The U of T

Matchmaker, matchmaker

Their friendships grew over the following weeks and when classes started the four young adults found that they had a lot of classes together.

One night after another late movie the boys the boys stayed in the living room and started talking about... the girls. Down the hall, in Sakura's room, the girls began to chat animatedly about... who other than the boys.

With the boys:

"So, what's the deal with you and Tomoyo?" Syaoran asked slyly.

"Nothing! She just has nice nails!" Eriol cried out in a vain attempt to claim innocence. But Syaoran wasn't buying it.

"Uh-huh, Eriol I know you're not gay so cut it out. Stop lying I know you like her, and you know that I know that you like her." Syaoran, in his true to self arrogance was trying to feign his normal autocratic annoyance, but the truth was, he love seeing his cousin squirm.

"No honestly, we went to get manicures yesterday. She got purple, so now they match her eyes." As Eriol said this a slight dreamy smile crossed his face. Quickly he turned his head a became suddenly very interested in the gaudy ceiling fan. We should get that thing replaced, he though distantly.

"Um Eriol?" Syaoran was staring at the blue-haired man with one eyebrow raised, forcing himself not to laugh.

"What? Haven't you seen her eyes? They're all like purple... ame... amey... amethysts stuck in her head..."

"Eriol, that is possibly the worst compliment I've ever heard." And with that Syaoran Li burst into giggles, yes that's right, giggles.

"Man, give it up. You like her, you SO like her." Syaoran said with an attempt at stern finality. He looked so much more grown up that when he had been... giggling. That thought alone gave Eriol plans for blackmail. Too bad he hadn't borrowed Tomoyo's video camera.

Tomoyo...

"What? No comeback, lover boy?" Syaoran teased again.

"Nuh uh, nuh uh, I do not, nuh uh..." Came Eriol's brilliant response.

With the girls:

"Nuh uh! I do not! I've known Eriol for more than 10 years!" Tomoyo exclaimed.

"So, maybe you've always liked him! Maybe it was... er is DESTINY!" Sakura already had the dreamy look in her mischievously sparkly eyes.

"Now Sakura, don't say that... I know that look... What are you thinking?" Tomoyo was suspicious, and she was right to be so. Although Sakura had been her best friend forever, she got some pretty strange ideas into that pretty little head of hers sometimes. Times like right now!

"Nothing, nothing at all." Sakura winked.

"Oh, 'Kura, don't, whatever it is, just don't. Okay?"

"But Tomoyo!" Whined Sakura. It was too late anyway, Sakura's plan was already made, now all she needed was an accomplice.