*is sitting on the ground, surrounded by empty cookie boxes* Those were
good!
-Rika
Did they taste like chicken?
-Naoko
O_o Chicken flavored cookies?
-Rika
Sure! Why not! They have cheese flavored ice cream in the Philippines! One of my friends who went there saw some! She didn't have any though.
-Naoko
Gross..
-Sakura
'She. she. I... oh my God I am going to KILL Meling! I'll bet she set this up!' I thought as I walked up to my room. Meling was obviously trying to set us up as a couple. I walked over to my closet and pulled out a shirt. I pulled it on and looked at my door. 'Do I really want to leave? I'll probably just make a fool of myself.'
"Syaoran!" Meling's voice floated out from her balcony. "Stop stalling! We're going somewhere!"
My shoulders slumped. 'Great. Just what I need. To be going somewhere with my insane cousin and the girl I'm crazy - GAH! No, I'm not!' To my dismay, the small, annoying voice in my head said. 'You know you like her.'
"Alright, maybe I do like her," I said out loud. "I still don't want to go to wherever Meling has planned to go." I walked to Meling's room and entered. "Ready," I said flatly.
Sakura's face turned slightly pink again and she very carefully avoided my eyes. I followed suit.
I noticed Meling looking back and forth between us with an evil (in my opinion) glint in her eyes. "Well then, I think we're ready to go! I have a really fun day planned for us!"
I rolled my eyes. "For you maybe," I muttered.
"Pay no attention to him," Meling said to Sakura and glared at me. She smiled happily. "We're going to the circus!"
"Cool!" Sakura cried. "I didn't know the circus was in town!"
"It arrived today!" Meling told us. "I saw an ad for it when I was going to get the ingredients for last nights' dinner and bought tickets for us!"
"You didn't have to do that," Sakura said, embarrassed.
Meling waved her hand dismissively. "Consider it a date with Syaoran."
Sakura looked from Meling to me. "If it's ok with you," she said slowly.
I opened my mouth, paused, then closed it. Surprisingly enough, it was ok. I shrugged. "I guess so," I said.
"Great!" Meling said bouncily. "I'll go call Nabisco and tell him he's going!"
"Isn't it a good idea to check with people before you buy them tickets for something? Or even if they can go?" I asked her.
She didn't answer as she walked over to the phone. "Hi, Nabisco?" I could hear her day. "Guess where we're going today!"
"So. you ever been to a circus?" Sakura asked me.
"I've been to a Chinese one," I replied.
"Oh. I haven't been to any. Are they fun?"
Seeing me without my shirt on must have really unnerved her because she didn't seem like the type of girl to make small talk. I shrugged. "I guess. There are lots of things to do."
Meling came back in. "He can go. He's meeting us there. Tomoyo said she'd be there too, but later in the day. Naoko, Chiharu, and Rika are going together, Takashi said he might go but he just got a new computer and he wants to put it together first and doesn't know how long it'll take and Sakaguchi wasn't there."
My eyes bugged out. "You called them all during that length of time?"
"I talk fast," Meling said and sniffed haughtily.
"Is this a Chinese circus?" Sakura asked Meling.
Meling looked slightly startled. "Where did that come from?"
I stuck my hands in my pockets. "I was telling her about the circus we went to a couple of years ago."
Meling's eyes gleamed and I could just hear her think "Excellent. they can carry on conversations without me. Next stop: marriage!" Well, maybe not the marriage part, but I'm sure she thought that it was an improvement. I supposed it was.
"It's one of those Western Three-ringed circuses. I hear they're really fun. This one is so big they've had to hold it quite a ways out of town."
"Great!" Sakura said. "Let's go!"
We arrived at the circus about an hour later. Sakura drove us there. She had her driver's license and was very proud of it. Meling and I hadn't even bothered to learn how to drive because we were so damn rich we really didn't need to bother worrying about things like that. I decided that I might try to learn how to drive. It DID look like fun.
Nabisco was waiting for us at the gate. "Hi!" he said to us brightly and hugged Meling. "This looks like it's going to be fun!"
Meling pulled four tickets out of her purse and handed each of us one. "Let's go in!"
We entered. It was loud, crowded, smelled like different kinds of food, some of which formed sickening combinations, and starting to get warm. But I didn't care. I was on a date with Sakura and nothing bad had happened yet. Usually I would have made a fool of myself by now. I hoped it would stay that way.
Sakura ran over to a map. "What should we see first?" she asked.
I looked at the map. There were rides, like mini-roller coasters and those spinny-swing-ride things, lots of food booths, all sorts of bizarre attractions like the Gerbil Wheel (keep the light bulb going and you'll get a special prize!). There was a cat show, an elephant show, acrobatics, and a magic show. "I don't care," I said.
Meling looked at the map. "OOOH! Kitties!" she exclaimed.
Nabisco eyed Meling. "You're aware that these 'kitties' are full grown lions, tigers, etc, right? They're not going to be all cutesy."
Meling sniffed. "So! They're still pretty!"
Nabisco looked at his watch. "It's 9:30 right now. The first show starts at noon."
"Let's go look at some of the other stuff until then," Sakura suggested.
Meling cheered. "We get to see the kitties!"
I grimaced and closed my eyes. Meling's obsession with cats could get quite annoying. No doubt she'd be cooing over everything that came into sight with whiskers and a tail. We left the map and wandered around for a bit.
"OOO. that looks like fun," Nabisco said. We had come to some sort of a shooting range.
"Would you four energetic ladies and gents like to play some paintball?" a man in a brightly colored suit asked us.
Rika, Naoko, and Chiharu chose that moment to fund us. "Hey, paintball!" Chiharu exclaimed. "I've heard that game is a lot of fun!"
"Let's play then!" Sakura said.
We divided into two groups: Sakura, Meling, Nabisco, and I against Rika, Naoko and Chiharu. We played for about an hour and had lots of fun.
'This is actually turning out to be a good day!' I thought to myself. 'Maybe this Sakura thing will turn out to be alright.'
After that we went to a picture place. It was one of those ones where you dress up in clothes from the American old west. The photographer put Nabisco and I in the middle of the picture on wooden crates, with the other girls surrounding us.
"These will be ready at 3:00 this afternoon," the photographer told us. "At 10,000 A/N: we have NO idea what that would translate into in dollars. we don't even know if that is expensive or not) Yen a picture."
"WHAT?!?" Meling shrieked. "That's so expensive!"
"That's the circus for you," Rika replied.
"The cat show is starting in 45 minutes. Let's head over there so we can get good seats," I said.
"Kitties! Kitties!" Meling chanted.
"Come on," Rika said, sounding amused.
We got to the tent that the show was in and saw Tomoyo and Takashi in line to get in. We went to stand with them. It was a good thing that we left so early too; the line quickly got longer. When we got in, we were lucky enough to get first-row seats. Meling made me sit next to Sakura.
Meling continued to talk about cats while we waited for the show to start. The rest of us talked about paintball.
The show was pretty good. There were lots of different types of cats shown, and only a couple of them did tricks. I could have done without the tigers rolling balls to one another and more with the endangered cats, but life just isn't perfect, is it? The show ended about 1:00. "Anybody hungry for lunch?" Takashi asked us when we got out.
"Yeah!" We all replied.
We found a hot dog stand and ordered some hotdogs. As we were eating them, we passed a really big gerbil wheel. Sakaguchi and another young man were working at it.
"Touya! What are you doing here?" Sakura demanded.
"Part-time job," was his reply.
"So. how does this thing work?" Takashi asked.
"You run on the gerbil wheel. It runs a little generator that lights up a light bulb. If you can keep the bulb burning for a long enough time, you get a prize." Sakaguchi said.
"What do you win?" Sakura asked him.
"A stuffed bunny," Touya pointed to a shelf full of them.
"Oh! They're so cute!" Sakura exclaimed.
"I'll try it out," I said before I thought better of it.
Meling started to giggle. "This otta be good," she said to Tomoyo. I gave Sakaguchi some money and got onto the wheel. 'Why am I doing this?' "You can start now," Touya told me.
I started to run as fast as I could. The bulb started to light up, but slowly.
"Faster! Faster!" Sakaguchi said.
I continued to run.
"This could take a while. Let's go get some ice cream," Meling said.
"Ok. Some of us should stay here though." Sakura said. "I'll stay."
"Meling, Tomoyo, Rika and I will go get the ice cream," Nabisco said.
"Sounds good to me," Chiharu said.
'I feel really stupid now,' I thought as I watched them walk away.
Sakura and the others talked about an upcoming talent show as I continued to run. The bulb still hadn't lit up bright enough for me to qualify for the prize.
All of a sudden, the wheel stopped. I lost my balance and fell down. My head hit a rung.
"You won," Touya said smiling evilly.
Sakura's POV
"Touya! That was really mean!" I yelled as Syaoran got up with a weird smile on his face. It was as if he wasn't all there.
The others had come back. "Here's your ice cream," Meling said as she handed out our portions.
Syaoran took his and looked at it. He then promptly spread it all over his face. "Good!" he said, beaming.
"Syaoran! What are you doing?" Meling demanded. "Stop!"
He stopped spreading it around and looked sad. Meling got him a napkin to clean his face with. After he was done, he decided to run off.
'He can fun fast' I thought as I watched him.
"You'd better have not given him any permanent damage for that trick you played on him," I said warningly to Touya.
"He'll be fine," my brother responded dismissively.
"SYAORAN!!" Meling shrieked and ran after him.
The rest of us just stared after them.
"That. was disturbing," Naoko said.
"What should we do?" Chiharu asked.
"Wait here?" Takashi suggested.
"Good idea." Chiharu said.
About 15 minutes later, Meling and Syaoran came back. Syaoran was arrayed with a blonde wig, a clown nose, cat ears, and several kiddie balloons. Meling looked exasperated.
"Fix him!!" she said to Touya.
Touya seemed to consider his options, then double-slapped Syaoran. Syaoran blinked several times then looked around. "Did I really just do all that?" he asked.
Everyone nodded.
Syaoran went really red. "I think I need to go home," he said. Touya silently handed him the bunny. "Thanks," Syaoran muttered. He handed it to me. "Here. Its for you."
"Thank you," I said.
Finished the chapter!
-Rika
You went faster this time
-Naoko
Well yeah! You guys are threatening to give away my padded room!
-Rika
See! I told you it would work Naoko
-Sakura
Yes. yes.
-Naoko
-Rika
Did they taste like chicken?
-Naoko
O_o Chicken flavored cookies?
-Rika
Sure! Why not! They have cheese flavored ice cream in the Philippines! One of my friends who went there saw some! She didn't have any though.
-Naoko
Gross..
-Sakura
'She. she. I... oh my God I am going to KILL Meling! I'll bet she set this up!' I thought as I walked up to my room. Meling was obviously trying to set us up as a couple. I walked over to my closet and pulled out a shirt. I pulled it on and looked at my door. 'Do I really want to leave? I'll probably just make a fool of myself.'
"Syaoran!" Meling's voice floated out from her balcony. "Stop stalling! We're going somewhere!"
My shoulders slumped. 'Great. Just what I need. To be going somewhere with my insane cousin and the girl I'm crazy - GAH! No, I'm not!' To my dismay, the small, annoying voice in my head said. 'You know you like her.'
"Alright, maybe I do like her," I said out loud. "I still don't want to go to wherever Meling has planned to go." I walked to Meling's room and entered. "Ready," I said flatly.
Sakura's face turned slightly pink again and she very carefully avoided my eyes. I followed suit.
I noticed Meling looking back and forth between us with an evil (in my opinion) glint in her eyes. "Well then, I think we're ready to go! I have a really fun day planned for us!"
I rolled my eyes. "For you maybe," I muttered.
"Pay no attention to him," Meling said to Sakura and glared at me. She smiled happily. "We're going to the circus!"
"Cool!" Sakura cried. "I didn't know the circus was in town!"
"It arrived today!" Meling told us. "I saw an ad for it when I was going to get the ingredients for last nights' dinner and bought tickets for us!"
"You didn't have to do that," Sakura said, embarrassed.
Meling waved her hand dismissively. "Consider it a date with Syaoran."
Sakura looked from Meling to me. "If it's ok with you," she said slowly.
I opened my mouth, paused, then closed it. Surprisingly enough, it was ok. I shrugged. "I guess so," I said.
"Great!" Meling said bouncily. "I'll go call Nabisco and tell him he's going!"
"Isn't it a good idea to check with people before you buy them tickets for something? Or even if they can go?" I asked her.
She didn't answer as she walked over to the phone. "Hi, Nabisco?" I could hear her day. "Guess where we're going today!"
"So. you ever been to a circus?" Sakura asked me.
"I've been to a Chinese one," I replied.
"Oh. I haven't been to any. Are they fun?"
Seeing me without my shirt on must have really unnerved her because she didn't seem like the type of girl to make small talk. I shrugged. "I guess. There are lots of things to do."
Meling came back in. "He can go. He's meeting us there. Tomoyo said she'd be there too, but later in the day. Naoko, Chiharu, and Rika are going together, Takashi said he might go but he just got a new computer and he wants to put it together first and doesn't know how long it'll take and Sakaguchi wasn't there."
My eyes bugged out. "You called them all during that length of time?"
"I talk fast," Meling said and sniffed haughtily.
"Is this a Chinese circus?" Sakura asked Meling.
Meling looked slightly startled. "Where did that come from?"
I stuck my hands in my pockets. "I was telling her about the circus we went to a couple of years ago."
Meling's eyes gleamed and I could just hear her think "Excellent. they can carry on conversations without me. Next stop: marriage!" Well, maybe not the marriage part, but I'm sure she thought that it was an improvement. I supposed it was.
"It's one of those Western Three-ringed circuses. I hear they're really fun. This one is so big they've had to hold it quite a ways out of town."
"Great!" Sakura said. "Let's go!"
We arrived at the circus about an hour later. Sakura drove us there. She had her driver's license and was very proud of it. Meling and I hadn't even bothered to learn how to drive because we were so damn rich we really didn't need to bother worrying about things like that. I decided that I might try to learn how to drive. It DID look like fun.
Nabisco was waiting for us at the gate. "Hi!" he said to us brightly and hugged Meling. "This looks like it's going to be fun!"
Meling pulled four tickets out of her purse and handed each of us one. "Let's go in!"
We entered. It was loud, crowded, smelled like different kinds of food, some of which formed sickening combinations, and starting to get warm. But I didn't care. I was on a date with Sakura and nothing bad had happened yet. Usually I would have made a fool of myself by now. I hoped it would stay that way.
Sakura ran over to a map. "What should we see first?" she asked.
I looked at the map. There were rides, like mini-roller coasters and those spinny-swing-ride things, lots of food booths, all sorts of bizarre attractions like the Gerbil Wheel (keep the light bulb going and you'll get a special prize!). There was a cat show, an elephant show, acrobatics, and a magic show. "I don't care," I said.
Meling looked at the map. "OOOH! Kitties!" she exclaimed.
Nabisco eyed Meling. "You're aware that these 'kitties' are full grown lions, tigers, etc, right? They're not going to be all cutesy."
Meling sniffed. "So! They're still pretty!"
Nabisco looked at his watch. "It's 9:30 right now. The first show starts at noon."
"Let's go look at some of the other stuff until then," Sakura suggested.
Meling cheered. "We get to see the kitties!"
I grimaced and closed my eyes. Meling's obsession with cats could get quite annoying. No doubt she'd be cooing over everything that came into sight with whiskers and a tail. We left the map and wandered around for a bit.
"OOO. that looks like fun," Nabisco said. We had come to some sort of a shooting range.
"Would you four energetic ladies and gents like to play some paintball?" a man in a brightly colored suit asked us.
Rika, Naoko, and Chiharu chose that moment to fund us. "Hey, paintball!" Chiharu exclaimed. "I've heard that game is a lot of fun!"
"Let's play then!" Sakura said.
We divided into two groups: Sakura, Meling, Nabisco, and I against Rika, Naoko and Chiharu. We played for about an hour and had lots of fun.
'This is actually turning out to be a good day!' I thought to myself. 'Maybe this Sakura thing will turn out to be alright.'
After that we went to a picture place. It was one of those ones where you dress up in clothes from the American old west. The photographer put Nabisco and I in the middle of the picture on wooden crates, with the other girls surrounding us.
"These will be ready at 3:00 this afternoon," the photographer told us. "At 10,000 A/N: we have NO idea what that would translate into in dollars. we don't even know if that is expensive or not) Yen a picture."
"WHAT?!?" Meling shrieked. "That's so expensive!"
"That's the circus for you," Rika replied.
"The cat show is starting in 45 minutes. Let's head over there so we can get good seats," I said.
"Kitties! Kitties!" Meling chanted.
"Come on," Rika said, sounding amused.
We got to the tent that the show was in and saw Tomoyo and Takashi in line to get in. We went to stand with them. It was a good thing that we left so early too; the line quickly got longer. When we got in, we were lucky enough to get first-row seats. Meling made me sit next to Sakura.
Meling continued to talk about cats while we waited for the show to start. The rest of us talked about paintball.
The show was pretty good. There were lots of different types of cats shown, and only a couple of them did tricks. I could have done without the tigers rolling balls to one another and more with the endangered cats, but life just isn't perfect, is it? The show ended about 1:00. "Anybody hungry for lunch?" Takashi asked us when we got out.
"Yeah!" We all replied.
We found a hot dog stand and ordered some hotdogs. As we were eating them, we passed a really big gerbil wheel. Sakaguchi and another young man were working at it.
"Touya! What are you doing here?" Sakura demanded.
"Part-time job," was his reply.
"So. how does this thing work?" Takashi asked.
"You run on the gerbil wheel. It runs a little generator that lights up a light bulb. If you can keep the bulb burning for a long enough time, you get a prize." Sakaguchi said.
"What do you win?" Sakura asked him.
"A stuffed bunny," Touya pointed to a shelf full of them.
"Oh! They're so cute!" Sakura exclaimed.
"I'll try it out," I said before I thought better of it.
Meling started to giggle. "This otta be good," she said to Tomoyo. I gave Sakaguchi some money and got onto the wheel. 'Why am I doing this?' "You can start now," Touya told me.
I started to run as fast as I could. The bulb started to light up, but slowly.
"Faster! Faster!" Sakaguchi said.
I continued to run.
"This could take a while. Let's go get some ice cream," Meling said.
"Ok. Some of us should stay here though." Sakura said. "I'll stay."
"Meling, Tomoyo, Rika and I will go get the ice cream," Nabisco said.
"Sounds good to me," Chiharu said.
'I feel really stupid now,' I thought as I watched them walk away.
Sakura and the others talked about an upcoming talent show as I continued to run. The bulb still hadn't lit up bright enough for me to qualify for the prize.
All of a sudden, the wheel stopped. I lost my balance and fell down. My head hit a rung.
"You won," Touya said smiling evilly.
Sakura's POV
"Touya! That was really mean!" I yelled as Syaoran got up with a weird smile on his face. It was as if he wasn't all there.
The others had come back. "Here's your ice cream," Meling said as she handed out our portions.
Syaoran took his and looked at it. He then promptly spread it all over his face. "Good!" he said, beaming.
"Syaoran! What are you doing?" Meling demanded. "Stop!"
He stopped spreading it around and looked sad. Meling got him a napkin to clean his face with. After he was done, he decided to run off.
'He can fun fast' I thought as I watched him.
"You'd better have not given him any permanent damage for that trick you played on him," I said warningly to Touya.
"He'll be fine," my brother responded dismissively.
"SYAORAN!!" Meling shrieked and ran after him.
The rest of us just stared after them.
"That. was disturbing," Naoko said.
"What should we do?" Chiharu asked.
"Wait here?" Takashi suggested.
"Good idea." Chiharu said.
About 15 minutes later, Meling and Syaoran came back. Syaoran was arrayed with a blonde wig, a clown nose, cat ears, and several kiddie balloons. Meling looked exasperated.
"Fix him!!" she said to Touya.
Touya seemed to consider his options, then double-slapped Syaoran. Syaoran blinked several times then looked around. "Did I really just do all that?" he asked.
Everyone nodded.
Syaoran went really red. "I think I need to go home," he said. Touya silently handed him the bunny. "Thanks," Syaoran muttered. He handed it to me. "Here. Its for you."
"Thank you," I said.
Finished the chapter!
-Rika
You went faster this time
-Naoko
Well yeah! You guys are threatening to give away my padded room!
-Rika
See! I told you it would work Naoko
-Sakura
Yes. yes.
-Naoko
