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       Last scene:

            "What!? What kind name is that!" Syaoran frowned, "he's a dog! And you call him what? Winter?"

       "So what? Look, he's snowy white!" Sakura explained, "like the winter snow."

       "Alright, whatever..." Syaoran smirked, "Huyu..."

       "Huyu!" Sakura rubbed her nose with the puppy's, "youshi youshi..."

Chapter 12

       "Yesterday was so close..." Rika sighed, "you almost said it!"

       "Did I?" Chiharu covered her mouth with her hands. "Annoying Syaoran isn't really a wise thing to do... got to be careful from now on..."

       "But... Do you really think we should keep it from her? I mean..." Rika bit her finger. "I mean... they are starting to like each other, is it ok that we just hand her to him like that?"

       "There's no other choices... and she will realize it someday anyways." Chiharu thought aloud. "We better keep our butts clean, remember when he accepted it? He told us not to tell her that he is behind it."

       "Ah, you just said it!"

       "Did I? Did I say Syaoran is... behind it?" Chiharu's voice shuddered. 'Did… I?'

       "Mm, and you just repeated it again..."

       "Oh no... But… It's ok, I mean, there're only you and me here..."

       "Um..."

       "Now what? Stop freaking me out!" Chiharu's heartbeat sped up.

       "Sa... kura..." Rika pointed behind Chiharu's back.

       "Sakura..." 'There isn't many people in the company with the name of Sakura, but please, please don't be that Sakura!' Chiharu turned around slowly, preying...

       "So, it's all true then." Somehow, Sakura didn't feel angry, but sad instead, "he was the one making the others fooling me."

       Rika and Chiharu finally told Sakura about why everyone did that to her on April first, they told her that Syaoran was the one behind everything.

       "It's not really... like that Sakura! You see... he wasn't planning it, he only permitted..."

       "He went too far... he actually pretended to be innocent and cared about me..." Sakura bit her lower lip and smirked, "he must be laughing right now, I was thanking him after all that he had done to me..." After spending few months here, she is not that old Barbie doll any more, she has grew stronger, especially on how to control her feelings...

       "I'm sorry Sakura..." Chiharu held Sakura's hands, "you were just starting to like him a little and I..."

       "I don't like him, I never did and I never will!" Sakura shouted, "I hate him, I Hate Him!"

       "Sakura calm down..." Rika hugged her. 'We are so dead...' she glared at Chiharu, but her eyes stopped on the guy standing behind her instead. "Sakura... He's... Syaoran is..."

       "Don't mention his name!" Sakura broke away from Rika and turned around, she looked right into Syaoran's eyes.

       Syaoran was just about to go out for a meeting. He heard the last part of their conversation, by accident. He closed his eyes and swallowed bitterly. Syaoran decided not to explain and walked away.

       Rika pulled Sakura's sleeve. "Sakura, aren't you, aren't you going to tell him you were mad and those words were only..."

       "NO! I meant them! I meant every word I said! I just didn't know how to say it since he's the boss here. But then he heard it today anyways, saves my time too." Seeing that Syaoran doesn't even want to explain, Sakura's temper reached an alarming height, "I'm strong..." she whispered to her self, but she couldn't help but to let her tears flow down freely.

       "Don't cry, please Sakura..."

       "I'm ok, I'm... please excuse me, I need some time alone..." Sakura wiped her tears away roughly and walked out the office.

       "You should be happy Sakura." She told her self. "What you said was exactly what you meant to say! Refusing him is what you always wanted." 'But why...' the other self asked inside, 'why are you feeling heart breaking?'

       'Just when I finally started to get use to him, to like... no, I don't like him, I don't...' Sakura whimpered, "Do you, Sakura?"

       "Sakura? Oh right, do you have the drawing for..." Yukito saw Sakura in the meeting room all alone. He went up to her and asked, thought she was working, "Sakura?"

       "Ah?" Sakura stood up, "yes?"

       "Have you been crying?" Yukito noticed her nose was red and eyes were a bit swollen up.

       "No, I was, I had a cold." Sakura answered.

       "Oh." Yukito knew it was more than that, but he didn't mention it. "Then you better go home and get some rest, or Syaoran is going to be really worried."

       Hearing the name being said again and again, she still couldn't help it. "I'm... Mr. Tsukishiro. I... I'm not that strong at all, am I?" she sobbed silently.

       "Sakura…" Yukito patted her back gently, "go home and get some rest."

       "Hai."

       "Syaoran? What did you do this time?" Yukito found Syaoran daydreaming in his office, "you actually made Sakura cry like that. What, finally got over with her, playboy?"

       "I'm not a playboy, I only like one girl, alright?" Syaoran shouted, didn't feel like talking at that very moment.

       "Yeah, one at a time."

       "What's your problem!"

       "Nothing, just jealous." Yukito sat down on the sofa. "What happened?"

       "She found out about April Fools." Syaoran muttered.

       "Already?" Yukito straightened up. "Then go tell her you didn't meant for it to end up the way it did!"

       "Don't lecture me!" Syaoran looked away, "explaining just makes it worse."

       "I thought you were thoughtful, but inside you are clueless... if you really love her, go tell her the truth. You don't want her to think of you as a liar, do you?!"

       "But..."

       "You like her or not?" Yukito stood up, as if he has finished his words and was about to leave. "If not, then don't scream in my face when I ask her out."

       "Yukito!" Syaoran stared at his cousin. "I'll go talk to her when she calms down a bit. She won't hear a word I'm saying right now anyways."

       "You better, before it's too late."

Thanks for reading.

J