SWEET SIXTEEN
Chapter2
I'm ba-ack.
Okay, I guess you want to read the rest of
the story, huh?
Well, if you reeeeeely want to, I guess you
can, so I guess I better get on with it.
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As you know, these characters aren't mine.They are CLAMP's.But there's nothing I can do about it!
(Sobbing uncontrollably)
NNNNOOOOOOOOO! Why couldn't I come up with awesome characters like that!?
Sakura: Because you're not a genius.
Me: Hey! Did I say you could talk?
Sakura: I don't need your permiss….
ME: Who's Writing this story, you or me?
Sakura: ……………
Me: That's what I thought.
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"SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Sakura nearly had a heart attack.
"AAAAAAAAAAAH!" she screamed, jumping three feet off the ground.
"Whoa, chill out Sakura. A little jumpy today," Zachary said.
"What's with the knife?" Nikki asked.
"I thought…you guys…I heard…" she stammered.
"She thought we were a monster!" said Kris, the new boy at their high school, grinning.
Sakura sweat dropped. "Hey, that's not fair! You guys really scared me!"
"I knew we shouldn't have invited that guy," Tomoyo said jokingly. "As long as
you've got a knife with you, we can cut the cake!"
"Look at you, all dressed up. Some people might think you suspected something,"
Chelsea said playfully.
Sakura blushed, thinking she meant something totally different than what she did.
It was all starting to sink in. The purple glow of a black light, fog from a fog making
machine, and a flickering strobe light. It seemed like all the people she knew were
there, so the hisses were no doubt them telling each other to be quiet. Yep, everyone
was there.
'Everyone,' she thought to herself, 'except the most important person of all.'
She closed her eyes for a second and remembered that person. A boy with amber
eyes, who blushed easily, and who had probably forgotten all about her.
Sakura opened her eyes and returned to reality. Zachary was blaring the music. She
could feel the bass shaking the floor.
'Well, no use being sad. I may as well enjoy myself.' She thought, as she joined in the party.
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It was hours later, and bunches of people were standing outside the house. It was
getting to be so hot in the basement. They had probably produced enough body
heat to warm a city block.
Sakura and Tomoyo were sitting on the couch having a drink of water. 'M.C.
Zachary' decided to play a slow song for the first time all night.
Sakura was laughing hysterically at something Nikki told her when someone
approached them .It was definitely not someone they knew from school, yet he held
out his hand to Sakura.
"M…May I have this dance?" he asked hesitantly.
Sakura looked at Tomoyo as if to say, 'Who's this?'
Tomoyo shrugged her shoulders as if reading her mind.
Sakura looked back at the boy "Sure."
His eyes seemed to sparkle hopefully when she said that.
The boy danced like an angel, and he was definitely 'on cloud nine,' as they say.
The song was almost over when Kris tapped him on the shoulder.
"Mind if I cut in?" It was more like an order than a question. The happy expression
faded from the boy's face. Figuring that Sakura and Kris were dating, He turned
and stormed off, looking sad and hurt. Meanwhile Kris started dancing with
Sakura.
Once it sunk into her head what had just happened, Sakura socked Kris in the gut
and went to find the boy. She just caught a glimpse of him as he slipped out the
door. By the time she reached it, he was long gone.
Sakura tried to forget him for the next hour and a half until the party was over.
Kris tried to apologize three times before she finally accepted. Even then it was just
to stop him from bothering her.
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Eventually the party ended and Tomoyo, Rita, Nikki, Chelsea and Sakura were left
to clean the mess up, but the other four wouldn't let Sakura do anything (because it
was her birthday).
"So, Sakura," said Rita "Who was that you were dancing with?" she asked.
"I…I don't know," she replied.
"One thing's for sure, he definitely likes you," Nikki pointed out.
"He seemed kind of familiar to me. Like someone from a dream… Know what I
mean?" asked Sakura.
The girls all nodded.
"Like déjà vu? Yeah, I know what you mean," said Tomoyo.
"Did you guys see what Kris did?" asked Sakura.
"Some girls get all the good guys," Rita sighed.
Sakura made a face like she was about to throw up.
"Puh-leez! What he did was very rude. I just wish that boy stayed around. I would
have liked to talk to him."
"Who invited him anyways?" asked Chelsea.
At once they all said "Not me!"
"He probably found out about it from someone around town," Nikki said.
"Well, other than that, I think it was a wonderful party!" exclaimed Sakura.
"Thank you all for having it. It's the best gift I've ever gotten. Well, except that
stuffed bear I got in grade four."
"You mean the one you keep beside your bed?" Tomoyo asked her teasingly.
Sakura blushed.
"Come on Sakura, how can you even compare that to this," Chelsea asked her, not
meaning any harm, but inflicting it all the same.
"She's right. You're sixteen now. You need to get out-and get a boyfriend," Nikki
added.
"Maybe…Hey! Don't finish that cake! I have to save a piece for Ker…" she stopped
herself just in time. "I mean, keeping…for, uh, …Dad." Tomoyo was still the only
one she had told about Kero-Chan.
"Suit yourself," Chelsea said, replacing the cake on a clean plate.
"Well, looks like we're about finished," Rita said.
"I'd say we are finished," said Tomoyo.
"Let's go upstairs and you guys can call to get rides home," Sakura said.
"That's okay. Our parents are probably already on their way. We already planned
what time to get rides," Tomoyo told her.
"Okay, then let's wait outside. It's really hot in here."
The girls all went out the basement door into the front garden (The back of the
house was in the side of a hill).
Nikki bounded out the door ahead of everyone. Her dad's car was already idling in
the driveway.
"Bye guys!" she yelled as she slammed the car door. The car roared away.
One by one her friends left until only she and Tomoyo were left.
"Oh! I almost forgot!" Tomoyo exclaimed. She searched for a moment, then pulled
a gift out of her pocket and gave it to Sakura.
"OMYGOD, you actually got them?!"
Out of the package came 2 tickets to a concert of her favorite band, which was
apparently everyone else's favorite, judging by how hard it was to get tickets to see
them.
Tomoyo smiled.
"One for you one for whoever else you want to take. This is just a suggestion, but
maybe you could ask Kris?"
Sakura turned her face to the stars.
"No. You know I can't do that. There's only one per….."
"Oh stop it Sakura! I don't want to be mean or anything, but there's no way he'll
come back!"
"Yes he will. He promised!" She could feel her eyes brimming with tears.
"And how long are you going to wait? Ten years? Twenty? All I'm saying is, you've
got a guy right here who'd almost kill to go out with you, and you still haven't
gotten over Li. He's not going to come back. Just face it."
Tomoyo's mother's car pulled up then and Sakura was left alone.
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Okay, I lied. I made up a character. Kris isn't a bad guy. He just reeeeelllllly likes Sakura, that's all.
I personally think she should go for him. After all, he is the tall, dark, handsome type …………………………………
I hope you all like this chapter.
More to come!
