Summary: Kinomoto Sakura has liked her best friend, Li Syaoran, since the fourth grade but she's never been able to tell him, since he's always been Mr. Popular, and her, not being as high of a status as him. But when Syaoran makes a bet to go out with Sakura for a month… will things change? And what happens when/if Sakura finds out?
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By: SweetBabyGurl
From The Last Chapter:
"I want to be with her," Syaoran murmured with that same lingering smile. Finally being able to sort out his thoughts, he slowly walked back home, intent on ending this tomorrow.
-- My Last Breath --
Chapter 8
"He wasn't there Tomoyo. I'm such an idiot; I just blew up at him and didn't even listen to a word he had to say. This is my entire fault," Sakura cried as she held her head in her hands, not knowing what to do.
"But he didn't say that you were to meet up with him. Just that he was waiting… so maybe he meant for you to call him?" Tomoyo suggested, not being able to stand seeing Sakura cry… no matter how much she wanted to see Syaoran suffer for what he was doing to Sakura.
"Maybe you're right," Sakura said a little hopeful as she reached for her pink phone, only to find Tomoyo standing up.
"I'll leave you alone then. I'll call you later Sakura," she said to her friend, gathering her things.
"Thanks Tomoyo. Bye," she said to her friend with a sad smile.
"Bye Sakura," Tomoyo said to her friend as she left the door slightly ajar. Sakura stared at the cordless phone in her hands, wondering if this was the best thing to do, biting her lower lip.
"Come on Sakura, get a grip. You've known him forever," Sakura muttered to herself as she dialed the first few digits to his cell phone. She hesitated for a moment before shaking her head and became confident at dialing the rest of the numbers and actually talking to him. Well that is until it started to ring. The moment she heard the phone began to ring towards the other line; she quickly hung it up, her heart racing. "What if he doesn't want to talk to me?" Sakura mumbled aloud as she played with the phone in her hands.
"And why wouldn't I want to talk to you?" A voice said to her from behind. Sakura whipped around recognizing the male voice. There stood Eriol in her doorway as she ran up to greet him with a hug.
"Hey Eriol. And it wasn't you I was talking about," Sakura said to him with a sigh.
"Syaoran?" He guessed as he sat next to hear, their backs leaning onto the mattress of the bed.
"Yeah. But this time, it's my entire fault," Sakura said softly as she titled her head back.
"How so?" Eriol asked, even though he really already knew what happened.
"Well… this is what happened," Sakura began as she told him what happened that day from her point of view. By the time she was finished her story, Eriol looked at her with a small smile.
"Well since he has been acting stupid, you should confront him about that. But you should also apologize for blowing up at him like that," Eriol said thoughtfully, giving his own opinion. 'Should I tell her?'
"Thanks Eriol. You're right. I think I'll call him right now," Sakura said to him as she picked up the phone once more, beginning to dial his number.
"I don't think that will be necessary," Eriol said to her with a true smile this time as he put his hand over hers, to stop her from calling.
"Hoe?" Asked the confused Sakura. It was then she heard another more masculine toned voice clear their throat, as Sakura froze. She slowly turned her head to the doorway, where this time, it held the one and only Syaoran.
"I'll leave you two alone. We'll talk tomorrow morning," Eriol whispered to Sakura as he took his jacket that he held in his hands and left.
"So um… can I come in?" Syaoran asked after a few moments of silence. He saw Sakura nod slightly as he took Eriol's place.
"I'm sorry. I should have listened to you," Sakura mumbled, still not looking at him. This made Syaoran smile softly; he then softly took her chin with two of his fingers on one side, forcing her to look at him.
"Don't be. I'm sorry about not being able to be there to catch you when you fell like I promised from when we were little," Syaoran whispered to her softly, leaning his forehead unto hers as he intertwined his fingers with her own.
"I remember that day. I was running and I almost fell but you caught me. You promised to always catch me when I fall," Sakura smiled at the memory as she leaned her head on his shoulder. But, she quickly sat up shaking her head, the worry once more evident in her eyes. "But I overreacted and—" Sakura began, looking back down, but was cut off when Syaoran kissed her soundly on the lips.
"You didn't. If I saw any guy touching your arm like I was doing to her, he wouldn't be alive right now. So I'm sorry for being such an idiot," Syaoran mumbled before kissing her again.
"Don't worry about it," was all Sakura could say now and then as Syaoran kept on kissing her. That is until…
"YOU CHINESE GAKI! I KNEW I HAD TO WORRY ABOUT YOU!! GET OFF OF MY KAIJUU!!!" A very familiar, and a very pissed off voice yelled from behind them.
"Oh shit," Syaoran mumbled as he pulled away from Sakura, only to come back once more to give her a quick kiss before he ran past Touya and down the stairs, leaving from the front door.
"I still don't understand how he's able to do that to you every time he gets you mad," Sakura sighed as she walked over to her door, pushed Touya out of the frame and shut it, while a confused Touya stood where he was, trying to figure out what just happened. A few moments later, some loud curses were heard followed by heavy footsteps that just made Sakura laugh merrily.
[.The Next Day.]
"Now class, please get into your pairs so you can have your assignments. You should have all of the math about budgets and such ready to be handed in," the sensei said to his class, addressing their project that had been assigned nearly a month ago. Sakura and Syaoran quickly looked at each other. With all that had been happening lately, the two had completely forgotten about the marriage project. Sure, Sakura and Syaoran worked on it a little bit, but it was still far from done. "Please go with your partner and pull out the budget sheets. I've given you much more time than I had expected, and so they should be done."
Slowly, the class made their way over to their partners, all trying to get them done. For without any reminder, the rest of the class had also forgotten about the assignment. Thankfully for Sakura and Syaoran, Syaoran was a genius in math and had it done in no time.
"Very well done Mr. Li, Miss Kinomoto," the sensei said to them as he looked over their work. "Here is your electronic baby and these are the switches so you know what to do for it when she will cry," their sensei told them once more before moving onto another pair of students who were still trying to get the work done.
"So we have a baby girl then?" Sakura inquired as she picked up the "baby".
"I guess so. I mean he did say "she", didn't he?" Syaoran asked looking at the plastic doll. He poked the arm, and Sakura hit his making him rub it, acting as if it hurt. "That hurts you know Saku."
"Right," Sakura said sarcastically as she rolled her eyes smiling. "Hold it, I need to go talk to Tomoyo," Sakura said to him as she smiled deviously. She handed him the doll, but not before turning it on, making it burst out with crying noises.
"Sakura! Make it stop!" Syaoran said to her, holding the baby out, one eye shut.
"Turn the dial thing!" Tomoyo instructed showing hers. Syaoran winced as he brought the baby closer and turned the dial as the noise stopped, making the baby giggle before going silent again.
"And that class, is what you're going to have to put up with until next Wednesday," the sensei said to them with a smirk. The rest of the students turned on their projects, making all of them wince, as the guys first tried to turn it off without help, only to have the girls grab it from them, turn the dial and hand it back.
"Well Syaoran, looks like you're the only guy in here that knows how to do that," Sakura said laughing as she placed a kiss on his cheek.
"Don't even think that it's going to be staying with me tonight," Syaoran said to his girlfriend with one raised eyebrow, handing her the project.
"Mou, fine. But you're taking it tomorrow," Sakura replied sweat dropping as the bell rang, signaling lunch. She gathered her things and went picked up the project, waiting for Syaoran.
"Umm… I've got some stuff to do, but I'll meet up with you later okay babes?" Syaoran asked as he looked into her eyes.
"'Kay," Sakura said happily as she kissed him on the lips before walking off with Tomoyo.
"You know what you're doing is wrong right?" Eriol asked Syaoran, as it was just the two best friends who were the only ones left packing their things away.
"Yeah. That's why I'm ending it today," Syaoran said to his friend with a confident smile.
"You're smiling when you're going to be breaking up with Sakura?!" Eriol hissed.
"No you moron!" Syaoran snapped as Eriol's angry face turned confused. "I'm ending the bet today," Syaoran confirmed as Eriol smiled.
"It's about time. It's going to be for real this time," Eriol said to him patting him on his shoulder.
"Yeah. I just don't know how I never looked at her that way before," Syaoran sighed as he and Eriol left the class, shoving each other on their way out, completely missing Kevin who was standing right next to the door, looking both confused and shocked at the same time. He quickly went back into the class, got the homework that was assigned from earlier on and ran to his and Sakura's locker. On his way though, he saw Tai and Syaoran once more near Tai's locker. He stopped a few feet away from the two, standing behind a wall so he was out of sight, but just far enough to hear what they were saying.
"Hey Tai, can we talk for a sec?" Syaoran asked as he stuffed his hands into his deep pockets.
"What's up?" Tai asked as he continued to search his messy locker for his wallet.
"It's about the bet," Syaoran said to him quietly after he looked around to make sure there wasn't anyone in the hall except the two.
"Yeah. What about it," Tai grumbled as he stopped for a second then continued on with his search.
"I want to end it. I know that it started off as a bet for me to get Sakura then dump her, but I really care about her. Damn… I think I might even love her," Syaoran said as he ran a hand through his hair.
"It's about time," Tai said to him smiling as he slammed his locker shut once he found his wallet.
"Everyone seems to be saying that to me today," Syaoran said as the two laughed. But it immediately stopped when they saw Kevin leaning against the wall and he seemed to be seething. "Yo, thanks for helping Sakura yesterday," Syaoran said uneasily to Kevin smiling.
"Don't act as if you care about her," Kevin spat, looking Syaoran up and down. "I heard everything."
"Okay just hold up for a second now Kevin," Tai said to him.
"It's Yoshiro. And you're just as bad as he is. Li... I'll give you until the end of the day to tell her or else I will," he spat walking off.
"Holy shit Tai! I can't tell her. She'll never want to come near me again!" Syaoran growled as he punched a locker, leaving it dented.
"You have no idea how right you are," a broken voice called, as the two boys' heads snapped to where it came from.
To Be Continued…
SweetBabyGurl: Hello everyone :) Uh oh… who might the person be? It could be Sakura, and then Syaoran would be in major trouble or it could be someone else. But, you'll have to wait and see in the next chapter of My Last Breath. Well, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Things are happening a lot faster than I planned it to. Ah well :) Like I said before, the title will make sense in either the next chapter, or the one to follow it. Thank you so much to all of you who reviewed and even those who don't :) But, please review and let me know what you think. Okay? Sorry it took me two weeks to get this one up, but it looks like I can only write one a week. So I'll be alternating between this fic and my other one, Breaking Through. Please go check that one out too by the way :P Well, that's it. Thanks for reading and don't forget to review ;) Ja ne!