Disclaimer: I don't own CCS
WARNING: THIS STORY SUX!!!


Li's heart was beating loudly. Did she really mean what the sign said?? Half his heart said she didn't mean it but the other side was saying yes... why shouldn't she....Li wanted to run off the plane and ask Sakura what she meant but the plane had already taken off and the choice was taken out of his hands.

Sakura at the last minute had changed her message on the sign instead of 'I love you'
she had written "I hate you' in hopes of getting his attention. She knew that when Li arrived at his new house he would call her right away to ask her if she meant it...and knowing Li, he would really come back to Japan just to find out if it was true... which was exactly what she wanted to happen...

Sakura spent most of the day pacing in front of the phone waiting for it to ring...
"Ring" "Ring" (dunt noe wat 2 use 4 telephone ringing)

Sakura waited a few seconds before answering not wanting to let Li know that she was waiting just for his call.
"Hello" her tone laced with dullness
"Hi Sakura is dad home?"
"Oh"
"No Tory, dad's not home yet"
"Ok, you sound disappointed were you expecting someone else?"
"No... no I wasn't"
"Ok I'll see you at home then, Bye Sakura"
"Bye Tory"

All the way from Japan to San Francisco Li kept seeing those three little words in his mind....
I Hate You...
I Hate You...
I Hate You...
It was driving him nuts and he vowed to call Sakura right away when he arrived at San Francisco...

But now here he was debating over wither he should call Sakura or not.. He really wanted to know if she meant those words but what if he didn't like the answer?? He couldn't stand knowing yet he couldn't stand not knowing...
'Ahhh I'm going crazy! Jus decide Just decide...yes or no....yes or no...'

' = thoughts
Suddenly Li got a brilliant idea...he took something out of his pocket and flipped it through the air and called out "Heads"
The coin went tumbling through the air twisting and flipping about until it hit Li's hand.
Li covered it not wanting to know the answer jus yet.... Slowly slowly Li uncovered his hand which held the coin that would to him change his life....

He stared down at the coin not knowing what to say... He was in shock after all this waiting for nothing. The coin hadn't helped him one bit...he should have known something was wrong with it... for the coin didn't have either a head or a tail... it was a trick coin!
'I'm gonna call her maybe all this agitation's over nothing just like what happened with this coin.'
So Li picked up the receiver and dialed Sakura's number not forgetting to press one then the area code for Sakura's neighborhood.
"Hello?"
"Hi Mr. Avalon, this is Li, is Sakura there?"
"Oh hey Li, How's everything in San Francisco? Is your mother alright?"
"Yea my mom's doing just find, about Sakura, is she there?"
"Oh sorry Li she went to sleep an hour ago something about a math test that she had to take the next morning"
"Ok then can you tell her I called?" sounding disappointed
"Sure"
"Thanks Mr. Avalon, Bye"
"Bye Li, nice talking to you" but he was talking to the dial tone for Li had hung up already in disappointment..
'So it was just like the coin, nothing came out of it..'

~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~
The next morning.....
'Ehhh Li never called I guess I don't know him as much as I thought.'
Sakura went down to breakfast feeling her heart weep over the fact that Li hadn't even cared enough about her to even call to ask her if she meant what she had written....
Of course she hadn't it was the complete opposite! She loved Li so much it hurt.
'Oh why didn't I tell him I loved him the day he left for San Francisco??'
A different part of her brain answered her...maybe it was her heart....
'Because you were afraid that if you told him you loved him he wouldn't say it back...and then you guys couldn't even be friends...'
'True but if I had told him maybe right now my heart wouldn't be suffering again..'
"Sakura honey are you feeling alright?" putting his hand against her forehead
"Yes Daddy, I'm alright"
"Ok Sakura"
"Oh yah Sakura?" as Sakura was walking out the door to Madison
"Yah"
"Li called you yesterday but you had fallen asleep so I didn't bother to wake you up.."

Sakura's mind had blanked out after the first few words. All she had heard were Li called.
As she was registering this her heart started blooming with hope that maybe Li did care about her which made her so happy she felt like she was floating...

"Thanks dad" giving her dad a furious squeeze
"Hi Madison"
"Hi Sakura, what are you so happy about?"
"Li called yesterday!"
"What did he say?"
"Oh I didn't get to talk to him I had already fallen asleep" 'worrying about him'
"So you still haven't told him like you love him??"
"Not yet I haven't gotten a chance yet.."
"I jus wish I had told him at the airport.."
"Don't worry about it Sakura.. everything's gonna turn out fine"
"You think so?"
"Yah"
"AHHHH I'm so happy that I don't think I can concentrate for my math test!"


Author's Note: I dunt noe where to stop so I jus picked a spot...
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