Alright, let's see if I can keep this story interesting for all of you out in cyberspace!

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The next day at school, Sakura seemed to have forgotten that such a person as Syaoran Li had ever existed. The only guy on her mind was a quiet, bespectacled boy named Eriol. Twice during class was she called upon to give an answer and was caught daydreaming. Rika was forced to give her a sharp elbow between the ribs once when she neglected to answer a question.

"What has gotten into you, Sakura? You act as though you're a mile above everything happening here!" Rika exclaimed in exasperation at her friend's spaciness.

"Doesn't he have the prettiest eyes?" Sakura observed, not listening to a thing that had just been said.

"Aw, crap. Sakura, you're not supposed to move into the obsessive stage when you've only known the guy for a grand total of four days! Yeah, he's a nice guy, and he's cute and smart. So is Syaoran, remember?" Rika tried to break the reverie and hopefully nudge Sakura towards her new accomplice.

"Who?" Sakura asked, mildly interested for the first time.

"Syaoran! Syaoran Li! The guy you were so broken up about a couple days ago. My gosh, Sakura, do you have amnesia or something?" Rika wanted to take her friend and bang her head against a wall a couple times to try to knock some sense back into her.

"Oh. Him. Who cares about him?" Sakura snapped and stalked off. Rika rolled her eyes and followed.

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"Ah, Tomoyo. How nice to see you," Eriol smiled at the approaching girl. He was sitting beneath one of the many flowering trees on campus.

"Hi, Eriol. So, what are we going to do today?" Tomoyo asked as she walked up.

"Well, I was thinking that if you want to work on your humility a bit, we could go volunteer at a soup kitchen after school," he offered. When Tomoyo wrinkled her nose, he just laughed. "Come on. You want to improve yourself, so you need to start seeing what's going on around you." He gave her a brief hug, took her backpack from her, and they walked off.

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"I'm fine, Rika. You really don't have to follow me around. Actually, I'd kind of like to just go for a walk by myself," Sakura told her friend when they reached the entrance to the school.

"Well, okay. I've got a lot of homework and studying, so I'll see you tomorrow, okay?" Rika said, and walked off. Sakura turned a corner of the school after watching her friend leave. Unfortunately, she happened to see Tomoyo walk up to Eriol, talk a bit, hug and walk off together.

"NO!" She cried, and ran off.

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Syaoran was sitting in a tree by the bridge across a little brook near the school. It had been raining a lot recently, and the stream was swollen with water and had a rather rapid current. He threw a twig into the water and idly watched it swirl and dance in an eddy before being pulled out and swept away downstream by the current.

He wasn't focusing on anything in particular when he saw a figure on the bridge. She was looking at the water, and her face had a rather tranquil calm to it. It was Sakura. Syaoran decided not to say anything. She looked beautiful standing there, but he couldn't help noticing the redness of her eyes. Had she been crying? Just as he stood watching, she jumped.

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After working all afternoon in the soup kitchen, Eriol and Tomoyo finally left, exhausted. Tomoyo was sweating, tired, and had traces of food on her blouse, but she apparently didn't care.

"Wow. I had no idea that people actually lived like this. Eriol, I've never seen anyone so grateful for so little! I didn't know that such places of poverty even existed here," Tomoyo said in disbelief.

"Yes, it can have that effect on people. I think it's important to volunteer at places like this, not only because it gives aid to the needy, but because the needy give aid to the needed. After my first time volunteering with the poor, I gained an entirely new perspective. I learned to value what I have and the people around me, and not take them for granted. That's why I wanted you to come here with me today, Tomoyo," he said. He stopped and grabbed her hand. "Tomoyo, never take advantage of those around you. You never know when you may need them the most." And with that, he kissed her hand and left her at her front door.

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Bwahaha! Did I just write a bit of a cliff hanger? I do believe I did! What will happen to Sakura? And what's this with Tomoyo and Eriol? Will Tomoyo really change? What will Syaoran do? Please review!