Disclaimer: same old craperoo.... i dont own characters only the plot..
A/N: hiya all.. thankies for reviewing my story.. i honestly didnt expect any reviews at all! so heres another chapter... a little femmy slash in this one.. so if you are uncomfortable with that... i suggest not reading this chappy.. i also upped the rating to R for that...
Chapter 4
In the days to follow, Lee could not be found anywhere. He wasn't in any of his classes, and Sakura couldn't even find him in his dorm room after classes.
Sakura walked into Lee's room and asked his roommate, Zack, "Do you know where Lee got to?"
"Nope. No idea." Was the reply.
Lee was missing.
"Sakura?" Maddison had walked into their room to find Sakura sobbing uncontrollably.
"Ju-just leave me alone, Maddison! I don't need your pity." an angered Sakura hissed through fits of tears.
Maddison, a bit shocked at Sakura's response, sat down on her bed anyway. This was how Sakura would have acted before they became friends. Something must really be wrong, and Maddison was determined to find out what.
"Sakura, what's wrong?"
"I thought I told you to go away!"
"I'm not going to, though." Maddison stated as she started rubbing soothing circles on Sakura's back.
Sakura just continued crying, although she slowly calmed down. "Why didn't you go away when I told you to?"
"Good friends never give up."
"You're right, you know… I really should still be out there searching for Lee, not sitting here crying…"
"Wait… Lee? He told me that he was going home to visit his parents."
Sakura got a deeply hurt look on her face. "He is so DEAD!!!" she screamed as she jumped up.
"No, Sakura. Stay. He'll come back soon and you can yell at him then." as she said this, she pulled Sakura back down onto the bed.
"Fine. It'll probably satisfy me more to yell at him in person, anyway." She sat back down with a pout playing on her lips.
She suddenly noted hot breath on her neck and the side of her face. Looking over at her friend, she noticed that their faces were all the sudden very close together, and it didn't feel all that weird…
Maddison placed her hand gently on Sakura's cheek, "Sakura, tell me why you were crying. Please."
Stammering, she replied, "I'm… not sure I'm ready to tell anyone yet."
As she brought her face closer to Sakura's, "You know, I won't tell anyone. Promise."
"I dunno…" She looked confused, wavering between her two choices. Their lips were only centimetres apart.
"Look. Trust me on this, okay? You'll feel better if you tell someone."
"I'll need a hell of a lot of persuasion… It's just not as easy as you make it out to be."
Maddison closed the remaining distance between her and Sakura, bringing their lips to meet. To her surprise, Sakura did not pull away in disgust, but instead kissed back with an increasing need.
Maddison brought Sakura's bottom lip into her mouth, nibbling at it lightly. This, pleasurably, brought forth a moan from Sakura's throat.
As Maddison pulled away, she said with a seductive voice, "How's that for persuasion?"
"I'm still not sure I'm ready to tell you…" a heavily breathing Sakura answered.
"Just keep in mind that I'll be here for you, kay?"
"Mmm…"
With that, Maddison went to the door and was about to leave.
"Maddison?"
"Yes?"
"Um, if you go by the store, can you pick up some chocolate ice cream for me?"
"Sure."
Two days later, Sakura was ready to talk.
"Hey, Maddison?"
"Yeah, what?"
"I'm ready now."
"Huh?"
"To talk about why I was crying."
"Oh! Okay, shoot."
"Um, yeah. You know Lee?"
"Yeah, he's coming back tonight."
"Really?" Sakura's face brightened at this knowledge.
"Yeah. You were saying…"
"Right. Well, if I tell you, you have to promise not to tell anyone… at all!"
"Yeah, sure. You can totally trust me." Then Maddison got a funny look on her face, as if she just realized something. "Um, Sakura? Do you like Lee back or something?"
Sakura blushed a deep red. "… only I'm not sure if it's only a 'like.' he makes me feel, so, I don't know. Set apart from everyone else. Special. I know it's not just a crush, but…"
Sounding a bit depressed, Maddison finished, "You don't know if his feelings are the same, right?"
"Yeah. That's why I don't want you to tell him, or anyone else. There was a day, before he left, that I thought he was going to tell me he had feelings for me, but then he just ran away."
"I don't know what to say, Sakura. But I think that you should tell Lee. You might end up with him." she said this with even more down than before.
"Yeah… but I could also end up with nothing." Sakura gave a sad sigh, and a tear slid down her cheek to leave a wet spot on the sheets of her bed. "Enough about me anyway. Why so sad?"
"Well -"
A knock on their door interrupted Maddison's words.
With an apologetic look shot in her direction, Sakura got up to open the door hesitantly.
"LEE!!!" she shrieked, as she tackled him with a bear hug.
Lee just stood there, looking shocked and confused.
Maddison took the opportunity to explain. "She was worried out of her mind while you were gone."
"I was not!" Sakura said defiantly, but her face got pink, betraying the truth.
"I was just visiting my family, Sakura. But I met up with an my old friend, Meilin. And guess what?"
A girl with silky raven hair, not unlike Maddison's, only straight, stormed down the hallway with a death look on her face, her brown eyes flaming with sparks of hatred.
As she stalked up to Sakura, who was still hugging Lee, her eyes narrowed. She hissed in a voice only Sakura could hear, "Stay away from my boyfriend."
Sakura jerked away from Lee, shooting him a quizzical glance. She did not with to start a fight. As she stepped away, the girl known as Meilin, stepped up to Lee, clinging to him as she put on a fake smile. "So Lee, introduce me to your friends."
Sakura flinched at the sickeningly sweet tone in the girl's voice that had sounded so vicious just a few moments before.
"Sure, Meilin. This is Sakura, ant this is Maddison."
Maddison extended her hand, which Meilin took and shook kindly. "So nice to meet you, Maddison. I hope we can be friends." she glanced sideways at Sakura and said sourly, "Sakura."
"So now that we've met Meilin, what were you going to tell us before?" Maddison inquired to Lee.
"Oh yeah. Meilin is joining out school this semester. Isn't that awesome?"