*Author's Note: Well guys, here's chapter 3, I hope you like it…
)HyPeR_ChErRyBloSsOm( - Lol coz I'm more of the night-girl type… :P I'm too sleepy and tired to do anything in the morning… :P
)Hikari Kawaii Chibi Neko( - Ooooic ic… thank god you don't hate Meiling! Phew… Coz I totally love her, she's cool but I guess I have to admit I didn't like her at first coz she was a bit mean… lol To Yami KCN: Shut up my cutie lil puppy ^_^ Just admit the truth won't you? I promise I'll even give you a doggy bone! ^_____^ Back to KCN: You know that picture I promised to draw you of Eri and Syao? I had it done about 2 weeks ago but I just never had the time to scan it… I keep on missing chances, but I'll give it to you asap kk? Sowwy!
)Sabby( - Lolz no, I haven't written out the whole story, but I have it planned… every chapter has a main event, but of course, if the 'main event' takes up not enough words, I may put two 'main events' and then chapter 18 might come sooner… lol :P
)Crystal jade2( - Next chapter would be a little TOO soon… O_O
)odango3( - Sometimes I don't even know why I make her yell at Sakura all the times… I guess it'll be right for the time… No answer to your questions coz I dun even know why myself… lolz
)KawaiinessPnay( - Probably not… coz Tomoyo isn't like the main character in this story so…
)LiL oBs3ss3r( - lolz, I got all emotional coz something happens as… not planned… -_- I'll tell you sometimes in our email if you wanna know…
)Midnight Crystal( - I'm glad you liked both my fics ^_^ You have FOUR favourite characters?? O_O My favourites are Tomoyo and Meiling… but if you ask me for guys? I actually would probably say Touya… coz I dun like the other guys! And I have to agree, Syaoran was cute (can't believe I'm saying this) and I actually did NOT… how do I put it… despises him on the 2nd movie… he was actually… acceptable…
)TroubleMaker( - No, it's not gonna be exactly the same… you're right, then Eriol would have to live with Sakura and Sakura would have to be a teacher at the same time while Eriol is her student who treats her extremely badly and then decided to kill himself coz his mother died. But how can the guy's name be Danny? Isn't the movie made in Hong Kong?? Sry, I can't really remember coz it was a long time ago…
)Blue-Dreamz( - Lol, but you must know, she's desperate of getting her son married so he can come back and take over the clan… :P
And a BIG THANKS for EVERYONE else who reviewed!!! :)
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LAST PART OF THE CHAP
Tomoyo shook her head slightly. "I need to teach you how to cook all over again…"
Other than the argument Tomoyo started, everything went smoothly for the night… Sakura was beginning to feel really attracted to Wolf… she had no idea when did that start happening, but it just seems that all of a sudden, even if he did seem weird, at least he had a sense of humour and knew exactly when to say what and when to quit… But pretty soon, it was 11:00pm, and Sakura regretfully said 'byez' to wolf for she knew she had better get to bed now… it wouldn't be good being late on your first supposed day of work…
Sakura slipped under her covers and fell into a deep slumber… Her world filled with pleasant dreams…
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Tomoyo gently shook her best friend. "Sakura, wake up… Sakura… Hello… Time to get up for work!!"
Sakura brushed the hands away. "No… I wanna sleep more… My alarm hasn't even gone off yet… Why are you waking me?"
"Sakura-chan… it's 8:00 already! Didn't you have to be at work by 8:30??"
"Yah… so what…" She hid under her blanket.
"Sakura… you have only 30 minutes left…"
"Oh…" Her eyes suddenly shot open. "WHAT?!? I only have half an hour?!?! OH NO!! AND MY BOSS HATES PEOPLE WHO AREN'T ON TIME!! I'M LAAAAAAAAAATE!!!!!"
45 Minutes Later…
Syaoran sat at his desk and checked his watch once again. ~~##Where is she? She was suppose to be here 15 minutes ago… Did something happen to her??##~~ He leaned against his spinning-chair and sighed.
9:00 am…
"COMING THROUGH!!!" Sakura glided between people as she raced for the elevator. "I AM SOOOOO LATE!!" She pressed the button repeatedly. "C'MON!!" The elevator door slides open as she stepped inside. "Floor three… floor three… floor three… floor three…" The door opened, Sakura immediate ran out. "Room 314, room 314, room 314, room – THERE IT IS!" She knocked on the door.
It opened. "Oh, hello Sakura!"
"I AM SO SORRY!!" She panted heavily.
Syaoran smiled at her. "Come inside, take a seat in the chair." He walked back inside with Sakura behind and sat on his leather chair and pulled out a form.
Sakura sat down on the chair in front of him and tried catching her breath. "I'm so sorry Mr. Li-"
"I told you yesterday, you may call me Syaoran."
"Sorry, I mean Syaoran, I was late today morning because last night I was cha-" ~~##Oh no! I can't tell him I was late because I was chatting on line! What kind of pathetic excuse is that??##~~
"Go On…"
"I was cutting vegetables!" ~~##Ok, not good, but at least better than the truth…##~~
"Cutting… Vegetables?"
"Um yah!"
"And how long did that take you?"
"Well, I was cutting them since I got home and all the way till 12 midnight!"
"How many vegetables do you have to cut that'll take you that long?"
"You see, um, my best friend whom lives with me is this chef who cook a lot of food at a time and that's why it took me so long!"
"Uh, It's already, forget about it, everyone's late once in a while, just be on time, tomorrow, ok?"
"Hai."
"Anyways," He took a pen out from his desk and handed it to her along with the form. "I would like you to fill out the following form, then, go to floor 5, room 508, someone should be waiting for you in there, they'll tell you what to do when you get there."
Sakura nodded and took the form and pen.
First Name: Sakura
Last Name: Kinomoto
Birth Date: 04/01/1985
Sex: Female
Home Phone Number: 338-7804
Emergency Phone Number: 828-0028
Address: 1183 Clevens Crescent
-_-A/N: These are the basic information, I know they'd ask you a lot more… but I've never gotten a job before, how should I know?-_-
Sakura handed the form back to her boss and leaned against the chair, waiting fro him to say something. "You may go now, I'll call you if I need anything…" She nodded and stood up to leave, but was surprised when Syaoran called her back. "WAIT!" She turned around and blinked. "Er, I'm still, um, like walking to you to the, uh, bus stop t-today… right?"
"Oh, yah, if it's not too much trouble…"
"Of course not!"
Sakura smiled. "Ok then, thanks again! I'll just be on my way now!" She waved and stepped out the door.
Syaoran walked out of his office and into the room next to his where Yukito and Takashi where fussing over the picture they took yesterday, about which one looks better and what should be changed. "Hey Takashi."
He turned around and looked at Syaoran before turning back to the computer screen. "Hey man, need anything?"
Syaoran took a chair and sat down. "I need you to do me a favour… a big one…"
"Spill."
"I need you to pick me up at that bus stop everyday from now on."
"WHAT? Why?" Takashi looked at him in shock. "I had to pick you up from there yesterday and today you're telling me I have to do this everyday for the rest of my life!?!?"
"C'mon! I don't wanna have to walk on the way back to my car everyday…"
"Why are you going to the bus stop anyways?"
"Er, I um, you see, uh, it's like this… Er, Sakura, she uh, has to take the bus everyday, and um, I don't want her getting lost, so I promised her to walk her to this er, bus stop everyday… and I um, kinda said that you always come and pick me up wherever I am, so um, she assumed that it was no trouble…"
"WHAT??!?!?! You're making me go through all this trouble just so you can walk that new model to a bus stop?!?!? Do you like her or something??"
"I, uh, um, you see, it's just that, um, I really, uh, don't want her, um, getting, er, um, so, what, uh, lost…"
"Just do it Tak." Yukito suddenly said, turning around from the computer, he smiled at Syaoran. "He'll do it, under one condition."
"ARE YOU CRAZY?!?!? I'M NOT GOING TO GO PICK HIM UP FROM A STUPID BUS STOP EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!!"
"Shut it. Anyways, he'll do it if you tell Alexia something for us…" Takashi suddenly stopped his anger at Yukito's words, he grinned.
"Sure, what is it?"
"Tell her that of all the photo we looked through taken from yesterday, Sakura was definitely better, and would be the one to have her picture submitted."
Syaoran gulped. "She isn't going to take it lightly…"
"Exactly why we ask you to do it. Deal?"
"…"
"Well? Takashi will drive you back to your car everyday if you agree to this."
"Fine. Deal."
Sakura…
She knocked on the door. A girl with long black hair, milky skin and cool gray eyes greeted her. "You must be the new model everyone was talking about?"
"Huh?"
She smiled gently. "Come inside." Sakura stepped into the tiny room and stood by the wall for there was nothing but mirrors in this room. "You're…"
"Kinomoto Sakura, call me Sakura."
"Lera Toria, and you may call me Toria." She looked at her closely. "Let's hope what Alexia's been telling everyone was a lie… you really seem like a nice person."
"Hoe?"
"Never mind." Toria walked to the back of the tiny room where she opened a door, colour of the wall. "Come, we don't got all day."
Whatever Sakura had thought of the room when she came in was wrong. It may seem like a tiny mirror at first, but when they walked into the back room, her point of view had suddenly changed. The room was huge! It was filled with rows of clothing, each with its own style and colour. There were at least 20 different rows and each row had at least 50 sets of clothing. "Wow…"
About 15 minutes later, Toria suddenly appear from the mountains of fabrics holding a pile of clothing in her arms. "Alright, let's go." They walked back to the tiny mirror-filled room they were in before, Toria set the cloths on the floor and looked at Sakura. "I think I found your colour…"
The took measurements of her first, then, Sakura tried on all different kinds of dresses, skirts, pants, jeans, shorts, t-shirts, tank tops… you name it. They however all had light, green, silky, transparent fabric over it for she said it brought out her eyes, after two hours, they had finally decided what looked best on her, and they went to the room next to it where Toria began putting on her make up. Sakura coughed and sneezed as powder towered up on her face.
An hour later, Toria put away all the stuff and stepped back to admire her work. Sakura had her hair up in a tight and high ponytail with strands of hair falling at random places, her nails painted pink with glittery cherry blossom petals on each nail. Her whole face was covered with powder, which made her skin whiter, pink blush on both cheeks. Light, glittery aqua – more to the green side than blue – eye shadows, eye liner extending longer than her eyes, dark, dark green mascara. Her lips were bright, yet pale pink with glittery lip-gloss over it.
Her white top was somewhat like a bra, except the middle was detached and instead was tied tightly crisscross together by silky, puffy light pink strings (shoe-lace style). The top also had really, really transparent emerald green coloured long sleeves which ended a bit beneath her finger tips and the bottom had a huge opening, also slits on both side all the way to her shoulder, only lightly connected in the middle of the sleeve by a tiny bow. Her dark blue jeans were extremely tight, they hugged her legs from her thigh to her knee, after that, it opens up and piles on the floor. Two slits on the side of the pants all the way to her knees, beside the slits were decorated with glittering jewels, buttons, rings, gemstones and pieces of strings. The pants came with a huge, thick light brown leather belt, which tied at above her right leg, the rest of the belt hang all the way towards the ground, the thickness almost covered her whole right leg. (Cow boy/girl style belts)
"Very… teenage like…" Sakura commented looking at herself in one of the many mirrors around the room.
"That was the whole point." Toria smiled at her beautiful piece of work. "I should tell Takashi to pick a desert for your next scene or something because I am not going to give up until you get your picture taken in the clothing you are in right now and win at least two awards…" She opened the door, which led to the outside and gestured for Sakura to follow her. "Let's go show Takashi, once he sees your perfect-ness, I'm sure his next scene will be very much matching your outfit."
The two of them made their way to room 316 where Takashi and Yukito were, on the way, quite a few people commented on how beautiful Sakura had looked, she would mutter a quiet 'thanks' and blush.
When they did make it to room 316, it wasn't as quiet, and the reason was revealed when they stepped inside.
"YOU!" Alexia growled pinning Sakura's back against the wall while she grabbed her neck, choking her. (Since she didn't have a 'shirt collar') "THIS IS ALL YOUR FUCKING FAULT! YOU TOOK EVERYTHING AWAY FROM ME WHEN I AM THAT MUCH BETTER THAN YOU!! I HATE YOU!"
"Ack, let, m-me g…go now! You're ch-ch-ch-chok-king me!" Sakura struggled trying to pray her fingers loose, but Alexia had her in a death grip and did look extremely angered.
"Let go of her Alex!" Syaoran walked up and pulled Alexia off. "You're overreacting! It isn't that much of a deal, there's always next time!"
Alexia was serious angry and out of control, she was after Sakura about something, that's for sure. Syaoran was trying to calm the girl down, Toria was pouting because no one noticed her masterpiece, Takashi and Yukito were still editing the photos ignoring the scene. That's the whole point isn't it? What other reasons would Takashi have of having to drive to a bus stop everyday to pick up his boss and drive him back? They did not want to deal with Skinner. After Alexia did calm down enough to talk to Sakura without strangling her to death (I mean it, not being sarcastic) she told her reason of acting so. Turns out, it was because everyone had said the photo of Sakura had looked much better than the ones of Alexia, she was great, but compared to Sakura… well, she just couldn't compare, her expressions were too fake. Everyone had decided without her knowing that when they submit the photo, it will be one of Sakura and not Alexia. This is the first time that's happened, Alexia were on about every photo, and she did not want to be beaten by an 'amateur' whom she happens to hate, she knew the girl was trouble from the first day, who'd have thought she was worth this much trouble though??
Alexia never quite got over the anger and jealousy towards Sakura especially when Toria made everyone notice her even more, they were all gasping at her beauty and forgotten about Alexia. Syaoran managed to get her to stop yelling and just give up for this once by promising to take her out for dinner next Friday. The rest of the day went by smoothly, for half of the time, the gang would just do everything they can to perfect the photos and trying specially affects. Sakura had went out for lunch, like everyone else did, no clue where Syaoran went though… he just seemed to… disappear.
The day passed by, everything was fine and people were all friendly as long as she didn't have to see Alexia… Sometimes Sakura wished that she had enough guts of yelling back at the girl, it was rather irritating having someone think they're all that when they were only good, but not excellent, rather pathetic to watch her show herself off where there's nothing to be looked at.
Soon, it was 5:00, and everybody packed their stuff to leave. "Sakura!"
Sakura turned around and saw Syaoran waving at her, she waved back and smiled. "Hey!"
"Ready to go?"
"Sure."
They walked out the door and talked about a few small things, not really knowing what to say since they didn't – after all – know each other that well… it was comfortable and uncomfortable at the same time, when the bus finally arrived, they said their good-byes.
"Please try to be on time tomorrow ok?"
Sakura nodded. "Of course, it's just that I went to bed late last night and am not used to wake up early anymore since it's been long since I last went to college…"
"It's alright, really, I'm not blaming you, I'm just reminding you, that's all."
Sakura nodded and gave him a brief hug. "Thanks again." She stepped onto the bus as the bus door closed behind her, taking her home.
Home…
She threw her bag on the ground and slumped onto the couch. She sat there and rested for a while before going to check the answering machine, there was one message from Tomoyo…
Hey Sakura! I just called to tell you that I'll probably be home a bit later tonight, maybe somewhere around 8-10, I'm spending the night with Eriol, make yourself dinner, get take outs, whatever. Well, anyways, talk to you later and don't bother calling back because my cell would be turned off! Well, Ja ne Saku! By the way, in case you didn't know, it's Tomoyo! Oh, and if there really is an emergency call me and leave a message on my cell and I'll get back to you as soon as possible, later girl!
Her first day at work had been tired at fun at the same time, it was tiring because she wasn't used to waking up so early and actually 'working' for a whole day, but sitting at home 24/7 just wasn't enough exercise, so it was also fun in another point of view.
Of course, there was nothing more fun that talking to her never-met-before-not-even-knowing-real-name-but-easy-to-talk-to buddy 'Wolf'. Sakura smiled at the thought and immediately skipped to the computer and turned it on…
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Wild Wolf: Heyz
Cheerful Cherry: …
Wild Wolf: Sup?
Cheerful Cherry: …
Wild Wolf: Are you gonna say anything besides '…'?
Cheerful Cherry: …
Wild Wolf: HELLO!! R u there??
Cheerful Cherry: …Wild Wolf: Oh, get it, you want to make-out with me like all girls do but is too shy to say?? Don't worry, I feel the same way about you too!! Gimme ur address and we'll have fun all nite long! :D
Cheerful Cherry: O_O EWWW!!! Take your sexual fantasies somewhere else please! I ain't interested in you! Nastiness!
Wild Wolf: YAY!! Lolz, I got you to say something else other that '…'!! :D lmao, I always have a way with everything… :P
Cheerful Cherry: …
Wild Wolf: -_-# C'mon! What's wrong with you?? Say something!!
Cheerful Cherry: …
Wild Wolf: What do I hav 2 do 2 get u talkin??
Cheerful Cherry: Is ur mother on da phone wit u rite now??
Wild Wolf: ?? uh, no…
Cheerful Cherry: PHEW!!!!! Ok then, I can talk if that's the case!! =)
Wild Wolf: O.o you're scared of my mother?? Well, can't say I'm surprised. *nod nod* now you see what I have to live through everyday of my life?? -_- *sigh* u really should feel sry 4 me…
Cheerful Cherry: I'm not scared or ur mum, just her craziness… how can she ask me 2 marry u when we never even met?!?!?
Wild Wolf: Fine then, let's get together 2nite n then get married!:D
Cheerful Cherry: O_O I don't mean it like that!!! I'm just saying, that's not the way you talk to a stranger!
Wild Wolf: But if we get married, we won't be strangers ne more :D
Cheerful Cherry: Who is this? Are you wolf or mother wolf?? I'm freaked out, I really am… and it's my first day at work, s'ppose 2 b happy… n u're ruining it… :'(
Wild Wolf: AWWWWWWWW!!!!!! I'm soooooooooooooo sry!! :'( I didn't mean to!! Can u 4give?? Pwease?? I'm sowwy!! I'm a bad boi, but I leant my lessons, say you'll 4give meh??
Cheerful Cherry: You're sounding like a 2 year old.
Wild Wolf: Maybe I am, stuck in an older versioned body ;) MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! :P
Cheerful Cherry: I would not like to hear about your personal life… too much info… :P
Wild Wolf: Lolz. Ne wayz, sup?
Cheerful Cherry: Nm like usual, but first day of work was definitely… unique…
Wild Wolf: Unique? Y is it unique??
Cheerful Cherry: Coz I've neva been 2 work b4!! Lol, obviously it's different!! :P
Wild Wolf: Lol, ic ic, but no, seriously, whatever happened to you can't be as 'unique' as what happened to me…
Cheerful Cherry: Oh? N wat happened 2 u?
Wild Wolf: I got tricked into having to take a complete b*tch to dinner next Friday nite… and I totally h8 her!! She threatened to strangle my new employee to death if I didn't agree… -_- so I didn't have much of choice
Wild Wolf: Since that 'New Employee' was that girl I was telling you about yesterday
Cheerful Cherry: Whoa! Harsh, I've never heard you swear b4!! You must really hate this who-ever-gurl! O_O
Wild Wolf: She gets on my nerves so damn badly but she's too stupid to realize it…
Cheerful Cherry: Aww! You sound so sad!! Would you like me to kill tis big-bad-female 4 u?? Poor baby, loosing to a gurl…
Wild Wolf: Yah, would u kill her 4 me please? I'll love you 4ever!
Cheerful Cherry: EWW! I don't want you to love me 4eva!!
Wild Wolf: B-but, how can u b so mean 2 me?? :'( Dun u luv me ne more??
Cheerful Cherry: Yes, no, maybe so, to tell you the truth, I dunno. :):D:)
Wild Wolf: -_-' That helps so much…
*~*
She was always acting like such a cute little rebel girl, never agreeing with anything he says, but that's what's so adorable about her, you never know what might happened and what she decides to throw at you… Syaoran typed out something to her smart-ass response 'It does doesn't it? Oh, I 4got, u're obvious 2 dumb to realize that…'.
RING RING
"NOT AGAIN!" Syaoran groaned as he picked up the phone. "Hi mother."
"My, aren't we grumpy today?"
"Why are you calling me, again?!?!"
"I'll be calling you everyday for the next three month until you come back to Hong Kong with your fiancée or wife. Forget that for two seconds. Would you like me to send you a private jet to pick you up on that leaving day?"
Syaoran winced. "Can I get something… a little… less fancy?? Send me two tickets to Hong Kong would be good enough, and if possible, I don't want plane tickets, ship will be much appreciated."
"The things you make me do… So, how's your 'girlfriend' coming along? What did you find out about her?"
"Her birth date, address, phone number, and cell phone number."
"REALLY?? And how'd you find all these out in one day??"
"She has to fill out a form mother, remember??"
"Oh…" Yelan's disappointed voice was heard. "And here I thought you finally gained enough courage actually ask something about a girl in person…" She shook her head. "You never change, my son… but as long as you can manage to get her within the next 3 months, I have no problem."
"Don't worry, mother, when the punishment is having to be married to Meiling, I'll do anything!!"
"Xiao Lang!" She exclaimed disapprovingly. "Anyways, are you talking to that cherry girl right now?"
"I always do… anyways, why do you wanna know?"
"Because…"
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Wild Wolf: My mother said 'hi' again…
Cheerful Cherry: Maybe I should leave… O_O
Cheerful Cherry: g2g!!
Cheerful Cherry: ttyl!!
Cheerful Cherry: byez!!
Wild Wolf: Wait!! Don't go yet! Hold on!!
Wild Wolf: She promises not to act all… (as you would put it) crazy today…
Cheerful Cherry: …
Wild Wolf: C'mon! Don't leave coz of her!! Dun u wanna talk 2 me ne more?? :'( Do you hate me tis much?? :'(
Cheerful Cherry: …
Cheerful Cherry: It's not you… I liking talking 2 u… but ur mom (no offence) freaks me out… like, really, really…
Cheerful Cherry: like*
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"Mother, she says you freak her out so can you please not tell me to type anything anymore from you because she's gonna sign out because of fears of you… Gee, why do you scare everybody??"
"Tell her I just want to ask her a few simple questions today, not as absurd as the ones from yesterday…"
"Fine… but you better not scared her away…"
*~*
Wild Wolf: Ok, a few simple questions this time, she said.
Cheerful Cherry: Err… ok…??
Wild Wolf: What is your real name??
Cheerful Cherry: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Wild Wolf: O_O You're playing a guessing game with me??Cheerful Cherry: No, you're playing a guessing game with urself because you gotta figure it out without me…
Wild Wolf: O_O That's even worse!!!
Cheerful Cherry: :D Yes, well I'm evil so live with it… :) Next questions…
Wild Wolf: Fine… Where'd you live?
Cheerful Cherry: In Japan.
Wild Wolf: -_- I don't mean like that!
Cheerful Cherry: Well you should've said that in your questions now shouldn't you?? :)
Cheerful Cherry: Don't try changing your questions now, it's too late… :P :D
Wild Wolf… -_- Gr8… so now you tell me…
Cheerful Cherry: Better than never telling you…
Wild Wolf: -.-'''
Cheerful Cherry: :D Anymore questions??
Wild Wolf: What is your phone number??
Cheerful Cherry: 7 digits.
Wild Wolf: … you really are trying to drive me insane aren't you?
Cheerful Cherry: Yep :) So tell me, am I succeeding?? :D lol :P
Wild Wolf: …
Wild Wolf: CAN'T YOU BE NICE JUST FOR ONCE?!?!? :'( :'( =( ;_;
Cheerful Cherry: SHUT UP AND STOP COMPLAINING!!
Wild Wolf: …
Wild Wolf: You're worse than my mother…
Cheerful Cherry: and whats da s'ppose 2 mean?!?!? :@ :@
Wild Wolf: It means that as mean as ma mom is, ur still meaner than her… ;) :D
Cheerful Cherry: …
Cheerful Cherry: I'm not talking to you anymore…
Cheerful Cherry: Hmph.
Wild Wolf: …
Wild Wolf: Are you serious?? What's wrong?? Is it really that bad to be meaner than the meanest lady ever alive??
Wild Wolf: Hello?? Are you still there?? Are you angry @ me??
Wild Wolf: Hey, I'm sorry… :'( Can't u forgive??
Wild Wolf: C'mon Cherry, talk to me!! :'( I said sry didn't I?? I promise I won't say it again!! ;_;
*~*
The lights flickers a few times and everything went back, the powers were all shut off and the only connection left was Syaoran and her mother who was on the other side of the phone.
"Shit…"
"Xiao Lang?? What's wrong? Everything's suddenly quiet…"
"Power-out… And Cherry just got angry at me 'cause I said she was meaner than you… now she must think I signed out on her… Damn… why can't things go my way just once??!?!"
"You told her I was MEAN???!?!?"
"Uh… Um… No, I just said that uh…"
"Xiao Lang, are you saying you think I'm mean?!?!?!!"
"No…. I just think you're… strict… yah, that's right… just strict, nothing else…"
"So how long is the black out going to be??"
"To tell you the truth, I have no idea… Let's just hope it'll be back on before tomorrow…"
"And is it a serious power-out? I mean just a small one or is the whole country infected?"
"No clue, all I know is that the power better come back soon because everything in my fridge in going to rot and I need to talk to cherry soon before she thinks I serious logged off on purpose…"
"It's always about her now! Xiao Lang, if you really like her that much, marry her or something! For god sakes you don't even know the girl's name!"
"Don't worry, I'll solve everything within three months…"
"And who are you going to marry? Sakura, the girl whom you actually met and knows, or cherry, a MSN lady that you know absolutely nothing about…"
"It all depends…"
Sakura…
She sat by the computer, smirking silently, extremely proud of herself, when all of sudden, everything flickered off, the screen went black, the room was faded, it was one of those star-less nights, all was dark. Sakura was freaked. "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, OH MY GOSH!!" She stood up, knocking over her computer chair and ran to nowhere.
The phone suddenly rang. "HOEEEEEEEEEEE!" The loud noise made the poor girl jump a feet high. She felt her way to the kitchen, tripped on the stairs, carpets, fell on her butt a few times, knocked over several chairs, but she made it to the phone. "H-He-Hello?"
"Sakura-chan!"
"T-Tomoyo?"
"Yah, it's me, oh my gosh, Sakura, did it happen to you as well? I mean the power-out, it's pitch black here!! I'm so happy that Eriol's with me right now! Gosh, I would've died!"
"Yah… we have a black out here too…" Sakura sighed sadly. Why can't she have someone over with her right now and comfort her in the dark?
"Well, I just called to tell you that I won't be coming home tonight, so you take care of yourself!"
"Oh! You're not coming home?? Well, ok, bye Tomoyo… I'll see you tomorrow then…"
"Ok, Ja!"
Sakura hang up the phone and crouched in a corner of the kitchen sobbing. She was scared, the dark had always been a fear she hasn't been able to face, and right now, was the darkest of dark, there was not a single flicker of light from here to 3 miles away, the sky did not have its usual twinkling stars, and though she had many candles and matches around the house, she was not going to look for them when she cannot even see her own hands…
What can she do?? It was total darkness, she cannot fall asleep because of fear, she cannot even move a hair on her just incase demons of darkness would hear and devour her… There was no way she can pass time… Her night will be miserable, she will be going to work tomorrow with puffy eyes… that is, if she is even going to work…
Syaoran…
"Mother, what do you want me to do?? Would you just say it already?"
"For goodness sakes Xiao Lang! Take a hint would you?!?! If you were a girl, what would you be doing and feeling in the dark?"
"I'm not a girl, mother, I'm a man."
"Wrong, the answer is, fear! And if you want to make a good impression to someone you want, what would you do?"
"Do what she wants me to do…"
"… … … And I thought you've actually grown a new brain over the few years… THE ANSWER IS GO TO HER HOUSE RIGHT NOW AND COMFORT HER!! IT'S WHAT LADIES NEEDWHEN THEY'RE AFRAID AND I BELIEVE A YOUNG 18 YEAR OLD GIRL HAS EVERY RIGHT TO BE AFRAID OF THE DARK!!"
"Oh…"
"…"
"And…"
"And? And what are you doing here right now??"
"Mother, you can't be serious! I'm not going to her house!!"
"You have her address, and I'm sure she'll understand why you're there once she knows the reason."
Syaoran walked to the living room, one hand holding a candle, the other with his portable phone. Finding what he needed, he pulled out a chair and sat down. "Yah, I do have her address…"
"So go!"
"Mother!! I can't! She'll think I'm stupid or something!"
"… Son, I hate to do this, but if you don't, I'm sending a jet over tomorrow and you're marrying Meiling."
"… Fine…"
Sakura…
It's been at least half an hour, she was still on the kitchen floor, whimpering. "Oh, when will the lights come back? Why can't someone come here right now and comfort me?"
Ding-dong!
The doorbell rang.
"OH MY GOD!! I didn't mean it! I don't want someone coming!! AAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!! GO AWAY!!!" She hugged her knees tighter to her and trembled.
Syaoran stood outside, ringing the doorbell when sudden, a shout of 'go away' was heard. He knocked on the door and called out. "Sakura! It's me, Syaoran!"
Sakura heard the familiar voice as realization came tumbling upon her. She was not going to be stabbed tonight. "COMING!" She got up and felt her way through the darkness, tripped a few times, kicked many things, hurt herself several times, rolled down the stairs, and finally made it to the door, she swung it open and was greeted by light from the candle Syaoran was holding. "SYAORAN! What are you doing here?" She suddenly felt more safe because of two reasons, one, because he was here, two, she can now see.
He blushed and looked away stuffing his hands in his pocket. "Since it's a black out, um, I thought you might want company…"
Her face brightened. "Really?? Thank you!!" She stepped and aside. "Please, come in."
They took out a few candles, lit them and placed them everywhere around the house so there'd be light wherever. They spent the next hour cleaning the mess Sakura had made when she tripped multiple times, after that, they had to put out a small fire Sakura made when she knocked over a candle, nothing but a piece of paper was burnt… she had panicked for nothing…
Since TV, computer, radio and anything electronic was broken, they played a game called 'Continue the Story', it's basically when one person starts a story, the next person continues it, and the next person, and the next and then back to the first person. When it's only two people, they took turns. The story started out with two people trying to save the world, and ended with people turning into blue berried and ants eating them… then somehow this guy started having power to turn time back and made everyone 2 years old without power and when they told the man to turned them back to present time, they realize the man was 2 year old as well and haven't yet learnt how to control time yet!
Two loud beeps were heard, and suddenly, all the lights went back on!
Sakura and Syaoran – Who had been lying on the ground with their legs curved on the couch – removed their legs from the couch and sat up. "Oh, I guess the power's came back…"
Syaoran stood up and walked towards the door with Sakura following behind. "Well, I guess I should get going now… Get some sleep tonight…" Sakura nodded as he opened the door and stepped out.
"Syaoran?" He turned around, and was greeted by the girl jumping into his arms, her hair smelt nice… like cherry blossoms… "THANK YOU!" She squealed happily and stepped back. "If you hadn't came, I don't think I could've survived!"
He blushed and looked away. "Um, yah, you're welcome…" He suddenly thought of 'Cherry' who could've been extremely pissed at him right now for signing out so long with (so-called) absolutely no reasons. "Uh, I gotta go, see you tomorrow at work…" She waved at him as he stepped into his car and drove away into the distance.
Sakura stood there smiling for a minute, thinking how nice Syaoran was, when suddenly, she remembered something… "Oh no! Wolf must've thought I sighed out on him for absolutely no reasons!!" She hurried back and turned the computer back on.
She stayed on line for about 10 minutes before he sighed on… and thankfully, he didn't seemed too pissed…
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Cheerful Cherry: Heyz! You're on!!
Wild Wolf: Omg, heyz, I'm so sry I wasn't on earlier, plz dun b mad, I had a really bad power-out, I didn't mean to sigh out on u!!
Cheerful Cherry: Really? Phew! I was afraid u might b angry @ me!! I had a power-out 2!!
Wild Wolf: u 2??
Cheerful Cherry: Yah… where do you live?? (Just the country's name plz)
Wild Wolf: I live in Japan too…
Cheerful Cherry: Exactly. C? It's no surprise, since we both live in Japan, it's only natural the power-out occurred at both placez :)
Wild Wolf: I'm just glad u forgive me…
Cheerful Cherry: For sighing out, yah…
Cheerful Cherry: signing*
Cheerful Cherry: But we now must continue our fight from b4…
Wild Wolf: WHAT?!?!? O_O NOOOOOO!!
Cheerful Cherry: Starting…
Wild Wolf: NO!
Wild Wolf: WAIT!!
Wild Wolf: CHERRY!!
Cheerful Cherry: NOW!!
Cheerful Cherry: I'm not talking 2 u… humph.
Wild Wolf: …
Wild Wolf: I told you to wait!! ;_;
Wild Wolf: Hello??
Wild Wolf: Oh no! Not that again!! Please no!! Talk to me!!
Wild Wolf: Cherry!! Stop your little game! It's not fun 4 me!! Laugh at me or something!! I don't care! Just say something, anything!!
Cheerful Cherry: *laugh my fucking ass off at u!!*
Wild Wolf: …
Wild Wolf: Very funny…
Cheerful Cherry: I no :D @ least now I no u have an ok sense of humor…
Wild Wolf: I h8 u so much sometime u no that??
Wild Wolf: Hello?
Wild Wolf: Cherry??
Wild Wolf: NO!! NOT AGAIN!! I TAKE THAT BAK!! I DUN H8 u!!
Wild Wolf: C'mon!!!
Cheerful Cherry: Apologies not accepted 8o| -_-A/N: '8o|' also is an angry face like ':@' except that this one is like bare-teeth angry face…-_-
Wild Wolf: … :'( fine… U're mean… I'm not talking to u…
After 10 minutes…
Wild Wolf: Ok, I give up… I'll still talk to you… -_-
Cheerful Cherry: :D I always win ;)
Cheerful Cherry: lmfao… @ u again!! =)
Wild Wolf: …
Wild Wolf: what would u do if I really stopped talking 2 u?
Cheerful Cherry: I'd find some1 else… :)
Wild Wolf: :| You'd 4get me tis easily?? :O
Cheerful Cherry: Well, y talk 2 some1 that wouldn't talk??
Wild Wolf: So maybe I should delete you next time u stopping talking 2 me??
Cheerful Cherry: I dun care, it's ur account ;)
Wild Wolf: U're being mean again, I'm deleting you.
After 5 minutes…
Cheerful Cherry: I thought you were gonna delete me…
Wild Wolf: …
Wild Wolf: Ok, I admit, I don't wanna delete you… u're nice 2 talk 2… dere, I said it… -_-
Cheerful Cherry: Well, u're actually pretty fun 2 talk 2 too :)
Wild Wolf: I thought you h8d me!! O_O
Cheerful Cherry: I was only playin wit u :D
Wild Wolf: … I h8 u…
Cheerful Cherry: I'm not talking 2 u. :(
Wild Wolf: NO! WAIT!! I DIDN'T SAY THAT!! MY GHOST TYPED IT 4 ME!!Wild Wolf: CHERRY!! NOT AGAIN!!! ;_;
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The night went by smoothly, everything was fine, no more unexpected surprises… at least for the night…
She showered and went to bed at 1:25am, hugging her pillow tightly to her, she smiled lightly in a peaceful, dreamless sleep…
Of course, tomorrow, would be another day…
Fill with surprises like always…
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*Author's Note: I am SOOOOOOO sorry I haven't updated in so long!! But I had so many B-day parties to attend, plans to plan, my own B-day to worry about (which was on August 28th I'm finally 13!!) Then I had to go shopping for cloth and back to school stuff!! Ah well, at least I updated… :P Anyways, just to warn you, I probably would be able to update the MOST once every week and half once school starts… sry, gotta do good in grade 8… high school matters…
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