A/N (from magical_critter42)- Hiya! How are ya? Good, I hope. Here's the next installment of No More Sorrow. I really hope that you enjoy it! This has been a hectic week for me, but I wanted to get this done so that the readers would be happy. Please review at the end! And I feel like I've been talking to much or something...so I'll start talking less...
Here's the thank ya's! FF.net isn't working so I can't put up stuff on those reviewers yet... but once it comes back up, I'll add more thank you's! Thanks all reviewers! Actually, thanks to anyone who has read my story^-^~
Cleo- Thank ya lots! I hope that this chapter is to your satisfaction too!^-^
Susie Q.- Heya~! Here's Chapter 6.. finally! Thanks for the push in putting it up, cause it got this chapter out a little sooner then I thought I would. Enjoy!
Helen-British? Wow... that's cool! Thanks for the review and the compliment on the stories.
Sam- Yay, I got a review in my guestbook! I dunno how long this series is gonna be. I know how I want the plot to go and stuff, so I'm thinking that it might be a while... have fun reading!
cheler-Yay, you reviewed again! *does a dance*
If you aren't on here, and ya reviewed.... i'm SOOO SOOO SOO sorry. Please write me an e-mail or something^-^ FF.net reviewers will be added soon.
No More Sorrow-Chapter 6
'I don't really see why I am going to school...' Sowjing thought to himself sitting on top of the Penguin Slide at dawn the next day. But in his heart he knew why. At first, he had gone because he thought that he'd be able to find the Clowmistress. But now he realized that the girl wanted to keep herself hidden and would not reveal herself at the school. Now his reason to stay at the school was to see Sakura. 'Beloved Sakura.... Why do I keep thinking of her? She's so nice to me...' Sowjing thought dreamily. Sliding down the slide, which was rather difficult being as his figure was too large for the kiddy slide, Sowjing smiled. 'Things are going my way. Finally. I met a pretty girl at school, my master is going to help me find the Clowmistress, and my family will be back with me soon.'
The school was flooded with people. Sowjing snaked his way through them with ease. Getting to his first class, Sowjing felt a sense of renewal and small joy.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Sakura walked to school slowly, face downcast. Her heart was still broken because of Syaoran's dislike of her, and to see him at school today was going to make her feel her even more horrible. 'Syaoran, I do love you... but now I will never be able to tell that to you because you obviously don't like me. How come you make me feel so bad all of a sudden. Yesterday, I was so happy to see you. It was the happiest day I've had for a long time..... but today....' Sakura's thought died. She was at the school. Sighing Sakura walked to her first class.
The bell rang as Sakura sat down. Putting on a smile, Sakura hoped that people would think that she was in a good mood. She did not want Syaoran to know that she was affected by what he had said earlier... Sakura wanted to be emotionally strong.
In first period class, Syaoran sat in front of Tomoyo, who sat next to Sakura. Meilin sat behind Sakura. Class was starting and everyone was seated. The teacher walked in and started droning a lecture about geometric shapes. 'Ohhhhhhh.... I hate math!! So many numbers make my head spin!' Sakura thought. Looking in front of her, she saw Syaoran writing down what the teacher was saying, listening intently. 'Figures that Syaoran gets it so perfectly,' she thought, still looking at Syaoran.
Feeling something poke her back she turned around and saw Meilin jabbing her pencil endlessly at Sakura, trying to get her attention.
"Finally! I've been poking ya for the last minute or so... geez, Sakura-chan!" Meilin whispered fervently.
Sakura whispered back, "Gomen. My mind was somewhere else... will ya stop poking ME!' The last part Sakura had yelled because Meilin had not yet quit the poking, and was doing it unintentionally. Unfortunately, the teacher heard Sakura talking and said annoyedly, "Do you got something to share with us, Kinomoto-san? I'm sure that you know what I'm teaching perfectly, right?"
Sakura's eyes widened. "Uh... uh...." was all she could manage.
"That's right!" the teacher snapped. "Well Kinomoto-san, you will just get extra homework tonight!"
Sakura slumped into her chair. Extra math homework was an awful sentence to serve for talking. Meilin leaned forward towards the slouched and whispered into Sakura's ear, "I'm soooooo sorry, Sakura-chan. I didn't mean for you to get into trouble! I need to talk to you after school today. Maybe we could go to your house after school... that way we can talk and I'll can help with the math homework."
Sakura nodded and Meilin saw it and nodded back in satisfactory. Feeling suddenly a little more happy at her growing friendship with Meilin, Sakura sat up straighter and listened to the rest of the teacher's lecture.
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Lunch had just begun. Sakura was the last person to get to the table where her circle of friends were. Sitting next to Tomoyo, Sakura took out her lunch. Syaoran was at the other end of the table, and Sakura knew that she had chose her seat for a purpose. Syaoran glanced up as she came, meeting her eyes, and blushed looking down and resumed eating his lunch. Sakura was confused by this action... but ignored it and listened to the conversation at the lunch table. Chiharu was talking about how there was going to be a cheerleading performance in a few weeks.
"I can't wait! I've been practicing the baton and I'm getting better at it...." she started.
Sakura had toned out the conversation and stared around her. Sowjing was sitting across from her, staring intently at Sakura. Noticing it, Sakura used her side vision so that Sowjing wouldn't know that she was staring back. 'Why is he staring at me?!' Turning her head, she stared into Sowjing's eyes. Sowjing looked down, being bashful. 'Weird....' Sakura thought. Though Sowjing's behavior was weird, Sakura couldn't help but note that the blue eyed boy was a nice, mysterious guy. Throughout the rest of lunch, Sakura, Sowjing, and Syaoran did not make any comments, and stayed very quiet.
The others noticed the silence, but said nothing about it. Lunch ended within the next few minutes and the peers went to their next class.
~*~*~*~*~*~
School went relativly fast for Sakura. She sat through them, mostly daydreaming about memories from the past.
Memories of Syaoran telling her that she wasn't a good cardcaptor, but helped her depsite it. Other memories where of Tomoyo's intricate dresses and how Sakura modeled them endlessly, making Tomoyo very happy. Sakura was in her dreamland of wonderful flashbacks....
~*~*~*~*~*~
Sowjing was sitting after school on a bench. 'Geez!!! When is my master gonna send the sign! I can't wait forever, if he wants the Cardmistress so soon!!' he thought annoyed. As if his thoughts triggered something, Sowjing saw a large rabid looking dog materialize out of nowhere. 'What the heck?' Sowjing thought. The dog was literally going crazy. It acted as if it was being controlled with force. Kicking it's legs in the air, the dog ran through the school grounds. Sowjing creeped close behind, hoping that something good would come about, with this wild beast roaming about.
The dog was scaring away students by showing them his razor-sharp teeth meancingly towards them. They all ran cowardly. This dog was like no other ever seen. It had black hair that stuck straight out and yellow, fire ice eyes. He was about 3 feet tall, and was currently standing waiting for attention in the middle of the school courtyard. Sowjing crouched behind a bush and waited to see what would happen.
It didn't take long for a student to walk by. Sowjing recognized him as Syaoran Li, the new student. Syaoran stopped and stared amusedly at the dog. "Hey dog. What's your problem? Shouldn't ya be at a shelter or something?" Syaoran said laughing at the ugly dog. The dog seemed to be getting mad though.
The black beast shot fire out of his mouth. "What the heck?" Syaoran yelled, moving out of the way, almost getting burnt by the dog.
Sowjing chuckled. 'So... this is my master's sign. Maybe this beast will chase this boy away and the Cardmistress will show herself. Or even better, the Cardmistress will rescue him... hehe' Sowjing thought hopefully.
But to Sowjing's amazement, Syaoran did not cower. Instead he said calmly but deadly, "Soooo... you got some magic in you." The dog's eyes fired feircly and he blew more fire out of his mouth.
Syaoran was obviously mad. He was glaring at the beast with as much as power as the beast was at him.
Taking out a peice of paper, Syaoran muttered some words under his breath and threw bolts of ice at the dog. The black animal shrieked in pain and evaporated into nothingness. Syaoran stood still for a few seconds, then shook his head. Without looking over his back, he left the scene and walked on to wherever he was going.
Sowjing was still staring amazing at the empty space where the black creature used to be. 'What was that? Did I imagine it? Or does the Li kid have magic? I'm so confused! He must be very powerful, he seemed to kill that monster with ease.....' Sowjing thought. Standing up, he went to where Syaoran and the beast had just faught. There was no evidence of anything happening and Sowjing whistled in amazement. 'That Li kid... who is he really?'
~*~*~*~*~*~
Sakura sat on the ground with her books. Meilin was right next to her, watching to see if Sakura was doing her math right and correcting her on anything that Sakura missed. Sakura was very grateful, and was glad for the company.
After school, both girls had walked home at right away. There wasn't much conversation, more of a comfortable silence.
Suddenly, Sakura felt a very small presence of magic. Looking up, Sakura narrowed her eyes, but the magic was so slight, that it felt like nothing.
Meilin noticed Sakura concentrating on something and asked, "What is it?"
Sakura shushed her. They sat in silence for a few minutes until Sakura said with a puzzled expression, "It's gone."
"What's gone?" Meilin asked.
"There was magic somewhere, I could have sworn it. But it was so dim in my mind that it could have been nothing. Oh well..." Sakura said and shrugged. Meilin shrugged too and went back to looking at Sakura's homework. But Sakura didn't continue her homework. She stared at Meilin questioningly.
"Why did you want to talk to me, Meilin-chan?" Sakura asked quietly.
Meilin sighed. Sitting on Sakura's bed she replied, "I know it isn't any of my buisness, but do you like Syaoran-kun?"
Sakura smiled slightly. Somehow, she had known that the conversation would be about Syaoran. Sakura replied hesitantly, "I really do not know."
Meilin nodded, accepting that answer. "Remember when I said that Syaoran broke the engagement because he loved another?" Meilin asekd Sakura. Sakura nodded. "Sakura.... he loves you..." Meilin said slowly but smiling.
But Sakura did not smile back. Sakura said quietly, "Meilin, I know that you're trying to be helpful in some way that I don't know of, but Syaoran does not love me. He said so yesterday. He said that he didn't love anyone. I heard it with my own ears... and that is what I must believe at the moment."
Meilin sighed deeply. "You are believing a lie..." she muttered. But Sakura was back to doing her homework. Meilin gave up for the moment and decided to help again with the school work. They worked in almost complete silence not mentioning Syaoran once again for the evening.
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Meilin walked into the apartment quietly. It was starting to get dark. "Syaoran!! I'm home!!" she yelled. But there was no answer.
Meilin's eyebrows furrowed together and she wondered what Syaoran was doing. Looking inside Syaoran's room, she noticed that he was reading some magic books with keen interest at the foot of his bed. "Whatcha up to?" Meilin asked loudly.
Syaoran jumped at hearing Meilin's voice and said angrily, "Nothing. Leave me be."
Meilin rolled her eyes. Walking over to Syaoran she looked over his shoulders. "Beasts...." Meilin said upon looking at what Syaoran was reading about. "Sooo... you're trying to see your relation to them?"
Syaoran glared at her and said, "Didn't I tell you to go away?!"
Meilin grabbed the book out of Syaoran's hand. "Tell me why you're looking at this nonsense and I'll leave. Tell me why suddenly you act as if you don't like Sakura, when a week ago you planned to come here to tell her you loved her! What could have happened in a week?!"
Syaoran sighed in defeat. "I'm looking up about monsters because I saw one at the school today. Having monsters about is NOT a normal occurance and I have to see why it was there."
"Magic..." Meilin whispered.
"What is that?" Syaoran asked.
"Oh, nothing. Sakura said that she sensed something today while I was helping her with the math," Meilin said grinning.
"What else did you tell her?!" Syaoran asked feircly.
Meilin smirked and teased, "Oh, nothing."
Syaoran glared and said, "Why I changed my mind about her is none of your buisness. Get out of my room... I've got important work to do. Gotta find out what is caused the black monster to come about."
Meilin shrugged and said, "Whatever..."
She left the room. Syaoran sat in silence and thought to himself, "I wonder what Meilin said to Sakura..."
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A/N-- Hi again!! I hope that you liked this chapter. Uh-oh... Sowjing saw Syaoran use his magic.... what will come about from that? Hehe, you'll find out soon!!
Thank you all for your reviews! They really help me finish my chapters... knowing that there are people anticipating reading it. I just put up a new story called, "Flowers for my Girl." It's an S+S story and I hope that you like it!
Please review!!! *Hugs all readers* Thanks for reading too! My e-mail addy is ssforever@clowmistress.com in case ya want to e-mail me. Bye for now! Love ya lots!!
Here's the thank ya's! FF.net isn't working so I can't put up stuff on those reviewers yet... but once it comes back up, I'll add more thank you's! Thanks all reviewers! Actually, thanks to anyone who has read my story^-^~
Cleo- Thank ya lots! I hope that this chapter is to your satisfaction too!^-^
Susie Q.- Heya~! Here's Chapter 6.. finally! Thanks for the push in putting it up, cause it got this chapter out a little sooner then I thought I would. Enjoy!
Helen-British? Wow... that's cool! Thanks for the review and the compliment on the stories.
Sam- Yay, I got a review in my guestbook! I dunno how long this series is gonna be. I know how I want the plot to go and stuff, so I'm thinking that it might be a while... have fun reading!
cheler-Yay, you reviewed again! *does a dance*
If you aren't on here, and ya reviewed.... i'm SOOO SOOO SOO sorry. Please write me an e-mail or something^-^ FF.net reviewers will be added soon.
No More Sorrow-Chapter 6
'I don't really see why I am going to school...' Sowjing thought to himself sitting on top of the Penguin Slide at dawn the next day. But in his heart he knew why. At first, he had gone because he thought that he'd be able to find the Clowmistress. But now he realized that the girl wanted to keep herself hidden and would not reveal herself at the school. Now his reason to stay at the school was to see Sakura. 'Beloved Sakura.... Why do I keep thinking of her? She's so nice to me...' Sowjing thought dreamily. Sliding down the slide, which was rather difficult being as his figure was too large for the kiddy slide, Sowjing smiled. 'Things are going my way. Finally. I met a pretty girl at school, my master is going to help me find the Clowmistress, and my family will be back with me soon.'
The school was flooded with people. Sowjing snaked his way through them with ease. Getting to his first class, Sowjing felt a sense of renewal and small joy.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Sakura walked to school slowly, face downcast. Her heart was still broken because of Syaoran's dislike of her, and to see him at school today was going to make her feel her even more horrible. 'Syaoran, I do love you... but now I will never be able to tell that to you because you obviously don't like me. How come you make me feel so bad all of a sudden. Yesterday, I was so happy to see you. It was the happiest day I've had for a long time..... but today....' Sakura's thought died. She was at the school. Sighing Sakura walked to her first class.
The bell rang as Sakura sat down. Putting on a smile, Sakura hoped that people would think that she was in a good mood. She did not want Syaoran to know that she was affected by what he had said earlier... Sakura wanted to be emotionally strong.
In first period class, Syaoran sat in front of Tomoyo, who sat next to Sakura. Meilin sat behind Sakura. Class was starting and everyone was seated. The teacher walked in and started droning a lecture about geometric shapes. 'Ohhhhhhh.... I hate math!! So many numbers make my head spin!' Sakura thought. Looking in front of her, she saw Syaoran writing down what the teacher was saying, listening intently. 'Figures that Syaoran gets it so perfectly,' she thought, still looking at Syaoran.
Feeling something poke her back she turned around and saw Meilin jabbing her pencil endlessly at Sakura, trying to get her attention.
"Finally! I've been poking ya for the last minute or so... geez, Sakura-chan!" Meilin whispered fervently.
Sakura whispered back, "Gomen. My mind was somewhere else... will ya stop poking ME!' The last part Sakura had yelled because Meilin had not yet quit the poking, and was doing it unintentionally. Unfortunately, the teacher heard Sakura talking and said annoyedly, "Do you got something to share with us, Kinomoto-san? I'm sure that you know what I'm teaching perfectly, right?"
Sakura's eyes widened. "Uh... uh...." was all she could manage.
"That's right!" the teacher snapped. "Well Kinomoto-san, you will just get extra homework tonight!"
Sakura slumped into her chair. Extra math homework was an awful sentence to serve for talking. Meilin leaned forward towards the slouched and whispered into Sakura's ear, "I'm soooooo sorry, Sakura-chan. I didn't mean for you to get into trouble! I need to talk to you after school today. Maybe we could go to your house after school... that way we can talk and I'll can help with the math homework."
Sakura nodded and Meilin saw it and nodded back in satisfactory. Feeling suddenly a little more happy at her growing friendship with Meilin, Sakura sat up straighter and listened to the rest of the teacher's lecture.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Lunch had just begun. Sakura was the last person to get to the table where her circle of friends were. Sitting next to Tomoyo, Sakura took out her lunch. Syaoran was at the other end of the table, and Sakura knew that she had chose her seat for a purpose. Syaoran glanced up as she came, meeting her eyes, and blushed looking down and resumed eating his lunch. Sakura was confused by this action... but ignored it and listened to the conversation at the lunch table. Chiharu was talking about how there was going to be a cheerleading performance in a few weeks.
"I can't wait! I've been practicing the baton and I'm getting better at it...." she started.
Sakura had toned out the conversation and stared around her. Sowjing was sitting across from her, staring intently at Sakura. Noticing it, Sakura used her side vision so that Sowjing wouldn't know that she was staring back. 'Why is he staring at me?!' Turning her head, she stared into Sowjing's eyes. Sowjing looked down, being bashful. 'Weird....' Sakura thought. Though Sowjing's behavior was weird, Sakura couldn't help but note that the blue eyed boy was a nice, mysterious guy. Throughout the rest of lunch, Sakura, Sowjing, and Syaoran did not make any comments, and stayed very quiet.
The others noticed the silence, but said nothing about it. Lunch ended within the next few minutes and the peers went to their next class.
~*~*~*~*~*~
School went relativly fast for Sakura. She sat through them, mostly daydreaming about memories from the past.
Memories of Syaoran telling her that she wasn't a good cardcaptor, but helped her depsite it. Other memories where of Tomoyo's intricate dresses and how Sakura modeled them endlessly, making Tomoyo very happy. Sakura was in her dreamland of wonderful flashbacks....
~*~*~*~*~*~
Sowjing was sitting after school on a bench. 'Geez!!! When is my master gonna send the sign! I can't wait forever, if he wants the Cardmistress so soon!!' he thought annoyed. As if his thoughts triggered something, Sowjing saw a large rabid looking dog materialize out of nowhere. 'What the heck?' Sowjing thought. The dog was literally going crazy. It acted as if it was being controlled with force. Kicking it's legs in the air, the dog ran through the school grounds. Sowjing creeped close behind, hoping that something good would come about, with this wild beast roaming about.
The dog was scaring away students by showing them his razor-sharp teeth meancingly towards them. They all ran cowardly. This dog was like no other ever seen. It had black hair that stuck straight out and yellow, fire ice eyes. He was about 3 feet tall, and was currently standing waiting for attention in the middle of the school courtyard. Sowjing crouched behind a bush and waited to see what would happen.
It didn't take long for a student to walk by. Sowjing recognized him as Syaoran Li, the new student. Syaoran stopped and stared amusedly at the dog. "Hey dog. What's your problem? Shouldn't ya be at a shelter or something?" Syaoran said laughing at the ugly dog. The dog seemed to be getting mad though.
The black beast shot fire out of his mouth. "What the heck?" Syaoran yelled, moving out of the way, almost getting burnt by the dog.
Sowjing chuckled. 'So... this is my master's sign. Maybe this beast will chase this boy away and the Cardmistress will show herself. Or even better, the Cardmistress will rescue him... hehe' Sowjing thought hopefully.
But to Sowjing's amazement, Syaoran did not cower. Instead he said calmly but deadly, "Soooo... you got some magic in you." The dog's eyes fired feircly and he blew more fire out of his mouth.
Syaoran was obviously mad. He was glaring at the beast with as much as power as the beast was at him.
Taking out a peice of paper, Syaoran muttered some words under his breath and threw bolts of ice at the dog. The black animal shrieked in pain and evaporated into nothingness. Syaoran stood still for a few seconds, then shook his head. Without looking over his back, he left the scene and walked on to wherever he was going.
Sowjing was still staring amazing at the empty space where the black creature used to be. 'What was that? Did I imagine it? Or does the Li kid have magic? I'm so confused! He must be very powerful, he seemed to kill that monster with ease.....' Sowjing thought. Standing up, he went to where Syaoran and the beast had just faught. There was no evidence of anything happening and Sowjing whistled in amazement. 'That Li kid... who is he really?'
~*~*~*~*~*~
Sakura sat on the ground with her books. Meilin was right next to her, watching to see if Sakura was doing her math right and correcting her on anything that Sakura missed. Sakura was very grateful, and was glad for the company.
After school, both girls had walked home at right away. There wasn't much conversation, more of a comfortable silence.
Suddenly, Sakura felt a very small presence of magic. Looking up, Sakura narrowed her eyes, but the magic was so slight, that it felt like nothing.
Meilin noticed Sakura concentrating on something and asked, "What is it?"
Sakura shushed her. They sat in silence for a few minutes until Sakura said with a puzzled expression, "It's gone."
"What's gone?" Meilin asked.
"There was magic somewhere, I could have sworn it. But it was so dim in my mind that it could have been nothing. Oh well..." Sakura said and shrugged. Meilin shrugged too and went back to looking at Sakura's homework. But Sakura didn't continue her homework. She stared at Meilin questioningly.
"Why did you want to talk to me, Meilin-chan?" Sakura asked quietly.
Meilin sighed. Sitting on Sakura's bed she replied, "I know it isn't any of my buisness, but do you like Syaoran-kun?"
Sakura smiled slightly. Somehow, she had known that the conversation would be about Syaoran. Sakura replied hesitantly, "I really do not know."
Meilin nodded, accepting that answer. "Remember when I said that Syaoran broke the engagement because he loved another?" Meilin asekd Sakura. Sakura nodded. "Sakura.... he loves you..." Meilin said slowly but smiling.
But Sakura did not smile back. Sakura said quietly, "Meilin, I know that you're trying to be helpful in some way that I don't know of, but Syaoran does not love me. He said so yesterday. He said that he didn't love anyone. I heard it with my own ears... and that is what I must believe at the moment."
Meilin sighed deeply. "You are believing a lie..." she muttered. But Sakura was back to doing her homework. Meilin gave up for the moment and decided to help again with the school work. They worked in almost complete silence not mentioning Syaoran once again for the evening.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Meilin walked into the apartment quietly. It was starting to get dark. "Syaoran!! I'm home!!" she yelled. But there was no answer.
Meilin's eyebrows furrowed together and she wondered what Syaoran was doing. Looking inside Syaoran's room, she noticed that he was reading some magic books with keen interest at the foot of his bed. "Whatcha up to?" Meilin asked loudly.
Syaoran jumped at hearing Meilin's voice and said angrily, "Nothing. Leave me be."
Meilin rolled her eyes. Walking over to Syaoran she looked over his shoulders. "Beasts...." Meilin said upon looking at what Syaoran was reading about. "Sooo... you're trying to see your relation to them?"
Syaoran glared at her and said, "Didn't I tell you to go away?!"
Meilin grabbed the book out of Syaoran's hand. "Tell me why you're looking at this nonsense and I'll leave. Tell me why suddenly you act as if you don't like Sakura, when a week ago you planned to come here to tell her you loved her! What could have happened in a week?!"
Syaoran sighed in defeat. "I'm looking up about monsters because I saw one at the school today. Having monsters about is NOT a normal occurance and I have to see why it was there."
"Magic..." Meilin whispered.
"What is that?" Syaoran asked.
"Oh, nothing. Sakura said that she sensed something today while I was helping her with the math," Meilin said grinning.
"What else did you tell her?!" Syaoran asked feircly.
Meilin smirked and teased, "Oh, nothing."
Syaoran glared and said, "Why I changed my mind about her is none of your buisness. Get out of my room... I've got important work to do. Gotta find out what is caused the black monster to come about."
Meilin shrugged and said, "Whatever..."
She left the room. Syaoran sat in silence and thought to himself, "I wonder what Meilin said to Sakura..."
~*~*~*~*~*~
A/N-- Hi again!! I hope that you liked this chapter. Uh-oh... Sowjing saw Syaoran use his magic.... what will come about from that? Hehe, you'll find out soon!!
Thank you all for your reviews! They really help me finish my chapters... knowing that there are people anticipating reading it. I just put up a new story called, "Flowers for my Girl." It's an S+S story and I hope that you like it!
Please review!!! *Hugs all readers* Thanks for reading too! My e-mail addy is ssforever@clowmistress.com in case ya want to e-mail me. Bye for now! Love ya lots!!