Sing a Song: Somebody to Love
Sakura is a pretty girl but an outcast because she doesn't get involved with sports or student government. Her only outlet for her emotions is singing. What happens when her choir director convinces her to join the school's Show Choir, Center Stage, and she meets people who share her dreams and others who are just trying to get their Performing Arts credits for their diploma? SS, ET, etc, etc, NO MAGIC!
Regular
' …….' Thoughts
Dreams….
Anything that's written or typed (letter, e-mail, IM etc)
A/N
Thanks so much for reviewing guys. It means a lot to me! Hm… Sailor Lucia – Of course it's a good thing, I loved my g-ma… heeheh… And no, Syao and Meiling are NOT engaged, just cousins and best friends… She won't appear til later…. Hehehehe
To answer some questions: Syao can sing, and he's good at it, he's just a muffin right now… Mei won't appear til later, Center Stage is the NAME of their Show choir(consequently it's the name of the show choir at my school… That I'll be in next year…), and… well that's all the questions thus far:
SURVEY! Give me some song titles you think they should sing for their show… If I know them, I'll consider, if I don't… well… I can't help you there! Thanks again, love you all!
Chapter Two:
Recap of last chap... "Li-san!"
Li's head snapped up.
"H...hai?" he asked slowly.
"Answer my question. This is the third time I've asked it."
Everyone was looking at him, but Syaoran found himself staring into a pair of bright green eyes, looking quizzically at him to why he hadn't been paying attention.
"You're the girl from earlier! The one I tripped over!" he exclaimed, and then rubbed his head. "But I thought you were a freshman…"
"LI-SAN!" Hirohashi-sensei bellowed. "DETENTION!"
'Great… Just Great…'
Syaoran's day was going like crap. He got detention during homeroom, he couldn't read Japanese as well as his mother assumed he could, and he had fallen over a girl and thought she was a freshman, later to find out she was in his homeroom…
"Eriol, I hate you," he said hearing his cousin try to sneak up behind him.
"How can you do that?" Eriol wondered.
Syaoran shrugged. "Even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you."
Eriol grabbed his arm. "Let's go, time for Show Choir!"
"Did I mention how much I hate you?"
Two minutes after the bell ran, Sakura rushed into the Choir Room.
"Sumimasen ga, Hughes-sensei. I was having trouble getting my locker open."
Ms. Hughes smiled. "It's alright. Just sit near Takeda-san in front."
Sakura nodded an went to sit beside a girl with very light-brown-almost-blonde hair and glasses. As Ms. Hughes continued to take attendance, the girl introduced herself.
"Hello. I'm Takeda Kikani, but most people call me Kiki. What's your name?"
"Kinomoto Sakura," Sakura replied shyly.
"Cherry Blossoms. That's a pretty name. I always imagined naming my daughter that," Kikani mused, a thoughtful look on her face.
"Thank you," Sakura said, feeling very at ease with Kikani. "What does your name mean? I've never heard it before."
Kikani laughed. "It doesn't mean anything. My mother is American and she thought it sounded Japanese. My dad tried to talk her out of it, but it didn't work. I guess that's where I get it from…"
"Get what from?"
Ms. Hughes cut off Kikani's reply.
"Everyone, I believe we have two new members today who have just joined Center Stage. Give them a warm welcome because we're glad they're here. Kinomoto-san, Li-san? Would you like to introduce yourselves?"
Syaoran hmphed but got up anyway, walking from the back row until he stood with Sakura in front of the class. He looked quizzically at her as to who was going to go first, but she just shrugged shyly, so he began.
"My name is Li Syaoran, and though you might hear my cousin call me otherwise, you are not to follow in his example. I moved here from Hong-Kong, China because my mother and sisters are spending a year on a muffin cruise, traveling half-way around the muffin world, and leaving me in the care of my MUFFIN cousin, WHO IS ONLY A WEEK OLDER THAN ME SO WHY IN THE –"
By the time Sakura grabbed his arm and abruptly stopped him, Syaoran was yelling. Once he realized how tense he had become, he loosened up, shrugged, and walked back towards his seat.
Sakura was trying to decide whether she should laugh or shudder. Li was scary.
"I'm Kinomoto Sakura… I like to sing… But I'm a klutz so I probably can't dance… Daidouji Tomoyo is my best friend and… And that's it… " Sakura mumbled, heading back towards Kikani.
Ms. Hughes smiled. "Well, now that introductions are over, let's get started. I've picked out a few new pieces of music to try so we can figure out our show before the first competition in November. So if you'll stand, we'll start warming up."
Everyone stood and Ms. Hughes began playing scales on the piano, along with diction exercises such as Many Mumbling Mice and Vera Violet Vinn.
Sakura could barely hear her own voice. Everyone was so loud.
Kikani elbowed her in the side. "Louder, girl!" she said and picked right back up in Many Mumbling Mice.
Sakura sang a little louder. She knew these exercises from Advanced Concert Choir, but she was still a little unsure of herself. The people around her were so outgoing, and their faces had exaggerated expressions. They weren't just singing… they were performing.
Syaoran opted not to sing. Why would he? It didn't matter, he was only in it for the credits.
Ms. Hughes stopped playing. "Syaoran, are you going to sing, or are you just going to sit there and pout?"
Syaoran pondered this for a moment before replying, "Well, at the moment, pouting sounds like the better plan."
This earned him a glaring look from Ms. Hughes.
"Come here, young man, or I'll have to give you a detention."
He slowly stood up and sauntered towards the piano.
"Yes?" he asked sarcastically.
"Since you've been kind enough to volunteer yourself, you're going to be my first victim. The first song we're working on today is a newer version of "We Are Family". Would you like to give us your rendition?"
Syaoran smirked and burst out with "We're not family…. So get the muffin away from me!"
"Syaoran, detention!"
'Great…. Two in a row…'
That night when Syaoran got home from detention, he found a note from Eriol saying that he had gone to Tomoyo's house.
"So I've got the house to myself, huh?"
Syaoran ran up to his room in the attic and grabbed his CD case before running back downstairs. He picked out a CD and put it in the D drive of Eriol's computer before logging onto the internet.
Conversation: Go to Muffinland! lonewolf(at)getreal(dot)com , It's so great to have your boyfriend cook for you! yotomo(at)getreal(dot)com .
It's so great…: Hey, Li-san. Eriol told me to check up on you.
Go to Muffinland: Tell him to go to muffinland. (A/N: Syao can't say hell in Japanese yet, so he just calls it muffinland!)
It's so great…: One question: Where is that?
Syaoran tugged at fistfuls of his hair.
Go to Muffinland: Muffin it, tell him he's dumb!
He replied before logging off. Turning the speakers up full blast, he began to sing along with one of his favorite bands, Switchfoot.
"We were meant to live for so much more!" he belted out, running around the house trying to find where Eriol kept the frozen pizza.
That night Sakura tried to understand what had gone on that day, but she just couldn't sort it out. Too much had happened. Li Syaoran coming, falling over her, thinking she was a freshman, getting two detentions in one day… What was going to happen next?
Her brother Touya was over at his friend Yukito's house, and Sakura's father was in Okinawa for a seminar, so she fixed herself a sandwich and went to her room to do her homework, but alas, became distracted trying to keep her cat, Kero off of her desk. Eventually she gave up and went to bed, hoping for a clearer day tomorrow, in weather and situations.
THANKS AGAIN TO MY GREAT REVIEWERS! LOTS OF LOVE! Gomen,Kikani, since I can't spell... Ask Ralex, he gets on me all the time for it.
