A/N: I conceived this idea whilst showering...yea, and then I thought, "...wait...did I already shampoo?" Anyways, age the cast about 3 or 4 years up. They now attend high school together, BUT Syaoran has not confessed his love for Sakura. Dun dun dunn..But him and Sakura are friends. Enjoy! Oh and BTW, the chapter titles have very little to do with the actual chapters...I don't really like writing titles, so I just put in any old thing. --miha
Disclaimer: The CCS characters are chained to the bedposts of CLAMP. Not mine. *sniff*
BONK!
"Gack!" Sakura Kinomoto sat up in the grass, steadying herself with one hand and rubbing her head with the other. The world spun before her eyes as she groped around her for her books. When her vision settled, she saw the orange basketball that hit her head slowly rolling away. 'Stupid ball,' she thought as she stood up and brushed the grass off of her navy blue uniform.
"Sakura! Are you alright?" Syaoran Li ran over to retrieve the basketball. "Sorry 'bout that...my aim needs a little work..."
"A little? The hoop is *that* way..." she said with a smirk, pointing towards the opposite way in which the ball flew.
Syaoran scratched his head and replied, "Yea, well I'm not the only one who should be practicing their aim...I saw you at volleyball practice and where did the ball go?"
"Bhdm." Sakura said, looking down.
"You're mumbling, I can't hear you!" Syaoran smiled as he teased her.
"Bhndm."
"What's that?"
"Behind me!"
"There we go..." Syaoran said as he patted her on the back. He looked up when he heard his friends calling to him. "I'll see you in Algebra!"
She waved and smiled as picked up her bag.
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"You put your hair up differently today," Tomoyo Daidouji said to her friend as they moved down the lunch line.
"Yea...I didn't have a brush handy this morning after I got hit in the head by Syaoran's basketball..." Sakura told her.
After paying, they both carried their trays as they walked to their table.
"...and the net was all the way over there and it just had to fly into my head..." Sakura relayed the events of the morning to her friend.
"I know, I saw you from a window in the AV room. I was gonna wave, but when I saw Syaoran go over to you, I didn't want to...oh..." Tomoyo caught herself. "Nothing. ^.^ "
Sakura urged her friend to continue as she set her tray on the table and sat down. "You didn't want to...?"
"Nothing. I was just going off on a tangent...^.^"
Sakura looked at her with curiosity. "Okay...but if you wanna say it...I wanna hear it..."
Tomoyo smiled at her assuringly. 'I didn't want to interrupt anything.'
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Sakura walked out of Algebra with a grim look on her face and a couple of hairs sproing loose. "Katayama-sensei gave me a C- on that last quiz...I'm gonna fail next week's test!" She told Syaoran as they walked towards their lockers together. "Let me guess...you got another shining A+?" Sakura asked, spinning the combination lock. She looked up and was faced with Syaoran's quiz marked with a big, fat, red A+.
Sakura groaned as she took the quiz from him and flipped through the pages. "How do you do it? You don't even seem like you have to try..."
Syaoran shrugged and told her, "I guess it just comes naturally for me."
"I study every night...but it just doesn't register in my head." Sakura said as she handed back his paper and began taking out the books she needed.
"I could help you if you wanted," Syaoran offered, packing up his bookbag. He suddenly found Sakura clinging to his arm.
"Oh! You would do that? I'd appreciate that SO MUCH! Thank you, thank you so much!" she said as she threw her arms around his neck and hugged him tight. She caught a glance at her watch and said, "Oh! I remember I promised Tomoyo I'd meet her out front. You can come to my house this Friday after 6...by then Kero is usually out terrorizing squirrels or something, so he won't be pestering you. Thanks again!" She hurriedly said as she waved and ran off.
Syaoran waved back and smiled.
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A/N: Whew. That was fun. Review! Review and I'll post more! Woohoo! Oh, and I didn't really know what to name this story so I browsed my MP3 collection and named it "Say It Ain't So" after the Weezer song by the same name. I didn't name it after the song because there's a relevance to the lyrics and the story plot...'cause there isn't. ^.^. I just thought, you know, what the hey.--miha