A New Year with New Faces
The sun rose as a girl about the age of 15 woke to the sound of her alarm clock. This girl was Sakura, now the rightful owner of the powerful yet chaotic Sakura Cards. As Sakura tried to grab her alarm clock to shut off the alarm, she saw her alarm clock wasn't there. Now hazily looking around she saw the new guardian of the Sakura Cards and her friend, Kero was sleepily sitting on her alarm clock to turn off the alarm. Kero, yawning jumped off her alarm clock and then sat down lazily right next to it. Sakura smiled and then stretched slowly, to show Kero she was already awake.
"Good way of waking up huh Sakura?" Kero said whilst yawning. "Yeah," Sakura grumbled, as she got out of bed. "Mind you you're actually up early for school," Kero said flying around the room to stretch his wings. "Yeah, I know. Hang on I gotta get changed, could you?" Sakura asked. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right Sakura, don't forget to save me something to eat! Maybe pudding?" Kero asked greedily. "Okay, okay!!!" Sakura said hastily as she signalled she was getting changed.
When she had finished she quickly half ran down stairs only to walk into the kitchen, beautifully smelling like fresh cooked bacon and eggs. And on her left she saw her older brother Tori cooking some more eggs. Tori looked as if he didn't get enough sleep, he was obviously out with Ruby last night as he was never this tired every day. Sakura took her plate and helped herself to some bacon and eggs. Whilst she was eating, she saw Kero fly in looking disgruntled.
"So much for saving me some food!" Kero replied looking at the bacon and eggs plates, which was empty since Sakura took the last pieces. Sakura just shrugged as Kero flew over to Tori to bug him to cook faster as he was very hungry. Tori grumbled and signalled Kero to sit down or he was going to cook HIM faster. Kero grumbling at this quickly flew over to his spot on the table, near Sakura. Sakura had already finished her breakfast when Kero sat down, so she grabbed her plate and put it quickly in the sink. Tori had finished cooking the rest of the bacon and eggs and was serving Kero's share. As Sakura got her bag upstairs in her room, she saw a picture of her best friends in the world. Madison with her fair pale completion and long ebony hair, Meilin a slightly darker tan than the rest with a unique hairstyle letting her black hair stay clear of her 'proud' look, Eli standing handsomely beside Madison with his mystical eyes, which always enchanted those of the opposite gender, then there was Li who was the handsome one of the two boys. Well in Sakura's opinion, he had become rather tall now, about a few inches but this wasn't what made girl chase after him as well as Eli. He had nearly everything a girl wanted, a cute puppy look, a caring personality although he never really showed this to the rest of the world and his great physique. He was good in sports and when a girl needed to be protected he was the guy, as he had learnt martial arts when he was little. But Sakura was practically a fair few of the girls he knew who knew all this; all they knew was he was good in sports being on the basketball and soccer team for their school and that he was cute. Sakura smiled as she quickly glanced at her clock and suddenly realising that it was 8:00 and she wanted to get there early so she could chat whilst waiting for their teacher. When Sakura was downstairs putting on her roller blades Kero flew in looking rather pleased with himself. Sakura raised an eyebrow but just shrugged and opened the door, as she started down the concrete steps in front of her house she saw a good looking boy pass and by the look on his face he was lost. He had the same uniform on as Sakura so grinning to herself approached the boy smiling.
"Hi, I'm Sakura," Sakura began, giving one of her charming smiles. The boy smiled. "Hi, I'm Calvin. Do you know the way to Readington High School?" the boy asked. "Yeah, I do. I'm just going there now," Sakura replied. "Cool, do you think you could skate slow today then?" Calvin asked. "No prob," Sakura replied, she saw that he was a charmer himself and was glad to be the first girl to have met him. He had brown hair it was much lighter than Li's, his eyes were a nice shade of hazel and were warm and inviting. He was pretty tall; although Sakura looked like they were the same height she was wearing her roller blades so her was probably the same height as Li or Eli. "So. where do you live?" Sakura began again. "I saw you were probably outside your house, am I right?" Calvin replied, giving him a charming smile. "Yeah, that's my house," Sakura said proudly trying not to blush when he smiled, he just looked so cute. "Well then I live about 3 houses away from you then!" "Cool. So what class are you in?" "Umm, according to this note I'm in gr.9 division 6. How about you?" Calvin asked as he took a quick look at his note. "Same. So you won't have any trouble finding you classroom," Sakura said with a smile. The walk to school couldn't have gone so shortly. Sakura saw that by the time they had finished their introduction they were already in the school grounds.
Calvin feeling lucky to have met Sakura couldn't help seeing in his opinion she looked friendly and cute. But what Sakura didn't know about Calvin was that he could sense her powers, which meant only one thing. He too, had magical powers but the difference was that he couldn't really control them like Sakura. 'She's so cute. It's not wonder I didn't sense her before. She's too innocent.' Calvin thought to himself when Sakura quickly took off her roller blades and led him to class. Li, Madison and Eli were already there, talking amongst themselves. When they turned around they saw Sakura walking into class with a new boy. Li's eyes narrowed sharply at the sight of the boy. The boy saw this and tried to keep his distance from Sakura. Sakura just walked on smiling.
"Hey guys, this is Calvin," Sakura said with a smile pointing to Calvin. Calvin smiled nervously, 'It should be illegal to do that! It's way too cute,' Sakura thought as Madison introduced herself. "I'm taking your one of our new students?" Madison said smiling at him, making Calvin blush. "Umm, yeah" Calvin replied, giving her a charming smile making Madison blush, Eli just grinned. Eli and Madison had just started going out together on the last two weeks of the summer holidays. 'Why didn't Eli do anything just then? Then again I suppose he isn't the jealous type,' Sakura thought to herself. "Oh yeah, this is Li," Sakura continued, glancing quickly at Li she saw his face was wearing his I-sense-something-from-him-so-I-don't-trust-him-look, "The serious one," Sakura added, rolling her eyes. When Li was introduced, both boys stared at each other for a while and when finally holding their hands out for a handshake hesitated. Sakura rolled her eyes at Li, making Li raise an eyebrow at her. Madison could see where this was leading so gently nudged Eli. Eli responded by looking at her and seeing that his girlfriend's eyes were now wider that usual. He knew what she was worried about, every time someone magical came into the picture Li would always suspect them for a long period of time then when they appear to be harmless turned into the normal Li every one knew. Eli thought quickly of what to do when it hit him.
"So Sakura do you know who the other student is?" Eli began, breaking Li and Calvin of their deadly stare competition. "No, do any of you guys know?" Sakura asked the rest. The rest responded by shaking their heads vertically. "Probably is a girl. That's what I think," Calvin said, leaning on the desk behind him, which was Li's. "How come?" Madison asked, curious. Eli smiled again, Madison looked at him tilting her head sideways. "Don't be too curious, you're too cute when you do that," Eli remarked softly so only Madison could hear. Madison smiled and grabbed his hand gently squeezing it. "How about you Li?" Sakura asked cutting Calvin off, not that he minded, he had taken a small liking to Sakura now. "Have no idea," Li replied quickly as he saw Nikki, Chelsea and Rita came up behind him. Sakura grinned, Li seeing this blushed. Madison and Eli were watching in their usual couple position, Madison with her back against Eli's chest with his hand across her waist, her head was leaning a little on his shoulder so Eli could see ahead of himself. Madison was trying not to grin so broadly and Eli was just smiling at Li. Li looked back at them with disbelief as he turned to face the girls. When he finally turned around the girl giggled a little and started asking Li of his summer. Li kept replying it was 'okay' and that he had fun back home in Hong Kong. Sakura just glanced at Calvin and saw he had an eyebrow raised. The only time Li ever got away from his little 'fan club' was when Miss. McKenzie came. Li sat back down at his desk, with his cute looking tired-and-totally- bummed-out look. Calvin was told that he was to stand in front of the class.
"Good morning class," Miss. McKenzie began, "Today we have the pleasure of having two new students in our class this year. This is Calvin Stuart and he flew in all the way from Hampton in England. And out other student should be here now, ah yes, here she is," as Miss. McKenzie said this the whole class tried to get a better look at who was at the door. It was obviously a girl as Miss. McKenzie referred her as a 'she'. When she did walk into the classroom the class saw she was a pretty and innocent looking girl, much like Sakura only she was blonde. Her blonde hair was straight and tied in a neat ponytail. On her ponytail was a long pink ribbon of silky cloth; the tip just reached her knees. Her face was welcoming and fair; her pretty brown eyes scanned the classroom like a tiger. When she walked to stand next to Calvin everyone could see that she had natural beauty. When Sakura turned to look at Madison she wasn't looking at the new girl, she was side glancing at Li. Sakura turned to Eli and he was looking at Li with a grin on his face.
Sakura turned around to see Li sitting up straight looking straight at the girl as though hypnotised.
Sakura turned back to the front, whilst she was turning she caught Madison's eye and they both looked away and giggled quietly to themselves. Eli had now turned to the front as well and was studying the two new students. "And this is Kara Rhee," Miss. McKenzie said breaking stunned silence. "Now let's see where you will be sitting. Calvin I see you already know Sakura so you can just sit in front of her and Kara you can sit next to Eli. Eli please let her know where you are," Eli raised his hand quickly and when Kara started walking towards him he lowered it. Kara smiled and then sat at her seat. Li was still looking at Kara when she was sat at her desk, but turned back to face the front when Kara turned her head in his direction. As class went on Sakura, Madison and Eli often spotted Li glancing at Kara a fair few times. When recess came Sakura seized the opportunity to talk to Kara, Madison joined her with Eli behind her, Li didn't join them, he went to his locker to get his books.
"Hi, I'm Sakura," Sakura began nervously, Kara smiled. "Hi, as you already know. I'm Kara, nice to meet you," Kara replied in a friendly tone. Then Madison introduced herself receiving the same welcoming by Kara. Pretty soon they were outside sitting in the shade near the fountain. Li didn't join them so Eli was the only boy, until Zach joined them telling them his old stories. Eli didn't mind though, he just kept looking at his girlfriend like he was the luckiest guy in the world. Sakura and Kara would talk constantly about all the different sports they played especially gymnastics and how to make some sports fun. Madison would just nod and then cuddle up to Eli for comfort and Eli would respond by putting an arm around her or holding her by her waist. Sakura would always see that they were so close and sometimes would envy Madison having a guy who cared for her that much. When the bell rang it was time for sports so the girls left the boys to get changed. The boys went about a few minutes after them. When the class was waiting for their teacher, the gang saw Li wasn't there yet. If he didn't come to class early he would probably get into trouble and what's more that was worrying the gang was that he was always the first in class. Finally Li arrived just before their teacher, Mr. Terrada, came in.
"Okay class, settle down. Today and a couple more lessons we will be doing gymnastics," Mr. Terrada said. A couple of boys groaned whereas the girls squealed in excitement. Sakura and Kara being the most excited. When Mr. Terrada had finished calling the role he asked some of the expert cheerleaders, Sakura being one of them, to demonstrate a few expert moves. Sakura being now the head cheerleader in the high school was happy to give a demonstration. Kara was in the front watching in excitement, Li who was standing a few people behind her; saw her pretty face light up. Eli saw this and clapped his hand on Li's shoulder, giving Li a fright.
"You know if you like her just ask her out. No big deal," Eli said calmly looking in the direction where Li was looking before, smiling when he saw a clear view of Kara. "You wouldn't understand," Li muttered. Eli raised an eyebrow at him. "And why is that?" Eli questioned him. "I." Li began but soon stopped as Mr. Terrada requested that there'd be silence as he instructed what they were doing first. Pretty soon everyone was in a deep death-like silence as Mr. Terrada recalled they were doing cartwheels. The boys groaned again, aside from Eli and Li as they were pretty flexible for guys, both being on the basketball and soccer team together. The biggest surprise was when Kara went for her turn. She was so graceful and well balanced, much like a cheerleader. Li didn't ever show an expression of surprise, like as if he knew she was that good. Their gym class was going pretty fast, as most of the class thought it was so much 'fun'. Kara was given an application form for the cheerleading squad as one of their cheerleaders had left and they had been looking of someone with potential over the summer. Kara full of excitement filled it in instantly and said she would get it signed tonight so that she could hand it in by tomorrow. Sakura was happy that Kara was adjusting well with the rest of the class, but there was one thing that bothered her. 'Why was Li being so distant?' Sakura thought as she went to the girl's bathrooms to get changed. As Sakura got her bag Kara came up behind her to grab hers. Kara saw that Sakura was looking a little confused so raised an eyebrow.
"What's up?" Kara asked as they each walked towards a cubical to change. "Well I might be kinda personal, wait till we are finished then I'll tell you," Sakura replied. "Sure okay," Kara replied. Then there was a silence between the two as they were both getting changed. Meanwhile Eli was asking the same thing from Li and why he was being so distant towards their new girl classmate. "You wouldn't understand Eli," Li grumbled before Eli could open his mouth. Eli closed his mouth into a straight line and raised one of his charming eyebrows at him. "What wouldn't I understand Li? Do you know her or something?" Eli pushed on. Li sighed and then started walking out of the boys' change rooms. And the same thing was happening with Sakura, Kara and Madison. As the entry to both the girls' and boys' change rooms met in the middle the two boys and three girls bumped right into each other, Li and Kara colliding first. When everyone was up again there was a big silence between the gang came out of the corridor into the sports gym.
"Hi Li, nice to see you again," Kara said softly so that only Li could hear, Li blushed bright red, much like a ripe tomato. Eli saw this all so jogged right in front of them stopping them both in their tracks. Also stopping Sakura and Madison behind them.
"Okay, this is really getting on my nerves here. Do you two know each other or not?" Eli asked, Kara bit her lip whereas Li looked in the other direction obviously blushing again. Sakura and Madison walked around them to stand next to Eli both of them eyebrows raised. "Yeah, we do Eli, okay?" Li replied still blushing bright red, he tried to walk away but Eli blocked him with his right hand. Kara just remained where she was, just looking at Li's back like this was nothing new. "So how do you know each other Li?" Madison asked, Li sighed again. "We just do okay?" Li replied without turning to face them, Kara fidgeted a little at this. 'This was sure not working out the way I expected,' Sakura thought to herself.
The sun rose as a girl about the age of 15 woke to the sound of her alarm clock. This girl was Sakura, now the rightful owner of the powerful yet chaotic Sakura Cards. As Sakura tried to grab her alarm clock to shut off the alarm, she saw her alarm clock wasn't there. Now hazily looking around she saw the new guardian of the Sakura Cards and her friend, Kero was sleepily sitting on her alarm clock to turn off the alarm. Kero, yawning jumped off her alarm clock and then sat down lazily right next to it. Sakura smiled and then stretched slowly, to show Kero she was already awake.
"Good way of waking up huh Sakura?" Kero said whilst yawning. "Yeah," Sakura grumbled, as she got out of bed. "Mind you you're actually up early for school," Kero said flying around the room to stretch his wings. "Yeah, I know. Hang on I gotta get changed, could you?" Sakura asked. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right Sakura, don't forget to save me something to eat! Maybe pudding?" Kero asked greedily. "Okay, okay!!!" Sakura said hastily as she signalled she was getting changed.
When she had finished she quickly half ran down stairs only to walk into the kitchen, beautifully smelling like fresh cooked bacon and eggs. And on her left she saw her older brother Tori cooking some more eggs. Tori looked as if he didn't get enough sleep, he was obviously out with Ruby last night as he was never this tired every day. Sakura took her plate and helped herself to some bacon and eggs. Whilst she was eating, she saw Kero fly in looking disgruntled.
"So much for saving me some food!" Kero replied looking at the bacon and eggs plates, which was empty since Sakura took the last pieces. Sakura just shrugged as Kero flew over to Tori to bug him to cook faster as he was very hungry. Tori grumbled and signalled Kero to sit down or he was going to cook HIM faster. Kero grumbling at this quickly flew over to his spot on the table, near Sakura. Sakura had already finished her breakfast when Kero sat down, so she grabbed her plate and put it quickly in the sink. Tori had finished cooking the rest of the bacon and eggs and was serving Kero's share. As Sakura got her bag upstairs in her room, she saw a picture of her best friends in the world. Madison with her fair pale completion and long ebony hair, Meilin a slightly darker tan than the rest with a unique hairstyle letting her black hair stay clear of her 'proud' look, Eli standing handsomely beside Madison with his mystical eyes, which always enchanted those of the opposite gender, then there was Li who was the handsome one of the two boys. Well in Sakura's opinion, he had become rather tall now, about a few inches but this wasn't what made girl chase after him as well as Eli. He had nearly everything a girl wanted, a cute puppy look, a caring personality although he never really showed this to the rest of the world and his great physique. He was good in sports and when a girl needed to be protected he was the guy, as he had learnt martial arts when he was little. But Sakura was practically a fair few of the girls he knew who knew all this; all they knew was he was good in sports being on the basketball and soccer team for their school and that he was cute. Sakura smiled as she quickly glanced at her clock and suddenly realising that it was 8:00 and she wanted to get there early so she could chat whilst waiting for their teacher. When Sakura was downstairs putting on her roller blades Kero flew in looking rather pleased with himself. Sakura raised an eyebrow but just shrugged and opened the door, as she started down the concrete steps in front of her house she saw a good looking boy pass and by the look on his face he was lost. He had the same uniform on as Sakura so grinning to herself approached the boy smiling.
"Hi, I'm Sakura," Sakura began, giving one of her charming smiles. The boy smiled. "Hi, I'm Calvin. Do you know the way to Readington High School?" the boy asked. "Yeah, I do. I'm just going there now," Sakura replied. "Cool, do you think you could skate slow today then?" Calvin asked. "No prob," Sakura replied, she saw that he was a charmer himself and was glad to be the first girl to have met him. He had brown hair it was much lighter than Li's, his eyes were a nice shade of hazel and were warm and inviting. He was pretty tall; although Sakura looked like they were the same height she was wearing her roller blades so her was probably the same height as Li or Eli. "So. where do you live?" Sakura began again. "I saw you were probably outside your house, am I right?" Calvin replied, giving him a charming smile. "Yeah, that's my house," Sakura said proudly trying not to blush when he smiled, he just looked so cute. "Well then I live about 3 houses away from you then!" "Cool. So what class are you in?" "Umm, according to this note I'm in gr.9 division 6. How about you?" Calvin asked as he took a quick look at his note. "Same. So you won't have any trouble finding you classroom," Sakura said with a smile. The walk to school couldn't have gone so shortly. Sakura saw that by the time they had finished their introduction they were already in the school grounds.
Calvin feeling lucky to have met Sakura couldn't help seeing in his opinion she looked friendly and cute. But what Sakura didn't know about Calvin was that he could sense her powers, which meant only one thing. He too, had magical powers but the difference was that he couldn't really control them like Sakura. 'She's so cute. It's not wonder I didn't sense her before. She's too innocent.' Calvin thought to himself when Sakura quickly took off her roller blades and led him to class. Li, Madison and Eli were already there, talking amongst themselves. When they turned around they saw Sakura walking into class with a new boy. Li's eyes narrowed sharply at the sight of the boy. The boy saw this and tried to keep his distance from Sakura. Sakura just walked on smiling.
"Hey guys, this is Calvin," Sakura said with a smile pointing to Calvin. Calvin smiled nervously, 'It should be illegal to do that! It's way too cute,' Sakura thought as Madison introduced herself. "I'm taking your one of our new students?" Madison said smiling at him, making Calvin blush. "Umm, yeah" Calvin replied, giving her a charming smile making Madison blush, Eli just grinned. Eli and Madison had just started going out together on the last two weeks of the summer holidays. 'Why didn't Eli do anything just then? Then again I suppose he isn't the jealous type,' Sakura thought to herself. "Oh yeah, this is Li," Sakura continued, glancing quickly at Li she saw his face was wearing his I-sense-something-from-him-so-I-don't-trust-him-look, "The serious one," Sakura added, rolling her eyes. When Li was introduced, both boys stared at each other for a while and when finally holding their hands out for a handshake hesitated. Sakura rolled her eyes at Li, making Li raise an eyebrow at her. Madison could see where this was leading so gently nudged Eli. Eli responded by looking at her and seeing that his girlfriend's eyes were now wider that usual. He knew what she was worried about, every time someone magical came into the picture Li would always suspect them for a long period of time then when they appear to be harmless turned into the normal Li every one knew. Eli thought quickly of what to do when it hit him.
"So Sakura do you know who the other student is?" Eli began, breaking Li and Calvin of their deadly stare competition. "No, do any of you guys know?" Sakura asked the rest. The rest responded by shaking their heads vertically. "Probably is a girl. That's what I think," Calvin said, leaning on the desk behind him, which was Li's. "How come?" Madison asked, curious. Eli smiled again, Madison looked at him tilting her head sideways. "Don't be too curious, you're too cute when you do that," Eli remarked softly so only Madison could hear. Madison smiled and grabbed his hand gently squeezing it. "How about you Li?" Sakura asked cutting Calvin off, not that he minded, he had taken a small liking to Sakura now. "Have no idea," Li replied quickly as he saw Nikki, Chelsea and Rita came up behind him. Sakura grinned, Li seeing this blushed. Madison and Eli were watching in their usual couple position, Madison with her back against Eli's chest with his hand across her waist, her head was leaning a little on his shoulder so Eli could see ahead of himself. Madison was trying not to grin so broadly and Eli was just smiling at Li. Li looked back at them with disbelief as he turned to face the girls. When he finally turned around the girl giggled a little and started asking Li of his summer. Li kept replying it was 'okay' and that he had fun back home in Hong Kong. Sakura just glanced at Calvin and saw he had an eyebrow raised. The only time Li ever got away from his little 'fan club' was when Miss. McKenzie came. Li sat back down at his desk, with his cute looking tired-and-totally- bummed-out look. Calvin was told that he was to stand in front of the class.
"Good morning class," Miss. McKenzie began, "Today we have the pleasure of having two new students in our class this year. This is Calvin Stuart and he flew in all the way from Hampton in England. And out other student should be here now, ah yes, here she is," as Miss. McKenzie said this the whole class tried to get a better look at who was at the door. It was obviously a girl as Miss. McKenzie referred her as a 'she'. When she did walk into the classroom the class saw she was a pretty and innocent looking girl, much like Sakura only she was blonde. Her blonde hair was straight and tied in a neat ponytail. On her ponytail was a long pink ribbon of silky cloth; the tip just reached her knees. Her face was welcoming and fair; her pretty brown eyes scanned the classroom like a tiger. When she walked to stand next to Calvin everyone could see that she had natural beauty. When Sakura turned to look at Madison she wasn't looking at the new girl, she was side glancing at Li. Sakura turned to Eli and he was looking at Li with a grin on his face.
Sakura turned around to see Li sitting up straight looking straight at the girl as though hypnotised.
Sakura turned back to the front, whilst she was turning she caught Madison's eye and they both looked away and giggled quietly to themselves. Eli had now turned to the front as well and was studying the two new students. "And this is Kara Rhee," Miss. McKenzie said breaking stunned silence. "Now let's see where you will be sitting. Calvin I see you already know Sakura so you can just sit in front of her and Kara you can sit next to Eli. Eli please let her know where you are," Eli raised his hand quickly and when Kara started walking towards him he lowered it. Kara smiled and then sat at her seat. Li was still looking at Kara when she was sat at her desk, but turned back to face the front when Kara turned her head in his direction. As class went on Sakura, Madison and Eli often spotted Li glancing at Kara a fair few times. When recess came Sakura seized the opportunity to talk to Kara, Madison joined her with Eli behind her, Li didn't join them, he went to his locker to get his books.
"Hi, I'm Sakura," Sakura began nervously, Kara smiled. "Hi, as you already know. I'm Kara, nice to meet you," Kara replied in a friendly tone. Then Madison introduced herself receiving the same welcoming by Kara. Pretty soon they were outside sitting in the shade near the fountain. Li didn't join them so Eli was the only boy, until Zach joined them telling them his old stories. Eli didn't mind though, he just kept looking at his girlfriend like he was the luckiest guy in the world. Sakura and Kara would talk constantly about all the different sports they played especially gymnastics and how to make some sports fun. Madison would just nod and then cuddle up to Eli for comfort and Eli would respond by putting an arm around her or holding her by her waist. Sakura would always see that they were so close and sometimes would envy Madison having a guy who cared for her that much. When the bell rang it was time for sports so the girls left the boys to get changed. The boys went about a few minutes after them. When the class was waiting for their teacher, the gang saw Li wasn't there yet. If he didn't come to class early he would probably get into trouble and what's more that was worrying the gang was that he was always the first in class. Finally Li arrived just before their teacher, Mr. Terrada, came in.
"Okay class, settle down. Today and a couple more lessons we will be doing gymnastics," Mr. Terrada said. A couple of boys groaned whereas the girls squealed in excitement. Sakura and Kara being the most excited. When Mr. Terrada had finished calling the role he asked some of the expert cheerleaders, Sakura being one of them, to demonstrate a few expert moves. Sakura being now the head cheerleader in the high school was happy to give a demonstration. Kara was in the front watching in excitement, Li who was standing a few people behind her; saw her pretty face light up. Eli saw this and clapped his hand on Li's shoulder, giving Li a fright.
"You know if you like her just ask her out. No big deal," Eli said calmly looking in the direction where Li was looking before, smiling when he saw a clear view of Kara. "You wouldn't understand," Li muttered. Eli raised an eyebrow at him. "And why is that?" Eli questioned him. "I." Li began but soon stopped as Mr. Terrada requested that there'd be silence as he instructed what they were doing first. Pretty soon everyone was in a deep death-like silence as Mr. Terrada recalled they were doing cartwheels. The boys groaned again, aside from Eli and Li as they were pretty flexible for guys, both being on the basketball and soccer team together. The biggest surprise was when Kara went for her turn. She was so graceful and well balanced, much like a cheerleader. Li didn't ever show an expression of surprise, like as if he knew she was that good. Their gym class was going pretty fast, as most of the class thought it was so much 'fun'. Kara was given an application form for the cheerleading squad as one of their cheerleaders had left and they had been looking of someone with potential over the summer. Kara full of excitement filled it in instantly and said she would get it signed tonight so that she could hand it in by tomorrow. Sakura was happy that Kara was adjusting well with the rest of the class, but there was one thing that bothered her. 'Why was Li being so distant?' Sakura thought as she went to the girl's bathrooms to get changed. As Sakura got her bag Kara came up behind her to grab hers. Kara saw that Sakura was looking a little confused so raised an eyebrow.
"What's up?" Kara asked as they each walked towards a cubical to change. "Well I might be kinda personal, wait till we are finished then I'll tell you," Sakura replied. "Sure okay," Kara replied. Then there was a silence between the two as they were both getting changed. Meanwhile Eli was asking the same thing from Li and why he was being so distant towards their new girl classmate. "You wouldn't understand Eli," Li grumbled before Eli could open his mouth. Eli closed his mouth into a straight line and raised one of his charming eyebrows at him. "What wouldn't I understand Li? Do you know her or something?" Eli pushed on. Li sighed and then started walking out of the boys' change rooms. And the same thing was happening with Sakura, Kara and Madison. As the entry to both the girls' and boys' change rooms met in the middle the two boys and three girls bumped right into each other, Li and Kara colliding first. When everyone was up again there was a big silence between the gang came out of the corridor into the sports gym.
"Hi Li, nice to see you again," Kara said softly so that only Li could hear, Li blushed bright red, much like a ripe tomato. Eli saw this all so jogged right in front of them stopping them both in their tracks. Also stopping Sakura and Madison behind them.
"Okay, this is really getting on my nerves here. Do you two know each other or not?" Eli asked, Kara bit her lip whereas Li looked in the other direction obviously blushing again. Sakura and Madison walked around them to stand next to Eli both of them eyebrows raised. "Yeah, we do Eli, okay?" Li replied still blushing bright red, he tried to walk away but Eli blocked him with his right hand. Kara just remained where she was, just looking at Li's back like this was nothing new. "So how do you know each other Li?" Madison asked, Li sighed again. "We just do okay?" Li replied without turning to face them, Kara fidgeted a little at this. 'This was sure not working out the way I expected,' Sakura thought to herself.