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Invisible Journey
By Toreshi-san ^_^
Chapter 2
10 Years Later
10 years later…
Tomoyo now taught at a small Chinese school. She taught English to the Cantonese students.
She was a savant at piano. At the blind school she used to attend she now taught piano to a few students. She had a new best friend whose name was Jonathan Lau. Jonathan was not exactly the cutest guy around, but Tomoyo didn't care. (a/n why would she? She's blind pplz!!! ^_^) Johno "liked" Tomoyo, but Tomoyo never thought of him that way. She never really noticed the hints he dropped either.
That day when she was teaching, the new teacher would come to help teach, for Tomoyo's class was getting too big for her to handle, so the school board had to hire another teacher.
All the 2nd grade students desired to know who it was that was to teach them other than Miss Daidouji.
Tomoyo herself had greatly wanted to know as well. Was the new teacher a man/woman? Tomoyo heard the footsteps of the new teacher before any of the students, she knew ot was the new teacher because she found that she could not recognise the footsteps. They were too heacy to be a student's and too heavy to be a woman's.
Now Tomoyo knew that the new teacher was a man, she opened the door and said, "Come in, sir, we have all been waiting for your arrival."
"Daidouji-san! It has been a long time since I saw you." that voice had greatly deepened, but Tomoyo could still hear the English accented politeness in it… It was Eriol…
~*Flash Back*~
Eriol had no polarised glasses to protect his eyes, even though he had planned this all, so he stumbled around and bumped into Tomoyo by accident. Her glasses slipped.
" Aaaargh!!!" screamed Tomoyo as her polarised glasses slipped off her face. She dropped her video camera. There was the sound of it breaking. The light card's light radiated blindingly for but a moment and then all went pitch black around her.
~*End of Flash Back*~
Eriol looked at Tomoyo. She looks even more beautiful than the last time I saw her, I wonder why she looks so distressed, he thought.
Tomoyo could only think, Help! Here is the guy that got me blind. He is the reason I'm here, not with my Sakura!
Tomoyo realised that she was looking distressed and quickly put on one of her very carefully calculated masks that would fool any detective.
"Eriol! What a surprise to – uh - hear you."
"Yes Tomoyo, it has been 10 years since you moved. None of us thought you would be so close to Hong Kong, or Syaoran would have found you already."
Both were suddenly aware of an eerie silence, the kind that seems to echo, even if it is silence. You could have heard a pin drop. Then Tomoyo realised that the silence was created by the chlidren. They had all stopped their activites and were speechlessly watching them. How freaky! thought Tomoyo.
Eriol found a prickling sensation, marking his sudden anxiousness for Tomoyo's students to like him.
Why do I feel like this? Come to think of it, what am I doing here? Eriol suddenly could not remember exactly why he was standing in a room that had just been flash flooded with silence. Also in the room was the girl/woman that bears the burden of being blind, which HE had bestowed upon her. And as a child of 11 I had loved her until she had disappeared. Do I still love her?
Not to mention the millions of beady eyes sharper than a laser, burning every bit of him up! Suddenly he remembered…
~*Flash Back*~
In England…
"I am sorry Mr. Hiragizawa, there are no vacancies, in any of our schools, open for teaching. Except for this one…" began the head principal, of many branches of the same school.
"I'll take it." Eriol quickly cut in, still remaining calm.
"But the classes must be shared with another teacher that has been there for years. For another thing, the students that are being taught English speak only cantonese. Another complication would be that the fact that branch of the school is on an island off mainland Hong Kong." Drilled the principal.
"I am fluent in talking and writing Cantonese, I don't mind sharing students and I have an apartment on the coast of mainland Hong Kong. As I said before, I'll take it."
"There is one more small thing."
"Yes?"
"The teacher is a female, she also teaches singing in English so you must do so too."
"I'll take it." Eriol spoke as steady as ever.
"Oh yes, Mr. Hiragizawa, the teacher is blind."
Eriol's heart gave a wrench at that. Could it possibly be Tomoyo? It seems impossible. Besides, does Tomoyo speak Cantonese?
On the outside Eriol had kept his composure. To the principal he seemed to be reconsidering. All the while, Eriol was trying to remember if she could write enough kanji to teach in any chinese school.
When Eriol looked up again, he had decided.
"I'll take it." His voice was filled with determination,
~*End of Flashback*~
tomoyo turned to the children. "Children where are your manners? Say good morning to Mr. Hiragizawa."
"Good morning Mr. Hiragizawa." They droned.
"Good lord! You sound like a bunch of machines, say it like you mean it!" said Tomoyo most cheerfuly.
"Good morning Mr. Hiragizawa!" they cheerfully repeated.
"That's better, now go back to what you were doing, while I inform Mr. Hiragizawa about our daily schedule."
With pathetic little sighs they returned to writing some music and words while discussing other things.
"So, Daidouji-san how are you?" began Eriol.
"Fine and how are you, Sakura and Syaoran are married and living in Hong Kong," he paused, "Syaoran is now the Li clan leader."
"I never new that Sakura and Syaoran married" Tomoyo said sadly. My Sakura, you have floated out of my hands into the hands of another, I will miss you my love.
"You really were in love with Sakura- san weren't you?"
"Yes…how did you know, did you read my mind?" gasped Tomoyo.
No, ten years earlier, I always observed you. You always seemed to hint it to Sakura, but she was so naïve that she missed all the hints."
"Yeah, but now it does not matter anymore." She sighed.
Tomoyo suddenly started to talk about the children, she explained the term's schedule to him, all the while Eriol watched her intently. She seems so happy here, without having contacting us at all. I wonder if she has a boyfriend. He smiled and listened to Tomoyo talking about the teaching techniques that she used.
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