It was a bright and sunny spring morning. Birds chirping and flying around, enjoying the warmth which the new season brought. All bees and butterflies were coming out to resume their work in nature's course, spreading pollen, spreading life around the blossoming garden. However, on a balcony overlooking the garden, three friends were plotting about death. The death of a certain someone.
"Hohohoho, he won't know what hit him!" Tomoyo laughed with enthusiasm.
"I don't know, Tomoyo, it's not like he's dumb. He'll suspect something." Naoko had her doubts after hearing Tomoyo's crazy plan.
"You don't know guys. They're clueless when it comes to love"
"Tomoyo, you are so evil!" Chiharu was excited. In fact she's excited at anything that involves killing. Metaphorically, of course.
"So what happens when the guys finds out about this?" Naoko asked.
"Well, they won't. I can trust that you guys won't tell."
"But didn't you say Eriol already suspects
"Yeah who knows what's happening behind those glasses"
"Hey! I have complete control over Eriol! Don't worry about that. Eriol will anything I tell him to. Even if he knows, he can't do anything."
"Hehehe. It sounds like you have him on a leash."
"It's called love" Tomoyo smiled.
"Yeah right, more like sex" Chiharu countered
At hearing the magic word, Tomoyo face was burning up. Her two friends immediately picked up on this. They would have a field day with this.
"Oh look she's blushing" Naoko stated the obvious.
"Oh my god! I was just joking. Are you two really.." Chiharu could not suppress the big grin growing on her face.
zzz zzz
"Aaachoo" Eriol sneezed as he browsed the endless rows of items on the shelves. Look at the long shopping list of grocerries, he sighed and continued looking for the items.
Flashback
"Eriol, I'm not feeling so well today. So I can't go to the supermarket with you. I'm sorry."
"Oh that's okay, honey, we'll do the shopping tomorrow"
"No no, we've ran out of milk, "
"Okay fine, I'll go. But I don't really remember what
"Don't worry. I got a shopping list right here"
Tomoyo took out a long list from a bed side drawl. Eriol's brows furrowed. Seeing his reaction, Tomoyo asked in fake concern.
"What's the matter dear?"
Recalling last night, Eriol didn't want to get into an argument again.
"No, it's nothing."
Tomoyo beamed a sweet smile at Eriol and went back to sleep, while a tired Eriol got dressed to goto the supermarket.
End Flashback
Eriol looked at the list. "Non-soak sponge". In front of him towered racks and racks of sponges. There's super-soak, power-soak, but no non-soak. This was harder than he thought. A shop clerk pushing a trolley walked by and Eriol was quick to ask her a question.
"Umm, excuse me, but is there a non-soak sponge"
"Pardon me sir?"
"A non-soak sponge?"
"What? You mean a sponge that doesn't soak?"
"Well, I guess..."
"Why would you want a sponge that doesn't soak?" demanded the confused and slightly annoyed clerk.
"My girlfriend gave me this list and..." Eriol tried to explain but he decided that he didn't really have time. It was only one item.
"Sorry, nevermind"
Shaking her head she walked away and muttered "Idiot..."
zzz zzz
It was a whole hour, after searching for the hidden items in the supermarket maze, and enduring the kilometre-long queue lines, then battling the checkout boy for all the correct discounts, he finally came home.
Eriol opened the door clinging ten bags of grocerries. This startled the girls on the balcony.
"Oh, Hi Eriol, you're home early." Tomoyo said nervously.
"What's the occasion? And didn't you say you were sick this morning" Eriol asked.
"Uh well, I felt better afterwards" Tomoyo smiled
Glancing over, Eriol looked at the other girls "And why didn't you tell me you were inviting friends over?"
"Well, I guess I must've forgot to hand in my permission form." Tomoyo said sarcastically. Eriol was supposed to be tied up in the supermarket for hours. This is entirely unexpected. Luckily, most of the specifics of the mission were covered and discussed.
Seeing the situation degrade rapidly, Tomoyo's companions looked for a quick escape.
"Oh, look at the time, I better go home and make sure Takashi has done the laundry." Chiharu jumped up from her seat and headed for the door.
"I need to goto the library to find some books." Naoko smiled at the couple awkwardly.
Turning her attention back at Eriol, she began "So, let's look at how well you did at the shopping."
Randomly, she picked a can of soup. "What is this? This isn't what I asked for! I wanted the mushroom soup!"
"Honey, they didn't have the mushroom one, so I thought..."
She grabbed another item, a juice bottle.
"Are you blind? This is apple and pear juice! I want apple juice! Apple plus pear does not equal to apple!"
Eriol hated getting into trouble.
"I'm sorry Tomoyo, I guess I was a bit distracted."
"Can you do anything without me" sighed an exasperated Tomoyo.
"Okay, nevermind. We'll go to the supermarket again and this time, pay attention. Okay?"
Eriol wanted to kill himself.
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15/1/2006