Uzi: Sorry guys, kept you waiting. Been having the worst weeks ever! Anyway ill stop here before I start rambling on and on forever... heres your story, hope you like it ... :)

Disclaimer: no i dont own CCS .. bla bla bla

The Zoo

"Ah! There you are!" cried a very anxious Mr.Grenalda, as he saw Sakura coming out of the car. " I was afraid you were not going to--" he stopped as he noticed Syaoran come out of the same car, slowly he averted his attention back to the classs.

"Alright everybody! I've got your partners, please pair up as I call your names!"

"Alexandra and James, Kyle and Peter, Michael and Chris...

-- and so on until--

Sakura and Mei-lin, Eriol and Syaoran. Please line up as partners and come to get your camera and film."

Sakura lingered at the back waiting for the line to dwindle so she could tell the teacher that Mei-Lin wasnt here and that she wouldnt be here the whole day.

' I wonder who he'll partner me up with..' she sighed, just thinking about it made her nervous. She didn't know anyone in this class room. Evertything was so foreign to her, even though she had been here half a year, she knew all the faces, and all the names. But, all of those faces and names refused to recognise her. She knew this as fact. No one wanted to have anything to do with her. Tears formed in her and she swiftly wiped them away. No one would notice, except the teacher, and then there would be a whole investigation. She didn't want that.

Snapping out of her thoughts, Sakura realized that most of the students had left, only 5 or 6 were left. She quickly got up and made her way towards the teacher, only to be stopped by the one and only Eriol.

" Hey Sakura, Mei-Lins not here?" he asked, eyes full of worry

"Nope, she called me and told me that she wasn't gonna be able to make it..."

"Oh ... so who are you gonna be partners with?" he questioned looking around

"Dont know." Sakura shrugged, tears threatened to form as she thought of how alone she was.

" Would you like to join Syaoran and I?"

"I- uh, sure." Sakura glanced at Syaoran, he was waiting under a tree, as if he knew Eriol was asking her. ' Maybe he does.'

--Walking in the zoo -- (a/n: what can I say, I am very lazy right about now, nothing really happened, the teacher obviously said yes. :)

Sakura shutter clicked furiously as she took pictures of as many birds she could spot. She looked dreamily at the sky, lost, only to be snapped to attention by Eriol's tapping.

"Sakura, if you keep taking pictures that fast your finger will fall off," he said with a smile on his face " And I hope you know there are other creatures other then birds."

"Yea, sorry I just want to get this over with, then we can all relax." Sakura smiled looking away and getting ready to take pictures of the Giraffe that towered her. She had never been so close to an animal before, yea there was fence, but still. It felt as if she could just reach out and touch it. She loved taking pictures, thats why she had made Eriol let her take the pictures. She had to FORCE him into letting her do the whole thing herself. He just kept on rambling on about how it wasn't fair, and that they should divide it all up evenly. The man was nuts, here SHE was, offering to do the whole project herself and inevitably getting 100 percent for all of them, and he was worried about being fair.

There was a sudden hooting and howling coming from the cages. Looking very confused Syaoran, Eriol and Sakura made their way towards the noise, only to find a bunch of boys staring at the apes, on the ground laughing. At first Sakura had no idea what was going on, but as she stared at the apes, she suddenly realized and turned crimson red. Syaoran grunted in disgust and walked off making it very clear for Sakura to follow while Eriol gave a very nasty look to the boys and followed Syaoran as well (a/n aah, hopefully you guys got what the apes were doing, I really didn't want to write it, hehe the only reason I wrote that part in was because that happened to me once, and WOW was IT ever embarassing.)

Sakura, Syaoran and Eriol made there way, slowly towards the food court. Eriol who was extremely famished, kept on urging Syaoran and Sakura to hurry whereas they trudged up the steep slope, mumbling and grumbling about wanting to jump Eriol. Sakura was in her own little world when she was rudely interrupted by a very very loud scream.

"SYAORAN KUUUUUUUUUNNN" cried a girl wearing a black miniskirt and a white sleeveless top. She ran upto him and gave him a huge hug.

"UH, Hi Ai!" he replied as she let go of him

"Where have you been? I looked everywhere for you in China, and the Hong-xian told me you left for Tomoeda, Japan. Well, ofcourse I HAD TO COME FIND YOU. Daddy had a business trip here" she said very hurriedly as she cast a long hateful glance at Sakura "WHO.IS.SHE?"

"Uh, she's a friend. Sakura, meet Ai. Ai meet Sakura."

"Oh? A friend? Oh OKAY. HI Sakura!" she replied happily "Lets make this clear. You don't touch Syaoran. Syaoran doesn't touch you. AND IM HAPPY"

Sakura could only nod dumbly,as she watched the girl jump up and down with joy

"Good! LETS GO EAT SOME FOOD!"

"Oh god, not again" Syaoran grumbled, looking back at Sakura he said "Sorry about that, she tends to get a bit hyper sometimes"

"A bit!" Sakura questioned Thats the understatement of the year

"Uhh, a lot" he smiled as they made their way towards the food court.

angelicuzi: short chapter I KNOW. but thats the best I can do, I'm trying to update all my stories, haven't updated any of them. Never get enough time ..