Geo: Bwahahaha! Welcome to Geo's house of DoOm!! (Don't you hate that writing? It can get annoying...I just did it for effect...)
Actually, it's not a house of hell...really, it's not! Stay and read on! So...Brooklyn...where did we leave off last time?
Brooklyn: *Reading off of Geo's last manuscript* Let's see...The beautiful agent Sakura Kinomoto has just met Syaoran Li, the dashing, handsome, mysterious, striking...
Geo: Brooklyn...Brooklyn...SHUT UP! I get it.
Brooklyn: Are you sure?
Geo: Yes! Gee-zus...just write the {censored} disclaimer...
Brooklyn: Ooh...getting touchy...
Geo: *Death Glare...*
Brooklyn: *gulp* Okay...CCS and 'Hanging By a Moment' by Livehouse doesn't belong to Ms. Insane-Claw-Your-Eyes-Out over there.
Geo: Good...
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chapter 4
a normal day
Sakura looked around the ice cream parlor.
"Where is he?" She muttered. "What the hell..."
"Are you looking for me?" Came a soft voice from behind her. She turned around and glanced at the handsome young man in a pair of baggy pants and a green t-shirt.
"Syaoran!" She said in surprise, then blushed at his warm smile. However, she was still faintly suspicious.
'How will I ever know if that smile is for me and not the information?' She asked herself sadly.
He smiled again and glanced around. "Cute place, huh?" She shrugged.
"It's pretty nice.."
"Do you want some ice cream?" He asked politely. Sakura's eyes got big with excitement. The sole weakness of Sakura Kinomoto was ice cream.
"Ice cream? Of course I'd like ice cream!" She said and almost skipped over to the counter. Syaoran smiled and sighed.
"And I suppose I'm paying for it." Sakura laughed.
"Of course! Now, what do you suppose, strawberry or chocolate? Or how about both? Hm...." Sakura frowned in concentration that looked extremely cute, to Syaoran's eyes. He didn't even bother disagreeing with himself in that weird, insane way. He just went with it. He admitted the fact that he thought that she was extremely cute and beautiful and...everything. He laughed as she started to order.
"How can you eat all that? I thought cherry blossom's were supposed to be soft and fragile." Sakura narrowed her eyes a bit, then laughed.
"Yeah, right. Whatever. I could eat another one of these!"
Desperate for changing
Starving for truth
I'm closer to where I started
Chasing after you
"Argh, I couldn't eat another bite." Sakura groaned as she pushed away her half eaten double fudge parfait. Syaoran, who had already finished his chocolate sundae. He laughed at her as she stood up.
"Shut up, Syaoran. Next time...warn me that thing is that big."
'What? Next time? Hm...that's a nice thought...' Syaoran thought, but just smiled as he followed her out the door.
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
"Come on, Sakura, couldn't we do something else?
That's on perhaps more wheels?" He glared as she fell to the ground,
laughing hysterically. Syaoran had just finished falling on his blades for
the second thousandth time.
"I personally don't see what so funny."
Between laughter, Sakura said, "YOU! You can't..." She kept on giggly until she got it together again. "You can't stay UP!" With that, a whole new explosion of laughter started. Syaoran couldn't help smiling at her contagious laughter.
"I still don't see what's so funny..." He muttered, taking off the rented roller blades. They had decided to go over to the skate park after their trip to the ice cream parlor. Sakura was a natural on wheels but Syaoran was a different story. He really never was able to skate, on ice or wheels.
"I don't see why you find it so difficult. It's just like ice." Sakura had said after his first fall. Soon, though, she was laughing at his 'antics'. After a while, she figured out that his falls were, in truth, totally real and he wasn't faking it.
"Well, what do you wanna do now?" Sakura asked, retrieving her purse from a locker. Syaoran was about to answer her when a couple of punks with their girlfriends walked over to them.
"Hey, you loser! Your girlfriend can skate better than you!" The leader said, laughing.
"Ignore them," Syaoran mumbled to Sakura, who was getting pretty ticked off.
"Hey, loser did you hear me?" The guys continued laughing.
"No, stay away from him you punks." Sakura said, speaking up and raising her fists in a fighting stance.
"Please, Sakura," Syaoran muttered, trying to drive her away. However, the guys simply laughed harder.
"So now your girlfriend has to fight FOR you. Man, what a wuss!" Syaoran sighed. He was hoping it really wouldn't get to this. He didn't want to engage into a fight. He didn't know what would happen and he didn't want to be caught by authorities. He had to be bailed by his boss once and he knew that this other arrest would not go well with the agency. But Sakura got him into this.
"Listen, punk." He started, grabbing the leader by his collar. "I don't care what you frickin' say."
"Yo, man, cool it. All we're asking you to do is regain your dignity, or else you won't be able to set foot in here without being laughed at." The guy said. Syaoran just rolled his eyes and glanced over at Sakura, who was silently begging him to 'regain his dignity'. Syaoran sighed.
"Fine. What did you have in mind. Without anything to do with skates." The leader-dude smiled.
"Easy. You can't roller blade, you'll have to skateboard." Syaoran scoffed. "Fine. I'll skateboard." Sakura laughed softly as she joined back with him as they went back to the skate park.
"I can't believe you're actually going to do this. Skateboarding is somewhat more difficult that roller blading." Sakura said worried about the young roller blade-deficient walking beside her. However, Syaoran simply smiled.
"Don't worry Sakura. I've got it all under control." With that, he grabbed the skateboard offered to him and walked over to the half pipe. Sakura almost melted at his cool attitude and warm smile. No doubt about it: she had fallen-hard-for the male spy.
Forgetting all I'm lacking
Completely and complete
I'll take your invitation
You take all of me
"Okay, dude," the leader started. "All you have to do is...hm...how about a kickflip. I think you can handle that, huh?" A few of the members of the little group started to snicker but Syaoran just grinned, the grin that had made him so famous: cold and somewhat amused.
"A kickflip? Sure, why not." He smiled back at Sakura, who smiled back encouragingly.
'God, he's hot! I hope he makes it...he has to! Who are you kidding, this is the guy who couldn't even stand on roller blades.' She thought desperately. However, Syaoran had been going up and down the half pipe, getting some air, and was able to do a kickflip.
"Yeah, Syaoran!" Sakura cried, but then remembered exactly who she was cheering for and where she was. Perhaps acting as cheerleader wouldn't go to well with Syaoran...
However, Syaoran smiled again, a more confident smile as he remembered all the tricks he learned from a friend. Sure, he couldn't roller blade, but he could damn well beat anyone, even the famed Tony Hawk, at skateboarding. With Sakura's cheer ringing in his ear, he prepared for one of his favourite moves.
"Yo dude, you stuck? You need us to help you?" Called the leader guy asked, laughing and obviously mocking him. Well, Syaoran would show him. All he needed was some more air.
"Whoa, did you see that?" One of the girls asked. "That was an Indy backflip? That's pretty hard..."
"Not that hard," said another guy. "I could do it any day." However, Sakura didn't even listen to their arguments. Syaoran was attempting another trick.
"What? What happened to the loser who couldn't roller blade? That was a handplant!"
"Look at that, kickflip McTwist!"
"He's better than Andrew over there!"
"Oh my gosh...that was a 1080! No one, NO ONE has done that..." The leader guy (he's Andrew)
"Someone just did," Sakura said smugly. "Syaoran just did." With that, Syaoran stopped and walked down over to Andrew. He simply grinned and then grabbed Sakura's hand and walked off. Sakura blushed at the warmth of his hand, the warmth and safety. He smiled over at her.
"What did you think?" He asked, amused by her amazed look.
"You were awesome, Syaoran! Those damned..."
"Don't sweat it, Sakura."
Now...I'm falling even more in love with you
letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
Syaoran glanced down at the sweet-faced young woman sitting beside him at the movie theatres. He couldn't believe that all this was happening and, for some reason, he didn't want it to happen. Just when he found someone he liked-wait, change that to love- he knew it would all be over. He couldn't help being torn from one side of the scale to the other. One side was his friends, if that's what you could call them, at the agency. At the other side was his love for Sakura. He knew that he could never hurt her.
'Damn the information!' He thought, suddenly making his decision. 'Damn everything! Everything can go to hell! I'm never going to hurt her...no, never. Damn it all...but I won't give her the information either.' He sighed, which caught Sakura's attention away from the movie they were watching.
"What's the matter, Syaoran?" She asked quietly. He tried to smile, but it was obviously fake.
"No! Nothing's the matter!" He whispered, then turned back to the movie. However, Sakura could tell that he was still tense.
'Damn it, when is he going to trust me like I trust him? Will he ever? Damn it all, why do I have to be a fool? A stupid, confident fool? Argh...no matter. I'll never give him the information. But I'll never ask it from him, either.' She thought. With that, she turned back to the movie, unconsciously taking Syaoran's hand in hers and doing a very good job of making him blush madly.
'Thank goodness it's dark.' He thought nervously, hoping she didn't see the red on his cheeks.
I'm living for the only think I nkow
I'm running and not quite sure where to go
I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
"So, do you want to get some dinner?" He asked her after the movie, smiling down at her. She smiled.
"Sure, I'm starved!" She said enthusiastically which made Syaoran laugh.
"Okay, you bottomless pit. How about I meet you at your apartment after about an hour and a half. Will that be enough time to let you get ready?" He asked.
"Um, my apartment?" She asked nervously. He rolled his eyes, remembering.
"Yeah, you're right."
'Damn this secret agent life!' They both thought.
"How about I just meet you at...the park?" She asked tentatively. He smiled. "Sure, whatever you want. I'll see you at 7:30 at the entrance?" She nodded. He let go of her hand and walked off. Sakura shook her head.
'Men. An hour and a half? Jeez...well, I wonder where he's taking me for dinner. Damn the whole fact that he can't come up to my apartment. I mean...I trust him, right? I mean...' Sakura sighed out loud. She couldn't believe this. A whole day with Syaoran...a totally normal day.
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Geo: Hey hey! Sorry this took so long to get out in the world wide web...heh heh heh...
Brooklyn: *whispering* She was writing other stories...she wasn't paying attention to your pleas to get this chapter out...
Geo: Shut up, Brooklyn! *mumbling* Sorry if all these ideas pop into my head at 1:00 in the morning. Sorry! *turns back to the readers* Well...sorry anyways for this not being out sooner...okay, some notes:
1.) I'm sorry, but there isn't going to be anything...explicit...or James Bond-ish. By that, I mean by the fact that there won't be the regular love-making that you usually see in spy movies. Sorry, but...that's the way it is...*ahem*
2.) Okay, next subject. The song part will be finished later in the next chapter.
3.) Thanks to everyone who has reviewed! Thank you SOOO much! *Geo starts to giggle happily*
Brooklyn: Ooh...boy...
Geo: Okay...so...I gotta go. Adios!