Clara: sorry about the characters being OOC =] after all ....love makes people do crazy things
School Crush: Chapter Six: Possessed By Love
-- At The Daidouji Mansion --
Tomoyo thought real long and hard. She laid still on her silky soft bed thinking hard about what happened earlier that day at school. Tomoyo tried to move, but her body was in pain. She took a few couple of hits from Sakura and Sakura was a strong girl.
Tomoyo looked around her surroundings. Her eyes fell upon a big vase of red roses. The roses she received everyday at school. She counted them, 1..2..3..4..5..6..7..8..9..10..11..12, twelve roses. She knew what she had to do, she had to stop loving Syaoran. Love turned her into a monster, because for her own selfish needs, she has been hurting her best friend Sakura, and Eriol, sometimes, I don't even treat him as a friend anymore. It was final, that was her decision.
Meanwhile, at the Avalon Residence, Sakura was thinking about the same thing. "I can't believe Tomoyo! She's been neglecting Eriol for that dumb Li Syaoran. What happened to Tomoyo? It's like she's a different person...I don't think I even know her anymore...poor Tomoyo, she's possessed by love."
The next day at school, Tomoyo walked silently to her seat. She looked down, and there it was...another single delicate rose. sigh She took the rose and placed it in her bag. The bell rang and class started.
"Alright students," Miss Honda spoke loudly and clearly so the whole class can hear, "today's assignment is on your de-" she was interrupted by Sakura sliding open the door with mighty force. "Sakura, you're late, and rude,"
"I'm sorry Miss Honda, I woke up late today and rushed here as fast as I could," Sakura flashed a sheepish smile.
Miss Honda spoke once again, "Very well Sakura, but don't let this happen again, you may take your seat."
Sakura walked back to her desk with her head hung low, looking on the floor. Tomoyo stared at Sakura walking down the classroom as if she's walking down the "Hall of Shame" She couldn't help but giggle.
Sakura sat down on her desk and noticed Tomoyo trying to hold in her laughter. "She's laughing at me? Some friend she is," Sakura thought to herself. She gave Tomoyo a cold glare. Tomoyo, having a keen eye, noticed and stopped giggling immediately. During the whole class, Sakura and Tomoyo didn't talk to each other at all. It continued throughout the whole day. Finally, the end of the day had come, and all the students were leaving for home.
Chiharu, being the cheerful one, had an idea. She gathered up her friends. Which included: Sakura, Tomoyo, Naoko, Rika, Meiling and of course, Chiharu herself. They all gathered outside of the school by the fountain.
"Hey guys I have an idea!" Chiharu blurted out happily. XD
"What is it?" Naoko asked. =O
"Let's say we camp out at the forest near the beach!" Chiharu once again blurted out happily. XD
"Sure, sounds great," Tomoyo agreed. =]
"Yeah, let's meet at Chiharu's house right after we go home and get ready," suggested Rika.
"I don't know...I don't think I want to go," Meiling had second thoughts. .
"Oh come on Meiling! It'll be fun," Chiharu persuaded. =)
"...Okay than, I guess I'll go," Meiling tried to sound like she wasn't interested. ==
"What about you, Sakura?" Naoko looked at Sakura's undecided face.
"Sure, why not?" Sakura smiled. "
"Okay! Than it's final! We're going to the beach!" Just then, Chiharu remembered something, "But...the boys will be going to..." =(
There was a moment of silence.
"Boy? Define boys," Rita broke the moment of silence.
"Err...mainly, Eriol, Syaoran, and my talk-a-lot cousin, Yamazaki. That's pretty much all..."
"Its alright, there's only three boys, after all, what harm can three boys do?" Rita sighed in relief.
"Okay than, that' s settled, see ya guys," with that, Chiharu left for home. In fact, they all left for home.
An hour later...
"What's taking her so long?" complained Chiharu.
"She'll be here any second now," Tomoyo smiled.
"I'm so sure she's going to come right out of that door just because you said s-" Meiling's statement was interrupeted by loud banging on Chiharu's front door.
"Don't say I didn't tell you so," laughed Tomoyo.
Chiharu opened the door and Sakura ran in, "Sorry guys, I couldn't find my sleeping bag." Sakura was breathless.
"Well, did you bring your tent?" Chiharu reminded Sakura.
"Oh! I knew I was forgetting something," Sakura smacked herself on the forehead.
"It's okay, you can share with me," Tomoyo gave Sakura a sweet smile.
"O-okay..."
"Okay then! lets go!" Chiharu walked out the door in one of her brightest moods.
It took them an hour or so to get there, Chiharu's dad drove and left afterwards. Turns out they'll be staying there for the weekend. They started to set everything up, all the tents and sleeping bags. Tomoyo and Sakura finished faster then the rest, so they had to set up the tent with all the food. Another hour passed by, and finally, they were done.
"Lets go to the beach now," Rita suggested.
"Yeah sure, who wants to play beach volleyball?" Chiharu took out a volleyball.
"Me!"
"I do!"
"Same here!"
"I'll play"
Everybody wanted to play.
"Bpsh, volleyball is a girly sport," teased Syaroan.
"Ughh...reality check, we are girls," Chiharu reminded him.
"Ughh...we boys are much too skilled to waste our time playing volleyball,"Yamazaki tried to cover up.
"Oh yeah? Well then, we challenge you," Rita spoke proudly.
"Fine! We accept your challenge, right?" Syaoran looked at Yamazaki.
"Yeah! Right?" Yamazaki looked at Eriol.
"Ugh..yeah sure, whatever." Eriol looked down. He was in a pretty bad mood these days.
"Fine then! Let's play!"Chiharu ran to the beach.
It was a game between boys and girls, the girls had an advantage over them since there was five of them. But the boys insisted that it was okay. As the time went by, Eriol had brightened up, he thought to himself and decided that nobody should be able to make himself feel down and discouraged, not even Tomoyo. At that moment, he lost his love for her.
The volleyball game got intense and all the players were really excited. Everybody got aggressive. Sakura spiked the ball and Eriol ran for it. Just as he set foot on the floor, he stepped on a shell and fell flat on his face. Everybody ran to Eriol to see if he was okay.
"Eriol!"
"Oh my gosh are you okay?"
"Eriol!"
"Does it hurt?"
Pretty soon, everybody was crowed around him.
"Ughh...Ow..my leg hurts," Eriol clenched hard on his right leg.
"Oh...I'm so sorry, It's all my fault," Sakura looked down.
"Don't be sorry Sakura, you didn't mean to," through all the pain, Eriol still managed to smile.
"Yeah Sakura, it's not your fault, it wasn't you who put the shell there right?" Tomoyo tried to cheer her up.
"I think i need a little time out from the game," Eriol chuckled.
"Here, I'll help you back to the tent," Syaoran put Eriol's arm around his neck.
"Be careful guys," Chiharu yelled.
When Eriol and Syaoran got back to the tents, Syaoran offered to stay and keep him company. But Eriol refused and told Syaoran to go on and continue with the game and so he did.
Syaoran ran back and at first, they all felt a little uncomfortable to play while Eriol was hurt, but as the game went on, that feeling was gone. Everything was back to normal, the game was intense and everybody was aggresive. Especially Chiharu.
"TAKE THAT!" Chiharu shouted as she spiked the ball hard.
"Well take this!!"Syaoran shouted too and spiked the volleyball back at Chiharu.
Things got pretty insane with Syaoran and Chiharu.
"Hey guys, I'm alittle tired so, I'm going go back to the camp site," Sakura spoke, but nobody noticed her since there was such a big competiton between Syaoran and Chiharu. So, Sakura just left un-noticed.
"Huh? Where'd Sakura go?" Rita finally realized that someone was missing.
"I don't know, she was here few minutes ago," Naoko looked around.
"I'll go find her," Tomoyo took off.
The game continued.
"Sakura!"
"Sakura where are yo-" Tomoyo stopped and saw Sakura talking to Eriol. Curiosity got the better of her, therefore, she started to spy on them.
"Hey Eriol," Sakura sat down beside Eriol.
"Oh hi Sakura, why aren't you playing volley ball?"
"I got tired and decided to come keep you company."
"I see," Eriol smiled.
Sakura blushed, "So, what've you been up to sitting here all by youself?"
"Oh nothing, just thinking about something," Eriol looked out into the ocean, "It's nice to just sit down and think while looking at a beautiful ocean all by yourself sometimes."
"Yeah..." Sakura stared at the ocean.
They both sat there just thinking to themselves.
Sakura looked at Eriol then looked back at the ocean, "It sure is wonderful to just sit here with Eriol gazing at the beautiful ocean."
"Hey Sakura," Eriol looked at Sakura.
"Huh? Oh yeah?" Sakura looked back at Eriol. She realized that her face was only few inches away from his and she blushed. "he looks really cute with the sunset's glow"
"Have you ever felt like the person you love the most doesn't even know you're there sometime?" Eriol looked back at the ocean.
"huh? why is he asking me this?" Sakura thought to herself, "Yeah, I have...why do you ask?"
"Oh nothing, I was just wondering."
"I see..."
Sakura felt her heart beat, "Of course I've felt that way before, it's the same feeling I get when I see Eriol so in love with Tomoyo, it...hurts, it hurts alot to know that the one you love the most is in love with your best friend, and to know that even if I were to have him, he would've still been happier with someone else."
"Hey Eriol, do you still love Tomoyo?" Sakura felt a little embarrassed to ask.
"....No" Eriol kept his eyes at the ocean.
"What? really?" Sakura was surprised.
Tomoyo's eyes went wide, " he l- loved me...? Eriol Hiiragizawa, loved me and I didn't even notice it at all? Tomoyo, Tomoyo, Tomoyo you fool! how can you not realize something like this?!?"
Sakura couldn't believe what she heard, "this is great! He no longer loves Tomoyo! That's good news for me right? I should be happy...but why am I not?" Sakura just had to find out if Eriol had any feelings for herself.
"Eriol..."
"Yes?"
Sakura looked straight into those misty blue eyes of his, "I can't do it! I just can't confess to him!... no.. I can!"
"Eriol, I have something really important to tell you."
"What is it Sakura?"
"...I...I l-lo..Eriol Hiiragizawa, I love you!" Sakura shut her eyes tightly as she said it, afraid to see the disgusted face of Eriol's, "Great! What've I done? How can I ever face him? He must think I'm weird now. Gosh I'm such a fool! What makes me think that he would even like me?" Slowly, Sakura opened her eyes, and to her surprised, Eriol's expression didn't change at all.
"E-eriol..?"
"Sakura...I kind of knew it already," Eriol chuckled.
"What? You did?..but how?" Sakura was speechless.
"You made it really obvious Sakura."
"Oh..." Sakura blushed, her face was as red as a tomato. "he knew already...he knew that I loved him and yet he still treats me the same. But the question is..does he love me back..?"
"...Do you love me back..?" Sakura didn't care about being embarrassed anymore, she wanted to know and she wanted to know now.
"...." Eriol went silent.
Sakura stared at Eriol.
"I...don't know..." Eriol's face softened," Sorry Sakura, but I don't think I'm ready to fall in love again..."
Sakura felt her heart break. She's been doing all this for Eriol, and he tells her he's not ready to fall in love? How can this be? He's supposed to fall in love with her! This is not what's supposed to happen!
"Oh, okay...I understand." Sakura felt tears in her eyes. "I feel like such a loser! I..I can't possibly show my face around Eriol ever again!" Sakura ran off into the far end of the beach, leaving a speechless Eriol heartbroken to see his friend in so much pain.
"Sakura!" Eriol yelled after her, but it was no use, she didn't stop running and Eriol couldn't chase after her.
Tomoyo, being the witness of all this also felt heartbroken because of her friend. She walked up to Eriol silently, and sat beside him.
"Hey..." Tomoyo had a gentle smile.
"T-tomoyo...how long have you been there..?"
"Long enough to see it all..." Tomoyo looked down.
"I'm sorry to hear about how much you loved me, even though I never realized it, I'm sorry I've caused you so much pain."
Eriol was speechless, he couldn't believe what he was hearing, Tomoyo heard it all and shes apologizing, Eriol felt so embarrassed. His face went red.
"...That's all I have to say," Tomoyo looked down, "I'm gonna go now," Tomoyo ran after Sakura.
Eriol just sat there. Ashamed because of Sakura, and heartbroken because of Tomoyo. It was too much for one day, too much love problems happened. First Sakura, than Tomoyo. He couldn't believe what just happened to him. " Even though...Sakura loved me alot, I think we were always best just as friends...and same with Tomoyo."
Eriol sat there, he watched as the sun setted and the a little bit of the moon was seen.