Friends or Enemies?
Li and Kara obviously didn't want to talk about their past but Sakura, Madison and especially Eli were dying to know. Kara had had enough of this so cleared her throat to indicate that SHE was going to tell. So everyone except Li turned to her. But before Kara could start the lunch bell went so everyone went to his or her lockers to get their lunch. When Sakura and Kara were heading for their usual spot near the fountain in the shade they saw Eli and Madison were already there in their usual position under the trees. Sakura smiled as they sat down next to the couple. 'It's amazing how close you can get in just a months time,' Sakura thought when Eli tickled Madison on her side making her giggle quietly.
"So any way, tell us about you and Li," Sakura asked urgently. Eli and Madison had now stopped their little tickling war and were in a sitting position listening keenly so they wouldn't miss any thing. "I don't know Sakura, shouldn't we wait for Li?" Kara said looking around, obviously looking for Li. Sakura rolled her eyes. "Why? I'll bet you any thing he is probably avoiding us. He probably doesn't want to discuss this at." Sakura said getting impatient, but what she didn't realise was that Li was standing right behind her with a playful eyebrow raised at her. Sakura obviously had her back to him didn't notice her friends blank faces, so she went on. "I'll bet he is probably hiding, and to think that he is the bravest one in this group. At least I'm not a wimp and avoid my friends when an old friend or whatever." After this Sakura didn't finish because Li had cut in. "Oh really Sakura?" Li asked in a calm tone. Sakura froze, as she slowly turned to face him, she saw he had raised his eyebrow but this time was looking serious. Sakura gulped and then started on her lunch as Li sat down between Eli and Kara. Kara realised as he sat he was obviously avoiding her gaze. Kara feeling uncomfortable started on her lunch quietly. Whilst she did this, Li saw that she looked hurt and wondered whether her being a little upset was his doing, feeling guilty tried to eat some of his lunch. Eli and Madison had already eaten their lunch before Sakura and Kara joined them so they happily just talked to each other quietly, obviously to the others they were either flirting or just joking at each other because Madison would once in a while giggle quietly. Eli's mouth was close to her ear so only she could hear. Kara was the first to finish, soon followed by Sakura. Li finished last but in a way was grateful for that. Sakura then went on bugging Kara about why she and Li knew each other. Kara would just look at Li with a hurt look hoping he would tell it instead but he didn't even look at her as he somehow busied himself by grabbing his can of lemonade. Kara sighed quietly, she was hoping Li would at least make contact with her, even just one sentence such as 'hi' or 'how are you?' would do, but Li being the stubborn one he was didn't either of those things so Kara felt there was no reason to tell them any thing at this point.
"Was that what was bugging you in the change rooms?" Kara asked before she took a bite into her sandwich, somehow slightly changing the subject by putting Sakura in the spotlight. "Well, yeah. I just noticed that you too seemed to know each other pretty well and Eli noticed it in you too Li." Sakura replied shrugging it off. Li side glanced at Eli when he heard this, but Eli didn't look at him, he just busied himself of putting his lunch and rubbish away. Li gave him his famous oh-really look then went on packing his lunch. Then Calvin came over, with his cute smile, both Sakura and Kara couldn't refuse. When he sat down next to Kara, Li's eyes narrowed. Calvin saw this but just grinned.
"Don't worry Li, it's not like I'm going to hurt Kara or anything," Calvin remarked, making Li go bright red. Kara noticed this and realised that he probably didn't trust Calvin, Kara knew Li had good intentions but sometimes, from her own experiences, he went too far. Sakura was just eyeing Calvin closely as though to never let him leave her sight. Madison and Eli weren't really paying much attention to all this as they were playfully flirting with each other again.
Li glanced at the happy couple, it reminded him so much of how much fun he and Kara had together, when Meilin was on vacation, they always got themselves into heaps of trouble. Li looked down at his lunch and then decided that he better pack the rest of it away. As he grabbed the rest of his rubbish, he saw out of his corner of his eye Calvin flirting happily with Kara and Kara falling into his trap, as he thought, laughing along and enjoying his company. Li couldn't help but try to hold himself down from hitting Calvin. As far as he knew, HE was the only one who made Kara laugh and made her feel wanted, now Calvin was stealing all the limelight, Li shook his head slightly at the thought of this. He knew he was being selfish but he couldn't help it, he supposed that he probably still had that old crush on Kara or maybe to the fact that he just cared for enough to feel this way, either way he was feeling numb all over.
"Is everything all right Li?" Kara asked, when Li looked up he saw everyone was looking at him with a little bit of concern. Especially Kara, she looked at him with her innocent worried look, when he looked into her angel- like blue eyes his tensity dropped and he was back to his normal self, or at least he thought he did. "Yeah, I'm cool. Continue with your flirting," Li said, saying it from the top of his head, then he froze. He had just thought back to what he had just said to her and slowly and cautiously looked up at Kara. Kara wasn't really impressed nor did she look angry. She just looked at Li blankly, Li felt the bottom of his stomach drop when she slowly raised her eyebrow, and everyone was just surprised to what they just heard from Li. Everyone that is, except Calvin who was just grinning like he had just won a valuable prize. Kara just sighed and then leant forward towards Li. Li just sat there thinking she was going to slap him, so he closed his eyes quickly. But instead Kara put the back of her hand on Li's forehead, surprising everyone. Li slowly opened his eyes to be face to face with Kara, the first time in quite a while, Li just looked at her blankly as she slowly removed her hand and sat back at her place next to Calvin. Everyone was just looking from Li to Kara.
"Hmm." Kara began, looking at Li as if something was wrong. "What?" Li asked loudly. "Well according to your symptoms." Kara said with a glint in her eye. Eli, who instantly knew what Kara was doing grinned, Madison didn't look at him though she was looking at Kara. "Well?" Eli asked in an obvious fake tense tone. "Li, I hate to break to you but." Kara paused keeping everyone at the edge of their seats (even though they weren't sitting on any). "Tell us Kara, I can't take the suspense!" Eli said raising his voice slightly with an obvious small tone of sarcasm, making Kara grin. "Your just suffering from the term, such as jealousy," Kara said calmly fiddling with her silver bracelet, which Li had given her for her 12th birthday, so she wouldn't have look at him. He had turned bright red, either angry or embarrassed, and if he was embarrassed, he was embarrassed real bad. Sakura and Madison giggled quietly to themselves and Eli and Calvin just sat there grinning. Kara was just looking busy fiddling with her bracelet. Li then took his drink and gulped a few sips down, hoping everyone would just stop looking at him and go on chatting. "Are you jealous that I might date your childhood sweetheart Li?" Calvin asked, grinning evilly. Kara, who was now drinking her can of soda choked, Li did the same thing only slowly afterwards. Kara looked up at Li and Li did the same, only he was looking at Calvin with utter disgust. Calvin didn't see the warning in Li's eyes so continued his teasing, obviously enjoying this. "What? Do you have an old crush on her or something?" He taunted. Li was seeing only red, he wanted to just hit Calvin in the face for this, but he knew that everyone would just hold him down and think he was just being mean towards Calvin. But something made Li stop, he saw an evil glint in Calvin's eye which he was sure Calvin couldn't do with a little bit of magic in him. Kara was looking from Calvin to Li and realised from her own experiences that Li was going to punch him any second, so to save Li getting in trouble for giving one of the new kids a black eye, brushed off the little insult and gave Li a warning look, Li got the message. So Li just sat in his spot, glaring at Calvin whereas Calvin thought this was quite funny and started laughing at his own remark. He didn't realise that no one else was laughing. Eli was sensing that Li didn't really find this funny, and Li didn't for a fact. Kara was seeing where this was going so picked up her rubbish and started grabbing everyone else's as well.
"Do you want some help there, Kara?" Calvin asked her in his sweetest tone, Kara didn't see anything charming about this but just smiled slightly. "No thanks, Li has already volunteered to help me," Kara said now looking at Li, giving him the message to come with her. Li didn't complain he would do anything to get away from Calvin at this very moment. Calvin looked abashed at Kara's statement but just shrugged and started talking to Sakura really sweetly as if to make Kara jealous. But Kara did hear or see any of this as she was completely ignoring Calvin this very moment. As Li finally gathered Sakura's rubbish he walked beside Kara towards the nearest rubbish bin.
"What was that about, Li?" Kara asked in a soft tone making Li's knee buckle. "What? Oh right, well he was getting to me that's all," Li stuttered. "No not that, he is just a new student, he doesn't know me and yet he is already trying to get a date out of me, " Kara replied frowning, Li looked at Kara with an expression crossing between surprised and concern.
"What?" Li asked, trying to suppress his anger. Kara knew he was just pumped up. "Cool it Li, mind you it's like he is trying to get under your skin, the way he was taunting you," Kara said, summarising what had happened during the first half of their lunch break. "Yeah, sorry. But did you really have to take my temperature?" Li asked, blushing. Kara giggled. "That was just to see whether you were really sick. You don't usually turn that red around me whenever I was around back home," Kara said with a smile, Li blushed even more but managed to smile back. "Hey, I don't really want to go back and see Calvin again, come with me to get my books from my locker," Kara said, looking back at the gang, Li looked back too, he could see Calvin glancing in their direction once in a while. Li sighed then gave Kara a nod in agreement, Kara then just raised en eyebrow at him and then they headed for their lockers. Meanwhile Calvin was entertaining the rest of the gang whilst Kara and Li's private conversation was happening.
"So, how long have you guys been here?" Calvin asked, glancing quickly in Kara's direction, seeing she wasn't looking at him but was a tad too close to Li, in his opinion. "Been here all my life," Sakura replied sweetly looking at him with desire, Calvin gave one of his charming smiles before looking at Eli and Madison. "Same here," Madison replied giggling slightly, Eli had tickled her gently by her ribs. Calvin secretly wished they didn't do that very often, it made him realise that he didn't have that. "I transferred here from England a couple of years ago," Eli replied, his chin now resting on Madison's shoulder and her head leaning on his. "Oh I see, what made you move here? It's supposed to be nice in England," Calvin asked in a surprised tone. "Well, I just moved because I had to, my parents wanted me to move here so I might as well go with them. But they're always on business trips and so on but it's okay, really," Eli replied, smiling at Madison when she looked at him when he mentioned his parents. Eli never really mentioned his parents, the rest of the gang, except for Calvin, knew that he really didn't have any parents and that he particularly moved to Readington to help Sakura transform the Clow cards into her brand new, Sakura cards, but Sakura preferred to call them Star Cards as she thought it sounded ridiculous to call out a certain card with her name at the end.
Of course it would be ridiculous if Eli were to explain he was really a reincarnation of Clow Reed himself, in Calvin's case he would just think of this as one big joke and for a fact he wouldn't really know who Clow Reed was in any way.
"Those two are taking a sure while for just putting rubbish away," Eli remarked softly in Madison's ear, hoping not to have disturbed Sakura and Calvin from their flirting session. Madison turned towards Eli giving him a soft kiss on his cheek, and then smiled at him before turning towards the rubbish bin where Li and Kara were supposed to be. 'Okay, their gone! Or maybe they're at their lockers," Madison thought as she looked around the school grounds for the missing pair, she then turned to Eli and smiled at him again.
"They'll be fine, with Li's sharp senses and Kara's cool, they'll just be fine," Madison said to Eli cheerfully but quietly so only Eli could hear. Eli smiled then moved closer to his girlfriend and gave her a one handed around her waist. "Why do I bother worrying when I have you to be the positive one?" Eli whispered warmly, Madison giggled and leant her head back against Eli's shoulder.
"Li? You okay?" Kara asked as they grew nearer to their lockers. "Yeah, I'm fine," Li replied, looking as if he was in a trance. "Well, this had been an, umm. interesting first day at Readington High," Kara commented with one of her cheerful grins, Li smiled in response, just as he opened his locker a strong sense came from down the corridor, Li looked in the direction this sense came from and saw Calvin standing there, but it was faint and misty-like. Calvin's eyes were lighted up bright red, Li could see fire in his eyes and wondered why when Kara nudged him slightly waking him from his gaze.
"What's up?" Kara asked looking at Li then at the direction he had continued looking at. Kara looked down the corridor and saw nothing but students and teachers going to their classrooms for class. "Li?" "Huh?" Li asked, looking at Kara blankly, Kara raised a playful eyebrow and studied Li as he got his books. "I suppose we get back to the others now," Li said as he shut his locker, Kara shook her head smiling. "What?" "Li, the bell went already," Kara said, smirking. "Oh right, then let's go," Li said now blushing bright red again. The two half ran to their classroom just on time, Calvin was already sitting on the ledge of his desk trying to look cool. 'I guess he is trying to impress Kara, well he is gonna have to do more than just show off to impress her,' Li thought himself as he and Kara went to their desks. It was true that Calvin was trying to impress Kara but instead Sakura and many of the other girls went for his trap, he didn't really care, being surrounded by girls was another of his main priorities of being the cool one at school. He was also aiming to make Li crack or jealous so Kara would just misunderstand Li and go for himself. But obviously his little game was really being played by either players, as they were just talking to Eli and Madison so Calvin getting annoyed, decided that he would go over and flirt with Kara. Just as he was getting off his desk the Miss. McKenzie came in so he would have to wait till after class. Class seemed to go pretty fast for the gang, except for Calvin, his eagerness to talk to Kara was just unbearable. When the bell went and class was dismissed what Li didn't know was that he lived just one block away from Kara, her house being the first on their street. So Li had a lot of time to talk to her; Calvin lived in the other direction with Sakura. Kara didn't know Li lived near her till she saw him up ahead going the same direction, smiling to herself she ran up to him then jumping lightly behind him with her arms around loosely around his neck. She did catch Li by surprise, as when he saw her bracelet, smiled and realised it was Kara.
"I didn't know you lived around here Li," Kara asked, her arms still around Li's neck, as she slid off his back. "Yeah, the same with you," Li said looking at Kara with his usual serious look. "One weird day, huh?" Kara said in a cheerful tone, Li looked at her curiously. "How come?" Li asked. "Well I wasn't expecting to see you so soon as you're usually really busy." Kara started but Li interrupted. "How can I be too busy to see you?" Li blurted out, Kara smiled at him after this. "Oh you know, with the Clow Cards loose and everything," Kara said waving a hand at him playfully. "How did you know that the Clow Cards escaped?" Li asked in a surprised tone. "Well, I'm not just a powerful sorceror for nothing Li," "Yeah, but that far away?" "I only moved cities Li, remember? I wasn't that far from you and Meilin either," "Yeah, well if you were so close then you would be around a lot more than now," "I'm very aware of that, but you know dad, things were getting hard there. Dad had to adjust to the traffic and the streets around there." "You being defenceless against those people in north Hong Kong, dunno how you coped," "Very funny Li, I did learn martial arts with you as you probably don't remember," "Probably," "Well here's my place, do you wanna come in for afternoon tea?" "Nah, it's okay," "Well all right, how about we walk together to and from school?" "Yeah okay, I'll see you tomorrow morning then," "Yup, cya!" "Bye," After then Kara had gone in, Li stood there for a while then started heading for his house. 'Good. at least Calvin won't be able to get between us going to school in the morning,' Li thought to himself. As Li was drawing nearer to his apartment, he realised he was being selfish again. It was strange, he never felt this way when he was around Meilin and Sakura. It was like the old days when Kara was still living happily with them, whenever a young boy approached Kara he was a little tense but not as much as this. Maybe it was the fact that he was growing or maybe it was something else. From both the options in front of him, Li didn't like either of them; it was strange that Calvin seemed to be getting to him that easy. Calvin seemed to be up to something, which involved Kara and Li didn't like the way Calvin looked at Kara, like she was some sort of prize. 'Kara is more than just a prize, she's more to that than being the pretty and likeable thing she is,' Li thought as he opened the door into the main hallway of his apartment that he shared with his guardian, Wei.
'One of these days I'll hit Calvin, but for now I'll have to keep a close eye on him. I know he is up to something,' Li thought again.
Li and Kara obviously didn't want to talk about their past but Sakura, Madison and especially Eli were dying to know. Kara had had enough of this so cleared her throat to indicate that SHE was going to tell. So everyone except Li turned to her. But before Kara could start the lunch bell went so everyone went to his or her lockers to get their lunch. When Sakura and Kara were heading for their usual spot near the fountain in the shade they saw Eli and Madison were already there in their usual position under the trees. Sakura smiled as they sat down next to the couple. 'It's amazing how close you can get in just a months time,' Sakura thought when Eli tickled Madison on her side making her giggle quietly.
"So any way, tell us about you and Li," Sakura asked urgently. Eli and Madison had now stopped their little tickling war and were in a sitting position listening keenly so they wouldn't miss any thing. "I don't know Sakura, shouldn't we wait for Li?" Kara said looking around, obviously looking for Li. Sakura rolled her eyes. "Why? I'll bet you any thing he is probably avoiding us. He probably doesn't want to discuss this at." Sakura said getting impatient, but what she didn't realise was that Li was standing right behind her with a playful eyebrow raised at her. Sakura obviously had her back to him didn't notice her friends blank faces, so she went on. "I'll bet he is probably hiding, and to think that he is the bravest one in this group. At least I'm not a wimp and avoid my friends when an old friend or whatever." After this Sakura didn't finish because Li had cut in. "Oh really Sakura?" Li asked in a calm tone. Sakura froze, as she slowly turned to face him, she saw he had raised his eyebrow but this time was looking serious. Sakura gulped and then started on her lunch as Li sat down between Eli and Kara. Kara realised as he sat he was obviously avoiding her gaze. Kara feeling uncomfortable started on her lunch quietly. Whilst she did this, Li saw that she looked hurt and wondered whether her being a little upset was his doing, feeling guilty tried to eat some of his lunch. Eli and Madison had already eaten their lunch before Sakura and Kara joined them so they happily just talked to each other quietly, obviously to the others they were either flirting or just joking at each other because Madison would once in a while giggle quietly. Eli's mouth was close to her ear so only she could hear. Kara was the first to finish, soon followed by Sakura. Li finished last but in a way was grateful for that. Sakura then went on bugging Kara about why she and Li knew each other. Kara would just look at Li with a hurt look hoping he would tell it instead but he didn't even look at her as he somehow busied himself by grabbing his can of lemonade. Kara sighed quietly, she was hoping Li would at least make contact with her, even just one sentence such as 'hi' or 'how are you?' would do, but Li being the stubborn one he was didn't either of those things so Kara felt there was no reason to tell them any thing at this point.
"Was that what was bugging you in the change rooms?" Kara asked before she took a bite into her sandwich, somehow slightly changing the subject by putting Sakura in the spotlight. "Well, yeah. I just noticed that you too seemed to know each other pretty well and Eli noticed it in you too Li." Sakura replied shrugging it off. Li side glanced at Eli when he heard this, but Eli didn't look at him, he just busied himself of putting his lunch and rubbish away. Li gave him his famous oh-really look then went on packing his lunch. Then Calvin came over, with his cute smile, both Sakura and Kara couldn't refuse. When he sat down next to Kara, Li's eyes narrowed. Calvin saw this but just grinned.
"Don't worry Li, it's not like I'm going to hurt Kara or anything," Calvin remarked, making Li go bright red. Kara noticed this and realised that he probably didn't trust Calvin, Kara knew Li had good intentions but sometimes, from her own experiences, he went too far. Sakura was just eyeing Calvin closely as though to never let him leave her sight. Madison and Eli weren't really paying much attention to all this as they were playfully flirting with each other again.
Li glanced at the happy couple, it reminded him so much of how much fun he and Kara had together, when Meilin was on vacation, they always got themselves into heaps of trouble. Li looked down at his lunch and then decided that he better pack the rest of it away. As he grabbed the rest of his rubbish, he saw out of his corner of his eye Calvin flirting happily with Kara and Kara falling into his trap, as he thought, laughing along and enjoying his company. Li couldn't help but try to hold himself down from hitting Calvin. As far as he knew, HE was the only one who made Kara laugh and made her feel wanted, now Calvin was stealing all the limelight, Li shook his head slightly at the thought of this. He knew he was being selfish but he couldn't help it, he supposed that he probably still had that old crush on Kara or maybe to the fact that he just cared for enough to feel this way, either way he was feeling numb all over.
"Is everything all right Li?" Kara asked, when Li looked up he saw everyone was looking at him with a little bit of concern. Especially Kara, she looked at him with her innocent worried look, when he looked into her angel- like blue eyes his tensity dropped and he was back to his normal self, or at least he thought he did. "Yeah, I'm cool. Continue with your flirting," Li said, saying it from the top of his head, then he froze. He had just thought back to what he had just said to her and slowly and cautiously looked up at Kara. Kara wasn't really impressed nor did she look angry. She just looked at Li blankly, Li felt the bottom of his stomach drop when she slowly raised her eyebrow, and everyone was just surprised to what they just heard from Li. Everyone that is, except Calvin who was just grinning like he had just won a valuable prize. Kara just sighed and then leant forward towards Li. Li just sat there thinking she was going to slap him, so he closed his eyes quickly. But instead Kara put the back of her hand on Li's forehead, surprising everyone. Li slowly opened his eyes to be face to face with Kara, the first time in quite a while, Li just looked at her blankly as she slowly removed her hand and sat back at her place next to Calvin. Everyone was just looking from Li to Kara.
"Hmm." Kara began, looking at Li as if something was wrong. "What?" Li asked loudly. "Well according to your symptoms." Kara said with a glint in her eye. Eli, who instantly knew what Kara was doing grinned, Madison didn't look at him though she was looking at Kara. "Well?" Eli asked in an obvious fake tense tone. "Li, I hate to break to you but." Kara paused keeping everyone at the edge of their seats (even though they weren't sitting on any). "Tell us Kara, I can't take the suspense!" Eli said raising his voice slightly with an obvious small tone of sarcasm, making Kara grin. "Your just suffering from the term, such as jealousy," Kara said calmly fiddling with her silver bracelet, which Li had given her for her 12th birthday, so she wouldn't have look at him. He had turned bright red, either angry or embarrassed, and if he was embarrassed, he was embarrassed real bad. Sakura and Madison giggled quietly to themselves and Eli and Calvin just sat there grinning. Kara was just looking busy fiddling with her bracelet. Li then took his drink and gulped a few sips down, hoping everyone would just stop looking at him and go on chatting. "Are you jealous that I might date your childhood sweetheart Li?" Calvin asked, grinning evilly. Kara, who was now drinking her can of soda choked, Li did the same thing only slowly afterwards. Kara looked up at Li and Li did the same, only he was looking at Calvin with utter disgust. Calvin didn't see the warning in Li's eyes so continued his teasing, obviously enjoying this. "What? Do you have an old crush on her or something?" He taunted. Li was seeing only red, he wanted to just hit Calvin in the face for this, but he knew that everyone would just hold him down and think he was just being mean towards Calvin. But something made Li stop, he saw an evil glint in Calvin's eye which he was sure Calvin couldn't do with a little bit of magic in him. Kara was looking from Calvin to Li and realised from her own experiences that Li was going to punch him any second, so to save Li getting in trouble for giving one of the new kids a black eye, brushed off the little insult and gave Li a warning look, Li got the message. So Li just sat in his spot, glaring at Calvin whereas Calvin thought this was quite funny and started laughing at his own remark. He didn't realise that no one else was laughing. Eli was sensing that Li didn't really find this funny, and Li didn't for a fact. Kara was seeing where this was going so picked up her rubbish and started grabbing everyone else's as well.
"Do you want some help there, Kara?" Calvin asked her in his sweetest tone, Kara didn't see anything charming about this but just smiled slightly. "No thanks, Li has already volunteered to help me," Kara said now looking at Li, giving him the message to come with her. Li didn't complain he would do anything to get away from Calvin at this very moment. Calvin looked abashed at Kara's statement but just shrugged and started talking to Sakura really sweetly as if to make Kara jealous. But Kara did hear or see any of this as she was completely ignoring Calvin this very moment. As Li finally gathered Sakura's rubbish he walked beside Kara towards the nearest rubbish bin.
"What was that about, Li?" Kara asked in a soft tone making Li's knee buckle. "What? Oh right, well he was getting to me that's all," Li stuttered. "No not that, he is just a new student, he doesn't know me and yet he is already trying to get a date out of me, " Kara replied frowning, Li looked at Kara with an expression crossing between surprised and concern.
"What?" Li asked, trying to suppress his anger. Kara knew he was just pumped up. "Cool it Li, mind you it's like he is trying to get under your skin, the way he was taunting you," Kara said, summarising what had happened during the first half of their lunch break. "Yeah, sorry. But did you really have to take my temperature?" Li asked, blushing. Kara giggled. "That was just to see whether you were really sick. You don't usually turn that red around me whenever I was around back home," Kara said with a smile, Li blushed even more but managed to smile back. "Hey, I don't really want to go back and see Calvin again, come with me to get my books from my locker," Kara said, looking back at the gang, Li looked back too, he could see Calvin glancing in their direction once in a while. Li sighed then gave Kara a nod in agreement, Kara then just raised en eyebrow at him and then they headed for their lockers. Meanwhile Calvin was entertaining the rest of the gang whilst Kara and Li's private conversation was happening.
"So, how long have you guys been here?" Calvin asked, glancing quickly in Kara's direction, seeing she wasn't looking at him but was a tad too close to Li, in his opinion. "Been here all my life," Sakura replied sweetly looking at him with desire, Calvin gave one of his charming smiles before looking at Eli and Madison. "Same here," Madison replied giggling slightly, Eli had tickled her gently by her ribs. Calvin secretly wished they didn't do that very often, it made him realise that he didn't have that. "I transferred here from England a couple of years ago," Eli replied, his chin now resting on Madison's shoulder and her head leaning on his. "Oh I see, what made you move here? It's supposed to be nice in England," Calvin asked in a surprised tone. "Well, I just moved because I had to, my parents wanted me to move here so I might as well go with them. But they're always on business trips and so on but it's okay, really," Eli replied, smiling at Madison when she looked at him when he mentioned his parents. Eli never really mentioned his parents, the rest of the gang, except for Calvin, knew that he really didn't have any parents and that he particularly moved to Readington to help Sakura transform the Clow cards into her brand new, Sakura cards, but Sakura preferred to call them Star Cards as she thought it sounded ridiculous to call out a certain card with her name at the end.
Of course it would be ridiculous if Eli were to explain he was really a reincarnation of Clow Reed himself, in Calvin's case he would just think of this as one big joke and for a fact he wouldn't really know who Clow Reed was in any way.
"Those two are taking a sure while for just putting rubbish away," Eli remarked softly in Madison's ear, hoping not to have disturbed Sakura and Calvin from their flirting session. Madison turned towards Eli giving him a soft kiss on his cheek, and then smiled at him before turning towards the rubbish bin where Li and Kara were supposed to be. 'Okay, their gone! Or maybe they're at their lockers," Madison thought as she looked around the school grounds for the missing pair, she then turned to Eli and smiled at him again.
"They'll be fine, with Li's sharp senses and Kara's cool, they'll just be fine," Madison said to Eli cheerfully but quietly so only Eli could hear. Eli smiled then moved closer to his girlfriend and gave her a one handed around her waist. "Why do I bother worrying when I have you to be the positive one?" Eli whispered warmly, Madison giggled and leant her head back against Eli's shoulder.
"Li? You okay?" Kara asked as they grew nearer to their lockers. "Yeah, I'm fine," Li replied, looking as if he was in a trance. "Well, this had been an, umm. interesting first day at Readington High," Kara commented with one of her cheerful grins, Li smiled in response, just as he opened his locker a strong sense came from down the corridor, Li looked in the direction this sense came from and saw Calvin standing there, but it was faint and misty-like. Calvin's eyes were lighted up bright red, Li could see fire in his eyes and wondered why when Kara nudged him slightly waking him from his gaze.
"What's up?" Kara asked looking at Li then at the direction he had continued looking at. Kara looked down the corridor and saw nothing but students and teachers going to their classrooms for class. "Li?" "Huh?" Li asked, looking at Kara blankly, Kara raised a playful eyebrow and studied Li as he got his books. "I suppose we get back to the others now," Li said as he shut his locker, Kara shook her head smiling. "What?" "Li, the bell went already," Kara said, smirking. "Oh right, then let's go," Li said now blushing bright red again. The two half ran to their classroom just on time, Calvin was already sitting on the ledge of his desk trying to look cool. 'I guess he is trying to impress Kara, well he is gonna have to do more than just show off to impress her,' Li thought himself as he and Kara went to their desks. It was true that Calvin was trying to impress Kara but instead Sakura and many of the other girls went for his trap, he didn't really care, being surrounded by girls was another of his main priorities of being the cool one at school. He was also aiming to make Li crack or jealous so Kara would just misunderstand Li and go for himself. But obviously his little game was really being played by either players, as they were just talking to Eli and Madison so Calvin getting annoyed, decided that he would go over and flirt with Kara. Just as he was getting off his desk the Miss. McKenzie came in so he would have to wait till after class. Class seemed to go pretty fast for the gang, except for Calvin, his eagerness to talk to Kara was just unbearable. When the bell went and class was dismissed what Li didn't know was that he lived just one block away from Kara, her house being the first on their street. So Li had a lot of time to talk to her; Calvin lived in the other direction with Sakura. Kara didn't know Li lived near her till she saw him up ahead going the same direction, smiling to herself she ran up to him then jumping lightly behind him with her arms around loosely around his neck. She did catch Li by surprise, as when he saw her bracelet, smiled and realised it was Kara.
"I didn't know you lived around here Li," Kara asked, her arms still around Li's neck, as she slid off his back. "Yeah, the same with you," Li said looking at Kara with his usual serious look. "One weird day, huh?" Kara said in a cheerful tone, Li looked at her curiously. "How come?" Li asked. "Well I wasn't expecting to see you so soon as you're usually really busy." Kara started but Li interrupted. "How can I be too busy to see you?" Li blurted out, Kara smiled at him after this. "Oh you know, with the Clow Cards loose and everything," Kara said waving a hand at him playfully. "How did you know that the Clow Cards escaped?" Li asked in a surprised tone. "Well, I'm not just a powerful sorceror for nothing Li," "Yeah, but that far away?" "I only moved cities Li, remember? I wasn't that far from you and Meilin either," "Yeah, well if you were so close then you would be around a lot more than now," "I'm very aware of that, but you know dad, things were getting hard there. Dad had to adjust to the traffic and the streets around there." "You being defenceless against those people in north Hong Kong, dunno how you coped," "Very funny Li, I did learn martial arts with you as you probably don't remember," "Probably," "Well here's my place, do you wanna come in for afternoon tea?" "Nah, it's okay," "Well all right, how about we walk together to and from school?" "Yeah okay, I'll see you tomorrow morning then," "Yup, cya!" "Bye," After then Kara had gone in, Li stood there for a while then started heading for his house. 'Good. at least Calvin won't be able to get between us going to school in the morning,' Li thought to himself. As Li was drawing nearer to his apartment, he realised he was being selfish again. It was strange, he never felt this way when he was around Meilin and Sakura. It was like the old days when Kara was still living happily with them, whenever a young boy approached Kara he was a little tense but not as much as this. Maybe it was the fact that he was growing or maybe it was something else. From both the options in front of him, Li didn't like either of them; it was strange that Calvin seemed to be getting to him that easy. Calvin seemed to be up to something, which involved Kara and Li didn't like the way Calvin looked at Kara, like she was some sort of prize. 'Kara is more than just a prize, she's more to that than being the pretty and likeable thing she is,' Li thought as he opened the door into the main hallway of his apartment that he shared with his guardian, Wei.
'One of these days I'll hit Calvin, but for now I'll have to keep a close eye on him. I know he is up to something,' Li thought again.