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Previously:-
Sakura heard muttering all over the room, protesting this last statement. Many of the girls were already turning green with envy and red with anger.
Sakura turned at Naoko " Christmas came early this year " she said smiling.
Naoko saw the girl's faces and laughed " You're right . Here's to merry hell !" she beamed and offered her beer in a toast.
Sakura grinned back and clinked her glass with Naoko's
Important note: YES! All the blues mentioned in the last chapter ARE nail colors, my friend who is a die-hard-fashion-freak told me all of them, so it's all real !
Chap 7:- Driveway to hell.
Suddenly Kasumi spoke up. " Girls, how should we pass the time till tomorrow? " she wondered.
" By sleeping, of course " Sakura snapped as she got up to go to bed.
Kasumi " oh come on Sakura, let's have some fun, we can play a game or something "
Kourin smirked " I know just the perfect one "
Naoko raised her eyebrows "what's that?"
Kourin smiled "Guess his shoe size! " she answered and giggled.
" That's your idea of a game? " Sakura asked her eyes twitching.
"Yup"
Sakura gritted her teeth, stormed out of the room, slamming the door noisily behind her.
She nearly smirked when she saw the flabbergasted girls, their expressions frozen in time, but she could not stand it anymore.
' How dare they talk about Syaoran like that, he's not interested in girls lik- ' Sakura thought furiously and her eyes widened.
' I mean, er, they know perfectly well that I don't get along with him, so they shouldn't talk about him ' Sakura thought nodding her head.
'Yeah that's why they shouldn't talk about him like that '
"What's with her ? " Kourin asked frowning at Sakura's door
Kasumi shrugged and turned back to the others "oh well, who's guessing first ? " she said smiling.
The rest of the night was fairly unpleasant for Sakura, she was haunted by nightmares of several large shoe's, that had it's size written in yellow, trying to step on her.
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The next morning, Sakura woke early and quickly dressed, rushing down to the kitchen to grab a cup of hot chocolate.
Hot chocolate seemed to be a better drink to Sakura than Coffee.
Around midday, a yelp alerted the rest of them about the arrival of a date box.
Sakura nearly snorted when she saw who was holding it, Ashley with green goop all over her face and a shoddy pink bathrobe. " Okay, girls " Ashley declared. " Gather round "
All the girls immediately dropped what they were doing. The tension in the room was high, and Sakura noticed that many of the girls sent each other death glares.
"All right, this date's for Sakura, Brianna and Sandy "
Sakura groaned ' why me? '
" Where's it to? " Brianna asked at the same time as Sandy, who asked "Who gets the individual date? "
" Don't get your panties in a twist " Ashley said acidly.
Sakura could tell she was rather jealous that she hadn't been able to go on a three-person date.
" Individual date goes to Sakura " Ashley answered and all the girls were looking at Sakura with frowns.
" Hey Sakura, you told us that your previous date stunk , so how came he chose you again? " Brianna said narrowing her eyes.
Sandy glared at her "Yeah, what's up with that huh?"
Sakura's eye twitched " How should I know ? Maybe he just wants to torture me some more "
Kasumi smiled knowingly and said " uh-huh, sure Sakura "
Airo smirked "Girls, I think Sakura's hiding things from us "
Sakura glared "I'm not hiding anything!"
Of course the girls didn't believe her , all Sakura got was a pat on the back from Kasumi.
"Your such a devious girl Saku " Kasumi said giggling.
Ashley rolled her eyes " You guys are going on a drive to an ancient city nearby "
Sandy made a disgusted face "Urgh, ancient city? who in gods name would pick a place like that for a date?"
Brianna smirked "whatever, who cares as long we get to be with him "
Sakura had a vague feeling her date was gonna be worse than the large-shoe's-stepping-on-her nightmare yesterday.
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Syaoran came at three to pick them up, Sakura noticed that the usual Limo was not there. Instead of it there was an extremely nice silver Cadillac Escalate.
Sandy and Brianna 'ooohed' and 'aaahed' at the car's beauty.
Brianna who'd been rather depressed , quickly brightened up and raced up to him. "Syaoran " she said seductively. Sandy shot her a noxious look. " Baby " she cooed.
Sakura wanted to laugh, Syaoran looked down right petrified.
Syaoran stepped away from them and coughed " This is my personal car, the limo is still having some problems, some of you may know about it " he said looking at Sakura.
Sakura stuck out her tongue and rolled her eyes.
Sandy giggled "Yeah, Sakura told us about the entire escapade "
"This is my favorite car, so I'm driving and Sakura's going to sit in the front with me " Syaoran said.
Sandy and Brianna looked crestfallen " Why does she get to sit in the front?"
Sakura huffed " Hey you can go sit there for all I care!"
Syaoran looked a little panicked "Um, Shiefa said that the individual date gets to sit in the front, that's why"
Sakura smirked "oh, I don't know Syaoran i can let the-"
"No!Sit in the front, we're leaving now !" Syaoran said hurriedly and ushered the girls to the back.
"You're just trying to avoid them aren't you?" Sakura whispered angrily to him.
"Yes, even if it means to sit with someone like you " Syaoran snapped and got inside.
Soon the scowling Syaoran, the pissed off Sakura and the unhappy girls went ahead to the town.
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"Nice car." Sakura commented over the shriek of the giggling girls in the back seat.
Syaoran continued to ignore her.
Sakura spotted something red on the dash board. "Ooh - what does this button do-?"
" Don't touch that ! " Syaoran said icily.
Sakura quickly withdrew her hand, making a mental note that Syaoran was twice as frosty and five times scarier than his normal self when he's driving.
10 mins later...
Brianna was very busy trying to reach Syaoran's leg to feel him up. "Where are they?" she mumbled to herself.
Sakura smirked ' It's time for plan A: Drive Syaoran mad '
"Are we there yet ?" Sakura asked impatiently
" No" Syaoran answered gritting his teeth.
"Are we nearly there yet?"
"No."
"Are we nearly nearly there yet?"
"No"
"Are we nearly-"
"Shut up Sakura, you heard the hunk " Sandy said rolling her eyes.
Syaoran bit his tongue in an effort to stop himself from throwing the girls out.
Brianna cursed "damn, where are the- aha found 'em ! " she happily exclaimed and stepped on the 'leg' .
Sakura jerked as the car screeched to an instant halt, and felt two successive thuds against the back of her seat as the girls came pelting forward.
To say Syaoran looked mad would've been an understatement. The guy looked ready to kill.
"Why did you step on the breaks Brianna? " Syaoran asked in a low voice. But one can understand the fury etched in it.
Sandy and Sakura got the hint but Brianna didn't.
She shot Syaoran a seductive smile "Sorry baby, I thought they were your legs "
Sakura snorted and was trying not to burst out from laughter, Syaoran looked at her his eye twitching and then he smirked.
He turned back to the wheel and started off to the town.
Soon our little mistress of the cards was desperately clutching the armrests for her dear life, as Syaoran weaved his way through the traffic at break neck speeds.
Sandy just calmly had her eyes closed, and Brianna looked a little green , while Sakura, on the other hand,
was on the verge of a mental breakdown.
"S-Syaoran why are we going this fast?"
"We will be nearly there this way in 10 mins " he answered flashing her an arrogant smirk.
' insolent jerk ' Sakura thought snidely and tried not to open her eyes the rest of the way. There was only so much panic and stress one heart could take.
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When the car finally stopped Sakura was shivering, her eyes clenched shut, and was curled up in a ball.
After confirming the car was stationary she leaped out, landed on the ground, rolled away, and then stared fondly at the ground.
Syaoran rolled his eyes " There is no need for theatrics "
A little farther behind him Brianna could be heard puking her guts out.
Sakura shot Syaoran a glare " Oh and what do say to that? " she asked accusingly pointing to Brianna.
Syaoran scowled "Hey, she deserved it for trying to feel me up AND for pushing the break "
Sakura narrowed her eyes and Sandy came out " Let's look around " she said grabbing Syaoran's hand and went away.
Sakura seethed ' She didn't even acknowledge me !'
Brianna came back looking a bit better "Hey where's Syaoran? "
Sakura scowled " with Sandy "
" That bitch! " Brianna roared and went ahead to find them.
Sakura sighed "why is this happening to me?"
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Sakura reached the others and found Syaoran edging away from Sandy and Brianna who were determined not to let go of his arm.
Sakura smirked at him and Syaoran shot her a dirty look.
Out of nowhere, a tour guide came around, " Hello! " he said jovially, looking at the group, two of whom looked utterly depressed and angry, one who was maniacally smirking and the other who looked like he would rather be in hell .
" Welcome to Shian Ho, It was a city of ancient fashion -" this definitely got the two girls attention.
"- it was home to China's most fashionable and beautiful females, just like Paris, in ancient times Shiang Ho was the centre for clothes to -"
Sakura immediately zoned him out, the last thing she needs is to load her brain about fashion freaks that lived in China years ago.
10 mins later...
"The modern day skirts were also worn here, though they were very long. The colors varied from beige, peach and pink, they gave absolutely importance for color combinations, for them peach was the new pink , green and yellow was -"
Sakura fumed, oh god it was so boring, who the hell would've thought an ancient city existed with a knack for fashion.
Sakura saw Syaoran dislodge himself from the girls and sneaking towards her.
" How long is this going to take?" She asked him in a low voice.
"I don't know. You bored already?" he retorted.
"Out of my skull."
He sighed, then surprised her by saying. "So am I."
" Why aren't you with them anyway ?" Sakura asked pointing to the girls as they listened to the guide about color combinations.
Syaoran raised his eyebrow " It should be obvious "
Sakura rolled her eyes " So what do we do till then?"
Syaoran sighed and looked thoughtful " 20 questions?"
Sakura glared "No, what do you think will happen when I get back from this date ?"
Syaoran smirked " Seen any good movies lately ?"
Sakura rolled her eyes and said " Just a month ago I saw Titanic "
" I saw that too. It was crap." he said bitterly.
" It battered my intelligence so much that I barely found my way out of the cinema. I should have eaten twenty bags of sugar, at least it would have made me throw-up sooner. "
"You were cheering the ice-berg weren't you.? " Sakura asked smiling.
"Yup, it ended the most horrifying 3 hours of my life" Syaoran answered her with a grin.
" Did you see Blair Witch last month ?" Sakura asked.
"You actually saw a scary movie?"
"Hey, I'm 23 now, it's not like I get scared by a horror movie" Sakura said indignantly
"You fooled me" Syaoran said smirking " But yes, I did see the movie"
" Did you like it ?"
" Nah, I've seen scarier things fly out of my sister's closet " Syaoran grinned.
Sakura laughed and Syaoran had an odd sense of pleasure on hearing it.
Before their pass-the-time talk could progress the tour guide had finished his crap about the fashion city and the two girls attached themselves to Syaoran again.
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The afternoon passed quickly and soon the four of them were dining in Shinjin ten, restaurant extraordinaire.
"wow " Sandy exclaimed as they each breathed in the overdone decorating. " Look at those carvings, they look so ancient "
" Duh captain obvious, this is an old city !" Brianna said rolling her eyes.
Sandy gave her a dirty look.
From across her, Syaoran smirked. Brianna immediately sat next to him " Baby! " she exclaimed happily and latched her arms around his.
Syaoran shifted uncomfortably, truth be told Brianna was a tad bit touchy-feely. Just a tad.
Sakura snorted. Poor Syaoran, oops, poor baby.
The waiter came around and took their orders.
Sandy looked at Sakura thoughtfully " Why'd you order a noodle?"
" I'm a vegetarian." Sakura told her. "Save for fish, egg and maybe chicken "
" Right." Syaoran scoffed. "You're a vegetarian. And I'm not a martial artist, save for swords and fighting moves"
"Are you making fun of me?" Sakura glared at him.
"Maybe" he smirked.
Brianna giggled "oh Syaoran, you look so sexy when you smirk "
Sakura scowled 'This is so not my day '
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Soon, the girls finished eating and after a little while they were biding fare well to a relieved Syaoran.
" I'll miss you baby !" Brianna said hugging him , it looked more like she was trying to choke him.
Syaoran turned a pretty blue and quickly loosened himself from her only to be pounced by a giggling Sandy.
Sandy shot Brianna a triumphant look " Take care Syaoran, it was wonderful with you, I hope we can do it again " she said smiling.
" Uh.., it's getting late so you girls better get going" Syaoran said nervously and practically pushed the girls into a limo.
Sakura frowned "Where'd the limo come from?"
"I phoned Shiefa and she sent it, I'm never letting them near my precious car again " Syaoran answered scowling at the far away limo.
Sakura laughed.
" Are you laughing at my agony? " Syaoran asked with his eyebrows raised.
Sakuratilted her head a little and gave a smirk " Do you want the truth? "
" No, lie to me. "
" Okay then, I was not laughing at the pity party you were throwing yourself. "
" I hate you. " Syaoran said but the twitch in his lips made it obvious that he didn't mean it
Sakura smiled "I hate you too "
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Syaoran and Sakura walked around the town.
"urgh, this city is damn too boring " Sakura said exasperated.
"What are the odds of us enjoying this ?" Syaoran asked smirking
Sakura smiled "A snowball has a better chance in hell."
"So how about we dump this place and go to a movie or something?"
"Sounds like a plan " .
"Ok then, lets go, I'll drive to the nearest theatre." Syaoran said smirking.
"If you exceed the speed of 40, I'll push you out the door!" Sakura threatened Syaoran.
Syaoran laughed "Can't make any promises sweetheart "
He paled and then a slight pink tainted his cheeks as he realized what he called her. He breathed out a sigh of relief as Sakura didn't hear it, she was too busy dreading the ride to pay attention.
They soon sped away in the direction of the movie theatre. Sakura got out of the car in a rush.
"Why do you drive so fast ? I think I'm going to be sick." Sakura said groaning.
" I think you already are." Her head shot up and she looked like she was going to rip out his throat with her bare hands.
"This is not time for jokes Syaoran." Her eyes were narrowed to slits.
" It wasn't that bad!" Syaoran said trying to be reasonable. "Man, you have no stomach for thrills!"
Sakura huffed " You have no idea how desperate I was back there to see my friends and family alive, for at least one last time "
Syaoran rolled his eyes " Do you want some snack?" he asked her
"Ok " Sakura said and they made their way to the Mc.Donald's mini snack bar .
" We want one large popcorn, extra butter, and two medium Sprites." Syaoran told a middle aged man standing there.
"Would you like fries with that?" the man asked sarcastically.
"Yeah, why not?" Syaoran snapped.
The man rolled his eyes and brought the popcorn and drinks, "That'll be $28.96."
" 29 dollars for popcorn and soda?" Sakura practically shouted.
" No problem," Syaoran handed him 20 and a 10, "Keep the change." he said smirking.
"Wow, thank you so much, now I can feed off this for the rest of my life " the man said rolling his eyes again.
"Keep talking old man and I'll have you fired faster than you can say Happy meals " Syaoran threatened menacingly.
The man paled and promptly apologized "S-sorry sir "
Sakura grabbed Syaoran and led him to buy some tickets before he did something drastic.
As they went to their movie, Syaoran whispered to Sakura, "Don't you hate people like that? They're so infuriating !"
"You do realize you're infuriating all the time don't you? " Sakura said raising an eyebrow.
" Oh, I'm not like that all the time!" Syaoran answered blinking, trying to look all innocent. Sakura looked confuddled.
" I mean, sarcasm is just one other service I offer along side it! " He said, grinning arrogantly.
Sakura sweatdropped and smiled "You're so infuriating !"
Syaoran smirked and poked her nose playfully "and don't you forget it "
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