Summary: Sakura secretly dreams of becoming a mother with children. She hopes to achieve her dreams, and also develop her career as a model. If Sakura keeps getting rejected by modeling companies, she's decided that she will write the novel she always wanted to write. Along Sakura's crazy road of life, she ends up meeting a person she grows to dislike with a burning passion. S+S
Prologue: My Story
Sakura P.O.V.
For me, high school was a road trip I would have liked to repeat every summer for the rest of my life. I had a blast. It wasn't totally unbearable like you hear from grown adults who say high school was the worst four years of their lives. I had great friends, I was in all the right clubs, and my grades were fine. I confidently held my position was cheerleading captain, student council roles all four years and with my "Kawaii!" looks, I had no problem getting any boy I wanted. Unfortunately, in Tomeoda High, there wasn't a boy I wanted there. All of my friends have the privilege of saying otherwise.
First, there's Tomoyo Daidouji, my best friend in the entire world. She and I have known each other since we were in diapers. At this tender age, I wore the diapers she designed for me. Even today, you'll find her designing clothes and me wearing them on the runway. To this day she still dates her high school sweetheart, Eriol Hiiragizawa. There are so cute together, and I'm sure that they'll get married and have those kids Tomoyo has always dreamed of. They are perfect for each other, and he treats her better than anyone I know. Tomoyo is the sweetest girl I know, and if she wasn't my best friend, I'd probably hate her.
Second is Chiharu Mihara. In high school, she was so bent on getting a boyfriend that you could find every dating magazine or book in her room. Her number one policy was to not give them what they wanted, which is probably why none of them stuck around. Well, at least most of them. One guy convinced her to get married in a run-down chapel in Tokyo. We had to stop her from getting married to him right when they were at the alter giving each other their vows. Turns out that her fiancé had been legally married to two other. He was arrested for bigamy later that evening, and Chiharu shoved the engagement ring down his throat and he almost choked to death. Needless to say, Chiharu has sworn off men and hasn't had a boyfriend in 5 years.
Then, there's Rika Sasaki, Chiharu's sister. Not really, but Rika lives with Chiharu, after Rika's mother refused to speak to her after she found out that Rika had been dating a college professor. Rika looks up to Chiharu in every way, and also has vowed to never date a guy unless he treats her right and asks her to marry in a real church. Rika's a year younger than me Tomoyo, and Chiharu, and her best friend is Naoko, also a year younger. Rika has followed my lead in becoming a cheerleader, and she also had no interest in anybody in high school. However, it is her dream is to become a cheerleader for an American football team, make craploads of money, and marry the cutest football player in America.
I'd like to smoke whatever she is.
Finally, there's Naoko Yanagisawa. If you could take all the awkwardness out of a million first dates, you'd have her personality around boys. Currently, she has her eyes on the lead singer of a local band. She hides her true feelings for him, but it's quite obvious she's crushing on him. I think Tomoyo is trying to come up with a plan to hook her and the singer up. Anytime Tomoyo brings this up, Naoko freaks out and begs Tomoyo to never do such a thing, because she swears she'd die of embarrassment.
As for me, I'm still the most prude dork you could ever meet in your entire life. I'm still 21, and I have never had a boyfriend in my life. Tomoyo makes fun of me and occasionally reminds me that I still have yet to hold hands with a boy that I have an "attraction" with. Whatever that means. Anyway, sometimes she wonders why I haven't had a guy yet, especially considering the fact that I'm a model. I don't really answer her. I don't really want to be a model, actually. I've always wanted to be a mom. When I was 6, I wrote a story for my dad on Father's Day. The story was about me, who looked like my mother, with a handsome husband that looked just like my daddy, and our 15 kids. My father laughed at me, called me silly, and told me that I'd either be a successful author or a great mother one day.
That's been my dream ever since.
So for 15 years, I've aspired to be a mother with a drop dead gorgeous husband and a family of… 4. Not 17. Unfortunately, I've never found anybody to be with, even for a week. Tomoyo went through that phase in junior high where she and about 20 other girls had a different boyfriend every week. Me, I just sat back, did my schoolwork, went to cheerleading practice, did my dance lessons afterwards, and went home to be with my family. The thought of having a romantic relationship with somebody had crossed my mind once or twice in high school, and it passes through my head every day in college. But so far, nobody has interested me, and I haven't really found anybody that I can say is my prince charming. Tomoyo is convinced that I'll be engaged by the end o the year, and I'm convinced I'll be a spinster for the rest of my life. Every day starts and ends as it did the day before, and I really don't try and get my hopes up for anything that possibly could happen in the coming day every morning during my jogs and cups of coffee before work and school. But today is different. Today I've got a feeling. And this is where my story begins.
If time permits, please review! Constructive criticism is appreciated, and welcomed. As this is only an introduction, future chapters will be longer.
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