Okay, I hope the last chapter made you Eriol fans happy! He's now in the story, just like many of you were requesting I do. Well, I'm trying to update more often for all of your sakes. Remember, if you have questions, I respond to all signed reviews, but I only respond once to each review. I can't figure out how to keep up a correspondence without completely giving out my email address and stuff. Okay, well, let's see where my aimless writings take us this time!
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The following Monday at school, Sakura was late, as always. She rushed to her locker, threw her backpack in and grabbed her chemistry notebook. She hurried off to class and slunk into her seat without a glance at the handsome-yet sad-boy across the aisle. However, she hadn't been in her seat long before the teacher got a phone call.
"Yes...alright, I'll tell her. Thank you. Good-bye. Sakura, you are to go to the office immediately," her teacher told her curtly. Sakura gulped, wondering if the administration was finally cracking down on her for her tardiness.
"Okay," she said as she picked up her things and left.
When she got to the office the secretary sent her in to see the principal. At this point, Sakura had pretty much given herself up as dead. Dad's gonna kill me if I get suspended for tardiness, she thought.
But she was surprised to see that Mr. Bates was actually smiling at her over his glasses.
"Ah, Sakura. Do come in and have a seat. I have someone I want you to meet," he said, indicating the person in the chair next to her. She had been so preoccupied with her thoughts that she hadn't even noticed the other person in the room. She looked over and saw none other than Eriol! He looked just as surprised as she felt.
"Eriol! Hello. What are you doing here? I didn't know you went to Tomoeda!" Sakura exclaimed.
"I just transferred here. I told you I'm from out of town. I'm actually from Hong Kong but I lived in England for a while. I wasn't expecting to see you here, either," he smiled.
"You two know each other?" Mr. Bates interrupted. "Well, that's all the better, because I want you, Sakura, to show Mr. Hiiragizawa around the school today."
"Oh. I'm not in trouble? I mean...that'd be great! I'd love to!" Sakura's beaming smile indicated her immense relief.
"Trouble? Why should you be in trouble? You're an excellent student." Mr. Bates gave her a quizzical look.
"What? Oh, no reason. Forget I ever mentioned it," Sakura started to back out of the room in a hurry, her face turning red. She grabbed Eriol's sleeve and dragged him from the room.
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"Okay, let me see your schedule," Sakura commanded, holding out her hand to Eriol as they walked. She scanned the sheet of paper. "Okay...here's your locker...and your next class is...biology! Hey, I'm in that class, too! Well, this will be fun," Sakura smiled at the blue eyed boy, took his hand and whisked him away to the magical land of biomes, genetics, genuses, and mitosis.
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"Hey, Syoaran," Tomoyo smiled as she caught up with the solitary figure in the courtyard.
"Oh, hi, Tomoyo. What do you want?" Syaoran asked without looking at her. His eyes were focused on a single cherry blossom that had alighted on his knee while he was sitting on a bench.
"Why the long face? This isn't still about the movie theatre, is it? Look, I'm sure that she didn't even see us. She probably just had to go to the bathroom or something. What's the big deal?" Tomoyo tried to play innocent.
"Look, Tomoyo, it's over. You've lost. You're probably an okay person when you're not being a total witch messing with my life. But Sakura is the one for me. So how about you stop making it harder for all of us and just leave me alone for a while, okay?" Syaoran said with a tone that finally struck home with Tomoyo. No boy had ever told her 'no' before. And yet...what was this feeling inside her? It felt bad...yes, Tomoyo was finally feeling guilty about the things she had done. She turned and walked off before anyone saw the tears welling up in her eyes.
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"...And this is Rika, my best friend," Sakura told Eriol, as she put her arm around the other girl. Eriol smiled and offered Rika a small bow. When he raised his head he caught a glimpse of a fleeing girl.
"Who was that?" he questioned.
"Who?" Sakura turned to look behind her and saw Tomoyo disappearing. "Oh, her. That's Tomoyo. She's my cousin," Sakura's face had turned dark. Eriol looked inquiringly at Rika who could only raise her eyebrows at him.
"Well, I've gotta go. I'll see you tomorrow!" Eriol waved over his shoulder and left the two girls standing on the soccer field.
"Sakura, I think Eriol likes you," Rika began as soon as the boy in question was out of earshot.
"Oh, no he doesn't. We only met a couple days ago," Sakura blushed.
"Well, he sure does look at you a lot. And he's got that look in his eyes," Rika grinned wolfishly at her friend.
"What look?" Sakura looked shocked. She hadn't noticed a look...
"Oh, you know...the one where it seems like his eyeballs may spontaneously combust if he sees anything hotter," Rika laughed.
"Stop teasing! That's cruel, Rika," Sakura poked her friend in the stomach, "do you really think he likes me?" she asked seriously.
"Most definitely," Rika's face was completely straight and serious. Sakura could not doubt that her friend was telling the truth.
"Hmm..." was all she could manage as she considered the boy with blue hair.
Little did either of them know, Syaoran had heard their whole conversation. He had been sitting on the other side of the tree behind them. He wasn't intentionally eavesdropping, especially since he had been there first. But girls do tend to talk loudly when they're discussing boys. He got up and walked away with a devastated expression clouding his once nerdy and now gorgeous features.
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Okay, I think that went pretty well...what do you guys think? It's complicated, I know. Well, I hope I'm keeping you all interested! It's it enough of a soap opera, or should I put someone in a coma? Haha! Just kidding. Oh, and I know her principal's name probably isn't Mr. Bates, but I don't know what it actually is, so I just used my vice-principal's name. Alright, please review! Adios.
