A/N: How're ya'll doin' today? You should be feeling great because I
UPDATED AT LAST!! Hehehehe, don't mind me! I just had a twenty-four oz. cup
of coffee and I'm feeling... PERKY!!!
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Just thought you'd like to know!
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If You're Not The One
Chapter 15
Leaving
Tomoyo shivered when she saw the person standing in front of her.
"Eriol!"
There he was, standing before her, smiling, gazing into her eyes. Tomoyo couldn't move! A part of her wanted to run into his arms and tell him how sorry she was and how much she loved him.
But the other part of her said to stay away.
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I love you
I hate you
Leave
Don't go away
I can't decide if I like your face
Or if I wish it would stray
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Tomoyo stood frozen before her beloved. 'He was drunk!' She told herself. 'He didn't know what he was doing! He didn't know he was trying to rape me! If it hadn't have been for me, he wouldn't have been drunk in the first place!' Tomoyo took a step towards him and took him into a warm embrace, and Eriol hugged back.
*FLASHBACK*
Eriol grabbed her arms and pushed them against the floor. Tomoyo couldn't push him off. "Eriol! Get off me!!" Eriol began kissing her neck, trying to undo her robe.
*END OF FLASHBACK*
Tomoyo pushed away from Eriol. Eriol looked at her confusingly. "W-What's wrong?" He held out his hand for her to take. Tomoyo took it cautiously, but even the slightest touch brought shivers down her spine.
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You're a child but your malicious
You're sweet but you don't remember my name
Heads you win and tails I'm lost
Love equals pain
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:: Eriol! Get off me!! :: Tomoyo could recall herself tell him the night of prom.
Tears began to form in her violet eyes. "No," she whispered to herself as she pulled her hand away from Eriol's. Eriol stared at Tomoyo sadly.
:: Eriol, I think you have to leave. You don't or I'll call the police! I said I didn't want Syaoron, but I don't want you, either. Not anymore. ::
The voices echoed inside Tomoyo's head. 'I forgive him!' Tomoyo tried to convince herself. 'I forgive him! This isn't guilt! I forgive him!' "Eriol!" Tomoyo said aloud. "I can't do this, I'm sorry!" With that said, Eriol's face contorted as he lunged at Tomoyo.....
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"Ms. Daidouji," A nurse tapped on a sleeping Tomoyo's shoulder. Tomoyo awoke in alarm. "AH! Ahem... excuse me. I'm sorry, I must have dozed off." Tomoyo exhaled. 'So it was all a dream?'
"Ms. Daidouji, you may see Hiiragizawa now," The nurse said sweetly. Tomoyo got up from her seat and followed the nurse. Before Tomoyo entered Eriol's room, she paused. "Ms. Daidouji, is anything the matter?" The nurse asked. Tomoyo shook her head. Tomoyo peered inside to find an empty room.
'NO!' Tomoyo thought. 'He IS awake!'
"Oh dear," The nurse said to herself. "I'm sorry! We switched his room! Hiiragizawa is in the north wing, now! Come along, ma'am." The nurse walked the opposite direction. But Tomoyo didn't follow. "Nurse, I don't think I should see Hiiragizawa. Not today!" And Tomoyo ran out of the building. 'Not ever!' She thought.
Tomoyo made her way outside, crying. "I couldn't do it!" She muttered to herself. "I was so afraid! I thought he really was awake!! I don't want him to wake up!" A horrible thought suddenly struck. "What will I do when he wakes up? He can't EVER wake up!"
*Kinomoto Residence*
"Well?" Fujitaka asked, impatiently. "I'm waiting!"
Sakura thought of about a dozen possibilities of why she had birth control patches in her room in five seconds, but her father probably wouldn't believe any of them! Sakura remained calm and said slowly, "Dad, I would have told you, but it really wasn't any of your concern."
"My daughter having birth control patches in her bedroom isn't any of my concern??" Fujitaka fumed. "Tell me, Sakura, are these yours?"
"Of course not!"
"Then whose are they??"
Sakura suddenly broke down and began crying. "Daddy!! It was horrible!! Someone tried to rape Tomoyo!! It was the night of prom! She asked me to buy them for her!"
"If they're for Tomoyo, then why do you have them?" Fujitaka asked unbelievingly. "And some of the patches are missing!"
"How would you think Sonomi would react of she found her daughter was using birth control patches?" Sakura questioned.
"And you thought I wouldn't find them? I thought you were using them!!" Fujitaka sighed. "And Sonomi doesn't know her daughter was raped?"
"Okay, first of all, Tomoyo wasn't raped. The guy TRIED to rape her, but did not succeed. Tomoyo was just scared, so she asked me to get them for her! Secondly, we can't tell Sonomi!"
"Sakura! We have to!" Fujitaka insisted. "We need to get Tomoyo tested! She might have a disease!"
Sakura rolled her eyes. "As I said before, Tomoyo was not raped!!"
Fujitaka shook his head and continued. "How could you keep this from Sonomi and me?"
"Because it wasn't a big deal!! Tomoyo's fine!!"
Fujitaka raised an eyebrow. He was finally convinced. "Okay, Sakura. Go get ready for the party. I've got lots of work to do." Sakura did as she was told and went up to her room. She grabbed her cell phone and dialed Tomoyo's cell phone number.
"Moshi moshi?"
"Tomoyo!"
"Sakura hey! I was just about to call you!" Tomoyo said, driving in her black jaguar.
"Tomoyo I have to tell you something-"
Tomoyo interrupted. "So do I. I'm leaving, Sakura."
A confused Sakura asked, "Leaving? Like, leaving the hospital? Where are you?"
"No," Tomoyo sighed. "I'm leaving Tomoeda."
*Syaoron's Apartment*
Syaoron opened the door to his apartment and invited Meilin in. "Sit down, please," Syaoron gestured towards the couch.
Meilin took her seat. "Thank you."
"Can I get you anything? Something to drink?"
"N-No, Syaoron. I'm fine." Meilin said, looking down. Syaoron sat next to her and both were quiet for a moment. "So," Syaoron finally spoke. "How've you been?" Meilin nodded. "Good. You?" Syaoron nodded vigorously. "Yup! Yea, I'm doing great! Yea. I've got everything I want. I've graduated, I've got my freedom, I've got Sakura," Syaoron paused. "But what I don't understand is why my mother would want to take that all away from me."
"What are you talking about?" Meilin asked.
"I'm talking about my mother being sick when I finally have everything I've always wanted!" Syaoron snapped. "Just a coincidence, I suppose??"
Meilin growled. "If you think Yelan is just putting on a show so that you can come home, you're more shallow than I thought! This isn't about you! This is about your mother! Dying! I've seen her! She wants you home because she wants to see the son she hasn't seen for four years!"
"Even if mother called me up two weeks ago ordering me to come home after graduation?"
"And you said no, didn't you?" Meilin asked. "And she was so heartbroken, she grew ill!"
Syaoron laughed. "This is ridiculous!"
Meilin stood up from her seat on the couch. "Li Syaoron, you might have found the love of your life coming to Japan and all, but if you don't come back home, you'll lose the person who gave you life! If it weren't for your mother, you wouldn't have ever been able to experience love!" Syaoron looked away from Meilin's piercing ruby eyes. "Syaoron, all she asks is her little boy come home! What do you say?"
*Daidouji Mansion*
Tomoyo slowly drove by her house. Her mother's car was parked in the driveway. "Shit!" Tomoyo cursed to herself. Tomoyo parked in the neighbor's driveway and snuck into her house from the back door.
Tomoyo opened the back door with the spare key underneath the doormat. She closed the door silently and tiptoed up the stairs. She was now on the second floor; the floor where her mother's office was located. Tomoyo glanced inside the office to find her mother arguing on the phone. Tomoyo went up the stairs to the third floor and opened the door to her room and shut it behind her.
Tomoyo grabbed three bags from the top of her closet. Tomoyo stuffed as many shirts, pants, and undergarments she could possibly fit in one bag, put her shoes and hair items in another, and any other personal belongings in the third bag. She was ready. She wrote a note to her mother, signed her name, and left it on her made bed. Tomoyo slid two of the bags underneath her bed while she took on of the bags with her downstairs. (A/N: There's no way she could carry all three bags without being noticed! Say she drops a bag! Her mother will definitely hear it!)
Tomoyo made her way to the jaguar and threw her bag in the trunk of the car. She wiped the sweat off her forehead and ran back inside the house for the second bag. Soon all three bags were in her car. Tomoyo grabbed her car keys and hit the road.
*Syaoron's Apartment*
"I'll call you in the morning, okay?" Meilin said, hugging her cousin. "Have a good time at Yamazaki's party." Syaoron nodded and shut the door as she left. He fell forward on his couch and sighed. "What's the point of celebrating? My mother is dying!"
...We are gathered here today to grieve the loss of Li Yelan...
Syaoron suddenly found himself sitting inside a crowded cathedral. He looked around in awe. His eldest sisters sat next to him, Meilin sat behind him, and everyone appeared to be crying. 'I'm home!' He looked at the sleeping woman inside the casket. 'Mother's dead?' Syaoron stood up from his seat. And stood before the casket. His mother lied motionless.
Suddenly her eyes opened.
Syaoron gasped. "Mother! She's awake!" Meilin got up from her seat and dragged him back to his seat. "Meilin!! Mother's awake!" Everyone turned from Syaoron and looked at the priest.
"Li Yelan was a beautiful, powerful, caring woman..."
Syaoron looked over at the casket. 'She's awake! Why is she pretending to be dead?' Syaoron's jaw practically dropped when he saw his mother rise from the casket and grin evilly at him. Syaoron pointed frantically. "She's alive! Look! It's mother!" But no one would listen to him. No one even looked at him! They all continued to listen to the priest.
"...Her beautiful daughters whom she loved more than anything else in the world..."
Syaoron stood up angrily. "Hey! What about her handsome son??" It seemed as no one heard him; they all continued to listen to the priest.
"You're not my son!" Yelan declared. Syaoron turned to his dead mother. His eyes went wide. "Wh-What do you mean? I'm Li Syaoron, your son!!"
"You may be a Li, but that does not mean you are my family!" Yelan declared. Syaoron looked around at everyone. "Why can't they see me?"
"No one wants anything to do with you, Xiao Lang! It's your fault I'm dead!"
Syaoron laughed. "If you're dead, how are you able to speak to me? And how is it that it's my fault you're dead??"
"I'm dead, Syaoron." Yelan smirked. "All because you wouldn't come home! You're able to see me now because it's your guilty conscience. You selfish boy! You killed me!"
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Syaoron bolted from his uneasy sleep. He looked around desperately only to find himself back in his apartment lying on his couch. Syaoron sat up and looked at his watch. 4:31 PM. 'Great,' Syaoron thought. 'I have to be at Yamazaki's in less than two hours!'
*Kinomoto Residence*
Sakura held her phone with her right shoulder and right ear as she was talking to Tomoyo. She was putting on her make-up in front of her dresser mirror. "So," Sakura said, putting on the blush. "You going to Yamazaki's?"
"Yea," Tomoyo responded. "But I won't stay long. Just to say good-bye."
"I can't believe you're actually going through this!" Sakura said, grabbing her eyelash-curler from her purse.
"Well it's not like I could've stayed. I mean, after you telling your father I was almost raped. He probably told mother by now."
Sakura seemed somewhat shocked. "So you aren't mad at me?"
Tomoyo sighed. "I was gonna leave either way."
"And you never did tell me why you were leaving." Sakura added.
Tomoyo shrugged as she held her cell phone with one hand and steered the steering wheel with the other. "Well, my mom probably knows what happened prom night by now... and the rest is complicated. I... I just can't be here when Eriol wakes up!"
"Why on earth not? I thought you wanted him to-"
"That's right! I 'thought'! Well I thought wrong! Sakura!" Tomoyo's eyes began to water. "He's in my nightmares."
"Tomoyo," Sakura said calmly. "What happened today at the hospital?"
"I couldn't go through it! It was so strange! I wanted him to be okay and I still do. But I don't want anything to do with him!"
"Tomoyo, it's understandable!" Sakura threw her eyelash-curler in her purse and grabbed her eye shadow. "After everything you two have been through! You just need to get away."
"I hope that's all it is. Well, I've gotta charge my cell phone. I'll see you tonight?"
"And then it's good-bye." Sakura said sadly.
"Not good-bye Sakura, just a temporary leave of absence is all." Tomoyo laughed as she hung up.
Sakura hung up and grabbed her purse. She examined herself once more in the mirror before leaving. She wore a black dress shirt and a khaki skirt with pink sandals. Her hair was down to her mid-back and straightened. She was ready.
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A/N: I know, I know... I bet plenty of you are upset that I made Eriol's awakening just a dream!! And Yelan?? Dying?? Well, Syaoron's convinced she is! Well, if I hadn't have done the things I've done in this chapter, it wouldn't have made this next chapter fall into place!! MUAHAHAHAHAHA *cough! cough!* !!! Well, I just wanna bring up my second fanfiction, "The Witness". Give it good support and reviews as you have done with this story!!
Well, look out for chapter sixteen (Can you believe it?? Sixteen chapters!! WOO!!)! Much love (and please try and make time to read "The Witness"),
-Cher
Ps, The songs I have used in this story so far are (in order of appearance):
"Keep Myself Awake"- Black Lab
"Don't Wanna Try"- Frankie J
"If You're Not The One"- Daniel Bedingfield (Durrr!! That's the title of my story!)
"Grey Matter"- Jewel
Reviews never get old, so why don't you write me one!! ^_~
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Just thought you'd like to know!
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If You're Not The One
Chapter 15
Leaving
Tomoyo shivered when she saw the person standing in front of her.
"Eriol!"
There he was, standing before her, smiling, gazing into her eyes. Tomoyo couldn't move! A part of her wanted to run into his arms and tell him how sorry she was and how much she loved him.
But the other part of her said to stay away.
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I love you
I hate you
Leave
Don't go away
I can't decide if I like your face
Or if I wish it would stray
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Tomoyo stood frozen before her beloved. 'He was drunk!' She told herself. 'He didn't know what he was doing! He didn't know he was trying to rape me! If it hadn't have been for me, he wouldn't have been drunk in the first place!' Tomoyo took a step towards him and took him into a warm embrace, and Eriol hugged back.
*FLASHBACK*
Eriol grabbed her arms and pushed them against the floor. Tomoyo couldn't push him off. "Eriol! Get off me!!" Eriol began kissing her neck, trying to undo her robe.
*END OF FLASHBACK*
Tomoyo pushed away from Eriol. Eriol looked at her confusingly. "W-What's wrong?" He held out his hand for her to take. Tomoyo took it cautiously, but even the slightest touch brought shivers down her spine.
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You're a child but your malicious
You're sweet but you don't remember my name
Heads you win and tails I'm lost
Love equals pain
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:: Eriol! Get off me!! :: Tomoyo could recall herself tell him the night of prom.
Tears began to form in her violet eyes. "No," she whispered to herself as she pulled her hand away from Eriol's. Eriol stared at Tomoyo sadly.
:: Eriol, I think you have to leave. You don't or I'll call the police! I said I didn't want Syaoron, but I don't want you, either. Not anymore. ::
The voices echoed inside Tomoyo's head. 'I forgive him!' Tomoyo tried to convince herself. 'I forgive him! This isn't guilt! I forgive him!' "Eriol!" Tomoyo said aloud. "I can't do this, I'm sorry!" With that said, Eriol's face contorted as he lunged at Tomoyo.....
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"Ms. Daidouji," A nurse tapped on a sleeping Tomoyo's shoulder. Tomoyo awoke in alarm. "AH! Ahem... excuse me. I'm sorry, I must have dozed off." Tomoyo exhaled. 'So it was all a dream?'
"Ms. Daidouji, you may see Hiiragizawa now," The nurse said sweetly. Tomoyo got up from her seat and followed the nurse. Before Tomoyo entered Eriol's room, she paused. "Ms. Daidouji, is anything the matter?" The nurse asked. Tomoyo shook her head. Tomoyo peered inside to find an empty room.
'NO!' Tomoyo thought. 'He IS awake!'
"Oh dear," The nurse said to herself. "I'm sorry! We switched his room! Hiiragizawa is in the north wing, now! Come along, ma'am." The nurse walked the opposite direction. But Tomoyo didn't follow. "Nurse, I don't think I should see Hiiragizawa. Not today!" And Tomoyo ran out of the building. 'Not ever!' She thought.
Tomoyo made her way outside, crying. "I couldn't do it!" She muttered to herself. "I was so afraid! I thought he really was awake!! I don't want him to wake up!" A horrible thought suddenly struck. "What will I do when he wakes up? He can't EVER wake up!"
*Kinomoto Residence*
"Well?" Fujitaka asked, impatiently. "I'm waiting!"
Sakura thought of about a dozen possibilities of why she had birth control patches in her room in five seconds, but her father probably wouldn't believe any of them! Sakura remained calm and said slowly, "Dad, I would have told you, but it really wasn't any of your concern."
"My daughter having birth control patches in her bedroom isn't any of my concern??" Fujitaka fumed. "Tell me, Sakura, are these yours?"
"Of course not!"
"Then whose are they??"
Sakura suddenly broke down and began crying. "Daddy!! It was horrible!! Someone tried to rape Tomoyo!! It was the night of prom! She asked me to buy them for her!"
"If they're for Tomoyo, then why do you have them?" Fujitaka asked unbelievingly. "And some of the patches are missing!"
"How would you think Sonomi would react of she found her daughter was using birth control patches?" Sakura questioned.
"And you thought I wouldn't find them? I thought you were using them!!" Fujitaka sighed. "And Sonomi doesn't know her daughter was raped?"
"Okay, first of all, Tomoyo wasn't raped. The guy TRIED to rape her, but did not succeed. Tomoyo was just scared, so she asked me to get them for her! Secondly, we can't tell Sonomi!"
"Sakura! We have to!" Fujitaka insisted. "We need to get Tomoyo tested! She might have a disease!"
Sakura rolled her eyes. "As I said before, Tomoyo was not raped!!"
Fujitaka shook his head and continued. "How could you keep this from Sonomi and me?"
"Because it wasn't a big deal!! Tomoyo's fine!!"
Fujitaka raised an eyebrow. He was finally convinced. "Okay, Sakura. Go get ready for the party. I've got lots of work to do." Sakura did as she was told and went up to her room. She grabbed her cell phone and dialed Tomoyo's cell phone number.
"Moshi moshi?"
"Tomoyo!"
"Sakura hey! I was just about to call you!" Tomoyo said, driving in her black jaguar.
"Tomoyo I have to tell you something-"
Tomoyo interrupted. "So do I. I'm leaving, Sakura."
A confused Sakura asked, "Leaving? Like, leaving the hospital? Where are you?"
"No," Tomoyo sighed. "I'm leaving Tomoeda."
*Syaoron's Apartment*
Syaoron opened the door to his apartment and invited Meilin in. "Sit down, please," Syaoron gestured towards the couch.
Meilin took her seat. "Thank you."
"Can I get you anything? Something to drink?"
"N-No, Syaoron. I'm fine." Meilin said, looking down. Syaoron sat next to her and both were quiet for a moment. "So," Syaoron finally spoke. "How've you been?" Meilin nodded. "Good. You?" Syaoron nodded vigorously. "Yup! Yea, I'm doing great! Yea. I've got everything I want. I've graduated, I've got my freedom, I've got Sakura," Syaoron paused. "But what I don't understand is why my mother would want to take that all away from me."
"What are you talking about?" Meilin asked.
"I'm talking about my mother being sick when I finally have everything I've always wanted!" Syaoron snapped. "Just a coincidence, I suppose??"
Meilin growled. "If you think Yelan is just putting on a show so that you can come home, you're more shallow than I thought! This isn't about you! This is about your mother! Dying! I've seen her! She wants you home because she wants to see the son she hasn't seen for four years!"
"Even if mother called me up two weeks ago ordering me to come home after graduation?"
"And you said no, didn't you?" Meilin asked. "And she was so heartbroken, she grew ill!"
Syaoron laughed. "This is ridiculous!"
Meilin stood up from her seat on the couch. "Li Syaoron, you might have found the love of your life coming to Japan and all, but if you don't come back home, you'll lose the person who gave you life! If it weren't for your mother, you wouldn't have ever been able to experience love!" Syaoron looked away from Meilin's piercing ruby eyes. "Syaoron, all she asks is her little boy come home! What do you say?"
*Daidouji Mansion*
Tomoyo slowly drove by her house. Her mother's car was parked in the driveway. "Shit!" Tomoyo cursed to herself. Tomoyo parked in the neighbor's driveway and snuck into her house from the back door.
Tomoyo opened the back door with the spare key underneath the doormat. She closed the door silently and tiptoed up the stairs. She was now on the second floor; the floor where her mother's office was located. Tomoyo glanced inside the office to find her mother arguing on the phone. Tomoyo went up the stairs to the third floor and opened the door to her room and shut it behind her.
Tomoyo grabbed three bags from the top of her closet. Tomoyo stuffed as many shirts, pants, and undergarments she could possibly fit in one bag, put her shoes and hair items in another, and any other personal belongings in the third bag. She was ready. She wrote a note to her mother, signed her name, and left it on her made bed. Tomoyo slid two of the bags underneath her bed while she took on of the bags with her downstairs. (A/N: There's no way she could carry all three bags without being noticed! Say she drops a bag! Her mother will definitely hear it!)
Tomoyo made her way to the jaguar and threw her bag in the trunk of the car. She wiped the sweat off her forehead and ran back inside the house for the second bag. Soon all three bags were in her car. Tomoyo grabbed her car keys and hit the road.
*Syaoron's Apartment*
"I'll call you in the morning, okay?" Meilin said, hugging her cousin. "Have a good time at Yamazaki's party." Syaoron nodded and shut the door as she left. He fell forward on his couch and sighed. "What's the point of celebrating? My mother is dying!"
...We are gathered here today to grieve the loss of Li Yelan...
Syaoron suddenly found himself sitting inside a crowded cathedral. He looked around in awe. His eldest sisters sat next to him, Meilin sat behind him, and everyone appeared to be crying. 'I'm home!' He looked at the sleeping woman inside the casket. 'Mother's dead?' Syaoron stood up from his seat. And stood before the casket. His mother lied motionless.
Suddenly her eyes opened.
Syaoron gasped. "Mother! She's awake!" Meilin got up from her seat and dragged him back to his seat. "Meilin!! Mother's awake!" Everyone turned from Syaoron and looked at the priest.
"Li Yelan was a beautiful, powerful, caring woman..."
Syaoron looked over at the casket. 'She's awake! Why is she pretending to be dead?' Syaoron's jaw practically dropped when he saw his mother rise from the casket and grin evilly at him. Syaoron pointed frantically. "She's alive! Look! It's mother!" But no one would listen to him. No one even looked at him! They all continued to listen to the priest.
"...Her beautiful daughters whom she loved more than anything else in the world..."
Syaoron stood up angrily. "Hey! What about her handsome son??" It seemed as no one heard him; they all continued to listen to the priest.
"You're not my son!" Yelan declared. Syaoron turned to his dead mother. His eyes went wide. "Wh-What do you mean? I'm Li Syaoron, your son!!"
"You may be a Li, but that does not mean you are my family!" Yelan declared. Syaoron looked around at everyone. "Why can't they see me?"
"No one wants anything to do with you, Xiao Lang! It's your fault I'm dead!"
Syaoron laughed. "If you're dead, how are you able to speak to me? And how is it that it's my fault you're dead??"
"I'm dead, Syaoron." Yelan smirked. "All because you wouldn't come home! You're able to see me now because it's your guilty conscience. You selfish boy! You killed me!"
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Syaoron bolted from his uneasy sleep. He looked around desperately only to find himself back in his apartment lying on his couch. Syaoron sat up and looked at his watch. 4:31 PM. 'Great,' Syaoron thought. 'I have to be at Yamazaki's in less than two hours!'
*Kinomoto Residence*
Sakura held her phone with her right shoulder and right ear as she was talking to Tomoyo. She was putting on her make-up in front of her dresser mirror. "So," Sakura said, putting on the blush. "You going to Yamazaki's?"
"Yea," Tomoyo responded. "But I won't stay long. Just to say good-bye."
"I can't believe you're actually going through this!" Sakura said, grabbing her eyelash-curler from her purse.
"Well it's not like I could've stayed. I mean, after you telling your father I was almost raped. He probably told mother by now."
Sakura seemed somewhat shocked. "So you aren't mad at me?"
Tomoyo sighed. "I was gonna leave either way."
"And you never did tell me why you were leaving." Sakura added.
Tomoyo shrugged as she held her cell phone with one hand and steered the steering wheel with the other. "Well, my mom probably knows what happened prom night by now... and the rest is complicated. I... I just can't be here when Eriol wakes up!"
"Why on earth not? I thought you wanted him to-"
"That's right! I 'thought'! Well I thought wrong! Sakura!" Tomoyo's eyes began to water. "He's in my nightmares."
"Tomoyo," Sakura said calmly. "What happened today at the hospital?"
"I couldn't go through it! It was so strange! I wanted him to be okay and I still do. But I don't want anything to do with him!"
"Tomoyo, it's understandable!" Sakura threw her eyelash-curler in her purse and grabbed her eye shadow. "After everything you two have been through! You just need to get away."
"I hope that's all it is. Well, I've gotta charge my cell phone. I'll see you tonight?"
"And then it's good-bye." Sakura said sadly.
"Not good-bye Sakura, just a temporary leave of absence is all." Tomoyo laughed as she hung up.
Sakura hung up and grabbed her purse. She examined herself once more in the mirror before leaving. She wore a black dress shirt and a khaki skirt with pink sandals. Her hair was down to her mid-back and straightened. She was ready.
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A/N: I know, I know... I bet plenty of you are upset that I made Eriol's awakening just a dream!! And Yelan?? Dying?? Well, Syaoron's convinced she is! Well, if I hadn't have done the things I've done in this chapter, it wouldn't have made this next chapter fall into place!! MUAHAHAHAHAHA *cough! cough!* !!! Well, I just wanna bring up my second fanfiction, "The Witness". Give it good support and reviews as you have done with this story!!
Well, look out for chapter sixteen (Can you believe it?? Sixteen chapters!! WOO!!)! Much love (and please try and make time to read "The Witness"),
-Cher
Ps, The songs I have used in this story so far are (in order of appearance):
"Keep Myself Awake"- Black Lab
"Don't Wanna Try"- Frankie J
"If You're Not The One"- Daniel Bedingfield (Durrr!! That's the title of my story!)
"Grey Matter"- Jewel
Reviews never get old, so why don't you write me one!! ^_~