The Bottom Of A Crystal Heart
Chapter 1
18 year old Sakura Kinomoto looked up as Tomoyo Daidouji, her house mate and best friend, walked into the room.
"Hi Sakura, you studying again?" she sighed when Sakura nodded, "Sakura! I demand that you stop studying and come out to Chiharu's party tonight! You've been studying too much. Come on, the exams are weeks away!" Sakura laughed, closed her books and stood up.
"Okay, I'll come, but don't expect me to have too much fun. I don't really like parties very much," all Sakura really wanted to do was stay at home and study as she knew that all the boys at the party would ignore her. The boys around the town knew that Sakura didn't date and if they tried to get her on a date she would use her martial arts skills on them, if her brother didn't.
"Sakura, you'll be fine! You know that you don't like parties because they take you away from your books. If you are too bored you can always walk home; it's only 2 minutes away," Tomoyo assured her, "now come and get ready or we'll be late. I made you a new dress; it's on your bed."
"Thanks Tomoyo, I don't know what I'd do without you," Sakura said, a bit of jealousy in her voice. She walked out of the living room and into her room. On the bed lay a shiny pink dress that was perfect for Sakura. It just reached her knees and had spaghetti straps to keep it up. It had a low curving neck and the dress fit perfectly (of course.)
"Tomoyo it's beautiful!" she exclaimed as she twirled around, looking at herself in the mirror, "Thank you so much!"
"Don't worry about it; I love making clothes," she replied as she came into the room and saw Sakura, "you look really pretty in that dress Sakura! You really should wear dresses like that more often!" Sakura's emerald eyes shined at the complement.
"Thanks Tomoyo! You're not looking that bad either! In fact, you look really beautiful. Let me guess, you designed your dress too?" Sakura looked at her best friend. Tomoyo was in a dress like Sakura's, but hers was purple. The purple in the dress highlighted Tomoyo's amethyst eyes and her dark hair perfectly.
"Thank you Sakura! Now, we'd better go before we're late," Tomoyo almost pushed Sakura out of the door after making sure they both had their bags.
"Tomoyo, what's the rush?" Sakura asked as she watched her friend almost run, dragging Sakura along with her.
"There's no rush, it's just that I told Ken that I'd be there at 7, and it's already 6:59!" she exclaimed, making her pace faster.
"Oh, I knew it had something to do with him. Why do you like him so much? Everyone knows he is a jerk," Sakura tried to slow down but Tomoyo dragged her along harder now, "and anyway, it's only two minutes away. At the pace we're going we're going to have made this trip in 30 seconds!"
"Ken is not a jerk! He's the best guy that I know! He's caring and." Sakura stopped listening as her friend rambled on about her boyfriend. Everyone but Tomoyo knew that Ken was up to no good and Sakura could have sworn that she had seen Ken kiss another girl while he was still dating Tomoyo, but her friend wouldn't listen to anybody telling her bad things about him.
"Yeah, yeah, I get it," Sakura mumbled as they arrived at Chiharu's house, "let's go in so you can see your darling." They went inside and Tomoyo immediately sought out Ken and kissed him on the cheek. Sakura rolled her eyes and went to stand in the corner as Chiharu was busy at the moment. Yamazaki Takashi, Chiharu's boyfriend since they were 16, approached Sakura and greeted her.
"Hi Sakura! How are you?" Takashi asked as he stood next to her.
"Hi Tak, (everyone's nickname for Takashi), I'm all right. You?" Tak had been one of her really good friends since they were about 7 years old.
"I'm very happy today for some reason. I'm really glad you could come Sakura and I know Chiharu is glad too," Tak replied and he watched as Sakura blushed.
"I might have to leave early. You know how parties aren't my favourite pastime," Sakura admitted as she looked around the room, "You and Chiharu really did do a great job decorating you know."
"Yeah, we were inspired to decorate the house today. It's a different type of party today than usual. It's a dinner party for once. We were a bit sick of the usual parties, so we decided to have a dinner one. Where's Tomoyo? I haven't seen her yet," Tak looked around the room, but Tomoyo had disappeared.
"She's busy talking to Ken," Sakura rolled her eyes, "she seems to believe that he is the best guy in the world and refuses to listen to the evidence that disproves that theory. Whenever I try to tell her that I saw him with another girl, she just hears the word Ken and interrupts me! She totally obsessed with him and he treats her like dirt!"
"I know! I tried to warn her too, but she just blew the warning off and complained that we were all being too hasty and judging him by what we think we see instead of what we're actually seeing. Personally I feel that Tomoyo is the one who needs her sight checked out. She really needs to see Ken for who he really is," Tak said passionately. Tomoyo was also one of his best friends, and he hated seeing his friends get hurt.
"I agree with you and I know that we are not alone in our thoughts. The problem with Tomoyo though is that she's stubborn once she puts her heart on something. One day she is going to see Ken with another girl herself and then she is going to be so hurt by it. I really do hope that at the minute we're wrong about him, but as I saw him kissing that girl, I know that we're right," Sakura wished that her friend wasn't so blind to all of Ken's many faults. She sighed.
"Excuse me for a moment Sakura, but I've got to greet some more guests. I will talk to you later, okay?" Tak excused himself and went to greet others after seeing Sakura nod. Sakura was left standing in the corner by herself and she felt really shy as she didn't know half of the people who had arrived.
"Okay everybody, now that everyone has arrived let's go and sit down. Get ready to eat because we hired a special caterer for this party and they've prepared a lot of yummy stuff. Let's go!" Chiharu seemed to be a bit too excited. She was standing at the door to the dining room, keeping it open for the guests to go through. Sakura walked through silently wishing that she was somewhere else, really wanting to be at home studying. When she got to her seat at the table (they had placed where people should sit by putting name cards there) she found that she was next to Tomoyo and a guy that she had never heard of before; Li Syaoran. To her joy, and Tomoyo's dismay, Tak and Chiharu had separated Tomoyo from Ken and had put a guy called Eriol next to her.
"Who's Eriol Hiirigazawa? (is that how you spell it?) Do you know him?" Tomoyo whispered to Sakura as they took their seats, "I've never heard of him, but do you know him from uni?"
"Nope, never heard of him before. Have you ever heard of Li Syaoran?"
"Nope. Well I guess they have separated us from the people we know and put us right in the middle of people who have no idea who we are. Great! Why did they separate Ken and me? Look at how miserable he looks," Tomoyo complained as she gazed lovingly at Ken, who was at the other end of the table, happily talking to a girl their age whom they didn't know.
"He seems pretty happy to me," Sakura muttered under her breath, knowing that it was no use telling that to Tomoyo. She was almost drooling over Ken and Sakura wanted to hit her over the head with something hard to see if that would wake her up. Ken was flirting with the girl and Tomoyo was watching Ken as if he was bored! It was the most absurd thing that Sakura had ever seen and she was embarrassed that she was witnessing her friend doing this to herself.
"So Tomoyo, are you sure that you love Ken?" Sakura was sick of the puppy eyes her friend was making.
"Of course I do! Why wouldn't I? He's the most perfect guy in the world! He's gorgeous, cute, l-" she was cut off by an angry Sakura who was sick of listening to her say the same thing over and over.
"Look at him Tomoyo! He's flirting with that girl over there! Can't you see that he doesn't love you? The other day I saw him passionately kissing another girl when I was shopping. He doesn't care about you Tomoyo!" Sakura kept her voice quiet and stopped when she saw that her friend wasn't listening, "Tomoyo, I know that you THINK that you love him but you are making a mistake! Everyone can see that, why can't you?"
"I know that you must be jealous Sakura, but you don't need to ruin my chances with my perfect guy because you're jealous! I love Ken and I don't care what you think. You've never gone out with a guy because you think you're too perfect, but the truth is that you know that no guy would ever go out with you!" Tomoyo replied, the heat of the moment making her horrible to her friend. Luckily they had both been keeping their voices down, so nobody else noticed their little fight. After Tomoyo's remark, Sakura hurriedly got up and excused herself from the room. When she passed Chiharu and Tak, still at the dining room door talking to two guys, she told them that she had to leave.
"I'm really sorry you guys but I just have to leave. I forgot that my lecturer set me some homework and so I've got to do that or I'll be behind. I'm really sorry and I hope to catch up with you soon," as she left she ran into someone.
"I'm really sorry," she said before hurrying on. The guy stared after her as she left.
'She's beautiful,' he thought to himself. The guy was tall with messy brown hair that was all over the place and deep amber eyes. His companion, also a tall guy but with sea-blue eyes and dark navy coloured hair, turned to him.
"Come on Syaoran, we're the last people to go in," he said as he watched his friend.
"Okay Eriol," the brown haired guy replied, "let's go in." To himself he was wondering who the lovely girl who had bumped into him was. The only thing that he had seen about her was a glimpse of emerald eyes.
'Well, I'll soon find out who she is,' he thought to himself, 'after all, she'll be the only person who isn't at the dinner table. I'll just look at the name card of the person who is missing. Then I'll be able to find her.' In that second he had seen her, he had felt something inside him change and he felt like he just had to find that girl. The trouble was that he had never seen her before. He sighed and followed his friend into the dining room to get their seats, still wondering about that girl.
End Of Chapter 1
Well, for something different I decided to use the Japanese names, as I seem to only read them. I hope I got the names right as I pretty much learnt them from other stories, but yeah. I hope you guys like this new story, because yeah. Anyway, please review this and I'll update all of my stories in the next few days, well I hope and I'll try to. Thank you for reading my stories!!
Chapter 1
18 year old Sakura Kinomoto looked up as Tomoyo Daidouji, her house mate and best friend, walked into the room.
"Hi Sakura, you studying again?" she sighed when Sakura nodded, "Sakura! I demand that you stop studying and come out to Chiharu's party tonight! You've been studying too much. Come on, the exams are weeks away!" Sakura laughed, closed her books and stood up.
"Okay, I'll come, but don't expect me to have too much fun. I don't really like parties very much," all Sakura really wanted to do was stay at home and study as she knew that all the boys at the party would ignore her. The boys around the town knew that Sakura didn't date and if they tried to get her on a date she would use her martial arts skills on them, if her brother didn't.
"Sakura, you'll be fine! You know that you don't like parties because they take you away from your books. If you are too bored you can always walk home; it's only 2 minutes away," Tomoyo assured her, "now come and get ready or we'll be late. I made you a new dress; it's on your bed."
"Thanks Tomoyo, I don't know what I'd do without you," Sakura said, a bit of jealousy in her voice. She walked out of the living room and into her room. On the bed lay a shiny pink dress that was perfect for Sakura. It just reached her knees and had spaghetti straps to keep it up. It had a low curving neck and the dress fit perfectly (of course.)
"Tomoyo it's beautiful!" she exclaimed as she twirled around, looking at herself in the mirror, "Thank you so much!"
"Don't worry about it; I love making clothes," she replied as she came into the room and saw Sakura, "you look really pretty in that dress Sakura! You really should wear dresses like that more often!" Sakura's emerald eyes shined at the complement.
"Thanks Tomoyo! You're not looking that bad either! In fact, you look really beautiful. Let me guess, you designed your dress too?" Sakura looked at her best friend. Tomoyo was in a dress like Sakura's, but hers was purple. The purple in the dress highlighted Tomoyo's amethyst eyes and her dark hair perfectly.
"Thank you Sakura! Now, we'd better go before we're late," Tomoyo almost pushed Sakura out of the door after making sure they both had their bags.
"Tomoyo, what's the rush?" Sakura asked as she watched her friend almost run, dragging Sakura along with her.
"There's no rush, it's just that I told Ken that I'd be there at 7, and it's already 6:59!" she exclaimed, making her pace faster.
"Oh, I knew it had something to do with him. Why do you like him so much? Everyone knows he is a jerk," Sakura tried to slow down but Tomoyo dragged her along harder now, "and anyway, it's only two minutes away. At the pace we're going we're going to have made this trip in 30 seconds!"
"Ken is not a jerk! He's the best guy that I know! He's caring and." Sakura stopped listening as her friend rambled on about her boyfriend. Everyone but Tomoyo knew that Ken was up to no good and Sakura could have sworn that she had seen Ken kiss another girl while he was still dating Tomoyo, but her friend wouldn't listen to anybody telling her bad things about him.
"Yeah, yeah, I get it," Sakura mumbled as they arrived at Chiharu's house, "let's go in so you can see your darling." They went inside and Tomoyo immediately sought out Ken and kissed him on the cheek. Sakura rolled her eyes and went to stand in the corner as Chiharu was busy at the moment. Yamazaki Takashi, Chiharu's boyfriend since they were 16, approached Sakura and greeted her.
"Hi Sakura! How are you?" Takashi asked as he stood next to her.
"Hi Tak, (everyone's nickname for Takashi), I'm all right. You?" Tak had been one of her really good friends since they were about 7 years old.
"I'm very happy today for some reason. I'm really glad you could come Sakura and I know Chiharu is glad too," Tak replied and he watched as Sakura blushed.
"I might have to leave early. You know how parties aren't my favourite pastime," Sakura admitted as she looked around the room, "You and Chiharu really did do a great job decorating you know."
"Yeah, we were inspired to decorate the house today. It's a different type of party today than usual. It's a dinner party for once. We were a bit sick of the usual parties, so we decided to have a dinner one. Where's Tomoyo? I haven't seen her yet," Tak looked around the room, but Tomoyo had disappeared.
"She's busy talking to Ken," Sakura rolled her eyes, "she seems to believe that he is the best guy in the world and refuses to listen to the evidence that disproves that theory. Whenever I try to tell her that I saw him with another girl, she just hears the word Ken and interrupts me! She totally obsessed with him and he treats her like dirt!"
"I know! I tried to warn her too, but she just blew the warning off and complained that we were all being too hasty and judging him by what we think we see instead of what we're actually seeing. Personally I feel that Tomoyo is the one who needs her sight checked out. She really needs to see Ken for who he really is," Tak said passionately. Tomoyo was also one of his best friends, and he hated seeing his friends get hurt.
"I agree with you and I know that we are not alone in our thoughts. The problem with Tomoyo though is that she's stubborn once she puts her heart on something. One day she is going to see Ken with another girl herself and then she is going to be so hurt by it. I really do hope that at the minute we're wrong about him, but as I saw him kissing that girl, I know that we're right," Sakura wished that her friend wasn't so blind to all of Ken's many faults. She sighed.
"Excuse me for a moment Sakura, but I've got to greet some more guests. I will talk to you later, okay?" Tak excused himself and went to greet others after seeing Sakura nod. Sakura was left standing in the corner by herself and she felt really shy as she didn't know half of the people who had arrived.
"Okay everybody, now that everyone has arrived let's go and sit down. Get ready to eat because we hired a special caterer for this party and they've prepared a lot of yummy stuff. Let's go!" Chiharu seemed to be a bit too excited. She was standing at the door to the dining room, keeping it open for the guests to go through. Sakura walked through silently wishing that she was somewhere else, really wanting to be at home studying. When she got to her seat at the table (they had placed where people should sit by putting name cards there) she found that she was next to Tomoyo and a guy that she had never heard of before; Li Syaoran. To her joy, and Tomoyo's dismay, Tak and Chiharu had separated Tomoyo from Ken and had put a guy called Eriol next to her.
"Who's Eriol Hiirigazawa? (is that how you spell it?) Do you know him?" Tomoyo whispered to Sakura as they took their seats, "I've never heard of him, but do you know him from uni?"
"Nope, never heard of him before. Have you ever heard of Li Syaoran?"
"Nope. Well I guess they have separated us from the people we know and put us right in the middle of people who have no idea who we are. Great! Why did they separate Ken and me? Look at how miserable he looks," Tomoyo complained as she gazed lovingly at Ken, who was at the other end of the table, happily talking to a girl their age whom they didn't know.
"He seems pretty happy to me," Sakura muttered under her breath, knowing that it was no use telling that to Tomoyo. She was almost drooling over Ken and Sakura wanted to hit her over the head with something hard to see if that would wake her up. Ken was flirting with the girl and Tomoyo was watching Ken as if he was bored! It was the most absurd thing that Sakura had ever seen and she was embarrassed that she was witnessing her friend doing this to herself.
"So Tomoyo, are you sure that you love Ken?" Sakura was sick of the puppy eyes her friend was making.
"Of course I do! Why wouldn't I? He's the most perfect guy in the world! He's gorgeous, cute, l-" she was cut off by an angry Sakura who was sick of listening to her say the same thing over and over.
"Look at him Tomoyo! He's flirting with that girl over there! Can't you see that he doesn't love you? The other day I saw him passionately kissing another girl when I was shopping. He doesn't care about you Tomoyo!" Sakura kept her voice quiet and stopped when she saw that her friend wasn't listening, "Tomoyo, I know that you THINK that you love him but you are making a mistake! Everyone can see that, why can't you?"
"I know that you must be jealous Sakura, but you don't need to ruin my chances with my perfect guy because you're jealous! I love Ken and I don't care what you think. You've never gone out with a guy because you think you're too perfect, but the truth is that you know that no guy would ever go out with you!" Tomoyo replied, the heat of the moment making her horrible to her friend. Luckily they had both been keeping their voices down, so nobody else noticed their little fight. After Tomoyo's remark, Sakura hurriedly got up and excused herself from the room. When she passed Chiharu and Tak, still at the dining room door talking to two guys, she told them that she had to leave.
"I'm really sorry you guys but I just have to leave. I forgot that my lecturer set me some homework and so I've got to do that or I'll be behind. I'm really sorry and I hope to catch up with you soon," as she left she ran into someone.
"I'm really sorry," she said before hurrying on. The guy stared after her as she left.
'She's beautiful,' he thought to himself. The guy was tall with messy brown hair that was all over the place and deep amber eyes. His companion, also a tall guy but with sea-blue eyes and dark navy coloured hair, turned to him.
"Come on Syaoran, we're the last people to go in," he said as he watched his friend.
"Okay Eriol," the brown haired guy replied, "let's go in." To himself he was wondering who the lovely girl who had bumped into him was. The only thing that he had seen about her was a glimpse of emerald eyes.
'Well, I'll soon find out who she is,' he thought to himself, 'after all, she'll be the only person who isn't at the dinner table. I'll just look at the name card of the person who is missing. Then I'll be able to find her.' In that second he had seen her, he had felt something inside him change and he felt like he just had to find that girl. The trouble was that he had never seen her before. He sighed and followed his friend into the dining room to get their seats, still wondering about that girl.
End Of Chapter 1
Well, for something different I decided to use the Japanese names, as I seem to only read them. I hope I got the names right as I pretty much learnt them from other stories, but yeah. I hope you guys like this new story, because yeah. Anyway, please review this and I'll update all of my stories in the next few days, well I hope and I'll try to. Thank you for reading my stories!!
