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At Your Side by Silver-MoonStar
Chapter 7: Conversations
.:||Sakura's Room||:.
Sakura was on her bed. Sobbing. Confused. Feeling Betrayed. Didn't he kiss her? She had heard of boys like this but he never seemed like one. He was serious, responsible and was the most unlikely of all the male gender, so it seems. Looks can be so deceiving.
At times like this, she would go up to her roof, her thinking place, her sole hope of rearranging her feelings and thoughts. And she did.
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The night air was cold. Sakura clutched her jacket closer to her shivering body. But she didn't get up to go back into the warm apartment. She stayed on the red tiles, observing the magnificent view of the whole city that laid in the far west. London… she had been there many a times but now…it seemed that she longed for it…
The creak of the attic door shook her roughly out of her dreams. Being annoyed, she turned to glare at the interrupter but she gasped…
.:||Tomoyo's Room||:.
Tomoyo was punching her bolster furiously. She had let her guard down again. Why wasn't she like the old Tomoyo? Getting over boys like a snap whenever she dumped them. Maybe it because she wasn't used to being rejected. It had always been her who had dumped others and not vice versa.
Eriol was just another boy. He wasn't anyone special…she had to think between those lines. In heart, she knew the dagger was embedding it painfully until she could just give up restraining and force it all out. But she wasn't one to quit, now, she was Tomoyo Daidouji, the mistress of her emotions and heart.
Tomoyo had rarely cried but it seemed that these past few days, crying was all that she could do to console herself. And she did until her pillow was damp. She fell asleep amidst it, drowning in her own emotions and feelings. She had lost to much…her father, her mother…and the king of her heart…
.:||Syaoran||:.
"Syao-kun! Wo de Meiling!" the girl on the other side said(A/N: I learned a little bit of Mandarin but if this is wrong sorry!). "Meiling??" Syaoran widened his eyes. His fiancée? No…not now… Eriol looked a him, frowning and musing. Syaoran gave him a apologizing glance and ran out of the shadowy room into his own.
In the privacy of his own room, Syaoran fumed as much as he could. "What the heck do you think you're doing Meiling?" "Remember Pei Fen? The girl you liked when you were seven? Aunty has betrothed her to you!!" Meiling said simply and happily as though she didn't hear the hint of anger and frustration in Syaoran's voice. Syaoran was silent. He couldn't believe his mother had done such a thing without his consent. Then his thoughts switched to Sakura, goodness-knows-how she felt. He remembered the kiss…it was so dreamy, fairytale like…she must had felt betrayed and possibly depressed when she heard that he had fiancée. And yet he knew it wasn't his fault, he didn't know he was promised marriage to some unknown girl called Pei Fen!
Syaoran felt so crazed with fury that he rudely hung up while Meiling was crying her lungs out for his response, "Syao—"
Syaoran knew where Sakura was, on the roof. The trapdoor was once opened, quite easily from his previous trips to the top. While he opened the roof's entrance, he heard scuffling of hurried footsteps. Then he saw Sakura with the Star Key.
.:||The Roof||:.
(A/N:I don't know the Japanese chant WAAA!! T_T Flame on this if you want to. But I've only watched the dubbed version… & I changed sum of it)
"O Key of My StarWith thine Powers Burning O So Bright
Reveal My Staff
And Shine thy Light!"
As the Clow Mistress aged, so did the staff. The bright, happy pink had turned a passionate red and the yellow star, into a six- pointed asterix, gleaming different colors of the rainbow, mainly constant yellow and pink.
"Sakura!" Syaoran called. She half glanced at him while she called out, "FLY!" The snowy white wings formed on her back. She looked like an angry, fuming, beautiful angel. The image took Syaoran's breath away. But the emerald pools had turned icy with cold fire. Without a single sound, she took off into the night. Syaoran, stunned at the sight, didn't even realize it until she was but a speck in the distance.
"Sakura!!!" Syaoran cried out in frustration. 'Damn! Why can't she stay in one place??' he thought. 'All I needed was to tell the truth, should I go after her?' (A/N: Yes Syaoran Go after HER!!!) But he didn't have any cards that would allow him to catch up with her, especially during airborne.
He went down the stairs, dragging his feet.
Who was Pei Fen? He couldn't remember anyone going with that name. Unless it was that annoying girl who had always clung on to him ever since he was young… How could Meiling think he had ever liked her? The buck- teethed raven…?
.:||Sakura (Her Words)||:.
The night air pricked my skin. I wondered whether it was tinged blue to numbness. I was already cold enough to release my grip. And even though I had been flying for one half hour, I still refused to land.
My mind switched back to the jerk. The gaki, the brat, Chinese Brat. He dared to come up to my roof? The scared place I had kept secret that even my best friend hadn't know. The nerve of him and that stupid friend of him. Our troubles had started because of them. Who would have thought that two mere boys caused emotions to run high?
I wondered how Tomoyo was now. I had heard sobbing from her room. But she still locked the door. Cool Tomoyo crying? That was weird.
The bitter wintry air was really getting into me. I made a u- turn back. But it was only a building away before I was engulfed in choking frosty air. My hand was torn apart from the handle. The last thing I saw was the red beam turning back into a key before disappearing into the night… then darkness took over…
.:||Eriol||:.
It seemed as though something pulled on his heartstrings. He felt as though his insides was a burning infernos at one second and sub-zero draftiness the next. 'Something happened to Sakura!' Eriol thought at once. At that moment, Li dashed into his room, breathing hard, "Sakura!" In his hands was the Star Key……reduced to the former bird head! "She's not here!" Syaoran said. His eyes were darkened drastically.
Eriol gaped at it. What would've caused the Key to reform? It could mean that the Mistress was lost, dead or alive, it was currently unknown.
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A/N: Hallo~ I've taken quite a long break rite? But I'm back, hopefully! Kay, juz kidding. I knoe this chappie is sort of short but I'm still in my holiday mood :P So what's happening to Sakura? What happened to Madison? I'm thinking of a sequel story. But seeing it only having a mere seven chappies, it seems I should continue on the same file… What do you guys think? Oh yea, a sequel would mean, sumthing did happen to Saku and Tomoyo would probably change her behavior… the girls are turning to devils and Saku is having two active rivals, sumthing I have not read about… who is Pei Fen, you think?
