Okie dokie. I'm back. With a new chapter. I hope you like it, or else I'm not writing again. For real. Here's chapter 7.

A HIDDEN PLACE (chapter seven)

"Sakura, you are kidding me, right?" she said, still recovering from the shock. Sakura nodded.
"It's not funny, I mean, he's marrying your sister, and this can't be good, because..." said Sakura, but Tomoyo stopped her.
"He's not marrying her anymore, not after what you just told me" she said, very excited, and told her all about Kathy.
"What? That woman, I'm gonna kill her..." started Sakura, she got up, ready for it, but Tomoyo forced her to go back to the bed.
"No, no, no! Actually, what I want is to give her a lesson" she started. Then she told her about her plan with Eriol about putting them together.
"You are insane, Tomoyo. For real. How could you two do this to me?" asked Sakura, kinda mad, but Tomoyo started to laugh.
"This is the good thing about it. You REALLY like him, so we are helping you to get Syaoran's heart. No, correction, we are helping you to convince him to don't marry my sister" said Tomoyo.
"But he loves your sister" said Sakura. "I want him to be happy, and if he is happy with her, then I'll let him be"
"Oh, no, he doesn't. Eriol saw it. He could see it. And I saw it too" she said.

Sakura couldn't believe this was happening. It seemed like a movie.

"Ok, I'll take it as a yes. Now get dressed and I'm going to talk to Eriol" she said, leaving her room. Sakura nodded, and got up. She put a pair of jeans and a white tank top. She went down stairs and fell in the couch. Was it true what Tomoyo ahd told her? That Syaoran liked her? 'No, he told Kathy yesterday that he loved her. Come on, Sakura, react, that can't happen' she thought.
If only she knew what was happening upstairs when she was talking with Tomoyo.

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After Eriol told everything about his date with Tomoyo to Syaoran, he noticed that the phone was kinda broken.

"What did you do to your phone, cute little cousin?" he said. Syaoran glared at him and made as if nothing had happened.
"I threw it to the wall" he said. Eriol's smile dissapeared.
"Something's wrong here. First; you didn't yell at me for calling you 'cute little cousin'. And second; you told me what happened to your phone without yelling me to get into my own bussiness. What happened, Syaoran?" he asked, concerned about it. Syaoran sighed.
"You are gonna kill me, dude" he said.
"Tell me now, ok?" said Eriol.
"Fine" he said, and took a deep breath. 'Where do I start?' he thought. Then he decided to start for the facts.
"I think I'm in love with your little sister" he said.
"WHAT?!?!" asked Eriol. Syaoran shook his head.
"I told you, now you wanna kill me" he said, and Eriol interrupted.
"Syaoran, what are you doing? You are getting married in two weeks, you can't just go and fall in love with someone just like that, and besides... SHE'S LIKE YOUR SISTER!" yelled Eriol, but Syaoran made him calm down.
"I know that, stupid, I DO know. I'm getting married, and Sakura is like my little sister, but I can't help it. When I found out she wasn't my cousin, things happened very fast. We spend a lot of time together, and it went out of control!" said Syaoran. It was a weird situation for him too. "Yesterday we almost kissed. But then Kathy called and she heard me talking to her. She doesn't wanna get into my relationship, so she doesn't wanna know anything about it" he said, very sad. Eriol got sad for him, but inside he was very happy. 'This is really working out' he thought. Then he went and tapped his shoulder.
"Don't worry. But you have to figure this out and fast. You are still in time to call out the wedding. And I warn you something: if you hurt her in anyway, you are just another guy. You are not my cousin. Got it?" he said. Syaoran nodded and laughed.
"I've never seen your overprotective brother side until now" he said.
"I'm just continuing the job Touya left incomplete" he said, with a shrug. It was true, Touya had been very protective to Sakura, and since he died, Eriol wasn't spenting time with Sakura, so now he was playing the role Touya told him to: "Protect Sakura from everything". He was gonna do it like Touya would have.
"I will. But I still don't know what I'm gonna do" said Syaoran. Eriol decided to leave him alone. He went to his room and there he met a very excited Tomoyo.

"Eriol, you'll never guess what Sakura told me" she said. Eriol looked at her. He wasn't expecting anything.
"What?"
"She's in love with Syaoran" she said. His face was suddenly happy.
"Really?" he asked. She nodded. "Well I have good news for you" he said.
"What news?" she asked. She wasn't expecting this either.
"He's in love with my little sister" he said. Tomoyo smiled and hugged him.
"This is getting even better that what I expected!!" she said. "So what do we do?"
"He's confused, he doesn't know what to do. I told her to not hurt her, I just hope he makes the right choice" he said.
"I told Sakura all about Kathy, she was confused as well, because she thinks that Syaoran loves Kathy and she doesn't wanna get into it" she added, sitting on his bed.
"Yeah, Syaoran told me" he said, sitting next to her. "I think that we must give both of them a little push. To let them know that the other feels the same way" said Eriol, taking her hand.
"I have a great idea. But you have to help me" said Tomoyo. He kissed her hand. "Anything for you" he said. Tomoyo smiled and kissed him. He kissed her back. Their plan was ready. They just needed to see the results.

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Syaoran walked downstairs, and saw Sakura sitted on the couch. He sighed deeply. 'I have to talk to her'. So he went and sitted next to her. She didn't do anything.

"Did you hear what happened yesterday?" he asked.
"Yeah" she said, surprised that he was there talking to her, but didn't show it. "I still can't believe it" added.
"Weird. Those two are really crazy" he said.
"That's why they get along so well" she explained. She couldn't take it anymore. She took a deep breath. "Look, about yesterday..."
"It's ok" he interrupted. He didn't knew what he was going to do. He didn't wanted to hurt Kathy's feelings. But there was something he knew: he wasn't letting Sakura go.
"Do you love her?" she asked. He looked at her. She looked at him too. He expected her to ask him anything, except for that. "Tell me, do you love Kathy?" she asked again.
"I don't know" he said. "I'm confused right now". Sakura started to think. 'Tomoyo is right, I can't let him to marry her. She doesn't love him. Maybe I should tell him'. She took a breath but the phone rang and Sakura couldn't tell anything. She picked up.

"Hello?" she said. "Hi, Josh, how are you?..... Yeah, I'm fine..... Today? Uh..... Ok, that sounds good.... See you later.... bye" she hanged up. She looked at Syaoran, and she could tell that he was kinda angry.
"What did he wanted?" he asked, with a hint of jealousy in his voice. Boy, he was mad.
"He asked me if I wanted to go out with him today" she said, very normal.
"And you said yes?" he asked again, even more jealous than before. Sakura didn't notest this, so she continued.
"Yeah, he's one of my best friends. What's wrong with it?" she asked, noticing that Syaoran didn't agree with that.
"Are you sure his intentions are good?" he asked. He didn't bother in hiding how mad he was.
"What's wrong with you? I'm just going out with him" she said, and now she was getting mad.
"Yeah, but that can be something else later" replied Syaoran, and they were cut off by a male voice.
"Hey, Syaoran, that's my job!" said Eriol. "I'm the overprotective one here" he said, winking at Tomoyo. She caught the game and continued.
"If it wasn't for it, I would swear that you are jealous, Syaoran" she said. He turned to face her.
"I'M NOT JEALOUS!!" he yelled. Sakura got scared.
"Uh.... I better go" she said, and ran to the kitchen. Syaoran looked at her. Eriol and Tomoyo smiled at eachother.
"Why don't you tell her, Syaoran?" said Tomoyo.
"I don't want to hurt your sister" he said, almost whispering.
"I don't think you would do that" answered Tomoyo. "I'll give you my prove later" Syaoran turned to look at her, but she wasn't there anymore. It was just Eriol.
"What did she meant by that?" he asked. Eriol shrugged.

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Sakura walked until she saw Josh sitted on a bench in the park.

"Hi, Josh!" she said, when she got there. He looked at her and smiled.
"Hi, Sakura" he said. She kissed him on the cheek. "It took you awhile"
"Yeah, there was a small discussion at my house" she said, embarrased. He just smiled. "So, where are we going?" she asked.
"I thought we could go and eat something and just talk" he said. She nodded happily. They went walking and chating, not knowing the twist things were gonna have that afternoon.

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Tomoyo struggled to take a box out of the closet. When she did, she fell of the chair she was standing on, but she fell on the bed. She sighed.

"Thank you bed, for being here" she said, and started to pick up the things that were on the floor. Then she started to search for something into the box. Eriol suddenly entered the room, alarmed for Tomoyo's scream when she fell.
"Tomoyo, are you ok?" he said, and when he saw her going insane looking for something, he sighed. "What are you searching for?" he asked.
"YES! Found it!!" she said. Eriol sweatdropped.
"Tomoyo, what's that?" he asked again. She realized she wasn't alone and sit next to him.
"Ok, here's the story: I love taping, and one day I was taping some dresses in my special room, back at where I live...." started Tomoyo.
"Wait, what's your special room?" asked Eriol, kinda lost in the story.
"It's a room where I keep all the designs I create. I use it only for that. Well, the point is that I was one day taping some dresses with me as the model, so the camera was on a tripod. Only I was there. Then I got an urgent phone call and had to go, but I forgot to turn out the camera. And it continued recording. When I came back later I realized this, so I started to rewind, and guess what was on it?" she asked.
"What?" asked Eriol.
"It recorded my sister and one of Syaoran's best friends making out in MY special room" she said. Eriol opened his eyes, not believing what he was hearing.
"You mean you got Kathy's infidelity on tape?" he said.
"Yeah. It's with the date and everything, and it was a few days after Syaoran and Kathy announced they were getting married" said Tomoyo, taking her camera out and putting all the connections on the TV.
"And how do you know it wasn't a one day thing?" he asked, intrigued.
"And there's where it enters my genius. Kathy and this guy go to the same classes, so they do lots of works together. I remembered that this day she had said that she had work to do. So, I started to pay attention to my sister's daily actions, and one day she said she had work..."
"You placed the camera again in your room" he ended. "You are a genius, Tomoyo"
"I know" she answered, smiling. "And it recorded my sister and the same guy again. I don't know how they didn't realized the camera was there" she said, turning the TV on.
"Maybe they had their attention on something else" he said, and Tomoyo laughed.
"Here's fact" she said, and they watched a bit of it. In efect, it showed Kathy and another guy kissing, and slowly taking their clothes off. Tomoyo stopped it.
"Hey, but it had just started!" said Eriol.
"Well, after that, things are getting very nasty" said Tomoyo. "Believe me, I saw it and it's disgusting" she added. Eriol shrugged.
"So, are you giving this to Syaoran?" he asked.
"He has to know. If I tell him, he won't believe me." she said, and sighed. "He has to see this to believe it. It's gonna hurt him a bit, but it's better that he knows now that is still time". Eriol nodded. She placed her head in his shoulder and he hugged her. This was getting complicated.

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Sakura and Josh were walking down the street, and were in front of Sakura's house now. They were laughing.

"I can't believe he actually ate it" she said. "And he liked it!"
"That's the worst part. Oh, I'm not going to eat there again" he said, panting, because he had been laughing a lot and now was tired.
"We are here" she said. And turned to Josh. "Thanks for today, I had so much fun" she said smiling. He took a deep breath, what he was going to do was very hard.
"I need to tell you something first" he said, and Sakura nodded. "All this time that we've been friends, something is happening to me, and..." he stopped. She had an idea of what he was gonna say. "I think I love you" he said.
Sakura stood there. She always thought their relationship was only friends. She never had more interest in him than that. And she never imagined that he had feelings beyond friendship for her.
"I... I don't know" she said. He moved closer to her and before she knew, he was kissing her. She didn't had the strenght to move him away.
She would have move him away if she could see that someone with amber eyes and messy chestnut hair was watching them from the window.

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Done it! I'm trying to improve my grammar and everything, so please, understand me!! I'm on vacations right now, so I have lots of time to write. But, in a few weeks I'm going to the beach and I don't know if I will find a computer with Internet there. So maybe I won't be posting for a while. But I'll post before I leave, so don't worry. As usual, please review!! It just takes a little time, so tell me what you think of this. See ya later!!