Stuck in the Middle

CCS

Disclaimer: Cardcaptor Sakura belongs to Clamp.

Chapter 3 An Unexpected Visitor

"Ahhhhhh…!"

Tomoyo quickly rushed into the ballroom, "What's wrong? Is anyone hurting my dear models?" She looked up and down for the culprit. Just then, she looked at the sofa and grinned evilly, "Well, what do we have here?"

Sakura looked up and whined, "Tomoyo, don't start. Get off me, Syaoran! You're really heavy."

"I can't, so stop complaining. In case you haven't noticed, I can't move when I'm like this."

Syaoran was lying on top of Sakura with the blanket tangled around them. Sakura was breathing into Syaoran's shoulder while he was lying face down onto the sofa. Their arms and legs somehow got tangled in the blanket and ended up in odd places. One of Sakura's arms was around Syaoran's neck and the other was holding the blanket. One of her legs was sticking out and other was wrapped around Syaoran's torso. Meanwhile, Syaoran had one of his arms around Sakura's waist and the other under his forehead. One of his legs was draped across the sofa while the other leg was squashed by Sakura.

Tomoyo put a hand to her mouth to stifle her giggles, "I…I told you…you not to…hahaha…do any…anything I…hahaha…wouldn't do…hahahaha…"

Sakura and Syaoran tried pathetically to get themselves out of their mess. They rolled onto the floor still struggling to get the blanket off of them. Sakura yanked the blanket towards her and ended up pulling Syaoran onto her. They struggled for at least an hour before one of them was free and Tomoyo wasn't helping when she was laughing her head off at them while they were struggling.

Once Sakura was freed from the blanket, she glared at Tomoyo and pulled her hands into fists, then in her loudest voice, while letting some fire and steam out, she shouted, "SHUT UP! You should stop before I strangle you, then tear you limb to limb, then run you over with a car, chop you piece by piece, and stab you with everything sharp, rip every piece of hair from your head…." She went on and on about how she would kill Tomoyo.

Her effort of threatening Tomoyo was wasted though. Tomoyo paid no heed to Sakura, she was busy watching Syaoran struggle with the blanket, amused at his attempt of getting the blanket away from him, while Sakura was oblivious of his situation, still rambling on and on about what she would like to do to Tomoyo.

Finally, Sakura ran out of breath, and started panting. Syaoran was plain tired from the struggle, and simply sat on the ground in exhaustion after getting the blanket off him. He was no longer sitting when something fell onto him, pushing him onto the blanket. He blinked, and saw Sakura's chest in his sight. He blinked and freaked out, seeing her chest so close up. The result was Syaoran and Sakura, who had fainted from lack of oxygen when she was letting off steam, tangled in the blanket again.

Tomoyo blinked. That was the last straw for her. She clutched her stomach and laughed breathlessly. As Syaoran once again struggled with the evil blanket, Tomoyo rolled onto the ground screaming. She was so busy laughing, she didn't realize that she had rolled onto the blanket that Syaoran had untangled. Now, Sakura, Syaoran and Tomoyo are stuck. Tomoyo had long since stopped laughing, and was desperately struggling.

When that didn't work, she panicked. That was a scary sight for Syaoran and for Sakura too, when she woke up from someone's screaming. The usually collected and calm Tomoyo is now screaming words so rapidly that Syaoran and Sakura only heard doom, oh no, ruin, party, future, stuck forever and AHHHHH!

Luckily in Tomoyo's panicking state, she still managed to untangle the blanket. Ten minutes later, the blanket was thrown all the way across the ballroom. Syaoran and Sakura were sitting in the same spot ten minutes earlier, while Tomoyo was still screaming. Suddenly, she stopped and dropped onto the floor.

Syaoran and Sakura stood up in a daze; their designer clothes all wrinkled and messed up. Sakura's rather revealing outfit had revealed more during Tomoyo's haste in removing the blanket. That was too much for Syaoran, he fainted next to Tomoyo. Sakura raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms.

Ding…Dong!

Aya's voice rang out, "Mistress, someone's here to see you!"

Sakura decided to answer the door for Tomoyo. She walked down the stairs and went into the living room, only to see Eriol sitting there.

"What are you doing here? I thought you were back in England."

"Morning, Sakura-chan. I see Tomoyo's persuasion skills have gotten better, to get you to wear such a dress. I've got to admit...nice outfit. It gives a really interesting view."

A confused Sakura said thanks.

Eriol tried hard not to stare at her chest. He thought she might understand through his comment with subtle hints that the dress was barely covering her chest, and her black bra was really visible. She's as dense as ever…

"Well, does Tomoyo know you are here?"

"No, I just came to support her, and to see her new style of clothes."

"I see, let me go get her. I'll get Syaoran too."

"Why didn't she greet me? Doesn't she miss me?"

"Well…You see, Syaoran and I got tangled in the blanket…and Tomoyo dropped dead probably from exhaustion, and then Syaoran looked at me and fainted too, maybe he was exhausted too."

Eriol smirked; Syaoran probably couldn't handle the sight. It's hard to imagine he'd react to it that way, after all, one of his ex-girlfriends is a slut.

"Well, I have been telling you the story for ten minutes all ready. Wonder if they are still out. I'll go fetch them."

"Sure."

Sakura skipped gracefully down the hall to the ballroom, when she noticed something odd in her reflection in the mirror. She took a step back and looked at herself. She noticed that her off shoulder top had became a one shoulder top, revealing her bra and a bit of cleavage. She blushed as red as a tomato, and quickly fixed her top before heading to get them.

By the time she got there, Syaoran and Tomoyo were up. Syaoran became a human tomato when he saw Sakura and turned away quickly to avoid her noticing. Tomoyo was still a little dazed. She tilted her head, and tried to knock the dizziness out. Sakura went up to Tomoyo and supported her up, since she seemed a little unstable and her eyes were swirling. Sakura turned to Syaoran, "Help me get Tomoyo downstairs. Eriol came to visit, so we better not keep him waiting."

Syaoran grimaced. Eriol was not the nicest friend; he's as evil as Tomoyo when he wanted to be. His mysterious ways were extremely annoying. His laugh is even worse. If one day both evil masterminds works together, I know I'll be doomed. Come to think of it, if both of them laugh their evil I'm-gonna-do-something-evil-to-you laugh, they'd probably sound good in harmony, as good they can work together. Syaoran shuddered a little, nearly dropping Tomoyo on Sakura, but he kept his hold.

As soon as they got downstairs, Tomoyo was feeling a little better, but she liked how Sakura and Syaoran are carrying her and decided to let Sakura and Syaoran suffer for making her panicked like crazy. She was still feeling triumphant until she saw Eriol sitting in the living room. She blushed and whispered desperately for Syaoran and Sakura to drop her.

That was what they did. Tomoyo groaned as she sat up, a hand on her back. Eriol chuckled and went over to help her up. Once they were all settled down on the couch, Tomoyo commanded Aya to bring some tea and cookies.

"So, Eriol, I see you're back."

"Yep, Syaoran. I'm here to help Tomoyo with her party and to support her. Hikki gave me a call and told me that this is important to Tomoyo, so I thought, what a good time to help Tomoyo and to see my dear friend," grinned Eriol with an evil twinkle in his eyes which only Syaoran noticed.

Syaoran frowned. This is not good. Evil Eriol and Crazy Tomoyo is not a good combination.

Sakura saw Syaoran frowned. She signed, let me guess, Syaoran's upset that Eriol's there to destroy his life. No worries, all I have to do is patch them up together.

"So, Eriol, who's this dear friend you came to see?"

"Why, it's you!"

"ME?" Sakura cried in surprise.

"Of course, I can't exactly call Syaoran dear. A word that best suit him would probably be cranky."

Syaoran growled, "You know, Eriol, a word to describe you would be annoying."

"Well, I'm glad I am, because I'd love to see Ran-chan's little grumpy face," said Eriol as he dropped into a babyish tone at the last part.

"Don't call me Ran-chan," scowled Syaoran, "Besides, I don't even want to see you ugly face. It's better if you take your English ass back to England."

Sakura gasped, "Syaoran, you shouldn't treat Eriol like that. He's our guest."

Syaoran snapped, "In case you forgot, we are guests too."

"Still, you should be polite."

"You don't see him being-"

Ding…Dong!

Syaoran furrowed his eyebrows in anger and sat away from the three.

Aya walked up to her mistress and said, "A lot of people are here to see you."

"Thanks. Take them to the ballroom. I'll be there in a minute."

Aya nodded and left.

"Well, I think it's time to get work done. Come on, we need to get set up before seven."

The three, including "grumpy", followed Tomoyo to the ballroom. There they saw Tomoko, Daisuke, Maya, Hikki, Naoko, Chiharu, Takashi, Rika, and Kaho-san standing rather awkwardly, while Meiling was chattering like there's no tomorrow. Tomoyo got into work mode and started to order people around. She asked Tomoko, Hikki and Naoko, the creative and artistic ones to decorate the room; Daisuke, Eriol, Syaoran, the manly ones have to set up chairs and tables; Chiharu, Rika and Kaho-san to prepare food for the banquet. Leaving Meiling, Sakura and Tomoyo to do backstage setup and play hostess for early guests, in case they were behind on their work.

Of course, with so many people working together, they got everything done by five, except for Daisuke, Syaoran and Eriol, they had everything done in two hours, not including what they did for the decorating committee, like adjusting the stage. It was no wonder since Syaoran and Eriol were racing to see who could set up the most chairs quickly and neatly. It was indeed not an easy task, seeing how it is Tomoyo's important night; they had to set up heavy mahogany chairs with gold satin seats and armrests. Because of that, they collapsed afterwards, leaving Daisuke to do all the other work. Not even Tomoyo's mango cake that Sakura promised Syaoran yesterday over the phone could revive them.

No thanks to Syaoran and Eriol, Naoko went over to help Daisuke, so the decorating committee was a little slow, but the room still looked great with its crystal chandelier of dangling stars and dangling star crystals all hanging from the pitch black ceiling at different height. Protruding from the walls about eight feet from the ground were lamps with shadings that caused most of the light to go upward into the high dark ceiling. At one end of room stood a rectangular platform with gold satin all around and stairs on both sides. At the back end of the platform is a painted garden with a doorway framed with fake morning glory and vines, which lead to Syaoran and Sakura's changing room. Right in front of the platform were rows of expensive and comfy chairs spaced so that everyone could see the performance comfortably. All around the chairs and platform were tables with gold satin table cloths pushed up against the walls filled with food and drinks of all kinds that were covered for health issues.

Tomoyo sighed, liking the romantic atmosphere.

She looked at her watch; it was now five ten. She told the others to change into their outfits for the night, since girls need at least two hours to change. Eriol drove back home, and the rest of them did too, except Sakura. Sakura went up to the tired Syaoran and pulled on his sleeves.

He yawned and asked, "Ya?"

Sakura asked shyly, "Can you drive me home? Tomoyo pushed me into the car and drove me here, so I didn't bring my car with me and I don't want to bother Tomoyo."

Syaoran smiled gently, "Sure, I'll do anything for my best friend."

Sakura put a finger on her chin and tilted her to the side, "You know, I would too, but sometimes I doubt if I am your best friend, seeing how you refused to act nice to Eriol, even though I asked."

Syaoran draped his arm around Sakura's shoulder, "Of course, I am, but you can't make me act nice to him. He's the most annoying person in the world, besides Meiling."

Sakura hit Syaoran on the head gently, "I see you haven't changed much since we've became friends. You still have a mean streak."

"Well, it wouldn't be me, if there wasn't."

Syaoran drove Sakura home, before Sakura went into her home, she gave Syaoran a big hug. She giggled, "See you later."

Syaoran whispered softly, "Ya, see you later."

Syaoran was about to go into the car when he heard, "I'M SORRY ABOUT THE CAKE YOU DIDN'T GET TO EAT."

He laughed and shouted back, "I'LL MAKE UP FOR IT AT THE BANQUET."

Sakura smiled and said, "YOU'RE HOT."

Syaoran blinked in surprise. Sakura thinks I'm hot? What an idiot I am, of course not, it was for helping her with the modeling for evil Daidouji Tomoyo.

Author's Notes:

I've edited it, thanks to Mew for pointing out the steak thing…I meant to say streak, yep, so Syaoran has no steak that's out reeking ever since he met Sakura. Haha…that review cracked me up.

Oops, this is the third time I've upload this chapter, since I accidentally replaced it with chapter 1...luckily, I haven't deleted chapter 1 yet.

My mom is so mean. She's making me takes classes in the summer. O well, even if I don't take classes, it won't speed up the update any quicker.

I said I had something in mind for this chapter, well it turned out I forgot all about Eriol and I'm dreading to write about the modeling scene since I have no clue what poses and dresses I should put in. I'm not that creative…this chapter is definitely not my best chapter and I can tell the next one might be worse…

Seeing how I don't update often, check out my profile on how I'm doing with my stories, since that thing is even easier to update. Like I said, I'm lazy!

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