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"Where were you?" Sakura's mother immediately ask when she got home. She left the daycare after she watched every kid got picked up by their parents.
"I was at the daycare. Do you know, the one I use to go to?" Sakura ask.
"Yeah, and you can forget all about your father?" her mother ask.
"C'mon mom! He has enough workers to help him. And dad doesn't even care" she said.
"Who said?" her father, Fujitaka ask looking up from the newspaper.
"Fine fine" Sakura said "I'll make it up to you after I take a shower" She ran to the shower before anyone can open their mouths.
"C'mon..." Mitzuki Hiiragizawa said tugging on Eriol's arm in the bar.
"I'll go instead" Yukito said grabbing her hands out of Eriol.
"No" Mitzuki said flinging his hands off her.
"Hey! You cant speak to your older cousin like this" Yukito exclaimed.
"Oh my gosh, cousin Eriol, I am only bringing you to meet my friends! Is there anything wrong with that?" Mitzuki ask.
"I don't want to meet them then" Eriol said placing the drink on the table and lying back in the seat. Syaoran and Takashi just smirked.
"Don't think I don't know what you're trying to do. You're trying to set him up with them" Yukito said.
"So? What's wrong with that? I never saw cousin Eriol with any girl. The last girl I saw him was with that Stephanie" Mitzuki blurted out.
Yukito covered his cousin's mouth. Everyone looked nervously at Eriol.
He looked around and gave a little smile and then said "it's ok to speak about her, you know"
"At least he is not like you" Syaoran said "You're with every guy you see. I better get out of your sight before you go after me too"
"Shut up. This is none of your business" Mitzuki said.
"Really?" Syaoran ask standing up.
"Sit down, man" Takashi said calming him down.
"Fine then" Mitzuki stomped away.
"Girls these days" Takashi muttered under his breath.
Within minutes the bar door slammed opened and a group of four guys entered the bar.
"Look who it is" Takashi said.
It was the group in which they called themselves 'Black Teen'. They go to another school that their fathers own. And their father is another of the richest man in the universe. Even though Black Teen is their enemy, their fathers surprisingly happens to be good friends. Black teen approached right in front of them.
"Look, some rats are in our seats" Randy Tan, one of the four Black Teen said.
"I think you need to look at the mirror to figure out who's the real rat here" Takashi said laying back in the seat cooly.
"And since when did these seats became your seats?" Syaoran ask.
"Since when my girl started to invite me here" the toughest and oldest of the group, Leon Tan, said.
"Then go away and find your own seats. You guys are annoying" Yukito said.
"Do you think we will give up easily, then you really don't know us" Drew Tan said.
"What do you say? Do you agree?" Leon ask Eriol.
Eriol just rolled his eyes and looked the other direction.
"He said he doesn't even want to bother will your guys nonsense" Syaoran said standing up "If you don't go in a second, your parents will have some medical bills to worry about"All four of Black Teen laughed.
Just then Mitzuki approached them.
"Oh, I didn't know that you guys knew each other" Mitzuki said.
Takashi and Yukito stood up and said in unison "what's the meaning of this?"
"Oh, you don't know?" Mitzuki ask "This is my new boyfriend, Leon"
"Yeah, didn't you know that?" Bobby Tan ask.
Syaoran grabbed Mitzuki's hand and pulled her aside. "You can't have him as a boyfriend!"
"Why not?" Mitzuki ask pulling Syaoran's hand away from her.
"Because...you don't know who they are. They're not people you're suppose to hang out with" Syaoran said.
"Oh my gosh. I know who they are. What are they going to do to me? Relax. He's just a boyfriend" Mitzuki said.
"And you cant do that" Yukito said approaching them.
"You can't tell me what to do. I am a big girl now. I think I can make my own decision!" Mitzuki said.
"No you cant!" Takashi scolded.
"Why? Ok...give me a reason first" she said.
"I can give you a hundred reasons" Takashi said "First, I don't think Leon will take you seriously. He probably has a thousand other girls. And plus, if you hang out with them too much, they're going to influence you to do things that will get you in big trouble"
"I know them more than you. I think I can trust them. That's only what you heard!" Mitzuki exclaimed.
"No! It's what we know" Syaoran said.
"People say stuff like that about you guys. Like you guys break into stores and steal money and are a big bunch of selfish losers. But I don't listen to other people! I think you guys are the nicest and the best cousin. So if people say stuff about the Black Teen doesn't necessary mean they're true!" she said.
"C'mon Eriol! That's your cousin and so far, you have said nothing. Help us!" Vanness nudged him.
"I think that Mitzuki has her own choices and I know she will make the choice that's the best for her" Eriol simply said.
"See?" Mitzuki said and left to her boyfriend.
They saw Leon gave a wicked smile to them before they left the bar.
"What was that?" Syaoran ask Eriol.
"What was what?" Eriol ask.
"You were suppose to tell YOUR COUSIN that she's not suppose to hang out with the Black Teen" Syaoran said.
"I think she is old enough to know the difference between right and wrong" Eriol said.
"Let's just hope you're right" Yukito said giving him an evil eye.
It was probably midnight when they left the bar that night. Eriol's red Mercedes was parked out in the sidewalk. When all of them was seated in the car, a pretty girl came up to them. She knocked on the window.Eriol pulled up the window.
"Hey, don't start the car" the girl said.
"Why?" Eriol ask.
"Because my cousins did something to it. I think he pulled the wire and if you start it, your car will go crazy" the girl said.
"And who's your cousin?" Syaoran ask.
"You know, the Black Teen" she said.
"And why should we believe you?" Takashi ask.
"Because...I don't want you to end up dead" the girl said.
"And why should we still believe you?" Syaoran ask.
"Fine. If you want. You can start the car and if it you can't stop it. It wont be my fault" the girl said.
"C'mon guys" Eriol said getting out of the car.
"Oh God. How do we get home now?" Takashi ask.
"How about you give us a ride, pretty girl?" Yukito ask putting his hand around the girl.
She sighed and then said "but I don't know...why should I trust you guys in my car?"
"Fine if you don't want to give us a ride, then just say it. Anyway, I don't trust being in your car" Syaoran said.
"Fine, I'll give you all a ride home except you!" she said to Syaoran.
"Ok!" Yukito said happily.
"I'll go home alone then. I don't need you!" Syaoran said walking away.
"Hey!" Eriol called "You're aren't serious, right?" But Syaoran kept on walking.
"So...whoever you are, you're giving us a ride, right?" Yukito ask.
"My name is Meilin" she said "And yes, I will give you a ride. The three guys introduced themselves.
"So what about your car, Eriol?" she ask.
"Someone will tow it away and I'll buy a new one" he said simply.
***
"What are you doing?" Sakura ask Zhachary as he peered in the corner of the school.
"Just checking" he said.
"For what?" she ask.
"Aren't you scared?" he ask.
"Of what?" she ask getting annoyed.
"Remember you told me that the rich guys said that they're going to get you today" Zhachary said peering the other side of school.
Sakura pulled Zhachary in the school and then said "You aren't serious about that, right? I mean what are you worrying about. Let me worry about my own business."
"Don't tell me that you really want them to beat you up?" he ask.
"Don't tell me that you take them seriously. They're just a bunch of big losers!" she said.
It was science class and the teacher was explaining formulas for chemistry in a monotone. The class was half sleeping even though their eyes are opened. Zhachary was scribbling things and cartoons in the side of his notebooks as usual and Sakura was staring in the ceiling and zooming off to space. The teacher was talking endlessly at some point and asking questions which no one knew the answers to.
"Can I pease get a hand?" the teacher ask.
The class gave him a tired look. Sakura stifled her fiftieth yawn.
"Ok, I'll pick anybody to answer my question" the teacher said.
"How about you, Sakura?" he ask.
"Huh?" she ask sitting up as soon. She stared at him blankly without knowing what question he just ask or how to answer it.
Just then the door slammed loudly opened that made Sakura jumped from her seat and everybody to wake up. Four guys walked in and everyone was surprised to speak. Sakura just stared at them - Eriol, Yukito, Takashi, and Syaoran - for a split second.The teacher looked scared of them too and stared soundlessly at them.
"Go on teaching. We're going to be part of your class today" Takashi said.
Sakura rolled her eyes and then looked at her friend, Nakuru's, seat next to her. She doesn't know why Nakuru didn't show up to school. All she's doing now is hoping that they don't sit in the seat next to her.Please don't sit next to me, please don't sit next to me, she closed her eyes praying silently. Don't sit next to me, don't sit next to--.
"Oh you again?" she heard a familiar voice.
She opened her eyes a little and saw Syaoran's face. She looked the other side ignoring him. Syaoran just stifled a tiny smile.The teacher continued his boring lesson again. But there was something else in his voice. He was probably trembling because of the fear of what the four guys are going to do to him.
"Yo, about yesterday" Syaoran began to her in a low voice. She was surprised that she would ever to live to see the day that he speaks gently and in a low voice that is not disruptive.
"I don't want to talk about yesterday" she said "I forgot all about yesterday"
"But I cant forget about yesterday. I'll have to get you back for that. But--I decided not to because I am too busy to beat you up" he said.
"I don't care if you beat me up or not. Does it look like I'm scared of you?" she ask still looking at the other direction.
"Sakura, can you be quiet?" the teacher ask.
She could see Syaoran stifled another bigger smile from the corner of her eyes.
Nakuru, I hate you, she thought, why can't you come to school today? Now I have a loser sitting next to me... Just then the door opened and a breathless Nakuru came in the class. All of a sudden, the classroom turned so bright to Sakura of happiness. Sakura finally looked around to see where the rest of the four guys was sitting. They were seated all in the back except for Syaoran which was next to her. Nakuru walked confusedly up to her seat which was seated by Syaoran.
"Umm...I think you're seated in my seat" Nakuru said.
"So?" Syaoran ask.
"So can you sit somewhere else?" she ask.
"You know who I am?" he ask.
For a brief second all Nakuru did was stared at him blanclessly but then her eyes turned big.
"Oh...I'll sit somewhere else" she said.
Sakura closed her eyes tightly. "Wait!" she then screamed out and the whole class was looking at them and the teacher had stopped teaching.
"Forget about it. It doesn't matter where I sit" Nakuru said.
"That's not the point!" she yelled. "You!" she said and then point hardly at Syaoran's chest.
"What?" he ask chuckling. By that time, the rest of his three friends was behind him.
"You don't have any manners! Did your parents teach you any manners? Do you think things always go however you wish like just because you're rich. Well, if you go out to the real world, you'll realize that life will never go like anyway you want it if you don't give people respect first. If your parents doesn't teach you, I will teach you! You know what you deserve now? You're attitude deserves about a thousand slaps in your face. I wish I can give you a thousand slaps right now. So why don't you grow up and show some respect?" she said it all in a blob. Everyone was staring at her without blinking. And even the four guys was speechless.
All of a sudden all the color returned to Syaoran and it seem like he just woke up from a dream. He grabbed her shirt and she could see his fist an inch away from her face when Eriol pulled his hands and Nakuru yelled stop.
"Please don't do anything to Sakura!" Nakuru pleaded "Don't hurt her"
"Ok, I wont" Syaoran said smiling again "But you have to go out with my friend Yukito tonight at seven.
"What?" Both Yukito and Nakuru and Sakura said at the same time.
"Ok" Nakuru said giving Sakura a look meaning not to disagree "But don't do anything bad to Sakura"
"We wont, don't worry. Anyway, let's leave. Is it just me or is this class boring?" he ask loudly to his friends.
***
The day was bad, it seemed as if everyone was more disgust of her then they already are. The four guys have been what everybody look up to. They are like idols to them. And anyone criticizing them is like criticizing the whole school. Everybody seem different to her. Some people she doesn't even know pointed and laugh at her in the hall. Just when she is passing the hall to lunch, there stood everyone gathering around and looking at something. She pushed through the crowd to see what they're looking at. Once everyone saw her, some people stopped talking and some laughed harder. To her horror, sticking on the wall, was a paper with a enlarged picture of her. She recognized the picture. It was from her high school year book. It was the worst picture she had ever took. But in the paper hanging on the wall, someone added glasses to her face, probably by a computer. And with big letters, it said "forever geek". There was no question on who did that. She ripped the paper out of the wall instantly. Later, she found out that there was more of those picture upstairs. What's worse was that it was hung all along the wall. It took her a while to get it all off. She was so mad and embarrassed at the same time. Finally, after being tired and exhausted, she went down to the cafeteria. There, seated in the cafeteria was the four guys. She had never seen them in the cafeteria probably because they think that they are too rich for the school's cafeteria. Madly she went straight to them. She knew that they all saw her. But as soon as they saw her coming towards them. They all started to eat their food, pretending not to see her coming.
"What's the meaning of this?" she ask them.
"What?" Syaoran ask.
She scoffed "What?. You know what you did. How did you get my picture?"
"What do you mean?" Syaoran ask again, pretending to be clueless.
"You know the picture that you guys wrote, forever geek" she said and then Syaoran burst to laughter "and stick it to the walls! You did it didn't you?"
"Hey! You don't have evidence that we did it. So..." Syaoran said.
Sakura got so mad that she picked up his pudding and then poured it to his head. She quickly left and left Syaoran speechless and surprised at the same time.
Sakura was so hungry and mad at the same time. She got lunch and made she sat somewhere she can't see the four guys. It's either that Syaoran is going to beat her up or that they will all beat her up. The lunch she had tasted irregular and worse than usual. She spit the food out and realized that it was all black. She took out her mirror and saw her teeth all black. She thought of Syaoran and then gave a tired sigh. The rest of the day didn't go too well. There was paper sticking in the back of her that she doesn't know about. And then her homework was stolen. Then her locker was gratified on and her stuff (nothing too important to her) was took from her locker. She sat on glue super glue and was glued to her seat too. It too her at least a hour to get out. She knew that it was all Syaoran and his friends that did all this.She heard during class, that some people got courage (probably from the example of her), to yell at the four guys when they were being bullied. But in the end, they got beaten really badly. She wondered why the four guys didn't just beat her up. She got let go too easy. But the day was over, and it was time for her to get out. Outside the class, she saw Zhachary in the corner.She rushed up to him.
"What happened to you?" she ask.
He grunted in pain "I got beat up by those four guys"
"Why?" she ask.
"Because...." Zhachary grunted and stood up.
*Flashback*
The halls was crowded with students as they were trying to get to next period successfully.
"Hey kid, get out of our way!" Zhachary heard a voice behind him said. Zhachary turned around. It was the "F4". He was trembling.
"Did you hear us?" Syaoran ask "Get out of our way!"
"Stop being so rude!" Zhachary said with all his strength. He thought of the courage Sakura had when she talked like that to them and they didn't even did anything. So in the end, F4 might even listen to them.
"You know who we are? We're F4. You have no right to speak like that to us!" Yukito said.
"Well, I think Sakura is right, you guys have to learn manners!" Zhachary said with his trembling voice.
"What, I don't think I heard you right" Takashi said.
"Yeah, I think you heard" he said.
Before he knew it, Yukito and Syaoran's knuckles was in his face. And later joined by Takashi. The three beat him up until, there was bruises everywhere.
"And why on earth would you do that? Aren't you usually scared of them" she ask.
"Well, you cant blame me! You did much worse things to them and they didn't beat up you" he said.
"Yeah, because guys cant hit girls!" she said.
"Trust me, I saw them beat a lot of girls up before. Including today"
"Oh my gosh, just don't mess with them, ok?" Sakura ask "Are you ok? Do you want me to go home with you?"
"No, I think I can manage to get home alone" Zhachary said.
She went out the school and was just in time to see F4 entering their car. She rushed to them and knocked on the window of the car demanding them to come out. They were pretending not to see her and faced the other way. But finally Eriol opened the window.
"Oh Eriol! You always ruin everything!" she heard Syaoran said.
"What do you want?" Takashi ask.
"Why the hell did you guys beat up my friend, Zhachary for?" she ask.
"What?" Syaoran ask "Are we suppose to know who that is? We beat up numerous of people today and too bad we don't remember all of them"
"Well, I don't care. I don't think you have the right to beat them up! Get out of this car right now!" she demanded.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of her" Syaoran said to his three friends and then glared at her and simply said "Make me"
"What? You better come out or--" she started to scream but then a group of guys appeared in back of her.
"Hey girl..." one of the guy said "I can't believe you can let a girl yell at you like that! I thought you guys were so tough"
"And who the hell are you?" she ask the unknown guy. F4 got out of their car.
"I don't think we have introduced ourselves clearly. We're the F4. My name is Syaoran. Their names are Eriol, Yukito, and Takashi. And we're brothers" Syaoran said and then pointed at each of them like he's introducing.
"What?" Sakura ask, very confused "I already know you are!" The only thing that she didn't know was that they had called themselves "F4".
"And they're" Yukito pointed at the other group "is the loser group that tries to copy F4 that calls themselves "Black Teen". You may ask yourself why such a gay name? But...oh well. Their name is Leon, Randy, Drew, and Bobby"
"What is this? Some kind of joke? I don't care who you guys are!" Sakura said.
"Thought you would like to know some losers" Takashi said.
"You're the ones who are the losers" Sakura said.
"That's right" Leon chuckled.
"And you guys too" Sakura said to them.
"Oh all right! I'll get this girl for you!" said Randy.
Eriol went in front of her, as if he is protecting her. All of a sudden, her face felt hot. Eriol was the only guy that haven't said anything bad to her. And he was the best looking from all of them.
"Get away! I thought you were a coward, or are you just a anti-war?" Randy said with a laugh.
"Yo, that's it!" Syaoran said wanting to punch them but Takashi and Yukito stopped him.
"I'll just leave here" Sakura said.
"Wait, who said you can leave?" Leon ask.
"What do you want?" she ask.
"Just leave!" Syaoran said "Look, no one can hurt her except us."
Leon just chuckled.
"You can shut up, ok? And stop acting like a snob. You're not rich, ok? You're just as poor as me. I don't even know why you think you're any different from me. And you have no right to be at anyone up! You're not even their brothers!" she said. They all looked at her silently with their mouths dropping.
Before anyone could hold back Syaoran, she felt a big punch in her face and then in the rest of her body. She realized that she was lying down the floor and he was kicking her stomach.The rest of F4 was holding Syaoran back but Syaoran was too strong for them. He just continue kicking her. The Black Teen was just staying there and smiling. Later, they left soundlessly while with smiles in their face. Finally Syaoran stopped kicking her. She knew that there was blood everywhere from her nose. Tears was running through her eyes.
"You better not say what you just say again!" he said.
She got her strength to stand up. "And what if I do?" she said it in his face. His knuckles was an inch away from her face but she fell to the floor before he can hit her again.
"Yo! Is she dead?" Yukito ask.
"Help her up!" Eriol said. "Syaoran! Help her up. Come on!"
Before she knew it, someone picked her up. She was carried to the car. She sat in the car.
"Where are you going?" she ask weakly.
"Where you want me to go?" she heard Eriol ask. She felt too painful and weak to open her eyes. She was never beaten this badly before. There was open cuts everywhere and blood stains was in her clothes. Her nose had stopped bleeding.
"I don't want you to go anywhere!" she said her voice when from high to low and then she took all her strength to say "But I want you to beat that damn Syaoran for me!"
She opened her eyes and then before she knew what she was doing, she used all her energy and opened the car door and ran away as far as she can. Once her leg can't take it anymore, she just fell to the ground and rested there with tears falling down her eyes.
"Look what you did" Yukito said to Syaoran.
"What? At least I didn't expel her from the school. You heard what she said?" Syaoran ask innocently.
"You shouldn't have beat her!" Eriol exclaimed.
"Don't worry, she'll forget all about it. Watch! I mean, come on! She was the first person I ever saw that talked to us that way!" Syaoran said. "Yeah...I've never been treated that way before..."
The sky was getting dark and her energy was fully restored. Sakura's whole body ached like never before. She got her bike and rode home as fast as she could. She has decided never to go back to the school ever again. Her parents was so happy and proud when she got accepted. They even wanted to throw a party to tell everyone but she told them not to. She wonder how it will be if her parents found out that she quitted the school. Even if she didn't quit, she thought, F4 will probably kick her out of the school tomorrow. She wouldn't even go back to school if she was paid a thousand dollars to do so. The only way she'll go back is if F4 leave the school and never come back. In an instant she felt as if her life is ruined by them. The sun was setting casting a brilliant light over the skies. There was still bruises in her face and cuts in her arms. She walked slowly up to her house and try to fix herself up, even though there is not much she can do. She opened the door. Her mother was in the kitchen cooking. She tried to get to her room before, her mother comes out of the kitchen to see her.
"Why are you so late today?" her mother ask from the kitchen.
"Oh nothing" she said rushing to her bedroom. But it was too late, her mother was in back of her. She put her face down and tried to cover it her back faced to her.
"You look so suspicious!" her mother said "What is up? Turn around and let me see you"
Sakura didn't know why but tears started to pour down her face. What would her mother say if she saw her face. She had never gotten into any fights before. And she was known for being a goody-good two shoes. She need to think quick for some excuses.
"Mom, I fell off my bike and I'm all messed up now, so I don't really want to look at you" she said wiping her tears.
Her mom turned her around and gasped. "It must of have fell of your bike really hardly then! Look at your bruises. It looked like someone punched you or something. And why are you crying?"
"Mom...I don't feel like talking right now" she said.
"Is it because of F4?" her mom ask.
"How do you know them?" she ask surprisingly.
"Who doesn't know them?" her mom ask.
"Oh...it's not them...Look, I really want to go to my room first" Sakura said and then rushed to her room.
"Where were you?" Sakura's mother immediately ask when she got home. She left the daycare after she watched every kid got picked up by their parents.
"I was at the daycare. Do you know, the one I use to go to?" Sakura ask.
"Yeah, and you can forget all about your father?" her mother ask.
"C'mon mom! He has enough workers to help him. And dad doesn't even care" she said.
"Who said?" her father, Fujitaka ask looking up from the newspaper.
"Fine fine" Sakura said "I'll make it up to you after I take a shower" She ran to the shower before anyone can open their mouths.
"C'mon..." Mitzuki Hiiragizawa said tugging on Eriol's arm in the bar.
"I'll go instead" Yukito said grabbing her hands out of Eriol.
"No" Mitzuki said flinging his hands off her.
"Hey! You cant speak to your older cousin like this" Yukito exclaimed.
"Oh my gosh, cousin Eriol, I am only bringing you to meet my friends! Is there anything wrong with that?" Mitzuki ask.
"I don't want to meet them then" Eriol said placing the drink on the table and lying back in the seat. Syaoran and Takashi just smirked.
"Don't think I don't know what you're trying to do. You're trying to set him up with them" Yukito said.
"So? What's wrong with that? I never saw cousin Eriol with any girl. The last girl I saw him was with that Stephanie" Mitzuki blurted out.
Yukito covered his cousin's mouth. Everyone looked nervously at Eriol.
He looked around and gave a little smile and then said "it's ok to speak about her, you know"
"At least he is not like you" Syaoran said "You're with every guy you see. I better get out of your sight before you go after me too"
"Shut up. This is none of your business" Mitzuki said.
"Really?" Syaoran ask standing up.
"Sit down, man" Takashi said calming him down.
"Fine then" Mitzuki stomped away.
"Girls these days" Takashi muttered under his breath.
Within minutes the bar door slammed opened and a group of four guys entered the bar.
"Look who it is" Takashi said.
It was the group in which they called themselves 'Black Teen'. They go to another school that their fathers own. And their father is another of the richest man in the universe. Even though Black Teen is their enemy, their fathers surprisingly happens to be good friends. Black teen approached right in front of them.
"Look, some rats are in our seats" Randy Tan, one of the four Black Teen said.
"I think you need to look at the mirror to figure out who's the real rat here" Takashi said laying back in the seat cooly.
"And since when did these seats became your seats?" Syaoran ask.
"Since when my girl started to invite me here" the toughest and oldest of the group, Leon Tan, said.
"Then go away and find your own seats. You guys are annoying" Yukito said.
"Do you think we will give up easily, then you really don't know us" Drew Tan said.
"What do you say? Do you agree?" Leon ask Eriol.
Eriol just rolled his eyes and looked the other direction.
"He said he doesn't even want to bother will your guys nonsense" Syaoran said standing up "If you don't go in a second, your parents will have some medical bills to worry about"All four of Black Teen laughed.
Just then Mitzuki approached them.
"Oh, I didn't know that you guys knew each other" Mitzuki said.
Takashi and Yukito stood up and said in unison "what's the meaning of this?"
"Oh, you don't know?" Mitzuki ask "This is my new boyfriend, Leon"
"Yeah, didn't you know that?" Bobby Tan ask.
Syaoran grabbed Mitzuki's hand and pulled her aside. "You can't have him as a boyfriend!"
"Why not?" Mitzuki ask pulling Syaoran's hand away from her.
"Because...you don't know who they are. They're not people you're suppose to hang out with" Syaoran said.
"Oh my gosh. I know who they are. What are they going to do to me? Relax. He's just a boyfriend" Mitzuki said.
"And you cant do that" Yukito said approaching them.
"You can't tell me what to do. I am a big girl now. I think I can make my own decision!" Mitzuki said.
"No you cant!" Takashi scolded.
"Why? Ok...give me a reason first" she said.
"I can give you a hundred reasons" Takashi said "First, I don't think Leon will take you seriously. He probably has a thousand other girls. And plus, if you hang out with them too much, they're going to influence you to do things that will get you in big trouble"
"I know them more than you. I think I can trust them. That's only what you heard!" Mitzuki exclaimed.
"No! It's what we know" Syaoran said.
"People say stuff like that about you guys. Like you guys break into stores and steal money and are a big bunch of selfish losers. But I don't listen to other people! I think you guys are the nicest and the best cousin. So if people say stuff about the Black Teen doesn't necessary mean they're true!" she said.
"C'mon Eriol! That's your cousin and so far, you have said nothing. Help us!" Vanness nudged him.
"I think that Mitzuki has her own choices and I know she will make the choice that's the best for her" Eriol simply said.
"See?" Mitzuki said and left to her boyfriend.
They saw Leon gave a wicked smile to them before they left the bar.
"What was that?" Syaoran ask Eriol.
"What was what?" Eriol ask.
"You were suppose to tell YOUR COUSIN that she's not suppose to hang out with the Black Teen" Syaoran said.
"I think she is old enough to know the difference between right and wrong" Eriol said.
"Let's just hope you're right" Yukito said giving him an evil eye.
It was probably midnight when they left the bar that night. Eriol's red Mercedes was parked out in the sidewalk. When all of them was seated in the car, a pretty girl came up to them. She knocked on the window.Eriol pulled up the window.
"Hey, don't start the car" the girl said.
"Why?" Eriol ask.
"Because my cousins did something to it. I think he pulled the wire and if you start it, your car will go crazy" the girl said.
"And who's your cousin?" Syaoran ask.
"You know, the Black Teen" she said.
"And why should we believe you?" Takashi ask.
"Because...I don't want you to end up dead" the girl said.
"And why should we still believe you?" Syaoran ask.
"Fine. If you want. You can start the car and if it you can't stop it. It wont be my fault" the girl said.
"C'mon guys" Eriol said getting out of the car.
"Oh God. How do we get home now?" Takashi ask.
"How about you give us a ride, pretty girl?" Yukito ask putting his hand around the girl.
She sighed and then said "but I don't know...why should I trust you guys in my car?"
"Fine if you don't want to give us a ride, then just say it. Anyway, I don't trust being in your car" Syaoran said.
"Fine, I'll give you all a ride home except you!" she said to Syaoran.
"Ok!" Yukito said happily.
"I'll go home alone then. I don't need you!" Syaoran said walking away.
"Hey!" Eriol called "You're aren't serious, right?" But Syaoran kept on walking.
"So...whoever you are, you're giving us a ride, right?" Yukito ask.
"My name is Meilin" she said "And yes, I will give you a ride. The three guys introduced themselves.
"So what about your car, Eriol?" she ask.
"Someone will tow it away and I'll buy a new one" he said simply.
***
"What are you doing?" Sakura ask Zhachary as he peered in the corner of the school.
"Just checking" he said.
"For what?" she ask.
"Aren't you scared?" he ask.
"Of what?" she ask getting annoyed.
"Remember you told me that the rich guys said that they're going to get you today" Zhachary said peering the other side of school.
Sakura pulled Zhachary in the school and then said "You aren't serious about that, right? I mean what are you worrying about. Let me worry about my own business."
"Don't tell me that you really want them to beat you up?" he ask.
"Don't tell me that you take them seriously. They're just a bunch of big losers!" she said.
It was science class and the teacher was explaining formulas for chemistry in a monotone. The class was half sleeping even though their eyes are opened. Zhachary was scribbling things and cartoons in the side of his notebooks as usual and Sakura was staring in the ceiling and zooming off to space. The teacher was talking endlessly at some point and asking questions which no one knew the answers to.
"Can I pease get a hand?" the teacher ask.
The class gave him a tired look. Sakura stifled her fiftieth yawn.
"Ok, I'll pick anybody to answer my question" the teacher said.
"How about you, Sakura?" he ask.
"Huh?" she ask sitting up as soon. She stared at him blankly without knowing what question he just ask or how to answer it.
Just then the door slammed loudly opened that made Sakura jumped from her seat and everybody to wake up. Four guys walked in and everyone was surprised to speak. Sakura just stared at them - Eriol, Yukito, Takashi, and Syaoran - for a split second.The teacher looked scared of them too and stared soundlessly at them.
"Go on teaching. We're going to be part of your class today" Takashi said.
Sakura rolled her eyes and then looked at her friend, Nakuru's, seat next to her. She doesn't know why Nakuru didn't show up to school. All she's doing now is hoping that they don't sit in the seat next to her.Please don't sit next to me, please don't sit next to me, she closed her eyes praying silently. Don't sit next to me, don't sit next to--.
"Oh you again?" she heard a familiar voice.
She opened her eyes a little and saw Syaoran's face. She looked the other side ignoring him. Syaoran just stifled a tiny smile.The teacher continued his boring lesson again. But there was something else in his voice. He was probably trembling because of the fear of what the four guys are going to do to him.
"Yo, about yesterday" Syaoran began to her in a low voice. She was surprised that she would ever to live to see the day that he speaks gently and in a low voice that is not disruptive.
"I don't want to talk about yesterday" she said "I forgot all about yesterday"
"But I cant forget about yesterday. I'll have to get you back for that. But--I decided not to because I am too busy to beat you up" he said.
"I don't care if you beat me up or not. Does it look like I'm scared of you?" she ask still looking at the other direction.
"Sakura, can you be quiet?" the teacher ask.
She could see Syaoran stifled another bigger smile from the corner of her eyes.
Nakuru, I hate you, she thought, why can't you come to school today? Now I have a loser sitting next to me... Just then the door opened and a breathless Nakuru came in the class. All of a sudden, the classroom turned so bright to Sakura of happiness. Sakura finally looked around to see where the rest of the four guys was sitting. They were seated all in the back except for Syaoran which was next to her. Nakuru walked confusedly up to her seat which was seated by Syaoran.
"Umm...I think you're seated in my seat" Nakuru said.
"So?" Syaoran ask.
"So can you sit somewhere else?" she ask.
"You know who I am?" he ask.
For a brief second all Nakuru did was stared at him blanclessly but then her eyes turned big.
"Oh...I'll sit somewhere else" she said.
Sakura closed her eyes tightly. "Wait!" she then screamed out and the whole class was looking at them and the teacher had stopped teaching.
"Forget about it. It doesn't matter where I sit" Nakuru said.
"That's not the point!" she yelled. "You!" she said and then point hardly at Syaoran's chest.
"What?" he ask chuckling. By that time, the rest of his three friends was behind him.
"You don't have any manners! Did your parents teach you any manners? Do you think things always go however you wish like just because you're rich. Well, if you go out to the real world, you'll realize that life will never go like anyway you want it if you don't give people respect first. If your parents doesn't teach you, I will teach you! You know what you deserve now? You're attitude deserves about a thousand slaps in your face. I wish I can give you a thousand slaps right now. So why don't you grow up and show some respect?" she said it all in a blob. Everyone was staring at her without blinking. And even the four guys was speechless.
All of a sudden all the color returned to Syaoran and it seem like he just woke up from a dream. He grabbed her shirt and she could see his fist an inch away from her face when Eriol pulled his hands and Nakuru yelled stop.
"Please don't do anything to Sakura!" Nakuru pleaded "Don't hurt her"
"Ok, I wont" Syaoran said smiling again "But you have to go out with my friend Yukito tonight at seven.
"What?" Both Yukito and Nakuru and Sakura said at the same time.
"Ok" Nakuru said giving Sakura a look meaning not to disagree "But don't do anything bad to Sakura"
"We wont, don't worry. Anyway, let's leave. Is it just me or is this class boring?" he ask loudly to his friends.
***
The day was bad, it seemed as if everyone was more disgust of her then they already are. The four guys have been what everybody look up to. They are like idols to them. And anyone criticizing them is like criticizing the whole school. Everybody seem different to her. Some people she doesn't even know pointed and laugh at her in the hall. Just when she is passing the hall to lunch, there stood everyone gathering around and looking at something. She pushed through the crowd to see what they're looking at. Once everyone saw her, some people stopped talking and some laughed harder. To her horror, sticking on the wall, was a paper with a enlarged picture of her. She recognized the picture. It was from her high school year book. It was the worst picture she had ever took. But in the paper hanging on the wall, someone added glasses to her face, probably by a computer. And with big letters, it said "forever geek". There was no question on who did that. She ripped the paper out of the wall instantly. Later, she found out that there was more of those picture upstairs. What's worse was that it was hung all along the wall. It took her a while to get it all off. She was so mad and embarrassed at the same time. Finally, after being tired and exhausted, she went down to the cafeteria. There, seated in the cafeteria was the four guys. She had never seen them in the cafeteria probably because they think that they are too rich for the school's cafeteria. Madly she went straight to them. She knew that they all saw her. But as soon as they saw her coming towards them. They all started to eat their food, pretending not to see her coming.
"What's the meaning of this?" she ask them.
"What?" Syaoran ask.
She scoffed "What?. You know what you did. How did you get my picture?"
"What do you mean?" Syaoran ask again, pretending to be clueless.
"You know the picture that you guys wrote, forever geek" she said and then Syaoran burst to laughter "and stick it to the walls! You did it didn't you?"
"Hey! You don't have evidence that we did it. So..." Syaoran said.
Sakura got so mad that she picked up his pudding and then poured it to his head. She quickly left and left Syaoran speechless and surprised at the same time.
Sakura was so hungry and mad at the same time. She got lunch and made she sat somewhere she can't see the four guys. It's either that Syaoran is going to beat her up or that they will all beat her up. The lunch she had tasted irregular and worse than usual. She spit the food out and realized that it was all black. She took out her mirror and saw her teeth all black. She thought of Syaoran and then gave a tired sigh. The rest of the day didn't go too well. There was paper sticking in the back of her that she doesn't know about. And then her homework was stolen. Then her locker was gratified on and her stuff (nothing too important to her) was took from her locker. She sat on glue super glue and was glued to her seat too. It too her at least a hour to get out. She knew that it was all Syaoran and his friends that did all this.She heard during class, that some people got courage (probably from the example of her), to yell at the four guys when they were being bullied. But in the end, they got beaten really badly. She wondered why the four guys didn't just beat her up. She got let go too easy. But the day was over, and it was time for her to get out. Outside the class, she saw Zhachary in the corner.She rushed up to him.
"What happened to you?" she ask.
He grunted in pain "I got beat up by those four guys"
"Why?" she ask.
"Because...." Zhachary grunted and stood up.
*Flashback*
The halls was crowded with students as they were trying to get to next period successfully.
"Hey kid, get out of our way!" Zhachary heard a voice behind him said. Zhachary turned around. It was the "F4". He was trembling.
"Did you hear us?" Syaoran ask "Get out of our way!"
"Stop being so rude!" Zhachary said with all his strength. He thought of the courage Sakura had when she talked like that to them and they didn't even did anything. So in the end, F4 might even listen to them.
"You know who we are? We're F4. You have no right to speak like that to us!" Yukito said.
"Well, I think Sakura is right, you guys have to learn manners!" Zhachary said with his trembling voice.
"What, I don't think I heard you right" Takashi said.
"Yeah, I think you heard" he said.
Before he knew it, Yukito and Syaoran's knuckles was in his face. And later joined by Takashi. The three beat him up until, there was bruises everywhere.
"And why on earth would you do that? Aren't you usually scared of them" she ask.
"Well, you cant blame me! You did much worse things to them and they didn't beat up you" he said.
"Yeah, because guys cant hit girls!" she said.
"Trust me, I saw them beat a lot of girls up before. Including today"
"Oh my gosh, just don't mess with them, ok?" Sakura ask "Are you ok? Do you want me to go home with you?"
"No, I think I can manage to get home alone" Zhachary said.
She went out the school and was just in time to see F4 entering their car. She rushed to them and knocked on the window of the car demanding them to come out. They were pretending not to see her and faced the other way. But finally Eriol opened the window.
"Oh Eriol! You always ruin everything!" she heard Syaoran said.
"What do you want?" Takashi ask.
"Why the hell did you guys beat up my friend, Zhachary for?" she ask.
"What?" Syaoran ask "Are we suppose to know who that is? We beat up numerous of people today and too bad we don't remember all of them"
"Well, I don't care. I don't think you have the right to beat them up! Get out of this car right now!" she demanded.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of her" Syaoran said to his three friends and then glared at her and simply said "Make me"
"What? You better come out or--" she started to scream but then a group of guys appeared in back of her.
"Hey girl..." one of the guy said "I can't believe you can let a girl yell at you like that! I thought you guys were so tough"
"And who the hell are you?" she ask the unknown guy. F4 got out of their car.
"I don't think we have introduced ourselves clearly. We're the F4. My name is Syaoran. Their names are Eriol, Yukito, and Takashi. And we're brothers" Syaoran said and then pointed at each of them like he's introducing.
"What?" Sakura ask, very confused "I already know you are!" The only thing that she didn't know was that they had called themselves "F4".
"And they're" Yukito pointed at the other group "is the loser group that tries to copy F4 that calls themselves "Black Teen". You may ask yourself why such a gay name? But...oh well. Their name is Leon, Randy, Drew, and Bobby"
"What is this? Some kind of joke? I don't care who you guys are!" Sakura said.
"Thought you would like to know some losers" Takashi said.
"You're the ones who are the losers" Sakura said.
"That's right" Leon chuckled.
"And you guys too" Sakura said to them.
"Oh all right! I'll get this girl for you!" said Randy.
Eriol went in front of her, as if he is protecting her. All of a sudden, her face felt hot. Eriol was the only guy that haven't said anything bad to her. And he was the best looking from all of them.
"Get away! I thought you were a coward, or are you just a anti-war?" Randy said with a laugh.
"Yo, that's it!" Syaoran said wanting to punch them but Takashi and Yukito stopped him.
"I'll just leave here" Sakura said.
"Wait, who said you can leave?" Leon ask.
"What do you want?" she ask.
"Just leave!" Syaoran said "Look, no one can hurt her except us."
Leon just chuckled.
"You can shut up, ok? And stop acting like a snob. You're not rich, ok? You're just as poor as me. I don't even know why you think you're any different from me. And you have no right to be at anyone up! You're not even their brothers!" she said. They all looked at her silently with their mouths dropping.
Before anyone could hold back Syaoran, she felt a big punch in her face and then in the rest of her body. She realized that she was lying down the floor and he was kicking her stomach.The rest of F4 was holding Syaoran back but Syaoran was too strong for them. He just continue kicking her. The Black Teen was just staying there and smiling. Later, they left soundlessly while with smiles in their face. Finally Syaoran stopped kicking her. She knew that there was blood everywhere from her nose. Tears was running through her eyes.
"You better not say what you just say again!" he said.
She got her strength to stand up. "And what if I do?" she said it in his face. His knuckles was an inch away from her face but she fell to the floor before he can hit her again.
"Yo! Is she dead?" Yukito ask.
"Help her up!" Eriol said. "Syaoran! Help her up. Come on!"
Before she knew it, someone picked her up. She was carried to the car. She sat in the car.
"Where are you going?" she ask weakly.
"Where you want me to go?" she heard Eriol ask. She felt too painful and weak to open her eyes. She was never beaten this badly before. There was open cuts everywhere and blood stains was in her clothes. Her nose had stopped bleeding.
"I don't want you to go anywhere!" she said her voice when from high to low and then she took all her strength to say "But I want you to beat that damn Syaoran for me!"
She opened her eyes and then before she knew what she was doing, she used all her energy and opened the car door and ran away as far as she can. Once her leg can't take it anymore, she just fell to the ground and rested there with tears falling down her eyes.
"Look what you did" Yukito said to Syaoran.
"What? At least I didn't expel her from the school. You heard what she said?" Syaoran ask innocently.
"You shouldn't have beat her!" Eriol exclaimed.
"Don't worry, she'll forget all about it. Watch! I mean, come on! She was the first person I ever saw that talked to us that way!" Syaoran said. "Yeah...I've never been treated that way before..."
The sky was getting dark and her energy was fully restored. Sakura's whole body ached like never before. She got her bike and rode home as fast as she could. She has decided never to go back to the school ever again. Her parents was so happy and proud when she got accepted. They even wanted to throw a party to tell everyone but she told them not to. She wonder how it will be if her parents found out that she quitted the school. Even if she didn't quit, she thought, F4 will probably kick her out of the school tomorrow. She wouldn't even go back to school if she was paid a thousand dollars to do so. The only way she'll go back is if F4 leave the school and never come back. In an instant she felt as if her life is ruined by them. The sun was setting casting a brilliant light over the skies. There was still bruises in her face and cuts in her arms. She walked slowly up to her house and try to fix herself up, even though there is not much she can do. She opened the door. Her mother was in the kitchen cooking. She tried to get to her room before, her mother comes out of the kitchen to see her.
"Why are you so late today?" her mother ask from the kitchen.
"Oh nothing" she said rushing to her bedroom. But it was too late, her mother was in back of her. She put her face down and tried to cover it her back faced to her.
"You look so suspicious!" her mother said "What is up? Turn around and let me see you"
Sakura didn't know why but tears started to pour down her face. What would her mother say if she saw her face. She had never gotten into any fights before. And she was known for being a goody-good two shoes. She need to think quick for some excuses.
"Mom, I fell off my bike and I'm all messed up now, so I don't really want to look at you" she said wiping her tears.
Her mom turned her around and gasped. "It must of have fell of your bike really hardly then! Look at your bruises. It looked like someone punched you or something. And why are you crying?"
"Mom...I don't feel like talking right now" she said.
"Is it because of F4?" her mom ask.
"How do you know them?" she ask surprisingly.
"Who doesn't know them?" her mom ask.
"Oh...it's not them...Look, I really want to go to my room first" Sakura said and then rushed to her room.