Who Was She?

Next Monday after the dance…

The guys were sitting in the cafeteria waiting for the girls, because they just had P.E.

"I swear to you, Eriol, this girl was familiar yet she was a stranger to me. Why did it have to be a mask party?" Syaoran whined.

"Well, if you didn't take off your mask at the end of the dance, the girls wouldn't have been rushing to dance with you," said Eriol. Well, that was the one reason why he thinks it's great that it was a mask party. "Have you told Sakura about it yet?"

"Well not really. I mean, we haven't really been able to chat since these past couple of days," Syaoran answered. There was something about Eriol that made him edgy.

"Well, you should, 'coz, well Sakura knows everyone so she might be able to tell you who it was that you were chatting to," Eriol explained. Eriol knew what exactly was going on, Madison told him everything. How could Sakura just hide away like that, especially when Syaoran has strong feelings for her? What if he dies out of those feelings, would Sakura have anyone to love at all?

"Earth to Eriol." said Syaoran, waving his hand in front of Eriol's face.

"Yeah?" said Eriol, snapping back to time.

"You spaced out on me there," said Syaoran, a little hurt.

"Sorry, I was just trying to figure out who it was that you might've been speaking to at the dance," Eriol lied.

"Ok, do you have an idea?" asked Syaoran, eagerly.

"Well…" said Eriol, right then the girls walked over. "Hey, look who's here!" Eriol cheered, but Syaoran's smile disappeared when Sakura sat down just a few chairs away from him at the table and seemed to ignore him.

"Hey guys," said Sakura.

"Uh… hi," the guys said, a little edgy.

"What's wrong?" said Sakura, seeing everything clearly.

"Uh…" said Eriol, trying to think of something. "Hey, have you heard about Syaoran's mysterious girl?"

"Excuse me?" Sakura said, getting confused.

"Yeah, she was like, I don't know. Syaoran, you tell the story," Eriol insisted.

"Well, the thing is…" Syaoran started, but Sakura had already turned to Tomoyo, having a conversation with her.

"Uh… Sakura, I think Syaoran's trying to tell you something," Madison whispered.

"He is? I thought Eriol was going to tell me," said Sakura, once again confused.

"Yeah, but he past it to Syaoran," explained Madison.

"All right then, shoot," said Sakura, turning to Syaoran.

"Well, near the end of the dance, when I was getting my crown, this girl all of a sudden appears and for some reason I ran after her. Then we had a little conversation about who she was, but she said she had to go. And then I asked her how would I see her again? And she told me that she'd see me again. And I was like, you don't even know my name, but she said she did, and she called me her Prince," Syaoran explained. "Do you know who she might've been. 'Coz she sounded so familiar, yet I can't actually tell who she was."

"Well, I have absolutely no clue," Said Sakura, shaking her head.

"Too bad, everyone was expecting you to know who she was. But, that's alright. Hey, I'm going your way tonight, after practice, you want a ride. Only if you didn't bring your car," said Syaoran.

"Oh. But I asked Madison to give me a ride," Sakura looked over at Madison who did her little evil smile.

"That's totally ok, I mean, me and Eriol had things planned anyway," said Tomoyo.

"We did?" Eriol asked, confused. Tomoyo gave him a kick under the table. "Ow… I mean, yeah, we did."

"See?" Madison said, cheery.

'A bit too cheery,' Sakura thought. "So, I guess that means that it's all right, you can give me a ride home."

Sakura got off her seat and grabbed her bag.

"Where are you going?" asked Syaoran.

"The bell's about to ring, and I have maths," Sakura answered.

"I'm coming with you, I also have maths," Syaoran said, also getting up.

Together the two walked off, like a couple who was as clueless as a rat.

"When do you think they'll actually, you know, get together?" Eriol asked Madison.

"I was hoping it would've been in no time, but seeing how things are, it would definately be forever," Madison answered.

"Hey, Sakura, did you know that you were meant to be the Princess of the dance?" asked Syaoran, sitting in his seat in their maths classroom, just like Sakura.

"Yeah, Madison told me. She said that I missed the dance. I think it was cute the way you ran after her," said Sakura, not really knowing what she was saying.

"You what?" asked Syaoran, shocked.

"Excuse me?" asked Sakura, confused.

"You saw how I ran after the girl?" asked Syaoran.

"Well, I was there. But, I only got to see when you ran out of the room, so I …" Sakura trailed off.

"So what?" Syaoran demanded.

"Well, I was only there for a second," said Sakura.

"And you never told me. You could've been the Princess, MY Princess," Syaoran near shouted.

"Your princess?" asked Sakura.

"Who else knows about you being there?" Syaoran asked, dismissing Sakura's question.

Sakura was just about to open her mouth when the bell went and students started filing in the classroom.

Our basket ball team is so rough,

So rough, that they are tough,

They're like click,

That it makes you sick.

The cheer leaders sang out loud, doing their splits and flips.

Syaoran watched Sakura tell the girls what to do. She's so perfect, she always seems to know what she's doing. Not like how he is, being confused all the time and only about the star he is watching intently with his eyes.

"All right, guys, hit the showers, practice is over," said the coach as boys of the basket ball team started heading towards the showers.

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Syaoran was kneeling by his car, waiting for Sakura. When he spotted her, he waved her over to him.

"I thought you wouldn't want to give me a ride home after what happened," said Sakura, looking a bit sad.

"What's wrong?" he asked, looking her straight in the eyes.

"Nothing. We should get going. My brother would start worrying about me. I told him I would be home straight after practice," said Sakura, opening the door to the passenger's side, Syaoran doing the same, but to the driver's side.

He started the car and riding out of school, when he could feel that there was a very uncomfortable silence between him and Sakura.

"So…" he started. "Does anyone else know about you being at the dance?"

"Well, Madison knew, and that's all," Sakura said. 'That wasn't all, but she didn't want to put both Syaoran and Eriol's friendship in jeopardy because of her.

"Really, so all that time you knew about the mysterious girl?" Syaoran stated.

"Well, not really," Sakura lied.

"So how did you know that I ran after the girl?" Syaoran asked.

'What is this, 21 questions?' Sakura thought in her head angrily. "Because I saw you from the crowd."

"So, you were in the dance all that time and you never thought to say hi?" Syaoran bit out viciously.

'I did say hi,' Sakura thought, wanting to actually say it to him to shut him up. "I was scared."

"Scared about what?" Syaoran asked.

"About you. I couldn't just face you straight away after the kiss. I needed to think, so I couldn't actually talk to you. Until I knew what I was doing!" Sakura shouted.

Syaoran looked shocked and sorry for her. "My house is right there, good bye." Sakura said, getting out.

Sakura put the key in the key whole and opened the door, walking in her house. She lied about her brother being upset if she was home late. Tears started to run down her face as she walked up her stairs. Walking into her room, she slumped on her bed and cried. Crying out all the pain she was feeling. She didn't care if her eyes went red or if her face went spongy, right now all she cared about was getting the pain out.

Syaoran walked up to his bedroom. His mother was not really happy about the way he greeted her, just a smile he gave her, before turning to the stairs and disappearing into his bedroom. He looked at the house apposite him and noticed that Sakura's curtains were closed. Is Sakura going to still talk to him after their little argument? Because he wants her to talk to him. He can't survive one day without hearing her voice talk to him. Maybe he should just forget about her and just think about her as a friend. It would make life better for everyone, especially Sakura.

"Sakura, I love you, but we can't be anything more than just friends," he vowed. No more would he get to taste her nice cherry lips that always tasted of strawberry. No more of holding her in his arms, looking at her in her jade green eyes and getting lost in them. No more….

Hope you guys liked my chapter. I really tried.