hihihihi!omg! i'm so excited cause i'm almost done w/ this story! my first story! almost finished!yus! i'm really liking this chapter cause it went a totally differnet way then planned. sorry for not updating for so long but i couldn't think up any ideas for the chapterbefore the last chapter and i've been trying to get through my classes and driver's ed.yay for cars! i've already got a slight idea for my next story that will be short like this one. (maybe a little longer...)
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Sakura Kinomoto walks down the street and twirls under the sunset that was breaking through the clouds. The rain had stopped except for a few drops every couple of seconds. The clouds were parting and let the orange rays shine through the drips off the buildings and roofs.
She ran back to Syaoran who had long fallen behind (or she was just going too fast) and grabs his hand. He laughs and spins her around like a ballerina; watching her newly dried skirt flare up around her. She smiles and runs up the stairs to the dorm building. She waits for him to come up the stairs and holds his hand walking down the halls.
"Where are we going now?" she stares at him, her eyes seemingly cracking at some shell around him. He stares off at the wall be hind her and after a couple of seconds, shakes his head and runs his hand though his hair.
"Well I've scene your dorm so why don't we take a trip to mine?" he smiles and leads her through the almost empty hallways. The halls were always bare on Sundays. Most students were cramming for tests, finishing last minute homework, or trying to fit every last bit of partying into the night.
As they walk down the hall way toward Syaoran's room sakura examines his face. He was cute. She blushes at the thought. How she had thought about a day like this, where a guy would sweep her off her feet and leave her falling.
They reach his door and he gets out his keys. There is something in his motions that is messing with her thoughts. There is a battle going on inside of him and it puzzles her. As she walks through the door she is amazed at how clean the place is. She sits down on the couch and crosses her legs.
"Do you want a soda?" he asks distracted but wanting to be polite.
"Sure"
He goes in the other room and she looks around. A stack of business books lay on the floor next to his backpack. She never liked business. All those men in suits walking around with briefcases going home to perfect, happy wives. It all seemed so boring and repetitive. She liked the excitement of life; of never knowing what will happen next.
Syaoran comes back though the doorway from the kitchen and hands her a soda. He sits down next to her and she looks at his face. She can't read what his feeling.
"I…I got to go." He stammers and walks out the door. Sakura sits on the couch alone in the room trying to figure out what just happened.
Syaoran walks to the park near his house and sits on the bench closest to the sand boxes.
flashback
A young Syaoran plays in the sand box in the park as a tall, shadowy figure watches over him. The man sits down on the park bench and calls Syaoran over.
"What's up dad?" the young boy looks quizzically at the man's face. His father picks up the boy and sets him on his knee.
"Son, one day you'll be a man; and men can do terrible things." His father then grows quiet and they sit in the park for a while together before heading home.
end flashback
Not long after that, Syaoran's father left him, his mother, and sisters. This left his mother in a deep depression until the day she died. From his early teens on, Syaoran despised his father on the outside but secretly was afraid of being like him. Afraid of commitment. Afraid of running away.
All his relationships had ended badly. One actually with a lawsuit…All because of this. He hoped that he could actually get over it and be with sakura. But it hit him like a pile of bricks when she looked into his eyes outside his dorm and he could see her hopes. Her dreams. Her love for him.
He didn't want to hurt her.
As he sits alone in the setting rays of sun, he stares into the sand and dreams about things that he could never say. He sees a shadow form up in front of him and feels someone sit next to him. He only looks up after a small, cold hand slips into his.
"Your hand is so cold!" he looks at her hand and clutches it to try to warm it up.
"They are always like that. Bad circulation I'm told." She smiles, takes her other hand, and brushes the hair out of his eyes.
"Sometimes your own destiny can blow you away." She says softly to him.
Startled, he stares into her loving eyes confused at first and then looks down at his hands. He twirls her ring around her finger, watching the small pink stone pop up and then dive down again behind her finger.
"I don't want to hurt you. I don't want to end up like my father."
"It's ok. You don't have to become like your father. And you will never hurt me." She holds his hand to her heart and gazes onto his eyes.
"I love you."
As they kissed in the twilight, neither of them knew who said those three words nor did they care. All they knew is that they both felt the same way and that was all that mattered.