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Ladies and Gents' I give you chap
8!! This is also a very important chapter and thing are starting to get
very, very interesting.
By the way as I am constantly forgetting
to mention, I do not own any of the Cardcaptor Sakura characters and I
also forget who does, but whoever they are, they are very lucky bastards!
However I do own all the character's mentioned in chapter 1, so there!
Muahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! How do you like 'dem apples!!! Anywayz
enjoy the chapter and have a very nice day. ^_^
***
Sakura stood in a town square of
a great city, or what could have been one. The once tall sky scrapers were
crumbling and the sky was an unhappy gray colour. The shadows greatly deepened
the age of the city and it looked as if it was completely deserted. There
was no life to be seen in the desolate area as Sakura looked around.
'Sakura…' whispered a voice behind
her.
Sakura whirled around, a figure
emerged from the shadows its face hidden in the darkness.
'Who are you?' asked Sakura.
'You must…protect…' the figure said.
'What?' asked Sakura with a frown.
'Protect…danger drawing nearer…you
must protect-
***
RRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!
Sakura sat bolt upright in her bed
panting.
"You forgot to set you're alarm
last night so I set it for you," said Kero with a smile.
"Uh… thanks," said Sakura still a little uneasy.
"You better get moving you gotta bring Jen remember?" said Kero.
"Oh Ya!" shrieked Sakura as she ripped through her closet to find clothes.
There still an hour before the bell, because to her surprise Kero had accidentally turned the time ahead when he set the alarm.
"I better go wake Jen," said Sakura.
Sakura walked over to Jen's room and to her surprise Jen was already awake. Jen was sitting on her bed with her back to the door, and was staring at the dawning sun. She was wearing her school uniform and her bag was all packed beside her.
"Jen?" asked Sakura quietly.
"Huh? Oh its you," said Jen turning around.
As Jen stood up Sakura noticed that
she wasn't wearing the girls school uniform, but rather the boys.
Jen saw Sakura's odd stare and smiled.
"Ya, I know," she said.
"Why aren't you wearing the girls uniform," asked Sakura.
"Well there are three reasons," said Jen calmly, "Firstly I find it sexist, secondly I like wearing pants 'cause they're long, and thirdly, I just don't like skirts."
"Oh," said Sakura in a mix of confusion and awe.
"Anyway is it time to go yet?" asked Jen.
"Uh no, but do you want to have some breakfast?" asked Sakura.
"Sure," said Jen with a smile.
After breakfast Sakura just so happened to look at a clock and notice that there was ten minutes to the bell.
"Oh my- Jen come on we gotta go!" called Sakura.
They grabbed their blades and rolled
out the door, they made it to school just in time.
They both plopped down in their
seats and let out a sigh of relief. Sakura turned to Madison to say something,
and stopped herself half way as reality sunk in. Madison wasn't at school
again.
Sakura sighed and put her head on
her desk, it was going to be a pretty dull day.
***
Today was Jen's first gym class
and after what had happened after Jen's first day at school all the kids
were eager to see what would happen next.
People gave Jen odd stares as she
got changed into her gym clothes. A strange feeling grew in her stomach.
She had no idea what they did in gym! It was physical education, Sakura
had said but this didn't seem to help. Sakura had also told her some of
the activities. The sports sounded okay, but the gymnastics made her stomach
do flip flops, she felt sick but she was going to have to do this.
Mr. Turada called the class out,
of the change rooms.
"Today," he said, "We're doing free gymnastics in partners."
Jen's heart stopped, and she felt
like she would puke.
"In free gymnastics you must create or pick your own routine and take turns presenting," he said, "Ready, go!"
Jen thought she was gonna have a nervous break down, she had no idea where to start.
Suddenly someone tapped her shoulder. She turned around to see a boy with messy brown hair and brown eyes.
"You wanna be partners?" he asked, blushing a little.
"Okay," said Jen slowly.
He lead her to one of the mats.
"My names Li, by the way," he said.
"My names Jen," she said with a blush.
"So what pattern do you want to do?" asked Li.
"I don't know, I've never done this before," said Jen.
"Okay, you want me to teach you one?" asked Li blushing deeper.
"Sure," said Jen, her face beet red.
At this point Both Li and Jen's faces
were bright cherry red. The stared at each other wordlessly, as if not
knowing what to do next.
***
"Aren't they cute?" said Nikki.
"Ya!" said Chelsie.
Sakura looked up to see what they were talking about. Across the playground Li was teaching Jen some moves. His face was cherry red. Jen seemed to get every move right on her first try, and every time Li would smile and congratulate her. At that time both their faces would change blushing deeply. Sakura's hands tightened into fists, this is how Mailin must have felt when Li flirted around her.
***
"Wow you're really good at this," said Li with pride.
Mr. Turada blew his whistle.
"Okay everyone lets bring the mats
inside and we'll finish presenting next week," he said.
After they had put the mats back
Jen started to walk towards the school when Li stopped her.
"Um Jen," he said staring wide eye at her, his face burning red, "If you like… do you want me to teach you some more moves for next week!?"
"Sure," said Jen casually, "Just tell me the time and place."
"My house! Tomorrow!" blurted Li unable to keep himself under control.
"Okay then see you tomorrow," said Jen with a smile, with that she broke into a run for the school. If Li had seen her face when she turned from him he would have seen her blushing madly.
***
When Jen made it to the change room,
everyone was gone.
'Good,' she thought.
She leaned against a locker and sighed,
then slowly slide down it collapsing on the floor.
Why did she act like such a love-struck
idiot out there? She barely knew him but for some reason she felt as if
they had been friends for years. She smiled in spite of herself.
"Bravo," said a voice behind her.
She stood up and whipped around.
"You!" she cried.
"Me!" said the boy mockingly.
"What do you want!" she cried angrily, her first encounter with the boy had left her with a fury of questions unanswered.
"I know you have a lot of questions
so meet me tomorrow at sundown at the place we first met, got it? Good,"
he said, he turned and rounded a corner.
Jen dashed after him but her was
gone.
'Who the hell is that guy!' Jen thought furiously her hands in two tightly bunched fists, 'Whoever he is when I find out I'm gonna beat him to a pulp!'
With that she quickly got changed and stalked off to math class.
***
"Yep you're a goner," said a voice,
"She's definitely gonna kill you when she finds out, and when she does
I'll have front row seats to watch and laugh at you all the while."
"Shut up," said the boy curtly, "Just shut it."
***
The rest of the day was pretty mild
for Jen, she had worked hard all day so she wouldn't have any homework
for the weekend.
The work seemed very easy for some reason. It was as if she knew all the answers before she even looked at the question. When she turned in her math work Mr. Turada gave her a funny look.
"Are you sure you answered all the questions properly?" he asked raising his eyebrow slightly.
Jen nodded her head furiously.
"Okay, its just that…does it normally take you six minutes to answer seventy math questions?" he asked.
Jen stared at him strangely.
"Fine then, you may do what you please for the rest of the period," he said with a forgiving smile, "Would you like to go to the library?"
"Sure," said Jen with a smile, "Where
is it?"
Li had just finished his paper and
was relaxing in his chair, staring a the ceiling aimlessly.
"Li can show you," said Mr. Turada, beckoning to Li.
Unfortunately the sudden mention of his name had startled Li causing him to topple out of his chair. He quickly stood up and walked stiffly to the front of the class blushing madly all the way.
"Li please kindly show Jen to the library and around the school so she knows her way for next time," said Mr. Turada happily.
Li blushing madly walked like a toy solider to the door and held it open for Jen and stiffly followed her out.
"Aren't they adorable?" whispered Nikki.
"Ya," agreed Chelsie.
Sakura had watched the whole thing
and without realizing it she had crunched up her math assignment. Realizing
what she had done Sakura sighed, and began to smooth out her paper. She
had only managed to do fifteen questions. Why was she so jealous of Jen?
Li had never really shown any signs of affection to her before, so why
did she care that he liked Jen so much? In her frustration she had succeeded
in crumpling her paper once again.
"Everything alright?" said a voice behind her.
"Madison?!" whispered Sakura in disbelief.
"Hi to you too," said Madison brightly.
"Where have been?" said Sakura still unable to comprehend that Madison was back.
"I've been sick so my mom had to take me to a doctor out of town," said Madison, "But I'm better now."
"Oh," said Sakura nodding her head solemnly.
"Glad to see you back Madison," said Mr. Turada, "Please come to my desk for today's assignment so I can fill you in on what we've done."
Madison nodded smiling and made her way up to Mr. Turada's desk.
Madison was back and Sakura couldn't
have been happier, she was so happy she totally forgot all about Jen and
Li (And lets face it who would care at the moment?)
***
"So where to?" asked Li, who had
calmed down a bit after they had left the class.
"Ummm… how about you show me around first and then we go to the library?" said Jen.
"Sure," said Li as his blush faded a little.
Li took Jen all around the school pointing out all of their classes as well as a couple of other things. Li looked at Jen who was staring in awe, he had taken her to the roof as a bit of a pit stop. He really liked her, and it seemed like the more time he spent with her the more comfortable he became. Not like when he was around Sakura. When he was around her he just couldn't find the words to speak, and with Jen it was like an on off switch. Sometimes he felt even worse around her than he did Sakura, like when he had asked her over, and other times it was as if they had known each other since forever, like now…
Jen walked up to the safety fence. Li smiled she was so sweet even if she couldn't remember her past. According to Eli she had powers as well, and Li couldn't really tell if he liked her more or less for it, he knew he had always hated Sakura because she had gotten the Clow Cards when he had worked equally as hard if not more.
'Oh well,' he thought, 'Come what may.'
"Its beautiful," said Jen.
"What's so beautiful about it?" said Li breaking out of his trance, "It's just a bunch of apartment's in the mist of a sunny day."
"I don't know why," said Jen suddenly, "It's like when you wake up from a bad dream full of darkness and when you see the sunny sky you know the nightmare's over."
"Huh?" said Li.
"I really have no idea what I'm saying," said Jen blushing a bit, "It's just that…I dunno its like I have this weird feeling inside of me that makes me feel that this… that this is just a dream."
Li looked thunderstruck. He had absolutely no idea where this was coming from and he had a funny feeling neither did Jen. Maybe it had something to do with her past, but still it made him wonder why Jen would think that this wasn't real.
"It's just beautiful," repeated Jen.
Jen was staring into the sky she was beautiful, absolutely beautiful. Li stared dreamily at her.
"I know what you mean," he said staring
at her as a breeze sifted through Jen's hair. He smiled, "I know what you
mean."