Chapter 5: Parent's Night
Start of POV Sequence
Syaoran: Okay, so Tomoyo and Eriol weren't able to get to America because Tomoyo forgot to take her new Passport picture and then, she wasn't happy about it, so it's been about three weeks since I called her. It's now Parents Night and Sakura seems... a mix between happy and depressed.
And I have a feeling it has something to do with that guy..
Jusenori.
Sakura: I didn't tell anyone.. Not a soul... I just couldn't tell anyone that I was going out with Jusenori tonight. It just seemed... wrong, ya know.
By the way... I can't find my Twin Card...
Mei-lin: Okay... my MOTHER, Syaoran's mother, Sakura's BROTHER and father, plus Tomoyo and ERIOL and what do you get?
Can you spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E?
Jusenori: I haven't told anyone but Kawaii that I was going out with Sakura tonight. I feel too happy to tell people that. It would just ruin the thought.
But... I wonder if Clow Reed knows that I really love her.
Kawaii: Okay, here's the plan. Jusenori goes out with Sakura, I fish for a date with Syaoran. Then, Sakura will have a blast and Syaoran will have so much fun that when they get back home, both will be too tired to talk to each other. Then, Jusenori's gonna pick up Sakura to go to school the next morning and...
That's the Plan... and well... Clow Reed did say to use Jealously.
Eriol: Okay, on the plane and gettin' ready to go into the American airport. But I'm not thinking about that right now. I'm thinking about Tomoyo, who just fell asleep on my shoulder. I'm thinking about how cute she is when she smiles in her sleep. I'm thinking about what she's going to think up to get to Sakura's. I'm thinking...
That I do too much thinking.
Touya: Okay, so I'm going to see Sakura tonight and I'm gonna try to get her to tell me why she hasn't been calling, e-mailing, mailing, or flying to Japan just to give her brother a big ol' hug.
Also, if she has a boyfriend (s)
End of POV Sequence
Sakura and Jusenori walked into Sakura's dorm and she shut the door quietly behind them. All of the curtains had been drawn and the lights were off. She dropped her bookbag by the door and pressed the light on her digital watch and frowned.
'7:30pm! How long HAVE we been in the library?!?!?!?!?!?!?' she thought. It had been Jusenori's idea to study in the library after school, a pre-thing of togetherness before the date. Now that they were in the dorm, it seemed like nothing. Ju-chan actually made Sakura laugh harder than it did if she were with Eriol and was playing tricks on Syaoran.
'Syaoran...' she thought. That was weird. It was strange, but she hadn't thought about him all night. Today, he was very secluded and wished not to speak with anyone. Mei-lin just explained that the Li Clan was coming. She had been a little moody herself, but she just said that she was PMSing royally.
"Well, I guess no one's home." Sakura started.
"Yeah, I guess not." Jusenori put one hand on her cheek. He leaned over to kiss her when a huge light came on in her head and Syaoran's face entered her mind's eye.
No... wait. The light was really on...
and Syaoran, in a black tux, was right behind Jusenori...
Syaoran closed his eyes , then opened them after five seconds. Real... This was real.. this was all real. He cleared his throat and for a moment, Sakura saw hurt.
Then anger...
Finally envy and jealously.
And ending with...
...with...
Sakura would have cocked her head if Jusenori wasn't there, still holding her cheek.
She couldn't tell.
Jusenori dropped his hand on Sakura's face and turned to him, with one arm around her waist.
"I just wanted to say that Touya and your dad were here. They just went downstairs to the auditorium to get 'acquainted.'" Syaoran explained. "I was going down there myself... I think my mom and aunt might be there."
Sakura swallowed. 'Please just don't suggest that we...'
"Sakura, let's go down and I can meet your parents." Jusenori looked to Syaoran. "Do you mind our company downstairs, Syaoran."
"Li... call me Li."
Sakura bit her tongue. Syaoran only allowed certain people call him Syaoran. To everyone else, his name was Li.
And that ment that he didn't trust you.
For Sakura, that sentence had ended with a yet. She had a feeling that he wouldn't ever trust Jusenori.
Jusenori smiled ruefully. "Li."
"Jusenori, I don't think we're dressed for the occasion." Sakura was getting sick to her stomach. She was searching the ends of the earth for ideas.
"Nonsense. I can go get something from my dorm and you can get changed into a cute little dress here." he kissed her cheek.
Both Sakura and Syaoran flinched at the sudden moment of affection but the aftermath of it was Sakura blushed, yet felt uncomfortable, and Syaoran's anger bubbled in his heart.
"I'll be right back." he opened the door and as soon as it slammed, Syaoran turned on his heel and started walking to the hall of rooms.
"You could just give him a chance, Li." Sakura's voice stopped him dead in his tracks. He turned slowly, and Sakura could swear that he could hear her heart beating.
"Syaoran. I told you before, you can call me Syaoran." he said.
"Yeah, well. By the way your treating Jusenori, I thought you ment me, too."
"Humph. By the way your treating me, I guess it would be right to think I ment you." he remarked. Sakura almost gasped, but he continued. Very softly. "But I didn't." he turned to walk again.
"That still doesn't give me a reason for why you don't like Jusenori." she narrowed her eyes. "I... I actually think your jealousy of him.
(ooooh)
Syaoran whipped around. "ME! WHY?"
Sakura added a squall to her face. "Maybe your jealous because he has something you don't, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what!"
She tried to rush right through him, but Syaoran grabbed her wrists. She balled up her fists and tried to pull away, but Syaoran was stronger.
"But still. ME! Jealous of that GAKI! THAT PRETTY BOY?!?!?!?!?!?"
Sakura stopped struggling for a moment, knowing the right retort to that question. "You really shouldn't talk, your a really cute guy your basically a pretty boy your-..." she bit her tongue to keep herself from talking.
She wasn't suppose to say that.
Syaoran looked down for a moment, apparently in thought. A smile played with the ends of his mouth when he looked up a little, with the bangs crossing into his eyes. It was a very devious look on him, kinda playful in a dangerous way.
He looked at her, full in the face, his eyes narrowed and a slowly a smirk formed on his face.
"You think I'm cute?" Syaoran started walking toward her.
Sakura felt her face heating; she waltzed back, dancing from his eyes. "N-N-No...." She tried to cover her face with her hands, but Syaoran wasn't letting her. He was reading her face.
"Your right, you don't think I'm cute." Syaoran's face was lighting up by the moment.
Sakura wasn't sure if she liked what he was going to say.
"You think I'm REALLY cute!" Syaoran said gleefully. Sakura could help but smile a little, but she squelched it fast. He lowered his head to her left ear.
"Does this mean you have potential feelings for me?" Sakura felt her skin burn and when he brought his head back up, he had stopped smiling, but his eyes were sparkling and in that tuxedo, he looked DANGEROUSLY HOT. She turned her head away from him, her eyes were tearing. She had backed up into the wall. He put her hands above her head and whispered into her ear, his lips tracing her cheek.
"Sakura... if you love me, why do you put yourself through all this pain? We CAN be together, just let me explain it to my mothe-.."
"NO!" Sakura exclaimed, taking him by surprise. "NO! NO! NO!"
"Why?!? Why?!?" Syaoran's voice had more hurt and pain in it than anger. "IF I FREAKIN' LOVE YOU, WHY DON'T YOU JUST..." Syaoran calmed down. He dropped her hands. Sakura was breathing deeply and shaking something terrible. He knew that if he touched her again, she would break down and cry.
"Just, at least... let me comfort you." He, very slowly, brought his hands down to her waist. He rubbed her back, stroking the back of her head. Her bare legs from her short skirt rubbed against his pants. Her rocked with her a little, swaying to a beat in his head. Her head was on his chest, and everytime her bent his neck, he would catch a whiff of he shampoo... a mix of exotic fruits and wild flowers. Her hair had actually grown about half and inch since she cut it and she had uncurled the slight curl at the ends. He took her chin again.
"Sakura..." he whispered. He cupped her face and brought her face to his. She pulled her neck away and to the side. She slowly pulled away, not wanting to lose the warmth of his body on hers.
"I gotta... gotta get dressed." she smiled ruefully. "Sorry."
"Fine." Syaoran agreed. Sakura turned to walk away, but then, she felt a soft pat on her backside. She turned around to see Syaoran, giving her a guy-likes-what-he-sees look.
"Don't be long..."
She smiled. "I won't be." She went to her room and found Kero-kun, arms folded, and his cute little pudgy face distorted into a frown, on the edge of the bed.
"What were you doing Sakura?"
Sakura scowled. "You should be happy. I pushed him away."
"Exactly!" Kero exclaimed. "You love him, right? Don't lie to me..."
Sakura sighed.
"Your going out with Jusenori tonight, yet... here's what I don't get..." He cleared his throat. "YOU LOVE THE GAKI!!! What's WRONG with you, SAKURA?!?!?!?!?"
Sakura's squall (Sakura gets a lot of these) deepened. "What's it to you?!?"
Kero rolled his eyes. "Nothin'... come on, get dressed."
***
Sakura watched the elevator tick down from 3 to 2. She was the only barrier between Syaoran and Jusenori, and if a fight broke out, she didn't think that her dress would survive it. It was a long, binding, green dress with the turtleneck, no sleeves, the heart with wings on her chest was only a shape, for it was cut out, showing more cleavage than she expected and a few little yellow lightning bolts going in certain places. Her hair was half up, half down, two squares of green cloth holding two buns on each side of her head.
Luckily, if a fight did break out, she had two long slits going from her thighs.
Unfortunately, there were the only three on the elevator, and they had to go from 2-1-cafeteria-auditorium-gym-pool-Dance Hall. She took out two matching green and yellow sparkled fan out of her green purse. It was going to be a long night.
"Where is she?!?!??!?" Tomoyo and Touya asked simultaneously. Fujitaka and Yukito rolled there eyes. Some things will never change.
Mei-lin was also starting to worry. Manoa, Sanori, Fuutie, Fanren, Feimei and some of the other Elders were getting antsy. Mei-lin wrung her hands as she watched the elevator floors.
Xiefa studied Mei-lin's face. She saw the need to please, sadness, heartbreak, and pain. But inside all of this, she saw Mei-lin's true beauty. She saw Sakura in Mei-Lin's thoughts and though, her outside personality is telling her to hate Kinomoto Sakura... the inside loves her like a sister. Xiefa was about to give Mei-Lin a hug when the elevator doors opened.
Syaoran, Sakura and Jusenori walked out. Sakura dropped her fans and ran to Touya. He hugged his baby sister and held her at arms length.
"Look at you... you look..." He spotted her dress, with it's 'hole' and frowned. "You look cold, Sakura. Do you want my jacket?" He began to take off his tuxedo jacket. She shook her head. She smiled as Yukito handed her back her fans and put an arm around her shoulders. Sakura frowned inwardly. Something was seriously wrong if Yukito and Touya weren't touching by now.
"No, I'm fine, Touya."
"Are you sure, I mean..." He looked back down at the hole...
"Really, I'm fine."
"But..." Sakura hugged Touya again, cutting him off.
"Just... shut up." Yukito lead them to the table. Since there was no more than one big table left, the Li and Kinomoto families + Tomoyo, Eriol and Jusenori had to share it. Sakura took a seat and found herself in-between Jusenori and Syaoran. She inwardly groaned and looked behind herself at the circular dance floor. Usually, she would be happy if she got to dance, but now the thought of Yukito and Touya crossed her mind. She would have to ask one of them- preferably Yukito- later. She bit her bottom lip as she realized that she spaced out by watching the dance floor and was now coming back to Earth, but had no time to wonder because Kawaii took the stage with a microphone.
Kawaii smiled, her long, gold dress that matched her eyes. "Hi everyone! I'm Kadowski Kawaii and I'm your hostess tonight!"
Sakura joined in with the applause, still looking warily at the dance floor. She had a funny feeling in her stomach, which she couldn't decipher if it was good or bad. She looked up and Touya was looking at her funny. They caught eyes, as he looked to Syaoran.
She raised an eyebrow.
He looked to Jusenori.
She frowned.
He raised an eyebrow.
She shrugged it off, thinking that it was probably her dress again.
"Okay, our festivities tonight are mainly Freshman parents meeting and teachers telling the parents how wonderful we are."
A small murmur of laughter.
"I hope that Freshman will show their parents around the school and their dorms. Hopefully, they will also tell who their roommates are and how they are getting along with them." Kawaii glanced at Sakura and winked. A lot of people didn't catch it, but Sakura had that funny feeling in her stomach again.
"The first part of our Parents' night will be mostly a tour de school. Then, when everyone is done, we will have dancing, eating and festivities. Finally, we will show all parents that live in farther places to guestrooms and then we'll call it a night. Tomorrow, we will have something our school likes to call 'The Ultimate Challenge!' Mainly, every freshman will take one member of the family to join the Family Team. There will be a Freshman Team and A Family Team. If the Freshman Team wins, that member of the family will have something we call 'Consequences.' I will spin a wheel of doom and what ever that wheel stops on, all the family members must do. If the Family Team wins... well... I won't even go there..." Kawaii grinned demonically. "So... have a good time... we'll start the dancing part of the night in an hour and a half. Go!"
Sakura smiled as Touya helped her out of her seat. He took her hand and lead her to the elevator.
"So, what about that Freshman vs. Family thing? How 'bout you take me on, Sakura?" Touya grinned. Yukito rolled his eyes as he caught up with them.
"Why do you want to beat Sakura? Isn't she just too cute to do that?" Yukito asked. He rubbed his eyes.
"Are you tired, Yu-kun?" Sakura asked.
"No, just hungry." Yukito smiled. Suddenly, Sakura's bag rumbled.
"Sakura, was that you?" Touya asked. That was a little loud, even for Sakura's standards.
"No, it wasn't me, it was..." All of a sudden, realization took over her and she ran to the bathroom. She locked the door behind her, after she was aware that no one was in there. She went over to the nearest sink and dumped out her bags contents. One of the last things that came out was Kero, who had lipstick marks all over his face.
"Next time, cap that thing properly, would ya?" He rubbed his face, but it smeared all over it, making his usually gold head a luscious hot pink. Sakura turned on the faucet and put him into it.
"HEY! THAT'S HOT!!!!"
"SORRY! I'M NOT THE ONE THAT TRIED TO SECRETLY PUT MYSELF INTO A POCKETBOOK!" Sakura yelled back. She calmly turned on the cold water and ripped off a paper towel. She wiped his face off and turned off the water. Then she sat him on her purse and frowned.
"Explain."
"Explain what?" Kero asked.
"Why you were in my purse on the most traumatizing day of my life!" Sakura wrung her hands.
"What's to explain? The whole Parent's Day thing is really a banquet. I was hungry!" Kero explained. "Besides, I felt something. Anyway, why are you so high-strung?"
"Well... Touya, Jusenori and Syaoran are all in the same room. Yukito is ignoring Touya... which is really weird. Plus Mei-lin and the Li family and my family and Yukito, Tomoyo, Eriol..." she picked up her lip gloss and frowned. "You ate this, didn't you?"
"Hey, you heard my stomach, I was hungry. Anyway, Eriol? Jusenori and Kawaii?"
"How do you know about Kawaii?" Sakura asked.
"Hey Sakura, are you still missing the Twin Card?"
Sakura slapped her forehead. She had been so wrapped up in the whole ordeal of Syaoran that she had forgotten that she was missing a Sakura Card. She frowned at him.
"What are you implying about Jusenori and Kawaii? So what, there twins." Sakura shrugged. "Coincidence."
"Yeah, a real coincidence considering that they are the only twins in the school." Kero-kun crossed his chubby arms.
"You have no way of knowing that." Sakura fought back.
"Yeah, I do. While you were out wondering what you were going to do about Syaoran, I was looking through file cabinets and stuff, looking up people's names and finding out the what's what. Hey, did you know Syaoran's gett-?"
"Married? Save it. Anyway, what did you find out on Kawaii and Jusenori?" Sakura asked.
Kero frowned. "That's just the thing. I found nothing. They weren't registered for the school." Kero said. "But, when you walked into the door with Jusenori, I felt something like half a power, so I snuck into your bag. I felt the other half only when Kawaii took center stage. The only thing that didn't make sense was that no one else can control the cards but you and the person who had them last who was..."
Sakura gasped. "Clow Reed."
'So that's what he did...' Kero thought. 'Woah.'
"But, you know Clow Reed is dead and had been reincarnated into a physical body that can easily become close to the Cards and we call him..." Kero started.
Sakura nodded. "Eriol. But why would HE make one card into human bodies? A practical joke, maybe?"
Kero looked away and shrugged.
"Kero! You know something I don't! What is it?!?"
"No, I don't know anything, Sakura." He lied, "By the way, if you stay in the bathroom too long, people are going to get ideas." Kero grinned.
Sakura frowned. He was right.
There was a knock on the door. "Um.. excuse me? But can you open the door? I have to go to the bathroom."
Sakura sighed, put all of her belongings back in her bag with Kero, who was now a doll and opened the door for the girl. She stormed out herself.
"Sakura?" Yukito ran up to her, followed by Touya. "Why are you so angry?"
Sakura rolled her eyes. "Forget it, let's go to my dormroom."
Touya frowned, and Fujitaka shrugged. He patted Touya on the shoulder.
"Hormones." He walked ahead of his son. Touya's frown deepened.
"Hey, Dad!" He ran toward him. "Whaddya mean, HORMONES! Sakura doesn't have hormones!!!!"
Sakura smiled, despite her lack of knowledge in the Jusenori and Kawaii department.
They walked to the dormroom, passing the RA and fellow classmates. "Touya, have you seen Syaoran?" Sakura asked. She was realizing that he wasn't anyway near the dormitory. She put the key into the lock and began to turn it.
"Yeah, he said something about showing his family to his apartment."
"WHAT!" But Sakura's fingers were working faster than her brain and before she knew it, the door was open. She closed her eyes, afraid of what she might see and when she opened them...
She was face to face with Syaoran.
He looked at Sakura and as they locked eyes, so did Touya. Touya narrowed his eyes.
Sakura began to speak, "Um.. this doesn't look like a good ti-..."
"Syaoran!!! Syaoran!" Sanori walked out of the hall of rooms with Manoa and Mei-lin. "I think that we should check the.. Oh my..." Sanori stopped short. "Syaoran? Who's that?"
"WE KNEW IT!!!" Fuutie ran out of Sakura's room who was followed by Fanren and Feimei who held the Sakura book.
"Syaoran's got another female roommate!" Fanren yelled proudly.
"And.... it's the CARD MISTRESS!!!" Feimei stated.
Manoa turned to Syaoran. "What's the meaning of this, Syaoran?" she narrowed her eyes. Syaoran gulped. Sakura froze at the door.
Touya spoke first. "What exactly is a Card Mistress, Sakura?"
Xiefa racked her brain for an answer. "Uh... uh... a Card Mistress is a person who... who is the main dealer in... in... a game that Sakura and Syaoran played ever since they first met... yeah... see... in a deck there are fifty-two cards. The... the thing is... they were... they are very special and were created by...a-a-a- p-powerful guy... yeah. The thing was our mother and Manoa wanted them... a lot, because they were so beautiful... which is why Syaoran tried to beat Sakura up for them... but.... she ended up being okay... 'cause he really didn't want to... and now... Feimei here, was trying to bring the cards back to our mother... but that won't be happening... because they're Sakura's!!! If Syaoran won the ultimate game, he would have had the cards, but the person that they decided to be judge beat him and Sakura won... yeah... that's it." Xiefa babbled.
'Hey, at least I'm not really lying...' she thought. Besides, she was getting sick of her sisters messing up their little brother's life, anyway. It wasn't as if Sakura and Syaoran were romantically involved, right?
"Excuse us for a moment." She pushed Fuutie into the bathroom and put a chair on the doorknob. Then, she bolted Fanren in Syaoran's room and Feimei went into Mei-lin's after she took the Sakura book.
Sakura walked fully into the apartment, followed by her family and friends. She looked toward Manoa and saw a scary glint in her eyes.
"Young lady," Manoa began. "If you are having trouble finding you dorm, then I suggest that you find the nearest RA and leave this place immediately."
"Ma'am. This is my dormroom." Sakura stated, just as edgy.
Manoa narrowed her eyes. "I suggest you change it then, because you aren't welcome here." Manoa replied.
"Yes. She. Is." Syaoran let every syllable roll off his tongue like liquid. Syaoran was tense. If someone touched him right now, he would probably break. Sakura bit her own tongue. She was afraid that she might yell at him, Mei-lin's mother, or burst into tears.
"This is Mei-lin's, Sakura's, and my own dormroom. We are roommates. We do not make the rules of the way they put people together, we just live there. So what if the Card Mistress is my roommate?" Syaoran said.
Touya raised an eyebrow.
"He's your WHAT!" He took Sakura's shoulder and spun her around. "Didn't you read the Ten Commandments of Touya? The very last one was..."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah... but you really didn't think I would follow all of them did you?" Sakura grinned. Touya frowned... which one's exactly DID she break?
"Back to the task at hand." Sanori replied. "Syaoran, you are suppose to be spending quality time with you bride-to-be. We are not trying to hurt you, we're just trying to keep everything together."
Tomoyo and Eriol gave each other a sideways glance.
Sakura turned pale.
"Whoa... Wait, they are suppose to be getting hitched?" Touya looked troubled. Touya opened his mouth to say more when Kawaii burst in the door.
"Oh... hi Sakura... I was... just gonna... help you... with... uh... I mean... I... uh..." Kawaii stammered. Clearly, she was out of breath.
'She must have run, like, a million stairs.' Sakura realized.
"Good Lady." Manoa spoke again. "I realized that you might be another roommate, but..."
"Oh.. me? No, no, no... it's just that.... Sakura can... move into my apartment if she likes." Sakura caught Kawaii's eye. "Ye..Yeah... I could- I could do that." They both nodded idiotically. "I could do that..."
"Sakura, you don't really have to move out." Syaoran told her. She looked up to see that his eyes were pained.
"It might work out for the best." She bit her bottom lip and ruefully smiled.
"Yeah." he said, hoarsely. He coughed a little and cleared his throat.
"Well, now that that's over and done with!" Kawaii grabbed Sakura hand. "She can sleep over my house tonight. I have extra double beds in my apartment. Plus... I have a big living room. We'll bunk out, right?" She looked into Sakura's eyes. Sakura got the picture.
"Right! Let me just get a few things." Sakura ran to her room and took out her bag. There were very few things she had not unpacked, so she scrambled around her room, picking up enough stuff for about a week. She got to her dresser and stopped. On the vanity was the key. She didn't want it to choke her with the turtle neck. She pulled the ring off of her left ring finger and placed it by the key. She suddenly felt naked, as if a part of her was missing. She shook off the feeling and left the room, though she was absentmindedly rubbing her left ring finger.
"What are you doing?" Xiefa was leaning in the shadows, guarding the rooms her sisters were in.
"I'm... uh... I'm leaving the house." Sakura replied.
"But you love him... and you know you do."
Sakura choked back a sob. Her body was slightly shaking.
"And I know about your secret.... it's easy to guess." Sakura turned to Xiefa, her tears drying quickly.
Xiefa smirked. "You know, you can talk to me about it."
"I will, I promise."
Sakura walked back out to the living room. "Come on, you guys." She ushered her family and friends out of the room.
Start POV Sequence
Sakura: So Kero thinks that Kawaii and Jusenori and Jusenori are the Twin Card in disguise. He also thinks that Clow Reed is the one behind this.
Of course, he won't give me a reason.
And to think that I'm thinking about this while I'm walking toward my new dormroom and telling Touya that I made a lot of friends so far and how cool it was to have met Kawaii and Jusenori and have my old friends like Tomoyo and Eriol come to the school with me and all, while I'm feeling guilty, for some reason.
Of course, it's not like I haven't followed his rules or anything....
Well, except number 10... but that's over now...
Right?
Syaoran: Okay... what am I going to do. I want to curl up into my bed and sleep for endless hours. I want all of my family to go back to Hong Kong and forget about me for the next four years. I just want to be alone for a while, just by myself.
Oh yeah... with Sakura.
Jusenori: I would tell Sakura that I love her. She's just so... beautiful and charming, lovely and those green eyes...
But what about my promise to Clow Reed?
And... what about... Sya.. Li?
Kawaii: I see something very... interesting going on. Jusenori and Sakura? Sakura and Syaoran? Syaoran and Sakura? This is going to be one hell of a night.
Mei-lin: I feel... empty inside. You know that feeling you get when someone gives you something you don't deserve? But someone else does? Like a beggar on the street sees you eat some hot, fresh food while it's snowing and they're cold. So what do you do? You give them the food and you feel good about yourself for doing it.
But... can I really give Syaoran up to Sakura?
The Card Mistress?
Tomoyo: Okay... so we're headed from the dormroom of Sakura... and Mei-lin... and Syaoran and to Sakura's new one with Kawaii. Something tells me that life is going to get interesting in college
Eriol: I talked to Kawaii and Jusenori and they told me everything was going to plan.
Then why does Jusenori look so disturbed?
Kero: I think that Sakura loves Syaoran. Always has, always will. And though she won't admit it to herself, when I get the next chance, I'm reading her diary. That way, I'll know what's bugging her, considering 'Eriol' won't tell me.
Hey, that' means you'll find out too!
Authoress' Rant: Umm.... she's gone? Don't worry, Syaoran. I'll give you some of my happy purple pills.
Syaoran: (Sweatdrop) gee, thanks.
R&R: Doesn't mean Rolie Polie Olie and concussion... I mean Reduction of the head.
Start of POV Sequence
Syaoran: Okay, so Tomoyo and Eriol weren't able to get to America because Tomoyo forgot to take her new Passport picture and then, she wasn't happy about it, so it's been about three weeks since I called her. It's now Parents Night and Sakura seems... a mix between happy and depressed.
And I have a feeling it has something to do with that guy..
Jusenori.
Sakura: I didn't tell anyone.. Not a soul... I just couldn't tell anyone that I was going out with Jusenori tonight. It just seemed... wrong, ya know.
By the way... I can't find my Twin Card...
Mei-lin: Okay... my MOTHER, Syaoran's mother, Sakura's BROTHER and father, plus Tomoyo and ERIOL and what do you get?
Can you spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E?
Jusenori: I haven't told anyone but Kawaii that I was going out with Sakura tonight. I feel too happy to tell people that. It would just ruin the thought.
But... I wonder if Clow Reed knows that I really love her.
Kawaii: Okay, here's the plan. Jusenori goes out with Sakura, I fish for a date with Syaoran. Then, Sakura will have a blast and Syaoran will have so much fun that when they get back home, both will be too tired to talk to each other. Then, Jusenori's gonna pick up Sakura to go to school the next morning and...
That's the Plan... and well... Clow Reed did say to use Jealously.
Eriol: Okay, on the plane and gettin' ready to go into the American airport. But I'm not thinking about that right now. I'm thinking about Tomoyo, who just fell asleep on my shoulder. I'm thinking about how cute she is when she smiles in her sleep. I'm thinking about what she's going to think up to get to Sakura's. I'm thinking...
That I do too much thinking.
Touya: Okay, so I'm going to see Sakura tonight and I'm gonna try to get her to tell me why she hasn't been calling, e-mailing, mailing, or flying to Japan just to give her brother a big ol' hug.
Also, if she has a boyfriend (s)
End of POV Sequence
Sakura and Jusenori walked into Sakura's dorm and she shut the door quietly behind them. All of the curtains had been drawn and the lights were off. She dropped her bookbag by the door and pressed the light on her digital watch and frowned.
'7:30pm! How long HAVE we been in the library?!?!?!?!?!?!?' she thought. It had been Jusenori's idea to study in the library after school, a pre-thing of togetherness before the date. Now that they were in the dorm, it seemed like nothing. Ju-chan actually made Sakura laugh harder than it did if she were with Eriol and was playing tricks on Syaoran.
'Syaoran...' she thought. That was weird. It was strange, but she hadn't thought about him all night. Today, he was very secluded and wished not to speak with anyone. Mei-lin just explained that the Li Clan was coming. She had been a little moody herself, but she just said that she was PMSing royally.
"Well, I guess no one's home." Sakura started.
"Yeah, I guess not." Jusenori put one hand on her cheek. He leaned over to kiss her when a huge light came on in her head and Syaoran's face entered her mind's eye.
No... wait. The light was really on...
and Syaoran, in a black tux, was right behind Jusenori...
Syaoran closed his eyes , then opened them after five seconds. Real... This was real.. this was all real. He cleared his throat and for a moment, Sakura saw hurt.
Then anger...
Finally envy and jealously.
And ending with...
...with...
Sakura would have cocked her head if Jusenori wasn't there, still holding her cheek.
She couldn't tell.
Jusenori dropped his hand on Sakura's face and turned to him, with one arm around her waist.
"I just wanted to say that Touya and your dad were here. They just went downstairs to the auditorium to get 'acquainted.'" Syaoran explained. "I was going down there myself... I think my mom and aunt might be there."
Sakura swallowed. 'Please just don't suggest that we...'
"Sakura, let's go down and I can meet your parents." Jusenori looked to Syaoran. "Do you mind our company downstairs, Syaoran."
"Li... call me Li."
Sakura bit her tongue. Syaoran only allowed certain people call him Syaoran. To everyone else, his name was Li.
And that ment that he didn't trust you.
For Sakura, that sentence had ended with a yet. She had a feeling that he wouldn't ever trust Jusenori.
Jusenori smiled ruefully. "Li."
"Jusenori, I don't think we're dressed for the occasion." Sakura was getting sick to her stomach. She was searching the ends of the earth for ideas.
"Nonsense. I can go get something from my dorm and you can get changed into a cute little dress here." he kissed her cheek.
Both Sakura and Syaoran flinched at the sudden moment of affection but the aftermath of it was Sakura blushed, yet felt uncomfortable, and Syaoran's anger bubbled in his heart.
"I'll be right back." he opened the door and as soon as it slammed, Syaoran turned on his heel and started walking to the hall of rooms.
"You could just give him a chance, Li." Sakura's voice stopped him dead in his tracks. He turned slowly, and Sakura could swear that he could hear her heart beating.
"Syaoran. I told you before, you can call me Syaoran." he said.
"Yeah, well. By the way your treating Jusenori, I thought you ment me, too."
"Humph. By the way your treating me, I guess it would be right to think I ment you." he remarked. Sakura almost gasped, but he continued. Very softly. "But I didn't." he turned to walk again.
"That still doesn't give me a reason for why you don't like Jusenori." she narrowed her eyes. "I... I actually think your jealousy of him.
(ooooh)
Syaoran whipped around. "ME! WHY?"
Sakura added a squall to her face. "Maybe your jealous because he has something you don't, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what!"
She tried to rush right through him, but Syaoran grabbed her wrists. She balled up her fists and tried to pull away, but Syaoran was stronger.
"But still. ME! Jealous of that GAKI! THAT PRETTY BOY?!?!?!?!?!?"
Sakura stopped struggling for a moment, knowing the right retort to that question. "You really shouldn't talk, your a really cute guy your basically a pretty boy your-..." she bit her tongue to keep herself from talking.
She wasn't suppose to say that.
Syaoran looked down for a moment, apparently in thought. A smile played with the ends of his mouth when he looked up a little, with the bangs crossing into his eyes. It was a very devious look on him, kinda playful in a dangerous way.
He looked at her, full in the face, his eyes narrowed and a slowly a smirk formed on his face.
"You think I'm cute?" Syaoran started walking toward her.
Sakura felt her face heating; she waltzed back, dancing from his eyes. "N-N-No...." She tried to cover her face with her hands, but Syaoran wasn't letting her. He was reading her face.
"Your right, you don't think I'm cute." Syaoran's face was lighting up by the moment.
Sakura wasn't sure if she liked what he was going to say.
"You think I'm REALLY cute!" Syaoran said gleefully. Sakura could help but smile a little, but she squelched it fast. He lowered his head to her left ear.
"Does this mean you have potential feelings for me?" Sakura felt her skin burn and when he brought his head back up, he had stopped smiling, but his eyes were sparkling and in that tuxedo, he looked DANGEROUSLY HOT. She turned her head away from him, her eyes were tearing. She had backed up into the wall. He put her hands above her head and whispered into her ear, his lips tracing her cheek.
"Sakura... if you love me, why do you put yourself through all this pain? We CAN be together, just let me explain it to my mothe-.."
"NO!" Sakura exclaimed, taking him by surprise. "NO! NO! NO!"
"Why?!? Why?!?" Syaoran's voice had more hurt and pain in it than anger. "IF I FREAKIN' LOVE YOU, WHY DON'T YOU JUST..." Syaoran calmed down. He dropped her hands. Sakura was breathing deeply and shaking something terrible. He knew that if he touched her again, she would break down and cry.
"Just, at least... let me comfort you." He, very slowly, brought his hands down to her waist. He rubbed her back, stroking the back of her head. Her bare legs from her short skirt rubbed against his pants. Her rocked with her a little, swaying to a beat in his head. Her head was on his chest, and everytime her bent his neck, he would catch a whiff of he shampoo... a mix of exotic fruits and wild flowers. Her hair had actually grown about half and inch since she cut it and she had uncurled the slight curl at the ends. He took her chin again.
"Sakura..." he whispered. He cupped her face and brought her face to his. She pulled her neck away and to the side. She slowly pulled away, not wanting to lose the warmth of his body on hers.
"I gotta... gotta get dressed." she smiled ruefully. "Sorry."
"Fine." Syaoran agreed. Sakura turned to walk away, but then, she felt a soft pat on her backside. She turned around to see Syaoran, giving her a guy-likes-what-he-sees look.
"Don't be long..."
She smiled. "I won't be." She went to her room and found Kero-kun, arms folded, and his cute little pudgy face distorted into a frown, on the edge of the bed.
"What were you doing Sakura?"
Sakura scowled. "You should be happy. I pushed him away."
"Exactly!" Kero exclaimed. "You love him, right? Don't lie to me..."
Sakura sighed.
"Your going out with Jusenori tonight, yet... here's what I don't get..." He cleared his throat. "YOU LOVE THE GAKI!!! What's WRONG with you, SAKURA?!?!?!?!?"
Sakura's squall (Sakura gets a lot of these) deepened. "What's it to you?!?"
Kero rolled his eyes. "Nothin'... come on, get dressed."
***
Sakura watched the elevator tick down from 3 to 2. She was the only barrier between Syaoran and Jusenori, and if a fight broke out, she didn't think that her dress would survive it. It was a long, binding, green dress with the turtleneck, no sleeves, the heart with wings on her chest was only a shape, for it was cut out, showing more cleavage than she expected and a few little yellow lightning bolts going in certain places. Her hair was half up, half down, two squares of green cloth holding two buns on each side of her head.
Luckily, if a fight did break out, she had two long slits going from her thighs.
Unfortunately, there were the only three on the elevator, and they had to go from 2-1-cafeteria-auditorium-gym-pool-Dance Hall. She took out two matching green and yellow sparkled fan out of her green purse. It was going to be a long night.
"Where is she?!?!??!?" Tomoyo and Touya asked simultaneously. Fujitaka and Yukito rolled there eyes. Some things will never change.
Mei-lin was also starting to worry. Manoa, Sanori, Fuutie, Fanren, Feimei and some of the other Elders were getting antsy. Mei-lin wrung her hands as she watched the elevator floors.
Xiefa studied Mei-lin's face. She saw the need to please, sadness, heartbreak, and pain. But inside all of this, she saw Mei-lin's true beauty. She saw Sakura in Mei-Lin's thoughts and though, her outside personality is telling her to hate Kinomoto Sakura... the inside loves her like a sister. Xiefa was about to give Mei-Lin a hug when the elevator doors opened.
Syaoran, Sakura and Jusenori walked out. Sakura dropped her fans and ran to Touya. He hugged his baby sister and held her at arms length.
"Look at you... you look..." He spotted her dress, with it's 'hole' and frowned. "You look cold, Sakura. Do you want my jacket?" He began to take off his tuxedo jacket. She shook her head. She smiled as Yukito handed her back her fans and put an arm around her shoulders. Sakura frowned inwardly. Something was seriously wrong if Yukito and Touya weren't touching by now.
"No, I'm fine, Touya."
"Are you sure, I mean..." He looked back down at the hole...
"Really, I'm fine."
"But..." Sakura hugged Touya again, cutting him off.
"Just... shut up." Yukito lead them to the table. Since there was no more than one big table left, the Li and Kinomoto families + Tomoyo, Eriol and Jusenori had to share it. Sakura took a seat and found herself in-between Jusenori and Syaoran. She inwardly groaned and looked behind herself at the circular dance floor. Usually, she would be happy if she got to dance, but now the thought of Yukito and Touya crossed her mind. She would have to ask one of them- preferably Yukito- later. She bit her bottom lip as she realized that she spaced out by watching the dance floor and was now coming back to Earth, but had no time to wonder because Kawaii took the stage with a microphone.
Kawaii smiled, her long, gold dress that matched her eyes. "Hi everyone! I'm Kadowski Kawaii and I'm your hostess tonight!"
Sakura joined in with the applause, still looking warily at the dance floor. She had a funny feeling in her stomach, which she couldn't decipher if it was good or bad. She looked up and Touya was looking at her funny. They caught eyes, as he looked to Syaoran.
She raised an eyebrow.
He looked to Jusenori.
She frowned.
He raised an eyebrow.
She shrugged it off, thinking that it was probably her dress again.
"Okay, our festivities tonight are mainly Freshman parents meeting and teachers telling the parents how wonderful we are."
A small murmur of laughter.
"I hope that Freshman will show their parents around the school and their dorms. Hopefully, they will also tell who their roommates are and how they are getting along with them." Kawaii glanced at Sakura and winked. A lot of people didn't catch it, but Sakura had that funny feeling in her stomach again.
"The first part of our Parents' night will be mostly a tour de school. Then, when everyone is done, we will have dancing, eating and festivities. Finally, we will show all parents that live in farther places to guestrooms and then we'll call it a night. Tomorrow, we will have something our school likes to call 'The Ultimate Challenge!' Mainly, every freshman will take one member of the family to join the Family Team. There will be a Freshman Team and A Family Team. If the Freshman Team wins, that member of the family will have something we call 'Consequences.' I will spin a wheel of doom and what ever that wheel stops on, all the family members must do. If the Family Team wins... well... I won't even go there..." Kawaii grinned demonically. "So... have a good time... we'll start the dancing part of the night in an hour and a half. Go!"
Sakura smiled as Touya helped her out of her seat. He took her hand and lead her to the elevator.
"So, what about that Freshman vs. Family thing? How 'bout you take me on, Sakura?" Touya grinned. Yukito rolled his eyes as he caught up with them.
"Why do you want to beat Sakura? Isn't she just too cute to do that?" Yukito asked. He rubbed his eyes.
"Are you tired, Yu-kun?" Sakura asked.
"No, just hungry." Yukito smiled. Suddenly, Sakura's bag rumbled.
"Sakura, was that you?" Touya asked. That was a little loud, even for Sakura's standards.
"No, it wasn't me, it was..." All of a sudden, realization took over her and she ran to the bathroom. She locked the door behind her, after she was aware that no one was in there. She went over to the nearest sink and dumped out her bags contents. One of the last things that came out was Kero, who had lipstick marks all over his face.
"Next time, cap that thing properly, would ya?" He rubbed his face, but it smeared all over it, making his usually gold head a luscious hot pink. Sakura turned on the faucet and put him into it.
"HEY! THAT'S HOT!!!!"
"SORRY! I'M NOT THE ONE THAT TRIED TO SECRETLY PUT MYSELF INTO A POCKETBOOK!" Sakura yelled back. She calmly turned on the cold water and ripped off a paper towel. She wiped his face off and turned off the water. Then she sat him on her purse and frowned.
"Explain."
"Explain what?" Kero asked.
"Why you were in my purse on the most traumatizing day of my life!" Sakura wrung her hands.
"What's to explain? The whole Parent's Day thing is really a banquet. I was hungry!" Kero explained. "Besides, I felt something. Anyway, why are you so high-strung?"
"Well... Touya, Jusenori and Syaoran are all in the same room. Yukito is ignoring Touya... which is really weird. Plus Mei-lin and the Li family and my family and Yukito, Tomoyo, Eriol..." she picked up her lip gloss and frowned. "You ate this, didn't you?"
"Hey, you heard my stomach, I was hungry. Anyway, Eriol? Jusenori and Kawaii?"
"How do you know about Kawaii?" Sakura asked.
"Hey Sakura, are you still missing the Twin Card?"
Sakura slapped her forehead. She had been so wrapped up in the whole ordeal of Syaoran that she had forgotten that she was missing a Sakura Card. She frowned at him.
"What are you implying about Jusenori and Kawaii? So what, there twins." Sakura shrugged. "Coincidence."
"Yeah, a real coincidence considering that they are the only twins in the school." Kero-kun crossed his chubby arms.
"You have no way of knowing that." Sakura fought back.
"Yeah, I do. While you were out wondering what you were going to do about Syaoran, I was looking through file cabinets and stuff, looking up people's names and finding out the what's what. Hey, did you know Syaoran's gett-?"
"Married? Save it. Anyway, what did you find out on Kawaii and Jusenori?" Sakura asked.
Kero frowned. "That's just the thing. I found nothing. They weren't registered for the school." Kero said. "But, when you walked into the door with Jusenori, I felt something like half a power, so I snuck into your bag. I felt the other half only when Kawaii took center stage. The only thing that didn't make sense was that no one else can control the cards but you and the person who had them last who was..."
Sakura gasped. "Clow Reed."
'So that's what he did...' Kero thought. 'Woah.'
"But, you know Clow Reed is dead and had been reincarnated into a physical body that can easily become close to the Cards and we call him..." Kero started.
Sakura nodded. "Eriol. But why would HE make one card into human bodies? A practical joke, maybe?"
Kero looked away and shrugged.
"Kero! You know something I don't! What is it?!?"
"No, I don't know anything, Sakura." He lied, "By the way, if you stay in the bathroom too long, people are going to get ideas." Kero grinned.
Sakura frowned. He was right.
There was a knock on the door. "Um.. excuse me? But can you open the door? I have to go to the bathroom."
Sakura sighed, put all of her belongings back in her bag with Kero, who was now a doll and opened the door for the girl. She stormed out herself.
"Sakura?" Yukito ran up to her, followed by Touya. "Why are you so angry?"
Sakura rolled her eyes. "Forget it, let's go to my dormroom."
Touya frowned, and Fujitaka shrugged. He patted Touya on the shoulder.
"Hormones." He walked ahead of his son. Touya's frown deepened.
"Hey, Dad!" He ran toward him. "Whaddya mean, HORMONES! Sakura doesn't have hormones!!!!"
Sakura smiled, despite her lack of knowledge in the Jusenori and Kawaii department.
They walked to the dormroom, passing the RA and fellow classmates. "Touya, have you seen Syaoran?" Sakura asked. She was realizing that he wasn't anyway near the dormitory. She put the key into the lock and began to turn it.
"Yeah, he said something about showing his family to his apartment."
"WHAT!" But Sakura's fingers were working faster than her brain and before she knew it, the door was open. She closed her eyes, afraid of what she might see and when she opened them...
She was face to face with Syaoran.
He looked at Sakura and as they locked eyes, so did Touya. Touya narrowed his eyes.
Sakura began to speak, "Um.. this doesn't look like a good ti-..."
"Syaoran!!! Syaoran!" Sanori walked out of the hall of rooms with Manoa and Mei-lin. "I think that we should check the.. Oh my..." Sanori stopped short. "Syaoran? Who's that?"
"WE KNEW IT!!!" Fuutie ran out of Sakura's room who was followed by Fanren and Feimei who held the Sakura book.
"Syaoran's got another female roommate!" Fanren yelled proudly.
"And.... it's the CARD MISTRESS!!!" Feimei stated.
Manoa turned to Syaoran. "What's the meaning of this, Syaoran?" she narrowed her eyes. Syaoran gulped. Sakura froze at the door.
Touya spoke first. "What exactly is a Card Mistress, Sakura?"
Xiefa racked her brain for an answer. "Uh... uh... a Card Mistress is a person who... who is the main dealer in... in... a game that Sakura and Syaoran played ever since they first met... yeah... see... in a deck there are fifty-two cards. The... the thing is... they were... they are very special and were created by...a-a-a- p-powerful guy... yeah. The thing was our mother and Manoa wanted them... a lot, because they were so beautiful... which is why Syaoran tried to beat Sakura up for them... but.... she ended up being okay... 'cause he really didn't want to... and now... Feimei here, was trying to bring the cards back to our mother... but that won't be happening... because they're Sakura's!!! If Syaoran won the ultimate game, he would have had the cards, but the person that they decided to be judge beat him and Sakura won... yeah... that's it." Xiefa babbled.
'Hey, at least I'm not really lying...' she thought. Besides, she was getting sick of her sisters messing up their little brother's life, anyway. It wasn't as if Sakura and Syaoran were romantically involved, right?
"Excuse us for a moment." She pushed Fuutie into the bathroom and put a chair on the doorknob. Then, she bolted Fanren in Syaoran's room and Feimei went into Mei-lin's after she took the Sakura book.
Sakura walked fully into the apartment, followed by her family and friends. She looked toward Manoa and saw a scary glint in her eyes.
"Young lady," Manoa began. "If you are having trouble finding you dorm, then I suggest that you find the nearest RA and leave this place immediately."
"Ma'am. This is my dormroom." Sakura stated, just as edgy.
Manoa narrowed her eyes. "I suggest you change it then, because you aren't welcome here." Manoa replied.
"Yes. She. Is." Syaoran let every syllable roll off his tongue like liquid. Syaoran was tense. If someone touched him right now, he would probably break. Sakura bit her own tongue. She was afraid that she might yell at him, Mei-lin's mother, or burst into tears.
"This is Mei-lin's, Sakura's, and my own dormroom. We are roommates. We do not make the rules of the way they put people together, we just live there. So what if the Card Mistress is my roommate?" Syaoran said.
Touya raised an eyebrow.
"He's your WHAT!" He took Sakura's shoulder and spun her around. "Didn't you read the Ten Commandments of Touya? The very last one was..."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah... but you really didn't think I would follow all of them did you?" Sakura grinned. Touya frowned... which one's exactly DID she break?
"Back to the task at hand." Sanori replied. "Syaoran, you are suppose to be spending quality time with you bride-to-be. We are not trying to hurt you, we're just trying to keep everything together."
Tomoyo and Eriol gave each other a sideways glance.
Sakura turned pale.
"Whoa... Wait, they are suppose to be getting hitched?" Touya looked troubled. Touya opened his mouth to say more when Kawaii burst in the door.
"Oh... hi Sakura... I was... just gonna... help you... with... uh... I mean... I... uh..." Kawaii stammered. Clearly, she was out of breath.
'She must have run, like, a million stairs.' Sakura realized.
"Good Lady." Manoa spoke again. "I realized that you might be another roommate, but..."
"Oh.. me? No, no, no... it's just that.... Sakura can... move into my apartment if she likes." Sakura caught Kawaii's eye. "Ye..Yeah... I could- I could do that." They both nodded idiotically. "I could do that..."
"Sakura, you don't really have to move out." Syaoran told her. She looked up to see that his eyes were pained.
"It might work out for the best." She bit her bottom lip and ruefully smiled.
"Yeah." he said, hoarsely. He coughed a little and cleared his throat.
"Well, now that that's over and done with!" Kawaii grabbed Sakura hand. "She can sleep over my house tonight. I have extra double beds in my apartment. Plus... I have a big living room. We'll bunk out, right?" She looked into Sakura's eyes. Sakura got the picture.
"Right! Let me just get a few things." Sakura ran to her room and took out her bag. There were very few things she had not unpacked, so she scrambled around her room, picking up enough stuff for about a week. She got to her dresser and stopped. On the vanity was the key. She didn't want it to choke her with the turtle neck. She pulled the ring off of her left ring finger and placed it by the key. She suddenly felt naked, as if a part of her was missing. She shook off the feeling and left the room, though she was absentmindedly rubbing her left ring finger.
"What are you doing?" Xiefa was leaning in the shadows, guarding the rooms her sisters were in.
"I'm... uh... I'm leaving the house." Sakura replied.
"But you love him... and you know you do."
Sakura choked back a sob. Her body was slightly shaking.
"And I know about your secret.... it's easy to guess." Sakura turned to Xiefa, her tears drying quickly.
Xiefa smirked. "You know, you can talk to me about it."
"I will, I promise."
Sakura walked back out to the living room. "Come on, you guys." She ushered her family and friends out of the room.
Start POV Sequence
Sakura: So Kero thinks that Kawaii and Jusenori and Jusenori are the Twin Card in disguise. He also thinks that Clow Reed is the one behind this.
Of course, he won't give me a reason.
And to think that I'm thinking about this while I'm walking toward my new dormroom and telling Touya that I made a lot of friends so far and how cool it was to have met Kawaii and Jusenori and have my old friends like Tomoyo and Eriol come to the school with me and all, while I'm feeling guilty, for some reason.
Of course, it's not like I haven't followed his rules or anything....
Well, except number 10... but that's over now...
Right?
Syaoran: Okay... what am I going to do. I want to curl up into my bed and sleep for endless hours. I want all of my family to go back to Hong Kong and forget about me for the next four years. I just want to be alone for a while, just by myself.
Oh yeah... with Sakura.
Jusenori: I would tell Sakura that I love her. She's just so... beautiful and charming, lovely and those green eyes...
But what about my promise to Clow Reed?
And... what about... Sya.. Li?
Kawaii: I see something very... interesting going on. Jusenori and Sakura? Sakura and Syaoran? Syaoran and Sakura? This is going to be one hell of a night.
Mei-lin: I feel... empty inside. You know that feeling you get when someone gives you something you don't deserve? But someone else does? Like a beggar on the street sees you eat some hot, fresh food while it's snowing and they're cold. So what do you do? You give them the food and you feel good about yourself for doing it.
But... can I really give Syaoran up to Sakura?
The Card Mistress?
Tomoyo: Okay... so we're headed from the dormroom of Sakura... and Mei-lin... and Syaoran and to Sakura's new one with Kawaii. Something tells me that life is going to get interesting in college
Eriol: I talked to Kawaii and Jusenori and they told me everything was going to plan.
Then why does Jusenori look so disturbed?
Kero: I think that Sakura loves Syaoran. Always has, always will. And though she won't admit it to herself, when I get the next chance, I'm reading her diary. That way, I'll know what's bugging her, considering 'Eriol' won't tell me.
Hey, that' means you'll find out too!
Authoress' Rant: Umm.... she's gone? Don't worry, Syaoran. I'll give you some of my happy purple pills.
Syaoran: (Sweatdrop) gee, thanks.
R&R: Doesn't mean Rolie Polie Olie and concussion... I mean Reduction of the head.