Hey! Thanks for all the reviews!! And thanks heaps to my beta-reader: VanillaMoose4132. I don't have time to go through all of you one by one, so, I'll just answer some of the questions a few people asked.

1) Why would Syaoran abandon her? She thinks he would abandon her, just because she used to people not liking her and stuff and its kind of like an excuse for her not to tell him, because she afraid of what Robert will do, if he found out she told someone.

2) Where is Tomoyo? Well, as you can see, Tomoyo's not in this story....yet.

Well on with the story!

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It was morning and Sakura was late for school. Actually she was half an hour late. Robert didn't have work today, meaning she had to take extra time to try and avoid him. She had just gotten to the door when she heard Robert's voice utter drunkenly, "And just where do you think you're going?" Sakura turned around slowly and cautiously and came face to face with an angry Robert. "Uh-uh, t-to sch-, er, school...?" she stuttered. This seemed to make Robert glare harder at her, making Sakura scared and confused, 'why is he angry?' she thought worriedly. "YOU'RE HALF AN HOUR LATE!? WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT THE SCHOOL WILL LET A GOOD FOR NOTHING BRAT LIKE YOURSELF, INTO SCHOOL WHEN YOU'RE HALF AN HOUR LATE!?" he shouted in face, letting Sakura smell the revolting smell of alcohol mixed with his breath. "Um..I-I'll just g-get a late p-pass." she said nervously. "YOU F**KING LITTLE SH*T! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU NOT TO ANSWER ME BACK!" Sakura's eyes grew wide as she saw him bring his arm forward and grab her, picking her up ruefully, and throwing her across the room. She went straight into the door, and her eye hit the doorhandle. She knew better than to cry out, no matter how much she wanted to. Over the years she had learnt to never stand up and play knocked out. She lay still, with low sleepily like breaths. She heard his footsteps coming towards her, and panicked on the inside, but on the outside, she looked like she was asleep. He picked her up by her jumper, and held her close to the ground. Seeing her lie in his arms all lifeless satisfied him, he grunted in pleasure and pushed back on the ground. Suddenly Sakura heard another set of footsteps come into the room. 'Oh no! Mum!' she thought panic-stricken. Roberts's footsteps walked away from her, and she heard her mother scream. She knew what would happen to her mother, so she did her best to block it all out.

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It was later in the morning, and Robert had just left the house. Sakura lay where she had last been thrown on the ground, next the door. Her mother was somewhere in the room, where she was, Sakura didn't know. After about 5 minutes after Robert had left, Sakura snapped open her eyes and searched the room looking for her mother. She was no where in sight. Sakura got up and explored the room, looking for her mother. Eventually she found her behind the couch, unconscious. Sakura, carefully, tried picking her mother up, after discovering that she was too heavy, she decided to drag her to the front of the couch and put her on it. After she had successfully done this. She went to the medicine cupboard and grabbed a whole bunch of medicine, she hoped would help her mother's bruises and cuts. Sakura sighed, she hated seeing her mother like this. After clearing up all her mother's cuts and bruises a though suddenly struck her! They could run away! Well, after her mother had woken up. But Robert had left, leaving Sakura, Katie and their mother alone. Finally, they would have a chance to escape! Excited, Sakura ran to her room to get Katie. She pulled open the door and went to the small cot. She went down and pulled away the covers. But wait a second, where was Katie? Sakura felt a sinking feeling in her stomach. Robert had taken Katie, they couldn't escape. How was it, a stupid, non-graduated, drunken man always seemed to be one step ahead of her, the A-grade student? Sakura sighed, and looked into the mirror. The left eye, the one that had been shoved into the doorhandle, was how bruised and as black as ever. She went to her bed and lay down and fell into a deep sleep. No way was she going to school with this black eye.

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It was 3:15 and Sakura and her mother were cleaning the house. Sakura had woken up at 2 to find her mother awake and confused. Sakura had explained to her what had happened. And together they cried about it until no more tears came. After another long discussion, they decided to clean the house, to cover all signs of beating and abuse. Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Sakura and Nadeshiko both looked at each other with frightened faces. "I'll get it." Sakura volunteered. "Are you sure?" "Yes mum, I don't want Robert beating you again." And with that Sakura went to the door. Forcing her self to put her hand on the handle, she wrenched it open, only to find Syaoran, standing there, looking at her with his mouth wide open.

"Wh-what happened to you?" he said, trying to get over his shock. "Um...I walked into the door, when my step-dad was opening it and fell unconscious...when I woke up, it was 2 so there was no point going to school." she lied. Syaoran looked at her, studying her, as if to try and determine if she was telling the truth, seeing no sign of lies in her eyes, after all it was kind of the truth...in a way...he continued. "Okay, well I just came over to drop over you're homework, oh, I hope you don't mind, I looked up your address." Sakura, alarmed that he now knew where she lived, played it calm on the outside. "Oh no, it's fine. It's just me and my mum home." "You mean, your step-dad didn't stay home to look after you?" Sakura shook her head, "No! He's uh...just gone out to...the shopping mall to get....food." Of course, at this sentence Syaoran didn't believe her. "Oh..k...well, I better be going, um, look after yourself I guess, you coming to school tomorrow?" Sakura looked thoughtful, but seeing her step-father's car coming up the street, nodded and said she was, quickly saying goodbye she shut the door, leaving a confused Syaoran on the porch. "Okay...something's not right....and I'm going to do anything to find out what it is." With this, he turned around and went back onto the street, just in time too, Sakura's step-dad had just pulled into the driveway, he would never know someone had seen Sakura.

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Well, that's all for now, please review! I've almost finished my 4th chapter, so that should be up by tomorrow, but I have to go out now, so see you later! R+R. Luv ya!