the beach, and he had his arm around her. Sakura looked at the picture one last time and ripped it up. She didn't need that anymore. She didn't need him.

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