..:Essence of Cherry Blossoms:..

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"OMG! You raper! Child abuser! What are you going with my sister on your back! Omg! And you said you'd bring her back by 5:00 pm! Look at your Rolex! Its 9:00 pm! Are you illiterate! Can you not read a watch!"

My head jerked up and I felt brightness hit my face.

What the…Touya…please stop yelling. The whole neighbored hood can hear you if not the city.

"No…I'm not the guy who promised you that…but if you don't stop your girl raving right now, I'll shove your fat ass of a sister into a dumpster.

Shit! I'm completely awake now.

"Why you"

"Touya" I screeched to get his attention.

"Sakura! Are you ok! Did he rape you! Did he did he"

I grabbed him and pushed him into his room.

"I'll be back!" I took XiaoLang's hand and raced with him out onto the grass in front of our apartment. I could still hear my brother stupidly screaming in his room.

"Sorry….sorry about that. He can get a bit crazy when he thinks I'm getting hurt." I said while panting.

XiaoLang said nothing and took out a cigarette. I snatched it from him. This time, instead of getting angry, he laughed.

"Go out with me."

"I'm sorry…wait what?"

Hey…didn't we just run out of my apartment, running from my crazy ass brother? How did my apology turn into a…a date!

"Are you crazy? Psycho! What are you thinking!" I stuttered as I pointed an accusing finger at him.

He chuckled and walked toward me. I stared panicking.

Closing my eyes, I scrunched my hand into a ball and punched forward. I felt my fist come in contact with something.

Jackpot! Maybe I hit his head, and he'll become brighter! He can't be any dumber than he is now! He doesn't know what's coming out of his mouth. Yea…that's it. I should be merciful to last place in his school.

I cautiously opened my eyes and saw that my fist had actually hit…XiaoLang's hand.

XiaoLang was studying my face. I felt my face flush up and I quickly took my hand out of him.

"Stop…looking at me!" XiaoLang just stared at me in disbelief and said, " Who would want tot look at such an ugly girl like you?"

I froze as he walked past me laughing.

"XiaoLang! Do you want to die!"

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I turned over in my bed and looked at my clock.

11:30 pm flashed back at me. I frowned.

What was happening at 12:00 midnight?

Curiosity overtook me.

I pulled jeans over my boxers( a/n I love boxers! ) and a sweater over my tank top. But as I was going to turn the knob over my door, I paused.

My poor father…what if he finds I'm not here? He'll have a heart attack!

Walking glumly I took my hand off the doorknob and started walking back to my bed.

Wait…who am I kidding!

I ran back towards the door.

Ok…first things first. Unlock the alarm. It then hit me. Unlocking the alarm was a two-person deal. There was one button needed to be held in the hallway. Once you take it off, you have 10 seconds to have the other alarm button pressed near the door.

Great…. how fast can I actually run? Once the alarm does off…the whole neighborhood will be awake.

Oh great.

God give me faster legs!

I positioned myself next to the hallway alarm.

Ok Sakura, its click and go! Just click and go!

Click.

I ran, as softly as I could to the door. I mentally ticked the seconds off. 5…4…3… nearly there! 2… click,

I exhaled the air I was holding in.

Quietly opening the door I slipped out. I gave an inward whoop as I exited the elevator.

Now, gotta go to…wait. I don't even know where it is!

Hmm…maybe they are at that café! XiaoLang seemed to like the drink from there a lot…I started running in that direction.

Why…am I even going?

A showdown…are they having a gang fight.

Omg, I'm not worried about XiaoLang. I'm worried about…Zhouyu! Yea! He's a good guy… that I only knew for about 9 hours. But oh well!

I ran towards the little café.

The lights are on?

I ran up to the window and peered in .

What? I don't…ARE THEY PLAYING CARD!

Oh shit!

I screamed that out loud!

I ducked as I heard footsteps approaching the door.

"Whose there?"

I continued staring at the ground where I was crouched in full view.

Maybe…if I can't see him, he cant see me.

"…ugly?"

Darn.

I stood up and laughed " oh dear! Did I sleep walk all the way here?"

"…no one's falling for that. Come in…"

"What? No insult Li XiaoLang?" I challenged, while thinking, 'stupid! You're pouring oil on the fire!'

He turned around with responding and I looked sheepishly at him.

"Oh…OHHH. You're drunk!"

"So what if I am." He said roughly. I bounded in.

"Meimei ah!" a cheerful figure waved at me. "Zhouyu?"

" What are you doing here?" he said while laughing, putting his index finger on my cheek and poking it.

"I…I t-thought you guys were going to fight!" I said stuttering while looking around at the rest of the guys in the tea café.

All I got back were intense stares.

"Whoah…Zhouyu is that your girl? She's heeecka cute." o0… "Stop it! Se's my Meimei! Mine! Ok!"

XiaoLang was beside me.

"Zhouyu…go home." "GE! You can't make me. I'm not going home without my Meimei!"

"Fuck! Chen Zhouyu! Do you want to die!"

"Meimei, meimei! Save me from the monster!"

Chaos. Disorder. I think I'M doing to die…

"Shit Zhouyu! I told you not to drink so much!"

Xiaolang angrily grabbed Zhouyu by the collar and dragged him out.

I bowed clumsily at the other guys and hurried after woman abuser and 5-year kid trapped in a young adults body.

"Meimei! You're going to save me right!" he chirped happily.

Our lovely trio looked like a very pissed off guy beating the shit out of the guy next to him who looked liked he was high on drugs with a girl walking almost obsessively behind them.

If anyone saw us they'd think we had mental issues.

We finally managed to stuff Zhouyu though the window of him home without too much noise.

As we walked away, Xiaolang began veering off towards the right.

"Uh…Xiaolang, your apartment is," I pointed towards the left, "that way."

He stopped, looking at me like I was the moron, and walked back towards the…wait, right!

"Xiao-"

"You're an idiot. YOU'RE home is" mockingly pointing to the right, " That way."

I stopped there half in shock as continued towards the right.

He might be a jerk…but at least he has a strand of goodness, somewhere in him…

"Hey…your fat ass is too heavy?"

I take that back.

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"SAKURA GAKI!"

"Wah! I'm not a Gaki!" I yelled as I sat up.

"Whoah…that actually woke you up." Touya grinned at me from my doorway.

"Get out! Get out!" I screeched while downstairs the father was thinking…."My children are so…active."

:…o…:

Huff huff.

Made it to school!

With 15 minutes to spare!

Stupid brother told me I was 15 minutes late! I'll kill him.

After my death vow, I strode onto campus…and was greeted by screaming girls.

Uhh…my eyes popped out.

Zhouyu!

"Meimei ah!"

He ignored the girls and walked straight to me.

He lovingly patted my cheek. "My girlfriend!"

I could feel death glares.

"Umm..nooo…."

A girl walked out from the crowd.

"Zhouyu ah…who is this girl?" she asked, looking at me with a half crooked smile.

"Mingli…"

hmm… lightbulb is trying to click…oh yeah! Miss crying girl on cell phone while I was at Xiaolang's house! Wait! Why do I need to give her a long title!

I looked at her more carefully. Wow…she's so pretty.

"…hey!"

Who else but woman abuser Li XiaoLang?

More screams…3 times more screams!

But XiaoLang just looked at them uninterestingly.

"This is an all girls school Zhouyu. C'mon…I don't feel like getting you out if you get caught."

Looking dismayed but for once reasonable, he walked off with Xiaolang. But not before screaming out to me,

"Meimei lets have lunch later together! Hao ma? ( ok?) "

Before I could answer, they left…me, with 1000 girls looking at me.

Zhouyu…how could you? And 10 seconds later I was bombarded with questions….and remarks.

"Omg! How do you, a new transfer student know 2 of the hottest guys!"

"Are you some kind of slut!"

"I wish I were you!"

"Are you and Chen Zhouyu actually dating?"

"Shut up….go to class everyone."

Mingli …you're pretty….and scary…and very…short. Short pretty scary girl. Scary pretty midget girl!

All the firls immediately scattered.

I gulped as MingLi took a step closer.

"…What are you to Chen Zhouyu?"

"…Just a friend. I swear." I quickly added the last 2 words as Mingli's eyes narrowed on me.

"Sakura!"

I wanted to cry for joy.

Tomoyo! I'll let you have all the hot guys you want! I love you!

"Tomoyo ah!" I cried happily.

Mingli looked a bit surprised. "Tomoyo." She said in a respective tone.

Hey! Why does shes get a nice greeting while I get verbally abused!

"Whats going on?" Tomoyo asked frowining, looking at both Mingli and me.

"Nothing…" Mingli said smiling. "I'll see you guys around…" and walked off.

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It was lunchtime.

I had already told Tomoyo the whole story while screams of "kawaii!" were heard every 15 seconds.

"Tomoyo calm down!" I said panickly as everyone turned to stare at us.

"So…which one are you dating then?" she whispered excitingly.

"Uh…none, I don't want to date-"

"What! Are you crazy Kinomoto Sakura! They are like…Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom! Like the jjang of Korean schools! Girls would PAY to date them and you say you wont after all that!" she huffed as I sipped my tea looking up at the sky.

"Ok…we are going to their school after our last class!"

"No Tomoyo!"

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I was nearly bawling as Tomoyo dragged me.

We neared the soccer fields yet again and Eriol came over.

DUH.

Of course she's not bringing me here to see the biggest got of the century, but her supposed boyfriend. Not that I don't mind.

"Meimei!"

"Zhouyu." I smiled. At least one person really wants to see me!

Next thing I knew, I was flying. Zhouyu threw me in the air around in a circle and set me back down.

"You came to see me!"

"Well umm…actually…"

"Zhouyu!" I looked over my shoulder and saw…yet another good-looking guy coming towards us.

"Shunhe! Look! Look look! My Meimei!"

Zhouyu hugged me tightly in an embrace.

"Wait…Zhouyu!….let go!" I struggled to get out.

Oh shit!

"Zhouyu…please! I need to go somewhere!" Zhouyu sadly put me down.

I blew a sigh of relief.

"Lunch some other time yes?"

"Ok! You promised Meimei!"

I grinned and ran toward my house.

"Shit…I almost forgot I had to tutor today!" I cursed under my breath.

That morning a lady had called "Hello? Are you Sakura Kinomot?" Uh…yes?" "Oh! Wonderful! I heard you're a new transfer student from Japan. Do you think you could teach my son Japanese? And English as well? I heard your English is wonderful."

Omg…how can I refuse! This lady is too kind! And I can use the extra cash…

"Alright! Ill do it!"

I ran home. "Father! I'm home! I need to go tutor now…"

"Sakura, I already got your stuff ready."

I screeched to a halt.

Then ran right back to the living room where my father was standing smiling.

"Thanks Otousan! See you later!" I ran with the bad full of tutoring material and ran, looking at street signs as I went. I finally arrived in a beautiful home. My mouth dropped open at the large sparkling fountain on the front lawn. (a/n man…do they have houses like this in China? No? I must have made it up then. )

The front door opened and a plump pleasant looking woman walked out waving.

"Sakura dear! Over here!" I quickly walked towards her.

"Please come in."

She ushered and pointed into a room on the second story.

"In here…" she said, " My son is in here. Good luck!" and with that she walked back down the stairs.

Gulping slightly, I walked in, and surprise jumped on the boy before me as well as mine. " surprise jumped on the boy before me as well as mine.

"You're that…" I started.

"Ah! You're Zhouyu's Meimei!"

"And you're Shunhe?"

"Yup." He said.

"Great." I said smiling., "Ok…so your mom said you needed help on Japanese…" I bent over and took out Japanese grade 1 book out. "Let's start on the basics, let's say, verb form…. there is te-form, and…"

BAM.

The door flew open and in came Xiaolang.

"Ge?" Shun he asked in a surprised voice.

Panting heavily, Xiaolang managed to get out the gist of what happened.

"Girlfriend…try to kill me…."

Moonlight sonata filled the room.

Shunhe grabbed for his cell.

"Wei…ah, Jiejie ah?"

Large bouts of sobbing could be heard.

"What? Is Xiaolang here?" his eyes trailed to Xiaolang and he shook his head violently.

"um…he's not here…what?"

Shunhe's eyes were popping out.

"What! Xiaolangt broke up with you!"

I began looking back anf forth between Shunhe and XiaoLang.

"He said it was because he met another girl!"

Xiaolang began glaring and hunhe noticed it.

"Ah, Jiejie, I gotta go. Bye!" he clamped him cell shut.

"What happened Ge? Jiejie seemed distraught."

No kidding Shunhe. Of course she sounded upset.

I looked at Xiaolang and he stared at me. Then he took his thumb and index finger and lightly flicked my forhead.

"MEIMEI!"

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OH MAN MY HAND HURTS!

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Again sorry if there are any grammatical errors.

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