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Pretense

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5 years later. Australia.

Intro: Sakura Kinomoto also known as Shae Ying Fa Tou had finished her 3-year course and had worked two years for Tycoon Magazine. She is now 23 years old.

Shae knocked on the door and waited for her boss, Gary to bid her in.

"Enter." Came a voice on cue. He spoke as soon as she entered.

"Shae, we've got a new assignment for you." he told her without preamble. Shae, who had been expecting something like this nodded calmly.

Gary continued. "The owner of Japan's top ranking Adventure Park has agreed to give one of my reporters a tour of his playground and home. You will interview him. Your accommodation is provided for. You'll have three months max. to finish this project." After a pause, he continued sheepishly. "I've been pestering him for quite a while now to let one of our reporters to interview him. I've known him since primary school and we've kept in touch. He's just not the type who likes public exposure but he'll do almost anything for his toy land. You see . . .," he would've continued but Shae interrupted.

"Why me?" she asked simply.

Gary's eyes softened. "Shae, you work too hard. You've finished more articles than I care to count. This will be a break for you. I'm giving you three months because I know you'll finish the whole thing in less than that time. I want you to relax and enjoy yourself. However, I must warn you of one thing. He's a bit of a grouch and he's told me to make it clear to you that if you put one step outta line he'll send you packing."

Shae's eyes widened at this. 'What kind of man is he sending her to?'

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AN: hey to you too. I know what you're thinking. *What is NiteAngel thinking? Has she gone insane giving us a short chapter like this?!?!* well . . . no I'm not insane. It's just that I've been losing myself in these lovely stories that these lovely ppl right in this site called fanfiction.net, which sadly happen to be better than mine and yeah. Well . . . actually doing this was not my original intention. There's more to this chapter but I haven't finished writing it yet. Why I did this is cos I didn't want to keep you ppl waiting for much longer. Umm . . .

Did you guys notice that the name Shae is Sakura's middle name? From the previous chapter? Well . . . Shae is not her actual middle name in case you're wondering. I don't know what it is. =s

Kawaii Canadian: yes as you can see I'm still writing this. =)

Rain: what in the world were you going on about gurl? One minute you're saying that my story is AWESOME and bla bla bla (after reading the story) and then you say that my story's getting worse in the reviews and then you say it's so good that you printed it out so u'r friend can read it (which I'm very flattered btw.) and . . . I'm just plain confused. Which one is it? Hmm . . . a new story . . . I'm thinking about it but not netime soon I don't think. Chocolate. Yay! But you didn't bring it to yf! Oh wellz . . . I'll remind ya. No prob! Two Towers was GREAT! It was like . . . aagghh! Beautifuleness!

SKC: how are you feeling SKC? I'm hope your better.

Xander: you betta take care of her okai?

Cherry_Blossomz91: why? :Þ

Insaneone: LOL sorry.

SmAngel: hehe . . . thanks for da reviews. =)

It might take me a while to update from now on mainly cos of school. This is my last year. YES! So plz understand okai? But I WILL finish it. Once I've worked out where it's going. This is like part II or something. Almost a whole different ball game.

OH! If you want something REALLY good to read. Go read Power of Two Hearts by KayJuli (if you haven't already read it) I don't think you'll regret reading it cos it is like THE best! and I'm not exaggerating!

NiteAngel

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