Chapter 13 Surprises

"Sakura, how are you doing today?" Tomoyo asked with worried in her voice.

"I'm all right. Why?"

"Well you know…because of yesterday." She finished and the next customers that came were hers to handle.

Pretty soon it was my turn. I was to serve two young couple, well of course probably 10-15 years older than me, but they looked young. I directed them to their table.

"Are you going to be serving us tonight?" The woman asked.

"Yes."

"I don't want you serving us! Not now, not ever!" I looked at her shocked. I did not expect her to start yelling at me. What did I do wrong? As far as I know I've never seen her before in my whole life until now. "I saw what you did yesterday! How dare you embarrass Yuki Yoshi like that? I'm even scare you might trip and fall on me!" So this was about yesterday. Was she there too?

"Yesterday was an accident ma'am." I tried to convince her.

"Accident or not, I don't want a clumsy waitress." The woman rolled her eyes at me. Her husband sat there with no expression of what so ever.

"Is there a problem here?" Mr. Toroshi came to our table and asked the couple.

"Yes there is. I don't want her to be my waitress today, not tomorrow, actually never!" She glared at me. She was going to get all upset just because of one little trip. Gees, what's up with these rich people! They look nice and all but when you actually know how they really are, they are some of the ugliest people inside and out!

"If you don't want me to be your waitress then someone else will serve you." I looked at Mr. Toroshi and he nodded his head yes. I bowed and went to the back. I needed a break. Actually I needed the whole day off!

I ran to the locker room and grabbed the clothes I came to work with and changed as soon as possible. I ran into Tomoyo on my way back from the bathroom.

"Sakura, why are you not dressed up in your work clothes?" Tomoyo looked even more worried at me than before.

"I'm going to go home. I don't feel so good." Tomoyo nodded and understood.

"Okay. Go home and take a good nap okay? Eat something healthy also." I gave her a weak smile and nod.

I told my manager I needed to go home and he understood too.

Instead of taking the bus today I wanted to take a walk and clear my thoughts. I knew it was going to be quite a long way home, but I still wanted to walk. Because of one little problem everything seemed to be just getting worst. I didn't even know if I still wanted to work in that restaurant anymore. I didn't know there were such people. They were all selfish and didn't know how it felt like to work your butt off just to make a living. School was going to start in a month and a half too. I didn't want such stress like the one I had now to intervene with my life when that moment came either. I walked and walked home thinking about nothing really. My mind was pretty much blank and to my surprise I arrived home pretty fast. Time went by fast.

I entered my home and sat on the sofa without taking my shoe or my coat off. I just wanted to rest.

Soon I was taking a shower. In the shower I just let the warm water run down on me.

"Sakura, you're so stupid. This isn't as worst as your parents' death and you are acting like it is. Snap out of it!" I yelled at myself. I snapped out of my daze and washed myself.

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(Knock…Knock)

"Come in." I answered as I just woke up from my nap. Syoaron walked in the door and his smile turned into a frown.

"Are you okay?" He asked still only half way through my room.

"I'm fine. Do you want me to cook you something?" I asked lifting off the covers and standing up going to towards him.

"No. Are you okay?"

I yawned and nodded yes.

"Great!" Before I knew it Syoaron grabbed onto my hand and pulled me downstairs. He stopped at the last stair and turned back to me. "Close your eyes."

"What?" I asked confused. What was he planning?

"Close your eyes. Come on."

"O…Okay…" I closed my eyes. My hands were in his hands now and he was pulling me slowly and carefully somewhere inside the house. I never knew his hands could be so warm and so…so soft. I didn't' want him to stop holding my hands. I felt so relieve. Who knew holding Syoaron's hands were going to be such a relief.

"We're almost there." Syoaron spoke. I had a big smile on my face. What ever this was going to be, I knew it was going to be something good.

"Okay, stand there." I stood still and he left me for a while. I felt a warmth in this room.

"Okay, now open your eyes." I did as he directed.

"Oh. My. Gosh! Syoaron!" I looked over to him. He had a big smile on.

"So do you like it?"

"Do I like it? I love it!" I forgot everything that had happened today and yesterday. My attention was on what was now in front of my eyes.

Syoaron magically transformed the kitchen into the most beautiful room in the whole house. There were white Christmas lights lining the whole kitchen up and down. There were some white candles randomly scattered around the room. On the table were some dishes probably filled with food? Two long white lit candles were next to the center piece. It was a little basket with white roses.

Before I could continue awing at the room Syoaron took my hand and leaded me to one of the chairs. He pulled the chair out and I sat down. Soon Syoaron joined me on the opposite side. He opened a bottle or red whine and poured it into two whine cup. All these years of living I had not seen anything as beautiful as this.

"Cheers?" Syoaron raised his glass.

"Cheers." I took a sip of my whine and it was one of the best I had ever had. "Oh my god Syoaron, I'm under age!"

Syoaron chuckled and said it was all right. No one was going to find out. Syoaron lifted the plate covering the plate in front of me and I stared at the food. They looked so good!

"Did you cook this?" I asked

"Yeah. I picked out some recipe from a cook book and did it on my own. I was planning to cook this for…"

"Yuki?" I cut him off. "But why didn't you?"

"I don't know. I wanted to show you instead. I didn't know if Yuki was going to like this or not. She was more of the kind who only ate food from professional chefs."

Oh…I made an O with my mouth. "Can I dig in? It looks really good." I asked happily.

"Sure. I don't even know if it's supposed to taste like how I made it. I only got two days to practice." I gave him a confused look. "Oh, I cooked today when you were sleeping and I cooked the day before yesterday. But I think the one from today tastes a lot better than the one from the other day." It was pasta. But this pasta actually looked like a very professional chef made it and not a starter. I blew on it to cool it down and slipped it into my mouth. I looked at Syoaron and he looked like he was praying.

"So?" Syoaron asked anxiously.

"It's…it's not too bad!" He gave a frown. "HAHAHAHA…I'm just kidding. It's great! I never knew you can do such a great job! I'm jealous now. I taught you those simple foods and you went on your own and did something more advanced. I totally envy you Syoaron Li." He scratched the back of his head nervously.

"Well if you want me to I can teach you." He gave me a grin.

"Are you saying my cooking is bad?"

"No...Oh whatever." He dug into his plate of pasta too.

We drank away and I also tried his other dishes. They all were great but my favorite was the pasta.

"Okay, no more whine for you. That's already your third cup." Syoaron stuck the cap back on and put it in the shelves. "Now for dessert."

"There's dessert too?" I asked happily. I don't remember when was the last time that I have had dessert. I never thought of having dessert during dinner with Syoaron before. Maybe I should start. "What's for dessert?" I was anxious.

"Here." Syoaron sat in front of me a beautifully decorated chocolate cake.

"Did you make this too?" I asked him with big eyes.

"No, I picked it up on the way here." He laughed.

"You cooked all those good food but you couldn't even bake a cake?"

"You say it like you know how to."

"I do."

"Then let's see it."

"Tomorrow, for dinner."

"Okay." He answered with doubt in voice.

"I'll prove you wrong Syoaron Li."

"I'm sure you will."

After the beautiful dinner I helped Syoaron clean up the room.

"Syoaron how did you even manage to put these lights up? It's all tangled up." I was getting frustrated trying to untangle the lights and taking them off the wall.

"Well do you want to wash the dishes?" Syoaron turned around to look at me with the lights wrapped around my whole body. "What are you trying to be, a Christmas tree?"

"I would rather wash the dishes than deal with these lights. Let's trade." We traded.

Yeap, washing the dishes was way easier than dealing with those Christmas lights.

"You're awfully slow at washing the dishes too." I turned around to see Syoaron with no Christmas lights to be found.

"Are you done already?" I could of have swore that those lights were so tangled together that I was about to just throw them away.

"Yeah." Syoaron stretched and walked into the living room watching T.V.

"Show off." I mumbled to myself

I finished my last plate and whipped the sink. I walked into the living room.

"WELL, I'm…done…" Syoaron was already asleep and my voice turned into a whisper.

He looked so peaceful and there were no sign of his cold side. It's been a while since I have seen him look cold, but now all I've seen was his good side. If I knew him like this only I would have never figure out he had that other side of him.

He stirred in his sleep.

"Yuki…" Did he just say Yuki? "Yuki…I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said those hurtful words to you. Well…well you forgive me?" Did he say something to Yuki yesterday? Something that he regretted saying? Did he make dinner today for me only because he was still mad at Yuki? Is he starting to regret what he did for me today?

I felt a little hurt inside knowing that he did regret doing what he did today. I know he wished he really had cook for Yuki first. Before I knew it, a couple of tears had already slipped down my cheeks.

I didn't know why I was crying, but the hurt I felt seemed to be the cause of it.

I looked at Syoaron one more time and went up to my room to sleep. I didn't feel like waking up Syoaron. I'm pretty sure he would wake up sooner or later on his own. He was sleeping in a uncomfortable position anyways.

I looked over to my alarm clock and it read 12 am. I've been awake for the past2 hours waiting for the sound of Syoaron climbing up the stairs to sleep. But I didn't hear anything. I didn't know why I was waiting. Maybe I was just worried because…because he was a good friend of mine and I didn't want him to have a bad neck tomorrow. Yeah that was just it.

12:30. and nothing happened. No sound, nothing.

"Syoaron, when are you going to become conscious?" I growled and went downstairs.

Just as I have expected he was still sleeping in the same position. I went back upstairs and went into his room. I didn't know if I should be there or not. But I only came to grab the pillow and blanket that he usedI'm pretty sure he'll be okay with it.

I walked slowly to his bed and noticed a picture on his table.

There was Syoaron and a girl who looked very much like Yuki but they both looked different. I guess it was their first picture together or something. They looked very happy together. His facial expression was exactly like the one I saw yesterday before all that mess happened. I put the picture back down and quickly grabbed his pillow and blanket.

I set the pillow on the end of the sofa and lay his head down. I covered him with his blanket. Instead of going upstairs right away I sat down on the floor staring at his face. He still looked as peaceful as two and a half hours ago. His messy hair was in his face. I slowly took his bangs and removed it from his face. I took my hand back down, but it wasn't obeying me. It stopped in mid-air. I felt a gripped on it and knew it was Syoaron's. He must of have had a dream and grabbed onto my wrist.

"Yuki…I'm very sorry. Don't go. I need…" Before he could finish I pulled my wrist away and walked up to my room quickly.

I needed a rest and so much had happened already. I didn't want to hear what Syoaron was going to say next.