Reflection

Chapter 12: A little surprise

Gosh was I tired! I was just sleeping and suddenly the door bell rang. Ding Dong Ding Dong. I yawned, who was visiting at this time of night? I got off my soft bed and ran to the front door, without seeing who it was I opened the door. The moment I did, chirpy voices began screaming, "Oh Sakura! We've missed you!" huh? I opened my eyes and I saw that it was...KODSHI AND ALL MY FRIENDS IN AMERICA!

"Oh my gosh!" I shrieked, jumping up and down, "Why are you here? Where are you staying? There's this great guy to have to meet!

"Woah! Calm down girl!" Ashiko said, smiling, "We're here because of some curiousity of what you were doing, and a desire to tast sushi." We all laughed at the sushi part. "You still haven't told where you were staying!" I said. "Well, we've decided to move into your building! We live on the 2C! Right under your floor!"Rei smiled, "That way we could visit you anytime we wanted as long as you aren't out with the "great guy" you said you would tell us about!"

"Yeah! We want to hear all about you and why you left us in America!" Imako demanded. "Okay, okay, how about I tell you all tomorrow? It's gonna be a Sunday and I can spend all my precious time talking with you!" "Hey!" Kodoshi giggled. "Maybe we could..." Rei began, then she shook her head and stopped. "What is it? Do you have a fun idea?" Imako asked. "Well..." Rei muttered, "I was thinking that maybe we could have...a sleepover tomorrow night? Tonight Sakura's too tired and we've got to pack our stuff. We could sort of throw a little party for us all reuniting again."

"Alright! Super idea!" I said. I could buy food and decorate the place tomorrow morning, this is going to be great fun! I just can't wait for my friends to meet Kai and I could still hardly believe Kodshi and the gang was back! "So...we go to your house at...11:00 p.m.?" Ashiko asked. "Fine with me!" I smiled. "Can't wait!" my friends said as the began to go, "See you tomorrow!"

The moment I locked the front door again I dragged myself sleepily into my room and I jumped into the blankets. "Zzzzzzzzzz."

Next morning

I woke up at 8:00! Woah! I had only 3 hours to brush my teeth, comb my hair, change, buy food, decorate the house, and plan a schedule! Maybe I'll even get a few movies for my friends and I to watch! I brushed my teeth and combed my hair in around 5 minutes then, I picked out a comfortable outfit which I could party in. Some jeans that are baggy in the bottom part, the pink tank top that I bought in America, pink lip-gloss, light pink eye-shadow, pink earings, and some pink high-heels. That took around 20 minutes to organize.

I ran outside, locked my front door and hurried to the seven-eleven shop nearby. I bought some popcorn, a jumbo pack of chips, and bunch of soda-cans. I ran to the cash-register but there was a boy around my age in front of me paying. He looked like he was buying food and drinks for 100 people!

I grumbled under my breath and waited patiently.

1 minute.

3 minutes.

5 minutes.

10 minutes.

15 minutes.

By the time I waited 20 minutes my legs ached from tiredness and my temper was building up. I tapped him on the shoulder, "Excuse me sir, may I please go first? I will only take a minute." I said through gritted teeth. The boy turned around and I saw that it was none other than...SYAORAN LI! "Oh great..." I grumbled under my breath, trying to hide my face.

"Of course my lady, and may I ask you, what's your name?" he smirked. Just as I was about to tell him to shut up I realized he hadn't regonized me. "Excuse me." I whispered, hoping he would not regonize my voice. I pushed forward and began paying for myself. Right after I got a hold of all my paid stuff I ran away before Syaoran could say anything.

"Phew!" I let out a BIG sigh of relief the moment I was safe in my apartment room. YIKES! It was 9:56! I poured the chips into a big bowl and began popping the popcorn in the microwave. Then, I put the bowl of chips on a table in front of my T.V. I grabbed out a bunch of movies and placed them beside the chips then I took the popcorn out and put it on the table as well.

I made sure there was enough seats for all of us in front of the T.V. then I ran into my room and began rolling matresses and blankets on the floor, my friends needed space to sleep tonight!

By the time I finished with the "beds" it was 10:15. I rushed to my storage room and rolled out a long peice of paper. The using markers, pencils, erasers, and colored pencils I began decorating the paper and writing bubble letters: 'Welcome to Japan!' the sign read. Then I used my hole puncher to punch some holes on the top of the paper and I hung up the sign with string. It was 10:49 already, I decided to just take a short nap while I was waiting for my friends to arrive...

DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG! Ferocious ringing woke me from my nap. OH MY GOSH! I had definately overnapped! It was already 11:12! I raced to the door and pulled it open. There was nothing but a bunch of angry friends glaring at me, "Sakura! What have you been doing! We've been waiting for you for 15 minutes!" Kodshi said angrily.

"Oops...sorry." I replied sheepishly, "I sorta...took a short nap. Err...come in!" I opened the door and my friends rushed in, all of them jumping on to my couches. "Wow, nice banner up there!" Imako complimented, pointing to my 'welcome to Japan' sign. "thanks!" I giggled.

"Well...I have a few movies in store for us. After that we could talk about make-up fashion..." I started. "Boys..." Imako sighed, everybody stared at her. "Ermm...maybe not." "But we forgot, you still have to tell us EVERYTHING Sakura!" Kodshi said, Ashiko nodded. "Yeah, and also that great guy you wanted us to meet!" Rei said. "Ok...let's...watch a movie first." I said, I didn't really want to say about those stuff except for Kai of course.

"So...what movie should we watch?" Ashiko asked, peeking at every DVD I had. "Hey, how about this one?" Imako asked, holding out 'Romeo and Juliet' We stared at her like she was crazy, "Nah." we said at the same time. "How 'bout 'Emotions of the Broken-hearted?" (Made up DVD title. Maybe it exists but I don't know any movie with that title) Ashiko suggested.

"Sure!" Kodshi and I said at the same time. I guess it's because we both had heart-breaks before. That movie was new, I had bought it recently so I've never watched it. "Fine with us." Imako and Rei said. I popped in the DVD and everybody began stuffing themselves with chips and popcorn.

Man: I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. It was an accident I-

Women: Burt, I can't take it anymore. You have betrayed me for the last time...goodbye.

Man: No, wait Cindy! You can't do this to me!

Women: It's all over.

Narrator: Will they ever meet again? Perhaps. But Cindy has made her mind up. Her emotions...emotions of the broken hearted.

THE END

"That was a great movie!" Imako shrieked. "Yeah," Rei agreed, "I especially liked the part when Cindy caught Burt holding her sister, that was exciting!" "I thought the best part was the last part when Cindy left Burt." Kodshi muttered. "Me too." I said. "Well, I liked the part when...Cindy's sister...said sorry." Ashiko whispered. "Well, I'm definately gonna need some workouts after this!" Rei laughed, pointing to the empty popcorn bag and the crumbs in the chips bowl.

"Well, I guess it's time for some serious explaining, and talking." I sighed, "Let's go in my room!" We raced inside and we almost got major-stuck in the doorway. After we were all seated on my soft rug Kodshi began interrogating me, " Why did you return to Japan? You never told us." I sighed, I really didn't want to talk about it but I guess I had to tell my friends the truth, "Well...it all started one day when I invited my now ex-boyfriend Syaoran to dinner..."

I told them everything, all my friends looked surprised but not as surprised as I was. I was surprised at myself for not crying, for not feeling any pain while I said my story. "Sakura! I knew your friends and boyfriend betrayed you but I didn't know it was like this!" Kodshi exclaimed. (Remeber? On chapter 6 at the airplane Sakura told Kodshi a bit of her story?)

"Erm...sooo...what school are you going to?" I asked, trying to "drop" the subject. "Well...this is a surprise...WE'RE GOING TO YOUR SCHOOL SAKURA!" all four girls squealed. "Oh. My. GOSH!" I shrieked. We all began jumping up and down. The rest of the night was absolutely fun! And we all fell asleep...

To be Continued...

Note: See? This chapter took only a few days but it was still sort of short...at least it wasn't as short as the last chapter!

Preview of next chapter

"What are they doing with that...freak?" people pointed and whispered. I pretended not to notice as I kept on walking through the hall. "It's okay, those people are just plain dumb." Kodshi whispered to me. Yeah, right.