Sorry about this reposting. I pressed a wrong botton so the chapter got deleted. If you've already read this chapter, move on. Gomennasai!

Sakura shivered under the sudden cold. It was already spitting, and the grey clouds looming overhead signalled a heavy storm. She turned around to face the person she had tried to run away from; her best friend, Li Syaoran. He was still how she remembered, yet different at the same time. He had the same messy brown hair, appealing brown eyes and muscular body from his martial arts. Except now, he had a slight shadow of beard, small wrinkles near his eyes, and more chiselled cheekbones. Ten years had done him well, and Sakura would have appreciated it more if not for the almost crazy look in his eyes as he stared at her. She stared back in apprehension, wondering what he was up to.

"So, are you with anyone now? Tell me!" Syaoran started, his gruff voice sounding strange and different from when Sakura last talked to him.

Sakura cast her eyes on the ground. What right did he have to ask about her personal life after everything that he did? She folded her arms against the now heavily falling rain; she had given her coat to a student to be hung up. She considered answering him; she had nothing to tell him anyway.

"I have no one in my life at the moment." Sakura answered haughtily, even though her voice shook slightly.

"You're lying! Tell me the truth!" In a couple of strides he was in front of her, shaking her slender shoulders. Sakura's emerald eyes lifted up in fury; how dare he shake her like they were still close.

"I have nothing to say to you anymore. That is all that I will say; there is no one in my life, but you will never be part of it again." Sakura coldly answered him. She turned her back on him and started to walk back to the school, her soaked tresses flying in the wind.

"Stop."

Sakura stopped slowly at Syaoran's desperate voice.

"Won't you ever give me a second chance?"

There was a deep pause, and only the sounds of Syaoran's ragged breathing and the pattering of the rain could be heard. Sakura's eyes stared unseeingly ahead as her black Armani dress flapped around her and ruined hair blew in the wind. Then a single word fell out of Sakura's lips,

"Never."

Everyone stared out the large windows, straining to find the two former friends. Tomoyo and Eriol glanced at each other worriedly.

"Where do you think they went? I hope they didn't go far, they're probably soaked by now." Tomoyo anxiously said. Eriol squeezed her hand reassuringly.

"I'm sure they're ok. We'll just have to wait and see."

Their prayers were answered when a familiar pair of heels were heard tapping down the hallway. Soon enough, a soaking Sakura appeared, looking beaten and at the verge of tears. Tomoyo rushed to her, putting an arm around to support the drained girl. Knowing instantly the reason how Sakura ended up like this, she announced to their stunned alumnis their departure. She quickly gathered their belongings and gently led Sakura to her limousine. All the while, Sakura's heart was bleeding on the inside, caused by reopened wounds that were not meant to be opened again.

When Tomoyo and Sakura left, Eriol found Syaoran outside in the pouring rain. His long-time friend was drenched from head to toe, and in Eriol's eyes, never looked more defeated.

"Syaoran?" Eriol asked tentatively.

"She rejected me." Syaoran said despairingly, "She rejected me! How could she do that! She was always telling me how to forgive and forget, yet now she isn't willing to forget the past. Why!?"

Eriol stood stoically in the rain, unsure on how to handle his mess of a friend. He was definitely not going to be the one to break reality to him, at this point, Syaoran was beyond reason. He had forgotten that he had caused great pain in Sakura's life, scarring the poor girl forever. Eriol was also not going to tell him that he was not going to help Syaoran get Sakura, because he knew he will be dead if Tomoyo ever got a whiff of it. He turned around, looking at the familiar courtyard that was a part of everything; romance, fights, and everlasting friendships.

Two teen guys are standing face to face in an empty courtyard; one mad as hell and the other looking beaten.

"You know you are a coward, don't you? How could you go out with another girl again, and everybody knows you love Tomoyo except for yourself. Don't you care about her feelings?" Syaoran shouted at his best friend.

"She's never going to go out with me anyway. I don't care. And you were never close to Tomoyo, what do you care anyway?" Eriol uttered miserably. Syaoran cursed in disbelief over Eriol's blindness and stupidness.

"For one thing, Tomoyo is Sakura's best friend, and it also hurts Sakura if Tomoyo is crying her heart out. I don't care much for girls, but this is going too far. You need to grow up. You are the biggest coward I have ever known."

Eriol plunged his hands into his pockets and sighed. He turned sideways to look at Syaoran.

"You need to grow up. You are the biggest coward I have ever known."

I know this is fast, but this is probably a one time thing. I usually have a huge writer's block after the second chapter, but please be patient! I'm also on exam break for a week (its great!) so I should be working on a bunch of my stories. Yes, I know this chapter is short, but I just don't have the attention span to sit for hours writing a 10 page chapter! Any hints on how I could do this?

PS: Too bad I don't own CCS...