Author's Note: I do not own Cardcaptors blah blah blah, but you already knew that. The only characters I own in this story are Pete and Ken, all the rest belong to CLAMP. In this story they are all 18 years old and are in their last year of high school.

The Bottom Of A Crystal Heart

Chapter 9

Tomoyo was about to call Eriol and Syaoran and tell them the trick to get their memories back when there was a knock on the door. She sighed and walked to the door, hoping that it wasn't Pete asking for Sakura as she had missed him or something.

'Every time I go to do something important something always pops up to distract me,' she thought to herself as she opened the door. Eriol and Syaoran were standing on the other side of the door and Tomoyo felt her heartbeat speed up as she saw Eriol.

"Oh, um, hi! Would you like to come in?" Tomoyo asked politely, trying to hide her shock at finding the two people she had been about to phone at the door.

"Hi Tomoyo! We have to tell you and Sakura about how to get your memories back," Eriol told her as he and Syaoran entered the apartment. Syaoran just nodded his head at her politely. He was a very silent guy.

"We've figured it out, just this morning. Sakura's out at the minute, she might be back soon, but I doubt it," Tomoyo had to work really hard to keep a bite out of her voice as she mentioned Sakura, but she managed to smile anyway.

"Maybe you can tell this to Sakura then," Eriol had sensed the irritation in Tomoyo's voice when she mentioned Sakura, but he ignored it for her sake. Eriol explained their theory to Tomoyo, who analyzed it quickly in her mind.

"So what you're saying is that there are people who wanted us to forget about two of our closest friends so they could get to us? No, I think that they are probably after Sakura. Today, after half a year had gone by and he still hadn't apologized, Pete came back and Sakura started acting very strange, even for her. It was as if he had never fought with her at all," this time Tomoyo definitely couldn't keep the irritation and a bit of hurt out of her voice. She was hurt because of the things that Sakura had said to her. She saw a flash of anger flash across Syaoran's face before he became emotionless once again.

"Pete?" Syaoran asked, his voice emotionless, just like his face, "Did he come back today?"

"Yep. He was her boyfriend for the past two years, but they broke up about half a year ago, I won't go into the details, but I kind of got the idea that Sakura never wanted to see the guy ever again. But when I turned him away from the door this morning she almost bit my head off! It really wasn't like her at all," Tomoyo answered their unspoken question of who was Pete.

"And he just came back out of the blue after not even talking to her at all ever since they broke up?" Eriol asked, trying to get the story straight. He now knew why Tomoyo was so irritated at Sakura. Sakura and Tomoyo had obviously had a fight over it and Tomoyo was upset about it.

"Yeah. According to Sakura he wanted to apologise to her face to face and that he had been over seas and couldn't get away to do it. I know that that is untrue because he is in my art class."

"That certainly is weird, especially as Sakura is usually sensible. Well, I think that she was," Eriol couldn't really think all that well because his heart was pounding really loudly in his chest, especially when he looked at Tomoyo or listened to her voice. To him, Tomoyo was an angel from heaven in every way and he knew that there was no way he could stop loving her.

"Well, she had been telling me the other day exactly what she was going to do to him if she ever saw him again, and as soon as she saw him she turned into a lost puppy. It was the weirdest thing in the world," Tomoyo didn't really know how to defend her friend's behavior. Syaoran was looking a bit upset, but that could be because he loved Sakura dearly and now she was acting like a fool instead of loving the person that she really did love.

"Have any of your past boyfriends come back begging for mercy?" Eriol asked, trying to see if his theory was right. If one of her boyfriends came back then it would definitely confirm it. Tomoyo was about to reply when there was a knock on the door.

"I'll just get that," Tomoyo got up and went to the door. The boys couldn't see the door and so they just chatted between them about what they thought with the Pete guy and Sakura.

"Do you think that Pete might be one of the sorcerers casting the spells on us?" Syaoran asked Eriol after Tomoyo had left the room. It was basically the first time he had spoken since they had arrived.

"It seems that there is a good chance of that. I mean, he comes back out of the blue to apologise to her and she starts acting like a love-sick puppy, I'd say that there was something wrong there," Eriol replied, his mind still on Tomoyo, "I mean, Tomoyo would know if there was something strange happening with Sakura as they have known each other for practically forever and if she says that there is something wrong with her, then there probably is."

"You're right," Syaoran was about to continue but Tomoyo walked back into the room and sat down again.

"Well something strange certainly is going on," Tomoyo said, trying to fight something inside of herself that seemed to be trying to make her heart change its mind, "my ex-boyfriend just 'dropped by to see how I was doing and why I stopped calling him.' He's an idiot if he thinks that I am going to go back to him." Tomoyo was finding that the spell was losing rapidly and had been ever since she had seen Eriol. It was as if her heart was in love with Eriol and even the most powerful spell in the world couldn't break it. They were sitting like that when they heard the door open and close and Sakura walked into the lounge room where they had been sitting.

"Did you have fun on your date with Pete?" Tomoyo asked her as she saw who was visiting.

"To tell you the truth, I don't know what came over me. It was like I was in a trance or something. As soon as I saw him I decided to come back here for some reason. Have they broken the spell?" Sakura replied, taking the seat next to Tomoyo and across from Syaoran. Her heart beat had grown incredibly loud and she was worried that everyone would be able to hear it.

"They already knew how to break the spell. They arrived just after you left actually, to tell us how to break it. Also just before you came Ken came back to see me. It is really weird, he didn't even notice that I had broken up with him for 2 days," Tomoyo now didn't even need to fight the spell, it had disappeared after she had been with Eriol for two minutes.

"He did? What happened to the girl at the party and the one from the town?" Sakura joked and the two girls laughed, leaving the guys confused.

"Did you get any of that?" Eriol asked Syaoran, who shook his head in reply.

"Sorry, it's just that Ken was flirting with a girl at Tak's party the other night and he was kissing a girl in town all while he was dating Tomoyo," Sakura explained, ignoring the look that Tomoyo gave her, "We find it very funny that he didn't even notice Tomoyo was ignoring him because of all the girls that he was dating at the time."

"Maybe our theory is right then Syaoran," Eriol told his friend who nodded. Now that Sakura was in the room Syaoran was even more nervous than he had been around one of his childhood best friends. Poor Syaoran wasn't really used to talking to girls.

"What theory?" Sakura asked them, confused as she had only walked in on the conversation when it was past the theory part.

"Well we have a theory that the people that put these spells on us want to get to you girls. Since we have come back here they feel threatened by us because we were all best friends, so they made us guys forget you girls and vice-versa. Then they would come and try to get you girls back. Since Pete came back for you and Ken came back for Tomoyo, it does give evidence to support the theory," Eriol explained since Syaoran seemed to be too nervous to open his mouth. It was true that he knew the theory better than Syaoran, but he was still a bit annoyed at him for not saying anything. Sakura thought for a moment.

"That is actually a big possibility. I actually know that Pete has some magical powers as he can read people's minds. I don't know if he has any other magical abilities, but that he can do," she said finally after a long pause, "He could be helping someone else, maybe Ken. After all, Tomoyo was hanging around him for ages, she was basically drooling after him, so that must mean that he has some magic. I had never seen Tomoyo acting like that before. Tak, Chiharu and I were really surprised when we saw her with Ken." Sakura mainly said that because she wanted to get back at Tomoyo for telling the boys about Pete and because it was the truth.

"Yeah, now that I come to think about it, I never really liked Ken until I accidentally ran into him. Then all I could do was follow him if I saw him, even if I didn't want to at the time," Tomoyo looked thoughtful for a minute before adding, "It was a lot like I was under a spell, not that I would really know what that was like, but it felt like it could have been."

"So we have our two main suspects. How are we going to find out if our suspicions are true?" Eriol asked, glad to know that Tomoyo was under a spell when she was drooling after somebody. Tomoyo and Sakura looked at each other and nodded.

"We'll investigate. After all, we are probably going to have to spend time with them at some point. We can pretend to be under the spell and then pretend that we have broken out of it and see what they do," Sakura answered for them, "and it won't be dangerous because they want us and they won't hurt us I they want us. We'll be fine." The two guys looked at each other before Syaoran surprised everyone except Eriol by speaking.

"All right, but you'd better tell us what happens so we can help you to try and figure out what's happening," he said this quickly as if he didn't really want to speak, but it was actually because he was nervous. He had remembered when he had left Tomoeda 8 years ago and he had wanted to tell Sakura that he loved her, but had chickened out in the end.

"Of course we will! We want to get this over and done with too," Tomoyo replied, knowing that Syaoran was going to be overly concerned about Sakura. That made her feel a bit jealous as she thought that nobody was going to be overly concerned for her. Little did she know that Eriol was actually sitting across form her hoping that nothing would happen to his angel Tomoyo as he knew that he wouldn't be able to stand it.

End Of Chapter 9

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