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"…" Speech
Italics Thoughts and accented words
# … # Songs
(…) My notes
… Time and scene changes
… POV's
Flashback from the last chapter"Welcome to the Li Mansion," he said. "Who do you want to see?"
"We're friends of Meiling," started Tomoyo.
"We're here to organize this music thing for school with her," stated Sakura. Just then footsteps could be heard from the staircase behind the man.
"Who is it, Wei?" asked a low voice.
Chapter 7
"Master Li," said Wei, the butler, bowing. "These two girls are here to see Miss. Li for their school music performance. Syaoran looked around to see Tomoyo and Sakura standing there.
"Oh," he said. "Come in." Sakura and Tomoyo stepped into the unfamiliar mansion of the Li's.
"XIAO LANG!" called a voice belonging to Meiling. "Are they here yet?"
"Sakura and Tomoyo just arrived!" Syaoran called back. After Syaoran replied, Meiling bounded down the stairs.
"Ohayou!" she said happily.
"Ohayou Meiling," the two girls replied.
"Xiao Lang, can you tell me when Eriol gets here?" asked Meiling.
"Yeah, whatever," answered Syaoran, as he headed upstairs.
"Come with me, you two. I'll tour you around Xiao Lang's house." Said Meiling.
"Okay," said Tomoyo and Sakura. They were shown all over the house.
Ding Dong"That must be Eriol," said Meiling. "I'll get it." She opened the door and there stood Eriol.
"Ohayou Eriol," said Meiling. "Come on in."
They went to the living room, where Wei had provided some afternoon snacks for them.
"Xiao Lang!" called Meiling again. "Come down so we can get started!" Syaoran came down the steps, looking as though he's rather not be there.
"Let's go to the room which I call the mirror room!" said Meiling happily. They followed Meiling into a fairly large room with white walls and a huge mirror at the back.
"I thought that we could use this room, so that we can see ourselves perform," Meiling explained, flopping herself down onto a crimson red beanbag.
"So, what are we going to do?" asked Eriol. "Just sit here and do nothing?"
"I'll make the costumes!" volunteered Tomoyo cheerfully.
"All right, you can do that," said Meiling.
"I just need people's measurements!" explained Tomoyo, switching into hyper mode. She pulled out a measuring tape and started at Sakura.
"Hoe…why do you have to me?" asked Sakura. "I thought you already had mine!"
"Well, that was a few years ago. Now is now. You would've grown in that time," said Tomoyo, still measuring. Tomoyo took everyone's measurements and jotted them down on a piece of paper. After that, no one said anyone. There was complete and utter silence.
"Well, this is interesting," said Sakura, playing with her hair.
"If we're not going to anything here, why waste time? I'm going," muttered Syaoran and headed for the door.
"Hey! You can't go!" exclaimed Meiling.
"Watch me," said Syaoran, not turning to face her. Eriol grabbed a cushion and chucked it at Syaoran's retreating back.
"Oww!" Syaoran said as he rubbed his head. "You're going to pay for that Hiiragazawa."
He walked over to the cupboard and took out an extremely fluffy pillow and threw it hard at Eriol. Eriol ducked and the pillow hit Meiling.
"XIAO LANG!" she screamed and threw it back, but it hit Sakura, face on. And from there, they had a huge pillow fight, which ended after about an hour or so of screaming and pillows flying through the air. And with Tomoyo filming them happily, Sakura playfully chucked a pillow at her, and Tomoyo got involved in the pillow fight as well.
After the enormous fight, there were pillows everywhere on the floor as well as feathers. With everyone out of breath, they went back to the living room.
"Would you like to stay for a sleepover?" asked Meiling kindly.
"Sure." They all replied.
"Meiling, can I use the phone? I need to ring my dad." Said Sakura.
"Yeah sure. It's right over there." She pointed to the far corner.
"Thanks," said Sakura and went to the phone. She entered her phone number and rang.
"Hello, Kinomoto Residence." Said a voice, which Sakura recognized as Touya's.
"Hi Touya! I'm staying over at Meiling's house for a sleepover."
"WHAT!" exclaimed Touya. "BUT THAT GAKI LIVES THERE!"
"He's not going to do anything. Is Dad home yet?"
"Nah, he's not."
"In that case, can you bring over my stuff I need for me?"
"But-"
"Thanks so much Touya! See you in a few." And with that Sakura hung up. Tomoyo had called her mother to bring up her stuff and Eriol magically teleported his stuff over.
"Let's sleep in the room next to the balcony!" squealed Meiling.
"I'm sleeping in my own room," said Syaoran.
"Oh come on Xiao Lang. Don't be a party pooper," said Meiling, giving him puppy dog eyes.
"That's not going to work Meiling."
"Please Syaoran, for us?" asked Sakura, innocently.
Syaoran took a deep breath and sighed, "Alright." Tomoyo and Meiling exchanged looks and burst into giggles.
"Good." Said Meiling. "I'll show you the room." She led them to a room that was very spacious and it had pale blue walls.
Ding dong"There's someone at the door. Let's go see," Meiling said. The three girls went downstairs to see who was at the door. Wei answered the door.
"Welcome to the Li Mansion," he began. "Who may I ask are you looking for?"
"Syaoran Li." Replied a girl's voice.
"Katrina!" spat Meiling. "What the hell do you think you're doing here?"
"Looking for my Syaoran," she replied, scanning her perfectly shaped fingernails.
"Syaoran doesn't belong to you!" argued Tomoyo.
"So? I just wanted to see him. Is that against the law?" asked Katrina, looking as though she didn't see anything wrong with it.
Upstairs
"What's taking them so long?" asked an irritated Syaoran.
"Beats me. Want to go check on them?" suggested Eriol.
"Well, I would've said no, but since there's nothing else to do…" The two guys headed downstairs to see the girls shouting at the person at the door. They stood back for a while to see what they were arguing about.
"Syaoran doesn't deserve low lives such as yourself. He deserves…someone like me," spat Katrina, flipping her hair angrily.
"Who asked you to come here anyway?" asked Sakura.
"I invited myself. It's a free country you know?" said Katrina. Syaoran and Eriol thought the argument had gone far enough and stepped forward.
"What are you doing her, Katrina?" said Eriol coldly.
"Why, I'm here to see my boyfriend Syaoran of course." Said Katrina, flashing him a smile. Sakura glared at her.
"I'm not your boyfriend." Said Syaoran in a cold tone.
"Don't be silly Syaoran. You don't need girls like these, when you've already got me," said Katrina, seductively. Syaoran glared at her. But didn't say anything.
Katrina continued, "Especially Kinomoto here. She thinks so highly of herself, but really, she's just an ugly slut that is unwanted by everyone." Sakura ran back up the stairs, crying. Tomoyo shot Katrina a glare and ran after her.
Syaoran was furious, but tried to keep his cool, but failing to.
"Shut up." He said quietly.
"Why? Just because Kinomoto is a slut, you don't have to deny it," she shrugged. Syaoran couldn't help it anymore and lunged for Katrina, who jumped back out of shock. Meiling and Eriol help onto Syaoran's arms to stop him from killing Katrina.
"Xiao Lang, chill out," said Meiling.
"Go!" Eriol spat at Katrina, who left indignantly. Meiling slammed the door shut.
"I'm going to check on Sakura," said Meiling. "You guys can go if you want." And with that she headed up the stairs.
Meiling found them sitting on the mattress. Sakura had stopped crying, but her tears had stained her face and it was obvious that she had been crying.
"But what if what Katrina said is true?" asked Sakura. "What if I am unwanted by everyone?"
"Sakura, don't pay any attention to her. She's just jealous of you," said Tomoyo soothingly.
"Okay…" Sakura nodded, but didn't look too sure of herself.
"Tomoyo's right you know," said Meiling, patting her arm.
Ding dong"Oh no! That must be Touya with my stuff! I can't let him see me like this! He'll probably think it's all Syaoran's fault." Cried Sakura.
"Don't worry Sakura! I've got just the thing for you," winked Meiling. She led Sakura onto a seat in front of a mirror and she and Tomoyo applied some make up for her so that she wouldn't too pale.
"That's much better. Sakura, you go downstairs first," said Tomoyo. "We'll pack up these things." Sakura headed downstairs.
"Is Sakura always like this?" asked Meiling thoughtfully.
"Sakura's just sensitive and can be very gullible sometimes. What she needs is self confidence and other people to believe in her." Explained Tomoyo.
"And I know just the person," said Meiling.
"So do I," said Tomoyo. "We'd better go downstairs now, before Sakura realizes we're not there." They went downstairs.
Instead of Touya there, it was Sonomi, along with Tomoyo's belongings. She was talking animatedly with Wei.
"Oh hi, Tomoyo!" said Sonomi. "I've brought up your stuff."
"Thanks," replied Tomoyo. Syaoran and Eriol then appeared from upstairs and joined them.
"Feeling better?" whispered Eriol to Sakura.
"Yeah…I guess," muttered Sakura.
"Don't let Katrina get to you," said Syaoran. "She only said that because you're much prettier than she would ever be." Sakura nodded, blushing. Just then Touya appeared at the door as well.
"Is this the Li Mansion?" he asked, glancing around.
"Why, yes it is." Replied Wei.
Sakura moved forwards. "Thanks for bringing my stuff Touya."
"No problem kaijuu," said Touya. "Hey, is there something wrong?" he asked, noticing that she wasn't as genki as she used to be.
"Hoe? Oh. There's nothing wrong Touya," said Sakura, giving him a weak smile.
"Well, it better not be that stupid gaki, otherwise I'll-"
"No, no, no Touya. There's really nothing wrong. Syaoran didn't do anything to me," said Sakura and then seeing Touya's suspicious look, said, "Really."
"I'll be going then. See you tomorrow kaijuu."
"Sayonara Touya," said Sakura.
"Well! Look at the time!" exclaimed Sonomi. "I must get going now. I don't want to be late for my next conference. Now do I? Bye Tomoyo, dear."
They all returned to the room next to the balcony (I'm going to call this room the balcony room from now on) to set up their sleeping stuff and then went down to have dinner.
They ate dinner in silence and returned to the balcony room. Meiling brought in a mini radio and plugged it in the corner.
"What do people's want to listen to?" asked Meiling.
"Oh, I love that song by Kelly Clarkson." Said Tomoyo. "But I just can't remember what it was called."
"Break away?" asked Sakura.
"Yeah, that's the one!" exclaimed Tomoyo.
"Okay, cool. I have the C-D right here. I'll go get it!" said Meiling and she ran out of the room and ran back in again holding a C-D in her hands.
"Kelly Clarkson's C-D," she said, popping it into the mini radio. The song started playing moments later.
#Grew up in a small town
And when the rain
would fall down
I'd just stare out my window
Dreaming of what
could be
And if I'd end up happy
I would pray
Trying
hard to reach out
But when I tried to speak out
Felt like no
one could hear me
Wanted to belong here
But something felt so
wrong here
So I'd pray
I could break away
I'll spread my
wings and I'll learn how to fly.
I'll do what it takes till I
touch the sky.
Make a wish, take a chance,
Make a change, and
break away.
Out of the darkness and into the sun.
But I won't
forget all the ones that I love.
I'll take a risk, take a
chance,
Make a change, and break away
Wanna feel the warm
breeze
Sleep under a palm tree
Feel the rush of the ocean
Get
onboard a fast train
Travel on a jetplane
Far away
And break
away
I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly.
I'll
do what it takes till I touch the sky.
Make a wish, take a
chance,
Make a change, and break away.
Out of the darkness and
into the sun.
But I won't forget all the ones that I love.
I'll
take a risk, take a chance,
Make a change, and break
away
Buildings with a hundred floors
Swinging with
revolving doors
Maybe I don’t know where they’ll
take me
Gotta keep movin on movin on
Fly away
Break
away
I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly.
Though
it’s not easy to tell you goodbye
Take a risk, take a
chance,
Make a change, and break away.
Out of the darkness and
into the sun.
But I won't forget the place I come from
I gotta
take a risk, take a chance,
Make a change, and break
away
Breakaway
Break away#
"Ooh. I love that song!" squealed Tomoyo. (I just chose a random song. It's not my favourite or anything.)
"We'd better go to sleep now," said Eriol as a matter of factly.
"Yeah, otherwise we wouldn't be able to wake up in time for school tomorrow." Said Meiling. They all snuggled into their sleeping bags and fell asleep almost instantly, except for Syaoran, who lay wide awake, thinking.
TBC
I've finally finished chapter 7! Thanks to all you people's who are reviewing! Keep reading, it's going to get better later, I just didn't know how to start it off. Anyway, see you later.
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