Let Me Help You
Chapter 11
The Kiss
(Wu Deep is Siu Deep. My Chinese sucks. So Wu Deep means butterfly not Siu Deep)
"Here's your ice cream, Wu Deep." Syaoran said.
"Thanks." Wu Deep said with a bright smile on her face.
"So where are we going after this?" Sakura asked.
"We can keep on walking around, unless you're tired. We can just go back to the orphanage." Syaoran replied.
"I'm not tired." Sakura said.
"Are you tired, Wu Deep?" Syaoran asked.
Wu Deep just shook her head. So after she was done eating, they decided to keep on walking around. While they were walking around Sakura noticed a store filled with many children's clothes and saw Wu Deep wearing a worn out dress that was too small for her and ripped up sandals.
"Let's go in there." Sakura said pointing to the store.
When they went inside a woman greeted them so cheerfully it almost freaked Sakura out. They walked around the store and looked at many little girls' clothes.
"Umm. what are we doing here?" Wu Deep asked.
"We're going get you some new clothes." Sakura said nonchalantly.
This time it was Syaoran to follow along Sakura while she hold Wu Deep's hand and led her around the store, looking at the clothes. After about three hours of walking around, picking clothes, and trying them on they finally found four outfits and two shoes for Wu Deep. When they bought everything it was already seven o' clock at night and it was almost dark. So they walked back to the orphanage with Syaoran carrying a sleeping Wu Deep on his back. While Sakura and Syaoran were walking back, Syaoran remembered how he thought Sakura actually smiled. He then thought it was ridiculous and chuckled a little. Sakura just stared at him, wondering what's so funny.
"What are you laughing about?" Sakura asked.
"Oh, nothing." Syaoran said and chuckled again.
"No, really. What are you laughing about? Or are you turning insane and laughed for no such reason?"
"Was that a joke I heard coming from Sakura Avalon? The Sakura Avalon?" Syaoran said jokingly.
"You're stupid."
"Well, that's just mean."
"So?"
"Anyway. I was just laughing because while I got the ice cream today I thought I saw you smile a little. Then I realized how ridiculous it was. Since I know full well that you can't possibly smile even if your life depended on it."
"You sure about that?"
"What?"
"Nothing."
"No, I heard you say something. What was it?"
"I told you, nothing."
"Sure."
"You don't believe me?"
"Sure, I do."
"Mmm.hmmm."
"I do."
"Yeah. Whatever you say."
"You know what, I give up. You win."
"I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Sure, you don't."
"I don't."
When they finally ended their little conversation they stopped in front of the orphanage.
"Hey, I can bring Wu Deep in. It's getting dark. You should be getting back home. Your dad might get. Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to mention your dad." Syaoran said.
"It's okay. Well then, I guess I'll be going then. Bye." Sakura said.
"Bye."
~ The next day at school ~
"Hey, Sakura! I forgot to ask you yesterday. What time are we going to see Wu Deep again?" Syaoran asked after the second period.
"I don't know. How about the same time as yesterday?" Sakura said.
"Okay."
"I thought you said there's nothing between you two and yet I see you together every time." Kim said to Sakura with her group of friends right behind her.
"Do we have to go through this every single time?" Sakura asked.
"Only until you admit that you want Syaoran. But it really doesn't matter that you do, because I'm going to get him before you do."
"Umm. I hope you know that I'm right here." Syaoran said.
"Yeah, I know. Don't worry. I'll get this slut away from you as soon as possible."
"Like you can. And the only slut here is you and your friends. I'm leaving." Sakura said and tuned away.
"Look you're already running away from me, knowing that I'm going to get Syaoran and you're not." Kim said to Sakura's back.
"Oh my God, I'm just right here!" Syaoran said unbelieving what he's hearing.
Sakura couldn't stand Kim anymore. She turned back around and said, "I've told you millions of times that I don't even want him. Since telling you that won't make you stop bothering me maybe if I do the exact opposite then you'll stop bothering me." After Sakura said that she walked in front of Syaoran and kissed him.
"Are you going to stop bothering me now?" Sakura asked right after that little incident happened.
"Oh my God. I can't believe you just did that? Did everyone see that? I told you she was a slut just like her mom." Kim said.
When Sakura heard Kim talk about her mother like that she went into rage. She slapped her so hard that Kim dropped to the ground with a small trail of blood coming from her mouth and a big red hand mark on her face.
"Don't you ever and I mean ever talk about my mother like that." Sakura said between clenched teeth.
Kim looked up at Sakura from the ground with fright in her eyes. She has never seen Sakura so angry before. Then Sakura walked away to her next class with Syaoran following behind her still shocked at what Sakura did before she hit Kim.
After Syaoran recovered from the shocking incident he asked, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah. I'm sorry about what just happened there." Sakura said a little calmer now.
"No problem."
There was a little silence walking to their next class. Syaoran was thinking about the time when Sakura kissed him. He felt Sakura's soft lips touched his and it felt right to him, but he knew that Sakura probably didn't feel the same.
After third period was their health class and they had to turn in their journal. Then their teacher passed out a sheet of paper to them.
"You have to fill this paper out. They're questions about the orphan. You have to tell me what's their favorite food, least favorite food, favorite color, least favorite color, etc. I don't expect you to answer all of these questions today, but it has to be completely filled out by the time this project ended. I want you to start filling some of the questions out right now. I forgot to tell you yesterday that there's another part of this project, too. You need to do a poster board that's filled with pictures of you, your partner, and the orphan. You and your partner would be doing the poster board together. On the poster board there should also be a description about the orphan and the information on that paper must be on the poster. The poster has to be at least 18" by 25" big. You must do the poster or it's an automatic zero for this whole project. It's due also on May 31. Any questions?" Ms. Yong said.
A boy in the class raised his hand.
"Yes?" Ms. Yong asked.
"Well, the prom is in two weeks. Do we have to go to the orphanage on that day?" the boy asked.
"Oh yes. Thanks for reminding me. No, you don't have to go to the orphanage on your prom. But if you do stay with the orphan for three hours then you get extra credit. If there's no more questions then get started on your worksheet."
Nobody asked anymore questions and they started on the worksheet.
By the time everyone answered as many questions as they could it was already time for lunch. Syaoran walked to the tree next to the basketball court where his friends are.
"Hey, Syaoran. Heard that Sakura girl kissed you today." One of Syaoran's friends, Colin, said.
"Yeah. Nobody has ever gotten her to kiss anyone before. So what's the secret?" another one of his friends, Joshua, said.
"You're all crazy." Syaoran said with a slight blush on his cheeks.
"Come on, Syaoran. How was it like?" Douglas, Colin's twin brother, asked.
"I really can't believe I'm friends with you guys." Syaoran said.
"Oh, did you see Xander's face when he found out? It was hilarious. He came from confused to shock to furious. He looked like he was about to rip some guy's head out. It was priceless." Joshua said.
"Of course. What do you expect? He's been trying to get her since I think freshman year, but she's always turned him down. I see him picking on this little kid right after she cusses him out. It's pretty sad actually." Douglas said.
"More pathetic than sad. The guy never knows when to give up. If I were Sakura I'd probably be about to kill him. I mean he comes up to her almost everyday trying to get her to like him. That's almost worst than torture." Colin said.
"I feel sorry for her. Having to put up with that almost everyday." Douglas said.
"He's more pathetic than the other girls trying to get with Syaoran." Colin said.
Everyone started laughing knowing that there were many girls who asked Syaoran to go to the prom with them but he turned all of them down.
"Hey, speaking of the girls, here comes some now." Joshua pointed out seeing Kim with her group of girls.
"Hi, Syaoran." Kim said with her sweetest smile she could muster up but the smile looked more like a smirk than a smile.
"Hey." Syaoran said.
"The prom is in two weeks. Did you notice?" Kim said.
"Yeah. Sort of."
Syaoran's friends were behind him staring at them.
"I was just wondering if you'd like to go with me to the prom. I know its sort of lame of it might be fun."
"I don't think so."
Syaoran's friends were trying their best not to laugh and Colin made a little chuckle.
Kim stared at Colin with her disgusted look and smiled back at Syaoran. "Oh well, can I ask why?" Kim said.
'What should I say? I can't tell her, because I hate you.' Syaoran thought.
"Well.um. I'm thinking of asking somebody else." Syaoran said.
"Oh. Well I hope it's not Sakura. She only kissed you to try to get me jealous. Not that it worked. Anyway. I'll be going now, bye."
"Yeah. Bye."
After Kim left Syaoran's friends burst into laughter.
"Dude, Syaoran. You should really take lessons from Sakura. Then you could cuss her out. It would give us a better show." Colin said while laughing.
Syaoran stared at them like they were idiots but gave a slight chuckle.
"Did you see Kim's face when I laughed? Now that was hilarious." Colin said.
Everyone started laughing again.
"But Syaoran who are you taking to the prom?" Douglas asked.
"I don't know." Syaoran said.
"Quit lying. It's obvious that you're going to ask Sakura. You've been hanging around her since you came here. But you're going to get your ass dumped. She wouldn't go out with anyone. She'd never go to a dance unless her friend, Daidouji, asked her to. So when are you going to pop the question?" Joshua asked.
"Yeah, you've got to admit she is kind of hot. She surely has a great body. The only problem with her is her attitude. She got major issues with her anger." Douglas said.
"Hey, you'd know why she's like that if you just got to know her." Syaoran said with a tint of anger in his voice.
"Okay, sorry. Forget I said that. So by what you said, I'm guessing that you know why she's so unhappy." Douglas said.
"So?" Syaoran said.
"So why is she?" Joshua asked also wondering why.
"I have never known how nosy you guys are until now." Syaoran said.
"Come on, you guys. It's obvious he's not going to tell us." Colin said.
"Okay, but when are you going to ask her? The prom is in two weeks." Joshua said.
"I don't know. Besides it's not like she's going to say yes to anyone if someone does ask her to go with them." Syaoran said.
"Oh, so you're saying you are going to ask her." Douglas said.
"You guys are truly insane." Syaoran said.
After school ended Syaoran looked at the mail and saw a letter that caught his eyes. The letter was from Fujitaka Kinomoto. He quickly ripped open the letter and read it.
"Dear Mr. Syaoran Li,
I've put your words into consideration and I've given it a lot of thought. I have to admit this information took me by surprise. I'm still not convinced that you're story is true, but I'm willing to get a blood test. You said that my so-called daughter, Sakura, doesn't know that you've written a letter to me. So I'm curious on how we're going to get a blood test if she has no clue that we're in contact. I'm wondering if we could get the blood test on May 24. If she is my daughter I'm willing to take full custody of her. I would like a reply.
Sincerely,
Fujitaka Kinomoto"
Chapter 11
The Kiss
(Wu Deep is Siu Deep. My Chinese sucks. So Wu Deep means butterfly not Siu Deep)
"Here's your ice cream, Wu Deep." Syaoran said.
"Thanks." Wu Deep said with a bright smile on her face.
"So where are we going after this?" Sakura asked.
"We can keep on walking around, unless you're tired. We can just go back to the orphanage." Syaoran replied.
"I'm not tired." Sakura said.
"Are you tired, Wu Deep?" Syaoran asked.
Wu Deep just shook her head. So after she was done eating, they decided to keep on walking around. While they were walking around Sakura noticed a store filled with many children's clothes and saw Wu Deep wearing a worn out dress that was too small for her and ripped up sandals.
"Let's go in there." Sakura said pointing to the store.
When they went inside a woman greeted them so cheerfully it almost freaked Sakura out. They walked around the store and looked at many little girls' clothes.
"Umm. what are we doing here?" Wu Deep asked.
"We're going get you some new clothes." Sakura said nonchalantly.
This time it was Syaoran to follow along Sakura while she hold Wu Deep's hand and led her around the store, looking at the clothes. After about three hours of walking around, picking clothes, and trying them on they finally found four outfits and two shoes for Wu Deep. When they bought everything it was already seven o' clock at night and it was almost dark. So they walked back to the orphanage with Syaoran carrying a sleeping Wu Deep on his back. While Sakura and Syaoran were walking back, Syaoran remembered how he thought Sakura actually smiled. He then thought it was ridiculous and chuckled a little. Sakura just stared at him, wondering what's so funny.
"What are you laughing about?" Sakura asked.
"Oh, nothing." Syaoran said and chuckled again.
"No, really. What are you laughing about? Or are you turning insane and laughed for no such reason?"
"Was that a joke I heard coming from Sakura Avalon? The Sakura Avalon?" Syaoran said jokingly.
"You're stupid."
"Well, that's just mean."
"So?"
"Anyway. I was just laughing because while I got the ice cream today I thought I saw you smile a little. Then I realized how ridiculous it was. Since I know full well that you can't possibly smile even if your life depended on it."
"You sure about that?"
"What?"
"Nothing."
"No, I heard you say something. What was it?"
"I told you, nothing."
"Sure."
"You don't believe me?"
"Sure, I do."
"Mmm.hmmm."
"I do."
"Yeah. Whatever you say."
"You know what, I give up. You win."
"I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Sure, you don't."
"I don't."
When they finally ended their little conversation they stopped in front of the orphanage.
"Hey, I can bring Wu Deep in. It's getting dark. You should be getting back home. Your dad might get. Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to mention your dad." Syaoran said.
"It's okay. Well then, I guess I'll be going then. Bye." Sakura said.
"Bye."
~ The next day at school ~
"Hey, Sakura! I forgot to ask you yesterday. What time are we going to see Wu Deep again?" Syaoran asked after the second period.
"I don't know. How about the same time as yesterday?" Sakura said.
"Okay."
"I thought you said there's nothing between you two and yet I see you together every time." Kim said to Sakura with her group of friends right behind her.
"Do we have to go through this every single time?" Sakura asked.
"Only until you admit that you want Syaoran. But it really doesn't matter that you do, because I'm going to get him before you do."
"Umm. I hope you know that I'm right here." Syaoran said.
"Yeah, I know. Don't worry. I'll get this slut away from you as soon as possible."
"Like you can. And the only slut here is you and your friends. I'm leaving." Sakura said and tuned away.
"Look you're already running away from me, knowing that I'm going to get Syaoran and you're not." Kim said to Sakura's back.
"Oh my God, I'm just right here!" Syaoran said unbelieving what he's hearing.
Sakura couldn't stand Kim anymore. She turned back around and said, "I've told you millions of times that I don't even want him. Since telling you that won't make you stop bothering me maybe if I do the exact opposite then you'll stop bothering me." After Sakura said that she walked in front of Syaoran and kissed him.
"Are you going to stop bothering me now?" Sakura asked right after that little incident happened.
"Oh my God. I can't believe you just did that? Did everyone see that? I told you she was a slut just like her mom." Kim said.
When Sakura heard Kim talk about her mother like that she went into rage. She slapped her so hard that Kim dropped to the ground with a small trail of blood coming from her mouth and a big red hand mark on her face.
"Don't you ever and I mean ever talk about my mother like that." Sakura said between clenched teeth.
Kim looked up at Sakura from the ground with fright in her eyes. She has never seen Sakura so angry before. Then Sakura walked away to her next class with Syaoran following behind her still shocked at what Sakura did before she hit Kim.
After Syaoran recovered from the shocking incident he asked, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah. I'm sorry about what just happened there." Sakura said a little calmer now.
"No problem."
There was a little silence walking to their next class. Syaoran was thinking about the time when Sakura kissed him. He felt Sakura's soft lips touched his and it felt right to him, but he knew that Sakura probably didn't feel the same.
After third period was their health class and they had to turn in their journal. Then their teacher passed out a sheet of paper to them.
"You have to fill this paper out. They're questions about the orphan. You have to tell me what's their favorite food, least favorite food, favorite color, least favorite color, etc. I don't expect you to answer all of these questions today, but it has to be completely filled out by the time this project ended. I want you to start filling some of the questions out right now. I forgot to tell you yesterday that there's another part of this project, too. You need to do a poster board that's filled with pictures of you, your partner, and the orphan. You and your partner would be doing the poster board together. On the poster board there should also be a description about the orphan and the information on that paper must be on the poster. The poster has to be at least 18" by 25" big. You must do the poster or it's an automatic zero for this whole project. It's due also on May 31. Any questions?" Ms. Yong said.
A boy in the class raised his hand.
"Yes?" Ms. Yong asked.
"Well, the prom is in two weeks. Do we have to go to the orphanage on that day?" the boy asked.
"Oh yes. Thanks for reminding me. No, you don't have to go to the orphanage on your prom. But if you do stay with the orphan for three hours then you get extra credit. If there's no more questions then get started on your worksheet."
Nobody asked anymore questions and they started on the worksheet.
By the time everyone answered as many questions as they could it was already time for lunch. Syaoran walked to the tree next to the basketball court where his friends are.
"Hey, Syaoran. Heard that Sakura girl kissed you today." One of Syaoran's friends, Colin, said.
"Yeah. Nobody has ever gotten her to kiss anyone before. So what's the secret?" another one of his friends, Joshua, said.
"You're all crazy." Syaoran said with a slight blush on his cheeks.
"Come on, Syaoran. How was it like?" Douglas, Colin's twin brother, asked.
"I really can't believe I'm friends with you guys." Syaoran said.
"Oh, did you see Xander's face when he found out? It was hilarious. He came from confused to shock to furious. He looked like he was about to rip some guy's head out. It was priceless." Joshua said.
"Of course. What do you expect? He's been trying to get her since I think freshman year, but she's always turned him down. I see him picking on this little kid right after she cusses him out. It's pretty sad actually." Douglas said.
"More pathetic than sad. The guy never knows when to give up. If I were Sakura I'd probably be about to kill him. I mean he comes up to her almost everyday trying to get her to like him. That's almost worst than torture." Colin said.
"I feel sorry for her. Having to put up with that almost everyday." Douglas said.
"He's more pathetic than the other girls trying to get with Syaoran." Colin said.
Everyone started laughing knowing that there were many girls who asked Syaoran to go to the prom with them but he turned all of them down.
"Hey, speaking of the girls, here comes some now." Joshua pointed out seeing Kim with her group of girls.
"Hi, Syaoran." Kim said with her sweetest smile she could muster up but the smile looked more like a smirk than a smile.
"Hey." Syaoran said.
"The prom is in two weeks. Did you notice?" Kim said.
"Yeah. Sort of."
Syaoran's friends were behind him staring at them.
"I was just wondering if you'd like to go with me to the prom. I know its sort of lame of it might be fun."
"I don't think so."
Syaoran's friends were trying their best not to laugh and Colin made a little chuckle.
Kim stared at Colin with her disgusted look and smiled back at Syaoran. "Oh well, can I ask why?" Kim said.
'What should I say? I can't tell her, because I hate you.' Syaoran thought.
"Well.um. I'm thinking of asking somebody else." Syaoran said.
"Oh. Well I hope it's not Sakura. She only kissed you to try to get me jealous. Not that it worked. Anyway. I'll be going now, bye."
"Yeah. Bye."
After Kim left Syaoran's friends burst into laughter.
"Dude, Syaoran. You should really take lessons from Sakura. Then you could cuss her out. It would give us a better show." Colin said while laughing.
Syaoran stared at them like they were idiots but gave a slight chuckle.
"Did you see Kim's face when I laughed? Now that was hilarious." Colin said.
Everyone started laughing again.
"But Syaoran who are you taking to the prom?" Douglas asked.
"I don't know." Syaoran said.
"Quit lying. It's obvious that you're going to ask Sakura. You've been hanging around her since you came here. But you're going to get your ass dumped. She wouldn't go out with anyone. She'd never go to a dance unless her friend, Daidouji, asked her to. So when are you going to pop the question?" Joshua asked.
"Yeah, you've got to admit she is kind of hot. She surely has a great body. The only problem with her is her attitude. She got major issues with her anger." Douglas said.
"Hey, you'd know why she's like that if you just got to know her." Syaoran said with a tint of anger in his voice.
"Okay, sorry. Forget I said that. So by what you said, I'm guessing that you know why she's so unhappy." Douglas said.
"So?" Syaoran said.
"So why is she?" Joshua asked also wondering why.
"I have never known how nosy you guys are until now." Syaoran said.
"Come on, you guys. It's obvious he's not going to tell us." Colin said.
"Okay, but when are you going to ask her? The prom is in two weeks." Joshua said.
"I don't know. Besides it's not like she's going to say yes to anyone if someone does ask her to go with them." Syaoran said.
"Oh, so you're saying you are going to ask her." Douglas said.
"You guys are truly insane." Syaoran said.
After school ended Syaoran looked at the mail and saw a letter that caught his eyes. The letter was from Fujitaka Kinomoto. He quickly ripped open the letter and read it.
"Dear Mr. Syaoran Li,
I've put your words into consideration and I've given it a lot of thought. I have to admit this information took me by surprise. I'm still not convinced that you're story is true, but I'm willing to get a blood test. You said that my so-called daughter, Sakura, doesn't know that you've written a letter to me. So I'm curious on how we're going to get a blood test if she has no clue that we're in contact. I'm wondering if we could get the blood test on May 24. If she is my daughter I'm willing to take full custody of her. I would like a reply.
Sincerely,
Fujitaka Kinomoto"