Picture 16
Tomoyo stared at the 1 x 1 picture on her hand. She just need to scan this last pic and her job on the school paper is done.
But her mind was on something else...
...it's on the memories of what happened last night under the hanabi-lit night skies.
"Oh Syao-kun, don't take it too hard. Eriol-kun just happened to be much, uh.." Sakura dug her mind for a nice word to cheer her boyfriend up.
"Don't bother, Sakura." Li finally smiled. " I suck, and that's a fact."
She brushed his bangs away from his eyes lovingly. "No, you don't, at least for me. You're the greatest gut I know aside from Dad and Onii-chan."
"Well, I guess, I still am lucky that I've lost the contest," he amended, looking deeply at the clear emerald eyes of his beloved. " because I have you to cheer me up."
She blushed faintly. "Syaoran-kun.."
Suddenly, they both heard someone clear his throat behind them.
Eriol smiled at them teasingly. "The last time I checked, the school hallway is still a public property. Blocking it is against the law, lovebirds."
"Hi, Eriol-kun! Omedetou!" greeted Sakura. "You really captured everyone's heart last night!"
His smile faded. "Maybe NOT everyone." He quietly continued on his way.
Li frowned. "What's up with him? That is so un-Hiiragizawa!"
"You're right," agreed Sakura softly. "And I think I know the reson why.."
Eriol sighed deeply as he approached the newsroom. All day long, he had tried to avoid the places he used to go to when he stalked Tomoyo back then. He was even careful not to set his eyes on her on all of their three classes together - a most difficlt decision he had to make, especially when it had become his habit to glance at her every minute or so to observe how she writes, reads, talks, frowns..
He touched the door knob but froze when he sensed someone else inside. He carefully peeped into the slight opening of the heavy office door.
His heart raced as he stared longingly at the left profile of a pretty raven-haired girl looking at a picture pensively.
"Tomoyo.."
"I hate you, Hiiragizawa Eriol!" Tomoyo whispered to Eriol's picture. "You promised..you vowed that I will fall for you and marry you..why didn't you wait for your prediction to come true before you got yourself engaged? Why didn't you wait long enough for me to realize that I do love you too?" She wiped a tear that dropped on Eriol's photo. "You have always been like this, making fuin of me..of my feelings." She brought the pic to her lips. "Do you really enjoy seeing me in pain?"
Her eyes widened when she heard the office door close. She turned to her left and saw Eriol leaning on the door, eyes on the floor. He then slowly looked up, his eyes visibly shaking with mixed emotion.
"E-Eriol.." She felt paralyzed.
"Tomoyo.."
She regained her composure. "What do you want?"
He said nothing. He merely kept on staring at her wordlessly.
She snapped her fingers. "Oh yes, I forgot about our little business deal." She frantically opened her drawer and threw towards him the negatives of his picture with Naoko. "You want these, huh? Take them!"
He didn't move a muscle.
"You got the picture already! You have what you really want from me! Now go!"
He calmly took the negatives, tore them briskly, and threw them down the floor. "I have long realized before that I do not really want the picture negative after all." He smiled sadly. "It's you."
Tomoyo was utterly speechless for a moment, but she shook her head vigorously. "No, this is wrong. We're going to hurt Kaho."
"Say one word and I'll break my engagement," he said earnestly.
"N-No.." Her heart was breaking too.
"Please, Tomoyo..I can take being tied down to her forever if you do not even, at least, care for me..but from what I just heard awhile ago..that you love me too..no, I can't possibly marry Kaho," he said. "I want to be with you."
She was about to open her mouth to say 'yes' but she felt a pang of guilt. "No, I don't want to be happy by making another miserable. It's wrong! It's damn wrong!" She fled out of the pressroom.
Her feet were taking her to some place. She didn't know where- her vision was blurred with tears. She had already told herself a million times not to fall in love with an engaged man, but she ignored her mind's warning. She deserved this, God, she did!
She instinctively slowed down and looked around blindly.
A flash of recognition.
The Hiiragizawa mansion.
"Tomoyo?" Kaho's voice came from behind. "Are you crying?"
"Am I?" She rubbed her eyes quickly. "Sakura-chan and I had a little fight, that's all. Nothing serious."
"Oh."
"I-I came here for something else," she began.
"Then come in and do have tea with me." Kaho opened the gates for her.
**to be continued**
Notes:
Syao-chan made a mistake on the progue..it says there Tomoyo is 20 something, but that should be 19. ^^;; Sowee!
I'll finish Picture Perfect before the 27th (my birthday!^^), yakusoku!
Tomoyo stared at the 1 x 1 picture on her hand. She just need to scan this last pic and her job on the school paper is done.
But her mind was on something else...
...it's on the memories of what happened last night under the hanabi-lit night skies.
"Oh Syao-kun, don't take it too hard. Eriol-kun just happened to be much, uh.." Sakura dug her mind for a nice word to cheer her boyfriend up.
"Don't bother, Sakura." Li finally smiled. " I suck, and that's a fact."
She brushed his bangs away from his eyes lovingly. "No, you don't, at least for me. You're the greatest gut I know aside from Dad and Onii-chan."
"Well, I guess, I still am lucky that I've lost the contest," he amended, looking deeply at the clear emerald eyes of his beloved. " because I have you to cheer me up."
She blushed faintly. "Syaoran-kun.."
Suddenly, they both heard someone clear his throat behind them.
Eriol smiled at them teasingly. "The last time I checked, the school hallway is still a public property. Blocking it is against the law, lovebirds."
"Hi, Eriol-kun! Omedetou!" greeted Sakura. "You really captured everyone's heart last night!"
His smile faded. "Maybe NOT everyone." He quietly continued on his way.
Li frowned. "What's up with him? That is so un-Hiiragizawa!"
"You're right," agreed Sakura softly. "And I think I know the reson why.."
Eriol sighed deeply as he approached the newsroom. All day long, he had tried to avoid the places he used to go to when he stalked Tomoyo back then. He was even careful not to set his eyes on her on all of their three classes together - a most difficlt decision he had to make, especially when it had become his habit to glance at her every minute or so to observe how she writes, reads, talks, frowns..
He touched the door knob but froze when he sensed someone else inside. He carefully peeped into the slight opening of the heavy office door.
His heart raced as he stared longingly at the left profile of a pretty raven-haired girl looking at a picture pensively.
"Tomoyo.."
"I hate you, Hiiragizawa Eriol!" Tomoyo whispered to Eriol's picture. "You promised..you vowed that I will fall for you and marry you..why didn't you wait for your prediction to come true before you got yourself engaged? Why didn't you wait long enough for me to realize that I do love you too?" She wiped a tear that dropped on Eriol's photo. "You have always been like this, making fuin of me..of my feelings." She brought the pic to her lips. "Do you really enjoy seeing me in pain?"
Her eyes widened when she heard the office door close. She turned to her left and saw Eriol leaning on the door, eyes on the floor. He then slowly looked up, his eyes visibly shaking with mixed emotion.
"E-Eriol.." She felt paralyzed.
"Tomoyo.."
She regained her composure. "What do you want?"
He said nothing. He merely kept on staring at her wordlessly.
She snapped her fingers. "Oh yes, I forgot about our little business deal." She frantically opened her drawer and threw towards him the negatives of his picture with Naoko. "You want these, huh? Take them!"
He didn't move a muscle.
"You got the picture already! You have what you really want from me! Now go!"
He calmly took the negatives, tore them briskly, and threw them down the floor. "I have long realized before that I do not really want the picture negative after all." He smiled sadly. "It's you."
Tomoyo was utterly speechless for a moment, but she shook her head vigorously. "No, this is wrong. We're going to hurt Kaho."
"Say one word and I'll break my engagement," he said earnestly.
"N-No.." Her heart was breaking too.
"Please, Tomoyo..I can take being tied down to her forever if you do not even, at least, care for me..but from what I just heard awhile ago..that you love me too..no, I can't possibly marry Kaho," he said. "I want to be with you."
She was about to open her mouth to say 'yes' but she felt a pang of guilt. "No, I don't want to be happy by making another miserable. It's wrong! It's damn wrong!" She fled out of the pressroom.
Her feet were taking her to some place. She didn't know where- her vision was blurred with tears. She had already told herself a million times not to fall in love with an engaged man, but she ignored her mind's warning. She deserved this, God, she did!
She instinctively slowed down and looked around blindly.
A flash of recognition.
The Hiiragizawa mansion.
"Tomoyo?" Kaho's voice came from behind. "Are you crying?"
"Am I?" She rubbed her eyes quickly. "Sakura-chan and I had a little fight, that's all. Nothing serious."
"Oh."
"I-I came here for something else," she began.
"Then come in and do have tea with me." Kaho opened the gates for her.
**to be continued**
Notes:
Syao-chan made a mistake on the progue..it says there Tomoyo is 20 something, but that should be 19. ^^;; Sowee!
I'll finish Picture Perfect before the 27th (my birthday!^^), yakusoku!