REWIND-"Don't ever make fun of a pregnant women." her husband spoke up. "Raging hormones and all...I learned the hard way." and everyone laughed at him.
"Sooo, Syao." Fuutie said eyeing Sakura.
"Who's she and why didn't you tell us about her?"
Joy, all hell is about to break loose and Sakura was probably going to have a few broken bones in her body from all this hug/tackling. Both seemed to fit the description very well.
"Uh, well, you see." he looked over to Sakura who just looked back.
"A surprise remember?" Sakura suggested remembering what he had said only a few seconds ago.
"Thats right. A surprise. I wanted to surprise everyone." he said smiling, and looking very convincing. "This is my girlfriend." and Sakura meerly tried a small smile and looked fearfully at everyone. Especially the twins. Both girls looked at eachother sharing an exact grin and turned on Sakura.
"CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEE!" they both screamed and ran at Sakura but Syaoran seemed to be experienced in this area since he grabbed Sakura and spun her out of the way.
"Can you two calm down? Let her be or she wont make it to..." he had no idea how to finish that sentence, he had absoloutley nothing in his brain. ( I do that all the time...O.o;)
"Your WEDDING!" they both squealed. "Wont make it to your wedding!" they chanted once again happily.
"Oh boy." Sakura muttered not liking how this was going already.
"Uh, you see, about that," but he was cute off when the twins pounced on him.
"We never said hi brother!" Feimiel said clinging onto him.
"Yes we're so sorry, but no offense, your girlfriend is cuter than you!" ( I don't mean that in a nasty way!)
"Thanks guys, really, thanks." he meerly said as both of them lacthed onto one side of him wrapping their legs around him somehow and their arms. Sakura was surprised he didn't split like a rag doll.
"Okay guys too much love!" he said trying everything to get away from their death grip.
"Doesn't that hurt?" she asked from behind him, still a little too scared to go near the human magnets.
"Nope I did this all the time with them as training." he meerly said though you could see a tiny hint of regret in his eyes. He somehow managed to waddle to the kitchen with them still on him.
The butler and some of the servants which were hardly ever around helped the two new men carry their luggage up the stairs. Sakura watched with interest, and then saw the two twins dash up the stairs. Not always the best around new people Sakura was about to head to the lounge room when she saw that all the guys fully ditched her. Typical. And where the hell did those freakin' girls go? Weren't they her friends? Didn't anybody love her? She mentally sniffled.
"So Sakura." one of the women said from behind her.
"Yeah? Fuutie, is it?" she asked fidgeting with the hem of her shirt. Yupp she definatly was going to kill her ex-friends.
"How long have you two been together?" she asked in polite curiosity.
"A while." she said nodded slightly. Why did Syaoran leave her again? This was his family! How could he leave her to fend for herself? She already was planning to kill him along with the ex-friends.
"Really thats nice. I hope to talk to some more some time. You seem very sweet." and she walked away but first gave her a genuine smile. Sakura liked her already, and then she saw Fanran then waddeled over and pulled her into a tight hug, and Sakura could feel the lump hit her own stomach. It felt so weird, yet so natural to be feeling that. Sakura then suddenly imagined herself pregnant, but shook it out when Fanran let go of her.
"Hi Sakura!" she said enthusiastically. Okay, so maybe Fuutie had matured all the way cause of the baby and Fanran still had some craziness left in her because she still didn't have the baby...made sense.
"Hi Fanran." she said right back except without so much perkiness.
"So, you and my brother are going out! How sweet!" Sakura was glad that her watermelon of a stomach was preventing her from tackling her. "he always thinks he's such a tough guy." she rolled her eyes and Sakura laughed a bit.
"Meh, his ego's just big somtimes."
"Yeah that too.Well I better get going because it'll take me until next year to get up these stairs." she smiled as well then began to pull on her dress. "Sakura you have to tell me that you think it's really hot in here."
"Yeah, it is. I thought it was just me." Fanran shrugged and her husband helped her up the stairs.
As soon as they both were out of sight, Sakura turned on her heel and stomped off to the kitchen. They were soooooooooooooooooooooooo dead when she reached there. Oh yeah she'd make em pay...she just had to figure out how. Pushing away her problems that could be dealt with later she decided on a good yelling and acting very helpless act. It should work and if Syaoran did anything she'd make his night sleepless until the break was over. Hearing familiar laughing from a certain room Sakura walked into the kitchen seeing everyone just chilling around not really doing anything.
"You guys are evil! Pure stinkin' evil!" everyone exchanged scared glances at her outburst. For someone small Sakura really packed a hell of a lot of punch.
"We are not. We just thought that you and my sisters should get better aquinated dear." Syaoran said sitting on the counter.
"Yeah well tough!" she said walkng over to him and banging her hand against his leg. "Because if I really was going," she stopped herself short and looked over to Dave who just looked at her weirdly. She took a deep breath again and started over. "If I really was going to meet them, wouldn't it of been better if you stayed with me to make it less akward?" she said, truthfully.
"Yeah but this way I wasn't in the way." he said cheerfully and winking. Good thing she wasn't experienced in his kick boxing thingy or esle he would of been on the floor, bent into a pretzle. "Aw don't worry babe, we'll kiss and makeout." he said and eanring a glare from Sakura. "Oh I'm sorry. I meant kiss and makeup."
"The things I put up with." Sakura whined as she sat next to Tomoyo.
"Remember I'm doing this to help you." Syaoran said and sakura immediatly knew he was talking about pretending to be her boyfriend. Fate just loved to pick on her sometimes.
"Yeah, yeah don't remind me."
"Hey babe. Could you get me a drink?" he said clearly enjoying himself.
"Yeah me too Sakura?" Marina asked. Sakura grumbeld as she walked across the kitchen and opened the fridge.
"Can't you hurry? I'm dying of thirst over here." Syaoran said making most of the guys snicker.
"Sorry I only have two speeds; slow and slower." she said handing him a coke and then passing the other to Marina.
"That sucks then." he said quietly, yet not quietly enough."No point in bringing you upstairs now." Everyone laughed as Sakura grabbed an apple from the fruit bowl and threw it across the room where it hit him squarly in the forehead.
"OW!" Syaoran yelled as he dropped the coke and clutched his throbbing head.
"You have no idea how many times she's done that to me at work." Dave said earning a hearty laughed and a back slap from the guys.
"Thats it it's done!" he said getting down from the counter and walking out of the kitchen. Sakura's immediate reaction was looking over at Dave and seeing hope glow around him like a neon light. She shot up knowing he was not about to back out now.
"Sweety! I'm so sorry!" she said hurriedly grabbing a package of frozen hotdogs and racing out of the kitchen where she met up with him. "Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please! Don't do it!" she said jumping as she walked grabbing onto his arm.
"No, leave me alone. That hurt!" and she could see he was beyond pissed now.
"I said I was sorry! I didnt mean it but you always make these stupid jokes and make me feel...STUPID." she blurted out then mentally cursed at herself for not thinking of a better, more, intellegent word to describe how she felt.
Hey, what the heck, it was simple, got the point across and it was the first word that popped into her head. Syaoran actually stopped and looked at her, looking quizically at her, as if trying to see if she was telling the truth. He saw her face with such hopelessness and well he sorta felt bad.
"Fine I forgive you." he sighed and she jumped up and latched onto his neck where she gave him a suffocating hug.
"Thank you! Thank you! I think you seriously just saved my life there." she said happily then let go making him wonder if this Dave guy was really that annoying and all that bad.
"Don't mention it, but now you have to take care of me because you threw that damn apple and your my girlfriend." he said with a lazy grin.
"Of course! I'll take care of you because thats what girlfriends do!" Sakura said hurriedly knowing sh was sucking up bad but she was not about to let him change his mind.
So leading him over to the couch she forcefully pushed him down and sat in his lap so she could see his forehead better. Watching him remove his hand she saw a reddish purple mark and she shrinked inside feeling bad for having done that to him. She got the frozen hot dogs and put it on his head, but a little too forcefully because she heard a 'clunk' as it hit his forhead and he winced loudly.
"Sorry!" Sakura said as she gently placed it back on his head.
"Your evil." he said under his breath and looking down at her, she smiled at his words as she continued to watch his forehead.
"I'm not. Just don't like to be pushed around too much. It's what happens when you have an older brother."
"You have an older brother?" he asked, kinda nervous now. You never mess with older brothers younger sisters. Never. Unless you want to have a fast funeral of course.
"Mhmm." she said getting some tissue paper to wipe away the melting ice crystals.
"Who else is in your family?" he asked actually curious about her. Again she smiled and answered quietly.
"I have my dad which I live with, and my parents are divorced."
"Oh that's gotta suck." he said feeling bad for bringing it up.
"Hm, thats nowhere near it. My mom left my dad when I was three and he lied saying she died to make it easier for me to understand and cope with. As I got older I kept on finding things that belonged to her in the house and dad said that he could never throw it away. Turns out that she was actually sending everything over by mail."
"So how do you know she's alive?" Syaoran asked curious and feeling her fingers gently put presure on his sore spot.
"Well I found a letter from her in the mail and I saw the date and she had signed it so I went to my dad and asked him about it and he told me everything. See this braclet?" she held up her right hand and a silver braclet hung off her wrist with a little lopsided heart attached. "This was the first thing I "found". she fingered it fondly as she remembered. "I was so happy when my dad told me it was my mom's, then he told me I could have it. I swore I'd never take it off, and I havent. Though when I was younger my dad had to knot it to make it smaller." she fell silent and both of them just sat there quietly.
Sakura just stayed where she was on his lap, and he let her. This was a rare moment for them both, not being at eachothers necks and being "flirtingly' mean. The moment was killed of course by two familiar squeals.
"Aw you guys are soooooo cute!" Feimiel said running over to the two.
"Aw you dummy!" Sheifa yelled at her sister. "You should of kept quiet! There were so gonna kiss!" she said somewhat dissapointed, and somewhat estatic at her own idea.
"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh." Sakura looked over to Syaoran who meerly shrugged his shoulders. "I think Tomoyo needs me in the kitchen." she said getting up but then seeing the whole gang plus the other two sisters and their husbands all come into the lounge room at the same time.
"No I don't Sakura." Tomoyo said sweetly and Sakura paled.
"Were you ALL watching us this WHOLE time!" Sakura practically screamed.
"Yeah pretty much." Eriol said innocently and slinging an arm over Jennie's shoulders.
"You guys have no lives." Sakura said shaking her heads and walking back to the couch changing the channels. Right away everyone made their way to the couches and got comfortable, even Syaoran put his arm around her neck and pulled her closer, making more room for Tomoyo and Sandro.
"Hey Sakura what does you shirt say?" Meiling asked from the other couch.
"Stop staring at my boobs." everyone looked at one another a bit confused.
"Um, I wasn't looking at your boobs though." she said feeling confused herself.
"No...thats what the shirt says: stop staring at my boobs...get it?" Sakura asked looking over to Meiling. Meiling's face was still one of confusion until she immediatly brightened.
"Oh I get it now!" she said happily then laughed afterwards.
"Now, now." Syaoran said pretending to be serious. "Only the boyfriend has that right to stare at that certain location." he said smirking down at her. Sakura meerly turned her head towards him and just shrugged, it wasn't worth her time, and she didn't want him blackmailing her.
"Hey guys let's play a game." Tomoyo said with her innocent voice of hers but it still caused Sakura to eye her suspisciously.
"What kind of game? It better not be Truth or Dare because that game is too over played at parties." Sakura said getting more comfortable at Syaoran's side.
"Oh I know." Tomoyo smiled. "It's not truth or dare so don't worry. It's a game that will allow us to look into our future's." she said with a hint of mystery, which creeped Sakura out.
"Your not serious. Will it work?" Marina asked suddenly so interested in the subject.
"Well I really don't know since i've never really tried it. But I've heard a lot of people do it. We'll need...( man there are A LOT of people staying at this damn summer house. Theres around 20! Man some people we wont really see like Jessie Vic, Sandro etc etc. They're not important.) thirteen candles, and a bowl filled with water and a mirror." she said looking around at everyone.
"Nope. No way. Not happening." Sakura said seriously. "This sounds too much like a sayonse ( I dont know how to spell it!) or a calling-upon-the-ghosts sorta thing."
"It's not. Don't worry Sakura just trust me."
A good twenty minutes later and everyone was seated on the floor, somewhat crowded around the coffee table. Tomoyo had instructed all the singles to sit alone and all the couples to sit on eachothers laps. Basically the girls sat on the boyfriends. The lights were turned off, and everyone was holding a candle except the couples since one candle represented both. Tomoyo had placed the large mirror under the clear glass which was filled with water. Sakura sat on Syaoran's lap and looked around uneasily. She didn't like this sort of stuff. Couldn't they just all sit down and watch Finding Nemo? She was holding onto their plain white candle which was lite so that the wax could melt and they'd drop some into the water and see what the shape was. Whatever the shape it always meant something and Sakura was afraid that it was going to show something bad.
Tomoyo went first, she was holding the candle and Sandro had his hand over hers as they let the melted wax fall from the candle and into the water. Everynoe inched over to see what shape it took. It was weird it began to harden and everyone just looked around at eachother, already losing their interest, but then Tomoyo gasped seeing something they couldn't.
"Oh my gosh! It looks like a building!" she said happily.
"And what does that mean? Your taxes are late?" Meiling asked but was quickly shushed by Tomoyo.
"No! My little buisness, it'll be big one day! My little desgining shop will become a big company!" she said happily...meh maybe the candle had fumes in it and it messed with old Moyo's brain. Next was Melodie and Steve. They did the same thing, his hand over her's and letting the wax fall. Everyone waited until Melodie cried out happily, hugging Steve around the neck.
"It's a ring! A RING!" she said squeezing even harder. Steve looked really scared at the moment, wether it be from amost being strangled to death or because of the prospect of getting married so soon. After a few other people went, ( running out of idea's) it was Sakura and Syaoran's turn. They did the same as the other couples, his hand over her's yada yada, you guys know the drill already and they let the wax flow into the water. Sakura's nose was almost inside the water as she fought to see something.
"I see...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...round blob." she said dissapointed. She was really getting into the game.
"No wait I see something!" Sheifa exclaimed and Sakura already knew what she saw wasn't good. "It's a pregnant tummy!" she said happily reaching out and huggin both Sakura and Syaoran.
"A whaaa?" Sakura said dumbfounded.
"A pregnant womens stomach." she said again releasing them both.
"Yeah I see it too Kura." Jennie said looking closer to it. Sakura meerly frowned.
"Jennie honey, your eyes are playing tricks on you." she said sweetly trying to give her a hidden message saying. Don't even think about it!
"But I do! Look guys!" and everyone leaned closer.
"Yeah Kura I see it too." Eriol said and she shot him a death glare.
"Lemme see this!" she said looking at it again and squinting her eyes seeing if that helped. "I don't see anything still, it's just a poor pathetic lonely blob, probably wishing it was something." she said tilting her head this way and that.
"No here. Look at it like this." Marina said moving the little thing and it spun a bit, until it slowed and Sakura's eyes widened. It really was a pregnant chicks belly. You could even see a little bump where your belly button would be after it was slightly pushed out because of the baby.
"Oh...mygawd." she said her face freezing.
"Wow. Thats pretty interesting." Syaoran said looking over her shoulder and seeing the swelled stomach as well.
"Shush you." she said her eyes still wide. "Maybe it's just our heads playing with us. How do we know a real pregnant stomach looks like that?" Fanran then stood up and pulled her shirt up revealing the roundness. She giggeled as she fondly rubbed her hand along it. Sakura's head was darting from the water bowl to Fanran's stomach, then back to the water, then back to Fanran.
"Looks pretty much the same." Victor said from his seat.
"Uh." was all Sakura said.
"Well this really is interesting." Syaoran said looking around cocking a brow.
"I wonder what this means Sakura." Tomoyo said and Sakura felt as if her friend was mocking her.
"I know!" Feimiel said bouncing on the floor with excitement. "WE'RE GOING TO HAVE ANOTHER NEICE OR NEPHEW!" she squealed grabbing Sheifa and both clung on to one another. Everyone looked over to with evil smirks as she just blinked at everyone.
"Well we better get started then, lets head upstairs babe." Syaoran said peeking from behind her.
"Pshhhhhtt!" Sakura said raising a hand to stop him. "This is just a silly old game right guys?" she said looking around at everyone...suddenly though they seemed somewhat against her and liked seeing her uncomfortable.
"Seemed pretty right with the rest of us." Fuutie said trying to act innocent.
Sakura was still thinking about that stupid game they all played as she brushed her long hair. She had just finished taking a shower and was too lazy to wash her hair so she just left it. It was bothering her, because well, Fuutie did have a point. Everyone else's answers seemed pretty realistic, did that mean anything with hers? Okay, she did want to have kids in the future, duh, but it was weird because that candle represented both him and her. It said she would become pregnant with his kid, thats what freaked her out. She let out her breath frustrated with her thoughts and how uncomforably hot it was. Opening the bathroom door she flicked off the light and headed to the bed where she just flopped down on, on top of the blankets, it was way too hot to have any. Syaoran was already there, also on top of the blankets and to Sakura's frustration only wearing his boxers, again.
"So how we both doing?" he asked as he rolled over and used his hand to support his head.
"What? Both? There's only one me. Unless there's some other girl in here your planning to screw, and if thats the case she'd better leave because I share this room too and I really don't want to see that." she said as she lay on her back closing her eyes, and pulling on her shirt to feel less hot.
"Jealous are we?" he asked playfully and Sakura meerly opened one eye at him and resisted the urge to roll her eyes...or eye in this case.
"No I'm not, I just don't want her whore-ish bacteria staining the bed I have to sleep on." Syaoran laughed out loud at this. How the hell does he have the energy to laugh, it's so damn humid!
"Your good for a laugh sometimes Saks. And when I said both I meant you and my kid." he said smugly his body and face inches away from her's and his hand on her flat stomach rubbing alsmost, 'caressing' it slightly. Sakura turned her head to him and furrowed her brow and gave him a look which clearly said ; What the hell are you doing? Too bad it was dark and he couldn't see very well, or he just ignored her, either one.
"Yeah about that. What do you think that means? It's kinda weird since you know...we're not really, you know." she said afraid that Dave would pop up from under the bed yelling "AHA! I knew it!
"Meh, just Sheifa having her hopes blind her eyes and brain." he said lazily, and not removing his hand.
"Yeah. For all we know it could be a snow ball telling us that we'll build a snowman one day and have a snow ball fight." she said eagerly believeing that if she said it out loud it would come true instead of this pregnant chick crap.
"If you say so Saks. I all I know is I'm going to melt." he said tiredly.
"Mhmm." she said feeling heavier by the second. Even though it was hot and humid in the room, his hand on her stomach was comfortable and didn't irritate her. And before she knew it Sakura was off to Dreamland, wonder what crazy things will happen there.
Guess what people expect some new 'things' to arise in the next chapter. I thought I'd give them a moment where Sakura wasn't trying to kill him and Syao wasn't being funny with his preverted jokes. Hence her looking into her past. Ahem there really isn't anything to say except thanks to everyone who's read (and reviewed or not) and not flamed me! Really glad about that, phew.
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