This chapter has an x-tra ghost story. If you want you can skip it. Its in Italics. It won't influence the rest of the story. I took it from a halloween page, it's not mine. P.S. I finally got a piercing on my belly button.
6. A night under the stars
"We'll pick you up tomorrow before lunch Sakura" –the said girl's father waved them goodbye as he started the engine again and turned around to head back.
The boys of the group went off to search for some wood while the girls were...
"Hey, where are Sakura and the girls?" –asked a chinese boy to the one at his side.
"Maybe they went for a little walk while we were out" –the younger twin added.
"Or maybe some aliens came and took them to their super-advanced planet to make experiment with them!! Oh poor Chiharu, she must be very scared!" –Yamazaki stated almost believing his own lie, making the other boys to look in an odd way at him.
"I guess we'll..." – Hiiragizawa Eriol's words were cut by a fairly good amount of water thrown at him- "...have to look for them..." –he finished all soaked, while more water was poured to the rest of the boys.
They could hear some girls laughing but just couldn't see them, until Mamoru had the bright idea of looking right above them, where the girls were hiding.
"Ha! Gotcha!!" – Meiling exclaimed from the branch of a tree.
"Did you see their faces?" – the girl who always had her hair in two braids added.
Between laughs and jokes the girls climbed down the trees with the boys still in shock. Their clothes soaked, water running all the way down trough their bodies, eyes big like plates [except Yamazaki's] with a funny expression, a river near by, and all of them with the same idea.
"Get'em!" - girls running, boys chasing them and throwing them into the river. Instants later they were all soaked.
"Four, five, si- hey wait, where's the sixth one?" – Eriol looked at all the girls in the river to see who was missing.
"Behind you" –a soft voice said.
Somehow Tomoyo had managed to hide from all of them and while the boys were celebrating their victory she popped out of nowhere and pushed Eriol to the water just after his question.
"W-wha-?" –his reflexes were quick and as he heard Tomoyo's voice and felt her hands pushing his shoulders he turned around in midair and pulled her to the water with him.
"It's not fair!! You shouldn't be that quick!" –she complained hitting some water towards his face.
A while later they had already changed clothes and were sitting around the fire and, against Sakura's wishes, they were telling ghost stories.
"Ok my turn!" –Naoko almost screamed in excitement –"This is a story that my dad told me, it's called 'In Love'"
The girl stepped out of the store wearing her new blue dress because she was going to see her Tom. The afternoon was beautiful, nothing could upset her today. She got into her car thinking about the wide-eyed glare and the smile her Tom would give her when he saw her in that beautiful new dress. Blue is Tom's favourite colour.
She turned the radio on as she stopped the car for a red light. Unpleasant news could be heard, the slasher who had brutally murdered two young men was still at large. She didn't let the bad news upset her and inserted a cassette into the player. 'Fell in love with you' was the song title. 'It's our song Tom' she though with a sweet smile on her face as she lightly touched her golden necklace, Tom had given it to her.
She drove all the way to Radio Electronics, she saw him coming out of the store and locking the door. He vas very handsome. He Tom. He rarely used suits, but he really good in them. She turned up the stereo volume and their song could be heard across the street, where her Tom was. She opened the glove box and took out a gift box, where her necklace used to be.
He walked toward his car. She got out of hers calling him 'Tom!! Tom!!' He stopped and looked at her. 'Do you like my dress? I bought it specially for you!' she said. He looked at her strangely, where was the wide-eyed gaze and the smile she had expected? 'I'm sorry, you have mistaken me for another person' he answered. 'No you are my Tom' she cried, 'My name is Evan' he said.
'Your doing it again!! I thought you had changed but you're a deceitful bastard!!" –he looked at her as if she was some kind of freak. 'I have something for you' she said as she lifted the top of the gift box, a shine could be seen inside.
Suddenly she took a dagger out of the box and slashed her throat without warning. No he gives her the wide-eyed gaze, but there's no smile. She slashed him again and again until his black suit was all splattered in blood, she just stood there, watching him drown in his own blood as she had done with the other two. She wiped the blade over her dress, it didn't matter anymore, she'd get home and dispose of it, as the two before this one.
When she finally found her Tom, and she would find him, she wanted him to see her in a new blue dress, his eyes would lit up and he would give her that broad smile she adored. That's how she would know the real Tom from the deceitful one. She picked up the box, put the knife back in it and walked to her car, as her 'deceitful Tom's body' lay on the ground. She was in love, in love with her Tom.
"Wow that was a good one Naoko!" –Meiling stated.
"Please... can we stop now?" – a frightened Sakura was holding tight to her cousin's arm.
"Ow C'mon Sakura, we've just started!!" – Shigeru said in a futile try to convince her.
"I have an idea" –her ever so comprehensive cousin to the rescue –"Why don't we play hide and seek?"
"...18, 19, 20, I'm coming!!" –Rika's voice could be heard somewhere between the trees, where they were camping –"Found you" –she tapped Naoko's head, who was hiding behind a bush, but one of her feet was in full view.
"I have never been good in this kind of game anyway" –a sweatdrop on top or her head.
The next one to be found was Mamoru, he was on top of a tree but apparently so was Shigeru and they were fighting. Mamoru fell just as Rika passed by, and then she also noticed his twin still up there.
"Let's look for a good place to hide..." –Tomoyo found a hole in a tree, very small, but big enough for her to hide inside.
Sakura came running by herself, she thought she had heard something and as she was still scared from the story she started to scream and ran towards the camp.
"It's been already a while and Rika hasn't come yet... Huh? What was that noise? Maybe she's nearby, I should get out and look for another place" – the raven haired girl started walking again.
"I could swear I heard someone around here..." –were Eriol's thoughts.
Chiharu tripped over her feet as she was trying to find a better place to hide and Rika saw her. Yamazaki was laying on the ground covered by fallen leafs and accidentally Rika stepped on him, and 'Ouch' was enough to discover him.
The lilac eyed girl was still wondering where to hide, but instead she realized she didn't know where she was or where was the camp. Feeling uneasy she lightly touched her necklace.
"Wait a minute... where's my necklace???" –her eyes got wide as she realized that it was lost, it was difficult to point the direction of the camp, it would be impossible for her to find a tiny purple heart in such a dark place!!
After a while four people were still missing: Eriol, Syaoran, Tomoyo and Meiling, who was most certainly going to win this one.
She had looked everywhere, and tried to go back to the camp to ask her friends for help, but instead she ended up even more lost than before. It was starting to get really late and she had no idea of how to go back.
Eriol, from the shadows, was closely watching every single movement Rika made, it wasn't to hard to hide from her, but she just had this good luck following her that made her accidentally discover everyone.
Rika crossed the small river by the bridge to look for them on the other side, but then decided to take a lamp with her and as she turned around to get one from the camp, Syaoran's head popped out of the water, where he had been hiding for the past two minutes. Rika was still looking for the other three, the rest were around the fire just talking.
"Ok we know that Eriol and Meiling are very competitive with each other, but we don't really know if Tomoyo is hard to find" –Chiharu reasoned. Everyone called her by her name by now.
The hard part about finding Meiling is that she knows how to pick good places. The hard part about finding Eriol is that he keeps moving around. But in the end Meiling was found first after a full group search, but they still couldn't find Eriol or Tomoyo.
"I can't find them, it's already been two hours since we started, I give up" –said Rika finally sitting down on a ledge were the rest are –"Did you heard?! I give up!!!" –she screamed to the sky hoping any of them would hear her.
Eriol was suddenly standing next to them as if anything had happened. With a smile of victory all over her face. But Tomoyo was nowhere to be seen.
"Do you think she might have got lost?" –Syaoran's question made Sakura wide-eyed. It surely is a possibility, after all this is the first time Tomoyo comes to the woods.
"I think we should go look for her" –Mamoru suggested.
They arranged in groups of two so that none of them could get lost too. Eriol and Naoko had been walking for around five minutes when she suddenly stopped.
"What is it?" –he asked lowering the flashlight.
"What if she goes back to the camp and doesn't find anyone?" –she had a point –"I know, I'll head back and wait there, we're pretty sure you won't get lost"
"Yeah, you're right, here, take this" –he handed her the flashlight –"Go straight to the camp ok?"
"Yes daddy!" –they would have both laughed if they weren't in this situation.
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