Syaoran stared at the girl that had just fainted on him, kissing him. He couldn't help but stare at Sakura's wispy brown hair and how nicely combed it was. Quickly reacting, Syaoran strongly pushed Sakura away and pinched himself, making sure he wouldn't think that way anymore.
"Oh no!" a girl called, quickly grabbing Sakura before she fell straight to the ground, "What are you doing? Watch it, kid! She could've bumped her head hard on the floor and gone mental!"
"Sorry…" Syaoran replied at the furious girl.
"That's it? Just 'sorry'? Come on! Help me! I can't just drag her to the coach by myself!" the girl scolded.
"Yes you can." Syaoran answered coldly.
"What? You're so rude!"
"You are too."
"Are you going to help, or not?"
Reluctantly, Syaoran picked up Sakura's other arm and the two dragged her to the coach.
"Coach! Coach! This girl fainted!" the girl exclaimed, "She almost fell straight to the ground because of someone." the girl glared straight at Syaoran.
Mr. King, the coach, placed the back of his hand on Sakura's forehead.
"This girl's got a fever, and she must have overworked herself a bit. She'll be fine after some rest. Bring her to the nurse's room." the coach said.
Syaoran and the girl listened to Joe's (Mr. King) order and dragged her to the nurse's room.
"Nurse! This girl, she fainted! She needs to lie on the bed." the girl exclaimed.
"Oh! Quickly come over her and bring her onto the bed." the nurse said, pointing to the white bed in the room. "What's this poor darling's name?"
"I don't know…" the girl replied.
"It's Sakura, Sakura Kinomoto, from Japan." Syaoran answered.
"Good," the nurse said, recording down her name on a piece on yellow form paper. "And your names are?"
"My name's Tara Broweth." the girl quickly replied.
"I'm Syaoran Li." Syaoran said.
"Good, good." the nurse replied. "Syaoran, is it? You can stay with Sakura and watch her until she awakens."
"And don't hurt her." Tara mumbled, glaring.
Syaoran was astounded. First of all, he didn't want to look after Sakura. Second of all, he had classes to go to. And third of all, he didn't want to accidentally get crazy weird feelings about Sakura again. Reluctantly he took a chair beside the bed and sat, head in hands.
Moments later, Sakura finally awoke.
"Where…" Sakura mumbled softly.
Syaoran looked at Sakura and replied, "Great, you're awake. Now I can leave."
"Where am I?" Sakura whispered.
"You're in the nurse's room, "Syaoran replied, while standing up, getting ready to go.
"Wait-" Sakura replied, grabbing Syaoran's hand.
Surprised, Syaoran said, "What do you want?"
"What time…" she mumbled.
"What?"
"What time is it?"
"It's near lunch."
Sakura's eyes widened. "Oh no! My father will be so mad. I said I was going to learn here, not lie around. My dad will be so mad when he finds out!" Quickly Sakura sat up on her bed and grabbed her bags.
"Where are you going?" Syaoran asked.
"To class!"
"It's lunch soon! You'll never make it!"
"Never say never!"
"You just did!"
"Stop bothering me! I have to go to class!" Sakura said, running out of the room. Just when she reached the door way, the lunch bell rang.
"Ah…I missed it!" Sakura said, sighing.
"Who cares?"
"I do!" Sakura replied, glaring straight at Syaoran. She was starting to HATE this kid! "I'm not like you! I need to learn here, unlike you! My dad reluctantly let me go here, and he wouldn't have let me come if this wasn't such a great opportunity to learn! I'm going to learn here and make my dad proud! Do you get it, Syaoran? Are you not here to learn? Or are you worthless? What do you do here, Syaoran? You drive me so mad! You are so rude! You just interrupt out of nowhere when I'm talking. You never say sorry when you bump into me, and even worse you talk so rudely!" Sakura blurted in one breath.
Syaoran just stared.
After Sakura caught her breath she looked down at the floor and softly replied, "Gomenasai. I guess I lost my temper."
Without saying anything, or even making any noise, Syaoran walked away. It made Sakura wonder whether he even heard her apology.
Slowly, Sakura strolled towards the cafeteria. When she got there she quickly saw Tomoyo.
"Sakura! I've been looking all over for you! Where have you been?" Tomoyo exclaimed, running over to Sakura.
"Gomenasai! I…think I fainted during gym. I'm not sure…"
"Are you alright?"
"Yes, I'm completely alright. Let's get something to eat!"
"You know, they have a sushi stand here!"
"Really?"
"Yes, really!"
"Let's get some!"
Quickly, Tomoyo ran over to the stand and ordered some sushi. In no time, she returned with a plate of nice tasty sushi.food."
"Itadakimasu." Sakura said, before eating her sushi.
"Mmmm…oishii!" Tomoyo exclaimed, after eating her first piece of salmon sushi.
"Canadian sushi is better than I expected!" Sakura replied.
"Hai!" Tomoyo agreed.
After lunch, Sakura looked at her schedule sheet and ran to her next class - English. While entering the classroom, she noticed a familiar boy, sitting in a desk in the far end of the room.
Syaoran! Again! Sakura thought.
Sakura walked to on of the seats, and made sure she sat far away from Syaoran.
"Students, boys and girls, please take out your books."
Sakura watched nervously as everyone took out a thicnk red text book with the words ENGLISH on it, even Syaoran. She gulped, seeing that every single person in the classroom had flipped to a certain page already.
"Kore, iru?"
"Huh?" Sakura said, looking at the girl sitting beside her.
"Watashi wa Meiling Li desu." the girl said, smiling at Sakura. "I'm from Hong Kong, but I've been at this school beforefor quite a while. You might've met my cousin; he's new here, also from Hong Kong. His name is Syaoran."
Sakura's eyes widened. Another Hong Kong person and a relative of Syaoran's too, she thought.
Meiling took out another red ENGLISH textbook from her bag. "Kore, iru?" she said.
Sakura made no reply.
"Aren't you Japanese? Can't you understand 'Kore, iru?'? It means 'Do you need this?'." Meiling said, handing Sakura a red textbook.
"Un, Arigato." Sakura replied awkwardly, taking the textbook.
"You do know Japanese! You should've replied earlier! Here you go. You don't need to return itn until you get one of your own." Meiling answered.
"I hear some chit-chat at the back, girls." the teacher scolded, pointing to Melining and Sakura. Sakura blushed.. "Anyway, I'm Mrs. Bradshaw. Now, please flip to page 60 and start working."
In the other end of the classroom, Syaoran couldn't help but stare at Sakura. He told himself not to stare at her, but the more he convinced himself not to, the more he did.
She looks nice in that shirt, Syaoran thought. Quickly, he caught himself and slapped himself on the arm. He was thinking weird thoughts about Sakura all through English class, and just couldn't stop himself.
Syaoran thought, Why am I thinking these thoughts? I've never thought such stupid things about any girl before. But…this girl…she's different. No! She's NOT different! I shouldn't have feelings for her! But...this Sakura…she talks different. When she yells at me, it makes me feel…weird. Maybe that's how I've felt always, and never noticed. But how could I have never noticed? Maybe, it's because this feeling is new to me. UGH! Stop being STUPID, Syaoran! Sakura, Sakura, Sakura…I don't like her, do I?