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My Spoilt Fiancee, chapter 4
By green-mermaid
Ephemeral light of sun peeked through the small holes of white curtain which flew because of the sweet breeze of morning. The morning dew lied peacefully upon big green leaves of sun-flowers. Though it's summer, chilly air stroked white and soft skin of Daidouji Tomoyo.
Tomoyo lazily flustered her eyes to wide awaken. Sweet whiffs of flowers pierced into her nose. Her wide awaken eyes traced every single spots of her own room. A camellia bouquet lied beside her. Other flowers surrounded her, making her in the among the flower bouquets. The same flower bouquets just like she received from the days before. She swayed away her blanket, releasing herself from the thick fabric. Cold marbles touched her gentle skin and she shivered a bit, adapting the chill into her own body. She inserted her feet into a pair of warm furry sandals beside the bed.
She walked slowly from one to another bouquet slowly, as she counted the sum of the bouquet. From purple color flower to the white one, and then the pink, red, yellow, green. She ended to the last bouquet in her own bed, white camellia.
"... 16 and then ...17. The same as my age today..." Tomoyo took the bouquet from her bed smoothly, smiling to herself.
To her surprise, this time, a card falling down from the white bouquet. She took the card abruptly; enthusiastic adrenalin filled her ingenious brain, hoping she would know the sender's name this time.
/ Happy sweet seventeenth birthday! I enjoyed your presence beside me. Please always smiling, my angel... /
Tomoyo sighed for the umpteenth times since she received the bouquets. "There's no name again... I wonder who this guy...is"
Tomoyo placed the bouquet and card carefully in her make-up table. She combed her undulating hair and wore a lavender bandana on her raven silky hair. After make sure that her appearance wasn't too bad, she went out from her room.
To her surprise, loud tosses spurted together at once. Ribbons with small rectangular colorful papers danced in front of her. Some of them stuck in her black hair. In front of her eyes, she saw her mansion's chefs, maids, bodyguards, driver, gardeners stood behind her mom. Each person held a party fire-cracker which had been tossed earlier.
"Mom?" Tomoyo rolled her eye-ball to the short and brown hair woman and then looked to her trusted private maid. "Ayano?"
Her mother embraced her only daughter tightly and smiled to herself. "Happy Birthday, Tomoyo-dear."
Tomoyo hugged her back and smiled "Thanks, mom. Congratulation too, for you, for giving me birth to this beautiful world,"
The workers in that mansion smiled and sang a song to the wench. Ayano, the head-maid smiled, "Happy Birthday, Miss Tomoyo. Come on, this way..."
The worker went back to their position. Chefs got back to the kitchen, trying as hard as they could to prepare Tomoyo's party tonight. Sonomi dismissed the bodyguards to make her time with Tomoyo alone, though two maids, including Ayano, still leading them to the dining room.
Sonomi gestured the maids to leave at once after they had served Sonomi and Tomoyo well. The maids bowed a bit before took their leaves and then closed the large door behind the table.
"Aunt Nadeshiko will come here soon, though I don't think when. She promised me around nine, but considering her blind-way characteristic maybe it will took about one and a half and an hour, though," Sonomi cut a slice of her steak.
"But, uncle Fujitaka could lead her,..." Tomoyo chuckled.
"I hate to admit it," Sonomi put her fuming face, and then continued, "...but it's true!" Sonomi took the slice with her fork.
Tomoyo giggled. "That's mom, after all... anyway... I still haven't known who will guide me to walk down the stairs for tonight..." Tomoyo frowned.
"I had asked Touya to do that, and he didn't seem mind it. But he raised his eyebrow though, like this." Sonomi put her fore finger between her eyebrows.
Tomoyo chuckled. "Touya is never change, nee?"
Sonomi flaunted her smile to her lovely daughter. "Yes, he is. Anyway, he said something like this. He asked me to forward it to you. 'Don't you have someone who is more appropriate than me to do that job?' "
Tomoyo shut her lips, her smile was gone. "Well... I don't think Eriol would come to this party..."
Sonomi beamed to her. "Yes, he will come."
Tomoyo focused her eyes to the older woman next to her, "Why are you so sure about that?"
Sonomi smiled mysteriously (like mother like daughter), "You'll see..."
Tomoyo frowned at her mother's gesticulation, raising her eyebrow together. Tomoyo gave an I-don't-know-something-that-you-know look to her mother but her mother acted as if she didn't see those eyes.
Many guests had come to the great birthday party of Daidouji Tomoyo. They entered the 'jungle' with amaze. Rika came with her future husband, Mr Terada sensei. Chiharu entered the mansion of jungle with amaze after strangling her partner and her boyfriend, Yamazaki, almost to death because of his behavior telling lies again and again. Touya came with Yukito and Nakuru (Eriol's sister). Vexes showed on his handsome face, feeling aggravated with the long auburn-haired girl. Sakura had come with Syaoran. Sonomi led them to see Tomoyo before the party got started about 30 minutes later.
"Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura poked her face into Tomoyo's large room.
"Sakura!" Tomoyo turned her head and met her 10 years best friend. Tomoyo ran a bit to them, smiling. "Hello, Syaoran. Long times not see you."
"It's just only two weeks since we saw each other, Tomoyo..." Syaoran sweat dropped.
"Is it? I feel like it had been a month... maybe because of this party kept me busy these days..." Tomoyo frowned.
"Tomoyo... you look gorgeous..." Sakura exclaimed. She clasped her hands together, looking her best friend from up to down.
"Th... Thank you..." Tomoyo blushed.
"And?" Syaoran asked.
"And what?"
"Syaoran asked... and have he met you?" Sakura explained Syaoran's question.
"Who is he?" Tomoyo tried her best to act as innocent as she could. She didn't want to talk about Eriol right now. He was just making her sad that he didn't come to her birthday party. "Oh... I'm sorry... come inside my room?"
Sakura stepped inside the violet-lavender room. Syaoran followed her. "Tomoyo, you know who I mean."
"He said he would come...but... have he met you?" Syaoran asked.
"He wouldn't come. Kaho sent an invitation just as the same time with my party..." Tomoyo plopped to her fluffy bed.
"Tomoyo...! I've said it for the umpteenth times! He doesn't go out with that woman! Their age difference is 6!" Sakura frustrated.
"And then? What is the effect of the age differences?"
"A times 3 age differences relationship will not going well..., especially 6." Syaoran answered her for Sakura.
"Why? Where do you get it? I don't know that such things." Tomoyo frowned.
"From the Chinese Zodiac. I learned many things about China and Hong Kong from Syaoran." Sakura smiled.
Tomoyo sweat dropped. "You both... are very superstitious. I don't think that would affect a relationship..."
Sakura just shrugged her shoulder and examined the room. "Is it just my imagination or your room is filled with flowers?"
"Hadn't I told you about someone giving me these flower bouquets? The total is 34. Seventeen bouquets were sent regularly each day. And today, seventeen bouquets were sent at the same time." Tomoyo touched gently one of the bouquets.
"Oh! I see! That's what Eriol did these days!" Syaoran exclaimed before he shut his lips tightly.
Sakura and Tomoyo turned their gaze to the only male in the room. "Did I hear you saying Eriol's name? So... this is his gifts?"
"Ahhh... I didn't say anything, did I?" Syaoran smiled innocently.
"You said it before, Syaoran! Syaoran, tell me the truth!" Tomoyo tugged his sleeve.
Syaoran exchanged look with his girlfriend. Sakura looked at him; clearly, she was waiting for Syaoran's answer too. Syaoran opened his mouth but closed it again tentatively.
"You better ask Eriol, Tomoyo. I have no rights telling you this, okay? See ya! Meet ya later down there." Syaoran shunted Sakura to the door and left Tomoyo's alone.
Tomoyo hung her head, feeling really disappointed and feeble. It felt like she already had a single hint about Eriol, just a bit but could make her the luckiest girl in the world, when finally she lost that chance. Tomoyo gazed into emptiness, disgruntled.
Hiatus silent filled the sweet scent room, keeping the single human being in the room in her own dimension. Noises from her window made her back to reality again.
"Robin, is that you?" Robin was a bird that usually pecked her window, asking for dry corn. He usually came when Tomoyo sang and just stood there as if listened her endearing voice.
Tomoyo opened her window and met her little friend. "Hello... how are you doing?"
Before Tomoyo could touch his feather, he flew down blithely to ground and then flying around a certain deep-blue boy. Tomoyo pierced her eyes shrilly, trying to get a sharper look of the figure. Bewilderment filled her heart.
After make sure that she was acquainted to the silhouette, Tomoyo spontaneously creaked. "Eriol?"
Eriol who played with the little bird, looked up and faced the violet girl for just a second, smiling with his usual gentle smile.
"Wait! Just a sec! Don't move!" Tomoyo abruptly gabbled, almost making Eriol couldn't catch what she said up there. After saying that, she beeline from her room and went down from the backstairs. One minute later, she joined him with scuttles.
"You ...look gorgeous." Eriol looked away from her, blushing furiously.
"Thank you. Aren't you going to Kaho's party?" Tomoyo asked the most curious question that made her felt obnoxious all day.
"Why should I go to Kaho's party? Anyway, did you not activate your phone? I called you several times but it always said inactive." Eriol frowned.
"Is it true that you're the one who sent that flowers?"
Eriol stopped for a while, frowning. "We don't have any time to answer all these questions, nee? You have so many questions to me and in reverse way too." Eriol shrugged off.
"Then... make that time!" Tomoyo persisted. "Okay... just answer this question because we don't have too much time left. Do you love me?" Tomoyo beamed at him. Violet eyes looked straight into the deep-blue eyes gaze.
"What... What do you mean?" For the first time, Tomoyo looked the boy in front of her spluttered. She wanted to giggle at that time, but contemplating that they were in a serious time she managed didn't show her emotion out loud.
"Just... Just answer it, okay?"
"I... uh...wait... please... just a sec..." Eriol hung his head. He put his hands on Tomoyo's shoulder. He took a deep breath and looked up again, facing the girl. This time, determination filled his face. "Yes, I love you very much. Sorry if I disappointed and rankled you many times and... well...I just can't act good in front of a girl I love."
"Then... save your words till that time comes!" Tomoyo smiled sweetly. "Come... this way..." Tomoyo dragged Eriol to the backdoor.
"Tomoyo... what do you... Whaaa!"
"See that big violet flower? Stand beside that flower, okay? Don't move! Okay... see ya in 5 minutes later!" Tomoyo waved him good bye before entered the back door and went upstairs again.
"Tomoyo!" Eriol stood there, dumb-founded.
Eriol walked towards the violet flower and met Touya, Yukito, Sakura and Syaoran upstairs. Touya smiled widely to the blue eyed boy. "There... exchange shift! Finally, you approach, prince," Touya gave him a high-five. Though Eriol didn't understand what he meant. Sakura and Syaoran gave a gentle smile to him before walked down the stairs.
"Sakura!" Eriol patted Sakura's shoulder, making the girl turned around.
"I heard that... Tomoyo will be engaged to another boy. Who is he?"
"You'll see..." The four of them smiling mischievously to the new-coming boy, leaving the smart boy felt dumb-founded again.
"Hey..." Eriol wanted to call them back but it was too late. The clock had struck to 6.30 p.m. Lamp suddenly off and dim lights were around Eriol and the big violet flower which engulfed with hundreds of small violet flowers. Nadeshiko's sweet voice made the guests' attention looked to her and then to upstairs, where the flowers spread around the floor.
/ For the world cheered to summer season
there's a single violet bud which was late to bloom (other flowers bloomed and made a soft light, pointing to the main violet bud).
therefore, the prince took care of the bud, (Eriol bowed a bit to the bud)
for the latest one which bloom shall be the most beautiful one.
And thus, will become the princess of the flower... (Flowers petal opened one by one)
Take me hand, I'll lead you to the world of imagination (Tomoyo 'woke' up and took Eriol's hand gently)
And yet so real, just for you my violet princess... / (Both of them walked down the stairs)
Eriol whispered to Tomoyo's ear a bit, just for them to know, "Have I said that you're gorgeous today?"
Tomoyo smiled to him, "Yes, you have. There, almost downstairs. Don't leave. I have an announcement."
Eriol frowned but nodded as an agreement. Eriol leaned to her nearer; making her could feel his own breath. "As you wish, my princess..."
Tomoyo could feel that her face reddened, shivering. She smiled sweetly to herself. "Aunt Nadeshiko... could I borrow the microphone, please?"
Nadeshiko looked mystified, though she gave the microphone to Tomoyo.
"Ladies and gentleman, thank you for your attendance in my seventeenth birthday party. Thank you to all of the people around me throughout this year, beside me when I had bad and good times." Tomoyo closed her eyes, remembering her fleeting memories throughout the year. Hiatus filled the large hall for a while before Tomoyo continued her speech.
"Four months ago, my used-to-be fiancée, Eriol, who is standing beside me, broke his engagement with me. We didn't really explain the fact to out parents. Now, I will explain it to you, mom." Tomoyo looked at her mom.
"I said that I will love the guy whom I have chosen more than the guy whom is engaged with me because of our parents. And so, I asked Eriol to break our engagement."
Eriol turned his head to Tomoyo this time, surprised. He got a sign which Tomoyo gave to him and tried to act normal again. 'It seems like her habit of turned bad position into fortunate position is never change...' He sighed.
"I don't want to be Eriol's girlfriend just because an arrange engagement. But, because of I love him and in reverse way. Therefore, that arranged engagement status will be thrown away and will be exchanged with our true relationship. I will be very grateful if ladies and gentleman here would bless our relationship. It would be the most beautiful gift I ever had from all of you in here. Thank you and enjoy the party," Tomoyo ended her speech which was continued by loud applauses from the audience.
Eriol whispered to Tomoyo's ear again, "Meet me in the garden..."
Tomoyo scuttled a bit, trying her best to step as quickly as possible though it's almost impossible considering that she was wearing a gown. She went across her house's hall towards the black glass window connected to garden. She met Sakura and Syaoran with her friends talking to each other. They noticed the beautiful violet lady coming and turned their gaze to her.
"Tomoyo-san! Omedetou!" Rika smiled to her.
"Ah... thank you... well, friends,... enjoy the..." Tomoyo tried to sputter one by one word between her huffs.
"It's a very beautiful party..." Chiharu commented.
"Yes... anyway... I need to..." Tomoyo turned her head to Chiharu. She was happy that her friends enjoy her party and praised it, but not this time! Please!
Sakura and Syaoran watched her giving their friend her usual fake smile. Sakura exchanged looks to Syaoran. Syaoran gave her a signal to cease the situation. The auburn-hair girl shrugged off her shoulder and sighed.
"Ehem, friends...looks like Tomoyo need to off right now..."
"She needs to meet someone important to her right now..." Syaoran added her.
Tomoyo turned her gaze to Sakura and Syaoran and gave a sweet smile to them. Sakura replied the smile while Syaoran replied her with his wide grin.
"I'm sorry, friends... I really need to go now. I hope you enjoy the party," Tomoyo gave them her smile with nods as their reply.
Tomoyo smiled and winked at Sakura and Syaoran. She whispered softly a "thank you" to the lovely couple.
Tomoyo continued her scuttling and smiled when she saw a dark silhouette behind the other side of the black glass door. She pushed the handle and walked towards the silhouette quietly.
To her surprise, Eriol turned around his body so that faced her. "You come..."
"How do you know that I'm coming?" Tomoyo sulked jokingly.
"Just know it..." Eriol shrugged his shoulder. "I don't believe that you could make up the story into like that." Eriol sighed. He walked side to side with her eventually-girlfriend.
"Hmmm... it is because I stick out with you too much. My ability to make-up a story for an excuse is improving." Tomoyo stick out her tongue.
"Oh ... great ... so your excuses when you're late at our date..." Eriol didn't finish his sentence.
Tomoyo smiled sheepishly. "Ermm... just... some of them. Right to the point, what's your relationship with Kaho?" Tomoyo questioned back.
"Nothing. She's just my ex-girlfriend and no more. I met her when she was my father's secretary and she was flirting with my dad. My dad turned her down many times and looks like she felt she was insulted, she didn't want to accept her "lose" and tried to get me. And she got it."
Tomoyo winced at the word, pout plastered her cherry lips. Spontaneously, she intertwined her hand with Eriol's. Eriol looked at her girlfriend before smiling to himself. "Jealous, my dearest?"
Tomoyo sulked even more. "Yes... I mean... no, of course. Just continue it, okay?" Tomoyo looked away, acting as ignorant as she could. Unfortunately for her, Eriol had known her too much, it's easy to read Tomoyo's act like a book to him.
"You're not honest, Tomoyo..." Eriol took Tomoyo's palm to his lips, making the girl blushing furiously. How Eriol satisfied to see this, seeing he finally could captivate her truly angel.
"I felt happy that time though my father didn't agree my relationship with her. He kept telling me that Kaho is a very nasty woman. But I didn't listen to him. My ears were blocked with her beautiful words but rubbishes. When finally I heard Syaoran looked her with someone else regularly in a café. I didn't believe him at first and I almost lost my precious friendship with Syaoran. So, I checked what Syaoran had said to me. And to my disappointment, what Syaoran had said was true. And after that I came into the café and in front of her other love companion, I broke up with her. The end." Eriol smiled.
"Why are you with Kaho at the bookstore together?"
"She stopped me when I was about to pursue you at the restaurant back then. And she asked me out just for the last time. What in my mind that time was just to follow you, so to make it quick I said yes to her without even thought twice. Look how you have done to me? You make me can't think properly when I need my mind most."
Tomoyo giggled. "You should forget to think about all things. "One more thing, do you still love her?" Tomoyo looked up.
Eriol frowned at this question. "It's the easiest question I have ever heard from you. Of course I don't love her anymore, silly. I love an angel who is standing beside me right now. Trust me! I will never make you cry anymore, even it was me."
Tomoyo frowned at his words. "It sounds so cliché."
Eriol shrugged his shoulder. "You're so honest at things like this, you know Tomoyo? Look, your mother is calling us."
Eriol walked past her, still grabbing her hand in his own hand. "Eriol!"
They saw Tomoyo's mother figure waved to them, calling them to enter the party floor again. Beside the beautiful tall woman, Eriol saw his dad smiled to him. Apparently, a sentence from his dad before he came into this party struck him.
"Tomoyo," Eriol stopped Tomoyo's jogging, making the girl turned her head.
"What?"
"Is it true that your mother actually had arranged another engagement to you?" Eriol felt his heart beat faster than it usually did.
"Never heard that mother would do that..." Tomoyo thought for a while. "But, mother said a weird sentence this morning. She was so sure that you would come into this party. Why?"
"I will kill my dad!" Eriol stormed toward the glass door.
"Eriol! Wait! What happened?" Tomoyo soon followed the blue-eyed boy, entering the fabulous mansion again.
Eriol didn't seem about to answer her so that what Tomoyo could do was sighing. She looked up and met the azure eyes she had longed for years.
She smiled secretly on herself, remembering every episode of her and Eriol's. Their first official meeting with their parents that filled with bickering, pouting, sulking. Not to mention their dates those were arranged by their parents. Time when Kaho entered between them and did almost successfully separated them.
Tomoyo's smiled wider into a laughter. Eriol stopped his pace and looked back of his shoulder.
"What are you laughing about?" He frowned.
"No... I don't know... (chuckle) but... oh well... forget it... just remembering times when I have with you. It always has intervenes from other people like our mother, your father, Kaho, Sakura and Syaoran, many people..."
Eriol watched the lavender girl in front of him a few second before he leaned into her, slipping one of his hand her waist, making her body getting near into his body while the other on her cheek. Tomoyo, on the other hand, felt confused on what did Eriol do and asked innocently to the lad.
"Eriol, what are you doing?"
Eriol rolled his eyeballs lazily, breaking the intimacy between them. "Why can't you just go with the moment and close your eyes!" Eriol muttered under his breath heavily. He sat on the ground, sulking. Tomoyo frowned and squatted next to him.
"Eriol? Are you sulking?" Tomoyo tilted her head. Inside, Tomoyo was actually enjoying seeing Eriol sulking. 'Never seen him sulking before...'
"No... I'm not!" Eriol grumbling with low voice.
Tomoyo paused and smiled. "Come on... you're acting like a child, Eriol!"
Eriol turned his head with exasperation to the girl whom he loved, "Who..."
Before Eriol's genius brain could transmit any neuron into his brain, the sweet and tender lips of Daidouji Tomoyo were in his own lips. Eriol was stunned, didn't expect that Tomoyo would ever kiss him. He didn't know whether he should feel happy or confused first or maybe stunned first? Which come first at the time like this?
"See? You're acting like a child. Upset when you can't get a candy but when you get it, you're overjoyed," Tomoyo parted though she still could feel Eriol's good smell breath.
Eriol opened his mouth and then closed it again. "Ermm... yes... this is our time for sure. Erm... let's go back then?" Eriol stood up stiffly and offered his hand to Tomoyo, helping her to stand up.
Tomoyo gave him a soft chuckle before took the hand. "Yes... it's our time for sure..."
-- OWARI!--
Wah... it's a long chapter, nee? Long chapter for the last chapter... ho ho ho. Anyway... thanks to all of you who had support me through your review and encourage me. I'm so happy... I hope you love this story. I love seeing Eriol act dumbfounded, he heh... that's why; I made him like that several times. But, honestly, Eriol always composed whenever, wherever, and whatever the problems are. So that made me wanted to play with him... Anyway... thanks and sorry if this story is bad. Just hope you love it! Ciao! See you in another story:D