Set me free
Set me free
Set me free
Stop tearing up my heart
Tearing me apart
Set me free
Set me free
Set me free
Can't break your heart
Set me free

Sakura lay on her bed listening to the radio. Her hair was spread out in a messy bunch on her pillow. She sighed as she raised a hand to brush away a few strands of hair from her eyes.

"That song completely expresses how I feel right now."

She heaved another heavy sigh, and unexpectedly, an image of her crying in Syaoran's arms came to mind.

"Ahh! I hate my life!" She screamed and buried her face in her pillow.

x-x-x

Syaoran was recalling the incident at the park yesterday. He has never seen Sakura cry. She smiles all of the time; it seemed as if she does not have a care in the world.

"Crying over some stupid guy," Syaoran thought and scowled.

His eyes glimmered with a tiny sadness as he sighed. "What's this weird feeling?"

He closed his eyes and tried to find a reason why, but couldn't come up with anything.

Suddenly, the door to his room flew open. Syaoran turned his head to see who it was.

"Haven't you ever heard of knocking?" he asked and turned away with disinterest.

"What were you doing with Sakura? What do you want with her?" the chestnut-haired boy asked coldly.

"What are you talking about?"

"Why are you hanging around Sakura all of a sudden?"

"No reason."

"Back off. Sakura's not going to like you." Syaoran didn't reply.

"With the way you are, you're only going to hurt her," Seichi said.

"Look who's talking." Syaoran gritted his teeth. Of all people, he was the one lecturing him about not hurting Sakura. "You're the only one who's hurting her. Did you know she has a crush on you?"

Seichi stood there dumbfounded and couldn't say a word. Sakura has a crush on him?

"That's right. She has a crush on you. But you know what you did? You broke her heart into millions of tiny pieces." Syaoran was throwing his arms in the air dramatically. "She cried over you for I don't know how many hours. If anyone hurt her it's you."

The room fell silent. Without saying a word, Seichi walked back to his own room and slowly closed the door. He slid to the floor and stared at his feet.

"How ironic." He laughed a hollow laugh. "The person who didn't want her to be hurt, the one who always wanted to protect her, was the one who caused her so much pain." A teardrop fell onto the wooden floor, making a soft tap.

Syaoran was still lying in bed feeling very frustrated. "Maybe I shouldn't have told him," he mumbled, drifting off to sleep.

"But I still can't help feel a little jealous that such a wonderful girl likes you." Being half asleep by then, Syaoran was not conscience of what he was saying.

x-x-x

"So how was your date with Eriol?" Sakura asked into the receiver as she smiled and twirled a lock of her hair around her finger.

"It was pretty good," Tomoyo answered.

"Pretty good? Come on Tomoyo! You know it was awesome." Sakura giggled.

"Sakura, you're so mean." Tomoyo laughed. "But it was awesome! Eriol was super nice and he's so cute and the date was so much fun and we walked around the park after the movie and it was so romantic." She ran on and on and on, and after about three minutes, she stopped to take a breath.

Sakura sweat dropped. "Seemed like fun."

"Yea. So what did you do yesterday?" Tomoyo asked, but there was no reply. "Hello? Sakura? Are you still there?"

"Yea, I'm still here," Sakura said in a sad voice.

"Sweetie, what's wrong? You sound really depressed."

"It's Seichi." Sakura felt a lump in her throat and her eyes filled with tears. "Um, I think he's with Naomi now," she said as best as she could.

"Aw, Sakura. I'm sorry." Tomoyo said softly. She heard Sakura sniffling and knew that she was crying. "You want me to come over?"

After a few seconds, Sakura said, "No, I just want to be alone right now."

"Okay then. I'll talk to you later. I hope you feel better." And they hung up after saying their goodbyes.

Tomoyo looked very troubled and concerned. "I hope Sakura will be okay."

x-x-x

A phone call woke Sakura up from her nap. She rubbed her eyes and looked around for her cell phone.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Sakura, this is Syaoran."

"What do you want?" Sakura said sleepily.

"I was wondering if you wanted to meet up later on today."

"For what?" Before he could respond, Sakura remembered something. "Oh, the math tutoring thing? Uh, sure."

"Yea, the… math tutoring thing," Syaoran said slowly. "What time do you want to meet up?"

"Erh, what time is it now?" She looked over to her alarm clock. 10:25AM. "I guess I slept through dinner last night," she thought to herself. "How about noon?"

"Sounds good. I'll see you then."

"Bye." Sakura hung up and set her alarm clock to 11:30. "I hate math," she mumbled before going back to sleep.

x-x-x

"Okay, so this section is called solving systems of equations in three variables. You just have to use the system of elimination in order to find the answer to the three variables." Syaoran explained. "Okay, so let's start with this problem."

Sakura looked at the paper and suddenly, it felt like she was swimming in a pool of letters and numbers. "Um, Syaoran, I feel dizzy."

They both sweat dropped.

Syaoran moved closer to Sakura and pointed at the first two equations. "Five x plus three y plus two x equals 2 and two x plus y minus z equals 5. Let's try to get rid of the z. So what should you do in order to do that?"

"I don't know." Sakura said.

"You multiply the second equation by two and then add the two equations together. So now the z is gone and you're left with nine x plus five y equals twelve. Are you still following?"

"Oh, I get it!" Sakura smiled.

"Great. So now you do the same thing with the first and third equation."

"Since both equations already have two z, I should just subtract them. And I'll be left with four x minus y equals negative fourteen." Sakura said as she did the math out on a piece of paper.

"See, this isn't that hard," Syaoran smiled. "She's a really bright girl. I guess she just has to pay attention in class." He thought and laughed.

"What's so funny? Do I have a pen mark on my face?" Sakura asked and put a hand to her face.

"No, I just thought of something funny."

"What's so funny?" Sakura asked, her emerald eyes shining with curiosity.

"Oh, nothing." He smiled. Sakura moved closer to him. "Tell meeee! I want to know!" She demanded childishly.

The smiles left their faces and the room grew silent as they stared at each other, their faces only a few inches apart. Sakura blushed.

"Stop blushing, Sakura! Why are you blushing!" she mentally screamed at herself.

Syaoran interrupted her thoughts by putting a hand to her face. Sakura looked at him, startled.

"She has beautiful green eyes, my favorite color." Syaoran thought.

And then slowly, ever so slowly, he moved his face towards hers. Sakura was so nervous that she could literally hear her heart beating.

But before Syaoran could close the gap between them, they heard the front door open and footsteps coming closer.

Sakura and Syaoran quickly moved away from each other and their eyes grew wide with shock as they saw who entered the room.

Author's Note: Yayie! Done with chapter five. :D Liked it? Didn't like it? Review :)