It started with a Box of Chocolates

Chapter 6: The end

So I've decided to end it at chapter 6…

Well, I'm sorry for taking such a long time to update… but thanks to those who reviewed and read this story.

It's been an awesome experience.

He only heard the sound of crickets, threatening the night with noises.

Syaoran lay curled on his windowsill peering down into the darkness.

He heard something on his walkway… maybe a raccoon or a squirrel.

Suddenly his eye caught onto a figure in the dark… a familiar figure.

Energy jolted him as he recognized the familiar form… the same green eyes.

He ran downstairs and opened the door; the cool air hit him with so much intensity.

"Sakura?" He called. "Sakura?" Only the darkness answered him. She was gone.

However, he looked down and there rested a tiny packet.

His fingers trembled as he picked it up… a box of chocolates.

There was a note pasted on the side.

He took it upstairs and settled onto his bed, before he read it.

Syaoran, I'm sorry. I did it because I thought it would make you happy, but instead, it only made you sadder. I said many things before… a few things to many… and although, I regret I said them, I just want you to know… they're all true. Yes Syaoran. I love you. I love you so much. And the hardest part is, I love you in a way, a best friend shouldn't. But, I know you don't feel this way... I know that. I don't want our friendship to end, so I'm willing to put these feelings aside. However, if you feel like we shouldn't continue our friendship because of the way I feel, tell me. I'll sadly put our friendship to an end. Either way, you will always be the same Syaoran in my eyes. I'll love you all the same. Sakura. P.s.: I hope the chocolates make you feel better. It's the only way I can think of, to cheer you up.

-Sakura

Syaoran folded the note with a sad smile. 'Chocolates…' He thought. She knew he loved chocolates.

He stopped as he examined the box closer. It was the same gold box with the loopy letters. On the side there was even a little tear, where he had made a mistake, while wrapping it.

His pulse quickened… it couldn't be... but how did it get to Sakura?

The coldness of the night, sent shivers through her spine.

It was deserted in the park at night and only the silence answered her.

Sakura closed her eyes, as she placed her head against the cool bench.

She felt numb all over.

'How did it get this way?' She thought bitterly to herself.

She remembered the way he looked with his eyes flashing angrily and his look… so disappointed.

He was so disappointed at her.

She stifled a sob, but the tear couldn't be forced back.

She hadn't meant to hurt him, she hadn't, but in the end.. she did…

Everything froze in her, as she heard the shuffle of feet besides her. His familiar aroma intoxicated her.

Alarmed, she sat up and looked into dark amber eyes.

"Syaoran…"

He sat down besides her wordlessly and studied her face. Silence was everywhere.

Suffocating everything.

She could distinctly hear the sound of leaves rustling, a squirrel twitching and the leaves dancing, but the thing she heard the loudest, by far was her heavy heart.

With each second that passed, she felt her heart beating louder and quicker.

Sakura stole a look at him and she braced herself for the way he was looking at her.

He was looking at her intently with a curious expression. His face betrayed neither any emotion nor anger.

When he saw her looking, a smile twitched on his face.

"Sakura.." He just murmured. "I knew I could find you here." His words stated that he could read her, ever so easily.

And it made her heart pound even harder.

Everything about him, made her heart pound.

Finally he asked her the question he had been wanting to ask.

"Sakura.." He showed her a box of chocolates and she knew it was the one she gave him. "How did this box of chocolates get to you? I know you didn't buy it…"

She shook her head slowly. "It was a gift from someone… but the moment, I saw it… I knew I had to give it to…" She looked at him and into his eyes… "you… Syaoran… are you still mad?"

Syaoran just shook his head, exhaling slowly… "Sakura… I…"

Before he had a chance to finish what he was saying, Sakura cut him off.

"I know this is the end… I don't blame you.." She said. "I just want you to know that you'll still be the same in my eyes…" Then she offered him a happy smile, though sadness read everywhere in her eyes.

"Oh Sakura…" He breathed.

She trembled, feeling his arms fall around her small form into a tight embrace.

The heat from him was enough to send her to whole new world.

"Sakura.." he whispered into her ear. "I gave a box of chocolates to a girl… and she broke my heart. But then there was a girl who wanted to mend my heart… and she gave me the same box of chocolates… now I believe, that girl should deserve my heart. The only question is.. Will you take that broken heart… slowly being mended?"

She picked her head up and looked at him in the darkness.

He looked even better, than she last remembered. His beautiful chestnut colored hair fell into his deep amber eyes.

And those eyes told a story all of their own.

She finally felt it… the emotion that flooded him. He wasn't just saying these things to make her feel better… she actually saw them.

Sakura wrapped her arms around him and dug her head into the crook of his neck. She sniffed, trying to stop the tears that ran down her cheeks.

"I can't believe I've been so stupid," he whispered. "You know… this isn't the first time I've felt this way." He admitted.

Sakura tilted her head up, interested.

"In the 6th grade, I started having feelings for you… but then… Ben asked you out. After that I was certain you didn't like me, so I… gave up."

Sakura shook her head. "The only reason I went out with him was because I thought you didn't like me. I saw you kissing Claire in the lockers."

Syaoran scoffed. "I kissed her? She more like… attacked me."

Sakura laughed. "Really?"

"Yeah. I swear on my lucky soccer socks."

Sakura wrinkled her nose. "You never wash them once you go on a winning spree."

"What? You know I can't… that's why they're lucky."

"Yeah," Sakura nodded. "Lucky and smelly."

She laughed at the thought of that. She didn't realize as Syaoran stopped glaring and just started looking at her. A small smile spread to his face.

"What?" Sakura asked stopping, as she realized him staring.

She couldn't react as he gently pressed his lips against her cheek. His arms wrapped around her and he pulled her tiny form onto him, so they faced each other, nose to nose.

"You're the best thing that's ever happened to me… and it took a box of chocolates to show me that. Aishiteru Ying Fa." He whispered gently.

And in the darkness of the night, under the delighted twinkle of the stars, he gently kissed his beautiful little cherry blossom.

That night, a box of gold wrapped chocolates, were shared by two blessed people.

End.

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Love will never fail to amaze. You just have to believe in it.

sweetiie