Author's Note: I do NOT own Cardcaptor Sakura or any of the characters in this story. All of these belong to CLAMP. The only characters I own in this story are Pete and Ken. All of the characters are 18 in this story and are still at high school.

The Bottom Of A Crystal Heart

Chapter 10

Sakura pulled a brush through her short honey-coloured hair and checked herself in the mirror. It was her first undercover date with Pete and she wanted to make sure that she looked good so he wouldn't notice anything weird about her. Tomoyo was also getting ready for a date with Ken, but her date was later, so Sakura had to leave earlier than her.

"Now remember that this date is supposed to be a bit of a detective session. Try not to get under his spell if you can," Tomoyo pleaded, knowing that Sakura could be a bit naïve when it came to Pete.

"Don't worry, I won't," Sakura said dreamily, remembering the conversation she had had with Syaoran after their group agreement.

~FLASHBACK~

Eriol had already left to go and look up something on the internet and Tomoyo had gone out somewhere as well. Sakura and Syaoran were talking about the old days, about back when they were catching the cards.

"You always helped me Syaoran, and I can't thank you enough for helping me. Especially in the fight against Eriol," Sakura told him softly as they fell silent. Syaoran turned red and looked at the ground in embarrassment.

"It's okay. After all, you did help me too," Syaoran suddenly wished that he hadn't said that last bit as Sakura looked at him, confusion all over her face.

"How did I help you? You were always the one that helped me out all the time, so how did I help you?" Syaoran turned even redder at her question and he continued to stare at the ground while he replied. He felt like his heart was doing somersaults in his chest as he considered his reply.

'Should I tell her? What if she doesn't feel the same way? I mean, it was when we were in 4th grade that. I should tell her. After all, if I don't tell her now it might be too late!' he thought as he tried to make a start, "Sakura, you helped me to know what it is like to be in love." There, he had said it. Sakura couldn't believe what she had heard. She blushed until her cheeks were redder than Syaoran's and then she, too, looked at the ground while her heart was having a party in her chest.

"What do you mean?" she asked, trying to sound calm, even though her heart was pumping a mile a minute. It took a minute for Syaoran to get the courage to say it.

"I-I lo- I love you Sakura," he finished very quickly, but he looked up at her for a second, his face redder than a tomato. Sakura could feel her heart rejoicing as it heard those three words. She felt really happy and complete after he had said those words and she went over to him and smiled.

"I love you too Syaoran," she said and he looked up again from the floor in surprise. They stared at each other for a moment, each in a trance as their eyes were locked, each searching the other's eyes for something, unaware that they were getting closer and closer to each other. Their lips touched and their silent promises to always love each other were sealed with a passionate kiss.

~END OF FLASHBACK~

Tomoyo was staring at her when Sakura eventually remembered where she was. Tomoyo was waving her hand up and down in front of Sakura's eyes as if to snap her out of a trance.

"Hello, Sakura? Have you landed back on Earth yet?" she was saying sarcastically as Sakura blinked and lost her dreamy expression.

"What on Earth are you talking about Tomoyo? I've always been on Earth," Sakura replied quickly, not noticing the sarcasm in Tomoyo's voice. She really could be clueless at times. Tomoyo sighed and muttered something to herself under her breath before turning back to Sakura.

"For the tenth time where are you going to go with Pete?" she asked, letting her annoyance show in her voice, "Then the guys will know where to look for you. If they don't know, we'll never find out if they're putting spells on us."

"I am pretty sure that we are going to go to the fair that is on the other side of town. Even if he doesn't want to go there, I'll lead him there somehow," Sakura replied, again checking herself in the mirror, ignorant of anything else.

"Okay, I will get Ken to take me there as well, so Eriol and Syaoran don't have to split up at all," Tomoyo was heading towards the bathroom to go and put some make up on ready for her date with Ken.

"Okay," Sakura put the brush down on the small table beside the mirror and grabbed her purse from the bed before leaving the room, "I'm leaving now Tomoyo. I'll see you later!" And with that she was out of the apartment and on her way to meet Pete.

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Tomoyo heard the door close after Sakura and she couldn't help but think of the strange look that had been on Sakura's face before, when they had been talking. She had suddenly put on a dreamy expression, as if she knew something that Tomoyo didn't. It had been really annoying, as Sakura had then stopped listening. Tomoyo was almost certain that it had something to do with Syaoran. She and Eriol had left Sakura and Syaoran alone again as a part of one of their always present schemes to get them together and this time it looked like it had worked. Afterwards both Sakura and Syaoran seemed to go off into dreamy periods when you can hardly get them to breath. Now she was pretty sure that she was right in her predictions.

"Tomoyo, are you there?" Ken's voice came through the door. Tomoyo had been so busy thinking that she hadn't heard him knock on the door at all. She quickly pulled a brush through her hair and picked up her purse, ready to go out of the door.

"I'm coming!" she called as she put the alarm on to protect the apartment from being robbed, "I'll just be a sec!" She took a deep breath and she opened the door and walked out, all set to investigate Ken.

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"Syaoran? Syaoran, are you there?" Eriol was attempting to talk to his friend, but Syaoran seemed to be on another planet. Eriol waved his hand up and down in front of him, but Syaoran didn't even blink. Finally Eriol just shook him and Syaoran came back down to Earth with a start.

"What?" he asked irritation showing in his voice, "What did you do that for?"

"Now that you've returned to the land of the living, maybe we can leave," Eriol told him sarcastically, "Sakura's date started ten minutes ago and we have to be at the fair." Sakura had told them the day before that she was going to try and make it so that Pete and herself went to the fair. That way the boys could sense if he was trying to use magic on her. Tomoyo had told them that she would go wherever Sakura was going, but she hadn't known then where Sakura was going.

"Oh yeah, I forgot the time for a few minutes. Lets go!" Syaoran almost fell over in haste as he leaped up to leave, but luckily Eriol managed to push him so that he wasn't going to fall.

"Anybody would think that you were in love," Eriol muttered under his breath, knowing that it was true. He had also guessed that Syaoran and Sakura had told each other about their feelings for one and other, and he felt like he should have told Tomoyo about his feelings for her. He hadn't told her though because they were too busy trying to get Syaoran and Sakura together, and now it had worked.

"Now look who's day dreaming," Syaoran told him pointedly and Eriol was a bit embarrassed. He didn't show it though and he smiled at Syaoran mischievously.

"I was just imitating you," he replied, grabbing his coat from behind the door, "Now lets go or we'll never find the girls." Eriol walked out of the door, leaving Syaoran staring at his back.

'What is wrong with that guy?' Syaoran thought to himself before hurrying to catch up to Eriol, "Hey! Wait up Eriol!" Eriol just grinned and walked faster, hearing Syaoran's call for him to wait.

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When Sakura arrived at the park, where she was supposed to meet Pete, she felt like something was going to go wrong. It was just one of those gut feelings that she got once in a while, but the thing that scared her was that those gut feelings were usually right. She yelled at herself about thinking negatively and put it out of her mind, but she found it hard to ignore. When she spotted Pete about five minutes later though, basically all thought of things going wrong went out of her head as she looked at him. He was gorgeous and she couldn't take the control needed to take her eyes off him. Her heart wasn't going crazy, as it did with Syaoran, but her mind was only thinking of him and was ignoring her heart, which was beating as if it was going to it's own funeral.

"Hey Sakura, my dear, how are you?" Pete asked her sweetly in his deep voice, "Would you like some flowers? Although they are beautiful, they do not match your beauty." Pete presented her with some pretty, yellow chrysanthemums while Sakura blushed at his comment. Their eyes made contact for about 5 seconds, and in them Sakura found that her heart was now beating with even more dread and her eyes became glassed over, as if she was in a trance.

"Why don't we go to our special place under the pier at the beach?" Pete suggested, wrapping his left arm around her shoulders and holding her close as they walked through the park, "It's a beautiful place and we love it there." Sakura nodded in agreement and sighed happily in his arms. Her mind was loving the way that Pete was holding her while her heart was trying to scream out to her that she was doing something very wrong. It was telling her that she was Syaoran's and not Pete's girl, but she refused to listen. She forgot all about going to the fair and investigating Pete to see if he was putting a spell on her and she walked with Pete to the spot where they had broken up last time.

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When Tomoyo whirled around to face Ken after locking the door to her apartment, she felt her knees go weak.

"Hi darling Tomoyo. You look gorgeous!" Ken greeted her with a big smile and he kissed her on the cheek, making Tomoyo blush with pleasure. Their eyes locked and Tomoyo suddenly felt the desire to marry him right then and there, She even began picturing the dress that she would wear inside her head. She didn't even realize at all that her heart wasn't nearly as excited as it was whenever she saw Eriol. She didn't even seem to realize that she still had a heart. At that moment, the only thing that mattered to her was Ken.

"Do you want to go and see a movie?" he asked her kindly as he took her hand possessively, "There's a really good romance showing and I know that you'll love it."

"I'd love to see it as long as I'm with you," she told him, leaning her head on his shoulder and feeling comfortable, "I'll do anything as long as I'm with you." He smirked inwardly to himself.

"Well then Tomoyo, this is my plan for tonight my dear." And he continued to explain his plan while Tomoyo agreed readily to all he said.

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They had been at the fair for three hours and they still hadn't seen a single sign of either of the two girls on their dates. They were both getting extremely worried about them and were wondering if they had been wrong to agree that the girls do this. After all, Pete and Ken were pretty strong and they were capable of doing anything to the poor girls who were basically defenseless.

"Do you think that we should go back to their apartment and see if they're home yet? They might have gone home and if Ken or Pete put a spell on either of the girls, they probably would have forgotten all about our plan," Eriol felt like kicking himself. Why hadn't he thought of that before sending Tomoyo out on a date with that Ken guy. He could be doing anything to her, and Eriol didn't even want to think about it. Syaoran didn't want to think about Pete being with Sakura alone either.

"Yeah, we might as well. It's obvious that they are not going to come here now. They probably put the spell on the girls and then led them to different places to get away from lots of people and they're probably thinking of kidnapping the girls or something. If they've been put under a spell, the girls won't be able to think for themselves," Syaoran groaned inwardly as he remembered the silent promise that both he and Sakura had made to each other just the day before. And mow that promise might get broken all because of a stupid spell. It wasn't Sakura's fault at all, but he knew that it was going to happen, and the thought of it made him want to be sick.

"Well, lets go then," Eriol turned around and started walking back towards the girls' apartment, Syaoran behind him. He had a feeling that something was going to go horribly wrong tonight, not just that the girls hadn't turned up with their dates. He just knew that something horrible was going to catch up with him and it might turn out good, or the outcome could be very bad instead. He was praying to God that it was going to turn out good.

End Of Chapter 10

Sorry this is so late, but I'm back at school and suddenly I'm in year 10. On the second day I got swamped with homework and I'm in the musical and choir and another choir and band and. well, the list goes on. I really want more time to write, but I've made commitments now and I still have some time to write, so I will have to make do with it. Anyway, I hope you'll forgive me for the late update and I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. It's getting a bit more interesting and I included an S+S moment. basically the first time I have put an S+S moment in any of my stories in my life! I would have typed this chapter up yesterday, but my English teachers decided to send all of year 10 to see a MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM in the Botanical Gardens, so I only got home at 20 to 1 in the morning. It's a really good show; you should see it sometime. Anyway, I'm just blabbing now so I'll go and try to update another story. And remember to REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!