Chapter 3
"We are stopping by a local restaurant on our way to the mountain. Since we have about an hour to go, I thought you kids deserve a little break." Mrs. Mackenzie said as the bus came to a holt.
"Hey! Li, Sakura! Wake up you two!" Both of their eyes slowly opened to find Eli, Meilin, and Madison looking at them. With her head still on his shoulder and his head on her, both still looking at the 3 others confused.
"Hoe?" Li lifted his head up to see that he was leaning on the girl of his dreams. He blushed feverishly.
"..Oh ...Um.." Li stuttered trying not to make his love obvious. The other three chuckled. Sakura lifted her head off of Li to find him red as an apple with watery eyes. She knew they both fell asleep on one another...But why didn't anyone wake us up? How did Li get over here? she thought as they both stood to stretch before they got off of the bus.
"Okay, you five. We need to hurry and eat so come on!" Their teacher said as she got back on the bus to grab her purse. She looked at the five before she stepped back out onto the thick white sheet outside.
"You two are so cute together!" Meilin said grabbing the other two. They all started to laugh as they walked off of the bus, leaving Li and Sakura to themselves. They both sweat dropped as the others left but were happy to see them go.
"I... Um.." Li started to say but was too nervous to finish. He was developing a frog in his throat whenever he spoke to her, yet he wasn't sure why. She is a girl I like but I've liked many before. Not like this though. He shook his head violently trying to get the thought away.
"Is everything okay?" Sakura asked anxiously as she pulled her jacket on. Not being able to zip her jacket up made her really agitated.
"Here let me help." He kneeled down and took the bottom of her jacket into his strong hands along with the zipper. He didn't know it but Sakura was looking at him the whole time, blushing, as if wanting to tell him something important but couldn't find the words. He pulled at her newly worn jacket and stood up to zip it. The brown hair girls eyes looked at the ground as if something magical was to happen any minute. After the zipper was fixed they stood there in front of each other not saying a word, both looking at the ground. To break the silence, Sakura lifted her head to see Li starring at the floor too but with now aspirations in mind. She took her handbag and put Kero in it as she quickly grabbed Li's coat and raised his hand to take it. He gazed at it for a second acting as if it were unknown to him. She just closed her eyes and smiled at him to make him blush even more.
"Oh... Thank you, Sakura." He said putting on his jacket while looking at her caringly. Smiles were the only thing in the air at that moment as nothing else seemed to exist. A hand touched his as he noticed that it was hers. She quickly led him off the bus, hand in hand, while her handbag with Kero was around her shoulder. He stopped abruptly as she kept going. Being use to getting pulled back, she stopped and turned around to see him starring at their hands. She let go immediately as he jolted his head up to see her smile warmly.
"Oh! I'm sorry Li! I just thought that we should hurry and get something to eat before..."
"It's okay, Sakura." He said tenderly as her grin faded into a kindhearted welcome. It was starting to snow again as the two kids stood looking at each other. An eerie feeling shook the two as they swung their heads up to look at each other with stern looks.
"What was that?" Sakura asked frightened. Just then, Eli, Madison, Meilin, and Mrs. Mackenzie ran out of the restaurant to look at the two gazing back at them.
"Did you feel that?" Eli questioned, confused. I thought all of this stuff was over with by now. What's going on Reed? In the distance, a strange looking girl stood on a roof top looking at the six in the parking lot, in a thick sheet of snow.
"Get ready kids. The fun is about to begin." An evil grin was heard and the group looked into the direction of the sound. Strangely enough, the group was confused, bewildered as to see nothing but snow in their view. Everyone thought that the cards were over with, that nothing else would happen like that anymore. The adventure was suppose to be over.
"I think we've had too much drama for one year. I think we should head in." Eli said still gazing in the direction of the laugh. Knowing better than all of them, he knew something was up but he wasn't sure what.
"Yea! And when we get back on the bus, I'll play all of the videos I taped while you were capturing the cards, Sakura!" Madison's eyes widened as she spoke with love in her voice. Eli sweat dropped along with Sakura.
"Come on, Li. Let's go in..." With her white cotton bell sweat shirt, her overly large jacket, and her flared out jeans, Li watched her as she headed in. Hands in pocket remembering that Sakura just held his hand. This might be a great trip after all... He ran after her.
***
It was a very large restaurant from fifty to a hundred public people eating at the buffet and more eating for the dinners. The walls were filled with dog sled racing winners and sleds themselves, propped on the border with nails. They were also painted a gorgeous sky blue color. It was warmed by a huge fireplace, big enough to heat the town of Tomoeda. As more amusement and fascinations came, so did the hunger and it was coming fast.
"Uh...! FOOD!" Kero yelled from inside the handbag of Sakura's. Even though everyone in her hometown knew about the little stuffed animal, no one out of her area knew who she was and she planned to keep it that way.
"Kero! Get back in there! I'll feed you when we sit down!" Others looked at Sakura as if she was from a mental institute that just had recess. She just smiled and went back to picking at her food from the buffet. She picked up a turkey leg, fries, potatoes, burgers, fish, sushi, and last but not least, cake. All of which was for Kero.
"Did you get anything that you wanted, Sakura?" Li followed Sakura to an empty booth to sit down as he spoke while he held his tray of food. She just smiled and said all was for Kero. She wasn't that hungry anyway. Li grinned nervously back as he watched her sit down. Sliding in the booth beside her made Kero angry that he had to sit on the opposite side of the table.
"He is so kawaii when he is angry, don't you think, Li?" Sakura giggled as she talked as Li nodded eating his food as politely as he could.
"Can we sit here?" Sakura and Li along with Kero lifted their heads to see Mrs. Mackenzie smiling down at them. She had on her Yellow Adidas jacket along with her ski pants already on.
"Hai!" The two spoke in unison. The teacher just sniggered as the brown haired kids blushed. No one spoke until all was done eating. They could hear Zachary speaking one of his believable stories yet again while Chelsea tries to strangle him. Rita and Niki just laugh with the other students around.
"...And they lived happily ever after." Li and Sakura turned their heads around, facing the rest of the students to hear the story.
"You have got to be kidding me! This is such an unbelievable story! I can't believe you guys believe him! Argh!" While Chelsea tries to squeeze the life out of him again, a kid asked to repeat the story as Zachary nods yea. Chelsea gives up in the process.
"...Once upon a time, a girl coincidentally had magical powers. Another one, a male, found this out the first day he met her..." Sakura and Li looked at each other patiently as the story went on.
"...and she gave all her might but she couldn't transform her magic. Then, her guardians gave their power to her as her loved one gives his last bit of strength to her to help..."
"That is so fake! Shut up Zachary!"
"No..." Madison puts her finger to her lips as she turns around to see her best friend and a guy looking at each other.
"That sounds like Sakura and Li." At the sound of their names they jolted their head from each other to see everyone giggling saying, "Yeah! That's so true!" Last thing I ever thought of Chelsea saying...'It's true'... Li thought.
"We are stopping by a local restaurant on our way to the mountain. Since we have about an hour to go, I thought you kids deserve a little break." Mrs. Mackenzie said as the bus came to a holt.
"Hey! Li, Sakura! Wake up you two!" Both of their eyes slowly opened to find Eli, Meilin, and Madison looking at them. With her head still on his shoulder and his head on her, both still looking at the 3 others confused.
"Hoe?" Li lifted his head up to see that he was leaning on the girl of his dreams. He blushed feverishly.
"..Oh ...Um.." Li stuttered trying not to make his love obvious. The other three chuckled. Sakura lifted her head off of Li to find him red as an apple with watery eyes. She knew they both fell asleep on one another...But why didn't anyone wake us up? How did Li get over here? she thought as they both stood to stretch before they got off of the bus.
"Okay, you five. We need to hurry and eat so come on!" Their teacher said as she got back on the bus to grab her purse. She looked at the five before she stepped back out onto the thick white sheet outside.
"You two are so cute together!" Meilin said grabbing the other two. They all started to laugh as they walked off of the bus, leaving Li and Sakura to themselves. They both sweat dropped as the others left but were happy to see them go.
"I... Um.." Li started to say but was too nervous to finish. He was developing a frog in his throat whenever he spoke to her, yet he wasn't sure why. She is a girl I like but I've liked many before. Not like this though. He shook his head violently trying to get the thought away.
"Is everything okay?" Sakura asked anxiously as she pulled her jacket on. Not being able to zip her jacket up made her really agitated.
"Here let me help." He kneeled down and took the bottom of her jacket into his strong hands along with the zipper. He didn't know it but Sakura was looking at him the whole time, blushing, as if wanting to tell him something important but couldn't find the words. He pulled at her newly worn jacket and stood up to zip it. The brown hair girls eyes looked at the ground as if something magical was to happen any minute. After the zipper was fixed they stood there in front of each other not saying a word, both looking at the ground. To break the silence, Sakura lifted her head to see Li starring at the floor too but with now aspirations in mind. She took her handbag and put Kero in it as she quickly grabbed Li's coat and raised his hand to take it. He gazed at it for a second acting as if it were unknown to him. She just closed her eyes and smiled at him to make him blush even more.
"Oh... Thank you, Sakura." He said putting on his jacket while looking at her caringly. Smiles were the only thing in the air at that moment as nothing else seemed to exist. A hand touched his as he noticed that it was hers. She quickly led him off the bus, hand in hand, while her handbag with Kero was around her shoulder. He stopped abruptly as she kept going. Being use to getting pulled back, she stopped and turned around to see him starring at their hands. She let go immediately as he jolted his head up to see her smile warmly.
"Oh! I'm sorry Li! I just thought that we should hurry and get something to eat before..."
"It's okay, Sakura." He said tenderly as her grin faded into a kindhearted welcome. It was starting to snow again as the two kids stood looking at each other. An eerie feeling shook the two as they swung their heads up to look at each other with stern looks.
"What was that?" Sakura asked frightened. Just then, Eli, Madison, Meilin, and Mrs. Mackenzie ran out of the restaurant to look at the two gazing back at them.
"Did you feel that?" Eli questioned, confused. I thought all of this stuff was over with by now. What's going on Reed? In the distance, a strange looking girl stood on a roof top looking at the six in the parking lot, in a thick sheet of snow.
"Get ready kids. The fun is about to begin." An evil grin was heard and the group looked into the direction of the sound. Strangely enough, the group was confused, bewildered as to see nothing but snow in their view. Everyone thought that the cards were over with, that nothing else would happen like that anymore. The adventure was suppose to be over.
"I think we've had too much drama for one year. I think we should head in." Eli said still gazing in the direction of the laugh. Knowing better than all of them, he knew something was up but he wasn't sure what.
"Yea! And when we get back on the bus, I'll play all of the videos I taped while you were capturing the cards, Sakura!" Madison's eyes widened as she spoke with love in her voice. Eli sweat dropped along with Sakura.
"Come on, Li. Let's go in..." With her white cotton bell sweat shirt, her overly large jacket, and her flared out jeans, Li watched her as she headed in. Hands in pocket remembering that Sakura just held his hand. This might be a great trip after all... He ran after her.
***
It was a very large restaurant from fifty to a hundred public people eating at the buffet and more eating for the dinners. The walls were filled with dog sled racing winners and sleds themselves, propped on the border with nails. They were also painted a gorgeous sky blue color. It was warmed by a huge fireplace, big enough to heat the town of Tomoeda. As more amusement and fascinations came, so did the hunger and it was coming fast.
"Uh...! FOOD!" Kero yelled from inside the handbag of Sakura's. Even though everyone in her hometown knew about the little stuffed animal, no one out of her area knew who she was and she planned to keep it that way.
"Kero! Get back in there! I'll feed you when we sit down!" Others looked at Sakura as if she was from a mental institute that just had recess. She just smiled and went back to picking at her food from the buffet. She picked up a turkey leg, fries, potatoes, burgers, fish, sushi, and last but not least, cake. All of which was for Kero.
"Did you get anything that you wanted, Sakura?" Li followed Sakura to an empty booth to sit down as he spoke while he held his tray of food. She just smiled and said all was for Kero. She wasn't that hungry anyway. Li grinned nervously back as he watched her sit down. Sliding in the booth beside her made Kero angry that he had to sit on the opposite side of the table.
"He is so kawaii when he is angry, don't you think, Li?" Sakura giggled as she talked as Li nodded eating his food as politely as he could.
"Can we sit here?" Sakura and Li along with Kero lifted their heads to see Mrs. Mackenzie smiling down at them. She had on her Yellow Adidas jacket along with her ski pants already on.
"Hai!" The two spoke in unison. The teacher just sniggered as the brown haired kids blushed. No one spoke until all was done eating. They could hear Zachary speaking one of his believable stories yet again while Chelsea tries to strangle him. Rita and Niki just laugh with the other students around.
"...And they lived happily ever after." Li and Sakura turned their heads around, facing the rest of the students to hear the story.
"You have got to be kidding me! This is such an unbelievable story! I can't believe you guys believe him! Argh!" While Chelsea tries to squeeze the life out of him again, a kid asked to repeat the story as Zachary nods yea. Chelsea gives up in the process.
"...Once upon a time, a girl coincidentally had magical powers. Another one, a male, found this out the first day he met her..." Sakura and Li looked at each other patiently as the story went on.
"...and she gave all her might but she couldn't transform her magic. Then, her guardians gave their power to her as her loved one gives his last bit of strength to her to help..."
"That is so fake! Shut up Zachary!"
"No..." Madison puts her finger to her lips as she turns around to see her best friend and a guy looking at each other.
"That sounds like Sakura and Li." At the sound of their names they jolted their head from each other to see everyone giggling saying, "Yeah! That's so true!" Last thing I ever thought of Chelsea saying...'It's true'... Li thought.
