Hi all! I have decided to let Sakura and Syaoran meet today. Wuuut. Haha, this might be pretty interesting.
Random fact of today: My cell phone went off during my English final exam. That was SCARY.
Alright guys, I'm on my hands and knees, please please please review. I'll be your best friend if you do. ;')
Disclaimer: CCs now belongs to that crap company CLAMP.
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Sakura and Mei Lin wandered around the streets of Tokyo. Sakura was pointing left and right at interesting little sites as Mei Lin looked on in interest. At around 4:40, the two friends stumbled upon Sakura's favorite little coffee shop, and she just had to let Mei Lin try something.
"I have gone here ever since my first year of high school, and haven't stopped coming here since. Oh yuum," Sakura praised, "the mixed chocolate in the.. mMmm, its so delicious. You just have to try," she said, draggin her to the counter.
"Hello Sakura-chan!" a kind old man said from behind the counter. "I haven't seen you here in a while."
"Konnichiwa Sijie-san! Sorry, I've been buried in school work," Sakura laughed. "Oh yes, this is my new friend Li Mei Lin," she said, grabbing Mei Lin by the arm "she just transferred here from Hong Kong!"
"Oh oh! Ni hoa ma Li Mei Lin!" the old man said with a gleeful smile.
Mei Lin laughed at the cute old man. "I'm fine, thanks. Pleased to meet you."
"And you me," he said, shaking her hand with much enthusiasm. "So what will it be girls?"
The girls made there orders and found a table to wait.
"Ahh, Sakura, I'm going to use the restroom."
"Alright Mei Lin, I'll get your drink for you while you're out. Do you want me to show you where it is?"
"No thanks, I think I can fint it.." A minute after the Chinese lady left, she came back with a sheepish grin. "Uhh..hehe, Sakura? Where's the bathrooms?"
Sakura sweatdropped. "Go straight down and it's to the left."
"Arigato!"
Sakura sat near the window, watching the interesting bustle of Tokyo street life. "Sakura! Your drinks are ready!" Sijie yelled from the counter.
Standing up from her table, Sakura made her way to the front of the store for the drink. She failed to notice the young business man walking towards her, talking on a cell.
"HEY! Watch where you're going!" the man barked as his hot drink sloshed around his cup.
"I'm sorry-" she began.
"Just be quiet and get out of my way; you're wasting my time."
"Excuse me?! You should have been watching where you were going," Sakura scowled.
"I was watching where I was going," the chocolate haired young man growled, his eyes boring into hers, "but you cut me off, you little pain in the as-."
"OH, of all the arrogant, hot headed, immature jerks, I think you just about take the cake!" Sakura cried, folding her arms and staring directly into brown eyes. 'Can you believe the nerve of this guy!' Sakura thought.
The two were in the middle of the coffee shop, glaring at each other, daring each other to look away. Neither looked as if they would be giving up anytime soon, and the customers looked on, sweatdropping. Then the young man's cell phone rang, and he was the first to break eye contact.
Seeing this, Sakura did a little victory dance in her mind. 'I win, I win! What a bastard this man is!'
The man barked into the phone, in a language that. to Sakura, sounded like Chinese. He sent one last annoyed glare at Sakura and walked out of the café. Shrugging, a triumphant Sakura went to the counter to get her drinks, Sijie winked at her when she did.
Mei Lin finally found her way back from the bathroom, and sat beside Sakura, who was sipping her drink idly. "Back!" she chirped, grabbing her drink.
"Man Mei Lin, I just got yelled at by some Chinese man in a business suit" Sakura whined, swirling her straw around with a grin.
"Really now? How come?" Mei Lin asked, drinking the delicious iced caramel latte up slowly. "Mmm, you're right..these drinks are absolutely heavenly!"
"Well, he was on his cell, and he almost ran into me and then he got all mad! He was such a arrogant jerk! And he was about to call me a pain the ass too!"
Mei Lin laughed at her friend's predicament. 'What a character this Sakura is,' she chuckled in her mind. Just then, her phone rang.
"Moshi moshi" Mei Lin answered, then she switched to Chinese.
Sakura sat there, drinking her cool beverage and listening to the musical language she did no quite understanding. She laughed as Mei Lin rolled her eyes, wondering who her new friend was talking to. She could here a man yelling on the other end of the phone.
"Wait, did you say green eyes?" Mei Lin said in Japanese, looking at Sakura with a strange facial expression. Sakura began to squirm under Mei Lin's piercing gaze; Mei Ling seemed to be scrutinizing her. "6:30, you said?" Mei Lin said, again in Japanese. She continued her conversation in Chinese until she was through. When she hung up, a mischievous smile adorned her face along with an equally mischievous glint in her eyes
"Uh oh," Sakura gulped. "I know I've only known you for about two days, but I'm pretty sure I know what that face means."
"Oh really?" Mei Lin asked, amused.
"Yah, I believe it means: run and hide while you still can."
Mei Lin just smiled sweetly and leaned back in her chair, focusing her full attention on her cold coffee drink. Sakura took a wary sip, not taking her eyes off of her new Chinese friend.
"Do you have a job?" Mei Lin asked from out of the blue.
"Yeah I do, but the salary sucks major butt though. I work over at the music store down the street as a cashier. Just barely over minimum wage." Sakura said, making a face.
Mei Lin nodded and smiled wider. "Well," she drawled. "how would you like to be paid 1000 week. That's a 5 hour day at 53 dollars an hour, 5 days a week?"
Sakura couldn't believe her ears. "Nani?!" she squeaked. '1000 bucks a week?!' she thought to herself, 'that would be enough to put the O out of business!'
"Well, you see," Mei Lin began," you know my family business? Well, one of the models dropped out, and we need a replacement to fill in the 'green eye' category. I figured, you have green eyes, you're beautiful, why not?" [a/n: I'm pretty sure that models aren't categorized by eyes, but HEY, its my fanfic, so what I say, goes. =') I hope you don't mind.]
Sakura was speechless. "Me?! A model?!" Sakura laughed. "You really think I can pull that off?" she scoffed. "Beside, I'm too short! I have never in my whole life known of a 5'2 model!"
"No no, we can pull it off! That's what heals are for!"
"I'd break my ankles in heels higher than two inches."
"We'll train you."
"I'm a slow learner."
"Nevermind that. You're beautiful!"
"I'm not photogenic"
"You have a fit body"
"Or so you think"
And the list went on, Mei Lin coming up with new reason and Sakura throwing back equal comebacks.
"Hah! I have school! I need my education!"
For that one, Mei Lin seemed like she didn't have an answer to that. Sakura was beginning to relax. 'Hah, she of all people should know how important it is to get a full education.'
"Well," Mei Lin began carefully, "your classes aren't continuous," Mei Lin said, "and you have the weekends! So you can come by whenever!"
"But that would be too much of hassle. I would be as if I'm planning my schoolwork around this job."
Just then, something clicked in Mei Lin's mind. "Duh. Stupid me! You can do the calendar portion. All you need to do is show up to photo shoots, and from there, if you decide you like it, you can consider bumping up to higher positions. C'mon, please Sak-chan? I won't take 'no' for an answer."
"I find it hard to believe that your boss would appreciate a barely dedicated model. I mean, I have to put my education before this, and me showing up spontaneously at odd hours of the day would definitely cause some problem. I don't think it would be fair to the other devoted models."
Mei Lin waved her arm, as if to shoo away the notion. "Hey, my cousin's the boss, and I'm his favorite cousin. He can't say no to me. I'm like hi cute irresistible and absolutely adorable little sister. Don't worry about that stuff. I'm sure he'd love you, and plus, he's desperate. Deadline's at 6:30 tonight." She finished with a smile.
Sakura looked skeptic. "You sound awfully sure of yourself about your cousin being so 'understanding' over this situation," she stated.
"Desperate time call for desperate measures," Mei Lin said with a smile. 'I got her in the bag..she can't say no to this!' she thought gleefully.
Sakura let out a fake indignant gasp. "Are you calling me desperate?"
Mei Lin laughed. "Well, I did see that 'Singles Ad' you put out in the newspaper this morning.." she joked.
The Japanese girl chuckled. "And I'm assuming that you're the 'tall dark and handsome man' who so earnestly replied."
"Oh, you know it!" Mei Lin laughed. "So, Kinomoto, my new very best friend in the whole wide world named Sakura, are you in? Will you please help the poor yet beautiful young Chinese lady in front of you?" she inquired, putting on the goofiest looking puppy-dog face Sakura had ever seen.
With a unwilling sigh, Sakura answered. "I suppose," she said, causing Mei Lin to squeal in joy, "but I hardly believe that you are poor, nor are you beautiful," she finished with an innocent smile.
Mei Lin sent her a playful glare, but then beamed greatly. "Oh, thank you so much Sakura! I promise you will enjoy this! Oh, this will be so much fun! I get to dress you up! There's so much to do! Let's see, we need to buy you a dress, get your hair done, get your nails done, OH, and shoes! I can't forget the shoes .."
Sakura listened in disbelief at her new friend. 'Kami-sama, what have I gotten myself into?!'
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Hey! Sorry for the super late update. Okay, fine. It's a little but more than late. Heh..'Just Smile' is still in the works. I'm kinda stuck on what I should do, and I was looking over my previous chapters in that story and I wanted to beat myself over all the unnecessary typos in the. Gomen minna. -_- I was considering just going over that story, fixing the typos, and maybe [If you guys don't mind] take out a few parts. Yaaah I know..im such a lazy butt. Well, review if you wish. I really hope you enjoyed this little chapter thing. My apologies if it wasn't what you expected..im still working on it. I know nothing really happened, but I promise next chapter will have some actually dialogue between my two favorite characters. =')