The Beach

Disclaimer: I do not own CC or CCS (although I wish I did!) I am most certainly not rich!

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Chapter 1

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Sakura's cell phone rang loudly as she was walking through the park. She quickly dug through her purse in search of the little pink box as it rang yet again. She finally found it and answered, "Hello?"

"Sakura it's Tomoyo. I have the best news!" squealed the voice on the other end.

"Well, what is it?" Sakura asked wondering what had gotten her friend so excited.

"My mom bought a house in the United States. It's located on the beach. I've only seen pictures, but it looks really nice, Anyway, to cut to the chase, my mom can't go because some business came up. And she said that since she thinks I'm responsible, I can invite some people to come with me for the summer-"

"And you wanted to know if I could go along, right?" Sakura finished with a smile.

"Right."

"You know that I'm coming along. When do we leave and who else is coming?"

"Well, we leave the day after tomorrow. And I'm inviting Syaoran and Eriol."

"The day after tomorrow! That only gives me the rest of today and tomorrow to pack. Hoe!"

"Yeah. Sorry it's such short notice."

"Well, I'm on my way home. Talk to you later."

"Right. Bye." The two girls said and Sakura started the walk home.

TIME SKIP: the next morning

"Really, Touya I don't see why you have to come," Sakura said, hauling two suit cases downstairs.

"Because I don't like that Chinese brat. I remember what he tried to do you when he first met you," said Touya with his arms crossed in from of his chest. Just then a car outside honked its horn. Sakura looked outside to see Tomoyo. "Hoe!" said Sakura then she got an idea. She called out her star staff and called on the Little Card. "Little, shrink Touya's and my luggage. Release and dispel!" A wind blew as the luggage shrank to fit in the palm of her hand. She grabbed her carry on and rushed out the door. When Sakura got to Tomoyo's SUV she was greeted by Syaoran.

"Hey Sakura. Where's your luggage?" Sakura smiled and opened her hand. "Oh," he

replied as he shut the trunk.

"Sakura, Touya's got the very back seat, so you're going to be sitting next to Syaoran," said Tomoyo sticking her head out of the sunroof.

"That's fine," Sakura said as she climbed into the middle row. Syaoran climbed in after her and closed the door. Tomoyo climbed into the front seat passenger seat. Knowing Touya was in the back seat, Sakura figured that Eriol was driving. Syaoran leaned over and whispered, "Better buckle up."

Immediately Sakura felt the heat rise to her cheeks.

"It's an hour drive to the airport," said Eriol as he cranked the engine. And they were

off, chauffeured by Eriol and his reckless driving.

TIME SKIP: 1 hour

Sakura emerged from Tomoyo's SUV looking like she had just had a nervous breakdown saying, "If only Eriol was as good at driving as he was at magic then the world would be a much safer place."

"I agree with you there, Sakura," said Tomoyo. "I still don't see how he passed his driver's test."

"I could think of a way or two," said Syaoran with a death glare towards Eriol.

"Someone needs to wake Touya up. He fell asleep during the drive over," said Tomoyo as she opened the trunk.

Sakura sighed, "I guess I have to be the one to wake him up. How on earth he slept through Eriol's driving is a mystery to me."

As Sakura was getting her brother up, Syaoran told Eriol that he was going to be

driving while they were in the United States.

A few minutes later, Touya groggily climbed out of the car followed by Sakura. Tomoyo, how much more time do we have until we have to be at the gate?" asked Sakura. Tomoyo looked at her watch, "We need to be at the gate in 25 minutes."

"We'll never be able to take all of this luggage through baggage check in time," said Touya who was still a little groggy.

"Then we will just have to skip hauling the luggage," hinted Eriol as he looked at Syaoran.

"Right, Sakura use the Little Card to make everyone's luggage small enough to fit in our pockets.

Sakura nodded and started the incantation for her staff, "Key of the star, with powers burning bright, Reveal the staff, and shine your light! Release!" And in a gust of wind the key and turned into the staff. "Little Card! Shrink all of the luggage so that it can fit

in my hand! Release and dispel!" Another wind came up and the luggage became palm-sized. Every one took their own luggage and placed it in their pocket. And every took off to get to the gate. On the way Sakura called her staff back into key form and placed it around her neck.

Just as they entered the airport Sakura forgot which gate they were going to. "Tomoyo,

which gate are we going to again?" she asked.

"Gate 157," replied Tomoyo as they passed gate 150.

'Only seven more to go,' thought Sakura as they raced on towards the gate.

A minute later the loudspeakers burst to life saying, "Flight 307 from Japan to the United

States now boarding at gate 157. Last call." Luckily, the group was at gate 156.

As soon as the group was at the right gate and going through the stewardess who took the tickets (AN- I know there's a name for those people. If someone knows please leave a review and tell me what they are called.^_^;)

Eriol got an idea and quickly mumbled a spell. "Tomoyo, my dear, what seat are you in?" he asked.

"Seat 24A. I think it's a window," said Tomoyo blushing.

"I have seat 24B," said Eriol with a knowing smile.

Syaoran knew that Eriol was plotting something by that smile of his. Syaoran looked at his own ticket. 'Seat 25 B. I'm guessing that Sakura has seat 25A,' he thought. He decided to check his suspicion. "Sakura, what seat do you have?" he asked.

"I have seat 25A. Right over here," Sakura replied heading over to a seat by the window.

'I knew it. That evil half reincarnation! He fixed this so that I would sit by Sakura,' Syaoran thought as he sat down next to Sakura to endure flight that would be much longer than he expected.

Meanwhile, the flight had begun, and Eriol and Tomoyo had already found their seats and were having a quiet discussion on what to do next. "They are so kawaii," Tomoyo squealed reaching for her video camera. She didn't want to miss a minute of Syaoran staring at Sakura, who was nodding her head as she listened to music.

But Eriol stopped her, "Let then have their privacy. I think that if we keep to ourselves and let them alone they will surely get together. After all, this is what the whole trip is about , isn't it Tomoyo, dear?"

"You're right, Eriol," said Tomoyo putting her camera back in its bag.

"I'll give you this, though, later on, if nothing happens I'll put a thought-link spell on them. Then that should bring around something worth recording," said Eriol with a sly smile.

Tomoyo's face instantly brightened at the thought of filming Sakura, and she agreed to Eriol's plan.

Then Eriol did the not-so-unthinkable and kissed Tomoyo. Tomoyo was shocked at

first, but quickly realized what was happening and returned the kiss.

Syaoran knew what was happening in front of him and the only thing he could think of was, 'It's about time the evil half reincarnation did something about his love life.' Then he resumed his thought process which was on Sakura. The beautiful emerald eyed angel that had stolen his heart. 'If only I could tell her.'

~*~Tanya~*~

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