Time of My Life

Chapter 3

I thought he would've been happy to see me. And if not that, he would've at least given me a welcoming smile.

Yeah it didn't happen.

In fact his countenance paled visibly, so much that I thought he was going to fall over.

His voice was horse when he spoke and those blue eyes of his trailed against my face uncomfortably, "Meiling?"

"You know each other?" Mai's voice seemed to be ecstatic. "That's great!"

A sly look developed on the red-head's face as he poked fun at Eriol, "Another one night stand man?"

However his expression faded immediately seeing that Eriol wasn't in his usual joking mood. The others just frowned at him and his big mouth; including me, who shot him the infamous death glare, which I learned from Syaoran.

By this time though, I still wasn't sure if Eriol was going to bolt, which he seemed to be seriously considering. Or, if he was going to pull me over, sit me down and give me the whole, "What are you doing here?" speech.

I was hoping for none of the two.

Because half of the reason why I'm here in the first place, just flew out the window with that pretty boy face of Eriol Hiiragizawa.

What were the chances of this even happening? Agh! I must have the most rotten luck in the world.

But as I glanced at his face, we actually seemed to be on the same level. His expression was tight and his lips were pursed. I could tell he was as happy to see me as I was to see him.

Wonderful. Simply wonderful.

And it was at that exact moment as I opened my mouth to say something that I realized everyone was looking at me weirdly. Concerned even.

I turned to shake my head and tell them that everything was fine, but I lost my balance and toppled over.

As I was going down I could see Eriol's blue eyes enlarge considerably. The last thing I felt was Mai gripping my left arm, "Meiling?!"

I supposed it was some time later when I woke. I noticed two things thing straight off the bat. The steady beat of the bass and the loudness factor was gone.

At least the headache was for the most part, gone.

I would've stood up and cheered but my body felt achy when I shifted on the bed.

Wait a minute … bed?

My mind does not remember even getting into bed yester … is that Eriol?

I blinked a couple times.

And true to my eyesight there he was, haphazardly sprawled in my suitcase.

Yes it was big enough to fit many things, but it wasn't that big.

I sputtered as I tried to get out of my bed. "What the – ACK!"

Being the graceful person that I was, my feet had decided to trip over the sheets in my haste.

Eriol stirred and then he opened his eyes to blink at me.

I didn't miss the tinkle that gleamed in those calculating blue depths.

Still though, from my awkward position on the floor, I didn't want to let anything go. "What are you doing here? How did I get here?"

"You shouldn't have been running around after flying in so soon." That oh so familiar smirk was infuriating!

"Yeah?" I challenged as I pulled myself up. "What do you know."

He seemed quite comfortable in his seat as he shifted and yawned, "Plenty."

I was irritated; first he stared at me at my neighbor's as if I was some alien. And then he decides to smush all of my stuff!

"Will you get out of my suitcase please?" I set my notorious glare on him, but it didn't seem to faze him one bit.

The look he gave me was far from humble, "But I like it here." The blue haired wonder seemed to have slipped back into his suave nature; totally different from before.

It was a side I only remember all too well before he left Tomoeda.

It was with the emergence of that trait that Tomoyo Daidouji had fallen for him. But I had an inkling that it was before that.

Now exactly what the mauve haired best friend of Sakura Kinomoto saw in him was practically incomprehensible.

"Ugh." I was so completely frustrated at that point that I could only express my annoyance in an unintelligible grunt as I yanked the sheets off of me and stepped into my living room.

… There were people in my living room playing board games.

Did they have nothing better to do?

It was only in due time that they finally noticed my slight shadow and looked up at me, smiles on their face.

"Meiling!" Mai jumped from her spot on the ratty couch and looked me over, "Are you alright?"

My throat was dry when I spoke, so I sounded like a dying frog. "Yeah," I managed to croak out. "I'm fine."

"Woooh girl, you didn't seem fine to me! Fainted like a bean pole!" That came from Kaipo who was grinning from the couch.

A bean pole? What in the world was that?

Johnny sniggered from behind me and I jumped, "Hey man, I don't think she knows what you're talking about."

"Where did you come from?" My heart was beating faster than usual.

He shrugged and shoved a finger at the bathroom, "That's one sweet room you got there."

Tawny who was sitting on the floor sketching, looked disgusted, "The bathroom John? You're disgusting."

My mouth immediately lifted into a small curl as I spotted Tawny. So she is an artist.

I was stupid enough to proclaim my genius to them, "I was right! You are an artist!"

"You get excited way too easily girl." Adam laughed outright from his seat next to Kaipo.

The blush that crept up my neck and soon reached the tips of my ears burned. "Oh just ignore them Meiling. They're just here 'cause they don't wanna go home."

Then Mai looked at them and then back at me, "You don't mind do you?"

Deciding that it wasn't at all a good idea to shake my head again, seeing as what happened last time, I replied instead, "No ... it's fine."

It was then that Johnny spoke up again behind me, this time he was leaning on the doorframe of the bathroom. I had almost forgotten about him.

"Maybe you should put on some clothes … "

Holy … shit. Tell me I wasn't naked. Tell me I wasn't naked. I was almost afraid to look down.

Oh right. Not completely naked, but I nearly was!

Someone had stripped me down to my underwear and had placed a short bathrobe on me. The bathrobe in which was virtually open from the waist up.

My eyes shot up and met each of the five people in my room, all of whom had amused smiles playing on their faces.

I backed up slowly, question in my eyes.

Mai knew and I could see the humour in her blue eyes, "You had a fever earlier and when you fainted your drink spilled all over your clothes."

I shot a glance at the boys smirking on the couch and then over at Johnny, "They didn't … "

"No of course not," came the soothing voice from behind me as I backed into its owner. "I did."

At that I twirled on my heel and pointed a finger in his face, "Eriol Hiiragizawa!"

He looked about to laugh at me when Mai spoke up, "You wish Eriol. Don't worry Meiling, Tawny and I did."

Relief seemed to flood my senses for a minute before I looked up at Eriol again and his that smirk was on his face. Knowing I was fuming he stepped out of my way with a gallant gesture and held my bedroom door open for me.

I slammed it shut after me, shoving him out.