This chapter had two songs in it… the first one is Running By No Doubt the second is It Must Have Been Love By Roxette. I don't own the songs so do not sue.

The chapter could have been spilt up into two, but I decided to give y'all a long chapter to make up for the time I wasted not updating this fanfic.

If you all are wondering why S+S just turned around and split apart… they love each other. Answer they thought if they got married now (too young) that their love would get destroyed… they loved each other yes, but marriage… they were just not ready for that… plus, I was in a bitter mood.

Please R+R! Thanks for the reviews!

Learning Love's Melody

By MoshiMoshiQueen

Beta Reader Hana No Tenshi

~Lyrics~

^Flash Back^

&Thoughts&

"Talking"

(Author Talking)

Last Chapter

Sakura let two tears drop as the soft melody of the garden disappeared as well as its magical glow… this was the last song… that last note…

"I'll be back, Syaoran. I promise I will! The garden might look dead to others, but it's still alive… it's still alive. It will always be alive for you and for me."

Syaoran watched his angel flee into the soft mists as she disappeared from his sight… he might regret this decision one day, but for now he knew this had to happen.

It was unbelievable how the right decision could hurt so badly… it was amazing how everything can seem perfect for a few moments (a few chapters) and then change towards a whole other path.

This was for the best…

This Chapter

~ Run
Running all the time
Running to the future
With you right by my side ~

Sakura ran with all her heart… she ran to save her heart. She never regretted the decision that Syaoran and her had made that day… although, it hurt to think about how he was or what he was doing now… was he married? Did he have children?

"Ying Fa get to work and stop daydreaming," a prude woman called.

Sakura blinked out of her dreams and realized that she was lost in her thoughts again, "Sorry, Lady Kat."

"Quite all right. Hurry to the Princess she is calling you again, and her voice is breaking the glasses in the kitchen. Run along now don't keep her shouting for much more."

~ Me
I'm the one you chose
Out of all the people
You wanted me the most
I'm so sorry that I'm falling
Help me up lets keep on running
Don't let me fall out of love~

Sakura hurried as her gray clothing swished through the air reminding Sakura of her place in this castle…

"Where is that stupid maid?! I want her here right now! Sakura you appalling fool hurry up here now! The ball is only hours away, and you are late! Get my dress, slave!"

Sakura's POV

~ Running, running
As fast as we can
I really hope you make it
(Do you think we'll make it?)
We're running
Keep holding my hand
It's so we don't get separated ~

I ran quickly towards the selfish Princess I was the slave for… she was the one who was appalling, and not a very pretty sight either… hideously looking dirty blonde hair and a nasty uni-brow. In the end… she was just like a freak of nature.

I was forever running through out my new life… and the thought of me running from my old was some what of a cliché… to think that everyone is running from something or someone.

"Yes, your highness. I'm so sorry that I am late."

"Don't use your stupid excuses! Get my dress now!"

I sneered at the witch behind her back, but did what I was told. The gown was gorgeous… it was a satin, silky dark azure… with a beautiful glow around it.

Once, it got on the Princess the beauty disappeared… I use to wear dresses like that.

I use to be the one with the huge bedroom… with the castle… I shook my head. I don't need to think about that now.

"Princess, may I ask who is coming to the ball?"

"Why would someone like you want to know? Looking for a mate or something? Stupid girl."

~ Be
Be the one I need
Be the one I trust most
Don't stop inspiring me
Sometimes it's hard to keep on running
We work so much to keep it going
Don't make me want to give up ~

I rolled my eyes and mumbled some curses, "Sorry your highness."

"If you must know that Prince Shoaran or whatever is coming… all the girls want him, but since he lost his bride he won't even look at another girl. He is such a lost cause. There are better people than that witch Princess who used to beat on the Princes to scare them away. Why should he waste his time on her?! He should just give up… she isn't coming back."

I stopped, "Prince… Prince Syaoran?"

"Yes, that is it. Close your mouth and stop gaping! Get my hair ready this instance. This won't be some Cinderella story so don't go after that Prince, he won't give you a second glance… or a second glance to any one actually. You would never have a chance."

"Who said I wanted one," I said snapping at her.

"Don't snap at me! Just do my hair you bitch."

I sneered at her again, but did her hair… "Syaoran…"

^ Flash Back ^

"I do love you…"

"And I you."

"It's too early."

"You will wait for me?"

"I will wait forever," he said turning away from me so that I couldn't see the sadness in his eyes.

"I'll come back."

"I'll still be here."

^End Of Flash Back^

"Get to the kitchens slave, and stay in there! I don't want you trying your Cinderella crap."

"Yes, your highbitchness.

"What was that?!"

"Your highness."

"That's better. Now move or else."

I walked down the long corridors… and for some reason started to run again.

~ Running, running
As fast as we can
I really hope you make it
(Do you think we'll make it?)
We're running
Keep holding my hand
It's so we don't get separated ~

I would get to see him again… would he still love me? I stopped… and remembered…

"Since he lost his bride he won't even look at another girl. He is such a lost cause. There are better people than that witch Princess who used to beat on the Princes to scare them away. Why should he waste his time on her?! He should just give up… she isn't coming back."

"You're wrong my dear dear Princess… the love of his life will come back," I said to my self-making up my mind… "Time to leave this place. Please, still love me Syaoran."

I started to run again… I needed a dress, and I needed to…

"Stop right now, slave. I thought I told you to stay in the kitchens!"

I watched the Princess as she started to speak, "You're planning something, and I know I won't like it. Guards lock her in the dungeons now."

I looked towards the guards coming at me and smirked. "It will take more than guards to get me, Princess."

"Oh really? Try them out."

I was suddenly surrounded, and fight as I might… they still caught me.

"Stupid girl. They are very well trained. Take her to the dungeons now! Take her out of my sight!"

(Nice Princess, eh?)

"Running never does any good, slave. You should know that."

"You don't know a thing about running."

~ Running, running
As fast as we can
I really hope you make it
(Do you think we'll make it?)
We're running
Keep holding my hand
It's so we don't get separated… ~

The guards tossed me in the dark, cold dungeon and I heard rats scatter away.

"Have a nice time."

The guards snickered as they walked away.

"Damn."

Tears suddenly came to my jade eyes… "What am I going to do? Syaoran, wait for me please… wait for me."

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~ It must have been love, but it's over now ~

"Syaoran it is not like you need an annulment! You were not even married to the girl!"

"Mother, I will not argue with you any more. My word is final."

"Syaoran, the family line must go on."

"And it will when Sakura comes back."

"Syaoran, she isn't coming back."

"She will come back, mother. I know she will."

Sakura in the Dungeons

She watched from a tiny window as people dressed elegantly lined up to enter the castle… one by one they paired off… lining as two and entering as one.

A tear slid down her cheek… "What am I going to do? How do I get out of here?"

~ Lay a whisper on my pillow
Leave the winter on the ground
I wake up lonely, I stare at silence
In the bedroom all around ~

^Flash Back^

"Love can not be everything… it can't always be strong enough, and it can not always last…."

^Flash Back ^

"Please, let our love be strong enough… even after these years… let it still be strong."

Sakura closed her eyes letting the soft breeze come in from the cracks of the walls… "Let it be strong."

~ Touch me now

I close my eyes

And dream away ~

At The Ball

Syaoran stood next to Eriol bored out of his mind as Princess's sent flirtatious looks his way. He ignored each and every one of them, but it seems none of them took the hint for they kept on batting their eyelashes.

He rolled his eyes and out of the corner of his eye he saw his mother shot him a glare saying dance-with-them-or-else. He shot on back that said I-love-only-one-and-they-are-not-her.

Yelan took a deep breath. "Please, send her back to him."

"What was that Queen Yelan?"

"Oh, nothing. How is your daughter?"

"Good, good," said the woman turning her gaze to the crowd.

Syaoran shifted his weight as Eriol and Tomoyo danced leaving him alone like a wallflower.

He would dance with one… and she wasn't here.

Dungeons

Sakura's tears flowed freely falling down her cheeks as time ticked on… "Maybe it wasn't as strong as I thought."

Her breath became unsteadily as she managed to whisper some words with the beat of a song, ~" It must have been love, but it's over now. It must have been good, but I lost it somehow. It must have been love, but it's over now. From the moment we touched till the time I ran out…" ~

"Was running worth this pain?"

Her mind answered for her, &Running was the answer… you both weren't ready. Why would you want to stay in a relationship where you were both of you pushed in so fast?

Sakura started to cry harder as tears streaked her pale face, ~" Make believing we're together. That I'm sheltered by your heart. But in and outside I turn to water. Like a teardrop in your arms and it's a hard winter's day, I dream away." ~

She heard music from the ballroom below… and she pictured herself dancing with Syaoran… being reunited with him after all these years… after all this time… would love really last? Was that even possible?

~ It must have been love, but it's over now
It was all that I wanted, now I'm living without
It must have been love, but it's over now
It's where the water flows, it's where the wind blows ~

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As the night played on both lovers were left helpless… one alone in a tower, and the other one left in a crowded room where he felt all alone. They were so close to each other… and yet only one knew this.

They say that love can with stand all, and that it will never die. I guess they never realized that reality didn't agree to that statement… or does it?

~ It must have been love, but it's over now
It must have been good, but I lost it somehow
It must have been love, but it's over now
From the moment we touched till the time I ran out ~

It must have been love but one can never know if one runs from it. Love is not meant to be rushed and is not meant to be pushed… It's meant to thrive and grow… to take it's time and flow on it's own.

Don't we all wish that the two lovers weren't push too fast?

~ Yeah it must have been love, but it's over now
It was all that I wanted, now I'm living without
It must have been love, but it's over now
It's where the water flows, it's where the wind blows ~

Two lovers, two tears… two heart breaks, two fears… Will love with stand all?

For now… let your imagination take over…

~ It must have been love, but it's over now. ~

Or is it? You tell me.

Thank you all who reviewed, and, of course, to my wonderful beta reader Eva-chan!!! I don't know what I would do with out her help! This is fic is ending soon… maybe the next chapter… maybe not.

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