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This chapter is the one I wrote with tears in my eyes. Btw, I think the storyline would get a bit… er… you know, gloomy, the next few chapters and until the end. But I will try to put in some sugar+spices in between. Oh great. This has always been my weekness. All the sadness, misery, and gloom comes into the later chapters while the first few chapters are really funny. -_-; just my private little problem, I suppose.
Gee, I must be getting lazy…
Thanks all the people who reviewed!
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Mercuryaurora – No, you are NOT younger than me, as you might have realized already. See, you do SAT's, while I to PAT's for the beginning of year.
Aznyugiangel
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Insomni-maniac
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Shichinintai Jakotsu
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To-ya
Wchan39
L
Shimmering Angel
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Heyhey! Please just… don't throw rocks at me for making this chapter really weird and not funny at all… I deserve to live…T_T
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"Sakura, I really can't go on like this anymore. It sucks. My life sucks."
Tomoyo complained, pulling her wig off.
She was safe in her dorm again, with Yuki safe out of the way… but there were problems worse to her right now than being discovered by Yuki. Being discovered by Jay.
"What can I say Tom, I'm-"
"DON'T call me Tom. I've heard that rubbish name thousand times before. It sucks. The whole idea sucked. And now I'm just getting paid back. My life's falling apart. Great. Wow, let's party coz Tomoyo's life's falling apart! Yay!"
A sympathetic sigh came from Sakura. Tomoyo meant for her feelings to lift when she called her. Not to drop down and sink down into hell.
"Tomoyo, you know your mother didn't mean you to be this unhappy… I'm sure she didn't mean this far-"
"Yeah, like, whoo, a big joke, Tomoyo's under disguise! As a boy! Sakura, get it straight. I've lived with mum. She's evil. She meant my life to fall apart because I was making hers fall. That's how she does it. I've seen her many-a-times do this to other people and companies. She just has to keep her life perfect and straight, even though it means being evil and breaking down the life of her own daughter's."
"Oh, Tomoyo…"
Tomoyo was so frustrated. It's been about a month and a half since Jay arrived, around three months since she started this whole disguising as a boy thing. And most of it WASN'T pretty.
Tomoyo began to pull her clothes off as she let her tongue babble.
"You know what, Jay says he's going to come to Rosmini."
"What?!! To stay?"
"No, Sakura. To see me at school, working like a pretty little girl among a group of boys."
Tomoyo said, pulling a disgusted face as she pulled her skirt down.
"It's my little bees and buzz time of the month, and do I get any peace at all? No. Not a bit."
"Aw… Cheer up, Tomoyo."
"Easy for you to say. Really, I don't see you walking around with a normal mind when all your precious hair's been cut off and you're hanging around with boys and even living with one, risking all your safety."
Tomoyo snapped. She could sense the awkwardness at the other side of the line, and felt sorry for Sakura, but she couldn't manage to be any kinder than she had ever been. She was FURIOUS. She had to go on some more.
"My little time of the month when I always got to have some privacy even among the girl's school, and yet, nowadays I have to worry about which bins in the park are less seen, because I just can't throw away tampons here. So I have to carry them around everywhere, old and new. Would you be able to live with the heavy burden on YOUR shoulders? No, you can't."
"Tomoyo, I'm sure I cannot imagine even just a bit of your troubles. How about you just call your mum, say, 'Hey, I'm so sorry' and just give up? it is really tearing you to pieces, you know. You probably wouldn't get a decent school by the time you actually do finish the whole year, coz all the girls are really out to get you."
Bull's eye.
Sakura had carefully mentioned the worst thing she ever could have. Giving up and losing to the Daidouji's mother-daughter war. Tomoyo had never ever thought of it before.
"You bitch!"
Tomoyo exclaimed out loud. She heard Sakura's vain attempt to hide her snort.
"For your information, I am NOT going to give up, and I never WILL! This is purely a mother-daughter fight, or in this case, war, and I will not give up! how dare you say that!"
Tomoyo snapped, her mouth falling open.
"You know me well enough, Sakura. I'm not answering that question ever again in my life, and you better not repeat the question unless you want your life expectancy cut short."
"See Tomoyo? Now cheer up. You've only got a few more months left!"
"So that was your main point you wanted to squeeze into me. I only have a few more months. I should've known."
Tomoyo spun round, a look of half-irritation on her face. She opened her mouth, as she moved her eyes to check the clock on the wall. Yuki was due at three. It was almost two o'clock right now.
Pulling her eyes back to her surroundings, she suddenly stopped. Her eyes slightly widened.
There, in the middle of the room, staring right at her with a half-confused, half-understanding look, stood…
Eriol Hirrigizawa.
Tomoyo's eyes narrowed. What on earth was he doing here? And… OH MY GOD!!!!
Tomoyo's eyes widened as she whipped round and turned her back towards him, her right hand reaching down for her bindings, and her left hand for her clothes.
"Shit…"
"Tomoyo? Are you alright? Did you hear what I said?"
"No, I didn't. Shut up."
Great. She got herself discovered. Tomoyo moved her fingers stiffly to tie the bindings securely around her breasts and slipped into one of Yuki's loose jumpers before turning back around to face Eriol. He was still staring at her, his eyes widened in shock and confusion.
Tomoyo looked into Eriol's eyes daringly, daring him to make any first moves.
"Tomoyo! What the-"
Tomoyo shut the flap and threw her cellphone down on to Yuki's bed, still looking at Eriol who was still looking at her.
They glared at each other for a while. Then Eriol finally opened his mouth, after studying her face for a long time.
"Who are you?"
Tomoyo scoffed, arrogance and the harsh "Princess of Underworld" glint returning to her eyes.
"What, how old are you, a hundred and one?"
Eriol didn't look offended at all. Only a look of realization overcame his confused expression.
"Tomoyo Daidouji?"
"Well, duh, who doesn't know that?"
Tomoyo tried desperately to stay calm. She couldn't lose all her wits right here right now! She NEEDED to stay calm.
While Tomoyo was trying to stay calm, Eriol just stood there, staring at her.
"What, seen Tomoyo Daidouji for the first time in your life?"
Tomoyo spat. Eriol merely smiled, and shrugged.
"Well, I've always heard of her but I never saw her in person."
Tomoyo somehow felt the urge to keep the conversation going, no matter how unpleasant.
"Now you have. Happy?"
Eriol didn't answer. Tomoyo silently cursed inwardly, mentally hitting herself for not keeping quiet and ignoring him.
As they stared at each other, Tomoyo realized the evilness under him. He didn't show any signs of surprise at all. He kept it all inside him as if it was all just a big fat nothing.
"Right. You've seen the show, and discovered the unknown. You could really help by going away, if you're done. Or maybe, you have something else to do that you couldn't do yet."
At Tomoyo's cynical voice, Eriol gave a mild smile, a small good-bye nod, and walked out.
Finally getting him out of the way, misery and panic flooded into her mind.
Tomoyo pulled at either sides of her short hair as she spun around the room, predicting wildly that Eriol must've left the dorm building by now and screaming her head off.
Eriol's soft, pleasant smile faded as soon as the door closed behind him. He pushed his back against the wall, a vain attempt to push the wall down. Leaning his head back, he slowly calmed his throbbing temples. His breath had suddenly become rough. His heart was beating madly, and his face heated up.
"Tomoyo Daidouji… Tom… Daidouji…"
Eriol quietly repeated the names under his breath, wondering why he had never realized the names were so familiar.
"He was a girl… Tom was Tomoyo…"
He whispered, and started to laugh.
Damn. Nothing was being improved. Everything only went from bad to worse. No. Nothing was being improved. Everything was bad. Eriol now laughed at the irony of it all. He had run for nothing. To escape nothing.
His laughs faded as he slid down and crumpled in a heap on the floor. An image of Tomoyo's surprised look when she spotted him, as well as her wide eyes though her face desperately tried to keep calm. He smiled. The images went so well with her frustrated scream moments ago.
He heard unfamiliar rock music. He frowned and reached for his pockets. Oh no, not again. Yuki always changed his ringtone to some sort of rock music he found too much of a noise. Eriol had intended to be as simple as he could for as long as he could stand it.
As he gathered his fingers to open the flap, he took a short glance at the number on the frame and stopped. Sighing, Eriol pushed himself up. He put the noisy phone back into his pocket as he walked away.
"You don't look alright! What's wrong! I haven't seen you for such a long time! You look so pale! Oh no, you're not sick, are you? Gee, you really do look weird. Maybe it's just your hair. You seriously need some gel. Should I go get some from the shop downstairs?"
"Go away. You're at a boy's school."
Tomoyo pushed Sumi away, an irritated look casting over her face. She had been worried about Jay's visit as well as Eriol's discovery. There were no words to describe how horrible she'd been feeling.
"Tom!! I think you're dying! Tom!! Can you hear me?!!!"
Sumi suddenly screamed, and put her hand on Tomoyo's forehead. She gasped.
"You ARE dying! You have lots of worries! Oh no! stress is the best thing to die of! You can't! You just can't leave me yet! Tom! Don't leave me! No.. nono… it's not a time for this. I need to get you to a hospital, quick."
Tomoyo sighed as Sumi hopped around, her eyes widened in fear that Tomoyo would drop dead on spot.
"Just leave me alone. I am NOT dying."
Sumi looked at her with tearful eyes.
"Oh yes, you are, darling. There are plentiful of symptoms for signs of premature death."
Tomoyo laid a hand on Sumi's quick moving head.
"Cool. You've only missed me for 11 hours. Not a long time. I'm pale. I always have been. Not a symptom of sickness. I look fine. I don't look weird. It's only your eyes. Only too obvious."
She paused. Sumi still looked up at her with worried eyes, but she calmed down a bit.
"No symptoms of premature death."
Tomoyo looked into Sumi's blue eyes, checking for signs of confusion, just incase she didn't get it. Nope. They were still sparkling with inspiration of death.
"You never know when you're going to die, Tom!"
Sumi insisted.
"Sumi, you-"
"SUGAR!!!!!"
Sumi cut in indignantly. Tomoyo ignored her, secretly grinning.
"Don't cut in. Sumi, you're-"
"SUGAR!!!!"
Tomoyo shrugged, and looked down at Sumi with a simpleton look on her face. That's what happened to people around Sumi. Their mental age dropped down to level hers.
"Look, you really don't need to be ashamed of you're real name."
Sumi pouted, a sign she intended people to interpret as a refusal of listening. Of course, no one got it unless she told them so.
"Honest. I love the name Sumi. I always wished I had been named Sumi."
"Yeah right. You can be Sumi. I'll be Sugar. Just go on with what you were saying."
So much for that. Tomoyo shrugged, marveling at the fact that the female races of human did not succumb to opinions of their loved ones. She couldn't remember anytime she did that to Jay!
"Anyway, I was just going to say that you were accusing me of-"
Tomoyo stopped in mid-sentence. Sumi looked at her weirdly.
"Yuki!!!! Thank GOD!!!"
Tomoyo shrieked, and held fast onto Yuki's sleeve. Yuki grinned, taking Tomoyo under his invisible wings of comfort and defense from Sumi. He was holding a snapshot camera, and had several instant snapshots in his hand.
Tomoyo held on to her last escape route from Sumi.
"Yuki, where are you going?"
"Erm, I'm just going to take some photos to send to my parents-"
"Good idea!"
Tomoyo cut in quickly. Sumi cocked her head in confusion, deciding what Tomoyo was getting to.
"Have you taken a picture of that place? No, of course you haven't! It's a very nice spot you know. Can't miss that one! Of course! You don't know where it is! I'll take you there!"
Tomoyo grinned, and turned to Sumi.
"Sorry, Sumi, I guess he needs my help quite a lot. My best friend, you know. I'll catch you another time, huh?"
Saying that, Tomoyo ran, as fast as her legs could carry her with her fingers still caught around Yuki's sleeves.
"So, where are your parents?"
"In Hong Kong. Business trip. They wanted me to send them pictures of the school."
Yuki answered as they walked the paths in a park. The sun was going down, and the colours of the sunset were spectacular.
"Hey, where are your parents, again?"
Tomoyo rolled her eyes.
"Only got a mum, remember? She's probably running through the Amazon Jungle by now."
"Gee, dangerous."
"I sure hope so."
Tomoyo replied quietly. Yuki cocked his head.
"What?"
"Nothing. Just said I'm worried about her."
"Oh."
Big fat liar. Tomoyo called herself. Just then, she had a sudden thought hit her head as she looked at the side view of Yuki's pretty face.
"Yuki?"
"Yeah?"
Would it be alright to ask him about these sorts of things?
"Um… what would you do?"
"If?"
"If you had a big, a really big secret, like… hiding your identity, and someone found out about it?"
"Er, I don't know."
"No. It's like, oh, never mind…"
A short silence… followed by a growl of certain somebody's stomach.
"Tom?"
"…"
"Are you hungry?"
Tomoyo managed a small nod. Yuki grinned.
"Okay, suppose you want something more than the school cafeteria food. Come on, I'll treat you to something good tonight."
"Gee Yuki, are we allowed doing this?"
Tomoyo looked at him sideways.
"Yeah, sure."
Yuki shrugged.
"No, no… I mean, US? You treating me to goods tonight? I mean, like… TONIGHT?"
"What?"
Yuki's confused look added to the amusement.
"Oh, Yuki! I never knew you FELT that way before!"
Tomoyo began running, knowing once Yuki got it, he won't forgive her.
"Wha…?!! Oh! You idiot! You know I don't mean that!"
The two boys, or rather, a boy and a girl in disguise as a boy, laughed as they ran.
Suddenly, Tomoyo came to a halt. Yuki bashed into the back of Tomoyo, and muttered a genuine sorry mixed with a laugh, which she didn't respond to.
Yuki followed Tomoyo's gaze to a bench, where a couple sat, whispering sweet words of love in each other's ears.
"Tom?"
Yuki called her, but Tomoyo couldn't hear anything.
The couple sitting on the bench was an unbearable sight. And yet she stared at them, while Yuki had goosebumps up to his nose.
It was Jay. Jay. Her Jay. Whispering the same love into her ears. Tomoyo watched, her mind blanked out, as Jay laughed and kissed the red headed girl.
Yuki cocked his head and pulled at Tomoyo's sleeve.
"Tom…?"
No reply. By now Yuki was freaked out by this sudden reaction when Tom saw the over-affectionate couple.
"Erm, Tom?"
Still no reply. Yuki sighed.
Tomoyo woke up into the reality as she heard a loud sigh, and the words,
"I THOUGHT you were hungry."
She remembered where she was, and what she was meant to be doing.
Stupid. She was getting tears in her eyes. God, what would Yuki think of this?
"Um, Yuki… I… you… er… I…"
Tomoyo sighed. A big lump started forming in her throat. The tears were threatening to fall.
Tomoyo gasped for breath. She grasped Yuki's camera and took a few photos of the couple, kissing.
"Yuki… look… I'm… I'm really not… on my best…. Just… leave me for a moment… Okay..?"
Tomoyo chocked the words out. Idiot. How silly she must look to Yuki. Almost crying because she saw an over-affectionate couple in the park. What an idiot.
"Okay, I'll go grab a pizza and… be in our room. Just… take your time…. No worries!"
Yuki said, quickly understanding the truth that Tom wanted to be left alone. He walked away after casting a puzzled glance at the couple.
As soon as Yuki was out of sight, Tomoyo sat herself on a near bench hidden from the view of Jay and his girlfriend, and tried her best to stop herself from crying. Reaching for her back pockets, she pulled out her cellphone, and pressed '1'.
Tomoyo could see from where she was that Jay was hesitating to pick up the phone. She cleared her throat, getting ready to talk to him.
After what seemed two seconds, of the girl staring at the hesitant Jay with innocent eyes of hers, Jay gave that fabulous smile of his, stood up, moved to a side and opened the flap.
"Hel-"
"Oh JAY~~!!!"
Tomoyo yelled as loud as she could. She saw Jay wince, and the girl cock her head in confusion.
"Darling! Darling darling Jay!!!"
"Er, hi!"
Tomoyo felt something sharp jabbing pain at her heart. She suddenly remembered the song "Say my name" by Destiny's whatever. Jay was refusing to call her by her name.
"Jay!"
She called in a playful tone. Tears filled her found eyes.
"Yeah?"
He WAS avoiding her name. Why didn't she ever notice this before? Why? He probably did this a long time ago again. And she never noticed.
"Jay… What day are you coming to my school?"
Silence. Tomoyo bit her lower lip to stop the tears falling.
"Well…"
"Why not come right now? Where are you? I'll just go get you if you're around."
A panicky silence. She could see him shuffling while the red headed girl sat, wondering who was holding him for this long.
"Um… maybe not today, Tom- I, um… tomorrow?"
"Oh… Tomorrow…"
Tomoyo's vision blurred. How could he?
"Yeah. I'll see you then."
"Yeah…"
Tomoyo saw Jay breathing a sigh of relief, and a sudden burst of anger thrust up within her.
"Oh, Jay!"
"Yeah?"
"You suck."
A pause. She heard Jay suck a deep breath in surprise.
"What?"
"Idiot. I'm breaking up with you."
A tear slid down her face. And another.
"Hey, listen. Hey!"
She silently chocked on her tears as she slowly took her ears off the cellphone.
"I won't miss you."
She whispered. Jay's yelling could be heard distantly from the phone as she closed it.
Tomoyo cried. She cried her heart out. Jay was gone. She pushed him away. The sudden anger faded away and misery flooded her heart.
For the first time in her life, Tomoyo Daidouji cried because of a guy.
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Okay… *sniffsniff*
I meant to make it really sad, and you know…
But it really was the only way to get E+T…
Hey, anyway… things to ponder about…
1. What on earth was Eriol talking about after he came out of the room?
2. How is E+T going to be achieved at this rate?
3. What happened to Eli?
Hehe… please leave a review!!!
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Okayokay! I'm back!!
Hey, I got camp from Sun-Thur!! So I'll update next week^^
This chapter is the one I wrote with tears in my eyes. Btw, I think the storyline would get a bit… er… you know, gloomy, the next few chapters and until the end. But I will try to put in some sugar+spices in between. Oh great. This has always been my weekness. All the sadness, misery, and gloom comes into the later chapters while the first few chapters are really funny. -_-; just my private little problem, I suppose.
Gee, I must be getting lazy…
Thanks all the people who reviewed!
~*~Thank you so much to…~*~
Cyber-Shady
Mercuryaurora – No, you are NOT younger than me, as you might have realized already. See, you do SAT's, while I to PAT's for the beginning of year.
Aznyugiangel
Anifreak
Star_Light_Jade
Insomni-maniac
Stojakovic16
Mizutenshiai
Shichinintai Jakotsu
Luckyducky7too
NET
To-ya
Wchan39
L
Shimmering Angel
x-kawaii-sakura-x
devilgrl96
Heyhey! Please just… don't throw rocks at me for making this chapter really weird and not funny at all… I deserve to live…T_T
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"Sakura, I really can't go on like this anymore. It sucks. My life sucks."
Tomoyo complained, pulling her wig off.
She was safe in her dorm again, with Yuki safe out of the way… but there were problems worse to her right now than being discovered by Yuki. Being discovered by Jay.
"What can I say Tom, I'm-"
"DON'T call me Tom. I've heard that rubbish name thousand times before. It sucks. The whole idea sucked. And now I'm just getting paid back. My life's falling apart. Great. Wow, let's party coz Tomoyo's life's falling apart! Yay!"
A sympathetic sigh came from Sakura. Tomoyo meant for her feelings to lift when she called her. Not to drop down and sink down into hell.
"Tomoyo, you know your mother didn't mean you to be this unhappy… I'm sure she didn't mean this far-"
"Yeah, like, whoo, a big joke, Tomoyo's under disguise! As a boy! Sakura, get it straight. I've lived with mum. She's evil. She meant my life to fall apart because I was making hers fall. That's how she does it. I've seen her many-a-times do this to other people and companies. She just has to keep her life perfect and straight, even though it means being evil and breaking down the life of her own daughter's."
"Oh, Tomoyo…"
Tomoyo was so frustrated. It's been about a month and a half since Jay arrived, around three months since she started this whole disguising as a boy thing. And most of it WASN'T pretty.
Tomoyo began to pull her clothes off as she let her tongue babble.
"You know what, Jay says he's going to come to Rosmini."
"What?!! To stay?"
"No, Sakura. To see me at school, working like a pretty little girl among a group of boys."
Tomoyo said, pulling a disgusted face as she pulled her skirt down.
"It's my little bees and buzz time of the month, and do I get any peace at all? No. Not a bit."
"Aw… Cheer up, Tomoyo."
"Easy for you to say. Really, I don't see you walking around with a normal mind when all your precious hair's been cut off and you're hanging around with boys and even living with one, risking all your safety."
Tomoyo snapped. She could sense the awkwardness at the other side of the line, and felt sorry for Sakura, but she couldn't manage to be any kinder than she had ever been. She was FURIOUS. She had to go on some more.
"My little time of the month when I always got to have some privacy even among the girl's school, and yet, nowadays I have to worry about which bins in the park are less seen, because I just can't throw away tampons here. So I have to carry them around everywhere, old and new. Would you be able to live with the heavy burden on YOUR shoulders? No, you can't."
"Tomoyo, I'm sure I cannot imagine even just a bit of your troubles. How about you just call your mum, say, 'Hey, I'm so sorry' and just give up? it is really tearing you to pieces, you know. You probably wouldn't get a decent school by the time you actually do finish the whole year, coz all the girls are really out to get you."
Bull's eye.
Sakura had carefully mentioned the worst thing she ever could have. Giving up and losing to the Daidouji's mother-daughter war. Tomoyo had never ever thought of it before.
"You bitch!"
Tomoyo exclaimed out loud. She heard Sakura's vain attempt to hide her snort.
"For your information, I am NOT going to give up, and I never WILL! This is purely a mother-daughter fight, or in this case, war, and I will not give up! how dare you say that!"
Tomoyo snapped, her mouth falling open.
"You know me well enough, Sakura. I'm not answering that question ever again in my life, and you better not repeat the question unless you want your life expectancy cut short."
"See Tomoyo? Now cheer up. You've only got a few more months left!"
"So that was your main point you wanted to squeeze into me. I only have a few more months. I should've known."
Tomoyo spun round, a look of half-irritation on her face. She opened her mouth, as she moved her eyes to check the clock on the wall. Yuki was due at three. It was almost two o'clock right now.
Pulling her eyes back to her surroundings, she suddenly stopped. Her eyes slightly widened.
There, in the middle of the room, staring right at her with a half-confused, half-understanding look, stood…
Eriol Hirrigizawa.
Tomoyo's eyes narrowed. What on earth was he doing here? And… OH MY GOD!!!!
Tomoyo's eyes widened as she whipped round and turned her back towards him, her right hand reaching down for her bindings, and her left hand for her clothes.
"Shit…"
"Tomoyo? Are you alright? Did you hear what I said?"
"No, I didn't. Shut up."
Great. She got herself discovered. Tomoyo moved her fingers stiffly to tie the bindings securely around her breasts and slipped into one of Yuki's loose jumpers before turning back around to face Eriol. He was still staring at her, his eyes widened in shock and confusion.
Tomoyo looked into Eriol's eyes daringly, daring him to make any first moves.
"Tomoyo! What the-"
Tomoyo shut the flap and threw her cellphone down on to Yuki's bed, still looking at Eriol who was still looking at her.
They glared at each other for a while. Then Eriol finally opened his mouth, after studying her face for a long time.
"Who are you?"
Tomoyo scoffed, arrogance and the harsh "Princess of Underworld" glint returning to her eyes.
"What, how old are you, a hundred and one?"
Eriol didn't look offended at all. Only a look of realization overcame his confused expression.
"Tomoyo Daidouji?"
"Well, duh, who doesn't know that?"
Tomoyo tried desperately to stay calm. She couldn't lose all her wits right here right now! She NEEDED to stay calm.
While Tomoyo was trying to stay calm, Eriol just stood there, staring at her.
"What, seen Tomoyo Daidouji for the first time in your life?"
Tomoyo spat. Eriol merely smiled, and shrugged.
"Well, I've always heard of her but I never saw her in person."
Tomoyo somehow felt the urge to keep the conversation going, no matter how unpleasant.
"Now you have. Happy?"
Eriol didn't answer. Tomoyo silently cursed inwardly, mentally hitting herself for not keeping quiet and ignoring him.
As they stared at each other, Tomoyo realized the evilness under him. He didn't show any signs of surprise at all. He kept it all inside him as if it was all just a big fat nothing.
"Right. You've seen the show, and discovered the unknown. You could really help by going away, if you're done. Or maybe, you have something else to do that you couldn't do yet."
At Tomoyo's cynical voice, Eriol gave a mild smile, a small good-bye nod, and walked out.
Finally getting him out of the way, misery and panic flooded into her mind.
Tomoyo pulled at either sides of her short hair as she spun around the room, predicting wildly that Eriol must've left the dorm building by now and screaming her head off.
Eriol's soft, pleasant smile faded as soon as the door closed behind him. He pushed his back against the wall, a vain attempt to push the wall down. Leaning his head back, he slowly calmed his throbbing temples. His breath had suddenly become rough. His heart was beating madly, and his face heated up.
"Tomoyo Daidouji… Tom… Daidouji…"
Eriol quietly repeated the names under his breath, wondering why he had never realized the names were so familiar.
"He was a girl… Tom was Tomoyo…"
He whispered, and started to laugh.
Damn. Nothing was being improved. Everything only went from bad to worse. No. Nothing was being improved. Everything was bad. Eriol now laughed at the irony of it all. He had run for nothing. To escape nothing.
His laughs faded as he slid down and crumpled in a heap on the floor. An image of Tomoyo's surprised look when she spotted him, as well as her wide eyes though her face desperately tried to keep calm. He smiled. The images went so well with her frustrated scream moments ago.
He heard unfamiliar rock music. He frowned and reached for his pockets. Oh no, not again. Yuki always changed his ringtone to some sort of rock music he found too much of a noise. Eriol had intended to be as simple as he could for as long as he could stand it.
As he gathered his fingers to open the flap, he took a short glance at the number on the frame and stopped. Sighing, Eriol pushed himself up. He put the noisy phone back into his pocket as he walked away.
"You don't look alright! What's wrong! I haven't seen you for such a long time! You look so pale! Oh no, you're not sick, are you? Gee, you really do look weird. Maybe it's just your hair. You seriously need some gel. Should I go get some from the shop downstairs?"
"Go away. You're at a boy's school."
Tomoyo pushed Sumi away, an irritated look casting over her face. She had been worried about Jay's visit as well as Eriol's discovery. There were no words to describe how horrible she'd been feeling.
"Tom!! I think you're dying! Tom!! Can you hear me?!!!"
Sumi suddenly screamed, and put her hand on Tomoyo's forehead. She gasped.
"You ARE dying! You have lots of worries! Oh no! stress is the best thing to die of! You can't! You just can't leave me yet! Tom! Don't leave me! No.. nono… it's not a time for this. I need to get you to a hospital, quick."
Tomoyo sighed as Sumi hopped around, her eyes widened in fear that Tomoyo would drop dead on spot.
"Just leave me alone. I am NOT dying."
Sumi looked at her with tearful eyes.
"Oh yes, you are, darling. There are plentiful of symptoms for signs of premature death."
Tomoyo laid a hand on Sumi's quick moving head.
"Cool. You've only missed me for 11 hours. Not a long time. I'm pale. I always have been. Not a symptom of sickness. I look fine. I don't look weird. It's only your eyes. Only too obvious."
She paused. Sumi still looked up at her with worried eyes, but she calmed down a bit.
"No symptoms of premature death."
Tomoyo looked into Sumi's blue eyes, checking for signs of confusion, just incase she didn't get it. Nope. They were still sparkling with inspiration of death.
"You never know when you're going to die, Tom!"
Sumi insisted.
"Sumi, you-"
"SUGAR!!!!!"
Sumi cut in indignantly. Tomoyo ignored her, secretly grinning.
"Don't cut in. Sumi, you're-"
"SUGAR!!!!"
Tomoyo shrugged, and looked down at Sumi with a simpleton look on her face. That's what happened to people around Sumi. Their mental age dropped down to level hers.
"Look, you really don't need to be ashamed of you're real name."
Sumi pouted, a sign she intended people to interpret as a refusal of listening. Of course, no one got it unless she told them so.
"Honest. I love the name Sumi. I always wished I had been named Sumi."
"Yeah right. You can be Sumi. I'll be Sugar. Just go on with what you were saying."
So much for that. Tomoyo shrugged, marveling at the fact that the female races of human did not succumb to opinions of their loved ones. She couldn't remember anytime she did that to Jay!
"Anyway, I was just going to say that you were accusing me of-"
Tomoyo stopped in mid-sentence. Sumi looked at her weirdly.
"Yuki!!!! Thank GOD!!!"
Tomoyo shrieked, and held fast onto Yuki's sleeve. Yuki grinned, taking Tomoyo under his invisible wings of comfort and defense from Sumi. He was holding a snapshot camera, and had several instant snapshots in his hand.
Tomoyo held on to her last escape route from Sumi.
"Yuki, where are you going?"
"Erm, I'm just going to take some photos to send to my parents-"
"Good idea!"
Tomoyo cut in quickly. Sumi cocked her head in confusion, deciding what Tomoyo was getting to.
"Have you taken a picture of that place? No, of course you haven't! It's a very nice spot you know. Can't miss that one! Of course! You don't know where it is! I'll take you there!"
Tomoyo grinned, and turned to Sumi.
"Sorry, Sumi, I guess he needs my help quite a lot. My best friend, you know. I'll catch you another time, huh?"
Saying that, Tomoyo ran, as fast as her legs could carry her with her fingers still caught around Yuki's sleeves.
"So, where are your parents?"
"In Hong Kong. Business trip. They wanted me to send them pictures of the school."
Yuki answered as they walked the paths in a park. The sun was going down, and the colours of the sunset were spectacular.
"Hey, where are your parents, again?"
Tomoyo rolled her eyes.
"Only got a mum, remember? She's probably running through the Amazon Jungle by now."
"Gee, dangerous."
"I sure hope so."
Tomoyo replied quietly. Yuki cocked his head.
"What?"
"Nothing. Just said I'm worried about her."
"Oh."
Big fat liar. Tomoyo called herself. Just then, she had a sudden thought hit her head as she looked at the side view of Yuki's pretty face.
"Yuki?"
"Yeah?"
Would it be alright to ask him about these sorts of things?
"Um… what would you do?"
"If?"
"If you had a big, a really big secret, like… hiding your identity, and someone found out about it?"
"Er, I don't know."
"No. It's like, oh, never mind…"
A short silence… followed by a growl of certain somebody's stomach.
"Tom?"
"…"
"Are you hungry?"
Tomoyo managed a small nod. Yuki grinned.
"Okay, suppose you want something more than the school cafeteria food. Come on, I'll treat you to something good tonight."
"Gee Yuki, are we allowed doing this?"
Tomoyo looked at him sideways.
"Yeah, sure."
Yuki shrugged.
"No, no… I mean, US? You treating me to goods tonight? I mean, like… TONIGHT?"
"What?"
Yuki's confused look added to the amusement.
"Oh, Yuki! I never knew you FELT that way before!"
Tomoyo began running, knowing once Yuki got it, he won't forgive her.
"Wha…?!! Oh! You idiot! You know I don't mean that!"
The two boys, or rather, a boy and a girl in disguise as a boy, laughed as they ran.
Suddenly, Tomoyo came to a halt. Yuki bashed into the back of Tomoyo, and muttered a genuine sorry mixed with a laugh, which she didn't respond to.
Yuki followed Tomoyo's gaze to a bench, where a couple sat, whispering sweet words of love in each other's ears.
"Tom?"
Yuki called her, but Tomoyo couldn't hear anything.
The couple sitting on the bench was an unbearable sight. And yet she stared at them, while Yuki had goosebumps up to his nose.
It was Jay. Jay. Her Jay. Whispering the same love into her ears. Tomoyo watched, her mind blanked out, as Jay laughed and kissed the red headed girl.
Yuki cocked his head and pulled at Tomoyo's sleeve.
"Tom…?"
No reply. By now Yuki was freaked out by this sudden reaction when Tom saw the over-affectionate couple.
"Erm, Tom?"
Still no reply. Yuki sighed.
Tomoyo woke up into the reality as she heard a loud sigh, and the words,
"I THOUGHT you were hungry."
She remembered where she was, and what she was meant to be doing.
Stupid. She was getting tears in her eyes. God, what would Yuki think of this?
"Um, Yuki… I… you… er… I…"
Tomoyo sighed. A big lump started forming in her throat. The tears were threatening to fall.
Tomoyo gasped for breath. She grasped Yuki's camera and took a few photos of the couple, kissing.
"Yuki… look… I'm… I'm really not… on my best…. Just… leave me for a moment… Okay..?"
Tomoyo chocked the words out. Idiot. How silly she must look to Yuki. Almost crying because she saw an over-affectionate couple in the park. What an idiot.
"Okay, I'll go grab a pizza and… be in our room. Just… take your time…. No worries!"
Yuki said, quickly understanding the truth that Tom wanted to be left alone. He walked away after casting a puzzled glance at the couple.
As soon as Yuki was out of sight, Tomoyo sat herself on a near bench hidden from the view of Jay and his girlfriend, and tried her best to stop herself from crying. Reaching for her back pockets, she pulled out her cellphone, and pressed '1'.
Tomoyo could see from where she was that Jay was hesitating to pick up the phone. She cleared her throat, getting ready to talk to him.
After what seemed two seconds, of the girl staring at the hesitant Jay with innocent eyes of hers, Jay gave that fabulous smile of his, stood up, moved to a side and opened the flap.
"Hel-"
"Oh JAY~~!!!"
Tomoyo yelled as loud as she could. She saw Jay wince, and the girl cock her head in confusion.
"Darling! Darling darling Jay!!!"
"Er, hi!"
Tomoyo felt something sharp jabbing pain at her heart. She suddenly remembered the song "Say my name" by Destiny's whatever. Jay was refusing to call her by her name.
"Jay!"
She called in a playful tone. Tears filled her found eyes.
"Yeah?"
He WAS avoiding her name. Why didn't she ever notice this before? Why? He probably did this a long time ago again. And she never noticed.
"Jay… What day are you coming to my school?"
Silence. Tomoyo bit her lower lip to stop the tears falling.
"Well…"
"Why not come right now? Where are you? I'll just go get you if you're around."
A panicky silence. She could see him shuffling while the red headed girl sat, wondering who was holding him for this long.
"Um… maybe not today, Tom- I, um… tomorrow?"
"Oh… Tomorrow…"
Tomoyo's vision blurred. How could he?
"Yeah. I'll see you then."
"Yeah…"
Tomoyo saw Jay breathing a sigh of relief, and a sudden burst of anger thrust up within her.
"Oh, Jay!"
"Yeah?"
"You suck."
A pause. She heard Jay suck a deep breath in surprise.
"What?"
"Idiot. I'm breaking up with you."
A tear slid down her face. And another.
"Hey, listen. Hey!"
She silently chocked on her tears as she slowly took her ears off the cellphone.
"I won't miss you."
She whispered. Jay's yelling could be heard distantly from the phone as she closed it.
Tomoyo cried. She cried her heart out. Jay was gone. She pushed him away. The sudden anger faded away and misery flooded her heart.
For the first time in her life, Tomoyo Daidouji cried because of a guy.
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Okay… *sniffsniff*
I meant to make it really sad, and you know…
But it really was the only way to get E+T…
Hey, anyway… things to ponder about…
1. What on earth was Eriol talking about after he came out of the room?
2. How is E+T going to be achieved at this rate?
3. What happened to Eli?
Hehe… please leave a review!!!
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