Raye: Here's my new CCS Story! Please enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Cardcaptor Sakura or any of the familiar characters that you may find. I also do NOT own West Hartford CT or the schools in which you may see nor Bromley mountain or the condos. The unfamiliar students and all of the other people, however, are all mine.
"Sakura! Hey, what are you doing?"
A young freshman girl of high school turned around. Her shoulder-length amber-colored hair flipped behind her. Her big emerald eyes blinked at the sight of the person calling her name. Her lips formed a smile against her slightly tanned skin. She wore bright solid pink shirt with a gray sweater over it. The ever-classic jeans showed off her legs and her feet were kept warm by her light pink winter boots.
"Hey Chiharu! How are you?" she called back, her voice sweet and filled with joy on the fine December morning. It was the last week at Watkinson School before winter break.
Chiharu Mihara walked up to her smiling. Her bright brown eyes were open and sparkling at her. Her usual braids bounced as she walked. She wore a green winter coat which concealed a white tee-shirt and she also sported jeans and black Converse shoes. "I'm great! How about you?"
The two girls entered one of the four buildings on the school's campus; Goodwin hall. There, Naoko Yanagisawa and Rika Sasaki were digging through Naoko's backpack frantically.
"What's wrong?" Sakura asked as they approached the two urgent girls.
"We're looking for my English book!" Naoko's also brown eyes looked so big and worried behind her glasses. Her pale skin usually did her wonders, but today it didn't seem as good-looking as it usually did. Her dark brown hair was a bit messy as if she's rushed a brush through it instead of taking time on it as she usually had time to do. She black skirt was kind of dressy and her matching sweater made her look very formal.
Rika on the other hand looked pretty good. Her hair was curled and balanced on her head. It was dark brownish red and almost black. Her dullish brown eyes were filled with worry for her friend. She wore black pants, just plain and a pink sweater over a gray shirt.
"Do you need help?" Chiharu asked. Rika looked up and smiled. "We'll be ok, just tell Mrs. Lee that we'll be there soon, ok?"
Sakura smiled and nodded. "Sure!"
"Miss. Mihara, would you please answer the problem on the board?" Mrs. Race, their math teacher held out the marker expectantly at Chiharu who was blushing and looking from the board to her notebook and then glaring at her seat partner, Takashi Yamazaki.
Sakura giggled. Takashi would always distract Chiharu! 'They'd be a good couple,' she thought absent-mindedly.
Sakura had a boyfriend named Eriol Hiiragizawa. Other than that, he was her first and only boyfriend...
"Fine, seeing as you're not prepared, Miss. Mihara. Miss… Kinomoto, would you care to answer?" Mrs. Race looked at her now the with same eyes she had just looked at Chiharu with. Sakura laughed nervously and checked her notebook one more time before getting up hesitantly and walking to the board. She started writing out the flowchart proof to finding out if triangle ABD was congruent to triangle CBD. When she was done she returned to her seat and looked down; her face red.
Mrs. Race examined her work. "Not mad, Miss. Kinomoto, just a couple of errors…"
The first and second block classes finally ended and it was time for Sakura to go to lunch. There, she met up with Eriol.
"Eriol!" Sakura waved to her boyfriend who turned to smile at her. His skin was pale which showed off his navy blue eyes quite nicely and they were magnified behind his glasses. His matching hair made him look quite mysterious. He wore black baggy pants and a regular navy long-sleeved shirt and a grey sweater.
"Hello Sakura," he kissed her forehead. "How's my little girl doing today?"
Sakura laughed. "I'm doing fine, how are you?" she replied as the two entered the lunch line.
"I'm good, thanks."
All through lunch they talked about their winter vacation and what they'd do together and all the fun they'd have! Little did they know…
"Finally!" Sakura jumped for joy on the last day of school as the bell rand signaling the end of school. The carillon started playing Blue Skies by Irving Berlin and everyone rushed about trying to get to their rides which awaited to take them home where they'd spend their two weeks and two days of freedom doing absolutely nothing.
Sakura suddenly felt a vibrating from her pocket. "Hello?" she asked into her cell phone.
"Why hello Sakura!" her favorite cousin as well as best friend answered.
"Hey Tomoyo, how are you?" Sakura smiled.
Tomoyo Daidouji Had long waist-length blackish-violet hair. Her eyes were bluish and purplish and she had pale skin. Sakura loved her!
"I'm fine, thanks," Tomoyo replied. "I just called to tell you that tomorrow morning, my mom and I are going to come pick you up and we're going up to Vermont to go skiing at Bromley Mountain! We'll be spending the vacation up there! Isn't that exciting?" Tomoyo sounded ecstatic at getting to spend time with Sakura.
"Uh…" Sakura thought back to Monday during lunch how she'd made so many plans with Eriol…
"What?" Tomoyo asked nervously. "You don't want to spend time with me?"
Sakura shook her head violently even though she knew Tomoyo couldn't see her. "No! Its not that at all! It's just that I made so many plans with Eriol already, he's going to br so disappointed…" Sakura sighed. "But I bet we're going to have so much fine, right?" she added.
"You bet!" Tomoyo cheered. "Oh, 've got to go now. Someone's at the door for me. See you tomorrow, 7AM sharp!" Sakura head a click before closing her phone and stuffing it in her pocket.
"Who was that?" Rika asked from beside her.
Sakura looked a bit startled at not having realized Rika was there, but nonetheless answered. "It was just my cousin, Tomoyo. I'm sure you've met her. She's taking me up to Vermont tomorrow for the whole vacation and we're going to go skiing."
Rika nodded. "Why is that so bad? I'd love to do that!" she sighed dreamily.
"Well, I made some plans that I'll have to cancel now, but all-in-all, I'm pretty excited now!" Sakura smiled.
"Oh! There's my brother, have a nice break Rika!" Sakura waved and then ran for her brother's car.
"Be good Sakura!" Fujitaka Kinomoto yelled after the car that took his daughter away.
Sakura wanted to go back to sleep but Tomoyo's constant chatter in the small car kept her up. She kept talking about boys and all of the cut outfits she's made for Sakura to go skiing in and how she couldn't wait! It was a long two and a half hour card drive, but soon, they were staring at the condo they'd rented for the two weeks.
"Are you read, Sakura?" Tomoyo whispered in her ear. Sakura nodded, now fully awake. "You bet I am!"
The two girls smiled at each other and hurried into their house and into their ski gear!