Note from Meiling: I Call this part- Putting Friends Right, in this chapter, I hope to seek a friendship back with Tomoyo. But I also, am thinking about the clan, my book and the fact that my wedding is bairly two months and Tyler is no help on me. Also the illness is back and we a talking about a person who might be realising it. So for this part I will now call it- 'Putting it Right, or Wrong?'
Note from The Card Witch: I'd like to thank all of you for reviewing this story. I want to finish this before I go on with anymore or my other stories. The reason is that I finally have the ending clear for this story, I know what I'm aiming for. Oh and I also want to know, should Meiling give her diary a name?
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Dear Diary,
I've been thinking so much. Eriol said he loved me, and that kept me in this world. I've never been loved before, I'm marrying Tyler and I doubt that he loves me. I don't want him to.
I think I love Eriol, I don't know, when ever I think about Eriol my chest gets tight and whenever I think about what he thinks about me (that he loves me) my chest gets tighter and I can't breath.
I am hoping that Tomoyo will understand when I talk to her tomorrow.
I was reading a lot of my book. Sophie is shooked to see Camaron but is greatful that he saved Zoe. When Zoe is asleep, Camaron asks Sophie again about the marks her fience left on her arms. Sophie tells Camaron that he hits her, since her parents died she had to live with him and the beatings. Like if dinner is slightly hot or cold for his liking he hits her. Camaron tells her to not worry and then paints her a picture-
"One day, you will live in a country with beautiful green grass, sweet fresh air, and all the space you want to let little Zoe grow up. If you don't like that then you can live in the city" Camaron told her, Sophie's eyes seemed to widen and smile.
"That sounds like heaven, I wish it was so" Sophie said in a floaty voice. Camaron smiled and said-
"It is true, it's England, it rains a lot but it's got beautiful views and lovely sun shine".
"I hear it's cold though, I don't like cold weather that much" Sophie said, she shivered just at the thought of cold weather. Camaron patted her head.
"Oh really, the weather in England isn't all that cold, the summers are wonderful and the best thing is- Spring brings rain, Summer brings sunshine, Autumn brings wind and winter brings more rain and snow, sometimes" Camaron said in a sweet voice.
Sophie went star eyed, "It sounds beautiful, I've never seen snow before, but it's very cold then, could I take it?"
"I think you could take anything" Camaron said hugging her.
At this time, Drake was looking all other for Sophie and Zoe, Sophie should have been home at 4:00 pm with Zoe and be cooking his.dinner by this time. Drake, through himself all over the place, crazy and madly. He even hit himself. As if he was mad.
Sophie and Camaron talked all about their lives and how it could be improved. Admittedly, in many ways, Camaron felt he had found a long lost relietive. Sophie was talking about her parents death and even about Drake and his bashing her. When she was with Eriol, it was like that they spoke their own way, and no one elses...
To be honest I think that mother gave me this book to make me see that if I talk to someone, my problems will go away. I don't know, nothing makes sense anymore. Not since Eriol told me he loves me. What should I tell him, what is there to tell him? I don't know what to say or do, it's like I've been cut off from the world.
But I'm coming back to it, I'm winning Tomoyo's friendship back, I'm thinking about Eriol a lot. I'm going to tell Tyler to hit the road and telling my dad to get on his bike and pedle.
I feel now, for the first time, I feel like I'm a puppet who is moving with out her strings. No one with choose my life for me, I'm writing my story. In fact, that's a good idea.
I think I'll make you, my novel, like Anne Frank was going to do. I'm wondering, should I give you a name? It would be cool to name you, but then again... I'll think about a name, but now I'm thinking. That if I leave Tyler at the alter, what will my dad do, what will I do? What will Tyler do?
You know it's too late now to think about that, I'll talk tomorow.
All my love, too my little power-
Meiling Li xxx
Dear Diary,
Tomoyo and I are friends again but there is something really starange and creepy going on and here's what happened today-
I went to school early and found her in the classroom. She wouldn't look at me but I had to talk. I said-
"Tomoyo, I want to talk to you"
"....." Tomoyo said nothing,
"Please Tomoyo, I need to talk to you" I told her and then I said, "Tomoyo. Eriol he... he told me he loved me"
Tomoyo seemed to tear she shot out of her chair saying "I knew this would happen, why, why, why, why, why? Why did it happen" I ran to her hand patted her back she slapped my hand. "Why couldn't I stop him?"
"Stop him?" I asked her, she nodded,
"I wanted to brake up guys up" she told me, "I thought I was loosing my best friend, I thought that if I could lure him away you to me, and then brake his heart he'd go back to England and forget about you"
Then I slapped her, "I'm sorry" I said first, then- "Why? I thought you might have been in love with him. I really thought you were hating me and stealing the one other person who reminds me of you"
"I could never love some who tried to kill me with a piano and tried to make me sleep forever" Tomoyo cried,
"So what? He nearly killed me with flying penguns and make me sleep forever remember?" I asked her,
"You know, when you yelled 'Flying penguns!', it was really cute" Tomoyo said with a smile, "You are cute, really cute. That's probably why Eriol loves you, and that's why I love you. You have become my best friend. I felt that maybe you'd get hurt and cry again if Eriol broke your heart, and it would hurt you again like with Syaoran. I did what I did because I lost Sakura to Syaoran cause they fell in love, I didn't want to lose you" Tomoyo said looking at me with a smiled craking. I threw my arms round her and kissed her forehead.
"Tomoyo, you will always be my number one friend, but, I need someone to love and to love me back. We will always be best friends, I will always love you, but I admitt I love Eriol too" I told her.
Tomoyo looked at me and smiled, "Are you sure?"
"Yes" I told her,
"Have you told him?"
"No"
"Then go out there and tell him girl, you have to" Tomoyo told me. Then Eriol came in, he looked at me with the same eyes Syaoran did when Sakura's name came up. Tomoyo smiled, her kind face was back, I had missed it so much.
"Err... I've got to get the flowers" Tomoyo said suddenly she ran out the room and left me and Eriol alone.
I breathed in and-
"Eriol?" I said,
"Yes?" he said eagerly,
"I... I need to tell you something" I told him, Eriol nodded and we both sat at our desk. "Eriol, I need to tell you that... I... I...I" I must have said 'I' ten times before-
"I... Sakura?" I said, Sakura came into the room out of breath and crying, "Sakura what's wrong?"
"It's Syaoran... the illness.... it's making a come back, he couldn't get up this morning" Sakura said gasping for breaths. Eriol shook his head in disbelief.
"But... that can't be" Eriol quivered, "Once you have magical illness, you don't get again unless someone gives it to you, not like with a cold, you need to put in in a drink or something".
"But what has Syaoran drunk that no one else has?" Sakura asked,
"We had hot chocolate last night" said I, "The stuff could be in there"
Eriol nodded, "Right, did anyone else drink it?"
"I didn't have any time to drink it" Sakura said, "Mine went cold you see".
Eriol nodded then he seemed to get really worried when I didn't say anything. Yes I had drunk it, but it's a magical illness. It wouldn't affect me. Eriol looked at me as if I was going to drop start dieing in his arms any minute. I had to tell them.
"I did have some too drink" I said. "But I'm fine, you better help Syaoran, nothing will happen to me, we need to help the one who is sick. I just don't know what to do" I told them. Sakura nodded, just then Tomoyo came back with the flowers and saw something was wrong.
"What's wrong?" Tomoyo asked,
"Syaoran's sick again" Sakura said,
"Again? What's wrong with him? Why does he keep getting sick?" Tomoyo asked, I walked to her and patted her back.
"We think someone is causing his illnesses and forcing them on Syaoran" I told her, "They weren't ment for any of us, but for him".
Eriol then nodded and stood up, "Meiling? That's a really good reason, someone must be trying to get Syaoran out of the way"
"But surely, this person will try to do away with Sakura" Tomoyo said looking at Sakura, Sakura seemed to go paler and look to Eriol.
"Yes, that's what I think" Eriol said, "But they didn't know that she wouldn't drink the hot chocolate" Eriol said. "But there is another theory, I think that maybe, someone is trying to get rid of Syaoran so he can carry out a plot" Eriol told us.
I shook my head, "Where'd that come from? Okay it is weird that Syaoran's the only one who got sick" I told them, "But at school, so did Chiharu and Rika. Maybe it's to cover it up". Tomoyo agreed with me,
"She's right" Tomoyo said, "To make it look like an accident"
"Hey, I've been reading a murder mystery and the woman Sophie's sister was killed and the only one who would have done it is the very man who hated her" Eriol told us.
Sophie, that's the name of the heronie in my book, maybe they're related books. Finally Sakura said, "But who would want to kill my Syaoran? Who wuld hate someone so sweet".
I tried to think about it too everything that had happened was so strange from Syaoran getting ill, to the bust up with Tomoyo to Wei being replaced by my mother, to mother being nice to me and now this. What if all of this is connected. I remember linking it all up and thinking all about those things that didn't make sense. I feel mother being nice is just her calling, but the rest seemed to linked. Then I thought back on our family history I went over it a million times in my head.
When class begun all I could think about was what was going on a the linking to all the things then it finally came to at the end of class. Sakura, Tomoyo, Eriol and I met on the bench near the pond and I told them what I'm about to tell you-
"His uncle, his Uncle Shiro" I told them,
"What about him?" Sakura asked,
"He's the only one I can think of that would hurt Syaoran, he hates Syaoran" I told them,
"But why you ever hurt your nephew? Your only nephew?" Tomoyo asked me,
"Well" I began, "Syaoran's father, Ryuu Li, was Shiro Li's little brother. He was really upset when he didn't take care of the clan when their father died in the Great Elder's arms". I told them, "It was Zyro Li's dream that his younger son, Ryuu would rule the clan and his wife would bair the Chosen One of all people". I had learned all this from the Great Elder who remebered the talk Zyro gave him before he died. "Shiro was angry, but when Ryuu had daughters and Shiro had a son, he had a plan to rid the clan of Ryuu and become clan leader himself" I told them. Eriol looked at me like it was old times, when I'd tell him my problems. "But then Syaoran was born, and Shiro's son was knocked off the chances of being the clan leader and Syaoran became, what we call, 'The all sweet and kind chosen one, our suviour, our prince', Shiro's son loved Syaoran a lot though"
"He had children?" Eriol asked me kindly yet furmly,
"Yes, but as I said she drond in the pond when Syaoran almost died too, and his son who loved Syaoran was killed" I told him. Everyone then thought about it.
"Why did he hate Ryuu?" Tomoyo asked
"Many reasons" Eriol then said. I had forgot that some this he already knew, "Ryuu married Shiro's fincee, Yelan Li, Syaoran's mother when they fell in love with each other" Eriol told them, he looked at me and smiled. I think that when I smiled, he blushed and went on. "It seemed that every single time something happened to him and not Ryuu, he became mader until, finally, he became crazed to profect himself".
I nodded, "That's right, he's the only one I can think of that would want to kill Syaoran"
Sakura nodded but Tomoyo shock her head, "But he's all the way in China, how could he be poisening what Syaoran eats or drinks with magical poisen?"
Sakura then looked to me, I then looked at Eriol who was trying to make his way round it but I could see that we had hit the rocks. "Well it was good while it lasted" Sakura said seeing that no one could anwser that question, but I'm not giving up, I must be Shiro, who else would it be. Then Tomoyo said-
"What about your mother?"
"NO!" I cried, I was standing up for my mother. Sure she was a bitch, but, though she's or rather was a bit twisted but she would never kill someone. Though she, in the past, have made me think she'll one day kill me. I know she never will. I myself seem weird but I'm really nice inside (I hope). "Don't even say that about my mother, Tomoyo" I told her. Tomoyo looked at me in shock but Eriol smiled in a sympa way.
"IT MUST BE SHIRO IS HAS TO BE!" I cried, Eriol then grabbed my arms and brought me close to his face. My heart felt so pully that I couldn't breath, I was so intrased. And he seemed like he was going to kiss me, he came closer but for some reason I pulled my face away.
"Calm down Meiling, I believe that Shiro must, wherether we are right of wrong, he could have a way to get to Syaoran" he told me, he looked to Sakura and then I. Watch him closely tonight, I feel that it might just slow him down today. We have a week before he's very ill again I think, Syaoran seems to have something which is know as Alaericse" Eriol told us. I remember thinking 'What the hell is that?'
Then I asked him, "What is that?"
"It's an illness which can only be passed by drinking eating or biting" Eriol said,
"Eww!" Tomoyo said girlishly, Eriol scowled at her she immedtly shut up. Eriol went on-
"You feel tired for the first week but then you start to react by high fever, and your toung goes a bright red colour, you feel hot but you say that your freezing, you feel terribly thirsty but you can't drink cause it hurts your toung. This can end your life because you haven't enough water or you overheat" Eriol told us,
"That's like a very old illness 'Scalet Fever', Kiyra Li had that once" I told them, she had indeed died of it. Eriol nodded, and then said that we need to keep him cool, he needs to move his legs to move the heat and we need to make him drink a very powerful potion made of peonies, I had to prepare it for him and Sakura was allowed to feed it to him, I had to make it as I had saved him last time with that peony. So that's what we're doing.
Syaoran claimes he's fine, just tired. But we are making him drink and eat but everytime he chucks it up and with the water he chokes on it cause he can't swollow it.
"I'm really fine, I'm not sick" Syaoran told me when I tried to give him the medichen. "And this stuff tastes horrible" he said spitting back out again. "I can't swollow it!" he cried.
"Are you sure?" I asked, "Or do you just not want to drink it?"
"If I could I'd swollow it as soon as I could, not spit it out again, that's disgusting!" Syaoran whined. I shook my head.
"Hi there" Sakura said coming into the room, "I got something to get water and that peony stuff down" Sakura said, she picked up her bag and brought out a baby's bottol and showed it to Syaoran. He groaned and said-
"Sakura, honey, I'm not a baby" Syaoran said looking at it. I giggled and Sakura got on the bed with him and put some water in it.
"I know you not, but we need you to drink, we can put soup in the babies beacker too that I got you" Sakura said smiling. She lay Syaoran's head back and supported it with her arm as if he was a baby and she feed him. I waited and he didn't throw it up it went down and she still kept his head back so it really did go down. I then had an idea.
I took another one of the bottols and I put some milk and honey in it and took it back. I told Sakura "If we can get this down him, we can get his medichen down". Sakura smiled and took it. Once again, Sakura feed Syaoran as if he were a baby, the milk and honey was swollowed and it sayed down. Sakura and smiled to each other I quickly put the medichen into the bottol and gave it to Sakura. Syaoran sucked it all in and it stayed down. Sakura kissed Syaoran's noise and smiled up to me.
"If he drinks that everyday, he'll be fine before he get's worse, Eriol told me" I told her, Sakura looked like she was going to cry and she hugged him before he dropped off.
When I left the room Tyler was there. "Meiling, your father and sister will be coming soon to see to the wedding" he told me. I then thought about it, I had completly forgotten about the wedding. It was bairly a fortnight away.
"When is he coming?" I asked,
"In two days" Tyler told me. I felt so dark again, father was strange, I was scared of him. But I was happy to see Meiquing again her sweet blue eyes and black hair. Although mother did say she had toned her hair to look brown, I'd never do that. But the bad part was 'Two days!'
"Oh" I said slowly, "I see". I then walked away, Tyler grabbed my arm and said-
"Don't you dare walk out on me you little witch" Tyler snapped, "Your my wife and I'm not letting you meet with that boy again, you will be my wife"
"Let me go" I said kicking him away, he backed to one side of the room and I to the other. "You will not tell me what to do, Tyler"
"Yes you will, you will be my wife and no whore. Though it's not like I can never take that away from you, you'll always be that boys whore" Tyler said pointing to me and backing into him room" when hehad gone, mother came in.
She smiled and said- "Oh hello daughter, what's wrong? It not Syaoran again is it dear?" mother asked me. I shook my head and told her about dad and Meiquing. Mother seemed to stay quiet but she did say that she was happy that Meiquing was coming. I was too, I haven't seen her since she was ten, she's twelve now thirteen next month. I only just remebered, my birthday was at the end of the week. I feel now, that Syaoran pulling through that illness again is the best gift I could ever get.
That's all I need, that's my gift this year.
Love Meiling Li
P.S Eriol's birthday is coming right up, two days before mine on the 23rd while mines the 25th. I've been making him a book mark and card, hand made. I wasn't sure what he would like, I hope he'll like them.
Note from The Card Witch: I'd like to thank all of you for reviewing this story. I want to finish this before I go on with anymore or my other stories. The reason is that I finally have the ending clear for this story, I know what I'm aiming for. Oh and I also want to know, should Meiling give her diary a name?
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Dear Diary,
I've been thinking so much. Eriol said he loved me, and that kept me in this world. I've never been loved before, I'm marrying Tyler and I doubt that he loves me. I don't want him to.
I think I love Eriol, I don't know, when ever I think about Eriol my chest gets tight and whenever I think about what he thinks about me (that he loves me) my chest gets tighter and I can't breath.
I am hoping that Tomoyo will understand when I talk to her tomorrow.
I was reading a lot of my book. Sophie is shooked to see Camaron but is greatful that he saved Zoe. When Zoe is asleep, Camaron asks Sophie again about the marks her fience left on her arms. Sophie tells Camaron that he hits her, since her parents died she had to live with him and the beatings. Like if dinner is slightly hot or cold for his liking he hits her. Camaron tells her to not worry and then paints her a picture-
"One day, you will live in a country with beautiful green grass, sweet fresh air, and all the space you want to let little Zoe grow up. If you don't like that then you can live in the city" Camaron told her, Sophie's eyes seemed to widen and smile.
"That sounds like heaven, I wish it was so" Sophie said in a floaty voice. Camaron smiled and said-
"It is true, it's England, it rains a lot but it's got beautiful views and lovely sun shine".
"I hear it's cold though, I don't like cold weather that much" Sophie said, she shivered just at the thought of cold weather. Camaron patted her head.
"Oh really, the weather in England isn't all that cold, the summers are wonderful and the best thing is- Spring brings rain, Summer brings sunshine, Autumn brings wind and winter brings more rain and snow, sometimes" Camaron said in a sweet voice.
Sophie went star eyed, "It sounds beautiful, I've never seen snow before, but it's very cold then, could I take it?"
"I think you could take anything" Camaron said hugging her.
At this time, Drake was looking all other for Sophie and Zoe, Sophie should have been home at 4:00 pm with Zoe and be cooking his.dinner by this time. Drake, through himself all over the place, crazy and madly. He even hit himself. As if he was mad.
Sophie and Camaron talked all about their lives and how it could be improved. Admittedly, in many ways, Camaron felt he had found a long lost relietive. Sophie was talking about her parents death and even about Drake and his bashing her. When she was with Eriol, it was like that they spoke their own way, and no one elses...
To be honest I think that mother gave me this book to make me see that if I talk to someone, my problems will go away. I don't know, nothing makes sense anymore. Not since Eriol told me he loves me. What should I tell him, what is there to tell him? I don't know what to say or do, it's like I've been cut off from the world.
But I'm coming back to it, I'm winning Tomoyo's friendship back, I'm thinking about Eriol a lot. I'm going to tell Tyler to hit the road and telling my dad to get on his bike and pedle.
I feel now, for the first time, I feel like I'm a puppet who is moving with out her strings. No one with choose my life for me, I'm writing my story. In fact, that's a good idea.
I think I'll make you, my novel, like Anne Frank was going to do. I'm wondering, should I give you a name? It would be cool to name you, but then again... I'll think about a name, but now I'm thinking. That if I leave Tyler at the alter, what will my dad do, what will I do? What will Tyler do?
You know it's too late now to think about that, I'll talk tomorow.
All my love, too my little power-
Meiling Li xxx
Dear Diary,
Tomoyo and I are friends again but there is something really starange and creepy going on and here's what happened today-
I went to school early and found her in the classroom. She wouldn't look at me but I had to talk. I said-
"Tomoyo, I want to talk to you"
"....." Tomoyo said nothing,
"Please Tomoyo, I need to talk to you" I told her and then I said, "Tomoyo. Eriol he... he told me he loved me"
Tomoyo seemed to tear she shot out of her chair saying "I knew this would happen, why, why, why, why, why? Why did it happen" I ran to her hand patted her back she slapped my hand. "Why couldn't I stop him?"
"Stop him?" I asked her, she nodded,
"I wanted to brake up guys up" she told me, "I thought I was loosing my best friend, I thought that if I could lure him away you to me, and then brake his heart he'd go back to England and forget about you"
Then I slapped her, "I'm sorry" I said first, then- "Why? I thought you might have been in love with him. I really thought you were hating me and stealing the one other person who reminds me of you"
"I could never love some who tried to kill me with a piano and tried to make me sleep forever" Tomoyo cried,
"So what? He nearly killed me with flying penguns and make me sleep forever remember?" I asked her,
"You know, when you yelled 'Flying penguns!', it was really cute" Tomoyo said with a smile, "You are cute, really cute. That's probably why Eriol loves you, and that's why I love you. You have become my best friend. I felt that maybe you'd get hurt and cry again if Eriol broke your heart, and it would hurt you again like with Syaoran. I did what I did because I lost Sakura to Syaoran cause they fell in love, I didn't want to lose you" Tomoyo said looking at me with a smiled craking. I threw my arms round her and kissed her forehead.
"Tomoyo, you will always be my number one friend, but, I need someone to love and to love me back. We will always be best friends, I will always love you, but I admitt I love Eriol too" I told her.
Tomoyo looked at me and smiled, "Are you sure?"
"Yes" I told her,
"Have you told him?"
"No"
"Then go out there and tell him girl, you have to" Tomoyo told me. Then Eriol came in, he looked at me with the same eyes Syaoran did when Sakura's name came up. Tomoyo smiled, her kind face was back, I had missed it so much.
"Err... I've got to get the flowers" Tomoyo said suddenly she ran out the room and left me and Eriol alone.
I breathed in and-
"Eriol?" I said,
"Yes?" he said eagerly,
"I... I need to tell you something" I told him, Eriol nodded and we both sat at our desk. "Eriol, I need to tell you that... I... I...I" I must have said 'I' ten times before-
"I... Sakura?" I said, Sakura came into the room out of breath and crying, "Sakura what's wrong?"
"It's Syaoran... the illness.... it's making a come back, he couldn't get up this morning" Sakura said gasping for breaths. Eriol shook his head in disbelief.
"But... that can't be" Eriol quivered, "Once you have magical illness, you don't get again unless someone gives it to you, not like with a cold, you need to put in in a drink or something".
"But what has Syaoran drunk that no one else has?" Sakura asked,
"We had hot chocolate last night" said I, "The stuff could be in there"
Eriol nodded, "Right, did anyone else drink it?"
"I didn't have any time to drink it" Sakura said, "Mine went cold you see".
Eriol nodded then he seemed to get really worried when I didn't say anything. Yes I had drunk it, but it's a magical illness. It wouldn't affect me. Eriol looked at me as if I was going to drop start dieing in his arms any minute. I had to tell them.
"I did have some too drink" I said. "But I'm fine, you better help Syaoran, nothing will happen to me, we need to help the one who is sick. I just don't know what to do" I told them. Sakura nodded, just then Tomoyo came back with the flowers and saw something was wrong.
"What's wrong?" Tomoyo asked,
"Syaoran's sick again" Sakura said,
"Again? What's wrong with him? Why does he keep getting sick?" Tomoyo asked, I walked to her and patted her back.
"We think someone is causing his illnesses and forcing them on Syaoran" I told her, "They weren't ment for any of us, but for him".
Eriol then nodded and stood up, "Meiling? That's a really good reason, someone must be trying to get Syaoran out of the way"
"But surely, this person will try to do away with Sakura" Tomoyo said looking at Sakura, Sakura seemed to go paler and look to Eriol.
"Yes, that's what I think" Eriol said, "But they didn't know that she wouldn't drink the hot chocolate" Eriol said. "But there is another theory, I think that maybe, someone is trying to get rid of Syaoran so he can carry out a plot" Eriol told us.
I shook my head, "Where'd that come from? Okay it is weird that Syaoran's the only one who got sick" I told them, "But at school, so did Chiharu and Rika. Maybe it's to cover it up". Tomoyo agreed with me,
"She's right" Tomoyo said, "To make it look like an accident"
"Hey, I've been reading a murder mystery and the woman Sophie's sister was killed and the only one who would have done it is the very man who hated her" Eriol told us.
Sophie, that's the name of the heronie in my book, maybe they're related books. Finally Sakura said, "But who would want to kill my Syaoran? Who wuld hate someone so sweet".
I tried to think about it too everything that had happened was so strange from Syaoran getting ill, to the bust up with Tomoyo to Wei being replaced by my mother, to mother being nice to me and now this. What if all of this is connected. I remember linking it all up and thinking all about those things that didn't make sense. I feel mother being nice is just her calling, but the rest seemed to linked. Then I thought back on our family history I went over it a million times in my head.
When class begun all I could think about was what was going on a the linking to all the things then it finally came to at the end of class. Sakura, Tomoyo, Eriol and I met on the bench near the pond and I told them what I'm about to tell you-
"His uncle, his Uncle Shiro" I told them,
"What about him?" Sakura asked,
"He's the only one I can think of that would hurt Syaoran, he hates Syaoran" I told them,
"But why you ever hurt your nephew? Your only nephew?" Tomoyo asked me,
"Well" I began, "Syaoran's father, Ryuu Li, was Shiro Li's little brother. He was really upset when he didn't take care of the clan when their father died in the Great Elder's arms". I told them, "It was Zyro Li's dream that his younger son, Ryuu would rule the clan and his wife would bair the Chosen One of all people". I had learned all this from the Great Elder who remebered the talk Zyro gave him before he died. "Shiro was angry, but when Ryuu had daughters and Shiro had a son, he had a plan to rid the clan of Ryuu and become clan leader himself" I told them. Eriol looked at me like it was old times, when I'd tell him my problems. "But then Syaoran was born, and Shiro's son was knocked off the chances of being the clan leader and Syaoran became, what we call, 'The all sweet and kind chosen one, our suviour, our prince', Shiro's son loved Syaoran a lot though"
"He had children?" Eriol asked me kindly yet furmly,
"Yes, but as I said she drond in the pond when Syaoran almost died too, and his son who loved Syaoran was killed" I told him. Everyone then thought about it.
"Why did he hate Ryuu?" Tomoyo asked
"Many reasons" Eriol then said. I had forgot that some this he already knew, "Ryuu married Shiro's fincee, Yelan Li, Syaoran's mother when they fell in love with each other" Eriol told them, he looked at me and smiled. I think that when I smiled, he blushed and went on. "It seemed that every single time something happened to him and not Ryuu, he became mader until, finally, he became crazed to profect himself".
I nodded, "That's right, he's the only one I can think of that would want to kill Syaoran"
Sakura nodded but Tomoyo shock her head, "But he's all the way in China, how could he be poisening what Syaoran eats or drinks with magical poisen?"
Sakura then looked to me, I then looked at Eriol who was trying to make his way round it but I could see that we had hit the rocks. "Well it was good while it lasted" Sakura said seeing that no one could anwser that question, but I'm not giving up, I must be Shiro, who else would it be. Then Tomoyo said-
"What about your mother?"
"NO!" I cried, I was standing up for my mother. Sure she was a bitch, but, though she's or rather was a bit twisted but she would never kill someone. Though she, in the past, have made me think she'll one day kill me. I know she never will. I myself seem weird but I'm really nice inside (I hope). "Don't even say that about my mother, Tomoyo" I told her. Tomoyo looked at me in shock but Eriol smiled in a sympa way.
"IT MUST BE SHIRO IS HAS TO BE!" I cried, Eriol then grabbed my arms and brought me close to his face. My heart felt so pully that I couldn't breath, I was so intrased. And he seemed like he was going to kiss me, he came closer but for some reason I pulled my face away.
"Calm down Meiling, I believe that Shiro must, wherether we are right of wrong, he could have a way to get to Syaoran" he told me, he looked to Sakura and then I. Watch him closely tonight, I feel that it might just slow him down today. We have a week before he's very ill again I think, Syaoran seems to have something which is know as Alaericse" Eriol told us. I remember thinking 'What the hell is that?'
Then I asked him, "What is that?"
"It's an illness which can only be passed by drinking eating or biting" Eriol said,
"Eww!" Tomoyo said girlishly, Eriol scowled at her she immedtly shut up. Eriol went on-
"You feel tired for the first week but then you start to react by high fever, and your toung goes a bright red colour, you feel hot but you say that your freezing, you feel terribly thirsty but you can't drink cause it hurts your toung. This can end your life because you haven't enough water or you overheat" Eriol told us,
"That's like a very old illness 'Scalet Fever', Kiyra Li had that once" I told them, she had indeed died of it. Eriol nodded, and then said that we need to keep him cool, he needs to move his legs to move the heat and we need to make him drink a very powerful potion made of peonies, I had to prepare it for him and Sakura was allowed to feed it to him, I had to make it as I had saved him last time with that peony. So that's what we're doing.
Syaoran claimes he's fine, just tired. But we are making him drink and eat but everytime he chucks it up and with the water he chokes on it cause he can't swollow it.
"I'm really fine, I'm not sick" Syaoran told me when I tried to give him the medichen. "And this stuff tastes horrible" he said spitting back out again. "I can't swollow it!" he cried.
"Are you sure?" I asked, "Or do you just not want to drink it?"
"If I could I'd swollow it as soon as I could, not spit it out again, that's disgusting!" Syaoran whined. I shook my head.
"Hi there" Sakura said coming into the room, "I got something to get water and that peony stuff down" Sakura said, she picked up her bag and brought out a baby's bottol and showed it to Syaoran. He groaned and said-
"Sakura, honey, I'm not a baby" Syaoran said looking at it. I giggled and Sakura got on the bed with him and put some water in it.
"I know you not, but we need you to drink, we can put soup in the babies beacker too that I got you" Sakura said smiling. She lay Syaoran's head back and supported it with her arm as if he was a baby and she feed him. I waited and he didn't throw it up it went down and she still kept his head back so it really did go down. I then had an idea.
I took another one of the bottols and I put some milk and honey in it and took it back. I told Sakura "If we can get this down him, we can get his medichen down". Sakura smiled and took it. Once again, Sakura feed Syaoran as if he were a baby, the milk and honey was swollowed and it sayed down. Sakura and smiled to each other I quickly put the medichen into the bottol and gave it to Sakura. Syaoran sucked it all in and it stayed down. Sakura kissed Syaoran's noise and smiled up to me.
"If he drinks that everyday, he'll be fine before he get's worse, Eriol told me" I told her, Sakura looked like she was going to cry and she hugged him before he dropped off.
When I left the room Tyler was there. "Meiling, your father and sister will be coming soon to see to the wedding" he told me. I then thought about it, I had completly forgotten about the wedding. It was bairly a fortnight away.
"When is he coming?" I asked,
"In two days" Tyler told me. I felt so dark again, father was strange, I was scared of him. But I was happy to see Meiquing again her sweet blue eyes and black hair. Although mother did say she had toned her hair to look brown, I'd never do that. But the bad part was 'Two days!'
"Oh" I said slowly, "I see". I then walked away, Tyler grabbed my arm and said-
"Don't you dare walk out on me you little witch" Tyler snapped, "Your my wife and I'm not letting you meet with that boy again, you will be my wife"
"Let me go" I said kicking him away, he backed to one side of the room and I to the other. "You will not tell me what to do, Tyler"
"Yes you will, you will be my wife and no whore. Though it's not like I can never take that away from you, you'll always be that boys whore" Tyler said pointing to me and backing into him room" when hehad gone, mother came in.
She smiled and said- "Oh hello daughter, what's wrong? It not Syaoran again is it dear?" mother asked me. I shook my head and told her about dad and Meiquing. Mother seemed to stay quiet but she did say that she was happy that Meiquing was coming. I was too, I haven't seen her since she was ten, she's twelve now thirteen next month. I only just remebered, my birthday was at the end of the week. I feel now, that Syaoran pulling through that illness again is the best gift I could ever get.
That's all I need, that's my gift this year.
Love Meiling Li
P.S Eriol's birthday is coming right up, two days before mine on the 23rd while mines the 25th. I've been making him a book mark and card, hand made. I wasn't sure what he would like, I hope he'll like them.