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"…" Speech
Italics Thoughts and accented words
# … # Songs
(…) My notes
… Time and scene changes
… POV's
Flashback from the last chapter"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.
Chapter 8
Gaah! I can't get to sleep! Why are you always on my mind? Grr…thought Syaoran. That's it! I'm going outside! Syaoran walked over the sleeping bodies and out the back door. He picked up his sword and started his training.
"Little Wolf…"murmured Sakura and snapped wide awake. Hoe? Where did that come from? She turned over onto her side. What's wrong with me? And who's Little Wolf? I think I need some fresh air…Sakura tiptoed over Tomoyo and stepped quietly out of the balcony room. She walked over to the balcony to get some fresh air. She looked down at the Li's back garden and it was a beautiful sight with fully bloomed cherry blossom trees with other flowers. She glanced at her watch. It's only midnight, she thought to herself. She looked down at the garden again and saw a dark figure moving around. Hoe? Who can that be? She took a step forward. Then she saw him as he turned around, facing the moonlight. Hoe? It's Syaoran! Why would he be out here? Sakura took a step backwards, hoping that Syaoran didn't notice she was there., but it was too late.
"Sakura? Is that you?" he asked, glancing up.
"Hai," she answered, walking down the steps and into the garden. "What are you doing here so late?" she asked, looking at his sword.
Syaoran smirked. "I should be asking you the same thing."
"Well, I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep." Replied Sakura and suddenly felt a green aura close by. "Did you feel that?" she blurted out.
"Feel what?" asked Syaoran suspiciously.
Sakura, realizing what she had just said, quickly replied, "Oh, nothing. It's just me. So, what are you doing with a sword?"
"Just training," he replied casually. "All the Li's learn martial arts. It's like a traditional thing." He explained and he felt an aura close by, but it was pink. That's strange. I don't know of anyone who has a magical aura here except Eriol, but his one is blue. I must be imagining things, he thought and shook it off.
"Oh, I see," said Sakura, shivering.
Syaoran noticed this and asked, "You cold?"
Sakura blushed, "Just a little."
"You know you don't have to stay outside with m," said Syaoran.
"I know that. I just can't fall asleep again that's all!" said Sakura. Syaoran took off his jacket and placed it on Sakura's shoulder's. Sakura was blushing madly.
"Y-You d-d-don't have t-to d-do this S-Syaoran. Otherwise, you'd be cold," said Sakura.
"It's- it's okay. I'm used to tough weather."
"Thank-you Syaoran," Sakura whispered.
"Anything for you, my cherry blossom," said Syaoran, so quietly that Sakura couldn't hear.
Sakura sat herself down on the bench, snuggling herself into Syaoran's jacket. Syaoran sat next to her. There were a few minutes of silence and then Syaoran felt something on his shoulder. He looked down to see Sakura's head, gently resting on his shoulder, fast asleep. He smiled to himself. She looks so innocent just lying there. Just like a fallen angel, he thought to himself. I can't just leave her out here, otherwise we'd both freeze. Syaoran carefully picked Sakura up, being cautious not to wake her up. He headed up the balcony steps and to the balcony room, only to find that the door was shut and locked. Oh no. The wind must've blew the door shut and now we're locked up! Great…Just what I needed. To be locked out of the balcony room with a sleeping Sakura. I'd better take her up to my room then.
Syaoran walked quietly to his room and placed the sleeping Sakura onto his bed and pulled the covers over her. He saw Sakura roll over, but didn't wake up. Syaoran took out a book to read, turned on his reading light and sat at his desk.
"My little wolf…" said Sakura in a faint whisper, not knowing that she did and smiled. Huh? Little wolf? I'm pretty sure that Sakura can't speak Chinese. (Xiao Lang is little wolf in Chinese for all you people who don't know!) Wonder what she's on about…thought Syaoran and returned to his book.
Early in the morning
Sakura blinked a few times and soon her vision came into focus.
"Where am I?" she asked herself quietly. She found herself in a comfortable bed and everything was green in colour. She sat up on the bed and looked around and saw Syaoran, sleeping on his arms at his desk with an abandoned book. This must be Syaoran's room…He must really like the colour green, she thought.
She lay back down again and heard a very faint voice. She could barely hear it, but she could make out the words 'cherry blossom'. She quickly forgot about as she remembered what happened last night. Why am I in Syaoran's room? I should be with Meiling and Tomoyo in the balcony room. She slid out of bed and walked to the balcony room and turned the doorknob, but it was locked. Oh, that must be why Syaoran took me to his room .
Sakura found her way back to Syaoran's room and she realized that Syaoran has woken up.
"Ohayou Syaoran!" she greeted him, in her usual genki way.
"Ohayou Sakura," he replied.
"Syaoran, I wanted to thank you," said Sakura. "For yesterday and for everything else you've done for me…"
"It's nothing," said Syaoran, turning away, blushing. Sakura glanced at the clock on the desk and it read 07.15am.
"Do you want to go wake the others?" asked Sakura, with a mysterious smile on her face.
"Sure," replied Syaoran. They walked up to the balcony room. Sakura banged loudly on the door.
"It's time to wake up now!" yelled Sakura, loudly. Eriol snapped awake and yelled stupidly, "What's happening?" Sakura and Syaoran burst into fits of laughter.
"It's a surprise to hear Xiao Lang laughing again," whispered Meiling to Tomoyo. "He hardly smiles anymore, let alone laugh."
"When did this happen?" asked Tomoyo in whispers.
"Ever since his father died. He's been like this ever since." Explained Meiling. Eriol fell asleep again.
Sakura banged loudly on the door again. "Hello? Are you going to let us in or not?" she yelled. Eriol snapped awake again and screamed so loudly that Meiling and Tomoyo had to block their ears. Eriol's scream resembled a girl with a high-pitched scream. Sakura and Syaoran both burst out laughing again. Sakura was on all fours and clutching her stomach, while Syaoran was leaning against the wall for support.
"I – didn't – know – that – Eriol – screams – like – a-a – girl!" said Syaoran, between breaths of laughter. When they had recovered from all their laughter, Tomoyo opened the door for them.
"What were you guys doing out there?" she asked confused.
"We were locked out," said Sakura.
"Thanks for banging on the door Sakura," muttered Eriol, sarcastically.
"No problem, Eriol," replied Sakura and she and Syaoran burst into laughter all over again.
"Umm…we'd better get to school now…" said Tomoyo. "Otherwise, we'd be late." Sakura snapped out of laughter and said, "HOE?" The rest of them burst into laughter, while Sakura sat there confused.
"It's – only – 7 – 30 – Saku," said Meiling, trying to stop laughing, but couldn't help it.
"Hey," Sakura pouted. "That's not nice!"
"We'd better change and get some breakfast before we go to school," said Syaoran.
"Yeah, I agree. I'll lend you some clothes," said Meiling, facing Sakura and Tomoyo.
"Okay," they both agreed. Eriol followed Syaoran to change elsewhere, while Meiling led Tomoyo and Sakura to her room, which was a nice shade of red. She opened her closet.
"Choose any outfit you want," she told them, as she took an outfit and went into the bathroom. Sakura picked out a emerald green tank top to bring out the colour of her eyes and a pair of light blue jeans with a chain on the side. Tomoyo took a strapless dark blue top and a knee length white shirt. They took turns to change. They all grabbed their backpacks, met up with the boys and went outside.
"I can't be bothered walking today," said Meiling. "Who wants to ride a limo?" Sakura looked delighted.
"Me! I love limos!" she cried childishly. Meiling took out her mobile and dialed a number.
"They'll be here soon to pick us up," she said, putting her mobile back into her pocket. In around two minutes, sure enough, a limo pulled up outside the Li Mansion. The driver got out from the front seat and opened the door for them. Eriol climbed in first, then Syaoran, followed by Sakura and finally Tomoyo and Meiling.
In a few minutes, the limo stopped outside the school gates. Gasps could be heard from the students nearby.
"I wonder who could be in there." Said one person
"I've always wanted a limo like that one." Said another.
The driver got out of the limo again and opened the door for them once more and they walked out, with other students looking at them.
"Well, that was a jazzy entrance," said Tomoyo gleefully.
"We should do that more often!" exclaimed Meiling.
"First period, music," said Eriol.
"I can't wait to see what we're doing!" said Sakura. They all walked together to the music classroom.
"Good morning class!" said Misuki-sensei. "There has been a change of plans for the music performance." The class groaned. "All the teachers and I have decide to cancel all of the end of term examinations in order for this to work." The sound of cheers from the class was deafening. "Instead of singing in a group that I choose. I would like you to choose your own groups of three, preferably not mixed. All of the other classes are organizing this as well and there will be a competition for the best girls' group and the best boys' group. The two winners from each class will represent their class up on stage at the end of term. The two winners out of the whole year level will win a little something. Any questions?"
Tomoyo raised her hand. "How do we vote for the winners of our class?"
"That's a good question Miss. Daidouji. To decide the representatives from our class we will have a two votes. One for a boy's group and one for the girl's. If there is a tie with two groups I will add a vote to the group I think was best. To decide the year level winner, there will be judges. The judges then decide together who deserves to win." Explained the sensei.
"How many songs do we perform?" asked Katrina.
"Each group first starts off with one song. If you are the winner of this class, you may choose a different song to sing in the finals if you wish. And then, if you make it to the final four, which is two boy groups and two girl groups, then you may choose yet another song. Are there any more questions? No? Good. Now divide yourselves into a group of three and start preparing. Oh yeah, and before I forget, you must come up with a name for your group. Now get working." A bunch of chatter broke out immediately. Tomoyo, Sakura and Meiling formed a group, Syaoran, Eriol and Yamazaki formed a group and Rika, Chiharu and Naoko formed a group.
"What do you want to call ourselves?" asked Tomoyo to the other two.
"How about 'Pink Sparks'?" suggested Sakura.
"Perfect!" said Meiling "That's a great idea! I love it. You agree Tomo?"
"Definitely," agreed Tomoyo. "Now we need a song."
"Are you two thinking what I'm thinking?" asked Sakura.
"MOULIN ROUGE!" they all exclaimed together.
"Great! That's decided then," confirmed Sakura.
"If anyone asks, say it's a surprise," said Meiling.
"I've got the soundtrack at home, so we could practice at my house," volunteered Tomoyo.
"Good. We've got it all under control," said Meiling. "Now we just need to rehearse."
"Let's go ask if we could practice in a private room," said Sakura. They went to ask for permission and they went into the little classroom linked to the normal classroom they were in.
"This classroom's good. No one can hear us hear," said Tomoyo.
"I've downloaded the song on my mobile," said Sakura. "We could listen to it now and join in if we know the words."
"Okay!" said Meiling and Tomoyo enthusiastically.
Before long, it was lunchtime already and they were sitting under the usual cherry blossom tree. Most of the talk nowadays was always about the music performance, which had officially had a name. It was now decided that is was called the 'Hip Hop and Twirl'.(I couldn't think of anything better . ) They would constantly overhear Katrina talking to anyone who would bother to listen about how she would win the competition and get the prize. After a few weeks of practicing, the elimination rounds were drawing nearer and nearer. (I know I'm skipping a lot, but I have no idea what to write! AAH!)
After a months time, their class gathered in the hall, ready to perform their best.
"Welcome everyone to the class elimination for 'Hip Hop and Twirl'!" said the sensei into the microphone. The hall filled with cheers.
"First up, we have…"
TBC
Yay! I'm getting more reviews! Since I've made this competition for singing, please feel free to suggest a song or a few songs for me to include in the next few chapters. I am completely lost when it comes to choosing songs. There are so many good ones, I don't know which ones to choose! Oh yeah, if you're going to do this for me, please choose both guy and girl songs, since guys are in the comp as well! Arigatou.
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