Authors note: Hey, it's me again with the chapter. I got some pretty good reviews (yeah!) and I had loads of free time plus ideas kept on popping. Hope ya like it. P.S I realized I didn't write how old they are, FYI they are 14. Don't forget to read first then review.

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CHAPTER 2

Sakura gasped when she thought of what she had just said. Li looked at her as though he was looking or expecting something.

"Did I just say that...I mean...a...." Sakura's words trailed off, she had to think of something and fast. Finally it hit her "I mean, I love practicing with you." She said hopping he'll buy it. He kept glancing at her as she turned red. He wasn't convinced. "Did you just say you love me?" he asked.

"Oh look at the time, I have to leave. See you whenever" She said waving and hurrying to the door.

As soon as she was outside she thought 'what was I thinking, I've been thinking about him so much that I spoke my mind. How could I let this happen?" she asked herself in regret. The look on Li's face when she said it flashed incessantly in her mind. What was she suppose to do now, and how about the play. She wouldn't be able to look at him again, she was too ashamed. The best resolution would be to quit before it was too late.

That very next day Sakura walked through the school corridors praying that Li will not suddenly show up, luckily he didn't. The only person there was Eroil who was opening his locker. Sakura walked toward him "Hi Eroil."

"Good morning, Sakura, Li was here a little earlier..." Eroil stopped when he saw the look on her face, she shrugged with aggravation.

"What's wrong, you two got into a fight or something." Eroil locked his locker.

"No, so how far have you memorized your lines." Sakura said trying to brush off the subject.

"You do know he is looking for you right?" Eroil added.

"No, it doesn't matter anyway." She said her tone getting serious.

"I thought you two have to rehearse together."

"I'm thinking of giving up my role."

"What's going on between you too? You can't just give up." Eroil said puzzled.

"I accidentally told him I loved him." Sakura said walking away; she figured that Eroil would find out anyway.

Before she could reach her class Eroil ran after her. "Wait a minute, so you're quitting because of that?"

"I said I was thinking of quitting."

"Don't do it, Li will be disappointed if he knew, so will everyone else."

"Eroil, you don't understand, you don't know how it feels like when you love someone and they don't love you back." Sakura said almost crying.

Eroil looked at her with remorse.

Sakura walked to her class, from the moment she did she saw Li, she gazed at him for a second and he shot her no expression or emotion. She turned away and walked to her desk.

The bell rang and they had to switch classes, Sakura rushed to be the first out. She could hear Li call her name but she brushed it off and continued walking. After school it was the same thing, she used the girl's bathroom as a way of escaping him. That afternoon as she was walking home, just when she thought she was safe, she took the first turn and there he was. Sakura looked at him with no expression then walked right past him. He grabbed her wrist tightly.

"Oh no...you're not getting away from me that easily." He grinned.

Sakura stopped walking, she didn't want to turn around and face him. She just couldn't, not now. "Li let me go." She said simply.

"No, I know you're trying to avoid me. I'm only going to let you go if you promise not to walk away and at least look at me." Li said desperately.

"Okay, fine." Sakura agreed. She put together all her wits turned around and looked him in the eyes. And just as she thought it would be...it pained.

"So why do you want to talk to me for."

Li slowly released her wrist "It's about the play, Eroil told me that you were thinking of quitting."

Sakura was furious, it seemed as though all he cared about was the stupid play, "Li, you're impossible!"

She said walking away. Li grabbed her wrist. "You can't walk away. So you are quitting, you can't. You're my friend so you wouldn't turn your back on me right?"

"Friend..." Sakura mumbled.

"Why would you quit?" Li murmured.

"Are you that dense, if you weren't so caught up in this dumb play you would have realized that things have changed between us? Nothing is how it used to be and it is not going to go back. I'm not the same person as I was when we first me."

Li sighed "Nothing has changed."

"Let me go!" Sakura demanded.

"I'm not letting you go untill we have settled this."

"If you don't let go of me, I'll scream." Sakura warned.

"I don't care." Li said.

Sakura opened her mouth and screamed.

Not so far away, Touya was on his way home; he heard a scream and immediately recognized it. He followed it just find Li grabbing his sister's arm.

"You're hurting me!" Sakura lied.

"Sakura, what is this brat doing to you!" Touya said provoked.

Li immediately let her go, truth was, he wasn't hurting her, she just said that so he would let her go but Touya was convinced that he was trying to hurt her.

"Get away from her!" Touya said running their direction. Li wanted to run but he just couldn't. His feet froze.

"Touya, it's not what you think!" Sakura said afraid of what Touya would do. Touya did not listen, instead pushed her aside.

He let out his fist and looked at it "I've been waiting for this for a very long time; you're going to learn not to hurt my sister."

Li was not afraid at all. He just glared at Touya with a grin. "I wasn't hurting her." He confessed.

"Listen to him Touya, he is right. I exaggerated." Sakura admitted but her brother was not listening. He went for the punch. Li was able to doge it.

"Listen, I was only trying to talk to her, I would never hurt Sakura!" Li tried justifying himself but Touya was ready to strike another punch.

"Touya stop it!" Sakura cried. Li looked at Sakura, Touya struck his second punch and Li fell straight on the ground.

"No!" Sakura yelled.

"Sakura, why are defending him, he was trying to hurt you."

Sakura shot her brother an angry glare "He wasn't hurting me."

Touya still didn't understand it. Sakura ran to Li's side. "Li please get up!" she said. He slowly go up, he bit by bit touched his nose that had blood all over it.

"I'm sorry I got you into all this." she said.

"Don't worry," Li muttered "You could repay me by staying in the play."

Sakura stood up "You are such a jerk Li." She said angrily "And you Touya, stop being so overprotective of me, I can take care of myself!" she added walking away.

The boys were left speechless; they just looked at each other puzzled.

Two days later...

Sakura had informed the class that she was giving up her role; it was immediately taken by a girl called Hinata who seemed to be doing it well despite throwing herself to Li and mentioning the kissing scene whenever Sakura was around. Sakura didn't know how it got out but it seemed as though the whole school knew that she was in love with Li. She had not spoken to Li since her brother punched him. Li was not very persistent in getting her back anymore; it was like he finally took the hint and backed off.

"Why does love have to be so damn complicated?" Sakura asked lying on the couch. She stared at the phone for the millionth time, no one called not even Tomoyo. It was like everyone was too caught in the play to even think about calling her. She bit her nails, flipped channels and walked continuously across the room. She went into the kitchen and decided to make something but there was nothing in the fridge.

"Dad!" She yelled. "The fridge is empty, do you want me to go grocery shopping?" she said walking upstairs to her Dad's office.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Sakura's Dad said. He was shocked that Sakura had nothing to do on a weekend.

"Of course, it's no sweat." Sakura said.

Sakura walked through isle to isle looking for the place where they kept the cheese. She strolled around the cereal isle and sighed. "This is so hopeless, everyone is doing something but Me." she moaned. She turned around to see if there was anyone else in the isle.

"What are you following me?" Sakura asked. But the person kept reading the papers in his hand.

"Ahemm" Sakura coughed practically longing for his attention.

"Oh, hey Sakura" Li said walking toward her "Haven't seen much of you lately." He said trying to act casual.

"You know me, been busy." she said. She didn't want to put him off this time around; she was that desperate for company. Before she could go any further in talking to him she discovered that she was not sweating, nervous, blushing and her knees were not getting weak. 'I'm over him' she mumbled.

"What" he said.

"Nothing" Sakura smiled.

"Okay, see you around." Li said with his head still buried in the papers he was reading.

Sakura had to stop him now that it was safe for them to hang again. "Li...wait." She said.

"What?" he asked in an impolite annoyed tone.

"Sorry, I just want to know...what you are doing here."

"Just grabbing a few things" He said.

Sakura was blank "Me too, there was nothing to eat...Touya could be such a pig when he wants to." Sakura shrugged.

Li just smiled at her.

"So, is um...what's her name, doing well, with the lines." Sakura asked cracking.

"She's alright" he said nodding.

"Cool" Sakura nodded back.

"I've gotten everything I need, bye Sakura." He said finally walking to the counter. Something ticked in Sakura's mind that made her run after him.

"Hi." She went straight in his face. "Do you want to hang?"

Later..........

"...And I always thought you were not good enough to be a card captor." Li joked.

Sakura licked the tip of her ice-cream "I can't believe how much you and Touya hate each others guts." Sakura commented.

Li stopped laughing and looked at her "He didn't really think I was hurting you did he?" Li asked waiting for an honest answer from Sakura.

"Um...I don't know, maybe you didn't hurt me physically but emotionally." Sakura said her tone taking a different road.

This kept Li speechless. It was like he was avoiding the whole matter. He had not say in it.

"We must be out of our minds to come to school on a Saturday." Sakura said more cheerily.

"I know what you mean, if Eroil found out he would think we were crazy." Li giggled.

"What you say we tear this place apart and see what they will say on..." Sakura's words trailed off when Li touched her cheek. His fingers were warm and soft as he gently rubbed them against her skin. He solemnly looked into her emerald eyes and she into his. Sakura could feel it again. Her knees grew weak her heart pumped faster; she swallowed her spit and closed her eyes. She opened them, and he removed every tip of his finger from her face.

"You had ice-cream on your cheek." He said backing away.
Sakura touched her cheek and smiled. Li turned away and stared at a distance. "I was thinking about what you said about things changing between us." Li said finally bringing up the subject. "I think you were right." he added. After this he didn't say anything else. He was quiet till they walked to Sakura's house. Though he didn't say much, Sakura found it somehow comforting that she was not the only one who saw a change in their friendship.

"Thanks for hanging with me though I've been the worst friend ever." Sakura said wishing he would correct her on the friend part but instead he leaned over and kissed her cheek.

"I better get lost before your brother kicks my ass." He said walking away.

Sakura slowly walked into the house, she was blown away, she was hypnotized...she was in love. She touched her cheek as it turned into a bright shade of red. She slowly walked upstairs, she wasn't sure whether or not what had taken place was real she felt as though she was in a dream.

"Sakura, is that you." Sakura's Dad asked. "Did you bring the groceries?"

"Something sort of came up, I'll do it tomorrow." Sakura said flying into her room. She floated on her bed where she stared at the ceiling which currently had Li's face on it.

Early Monday morning Sakura rushed to school the sun was shinning; there were no dark clouds or huge gust of wind. The weather was imitating her emotion. Sakura entered the school gate and asked a boy in her class "Have you seen Li."

"Up it the Library" The boy indicated.

"Thanks." Sakura said hurriedly. When she was close to the Library she slowed down. She walked in naturally and grabbed a huge book. She spotted Li and to her surprise Hinata was sitting right next to him. 'oh boy,' she thought making her way to the exit.

"Sakura" Li said. Sakura turned around.

"Hello I wanted to talk to you, seeing how you're busy, it can wait."

"Come on, you can tell me." Li insisted.

Hinata gave Sakura a glared but Sakura ignored it. She walked up to Li "I was just thinking...I had a great time yesterday and I thought we could you know do it again."

"When?" Li asked excited.

"Tomorrow after school." Sakura replied. For the first time things were going her way, she had full control of her words and Li seemed as though he was beginning to see her in a different way, everything was working out.

"No he can't, we have to practice." Hinata butted in. "You gave up the part, remember."

Sakura was obviously irritated by her rudeness plus that choice was up to Li right?

Li looked at both girls "Hinata is right, I've got a lot of catching up to do."

Sakura gently smiled. "What about the day after that." Sakura asked.

"No." Hinata said "Practice."

"What about..." Sakura's words were blocked.

"You can ask the whole day but Li won't be available until the play is over. Right Li?" Hinata asked twinkling her eyes at Li.

Li looked at her "Yeah..." he said dubiously.

She grabbed Li's hand and walked out the door.

"Blown off," Sakura thought "Who does she think she is? She doesn't think I'm going to sit back and let her take Li away from me?" She asked herself. What could Sakura do, Hinata was clearly winning.

A week had passed by and it was the day before the play, Li talked to Sakura but whenever he would he left out the part about their relationship. Sakura walked into the Hall where the play was to be held. She sat on one of the chairs in a corner and watched her classmates rehearse. The play wasn't bad at all. If only she stayed in the play, if only she didn't quit. She would be up there instead of Hinata. She would be the one to kiss Li. Sakura thought about it, She and Li grew pretty close, he wouldn't kiss her. She spotted Li talking to other guys. She walked to him.

"Li, I have to talk to you." Sakura said. They walked the door.

"Are you thinking of going on with this kiss?" Sakura asked driven with jealousy.

"O f course." Li said simply

"What, you can't!" Sakura said on the verge of a breakdown.

"Why not Sakura?" Li asked.

Sakura felt warm liquid from her yes; she never thought she would end up crying. "What do you mean why not, isn't it obvious, Li how dense can you be, it's practically written on the walls. I'm in love with you. You've never been kissed, I've never been kissed. I thought we could share our first kiss." Sakura wailed.

"I love you, all I've ever been was afraid, afraid of what you would do, what you would say, seeing you feel the same way..." Sakura stopped talking when she saw the look on Li's face.

"Wait...you do feel the same way right?" she asked urgently.

Li turned his face away from her and made his way to the hall (I know I know its mean). Before he could go in Sakura added. "I see, so this is how it's meant to be Li, you can't pretend, I know you better than anyone else, you felt it too. I saw it in your eyes. One day you're going to regret this; I won't be able to forgive you this time." Li gave her a short glanced then said "It's only a crush Sakura, you'll get over it and everything will go back the way it has always been."

To be continued

Authors note: so how'd ya guys like it. Please let me know okay. 0 P.S, I think the next chapter is the last.