What'd Different on the Other Side

By melaniemelmelgirl

Chapter fourteen: Dinner Dates and More Smooching

Disclaimer: Cardcaptor Sakura belongs to The CLAMP.

Author's note: Ugh. I just got back from an eight hour shift working at a brat stand, and my feet are KILLING me. Oh well it was fun and for a good cause!!! It's for the haunted house I'm working at on Halloween. I can't wait for it to open!!! Okay there WILL be some S&S action, but not as much as E&T. So enjoy!! Hey!! I can feel my feet again!! Yay im happy now on with the story!!!

For Sakura, the day went by VERRY slowly.

Classes seemed to just drag by.

Lunch was okay.

Syaoran Li was nowhere in sight, but Yumi was.

Sakura kept her distance from her, as she did NOT want to cause trouble.

Word had gotten out about her and Li's "date".

Yumi sure could hold a grudge.

Sakura sighed.

Tomoyo and Eriol were having lunch with her, sitting at their normally deserted "nerd" table.

She felt like the third wheel, seeing the two lovebirds feeding each other and laughing.

She still couldn't believe that Eriol and Tomoyo were together.

Never in a million years would she have guessed it.

Tomoyo didn't even TELL her that she liked Eriol.

But oh well.

She was normally forgotten in life.

And was kind of used to it by now.

The lunch bell rang, ending the love fest in front of her.

Saying a small "goodbye" to Tomoyo and Eriol, she took her tray up and put it away after dumping the remains of her food.

Gathering her books, she left silently to her locker.

After opening her locker, she jumped away quickly.

Whew.

No sticky jars of who-knows-what, or any death threats.

Never can be too cautious.

Sakura was glad that today nobody had taunted her.

Or teased her, or hurt her, for that matter.

She wasn't sure, but she kind of thought that Li had something to do with it.

After gathering her books for her next class, she closed her locker with a satisfying SLAM!

Her next three classes went by quickly.

She had too much to think about to pay any attention to what was going on around her.

Teachers, for some reason, didn't really call on her either.

Oh well.

After school, she walked home slowly.

BOOM!!!!!!

Suddenly, some thunder struck above her, and it started to rain.

Hard.

Shrieking, she put her messenger bag over her head to shield herself from the rain, and looked around, seeking shelter.

Oh good, a pay phone booth!!

She went inside the little glass cubicle and sat down on the bench.

Waiting for the rain to stop.

Suddenly, she heard a tapping sound on the glass.

She turned around, and whoa!!!

It was Syaoran Li!!!

"Hey!!" he said, his voice sounding muffled from the glass window separating the two.

"Want me to walk you home? I have an umbrella." He said.

"Umm....sure", she said, gladly taking up his offer.

The two of them walked under an umbrella in silence.

"So...", he said.

"So what?"

"You and I live on the same street".

Indeed they both did.

"Um..yah," she said.

"Want me to walk you to your house? It's closer that mine".

"That would be great!!", she said.

"Okay."

Soon enough, they reached her house.

After thanking him vigorously, she realized something.

He had saved her.

AGAIN!!!!

Geez.

He was getting to be her personal body guard or something!!!

Not that she was complaining, or anything.

But yah.

She had some priorities to get straight.

Like, say for example, the dinner.

What was she going to serve?

Her father, Fujitaka, was going to be home only shortly before the meal was to begin, so Sakura was on her own when it came to actually preparing the meal.

Oh well, she'd just have to put those meager cooking skills of hers to use.

Writing down on a piece of paper, she listed her menu.

(Okay I'm not Japanese or Asian so I don't exactly know all what they eat, so I'll make it a Western-styled meal.)

Drinks: Milk, juice, coffee (decaf), water.

Side courses: baked potatoes, green beans, mashed potatoes.

Main meal: Fried fish.

Desert: Flan.

Okay.

She was ready.

Washing her hands, she thought to herself, 'maybe this won't be so bad after all,".

Then again, maybe it would.

She put some things on the stove, and started to make the fish.

When suddenly, her potatoes started to burn.

"NOOOO!!!" she cried, trying to salvage them.

It was a lost cause.

Scowling, she threw them away.

Okay.

She'd just make a new batch.

So she did.

This time, they weren't burnt.

Except for Toya's, but well, he'd survive.

"RING RING RING" the phone rang.

"Hello, Kinomoto residence, Sakura speaking."

"Hey kaijuu."

It was Toya.

"I am NOT a kaijuu!!!"

"Whatever, Yukito's coming for dinner as well, so make extra. You know how much he eats".

"TOYA!!! I CAN ONLY COOK SO MUCH!!!"

"Ha ha, too bad!! Either you cook extra, or I'll tell dad you had detention AND got fired!!!"

"HOW DID YOU FIND OUT!?!??!!" she cried.

"I have my sources."

Sakura shuddered.

Yesterday, after she had come home, she simply told her father and brother that she was late home because she was studying with Tomoyo, and that she had quit her job so that she could focus all her extra time on academics.

Her dad seemed to buy it, at least, but she hadn't been so sure about Toya.

Now she could see why.

"Okay whatever bye!!!" she said, and hung up the phone before Toya could say anything else.

Ugh.

More cooking.

Bleh.

It wasn't sooo bad, though.

She turned on the radio, and sang along to BoA's "Every Heart", which was her all-time favourite song. (Mine too!!!)

After she was done cooking, she made double sure that all her mess was cleaned up.

She didn't want to upset her father.

After setting the dinning room table elegantly with a cherry-blossom print table cloth and matching dishes, she went upstairs and put on Tomoyo's knock-your-socks-off sexy outfit.

It made her feel a bit paranoid, but oh well.

Suddenly, the door rang.

Oh nooo!!

It was Syaoran Li!!!

Sakura went downstairs nervously to greet him.

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Okay a bit of a cliffy but today I gave you a nice long chapter as an apology for the last two verrry short chappies. And I'm still very tired, and I need to work again tomorrow, so I'll try to update on Sunday. Well, later!! Luve, melaniemelmelgirl