All Is Fair in Love and Hate
Chapter 2: Yelan Li: The barbie?
By PrEeN and hyperactive cookies
OK, everyone… chappie 2 is finally up. I'm really sorry about the wait, but my internet has been stuffed for the past 2 weeks. Very depressing. Anyway, since you've had to wait so long, let's get on with it.
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Disclaimer: CCS Not ours. Got it? Good.
I knew I shouldn't have told Eriol and Tomoyo yet. But stupid me! I told them; yesterday, when they came over. The conversation went something like this:
Eriol: "I'll kill the bastard!"
Tomoyo: "I can't believe it! You poor thing!"
Me: "Shut up, guys! Get over it!"
It was actually quite hilarious… coz it came out like this; "I'll kill my shut up! Believe it! You bastard, get off her!" But that's another story.
Anyway… so eventually we all shut up and sat in silence for 5 minutes. Then we all started talking at once.
"You go first," Eriol said to me.
I knew that I had to at least try to get along with Li, for my dad's sake. I just didn't know if I could stand Li for that long.
"The only thing you guys can do about this is accept it, ok?" I crossed my fingers behind my back and gritted my teeth as I said the next bit, "I have… And I'm sure he isn't as bad as he seems…"
But how wrong I was.
The next morning I was woken at 5:30 am to the sound of my mobile ringing. I groggily picked up my phone and saw that it was an 'unknown' number calling. I silently cursed whoever it was.
"Hello?" I muttered into the phone.
"Sakura, my darling!"
I groaned. It was my charming fiancé.
"Sweetie! How unexpected! It brings me so much joy to hear your loving voice so early in the morning," I replied sarcastically.
"That's nice. Hurry up and get yourself presentable, wench. My mother has arranged a lunch with you and your father today at our mansion, so that we can all get to know each other."
"How positively delightful."
"Isn't it just," he replied. He was about to hang up when I stopped him.
"How did you get this number?"
He muttered something about minding my own business, then hung up.
And so that day I met Yelan Li. And what a self-righteous little bitch she was.
"Sakura! How much you've grown!" Yelan said as she hugged me, "I haven't seen you since you were a baby!" She was so fake that she would have rivalled even Barbie's plastic-ness.
"You look so beautiful!" She smiled at me, but it didn't reach her eyes.
"You're very gracious to say so, Mrs. Li," I replied politely, "Thank you."
"Oh, don't call me Mrs. Li, dear. Call me Yelan. It makes me feel younger. And it might be a little confusing in the future when we'll both be Mrs. Li!" She said the last bit with a conniving and almost evil look on her face.
"Of course."
Then she sighed, "And think of all the little grandchildren," she said dreamily, "Dear, I expect you to be almost permanently pregnant once you're married. I want lots of grandchildren. I also want my Xiao Lang to be sexually satisfied, of course."
"Of cour- NANI!" Syaoran and I both said the last bit in unison.
She and my father laughed loudly. A butler announcing that lunch was ready interrupted them.
As we entered the huge dinning room Yelan nudged my back and whispered icily in my ear, "I wasn't kidding."
I had to sit next to Syaoran during dinner, and father and Yelan chatted and laughed like old friends such as themselves do. So I was left with only my sweetheart to talk to.
"So…" my fiancé said conversationally, "Do you like stuff?"
"No."
"I thought as much. You do seem like a very boring person," he said with a smirk. I resisted the urge to slap him. It was hard work, but I did it. Aren't you proud?
"Actually, Mr. Li, I have many interests, but 'stuff' isn't one of them," I replied calmly and imperiously.
He raised one eyebrow at me, then continued eating. The rest of the evening went by pretty much like that. He asked me a question, I replied, he insulted me, I defended myself and occasionally insulted back.
Our lovely visit soon came to an end, however. THANK GAWD!
Yelan hugged me goodbye, and gave father a kind of sisterly peck on the cheek. Father went to get the car from the expansive Li garage. Syaoran and I weren't even going to say good-bye when suddenly Yelan said, "Xiao Lang, give Sakura a kiss good-bye!" she told him.
He pecked me on the cheek, then pulled a disgusted face that his mother couldn't see.
"I said kiss, not peck!"
He brushed his lips past mine. He was getting pissed off, "Was that any better, mother?" he asked angrily.
"Not really, but it will do," she said. I told you she was an evil woman.
Yes. That was it. I'm sorry if it was crap and really boring. Just remember that you chose to read it… I didn't force, threaten or blackmail you…too much.
Buh bai!
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PS: Please not that I wrote this in about 3 hours, so that's why it is so short. I was in a hurry to send it to Hayles.