:Pain:

"Promise me Syaoran."

"What?"

"Come on! Promise me that you'll save me whenever I'm in trouble!"

"Fine fine."

"Yay. Come on now pinky swear that you will. Ok now, say that you promise that whenever I'm in trouble, you'll come to save me."

"I always keep my promises..."

Syaoran woke up. It was dark and cold. He laid in bed on his stomach and looked at the clock that was on the desk next to him. It read five thirty seven a.m. He groaned and sat himself upright and grabbed his head with his right hand. He sat like that for awhile and got up and putted on a sweater and sweats. He went over to his desk and took out a post it note and written something on it. He held the post it with him as he walked over to his calendar that was December and placed the note on to the side of it that was filled with about a dozen other post it notes that all said the same thing, "Tell Sakura" circled around. He sighed and walked out the door and outside of his house. He stood out on the street and looked around at the black night.

"Another day…" he said.

He started to move slowly with the snow crunching beneath his feet with each step that he took. He started to move faster slowly and was jogging down the street. He went jogging for a long time. After the sun had finally came up, Syaoran was at the front of his house after having jogging for miles. He walked in and took off his sweater and walked over to the garage. He went and picked up his sword and practiced all day.

"I haven't seen Syaoran lately." Sakura said on the phone. "But when I do, it seems like he's really tried."

"Well its like he said, he's busy with things right? Isn't that what he said?" Tomoyo said to Sakura.

"Yeah…but he just seems...different now." Sakura said. "I'm just kinda worried."

Tomoyo sighed a bit and said, "I think that there is something you should know."

Sakura was a bit surprised about hearing this and said, "What? What is it?"

"I…He…Syao…I...am having a party at my place. I will invite him to go." Tomoyo said.

"A party? Really?

"Uh yeah. A Christmas party." Tomoyo said.

"Ok then. Heh, I can't wait." Sakura said. "Bye Tomoyo. Better make him go."

"Don't worry. I will. Bye."

Days later it was the big Christmas party that Tomoyo had made in a short time. The doorbell rang and Tomoyo went over to open the door and saw that it was Sakura with food. She let her in and Sakura put the food in the kitchen. Moments later, Rika and Thiharu came and soon more people came too. Most of everyone from their class was there, everyone except for Syaoran.

"Where is he?" Sakura asked Tomoyo.

"I don't know. He should be here." Tomoyo said. "I asked him to go and he said that he would. Maybe he's just running a little late that's all."

"I hope so." Sakura said.

"Come on. He'll be here." Tomoyo said..

Hours passed and the party went on and so did the day. The sun was starting to go down and so did the hopes of Sakura. Syaoran didn't wasn't there. People started to leave, but many still stayed. People danced. Others were eating. Some were listening to the so called "true" stories that Namazaki was telling. Everyone was enjoying the party, all except Sakura, who stood there looking at everybody having fun.

"Where is he?" she quietly said to herself.

It became dark and the party was still going on. Half of the people left and the other half were still eating and some were dancing still. Tomoyo walked over to Sakura who was on the couch and sat with her. Tomoyo handed her the present that Sakura was going to give Syaoran for Christmas since he was suppose to be here.

"What's this for?" Sakura said.

"Well aren't you going to give it to him?"

"He's not here." Sakura said sadly.

"Sakura, look." Tomoyo said, pointing out the backyard.

There he was. Syaoran was standing outside, looking up at the stars alone. Sakura couldn't believe what she was seeing. He was there. He had shown up. She grabbed the present and walked over to the glass door. She looked at him while he still looked at the stars. She opened up the door and closed it and walked over to him.

"Hey." Sakura said.

He turned around and looked at Sakura. "Oh hey." He said.

"How long have you been here?" she asked.

"I just got here. Sorry to have kept you waiting." He said. "I guess I just overslept. I was like tired so I went to sleep and I guess I slept through the alarm."

"Well how come you've been tired?" she said. "I've just noticed that you've been really tried lately."

"I've been just really busy. But hey what's that?"

"Uh…here it's a present from me. Merry Christmas Syaoran." She said, handing him the box.

"Oh wow thanks." I'll open it on Christmas." He said happily.

"Your welcome."

It started to snow and he looked up at the sky again and so did Sakura. It was beautiful. The snow was covering everything into a blanket of white fluff. They looked at everything that was slowly being covered in snow. They looked up at the stars again and both said nothing. They just enjoyed being with each other. They stayed like that for an hour or so and Sakura wanted to go in from the cold. Syaoran went in with her and both were immediately stopped by Tomoyo who had a camera in her hands.

"You have to kiss now." She said.

"What!" both Sakura and Syaoran said.

Syaoran looked up and saw the most evil thing on the planet, the mistletoe. Both of them had no idea what to do. Syaoran quickly looked at Sakura and Sakura looked at him too. Both were nervous and still had no idea what to do. Everyone looked at them.

"I guess we have to do this." Sakura said, becoming pink.

"Yeah I guess we do huh?" he said, turning pink.

He leaned in and then moved his head to the side of Sakura's face and kissed her on the cheek. Tomoyo happily took the picture of them while everyone watching went awww. It was late and they all left and Syaoran walked Sakura home in the snow. Days later it was Christmas and Syaoran opened up his present which was a couple of movies that he liked. Sakura opened her present that she got from him a day later after the party and it was the bear that he had. Sakura opened up Tomoyo's present and she enjoyed it very much. She smiled and laughed at the small little box, which in the middle, was the mistletoe.