Stop Ditching Me

A few days have past since the basketball tryouts and already Li was known as one of the hottest guys in school. At first it didn't matter to Sakura, but now almost every minute, girls from school would come up to Li and ask if he was interested in doing stuff with them but Li would always make excuses like, 'my mum said I have to go shopping with her' or 'I have to do homework and it is whack.' Sakura would feel herself boil with jealousy but just didn't want to show in front of Li just in case he starts to think she's weird.

Sakura shut her locker door and started making her way to English, when Li came running towards her from behind.

"Hey Sakura," he greeted. Sakura jumped a little but regained her calmness.

"Oh. Hi Showran. You know? You scared me there," Sakura replied.

"I'm sorry. So what's your next lesson?" He asked.

"English. Why?"

"I just wanted to know. So what's the gang doing today?" he carried on asking.

"I think we'll all just be hanging out. To tell you the truth, I don't really know," Sakura answered. The bell went which had Sakura panicking. "Look, Showran. I really have to go. My English teacher is so gonna kill me," Said Sakura and walked off without another word from Li, leaving him standing in the middle of the hall way on his own feeling confused. He stood there for some more time when Eli came up to him with a weird look.

"Ahem!" he faked cough. "Have you even noticed that the beel went 5 minutes ago?" he asked with a mocked look.

"Um... yes. Of course I did," Li said, looking around for an excuse. "But I had pins & needles in my leg so I thought I'll just wait till it goes. But ahem, it's gone now. So I'll start going to my Sakura- I MEAN MY TEACHER. Hehe-what a slip up," he said and walked off as if everything went smoothly but unfortunately he didn't see or notice the mysterious smile Eli was giving him a little now and then.

'Oh I know what you were really thinking. Don't think I am 'that' stupid, I mean yeah I can be obvious but when I saw you starring at Sakura like that and I know you have a special feeling for her,' Eli thought while walking off to his lesson.

The bell ran and Madison and Sakura were walking out of their lesson with their arms hooked up together.

"Sakura I don't know what's wrong with you?" Madison said.

"What do you mean?" Sakura asked, confused.

"I mean, ever since Li got into that basketball team, you've been avoiding him. What's going on? Did he do anything bad to you? Cause if he did you know I can-"

"You can let me deal with it on my own and you won't do anything but give me advice?" Sakura cut in.

"That's good can work...maybe," Madison said with an unsure look. "But only if I give him a little as whooping first then you can talk to him. Now that's what I'm talking about," Madison said explained feeling smart with herself.

"No it's not. Because that is not going to happen, 'cause I will take care of him myself," said Sakura.

"So he did do something bad to you? Oh man," Madison whined. If he did then- "she stopped and looked at Sakura who had a 'what' expression on her face.

"Then?" Sakura asked urgently.

"Um... what was I saying? You know how weird it is that I can't remember?" Madison said, playing dumb.

"I don't believe you-"

"Anyways, so he really did do something bad to you?" Madison changed the subject.

"No he didn't. It's just that I don't want to get close 'cause I don't want what happened to me happen again, all right?" Sakura stated. All of a sudden Li appeared in the hallway with a basketball in his hand, spinning it around his index finger. He stopped when he noticed Sakura and Madison walking down the hallway with their arms linked together. He straightaway went up to them to greet them both.

"Hey Madison, hey Sakura," he greeted.

"hey Li," Madison replied cheerfully. Sakura hadn't say nothing to Li. Madison nudged her on the arm softly to bring her back to reality.

"What?!" she hissed. Madison nods her head over to Li and Sakura jumped as if he just magically appeared. 'I swear I weren't the a minute ago.' She thought. Quickly coming out of her senses she began to speak. "Oops. Um... hi Showran. I didn't notice you there," Sakura said. Li and Madison sweat dropped anime style.

"Yeah...I can tell," he remarked back dryly.

"I guess ahem I should be going," Madison said walking off, giggling uncontrollably. As soon as she reached to turn and walk around the corner, she instead hid there listening to the two people's conversation carefully whipping out a camera from her bag.

"Um... Sakura I just want to ask you, well it's been weird lately with you. I mean I hardly see you anymore," Li started.

"Um...yeah. About that. I've been busy in the last couple of days. So I am really sorry if you feel that I have been avoiding you lately," she said confidently. "When that's what I've been trying to do," she mumbled, hoping Li didn't hear.

"Sorry?" he asked, bringing his ears closer.

"Um... because I've been trying to contact you," she quickly changed the line.

"Oh cool. So you won't mind if we catch up on stuff, say today at the local café?" he asked coolly

"Yeah. Okay," Sakura said all of a sudden feeling bad for lying to the guy.

"So I'll see you?" he asked turning around to walk off.

"Yeah. Good-bye," Sakura waved off. As Sakura was walking Madison's way. Madison quickly hides the camera by holing it behind her. Now that Sakura has approached Madison, Madison made it look like she was just heading her way.

"Hey girl. What a coincidence, I thought you would be gone to lesson by now," Madison chirped.

"Well I'm heading there now. You wanna come with me seeming you'll get to see Eli?" Sakura asked.

"All right," Madison hooked her arm in with Sakura's but still holding the camera behind her and they began to walk off. "So what happened? What did he say? Give me everything. Detail, movements and feelings," Madison tickled them off her fingers.

"Okay," Sakura said. As she told Madison everything that happened, Madison making faces like "ooh" and "aah", mostly pretending to be surprised.

Finally they've reached Sakura's classroom and Eli was no-where to be seen.

"I wonder where Eli is?" Madison asked.

"Right here hons.," Eli said from behind the two. Madison turned around slowly and gave him a question look by crossing her arms.

"And where have you been?" she asked.

"Around. And oh yeah, I have something I need to tell you. Say at lunch? I'll meet right here after lesson has finished," Madison nod her head. The bell rang and Madison gave Eli a kiss on the cheek and left him and Sakura alone to go to class.

Sakura and Eli were sitting next to each other at the back of the classroom. Sakura sends Eli a note saying: 'Hey. So what was it you wanted to tell Madison about?' a little while later and Eli send Sakura a note saying, 'oh nothing much. I'll tell you later,' straightaway she knew there was something him and Madison was were planning which had everything to do with her.

During lunchtime Eli ran to Madison while Sakura was walking. He said something that Sakura couldn't tell. As soon as she reached them she could the sound of Li's name being said.

"What about Li?" Sakura asked which made Eli jump.

"Um... we was just wondering if he'll... um, like to go to the beach on Saturday," Eli blurted out. Sakura did not believe him one bit. She couldn't trust them when she heard the sound of Li's name being mentioned. But decided to play along anyway.

"Oh. Okay. Aren't you guys going to lunch?" she asked.

"NO!" Madison shouted quickly. "I mean no we're not going lunch."

"Okay? So where would you be?" Sakura carried on asking.

'What is this, 21 questions?' Madison thought.

"Um...we will be at the library," Eli explained.

"All right then. Just in case you want me, I'll be at the cafeteria. See ya," Sakura waved good-bye and walked off. As soon as Eli and Madison was sure that Sakura was no-where in site, Madison and Eli began their talk.

"So he just stood there, like as if there was no-one there in the world anymore?" Madison asked excited.

"Yeah. And get this, when I asked him why he has not yet gone to class, Sakura's name would "accidentally,"" Eli said pointing out two apostrophes with his two fingers. "And I quote, he would accidentally say her name and quickly cover it up," Eli explained.

"And you won't believe this either. All the girls in school have like been asking him out but he would always say no, yet he would ask Sakura to the local café. But he said it was because he just wanted to catch up on stuff," Madison paused to think a little while, Eli recognised that look and also began to think. Then they both said at the same time "There in love!" they blurt out. Everyone around them in the hallway was staring at them now. "Hehe. Um...it's a school assignment," Madison lied but luckily she didn't look like a fool after everyone nodded his or her heads in agreement. Madison and Eli began making their way to the library, just in case Sakura goes there and finds out that they weren't there and have a fit.

Sakura sat at the lunch table her friends normally sit at with the rest of her friends.

"Sakura, do you know how weird it is that we hardly see you with Li anymore?" Chelsea asked, taking off the cheese from the pizza with her fingers.

"No, not really," Sakura answered easily.

"But it is," Rita chirped in.

"No it isn't. It's just that I had some homework and stuff to do they've been-"Sakura began to explain but was cut off by Chelsea.

"I don't believe you," she said. "I mean you were able you have time for all of us, why not Li?" Sakura gulped down hard but told herself to remain calm.

"Um...you know what? I was supposed to meet Madison and Eli at the library. They'll probably be pissed if I'm late," Sakura changed the subject.

"No they wouldn't. I'm always late whenever I have homework with Madison and Eli and don't say anything at all. You know what? They're quite understanding people," Zahri said normally. Sakura glared at him, out of all the time he had to be telling the truth why did it have to be now? Chelsea and Rite instead smirked with triumphant.

"But I think I'd better get going," Sakura said and grabbed her books and made it to the door. Unluckily she ran into someone. Letting her books drop to the ground. "I am so sorry," Sakura apologised. She started picking up her books one by one.

"It's okay," Li assured. Sakura stopped what she was doing and looked up to the amber eyes teenager in front of her who was beginning to bend down and help her with her books. She couldn't tear her eyes away. 'He's so oblivious, yet so cute,' she thought and straight away she realised she was holding her breath in a little bit too long and let it all out with a sigh. Li was still picking up her books, and putting them all on top of each other. Sakura saw the last book and so did Li, they both reached to get it but Sakura's hand accidentally touched the palm of Li's hand and quickly she removed it. Li looked at her eyes, so deep, he couldn't tear away and so couldn't Sakura for she was looking at Li's lips. She brought herself back to Earth and picked up her books. Li also snapped back to reality to watch every sincle movements the female was making.

"Bye," she said quickly and scattered away to and find Madison in the library. (A/N: What no thank you? How rude) Oh Sakura didn't know what to say to Madison now. And whatever it is she was to say to her, Sakura was sure Madison would be pleased. She ran down the hall, making the other kids as she past think she was being chased. Sakura ran into the library as if being pushed. She searched her eyes around hoping to see Madison and Eli sitting on one table doing homework. To her surprise, that was exactly what they were doing. Sakura ran straight up to them. Madison looked up from her book and stared at Sakura with concerned eyes.

"Sakura, are you okay?" Madison asked.

"Yeah. It's just...it's just that..." Sakura huffed, trying to catch her breath from that entire running.

"Shhh. Sakura it's okay. Just tell me when you're ready," Madison conforted her. She got up and helped the girl sit down on the table with them cause Sakura was still puffing. Sakura breathed in and then out, letting all her emotions go. "Just breath Sakura," she whispered to herself. She looked over at Eli as if giving the that-I-need-to-talk-to-Madison-alone-cause-it- is-privert-so-please-leave look. Eli got the idea and left to go and search for another book, he didn't care anyway cause Madison will tell him later on. Eli left with a little small smile on his face and wasn't JUST a smile, it was a MYSTERIOUS smile and Sakura was sure she saw it.

"Okay," Madison said, being sure that Eli was out of site. "So what happened?" she asked as if she was a little girl about to be told a bedtime story.

"Well I bumped into Showran," Sakura began.

"NO WAY," Madison exclaimed, giggling like a donkey.

"Yes way. I mean I totally flew off. I didn't know what I was doing. All of a sudden I felt something," Sakura explained using her hands to describe it at the same time. "Then his eyes."

Madison gasped. "Really? His eyes? Wow!" Madison said, amazed. She knew where this was heading and she knew where to play her part in it too.

"Yeah" Sakura looked around and then leaned in closer to Madison's face. "And then my stomach did a flip," she whispered.

Once again Madison gasped. "Do you know what that means?" Madison asked.

"Nope. Do you?" Sakura asked back.

"Yeah," Madison thought for a little while and she didn't want to spoil the love thing, so when Sakura was giving her a look to say 'what?' Madison instead said, "I don't know." Sakura gave in a heavy sigh.

After school...

Sakura was walking to her locker when she noticed that Showran was standing beside it calmly. He could hear some footsteps and turned his eyes to meet a pair of green jade eyes.

"Hey Sakura, I was just waiting for you. There's something really important I need to ask you. But when we get there, I mean the café," said Showran.

"Um... okay," Sakura said, feeling her breath caught in her throat. She began opening her locker and fishing out her books. Finally she was finished and can be off already.

At the café...

Sakura was eating her strawberry ice cream, which was in a glass French cup.

"So what was it you wanted to ask me?" Sakura asked.

"Well you know that the dance of the year is coming up right?" Showran began. Sakura nod her head in response and so Showran continues. "And it is the biggest dance of the year for our year group?" he went on, once again Sakura nodded her head. "And I was wondering if you'll..."

Di, dun, di, dunnnnnnnnnnnnn. What happens next? Keep on reading the boy next door to find out.

I know you guys probably didn't like this one as much as you liked the other 3 chapters but I didn't have more idea so I just came up with this one. I hope you guys liked it, and please if you want to flame me, don't make it brutal, like be melodramatic. Thanks for reading thought and I hope you like the story. Bye

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