Shattered Dreams
By melaniemelmelgirl
Disclaimer: Cardcaptor Sakura isn't mine, dontcha know?
Author's note: After getting some lovely, sweet reviews from my wonderful reviewers, I've decided to write some more. I'm not exactly sure as to what I'll write right now, but I'll think of something. I do appreciate the reviews you send in, so here are some replies to them:
Cherryxxblossom: Lol, poor Sakura indeed. She's as scatterbrained as I am…hehe. Enjoy the chapter!
lil wolf lover: Thanks for the not one, but TWO reviews! Two reviews is double the fun! LUCKY, you get anime for your b-day….pfft, my parents think it's "uneducational", so unfortunately I'm stuck buying my own….which is very seldom, cause I don't got a job! Luv ya too, and keep readin'!
I think I'm going to give this one 30 chapters-then end it. I realllllllly want to start on my next story soon, though I think I'll wait until I get back from Germany to start it. I'll be gone from June 18th to July 2nd, and I hope to end this by my birthday, on June 12th.
I'm taking my driver's test AGAIN on the 15th of June (seeing as I ALREADY managed to fail it once…pffft.) But I do plan to take a notebook with me, and on long plane/car rides I tend to do a lot of writing. It's almost a 9 hour plane ride to Frankfurt from Chicago, and almost 10 on the way back, so I'll probably start a good deal of the new fic there.
Also, I REALLY need to update and finish "Walking Down The Aisle". I don't really think I'll finish "Sakura's Diary Of Hope", it wasn't popular and I don't have any ideas for it.
For me, on June 6-8 I'll have finals at my school, so don't expect updates then….actually, I don't really have a lot of time to write lately, I mostly write in study hall in my journal. I think I have like 8 one shots that I gotta edit and post . So yeah….and I GOTTA do good on finals or I have to drop drama club and then I'll be sad…..so I'm doing some studying for that. Okay, moving on :P.
Sorry this is such a long author's note, I just wanted to clear a few (or a LOT, actually) of things up, just so you know in advance. Well, I'm off to write the chapter, so enjoy! If you'd like, a review would be nice as an early birthday present….:D
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Chapter 23- A Writing Test
"Owwww!" Sakura cried in pain as she was treated for bumps, bruises, and a significantly large cut on her arm in the nurse's office.
"I'm really sorry, Sakura, I didn't think I tackled you so hard!" Syaoran said, feeling ashamed and sorry for what he had done.
True, Sakura HAD read the time wrong at the mall, and caused them to run back to school, quick like a bunny, making them loose their breath, but Syaoran really didn't mean to tackle her. Really, he was running too fast and suddenly lost control, so he sort of….fell…on Sakura. And, in the process, tackled her to the ground, bent his ankle wrong, and twisted it. Niiiice….
"It's okay, don't fret it, you didn't mean to…ahem…JUMP on me the way you did, I'm sure", Sakura said.
"Um yeah….SURE he didn't" Tomoyo added.
"Really! I mean it Sakura! Would I lie to you?" he asked her.
"Hmmmm…………………………….." she said, pondering that thought.
"Greaaaaat…now she's mad at me…….." he said to himself.
"Well I dunno, I mean, you DID lie to me at the hospital, so I could get that …..-shudder-….SHOT! THAT you did lie to me too…." She said, crossing her arms and giving him THE eye (you know, the O.- eye? Yeah…)
"…………THAT WAS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, AND YOU KNOW IT!" he said defensively, shaking his fist in the air angrily.
"For my own good, eh? HAVING A FREAKING NEEDLE OF AGOIGNIZED PAIN, TORTURE, AND SORROW STABBED INTO MY SKIN WAS FOR MY OWN GOOD? TELL ME MISTER, HOW CAN THAT BE FOR MY OWN GOOD?" she..aham…asked him.
"Well…er….HEY IF IT WEREN'T FOR ME YOU'D STILL BE IN THAT HOSPITAL SICK LIKE A BUG!" he said, rather loudly.
"WELL…er….YEAH I DON'T LIKE YOU CUZ YOU HAVE WEIRD EARS! AND YOU HAVE A PINK UNIFORM!" she said.
"WTF…..HEY THAT WASN'T MY FAULT! WEI HAD NO BLEACH, REMEMBER!" he replied, trying to sound smart. But alas, he failed.
"DURRR IT'S CALLED GOING TO THE STORE AND BUYING A SHIRT THAT'S WHITE, NOT PINK YA DUMB MUSHROOM PIE WITH PEPERMINT SAUCE!" she said.
"………" he …..said? "Fine I give up….yeesh…" he said, putting his hands up in defeat, as usual.
"Yay!" Sakura said, jumping up and down whilst looking like a young child who was promised a lollipop for being a good girl.
"Guys, if you could stop SHOUTING now that would be great. There ARE other classes going on in this school!" the nurse said not-so-nicely, partially because she was trying ever-so-hard to fill out a sick person report on Sakura, and at the same time trying to think.
"Eh…sorry…." The two said, blushing and looking down at their feet.
"Now let me see….oh my, you have a rather deep cut young lady. And it appears that you have gravel stuck in your arm as well. I'm afraid it will be rather painful extracting the pebbles you have lodged in there." She said grimly.
Sakura looked over at Syaoran. He gulped, sweating in fear. If looks could kill, Syaoran would have been looooong dead, his funeral last week. Heck, the flowers on his grave would be wilted, and moss would be growing over the tombstone, making it hard to read. Sakura was a rather…FRISKY girl, yet violent at the same time.
"Oh man, am I in for it now" he said, trying hard yet failing to swallow the lump of fear that was in his throat and expanding more and more by the second.
"However, since we just got in a shipment of laughing gas, you also have the option to be…ah…'zonked out' while I perform the pebble-removing procedure. Do you care to try this option, or would you prefer not to?" the nurse asked.
"LAUGHING GAS, NO QUESTIONS ASKED!" Sakura said, glad that she wouldn't have to be in pain.
If there was anything she hated as much or even more than needles AND pain, it was tweezers. In fact, Sakura shuddered, just thinking about them. If you thought about it carefully, tweezers could actually be life-ruiners in disguise, I mean, think about all the people that you hear about dying all due to tweezers! And here in the wacky town of Tomoeda, Japan, that was a lot of people! She sighed in relief, just happy that she would be spared the pain of a painful 'surgery".
"Bring on the laughing gas, bring it on" She said, confidently, with a huge grin on her face that she no longer concealed.
"Alright then, this won't take very long that way", the nurse commented, and placed a mask over Sakura's face. It had a tube connected to it, which led to a special tank filled with laughing gas.
"When I turn it on, just take a deep breath, and the laughing gas will do the rest" she said, and Sakura nodded. (Well, at least she tried to nod, I mean, she had a freaking laughing gas mask on for crying out loud).
She sat back in her chair, prepared to take in a deep breath of laughing gas.
The nurse, finding that Sakura looked ready for the procedure, said "Alright, I'm going to turn it on now", and turned the knob of the laughing gas around clockwise until it could turn no more. After doing so, she pushed a small black button, and a green light turned on. Not even a second later, the gas spurted out of the tank, up the cord, and into Sakura's mask. Sakura took a deep breath, like the nurse instructed, and WHAM, she was out.
After another few seconds, the nurse pushed the black button again, and the gas stopped releasing form the tank. A small red light went on, indicating that it was off. The nurse turned the know counterclockwise, and then took the mask of Sakura's face. She put it back where it belonged, and then announced,
"I will now begin the procedure".
Tomoyo and Syaoran nodded their heads, awaiting the nurse's next step.
"She's not allergic to latex, is she?" the nurse inquired.
Syaoran shook his head no.
Taking in that piece of information, the nurse took put on a pair of latex gloves, then picked up the tweezers that had been sterilized off of a paper towel on an awaiting tray sitting on the side table, and turned Sakura's arm over.
She removed the temporary bandage that had been place upon it, and squinted. Taking the tweezers into Sakura's arm, she quickly removed the small, tiny pieces of gravel that had been lodged in her arm. Placing the small pebbles onto a little dish, she then put a tissue over Sakura's arm after squirting some antiseptic into the cut, so that when the bleeding stopped, she would not get an infection.
After the nurse soaked up the stray antiseptic and wiped away the blood, she placed a bandage on Sakura's arm and pressed down so that it would stick.
She threw the wrappings, tissue, gloves, paper towel, and gravel away, then announced to Tomoyo, Syaoran, and the now-unconscious Sakura, "The procedure is now complete".
"Okay, so will she be alright now?" Syaoran inquired, worriedly.
"Yes, oh yes, she should just get some rest later, and the bruises will heal. Tell her to change her bandage twice a day with an antiseptic of some sort, so that she will not get an infection, and that the cut will heal quicker." The nurse replied.
The two fully-conscious teenagers nodded, taking the information in.
They would definitely tell Sakura this information when she became fully conscious.
"Alright then, she should be coming to any moment. Perfect timing, seeing as the bell for your next class is about to ring", the nurse announced.
"Oh yeah, I forgot, we still have that writing test today next hour!" Syaoran announced.
"That's right! I forgot too, wow, Sakura had better wake up quickly if we are to make class on time!" Tomoyo replied.
"Don't worry about it, if she doesn't wake up until after the late bell rings, I'll write you all a pass. You do have the same class, correct?"
"Yeah, we have Writing 6th period" Syaoran said.
"Alright then, I'll write you a pass out now, just in case" the kind nurse said.
Then, all of a sudden….
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IMPORTANT NOTICE-
My internet will be down until next Sunday at the earliest cuz we need to get a new roof put on, and all the satellite dishes need to come down and that includes our satellite internet dish….but I will write lot, and upload the chapters after my internet is back, just so ya all know. Okay.
Cliffy time, ohoho. Actually, I DO know what I'm writing next chapter. I'll write it as soon as I have a spare moment, for now, it's back to cleaning, fun fun. Later! Luve, melaniemelmelgirl.