A/N: sorry 4 da late update/// I've been pretty busy :(
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Chapter 10: Smile
The auburn-haired girl sat on her comfortable bed, thinking, and conditionally scratching her head in confusion. The bright sunrays shot through the satin sheet of her curtain, and a soft breeze ran through her, bringing the first signs of summer.
The girl sighed thoughtfully, and got up to her feet. Li castle is sure big, but everything green—it's just too much.
As she yawned, Sakura walked out of her room, finding the whole castle busying muttering about, and as she skipped hiccups of whispers, she slowly found out the reason behind all these excitement.
Syaoran Li is hosting a ball for his "triumph" return.
Sakura snorted at the thought of "triumph", and chuckled lightly. A funny face of a messy chestnut-haired boy with bright, piercing amber eyes rolled his eyes at her, and smirked.
"Syaoran…" Sakura thought sadly. She no longer remembered him as a funny, bright prince, but as someone who is broken-hearted and sad.
"Sakura?" a voice muttered numbly from behind her. Instantly she whirled around to meet the same amber eyes and smirk, but something's up with the expression—it was—it was almost like—
"Sakura, the ball is tonight." Syaoran blurted out.
Sakura turned her eyes slowly, focusing all her attention on what other crap the prince is going to pull out.
"Well…" Syaoran stopped for a second. "Is, is it ok if you don't come?"
Whoa. That's pretty straight forward. Sakura thought angrily. Great. I'm the stupid Kinomoto guest here, and I'm not even allowed to go to a stupid dance.
"It's not like I ever wanted to go, idiot." Sakura stared. A light smirk began to appear on Syaoran's face as he nodded, and went away.
"Stupid Li." Sakura murmured. Why had he not invited me to his party? Aren't I the love of his life? She wondered. Syaoran Li, currently, was thinking the same thing.
Yeah… Why hadn't he invited her to his welcoming party?
A piece of broken glass fell from the window, landed on the floor, and crashed into thousands of little pieces. Syaoran stared blankly, and sighed.
He was just like those pieces. Broken. Sad. And forgotten.
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"The party is tonight!" Several Barbie squeaked. Sakura leaned against the wall, watching their conversation in interest.
"Oh no," Violetta, the purple-haired girl said mockingly, "the Kinomoto whore is here! I hope she's not going to that ball."
"Well, I'm not!" Sakura snapped loudly. Five curious heads turned toward her, and stared blankly.
"Are you happy now??? The famous Kinomoto princess isn't going to a Li ball! Is that what you want? Oh I'm sure it is!" Sakura yelled sharply.
The Barbie girls looked at each other, and burst into laughter. Sakura stood there, hot-faced, red-haired, and her fingers crunched.
If I hold absolutely no responsibilities at all, I will beat these girls up! One by one—until they for beg me to stop.
"You know, Violetta," one of the blonde-haired girls said sweetly, "The ball is in 15 minutes."
"OH NO!" Violetta shrieked, "I haven't changed into my perfect, beautiful purple night-gown yet! Oh, let's go! Will you just hurry up, Kitty?!"
Sakura stood there hotly as the girls rushed away. "Stupid Li." She murmured under her breath. As she headed directly for her room, she stopped abruptly to look back at those girls. They were tall, blonde (except Violetta), beautiful, and slutty—just the girls that that perverted Li wants.
No, he doesn't. A little voice argued back.
Oh, yes he does. Sakura said heavily.
You're just jealous because they got invited to the ball, and you didn't.
Am not! Sakura screamed.
Are too. The voice whispered calmly.
"I AM NOT JEALOUS!" Sakura really screamed this time.
"Jealous of what?" Another voice cut in. Sakura lifted her head but to see a tall, handsome man with messy chestnut hair and piercing, blood cuddling eyes, and smiled sheepishly.
"I'm not jealous of anything." She replied stupidly.
Syaoran stared. He opened his mouth to say something, but then shut it tight again. The cumbersome moment between the two was unbearable, until-
"Aren't you going to be late for the ball?" Sakura asked.
"THE BALL!! Oh yes, the ball!" Syaoran laughed, and scratched his head. "About that… um…" he paused for a moment. "I have been thinking… of what I said this morning to you, and I said that it's best if you don't come?"
Sakura nodded. She sees nothing of where that leads to.
"Well, uh, I've changed my mind." Syaoran said straight-forwardly. "I want you to come. With me."
Now it was Sakura's turn to be scratching her head. "With you?"
"Yeah, with me." Syaoran made a loud attempt to emphasize the "with".
"But why a change of mind?"
"I've been thinking about us, especially you, actually, particularly you, and somehow… I just couldn't manage to get you out of my mind." Syaoran confessed.
"There's 5 minutes till the ball starts. Why now?" Sakura asked again.
"Look, Kinomoto. I have confessed my love to you. You have rejected it. Now you demand for me to escort you home-"
"I didn't demand for you to escort me, Syaoran." Sakura said sharply.
"Oh yeah? Then who is going to escort you then?" Syaoran asked, rather hotly.
"I don't care. Anyone but you. Now. Good-bye. I'd better be seeing someone, hint, hint, not you, by the end of Friday." Sakura snapped and left for her room.
"But, Sakura!" Syaoran called after.
"There is no but, mister! I've had it with you and all your Barbie. I hate this castle. I hate everyone and everything in it! I HATE IT ALL!" Sakura shouted out loud, and slammed the door shut. As her glances brought her into her pink room, a beautiful, scarlet letter stood peacefully on top of her cream table with a red rose next to it.
As she approached it carefully, she found it addressed to, "Sakura Kinomoto, my One and Only." On the back of the letter was the seal of the insignia of the wolf's tooth, and as she opened the envelope, a necklace fell to her feet.
Dear Sakura,
I'm sure you will be wondering why I have excluded you from my party. Well, the first reason is that—you are my first and ever love, and you are the hardest person to get over, to forget, to argue with… I deeply apologize for my behaviors to you in the forest and in this castle, but every time I gaze at your face, I find it hard for me to concentrate on my works, as well as in my social life. Sakura, you have declined me, even though I vow to be loyal and faithful to you. I can imagine why you have declined me. Is it because of my arrogant, bold natures? Well, I am sorry, but I am who I am, and I will not change that for anyone.
You might think that my tone is very selfish, but it's not. As I said before, I have not invited you to my party is because of the very pain that you had already caused me, and that, well, I wouldn't know what to say to you.
I didn't want to say hello…
However, if you wish, you can still come to my party, as I have already thought it over. It would be best for us to go together, as partners. In four more days I will be vowing good-bye to you, and in those precious days, I want to be with you, I want to know you more, I want you to know me more than just that arrogant, cold prince. If you don't come, I will be greatly disappointed, because, well, I would never confess this to anyone face to face, but—
You have the smile that would light up a room.
The decision is yours; please get to know me better before you leave,
Always and forever, your Little Wolf
Sakura leaned against her door as she read the letter. Not very touching, she thought, but very expressive. The Li prince wasn't all that at all, he wasn't what he said he was—
"Sakura?" the door opened suddenly. As Sakura turned around, she smiled. Not just any smile. But a special one for a special one.
"You have the smile that would light up a room," the voice whispered, and leaned forward to taste her lips one more time…
"Damn you, Li."
A/N: Ok, I'm really sorry that this chap wasn't that good. I'm sorry, I just can't write chaps THAT good any more. I mean, the sentence "you have the smile that would light up a room" is lyk, totally stolen from Cherished in My Heart, and you know how good that sentence is that fic was. If you don't, go read it. I mean, you don't have to, but it's used really good :)
Neways, I hope this chap with be the 5th to end chap… or however the word phrasing. This story will have 15 chapters, I have decided, maybe less, maybe more, maybe a sequel. I'm really getting tired of writing 4 Eyes of Hate (I love writing Cherished in My Heart better), but I will do the best I can ok? Thank you 4 all of your support :) *oh yeah, the next few chapters are gonna be very romantic, SO WATCH OUT!*
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