Thank you guys for being so patient! (NOT!) j/k! I'm so sorry it took me this long to update! Please forgive me!
It was a beautiful starry night at the beach. The slow waves blended in with the sweet sounds of nature and created a serene melody. Two figures walked hand in hand with their shoes in their hands letting the cool ocean water massage their feet.
The big round moon cast a magical glow on them. The young man slowly led the girl away from the ocean. "You are the most amazing person I have ever met in my entire life. You're beautiful... smart... talented... and you can light up the world with your smile. I love you more than life itself. I cannot imagine the rest of my life without you right by my side. I want to spend every minute of every day next to you. I want to live for just loving you. I want to hold you in my arms for the rest of our lives." The young man went on one knee and grabbed the girl's hand. "Tomoyo, will you marry me?" (You all thought it was Sakura and Syaoran didn't you?!)
Tomoyo's tear filled eyes widened and she screamed "yes" on the top of her lungs.
..... Sakura and Tomoyo's apartment
The lock clicked and the knob turned. The door slowly opened and a giggling Tomoyo entered with Eriol. "Sakura? Sakura, are you home?"
They entered the house but heard no response. Eriol walked over to the couch and Tomoyo walked into the kitchen. "Do you want anything?" she asked.
"No thanks." He sat down on the couch. Tomoyo returned to the room and checked the answering machine.
"You have no new messages," came the voice of a woman on the answering machine.
"Where do you think Sakura is?" Eriol asked her.
"Where she usually is when she's not home."
"Don't you think she's overdoing this whole thing a little? I mean I've never seen anyone progress so much in martial arts in only six months!" Tomoyo sat down next to him on the couch. He put his arm around her and she started looking at her engagement ring again.
"I know what you mean, Eriol, but this is something that she has to do for herself. Even though there hasn't been any news of James in six months since he fell of the cliff, she still believes he's going to come back for her and I think part of her wants him to come after her."
Eriol gave her a look that was waiting for an explanation.
"Well she was just tired of being the damsel in distress. That's when she started the martial arts training. Now she's been training so hard, trying to become her own independent person, someone who can take care of herself. I think she wants to prove herself against James. No I think she needs to prove herself or else she's never going to be able to move on with her life."
"It is surprising how he's been able to keep such a low profile in the past six months. It's not his style. I hope he's not planning something dangerous."
"Me too. Otherwise it's really going to interfere with the wedding plans." They both started laughing.
The door opened and in walked Sakura. She saw Eriol and Tomoyo sitting on the couch together. "Hey guys. Did I interrupt something?"
"Well hello to you too, sunshine. Where've you been?" Tomoyo asked.
Eriol looked at Sakura, smiled and nodded a hello.
"I was at the gym working out." Sakura said as she came in and dropped her keys on the coffee table and plopped down on the couch next to them. Just then she noticed the ring on Tomoyo's finger. "OH MY GOD! What is that on your finger, little missy?!" She grabs her hand and looks at it.
"Well that would be my engagement ring." Tomoyo giggled.
"I figured! Oh I can't believe you guys are finally engaged! How amazing!!!" She and Tomoyo squealed together making Eriol cover his ears.
"Women," he scoffed.
"Oh Sakura, you have to be my Maid of Honor!" Tomoyo exclaimed.
"Tch. You think I'd let you pick anyone else to be the Maid of Honor?" Sakura giggled.
"Oh and guess what?! Syaoran's going to be the Best Man!" Tomoyo exclaimed.
The smile on Sakura's face immediately disappeared. "Oh."
"What's wrong?" Tomoyo asked.
"Nothing. I'm tired I've had a long day. I'm really excited for you guys but I'm gonna hit the bed, ok?"
Tomoyo and Eriol nodded. Sakura went to her room and closed the door.
"What is it between those two?" Eriol asked.
"I don't know. What do you mean?"
"Syaoran's the same way every time Sakura comes up in the conversation."
"How does Sakura come up in your conversations?"
"Well I bring her up."
"Oh."
The net morning Sakura woke up to the delicious smell of pancakes. She walked to the kitchen and found Tomoyo wearing an apron while standing over the stove making pancakes. Sakura laughed and caught her attention. "You're really getting into the 'wife' role aren't you?"
Tomoyo just smiled and turned back to the pancakes. Sakura took a seat at the kitchen table. "Where's Eriol?"
"He left early. He had things to take care of." She turned her head and gave her a mischievous smile.
"Uh oh. What kinds of things exactly?"
"Oh... you'll see." She grabbed the plate with the pancakes and brought it to the table. "In the meantime, stuff yourself because we are going shopping!!!"
Eriol walked into the police station with a huge smile on his face. He went to Bob's office and knocked. He opened the door and entered when he heard him say 'come in.'
He saw Syaoran sitting there with a bored look on his face as usual. "Well aren't you in a good mood today?' Bob asked him.
"Well, I proposed to Tomoyo yesterday and she accepted!"
Bob stood up, laughed and patted him on the back. "Congratulations man! I knew you guys were meant to be the first time I saw you guys together!" And he turned his head over to Syaoran and whispered, "And also when I saw them making out like crazy on the couch at the villa." Syaoran grinned and got up from the seat.
"Congratulations," Syaoran said plainly.
Eriol frowned. "Why do I get the feeling you don't mean that?" he said sarcastically.
"I just don't think it's ok for people in our line of work to get involved. Things always end bad." Syaoran sat back down.
"Maybe things ended badly because of some other reason. You can't always blame everything on the job Syaoran. Besides everyone needs someone to love and care for. Which gets me to my other good news." Eriol clapped his hands together and continued. "I got promoted to Detective."
"Congratulations!" said Bob.
"WHAT?" yelled Syaoran. "So you're gonna leave the protection field?"
"Well I'm still going to be working for the protection field. I just won't be doing any undercover work anymore." Eriol explained.
"But that means Syaoran's going to need a new partner in the field." Bob looked at Syaoran who was giving him the whatcha-talking-about look.
"I don't need a partner. I do just fine on my own." Syaoran said.
"You know the rules Syaoran."
Syaoran gave him a deadly look and he backed away.
"Ok so maybe we can give you a trial run. See if you can handle it without a partner." Bob said. Eriol gave him a secret smile.
"Anyway, they want me to start as soon as possible but I still have one case that I need to finish. I was wondering Syaoran if you could take over it?" Eriol gave him the puppy-dog eyes.
"Fine. I'm sure it's nothing I can't handle." He said that last part to Bob.
Bob rolled his eyes and muttered. "The youth of today."
"Thanks a lot man." Eriol started to walk out of the room. "By the way, it's the Sakura case." And with that last word he ran out of the room.
Syaoran exploded. "What?!" He ran after him.
Bob walked back to his desk and sat in his chair. "I can tell this is going to be a long story." He sighed and put his head in his hands.
Sakura walked out if the dressing room where she had been trying on Bridesmaids dresses with Tomoyo for 3 hours now. "Ok that was the last one!"
"Yeah. I don't think I liked any of those. I think I'll make the dresses myself!" She giggled and ran out of the store.
"Oh man!" Sakura muttered. They walked to the food court of the mall and got a couple of drinks.
"So Sakura, did you see any cute guys you liked?" Tomoyo eyed this one cute guy that was checking out Sakura.
"No." She answered plainly.
"Well how about that guy?"
Sakura who had been looking at her drink looked up and asked, "Which guy?"
"The one by the door over there."
Sakura looked up and saw a very cute and handsome blonde guy looking at her. He smiled and she just turned around.
"Jeez Sakura, you really know how to play hard to get." Tomoyo laughed. She looked back at the guy and then at Sakura. "I'll be right back ok?" She just got up and walked away without saying anything.
Immediately, the cute blonde guy that smiled at Sakura before filled Tomoyo's chair. "Hello," he said.
"Hi." Sakura seemed uninterested.
"I'm Tyler."
"Nice to meet you Tyler." Sakura looked back down at her drink.
Tyler seemed a little uncomfortable. "And what is your name, beautiful?"
"None of your business."
"ok..." Tyler got up and walked away, a little hurt.
Tomoyo walked back to her seat. "What was that?"
"What?"
"You were so mean to him!"
"I wasn't interested. What was I suppose to do?"
"Well you could've said 'thank you but I'm not interested' politely! Besides he's cute why aren't you interested in him?"
"I don't know Tomoyo. I'm just not interested in anyone right now."
"Anyone?" She smirked.
"What is that suppose to mean?"
"Sakura I know you like Syaoran."
Sakura blushed a little. It had been a long time since Tomoyo had seen Sakura blush. Ever since the experience at the villa....
"I don't know what you mean." Sakura looked away.
"You know exactly what I mean. So tell me why were you so bummed out yesterday when I told you Syaoran was going to be Eriol's Best Man?"
Sakura looked back at her best friend. She had a very serious and grim face on. She sighed and said, "Just the thought of seeing him again... I don't think I can do it."
"But I thought you liked him."
"I do. I mean I did." Tomoyo eyed her. "It's just complicated."
"What's so complicated about it?" Tomoyo asked.
"A lot actually! He only thought of me as a part of a case. He didn't really care about me."
"Oh my God what were you blind? He was as much in love with you as you were with him!"
"W-w-who s-said anything about l-love?"
"I did. You're in love with him and everyone can see it!"
"No I'm not! Stop saying it!" She looked around and got up. Tomoyo got up and followed her.
"Sakura, this is going to be great. You guys are going to see each other a lot during the wedding planning and rehearsals. You guys are going to fall in love all over again! Oh by the way did I mention we decided to have the wedding on Valentines Day?"
"What! That's only a month away! How can you plan everything before then?"
"Oh don't worry about that. Everything is under control. You just practice saying yes for when Syaoran asks you to be his Valentine's date."
"Why would he do that?"
"Because you guys are going to be walking down the aisle together! So basically you're each other's date! Isn't that awesome?!" Tomoyo squealed and ran off to the car.
Sakura groaned. "Yeah it's awesome." She said to herself and walked after her.
Hey guys! Thanks for reading! My AIM and YAHOO is BatmnsLittleGirl if you guys want to chat with me!
Carmela-chan: Well you'll just have to read on and find out! :)
Coey-san: Thank you! Well you'll just have to wait and read about what happens between Sakura and Syaoran.
Lil-asian-cherry: You should never be ashamed of who or how you are. :) Oh and about my screen name? Well it's kind of a long story but the short version is a couple of years ago my friends and I started this "superhero team" where we were somehow related to a famous superhero. Lol pretty stupid but it was a lot of fun!
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CelestialMoussy: LOL you're so funny! Thanks for reading!
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Atruyai: You can have James after I'm done with him, then you can do whatever you want with him! Dip, burn, peel whatever! Lol
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Cherryblossom88: well you're sure in a hurry to see James die! (along with everyone else!) But I need him for my story!
JediBubbles: Um, ok. It's not suppose to mean anything bad. It's just when he says get over her, Syaoran wants to say that he doesn't need to get over her because there was nothing between them but when he said it, it came out like "I was never under her to get over her." Because under is the opposite of over. Do you get it? Or do you want me to explain some more?
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Chocopop: well, Psychiatric Patient No.6657390 I'm glad you find everything so 'groovy'. Thank you for reading.
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Nicky: well... I kind of forgot about them at frst...eh heh... but I will try to make it work in the future chapters.
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