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"Wedding day"
Bright sunlight lit the room where sakura lay timidly on the sofa. Her eyes squirmed from the intensity of the sun. She thought it was late morning but to her surprise, it was just 15 minutes to 7.
"Good, you are awake" tomoyo said, she had just taken a shower.
"Yeah" sakura marched up to her bathroom. Feeling a bit sick, she noticed her reflection in the mirror. Absentmindedly, she touched her lips and that's when the happenings of last night played in her mind.
That movie, that restaurant, that dinner, that toast of wine, that dance, that park, that kiss….
She ran out to tomoyo. "Tomoyo, what happened last night?"
Tomoyo gave her a questioning look.
"I mean, who brought me here last night? Was I unconscious?" sakura said, regaining her composure.
"yaw, syaoran brought you…why? What happened?"
"Ooh! Tomoyo, we kissed…we kissed. I was drunk and then…oh god….what must he be thinking of me!" sakura started weeping.
"Sakura, sakura…calm down. It was just a kiss." Tomoyo held her hands and then added, fearing "nothing else, right?"
"Oh god, no…thank god" sakura bolted upright. "But then the kiss. This is what I gave him, this is what his best friend gave him before leaving him...a slut, that is what he'll think of me…and he must be thinking it's his fault….oh my"
"How will I show him my face" sakura wiped her tears from the tissues tomoyo handed her.
"Sakura listen….forget this, what has happened has happened. Accept things as they are, they were as they were supposed to be….maybe he doesn't remember it"
"He wasn't drunk"
"Ok so maybe he wasn't drunk, but maybe he views it in a different way, just as a friendly kiss" tomoyo was trying hard to quieten her.
"Hmmm"
"Sakura, you have to get ready too…ok now please."
"Yaw, you're right. No use lamenting over …." She got up and headed to her room.
Half an hour later
Sakura was ready and her luggage had been shifted to the living room.
Her flight wasn't until 12, but she had to check in at 11.other than that, tomoyo had to attend the dreaded wedding and therefore, she decided to leave early.
Tomoyo and she were having their last breakfast together in this apartment.
The phone rang and tomoyo picked it up.
After finishing their talk, tomoyo told sakura that christen had called to tell that she must be present at the wedding, at least the time preceding it ..So that syaoran should not doubt her absence.
"What?But I can't"
"Syaoran wants you to be there…what you do is staying there till the ceremony begins, I'll make up an excuse after that" tomoyo suggested.
"You do know how hard it'll be"
Syaoran….
The proceedings of the last night had left him dazed. He couldn't sleep.
Was he making the right choice, what made him kiss her like that? He knew he was in full consciousness when he had kissed her. And he knew that the kiss was nothing like he ever experienced?
What was it? And now he was getting ready.
Everyone in the house was getting ready for the big event. His sisters were frantic. His mother was beaming, presumably she was proud.
He raked his hand through his hairs. What was happening? He had to talk it out with eriol
Church………
It was 10:30 and the wedding wasn't due till 11:30.
Sakura and tomoyo and the other bridesmaid, along with the bride were present.
Tomoyo had gone to meet roil and the others were busy outside and sakura was left alone with christen.
Sakura took the veil and placed it at christens head.
"You look so beautiful…so perfect for ..."
Christen's smile faded, she stood up and faced sakura.
"Sakura, I'm sorry…I'm so damn sorry" she hugged her and tears flowed.
"Its nothing christen, it's not your fault. I'm alright. Surely god has someone for me. Right?"
Christen continued weeping.
"You must be thinking that I stole him from you"
"No, not at all, he's yours"
"Sakura, I promise if he had loved you, I'd never have gotten between the two of you"
"No christen listen. There is nothing between us…he loves you. You love him. There am no me."
"Honestly sakura, I'd never have"
Sakura held christen tight by the shoulders and looked firmly in her eyes.
"There's no me"
And with that sakura left.
Syaoran………….
The ride to the church was dizzy, with his sisters swarming over him, exclaiming he was looking cute." "God he's getting married"
"our kawaii brother"
God, how desperate he was to meet eriol.
When he reached the church, he hurriedly looked for eriol. Finding him, he dragged him to the room allotted for them.
"hey man, what's wrong?"eriol asked him.
Syaoran quickly explained to him what happened last night.
"so you're saying that you love her"
"I dint say that" syaoran denied.
"so what does it mean by this that you kiss her and you feel the best ever, that you feel jealous if other men swarm over her"
……….
Christen had dried her tears and now was searching for sakura. She wanted to apologize for her breakdown. Sakura was leaving in a few minutes, so she had to hurry, she didn't want her to leave without an apology.
Searching for her, she stumbled upon the other corridor.
Proceeding further, she heard noises….one of which she realized were syaoran's.
Curious, she decided to eaves drop.
…..
"I am not jealous and I never was" syaoran countered eriol's allegation.
"Oh really, then why did you suddenly stop talking to me when you saw me with sakura. Admit it"
"It was just friendly, you know she's my best friend…I just want to protect her."
"Protect her…or keep her to yourself. See what's in your heart."
………..
Sakura wanted to say goodbye to christen, but finding her absconding for her room, she too wandered in her search.
And when she saw a profile in the corridor, allotted to the groom, she walked unto it and that's when she heard.
……….
Christen was standing and listening to the conversation, wide eyed.
……….
"Damn it, syaoran, why can't you see that you love her. You'll lose her if you don't realize"
"C'mon syaoran" eriol kept on provoking syaoran until...
"Yes, I love sakura...i love her more than anything….more than ever" syaoran shouted, leeting out all the steam in his mind.
………….
Christen stood dazed…syaoran loved sakura….sakura loved syaoran…where was she?
Sakura had also heard. Instead of being happy, she realized what this meant…christen would keep her promise….no she couldn't snatch syaoran form the bride to be. So caring about nothing, she ran …
Christen heard someone running. Turning around she saw sakura running away…
In a moment she decided she was going to keep the promise.
But sakura was far ahead by now.
By the time, christen reached the stairs, sakura was nowhere in sight.
Doubling her speed, christen alighted the stairs but in the process, she tripped on the staircase.
She tumbled down the stairs, her blood splattered and her scream echoing in the hallway.
By now, sakura had reached her car and was on her way to airport.
Syaoran and eriol heard christen scream, and rushed over.
Syaoran reached the stairs and saw christen lying at the end of staircase, her blood contrasting her elegant white dress.
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