Doesn't really matter - Chapter 7
Sakura had no idea why she was lying in a bed while her whole body was sore, and she could hardly move. But then she saw Meiln stnding beside her bed, and as she stood looking at her by the foot of her bed, things started to fall into place. Unfortunately, everything started to become crystal clear. She wanted to kick herself. She was so stupid. First she got into a fight with a Dragon, who was of course there to save her, and then when she was presented another chance to escape, she runs back and takes a bullet for her captor. This would make the list of 'stupidest things she'd ever done', and it would be right at the top.
Meilin looked as if she had seen a ghost, and Sakura couldn't help but smile at the look on her face. At least it showed that one person in this world cared about her. Well, that wasnt entirely true, and Touya definately cared about her, and probably Tomoyo too. Three people cared about her. It may have seemed like very little to others, but it was more than Sakura could really ask for.
"Why?" Meilin asked, quietly, but Sakura heard her clearly. "Why did you do it? You could have run out of there like a blast. And why were you arguing with that guy? He was a Dragon, wasn't he? They came to rescue you, from us, and you, just start arguing with him. You know, it's not exactly most others would handle the situation, don't you think?"
"No, but I've never really been one to follow the crowds though." Sakura answered quietly.
"I've noticed."
They stayed in silence for a few moments, neither knowing what to say to the other. Finally Meilin broke the silence.
"I think that Tomoyo would like to see you now too." Sakura nodded and Meilin left the room, where she encountered Syaoran and Tomoyo arguing, with hushed voices, but angry at each other regardless.
"You let me in there this moment, do you hear me? If you dont, I'm going to have Eriol lock you up in a room just like her, and just have him feed you food through a slot in the door."
"I don't really care what you'll do, but you are not going in there right now! She just woke up and I'm not going to have you upset her and then her go into some sort of shock or somthing. You know as well as I do that if any more harm comes to her, she'll be worth nothing, and then we'll have no wat to get Touya and for you to get your revenge."
"Well why do you think that by my coming into that room, it will cause her deep physchological problems?"
"Oh, I never said that I thought that, I know that will happen!"
"Will you two just be quiet!" Meilin interupted. She was annoyed and surprised that Tomoyo would be standing up to Syaoran, it really wasn't her style. Subtle manipulation and revenge, but confrontation was not. "Tomoyo, you can come in and see Sakura know, she's awake and a little groggy, but she's okay for now."
Tomoyo jumped a little, but hurried past Meilin into the room. Syaoran made motions to follow her, but Eriol put a light hand on his shoulde to restrain him. Her looked at him, but Eriol simply shook his head. Syaoran knew they only way he would get into that room would be by brute force, so he turned on his heal and walked down the stairs, Eriol following shortly after. Meilin let herself into the room where Tomoyo now had her arms tightly around Sakura, and sobbing violently into her shoulder. Sakura looked alarmed and also pained.
"Tomoyo!" Meilin called out. "Let go of Sakura, you're cutting off her air and you're probalby putting pressure on her wound right now!"
She let go quickly, but comtinued to sob. Sakura looked at Meilin questioningly, but she just rolled her eyes. The fierce Tomoyo was gone, replaced by the overly emotional one.
"Oh Sakura, I can't believe you came back! You should have just gone and ran for it when the shooting began!" she said between sobs. "Why? Why did you save him? That awful, mean, emotionless, selfish - "
"Okay, Tomoyo, we all know that he is not your favorite person, but now is not the time alright?
"Oh, don't go defending him Meilin! I know you can't stand him anymore than I can."
"I'm not defending anybody, but I really don't think that you should be talking about Syoaran in front of Sakura, even though you are badmouthing him, I don't think that she really wants to hear about him. Okay?"
"Fine. How are you Sakura? Do you want some food? I can make you something to eat." Tomoyo fussed over Sakura, stroking her hair back into place and fluffing her pillow. Behind her she heard Meilin snort, and she turned and glared fiercely at her. Sakura watched the two in amusement.
"What, may I ask, is so funny?"
"Oh, just that you have the level of cooking ability as I do, and that is minimal. I think that Sakura might contract food poisoning, and I don't think that she could handle that on top of everything else." She grinned and winked at Sakura who smiled weakly. Tomoyo wasn't too amused, and glared.
"No, Tomoyo, I'm alright for now?"
"Sure?"
"Sure."
"Alright."
"So what exactly happened after I got shot?" Meilin and Tomoyo exchanged looks before Meilin answered.
"It's kind of hard to explain."
"How do you mean?"
"I mean that the details are kind of hazzy, because none of us were actually in the club at the time, Eriol and Adam pulled us out by instinct, so Syoaran was one of the few in the club, and he won't tell us anything. We were home when he came carrying you in, and the only person he spoke to was Wei."
"Who?"
"He's our medical expert, though he didn't think you'd be awake for some time."
"Oh." Was all Sakura could manage at the moment, but she had too many questions to remain quiet.
"What happened to the Dragons?"
Again Tomoyo and Meilin looked at each other, but their faces were more reluctant, their expressions darker.
"We don't know Sakura." Tomoyo said quietly. Sakura could tell that she did. She could always tell when people lied to her, but she didn't press the issue. If they didn't tell her, she assumed that they would have a good reason why.
"Was my brother there?"
"No.", Tomoyo and Meilin both answered quickly. She searched their faces, but she knew the answer was true. If he had been there, she wouldn't have been shot, and she wouldn't be lying in a bed at the moment, in enemies hands. She sighed.
"Guys, I'd like to take a nap, I'm pretty tired."
"Yeah, sure, we'll be back in a few hours to bring you some food. How does Greek sound?" Meilin turned around when she heard no answer, and found Sakura was already sleeping. She and Tomoyo both sighed as they exited the room. They felt sorry for Sakura, and couldn't really believe that Syoaran would bring her back and keep her captive even when she had saved his life. Sometimes it seemed he was heartless. But people could always change.
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Syaoran was sitting in the living room staring blankly at the television which was emitting loud laughtracks, but he took no notice of them. When Meilin came downstairs, she took the remote and shut down the T.V. and it took him a few moments to realise she was even there. She didn't say anything to him, and he made no motion to speak to her.
Finally Meilin broke the silence.
"What are you thinking?"
"Nothing."
She rolled her eyes. "What were you thinking."
"What do you mean."
"Think about it."
"When do you mean."
"When could I be meaning?"
Finally Syoaran responded with emotion, and now he was angry. "Meilin, stop talking in circles. Tell me what you're talking or get out of my face."
"What were you thinking when Sakura took that bullet for you? What were you thinking when you brought her back here? Were you even thinking?"
"I was thinking about the Wolves, Meilin. If we can elimenate Touya, that means we control this division, and we can go back to Hong Kong, and go on with our lives without spending anymore time in Tokyo."
Meilin laughed, but there was no warmth, just a dry, sarcastic laugh.
"You have no emotions Syoaran, except for yourself."
"What do you mean?"
"You weren't thinking about the Wolves when you brought Sakura back, you weren't thinking thinking about the Wolves when you brought her here in the first place! You were just thinking about yourself. You don't really care about going back to Hong Kong, your mother is there, and you can't stand her. You just want control of people, and to be the best. You couldn't believe it when you weren't." She finished and took in a breath, and she had said it all very quickly and without breathing. She waited for Syoaran to react, but nothing happened.
He continued to sit there, his face emotionless as usual. Meilin was taken aback. He didn't get angry, didn't even react.
"Are you finished?" he said finally in a quiet voice.
Meilin sighed, she knew it wouldn't be any good to question or lecture him furthur. "For now I am, just becuase you're so out of it."
"Huh?" He looked at her, and she could tell that he looked tired and worn.
"Nothing, get some sleep will you? You look like a dead chicken."
"Yeah, sure, whatever."
Meilin shook her head as she got up, and as she was leaving, she heard the T.V. turning on again. She sighed. Old habits die hard.
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"Ok Sakura, you take a blue pill in the morning, a green and white one at noon, and one small black one and the yellow one at about seven, and make sure you take all the pills with at least one whole glass of water, or else they're going to burn. But you can't take it with anything but water, like tea, or else the chemicals will repell, and you have to take them on a full stomach, but not immediately after you eat, so you have to wait at least half an hour after a meal to take the pills, but you can't wait for more than an hour. Now regarding the order of the pills - "
Tomoyo was telling Sakura what she needed to do in her medical regime for the next month or so. Meilin was sitting on the bed with them, occasionally holding up bottles of pills which were labelled with strict and detailed instructions, which Tomoyo was still dilegently going over. Sakura was getting confused and dizzy. It was a lot to take in, and Tomoyo was talking extremely quickly. Her eyes were starting to glaze over, her focus started blur. She shook her head and closed her eyes for a few moments, ears not taking in what Tomoyo was saying. She finally opened her eyes and stared in disbelief. Tomoyo had just found a bottle that she had forgotten and was starting over.
"Ohmigod. Tomoyo, is this ever going to end? I'm going to forget all of this stuff anyway. Don't you have it all written down?"
Tomoyo nodded and indicated a long print out with miniscule writing. Sweatdrops appeared on Sakura and Meilin's head. Meilin shook her head, but couldn't help but smile.
"How are you feeling Sakura?"
"Oh, I'm ok, considering the circumstances. You can only be at a certain level when you're being held captive and were shot a few days ago. But I'm not bad." She laughed, but it was dry and without warmth. Tomoyo and Meilin both sighed.
"Sakura, we're really sorry about this. I mean, we weren't keen on this even at the beginning, and we would have assumed, like anybody, that since you did take the damned bullet for him, Syoaran would have let you go, but he's never been the most reasonable person. Stubborn, yes, but not reasonable."
"How much longer will I have to stay here?"
They looked at each other, and she knew that the answer could not be a good one.
"Sakura, we honestly don't know. It could be days or weeks, months or years. Possible even never. There is a chance that Touya is dead though, so we'll have to see what happens."
"He's not dead." Sakura replied quietly.
"Excuse me?"
"I said he's not dead. He's alive. He called me a few days before I ended up here, and if he was, the Dragons wouldn't be looking for me. I know it."
"I hope for your sake he is." Sakura looked at Meilin curiously, but she couldn't tell what she meant by that. Suddenly Meilin brightened.
"This is such a depressing subject, how about we talk about something else? Like, I know we talked briefly about being a model, but it couldn't have all been bad right? What the funniest thing that happened to you when you were modelling." She could tell she had started on the right topic, becuase a smile was already forming on Sakura's face.
"Oh Lord, I have so many stories becuase of my ditziness. Okay, well, one time when I had a show in Milan, I took and over night flight, but becuase of the time changed, I was majorly jet-lagged. Anyhow, I get there, and it's about 6 in the afternoon. Since my show wasn't until noon the next day, I figured I'd just go to my hotel, take a bath then sleep and be well rested before my show. What I didn't count on was the insane traffic. I didn't get to my hotel until about 9 oclock, so all I did was fall on the bed. Well, I had done quite a few shoots before then, and it had been quite a busy week. Anyhow, I slept until 11 the next day. I looked like such a mess, but I figured that I could get there and the make-up artists would do their thing, and I'd be fine. Again, it didn't happen. I got there with ten minutes left, and got lost. It was in this huge arena, and I'd never been there before. Well, I missed the whole thing. I have no idea what went on, but I never modelled for that designer again. Finally some janitor found me. Can you just imagine? Me, looking like a mess, wandering around. Oh, it was the most embarressing thing. Touya broke a chair when he heard about it."
"You got lost?" Tomoyo was looking at her indredulously.
"Yes, I got lost. And what made it worse was that after one of the people there showed me that if I'd just gone in a straight line, I would have gone straight into the changing rooms."
"I have no words." Meilin said with a smirk. Tomoyo hit her in the arm.
"You have no right to talk! Remember when you got mixed up and kissed that girl?" Meilin turned a bright shade of red, and Sakura started cracking up.
"You kissed a girl? Why, Meilin I would never have thought that you swung that way. I'm not sure that I feel quite confortable being in such close proxcimity with you."
"Oh you shut up! It was not like that. It was dark, I was depressed, and she had very short hair and no makeup on!"
"Oh, yeah I'm sure."
"If you weren't wounded, I'd hurt you."
"Hmmm, I know." She grinned wickedly. Tomoyo who had been laughing hysterically stopped suddenly and she stared at Sakura.
"No way." she breathed. She turned to Meilin. "Doesn't she - "
"Ohmigod she totally does!"
Sakura looked at them in confusion. "What are you guys talking about."
Meilin cocked her head to one side and studied her. "Uncanny isn't Tomoyo?"
"It is. Scary even."
"What are you guys talking about?" They exchanged looks once again. Sakura figured they might as well be telepathic.
"It's well, just that you look exactly like a Wolf when you smile like that."
"A Wolf?"
"One in particular."
"Really."
"Yes."
"And?"
"Nothing really, we just find it ironic and a very large coincidence."
Sakura studied them very closely. "There are no coincidences, only the - "
"Inevitable." Tomoyo finished. Sakura looked at her curiously.
"I didn't know that others thought like that. Touya always used to say that, and I think it makes sense." Tomoyo looked down at her hands.
"I don't say that. Neither does Tomoyo."
"Oh? How did you know that then?"
"The only person we know that says that is Syoaran."
Sakura looked very surprised. Meilin brushed it off.
"Coincidence."
Sakura nodded, but the thought still stuck in her mind. After the girls left, she lay, continuing to think. True, it could be like Meilin said, and be merely a coincidence. However, she could never get Touya's words out of her head whenever she had said anything had been a coincidence before. Coincidences didn't happen. Things happened for a reason. Everything was untimately - inevitable.
A/N - Sorry it has been a while since I've updated. I don't think that the chapter is very good, but again, it's another transitional chapter, in a sense. I hope to get the story flowing more soon, so in the next few chapters expect more progress and action. In the meantime, please review, review reivew!
Sakura had no idea why she was lying in a bed while her whole body was sore, and she could hardly move. But then she saw Meiln stnding beside her bed, and as she stood looking at her by the foot of her bed, things started to fall into place. Unfortunately, everything started to become crystal clear. She wanted to kick herself. She was so stupid. First she got into a fight with a Dragon, who was of course there to save her, and then when she was presented another chance to escape, she runs back and takes a bullet for her captor. This would make the list of 'stupidest things she'd ever done', and it would be right at the top.
Meilin looked as if she had seen a ghost, and Sakura couldn't help but smile at the look on her face. At least it showed that one person in this world cared about her. Well, that wasnt entirely true, and Touya definately cared about her, and probably Tomoyo too. Three people cared about her. It may have seemed like very little to others, but it was more than Sakura could really ask for.
"Why?" Meilin asked, quietly, but Sakura heard her clearly. "Why did you do it? You could have run out of there like a blast. And why were you arguing with that guy? He was a Dragon, wasn't he? They came to rescue you, from us, and you, just start arguing with him. You know, it's not exactly most others would handle the situation, don't you think?"
"No, but I've never really been one to follow the crowds though." Sakura answered quietly.
"I've noticed."
They stayed in silence for a few moments, neither knowing what to say to the other. Finally Meilin broke the silence.
"I think that Tomoyo would like to see you now too." Sakura nodded and Meilin left the room, where she encountered Syaoran and Tomoyo arguing, with hushed voices, but angry at each other regardless.
"You let me in there this moment, do you hear me? If you dont, I'm going to have Eriol lock you up in a room just like her, and just have him feed you food through a slot in the door."
"I don't really care what you'll do, but you are not going in there right now! She just woke up and I'm not going to have you upset her and then her go into some sort of shock or somthing. You know as well as I do that if any more harm comes to her, she'll be worth nothing, and then we'll have no wat to get Touya and for you to get your revenge."
"Well why do you think that by my coming into that room, it will cause her deep physchological problems?"
"Oh, I never said that I thought that, I know that will happen!"
"Will you two just be quiet!" Meilin interupted. She was annoyed and surprised that Tomoyo would be standing up to Syaoran, it really wasn't her style. Subtle manipulation and revenge, but confrontation was not. "Tomoyo, you can come in and see Sakura know, she's awake and a little groggy, but she's okay for now."
Tomoyo jumped a little, but hurried past Meilin into the room. Syaoran made motions to follow her, but Eriol put a light hand on his shoulde to restrain him. Her looked at him, but Eriol simply shook his head. Syaoran knew they only way he would get into that room would be by brute force, so he turned on his heal and walked down the stairs, Eriol following shortly after. Meilin let herself into the room where Tomoyo now had her arms tightly around Sakura, and sobbing violently into her shoulder. Sakura looked alarmed and also pained.
"Tomoyo!" Meilin called out. "Let go of Sakura, you're cutting off her air and you're probalby putting pressure on her wound right now!"
She let go quickly, but comtinued to sob. Sakura looked at Meilin questioningly, but she just rolled her eyes. The fierce Tomoyo was gone, replaced by the overly emotional one.
"Oh Sakura, I can't believe you came back! You should have just gone and ran for it when the shooting began!" she said between sobs. "Why? Why did you save him? That awful, mean, emotionless, selfish - "
"Okay, Tomoyo, we all know that he is not your favorite person, but now is not the time alright?
"Oh, don't go defending him Meilin! I know you can't stand him anymore than I can."
"I'm not defending anybody, but I really don't think that you should be talking about Syoaran in front of Sakura, even though you are badmouthing him, I don't think that she really wants to hear about him. Okay?"
"Fine. How are you Sakura? Do you want some food? I can make you something to eat." Tomoyo fussed over Sakura, stroking her hair back into place and fluffing her pillow. Behind her she heard Meilin snort, and she turned and glared fiercely at her. Sakura watched the two in amusement.
"What, may I ask, is so funny?"
"Oh, just that you have the level of cooking ability as I do, and that is minimal. I think that Sakura might contract food poisoning, and I don't think that she could handle that on top of everything else." She grinned and winked at Sakura who smiled weakly. Tomoyo wasn't too amused, and glared.
"No, Tomoyo, I'm alright for now?"
"Sure?"
"Sure."
"Alright."
"So what exactly happened after I got shot?" Meilin and Tomoyo exchanged looks before Meilin answered.
"It's kind of hard to explain."
"How do you mean?"
"I mean that the details are kind of hazzy, because none of us were actually in the club at the time, Eriol and Adam pulled us out by instinct, so Syoaran was one of the few in the club, and he won't tell us anything. We were home when he came carrying you in, and the only person he spoke to was Wei."
"Who?"
"He's our medical expert, though he didn't think you'd be awake for some time."
"Oh." Was all Sakura could manage at the moment, but she had too many questions to remain quiet.
"What happened to the Dragons?"
Again Tomoyo and Meilin looked at each other, but their faces were more reluctant, their expressions darker.
"We don't know Sakura." Tomoyo said quietly. Sakura could tell that she did. She could always tell when people lied to her, but she didn't press the issue. If they didn't tell her, she assumed that they would have a good reason why.
"Was my brother there?"
"No.", Tomoyo and Meilin both answered quickly. She searched their faces, but she knew the answer was true. If he had been there, she wouldn't have been shot, and she wouldn't be lying in a bed at the moment, in enemies hands. She sighed.
"Guys, I'd like to take a nap, I'm pretty tired."
"Yeah, sure, we'll be back in a few hours to bring you some food. How does Greek sound?" Meilin turned around when she heard no answer, and found Sakura was already sleeping. She and Tomoyo both sighed as they exited the room. They felt sorry for Sakura, and couldn't really believe that Syoaran would bring her back and keep her captive even when she had saved his life. Sometimes it seemed he was heartless. But people could always change.
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Syaoran was sitting in the living room staring blankly at the television which was emitting loud laughtracks, but he took no notice of them. When Meilin came downstairs, she took the remote and shut down the T.V. and it took him a few moments to realise she was even there. She didn't say anything to him, and he made no motion to speak to her.
Finally Meilin broke the silence.
"What are you thinking?"
"Nothing."
She rolled her eyes. "What were you thinking."
"What do you mean."
"Think about it."
"When do you mean."
"When could I be meaning?"
Finally Syoaran responded with emotion, and now he was angry. "Meilin, stop talking in circles. Tell me what you're talking or get out of my face."
"What were you thinking when Sakura took that bullet for you? What were you thinking when you brought her back here? Were you even thinking?"
"I was thinking about the Wolves, Meilin. If we can elimenate Touya, that means we control this division, and we can go back to Hong Kong, and go on with our lives without spending anymore time in Tokyo."
Meilin laughed, but there was no warmth, just a dry, sarcastic laugh.
"You have no emotions Syoaran, except for yourself."
"What do you mean?"
"You weren't thinking about the Wolves when you brought Sakura back, you weren't thinking thinking about the Wolves when you brought her here in the first place! You were just thinking about yourself. You don't really care about going back to Hong Kong, your mother is there, and you can't stand her. You just want control of people, and to be the best. You couldn't believe it when you weren't." She finished and took in a breath, and she had said it all very quickly and without breathing. She waited for Syoaran to react, but nothing happened.
He continued to sit there, his face emotionless as usual. Meilin was taken aback. He didn't get angry, didn't even react.
"Are you finished?" he said finally in a quiet voice.
Meilin sighed, she knew it wouldn't be any good to question or lecture him furthur. "For now I am, just becuase you're so out of it."
"Huh?" He looked at her, and she could tell that he looked tired and worn.
"Nothing, get some sleep will you? You look like a dead chicken."
"Yeah, sure, whatever."
Meilin shook her head as she got up, and as she was leaving, she heard the T.V. turning on again. She sighed. Old habits die hard.
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"Ok Sakura, you take a blue pill in the morning, a green and white one at noon, and one small black one and the yellow one at about seven, and make sure you take all the pills with at least one whole glass of water, or else they're going to burn. But you can't take it with anything but water, like tea, or else the chemicals will repell, and you have to take them on a full stomach, but not immediately after you eat, so you have to wait at least half an hour after a meal to take the pills, but you can't wait for more than an hour. Now regarding the order of the pills - "
Tomoyo was telling Sakura what she needed to do in her medical regime for the next month or so. Meilin was sitting on the bed with them, occasionally holding up bottles of pills which were labelled with strict and detailed instructions, which Tomoyo was still dilegently going over. Sakura was getting confused and dizzy. It was a lot to take in, and Tomoyo was talking extremely quickly. Her eyes were starting to glaze over, her focus started blur. She shook her head and closed her eyes for a few moments, ears not taking in what Tomoyo was saying. She finally opened her eyes and stared in disbelief. Tomoyo had just found a bottle that she had forgotten and was starting over.
"Ohmigod. Tomoyo, is this ever going to end? I'm going to forget all of this stuff anyway. Don't you have it all written down?"
Tomoyo nodded and indicated a long print out with miniscule writing. Sweatdrops appeared on Sakura and Meilin's head. Meilin shook her head, but couldn't help but smile.
"How are you feeling Sakura?"
"Oh, I'm ok, considering the circumstances. You can only be at a certain level when you're being held captive and were shot a few days ago. But I'm not bad." She laughed, but it was dry and without warmth. Tomoyo and Meilin both sighed.
"Sakura, we're really sorry about this. I mean, we weren't keen on this even at the beginning, and we would have assumed, like anybody, that since you did take the damned bullet for him, Syoaran would have let you go, but he's never been the most reasonable person. Stubborn, yes, but not reasonable."
"How much longer will I have to stay here?"
They looked at each other, and she knew that the answer could not be a good one.
"Sakura, we honestly don't know. It could be days or weeks, months or years. Possible even never. There is a chance that Touya is dead though, so we'll have to see what happens."
"He's not dead." Sakura replied quietly.
"Excuse me?"
"I said he's not dead. He's alive. He called me a few days before I ended up here, and if he was, the Dragons wouldn't be looking for me. I know it."
"I hope for your sake he is." Sakura looked at Meilin curiously, but she couldn't tell what she meant by that. Suddenly Meilin brightened.
"This is such a depressing subject, how about we talk about something else? Like, I know we talked briefly about being a model, but it couldn't have all been bad right? What the funniest thing that happened to you when you were modelling." She could tell she had started on the right topic, becuase a smile was already forming on Sakura's face.
"Oh Lord, I have so many stories becuase of my ditziness. Okay, well, one time when I had a show in Milan, I took and over night flight, but becuase of the time changed, I was majorly jet-lagged. Anyhow, I get there, and it's about 6 in the afternoon. Since my show wasn't until noon the next day, I figured I'd just go to my hotel, take a bath then sleep and be well rested before my show. What I didn't count on was the insane traffic. I didn't get to my hotel until about 9 oclock, so all I did was fall on the bed. Well, I had done quite a few shoots before then, and it had been quite a busy week. Anyhow, I slept until 11 the next day. I looked like such a mess, but I figured that I could get there and the make-up artists would do their thing, and I'd be fine. Again, it didn't happen. I got there with ten minutes left, and got lost. It was in this huge arena, and I'd never been there before. Well, I missed the whole thing. I have no idea what went on, but I never modelled for that designer again. Finally some janitor found me. Can you just imagine? Me, looking like a mess, wandering around. Oh, it was the most embarressing thing. Touya broke a chair when he heard about it."
"You got lost?" Tomoyo was looking at her indredulously.
"Yes, I got lost. And what made it worse was that after one of the people there showed me that if I'd just gone in a straight line, I would have gone straight into the changing rooms."
"I have no words." Meilin said with a smirk. Tomoyo hit her in the arm.
"You have no right to talk! Remember when you got mixed up and kissed that girl?" Meilin turned a bright shade of red, and Sakura started cracking up.
"You kissed a girl? Why, Meilin I would never have thought that you swung that way. I'm not sure that I feel quite confortable being in such close proxcimity with you."
"Oh you shut up! It was not like that. It was dark, I was depressed, and she had very short hair and no makeup on!"
"Oh, yeah I'm sure."
"If you weren't wounded, I'd hurt you."
"Hmmm, I know." She grinned wickedly. Tomoyo who had been laughing hysterically stopped suddenly and she stared at Sakura.
"No way." she breathed. She turned to Meilin. "Doesn't she - "
"Ohmigod she totally does!"
Sakura looked at them in confusion. "What are you guys talking about."
Meilin cocked her head to one side and studied her. "Uncanny isn't Tomoyo?"
"It is. Scary even."
"What are you guys talking about?" They exchanged looks once again. Sakura figured they might as well be telepathic.
"It's well, just that you look exactly like a Wolf when you smile like that."
"A Wolf?"
"One in particular."
"Really."
"Yes."
"And?"
"Nothing really, we just find it ironic and a very large coincidence."
Sakura studied them very closely. "There are no coincidences, only the - "
"Inevitable." Tomoyo finished. Sakura looked at her curiously.
"I didn't know that others thought like that. Touya always used to say that, and I think it makes sense." Tomoyo looked down at her hands.
"I don't say that. Neither does Tomoyo."
"Oh? How did you know that then?"
"The only person we know that says that is Syoaran."
Sakura looked very surprised. Meilin brushed it off.
"Coincidence."
Sakura nodded, but the thought still stuck in her mind. After the girls left, she lay, continuing to think. True, it could be like Meilin said, and be merely a coincidence. However, she could never get Touya's words out of her head whenever she had said anything had been a coincidence before. Coincidences didn't happen. Things happened for a reason. Everything was untimately - inevitable.
A/N - Sorry it has been a while since I've updated. I don't think that the chapter is very good, but again, it's another transitional chapter, in a sense. I hope to get the story flowing more soon, so in the next few chapters expect more progress and action. In the meantime, please review, review reivew!