Chapter 3


Back for more, eh?

Well here we go, Chapter three!
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Okay, you know the drill.

Card Captor Sakura isn't mine.

She belongs to clamp. So do all her friends.

I've finally come to terms with the fact.

I'll just have to come up with a scheme to………

Oops, did I say that out loud?
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She stood there on the front steps, staring after the car as it shot off into the

distance. At first, only a single tear rolled down her cheek. Her vision was

blurred, and she tried to hold it back, but soon she was crying nonstop.

"Of all the people, I thought she understood!" she yelled, then ran back inside and

threw herself onto the couch. She didn't want to go to her bedroom. Kero was there,

and listening to him tell her the same thing would only make her feel worse.

After she had cried for an about half an hour (give or take), she slowly sat up and

dried her eyes. She took a deep breath and let it out with a sigh.

'Maybe Tomoyo is right. Maybe he'll never come back.' she thought. That only

made her want to cry more. She pushed the thought out of her mind.

"No," she said aloud. "I have to believe in him. He must come back."

But a small part of her still said 'Yes, but he's been gone so long already. No phone

calls, no letters. Why waste your life sitting around waiting?'

Sakura sighed again and wiped away the tears that listening to herself think had caused.

She was about to leave the room when she spotted something lying in the corner

beside the door (The one leading to the outside).

'The girls must have forgot to clean the corners.'

She knew if the room wasn't spotless by the time her dad checked it, she could never

have another party, so she moped over to pick it up. He had been really moody lately.

But it wasn't garbage. It was a small, gift-wrapped package. All the little tag said was 'To Sakura.'

'My friends,' she thought, "So poetic," she said sarcastically.

She opened it slowly and carefully. It was a necklace. A necklace, on a thin golden

chain. On it was a charm - a sword, with a red ruby on the hilt. It sparkled in the dim light of the basement.

'I wonder who this is from,' she thought.

She turned it over. There was an inscription on the back. She couldn't read it in the

small amount of light she had, so she ran up the stairs, turned on the light in the

kitchen and looked at it again.

"To the only… one I… love. I could never …forget you," she read the words slowly,

then read them again.

"Oh Wow. Who gave me this??"

It was still a mystery to her when she awoke the next morning.

"Morning Sakura!" exclaimed Kero, the moment her eyes opened.


"Huh? Oh, hi."

"How did the party go?"

"Good, I guess. You were in on it the whole time weren't you?"

"Alright, you caught me. Here's your gift."

Sakura opened it. It was half a box of chocolates.

"Thanks Kero. You must have gotten a bit hungry, huh?"

Kero blushed. "Uh, yeah. Nice necklace," he said, changing the subject, "Where'd

you get it?"

"From… uh, a friend."

"Oooooh, I see. You don't want me to know who. Come on, tell me. Who's it from,

your boy friend?" Kero said in a teasing way.

"Actually, I'm not too sure. I found it just lying on the floor. The tag didn't say who

it was from. It sure is pretty though."

"I can sense something in it's meaning," Kero said.

"Well, at least we know it's not possessed or evil or anything," she said,

remembering an incident years ago.

"Still, I don't think it means what you think it does."

"How can you possibly know that? I don't even know what I think it means."

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That night her family celebrated Sakura's birthday with her.

(They didn't celebrate it the night before because her brother had to work late and couldn't come.)

When the festivities were over, and it was getting late, Sakura said goodnight and went up to her room.

She wanted to try something.

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Sakura had heard about a thing called telepathy. Supposedly, some people could

communicate with others without seeing them or hearing them, only using their

mind. She had wanted to try it for a long time, but never had a reason she could

think of. Now she was planning on trying to communicate with Li.

She didn't even know if it would work. Even if it did, would he answer her?

'It's worth a try,' Sakura thought.

She took a deep breath and began her message.

'Li Syaoran, if I am reaching you, listen closely. It's Sakura Kinomoto. Please come to me as soon as you can. I need

to see you."

She repeated the message over and over again until she almost fell asleep thinking it.

She had just turned out her bedroom light and was about to crawl into bed when

she heard it. Faint plinking noises, by her window.

She yawned and turned on her lamp. She walked over to her window and looked

out. It was that boy from the party. He was in her backyard throwing little stones at

her window. When he saw her appear at her window he made a motion for her to

open the window and talk to him.

As she unlocked the window and pulled it up, being careful not to wake Kero, who

had already been asleep for hours, she got a prickly feeling at the back of her neck.

"Hello," he whispered loudly.

"Hi. What are you doing here?"

"It's kind if hard to talk from so far away. Mind if I come up?"

"How are you goi…" The boy's lightening fast speed at climbing up the drainpipe cut off Sakura's words.

"How did you do that?" she asked him as he sat outside her window on the roof over the back porch.

"Magic," he replied casually, as if she'd known all along.

"You're lucky you didn't throw rocks at my brother's window by mistake. You

would have been a dead man."

"I know. But I don't think I could have mistaken the two rooms," he said, motioning

to her pink frilly curtains.

"Oh," Sakura said, blushing slightly.

"Could I come in? It's kind of cold out here," she noticed he was shivering, in his

thin jacket. She knew she should say no, but something in the boy's eyes made her trust him.

"Okay."

He climbed in through her window and stood there staring at her. Mindful of Kero,

sleeping in her sock drawer, she advised him to be quiet 'so he wouldn't wake her

brother,' she told him. She sat down on her bed. He just stood there awkwardly.

"Have a seat," she said, motioning to the chair at her desk.

"Nice night. Good night to watch the stars."

Normally, sitting in her room making small talk with a total stranger would have

freaked her out. But there was just something about him. She just didn't know what

exactly.

"Did you enjoy the party?" she asked, smiling.

Stupid question.

"Y…Yes. Well, most of it."

"I know what you mean," she said.

He suddenly looked surprised.

"Nice necklace," he said.

Sakura reached to her neck and played with the chain for a second. "Thank you," she said.

He seemed to be deep in thought.

"You came here to talk about something else, didn't you? Something more important."

"Yes."

He took a moment, and then continued.

"That guy - you know - at the party. Is he… I mean …are you…" he trailed off,

blushing fiercely.

"Are we going out?" Sakura finished for him. He nodded. "No. He wishes."

The boy started to look more relaxed.

"Now it's my turn to ask a question." Sakura patted the bed beside her. "Sit."

He came over and sat beside her.

"What I want to know is… Who are…"

Sakura was cut off by the sound of footsteps outside her door, and a knock.

"Sakura? Who are you talking to?"

It was her father.

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BUSTED!!!! How is she going to get out of this one?
Guess you'll just have to wait and see. More coming soon.
I know you all hate the cliffhanger endings, so sorry,
but you'll just have to wait till I throw the next chapter up.