A Thin Line

Chapter 5

A/N: oh I'm bringing Meiling into the story starting with this chapter and unlike my first story; she is a nice little girl.

/Syaoran and Eriol\\\\\

Knock. "Who the hell is knocking at three in the morning?" Syaoran groaned as he walking to the front door of the room. Eriol was behind him.

Syaoran opened the door with a yawn.

"Hi there my lovable cousin!" a girl's voice came through as a black-haired girl threw herself at Syaoran.

"What the hell? Meiling?"

"I miss you so much!" she buried her face deep in his chest as she hugged him tightly. Syaoran didn't know what to do so he did the next best thing, pushed her off. She pouted a little by this but the grinned when she saw Eriol.

"Eriol-Kun, I miss you so much too!" now she was burying her head into Eriol's chest who wasn't even opening his eyes fully. "So where are the girls?" Meiling let go as Eriol fell asleep right there on the floor. "Wow he's a heavy sleeper." Meiling said sarcastically when she looked down at him.

Syaoran yawned again but this time he pointed to the room across the hall. Meiling quickly ran to it and banged on the door. The same grin on her face.

/Sakura and Tomoyo\\\\

"Hold on, we're coming." Sakura yawned and rubbed the sand out of her eyes. The banging grew louder as she approached the door.

"Do you think its Touya again?" Tomoyo was standing behind her.

"It better not be because if it then he's gonna be eating from a straw!" Sakura warned. She opened the door, a screaming Meiling jumped on her, causing both of them to fall on the floor.

"Meiling? Cant…..breath…." Sakura's face was turning kind of purple by now. Syaoran saw this and quickly pulled his cousin up. Meiling however broke out of his grip when she saw Tomoyo.

"Tomoyo- Chan!"

"Hi?"

/Next morning\\\\\

It was a Saturday so that means that the gang is allow to leave the boarding school, which was a good thing because Meiling wanted to see all the new changed that Tomeda has to offer. Since they're taking her sight seeing Meiling thought that it was appropriate to make them all breakfast.

"So what do you think?" Meiling eyed Eriol who was holding the food in his mouth. He nodded and Meiling laughed with joy. When she was too busy, everyone found a place to spit out their breakfast. When she looked back everyone smiled innocently.

/Park\\\\\

Meiling was excited to see Penguin Park after 4 years. The last time that she was here everyone has just barely turned 12. She ran up to one of the swings and took a seat, letting the breeze push her. When she was done with the swing she went to explore all the other things she remembered from her childhood day.

Since he was interrupted this morning, Syaoran decided to take a nap under a tree.

:Dream:

Syaoran found himself standing in a field. When he walked it seem to be leaning to a huge cherry blossom tree. Under the tree was none other then Sakura. She gave him a warm smile. He wore a white mini skirt top with a white V-neck top. Her pink rhinestone necklace was visible through the shirt.

"I have something to ask you." She said as she took some steps forward.

"Huh?"

"Are we best friends?"

"Yeah."

"Are we close?"

"Yeah, wait I thought it was one question not many."

"Shh…." She came up and placed her finger over his lips. Confused, Syaoran stood in silence. Sakura's hand dropped down to his. She turned her fingers downward so that they touch Syaoran's perfectly. She then leaned in as to his ears. "Do you love me?"

"Yes." Said Syaoran unconsciously. Sakura pulled back so that she was looking into his eyes. Unable to resist, Syaoran trailed from her eyes to her lips. After some time examining he quickly captured them with his own. His hand (the one touching Sakura's) went through the gap of her fingers.(Like how you hold hands with someone). His other arm was wrapped around Sakura's waist, pulling her closer to his body.Sakura didn't even hesitate to kiss him back.

:End:;

Syaoran's eyes flew open. He placed a hand over his chest, trying to calm his thumping heart.

"Are you ok?" Sakura came over and sat beside him. She placed a hand over his forehead. "You don't look so good." Her eyes full of concern.

Syaoran blushed when he saw her face. "Fine." He quickly got up and walked away in a hurry.

/Boarding school\\\\

Meiling grew tired after a day of walking so she suggested that they head home. Since Meiling couldn't stay at the boarding house with the others she's going to stay with Yelan at the Li mansion.

"Wow what a nice day." Meiling stretched out her arms.

"Yup, it was fun." Sakura added. Meiling slowed down, away from the others. She pulled Sakura back with her. When she was sure that the others were at least five feet apart, she asked, "So do you like Syaoran?"

"What?"

"Do you like my cousin?"

Sakura blushed and turned away.

"I'm gonna take that blushing as an answer." Meiling speed up to catch up with the others. Sakura still behind the others started to think back to that one day where she and Syaoran almost kissed. She smiled and then ran up to the rest of the group.

That was a weird dream, Syaoran still couldn't get the image of what happened in his dream out of his mind. Do I really love Sakura? Wait do I ever have feelings for her? But that day……

Flashback

Syaoran leaned in closer and closer and closer. Ding Dong.

"What are you doing?" Sakura whispered, breaking him out of his trance."

END

"SO are you gonna tell me who the lucky girl is like you said before?" Tomoyo was even more curious now. She wanted to know and she wanted him to tell her himself.

"Well…. She's….." Eriol started but didn't get a chance to finish.

Meiling walked up beside him, linking her arm with his. "You don't mind if I borrow Eriol now do you Tomoyo- Chan?" Tomoyo shook her head.

Meiling pulled Eriol about 5 feet ahead of everyone else.

"What Meiling? I was talking there."

"Sorry but I have a plan and you're going to help me." A sinister smile crossed her facial features.

"A plan for what?"

"A plan to get Syaoran and Sakura together and I mean really together." They both turned around to see Sakura and Syaoran walking, both deep in thoughts.

"Why? If they wanna hook up then they will they don't need us getting into their business." Meiling released her grip of Eriol. She pouted, "But they won't even do anything without out help."

"No Meiling." Eriol stopped in front of the Li mansion. Meiling walked inside to greet her aunt and then waved good bye to the others.

/School\\\\\\

They had made their way back to the boarding school without any thing happening. At the door waiting was a girl with brow pig tails. When she saw Sakura, she quickly ran over to greet her.

"Chiharu?" Sakura greeted Chiharu with a hug.

"I need you're help, well we need your help."

"For what?"

"We need a good cheer and we, as in the cheerleaders, can't do most of the stuff that you can do. Like the flips and the round-offs."

"I see, well what do you want me to do?"

Chiharu grabbed Sakura's writs and pulled her inside.

/Next evening\\\\\\

Tomoyo waited for Eriol in the lobby. "Sorry I'm late." Said Eriol still trying to catch his breath.

"It's ok." Tomoyo smiled. Eriol straighten up. "Well I told you to meet me here because I have something to tell you. Something important." He stopped to take a deep fresh. Actually the deep breathing was just to stale him some time. He looked over at the stair case behind Tomoyo.

"Well….um…. I just wanted to tell you that the girl that I like is……y… Meiling?" Eriol saw that Meiling had dropped his prize vase as she walked down the stairs. He screamed out here name when he saw his vase crushed into pieces. He quickly ran up and fell to his knees next to the broken vase.

"Meiling?" Tomoyo whispered to herself before running up to Eriol and Meiling.

"I'm really sorry, Eriol-Kun. I'll go buy you another one right now." She pulled him up to his feet. Eriol seems like he was about to cry but decided not to.

Meiling linked her arm with Eriol's once more and walked him out the door of the boarding school, leaving Tomoyo.

So she's the girl that Eriol likes, Tomoyo thought sadly, what a great couple. She forced herself to smile when she saw them walk out the door together.

/Syaoran\\\\\

Syaoran closed his eyes shut tightly as an attempt to clear his mind but instead he saw the image of Sakura smiling at him. Great, he complained in his mind. Ever since that stupid dream, I can't get her out of my head, what am I thinking? Damn.

Syaoran was too busy thinking that he didn't notice that fact that he was walking straight into someone walking his way. They both got a direct hit and fell backward.

"Hey watch where you're going!" a man's voice came through.

"Go-"

"YOU!" both Touya and Syaoran said at the same time. They glared at each other as Yukito help Touya up. "You're lucky I don't have time for you or I would beat you up right now." Touya threatened.

"Right, I like to see you try." Syaoran's glares grew more scary and Touya's matched his exactly.

Touya finally decided to let it go and got back on his way to the opposite direction.

"So when are you going to tell Sakura?" Yukito asked when he was sure that Syaoran can't hear him.

"I don't know." Touya answered in a soft tone.

/hallway\\\\\\

Syaoran found himself standing outside Sakura and Tomoyo's dorm. He was about to knock but instead turned his back to the door. He then slid down the door with his back.

"What am I suppose to say to her? Hi Sakura I had a dream where me and you were making out?" Syaoran started to bang the back of this head to the door.

/Tomoyo\\\\\\

Tomoyo walked back up the stair when she got tire of staring at the front doors. She was playing with her hair when she looked up to see Syaoran sitting outside her dorm.

"Hi there Syaoran- Kun." Tomoyo smiled. Syaoran tried to smile back but couldn't. "Hi." He whispered quietly back.

"Wanna come in?" Tomoyo saw Syaoran's unsure expression, "Beats sitting out here like a homeless person." she walked inside but kept the door open for Syaoran.

He walked inside and took a seat on the couch. "Uh where's Sakura?"

"Cheer practice with Chiharu."

"Oh."

"SO what's on your mind?" Tomoyo looked down at him. (She's standing up)

"Nothing."

"Come on I know you, and I also know that something is wrong."

"Well I don't know how to explain it really."

"Just try."

"OK well I had this dream and in it I kissed Sakura." He blushed just from the thought "But the thing that scared me the most was that in the dream she asked me if I loved her and I said yes." Syaoran let out a sigh of relief before starting again. "Look don't get any ideas, I mean I have no intention of kissing her in the real world it was just a dream."

"Did you tell her?"

"Hell no."

"Why not?"

"Because…." Tomoyo raised an eye brow.

"OK I cant because ever since that dream I just get all nervous around her and she kept popping up when I close my eyes so I just can't talk to her when I can clear my mind." Syaoran sighed again.

Tomoyo took a seat next to the thinking Syaoran, "Did I ever tell you that there's a thin like between a best friend and a love interest?"

A/N: Dun Dun Dun. Alright well this chapter took some time cuz my comp was being stupid so I couldn't post this chapter.