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Chapter 13 Around Town

Sakura woke up from her deep slumber and stretched. She had an interesting dream. She had dreamt about being in a forest with cherry blossoms. The petals were falling from the trees and she reached out to catch a petal from the tree. She looked afar in her dream and dreamt of someone by a tree. But the closer you got to that person it was too far from her to reach.

She asks, "Hello! Who are you?"

The person kept their back to her as if they had not heard her. She kept yelling, "Wait for me!"

She started to run towards him, but she didn't get any closer to him.

She woke up from her dream and pondered over what it could be. She shakes her head and looks at her alarm clock.

Her eyes widened as she only had an hour to get ready to meet up with the guys. She jumps out of bed and stumbles over to the bathroom. She takes a deep breath and starts to get ready.

After getting ready and feeling bundled up. She was wearing a white sweater and pink pants. She pulled up her hair in a loose ponytail. She went to grab her coat and purse. She didn't apply any makeup since it was just an outing with friends. She heard a knock on her door.

She opened the door to see that her father was behind the door. He smiled at her.

"Dad, your back?" she said excitedly. She jumped to hug him. She had missed her father a lot since he went on an expedition with his other colleagues.

"Yes, come eat your breakfast. You have a long day." he said hugging her back. He went down to the dining room to eat his breakfast.

Sakura went down to eat. She looks at her watch and sees it's almost time to go. She ran down the stairs fast and grabbed whatever she could and stuffed it down her throat as fast as she could.

Touya looks at her and mutters, "Monster." as he forks some food into his mouth.

Sakura quickly turns to him and gives him a glare. She wiped her mouth with a napkin when she heard the doorbell ring. Sakura turns and looks at her watch again. She kissed her father goodbye and gave Touya another glare. Touya just looks at her and smiles.

He thought, "She will always be my monster."

Sakura puts on her shoes and answers the door. She opens the door and sees Syaoran. He was leaning on the porch post waiting nonchalantly with his head down. Sakura looks at him and smiles at him. He looked cute just standing there looking like a little boy. Sakura starts to walk towards him.

Syaoran heard footsteps coming his way. He looks up and sees Sakura. He smiled at her and felt his heartbeats fast as she inched closer towards him.

"Hello, Li!" Sakura greeted him.

Syaoran looks away. He thought she looked very beautiful and breathtaking. He noticed she wasn't wearing make up like she had the past few days. Tomoyo had put makeup on her on the other occasions when they met. But when she smiled at him, he started blushing. He remembers kissing in his dream with her. He had to turn away as he was turning into a red tomato from blushing.

"Hi, Kinomoto." he said quickly.

Sakura looks up at him confused. She noticed he was acting more abnormal. She squinted her eyes and stared harder at him.

He gulped. He needed to be normal, he was not behaving like himself. He stood up straight and turned quickly without realizing how close she was peering at him. He was taken a back and was falling from the small steps from the porch.

Sakura saw he was going to fall on the ground and tried to reach out to him. She blinks her eyes a few times before saying something.

Syaoran fell on the snow and was too embarrassed to look up. He had never fallen down like this in front of anyone. He shut his eyes for a moment and took a deep breath. He looks up at her with a normal face and gracefully gets up as if nothing happened.

Sakura looks at him and asks, "A-Are you okay?"

Syaroan looked at Sakura as he brushed off the snow from him. He looks up at her in the eye and gulps. Just staring at her made his heart skip a beat. He didn't want to acknowledge that he may possibly like her. He barely knew her, but he could see that she had a kindness that he hadn't seen anywhere.

"I'm okay." Syaoran answered, looking away.

Sakura smiles, "That's a relief." She taps her heart in relief. Syaoran is okay. She looks at her watch and looks around.

"I think Kei is running late again." Sakura said.

Syaoran nods his head and looks at his phone. They waited on the Kei for 20 minutes. Sakura looks embarrassed at Syaoran.

"I'm sorry for waiting for so long. I don't think he is coming." She said shyly.

Syaoran looks at his watch and says to Sakura. "Okay. I guess you are going to show me the best of Tomoeda."

Sakura smiles shyly at him. She didn't think she would be going with him alone. Now it was too late for her to back out now.

Syaoran started to walk towards his car. Sakura got in the car and quickly seatbelt. She first showed him places where he could shop, landmarks, and cafes she had often gone to. She motioned him to follow her to a candy store she frequently goes to.

Syaoran looks around and sees a lot of candies he had seen or never seen before. He was very intrigued when he saw a candy that his childhood friend gave to him. He picked it up and looked at it for a minute. He felt nostalgic in remembering the past.

Sakura turned a corner and saw Syaoran looking at a piece of candy frozen in his spot. Sakura walked towards him.

"What are you looking at?" she asked.

Syaoran jumped and dropped the candy. He hadn't seen Sakura popped right next to him. She looked at the candy he was looking at.

"Oh I love this candy." Sakura exclaimed. She grabbed some and put them in her basket. Syaoran blinked a few times and looked at Sakura's basket. She had filled it full with candy. She took the basket and hid it behind her.

"Haha." she laughs nervously, "I like candy"

She smiles and takes a piece of candy out from her basket and gives it to him, "You can have this piece of candy, I hope it can brighten your day." Sakura turns around and continues to look around.

Syaoran stands still for a while observing Sakura. His friend used to say things like that to him when he was younger. He didn't believe that girl was Sakura. She was a lot wiser than Sakura. He shakes his head, he didn't know what got a hold of him. He picks up a basket and fills it up with that candy to the top. He didn't care how much the candy was.

He walks up behind Sakura at the register. Sakura turns around and widens her eyes at the amount of candy Syaoran also took. Syaoran looks at her and scratch his head and says, "I like candy too"

Sakura laughs and says, "No judgement."

Syaoran smiles at Sakura.

They walk out of the candy store and walk over to the riverside. They continued to walk around a park and sat down at a bench.

Sakura says, "Wait here." She runs off to a cafe. She turns around and winks at him.

Syaoran looks at her and chuckles. He waits for 5 minutes when he sees her emerge from the cafe. Sakura walks over to him, hands him a pastry and hot chocolate. Syaoran looks at Sakura and sees her face was slightly a little red from the cold. He thought she looked rather cute. When she grabbed his hand to give him the hot chocolate they felt warm. Syaoran blushed a little from the contact from Sakura.

"W-What is this?" he asked nervously, looking at the small bag she was holding. Sakura looks at him and smiles and says, "This is my favorite pastry from this cafe."

Syaoran nods his head. She hands him a piece and says, "I thought you would like to try it as well."

Syaoran just stares at the bag for a minute until he hears her saying, "Unless you don't want it?" He saw her take the bag back. He snapped out his thoughts and quickly grabbed the pastry and stuffed it in his mouth. He didn't leave any crumbs behind.

Sakura was surprised how fast he ate the pastry. She laughs a little and brushes off a crumb from his lips. She smiles at him and says, "You missed a spot."

Syaoran froze as Sakura's finger left his face. She drank some of her hot chocolate and looked around the riverside. Syaoran drank a sip of his hot chocolate and observed Sakura's features.

Sakura quickly turns her head as she just seems to remember something. Syaoran snapped his head forward before she saw him staring at her. He sat up straight and looked at the riverside.

Sakura looked at Syaoran and said, "I just remember something. I think you will like it."

Syaoran slowly turns his head and looks at her. She had turned around and munched on the last of her pastry. Syaoran's corner of his lips perks up seeing her eat to her heart's content. Sakura smiles and looks around, "Are you ready?"

Syaoran nods his head and they walk back to his car. Sakura asked him to follow this bridge to the location she wanted to take him. She points to a place where they can go park. The walk up to a small park.

"Every year they make ice igloos at this park and they rate which one is the best." Sakura said cheerfully, "I normally spend it with Tomoyo every year. But I decide to show you first."

Syaoran looked around and was amazed to see this. He doesn't normally go out and look for activities like these. But coming with Sakura, he actually enjoyed himself. They went to visit every igloo and rated them. They had laughed as they joked around. They took pictures in the igloo and made a few selfies together with Sakura urging him to try something different.

Sakura nudges him and tells him to smile more. "You should smile more, you look cute." she teases him.

"I'm not cute." He quickly responds as he blushes. Sakura laughs at him blushing.

"Are you blushing Li?" she said laughing.

Syaoran feels his heart beating fast and doesn't know what this feeling is. He looks up at the camera when she jokes, "You looked so fierce now." She continues to giggle.

Syaoran turned a beat red. When he hears voices behind her.

"Sakura!" exclaimed a girl. Syaoran looked and saw a woman with a tall man.

Sakura turned and saw her friends. "Chiharu and Takashi!" she exclaimed.

Sakura runs up to Chiharu and gives her a hug. "What are you doing here?" she asked.

"We are on a date." Chiharu answered. She eyed Sakura and Syaoran. She smiles at them, "Are you also on a date, Sakura?" she exclaimed.

Sakura laughs nervously, "haha. N-No. T-This is Eriol's Cousin"

Chiharu looks at Syaoran and smiles up to them. "Cousin?" She saw how close they were before she and her boyfriend Takashi went up to them. They looked alot more closer than just acquaintances. "Sure."

Sakura sweats a little and looks nervously at Syaoran. She had hoped he wouldn't get mad at her friends for the misunderstanding. But when she looked at Syaoran he didn't look angry. When she looked at him he rather looked calm.

"Hello, my name is Syaoran Li. You may call me Li." Syaoran introduced himself. He was a little frustrated that he was just introduced as Eriol's cousin. He had a name. He squinted his eyes at Sakura.

Sakura had turned her head and smiled at her friends. He looked away from her and focused on their conversations.

"Hello, My name is Chiharu Miharu and this is my boyfriend Takashi Yamazaki. Would you like to join us for dinner?" she asked.

Sakura looks up at Syaoran as if asking him. Syaoran answers, "Kinomoto and I could join you I suppose." He didn't know how to answer.

Sakura smiles at him and her friends. Syaoran felt he may perhaps regret going with her friends.

"That is great! Afterwards we can go and karaoke. We could call Eriol and Tomoyo to come." Chiharu exclaimed.

Sakura nods her head yes. She forgot that Syaoran was there and turned her head again pleading for him to say yes.

Syaoran looks at his watch. He had to pick up his cousin tomorrow morning. He doesn't know how to respond to Sakura with her beautiful emerald eyes pleading to him. He didn't even know he automatically responded without thinking.

"Y-Yes." Syaoran said.

Sakura was overly excited and grabbed Chiharu's arm as they walked through the rest of the Igloo park. Syaoran and Takashi walked behind him.

"Fun fact. Did you know igloos are means for hunters to survive in the winter. They span more than 3,500 miles. The tallest igloo is 20 feet high." Takashi said to Syaoran.

Syaoran visualizes a 20 feet high igloo in his head. He was mind blown by this fact. He suddenly saw Chiharu turned around with an evil glare at Takashi.

"Stop spouting nonsense to Li." she quickly exclaimed to Takashi.

Takashi looks at his girlfriend and shrinked in fear. "Haha." he laughed nervously.

Sakura looks at them, "Is it really not true?" she asked.

"Okay, the truth is the tallest igloo is in fact 10.5 meter tall." Takashi laughed.

Sakura turns and laughs with Takashi. Syaoran looks at Takashi questionably. He almost had believed in him. He could not believe this guy again.

"Look we are at the end of the park now." Chiharu said, "Shall we go to dinner now?"

"Okay, let me call Tomoyo and Eriol if they want to come tonight to karaoke." Sakura said as she pulled out her cellphone.

Syaoran looks around in the area as Sakura was busy making her calls. He felt his phone vibrate and looked at the message. He looked and saw the message from Eriol.

"Hello Cousin, how was your date with Sakura?" Eriol had messaged.

"It was not a date. She was just showing me around town." Syaoran messaged back.

"Okay. I shall see tonight." Eriol messaged, teasing him.

Syaoran rolls his eyes and sees that Sakura was done talking on the phone.

"Chiharu is going to take us to a place to eat. I have not eaten at this place, I do hope it's pleasing to you." she said, she remembered how he looked when she brought him to the restaurant when they met.

Syaoran remembered how he looked at the building and had a strong distaste for the restaurant but had realized the beauty from within. He felt ashamed from his attitude towards a simple restaurant.

They arrive at a restaurant and Sakura looks around. She admired the artwork in the building. She was very fascinated with the menu as well.

"Have you picked anything, Sakura?" Asked Chiharu.

"Yes." Sakura said. She had her heart set for the entree. Sakura smiles when she decides. The waitress comes to the table and is ready to take their order.

"What did you guys want?" she said.

"I would like the braise fish with the sweet sauce." Sakura and Syaoran both said. They both looked at each other surprised. Sakura remembered yesterday they ordered the same meal.

"Haha. I guess you both like the same food." Takashi said teasingly. Chiharu chuckles.

Sakura looks at her menu and blushes. Syaoran looks at Sakura and thought, they like alot of the same things. He felt weird in having too many common things with someone he barely knew.

"Haha. Li, you can have that entree. I will try something different." Sakura said.

Syaoran nods his head. Syaoran and Takashi talk more about sports. Syaoran had found out that they both like soccer and will be learning business management. Syaoran soon found out that as much as things in common he had with Sakura. He was actually starting to like her friends. He had felt weird about being close to people he didn't know. When he was in Hong Kong he didn't like to know other people.

He had only been here for a few days and felt he was changing the way he was. Syaoran shakes his head and continues his conversation with Takashi.

Sakura's phone rings and she receives a message from Kei. Sakura looks at the message.

"I'm sorry Sakura!" Kei message.

"It's okay. I actually had fun hanging out with Li." she messaged back.

Kei was at home still not feeling well from the meal last night. Eriol had given him some water to help hydrate him. But when he got home it had only gotten worse. He never felt this way before. He fell asleep and just woke up. He didn't know he was so sleepy and missed his chance to meet up with Sakura.

He became very jealous that Sakura was alone with Syaoran the whole time.

"I see. You and Li are indeed good friends." Kei messages. His eyes flash with malicious just thinking of Li.

"I hope you feel better, Kei" Sakura messages back.

Kei never had someone who said those words to him. He felt something was changing the way he felt towards Sakura.

Sakura looks up and sees Syaoran enjoying himself. She thought he was a hard nut to crack. He was always hot or cold. But after spending some time with him. She didn't think he was that bad. Sakura softened up to him and smiled at him.

"Sakura." Chiharu whispers.

Sakura looks at Chiharu.

"Are you really not dating this Li?" she asked.

Sakura replies, "No, I'm not." She waves her hands.

Chiharu observes her some more and says, "Of course. Sakura wouldn't like this guy."

Syaoran eyes both of the girls as he heard Chiharu mention Sakura would not like someone. His ears perked up to hear their conversation but was disappointed. Sakura changed the subject.

They pay the bill and head over to the karaoke place.

"Let's go to One Hall Karaoke." Sakura said excitedly.

They walk closer to One hall Karaoke. Sakura sees Tomoyo and runs up to her.

"Sakura." Tomoyo said.

"Tomoyo!"

Syaoran had his arms behind his head as they walked closer to the location. He is observing Sakura and turns to look over and sees Eriol giving him a knowing look. Syaoran tripped over a branch when he stepped back. He fell down and cringed his face from pain.

Syaoran heard someone ask, "Are you okay, Li?"

Syaoran looked up and saw Sakura. She reached out to help him up. Syaoran felt his heart had stopped and looked up at Sakura. Sakura had looked away after helping him up. Syaoran doesn't know what was wrong with him.

"Sakura, I can't wait to hear you sing." Tomoyo said overly excitedly.

Sakura laughs nervously. "I don't sing as well as you Tomoyo."

Tomoyo laughs. "I think you sing beautifully. I'm sure a certain someone will have a crush after hearing you sing." Tomoyo said teasingly.

Syaoran heard Tomoyo and blushed instantly. Everyone laughs. Sakura looks at everyone and is confused why everyone was laughing. She didn't understand what Tomoyo had meant.

They arrived at the One Hall Karaoke. "We need a room please." Eriol said.