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Chapter 9: Dinner Party
Sakura was getting dressed at Tomoyo's house. Tomoyo could feel the nerves in herself but when it came dressing up Sakura, she forgot her nerves.
"Sakura, you look so beautiful!" Tomoyo exclaimed.
Sakura could see Tomoyo's eyes glisten and was very happy. Sakura hugs Tomoyo and says softly, "Thank you Tomoyo for being a dear friend to me"
Tomoyo pats her back, and replies, "You don't need to thank me Sakura. We are friends."
They laugh and finish getting ready. Sakura was in a very good high mood. She felt like nothing could tear her down. Eriol came to pick them up from Tomoyo's house. They had arrived at Eriol's house. It looked big and grand. Sakura mouth slightly from how grand the house looked.
"Sakura, if you open your mouth any more you might drool." Tomoyo teased.
Sakura closed her mouth immediately and felt really embarrassed. Eriol and Tomoyo laughed at Sakura's cute expression.
"Eriol, you do have a lovely home." Tomoyo said with admiration.
Eriol looks around and chuckles. "My home is really grand. But it misses the peculiar homey feeling like Sakura's home." he said.
Sakura thought about it and did think her home was really homey. But she didn't think living in a bigger house was bad either.
They exit the car to enter into Eriol's home. Eriol's parents were sitting in the living room and saw Eriol come in with the two beautiful girls. Eriol's mother got very excited as she had heard from her servants that Eriol had been smiling more and was talking to a girl. They just didn't know who this girl was.
"Welcome. Welcome." his mother said excitedly.
"Hello, Mrs. Hiiragizawa!" Sakura and Tomoyo said cheerfully.
"What beautiful girls! No wonder it took Eriol so long to get here." Jokes Eriol's father.
They all chuckled. There was a doorbell that rang.
Eriol looks at his watch, "I will get the door" he said.
Sakura and Tomoyo just nod their heads.
"May I ask how you two had become friends with Eriol?" asked Eriol's mother.
Sakura and Tomoyo sweat a little from her questions.
Eriol walked towards the entrance of his home to open the door. When he opened the door he saw the back of his cousin waiting for the door to be open.
"Why I didn't think you would make it on time." Eriol said.
Syaoran turns around and looks at Eriol. "I'm sorry. I was shopping earlier." he said brushing off some snow from his coat.
Eriol motions Syaoran to come in. Syaoran takes off his coat and hands it over to the servant. He warms up his hands with his hands and follows Eriol. He looks in the living room and sees his Uncle and Auntie Hiiragizawa.
Syaoran bows and greets"Hello, Uncle and Auntie Hiiragizawa."
He stands up and stares directly at the beautiful emerald eye girl he had been trying to avoid. He was taken aback from her beauty today. She wore a nice emerald dress with her hair loosely tied in a bun. He was speechless and he cleared his throat with a cough.
Sakura had turned around when she had heard someone's voice. She saw that perverted amber eye guy. She was surprised how nice and clean he looked. He kept staring at her and made her blush. She heard him cough and looked at him.
"Syaoran! You are finally here. Come meet these lovely girls." Eriol's mother said. She motions for Syaoran to come closer.
Syaoran walks towards her.
"This is Tomoyo and Sakura. Eriol invited them for dinner. Don't you think they are pretty?" she said.
"I-I" Syaoran stuttered. He thought to himself, "I never stutter. What's wrong with me?"
"Haha." Eriol's father laughed. "Come, let us have dinner now that you have arrived."
They walk to the dinner table. Eriol pulls a chair out for Tomoyo. Tomoyo felt a little shy and sat down. Eriol's parents looked at each other and smiled. Syaoran was going to sit down when Eriol's mother said, "Syaoran won't you be a gentleman and pull Sakura's chair?"
Syaoran looks at his chair he was about to sit in then to Sakura. He moved over to Sakura's chair, which was farther away from him. He motions for her to sit.
"Syaoran that chair is too far. How about she sit next to you." Eriol's mother said smiling.
Sakura and Syaoran looked at each other and Sakura just smiles. They walk towards the chair slowly and softly mutter to each other.
"Don't try any funny business." Sakura said softly.
"Well, don't try to be clumsy around me." he retorted softly.
They glared at each other and got to the chair. Syaoran pulls the chair and motions her again to sit in the chair. Sakura slowly sat in her seat, suddenly Syaoran pushed her too close to the table. She suddenly gave him a glare as she saw him give her a smirk. He sat down in his chair as she slowly kicked his chair away. He stumbled on the ground. He glared at her and she smiled innocently.
She thought to herself, "You should know better who you mess with. I have an older brother. You think you can mess with me." She raises her head as showing him she was not scared of him.
Syaoran got up from the floor and sat in his chair glaring at Sakura. Eriol and Tomoyo chuckled at their interactions.
"Isn't this such a lovely gathering." Eriol's mother exclaimed with her hands clasped with excitement.
Sakura and Syaoran just grunted as the other nodded their heads in agreement.
Sakura mental slaps herself. She should have known this Li would be here. They are indeed cousins. She observed Syaoran's face from the side when he wasn't looking. He still looked so fierce even while eating. She just wanted to pinch his cheeks to get a normal reaction from him. She chuckles and everyone looks at her. She pauses for a moment and looks down at her food immediately and blushed in embarrassment.
Syaoran looks at Sakura when she has her head down. He squinted at her and had this feeling she was up to no good. He turns and looks at Eriol and he is grinning at him. Syaoran raises his eyebrow at him. He didn't know why Eriol was grinning at him. He looked at the girl next to Eriol, she looked pretty good next to Eriol he thought.
"So, Syaoran you can tell your mother we are doing well here." Eriol's father said.
Syaoran nods and replies, "I will Uncle. You know how mother is. She is just concern for Auntie and wants the best for the family."
His uncle smiles and holds his aunt's hand. "I have always admired your mother's cariness towards her sister." He gazes at his aunt and Syaoran could see they have loved each other for many years. He was jealous that Eriol had a father who loved his wife as long as he has.
Syaoran's father died when he was young and his mother took over to take care of the clan business until he was of age to take over.
Syaraon looks down at his food. He looks around and his eyes fall back on Sakura. She was laughing and smiling at her friend and Eriol. Eriol had made a joke and Sakura was laughing. She had a pretty smile he thought. He didn't notice he had smile a little just looking at her.
Tomoyo saw the way Sakura and Syaoran had looked at each other secretly. She thought they looked cute the way they had secretly made glances at each other. Tomoyo smiles and looks at Eriol, whom she caught staring at her. She blushes. Eriol whispers to Tomoyo.
"After this, I want to take you somewhere."
Tomoyo blushes some more and just nods her head. Sakura looks at Tomoyo blushing and Sakura smiles at Tomoyo's happiness.
They all continue to eat their dinner. They continue to chat and laugh. Eriol grabs Tomoyo's hand and says, "I'm sorry but can you please excuse us. I wanted to show Tomoyo something before they left."
Eriol's parents just smile big and nod their heads. Sakura bites the side of her cheek. She didn't want to be here with Syaoran. But she really didn't want to disturb them.
"Syaoran, why don't you take Sakura to the garden in the back for a short walk." said Eriol's father.
Sakura and Syaoran looked at each other in horror. He just mutters, "Yes, Uncle."
The parents, satisfied with his answer they had walk away towards the study.
Eriol, still holding Tomoyo's hand, pulls her the opposite direction from the garden. He nods at Sakura and Syaoran. Sakura sighs and thinks, "I better get this over with." Sakura and Syaoran grab their jackets, gloves, and hats. They head towards the garden in silence. They continue walking for 15 more minutes in silence. The silence was killing Sakura, she slowed down her steps behind Syaoran. Sakura picks up some snow and rolls it into a ball. She looks up to make sure he isn't looking and smirks from behind him. He turns around and asks her to hurry up and turns around. Sakura wrinkles her nose and gives him a glare. She looks at her snowball she hid behind her back. She extends her arm out and throws the snowball at him. The snowball had hit him directly on his back.
Syaoran stops midtrack and pauses for a moment. He slowly turned around and realized he was hit by another snowball that hit his shoulder. He heard the girl's laughter and saw she was reaching for more snow. He saw Sakura throw another snowball at him again. Syaoran breaks out of his trance and says, "You're going to regret throwing those at me!"
Syaoran dodges another snowball Sakura threw. He rolls a snowball and throws one accurately at Sakura. Sakura was surprised and saw him smirk at her. After seeing his handsomely smirk, she felt a surge of determination.
They continued throwing snowballs and chasing each other around.
They hadn't known a peculiar Uncle and Aunt were watching them from the window of the study and videotaped it and sent it to Syaoran's mother Yelan.
Sakura and Syaoran fell and sat on a bench as they both raised their hands in exhaustion. Syaoran looks up at Sakura and sees she has a bright smile and laughs at the silliness they were doing. Her face had a tint of redness from the cold. Syaoran hadn't remembered when was the last time he had this much fun. Syaoran could not help but laugh with her and smile back.
"Oh? Has anyone ever told you that you have a cute smile?" Sakura said.
"I-I'm not cute." Syaoran said quickly. He felt a deja vu of this conversation. Syaoran pauses when she says that. He had remembered another person saying that to him before.
He breaks out of his trance as he saw Sakura rummaging through her pocket. She opens a packet and takes one of his hands. She took off his gloves and he felt something warm in his hand. She had given him a hand warmer in his hand.
"Here take this, this should help warm up your hands." Sakura said cheerfully. She looks away as she gets another hot hand warmer in her hand.
Syaoran just looks down at his hand and smiles. He didn't know at that moment Sakura was warming up his heart.
"Kinomoto." Syaoran whispers.
"Yes." She said turning towards him. She saw his heated gaze as he looked at her. He inched closer to her. Sakura looked up at him and tilted her head in confusion. She saw he was coming closer and froze. They were coming closer and closer when they heard a noise in the background.
Sakura jumps up and accidentally knocks Syaoran off the bench. Syaoran fell on the snow and quickly glared at Sakura.
"T-Tomoyo! Eriol!" Sakura stuttered.
Syaoran snaps up and sees Eriol and Tomoyo. He sees Eriol grinning and Tomoyo smiling at them. He didn't know why they were looking at them with a weird gaze. They had a knowing look and just walked towards them. He just realized he was almost going to do something he had never done with any girl.
"Sakura! You have snow all over you!" Tomoyo said as she came closer.
"Hehe."Sakura laughs nervously.
"It doesn't look like she gave up on a fight either." Eriol said as he looked at Syaoran who also was covered in snow.
They all laughed and Eriol says, "Sakura, you're still wearing a dress and have been out here too long. You might catch a cold."
Tomoyo and Eriol had come outside to look for them because they had been gone for a while. Syaoran looked at Sakura quickly and looked her up and down. He had forgotten she was only wearing a dress and her winter garments. He had suddenly felt bad for staying outside in the snow for so long.
Sakura waves her hand and says, "Eriol. Don't worry. We just were having too much fun!"
Tomoyo pulls her towards the house. "Let's go warm up. I will give you another dress to put on so you won't catch a cold." She said. Sakura quickly turns her head at her.
"A-another dress?" Sakura said, surprisingly
They walked towards the house, and Tomoyo asked if there was a room where Sakura could change her dress. Sakura and Tomoyo were taken to another room as Sakura dried up and changed.
Eriol turns and looks at Syaoran and smiles at him. Syaoran felt awkward from him staring.
"Is there something wrong cousin?" Syaoran asked him, feeling annoyed.
Eriol just chuckles and says, "I don't think you know what is happening. So I won't say anything for now."
Syaoran raised his eyebrow at him and just went to sit on the sofa waiting for the girls to return. Eriol's mother comes out with four glasses of hot chocolate.
"Come. Come. Have some hot chocolate to warm up." She said. She motions for Syaoran and Eriol to come closer. She smiles at them and says, "Syaoran, you are just growing too fast. You were such a young boy and now you have grown into a fine man."
"Oh, there you girls are. We have some chocolate for you ladies." Eriol's father said.
Syaoran turns around and sees Sakura wearing a pink dress that was off the shoulder look. He thought the dress Sakura was wearing previously made her look beautiful. But this dress had taken his breath away. He blushed as Sakura had a gaze at him.
"Li, don't you think Sakura looks beautiful?" Tomoyo asked Syaoran.
Syaoran quickly nods his head and looks away. He blushes from looking at Sakura.
Sakura smiles and turns to drink the hot chocolate. They continued the rest of the night and the girls were just about to leave. When Tomoyo says, "Sakura. Since Syaoran is here, he might as well as drop you off."
Sakura looks up at Tomoyo. She sees Tomoyo with a smiling knowing face. Mentally Tomoyo looks at Sakura, "This is my revenge for that night. Haha."
Sakura suddenly remembers the night of the party and she had teased Tomoyo to sit in the front seat. Sakura cringes from the memory.
"Yes, Syaoran's apartment is actually not so far from where you live." Eriol commented afterward.
Sakura glares at Eriol for betraying her. Syaoran just motions Sakura to follow him. Sakura walks by Eriol and Tomoyo, who were grinning at her. She gives them a glare.
Sakura walks to the car. She doesn't know if she should sit in the front or the back of the car. Syaoran sits in the driver's seat and rolls down the window.
"I don't have all day waiting for you," he demanded.
Sakura quickly runs in the back seat of the car and was about to pull her seatbelt when he said coldly, "Do I look like your chauffeur? No. Get in the front seat."
Sakura froze up and slowly got out of the car to sit in the front seat. She nervously laughs.
She made no movements. Syaoran sighs and takes off his seatbelt and comes close to Sakura. Sakura inches away and shuts her eyes. She heard a shuffle and heard a seatbelt click.
Sakura slowly opened her eyes and realized he had put on her seatbelt for her. She blushes and quickly looks away in embarrassment.
"So, are you going to give me the address?" Syaoran asked.
Sakura gives him the address and he starts to drive to her home. Sakura peeks at Syaoran as she pretends to be on her phone. He looked so handsome while he drove. He has a deep concentration and is really focused. She noticed his hair was tousled a little from taking his hat off from outside. He had a very clear skin and his eyes looked so deep.
She thought to herself, "If he wasn't a pervert and didn't speak. She might actually think she was attracted to him."
Syaoran drives by the park nearby and she shouts. "STOP."
