Chapter 6
The Happy Couple
Sakura had been in a daze all night and it had lasted till the morning. She woke up late, got dressed and went outside but forgot to put her shoes on. 10 minutes later she had checked all her clothes were on and that she had all of her school stuff then began a long, slow walk to school.
Syaoran had stayed up late that night too, so he set his alarm an hour early just so he wouldn't be late to school and suffer through a week's detention. In the morning he was so tired that at breakfast he sat at the table staring in to space as if in a trance, he would have stayed like that if his mother hadn't shouted at him for putting his elbows on the table.
In class Syaoran still wasn't focusing properly, all he could think about was the kiss. His mind kept replaying it over and over, until he was interrupted by loud shouting. He looked up to see, the teacher yelling at someone who had just walked through the door.
"This is the 3rd time you've been late this week. Sakura, this is not acceptable, I have already warned you about what happens when you are late more than twice a week, so now you have a week's detention, starting today after school. Now, sit down."
Sakura hadn't been listening to a word he said all she heard was a lot of noise and when it stopped she mumbled a "Yes, sir, sorry sir."
She sat down got out her books and again started to daydream, during which, she drummed her fingers on the table subconsciously.
The teacher gave her stern glances as he tried to explain about atoms, while listening to Sakura drum her nails on the table. Finally, he snapped.
"THAT IS IT! SAKURA, I HAVE HAD ENOUGH, GET OUT OF MY CLASS. NOW!"
Sakura looked up to find that she was being shouted at again. She sighed, gathered up her things and walked slowly out of the room.
Syaoran just watched silently as she was sent out of the room. He had a strange urge to run after her. He had to find out how she felt about last night or was it just him that was going crazy, but he decided that if he ran after her people would start thinking things about them. Then he remembered that today was the first day that they had to be a 'couple'.
After class, Tomoyo cornered Syaoran and reminded him about the dare.
"Remember the rules, Syaoran. If you break them we'll have to extend the two weeks."
"Ok, whatever, just stop bugging me."
Tomoyo smiled to herself. He is even beginning to sound like her, she thought.
"Just go and get her, Syaoran, I'll see you later."
With that, she turned around and left him standing in the classroom. He began putting his books into his bag and was startled by a voice coming from the doorway.
"Um, do you know where the teacher is?"
Syaoran dropped his bag on the floor and glanced over to see who it was.
Sakura stood by the door, wishing the ground would open up and swallow her, she was blushing from head to toe as she remembered last night.
"Nope, sorry. Why do you want to know?"
"Uh. He probably wants to talk to me about the detentions or something, so I thought I should go and see him."
"Oh ok."
Syaoran had finished clearing up his things and walked across the room to stand in front of Sakura. They stood there for several seconds, just watching each other before they both began to speak.
"About last night -"
"I think we should -"
They abruptly stopped speaking and silence fell over the room. Each of them could hear the other breathing slowly and deeply as they moved toward each other. They were seconds from repeating what they each vowed would never happen, when Sakura took a step away from him, looking everywhere else, except at him.
"Hey, Syaoran, this is our first day as 'the happy couple', right? So, let's get it over with."
Syaoran was still wrapped up in the moment and followed Sakura out of the room in a daze. The next thing he knew, Sakura had slipped her arm through his and they were strolling along the corridor.
Everyone was once again shocked into dropping things and gasping. Even several teachers who were walking by stopped and stared at them as they passed. There was complete silence, all that could be heard was the sound of Sakura and Syaoran's shoes against the floor.
Throughout the rest of the day, they did the same thing every time they came out of lessons except sometimes they held hands or Syaoran would put his arm around Sakura. They had been asked several times now, if they were really a couple and each time they had either ignored or insulted the person that asked them. That was until; one of the teachers approached them during a lesson and enquired about their strange behaviour.
"Well Sir, it's kind of a long story." Syaoran started.
Sakura smirked and watched as he struggled to explain how this all came about. She decided to cut the long story short.
"Actually, it's really not as complicated as my darling Syaoran is making out, excuse the pun," She paused and giggled cutely while winking at her gob smacked 'boyfriend'.
"What actually happened was, one day we bumped into each other at school and it was love at first sight."
Syaoran was surprised that she would joke about it but began to see the funny side, a smile reached his lips and he joined in with the story.
"Yeah, we hardly spend a minute apart, we just can't bare to be away from each other." They smiled at each other and exaggeratedly blew each other kisses.
The teacher's eyes darted from one to the other and he began to back away from them, shaking his head in a bewildered manner.
The Prankster Prince and the Ice Queen were doubled over with laughter at their little exchange and they high fived each other.
Eriol had been watching all day as his experiment took place. He could see that it was helping to make both of them slightly nicer to each other, they were now smiling at each other occasionally and putting up a very good pretence of being a couple. Whether it would stay a pretence, was another question. He knew that Syaoran was planning another prank on Sakura but that was before they kissed, he would have to ask Syaoran what was going on.
Sakura was sitting in the kitchen talking to her brother Touya, while he cooked dinner.
"So, tell me monster, what's been making you grin like an idiot this week?"
"Huh? I've been grinning?"
Sakura looked shocked and began touching her face, looking for signs of a smile.
"Oh come on Sakura, you must have noticed. You haven't been this happy since you got that doll you wanted on you're sixth birthday."
"Touya, I told you never to mention that doll thing again and what do you mean by, I haven't been this happy? Who says I'm happy?"
"Look, something must have been making you smile, you hardly ever do it nowadays, so I just want to know what is that's all."
Sakura raised an eyebrow.
"If you call, being forced to be seen in public with the guy who is the ultimate definition of freak, something to make you smile; well you have it seriously wrong."
"Hey, are you talking about that excuse for a boy you went out with the other night?"
She laughed at her brother's description of Syaoran.
"Yeah that's the one."
"Hmm, is he the one making you smile then? I must say Sakura I never thought you went for the reject kinda guy."
"He's not making me do anything except want to strangle him every time he talks to me and no, I don't go for the reject kinda guy."
"You like him that much huh?"
"TOUYA!! I DON'T LIKE HIM, OK?!"
Luckily, Touya's questioning was interrupted by knocking on the door and Sakura ran to get it, just so she wouldn't have to endure her brother's teasing.
"Hi Yukito, how are you? Come in, you're just in time for dinner, surprisingly."
The new dinner guest, smiled sheepishly and stepped inside.
"So, how are things, with that little problem you had?"
Sakura blushed at the thought of her 'little' problem.
"Um, well - "
Touya had come to see who was at the door and was now listening to their conversation, interestedly.
"Come on, squirt, tell me about you're little problem."
"Uh, I think I'll go and finish some homework."
She ran upstairs and breathed a sigh of relief as she closed the door behind her.
