Recap: Tomoyo and Eriol have just written very emotional and detailed letters to each other in a good way.

Chapter 9

The Sunday was a normal one. Eriol went to church and Tomoyo stayed home because she was Buddhist. Later that day though, she received a phone call from Eriol.

"Tomoyo, I need to tell you something." His voice sounded upset and excited in a way.

"What is it? Is it bad?"

"Yes," he said shortly, but did not go on.

This annoyed Tomoyo because he usually told her everything, so she pressed on, "What's wrong?"

"Today is the worst day of my life. I'm moving," Eriol stated flatly.

Tomoyo gasped lightly when she heard this. Her plans to spend more time with him were ruined for the summer. She kept her mouth shut.

"Uh, Tomoyo?" Eriol's voice came through, full of uncertainty.

Tomoyo snapped out her reverie. "Huh? Oh yea, you aren't moving." She was in denial.

"Yes I am. My mom put up the 'For Sale' sign today."

"No, but you promised you wouldn't leave me."

"I know, but it may take a while, hopefully we won't move for another four years," Eriol said, trying to lighten the mood.

"You know that won't happen," she said with a sigh, "So when are you actually going to move?"

"I'm not really sure. Some people just came to look at our house today." He paused lightly, "I've lived her my whole life, I don't want to move."

Tomoyo was defeated, "I don't want you to move either," she said in a small voice.

This was making her sad. She didn't want her best friend and potential boyfriend to move. Her heart was beginning to have a small crack in it. She could feel it, but this will soon be the least of the pain.

She heard Eriol give out a small sigh. This brought her back into the conversation and back to the reality of it all.

"Eriol, you promised not to leave me."

"I know, it's not like I want to."

"But you promised, are you still going to go to the same school as me? You aren't going to transfer right?"

"No, of course not. I'm going to stay with you 'till the very end," he said with quite confidence.

There was silence for a while. Neither of them knew what to say. That is, until Eriol cleared his throat and said:

"Tomoyo, if I asked you out right now, would you go out with me."

Tomoyo merely blushed at the though. It made her smile brightly. She was so happy and excited about it, but was too shy to mention anything. Eriol waited patiently.

"Yes, Eriol, I would say yes to you," she said finally, with a big smile on her face and her cheeks bright pink from all the blushing.

Tomoyo heard Eriol let out a sigh of relief. He sounds incredibly happy now too!

"Alright then," he said, really confidant, "I'll ask you out the next time I see you, since I already know what the answer is."

Everyone was feeling giddy. Tomoyo suddenly giggled, but she managed to say:

"Ok, that sounds good. I'm going to go for a while then. I'll see you at school tomorrow."

"Ok, bye!"

They both clicked off. Tomoyo was sad, she was losing her best friend to an unchangeable force, but then again, she was ecstatic that the moment she was waiting for has finally come!

Tomoyo decided to go cleanse herself so she would look dazzling for school tomorrow, but it's not like she needed to do much anyways. Tomoyo was glowing with natural beauty. All through out the shower she was thinking about the conversation she had with Eriol.

When Tomoyo went to bed, all thought about was Eriol. It was a bit frustrating also. Her mind was so occupied that she couldn't get to sleep. A few hours later, she was still wide a wake. Mostly the thoughts that ran through Tomoyo's mind was:

It's interesting how we like each other at the same time...

I remember when I would like him and he wouldn't like me...

Why did we have to like each other at different times?

Oh well, we are really close to each other now.

I hope we stay best friends forever.

And it went on like that, until a few doubts showed up:

I don't know if this is the right thing to do...

Why am I stressing out about this?

This isn't love... it's just a crush. I don't think I like having a crush.

Why does he like me?

These thoughts made her toss and turn. She couldn't get to sleep. Then an oxymoron came into her mind.

This is just like the song "Drive Me Crazy" by Brittany Spears. Oh great...

She thought. But eventually Tomoyo did fall asleep.

The next day at school, some weird events were going on. Someone asked her if she was going out with Eriol! She was amazed at this. She didn't know it already happened so she said "I don't think so." Tomoyo made a mental note to ask Eriol about this later.

School was horrible. The first few days were anyway. It was the same old routine; talking to the students about all the rules and expectations.

Tomoyo had quite some homework to do, which frustrated her, but she decided to call Eriol instead.

"Eriol?"

"Tomoyo?"

"Eriol?"

"What's up."

"You weren't at school today. Where were you?"

"Tomoyo, I broke my arm." He said with his usual calmness, except there was a bit of amusement in his voice.

Tomoyo gasped, "Oh wow, what did you do?"

"I fell hard while I was skateboarding to school. That way I got to miss class today." He said with a light chuckle.

"Eriol, that's not funny. Are you ok?"

"Of course I am. It did not hurt at all."

"Awe, well I know this won't make a difference either way, but I hope you get better soon!"

This was the time that Eriol laughed, "Yeah, me too, but I have to wear the cast for a whole six weeks before it came come off and I will be totally healed."

"That means that when you get your cast off, your arm is going to be like jello." They laughed some more because this was true.

"Alright well, I wanted to ask you something," Tomoyo stated clearly.

"Ok, what is it?"

"Are you telling people that I'm your girlfriend?"

Eriol seemed to be embarrassed by what she just said because he stalled before he said something. "Yeah... Well... I did. Because I figured that I asked you in some form, I just have to do it in person now. So I have been telling people I have a girlfriend because it's partly true."

This was weird to Tomoyo. "Oh..." She said, "Um, ok, that's fine." But she smiled despite herself.

The conversation continued until one of them had to leave.

The next day at school. Tomoyo looked, cute as always, went into her English class. She was talking politely to Chiharu when Chiharu asked,

"How was your summer?" A quick pause, "Do you have a boyfriend?"

Tomoyo smiled shyly, her cheeks pinked a little. "Summer was a little boring, but the end was pretty fun." She smiled at Chiharu again, "Yeah, I do have a boyfriend." Kinda, she thought to herself.

"Kawaii!" Chiharu squealed, "That's so cute! Who is he? I want to meet him."

"You already know him." A slight pause to cause suspense, "It's Eriol!"

Chiharu gasped, "No way... Finally you guys get together! Yay!"

Tomoyo smiled sweetly and sweat-dropped. Heh, yeah. All I need now is for him to ask me out in person... But she kept on smiling.

Joanni: Argh... How can I FORGET what to write in my own story?? Jeez... I had it all planned out... darn. well. Ooops. for taking a while, I hope you guys like it. I'd like to thank all my reviewers: Dr. Vorlon, June, Kazeshi, Shima and Tempis, not applicable, kuTiExAzNxAnGeL, Angel Fairy Sakura, and all you out there who review. THANKS!!! *muah!* but um... yea sorry this is so short, I will make it up in the next chapter.

FORE WARNING THOUGH:: the chapters after this is going to be a whole lot longer and... not so happy.... so you've been warned! heh heh (-_-);;