Sai-chan: Hi guys! Sorry for the late update! Much to my dismay I got sick
last week and had to take plenty of rest while juggling my summer training
and other school activities. This chapter is a 2 or 3 part series and I
promise to write or rather type as fast a s possible to keep it all glued
together. Please do keep up with the reviews! THANKS!!
Oh, and just a little note, I included Kaho in this fic as Tomoyo's friend and Touya's cousin... and there will be plenty of twists soon. She is the same age as Tomoyo though, so just imagine a chibi version of her okay?
I re-edited this one due to my very weird computer, who keeps messing up with my typing, I'm sorry! Please do bear with me and keep up the reviews. Thank you!
Hopefully, I now got to have some of the lines italized, I didn't realized it till now that I had to add some html tags o my works, so here it is...
Chapter 9 – Qualified Score At the House
Eriol looked up from his laptop.
"Just who on earth will be knocking in the front door in a Sunday morning?" he thought to himself. He was certain that not a single soul knew about the circumstances he and Tomoyo are in, except for their mothers and Nakuru of course and his mom and Nakuru are both in Paris and Tomoyo's mom
on the other hand is in England, so who could it be? Shrugging of his
thoughts he nonchalantly makes his way to the door only to feel the
daylights break at the sight of five heads by the door.
By the door was a 20 year old lad with dark gray hair and wire glasses, Yamazaki, Shaoranip, a red haired girl with pale skin and a dark haired lad with bangs that almost reach his eyes typing frantically in his
laptop seating by the porch.
"Konnichiwa! (Good afternoon) Eriol-kun!" the lad with gray hair
greeted in a sing-song manner sending off goose bumps in Eriol's spine. Yamazaki, Shaoranip and the red haired girl waved impishly, the lad by the
porch on the other hand looked up at Eriol and gave a nod.
"Yuki-niichan! Guys! ... uh... what are you guys doing here?" Eriol said
uncomfortably.
"Mou, Eriol-kun, shouldn't you be inviting us inside before you ask? It's quite chilly here," the girl with red hair said with a pout. It was chilly outside indeed and the sleeveless navy blouse she is wearing on top
of her black skirt surely isn't a best choice in keeping her warm.
"How did you know I'm here?" Eriol said the door slightly ajar
preventing the guests to enter.
"Really, Eriol it's cold here, why don't you let us in?" Yamazaki said pushing his way to the door. He was wearing a long sleeved red shirt
and has been rubbing his hands in the cold.
"You have guests?" Tomoyo said coming out from the kitchen a yellow
apron on top of her dress.
"Uh... no... nothing important, really..." Eriol said trying to close the
door despite the push Yamazaki, Shaoran and the gray haired lad are
exerting. Tomoyo raised a questioning brow.
"Let... us... IN!" Yamazaki said pushing harder and slamming the door
open with a thud causing them to fall on top of Eriol's back.
"Oh my, my," Tomoyo whispered surprised by the sight of Eriol flat on the floor with four heads on top him. Somehow she had a feeling they were
like a BTL sandwich with additional toppings and she could not help but
stifle a smile.
"Greetings, my lady. Allow me to introduce myself, Yukito Tsukishiro, Yuki-niichan for short, the two fools lying on top of Eriol is my brother
Yamazaki and Shaoran Li, and that guy with the computer is Touya Tsukishiro, we're Eriol's god brothers and you must be fair Ms. Tomoyo?"
the gray haired lad greeted with a bow upon standing up. Tomoyo gave a quick look at the lad and realized that he is a few years older than Eriol. Yamazaki and Shaoran on the other hand weakly waved as they stand up and
straightened the creases on their shirts.
"Why, yes... mind if I ask what is going on?"Tomoyo said unsure of
what is totally going on as she watches Yamazaki and Shaoran check the whole living room, the red haired girl warming herself by the fire and the dark haired lad with the laptop helped himself by the couch. Eriol sweat dropped as he stands up and wondered to himself on how to get rid of his
friends, FAST!
"Oh, they're a bunch of stupid guys who just dropped by, right? You're all warmed up now. You may go. BYE!" Eriol said with clenched teeth
as he incredulously shoves them out of the front door.
"Stupid guys? The nerve of you!" the red haired girl glared.
"To think we actually went a long way just to visit you," Yuki-
niichan said crossing his arms.
"Just what are you doing Eriol?" Yamazaki said as he struggles to
stop Eriol from kicking them all out of the door.
"Yeah! What's the big idea?" Shaoran said with a smirk pushing
harder.
And the whole fuss continued like cat and dog fighting over who gets to sleep near the fireplace, but... no, they are no cat or dog, and no, they are not fighting over who will get to sleep near the fireplace, they are namely, Yuki-niichan, Yamazaki, Shaoran, Eriol and the red haired girl and they are all struggling by the front door with a confused Tomoyo watching them and the dark haired lad by the couch still working on his computer.
"Ahem!" Tomoyo said faking a cough stopping the "cats and dogs" in
their struggle.
Why did they forget that Tomoyo was watching them?
And...
Just what on earth is going on?
Total silence and plenty of sweat drops in the chilly autumn morning
enveloped them as Tomoyo walk in their direction and much to their
amazement smacked Eriol HARD on the head.
"OUCH!" Eriol exclaimed.
Yuki-niichan's jaw dropped, Yamazaki and Shaoran sEriolered.
"That hurt! What did you do that for?" Eriol demanded as he ran a
hand on his head.
"That is for being rude to your own guests," Tomoyo said wryly.
"Aren't you Roberts-san, the new student in our class?" the red
haired girl said upon one look at the young Tomoyo.
"Kaho-san?" Tomoyo said recognizing the red haired lass.
"Tomoyoandra-chan!" Kaho exclaimed rushing to Tomoyo in delight,
"You two know each other?" Shaoran said looking at Mel and then at
Tomoyo and back to Mel again.
"We're in the same class!" Mel answered excitedly.
"We're having grilled steak for lunch today, why don't you join us?"
Tomoyo sweetly said breaking the day lights out of Eriol once again.
"It would really be rude on our part to turn down your humble offer
won't it?" B-nicchan chuckled much to Eriol's dismay.
"I take that as a yes. Please wait here for a while. Lunch will be served in a few minutes," Tomoyo said excusing herself as she walks to the
kitchen.
"My, she's very refined," Shaoran said staring at the lass exiting
the room.
"Unlike someone we know," Kaho said teasingly. Eriol's forehead
wrinkled.
"And she has the curves at the right places," Yamazaki said with a
smirk.
"Just what are you guys doing here?" Eriol demanded annoyingly, arms
crossed.
"Now, now Eriol, why such temper? To think you're actually leaving in one roof with such a sweet fiancée," Yuki-niichan said stressing the words "under one roof" and "fiancée" causing Eriol to nearly fall from his chair.
Kaho could not help but giggle.
They then heard the sound of a buzzer buzz twice. Their attention was
averted to the dark haired lad working on his laptop.
"It's done!" he said rubbing his hands good naturedly.
"You've finally finished it, Touya!" Kaho said sighing.
"Finished what?' Eriol said blankly.
"The scoring program we had him make," Yamazaki said as he reclines
on the sofa.
"Scoring program?" Eriol repeated questioningly. Somehow he didn't
like the way that one sounds and he has the STRANGEST and WEIRDEST and
SCARIEST feeling that it is going to be something he will not like.
"My latest program: Qualified Score, a perfect way of rating any girl base on her personal appearance and persona as a whole, here put this on!"
Touya said tossing a number of thin head sets to Eriol and the others.
"A grading system????" Eriol exclaimed in disbelief.
"I have encoded your voice patterns so only you guys can give a score and compliments and deduct points and stuff, it did took me quite a while
there," Touya said stretching his arms.
"Don't tell me..." Eriol said in horror, his eyes not blinking as he
watched Yamazaki and the others nod mischievously or rather wickedly at
him.
"Oh, no you will not!" Eriol said realizing their plot.
"Oh, yes we will!" the four all said in chorus.
"She already has twenty points at the moment actually," Touya said
looking at his laptop.
"No way! Are you telling me you came here just to grade her and piss
me to hell?" Eriol said still confused,
"Uh... yeah..." Yamazaki said in a childlike voice. Eriol could feel himself age a hundred years more. Count on his so-called friends in making
him feel the other way around from good.
"Did you guys took my mother's medicine and now you're too interested
in matchmaking?" Eriol said in disbelief.
"Maybe," Kaho said teasingly.
"Why are you so furious anyway? Don't you two get along?" Yamazaki
said crossing his legs by the sofa.
"Not that much really... just what am I going to do with you guys?"
Eriol said seating next to Yamazaki.
"My, that smells good," Yuki-niichan commented sniffing the great
smell that came from the kitchen.
"Lunch might be ready... I guess I have no choice. Now, the last thing
I want in the world is more trouble, you guys better act nice or I'll surely wring your necks," Eriol warned as he lead them to the dining room.
"Don't want to give a bad impression to your fiancée huh?" Shaoran
said cockily as Eriol smacked him on the head.
Why is everyday his unlucky day?
---
"This is really good! You're cooking is superb!" Yamazaki said in
between gulps of his lunch.
They were now by the dining room with Eriol and Tomoyo seated at both ends of the table, Yuki-niichan, Yamazaki and Touya on one side and Kaho,
and Shaoran on the other.
Eriol then heard a loud buzz from his head set causing him to flinch,
"Ten points" he heard Touya said with a smile.
"What?" Eriol said in a low voice.
"Every time she scores you'll be hearing a buzz from your headset,"
Touya explained as he took a bite of his steak.
"You're such a good cook... no... a great cook...." Shaoran said
practically gobbling down everything on the table. Eriol heard two more
buzzes, shaking him.
"Aren't you flattering me way too much?" Tomoyo said taking a drink
of her juice.
"Not, really. The steak was perfectly done, did you ever took cooking
classes?" Yuki-niichan asked as he took another bite of his steak.
"I'm afraid not, my schedule has been quite busy recently and I just
can't find time for such," Tomoyo replied as she passes the bowl of
vegetable salad to Kaho.
"You're the image model of Coralle, right? You're quite popular,"
Touya asked looking up from his plate.
"Why, yes. Though I am taking a short time off later to experience
some normal schooling," Tomoyo replied.
"So you guys are god brothers?" she asked.
"Unfortunately, yes we are," Eriol muttered under his breath.
Tomoyo could not help herself but giggle at the sight of the faked pained expressions of their guests and Eriol's glares totally amusing her.
They all looked at Tomoyo questioningly as she struggles to keep
herself from laughing more.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be rude," she said in between her
laughter. "I just find you guys quite amusing,"
"It happens all the time," Kaho said with a grin,
"Then we are way much flattered that you find us amusing, much more to see your beautiful eyes twinkle with such beauty," B-nicchan said good- naturedly. Eriol heard another buzz, surprising him and this time causing
him to almost knock his glass.
"So what did you like about our Eriol?" Shaoran asked stunning Tomoyo
and Eriol by such question.
"I beg your pardon," Tomoyo said doubtful of what she heard the ash
blonde lad asked her.
"What did you like about Eriol? You're his fiancée right?" Shaoran
said as he cuts his steak.
"Why... yes, I am..." Tomoyo muttered remembering that denial is a major
offense on the contract.
"I can't say that much to him I'm afraid since I only met him for
almost week," Tomoyo said taking a sip of her juice.
"Do you think he's good-looking?" Kaho popped. All eyes were at
Tomoyo.
"Well... there are a bunch of girls that goes head over heels on him... I
guess he is..." Tomoyo replied not looking at anyone straight in the eye.
"A tricky reply on a tricky question. You surely have a wit hard to debate with," Touya said as Eriol heard two more buzzes from his headset
once again.
"I'll take that as a compliment," Tomoyo said with a grin.
"What brings you guys here in the first place?" Eriol said changing the topic as he shots a glare on their guests while he helps himself with
his steak.
"Don't tell me you forgot?" B¬-niichan said pretending to be
disappointed.
"Forgot what? Forgot to wring your necks? Or to bring you back to the
asylum?" Eriol asked with sarcasm.
"KARAOKE! KA-RA-O-KE!" Shaoran said annoyingly holding his fork like
as if it was the devil's trident.
"You promised to go with us remember?" Kaho simply said.
"I did?" Eriol said trying to recall such incident but failed.
"Yes, you did! You actually set the day yourself," Yamazaki muttered
taking another serving of salad.
"Well... I... I'm afraid I can't... the maids are out today and..." Eriol said looking across at the table to where Tomoyo was eating her steak. The truth was he has been reminded a couple of days ago that he is not allowed
to go anywhere on weekends unless he's with Tomoyo.
"You go ahead, I'll stay here and keep watch of the house," Tomoyo
simply said as she pours some juice for herself.
"But..." Eriol started worried about the idea of getting another sermon
from their mothers.
"You go, I won't tell Mom, besides your friends came all the way here for you, it would be a waste if you turn them down," Tomoyo said looking at
their still busily eating guests.
"I know! Why don't you come along with us, Tomoyo-san!" Touya said in
between his bites.
"Yeah! That will be great! It would be more fun than hanging out with
just my weird cousin and his much weird friends!" Kaho said in glee.
"Weird cousin? I'm quite offended my dear cousin, like you aren't
weird?" Touya said firing a glare to Kaho.
"Don't mind him. So are you coming? There will be plenty of stores
and stuff too, it will be fun!" Kaho said returning her gaze to Tomoyo.
"I..." Tomoyo stuttered thinking of her reply.
"It's a yes! Now why don't you let us clear the table so you can take a shower and change, we'll take care of everything from here," Kaho said
practically dragging Tomoyo even before she could make a reply.
"But I haven't even finished my lunch!" Tomoyo said as Kaho pulled
her to the stairway.
"You're almost through anyway, no need to worry. Now, just take your time, Yamazaki and Shaoran will take care of the dishes, okay?' Kaho said
with a grin as she disappeared back to the dining room.
---
Eriol enters hands clasping then unclasping and clasping one again
I'm going INSANE! Now my friends invited Tomoyo to join us for
Karaoke... and what is this parent-thing I've heard?...
What??? I'm parent to a CAT???!!!
Somebody call the doctor...
Next chapter on Project Engagement: Qualified Score: Viva Karaoke!
Somebody tell me I'm not going insane...
Read and Review! Adieu!
Oh, and just a little note, I included Kaho in this fic as Tomoyo's friend and Touya's cousin... and there will be plenty of twists soon. She is the same age as Tomoyo though, so just imagine a chibi version of her okay?
I re-edited this one due to my very weird computer, who keeps messing up with my typing, I'm sorry! Please do bear with me and keep up the reviews. Thank you!
Hopefully, I now got to have some of the lines italized, I didn't realized it till now that I had to add some html tags o my works, so here it is...
Chapter 9 – Qualified Score At the House
Eriol looked up from his laptop.
"Just who on earth will be knocking in the front door in a Sunday morning?" he thought to himself. He was certain that not a single soul knew about the circumstances he and Tomoyo are in, except for their mothers and Nakuru of course and his mom and Nakuru are both in Paris and Tomoyo's mom
on the other hand is in England, so who could it be? Shrugging of his
thoughts he nonchalantly makes his way to the door only to feel the
daylights break at the sight of five heads by the door.
By the door was a 20 year old lad with dark gray hair and wire glasses, Yamazaki, Shaoranip, a red haired girl with pale skin and a dark haired lad with bangs that almost reach his eyes typing frantically in his
laptop seating by the porch.
"Konnichiwa! (Good afternoon) Eriol-kun!" the lad with gray hair
greeted in a sing-song manner sending off goose bumps in Eriol's spine. Yamazaki, Shaoranip and the red haired girl waved impishly, the lad by the
porch on the other hand looked up at Eriol and gave a nod.
"Yuki-niichan! Guys! ... uh... what are you guys doing here?" Eriol said
uncomfortably.
"Mou, Eriol-kun, shouldn't you be inviting us inside before you ask? It's quite chilly here," the girl with red hair said with a pout. It was chilly outside indeed and the sleeveless navy blouse she is wearing on top
of her black skirt surely isn't a best choice in keeping her warm.
"How did you know I'm here?" Eriol said the door slightly ajar
preventing the guests to enter.
"Really, Eriol it's cold here, why don't you let us in?" Yamazaki said pushing his way to the door. He was wearing a long sleeved red shirt
and has been rubbing his hands in the cold.
"You have guests?" Tomoyo said coming out from the kitchen a yellow
apron on top of her dress.
"Uh... no... nothing important, really..." Eriol said trying to close the
door despite the push Yamazaki, Shaoran and the gray haired lad are
exerting. Tomoyo raised a questioning brow.
"Let... us... IN!" Yamazaki said pushing harder and slamming the door
open with a thud causing them to fall on top of Eriol's back.
"Oh my, my," Tomoyo whispered surprised by the sight of Eriol flat on the floor with four heads on top him. Somehow she had a feeling they were
like a BTL sandwich with additional toppings and she could not help but
stifle a smile.
"Greetings, my lady. Allow me to introduce myself, Yukito Tsukishiro, Yuki-niichan for short, the two fools lying on top of Eriol is my brother
Yamazaki and Shaoran Li, and that guy with the computer is Touya Tsukishiro, we're Eriol's god brothers and you must be fair Ms. Tomoyo?"
the gray haired lad greeted with a bow upon standing up. Tomoyo gave a quick look at the lad and realized that he is a few years older than Eriol. Yamazaki and Shaoran on the other hand weakly waved as they stand up and
straightened the creases on their shirts.
"Why, yes... mind if I ask what is going on?"Tomoyo said unsure of
what is totally going on as she watches Yamazaki and Shaoran check the whole living room, the red haired girl warming herself by the fire and the dark haired lad with the laptop helped himself by the couch. Eriol sweat dropped as he stands up and wondered to himself on how to get rid of his
friends, FAST!
"Oh, they're a bunch of stupid guys who just dropped by, right? You're all warmed up now. You may go. BYE!" Eriol said with clenched teeth
as he incredulously shoves them out of the front door.
"Stupid guys? The nerve of you!" the red haired girl glared.
"To think we actually went a long way just to visit you," Yuki-
niichan said crossing his arms.
"Just what are you doing Eriol?" Yamazaki said as he struggles to
stop Eriol from kicking them all out of the door.
"Yeah! What's the big idea?" Shaoran said with a smirk pushing
harder.
And the whole fuss continued like cat and dog fighting over who gets to sleep near the fireplace, but... no, they are no cat or dog, and no, they are not fighting over who will get to sleep near the fireplace, they are namely, Yuki-niichan, Yamazaki, Shaoran, Eriol and the red haired girl and they are all struggling by the front door with a confused Tomoyo watching them and the dark haired lad by the couch still working on his computer.
"Ahem!" Tomoyo said faking a cough stopping the "cats and dogs" in
their struggle.
Why did they forget that Tomoyo was watching them?
And...
Just what on earth is going on?
Total silence and plenty of sweat drops in the chilly autumn morning
enveloped them as Tomoyo walk in their direction and much to their
amazement smacked Eriol HARD on the head.
"OUCH!" Eriol exclaimed.
Yuki-niichan's jaw dropped, Yamazaki and Shaoran sEriolered.
"That hurt! What did you do that for?" Eriol demanded as he ran a
hand on his head.
"That is for being rude to your own guests," Tomoyo said wryly.
"Aren't you Roberts-san, the new student in our class?" the red
haired girl said upon one look at the young Tomoyo.
"Kaho-san?" Tomoyo said recognizing the red haired lass.
"Tomoyoandra-chan!" Kaho exclaimed rushing to Tomoyo in delight,
"You two know each other?" Shaoran said looking at Mel and then at
Tomoyo and back to Mel again.
"We're in the same class!" Mel answered excitedly.
"We're having grilled steak for lunch today, why don't you join us?"
Tomoyo sweetly said breaking the day lights out of Eriol once again.
"It would really be rude on our part to turn down your humble offer
won't it?" B-nicchan chuckled much to Eriol's dismay.
"I take that as a yes. Please wait here for a while. Lunch will be served in a few minutes," Tomoyo said excusing herself as she walks to the
kitchen.
"My, she's very refined," Shaoran said staring at the lass exiting
the room.
"Unlike someone we know," Kaho said teasingly. Eriol's forehead
wrinkled.
"And she has the curves at the right places," Yamazaki said with a
smirk.
"Just what are you guys doing here?" Eriol demanded annoyingly, arms
crossed.
"Now, now Eriol, why such temper? To think you're actually leaving in one roof with such a sweet fiancée," Yuki-niichan said stressing the words "under one roof" and "fiancée" causing Eriol to nearly fall from his chair.
Kaho could not help but giggle.
They then heard the sound of a buzzer buzz twice. Their attention was
averted to the dark haired lad working on his laptop.
"It's done!" he said rubbing his hands good naturedly.
"You've finally finished it, Touya!" Kaho said sighing.
"Finished what?' Eriol said blankly.
"The scoring program we had him make," Yamazaki said as he reclines
on the sofa.
"Scoring program?" Eriol repeated questioningly. Somehow he didn't
like the way that one sounds and he has the STRANGEST and WEIRDEST and
SCARIEST feeling that it is going to be something he will not like.
"My latest program: Qualified Score, a perfect way of rating any girl base on her personal appearance and persona as a whole, here put this on!"
Touya said tossing a number of thin head sets to Eriol and the others.
"A grading system????" Eriol exclaimed in disbelief.
"I have encoded your voice patterns so only you guys can give a score and compliments and deduct points and stuff, it did took me quite a while
there," Touya said stretching his arms.
"Don't tell me..." Eriol said in horror, his eyes not blinking as he
watched Yamazaki and the others nod mischievously or rather wickedly at
him.
"Oh, no you will not!" Eriol said realizing their plot.
"Oh, yes we will!" the four all said in chorus.
"She already has twenty points at the moment actually," Touya said
looking at his laptop.
"No way! Are you telling me you came here just to grade her and piss
me to hell?" Eriol said still confused,
"Uh... yeah..." Yamazaki said in a childlike voice. Eriol could feel himself age a hundred years more. Count on his so-called friends in making
him feel the other way around from good.
"Did you guys took my mother's medicine and now you're too interested
in matchmaking?" Eriol said in disbelief.
"Maybe," Kaho said teasingly.
"Why are you so furious anyway? Don't you two get along?" Yamazaki
said crossing his legs by the sofa.
"Not that much really... just what am I going to do with you guys?"
Eriol said seating next to Yamazaki.
"My, that smells good," Yuki-niichan commented sniffing the great
smell that came from the kitchen.
"Lunch might be ready... I guess I have no choice. Now, the last thing
I want in the world is more trouble, you guys better act nice or I'll surely wring your necks," Eriol warned as he lead them to the dining room.
"Don't want to give a bad impression to your fiancée huh?" Shaoran
said cockily as Eriol smacked him on the head.
Why is everyday his unlucky day?
---
"This is really good! You're cooking is superb!" Yamazaki said in
between gulps of his lunch.
They were now by the dining room with Eriol and Tomoyo seated at both ends of the table, Yuki-niichan, Yamazaki and Touya on one side and Kaho,
and Shaoran on the other.
Eriol then heard a loud buzz from his head set causing him to flinch,
"Ten points" he heard Touya said with a smile.
"What?" Eriol said in a low voice.
"Every time she scores you'll be hearing a buzz from your headset,"
Touya explained as he took a bite of his steak.
"You're such a good cook... no... a great cook...." Shaoran said
practically gobbling down everything on the table. Eriol heard two more
buzzes, shaking him.
"Aren't you flattering me way too much?" Tomoyo said taking a drink
of her juice.
"Not, really. The steak was perfectly done, did you ever took cooking
classes?" Yuki-niichan asked as he took another bite of his steak.
"I'm afraid not, my schedule has been quite busy recently and I just
can't find time for such," Tomoyo replied as she passes the bowl of
vegetable salad to Kaho.
"You're the image model of Coralle, right? You're quite popular,"
Touya asked looking up from his plate.
"Why, yes. Though I am taking a short time off later to experience
some normal schooling," Tomoyo replied.
"So you guys are god brothers?" she asked.
"Unfortunately, yes we are," Eriol muttered under his breath.
Tomoyo could not help herself but giggle at the sight of the faked pained expressions of their guests and Eriol's glares totally amusing her.
They all looked at Tomoyo questioningly as she struggles to keep
herself from laughing more.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be rude," she said in between her
laughter. "I just find you guys quite amusing,"
"It happens all the time," Kaho said with a grin,
"Then we are way much flattered that you find us amusing, much more to see your beautiful eyes twinkle with such beauty," B-nicchan said good- naturedly. Eriol heard another buzz, surprising him and this time causing
him to almost knock his glass.
"So what did you like about our Eriol?" Shaoran asked stunning Tomoyo
and Eriol by such question.
"I beg your pardon," Tomoyo said doubtful of what she heard the ash
blonde lad asked her.
"What did you like about Eriol? You're his fiancée right?" Shaoran
said as he cuts his steak.
"Why... yes, I am..." Tomoyo muttered remembering that denial is a major
offense on the contract.
"I can't say that much to him I'm afraid since I only met him for
almost week," Tomoyo said taking a sip of her juice.
"Do you think he's good-looking?" Kaho popped. All eyes were at
Tomoyo.
"Well... there are a bunch of girls that goes head over heels on him... I
guess he is..." Tomoyo replied not looking at anyone straight in the eye.
"A tricky reply on a tricky question. You surely have a wit hard to debate with," Touya said as Eriol heard two more buzzes from his headset
once again.
"I'll take that as a compliment," Tomoyo said with a grin.
"What brings you guys here in the first place?" Eriol said changing the topic as he shots a glare on their guests while he helps himself with
his steak.
"Don't tell me you forgot?" B¬-niichan said pretending to be
disappointed.
"Forgot what? Forgot to wring your necks? Or to bring you back to the
asylum?" Eriol asked with sarcasm.
"KARAOKE! KA-RA-O-KE!" Shaoran said annoyingly holding his fork like
as if it was the devil's trident.
"You promised to go with us remember?" Kaho simply said.
"I did?" Eriol said trying to recall such incident but failed.
"Yes, you did! You actually set the day yourself," Yamazaki muttered
taking another serving of salad.
"Well... I... I'm afraid I can't... the maids are out today and..." Eriol said looking across at the table to where Tomoyo was eating her steak. The truth was he has been reminded a couple of days ago that he is not allowed
to go anywhere on weekends unless he's with Tomoyo.
"You go ahead, I'll stay here and keep watch of the house," Tomoyo
simply said as she pours some juice for herself.
"But..." Eriol started worried about the idea of getting another sermon
from their mothers.
"You go, I won't tell Mom, besides your friends came all the way here for you, it would be a waste if you turn them down," Tomoyo said looking at
their still busily eating guests.
"I know! Why don't you come along with us, Tomoyo-san!" Touya said in
between his bites.
"Yeah! That will be great! It would be more fun than hanging out with
just my weird cousin and his much weird friends!" Kaho said in glee.
"Weird cousin? I'm quite offended my dear cousin, like you aren't
weird?" Touya said firing a glare to Kaho.
"Don't mind him. So are you coming? There will be plenty of stores
and stuff too, it will be fun!" Kaho said returning her gaze to Tomoyo.
"I..." Tomoyo stuttered thinking of her reply.
"It's a yes! Now why don't you let us clear the table so you can take a shower and change, we'll take care of everything from here," Kaho said
practically dragging Tomoyo even before she could make a reply.
"But I haven't even finished my lunch!" Tomoyo said as Kaho pulled
her to the stairway.
"You're almost through anyway, no need to worry. Now, just take your time, Yamazaki and Shaoran will take care of the dishes, okay?' Kaho said
with a grin as she disappeared back to the dining room.
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Eriol enters hands clasping then unclasping and clasping one again
I'm going INSANE! Now my friends invited Tomoyo to join us for
Karaoke... and what is this parent-thing I've heard?...
What??? I'm parent to a CAT???!!!
Somebody call the doctor...
Next chapter on Project Engagement: Qualified Score: Viva Karaoke!
Somebody tell me I'm not going insane...
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