Transformations
Chapter 2: The Routines
Author's Note: Okay! Here's chapter 2! Happy reading!
DISCLAIMER: Oh yeah, forgot to say this last time, CCS and none of the characters belong to me. Only Brendan, Fred, and Jenny, who I made up with my imagination.
Sakura stepped out of the dressing room and looked at her figure in the mirror. She frowned as she turned around and muttered something like, "Nope, purple and yellow definitely aren't going to look good," before she retreated back to her dressing room.
Syaoran sighed and looked at his watch: 6:34. He had already bought new clothes, and was waiting for Sakura to finish up.
Sakura came back out in a dark green tankini that was see through on her shoulder blades. She spun around slowly and then turned to Syaoran, "What do you think?"
"Huh? Oh, um, well I dunno. How should I know?" Syaoran said.
"Well, if you saw me would you think I looked cute?" Sakura asked again as she slipped a light green cover up with cherry blossoms on it onto her waist.
Syaoran put his hand on the back of his head and looked at her for a second, "Err, well yeah, I guess so,"
Sakura turned back to the mirror and nodded, "Yeah, I'll take it,"
Syaoran got up and stretched, "Finally," he muttered.
Sakura changed back and went to buy her outfit. After that they went back to Syaoran's house and Sakura pulled out her notepad to read out the list of observations. Syaoran sat down and glanced up at the clock: 7:28.
"Uh, Sakura, since this might take a little do you.want to stay for dinner?" Syaoran asked.
Sakura looked at the clock and nodded, "Okay. Can I use your phone to call my house?"
Syaoran nodded and showed her to the phone. Meanwhile he cooked some rice, beef, and vegetables.
When they were done they sat down and started to eat.
Sakura picked up a slice of beef and tasted it, "Oh, this is really good!"
Syaoran nodded, "Yeah, well I've had lots of practice since I've been living by myself for a couple of years,"
"Oh, that's why you're good at home economics," Sakura said eating rice happily.
They ate in silence for the rest of the meal. After that Sakura went over to the living room to carry on with the lesson.
She flipped the paper to her list and started to read off it, "Okay, first of all, that kind of flattering you tried to pull off is sooooo old. And if you're gonna do that, don't compare the girl to cauliflower! Even though you did that, you made it even worst because it sounded like she wasn't even as good as cauliflower,"
Syaoran blushed, remembering his encounter at the ice cream shop.
"Second, you need to work on your self confidence. Maybe if you took some kind of extra activity in school, so that you're used to being around groups," Sakura suggested.
"Gee, I didn't know that these lessons meant all of my time," Syaoran murmured under her breath.
Sakura continued the long list, but finally it ended. "Well I should go now. See you at school on Monday," Sakura said.
"Yeah, and somehow, I'll find out who your date is," Syaoran reminded her. "Maybe I'll hide and watch you when you leave tomorrow,"
"You can, but then I'll teach you how to be a dork instead," Sakura said with a serious face.
"No you wouldn't" Syaoran responded matter-of-factly.
"Well, you don't know me well enough to judge that," Sakura teased.
"Not now, but I will later," Syaoran said with an innocent smile.
"Well see you in school," Sakura said again, "And I how you don't see me till then either,"
"We'll see about that," Syaoran teased and closed the door after her.
~~~~~ Saturday: The playground ~~~~~
Sakura ran to catch up to everyone else. It was 10:14 and she was late as usual.
Tomoyo turned around and waved to her, "Finally you're here,"
"Yeah, late as usual. Did you sleep through your alarm clock?" a voice teased kindly from behind her.
Sakura turned around to look up at Brendan. She put on a pouty face as they all got into Eriol's car. (they split up into two cars) "No, it didn't go off. My brother probably turned it off," Sakura said.
"Yeah, I believe you," Brendan said sarcastically and helped pack the cars.
Sakura wandered over to the bushes and trees bordering the park and scanned them over, Syaoran better not be here, Sakura thought. She heard a rustle and pulled a leafy branch away, getting ready to face a hysterically laughing Syaoran. But instead, she pushed it to the side to discover a puppy run out and lick her fingers. Sakura sighed. She didn't know what she would have said if Syaoran had been there.
"Hey Sakura, whatcha doing there?" Tomoyo asked curiously and joined Sakura. "We're gonna go soon," she said. "Oh, a cute puppy!"
Sakura started to tell her that she was checking for Syaoran, but held her tounge for Syaoran's sake, when she remembered they had a deal.
~~~~~ Syaoran's place ~~~~~
Syaoran plopped down on his couch and surfed the TV channels while eating cereal. I wonder if I should have followed Sakura. I could have hid in the bushes or something. Nah, we had a deal. But it would have been fun. Really fun, Syaoran thought with a smirk as he settled on watching a cartoon with a cat in a circus. Yes, very dumb, but today was Saurday. The day to be dumb.
~~~~~ Beach! ~~~~~
The whole way to the beach everyone joked about what they were doing for the prom. Sakura listened to them excitedly, but suddenly realized that everyone who was with them were couples. This made her uneasy. Not because she didn't want to go to the prom with Brendan, she would love to. But this was their first date, and it was like everyone expected that they would last. She turned away and faced the window and told them she was just a little carsick.
As they got out of the car by the seashore, Chiharu told them how Yamazaki was planning to spike the punch, but she had caught it in his house.
"What? Then prom night would be even more fun!" Yamazaki tried to persuade the group as they reached the sand and were putting an umbrella up.
Sakura looked out at the sparkling water and immediately forgot about the discussion, "Oh, it's sooo pretty,"
Brendan walked into the calm water and waved to the others, "Come on in! Hey Sakura lets go swim out to those rocks,"
Sakura grinned, "Yeah, okay," and swam out to the rocks with him. They weren't very far away, but they could talk privately there.
Brendan clambered up onto the rock and helped Sakura up. Once they had settled down he started to talk, "Ya know what? I'm really glad Tomoyo invited me. Now we're on a date! You're a really good friend,"
Sakura looked at him, "Yeah, me too. We can get to know each other better now,"
The two stared back at the near shore and watched Tomoyo taping everyone else. They started talking about their interests and what high-school they were going to next year. Soon enough, Tomoyo was calling them back for lunch. They nodded and jumped back into the water and swam back to the shore.
As everyone unwrapped their sandwiches that Tomoyo had provided Brendan asked Sakura, "Um, do you want to go to eat somewhere some time?"
Sakura's face lit up and nodded, "Yeah, that sounds nice. Yeah, some time we should,"
~~~~~ Sakura's house ~~~~~
Sakura closed the door behind her and kicked off her flip-flops. She looked at the note on the door.
It said: Hey monster,
If you remember, which I doubt you do, Dad's got that lecture today and won't be back until really late tonight. I went out with some of my friends so you're gonna have to make dinner. I was gonna make you cook, but Dad said you can just take out some Chinese food. I should be home by 8:30. See you later.
Toya
Sakura read it then looked at her watch: 6:47. I'll get the food later. First I'll take a shower though, Sakura thought and headed upstairs.
~~~~~ 7:56 ~~~~~
Sakura put down her magazine and headed back downstairs. She pulled her shoes on and left for the Chinese food place. She passed Tomoyo's place, Eriol's place, and finally got to the store. She ordered her food and waited by the window patiently. She looked at the next people at the counter who were ordering. The girl turned around and saw Sakura.
"Oh, hi Sakura!" Meilin said coming up to Sakura.
The other one, a boy left the counter, "Huh? Oh Sakura, um, that's a coincidence running into you here," Syaoran said joining the two.
"Wasn't it fun at the beach, Sakura? You looked like you had a good time with Brendan on your date," Meilin said.
Sakura nodded in agreement, but bit her lip when she mentioned Brendan, and hoped that Syaoran wasn't listening.
Unfortunately he heard every word and used the information happily, "Oh really? So that's the mystery man, huh? Brendan Chang?"
Sakura blushed, "Yeah,"
Syaoran smirked, "This should be interesting,"
Sakura glared but went to get her food. "Actually, why are you guys taking out food tonight?" Sakura asked as she got ready to leave.
"You know my boyfriend Fred is coming for dinner, so we're taking it easy," Meilin piped up.
Sakura nodded, "Oh, cool. We'll see you later," she said and pushed the door open. "Oh yeah, Syaoran, I signed you up for soccer. You start Monday. I've seen you play soccer before, and so have they, because apparently they're okay with you being on the team for about a month. They want you for the championships. They have a practice Monday morning. You should go if you want to stay on coach's good side," Sakura added as she passed him. "And you have to do this because," She got closer to him and whispered in his ear, "we have a deal," Then left before Syaoran could protest anymore, and give the secret away to Meilin. The way home was more quiet. When she got home Toya looked like he had just got in, so they had dinner.
~~~~~Monday at School: first period in home economics ~~~~~
Sakura rushed into the classroom just before the late bell rang, and sprinted to her seat. She took out her notebook and started copying down some stuff on the board.
"The partners you had yesterday will be your partners for the rest of the year, and today we're going to move on to making cupcakes," the teacher announced and started passing out some ingredients. Some students groaned and complained, and others high-fived with friends. Sakura nodded and turned around to face Syaoran. "So how was soccer?" she asked.
Syaoran sighed, "Was okay. Scored a couple of goals,"
"Did you talk or interact with anyone?" Sakura asked.
Syaoran closed his eyes and shrugged as he leaned against the back of his chair, tipping it onto it's two back legs.
Oh yeah, how would he know? Oh well, I'll ask Eriol. He's on the team too, Sakura thought and made a mental note to herself to ask him during lunch or something. Sakura examined Syaoran and nodded and smiled, "You look good toady," Sakura complimented him as she added sprinkles onto her cupcake.
Syaoran muttered a thanks and went back to adding frosting carefully onto his cupcake.
Sakura glanced to her right and noticed that Jenny seemed to be looking at Syaoran in and interested way. Sakura grinned and leaned over to Syaoran, "I think she likes you," she whispered.
Syaoran looked up form his cupcake but Sakura slammed her hand down on top of his and stopped him before he could look at her, "Don't look at her yet. It'll look like I noticed and told you, which I did, but she shouldn't know that. In a minute look at her and smile. You should give this cupcake to her. Be nicer than you are to others so she knows she's special," Sakura mumbled to him under her breath.
Syaoran nodded and continued working. Wow, Sakura's good at this. I really have to thank her some time. And hey, I made a new friend, Syaoran thought happily. By the end of class Syaoran hade made two cupcakes and he placed one in his backpack, and gave the other to Jenny who received it smiling.
Sakura watched form a distance and gave him a thumbs up when she wasn't looking. Everything was going according to plan. Sakura and Brendan were going out, and Jenny liked Syaoran. Syaoran's a pretty nice person. Why shouldn't Jenny fall for him? Hey, with luck, we'll both have dates for the prom, Sakura thought.
Author's Note: Here it is! What's on your minds? Review!
Chapter 2: The Routines
Author's Note: Okay! Here's chapter 2! Happy reading!
DISCLAIMER: Oh yeah, forgot to say this last time, CCS and none of the characters belong to me. Only Brendan, Fred, and Jenny, who I made up with my imagination.
Sakura stepped out of the dressing room and looked at her figure in the mirror. She frowned as she turned around and muttered something like, "Nope, purple and yellow definitely aren't going to look good," before she retreated back to her dressing room.
Syaoran sighed and looked at his watch: 6:34. He had already bought new clothes, and was waiting for Sakura to finish up.
Sakura came back out in a dark green tankini that was see through on her shoulder blades. She spun around slowly and then turned to Syaoran, "What do you think?"
"Huh? Oh, um, well I dunno. How should I know?" Syaoran said.
"Well, if you saw me would you think I looked cute?" Sakura asked again as she slipped a light green cover up with cherry blossoms on it onto her waist.
Syaoran put his hand on the back of his head and looked at her for a second, "Err, well yeah, I guess so,"
Sakura turned back to the mirror and nodded, "Yeah, I'll take it,"
Syaoran got up and stretched, "Finally," he muttered.
Sakura changed back and went to buy her outfit. After that they went back to Syaoran's house and Sakura pulled out her notepad to read out the list of observations. Syaoran sat down and glanced up at the clock: 7:28.
"Uh, Sakura, since this might take a little do you.want to stay for dinner?" Syaoran asked.
Sakura looked at the clock and nodded, "Okay. Can I use your phone to call my house?"
Syaoran nodded and showed her to the phone. Meanwhile he cooked some rice, beef, and vegetables.
When they were done they sat down and started to eat.
Sakura picked up a slice of beef and tasted it, "Oh, this is really good!"
Syaoran nodded, "Yeah, well I've had lots of practice since I've been living by myself for a couple of years,"
"Oh, that's why you're good at home economics," Sakura said eating rice happily.
They ate in silence for the rest of the meal. After that Sakura went over to the living room to carry on with the lesson.
She flipped the paper to her list and started to read off it, "Okay, first of all, that kind of flattering you tried to pull off is sooooo old. And if you're gonna do that, don't compare the girl to cauliflower! Even though you did that, you made it even worst because it sounded like she wasn't even as good as cauliflower,"
Syaoran blushed, remembering his encounter at the ice cream shop.
"Second, you need to work on your self confidence. Maybe if you took some kind of extra activity in school, so that you're used to being around groups," Sakura suggested.
"Gee, I didn't know that these lessons meant all of my time," Syaoran murmured under her breath.
Sakura continued the long list, but finally it ended. "Well I should go now. See you at school on Monday," Sakura said.
"Yeah, and somehow, I'll find out who your date is," Syaoran reminded her. "Maybe I'll hide and watch you when you leave tomorrow,"
"You can, but then I'll teach you how to be a dork instead," Sakura said with a serious face.
"No you wouldn't" Syaoran responded matter-of-factly.
"Well, you don't know me well enough to judge that," Sakura teased.
"Not now, but I will later," Syaoran said with an innocent smile.
"Well see you in school," Sakura said again, "And I how you don't see me till then either,"
"We'll see about that," Syaoran teased and closed the door after her.
~~~~~ Saturday: The playground ~~~~~
Sakura ran to catch up to everyone else. It was 10:14 and she was late as usual.
Tomoyo turned around and waved to her, "Finally you're here,"
"Yeah, late as usual. Did you sleep through your alarm clock?" a voice teased kindly from behind her.
Sakura turned around to look up at Brendan. She put on a pouty face as they all got into Eriol's car. (they split up into two cars) "No, it didn't go off. My brother probably turned it off," Sakura said.
"Yeah, I believe you," Brendan said sarcastically and helped pack the cars.
Sakura wandered over to the bushes and trees bordering the park and scanned them over, Syaoran better not be here, Sakura thought. She heard a rustle and pulled a leafy branch away, getting ready to face a hysterically laughing Syaoran. But instead, she pushed it to the side to discover a puppy run out and lick her fingers. Sakura sighed. She didn't know what she would have said if Syaoran had been there.
"Hey Sakura, whatcha doing there?" Tomoyo asked curiously and joined Sakura. "We're gonna go soon," she said. "Oh, a cute puppy!"
Sakura started to tell her that she was checking for Syaoran, but held her tounge for Syaoran's sake, when she remembered they had a deal.
~~~~~ Syaoran's place ~~~~~
Syaoran plopped down on his couch and surfed the TV channels while eating cereal. I wonder if I should have followed Sakura. I could have hid in the bushes or something. Nah, we had a deal. But it would have been fun. Really fun, Syaoran thought with a smirk as he settled on watching a cartoon with a cat in a circus. Yes, very dumb, but today was Saurday. The day to be dumb.
~~~~~ Beach! ~~~~~
The whole way to the beach everyone joked about what they were doing for the prom. Sakura listened to them excitedly, but suddenly realized that everyone who was with them were couples. This made her uneasy. Not because she didn't want to go to the prom with Brendan, she would love to. But this was their first date, and it was like everyone expected that they would last. She turned away and faced the window and told them she was just a little carsick.
As they got out of the car by the seashore, Chiharu told them how Yamazaki was planning to spike the punch, but she had caught it in his house.
"What? Then prom night would be even more fun!" Yamazaki tried to persuade the group as they reached the sand and were putting an umbrella up.
Sakura looked out at the sparkling water and immediately forgot about the discussion, "Oh, it's sooo pretty,"
Brendan walked into the calm water and waved to the others, "Come on in! Hey Sakura lets go swim out to those rocks,"
Sakura grinned, "Yeah, okay," and swam out to the rocks with him. They weren't very far away, but they could talk privately there.
Brendan clambered up onto the rock and helped Sakura up. Once they had settled down he started to talk, "Ya know what? I'm really glad Tomoyo invited me. Now we're on a date! You're a really good friend,"
Sakura looked at him, "Yeah, me too. We can get to know each other better now,"
The two stared back at the near shore and watched Tomoyo taping everyone else. They started talking about their interests and what high-school they were going to next year. Soon enough, Tomoyo was calling them back for lunch. They nodded and jumped back into the water and swam back to the shore.
As everyone unwrapped their sandwiches that Tomoyo had provided Brendan asked Sakura, "Um, do you want to go to eat somewhere some time?"
Sakura's face lit up and nodded, "Yeah, that sounds nice. Yeah, some time we should,"
~~~~~ Sakura's house ~~~~~
Sakura closed the door behind her and kicked off her flip-flops. She looked at the note on the door.
It said: Hey monster,
If you remember, which I doubt you do, Dad's got that lecture today and won't be back until really late tonight. I went out with some of my friends so you're gonna have to make dinner. I was gonna make you cook, but Dad said you can just take out some Chinese food. I should be home by 8:30. See you later.
Toya
Sakura read it then looked at her watch: 6:47. I'll get the food later. First I'll take a shower though, Sakura thought and headed upstairs.
~~~~~ 7:56 ~~~~~
Sakura put down her magazine and headed back downstairs. She pulled her shoes on and left for the Chinese food place. She passed Tomoyo's place, Eriol's place, and finally got to the store. She ordered her food and waited by the window patiently. She looked at the next people at the counter who were ordering. The girl turned around and saw Sakura.
"Oh, hi Sakura!" Meilin said coming up to Sakura.
The other one, a boy left the counter, "Huh? Oh Sakura, um, that's a coincidence running into you here," Syaoran said joining the two.
"Wasn't it fun at the beach, Sakura? You looked like you had a good time with Brendan on your date," Meilin said.
Sakura nodded in agreement, but bit her lip when she mentioned Brendan, and hoped that Syaoran wasn't listening.
Unfortunately he heard every word and used the information happily, "Oh really? So that's the mystery man, huh? Brendan Chang?"
Sakura blushed, "Yeah,"
Syaoran smirked, "This should be interesting,"
Sakura glared but went to get her food. "Actually, why are you guys taking out food tonight?" Sakura asked as she got ready to leave.
"You know my boyfriend Fred is coming for dinner, so we're taking it easy," Meilin piped up.
Sakura nodded, "Oh, cool. We'll see you later," she said and pushed the door open. "Oh yeah, Syaoran, I signed you up for soccer. You start Monday. I've seen you play soccer before, and so have they, because apparently they're okay with you being on the team for about a month. They want you for the championships. They have a practice Monday morning. You should go if you want to stay on coach's good side," Sakura added as she passed him. "And you have to do this because," She got closer to him and whispered in his ear, "we have a deal," Then left before Syaoran could protest anymore, and give the secret away to Meilin. The way home was more quiet. When she got home Toya looked like he had just got in, so they had dinner.
~~~~~Monday at School: first period in home economics ~~~~~
Sakura rushed into the classroom just before the late bell rang, and sprinted to her seat. She took out her notebook and started copying down some stuff on the board.
"The partners you had yesterday will be your partners for the rest of the year, and today we're going to move on to making cupcakes," the teacher announced and started passing out some ingredients. Some students groaned and complained, and others high-fived with friends. Sakura nodded and turned around to face Syaoran. "So how was soccer?" she asked.
Syaoran sighed, "Was okay. Scored a couple of goals,"
"Did you talk or interact with anyone?" Sakura asked.
Syaoran closed his eyes and shrugged as he leaned against the back of his chair, tipping it onto it's two back legs.
Oh yeah, how would he know? Oh well, I'll ask Eriol. He's on the team too, Sakura thought and made a mental note to herself to ask him during lunch or something. Sakura examined Syaoran and nodded and smiled, "You look good toady," Sakura complimented him as she added sprinkles onto her cupcake.
Syaoran muttered a thanks and went back to adding frosting carefully onto his cupcake.
Sakura glanced to her right and noticed that Jenny seemed to be looking at Syaoran in and interested way. Sakura grinned and leaned over to Syaoran, "I think she likes you," she whispered.
Syaoran looked up form his cupcake but Sakura slammed her hand down on top of his and stopped him before he could look at her, "Don't look at her yet. It'll look like I noticed and told you, which I did, but she shouldn't know that. In a minute look at her and smile. You should give this cupcake to her. Be nicer than you are to others so she knows she's special," Sakura mumbled to him under her breath.
Syaoran nodded and continued working. Wow, Sakura's good at this. I really have to thank her some time. And hey, I made a new friend, Syaoran thought happily. By the end of class Syaoran hade made two cupcakes and he placed one in his backpack, and gave the other to Jenny who received it smiling.
Sakura watched form a distance and gave him a thumbs up when she wasn't looking. Everything was going according to plan. Sakura and Brendan were going out, and Jenny liked Syaoran. Syaoran's a pretty nice person. Why shouldn't Jenny fall for him? Hey, with luck, we'll both have dates for the prom, Sakura thought.
Author's Note: Here it is! What's on your minds? Review!