Raye: Here's the second chapter of Fortunes of the snow! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Cardcaptor Sakura or any of the familiar characters that appear. I also do not own Bromley Mountain or any of the buildings I mention in Vermont as they really exist… I do however own all characters that are not CCS and I own this plot.
Sakura snapped her black Nordica ski boots into her red Atomic skis. Her black snow pants and black jacket masked her joy well. Her T-neck was bright red in contrast to the black of her helmet and outfit. Her beautiful emerald eyes were masked by bright electric blue Scott goggles and her brown hair was let loose.
Tomoyo stood next to her. Her helmet was also black and her goggles were a green color. Her T-Neck hid her face from view, the blue of it contrasting well to the green goggles. Her jacket was also black and her snow pants matched her goggles. Her Atomic boots were white and her green, blue and orange skis were also Atomic. The two smiled at each other before heading down the wide-spread slope of Plaza.
At the bottom, Sakura looked up the mountain. Far off to the right was the bunny-slope which even had its own chairlift. Next to it was the Alpine chairlift and the Sun chairlift. The Alpine was running smoothly, but the Sun chair seemed to be having problems. The Sun Mountain Express quad was also running smoothly and Sakura could see a nice long line starting to form at it's base. Behind it she could see the Plaza chair and the Lord's Prayer T-Bar. Everyone coming down Lord's Prayer was pretty much an experienced snowboarder. Sakura saw one guy get huge air off the top of a jump and land it perfectly!
"Wow! This place is amazing! You ski here every weekend Tomoyo?" Sakura asked in an amazed voice. Tomoyo giggled. "Of course! And I know all of the best trails to go on for beginners, intermediates and experts!"
Sakura smiled. "Well, I guess since I ski a lot at home, I'm an intermediate?" she said uncertainly.
Tomoyo nodded. "I would agree, I think you're an intermediate. So let's go up the quad before the line gets overly long!"
The two quickly skied over and got in line.
"Pass?" the lifty asked. Sakura and Tomoyo were standing in line with two other guys. All four dug around in the pockets. Sakura lifted out her 2-week pass, and Tomoyo plus the other two guys lifted out their season passes.
"Thank you," then the lifty went to the next group.
The four got on the chair and started going up.
"So," Tomoyo started conversation. "What are your names?"
One boy was dressed all in black from helmet to skis. "My name is Luke Satomi, and this is my friend…" Everyone's heads turned to look at the boy in the middle sitting next to Sakura. He had a black helmet, forest green T-neck and jacket, black snow pants, black boots, and green Rossignol skis. His goggles were also black.
"Syaoran Li," the boy sighed and leaned back as if he didn't want to be there at that very moment in time.
"Yes," Luke continued. "This is Syaoran! What about you two?" he looked at Tomoyo. She smiled.
"My name is Tomoyo Daidouji and this is my cousin!" she smiled happily.
"Sakura Kinomoto," Sakura replied happily. "It's nice to meet you," she added.
"You too," Luke smiled.
The four got off the chairlift and Sakura turned to Tomoyo. "Where should we go?"
Tomoyo thought a minute before turning to Luke and Syaoran. "Want to come with us? We're going on Thruway."
Syaoran seemed to just want to go off on his own, but Luke agreed to it right away. The four started down Upper Twister. Suddenly, Sakura fell flat on her back. "Sakura! Are you ok?" Tomoyo looked down at her with worry. Luke bent over to help her up.
"I'm fine, don't worry," Sakura smiled happily. "It'll just take me awhile to get used to it, that's all!"
At the end of the day, Tomoyo and Sakura were still skiing with Syaoran and Luke. Syaoran had warmed up to it and was actually enjoying himself. He loved teasing Sakura about how she fell all the time and Sakura would always stick her tongue out at him in a joking way.
Luke and Tomoyo would show off how good they were and they always tried to out-do each other. Sakura thought it was kind of funny, but Syaoran thought it was kind of stupid. He was the best skier out of the four of them anyways.
"Well," Tomoyo sighed as they stood at the top of West Meadow. "I guess we'll be going home now, right, Sakura?" She smiled down at her cousin who had fallen again.
"Yeah, I guess so," she smiled up at her new friends. "Will we meet again, tomorrow? Down at the quad in the morning?"
Syaoran and Luke both nodded this time. "Of course! We can take a warm up run on Blue Ribbon!" Luke smiled triumphantly.
Tomoyo laughed. "Maybe we should start on the Alpine chair tomorrow morning before going up to the top… then we'll be ready for Blue Ribbon."
Sakura nodded. Then Syaoran spoke, "Ok. Tomorrow morning, 8:30AM, at the base of the quad?" Tomoyo nodded. "We'll be there!" Then, the four skied down and while Sakura and Tomoyo headed for the Plaza chairlift, Syaoran and Luke headed into the Boar's Head Tavern.
"That was the best day ever!" Tomoyo squealed later as the two sat in front of the television watching Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
"Yeah! You know, that Syaoran was really annoying at the beginning but he was so funny in the afternoon! And Luke was so caring; he reminded me of Eriol!" Sakura laughed.
"You're still going out with him?" Tomoyo raised an eyebrow. "Isn't he kind of strange?"
Sakura rolled her eyes at her friend. "He is NOT strange! He's perfect! Funny, caring, ever-so-nice, and good-looking!" Sakura got all starry-eyed at the thought of her boyfriend back at home.
Now it was Tomoyo's turn to roll her eyes. Sakura was so silly sometimes…
They turned back to the movie just in time to see Hermione punch Draco Malfoy, and they laughed. Suddenly, Sakura could hear her phone ringing. "Hang on," she ran down to her room and grabbed the phone before returning upstairs and answering it on the way up.
"Hello?" Sakura asked pleasantly into the phone.
"Hi!" Sakura could hear Yamazaki say into the phone. She raised an eyebrow. Why would Takashi call?
"Hey Yamazaki… How are you?" Sakura asked uncertainly. Suddenly she heard banging from the other side of the phone and Chiharu's voice suddenly broke in. "Sakura?" she asked.
Sakura nodded, and then forgot that Chiharu couldn't see her and quickly stuttered. "Uh, yea?"
Chiharu squeaked and then laughed. "Hi Sakura! We all miss you and wish you were here!"
Sakura smiled lightly. "I'm glad you all remember me," she said sarcastically.
Tomoyo rolled her eyes. "Sa-ku-ra! You're making us miss the movie!" she whined and then pouted when Sakura lightly glared at her.
"Why don't you just ditch your cousin, tell her you're sick? You could get Touya to pick you up and then we could hang out all break!" Naoko's voice was now heard into the phone.
"No, guys," Sakura sweat-dropped. "I'm having a lot of fun up hear! Today we went skiing and I even made two new friends!" She was careful not to say two boys in case Eriol happened to be there and hear her.
"Oh!" She heard Yamazaki's voice again, followed by Eriol's over-protective one asking, "What KIND of 'new friends'?"
"Don't worry!" Sakura reassured her boyfriend. "I'm fine, you're still my number one!"
"You don't sound so sure!" Tomoyo said in a sing-song voice. Sakura glared at her. "I AM" SURE!" she covered the mouth-piece as she yelled at Tomoyo, who laughed. "Oh Eriol, no wait! Syaoran! Or could it be… Luke?" Tomoyo fell back on the couch laughed.
Sakura rolled her eyes and turned back to the phone. This time, it was Rika's voice. "What was that?"
Sakura answered. "It's just my cousin… ok, I'm gong to go now…" All of the voice on the other end cried, "NO!" but Sakura hung up anyways and turned her phone off quickly.
"Sorry, Tomoyo," Sakura looked over at her cousin who was still snickering. She rolled her eyes. "You're SUCH a three-year-old!"
Raye: Short, sweet chapter. Hope you enjoyed!