I Thought he was Perfect
A/N Hey everyone! I'm so glad you all thought the last chapter was funny! It took me a long time to think that up and I thought that this story deserved some humor. Anyways a message I should have put in the last chapter was never drink and drive! That's how accidents are started. Well anyways…here's the chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own CCS, CLAMP does. But I do own this plot.
Recap of Chapter 8…
When she sat down she turned to Syaoran and waved.
"Hey Syaoran!"
"You bitch…" Syaoran mumbled.
"Well I tried." Sakura sighed.
Eight Ball then walked into the drivers seat.
"I hope you kids had fun."
He then started to drive.
Chapter 9: The Clash
It had been a week since the incident with Eight Ball and Syaoran. Sakura remembered waking up that morning with a major hangover. She now had a warning about losing her license so she knew she had to be more careful from now on. All she could think about the next morning was, "What was I thinking? Drinking and Driving? That's something a teenager does!" But there was nothing she could do about it now.
She was also ashamed of the way she acted around Eight Ball. She must have been pretty drunk to say, "No man's ever told me to blow harder before!" That was just stupid. But it was worth it to see the look on Syaoran's face when she had to get in the backseat with him. She smiled at the memory. He had really been hoping she would get him out of the car.
She sighed. She was no longer in the car with Syaoran. She was now on holidays from the hospital for two weeks. So she had taken Sumi uptown. They had already gone grocery shopping earlier that day and dropped everything off at home, but Sakura had promised Sumi that she would buy her a toy if she came shopping with her so now Sumi was dragging her uptown taking her to the store.
"Come on mom! I want to get to the store today!" Sumi whined while grabbing a hold of Sakura's hand and dragging her down the streets.
"Okay, okay, hold your horses," Sakura laughed at her daughter's anxiousness.
"But I wanna get to the store!" Sumi cried looking back at Sakura for a minute not looking where she was going. The next thing they knew, Sumi had walked into someone.
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Syaoran had been walking uptown planning on finding a place to go for lunch. He was off today and was just planning on going to a café to have something to eat since there was nothing edible in his apartment to eat.
His thoughts drifted to the night he got arrested with Sakura. He had to admit it was humorous to watch her try and pass the test, he had hoped she would, but she didn't. He had actually liked sitting in the backseat of the car with her and when they were drinking and talking to each other. He got to know her a little better and thought she was an interesting person. He was so engrossed with his thoughts he wasn't playing attention to anything around him until he felt something walk into him.
Snapping out of his thoughts he looked down and saw a little girl with black hair and emerald eyes was looking up at him with an apologetic look. 'Her eyes look like Sakura's' he found himself thinking.
"Sorry mister…I wasn't looking where I was going…" she said quietly.
"It's okay, I wasn't paying attention either it's not all your fault," Syaoran said smiling at the little girl, not even noticing the mother that was right behind the little girl.
The little girl smiled and looked up at her mom, "Mommy, did you hear that? He wasn't paying attention either!"
Syaoran then looked up to see who the mother and was shocked to find out it was Sakura.
Sakura smiled at her daughter and nodded her head, "Yes, he wasn't. That's why he made us bump into him. It's all his fault."
"Hey! I resent that Sakura!" Syaoran said with mock hurt when he heard what she said.
"All I'm saying is we wouldn't have bumped into you if you had been paying attention so then my darling daughter wouldn't have had to apologize and believe it was all her fault." Sakura said in a joking tone.
"Oh you're funny," Syaoran said sarcastically.
"Don't I know it," Sakura agreed still smiling.
"You know him Mommy?" Sumi asked with a confused look. She had never met this man before.
"Yes I know him honey," Sakura looked down at her daughter with her smile never leaving her face. "We've met a few times."
"Oh, okay," Sumi, said accepting what her mother said. "Can I go into the toy store now?"
"Oh darn!" Sakura said playfully. "You remembered."
"Uh huh," Sumi nodded her head. "And look, we're right in front of the store!"
"And so we are," Sakura agreed.
"Can we go in now?" Sumi whined.
"Okay, you go in and I'll be there in a minute." Sakura told her as she saw Sumi turn to walk in the door. "I just want to say goodbye to Mr. Li here!"
"Okay!" and with that she was in the store.
"So that's you're daughter," Syaoran said after a moment of silence. (A/N if you look at the chapters that Syaoran and Sakura are together, he never met Sumi at all.)
"Yeah, that's my Sumiko," Sakura said proudly.
"She has your eyes," Syaoran told her seriously.
Sakura blushed when he said that and looked down, "Thank you."
"You're welcome," was all Syaoran could say.
There was then another moment of silence, neither knowing what to say. Finally Syaoran said something.
"Listen, I'm just uptown to get something to eat, do you and Sumi want to come with?" Syaoran asked hoping his nervousness wasn't showing.
"Well, I'd have to ask Sumi… but if all goes well with that I don't think there's a problem." Sakura told him.
"Okay," Syaoran smiled.
"Well if you want us to join you for lunch you better come with me into the store," Sakura then grabbed hold of his arm and dragged him through the doors.
The store wasn't very big so it was easy to find Sumi inside. As usual she was looking at the different Barbies.
Sakura and Syaoran made their way over to her to see her with one in her hands. "Is that the one you want?" Sakura asked.
Sumi turned around to look at them and nodded. She then handed it over to Sakura so she could go and pay for it.
"Mr. Li wanted to know if we could join him for lunch. Do you want to do that? We haven't eaten yet." Sakura asked before she went to the counter.
Sumi didn't even take two seconds to say her answer. "Yes!"
Syaoran looked surprised at how fast she answered and couldn't stop himself from saying, "That was pretty fast…"
Sumi looked at him and shrugged. "It's way better then eating my mom's cooking. She's really bad."
"Hey! I resent that!"
"You can't even make me grilled cheese sandwiches."
"Well… I can make toast!" Sakura defended.
"Is that all?" Syaoran asked wide-eyed.
"No," Sakura told him. "PB and J is my best recipe."
"That tells you something…" Syaoran muttered.
"Whatever, I'm going to pay for this." Sakura walked away a little offended from the teasing.
Sumi continued to look through the other toys while she waited. She did this every time they came here. While she was looking at the toys, Syaoran went over to the line up to talk to Sakura.
Sakura was waiting in line. She was stuck behind an old man who was buying something for his grandchildren and was practically telling his life story instead of paying. Then Syaoran came up beside her.
"And then my wife died and I was stuck raising our six kids ALL on my own. Can you believe she did that too me?" the old guy was going on and Sakura sighed in frustration.
"Can you believe that guy?" Syaoran asked finally finding something to talk about.
"He does this every time he's in here. His name's Yoshi Sato. He tells the same story whenever he comes in and I think having to stand behind him so many times has made me memorize everything he says."
"Really now?" Syaoran asked her.
"Yup, now he's going to get to the part where he had to make his kids go hungry twice a week because he couldn't afford to feed them everyday." Sakura said in a disinterested tone.
"And since I had only a single income, I couldn't afford enough food, so to be fair I had to make my kids go hungry every few days because I couldn't afford enough for them all. Of course I had enough to feed myself, but those kids, they were like swarms of locusts with the amount they ate!" the old man rambled on.
"Wow," was all Syaoran could say.
"Told you," Sakura smirked.
"Look, I'm sorry about over there with the whole you can't cook thing."
"It's okay, Ko-people tease me all the time about it," Sakura stopped herself from saying Koji used to tease her about it all the time.
Syaoran nodded. He then looked at the doll Sakura was holding in her hand. "Another Barbie?"
"Yeah, another one," Sakura sighed. She then spoke up and said for no reason at all, "You know, I never really understood if Barbie is supposed to be so friggin' popular, then why in the world would we have to buy her friends."
Syaoran looked thoughtful at what she just said. The after a while he finally spoke, "That's a really good question." They both then looked at each other and laughed.
"Now that's going to be bothering me all day," Syaoran said once the laughter subsided.
"Don't worry," Sakura reassured him. "Whenever I say stuff like that I don't expect people to take them seriously. Don't think about it too much."
Syaoran just nodded his head. Finally Yoshi decided to leave and it was their turn to pay.
When they were all done, they got Sumi and walked to a café for lunch.
They sat down and the first thing Sumi did was open her new doll. "Sumi open that when we get home!" Sakura told her when she saw what she was doing.
"But I want to play with it now!" Sumi whined. "Besides, then I have something to do while you talk to Mr. Li."
"Okay, fine, but you better not forget anything here," Sakura gave in.
"I won't." and then she continued to open and play with the doll.
Sakura looked and Syaoran and shook her head.
A waitress came over and took their orders and all was quiet for a few moments while Sumi continued to play.
Syaoran decided to make some more conversation, "So tell me something about yourself."
Sakura thought for a bit and decided on what to say, "My favorite band is The Clash." (A/N hehe The Clash is my favorite band .)
"The Clash eh? I like them too. Best punk band ever." Syaoran agreed.
"I know what you mean. No band can compete with them. When Joe died in 2002 I was in mourning for so long!" Sakura told him surprised that he actually liked The Clash like her.
"Really? What did you do for mourning?" Syaoran asked.
"Basically just played them constantly, and I put up a shrine and covered it in flowers and lit a bunch of candles. Everyone had thought I had gone insane after a few days. They thought I went a little extreme." Sakura looked down embarrassed.
Syaoran laughed at what she said, "That's not a little extreme, that's just a devoted fan."
"My thoughts exactly." Sakura nodded in approval. "So, if you like The Clash, what's your favorite song by them?"
Right away he answered, "Should I Stay or Should I Go." He saw Sakura nod in approval of the song and then asked, "And yours?"
"The Guns of Brixton." (A/N my favorite song in the whole world! .) Sakura answered easily.
"Ah, I know how that one goes," Syaoran nodded his head showing he knew the song. "When they kick at your front door."
"How you gunna come?" Sakura added. "You really do know The Clash and aren't just saying that."
"Of course," Syaoran looked at her seriously. "People who don't like The Clash have no taste."
"So true, so true." Sakura nodded her head in agreement. "I mean; could you ever see yourself dating someone who didn't like them?"
"Impossible," Syaoran shook his head.
"Exactly." They both smiled when all of a sudden the food came.
Sumi stopped playing and started to eat and all conversation stopped while they ate. When they finished, Sumi continued playing while it was Sakura who spoke to Syaoran first. "Tell me something about you now."
He was quiet for a bit thinking of his answer, "My favorite movie is The Sixth Sense."
"I saw that movie, it was pretty good but I always got freaked out at the oatmeal part," Sakura told him shuddering.
"Yeah," Syaoran agreed, "that wasn't exactly the best scene."
"And then the part where that kid looks at Cole and says: "Come and I'll show you where my dad keeps his gun." And then he turns around and there's a hole in his head! That grossed me out!"
"Okay, so maybe some scenes are pretty disturbing. But I like it." Syaoran defended himself.
"I don't have a problem with the movie, just the dead people." Sakura told him.
"Fair enough," he said accepting what she said. "So what's you're favorite movie?"
"Dirty Dancing Havana Nights." Sakura told him breezily. When he gave her a look she defended herself. "I think Diego Luna looks hot when he dances okay!"
"What about the first one?" he asked as if he didn't hear what she said.
"Well, I like that one too, but I like Havana Nights better. I always wonder what it would be like to dance with someone like that."
"Whatever, it's a chicks movie." Syaoran waved off what she said.
"It's a good movie! Have you even watched it before?" Sakura asked.
"Nope."
"Well I'm going to have to sit you down and make you watch it with me one of these days," Sakura decided.
"What?" Syaoran said staring at her.
"I won't accept your opinion of the movie unless you have actually seen it."
"Why?"
"Because it's not fair that I've seen your favorite movie and you haven't seen mine. Then you can say whatever you want about it. But not until after you've seen it."
"So does this call for a movie night?" Syaoran asked her with a raised eyebrow.
"Yup. What days are you free? I'm off for the next two weeks."
"I'm good tonight." Syaoran told her.
"Yay! You're in luck! We just went grocery shopping so we have plenty of junk food and I happen to own the movie."
"Joy…" Syaoran muttered.
Then the check arrived. "I'll pay for Sumi and I," Sakura told him ready to get out her wallet.
"No don't," Syaoran told her making her stop what she was doing. "I invited you to come with me so it's only fair that I pay."
"Oh Syaoran, you don't have to," Sakura told him.
"It's okay, I want to." Syaoran reassured her.
Sakura still wasn't happy about it but let him pay anyways.
While Syaoran went to go and pay, Sakura made sure that she and Sumi had everything. When she was sure they did she and Sumi went to wait for Syaoran to pay. When he was done, he came over and they walked out together.
"Well, I go this way," Syaoran said pointing in the opposite way Sakura and Sumi were heading.
"And we go this way," Sakura pointed their way.
"So, I guess I'll see you later then," Syaoran said.
"At our movie night." Sakura reminded him.
"Yeah, at the movie night." Syaoran nodded his head smirking at her.
"Come on mom! I want to go home!" Sumi said impatiently.
"I'm coming." Sakura told her gently.
"I guess you should get going then huh?" Syaoran said gesturing to Sumi.
"Yeah, but I'll see you tonight," Sakura told him smiling.
"Yes you will, and I know where you live."
"Good, that saves effort," Sakura joked. She then gave him a kiss on the cheek, "Thanks for lunch." And she took Sumi's hand and they walked away.
Syaoran placed his hand on his cheek where she kissed him. He then smiled thinking that he really liked that woman and turned to head home.
TBC
A/N Well that was chapter eight. I hope you guys enjoyed it. I liked typing my thoughts of The Clash, which in my opinion are one of the greatest bands in the world! I was having trouble thinking of ways to make this chapter. I've been working on it for the last few days. I didn't know what to do and I've been spending the past few days listening to emo…so yeah. Anyways I hope you all like this chapter and remember, Read and Review! Ciao!