HELLO! Thanx for being so patient! Anywayzz…to quote myself 'Let's get on with the story!'
Chapter 5
Syaoran almost chuckled as he watched Sakura squirming under his steady amber gaze. He had to admit she was beautiful, then again so were the other hundred girls who vied for his attention. He had to remind himself that this girl was no different.
Sakura had had enough. 'If he wants to stare at something, that's fine as long as it isn't me.' she thought
She turned and stared at him square in the eye, "Look, if you've got something to say to me then say it, otherwise stop staring, its rude."
He smiled wryly, "And if I say no?"
"Then you Christopher Ang," she made sure to emphasize his new name, "Will find yourself in court with divorce papers in your hands."
His eyes widened. "Excuse me?"
She sat up straighter, "You heard me, I don't care who you are, I'm not going to take this kind of ridicule, so you either find something else to stare at, or take a hike!"
His eyes narrowed as she sat back and relaxed once again. Then an idea popped into his head. He sat back and continued staring her way.
The vein in Sakura's neck was about to pop. "I. Thought. I. Told. You. To stop. Staring. At me!" she stated through clenched teeth.
He smirked slightly. "I'm not staring at you, I'm staring at the window."
She breathed out angrily, then got up and stalked towards the bathroom, "Where are you going?" he asked mockingly.
"To drown myself in the Pacific. I'd take sharks and deathly cold water over you any day." And with that slammed the bathroom door shut.
She sat down on the toilet seat and sighed wearily. "That guy is going to drive me crazy!"
She looked down at her watch, then groaned, "Five more hours! Ugh! Well I'm not coming out of here till this flight is over!"
Then she realized the date. 'Ok, only one more week until I can know.' She sighed heavily thinking about the possibility of being pregnant. Her period wasn't supposed to come for another week. She prayed with every fiber of her being, for the first time in her life, that it would come.
She leaned back against the wall. 'What if I am pregnant?' she thought. 'What would I do then? Well at least my marriage to that jerk would actually be believable seeing as how our certificate said that we'd been married for a year.'
She cringed. 'Oh man, I'm not ready to have a baby. Heck I'm not even really married. And what if this does last for years and the baby sees 'him' as it's father. Man this is too complicated.'
She got up and stared at herself in the mirror. What she saw scared her. She had definitely lost some weight, her face looked tired and hollow, making her look like she hadn't slept in a weeks.
Someone knocked on the door. "Hayley! You didn't fall in did you?"
She groaned when she realized who it was, "Get lost Chris!"
"I'd love to but I need to go to the bathroom and so do other people on this plane."
She sighed, opened the door and gave him a death glare, then walked over to the flight attendant in charge of first class. "Excuse me there wouldn't happen to be an open seat would there?"
The attendant smiled knowingly, "Yes ma'am." She pointed to the first row, both seats were vacant. 'Well at least I'll get to lie down.'
She thanked the attendant, then dropped into the two seats, her head laying against the window, her feet pointing towards the aisle. She put her arm over her eyes, so she didn't notice when Syaoran came out of the bathroom.
At first Syaoran didn't notice her in the first row, but when he didn't see her in her seat he started searching frantically. He stopped suddenly when he felt someone tapping on his shoulder. It was the flight attendant. She pointed to the first row. "Don't worry it takes some time to get used to each other. The fact that she's pregnant doesn't help of course."
He turned not really listening, then whipped around when he realized what she said. "Excuse me?"
The elderly lady smiled knowingly, then walked away. Syaoran shook his head then went over to check on his charge. She looked like she was asleep but he knew she wasn't. He used his arm to nudge her foot. She picked up her arm, when she saw him she groaned and rolled over. "You have a perfectly good seat back there."
He raised his eyebrow. "So do you."
She scoffed, "I wouldn't say that."
He pushed her feet off the chair and tried to sit down, but ended up getting a kick in the back making him smash into the wall ahead. "If you want to sit, then I suggest you go back to your seat, I want to lie down."
She could practically see the steam coming out of his ears, as he huffed back towards his seat. She smiled. "Hayley-1 Chris-0"
Five Hours Later
Sakura stepped off the plane and stretched her arms. "Oh I thought that flight would never end!"
Syaoran came up behind her with all their bags. "You're telling me." he grumbled, still not happy about her winning that little battle. No woman had ever treated him this way. Most women would give anything to sit next to him, let alone be married to him, but not this one. 'Well at least I won't have to deal with a clingy wife.' He thought thankfully.
"Come on, there's a car here waiting for us." He said passing her.
"Oh really, well, how exactly are we going to find it? This is an airport you know. Or did that thought just seem to escape your miniscule mind?"
He didn't answer, but when they got to the parking garage he pulled out his keys, and hit a button. A BMW M5's lights flashed on and off, as well as making a high pitched bleep. "Oh." She whispered to herself making Syaoran glow with pride.
They got in the car and proceeded towards their new home. "So…" Sakura began. "Do we already have the furniture set up?"
"Yes. Everything is completely set up, all that we're missing now is food. We'll go grocery shopping later."
She turned to him. "We?"
"Yes 'we'. You don't think I'm actually going to leave you alone do you?"
"Well a girl can dream can't she?" she said while leaning the seat back.
Syaoran snorted. "You know, you're the first girl who hasn't fallen in 'love' with me?" he blurted it out before he could stop himself.
Sakura rolled her eyes. "Then I think I've done your oversized ego some good. And I thought that your big head was just genetics."
Syaoran for once didn't have a response instead he just settled for an awkward silence.
About an hour later they finally arrived at their new house. When Sakura stepped out of the car, she went to get her bags from the trunk, but Syaoran stopped her. "No I'll get these you go inside and—" before he could finish the sentence, an elderly woman suddenly came rushing up from across the street, carrying a pan in her hands.
"OOH you must be the newlywed couple! Welcome to our little town of Payson! My name is Eleanor Knowell."
Sakura put on a smile. "Hayley Ang, and my husband Chris." She said indicating Syaoran, who at the moment was busy getting out their luggage.
"Oh don't you two make a handsome couple! Well now why don't you show me where your refrigerator is, so I can put this casserole in there."
Without waiting for a reply she hustled up the sidewalk and opened up the front door, leaving Hayley wondering what was going on.
"Ok."(and trust me, I don't know what it is with mormon women and casseroles, but whenever someone moves into town, gets sick, or something along those lines, every woman in the church shows up at their doorstep with a casserole! But they definitely don't knock your door down, well, sometimes they do, but that's beside the point…. And no Eleanor is not mormon, there isn't going to be any religious stuff in this story don't worry! I just like putting mormon characteristics into my story, after all this is set in Utah…)
She followed Eleanor into the house, not exactly sure where the fridge was. She walked down the hallway, noticing a small sitting room, with a piano, a couch, a few chairs, and a grandfather clock.
She continued towards what she thought was the kitchen, to find it connected to the living room, and the dining room where a cozy fireplace sat in the corner with a television a few feet away from it, along with a couch and loveseat. The dining room only had a table with four chairs, and a china cabinet up against the wall next to the back door. The kitchen had an island that separated it from the dining room, and it had all the essentials, a stainless steel fridge, an oven, a microwave, a dishwasher etc.
She also noticed that Eleanor was bustling around in the fridge, obviously trying to set up the racks. "Here why don't you let me do that."
Eleanor waved her away saying, "No dear, you shouldn't be doing any hard labor in your condition."
Sakura was confused, "Condition?"
Eleanor stood up and faced her, confused as well, then a knowing look came over her face, "Oh you don't know yet, well I might as well tell you seeing as how you'll know soon anyway. You're pregnant."
Sakura blinked, "Excuse me? How—"
Eleanor cut her off with another confident wave, "Oh please I've seen enough pregnant women in my time to know when one is pregnant. You are. You have that glow about you. (I swear its freaky how people know, especially older women, I once met this Indian lady, and she knew that my aunt was pregnant before the pregnancy test could tell, just Eleanor!)
"Now," she changed the subject, "I've put a post-it note on the casserole giving you instructions, if you have any questions feel free to call me, my number is on there as well. Chances are that you'll have many visitors coming with casseroles, my advice, stay away from Miss Eugenia's chicken pot pie casserole, unless you want to spend the entire night in the bathroom if you know what I mean." She ended whispering.
"Well I should get going now, let you explore your new house. If you need to talk my door's always open. I'll come by later to check in on you. Ta!" and with that she left, passing Syaoran, who was on his way in with all the bags. When he reached the kitchen he saw Sakura staring at the still open fridge with a confused look.
He came over and gently touched her shoulder making her flinch away from him. She snapped out of her reverie, "Sorry." And with that she ran down the hallway towards the bedrooms and threw herself on the mattress that she had just claimed and began to cry.
A/n ok this is probably going to be my last update for a while, I know its short and all, but school's starting again next week, and I have to redo my freakin summer project for history. Stupid a.p classes…
Anywayz just keep checking for updates, I'll try to again this week, but I'm not going to make any promises.