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The morning bell had rung. Bing bong bing bong it went and so did the thousands of students who rushed to get to class and in the middle of all of it in massive mob, was Sakura with a strawberry filled pop tart in her mouth, also running to beat the second bell. 'I gotta hurry up' she thought as she ran even harder across the school yard.
She eventually made it to the entrance doors of the school, pushing her way through the rushing crowd. In the hallway, that was just as crowded as the school yard, Sakura pushed her way through just as before and made it to the stairs. She ran up the stairs and ran down the hall to her class. She opened the door and closed it shut. When she closed it, the bell had rung. She made it and shoved the rest of the pop tart in her mouth.
The room was filled posters of various things and in the front of the room was the teacher's desk and behind that was the chalk board. There were five rows and each row was composed of six desks. Sakura walked over to the end of the second to the last row which was where her seat was and saw Syaoran, who sits behind her in the last row, with his head down on the table.
"Hey wake up." Sakura said as she lightly smacked him on the head.
"Huh?" he said, as he rubbed the spot where she smacked him. "Oh morning Sakura." He said.
"Morning to you too. What's up?" she said.
"Oh nothing just tired." He said.
Tomoyo had then walked in the classroom, just coming back from the bathroom. She saw Sakura and Syaoran and walked in their direction.
"Good morning you guys!" she said to them.
"Yeah you too." Said Syaoran.
The three had talked about what they did over the weekend and other things. A tall slender man walked in the room wearing a light blue suit with a white shirt and a tie and had short light brown hair. The students got to their seats and stood by them and bowed and said good morning. He then signalled them to sit down and they did. He went up to the chalk board and wrote his name like every other morning. Mr. Terada.
"Now as many of you heard, there is a writing contest that is being sponsored by the Yomoto Enterprises and if you win, you get a hundred dollars." he said. "The winner will go to a ceremony so that you can get your prize money."
The teacher talked on and on about the contest and how to write a something good for it for most of the morning. The bell had rung and the class was dismissed for lunch. Syaoran was sleeping. Tomoyo and Sakura poked him.
"Hey you, it's time to go to lunch." Said Sakura.
"Ugh…" he groaned. "I'm tired…I'll meet you up with you guys at the basketball court."
"Ok. We'll meet up with you later." Sakura said.
The girls walked out and onto the court. Syaoran, who was half asleep now, rubbed his eyes and got up. As he got up, he saw a book that Sakura had left behind on her desk. He went over and picked up the book. He stood there, simply looking at the book and then an idea had flown into his head. He put the book back down on the desk and took out a piece of paper out of his school bag and wrote something on it. He pasued and looked at the paper and shoved it in the middle of the book, while carrying it with him to the court to meet up with the two.
"Hey you forgot your book." He said, handing the book over to Sakura.
"Oh my god! Thank you! I don't know what I would've done if I lost it. Thanks!" she said, taking the book from him.
"Uh yeah…Just don't do it again." He said.
When they were eating their lunches, Tomoyo said, "Hey. What happen at the park?"
"We don't know." Syaoran said, as he looked at Sakura, who nodded in agreement. "But we do know that we're dealing with something powerful."
After talking about what happened in the park, they finished their lunch and went to their next classes throughout the school day which were Algebra 1, English, Music, and then Gym. As the school day wore on, so did Syaoran, who was trying to stay awake. Sakura noticed and wondered what was wrong, but thought of it as nothing too serious. The school day was over and the three friends walked on home. In the back of her mind, Sakura thought about entering the contest. She got home and went up to her room and started to do the essay. The essay was to interpret a quote that was being given in the contest.
As she wrote it, she thought, 'I wonder why he was so tired today. i should call him.' She got out her cell phone from her bag and was going to dial his number, but then she changed her mind. 'Must be nothing.' She thought.
She managed to write something and asked the small yellow bear Kero, what he thought of it. She read it to him and to her surprise, he was knocked out cold.
"Wake up!" she said, as she smacked him around with her finger.
"Well I'm sorry, but it's boring." He said rubbing both of his redden cheeks.
"Grrr….Go play video games or something!" she yelled at him.
The golden afternoon soon became dusk and dusk had turned to night. The room was dark except the warm golden glow from her lamp that was on her desk. During that time, Sakura struggled with the essay. Her floor that was clean and spotless was littered with white crumpled heaps of paper that looked like a miniature dump. She kept on writing well into the night and around midnight, she had given up. She pushed her books off her bed and onto the paper landfill. A certain piece of paper fell out of a book.
She sighed and said to herself, "Ah screw this. I probably wouldn't win anyway. I'll just quit."
She was just lying on her bed for awhile, looking at the ceiling the whole time, thinking about the essay. She sat upright and got off the bed to go get ready to go to sleep since it was late. She walked around the room and picked up the balls of paper that was everywhere and threw them away in the trash can. She picked them up and then noticed the folded piece of paper. She unfolded it, wondering what it was and was a bit shocked form what it said. It simply said:
Hey Sakura, call me. We need to talk about something.
From Syaoran.
