Bad Girl
Chapter 12
A beauty contest. For most, or basically every girl, this dance or any other even that involves looking pretty, turns into competition. And it doesn't always turn out pretty in the end.
Sakura's hair was pulled up half way. A uniquely designed black halter top hung from her neck and hugged her upper body. Her black skirt just passed her knees and moved with her every step. There was a small amount of mascara on her long lashes, and pink tinted lip gloss along her lips. Short dangly earrings hid underneath her soft, silky hair, and that was when she was just about ready.
Tomoyo wore a white tank top and purple skirt. Her hair was straightened and trimmed. Her lips were glossed up and a light indigo shade was brushed over her eyelids.
These girls were the finest in Tomoeda. Probably even in Japan. Other girls could barely compete against what they had. The doorbell rang while they still ran throughout the house making sure they really were ready.
"Tomoyo!" Natsumi called out from downstairs.
"Eriol Hiiragazawa is here! And so is Syaoran Li!" Both girls came running down at the sound of the guys' names. Tomoyo jumped and hugged her boyfriend, then obviously kissed him.
"Wow!" Eriol said looking at her. "You look beautiful."
"Thank you!" Tomoyo smiled at the compliment. "You're looking handsome yourself."
"Came to be one of my dates, Syaoran?" Sakura grinned at the only other guy without a girl clinging to him.
"No. I thought we should go together to see the number of dates we have at the same time." Syaoran smirked. Sakura, disappointed at his remark, matched his smirk, remembering to keep up with her game.
"Then let the best play win." She said not giving a fair hand and walking out the door.
"Oh, he already has." Syaoran followed her out.
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"Okay ladies and gentlemen!" A loud cheerful male voice spoke clearly into the microphone. He was tall and lanky, and was otherwise known as the dj. "Welcome to the 38th annual Seijuu High School da-" Another tall dark male entered the stage and took the mic from the scrawny boy.
"Hey everyone..." The new announcer greeted the gym filled with students. Teachers gave a very disapproving look, but stayed back in their positions and did nothing till it was necessary. Girls in the crowd screamed and squealed like crazy. "As you all may know, I'm Li Syaoran." More frantic high pitched squealed filled the gym and caused many people to cover their ears.
"Please calm down." Syaoran chuckled with an uplifting smile. "I just need my date and Sakura's date to go to the back of the gym... that's all." Syaoran then shoved the mic back into the dj's hands and walked off stage, ready to meet the plenty of wonderful people that admired him, and Sakura, but mostly him. Right? Eriol and Tomoyo were the first to approach him as he made his way to the larger party in the gym.
"You have nine dates, man." Was the first thing Eriol said to his best friend. Syaoran immediately looked at the beautiful Tomoyo, who smiled earnestly back at him.
"Sakura has nine dates." She answered his questioning look. Syaoran frowned as Sakura came to meet up with them.
"What's happening now?" Sakura grinned childishly at his upset. "It looks like we're even."
"Bullshit." Syaoran muttered. "There is no such thing as even unless you're using mathematical numbers."
"So then tell me how you're going to determine who wins fairly, how we're going to tell our dates it was a bet, how we're going to stay alive after we tell them, and when one of us gets rewarded?" Sakura sneered at his rude manner.
"The staying alive part..." Syaoran came up close to her and said it ever so softly, that it was dangerous topic. "..Is your problem. You learn to survive yourself."
"HE PLAYED US!" The group turned to see their three new friends completely dumbfounded over what they just heard. Julia gasped and covered her mouth innocently. While Jillian shifted her weight to one said and rested her hands on her hips giving full fledged girl attitude. "Oh no he didn't!"
"Uh... yeah, he did Jills." Julia looked over to her friend. Jillian then crossed her arms and looked away.
"Just wait girls." Syaoran waved them down. "We'll explain everything in a second."
Sakura crossed her arms as well and looked at Syaoran. "We still don't have a winner."
"SYAAAOOOOOOORAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNN!" A loud scream echoed throughout the gym. Everyone's eyes averted to a girl in the doorway. She was a beauty of course. This was official since all the guys started to drool over her voluptuous body. She long black hair that was tied into a high ponytail, and sharp red eyes. She wore a red sleeveless button down top and a cream coloured mini skirt. It took her awhile to find the man she was looking for, but when she did she shouted his name once more and ran to him with open arms. Syaoran sighed a few seconds before she reached him with a tight embrace.
"OH I MISSED YOU!" The girl said. Everyone watched Syaoran suffocate under this one. The guys were used to his attention, and the girls turned red in the face and green eyed as they watched yet another girl hog all of him.
"MEILING!" Syaoran gasped for air. "I CAN'T BREATHE!" The girl known as Meiling released from her hug and gave Syaoran a very teary eyed look.
"I haven't seen you in so long!" Meiling said gently. Syaoran smiled at her the best he could although he was feeling rather annoyed that she was here.
"Who is this, Syaoran?" Sakura bit her lip, looking at the relationship of the two. More so the way she was hanging off his neck.
"Another one of my dates." Syaoran smirked.
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'He won.' Sakura sat by herself in the seat, still trying to re-think over the whole event that just happened in the past few hours. While everyone else was on the dance floor, enjoying their night, she, a beautiful girl, sat alone. Although many of her own dates, and other boys had asked her to dance, she didn't answer and saw right through them. The only apparent man she could see was the one that had beaten her.
"Sakura?" Tomoyo sat beside her best friend a little concerned. "Are you alright?" She asked for the hundredth time.
"He won Tomoyo." Sakura repeated, biting down on her lip to cause herself the physical pain she was feeling inside. "I didn't beat him."
"Don't take it too harshly, Sakura." Tomoyo hugged her. "You'll make it back up again. You always do."
"I shouldn't have been so confident in this." Sakura shook her head. "I should have done my plays faster. Better."
Tomoyo tried to give her friend a reassuring smile. "We'll help you get him back. Don't worry."
Sakura took in a deep breathe and regained self-assurance. That was when Meiling approached her.
"Are you Syaoran's girlfriend?" Meiling asked. Sakura stared at her confused. A date of Syaoran's asking if Sakura was his girlfriend? They didn't even show any sign of affection for each other... unless it was all one-sided.
"Oh..." Sakura blinked. "No, I'm not."
Meiling smiled at her and winked. "Well, you and Syaoran seem to have a thing for each other."Sakura continued to stare at the girl at a complete lost for words.
"Oh! I'm sorry..." Meiling said. "I haven't really introduced myself... I'm Meiling Li. Syaoran's cousin." Sakura's blank expression suddenly lit up a bit.
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"So, Mr. Syaoran Li, how does it feel to beat The Sakura Kinomoto?" Eriol held an imaginary microphone and pretended to be some top reporter. Syaoran leaned toward Eriol's outstretched hand.
"Well..." He smiled charmingly. "It wasn't like I was going to lose. Although, she did have a chance… but I was just one step ahead of her."
"Uh huh..." Eriol nodded. "Now, Mr. Li, tell us... have you had any attraction toward Ms. Kinomoto like the many other men around her?"
Eriol waited for his reply. Instead, Syaoran kept his lips tight and looked at his best friend with his half lidded eyes. Eriol's arm retracted, bringing his imaginary microphone back to himself.
"I'll take that as a 'no comment'" Eriol ended his little commentary.
"Li Syaoran." By the sound of his name, Syaoran wheeled around to find his beaten contender.
"Can I help you?" He couldn't help but smile with triumph. Sakura looked at him with a small competitive smile, relaxed arms in their crossed form. Her head was tilted questioningly and her eyebrows were raised.
"No friends rule, eh?" Syaoran braced himself for her retaliation. He shoved his hands into his pockets and played it cool. He looked to the girl that stood supportingly behind Sakura. Mainly, at his own flesh and blood, Meiling.
"I see you found out about Meiling." Syaoran turned to the red-eyed beauty. "You betrayed me, Meiling. Family is supposed to be there for each other."
Meiling rolled her eyes and ignored his stupid comment. Syaoran turned back to Sakura's questioning look.
"Meiling isn't my friend. She's my cousin." He smirked and turned away from her. "But nice try though."
Sakura's eyebrows furrowed and a fine line was formed by her lips. She bit her lip hard to create the physical pain she was really feeling. As Syaoran took one step to walk away, her arms dropped to her side and she let out a heaving sigh. "What do you want me to do?" Syaoran stopped at the gentle sound of her voice. He smiled once again and turned back around to face her timid body.
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"TTTAAAAASSSHHHHH?" Jillian called out into the darkness of the night. She went outside the gym doors to look for her friends. Somehow, she had ended up dancing in a crowd where her North American friends weren't in.
Jillian walked out to the somewhat lit football field past various people making out. She needed some fresh air away from people – a break. She sat herself on one row of the bleachers. The girl sighed heavily and looked out into the fresh distance where she could see the stars so clearly. It was weird being in a foreign country. I mean, did she really want to be here? It was probably to escape being jailed in the same school, the same boring place, that and a new set of fashion scenery. Jillian lay herself down and closed her eyes, feeling the brisk evening wind brush against her body.
"Where are those two?" She asked aloud, referring to Julia and Tasha. "I can't believe they just left me."
"J-J-Jillian?" Tasha's voice cut through her thoughts. "Is that you?"
"Tashy?" Jillian jumped up anxiously searching around for her friend. "Where are you?"
"I'm here, Jills." Her friend's voice answered with a bit of a quiver. "D-don't move – hey! Stop it!"
"Huh?" Jillian's eyebrows furrowed. "What do you mean stop it?"
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"Wha-what!" Sakura wanted to scream, but her voice was no match to the blasting music. Her mouth dropped. "An 'entertaining' dance?"
Syaoran smirked his infamous smirk, and soon the boys that were Sakura's own dates started to crowd around them.
"At least we get something after all…" A boy said.
"And I thought just being considered Sakura's date was good."
"I wanna make out with her."
"Make out with her? Talk about bang her buddy."
Sakura tried to push out the unnecessary comments. Her main focus was, subjecting herself in such a way that it put her reputation down. This was bad. Oh, this was very, very bad.
"Ahem!" Various tapping interrupted. "What about us?" Syaoran's dates didn't look sorrowful, or even as shocked as Sakura was, they weren't even angry. No. Instead they still had their perky, smiling faces on. The usual amount of make-up and the usual amount of kissing up to the hottest player around.
"What do we get?" They asked. Syaoran chuckled at their small attempt.
"I'll take each and every one of you on a date to make up for it." He winked at them. Okay, so everyone was happy. Everyone but Sakura Kinomoto. The poor girl still stood there a little fazed by her distant future. Syaoran came up close to her, still grimacing over his victory.
"You better start practicing a routine." Syaoran whispered close to her. "Cause you have one week."
A/N: I am so sorry it took me awhile to update. But now that exams are over ( I also mentioned this in KYS)... I can update! Yay! Anyway, hope you guys like... and I'll get another chapter, which i cant wait to do, up soon. And does anyone know what Tasha is up to? (Tashy, Julie and Jills, don't answer that. :P) Anyway, hope all is good. And you guys do not realize how many times i had to re-write this stupid chapter because of stupid screw ups. LOLS. Sorry, i needed to vent. Anyway, hope to get more out soon. Thank you all for the support!