Chapter 15 Trapped!

Ever since the day Syoaron dragged me out of my work place my coworkers had been looking at me strangely. It was either an "I hate you" look or a glare or evil eyes. What did I do wrong?

"Sakura, let's go somewhere after this." Tomoyo was the only person who didn't give me any weird looks.

"Okay. What time does your shift end?"

"At one, yours?"

"Mine ends a little later than yours. It's at 3. I don't think we could go out after this. Maybe some other time?"

"Sure…if you're not too busy with Syoaron."

"Hey! How do you know about him?" I never told her anything about Syoaron.

"Rumors been going around this whole work place stating that you stole him away from Yuki. Is that true? How does Syoaron look again? I didn't get a good look at him the last time he was here." I used my pointing finger and pushed her head backwards.

"You are scary. I did not do such a thing. What the hell is wrong with these people who work here? Who is spreading these rumors about me?"

"HEY! I don't know. I heard it from that one girl with long red hair. I forgot her name." I didn't really care to confront her about spreading the rumor or asking her who started the rumor. But I really want them to stop. Even though I didn't care who spread it once Mr. Toroshi finds out about the rumor he might be interrogating me.

"Who ever it is I hope they shushed it." Just when everything seemed to be going right, there just had to be something that would ruin it for me. What did I do to deserve such torture?

"It's okay Sakura. Maybe they are just jealous that you know such a hot guy. Hey is he hot though?"

"How should I know? Well there was this one time when we… NO! I don't check him out!" I blushed.

"I like your shade of blush." I'm so going to kill Tomoyo. "Better get back to work." She walked off before me. I looked at my watch, 12:30. Lucky for Tomoyo she gets off in thirty minutes. I still had 2 and a half hour to go.

"Hey Sakura, I heard you were dating Syoaron? Is that true? I mean what does he see in you? He's dating a model for god's sake! You can't even compare to him!" The red hair girl I think Tomoyo was talking about accused. I looked at her name tag and it read Mindy.

"What are you talking about?" I was not dating Syoaron. Who did they hear that from?

"Stop acting innocent. Everyone knows you are just a seductive bitch." What the hell?

"What the hell is wrong with you? I don't care if I date Syoaron or not? He's only my friend."

"Sure, everyone's your friend. All you need to worry about is staying away from Syoaron or else your life will for sure be a living hell."

"What are you trying to say?"

"Oh…watch your back." With that she walked away. Okay that was weird and what kind of relationship did she have with Yuki? Was she hired to spy on me and threaten me? If that was true I never thought Yuki would be as evil as this.

I shrugged it off and went back to work.

It was near three and I was in the bathroom putting on my clothing.

"Hey Sakura, Mr. Toroshi asked you to put this in the refrigerator." One of my coworkers named Sheng told me to put the meat in the refrigerator.

"Okay." I grabbed the chuck of meat. "Can you open the refrigerator door for me?" The refrigerator was in the far back room.

"Sure." Sheng opened the door for me.

I walked in and set the piece of meat in the far end of the refrigerator.

"Hey Sakura, I hope you die." With those last words she shut the door shut and locked it.

I ran to the door and tried to open it. It was really locked.

"SHENG! SHENG! OPEN THIS DOOR!" That was no use. I could just tell that the walls were thick and my voice could barely reach to the others. I might as well just wait for the chefs to open the…OH SHIT! They had already took out enough meat to last for the day and today was a FRIDAY! The restaurant wasn't open on the weekends! If no one found me and that was a very, very high chance, I might be dead by then!

"Someone, find me quick please!" I was getting colder and colder with each drawing seconds.

"I can't die yet!" I haven't bake Syoaron a cake yet, I haven't even said good bye to him! My 19th birthday is coming up and I won't be able to celebrate it! I'm going to college in a month! I could imagine my life be taken away from me just because of me being stuck in the refrigerator.

I looked at my watch. It was only 3:10, but I felt like I've been here for not 10 minutes but an eternity!

"HELLO! IS SOMEONE THERE! ANYONE! HELP!" I started jumping up and down to warm up my body. It wasn't working well. I rubbed my arms as fast as I could and that didn't see to work well either.

I looked around the refrigerator to see if there was anything that looked warm enough to wrap myself in, but it was dark and there was only meat.

Syoaron's pov

I decided to pick up Sakura from work since I got off a little bit early and before her. It was almost three when I entered Moon Restaurant.

"Good morning Mr. Li."

"Where's Sakura?" I asked the waitress. Her name tag said Sheng so I guess her name was Sheng.

"Oh, she's working extra shifts today." Sakura didn't tell me anything about extra shifts today. The only thing she told me was she got off of work at 3.

"Can you tell her Syoaron's here and he would like to speak with her right now?"

"Oh…hold on sir." She went to the back of the room and talked to a girl with red hair then went off somewhere.

A couple of minutes later again and the girl name…what ever her name was came back to the front.

"Mr. Li, she's kind of busy right now and asked you to sit and wait for her. Will you like a seat?" I gave her a cold glare.

"Sure." I answered and she led me to a table for two.

"Would you like to order anything while you're waiting?"

"I'll take what you guys have for special today and a cup of water."

She quickly wrote it on the notepad and walked off. Was Sakura really working another shift? Then where is she? I know Sakura pretty well and if she was going to stay longer and knew I was here she would of have come out right away and tell me about it.

"Here's your food Mr. Li." She set the food in front of me. Today's special was steak and mash potato with gravy. I ate and waited for Sakura.

I looked at my clock. It read 4:00. What the hell was she doing that was taking her such a long time?

I motioned for the woman who served me today towards my table.

"I haven't seen Sakura at all, can you go and tell her again I'm here and I want to talk to her?" Again she went to the back and talked to the same red headed girl. She walked off somewhere again just like last time.

It seemed like she was taking quite a while.

I looked at my watch and it read 4:20. I've been waiting for her to come and tell me where Sakura was for 20 minutes now and she hasn't even come back yet.

Tired of waiting I stood up and went to the back to start my own search. I spotted Mr. Toroshi on my way there.

"Mr. Toroshi, have you seen Sakura?"

"Sakura? She left an hour and a half ago."

"So she's not working double shift today?"

"Not that I know of?"

"Thanks." That lying bitch. Sakura wasn't working double shifts today and I'm pretty sure I didn't miss on the way here either. Something fishy was going on and I had confident that it had a great deal with Sakura.

Sakura's pov

I looked at my watch and it read 4:50. I've been here for almost 2 hours and I was getting weaker and weaker by the moment.

Sheng was defiantly going to get it once I get out of her, if I ever do. I was crying now because of frustration and anger.

I couldn't think of anything that would make someone want to kill me. Or was it only because I was close to Syoaron? That was a stupid reason. Something like this over a guy. Some people would take actions that were unthinkable.

"SOMEONE! HELP ME!" No use. No one heard me. I started kicking on the sides to actually see if someone would hear me.

Syoaron's pov

I've been search for nearly 30 minutes and I haven't even covered all of the ground that this restaurant had. I didn't know it was so big.

I heard some noise from somewhere in the back. My heart beat a million per minute hoping it would be Sakura.

When I entered the room there was nothing, but only a huge refrigerator.

"Damn," I cursed under my breath. Where the hell was Sakura?

I walked out the door, but not before another sound made me turn back towards the refrigerator.

I walked slowly to the refrigerator and listened carefully again.

(THUD, THUD) Sounded like something, a living thing was inside of it. I doubt it would be Sakura. What would she be doing inside a refrigerator anyways? Who or what ever it was I might as well as check it out.

I went back near the door and turned on the lights. It was bright now and I could make out what was in the room. I walked slowly towards the refrigerator again. The door was of course locked. I slowly unlocked it. Opening the door now, it was kind of dark inside. There was a switch to the left of me and I turned it on.

Looking at what was straight ahead of me sent me into anger.

Sakura's pov

I looked at my watch again and it read 5:30. I could feel all the energy inside of me slipping away. With my last strength I decided to give it one more try and kick the walls of the refrigerator.

I kicked once and was already out of energy.

"O…one more time!" I took a deep breath and kicked the wall as hard as I could.

Just as I had finished kicking I heard a sound from the door. I froze there. I hope it was someone other than Sheng or Mindy. Those two witch… I couldn't even think about revenge anymore.

After the click there was another sound. I couldn't see anything because it was quite dark in here. By the sound of it someone was opening the door. For some reasons I couldn't find my voice to scream for that person to hurry up, so instead I sat and waited.

After a while the light switch went on and to my surprise it was…

"Sakura!" I was beginning to lose my focus and he was only a blur.

"Syoar…" I felt my body weaken and everything went black before I could even fisnish saying his name.

Syoaron's pov

"Sakura!" She looked as white as ever. Her lips were purple and there were frost on her hair, clothing and face.

"Syoar…" Before she could say anything else I ran to her just before she became unconscious.

"Sakura…Sakura…" I lifted her up and carried her out of the refrigerator. I ran as fast as I could and as carefully as I could to the locker roomo.

"Some one call for the ambulance!" I yelled at one of the workers and they just stood there. Either it was from shock because of the sight of Sakura's unconscious body or from my sudden outburst, I didn't care either. All I could think about at the moment was getting Sakura to the hospital. "NOW," I yelled again and that set them scrambling.

"Where the fuck is the ambulance?" Right after I said that the siren from the ambulance could be heard from the front door. I ran with Sakura still in my arms to the front room of the restaurant. Everyone's eyes were on me. 'Stupid people. Can't they see someone's hurt?' The paramedics took out the stretcher and they helped me lay her lifeless body on it.

I was going to get inside of the ambulance but they stopped me.

"I'm sorry sir; you can't get inside of the ambulance." One of the paramedics stopped me.

"But…" I was cut.

"What is your relationship with her?"

"Who am I to her? I'm her freaking boyfriend? How can I not go with her?"

"Okay, okay. Get in now." I got in quickly and grabbed a hold of her cold white hand.

"Sakura, everything is going to be okay."

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wow, long chapter...hope you all enjoyed!