Chapter 3

Dress-Down Disaster

Tomoyo's POV

When I got dressed and went next door, Sakura was wearing her yellow skirt and orange shirt and Syaoran was wearing his green shirt and grey pants. They looked great, and said I did too. I had my hair up in a big pony tail, it looked very nice in my opinion, especially with my dress! We walked to school and met up with Eriol on the way, he complimented my dress but that was about it, 'I wonder if he saw me blush?' I thought to myself.

During school, Eriol didn't say a word to me, he didn't notice me, I was devastated. On our way home, he did say something though, he said "hope to see you tomorrow." And yes that is unusual because he's never said it before, especially to me. As soon as I got home, I cried, for what reason I had no idea, I just cried.

Later on, I went over to Sakura's apartment to talk to her.

"It went horribly, he didn't say anything to me, except 'nice dress'" I complained.

"Tomoyo-san…it'll be okay, I'm sure it will, tomorrow you should wear your kimono that you made a couple months ago, we're all going like that tomorrow. It'll be fun and he might notice you then, it's so pretty, I'm sure he wouldn't be able to resist saying something to you!" Sakura explained. "It is a kimono day anyways, what do you say?"

"Alright!" I agreed.

That night, I went and wrote in my journal again.

'Yesterday, Sakura helped me make four outfits, I love them so much, they're all fabulous. Today was a dress-down day, I wore the dress we made, Eriol only said 'nice dress' though, he didn't say anything I was expecting, but it's alright, tomorrow everyone's wearing their kimono's to school and I'm wearing my home made one that looks very nice. Eriol shouldn't be able to resist saying anything!'

I went straight to sleep right after writing that, I couldn't wait for tomorrow.

Author's POV

As soon as Tomoyo awoke. She pulled on her kimono and went to Sakura's place. Sakura and Syaoran were just getting up so she waited in the living room for them to come out. When they did, Sakura was wearing a kimono that Tomoyo made for her, it was pink with light pink and white flowers and purple blotches and the tie around it was blue and yellow and so was the bow, Tomoyo's was a blood red colour with flowers and different designs in different colours. The tie was yellow and black. The tie in Tomoyo's hair was big and the same colour as her kimono, the one in Sakura's hair was a big yellow flower on two different shaded green bows and had beads hanging off. They were very nice kimonos, considering Tomoyo made them. Syaoran's kimono was all emerald green with yellow and orange cuffs and collar with a white and black symbol on the front and a ying yang on the back with an orange tie.

As everyone walked to school, they met up with Eriol who was wearing his kimono too, his was all black with red rims, a throw over at the top that only came past his shoulders that was the same except it had quarter circles with quarter yellow suns inside and it had an orange tie. He looked rather handsome in it too.

"I love your kimonos, especially yours Tomoyo." Eriol smiled at Tomoyo.

"I like yours too." Tomoyo said blushing at the compliment.

At lunch time, everyone sat at their table and talked. Eriol suddenly blurted out that Tomoyo was looking rather different lately and that she seemed to have changed.

"Well…umm…" Tomoyo tried to answer but the words wouldn't come out of her mouth 'Damnit, why, why can't I just say it!' she thought.

"Tomoyo, come here for a minute." Eriol asked and dragged her over to an empty table to talk to her. "Why have you been acting this way, you've changed a lot, I liked the way you were before, what's happened to you?" Tomoyo was shocked at his remark and looked down at her lap.

"You did?"

"Of course I did, you are my friend, just now it doesn't seem…like you care…"

"That's not it…I do care…"

"So you'll change?"

"Ano…"

Eriol got up and Tomoyo followed him back to the table. "What's all the commotion?" Sakura asked.

"It's nothing to worry about Sakura-chan." Eriol answered.