Olya / cardcaptor girl's notes: Okay, I warn you: this *is* a rather boring piece of crap I wrote there. I know I can do better, but I just decided to keep up with the way the story was written in previous chapters: simple and easy language.

  By the way: if you have any MeiLi ideas, but don't dare to write them yourself, the please give them to me, so that I could make something out of them. Lemon ideas are not accepted.

 And now:

                                                             "Love Potion #9"

                                           Chapter 4: "To be, or not to be."

   Daidoujii and I assembled our ground blankets under her favorite 'cherry blossom tree' - for 'obvious reasons', and prepared our lunches. My appetite wasn't doing a good job today, because of my own 'obvious reasons'. I'm really going to do it…I'm really going to make Syaoran fall in love with me…

   "Meilin? Are you still *there*?"

   "Where?!" I suddenly winced as I realized that my thoughts were dozed off from the real world for a bit.    

   "Wherever you are, please come back and answer my question." Tomoyo said with a slight annoyance in her voice.

   "Uh…what…was it again?" Daidoujii sighed soundly.

   "I asked if Syaoran would be joining us for lunch today."

   "Oh, yes, he will. He will come back from his soccer practice soon; I want to wait with the lunch, until he shows up."

  "Alright, then I'll wait with you…" There was an uncomfortable silence between us, mostly because I knew Daidoujii's little love secret and was thinking about it now; and she knew I was thinking about it.

  "Tomoyo…" I was quite surprised by my own calling of her, by her first name. She was a little astonished too, but didn't show it much. Then I continued. "So…umm, so you uh…you think Sakura would ever return your…does she know about your…you know… feelings?" Well, I had to start somewhere. Tomoyo and I never really talked; maybe this is the chance to get to know her.

  "I…" she seemed to hesitate a little, but then continued, "See, I'm sort of…afraid of…well, if I'll tell her, then she might…you know…react badly and I'll lose our friendship." Tomoyo looked down sadly.

  "But…maybe if you would spend some more time with her and if you could get close enough to her, maybe she'll discover her feelings for you…maybe she does like you, and she doesn't even know it." I looked at Tomoyo straight into the eyes and smiled comfortingly.

  "Yes, I could do that…but, I wouldn't want to force Sakura into something, without considering her own wishes. Our friendship is much more important to me than anything else. Don't you agree?" I just stared at the ground, not knowing what to say. This is not what I've believed in. I wanted Syaoran to love me and I was going to succeed…but…what if he never wanted to love me in the first place? What if all I would do is manipulate his life?

  I can't do that to Syaoran…as much as I would want to have his love, it wouldn't be because of his real feelings, but because he was controlled by the potion. No, I can't, I won't do that. Even if Syaoran will never love me, I still won't use the potion.

  "Meiling?" Daidoujii said bringing my thoughts back to the real world.

  "…uh…Yeah?"

  "Don't you agree with what I just said about my relationship with Sakura?"

  "Yes," I sighed, making my own decision. "I agree."

  "Agree with what?" came the voice behind us.

  "Syaoran! You finally made it; I thought you weren't going to show up at all." I said with a cheery voice.

  "Meiling, I'm hungry." He replied, as he lowered himself on a lunch blanket.

  "And the Man spoke the Word." Tomoyo commented sarcastically.

  "He speaks the Word every day; I have no idea why men are always so hungry."

  "Beats me." Tomoyo said, as she stared consuming her food. Nobody saw as I quietly put back the lunch water bottle with the potion back into my school bag. The decision was made: no potion will be used.

 TO BE CONTINUED…

 Olya/ cardcaptor girl's notes: well? What do you think? I know, it definitely wasn't my best and I admit it. This story is rather a humorous one. And the next chapter will be not as boring as this one. I've got a lot of projects on my hands. After Fate's Play, I'll write a MeiLi one-shot.

 

                                                    Sincerely, Olya / cardcaptor girl.