Disclaimer: I do not claim ownership over the CLAMP characters in Card Captor Sakura or its (crappy) English counterpart Card Captors

Author's Rant: Over the course of this story I have received more than a few reviews that question this story's similarity to a story with the same title by either Meg Cabot or Jenny Carroll. I am now stating, again, that I have never read these books nor do I intend to, as I feel it would influence the course of this story. My Haunted is not based on those of Meg Cabot or Jenny Carroll, and is certainly not a "rip-off" as one of my removed reviews stated. Please do not make anymore comments such as those or I will be forced to end this story indefinitely.

AN: This will be a double post to make up for my lack of recent updates. Enjoy.

Haunted

My School

"Class, we have a new student. Please welcome Sakura Kinomoto."

The petite young girl stepped in through the door shyly, her odd coloring looking glamorous in combination with her uniform. Smiling shyly she gave a quick and delicate bow.

Taking her seat and sitting quietly, paying attention to the teacher, Sakura had not expected the ambush that would occur when the school bell rang to release the students into their break period.

"So you're from Japan?"

"How old are you?"

"Do you have a boyfriend?"

All but one of the students in her class had taken to Sakura, and the one that didn't…was Meiling Rae.

Meiling Rae was student body president, captain of the cheer squad, co-captain of the Martial Arts team, first in her class and considered the prettiest girl in school.

Enter Sakura Kinomoto.

Within her first day of school she had joined student council, made the squad, been let into the Martial Arts team by co-captain Tomoyo and already (with her previous grade records) had booted Meiling down to second in her class.

All of this could have been eventually dismissible, but the crowning insult, the final straw was this.

"Kinomoto" was prettier than Meiling. And it was quite obvious to anyone who saw her.

Maybe it was her coloring, strange for a Japanese Girl, green eyes and nearly golden brown hair. Maybe it was the grace with which she carried herself. Whatever it was, it was something that Meiling didn't possess…and that was unforgivable.

So after Sakura finished saying goodbye to all her new friends in student council, Meiling discreetly followed her until they were both alone in the hall. This was when Meiling grabbed Sakura's wrist.

"Just a minute."

Trying not to be rude, Sakura didn't wince when Meiling's red acrylic nails dug into her skin, she just smiled and asked.

"Yes Meiling?"

"You think you're going to get along well here…think again…"

"What?"

"This is my school Kinomoto…if you want to survive…you'd better learn that."

Pulling her wrist away Sakura felt on the brink of tears and ran away. With a smile of smug satisfaction Meiling clasped her hands behind her back and skipped back into the student council room.

That's right Kinomoto…run while you have the chance