Sakura in Paris
Part Seven: The Party

(Author's Note: The Lizzie is someone we hate, I mean really hate, at CGS.)
To recap:
Ameoba Boy: WORSE! IT'S THE Lizzie!
Everyone: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
the Lizzie: Hy-ee!
(Everyone is in a panic, running around the room like chickens with their heads cut off, the movie and Brendan Fraser completely forgotten in their race for survival)
Max (Scrambling up the wall-side, digging into the paint with her nails): HELP!
Ameoba Boy (Sitting in the corner and praying in Hebrew): Oh, Jehova......
Blair Witch: It's the Devil's Right Hand, the Hyper One!
(Raye, Li, Sakura, Psycho, and Heaven have dived under the couch and are holding their breaths, hoping the Plague-like One will over-look them...)
Sakura: Li, I'm scared!
Li: I am too! But at least we're not alone...
Raye: If the window of opportunity opens, I'm jumping through it and out of here!
Heaven: I'm with ya, Bar!
(the Lizzie grins manically.)
the Lizzie: They missed me!


{Disclaimer}
I've a new plan!
I will build a time machine that will take me back in time...
Then I will say I created Cardcaptors, and MKR, and X/1999!
Then I will be the greatest one-woman team!
Even better than Clamp!
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH!
(Voice disappears in a raspy gasp from too much laughing)
(Croaking) I'm gonna get some cough-drops....



Sakura sighed and looked down at the violet kimono. "Are you sure I look okay?"
Ranea grinned reassuringly. "You look wonderful, Chere`! And I'm sure a certain young Missueir will notice you..."
Sakura blushed and threw "the Pillow" at Ranea. "Stop that!"
"You 'ave not told 'im? But Jacque and I were so sure after las' night..."
Sakura gasped. "I told you not to tell anyone! Not even Jacque!"
Ranea raised her hands in appeasement. "I did not tell 'im, Chere`! Jacque came to me and told me 'e knew that Li 'ad feelings for you!"
Sakura gasped and stared at Ranea. "Jacque said that Li had feelings for me? You're not playing some mean joke on me, are you?"
Ranea shook her head forcibly. "No, Chere`! Jacque told me this 'imself!"
Sakura pondered over this. "Then why hasn't Li told me himself?"
Ranea smiled. "Mayhap young Li is 'aving the same problems you yourself are, Chere`."
Sakura sighed as another maid, Rosetta, came to the door.
"Madame` Marie wishes you both to come downstairs to ze party. Ze guests are arriving."

"And this is Tom, Li." Grannie Marie said, introducing Li to the boy his age. Tom bowed politely.
"I am 'oping we can become goo' friends, Li." Tom said in his deep voice.
Li nodded. The black-haired boy turned to leave the room, when she appeared.
Sakura came down the grand staircase, wearing a violet kimono and holding a lavender paper fan, laughing with Ranea and Rosetta.
"And who is that, Madame` Marie?" Tom asked in a breathless voice. Grannie Marie grinned.
"That is my Granddaughter, Sakura, Tom. Is she not lovely?"
Tom nodded numbly, his eyes still fixed on Sakura.
Li rushed to the stairs to greet Sakura first. Ranea and Rosetta slipped away into the crowd, mumbling about "important jobs".
"You look wonderful, Sakura." Li said softly as she reached him. Sakura blushed.
"Thanks Li." She looked him in the eyes and started to ask about what Ranae had revealed, when Tom appeared.
"Madamoiselle, I think we've not yet met." Tom said, sweeping a long bow. "My name is Tom."
Sakura blushed again. "Mine's Sakura. It's nice to meet you Tom."
Ranea suddenly showed up at Sakura's side. "The dancing's starting in the ballroom, Chere`."
Sakura grinned in thanks, knowing that only she and Li had heard the whispered comment.
Li took a deep breath. Now or never. "Would you like to dance, Sakura?"
Sakura smiled. "I'd love to Li."
Tom watched speechlessly as Sakura and Li swept off through the crowds together.


Raye: Don't.....make....a.......noise.....She'll......hear.....you..
the Lizzie: Hello!
Raye, Li, Sakura, Psycho and Heaven: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
(Ameoba Boy looks up briefly from his praying, and Max stops clawing into the wall. There's now a large hole starting in said wall. The Blair Witch looks up from her ceremony of trying to banish the Evil One {the Lizzie}.)
Ameoba Boy (Helping a breathless Raye to her feet): We've got to work together for once, or we're not going to survive.
Raye (Nodding reluctantly): Deal.
(the Lizzie begins to look nervous as the entire group begins advancing grimly on her, several butcher knives in obvious view.)
SLAMMMMMM!!
(Raye and the others stare in amazement at the closed, locked, door.)
Raye (Incredulously): We scared It!
(Sighs of relief and whoops of happiness run unabounds......)