Hello again. I made a mistake on the last chapter. I put something about
getting your own back at the top, well that's not supposed to be there.
Ok now on with the show.
Chapter 4
The Date
Sakura paced up and down her room thinking intensely.
Syaoran was painstakingly slow as he made his way to her front door. He wished that Tomoyo hadn't sent him the huge bouquet of flowers to give to Sakura, he felt like an idiot and he could barely see where he was going over the top of them. There were at least 4 types of flowers in the bouquet, as far as he was concerned that was way too many. How many flowers did a girl need?
Sakura had finally decided what to wear, after hours of deliberation and frustration. Even though going on this date with Syoaran was one of the last things in the world she could ever expect to do, she still wanted to make sure that she looked good. She couldn't have that dumb ass thinking that just because she had an attitude she couldn't dress well.
Sakura had decided on a full-length pale pink satin dress, with spaghetti straps. Although she didn't want to go anywhere or even be seen with Syaoran, she couldn't help but feel a little excited and anxious as to what her first date would be like.
Syaoran was feeling as if he had eaten a lead weight for lunch. He hated this girl but was as nervous as hell about being out in a public place with her. Would she behave herself? But the most important question was, would he?
Sakura was now completely ready. Her hair was done her shoes were on and she stood waiting outside the door. She was eager to go on this date and get it out of the way.
Syaoran could see her house approaching and Sakura standing on the doorstep. He took a huge gulp of air before stepping up to her, just to prepare himself for the humiliation he was about to face.
"Hi Sakura, Darling."
"Hello Syaoran, Honey, still looking as ugly as ever I see. But that won't really matter because it's dark out here, thankfully."
Sakura looked at the enormous flowers clutched in his hand and gave a short laugh.
"Hey, did Tomoyo tell you to invite your garden or did you bring them to hide your face?
"Shut up Sakura."
She began laughing and carried on.
"Oh, there's no need to be embarrassed about it. I mean, if I was born looking like you, I would have asked for surgery or something but I guess the flowers work just as well."
Syaoran gave her a look and thrust the bunch of flowers in her face.
Sakura grabbed them from him and chucked them over her neighbour's fence.
"What was the point of that?" Syaoran asked giving her a quizzical look.
Sakura turned to him and gasped.
"What?!"
"Oh No! I just realised now that the flowers are gone, I'm gonna have to look at you all night."
"Well, how do you think I feel, those flowers were the only thing blocking my view and now they're back in someone's garden."
"Oh shut up and let's go." She stormed ahead and left Syaoran trailing behind.
Tomoyo had left Syaoran a slip of paper saying at what restaurant she had left a reservation. At the bottom of the note she had written "Remember the rules, I'll be watching you." And indeed, she had been watching since Syaoran had arrived at Sakura's house, but she was also filming. Eriol was the one watching, he had asked her if she could film it and she was more than happy to oblige, they both figured that if they broke the rules then the footage could be used as blackmail.
Syaoran jammed his hand into his left pocket and brought out a crumpled piece of paper.
"Yeah, this is it, The Noodle Inn."
He looked up at the large, expensively furnished building.
Sakura gave a fake smile and sarcastically squealed, "Oh goodie, I'm so excited!"
Syaoran just ignored her and went inside.
They were ushered to their table while waiters fussed over them and upper class couples whispered and commented to each other.
Sakura snorted.
"Such a cheerful restaurant."
Syaoran smiled "Yeah, I can almost feel the love."
They turned to each other, laughed, then both looked angry that they had done such a thing.
The 'couple' remained silent after that little incident and both began to look extremely bored after a few minutes of stony silence.
Tomoyo and Eriol were seated in the opposite corner of the restaurant, both watching amusedly.
"That little moment was so cute, I'm really glad that I have all of this on tape."
"Well, I just hope everything turns out alright in the end. If they won't even talk to each other how are they supposed to do anything else together."
"Eriol trust me on this one. The plan will work perfectly."
"I hope for my sake that you're right Tomoyo."
The food had arrived at Sakura and Syaoran's table, just as he had made the big mistake of excusing himself to go to the bathroom.
Sakura had decided to entertain herself and make use of his absence. She unscrewed the tops of the salt and pepper shakers then poured half of the salt into his drink and gave it a stir, she did the same with his food except she used a lot of the pepper.
When Syaoran came back to the table she smiled sweetly and began eating her food.
He knew immediately that something was wrong, firstly, she had smiled at him and now she was laughing quietly to herself. Yeah, he knew she was slightly crazy but this was just crossing the line.
"Uh, Sakura, not that I care but is there something wrong with you?"
"No, why would there be?"
"Well it's just that you're just sitting there laughing to yourself."
"What's your point?"
Syaoran sighed in defeat and took a sip of his drink. He almost spat it back out again. It tasted disgusting, he knew at once why Sakura was laughing but he decided not to say anything to her, he just carried on drinking the drink.
"This drink is pretty good, some kind of weird new orange juice, it has a slight salty taste to it but it's good."
Sakura ceased her fit of giggles and stared at him, perplexed. She had poured at least four tablespoons of salt into his orange juice but there he was just drinking it as if it was something really nice.
"You like salty orange juice?"
"Not normally but I can make an exception in this case, this is really nice you should try some."
"No I don't think I will, thank you, I'm gonna go to the bathroom."
Syaoran smirked to himself.
"Ok, take as long as you want."
"I was planning to."
As soon as she left he did exactly the same thing to her food and drink, even though he thought it was pretty amateur for a pranktical genius like him.
Sakura made her way back to the table, to find Syaoran sitting there with an incredibly smug look on his face.
"What is it? Why are you looking so cheerful all of a sudden?"
"Cheerful? Remember that I am actually out in public with you, so the only time I'm gonna be cheerful is if this never ending nightmare suddenly ends. But anyway, eat up."
"Why are you so eager for me to eat? What have you done to it?"
"I simply encourage you to eat and you assume I've poisoned you or something. Some people just don't know how to be grateful these days."
"You know what, I'm kinda full so we can go as soon as you're done."
"Oh come on Ice Queen, you're being paranoid."
"I know when I'm being paranoid Pathetic Prince and right now is not one of those times."
"Yeah if you say so."
Sakura sighed. She was getting really tired of having to put up with his idiotic conversation. If she couldn't even stand to try and talk to him for a few hours how the hell was she going to manage for two weeks?
Syaoran saw that she was not going to fall for his lame trick so he gave up and got up to go.
Tomoyo had been screaming in frustration and sighing for he whole hour and half that her and Eriol had been spying on them.
"Hey, Tomoyo chill out, it's really not that bad."
"They're so annoying, why can't they just get along for one night, it's not that hard!"
"It dosen't matter. We'll just make them go on another date."
"Oh sure, they're really just gonna accept that."
"Hello Tomoyo! We have this tape remember."
For the second time that night Tomoyo began smiling again.
"Well we better go and tell them the good news then."
They ran out of The Noodle Inn and into the dark street after 'the happy couple'.
Sakura and Syaoran were strolling along not saying anything, until Sakura broke the silence.
"So, I guess you have to walk me home, right?"
Syaoran snorted.
"What are you, The bearer of bad news?"
Sakura laughed a little.
"You say that as if I want you to walk me home." "Well it sounded like that's what you wanted and I don't blame you either, what girl wouldn't want me to walk her home?"
She looked at him incredulously and pretended to be thinking.
"Hmm let me see, maybe um ALL OF THEM!"
"Whatever, Sakura, you talk so much crap."
Sakura just smiled at him and began walking away. Over her shoulder she shouted "I learnt it from it from the best, Syaoran."
He watched her striding away and couldn't help noticing for the second time that she had a nice butt. The first time he had seen it close up but even though she was further away this time, he could still tell that it was pretty nice looking.
"SYAORAN!"
The now blushing boy, turned around to see Tomoyo, running towards him with Eriol in tow.
"Where's the fire?"
Eriol smirked.
"In your heart Syaoran. In your heart. Well, that's where it should be after tomorrow."
"Huh? Why? What's happening tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow is your date with Sakura."
"WHAT?!"
"We are sending you another date because you broke the rules. So tomorrow you are going to go out with Sakura and both of you are going to be nice to each other."
"You have got to be kidding me! You guys are supposed to be my friends and you put me through this torture."
"Well it's actually your fault. We told you the rules."
"Ok, so how do you know that we broke the rules? We could have been in there being polite and everything."
Tomoyo leant over and waved her camcorder in his face. "YOU WERE RECORDING THE WHOLE THING?!"
She giggled.
"I told you that we would be watching."
"Yeah but you didn't say you would record it. You're not gonna show that to anyone are you?"
"If you don't go on this date then we'll be showing this tape to the whole school."
"You would really do that?"
"Yes Syaoran, it's really not that bad."
"No, you're right it's not bad. IT'S TERRIBLE!"
"Oh stop sulking Syaoran and go and tell Sakura about our little arrangement."
"But I-"
"Bye, Syaoran."
Eriol and his girlfriend stepped into a sleek black car that had pulled up beside them.
Syaoran gave a depressed sigh and walked in the direction that Sakura had gone.
"After tomorrow there will only be two weeks of this hell left, that's not so bad I guess."
He smiled sadly to himself.
"Oh who am I kidding? My life as I know it is over."
To be continued.
Sorry if this chapter isn't that good. I have major writer's block, it took me ages to write this. I'll try and make the next chapter better.
Oh and don't forget to review!!!!!
Review! Thanks to previous reviewers. Review! TTFN!
Chapter 4
The Date
Sakura paced up and down her room thinking intensely.
Syaoran was painstakingly slow as he made his way to her front door. He wished that Tomoyo hadn't sent him the huge bouquet of flowers to give to Sakura, he felt like an idiot and he could barely see where he was going over the top of them. There were at least 4 types of flowers in the bouquet, as far as he was concerned that was way too many. How many flowers did a girl need?
Sakura had finally decided what to wear, after hours of deliberation and frustration. Even though going on this date with Syoaran was one of the last things in the world she could ever expect to do, she still wanted to make sure that she looked good. She couldn't have that dumb ass thinking that just because she had an attitude she couldn't dress well.
Sakura had decided on a full-length pale pink satin dress, with spaghetti straps. Although she didn't want to go anywhere or even be seen with Syaoran, she couldn't help but feel a little excited and anxious as to what her first date would be like.
Syaoran was feeling as if he had eaten a lead weight for lunch. He hated this girl but was as nervous as hell about being out in a public place with her. Would she behave herself? But the most important question was, would he?
Sakura was now completely ready. Her hair was done her shoes were on and she stood waiting outside the door. She was eager to go on this date and get it out of the way.
Syaoran could see her house approaching and Sakura standing on the doorstep. He took a huge gulp of air before stepping up to her, just to prepare himself for the humiliation he was about to face.
"Hi Sakura, Darling."
"Hello Syaoran, Honey, still looking as ugly as ever I see. But that won't really matter because it's dark out here, thankfully."
Sakura looked at the enormous flowers clutched in his hand and gave a short laugh.
"Hey, did Tomoyo tell you to invite your garden or did you bring them to hide your face?
"Shut up Sakura."
She began laughing and carried on.
"Oh, there's no need to be embarrassed about it. I mean, if I was born looking like you, I would have asked for surgery or something but I guess the flowers work just as well."
Syaoran gave her a look and thrust the bunch of flowers in her face.
Sakura grabbed them from him and chucked them over her neighbour's fence.
"What was the point of that?" Syaoran asked giving her a quizzical look.
Sakura turned to him and gasped.
"What?!"
"Oh No! I just realised now that the flowers are gone, I'm gonna have to look at you all night."
"Well, how do you think I feel, those flowers were the only thing blocking my view and now they're back in someone's garden."
"Oh shut up and let's go." She stormed ahead and left Syaoran trailing behind.
Tomoyo had left Syaoran a slip of paper saying at what restaurant she had left a reservation. At the bottom of the note she had written "Remember the rules, I'll be watching you." And indeed, she had been watching since Syaoran had arrived at Sakura's house, but she was also filming. Eriol was the one watching, he had asked her if she could film it and she was more than happy to oblige, they both figured that if they broke the rules then the footage could be used as blackmail.
Syaoran jammed his hand into his left pocket and brought out a crumpled piece of paper.
"Yeah, this is it, The Noodle Inn."
He looked up at the large, expensively furnished building.
Sakura gave a fake smile and sarcastically squealed, "Oh goodie, I'm so excited!"
Syaoran just ignored her and went inside.
They were ushered to their table while waiters fussed over them and upper class couples whispered and commented to each other.
Sakura snorted.
"Such a cheerful restaurant."
Syaoran smiled "Yeah, I can almost feel the love."
They turned to each other, laughed, then both looked angry that they had done such a thing.
The 'couple' remained silent after that little incident and both began to look extremely bored after a few minutes of stony silence.
Tomoyo and Eriol were seated in the opposite corner of the restaurant, both watching amusedly.
"That little moment was so cute, I'm really glad that I have all of this on tape."
"Well, I just hope everything turns out alright in the end. If they won't even talk to each other how are they supposed to do anything else together."
"Eriol trust me on this one. The plan will work perfectly."
"I hope for my sake that you're right Tomoyo."
The food had arrived at Sakura and Syaoran's table, just as he had made the big mistake of excusing himself to go to the bathroom.
Sakura had decided to entertain herself and make use of his absence. She unscrewed the tops of the salt and pepper shakers then poured half of the salt into his drink and gave it a stir, she did the same with his food except she used a lot of the pepper.
When Syaoran came back to the table she smiled sweetly and began eating her food.
He knew immediately that something was wrong, firstly, she had smiled at him and now she was laughing quietly to herself. Yeah, he knew she was slightly crazy but this was just crossing the line.
"Uh, Sakura, not that I care but is there something wrong with you?"
"No, why would there be?"
"Well it's just that you're just sitting there laughing to yourself."
"What's your point?"
Syaoran sighed in defeat and took a sip of his drink. He almost spat it back out again. It tasted disgusting, he knew at once why Sakura was laughing but he decided not to say anything to her, he just carried on drinking the drink.
"This drink is pretty good, some kind of weird new orange juice, it has a slight salty taste to it but it's good."
Sakura ceased her fit of giggles and stared at him, perplexed. She had poured at least four tablespoons of salt into his orange juice but there he was just drinking it as if it was something really nice.
"You like salty orange juice?"
"Not normally but I can make an exception in this case, this is really nice you should try some."
"No I don't think I will, thank you, I'm gonna go to the bathroom."
Syaoran smirked to himself.
"Ok, take as long as you want."
"I was planning to."
As soon as she left he did exactly the same thing to her food and drink, even though he thought it was pretty amateur for a pranktical genius like him.
Sakura made her way back to the table, to find Syaoran sitting there with an incredibly smug look on his face.
"What is it? Why are you looking so cheerful all of a sudden?"
"Cheerful? Remember that I am actually out in public with you, so the only time I'm gonna be cheerful is if this never ending nightmare suddenly ends. But anyway, eat up."
"Why are you so eager for me to eat? What have you done to it?"
"I simply encourage you to eat and you assume I've poisoned you or something. Some people just don't know how to be grateful these days."
"You know what, I'm kinda full so we can go as soon as you're done."
"Oh come on Ice Queen, you're being paranoid."
"I know when I'm being paranoid Pathetic Prince and right now is not one of those times."
"Yeah if you say so."
Sakura sighed. She was getting really tired of having to put up with his idiotic conversation. If she couldn't even stand to try and talk to him for a few hours how the hell was she going to manage for two weeks?
Syaoran saw that she was not going to fall for his lame trick so he gave up and got up to go.
Tomoyo had been screaming in frustration and sighing for he whole hour and half that her and Eriol had been spying on them.
"Hey, Tomoyo chill out, it's really not that bad."
"They're so annoying, why can't they just get along for one night, it's not that hard!"
"It dosen't matter. We'll just make them go on another date."
"Oh sure, they're really just gonna accept that."
"Hello Tomoyo! We have this tape remember."
For the second time that night Tomoyo began smiling again.
"Well we better go and tell them the good news then."
They ran out of The Noodle Inn and into the dark street after 'the happy couple'.
Sakura and Syaoran were strolling along not saying anything, until Sakura broke the silence.
"So, I guess you have to walk me home, right?"
Syaoran snorted.
"What are you, The bearer of bad news?"
Sakura laughed a little.
"You say that as if I want you to walk me home." "Well it sounded like that's what you wanted and I don't blame you either, what girl wouldn't want me to walk her home?"
She looked at him incredulously and pretended to be thinking.
"Hmm let me see, maybe um ALL OF THEM!"
"Whatever, Sakura, you talk so much crap."
Sakura just smiled at him and began walking away. Over her shoulder she shouted "I learnt it from it from the best, Syaoran."
He watched her striding away and couldn't help noticing for the second time that she had a nice butt. The first time he had seen it close up but even though she was further away this time, he could still tell that it was pretty nice looking.
"SYAORAN!"
The now blushing boy, turned around to see Tomoyo, running towards him with Eriol in tow.
"Where's the fire?"
Eriol smirked.
"In your heart Syaoran. In your heart. Well, that's where it should be after tomorrow."
"Huh? Why? What's happening tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow is your date with Sakura."
"WHAT?!"
"We are sending you another date because you broke the rules. So tomorrow you are going to go out with Sakura and both of you are going to be nice to each other."
"You have got to be kidding me! You guys are supposed to be my friends and you put me through this torture."
"Well it's actually your fault. We told you the rules."
"Ok, so how do you know that we broke the rules? We could have been in there being polite and everything."
Tomoyo leant over and waved her camcorder in his face. "YOU WERE RECORDING THE WHOLE THING?!"
She giggled.
"I told you that we would be watching."
"Yeah but you didn't say you would record it. You're not gonna show that to anyone are you?"
"If you don't go on this date then we'll be showing this tape to the whole school."
"You would really do that?"
"Yes Syaoran, it's really not that bad."
"No, you're right it's not bad. IT'S TERRIBLE!"
"Oh stop sulking Syaoran and go and tell Sakura about our little arrangement."
"But I-"
"Bye, Syaoran."
Eriol and his girlfriend stepped into a sleek black car that had pulled up beside them.
Syaoran gave a depressed sigh and walked in the direction that Sakura had gone.
"After tomorrow there will only be two weeks of this hell left, that's not so bad I guess."
He smiled sadly to himself.
"Oh who am I kidding? My life as I know it is over."
To be continued.
Sorry if this chapter isn't that good. I have major writer's block, it took me ages to write this. I'll try and make the next chapter better.
Oh and don't forget to review!!!!!
Review! Thanks to previous reviewers. Review! TTFN!
