Bad Girl
Chapter 5
"Are you ever going to get off me?" Syaoran asked suggestively.
"Now why would I when I'm so comfortable?"
"You may be comfortable. But there's better stuff to do...how about we start in the park?" Syaoran smirked. Sakura got off immediately and waited for him to come out of the sleek viper.
"Are you starting to join my game?" Sakura rested her hands on his chest. Syaoran continued to leave that sly smirk on his face.
"Are you kidding?" He laughed haughtily. "I got you to get off me didn't I? That was my objective. Not playing your stupid game."
He walked away from her. She fisted her hands and held in the tears. Biting down on her lip to stop all that fearful cries from escaping. Guys could be so mean... She knew that. They could be rough and not know when to stop. They were so direct with the words they say and sometimes don't think for what matters. But girls. Girls were a different species altogether. They dug deep. Girls penetrated and made pain far worst. Sometimes they wouldn't care how badly they hurt the real genuine guys. So in a sense, girls were far worst.
She began to follow after she sucked up his simple words and use it against him. That promise was going to hold her up. She was going to win. Win his heart and within a matter of time she was going to crush it. He thought he was all that. Ha! Him and his stupid arrogant mind and conceited ego. Who was the better one? Which was winning player? Who would win? Sakura Kinomoto or Syaoran Li?
"Tough girl." Syaoran stated when he noticed Sakura following along. He wasn't stupid. She drew it all over her face that he hurt her. She was even on the verge of tears. And her silence had said everything.
"Since when was I weak?" Sakura sneered more then she meant to. Syaoran was a little taken aback, but didn't hesitate to answer with a comeback.
"You were always weak." He laughed.
'What? What's that supposed to mean?' Sakura was completely confused. But she wasn't going to let him know that.
"Figure it out for yourself."
'Damnit! How did he know!'
Syaoran noticed she didn't understand what he said. And instead of clearing it a bit for her, he made her more confused.
"What the hell are you talking about? Quit with the bullshit!" Sakura spat out. She was sick and tired of this. What did he know about her that she didn't? That wasn't even possible. He wouldn't play her for goodness sake...so how would he know!
"Now look what you did!" Eriol turned to Syaoran. He was holding Tomoyo's struggling hand.
"Let go! Let go! Let me go!" She was saying. But all words were needless to say, a waste of breath.
"You just had to get Kinomoto upset." Eriol shook his head disappointingly at Syaoran. "Now we have TWO grumpy girls to hang with."
"Hey, the Daidouji was your own damn fault and you know it." Syaoran snapped back with a smirk. Eriol laughed then turned to Sakura.
"He's just a little too harsh on you." He assured. "You'll rub off on him. Eventually." He winked at her and gave her a thumbs up. Sakura began to smile. Funny how it was Eriol who had her back on top of things and not Syaoran. She just had to focus on that trophy. On him as her goal.
"Some friend you are." Syaoran pushed Eriol. "You're supposed to back me up here!"
"She's a very pretty girl..."
"Oh yeah! How could I forget?" He rolled his eyes. "Remind me never to go get you in a fight. You'll get me killed without even trying."
"Like you'll need me. Honestly, Syaoran." Eriol said. "Now if you two will excuse me. My Tomoyo is feeling ignored and I need to give her all of my attention."
After Eriol left to catch up to Tomoyo, there was a loud protesting scream that had the public staring.
"Hey look over there." Syaoran whispered to Sakura. She turned to look at what he was pointing it.
Three guys. One handsome. One butt-ugly. And the last, cute. All three, checking her out. Whispering huddled together. It's funny how guys are often found in groups, walk around in groups, hit on chicks in groups. Like it's their home. There's a far more rare account of finding guys alone then girls. Sakura did the first thing that came into her head. She smiled at them. Their eyes widened. She made a slight toss of her head so that her hair naturally flipped. The fountain of drool was sure to be there. Once the were out of sight, there was a low clapping noise and laughter.
"Well done, well done!" Syaoran cheered. "Amazing performance. Can she do it again? Of course she can! The question is...how many times can she do it?"
Sakura watched him talk like he was some kind of commentator.
"Ooooohhhhh! But here comes Syaoran Li! Taking place, ready and in position." Syaoran began to stride away to a couple of giggling girls. "Can he swipe away her first place?" He winked at Sakura as she watched him sit himself on a stool in front of 'Hoop Shooters'. The girls took major interest and watched Syaoran hand over money to the guy behind the stand. Syaoran took hold of a basketball and stood away from the net. Far away. He dribbled the ball a bit and got the girls to get a good look at his moves.
'Just the beginning ladies...' He thought maliciously. He didn't take much of a bend down, but his arms forced the ball up into the air. His hands guiding it to the basket. And swoosh! One point. His arms lingered back into place as he watched the ball. All girls were impressed. The girls that appeared to be his objective were giggling unstoppably. Low 'ooooohhh's escaped their mouths, but Sakura was remained breathless. She had watched him. Watched his body smoothly shoot those basketballs into the basket a good six times. She held her breath and loved every moment of this. Eventually he won a prize. Girls started to approach him, but by the time they reached the spot where he was in intense action, Syaoran was at Sakura giving her the large stuffed animal. Sakura was stunned.
'What...what just happened?' Sakura stared blankly at the scene in which Syaoran handed her the giant bunny and the shocked girls that were approaching him.
Sakura and Syaoran left the scene. Leaving Sakura still confused over what just happened. Syaoran was mentally laughing viciously in his head. The look on Sakura's face was absolutely priceless. Playing her was better then she thought. Well on his end of course.
"And YES!" Syaoran continued his little commentator act. "He steals first, second and third base from Sakura Kinomoto. And what's this? She's speechless. Can we hear an encore from Syaoran Li!" He breathed out air and imitated the roar of a crowd.
Sakura snapped back. She stared at Syaoran and gave a slight laugh.
"So why'd you give this to me?" Sakura asked. "I thought you didn't want to play this playgirl."
"Who says I'm playing you?" Syaoran smirked at the large drop of Sakura's jaw. "You think I want that stuff'd animal? Heh, that wouldn't make me look too manly, now would it? And did you see those girls' reaction? Although they weren't happy to see that I implied I was taken, they seemed to think it was cute sign what I did."
'Urgh! This...this guy!' Yes, it was despicable that he appeared to use Sakura as an object in his play. But he had won hadn't he? You had to give that to him.
"So, so far. Syaoran Li is beating Sakura Kinomoto." Syaoran disappointedly shook his head. "I expected better from you, Kinomoto. And here I was hoping for a challenge and allowed you to tag along." He sighed and turned away from her saddened face. "I guess I'm going to have to chase some girls and make my own fun."
He was ready to walk away, but an arm found its way to tangle up in his.
"No way hotshot." Her voice bit sharp and demanding. She pulled him back into place. He grinned back at her.
"Got your spirit back already?"
"You're my skip-buddy. Now let's have some fun." She smirked at him pulling him along past other people.
"Hehe what kind of fun?" Syaoran teased. Sakura smiled at him.
"Oh you're looking for that kind of fun? I thought I'd never hear that from you directed to moi."
"I was just asking." He defended. "Everything isn't about you, you know."
Sakura rolled her eyes. Throughout her lifetime so far, how many times has she heard something like that? And yes. Yes, everything was about her. She grew up on her own. She didn't have some sort of support stick to grow along with her. It was all on her own. And when did anyone really be there for someone else? On the most rare occasions. So yes, it was all about her. You stick up on you're own and you do everything alone. Who else was there to care for?
"Let's...let's go on...the ferris wheel." Sakura suggested.
"Later." Syaoran shrugged off.
"But...the scene would be sooooo beautiful up there."
"Yes it would." Syaoran sat himself down at a shooting game. He dug deep into his pockets and felt his way to the cold feel of coins. "But it would look better at the perfect time. And I want to play some more games."
Sakura didn't answer and the boy put his money down and got his water gun ready.
The seventeen year-old girl looked around her like a lost child holding her prize. Why hadn't she realized this sooner?
"Where's Tomoyo and Hiiragazawa?" Sakura asked.
"They probably went off somewhere." Syaoran said, focusing his aim at the bullseye. "I think we lost them at that b-ball game I played."
Sakura understood and hoped Tomoyo was alright. But she had trust in Eriol. Although he was a little rush-rush and harsh at times, he had his dignity. She knew he wouldn't hurt Tomoyo. Well, Tomoyo wouldn't let him anyway.
She sat on the empty post beside Syaoran and watched him reposition the gun. Ready, set...go!
The water squirted from the gun and the funny cartoon animal began to rise up the tube. The few other contestants were a small little girl being helped by her father, a big beefy man, another teenage boy along with his girlfriend, and some middle-aged guy trying to impress his girlfriend.
So far Syaoran was in second place. His water-level was tailing the middle-aged man. The man's girlfriend gasped and giggled. The man smirked at his acheiving status, that lost him his concentration and made him move his squirt gun away from the centre of the bullseye. His first place had now been defeated by the playboy. And who else would win but Syaoran himself? Another prize was received. It was a mighty cute fuzzy teddy bear! And Sakura was just lucky to happen to be there at the time. They both stood up and turned to meet the face of the man that had came second and the woman that smiled sincerely.
"Lucky shot." The man congratulated. "And what a lucky woman you have here. I see we were in the run together." He winked at Syaoran and his girlfriend smiled more dearly at Sakura. They walked away heading to another game.
Syaoran's mouth hung open to object that they were an item. But it was too late by the time he found himself ready to say it. He whirled around to the adorable Sakura.
It was awfully weird how she could be such a hott teenager then become an adorable child in a moment.
They walked along to play some more games. Eventually, Sakura had ran out of hands to carry the stuffed animals, which led Syaoran to be of some assistance.
"Awwweee come on!" He whined. Very odd for a guy to whine, but they do. "Why do I have to carry all these things around?"
"Why did you have to play all those games?"
"Look whose being a smart-ass now?" Syaoran smirked at her. "We aren't in school young lady."
"I know...okay, well if you don't want to hold all these...umm..." She thought of some sort of resolution. "Why don't we give it to those kids over there?" She directed Syaoran to the crowd of children that ran around the merry-go-round. Syaoran groaned.
"Kids?" He whined once more. "Why the kids?"
"Hey, you were a kid once you know..." Sakura objected.
"Yeah, I know. But I wasn't whiny like them." She rolled her eyes at the hypocrite. He looked back at her with a 'What!'.
"Come on." She encouraged him as they approached the laughter. "You're the one that doesn't want to hold all these."
Syaoran groaned again and followed her as she stepped up to a little girl. The girl was small and watched all the other kids play. Oh how she wanted to join too!
"Umm...excuse me?" Her sweet voiced sun into the girl's ears. The little girl turned around frightened as though she had done something wrong. Sakura held out a cute yellow bunny to her. "Would you like one?"
The girl's eyes lit up and she began to smile. Her hands took delicate hold of the soft plush toy and soon embraced it into a hug. She looked back at Sakura who smiled at her. "Thank you." Escaped the small lips.
"You're welcome." Sakura said as the girl ran away to show her new toy and friend to the other kids.
Syaoran hadn't seen this side of Sakura yet. He had always seen her so...so...what's the word for it? Different. It just didn't seem like Sakura Kinomoto to be such a kind, loving children lover. But then again. He didn't exactly know her. Yeah, she had been in many of his classes. He had seen her chat with her friends, toy with guys...and that was it. Since when was there so much to this girl?
Soon they were giving out the rest of the plushies to the laughing children. And soon they were apologizing for not having enough to go around. After they had dealt with that, Syaoran had a promise to fulfill.
Nearly 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and after this calm adventure, it would be time to gather the other two and bring the rental back. The illegal rental.
"Woooooooooooooooowwwwwwww!" Sakura's eyes shined from the sun that glared down on them. "You can see everything from up here!"
"I told you it would be better at the right time. But this isn't the right time." Syaoran laid back on his seat across from Sakura.
The ferris wheel was slowly riding up and reaching the top. Small coloured dots moved around simultaneously.
Sakura turned back in her seat facing Syaoran. He was staring out the window and sat so casually. She felt pretty close to him, but wasn't sure whether she was uncomfortable or enjoyed his company. Wait a minute! Uncomfortable? Where did that come from.
She fiddled around with the hem of her shirt. And when did she become uncomfortable again? Syaoran just happened to notice this too.
"What's wrong with you?"
"Errmmm..."
"Kinomoto? Are you okay?" He began to get worried over this sudden change. "You aren't feeling sick are you? Are you afraid of heights!"
"No, no! I'm fine. Really!" She bit out. She hasn't felt like this in a long time. A very long time.
"Okay?" And he could still sense something wrong. As long as he wasn't going to get puked on, everything seemed...fine.
What I really want to know is...what is going on in her head?
"I- I.." She began to speak. "I...I don't understand where we are."
Syaoran looked at her.
"What do you mean?" He spoke his mind, just leaving out the distant 'hell' out of it. 'We're at the amusement park, idiot.' would have been a funny thing to say.
"I mean..." Sakura found her courage and looked him straight in the eyes. Her hands tugged on her shirt for support. "Well, what I mean is...are we friends or rivals?"
This absolutely caught Syaoran off guard. What the hell was he supposed to say to something like that?
"I...I don't know." He turned away from her, avoiding her eye contact. "Let's just leave it, okay?"
"What do you mean leave it?" Sakura frowned. "We can't just leave it!"
"Why not?" Syaoran turned back to her. "What? You want to form some kind of play tag-team. I get you're girl-friend and you'll get my guy-friend?"
"No! You should know what I mean."
"Well, I don't!"
"You don't!" Sakura bit out shocked. "That's bull. I've been after you forever and you can't even answer me that."
Step #1: Get her to admit feelings of lust...
Completed.
"Well, why are you after me?" Syaoran felt a small guilty feeling at his first completed step to his game with Sakura. "And how am I supposed to know what to say to that! I'm already saying what I think."
"That isn't good enough."
"Nothing seems to be good enough for you Kinomoto!"
"Look whose talking!" Sakura practically yelled out. All she wanted, was an answer. Isn't that what she's always wanted?
"No! I know what's good enough for me."
"Then what is? Because I can't seem to be good enough to you...and I'm everything!"
Syaoran didn't dare answer her. It was none of her business what he did. She had no right butting in to his life. Sakura began to stand up ready to yell at him, but the their car shook. She lost her balance and fell on him.
"Damnit..." She cursed under her breath. Nothing was making any sense to her at all. She looked up to see Syaoran so close to her face.
So close that their noses were a page away from touching. He could see her flawlessness in her skin. The green in her eyes, even the little pools that dwindled within her sockets.
His lips felt tingly and he just needed to get a taste. A taste of the real Sakura Kinomoto.
No more forced kisses for the game. No more playing locked taste. No more faux pas.
Face reality. Face the music. Face their real life.
Her heart beat fast. And she knew it. She knew it all along. No guy had made her feel this way. She was the one that made them feel breathless and yearning. Damnit. This was going all wrong. What kind of bad girl was she, to let herself be taken over?
It wasn't long until their car door opened, and then they realized that they had come to a halt.
"Any time now lovebirds." A voice greeted them impatiently.
Sakura scrambled off Syaoran and they both stepped out.
'Great!' Sakura cursed to herself. 'This stupid uncomfortable-ness. I hate it. Why couldn't he just answer me and we could get off to a better start.'
"We'll figure it out later." Syaoran interrupted her thoughts. She looked at him and noticed he had the same look as before.
'Fine.' She agreed in her head. 'Later. But eventually...you'll think I am everything.' In the meantime though...
"Where are we going to find Tomoyo and Hiiragazawa?"
"They should be around here somewhere." Syaoran led her close to the woods. Small muffled noises came from close by.
Syaoran and Sakura headed for them. The noised got louder and louder. They looked behind the bush where the sounds seemed to come from.
"Found you!" Syaoran bursted out to greet the two.
Eriol was caught spoon feeding Tomoyo what seemed to be...jello? Eriol frowned and let go of Tomoyo, who was forced to sit on his lap against the trunk of a tree.
"Awwee damn." He mumbled chucking the food away. Tomoyo ran for Sakura's side. "Is it that time now?" He looked down at his watch that read quarter to 3.
"Yeah." Syaoran responded climbing out of the wood. "Gotta get back to school!"
The girls followed the boys to the parked viper. Unfortunately, it hadn't been ruined disastrously, not even a scratch. How pathetic.
Tomoyo was explaining to Sakura in a seemingly whispered voice about how Eriol had won her some plush toy, dragged her to some rollercoaster then brought her to the wood to feed her jello. It was crazy. But Eriol had to disagree over-hearing their conversation.
"Oh please Tomoyo dear. We had a wonderful time." Tomoyo only glared at him, finding it better not to say anything at all for him to come back on.
Sakura looked up at the sky for the last time in the amusement park. This was a nice day. That moment where she was angry had only motivated her more to achieve that goal. And the sun was shining so brightly that there was no way to let some healthy-criticism go to waste. There was no way the sunflowers wouldn't face the sun's ultimate light.
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"WHERE DID YOU GET THAT!" Tomoyo's eyes grew in shock. Sakura was laughing as well as shocked.
They were now back at the school, returning the viper back. The bell was about to ring, signaling the end of another school day. But there was just one more thing to do before that bell went off.
"It's called..." Eriol used dramatic gestures. "The art store."
"You are soooo going to get us suspended for this!" Tomoyo shrieked in a hush voice.
Syaoran and Eriol took smeared red paint all over the viper. Some of it leaked into the car, on to the leather seats.
"Hey, we're doing him a favour." Syaoran protested. "It looks better in red. Don't you think?"
"Yes, yes!" Eriol piped up as well. He poured a thick layer of mucky paint on the roof. It dripped down the side. "I agree!"
Once they were done with the paint job, Syaoran took out a crappy thick paint brush and brushed away the paint.
He spelled out: "NICE CAR" along the side.
Eriol took the brush from his friend and went over his side writing: "Sweet Ride. Drives real smooth."
Then they left their job alone, and awaited to see the whole student body's reaction before they ran along home.
A/N: Awwweess...I didn't get much reviews on this last chapter. But its alright, I noticed a lot of hits. O.O Lols Anyhow...thanks for the support! Love this. Oh, I know my story has got some potential...so any suggestions on what needs to be improved or need to make better? THANKS!