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Chapter Three: MaybePICK UP THE FONE… PICK UP THE FONE…. PICK UP THE FONE…
Sakura woke up to the annoying voice of her cell phone ring tone. (AN: hehe my friend has this ringtone.. ) She groaned as she threw the fone under the pillow trying to muffle the sound, but the voice kept telling her to PICK UP THE FONE…
"All right, all right" she said to the fone. "Moshi Moshi, Sakura speaking" she said into the fone stifling a yawn.
"Hey kaiju.. I see you're still sleeping.. muahahah YES! I got to wake you up!" said a male voice on the other end. "ARGHHH TOUYA! FIRST OF ALL, I'm not a kaijuu, I'm a lady! Second of all, I went to Hong Kong to get away from YOU and you STILL can get a hold of me … THIRDLY.. WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
She screamed the last bit and she tried to not giggle when she imagined Touya pulling the fone away from his ear that would still be ringing from her loud voice. "Ahem… " he replied. "Dad just wanted to know how you were."
She calmed down, "Tell otou-san, me and Tomoyo are fine we're actually going to go shopping today " "Okay, well don't kill your credit card.. you know what happened last time.." Sakura giggled remembering how last time, her and Tomoyo had gone crazy with their credit cards and ended up returning most of the stuff because they couldn't pay for the bills. "I won't," she assured Touya, and she hung up the phone.
Scene Jump to the Li Mansion
"Syaoran! GET YOUR BUTT DOWN HERE NOW!" A girl with black pigtails and red eyes yelled from the bottom of the stairs. A groggy Syaoran came leisurely down the stairs frowning, no doubtedly angry that his cousin had woken him up from a pleasant dream. (AN: hmmm wonder who it was about ) "What do you want Meiling?" he asked.
"Well you just HAD to blow off that cute girl on the plane, didn't you!" she replied. He jumped, startled that she knew anything about the girl.. what was her name? Sakura or something like that? "How'd you know?" he asked. "Hehe, it's FUN to spy on my cousin you know… especially when my senses tingle that my favourite cousin has found a possible soul mate huh?" she hinted as she wiggled her eyebrows. "not to mention you were saying her name in your sleep Sakura eh? WOW Pretty name."
"Meiling, I don't even know her. I probably won't even meet her again. Besides, father set me up with this girl… what's her name, Hikari or something? Arghh.. I hate it, but it's for business."
Meiling's eyes softened. She felt so bad for her cousin. He wanted to be an doctor, not a business man, but the elders had said they needed the money from the business and therefore all the leaders had to contribute to the company. "Hey, Syaoran, don't worry. Uncle will come around some day. He'll see that you'd be better at architecture. As for the elders, well they're a bunch of –" "Meiling!" Syaoran interrupted her. He may be mean and cold, but he never believed in swearing.
"Hehe sorry. Well I know you don't like Hikari, heck even uncle doesn't like her, but I think you have something for that girl from the plane. As for how I know that, uncle told me all about your little convo." She saw his shocked face and said, "yup, he was awake… Syaoran" aat this point, her eyes went soft "Don't let her get away. I know I was crazy about you at first, and I really wanted to marry you, but now, now that I've found Rei, I can't let go of him, Syaoran. But if you don't find someone by your 18th b-day, you know what we have to do. And Syao, you're 18th b-day is coming up soon. It's next year. Don't forget…" she walked away, leaving a confused Syaoran.
'Damn.." he thought. 'I don't want to marry Meiling. She's just a cousin. But I need to find someone. Argh.. damn the elders. Maybe that Sakura girl, maybe she'll be good… Argh.. but she confuses me too much… what do I do.' "argh!" he said outloud. Luckily, no one heard him. 'Maybe I'll go take a walk.' He took his coat and his car keys and drove to his favourite coffee shop.
Scene Jump
"TOMOYO!" sakura yelled out as she saw about 50 Tomoyos running in and out of stores with an increasing number of bags. Sakura sweatdropped as she became buried under all of the bags and started to gasp for air. Tomoyo, seeing htat her friend was having trouble, dug her out of the pile and dragged her to another store. But she didn't get far cuz Tomoyo crashed into a door. A door that was so clean, she didn't see it. It was the door to a coffee shop. (AN: hm… WHICH coffee shop I wonder )
"Sigh… Tomoyo, when will you ever stop? We've killed our credit cards, remember last time?" Tomoyo blushed and giggled as she had recollections of the last time they went shoping together. "Besides," Sakura continued, " I'm thirsty, let's get something to drink."
"Okies Saku, let's just find a way to get the bags in there " replied Tomoyo
Many people stared as the two girls heaved their humungous bags into the tiny coffee shop. But soon after, they resumed to what they were doing, all except for a chesnut haired man. He stared at the girl with auburn hair and remembered. "Sakura" he whispered. His whisper caught her ear, and she turned to look his way, but he quickly turned so she couldn't see him, blushing furiously. She shrugged and went to the counter to buy a coffee and as Tomoyo went to the bathroom.
"Wow.. so many choices… mmmm can I have a ice cappuccino and a french vanilla?" Syaoran watched her order. 'Wow, she's so graceful in everything. Maybe I should talk to her.' But before he could get up, four guys, who swaggered as they walked approached her. His eyes narrowed, but he watched being ready for anything.
"Hey what's a cutie like you doing alone in a coffee shop?" asked the first one looking at her perfect body. "Yea, why don't you come with us, and we'll give you so much fun." Said the second one as he lay his hand across her butt.
"Kindly take your hand off me" said Sakura as she took his hand and took it off her ass. But the guy took her hands and pulled her close and whispered, 'What if I don't? What if I take you home and touch you all over and – ' but he never got to finish as he was punched in the face. The other three guys were about to retaliate but when they saw who hit their leader, they bowed and murmered words of apologies as they dragged their leader out of the small shop.
Sakura was crying now and she slid to crouch down burying her head in her arms. She looked up as a hand touched to shoulder to see the amber eyes that she had remembered. "Li-san, Thank you." He took her face in his hands and wiped her tears away with his thumbs and whispered, "don't worry, I'll protect you." Her eyes snapped open as she remembered that her boyfriend… correction, ex-boyfriend had always said that to her. Yet he had been the person that had hurt her.
She snapped her head away, startling Syaoran, but he never got to reply as Tomoyo came rushing to her friend. "What happened? YOU!" She turned and tacked Syaoran and started to strangle him, but Sakura pulled her off just before he was about to pass out of lack of oxygen. She told Tomoyo the story and Tomoyo, in turn, put on her evil smirk. The smirk that Sakura never understood. A smirk that spelt trouble.
"Li-san, would you like to come over for dinner?" she asked Syaoran. "NANI?" squeaked Sakura but Syaoran agreed and Tomoyo dragged Sakura out of the coffee shop before she could say another word. "Why'd you do that Tomoyo? We don't' even know him!"
"Of course we know him. We met him on the plane remmber? Anyways, Sakura, you can't go on thinking about Ryu. You know he's an ass. Besides, this is your chance to make it up to Li! You rejected his friendship because you said you guys would never meet but here he was saving you! IT"S A SIGN! OH MY GOSH! Hehehehehehehe!" And Tomoyo went into a fit of giggles as she babbled on about Sakura and Li and how they'd be so cute together while Sakura was deep in thought. Maybe… just maybe…
Scene Jump
At the Li mansion, it was dead quiet until there was a deafening roar. "WHAT!" It was coming from the office where Syaoran and his father were having a discussion.
"What do you mean I have to marry within 6 months! FATHER it's IMPOSSIBLE. I can't find someone within that time! WHAT HAPPENED TO 18?"
"Syaoran, calm down" Mr. Li said, rubbing his temples. "I really didn't want to do this, but you know how the elders are. I've completed my term as leader and I'm really getting too old for all the stress. Besides, the elders think you're perfectly capable. All you need, is a wife"
Syaoran huffed as he paced the room. And then he stopped. "What if I'm not there for the announcement tonight? What if I don't go to the party tonight and announce that I'm taking over the clan early? What would they do THEN?"
Mr. Li's eyes narrowed. "Syaoran, don't you think about that. You know perfectly well that we could track you down. And then you'd be in much more trouble. Now go, I've had enough of this conversation."
Syaoran left the office and stormed up to his room where he put on his headfones and blasted the music into his ears. Why did the elders have to be so stupid? Why did his dad have to be so weak? Where was Sakura now? Woah.. where'd that come from? He sat up and looked at the time. Seeing it was approaching 7, the time he was supposed to go to their house, he got ready and thought… maybe… maybe…