All in the Game of Love

YoX! Me back! Hehe… Just got time from rushing homework again and yay! My belated holiday homework is ALMOST done! Just a bit more… *pushes myself to work harder* Anyway, here's the 2nd chapter like I promised! Thank you for your reviews like always and I do hope you'll stay tune with All in the Game of Love!

As always

Mysterio000

p.s. the almighty one!

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Eriol looked up from his homework once again, his eyes narrowing at the clock before he let out another sigh. 3:55pm. And he still wasn't done with his Geography work. He flung the pen down with annoyance. Damn, was he going to take a long time with this.

"Need help?" Tomoyo echoed from behind, eyeing the blue-eyed boy.

Eriol rolled his eyes, "Go finished up your Math instead." He bent down to pick up his pen and continued working on his Geography with a heavy heart.

"It's already done." Tomoyo said with the same impish grin.

Eriol turned around, silently amused as he eyed Tomoyo's desk behind where the table was already cleared of homework. It was left with nothing but…a sketchbook??? Eriol shrugged. He wasn't about to get curious about what she was doing, anyway.

"So just get home." Eriol muttered, turning back to his Geography.

"But Eriol, you're supposed to walk me home!" Tomoyo whined good-naturedly.

"Forget it. I can't finish these up." Eriol blew a puff of warm air onto his Geography papers. He was feeling frustrated, annoyed, fed-up…EVERYTHING!

"Need help?" Tomoyo voiced again.

"I SAID 'NO'!" Eriol spat out, only to realize she was right before him, pulling a chair to his desk.

"Alright, alright. Chill, yeah? I'm not exactly a heartless freak, you know." Tomoyo teased, gathering the Geography papers that Eriol has harshly thrown onto the ground.

"So you can't exactly say I'm a bad girlfriend, too." She browsed through the sheets of Geography before giggling, "Eriol, these are just countries with facts that are easy to remember."

"Yeah, right. Try 'hard'." Eriol vigorously worked on his current sheet of paper.

"Well, for one thing, Colorado is in the United States and not…" Tomoyo paused, amused at the answer Eriol gave before she burst out laughing, "Colorado can't possibly be in New Zealand!" Before she could babble on, Eriol snatched the paper back from her.

"Fine, so I was wrong. What's the big deal, anyway? It's just failing a Geography paper. I don't care." Eriol corrected the mistake that Tomoyo had instructed him.

"Aw, come on. You can't fail Geography! They'll put you in a bad class next year and I can't see you anymore!" Tomoyo tried a sour face before bursting into giggles.

"Please." Eriol mumbled, hating the way she was so damn cheerful no matter what.

"Alright, alright. Hey, I'll show you something to cheer you up, alright?" Tomoyo stood up, rushing back to her desk before Eriol could give a 'no'.

Tomoyo grinned down at her 'masterpiece' as she held it up with a hearty smile pasted on her face before rushing back to Eriol's side, "Look! Isn't he cute?"

Eriol looked up.

Silence.

It was not long before his eyes rounded in amusement and surprise.

She giggled, tearing out the 'masterpiece' from her sketchbook before placing it down on Eriol's desk, "Here, I'll give it to you then so you can paste it on your bed wall or something."

He shrugged as he continued staring at the work piece.

She was a good drawer definitely.

"Well, so you feeling better now?" Tomoyo asked, settling down on her chair beside him again.

"…Not much." Eriol muttered, finally able to take his eyes off the work piece, putting it under his desk before trying to concentrate on his Geography paper once again.

"Well, it might be illegal to do that but I wouldn't mind finishing the rest of your Geography papers for you." Tomoyo's eyes twinkled teasingly.

"…Why the sudden kindness? So as to chase me out of the classroom?" Eriol narrowed his eyes at Tomoyo who threw up her hands with an I'm-innocent look, "Eriol! How could you say that!"

He flung his pen down once more. His brain was getting more tired every second. It wouldn't be any…harmful, would it?

"…I guess." He finally let out an almost inaudible mumble.

Silence.

Tomoyo looked up with lit eyes, "You said it." She picked up the remaining Geography papers with questions printed everywhere before settling herself on the next desk beside Eriol, beginning to work on it.

"Well…You can rest if you want. I'll finish them up, too." Tomoyo said, leaning towards Eriol and taking the papers on his desk to her side.

"…Stop acting kind." Eriol wearily said.

"I'm not. You're being too sensitive." Tomoyo said as she breezed through the papers. Eriol sighed, giving in to exhaustion as he laid his head on the table, eyes closing into darkness.

"I'll wake you up once I finish everything, alright?" Tomoyo glanced at Eriol before having an amused smile planted on her lips as she turned back to her papers.

There was no answer. The cool-headed Eriol Hiiragizawa has already fallen asleep.

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He let out a sigh before looking up…and around.

Dammit…I'm still in the classroom?

For a moment, he thought had spent the night in the school when he realized something wasn't too right. He looked at the clock.

5:15pm.

WHAT!?

He turned back, only to see Tomoyo back at her desk with another hip-hop magazine in her hands as she hummed a song from her lips.

"…I see you're finally awake." She said, not taking her eyes off the magazine.

"You didn't wake me." Eriol stood up, packing his completed Geography papers full of her handwriting. He could tell she was a rather…professional in imitating handwriting. It looked like his for a moment.

"You didn't ask me to." Tomoyo said calmly before looking up with an unexplainable twinkle in her eyes, "But you looked cute anyway, dozing away in your dreamland."

"Whatever." Eriol rolled his eyes as he lifted his backpack onto his shoulders.

"You going already?" She asked, putting aside her magazine.

"Like 'duh'." He was about to take another step when she rushed beside him.

"Well, wait! You're suppose to walk me back! And you can't make me wait for 2 hours just like that!" Tomoyo protested, standing before him to block his way.

"I did not say that." Eriol said, trying to make a beeline for the door.

"Oh no, you don't." Tomoyo stuck out her tongue as she blocked the entrance, "You said to walk me for 500m! And imagine what would people say if they see me walking home alone? They'll think we broke the rules. You wouldn't want to go out with Naoko, do you?"

That got him there.

He let out a really annoyed puff of air, "Fine. You win."

"Alright!" Tomoyo cheered, quickly rushing to Eriol's desk and grabbing her 'masterpiece'.

"You forgot this." She gave her famous impish smile as she held it out to Eriol who hesitantly snatched it away, "Fine."

"And another one!" Tomoyo held out a second sketch paper to Eriol who looked down at it with the same silent amused pair of eyes.

"…Alright." Eriol sighed as he took the two sketch paper and stuff it in his backpack.

"Now that's a good boyfriend." Tomoyo teased playfully, which she knew would bring the annoyed side of Eriol arising almost immediately. Before he could retort back or anything, Tomoyo rushed for the stairs.

"Race you to the school gate!" She challenged as she ran down the steps.

Eriol grimaced inwardly, slowly making his way down.

"Childish!" He hollered after.

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"Eriol! You didn't tell me you got a new girlfriend!"

"Man, she's a hot chick, you know!"

"Maybe you will allow me to date her someday?"

Sentences after sentences…and more to come. Eriol began to grow frustrated as he make his way out of the school gate with Tomoyo sighing beside him.

"Come on, Eriol! Why are you so mad? They're just trying to…mock you?" Tomoyo tried but got shot down instead.

"Right! And it's all because of you!" He snapped. Tomoyo crossed her arms as she ran after Eriol who was walking at an increasing speed across the road, "But you should consider it an honor to walk beside me!"

"Try 'disgrace'!" Eriol spat again.

"Eriol!" Tomoyo tried to slow him down. It didn't work so she just had to pull his arm.

"Let go, dammit." Eriol hissed.

"Not until you slow down!" Tomoyo continued dragging him back to slow him down. Eriol let out a huge puff of breath before stopping his tracks, causing Tomoyo to let go.

"Relax, will you? Don't get so worked up for nothing." Tomoyo said, shooting him a oh-so-sweet smile.

"For nothing!? For--" Before he could retort back, Tomoyo dragged him across the road before the cars went mad honking the two.

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"Here, I'll pay for your peppermint ice cream, alright? So stop shooting harsh words at me!" Tomoyo handed him his ice cream cone as he hesitantly accepted it.

"…I don't like peppermint." He lied through gritted teeth. He denied it but he really loved peppermint!

"Rubbish. Don't expect me to believe that." Tomoyo said as she gave Eriol a slight push to exit out of the ice cream shop.

"…What do you know?" He tried a firm question, making it sound like he wasn't much interested in her answer. The truth was, he wanted to know how she knew.

"Oh yes, I do know quite a lot. I do know you snacked on peppermint ice cream every now and then whenever you have the chance to. I'm not exactly a dimwit, you know!" Tomoyo giggled as the both of them continued their way to her place.

"Where do you live?" Eriol asked, giving in to temptation and started to enjoy the cone in his hand.

"Somewhere further down. About the distance of two bus stations." Tomoyo answered, enjoying her strawberry cone as well, "You?"

"I don't live too near." Eriol replied.

"I heard you have a big mansion?" Tomoyo questioned, eyes arousing with curiosity.

"Well…kinda." Eriol hated that topic. He didn't like anybody talking about his background. He hated it when people asked him of his family and his past.

The truth was, he didn't have any parents. Of course, he did. But they never cared about him as much as they cared about their career.They were always in another country working for years and years but that didn't matter. He never liked them to begin with and so he never regarded them as his parents.

"Alright…" Fortunately for Eriol, she stopped the topic there.

And so the conversation went on, from how Physics wasn't very nice, how they didn't like Yamazaki's lame jokes, how the teachers were always so…bitchy, how they wished to get back at Syaoran one day… Of course they got into arguments every now and then but of course that was…pretty normal.

So in the end, they arrived at Tomoyo's doorstep before they knew they had exceeded more than 500 metres of walking with each other.

"Alrighty, Eriol! Thanks for walking me home. I'll see you again, cute boyfriend of mine!" Tomoyo waved.

"Yeah…See you." Eriol muttered but not before adding an, "Ugly girlfriend of mine…"

He turned around to see Tomoyo pouting.

"CHILDISH!"

She stuck out her tongue playfully before disappearing into her house.

Eriol raised an eyebrow as he stuck his hands in his pockets.

So…

Fine.

He folded his arms, shrugging.

Whatever.

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END OF CHAPPIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO CUTE! I love them!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Btw, if you're still wondering what the two 'masterpieces' are about, check out the next chapter, yea!!!!! Hehehehe… Whoops, I guess I'm no good at cliffies now 'coz for these two chapters, they ain't no cliffhangers but I just hope you guys will HANG ON!!!

As always

Mysterio000

p.s. the almighty one!