Hey, people!!!! I know I haven't even finish my first story, I'll Never Love Again . . . but it's almost Valentine's Day and I've been wanting to do something about CCS. Don't worry, you don't have to concern about the updating part, because this is a one chapter (or maybe two, depends on how long) story so in other words, as soon as it's done, IT'S DONE!!! Also, I will be using English names for this fanfiction. Why? Even I don't know myself!! -_-;;;

Li has had a crush on Sakura but never got a chance to tell her his feelings. Eli also fell in love with Madison's grace and beauty over the years, but was afraid of rejection. Will their emotions finally come out of hiding on a day meant for lovers? Sakura+Li, Eli+Madison also a lil Chelsea+Zachary

Yes, this is a Li and Sakura fanfiction AND an Eli and Madison fanfiction(not to mention Chelsea and Zachary, but it won't be focused on them as much.) Just to let you guys know before I actually start, they are all 17 and obviously neither Li nor Eli has confessed their feelings though they all are good friends. Enjoy and don't forget to review! Happy Valentine's Day!!! ^_^ Now, I'll quit my rambling and start . . .

Key:

talking is ". . ."

thinking is '. . .'

scene changes is ~~~~~~~~~~~~~*****~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Be My Valentine By: aquatmarine

"So . . . . are any of you guys going to the Valentine's Day dance tomorrow?" Chelsea asked her friends, Sakura Avalon, Rita and Nikki from the cheerleading squad after practice on Thursday afternoon, the day before Valentine's Day. "After all, you know what tomorrow is and there's always a saying that your feelings for a special someone will come out of the dark on that day."

"Really?" Sakura asked as she spun the combination on her lock. In the background, she could hear the other girls chatting about the same thing, while changing out of their cheerleading uniforms. "I don't think I'm going because no one asked me to it yet." That was part of the truth. In fact, lots of guys had asked the emerald-eyed girl. But Sakura had turned all of them down because she had been hoping that a certain person from the soccer team would ask her. All day, Sakura had been on pins and needles every time she saw her longtime crush and friend. But when school ended and there was no invitation from the guy's lips, Sakura had lost all hope.

"Hmmm . . . . does our Sakura have a crush on someone?" Rita said slyly.

Immediately, Sakura's cheeks turned crimson. "No! Why would I like someone?"

The other three girls exchanged looks that went by unnoticed from Sakura. It was Chelsea who brought it up. "You don't? That's strange." She put her hands on her chin as if trying to recall something. "If not, then why were you all jumpy today?"

"That's true, Sakura," Nikki put in, trying hard not to laugh. "Especially when you were near a certain someone?"

Sakura was now turning five different shades of red. 'Hoe!!! They must know that I like him! But how did they know? Well . . . maybe Madison told them. After all, Madison notices the things that I wish she didn't!' But Sakura didn't really want to tell her friends about her crush. She knew that they were going to make her tell her feelings to the boy. But what if he didn't like her back? What if he laughed in her face when she told him how much she loved him? After all, they were good friends and Sakura didn't want to risk something so meaningful.

Rita joined in. "He's the captain of the soccer team, right Sakura? From what Chelsea told me, he's total eye candy, chased by almost every girl in our school---"

"Not that I blame them," Chelsea interrupted, grinning wickedly.

Naoko rejoined the teasing. "He's really hot with messy brown hair that makes girls itched to run their fingers through it and the most adorable amber eyes you have ever seen out of anyone. Sound familiar?"

Sakura turned even redder. The three girls couldn't control it anymore and immediately burst out laughing. Sakura glared at them, finally realizing that they were teasing her for the fun of it the whole time. (at least Rita, Chelsea and Nikki are right about the person they think Sakura has a crush on. My friends think that I liked this kid and their only reason is because I talk to him a lot. Please!)

"What's so funny?" Madison Taylor, who was going to meet with Sakura after cheerleading practice, suddenly appeared in the locker room.

"Oh, we were only trying to get Sakura to admit that she liked someone and hope he will ask her to the Valentine's Day dance tomorrow." Chelsea replied, with an innocent look at her friend.

"Hmmm . . . . someone I know?" Madison asked, knowing full well whom the person was.

"You should." Rita said, with a grin. "He sits with us at lunch."

Sakura, who couldn't take the teasing anymore, especially since she knew that they were right, decided to confess. There was nothing to lose. Just because Madison, Chelsea, Rita and Nikki would most likely tell her to admit to his face doesn't mean she necessary have to do it. "All right, all right . . . . you guys win. I do like Li, okay?"

"I knew it!" Chelsea said.

An idea popped into Sakura's head and she came up with the perfect solution to get revenge. "Okay, so I confess that I like a certain someone. But what about you, dear sweet Chelsea? Do you have a crush as well? I seem to notice that you were jumpy around this person. Care to elaborate?" Sakura was now wearing a smirk of her own.

This time, it was Chelsea who turned pink. "No, I don't like anyone." But even as she said that, her eyes were crossing back and forth as she quickly changed into a pair of jeans and a black hooded sweatshirt. (I know this guy who does it; he's like the worst liar in the world.)

Madison grinned. It was always so much fun to tease her friends about their crushes. "Oh come on, Chelsea, we're your friends. You can tell us ANYTHING. So . . . who do you like? Or how about this? We guess the qualities of this person and you tell us if it's true or not. Okay?"

Chelsea shrugged. "Yeah, sure whatever," she mumbled.

Rita began the interrogation. "Let's see . . . does he tell false stories?"

Chelsea turned beet red, but refused to answer. All she did was mumbled something under her breath and dumped her cheerleading clothes into her bag.

"What?" Sakura joined in. "I can't hear you!"

Chelsea glared at her friend. "Yes, he does, and I usually have to drag him away from it. Okay ---- okay, you guys got me. I like Zachary. And no, he didn't ask me to the Valentine's Day dance yet." She sighed as she tucked a strand of brown hair behind her ear.

"I have an idea. Ask him to the dance," Nikki suggested.

"NO WAY!" Sakura, Madison, Chelsea and Rita responded at the same time. "You don't ask the guy, Nikki. A guy is supposed to ask you!" Rita said.

Nikki shrugged. "There's no rules that says that."

"Nikki's right," Madison agreed. "A girl can ask a guy out. No big deal. Do you guys think if it's a good idea to ask E----" Madison caught herself before she spilled the news about the guy she had a crush on. But the other girls caught on to what she was going to say.

"E ---- could that be Eli, by any chance?" Sakura asked, with a wicked grin. She knew that Madison had a crush on the blue-haired boy who plays soccer with Li, for some while but Sakura was almost positive that the boy had a crush on her best friend as well. Of course, that's what Madison said to her; that she thought Li had a thing for Sakura. Sakura had refused to believe what her friend was saying, even though she secretly hoped it was true.

"Who? Eli? Why would I like Eli? Sure, he's cute and everything but ---- " Madison broke off when she saw the four girls grinning at her.

"Cute, hmmmm?" Chelsea said, with her eyebrows raised.

Madison flushed. "Just because I think he's cute doesn't mean I like him."

"Uh-huh. Keep telling yourself that," Nikki said, her voice full of doubt. "You may believe it sometime, sooner or later."

"Come on, Madison, Chelsea and I both confess to who we like. So you should too. Besides, we know you like Eli Moon." Sakura said a matter-of-factly. Madison's cheeks turned pink when Sakura mentioned Eli's name.

Madison finally shrugged, knowing that her friends would probably get it out of her in the end. "Yeah, ok, I do like him and I wished that he would take me to the dance. There. Happy?"

Rita laughed. "Totally."

"Okay, so we got 3 confessions today. Now, what about you, Rita? Do you like anyone?" Madison asked.

Unlike the 3 other girls who denied it at first, Rita nodded. "Yes, I do and Mathew asked me to dance." Mathew Gregory was a good-looking senior with chestnut brown hair and sparkling blue eyes, and was also captain even though he plays 2nd singles for the school's tennis team.

Sakura sighed wistfully. "You're so lucky, Rita. I wished Li Showron would asked me out to the Valentine's Day dance."

"Don't lose hope, Sakura," Rita replied with a gentle smile. "There's always tomorrow." Rita, then turned to Madison and Chelsea. "And I'm sure that Eli and Zack would asked you guys out also."

"That's true," Nikki put in. "Besides, you can always ask them out."

"NO!" all three girls replied.

Rita laughed and her glance went to the clock. "Oh God! It's six o'clock already. I had no idea we spent so much time talking. Anyway, guys, I have to go. Matt said that we were going to meet up after practice and I don't want him to wait any longer," the brown haired girl hurriedly dumped her cheerleading contents in the white and purple duffel bag and turned to go. "Bye! See you all tomorrow!" The door swung opened and automatically pushed back.

"I have to go too. Otherwise, my brother, Tori, is going to give me another lecture about how I never call if I'm going to be home late," Sakura said.

Madison smiled. "One good effect of not having an overprotective older brother.

Sakura rolled her eyes as she mirrored Rita's actions before, except in a slower pace. "Ok, I'm done, Madison. Ready?"

Madison nodded. "Yeah, let's go. Who knows, maybe we'll run into the guys on our way home."

The girls all giggled as Sakura and her best friend ambled out, but not before waving good-bye to the remaining girls in the locker room. "Bye. Oh and Chelsea," Sakura added with a secret smile, "Tell me when Zachary asked you to the dance, all right?"

Chelsea blushed and nodded.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*next day*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Oh . . . . . . . . Li, don't go yet. I haven't told you what I see in you . . . . . . . ." Sakura blabbed in her sleep, completely unaware that her alarm clock was ringing. She was having a good dream, where Li Showron had finally worked up the courage to ask her out, but then left. "LI!!! Wait!" Sakura blindly reached out only to feel nothing. "Li? Where are you?"

"SAKURA!!! Wake up!" a tiny yellow guardian with beady eyes said. He flew over to her trying frantically to wake the girl up so she won't be late to school.

"LI!!!! You came!" Sakura mumbled as she grabbed Kero and gave him a death squeeze. "Oh, Li you don't know how long I've waited for this moment. You're all I ever think about these days." Sakura brought the tiny guardian to her chest so she could give him a hug, suffocating him.

"AHHH!!!!!! SAKURA, WAKE UP!!!!!" Kero muffled as loud as he could. "And don't EVER mistaken me for that Chinese brat." He added in an air of indignation.

"Huh?" Sakura opened her eyes. Her surroundings changed. She was in her own room, instead of Tomeda Park where the cherry blossom trees fluttered from the wind. And instead of a handsome, chestnut-haired boy, it was her guardian that she was hugging.

"AHHH!! Kero!" Sakura shrieked as she dropped him onto the floor in surprise.

Kero fell, gasping for air as his head hit the soft, pink rug and the rest of his body landed with it. "Ohhhhh," he could actually see the stars above his head.

"Kero! I'm so sorry; I thought you were Li!" Sakura gasped as she picked him up from the floor and settled him on her night table. Kero made a strange sound and dropped towards the left side of the brown wooden desk.

"Yeah, just confuse me with the Chinese brat," Kero mumbled. "Speaking of the kid, shouldn't you be at school by now? Homeroom's starting in like, 10 minutes."

Sakura glanced at the clock and her eyes got wide. "HOE!!!! I'm late! Kero, why didn't you wake me up?"

Kero sighed as his mistress ran around her room like a maniac trying to gather her stuff. She dashed into the bathroom and was immediately out. Putting her school uniform at the speed of light, Sakura mumbled something under her breath as she shoved her books into her black leather bag. "A great way to start off Valentine's Day. Not to mention a Friday, for any matter."

"Bye, Kero! Don't eat up all the sweets!" Sakura called out.

"So, the Squirt finally decided to grace us with her presence," Tori Avalon smirked as his younger sister charged downstairs.

Sakura shot her brother a look, stomped his feet and smiled sweetly at Julian, Tori's best friend before rushing through the door, not bothering with breakfast.

Tori hopped up and down on one foot while Julian laughed good----naturally. "You know, Tori, the reason she stomps you might be because you called her a Squirt. Today's Valentine's Day and there's some kind of dance tonight at Tomeda High. Sakura was telling me that she had wanted someone to ask her."

Tori's eyes nearly popped out. "Whose?"

Julian shrugged. "Sorry, Tori. I promised your sister that I wouldn't tell you."

Tori's eyes became suspicious. "I bet it's that Chinese brat, isn't it? Last time he came here, Sakura was looking at him a lot longer than she should."

~~~~~~~~~~~*******~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Meanwhile, Sakura fumbled around with her roller blades as she tried to skate as fast as she could before the homeroom bell rings. "Please don't ring, please don't ring. Ugh! I should've never slept in." she chided herself as Sakura dashed into her homeroom just in time for the bell.

Madison, who sat behind her, smiled. "Made it, huh?"

"No kidding," Sakura mumbled as she took her skates off and faced the teacher.

The girls' homeroom teacher finished doing whatever she was doing on the computer and faced the class. "Good morning, students,"

"Good morning, Ms. Andover," Sakura's homeroom class responded automatically.

The door opened and a girl maybe in the sophomore or junior class stepped in carrying a bunch of flowers. She was dressed in her daily neatly pressed uniform. "Good morning, Ms. Andover. I have some deliveries since today is Valentine's Day," the girl said stiffly.

The older woman glanced at the girl behind her red-rimmed glasses. "Ah, I see. Well, Ms. Parker, would you please call out the names of the people receiving these lovely carnations?"

The girl shrugged and looked at the names of the cards beside each bouquet of flowers. "Umm . . . . Eleanor Jackson, Frances Kyner, Sakura Avalon, Hallie Whitman, Joymei Zhang, Larry T, Madison Taylor and Maria Inslova. "

Sakura couldn't help but grin as she made her way up to the front of the room along with some other girls whose names were called out. 'I wonder who sent me the flowers. Hopefully, Li.' She smiled slightly at the girl as the junior or sophomore handed her the bouquet.

Eagerly, Sakura glanced at the card attached to the flowers. All it said was Sakura's name and homeroom. In a rather disappointed way, the emerald- eyed girl looked at the back of the card. It was in neat handwriting and Sakura immediately read the note:

Dear Sakura,
Happy Valentine's Day! I was wondering, if maybe you could go to the
dance with me tonight? Let me know and if you can't make it, that's okay. I won't mind.
Li Showron

'Yes! Of course I will!' was the first thought that came to her mind.

Madison leaned towards her. "So Sakura, was it from your handsome soccer player?" Madison asked with a teasing tone to her voice.

Sakura turned around to look at her best friend. "Yep! What about you? Was yours from Eli?"

Madison nodded happily. "Yep. And he asked me to the dance." She sighed dreamily as she leaned back into her desk. "Wasn't that such a sweet way to ask me? I wonder what I should wear? Hey, did Li asked you to the dance?"

Sakura nodded as she watched her friend who looked a bit . . . . . love struck. Laughing Sakura shook her head a bit before turning back to seat just as the bell rang, signaling the students to go to first period. 'This day is definitely off to a good start.'

~~~~~~~~~~*****~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Dude, you think Sakura and Madison got the flowers?" Eli Moon mumbled to his friend, Li Showron as he followed his descendant and friend to first period class.

"I hope so," Li replied nervously. He ran a finger through his brown hair as he took a seat next to Eli in the back row. He couldn't help but smirk as he watched his normally confident forefather turn red. All over a girl too. But Li could understand how he feels because he also had a huge crush on a girl. A different girl. 'And to remember all those times Eli flirted with Sakura too. Just to get me jealous.'

"Think they would say yes?" Eli asked as he got out his books.

"I hope so," Li repeated.

"What if they don't?" Eli said.

Li shrugged as some girls tried to get his attention. "I don't know."

"What if they laugh in our face for doing such a stupid thing?"

Li's face turned bright purple as he pictured Sakura laughing at him and then threw the bouquet of flowers into his face wondering why he would ask such an idiotic thing. "Oh man. We should've never sent those flowers. At the very least, we should've asked them to their face."

Eli fidgeted uneasily in his seat. "Or at the very least, only one of us should've sent the flowers. That way, if one of us gets humiliated, then the other would be spared of the pain."

Li glared at the blue-haired boy besides him. "Hey, dude, remember it was all for one or one for all."

Eli shrugged. "I guess,"

"Say, Eli, tell me the truth. Do you think Sakura likes me?" Li asked slumped down in his seat waiting to hear his friend say he finally lost it for asking such a dumb question.

Instead, Eli just shrugged again. "I bet she did. You know, my cute little descendant, have you realized that even though she's one of the most sought- after girl in our school, Sakura still doesn't have a boyfriend?"

Li shot Eli a dark look at mentioning the nickname Eli gave him a while ago. It was right around the time when he had finally stopped flirting with Sakura and Li was able to accept the guy as a friend. "Yeah, so?"

"She's waiting for a certain someone," Eli replied in a singsong voice.

Li sweatdropped at hearing his friend talk like such a goof. "You think?"

Eli's cheeks turned red. Li faced the guy, wondering what brought this on. Eli Moon, the cocky, co-captain of the soccer team not to mention a big hit with ladies, never blushes in his entire life. But then, he smirked. Even though Eli denied it many times, he had a huge crush on Madison Taylor, who ironically enough, was Sakura's best friend.

"Hey, do you think Madison likes me?" Eli asked.

Li shrugged again. "I think so. Let's just hope that at lunchtime Sakura and Madison isn't going to throw the flowers at our faces."

"No kidding," the blue-haired boy mumbled.

Author's Note: Okay, so I won't have a one-chapter story. But hey, no worries. I SWEAR that I will post the second chapter by tomorrow (today is Friday the 13th) or the day after, and I also promise that there will be NO delays.

In the meantime, how about checking my other story, I'll Never Love Again . . . . I'm working on the 6th chapter but there's barely anything in it yet. I've been busy working on this story and yes, it has taken me a while to make the story go this way because I've came up with many possibilities of making Li and Eli confess their love. And also, about my other story, I'm kind of editing the first 5 chapters because it seems a bit unrealistic that Syaoran could be falling for her after one day.

Okay, enough blabbing. I promise that I will post the next chapter up VERY soon. Please read and review!! Flames welcome!!! And also, Happy Pre- Valentine's Day!!

aquatmarine