Miracle Tears

Chapter 4- First Impressions

Sakura dressed suitably for her first day at her new occupation. She drove to her work, her mind on the road AND on the fact that life will be 100 times [AN: sorry but I am totally addicted to maths] harder without her servants, her driver and the 100 other assistants she had. Instead, she was going to be an assistant herself. She still had her gorgeous house but she felt it would be too big soon.

"Ah. Sakura."

Sakura was greeted with warm welcomes.

"Hi, Eriol."

"Well, let me introduce you to someone. His name is Syaoran Li. You've met him haven't you?" asked Eriol while they walked towards one of the many labs.

Sakura racked through her brain for the name Syaoran.

"Ah. Wasn't he your assistant?"

"Yes, but you're going to work with him." Seeing the shock on Sakura's face, Eriol quickly added in, "Not as my personal assistant though. I'm going to give you special conditions. You two are allowed to work on anything as long as you don't blow up the lab or scorch you eyebrows or hurt anybody." [AN: I luv science! Boring aren't I?]

"That sounds simple enough."

"Ah. Here's my little pal."

Sakura looked ahead. She came face to face with the messy chestnut haired boy she met yesterday. She couldn't help but feel that he was rather cute.

"Hi Syaoran."

Syaoran blushed when he heard his first name. No one at the lab ever called him by his first name apart from Eriol. Two reasons. One, everybody respected him. He was going to be the future leader of the Li clan and was in Japan only to get some practice on how to live on his own. Two, he would usually scowl at anybody who dared to say the word Syaoran. Today however, he didn't do anything much.

"Hi. Do you want me to show you where the lab is?" he offered.

"Okay."

"Um, Syaoran. I want to talk to you," Interrupted Eriol.

"Okay." Syaoran's voice sounded depressed [AN: that's how I'm feeling now. We missed out on double English and were forced to watch boring performances. Ughhhhh.]

Sakura shuffled on her feet a little.

"Sorry, Sakura. The lab is on your far right."

Sakura walked down the long corridor until she reached the 50th room on the right.[AN: It's a huge lab]

Meanwhile, Eriol and Syaoran were having a very embarrassing talk.

"So, you didn't go over the roof when she called you Syaoran."

Syaoran blushed.

"But, I'm surprised you haven't asked her to organise a date with her co- star yet." Syaoran raised an eyebrow.

This time, Eriol blushed.

They both went their separate ways.

The door creaked open causing Sakura to jump.

"Oh, hi Syaoran. Do you know what these bottles are?"

"Yeah. The blue formula is copper sulfate, the white strips are magnesium, inside that gas compressor [AN: is that right?] is liquid nitrogen…." Syaoran went through every chemical in the lab. It took one hour. "Sorry Sakura." He shivered as he said her name.

"Don't be sorry." Her voice sent Syaoran off into dreamland. "Hello?"

"Yeah."

"What do you want to do?"

"We could try mixing some of these formulas together?"

The two continued with experiments. They mixed compounds with atoms, atoms with mixtures and mixtures with gases.

"You know Syaoran, this is better than all the days I've had in the acting industry. It's so fun here."

Syaoran blushed, accidentally putting an extra drop of salt water into their compound of copper sulfate and tap water. [AN: it's not a real sort of experiment. I…..yes the one and only me…….made it up.]

BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!

"Ahhhhhhhhh!" screamed Sakura.

Syaoran just laughed, receiving evil glares from Sakura.

"Hey calm down, it was only sound effects that I created." Said Syaoran.

"Ugh, ugh, ugh."

At the end of the day, Sakura met up with Tomoyo.

"Tomoyo. It's so fun working in the labs with this Syaoran guy. He's so funny."

"Not scared of perverts any more are you?"

"Tomoyo! He's not a pervert!"

"Sakura likes someone! Ooooooh! Sakura's in love!"

Sakura blushed. Her face turned all red.

"I just have a very good first impression of him. That's ALL!"

"You sure? First impressions are usually the one you keep your whole life."

"Tomoyo, he doesn't even like me."

On the other side of the very same park…….

"Eriol! Stop talking about Sakura. She does not like me!"

"We'll see about that!" smirked Eriol.

Author's Note: phew. That was a long chapter for me anyway. Please review. Thanx.

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