Learning to Love

Chapter 2: Reflecting on some things...(Also called: Getting to the Airport)

Scene starts out with Tomoyo's apartment, Dec 6, time is 7:30am...

*Yawns* "Oh my....what time is it?" Tomoyo then turns to her right and looks at her alarm clock seeing the time is 7:30. She groans and slowly gets out of bed and goes to her closet to pick out something to wear. "It will be very cold when I get to Tomoeda...so I guess I should wear a turtle neck and some jeans..." She then took off her pajamas and quickly put on a maroon colored turtle neck and some loose comfortable blue jeans.

She then began to walk around her room aimlessly, as if she were searching for something when she didn't even know she was. "What has happened to me...I am so different from the person I used to be....so cold and unforgiving..." She then picked up a picture of Syaoran, Sakura, and herself when they were 10. "Oh how those were better days...when I had friends..."

She knew exactly why she became so different. Being in London away from her friends put a great deal of strain on her mentally and she just couldn't take it... She just became so cold and distant so she wouldn't have to deal with the pain, the absence of friendship in her heart...

"Well, I better get my stuff and call a taxi..." She then got her luggage, called a taxi, and walked down so she could wait for the taxi.

A small house on the corner of some street comes into view, and noises can be heard....

"Eriol-san! It's 7:30, wake up! You are going to miss your plane!" screamed Nakuru, which could be heard throughout the house. Eriol woke up and wished Nakuru wouldn't make so much noise in the morning. He wondered what was to happen on his journey to Tomoeda, and who would he encounter...

He slowly rose from his bed and immediately got dressed in a white shirt and khaki pants and put on a gray sweater, which had been a gift from someone long ago who he just couldn't remember (A/N: Hint hint, guess who made it ^-^) and started getting his things together ready to embark on his journey.

"Nakuru, are you sure you won't come with? It will give you a chance to see old friends, like Touya and Yukito-san," he looked at her awaiting her answer.

"It would be nice to see them again, but I have this feeling that you need to go on this trip alone Eriol-san..." she said looking up at the sky with softened eyes.

"Okay then, I'm off! See you in a couple of weeks!" he said as he went into the taxi and started on his way to the airport.

An airport in London, now 8:00 am, with tons and tons of people crowding the place, trying to go fly somewhere for the holidays...

"Argh! Why does there have to be so many retched people going places for the holidays?! It's absolutely atrocious (A/N: Sophisticated words, eh? hehe) trying to find my way around this place..." exclaimed Tomoyo, as she walked around the airport trying to find where her plane terminal was at so she could be on her way to Tomoeda. She spotted the terminal and quickly pushed through the crowd to get there, and just as she was about to reach it she bumped into someone and immediately fell to the floor, letting go of all of her luggage which now lay all around her. She began to get angry and looked up to see who she had bumped into.

"Why don't you watch where you are going!? You could have hurt me! And then I would have had the pleasure of suing you for injuries inflicted upon me!" She looked up to see it was a man, looking in his very early 20's with black tinted blue hair and sparkling sapphire eyes looking down upon her chuckling.

"I'm very sorry miss, I didn't see you. I hope that you aren't hurt," he said with genuine concern in his voice. He puts his arms around her and helps her up, at the same time feeling as though this felt right, natural you could say having this young lady in his embrace, as though fate had them meet. He quickly threw those thoughts away for the moment and put his focus back on the concern of this young lady. He reluctantly let her go and picked up her things and handed them to her. "Well, I will just be on my way, it was nice meeting with you, even though it was under bad circumstances, ja ne," he then goes on his way to the terminal that she had been going to, though she did not see him go that way.

She felt very strange at the moment, being in the embrace of a man she didn't even know made her feel warm inside, wishing they had stayed in that embrace. She shook her head, telling herself that she was thinking and feeling nonsense and handed her ticket to the lady at the terminal door and went to the plane to take her seat. Tomoyo sat down on the aisle seat and looked to her right and her face was filled with surpirse. "It's you again," she said quietly.

The man who Tomoyo had bumped into was to be her acquaintance for the duration of her trip to Tomoeda.

"Why hello again, I had a feeling we would meet again. Since we will be sitting next to each other we might as well know each other's names, ne? My name is Eriol Hiiragizawa," he said as he extended his hand out to her.

'Why does that name sound so familiar?' she wondered. She then looked at his hand and took it shaking it lightly. "My name is Tomoyo Daidouji," she told him continuing to shake his hand.

'Tomoyo Daidouji? Her name sounds so familiar, she looks familiar to me too, I just can't remember where I have seen her befo...' but before he could finish his train of thought he was interrupted by Tomoyo.

"Just so you know I don't plan on talking to you much throughout this flight. Just keep to yourself and same goes for me...I just want to be left alone..." she then turns away from him, withdrawing her hand from his and starts working on her laptop.

He then tried to remember where he had met this lady before... then it hit him. 'She is one of my old friends from Tomoeda...the one I used to like alot...though she doesn't remember me. My she is much different now then when she was younger, so cold. Looks like she has forgotten how to love...maybe I can help her learn again...'

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Author's note: And that is where I will now stop. Well well looks like Eriol is cooking up a plan for love. Wonder what will happen next, well you will just have to wait and see! And sorry that I put this chap up so late, its just I have been swamped with homework and more work its been hectic. I will make sure to put up the next chap soon. Please Read and Review! Thank you!