(Author's Note: singing I got reviews! I got reviews! Yay! Thanks so much to everyone who reviewed! I've made some changes, thanks to Reviewer 131. By the way, Sakura, Syaoran and Co, are all 17. Sakura can't drive, but Syaoran can. Tomoyo doesn't need to know because she has about 5 personal drivers. Here is chapter 2…)

Disclaimer: I don't own Cardcaptors characters: CLAMP does. I own their personalities in this story and any other character that I make up.

Chapter 2

The school bell rang. Sakura, who had been dozing off in Math class, woke to find her classmates staring curiously at her. She blushed, looking down at the paper on which she was supposed to be taking notes. Luckily, the cheerful sound of an ice-cream truck pulling up in front of the school distracted the class, and for a few moments, all that could be heard was the scraping of chairs, the rustling of papers and the happy good-byes of students looking forward to the weekend.

Tomoyo sighed happily. She looked over at Sakura's blank paper, then at her own papers, which were all filled with her neat curly writing. She grinned, then said,

"Fell asleep again Saku-chan?"

Sakura groaned. "Do I ever manage to stay awake?"

Tomoyo laughed lightheartedly. "You should have today! Now I know what you were so worked up about this morning. That new guy—"

A slight rustling of papers stopped her short. She turned around, and saw the "forgotten" new student, who was quietly straightening his sheets and pretending not to listen. Tomoyo quickly got over her surprise.

"Ohayou Li-kun! How do you like the school so far? I hope we haven't been too excluding in our studies." She smiled, then glanced at Sakura. Sakura, who had been packing things away in her bag, fumbled and dropped her papers. She grimaced, then smiled nervously.

"Wow, you're clumsy."

Sakura stiffened. She turned slowly around to face Syaoran. That wasn't very nice of him, she thought. But she quickly got rid of the thought.

"Li-kun, are you going to the Area meet for cross-country next week?" she asked.

"Sure…and I can't believe how easy it is to get onto the team here. At my old school in Hong Kong, we had to be in the top ten to even qualify. No offense, but your school has low standards."

Tomoyo raised her eyebrows and looked over to see her friend's indignant face.

"Well aren't you Mr. High-and-Mighty…so what if the school has lower standards than the one you went to in Hong Kong? You can't judge all of us by that."

Syaoran grinned. "I was just kidding. Jeez, can't you Japanese people take a little joke?" and with that, he walked out of the classroom, leaving behind a shocked Tomoyo and a glowering Sakura.

Syaoran opened the door to his apartment. Dropping his stuff, he collapsed on the couch and turned on the TV. A sitcom came on, but he wasn't watching it. He was thinking.

Why was it so hard to insult her? Well, all I know is that I can't start liking her, or anyone else. If I do, Meiling will kill me, and I don't even want to think what mother will do.

The ringing of the telephone interrupted his thoughts. Syaoran reached over and picked it up.

"Hello?"

"Xiao Lang?"

"M-mother?"

"Of course it's me, who else would call you except for Meiling? Now tell me, how is school there? Have you fallen in love? I hope you haven't, because Meiling is getting more impatient by the day to marry you, and it's all I can do to stop her from hopping onto a plane and flying to Japan."

"Of course I haven't fallen in love. I'm the heir to the Li Clan. I don't love easily. You and the Elders taught me that long ago."

"Good. Well, I'm just checking on you. Be sure to eat properly, don't stay up for the whole night meditating, and do your homework. We'll bring you back if you don't take care of yourself."

Syaoran sweatdropped. Sure, Yelan was his mother, and one of the most ruthless women he'd ever known, but she could be overprotective in her own cold way.

"Don't worry, mother. I'm 17. I can handle it."

"All right. I'll trust you. Goodbye, and call whenever you have time."

"Goodbye."

"Ugh! I can't stand him!" Sakura yelled, stomping around. Tomoyo winced as she heard something crack.

"Sakura-chan, calm down. If you don't you're going to knock your whole house down. Look, you just stepped on your brand new alarm clock."

Sakura looked down. "AAAARGGHHH! IT'S ALL HIS FAULT! IF HE HADN'T PISSED ME OFF LIKE THIS, I'D BE FINE, AND SO WOULD MY ALARM CLOCK!"

To her surprise, Tomoyo laughed. "Saku-chan, I know you like him."

"WHAT! Tomoyo-chan, have you not been listening to what I've been saying for the past ten minutes? How could I possibly like him? Besides, you know I like Yukito-kun."

"Well," Tomoyo said thoughtfully. "if it were any other guy who said anything like what Li-kun said to you, you would have just said 'I hate him' and left it at that. But you've been ranting on about this specific someone for ages, and I'm beginning to think that you like getting mad at him just so you can talk about him." Before Sakura could explode, she quickly changed the subject.

"By the way, are you going to the dance?" And before Sakura could calm down enough to talk about it, she said, "because I think you should dance with him."

To her surprise, Sakura didn't explode. "Hmm, do you think he would dance with me? Do you think that he'd ask me? I mean, not that I'd care or anything, 'cause I want Yukito-san to come to the dance…Touya said he might!"

Tomoyo laughed. "Of course he will. You just wait and see."

I know, I know, that chapter didn't tell us anything. I was merely letting people get to know the characters better. In case you haven't figured them out yet, Sakura is a tomboy who doesn't give a damn about what she looks like, Tomoyo is her best friend who does care about what she wears, and Syaoran is a guy who doesn't show his feelings. And in case I forget to mention, the next chapter is the Hallowe'en dance…O.o