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Chapter 2
A Touch of Sweetness
By: Dreams on Clouds
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Mmm... Chocolates...
Sakura Kinomoto smiled slightly as she watched the kids outsides munching on some chocolates. She remembered the brownie back in the cafeteria, and smiled again. 'I wonder what he did of it...' she thought. 'Did he eat it of not?'
Sakura was in her homeroom class. Meiling and Tomoyo had different classes so they weren't here. After lunch, all of them had chatted their way to their own classes, Meiling and Tomoyo dropping her off at Sakura's designated classroom.
She looked around her, and saw that everyone was peering into his or her Chinese books reading out a verse. She squealed softly realizing that she had to do the same.
Right after reading, Sakura looked up to see that their teacher wasn't even paying attention to them, his eyes were focused on one student outside the classroom who was calling his attention.
Along with everybody else, Sakura turned her body to be in a position that revealed the outsider. It was just a student carrying a piece of paper.
"Transfer student?" The teacher asked the outsider, his voice still loud, "Kinomoto? What do you want with her?"
"Sorry to interrupt your class, but Wu Lao Shi, the Principal wants to see her right now." The outsider explained loudly. "Right now."
Wu Lao Shi frowned and turned to Sakura, who was watching them in quiet anticipation, "Kinomoto? The principal wants to see you."
Sakura nodded and stood up, walking out of the classroom. The outsider turned out to not be just a student, but a very familiar face.
"Hey, you're the girl in front of Xiao-Lang, right?" He asked curiously, his hand behind his head.
Sakura looked down on the floor, "Um, yeah."
The man laughed, "How'd you know Xiao-Lang? He introduced himself?" he asked, a small playing on the corners of his face, "That doesn't sound like him..."
Sakura blushed heavily, and continued to look to the floor, her voice came out as whispers, "I was ...listening..."
"To our conversation?" he asked.
"...Yes..."
The man nodded, "It's no problem." He answered, laughing, "I'm Tsai Rui-Run, by the way." He wiped his hands on his pants and held it out for her, "Pleased to meet you."
Sakura finally looked at him, "Sakura Kinomoto." She grasped his hand tightly, "Pleased to meet you too."
Slowly, Rui-Run's mouth turned upwards, along with Sakura's. Then they laughed.
"Oh God, I'm sorry, shouldn't have brought up the topic about Xiao-Lang, it sounds uncomfortable." He laughed. "Your name, it isn't Chinese, right?"
Sakura nodded, both hands behind her back as she watched her surroundings.
"Japanese then. So... you're new here?"
"Very very new. This is the first time I've been in Hong Kong." Sakura replied.
"I knew it. Your Chinese was way too un-Chinese. So..." Rui-Run stopped talking for a moment, "So... you don't know this place?" when Sakura nodded, he continued, "See, I can tour you around this place. If you want me to, that is."
Sakura looked at him curiously. Flashes of Tomoyo guiding them around last week passed through her head, along with Meiling's constant blabbering. She shook her head slightly, "Ah, sure. I've never really toured around this place."
Rui-Run laughed, and both of his hands found their way to behind his head. "I guessed that."
They stopped at a door with a small: "Principal" sign in Chinese plastered on the front. Rui-Run pushed the door open quietly, and held it out for her before he entered.
The busy-looking secretary looked up from her desk, moving a strand of hair out of her face, "Master Tsai?" She asked, "Principal Tsun likes to see you in his room right now."
Rui-Run nodded and turned to Sakura, "Is it okay if you wait here for a while?" he pointed to several chairs in the corner. It didn't look the least bit comfy to Sakura. But she nodded anyway. "Great."
Sakura made her way to the chair nearest the window, and plopped down on it. Rui-Run grinned and opened the door to the Principal's Main Office. He slipped inside quickly, and Sakura sighed.
She turned to the secretary, but she was busy typing things down into her computer. Sakura could hear her speedy typing all the way from the other side of the room.
Trying to make conversation, Sakura leaned over and said, in what was hopefully a cheerful voice, "Excuse me, Ma'am?"
Suddenly, the typing stopped, and the secretary was peering up at her from her huge glasses, "Are you talking to me?"
She could've added a punk, and Sakura wouldn't have been more intimidated. The secretary's huge eyes (thanks to those huge eyeglasses A.K.A. magnifying glass) were staring her in the eye, making her look like a bug.
'I thought secretary's were supposed to be pretty, even sexy...' Sakura thought, frowning, "Actually, I was wondering when the principal would talk to me."
The secretary sat back down, fixing back her eyeglasses, "Actually, Miss..."
"Sakura."
"Miss Sakura." The secretary poised her hand on top of the keyboard, "He has no intention of talking to you." She continued her typing, "Master Tsai requested that you be called out from class."
Sakura blinked rapidly, "He can call students out of class?" She asked surprised. The words blurted out of her mouth before she could stop them. And the secretary noticed.
She sniffed and rolled her eyes. "What are you? New?" the secretary asked, "Of course he can!"
"Actually," Sakura cut in, "I am new."
The secretary stared at her; "You are?" she blinked, and turned back to the computer, "Well, you don't look it." She answered, furiously typing at the keyboard, she briefly glanced up at Sakura's face, "I hardly see any students here in this office these days. Everyone bribing the other not to snitch, revolting!"
Sakura leaned back on her chair, and sucked her tongue; this woman was scary to talk to already. She craned her neck to look back at the window, and saw some students playing football. She sighed, and turned her body fully towards the window.
That was when the door opened, and three males came out, chatting loudly—at least two of them were—grabbing the attention of the secretary.
At least the chatting stopped when they spotted Sakura staring at them. The other two, excluding Rui-Run—who looked pleased—looked so surprised, that Sakura gripped the handle of the chair in apprehension.
Suddenly, Rui-Run broke into a smile and made his way to Sakura, grabbing Xiao-Lang's hand, "You know her? Familiar? She's the girl who was behind you during lunch."
Xiao-Lang looked so tall to Sakura, who was seated on the chair, and she suddenly felt inferior. "Who?" He asked angrily, "Rui-Run, I don't know what crappy game you're playing at, but this is--"
"Woah, Buddy, this girl will be your touree..."
"Touree?" Xiao-Lang asked, staring at Rui-Run, his eyes narrowed, "You never told me about a touree. Or that I had to tour someone around..."
"Well you know do." Rui-Run pulled Sakura from her chair, "Xiao, this is Sakura Kinomoto, Sakura, this is Li Xiao-Lang. Yeah, and that loser over there, behind me, and he's Huang Xiang-Lian. Lian, this is Sakura, Sakura, that's Lian."
Both of them nodded to each other.
"Xiao-Lang'll tour you around this school."
Sakura blinked, glancing at the cold amber eyes in "I thought it was you..." she mumbled, quick to look at Rui-Run.
Rui-Run laughed, "Well, Xiao-Lang seemed eager, so I let him." He patted his friends back hard, looking amused while his friend behind him was grinning, "Don't worry, Xiao-Lang is very pleasant after, the, um..." he said the last word as fast as possible, "Honeymoon."
It all happened at once. The secretary, who was listening in with interest suddenly started typing with renewed vigor, her face a shade of tomato. Xiang-Lian started coughing loudly, that he had to grab some tissues over by the desk to stop. Xiao-Lang immedietly turned red and began hitting his friend on the shoulder. But Sakura was expressionless.
"What's a honeymoon?"
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"So... um," Sakura looked up at the sky, "Thanks." She mumbled as a coke can was handed to her, "Um..." She tried again.
"How's school?" the man asked, sitting beside her as he opened his own can.
"Fine." Sakura looked into his amber eyes curiously, "You have exactly the same shade of eyes as Li-kun." She observed curiously, smiling slightly, "Are you related?"
"Hardly. I'm like his third cousin. Does that count?"
Sakura's eyes strayed to the lone figure that was leaning over the fencing, eyes trained to the excellent view the top floor provided.
She turned back to Min-Shu, and lowered her voice, "Is he that mean?" she asked, Min-Shu laughed and patted her.
"Oh yeah. Very. A well-known bastard in these grounds, that third cousin of mine." He answered, following her gaze to his figure, "I really don't know what Rui-Run and Xiang-Lian see in him."
Sakura bit her lip, "Excuse me." She stood up and wiped her shorts quickly, before walking over to Xiao-Lang, once she neared him, he spoke quietly.
"What are you doing here?" He asked her, his eyes still looking past the fence, "Did I ask you to come here?"
Sakura hesitated, but she still walked closer to him, she leaned on the fence beside him, and held out her coke can, "You want it?" She asked, "I haven't drank from it, don't worry."
She watched as Xiao-Lang finally focused on something behind the fence, the can, he stared at it for a while, before his eyes traveled to her face. He sighed and turned back to the view, "I don't need your pity, woman."
Sakura looked down, and sneaked a peak at Min-Shu, who held a thumbs-up in her direction, she shook her head, and he frowned.
"What are you talking to him for?" Xiao-Lang asked her, "He's a loser."
Sakura frowned, "He's nice. He's very pleasant to talk to." She defended immediately, "He let you boss him around--"
"Sometimes," Xiao-Lang cut in nastily, "There are people who ought to be bossed around. I am in the position to boss people around."
"Just because you're richer?" Sakura demanded, "It was supposed to be YOU who toured me around, not Min-Shu! You pulled him out of his class just to make him do things that you yourself was supposed to do!"
Xiao-Lang glared at her. "Are you here to question the way I run things around? The way I want it to be run?"
Sakura patted her shorts and left the coke can on the ledge, "How did it feel when I gave you the brownies?" she asked.
Xiao-Lang stared at her, "Brownies?" he wrinkled his face disgustedly, "Those brownies were awful. It could've given me a stomach ache if I took more that the bite I took."
Propping open the can back, Sakura held it between her hands, "Is that what you seriously think? That I shouldn't have given it to you? Because they were normal?"
He snorted, "Normal my ass."
"Are you really like this?"
"What?" he turned to her, "A prime bastard? Yeah. So what?"
Sakura studied him, "I think you're using that exterior as a wall to your inner self. Your afraid that if others really see the real you, you'll be ruined." She set the can back down, and turned to study him with curious eyes.
Xiao-Lang snorted and turned away from her, "Hardly. Where'd you get this crap from? Japan?"
Sakura glared at him and held her hands on her hips, "Actually, it's a common phrase that people say to those who are mean."
Xiao-Lang was quiet. He didn't even seem to hear what she said. But when he spoke, it was in a hard voice, "Sometimes, there are some things you should accuse others of. Not all of us are like you, giggly and all. Some of us actually despise that type of personality." He looked at her briefly, and saw that she wasn't looking at him, she was looking down at her hands and her cheeks were tinted.
He stared at her, "Are you... crying?" He asked nervously, his eyes flitting to Min-Shu who was slurping his coke with a thoughtful smile. He growled angrily at the look of content on his face, and turned back to Sakura who was looking down towards the grounds, her arms were waving frantically, and as Xiao-Lang peered up at what she was waving at, he saw two girls waving back.
He blinked and turned to Sakura, "You have friends here in school?" he asked curiously, squinting his eyes to see them closer, "That one with black hair looks awfully familiar." He mumbled.
Sakura turned to him, smiling brightly, "They're my best friends!" she pushed herself up from the leverage and made her way to the door that led to the stairs down, "Since before I entered Hong Kong University!" She added as bolted down the steps.
Xiao-Lang stared after her, and looked back at the two girls to see them not there anymore. He turned to Min-Shu and saw that he was gone as well. He sighed and propped both elbows on the ledge, rolling his eyes.
That was when he spotted a bracelet beside the coke can, lying innocently. He reached out and grabbed it instinctively with his right hand, and inspected it.
"Sakura..."
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"Tomoyo! Meiling!" Sakura jumped down from the last two stairs and ran towards her friends, who just entered the building chatting harmoniously. She bounced and hugged Tomoyo.
Meiling and Tomoyo noticed the act, and remembered what Sakura used to do when they were in Grade School. So Tomoyo continued it. She hugged Sakura back, tighter. Meiling laughed and squeezed in between them, both arms stretched, "No more space!" She squealed.
That was when all three of them started laughing again.
"Ne, Sakura, why weren't you in class?" Meiling finally asked, patting her hair down as it got messy from the earlier acts, "We waited ages for you."
Tomoyo nodded, and grabbed the hands of Meiling and Sakura, swinging it around, "Until this guy came out and said that you were asked for by the principal."
Sakura looked at Tomoyo, looking thoughtful, "I wasn't asked for by the principal..." She said thoughtfully, chewing on her bottom lip, "This guy asked for me." She turned and saw Meiling tugging on her shirt.
"Ne, ne, was it the guy a while ago? The one you were with up there?" She gestured upwards, an excited smile on her face, "Sakura! He's the guy Shu- Mae showed me the picture of! The one--"
"In the magazine?" Tomoyo asked quickly, "That billionaire person? Who was studying in this school? That guy?"
Meiling nodded furiously, "Yes that guy, Tomoyo!" Meiling clasped onto Sakura's arm, eyes bright, "Saku-Saku, a while ago, we met this... girl. Her name is Shu-Mae," She jerked her head towards Tomoyo, "Her seatmate."
Tomoyo clasped onto Sakura's other arm, laughing, "Yes, and she is super informed on the know-how of this school. She showed us a cover of a magazine with one of the students plastered on the front."
"And, boy is he hot!" Meiling squealed, letting go of her grasp on Sakura's hand to cuddle her own face, "He looks so cute!" she rounded on Tomoyo, her finger pointing accusingly, "And he's mine. You have Eriol." She reminded evilly.
Tomoyo waved her hand around, "Psst... Eriol will never know about me going out with someone."
Brandishing a letter from her bag, Meiling waved it around excitedly, "Yes, yes he will. Someone can write to him, going, 'Dear Eriol, I am so sad to say this, but... your dear, dear, deary dear Tomoyo--"
"Ahh!" Tomoyo grabbed the letter from Meiling's hand and ripped it apart, "No one will ever be able to contact Eriol. Because he moved house!"
Meiling grinned and tapped her temple, "I have my sources, old friend. I can use it to either ruin you, or help you. My choice."
Sakura bit her lip and looked away, towards the stairs, and blinked. She checked her arm repeatedly and found out that her bracelet was missing. She checked the floor on instinct, and saw that it was clean. She bit her lip and turned to look back at the stairs. The door was swinging open, and the view of the sky was seen.
She turned back to her friends to see that they were already arguing loudly. She stared back at the stairs and carefully made her way to it. She bounded up the stairs and continued walking towards the door. Peeking out, she noticed that the whole floor was empty, the can she left on the fencing wasn't there anymore.
No sight of the bracelet was seen.
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