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It's Never Too Late
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Sakura lied on her bed, wide awake. She can't stop thinking of that...that kiss that happened just yesterday. The kiss that caused her and Syaoran to completely ignore each other today. She can't get it out of her head.
Something happened that night that made it so...special. Sakura closed her eyes and tried to recall the happening.
Those adorable amber eyes that hypnotized her. She was blushing under his gaze that night. That kind of gaze where love is present on his eyes...full of love. Then that song! It gave the living room a romantic atmosphere. And she remembered how he held her so close and tight as if he's scared to let her go. That is such a wonderful feeling. The feeling of love and being secured. She remembered that she wanted to stay like that forever!
Then the kiss! That kiss that gave her the most magnificent feeling there is. Those soft lips that touched hers so delicately. It was so gentle, not forceful, the way Haruki sometimes do. She loved every minute of it. She didn't want it to end. She managed a smile as the thought of trembling literally rushed oh her mind. That was so funny that even Syaoran chuckled while kissing her. She trembled! During a kiss! A way of showing how you are melting on his arms.
"Good job, Sakura" laughed the girl at herself.
Then, Sakura thought of the way Syaoran deepened the kiss. The way he sweetly asked for her permission, not wanting to rush her.
Sakura wriggled on her bed as the thought seemed to be so real. As the little incident ran through her brain, and how much she wants that to happen again.
"Oh no!...this can't be. I'm not supposed to feel this way" she whispered jerking herself up.
But Syaoran's image kept on appearing on her mind.
"God, what am I supposed to do!? I don't know what's going on with me! I'm so confused! What in the world do I honestly feel!?" she asked herself loudly.
(A/n...tsk tsk. Love is such a confusing thing)
Next day at school, nothing has gone back to normal. Syaoran and Sakura were still avoiding each other's eyes and they can't even engage a simple conversation.
They walked together at school. But it was a quiet one. As Sakura opened their gate, she saw Syaoran leaning against their brick wall and he just nodded, not even looking at Sakura's eyes. She gave a little 'hi' and they walked the streets of Tomeda quietly, looking at the completely opposite directions. Walking feet apart, Syaoran had no idea if Sakura is still even walking with him.
When they reached school, Sakura looked at Syaoran and when she saw him already walking off to find Eriol, she got a little mad. Why? She has no clue. But that aching for another kiss came again. Scared of her own feeling, she ran away where Syaoran is not on her sight and began looking for her 'beloved' Haruki.
---Morning Break---
The bell rang and Syaoran was walking at the halls of Tomeda High, full of cheerful people with their boyfriends and girlfriends holding hands with them.
He wondered why his life can be this simple where there's nothing to worry about than your grade for algebra or geometry tests.
He was walking, thinking bitterly why the world is so unfair, that other people are happy and he's not, when a finger tapped his shoulders.
He turned and saw Sakura standing in front of him, her face slightly flushed.
"Syaoran. Hi" she greeted with a fake cheerful voice.
"Oh, hey Sakura" They just looked at each other for awhile, searching their eyes, trying to find the answer to their questions. Sakura was once again entranced but Syaoran decided to break the very awkward silence.
"Sakura...I" he started. "I...can e-explain. You know, about what happened...at my house...that night"
"No, Syaoran..." She interrupted.
"Really, I mean...it's my fault...I know that you're already---"he was soon cut off because Sakura is starting to feel impatient.
"No! Syaoran! Just listen to me for awhile, will you?"
He shut his mouth and gazed on Sakura's eyes.
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
"There is nothing to explain" she stated flatly.
"I mean, we both know that...that...it happened because we both just got carried away" she forced out.
"Sakura..." Syaoran whispered, getting hurt by her words.
"Let me talk! We did that...the kiss I mean, because---"
She was running out of words. She doesn't know what to say because deep down her, she knows that they didn't 'get carried away'. She knows very well that they both agreed to do it...to kiss each other. And they both did enjoy it.
"Because what, Sakura?" he choked.
"Because, everything was---was just so romantic! We let the children inside of us come out. We got caught up with the moment...yes! We never intended that to happen, did we? You know as much as I do that it was all just a silly mistake...right?" she tried to laugh it off...but failed.
"I don't know" he honestly replied.
"What do you mean, you 'don't know'?", Sakura is close to tears.
"Syaoran, you are making this more complicated..." She whined.
Syaoran cleared his throat and tried to answer calmly although his insides are lurching.
"I don't think that it's just a mistake" he started.
"I mean, if we knew it was a mistake, we would have stopped immediately. But we didn't, did we? I know that I liked the feeling of it, Sakura"
"And... I know that you did too...your lips told me so" he continued silently.
"STOP IT!" she yelled. Her tears are starting to leak out. But she blinked them back.
She can't let Syaoran see that she's crying about this. She can't let her know that she did enjoy that wonderful kiss...she just can't!
"Syaoran...that kiss didn't mean anything. I'm with Haruki and his kisses are the only one that I cherish. You are my bestfriend and bestfriends don't kiss!"
She pretended to have her facial expression have the word 'ridiculous' on it. But her heart says that kissing your bestfriend is totally possible.
"That kiss is nothing but a mistake! It never should have happened because look what it did to us! See? We hardly said anything to each other at all yesterday!" she almost shouted.
"We should just forget about this and move on! Pretend that it never happened and we have to make it clear that it will never do happen again! It almost ruined our friendship. Exactly the reason why I'm telling you right now! That kiss meant nothing, Syaoran! It meant nothing to me! You don't feel it's important too! Right? " she said breathlessly.
Those words are so hard to say for Sakura. Why? Because it is the perfect opposite of what she is feeling right now...
She shut her eyes and expected the words 'yes, of course!' from Syaoran's mouth. She somehow thought that she will hear the cheerful words from his lips and everything will be back to normal...although the thought of Syaoran, forgetting this kiss is intolerable.
But no...
"No, I don't agree with you..." he whispered.
"Wha?—"she asked in confusion.
"I'm sorry because I can't forget that kiss..."
Syaoran's eyes are starting to water.
"Because unlike you...that kiss meant everything to me..." he said quietly.
Then he walked away.
Sakura stared at the place where Syaoran used to stand, although now, she's staring at space, her eyes wide.
'That kiss meant everything to him? But---why?...What is going on!? Why things need to be so confusing right now' she thought hopelessly and ran to the girls' bathroom with tears brimming out of her emerald eyes.
As Syaoran unknowingly walked off to somewhere in their school, his eyes are still burning from the blinking back of tears.
"It didn't even mean anything to her?" he growled.
"He said that Haruki's kisses are the only ones that she's going to cherish...aah! My--"
"Haruki!" he exclaimed. He suddenly stopped walking. "That monster! That lying jerk..."
And the thoughts of last night's conversation that he heard flooded on his mind.
"I don't love her and I don't care about her! But the stupid, naïve girl is so in love with me that she can't even see that I don't give a damn about her!"
Syaoran curled up his fist. Haruki is just playing with Sakura, toying with her feelings. And that is not right. Sakura is so blindly in love with the two-faced son of a jackal which was given the name Haruki. Syaoran has to talk to him. He has too!
---Lunch Break---
Syaoran didn't even bother on eating lunch. He went straight to the football fields and waited until the little football session was over. Finally, the group started to disperse and Haruki tried to take all the equipments as his job as the captain.
Syaoran marched over to Haruki, with eyes blazing.
"Haruki! Why are doing this to Sakura? Why!?" he demanded.
"Whoa...Chill! I don't know what you are talking about. You gotta calm down" he said coolly.
"You are a good actor you know..." he scoffed. "But not good enough! Cut out the acting, Haruki. I heard what you told that guy...Tae... at the locker room last night!!! DON'T EVEN TRY TO DENY IT 'CAUSE I HEARD EVERY WORD!!!" he yelled, hearing his own echo at the almost empty football field.
"Last night?" he smirked. Then his eyes widen. "Oh crap! You are the captain of the team---you were held too---you were there!"
It was Syaoran's turn to smirk.
"Yeah! You're right! I was there. I heard you, so no use hiding it now! Tell me, why Sakura?"
"Back off and leave me alone! Why do you even care too much? You guys are just friends anyway" he said, standing up.
"What do you mean 'just friends'!? I've known Sakura all my life. And you just met her. Now you feel as if you know her for years already!!!" he shouted.
"Well, I might have just known her right now. But I bet you that I've touched her in places you wouldn't even dream if touching" he chuckled evilly.
"Don't. Talk. About. Sakura. That. Way." Syaoran deeply growled.
"You have to tell her!!!" he insisted.
"You are crazy. Dude, tell me you're joking!" Haruki laughed.
Syaoran is getting impatient. Haruki won't take him seriously. He thinks this is all some prank that he wants to pull! Well, he has to guess again because Syaoran is dead serious!
"Do you think I'm joking?" he replied. His face screwed up in anger.
"You have to tell her before she falls deeper in love with you! You know well that she really loves you, Haruki! And what in the world are you doing!? You just wanna get her to win what? FIFTY DOLLARS!!!" he shouted out loud.
"Hey, it's not my fault that your pathetic excuse of a friend is madly in love with me. I can't help it. Girls love me!" he said.
"You won't tell her!? FINE! Then I will!!!"
"You wouldn't!!!" Haruki blurted out.
"Ha! Believe me, I will!" Syaoran threatened. "You'd better tell me the whole story! Right now!"
"I just agreed on a bet that I can take any girl, I can make any kind of girl fall for me! And Tokito picked Sakura because we all know that she's the popular but the innocent one! She's the girl who is always beside her bestfriend, as if scared to go alone!" he explained.
"Then he said that if I can get her to say yes when I ask her to be my girl until Monday next week, I can win the fifty dollars" he continued.
"I know there's more! You better tell me right now! NOW!" he ordered.
"Fine! Damn, you are so demanding! Tokito betted me that if I break up in front of the whole football team, he's gonna add 30 more bucks, making it eighty dollars" he said.
"And you are going to do that?" Syaoran hissed.
"Heck, yeah! That's thirty dollars, you know!"
"YOU, PATHETIC, GREEDY IDIOT!!! You are willing to play someone else's feelings just for money!!! How low can you get!?" he said in disgust.
"Money doesn't come easy these days---"Haruki grinned like a fool.
"You have to tell her!!! Or I swear, I will!!! You are not supposed to do this!!! This is Sakura we are talking about!!! Don't you even care about her!?"
Then he realized that this is just a stupid question! He heard Haruki said it! He doesn't give a damn about Sakura.
"Haruki...Sakura doesn't want to get hurt! Don't do this! She's too weak and vulnerable for this kind of situation!!! SHE IS NOT SUPPOSED TO GET HURT!!!" he once again shouted.
"Sorry! Not my problem..." Haruki just shrugged it off.
Syaoran breathed hard. His voice is choking for the shouting he has been doing.
"I'm going to give you time to tell her!!! If you don't, then you'll go to hell and she will know about this!!! The sooner she knows about your evil plan, the better. And it would be good if it will come from you! FOR ONCE, THINK ABOUT OTHERS NOT JUST YOUR SELF!"
They looked at each other, despising every moment of it. Sure, Haruki is broader. But if you look at the muscles, you can say that they are pretty much tied up. A little more impatience and Syaoran probably leapt on him already. But he controlled herself.
Syaoran just walked away. But eyes are full of flame of hatred...but then he stopped his steps and looked back again.
"If you dare hurt Sakura like you are planning to do, I'm going to kill you with my own hands. I don't care what happens to me. All she wants is to be happy but... no! You have to use her and break her heart. Just remember this. Do not even plan on making Sakura cry..." he threatened lowly and walked away.
When he's out of Haruki's sight, Haruki was relieved. He was kind of nervous.
"Damn, how did he found out? What am I going to do! He can't tell Sakura. I can't either. It's just Tuesday today. I still have a few more days to deal with..."
"Wait! What if Syaoran do tell!? Sakura will believe him...they're bestfriends since they were young!!! I have no chance in making Sakura believe me..." he panicked but then he smiled mischievously.
"Unless...I make an impression on Sakura that Syaoran is a liar! That way, she wouldn't even want to believe whatever he says. And even if he does tell that I plan on making a fool out of Sakura, she won't listen to any word he'll say. I'll be off the hook! I have to ruin them! Their trust for each other!" he planned.
"Ooohh..my, my, my,...I'm handsome and I'm so smart..." he whispered to himself. ---
As Syaoran walked towards his next period, he bumped into Eriol and in a flash, Eriol already noticed that something is wrong. Syaoran never told Eriol about that darned bet. He doesn't really want to. But it is just fair for Eriol to find out for he was the one who stood by Syaoran at the times when his mind will just explode because of Sakura.
When Eriol learned everything that happened, he shook his head and let out a whistle.
"Whoa! This is the most complicated love triangle I've ever heard of..." and turned silent.
---3 days after---
Syaoran walked at the streets towards school all alone. It's Friday and he's walking alone while other groups of friends are all together in this bright morning, eating their little sandwiches for breakfast.
In truth, for three whole days, Sakura never appeared on Syaoran's sight! He never saw her again since they had the little 'talk' about their kiss.
The funny thing is, Haruki doesn't show up on school either and so are some of Haruki's friends. This coincidence is starting to freak Syaoran out.
He had been trying to call her...to talk to her when he goes to her house but she's always out. Not that there is someone to answer the door because Fujitaka is not there either.
Syaoran knows that Fujitaka is a great teacher of archeology that's why once in a while, he gets jobs from different schools to teach students. Sometimes, he's busy. But often times, he's at home. Syaoran guessed that Fujitaka may be gone for some business, probably or else he could have already asked where Sakura is.
But what happened to Sakura!? He doesn't see her at school, she won't answer her phone and he'll go to her house and find nobody there.
Syaoran also figured out that Haruki never told Sakura anything. Because if he did, Sakura will obviously run over to Syaoran and cry on his shoulders...and it would spread at school for both Sakura and Haruki are popular. But no...nothing has happened yet.
This made Syaoran really nervous.
---Friday after school---
Syaoran felt that for the last time, he'll check on Sakura's house without calling her first. Sakura didn't go to school today again...also Haruki.
Syaoran has a sinking feeling that Sakura is somehow hiding away from him too. He decided to go to her house without any calls. So, right after school, he went straight to the Kinomoto residence.
He rang the doorbell nervously.
"Oh come in!" chirped a voice.
'Sakura is here' he thought as he entered the door quietly.
He went straight to the kitchen and walked his way behind Sakura who is cooking dinner.
"Sakura?" he asked.
Sakura turned around. She was quite shocked.
"Oh, you" she said flatly.
Syaoran wondered why she's giving him the cold shoulder.
"Sakura! Are you okay? You haven't been going to school! What the heck happened?" he inquired.
"It's none of your business!" she replied.
"Sakura, what is wrong with you...The Sakura I know will never be absent to school with no reason---"
"But there is a reason! I ditched school! Why? Are you going to do something about it?"
"I don't understand! You never—what happened to you!?" he asked incredulously.
"I just realized how school can be a drag. Especially when the person you don't like goes there too..." and she glared at Syaoran.
"You are not making any sense!!! Are you---are you talking about me?" he questioned with huge eyes. "I never did anything to you..."
"That's what you think! Why can't you just leave me alone?" Sakura murmured irritably.
Unknown to Syaoran, Sakura has been trying to cover up the feelings that she is suffering from right now. The pain she felt when Haruki told her. When he told her that Syaoran is a liar...
"Sakura, explain this to me!" he commanded.
"FINE!!! You want me to explain!? I will!" she yelled while turning off the stove.
"WHY DID YOU TELL HARUKI ALL THOSE LIES SYAORAN!? What is your main purpose? To ruin the only good thing that is going on with my life!?
"Wha--?" he asked feeling clueless.
"I never knew you will do that! I mean, you completely betrayed me..." she murmured.
"Do what, Sakura!? DO WHAT?" he also shouted, his long-kept anger mounting.
"You told Haruki that he'd better back off! He told me that you talked to him, saying that I'm just playing a little game on him and that if he doesn't want to get hurt, he has to stay away from me!!! WHY, SYAORAN? WHY!?"
Syaoran stared at Sakura, not believing what he just heard.
'That little jerk...twisted the real story...' he told himself.
"Sakura!!! That is not true! I didn't say that! You know I wouldn't do that!!!" Syaoran tried to say calmly.
"So Haruki is lying!? Is that what you are trying to say!? THAT HE'S LYING!!!" she yelled.
"YEAH! He's nothing but a lying idiot that cares about himself and nobody else! Sakura, you have to stay away from him! He is brainwashing you! He's turning you against me!!! CAN'T YOU SEE?!" he yelled back.
Sakura scoffed.
"You just told him to stay away from me! And now, you are telling me to stay away from him!? What are you trying to do Syaoran!!?? BREAK US UP!!?"
"Sakura, you don't understand! He doesn't love you! I swear! He's just toying with your heart! YOU'VE GOT TO BELIEVE ME! I'M TELLING THE TRUTH! He's going to break you at the end!"
"Well, what do you know! That is what exactly Haruki told me that you said to him. Only difference is that it was me who'll do the breaking!" she said coldly.
"Don't you see!? He's manipulating you! You believe him now more that you believe your bestfriend Sakura!"
"You mean EX-bestfriend" she stated flatly.
"No—Sakura! What are you trying to say?"
"I'M SO SICK AND TIRED OF YOU BUTTING IN MY LIFE! That's what I'm trying to say!" she explained.
"Oh, God! What has that liar been telling you! I NEVER DID THOSE THE THINGS THAT HE TOLD YOU! THEY'RE ALL LIES! WHY CAN'T YOU BELIEVE THAT???" Syaoran started to yell!
He can't control it any longer! He can't! Her words are so painful. He has to fight his reason!
"You are the liar, Syaoran" she accused silently.
"You are the one who lied to him, causing him to doubt on me. You know that I love him!" she said, tears are falling down.
Syaoran wants to run and wipe them off. But he can't. She wouldn't let him.
"He was about to break up with me. But I had to ask him not to. Because...I wouldn't know what to do"
"Those three days that I've spent the day long with him, I realize how special he is to me!" she explained.
'Open your eyes Sakura! He's unfaithful to you!' he thought desperately.
"I had the time of my life. I never felt that kind of happiness!"
To Sakura, those three days of her ditching made her forget about the kiss, how she longs for it, and how Syaoran kept on appearing on her brains.
But it just really made her forget about him...temporarily...
Syaoran began to boil.
"WHAT? The kind of happiness that you are rebelling and that your own father doesn't even know about this?"
Sakura's eyes grew wide. She never thought about her dad. He'll be so disappointed.
"I thought so..." said Syaoran with Sakura's stunned silence.
"Sakura...Stay. Away. From. Haruki. He's a bad influence for you. Since you got with him, nothing has gone right with your life. I can tell that you became confuse, you became cold and you have...no more time to spend with me. And it's all because of who? HARUKI!"
He has a point there. But Sakura didn't want to think that Syaoran is right at this moment.
"But Haruki is the sweetest guy there is! He is the most lovable man! He loves me—"
Syaoran scoffed, cutting Sakura off.
"Sakura, will you just please stop talking about your stupid boyfriend!?" Syaoran requested, quite bitterly though.
Sakura was slightly surprised.
"Syaoran!? Why do you even hate Haruki so much!? What do you have against him!?"
Syaoran gulped. That's the question he has been praying that will never be asked.
"Why do you hate his guts and why do you despise him!? What in the world did he do to you?" she questioned. Suspicion is on her voice. "Why?"
"Because---"
Sakura walked closer to him, causing him to back up. "I know that I sometimes don't notice but I can sometimes see that you roll your eyes when you hear his name! You don't pay attention when I talk about him and I don't see you happy when I'm with him! What is wrong?" she inquired exasperatedly.
"If you don't like him...why did you agree to have me be with him!?" she asked, continuing to walk toward Syaoran while he backed up.
"I wanted---wanted to see you happy!" Syaoran responded.
"If you wanted me to be happy, why did you tell Haruki those lies! WHY?" she yelled again.
"I want to know! Why do you hate him so much?!! I need to know the truth! Just please let me know! I'm so confused, Syaoran and you are not helping!"
"For the last time, Sakura, I did not tell Haruki all those things that you are assuming I did. I will never do anything to hurt you, I hope that you realize that. Now it's up to you if you want to believe me, the person who vowed when we were young that I will never let you cry again. Me, your bestfriend. Or Haruki, the guy that you just met, several weeks ago" he said sadly.
This left a strange effect on Sakura' heart. She suddenly backed away and stood a few steps away from Syaoran. The room has its awkward silence in it.
"As for the fact that I don't look happy...when you guys are together and the reason I don't pay attention when you are talking about him is because..."
He took a deep breath.
"I think that you ought to know...you have the right to know" he almost whispered.
"Know what?" she squeaked.
"The reason behind all that is...I'm so jealous everytime you are with him" he mumbled.
Sakura's eyebrows knitted.
"I'm jealous as hell everytime I see you kiss him, everytime you gaze at his eyes and when I see you play around with him. I hate it when you are so happy that he's your man. You want to know why?" Syaoran muttered.
Then finally, he looked at her straight in the eye. He can tell that her eyes are questioning him.
"Because I love you. I always have. All this time, I've been falling in love with you. But I was too overwhelmed with the feeling that I can't tell you. It hurts to see you happy with another man, with Haruki and to see you enjoy his company so much. It is so painful to bear that you are in love with your bestfriend, knowing that she just sees you as a friend, nothing more..."
Sakura stared at Syaoran with big, emerald eyes.
"I love you, Sakura. More than you will ever know..."
Then he left, swinging the door open and walked his way out of Sakura's house.
Sakura just stood there, rooted at her spot, looking wide-eyed at the door, as if she was thunderstruck.
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Dang...I never knew this chapter can be so emotional...well, I just hope that you guyz love it! Please Review! I know that you want to see the reactions next chapter right?...lol
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Er, I don't really cuss...don't think of me as the kind of person who talks trash...but in order to make this chapter interesting, I have to emphasize the fact that they are really boiling mad! Besides, I only made Haruki cuss...but you know...those are some shallow cussing I used ne?...not really bad!
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