Chapter 12: All good things don't last
Syaoran was once again playing guitar, alone in his house. Every now and then he stared at the window that showed to Sakura's room. It was empty. He hadn't seen her in two days and was starting to wonder if she was still alive. He stood up and leaned on the window, aware of the fact that even if Sakura was in her room she wouldn't be able to see him there, the new curtains kept her from looking into his house.
But he could see perfectly her room, and yes it was empty. He was going to turn around and keep on working on his song when he noticed Sakura was walking out of her bathroom and over to her closet. She was wearing her pink bathrobe, and judging by the wet hair, she had just taken a bath.
He had the impulse to open the window and yell at her, but then she took off her robe, and Syaoran couldn't anything else but stare. Her naked body looked even better than he had imagined. Her silky skin, her firm breasts, he was paralysed by the sight.
He felt an aching pain, looking at her, having her so close and still it was impossible to have her. When he was able to move again he turned around and tried to concentrate on his song, trying to forget the fact that he had just seen Sakura naked, but the image wasn't going away.
So after several minutes of trying to get her out of his mind he figured that watching tv or doing something else would be more effective in this case.
Sakura was just getting dressed when she felt as if she was being observed. She looked at the window, there was no one there, she had just imagined it. Somehow she couldn't Syaoran out of her mind. She had been kind of ignoring him the last two days, and it was killing her. She was starting to need him, his touch, his stare, she wanted to see him so badly.
It was Sunday, tomorrow she would go to school and see him. It was a fact.
The rest of the morning went on like it usually did, nothing interesting. A few phone calls from Tomoyo and Naoko, but nothing else. She had to admit life was always more interesting next to him. Syaoran had managed to change her life in so many ways it was impressive.
But now he was leaving, back to China, leaving her, and they would probably never see each other again. She would go and study journalism, and he would go back to China, it was always meant to end like that so there was no point on fighting fate.
Syaoran was watching TV and there was nothing worth watching. He took the phone to call Eriol and instead he dialled Sakura's cell phone. When he noticed he had done that he hung up and called Eriol, not giving much thought to that incident.
Sakura was on her room listening to some music when he cell phone rang. She grabbed it and saw Syaoran's name on the caller id. When she was about to answer it he hung up.
She finally came to the conclusion that life was just not going to let her live peacefully until she had talked things over with him. But it was taking a great amount of energy to get herself to go to his house.
Finally, after an hour of considering it she decided to go to his house, talk with him, get things settled, so she could be at peace! She put on her shoes and started walking over to his house.
When she reached his house Wei opened the door.
"Miss Sakura!" He greeted her cheerfully "It's so nice to see you!" Sakura smiled at him and was about to ask for Syaoran, but Wei spoke before she did "Master Syaoran is up on his room, do you want me to go call him?"
"Don't worry Wei" She started "I'll go myself"
Wei let her in and Sakura started walking slowly up the stairs. She found herself in front of his door, it was closed. She knocked softly at first but had no answer. She leaned closer to the door to see if she could hear anything, but the room was quiet. She knocked again, stronger, considering the fact that he was sleeping, but got no answer.
Finally she just opened the door, there was no one in the room, then she noticed that there was noise coming from the bathroom. He was taking a bath.
Sakura decided she would wait for him there, but when she heard the shower go off, she suddenly she got a little nervous, what if Syaoran came out naked! She didn't want to see him naked! So she stood up and was about to leave his room to wait for him downstairs when the door opened.
Syaoran came out with a towel around his waist. She froze for a second, and so did he when he noticed he had company.
"Sakura!" He said surprised, not really expecting to see her there "What.. are you doing here?" He managed to say after a few seconds.
He noticed she was blushing and her red face made him laugh a little. Then he remember his incident earlier, he remembered her naked body, and started to blush himself.
"I… um… I" she couldn't say anything, she was too embarrassed and paralysed to talk to him like that "I… came because…. We have to talk" She finally managed to say.
She kept staring at him, his perfect abs… he has so hot! She noticed she was staring and then looked around, she knew she had to leave the room and let him get dressed but her legs were just not answering to her brain.
Syaoran kept staring at Sakura a little confused, she was clearly very nervous, and she was acting very funny but he knew that if he laughed at her she would get really furious so he decided to just let her speak.
After a few seconds when the silence was just unbearable and Sakura was still rambling incoherent things Syaoran decided to break the silence.
"Yeah we have to talk but… can I get dressed first?" He asked in a soft and sweet tone of voice.
She looked at him blushing a little bit more, she nodded and was about to leave the room, she started walking slowly and passed inches away from Syaoran, then she stopped and looked at him.
He kept on staring at her, when she stopped Syaoran supposed she was about to say something, but the words just wouldn't come out of her mouth. Then having her there, in front of him, with her beautiful red face, his body started moving towards her. He wasn't really sure what he was doing but he just did it.
He reached for her and a second later his lips were pressed against hers, he thought Sakura wouldn't respond to the kiss, but she immediately wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him back.
He placed his hands on her waist and pulled her closer, their bodies pressed against each other. After several minutes of making out, Syaoran stopped the kissing and looked at Sakura in the eye
"You have no idea for how long I've been wanting to do this" He said softly to her. She smiled sweetly and kissed him softly in the lips.
"Me too… I just… since you are leaving I didn't want… but I…" Syaoran interrupted her kissing her again.
"I have an idea, let me get dressed and then we can talk about absolutely anything you'd like"
Sakura nodded at his comment and left the room, going downstairs so that he could get dressed. Some minutes later he came down, and sat on the couch next to her.
"Let's go to the forest!" Sakura said all of a sudden, making Syaoran laugh. So they both started walking towards the woods.
Sakura told him all about her fear of him leaving her, and Syaoran promised her he would never leave her, yes he would have to go back to China but that didn't mean they would never see each other again.
That comment really made her feel more secure about everything. At least now she knew she wouldn't be just a fling to him. She meant as much to him as he meant to her.
They were both sitting under Sakura's tree when she remembered about that song he was so reluctant about showing her the lyrics.
"Hey really! Why won't you show me the lyrics? I mean… it's me! I won't laugh!"
"It's not that Sakura! I just… it's not ready and I'd hate to show a work in progress, it's not as perfect as I would like it to be… and it has to be perfect!"
She looked at him and rolled her eyes, he was so mysterious sometimes, it was kind of annoying, but that was him, and she liked him that way.
"Whatever! It's not as if I want to hear it anyway" Syaoran looked at her and laughed silently, she was so funny when she was trying to act mad.
"yeah that's why you haven't forgotten about a song you've played only like two times and two weeks ago"
"Hey! That was mean!" She said sucker punching him.
Most of the afternoon went on like that. When Tomoyo found out next day at school that they were together she almost collapsed, Sakura could have sworn that her friend was about to throw a party just for the two of them.
She was impressed at how fast she got over Aki, but she had to recognize that Syaoran was like a billion times better than Aki, he was so sweet, and nice to her, the best thing that could have happened to her was walking in on Aki that night.
One day, Sakura was on her kitchen, eating something, when the door opened and Syaoran entered, looking really pale, as if he had just seen a ghost.
"Syaoran? What's wrong?" She got worried instantly, his face showed that something really bad had just happened.
He entered took a glass and filled it with water, then sat on the chair in front of Sakura, and stared at her. She was really concerned, he was acting so strangely, it was not like him to act like that.
"I… my mom called a while ago" he started, Sakura didn't even dare to interrupt him, she just held her breath and waited for him to finish talking "I'm leaving in two weeks, as soon as school ends"
"WHAT?" she felt her world crumble to the ground a he pronounced those words… two weeks.
AN: hey you guys! Did you like this chapter? I've had it ready since before Christmas but my computer broke! But now its fine and I posted the chapter as soon as possible! Well anyways you know the deal please review so I can tell if you guys are liking the story or hating it ok? Well bye!