A Semester of Deceit and Love
Hey minna! I forgot to say some things before the first chapter, so here it goes. This story takes place as if the second movie didn't happen, Syaoran did give her a teddy bear as a going away present, but he did not confess his feelings to her. He did promise to return one day.
Enjoy!
Chapter 2: A Return
"Sakura…."
"Sakura…"
A small growl could be heard as the young girl continued to ignore the little yellow creature. A giggle could also be heard from another young girl with a video camera to her eye.
"Sakura!!"
"Hoe!?" Sakura screamed, sitting suddenly up, her eyes wide.
"You don't have to scream!" Kero yelled, hovering directly in front of his mistress's face.
"You're the one who screamed!" Sakura yelled back, glaring at him.
"And you are going to be late," Kero muttered.
Sakura's eyes widened as she looked at the clock beside her bed. "Oh no! Why didn't you wake me up sooner, Kero-chan?"
Kero sighed, watching Sakura jump out of bed. "I've been trying for the last 10 minutes."
Sakura suddenly noticed Tomoyo filming the entire thing. She sweatdropped as she looked at Tomoyo's cheerful face.
"Could you please turn that thing off?" Sakura asked.
Tomoyo frowned slightly. "Okay."
"You have your first class with me, right Tomoyo-chan?" Sakura asked as she hurriedly threw on her clothes.
"Yes, that's right," Tomoyo replied.
"What is it again?" Sakura asked.
Tomoyo sweatdropped. "It's English."
"Oh yeah," Sakura mumbled, brushing her hair, which she had kept short over the years.
In only a few more minutes, Sakura had finished getting ready, and they made their way out of the building to wait for the bus.
Sakura sighed in relief as she saw the huge crowd still waiting for the bus. "We didn't miss it," she muttered happily.
Tomoyo had by now taken her video camera back out and had it focused on Sakura.
"Do you have to film now?" Sakura asked.
"I want to record my Sakura-chan's first day of classes at college. Isn't it exciting?" Tomoyo squealed. Sakura sweatdropped.
"Well, good morning there."
Sakura turned to see a cheerful looking Ryan. She smiled. "Good morning."
"Good morning!" Tomoyo said.
Ryan looked questioningly at Tomoyo and her camera. Sakura sighed. "She always has that thing. You'll get used to it."
Ryan smiled. "So what class are you heading off to?"
"We're both going to English now," Sakura replied.
"Really? I'm going to Japanese," Ryan told her. Sakura smiled.
"I hope you like it," Sakura said.
"I had two years of it in high school, and I liked it then. So I'm actually looking forward to this class," he told her.
"That's nice then. So are you from the United States?" Sakura asked.
"Yup. I'll be here for a semester."
"What year are you?" Tomoyo asked.
"I'm a junior," he replied. "Both of you are freshman, right?"
"Yes," Sakura replied.
"Well good luck then," he said, watching as the bus finally pulled up and stopped in front of them. Sakura smiled.
***
1 hour later…
"So, what did you think of that class, Sakura-chan?" Tomoyo asked, as she and Sakura walked out of the classroom.
"I really like the professor," Sakura told her. "She was really nice, but I think it's going
to be really hard. What about you? Did
you like the class?"
"Yes, I did. I'm looking forward to reading some English literature. Then maybe I can discuss it with Eriol sometime since he's from England," Tomoyo said quietly.
Sakura looked up at her and smiled knowingly. They would make such a cute couple…
"Well since we have an hour before you or I have a class, how about we go eat some breakfast?" Tomoyo suggested.
"Sounds good. I am so hungry," Sakura admitted, rubbing her stomach. "I wonder how the breakfast will be. The food here so far had been better than I expected, but I haven't eaten their breakfast yet."
"That's because you always slept so late," Tomoyo said. "I went and ate breakfast almost every day last week with Rika and Naoko. It was good."
Sakura smiled. "I prefer sleeping."
Tomoyo grinned. "That's my Sakura-chan, alright." Sakura laughed.
They continued walking toward the nearest dining center, unaware of the young man nervously watching them.
***
"I'm over here!" Tomoyo called out, waving one arm.
Sakura hurried to catch up with her pretty friend, not noticing the appreciative looks she received from the many male students that she passed.
"Hey!" Sakura said, as she finally reached her.
"Are you ready to go back to the dorm?" Tomoyo asked her.
"Yeah, sure," Sakura told her. They began walking back down to their dorm that was situated on one end of the campus. "So, how was your first day?"
Tomoyo smiled. "I loved it! I loved all of my classes, and all of my teachers seemed really nice."
"What classes did you have again?" Sakura asked.
"After English, I had Calculus, then music lecture," Tomoyo replied. "How about you? Did you like your classes?"
"Everything except math I think," Sakura mumbled, thinking about how hard she was going to have to work to even pass the class.
"You're taking Calculus too, right?"
"Yes," Sakura muttered.
Tomoyo smiled. "What else did you have today?"
"I had introduction to archaeology. I'm hoping I can be able to talk to my dad about it a little this way."
"I guess your dad was happy when you told him you were going to take it, right?"
Sakura smiled. "Yes, but I wish I could take his class. But he's teaching at the other college. But then he said he might end up lecturing once or twice here as a guest lecturer."
"That would be nice," Tomoyo commented. Sakura nodded.
"What classes do you have tomorrow?" Sakura asked.
"I have choir, humanities, and chemistry," Tomoyo replied. "What do you have?"
"Umm…I have history and biology," Sakura answered. "And then I have swimming too."
"Swimming, huh?"
Sakura jumped at the new voice.
Ryan laughed as she turned toward him surprised.
"You scared me," Sakura admitted, smiling.
"You have swimming tomorrow?" Ryan asked, looking down at Sakura.
"Yes."
"What time?"
"At noon, I think," Sakura replied.
"Really? I do too," Ryan told her, smiling. "We'll be in it together."
"Great!" Sakura exclaimed excitedly.
"I'll see you tomorrow then," he said, running off in the opposite direction.
He quickly caught up with a group of friends waiting for him. They looked over at the young girls he had been talking with just before. They grinned.
"So, which one's the one you like?" one of them asked him.
Ryan smiled. "The one with the short brown hair."
"She certainly is a pretty little thing, isn't she?" another asked, smirking slightly. "I wouldn't mind having her for myself."
"She is pretty," Ryan told him. "But she's mine."
"Come on, didn't your mother ever teach you to share?"
Ryan grinned. "Well then, maybe you can have her after I'm done with her then."
"That's all I'm asking for." They laughed. "But do you think she'll want you?"
Ryan looked at him. "Of course…but if she doesn't, she'll have to deal with me anyway, if you know what I mean."
His friends just smiled.
***
"When are you going to learn how to wake up on time?" Kero asked, exasperated.
Sakura just turned to glare at him for a moment, before concentrating once more on getting ready in the few minutes she had left. This morning she would be on her own going to classes. Tomoyo had already left, as she had a class that had started an hour before.
Sakura quickly drew a brush threw her hair, grabbed her bag, and ran out the door and down the stairs as fast as she could, not paying attention to much of anything except getting out to the bus that would take her to the center of campus much faster than she could get there by walking.
She turned a corner of the building, running full force into another person, who quickly caught her hand before she fell back, but this only caused her to fall forward, onto the person she had run into.
The person below her gave a short grunt, as he landed hard on the cement, still holding onto Sakura's hand.
Sakura stayed there, stunned for a moment, her head resting on the chest below her.
"Uh…"
"Oh, I'm sorry," Sakura mumbled, blushing furiously. She quickly got up, still not looking into the face of the one she had crashed into, who was now also trying to get up.
"Are you okay?" she asked. She noticed some blood running slowly down his left arm. She gently took it, looking at the scrape on his elbow. "I'm so sorry," she muttered, looking down in embarrassment.
"It's okay…"
"No, you're hurt," Sakura said, pulling a small handkerchief out of her pocket.
"Sakura…"
She took his elbow, gently wrapping the handkerchief around his wound. "There, that should help until you can get some medicine on it."
She finally looked up into the eyes of the man before her. Her eyes widening in shock as she took in the unexpected person before her. He looked straight back at her, waiting for her to say something.
"Syaoran?"
***
End of chapter 2
I hoped you liked this chapter. I promise it will get better as it goes along! ^_^