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except Melissa, Ken and Pete, all of whom I made up.
The Bottom Of A Crystal Heart
Chapter 5: Meeting
Tomoyo and Sakura left their apartment at about 3:55 to go down the street to Tak's house.
"We really have to apologise for last night. I told them that I had a project that was due in today, but they know that excuse was false as we don't even have classes to go to today," Sakura was worrying about the lie she had told to get out of the party, "how could I have been so stupid and not told them the truth?"
"I'm sure that they understand Sakura, don't worry about it. I told them what had happened when I left the party, so don't worry. You were really upset so you didn't think about what you said. They'll understand; they know what it's like to fight with a close friend I'm sure," Tomoyo was trying to calm her friend, "anyway, they wanted us to come, so if they were angry at us, they wouldn't have let us. You know how Chiharu gets when she's angry, she won't talk to the person for ages."
"I guess you're right," Sakura agreed as they arrived outside their friends' house, "she wouldn't be talking to us if we had made her angry." They rang the doorbell and Tak answered the door.
"Hi guys! Come on in," he said, grinning mischievously, "Chiharu will be down in a minute and our other guests will be here in a moment too."
"Other guests? We're sorry if we're inconveniencing you by turning up when you have guests coming," Sakura apologized as she and Tomoyo entered the house.
"Oh, it's no problem. Besides, these guests are old friends of yours, even if they don't remember. Do you guys remember Li Syaoran and Hiiragizawa Eriol?" Tak asked casually as he led them to the living room, "you guys were all friends in fourth grade."
"No, I don't think that I've ever heard of them, have you Sakura?" Tomoyo was looking a bit confused, after all, Tak was saying that they had been friends with people they had never heard of.
"I don't think so. I think that I'd remember if I did know them, but I don't," Sakura was straining her memory when it came to her that she did know the names, but that was because they had read them the night before.
"Yeah, the strange thing is, those guys don't remember you two either. I guess the only people who remember are me, Chiharu, Naoko and Rika. We all remember them and you guys playing together at school, but for some reason, you don't remember them as your best friends. Oh well, maybe you'll remember them when you see them," Tak shrugged as the doorbell rang again, "That'll probably be them. Take a seat and I'll be back in a moment."
Sakura and Tomoyo sat down in the chairs that were closest to them. They were pretty confused and they were sure that Tak was wrong. Well, a little part of them was arguing that it could be true, that someone could have erased those memories from them somehow. The logical part of them, however, told them that the only way to do that was with magic and that there was no such thing. They were still confused when Tak brought in two guys that looked to be their age. They were both tall, but that was basically the only thing that they had in common when it came to looks. The guy to Tak's right had gorgeous amber eyes and messy brown hair that was all over the place. The only thing that was destroying his handsome face was the scowl that seemed to sit permanently on his face. His companion, other than Tak, had dark navy hair and a mischievous twinkle in his deep sapphire coloured eyes. He had a smile on his face and he looked as if he was going to play a trick on someone.
Tak introduced them all to each other and they all shook hands and smiled, all except Syaoran who kept his frown on his face. After the introductions had been finished, they began to talk.
"I don't know what Tak has told you, but apparently we were old friends. We were wondering, do you two remember that?" Eriol asked the two girls, looking mainly at Tomoyo.
"Not really, as far as I can remember, I have never met you guys and since Sakura and I have been best friends for as long as I can remember, I don't think she has either," Tomoyo answered for them both. When she looked at Eriol she thought that she recognized him from somewhere, but it was hard to think straight as her heart was jumping in her chest. As Tomoyo finished answering, Sakura's mobile phone rang.
"Excuse me for a moment," Sakura left the room, unaware that the so far silent Syaoran was watching her. Tomoyo, Tak and Eriol began chatting again about stuff while Sakura answered her phone.
"Hello?" she asked into the phone, curious of who was calling her. She hardly ever got calls as everyone knew she hardly answered the phone.
"Squirt! You have to go to the Tomoeda Hospital now! Dad's been taken there and you should really be there. Kaho, Melissa and I'll be there as soon as possible, but you've got to go quickly!" and then Touya hung up. Sakura hurried back into the room and grabbed her bag.
"I'm really sorry but I have to go. I'll see you guys later," she ran back out the door and raced to the bus stop to catch a bus to the hospital, worrying madly about what could have happened to her father.
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Back at Tak's house, everyone was wondering why Sakura had been in such a hurry. Everyone but Tomoyo that is.
"Why didn't she explain as she usually does?" Tak asked as everyone but Tomoyo stared after Sakura, "That was weird."
"What? Sakura explain why she's leaving somewhere in a hurry? It's either that she's late to an appointment somewhere or something has happened to her father or brother. Since Touya called today, I have a feeling that there's something wrong with her dad, hence the rushing about," Tomoyo replied calmly, not really surprised with Sakura's outburst.
"Touya? I've heard that name before," Syaoran muttered, "that's it! That's the name of the guy who didn't like me for some reason. He kept on calling me 'kid.'"
"Yeah, Touya didn't like you because. actually, only Touya, Sakura and Tomoyo really knew why he didn't like you, but as their memories are a bit weird and Touya moved to Australia, I guess we'll never know," Tak remembered many times when Touya had chased Syaoran, "at least we all had fun watching Touya chase after you."
"I knew why Touya didn't like him. It was something to do with Sakura, I think. Well, all I can remember was that it had something to do with his sister, and Sakura's his only sister, right?" Eriol told them as he struggled to remember the girls, "I can remember everyone else in the town, but I can't remember Sakura and Tomoyo. I can even remember people talking about them, but referring to them as daughter, or sister."
"Yeah, I remember that Touya kept on muttering something about a 'kid' that he didn't like. I think it had something to do with Sakura too. And I remember that someone kept on helping me set Sakura and someone up, but I can't remember who those 'some ones' were," Tomoyo explained. She had an idea that she and Eriol had tried to set up Sakura and Syaoran a lot, but she wasn't sure if it was true.
"That's strange. I remember helping someone try to set Syaoran up with someone, but I can't remember who it was that I was helping," Eriol said, a bit stunned, "I must have been helping you try to set up Sakura and Syaoran, Tomoyo."
"You know, that is possible since you two kept on making them go places together and you'd always spy on them to see what they were doing," Tak looked thoughtful, "of course they were always too annoyed at the two of you for putting them together that they spent their time grumbling about it, especially Syaoran."
"You were trying to set me up with someone and then spy on me? And I called you a friend?" everyone was surprised when Syaoran spoke, since he hadn't talked much all the time they'd been there.
"Um. well, I." Eriol stuttered before Tak came to rescue him.
"You guys weren't exactly friends back then. You never trusted Eriol, Syaoran, but you were friends with the girls so you'd always end up being with Eriol, who had also made friends with them. By the end of the day you would always be complaining about Eriol, always," Tak told Syaoran and he chuckled at the memory. Tomoyo was about to say something when she saw a little stuffed animal fly across the room behind the guys. They didn't seem to notice it, but it made an action to her that she had to go. She looked at her watch and pretended that she had somewhere to go.
"Oh, I'm really sorry, but I've got to go now. It was nice meeting you," she said politely before rushing out, the stuffed animal managing to get out unseen too.
"That was weird," Eriol said as he stared after her, "she looked like she had seen a ghost."
"Maybe she just didn't realize the time," Tak suggested and the guys started to talk about the past again, reliving all of their favourite memories.
End Of Chapter 5
I hope you liked this chapter, it was pretty boring I know, but I had to sort of tell the story to get to why they can't remember their past and so on. By the way, the school in the last chapter that Touya teaches at is real; it's my school _. (I just had to mention that for some reason.) Anyway, I think that they are going to have magic, I'm not really sure as I make this story up as I type. Um. thank you for all the reviews, I don't have many but I treasure the ones I have. I promise that I'll update soon, but I'm warning you in advance; when school starts at the beginning of February, I probably won't be able to update as regularly as I do now. I'm going into year 10 and I do a lot of after school activities and I'll get heaps of homework, but I'll try to update at least once a week on all of my stories. This story will probably still be going then, so I'm warning you now. Also I'm going on holiday from the 10th of Jan. till the 20th. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter and please, please, please, REVIEW!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!
Chapter 5: Meeting
Tomoyo and Sakura left their apartment at about 3:55 to go down the street to Tak's house.
"We really have to apologise for last night. I told them that I had a project that was due in today, but they know that excuse was false as we don't even have classes to go to today," Sakura was worrying about the lie she had told to get out of the party, "how could I have been so stupid and not told them the truth?"
"I'm sure that they understand Sakura, don't worry about it. I told them what had happened when I left the party, so don't worry. You were really upset so you didn't think about what you said. They'll understand; they know what it's like to fight with a close friend I'm sure," Tomoyo was trying to calm her friend, "anyway, they wanted us to come, so if they were angry at us, they wouldn't have let us. You know how Chiharu gets when she's angry, she won't talk to the person for ages."
"I guess you're right," Sakura agreed as they arrived outside their friends' house, "she wouldn't be talking to us if we had made her angry." They rang the doorbell and Tak answered the door.
"Hi guys! Come on in," he said, grinning mischievously, "Chiharu will be down in a minute and our other guests will be here in a moment too."
"Other guests? We're sorry if we're inconveniencing you by turning up when you have guests coming," Sakura apologized as she and Tomoyo entered the house.
"Oh, it's no problem. Besides, these guests are old friends of yours, even if they don't remember. Do you guys remember Li Syaoran and Hiiragizawa Eriol?" Tak asked casually as he led them to the living room, "you guys were all friends in fourth grade."
"No, I don't think that I've ever heard of them, have you Sakura?" Tomoyo was looking a bit confused, after all, Tak was saying that they had been friends with people they had never heard of.
"I don't think so. I think that I'd remember if I did know them, but I don't," Sakura was straining her memory when it came to her that she did know the names, but that was because they had read them the night before.
"Yeah, the strange thing is, those guys don't remember you two either. I guess the only people who remember are me, Chiharu, Naoko and Rika. We all remember them and you guys playing together at school, but for some reason, you don't remember them as your best friends. Oh well, maybe you'll remember them when you see them," Tak shrugged as the doorbell rang again, "That'll probably be them. Take a seat and I'll be back in a moment."
Sakura and Tomoyo sat down in the chairs that were closest to them. They were pretty confused and they were sure that Tak was wrong. Well, a little part of them was arguing that it could be true, that someone could have erased those memories from them somehow. The logical part of them, however, told them that the only way to do that was with magic and that there was no such thing. They were still confused when Tak brought in two guys that looked to be their age. They were both tall, but that was basically the only thing that they had in common when it came to looks. The guy to Tak's right had gorgeous amber eyes and messy brown hair that was all over the place. The only thing that was destroying his handsome face was the scowl that seemed to sit permanently on his face. His companion, other than Tak, had dark navy hair and a mischievous twinkle in his deep sapphire coloured eyes. He had a smile on his face and he looked as if he was going to play a trick on someone.
Tak introduced them all to each other and they all shook hands and smiled, all except Syaoran who kept his frown on his face. After the introductions had been finished, they began to talk.
"I don't know what Tak has told you, but apparently we were old friends. We were wondering, do you two remember that?" Eriol asked the two girls, looking mainly at Tomoyo.
"Not really, as far as I can remember, I have never met you guys and since Sakura and I have been best friends for as long as I can remember, I don't think she has either," Tomoyo answered for them both. When she looked at Eriol she thought that she recognized him from somewhere, but it was hard to think straight as her heart was jumping in her chest. As Tomoyo finished answering, Sakura's mobile phone rang.
"Excuse me for a moment," Sakura left the room, unaware that the so far silent Syaoran was watching her. Tomoyo, Tak and Eriol began chatting again about stuff while Sakura answered her phone.
"Hello?" she asked into the phone, curious of who was calling her. She hardly ever got calls as everyone knew she hardly answered the phone.
"Squirt! You have to go to the Tomoeda Hospital now! Dad's been taken there and you should really be there. Kaho, Melissa and I'll be there as soon as possible, but you've got to go quickly!" and then Touya hung up. Sakura hurried back into the room and grabbed her bag.
"I'm really sorry but I have to go. I'll see you guys later," she ran back out the door and raced to the bus stop to catch a bus to the hospital, worrying madly about what could have happened to her father.
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Back at Tak's house, everyone was wondering why Sakura had been in such a hurry. Everyone but Tomoyo that is.
"Why didn't she explain as she usually does?" Tak asked as everyone but Tomoyo stared after Sakura, "That was weird."
"What? Sakura explain why she's leaving somewhere in a hurry? It's either that she's late to an appointment somewhere or something has happened to her father or brother. Since Touya called today, I have a feeling that there's something wrong with her dad, hence the rushing about," Tomoyo replied calmly, not really surprised with Sakura's outburst.
"Touya? I've heard that name before," Syaoran muttered, "that's it! That's the name of the guy who didn't like me for some reason. He kept on calling me 'kid.'"
"Yeah, Touya didn't like you because. actually, only Touya, Sakura and Tomoyo really knew why he didn't like you, but as their memories are a bit weird and Touya moved to Australia, I guess we'll never know," Tak remembered many times when Touya had chased Syaoran, "at least we all had fun watching Touya chase after you."
"I knew why Touya didn't like him. It was something to do with Sakura, I think. Well, all I can remember was that it had something to do with his sister, and Sakura's his only sister, right?" Eriol told them as he struggled to remember the girls, "I can remember everyone else in the town, but I can't remember Sakura and Tomoyo. I can even remember people talking about them, but referring to them as daughter, or sister."
"Yeah, I remember that Touya kept on muttering something about a 'kid' that he didn't like. I think it had something to do with Sakura too. And I remember that someone kept on helping me set Sakura and someone up, but I can't remember who those 'some ones' were," Tomoyo explained. She had an idea that she and Eriol had tried to set up Sakura and Syaoran a lot, but she wasn't sure if it was true.
"That's strange. I remember helping someone try to set Syaoran up with someone, but I can't remember who it was that I was helping," Eriol said, a bit stunned, "I must have been helping you try to set up Sakura and Syaoran, Tomoyo."
"You know, that is possible since you two kept on making them go places together and you'd always spy on them to see what they were doing," Tak looked thoughtful, "of course they were always too annoyed at the two of you for putting them together that they spent their time grumbling about it, especially Syaoran."
"You were trying to set me up with someone and then spy on me? And I called you a friend?" everyone was surprised when Syaoran spoke, since he hadn't talked much all the time they'd been there.
"Um. well, I." Eriol stuttered before Tak came to rescue him.
"You guys weren't exactly friends back then. You never trusted Eriol, Syaoran, but you were friends with the girls so you'd always end up being with Eriol, who had also made friends with them. By the end of the day you would always be complaining about Eriol, always," Tak told Syaoran and he chuckled at the memory. Tomoyo was about to say something when she saw a little stuffed animal fly across the room behind the guys. They didn't seem to notice it, but it made an action to her that she had to go. She looked at her watch and pretended that she had somewhere to go.
"Oh, I'm really sorry, but I've got to go now. It was nice meeting you," she said politely before rushing out, the stuffed animal managing to get out unseen too.
"That was weird," Eriol said as he stared after her, "she looked like she had seen a ghost."
"Maybe she just didn't realize the time," Tak suggested and the guys started to talk about the past again, reliving all of their favourite memories.
End Of Chapter 5
I hope you liked this chapter, it was pretty boring I know, but I had to sort of tell the story to get to why they can't remember their past and so on. By the way, the school in the last chapter that Touya teaches at is real; it's my school _. (I just had to mention that for some reason.) Anyway, I think that they are going to have magic, I'm not really sure as I make this story up as I type. Um. thank you for all the reviews, I don't have many but I treasure the ones I have. I promise that I'll update soon, but I'm warning you in advance; when school starts at the beginning of February, I probably won't be able to update as regularly as I do now. I'm going into year 10 and I do a lot of after school activities and I'll get heaps of homework, but I'll try to update at least once a week on all of my stories. This story will probably still be going then, so I'm warning you now. Also I'm going on holiday from the 10th of Jan. till the 20th. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter and please, please, please, REVIEW!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!
