Dinner and a Song
Chapter 9: It wasn't a dream
The next morning Tomoyo found herself in her bed. She recalled eating ice cream with Eriol and she kissed him, She blushed touching her lips. "Eriol?" Tomoyo called and walked out her room hoping to see him on the couch sleeping or in the kitchen making his waffle surprise, smiling to her, teasing her. But to her disappointment he wasn't there. Tomoyo had a day off finally so she took her shower. She wondered if Eriol didn't get the wrong idea, she only let him do that because she was returning the kiss she never returned. Tomoyo got out the shower and dried off listening to the radio hearing that it was going to rain tomorrow. Tomoyo got dressed in her black bathing suit and a light beach wrap skirt and her beach towel and bag.
She left her building and went across the street to the beach just to relax.
Meanwhile Eriol laid in his bed without his shirt feeling stupid for leaving Tomoyo. But as he laid there with the sun peeking through the window he couldn't forget Tomoyo's touch and what she said. "It wasn't a dream." Eriol said angrily to himself. Eriol sighed and turned over his bed seeing his glasses on the table in a small blur. Eriol's phone went off and he turned on the speaker. "Yes?" He said. "Eriol, your awake, I thought you'd be sleep still. "Syaoran said on the other line. Eriol sighed. "I couldn't sleep." He said.
"Why not?"
Eriol paused and was quiet. "Hello? Eriol?" Syaoran said. "I'm still here Syaoran, but if I tell you this you can't tell Sakura, at all." He said. "I'm listening." Syaoran said. "She kissed me." He said simply. "What?" Syaoran said surprised. "Actually we kissed each other." He said and sighed slapping his forehead. "Eriol?" Syaoran said in a worried tone. "I couldn't help but touch her and believe she was feeling what I was feeling, I felt so alive, I was on fire." Eriol said excited. "Then what happened?" Syaoran asked. "She held me and pleaded for me not to let this dream end." He said slightly angry.
"Weird much, why'd you think she say that?" Syaoran asked. "I don't know, I think she only did what she did as a favor to me." Eriol said disappointed. "And then she fell asleep in my arms, I don't what to believe that she said, I love her." Eriol said softly. "Maybe she doesn't trust you." Syaoran suggested. "Not helping." Eriol said. "Sorry, Eriol don't take his to heart, you never know what will happened next." Syaoran said. Eriol shouted. "I can't stand this weight I'm feeling in my chest, I just can't. I waited all my life to feel this way and now I don't want it." Eriol said frustrated.
"Why don't you talk to her, tell her how you feel damnit." Syaoran said again. Eriol sat up. "I have to see her, I'll tell her, um, tonight, yeah and maybe I can go back to normal." Eriol said with a new flicker of hope. "And what if she doesn't want you?" Syaoran asked. "She will, I know she can't possible let me kiss and not think something of me." He said and got out the bed. "Eriol, your going about this the wrong why? You don't know what will happen." Syaoran said as Eriol ran into the shower. Syaoran stayed on the phone and sighed. Eriol rushed out the shower, dried off, and got dressed. "Syaoran I have to go." Eriol said walking over to the phone. "Eriol, wait!" Syaoran exclaimed. "What?" Eriol said back annoyed. "You can't do this, what if she's in love with someone else?" Syaoran suggested.
"Syaoran make up your mind, you want me to tell her how I feel or not?" He said. "I do, but don't expect her to just except you Eriol, you have to be logical about these things." Syaoran said stressed. "Whatever, I'll see you later." Eriol hung up right when Syaoran was about to say something and headed out the door.
Tomoyo laid on the beach under an umbrella reading a book. The beach was busy and filled with people playing and getting tans although it wasn't too sunny since it was supposed to ran later. Tomoyo sighed and looked up seeing a large shade over her. "Can I help you?" She asked looking up. The man stooped down and smiled to Tomoyo. Tomoyo gasped as she looked to the dark hair tan skinned man named Shin. "Hey, Tomoyo aren't you looking great." He smiled. "What are you doing here?" Tomoyo asked sitting up completely as Shin sat next to her. "I'm on vacation with my friends." He said and smiled. "No wife?" Tomoyo asked closing her book hoping to offended him. "Nope, she left me." He said sadly. Tomoyo couldn't help but suddenly feel bad for him but also think he deserved it.
"Sorry." She said. Shin shook his head. "So what is a country girl like you doing in the big city?" He asked. "I live and work here." Tomoyo answered. "Really?" He asked. Tomoyo nodded. "Singing still I hope." He said. Tomoyo nodded. "Good luck with that." He said. "Thanks." Tomoyo said feeling a little awkward at the small talk. "How long are you going to be here?" Tomoyo asked trying not to seem rude. "For about four more days then I'm heading to China to see the Great Wall, I wanted to go touring for most of the summer then head back home." He said. "Sounds fun." She said not seeming too interested.
"Heard you were working with a famous chief." Shin continued. "Yeah, I'm his performer for the restaurant for special occasions." She said. "Your his secret weapon?" He asked. Tomoyo chuckled actually finding it funny. "I guess you could say that." She sighed.
"Tomoyo, I'm really sorry for what happened." Shin said looking to her seriously. Tomoyo looked away. "It's in the past, I'm over it." She said coldly. "No, your not and you know it, you loved me." Shin said firmly. Tomoyo sighed and turned back to Shin. "And that was my biggest mistake." She frowned.
"If you really got over it you wouldn't be so bitter about it. I messed up. Badly, I really didn't know where my head was." Shin said. "Bullshit, you know what you were doing." Tomoyo snapped.
"And how are you so sure?" Shin asked. "Because, I was with you long enough to know, you know exactly what you do and you never regret most of the things you do." Tomoyo said calming herself. "Tomoyo please, at least forgive me." He said. "Wow, your asking me so much again." She said. "Tomoyo." He said annoyed. "You gave me a ring and I gave you my word and it meant nothing to you." She said. "That's not true." Shin said defending himself. "Then what?" Tomoyo shouted. Shin sighed and looked to the sand. "Tell me. Really why'd you break my heart and leave me, why'd you act like you loved me?" Tomoyo asked. "I wasn't acting Tomoyo, I did love you, I guess I didn't respect you enough." He said taking a handful of sand and throwing it.
"Maybe your right, you loved me but you didn't respect me." She said. Shin looked down ashamed. "I'm sorry Tomoyo." He said. "You should be." Tomoyo said angrily.
Eriol walked along the beach side hoping to find Tomoyo there since she wasn't at her apartment. Eriol looked ahead seeing Tomoyo looking upset and then he looked to the man that was with her. It was only in that moment Eriol regretted going to see Tomoyo. Shin lifted Tomoyo's chin and kissed her. Eriol felt the weight in his heart turn to pain and he turned and ran away.
Tomoyo broke the kiss and spat not wanting to remember his taste. "Stop it, Shin." Tomoyo said and stood. Shin looked up to her. "I'm trying to settle this." He said. "Then enjoy your vacations and never come back to me." Tomoyo said. Shin sighed seeing the anger in Tomoyo's eyes and he walked away not looking back.
Tomoyo spat again and looked ahead seeing a running figure that was Eriol but she couldn't tell from the sun light. Eriol ran and ran down the beach as fast and as hard as he could, he felt like he was in high school, he was being a boy when he really was a man. Eriol stopped, and with each breath it was heavy. He should have know that she had someone, she lied. Eriol sighed finally catching his breath seeing tears go down his cheek as the hot sun bore down on his face.
Eriol sniffed and whipped his cheeks and stood and sighed forgetting everything. 'It was just a dream.' Eriol thought and walked up to the boardwalk. Eriol walked back to his apartment seeing Syaoran waiting at the door. Syaoran could see the difference in Eriol. "Oh, hey Syaoran." Eriol said trying to sound like nothing happened. "Eriol what happened?" Syaoran asked folding his arms. "Nothing, what are you talking about?" Eriol said opening the door to his apartment and letting Syaoran and himself in. "Eriol stop pretending and tell me what happened." Syaoran said shutting the door. Eriol waved his hand. "Nothing, I just got some exercise." He said.
Syaoran took Eriol by the arm and pulled his around facing him. "What the hell happened?" Syaoran said firmly. Eriol looked down. "It was as I thought, it was just a dream. I should have known there was someone else." He said. Syaoran let go of Eriol and sighed. "Eriol, this stuff happens." He said. "Is that supposed to make me feel better?" Eriol said and walked to his kitchen opened the refrigerator and taking out a couple beers. Eriol gulped down the first one hoping that it would drown Tomoyo from his thoughts.
Syaoran sighed and took one of his beers. "You know, you'd feel a lot better if you told me what happened?" Syaoran said opening the bottle and taking a small sip. "I went to the beach looking for her, and as I thought she was with someone else." Eriol said. Syaoran nodded. "Well, maybe it was a cousin or a friend." Syaoran said reassuring Eriol. "You don't kiss your cousin's or friends." Eriol sneered opening the second bottle after finishing his first.
Syaoran sighed again and rubbed the back of his neck. "Well, at least ask her if she's seeing someone." Syaoran suggested. Eriol scoffed taking in large gulps of his beer. "I asked once, she said she wasn't, and just like a female they always have to lie and hide stuff. Hell, there worst then men." He said. Syaoran rolled his eyes. "Don't roll your eyes, Syaoran. You know exactly what I'm talking about, women are selfish." He said angrily.
"Eriol, would you stop being such a bitch about it, just ask her, argue with her if you want maybe it'll get this thought out of your head." Syaoran said annoyed. "What thought?" Eriol asked. "The 'I-know-everything-about-women' thought." He said. "Well, it's kinda true." Eriol said slamming his fist on the counter. "You know about shallow women, but Tomoyo isn't any of those things, I'm she has a reasonable explanation for all this." Syaoran said. "Damn, I feel like I'm in high school again." Eriol sighed finishing his beer. "Love can sometimes give you flashbacks." Syaoran said laughing. Eriol rolled his eyes and took Syaoran's beer and gulped it down. "Whatever, I'll talk to her on my own time, I'm just busy at the moment." Eriol hiccuped. "Yeah, busy getting piss-drunk." Syaoran muttered.
Later in the afternoon Tomoyo decided to walk around the city for a while. Tomoyo walked passed designer clothing store and expensive shoes shops. She felt a little out of place with all the fashionable people walking past talking on there expensive cells phone. Tomoyo stopped at a cell phone store seeing a special going on. "Hello?" Said a short man smiling to Tomoyo. Tomoyo smiled back. "Is there something your looking for?" He asked. "No, not really. I'm just looking." Tomoyo said and walked passed the man seeing a cell phone on display. Tomoyo almost went blind at the high prices. She always wanted a cell phone.
Tomoyo slowly looked to another seeing a fancy blackberry phone and organizer's. Tomoyo sighed and walked out the shop and continued walked down and something caught her eyes. CASTING CALL! Tomoyo looked up, It was a theater for plays. Tomoyo looked to the picture of a woman looking sad and a men looking the other way as if she wasn't there. Tomoyo folded her arms over her chest. Tomoyo nodded and walked into the theater. The place was crowd with whispering actors. "HEY! Are you auditioning?" A woman shouted to Tomoyo.
"Um, no." Tomoyo stammered in surprise. "Good, what's your name?" She asked. "Tomoyo Daidoji." Tomoyo answered and the woman wrote her name down on a form and hands her a small booklet. "Get in line." She smiled and stood up holding a clipboard. Tomoyo gasped. "I didn't want to audition, I was just-" She said but the woman walked away.
Tomoyo was in line for about one hour before they called her name. "Okay, Miss Daidoji, have you any singing experience?" A tall lanky old man with small glasses asked. "Yo-yos." Tomoyo said nervously standing on the stage. "I was picked in all my high school plays and I sing at a bar and grill three blocks from here." She said nervously. "Hmm." He said looking at the paper. "Well, this play is about two lover who are having problems and yada-yada-yada, they try to make there relationship, blah-blah-blah." He said unenthusiastically with his eyes half mass. "That sounds interesting." Tomoyo said unsure what he was talking about. "Yeah, well the writer blackmailed us into putting this play into production." A young woman said with a sigh.
"Could you read us a line?" He asked. Tomoyo opened the booklet and looked at the first sentence that caught her eyes. Tomoyo read the lines and sighed. Tomoyo closed her eyes and thought of something sad. Tomoyo opened her eyes and took. "He left." She said with the tears running down her cheek. "He must not care that I'm going to have his child. He never loved me, he couldn't." Tomoyo said and touched her stomach as if she were carry a baby. "I'm already a month pregnant." She cried and fell to her knees. Everyone in the theater was looking to Tomoyo in surprise. "I loved him!" She shouted sobbing and lying on the floor curled in a ball crying furiously. "I can't stand feeling like this about him." She said shivered in her watery voice. It was quiet for a moment and Tomoyo quickly got up and smiled whipping her face. Everyone blinked.
"How's that?" Tomoyo asked. "Y-your hired." The old man stammered amazed. Tomoyo looked to the other women who were trying out for the part and they frowned at Tomoyo. Tomoyo smiled unsure of herself once again.
"Here's a script, and the first rehearsal is on Monday." Said the young woman. "But I have to work and I'm meeting someone." Tomoyo said. "You are working." She smiled. Tomoyo smiled back.
Tomoyo left the theater looking to the script and turned and ran down the street to her apartment. Tomoyo opened her door and went to the phone dialing Eriol's number. For some reason she wanted to tell him first then Rika. The phone rang and rang. Eriol was sitting on the couch drinking some water, he had a horrible head ache from drinking those beers down too fast. Syaoran was gone already. Eriol sighed and reached for the phone on the coffee table. "Hello." He said in a drowsy voice. "Eriol?" Tomoyo said. Eriol sat up and groaned feeling slightly dizzy. "Are you okay?" Tomoyo asked.
"Fine." He said. "Okay," Tomoyo paused. "Is it a bad time?" She asked a little worried. "No, not at all." He lied. "Okay, I have some great news, guess what it is?" She said excited. "Couldn't possibly guess out of the millions of things." Eriol sighed. "Fine, then I'll come over, I'll see you in a few." Tomoyo hung up the phone. "But-" Eriol protected and then sighed.
Tomoyo ran to her room checked her hair and stopped. "Why am I doing this?" Tomoyo sighed walking away from the mirror. Tomoyo hurriedly headed out the door and then ran down the street holding the script in her beach bag. Tomoyo was now wearing a white short skirt with sandal and a halter top that was red. Tomoyo quickly headed down the three blocks Eriol lived. All that time running on the country side carrying heavy nuts paid off.
Eriol waited at the door looking to it. Motionlessly. Eriol sighed and turned his head to the kitchen. Eriol sighed again and the intercom sounded. "Mr. Hiiragizawa, Miss Daidoji has arrived." Miyaki said. Eriol walked over and pushed the button. "Send her up." Eriol said.
Tomoyo smiled to Miyaki. "I just go casted in this play." Tomoyo said showing him the script. "Wow, you must be lucky, what's is called?" He asked taking the script. "Blues Lagoon." Tomoyo read the front of the script. "I'm not exactly sure what's it's about, and the funny thing is I wasn't planning on auditioning, it just happened." She smiled. "That was the first play I went to see with my girlfriend." He laughed. Miyaki took Tomoyo arms and frowned at her. "You keep calling me back but my heart can't take it, you kiss me and you kiss me now." He said in a deep voice. Tomoyo laughed and Miyaki dipped Tomoyo. "Tell me you want me and only me." He whispered lowering his head.
Eriol stood with the door opened and as the elevator doors opened Eriol saw Tomoyo dipped with Miyaki holding her close to him looking as if they were about to kiss. Miyaki and Tomoyo looked seeing Eriol go pale. Eriol turned. Miyaki put Tomoyo up right and handed her the script feeling embarrassed. Tomoyo bowed. "Thanks for that, maybe I'll know the line next time." Tomoyo whispered. Miyaki nodded and the elevator doors shut.
Eriol walked over to a glass cabinet that had all this wines and hard liquors for when he entertained. Tomoyo looked to him as he quickly opened the case getting out whiskey and putting ice in the cup. "Um . . . Are you okay?" Tomoyo asked as Eriol slowly shut the case holding the whiskey bottle and the glass in his hands. "Fine." He said taking a sip. Tomoyo had never seem Eriol act like this in the time she knew him.
"I have great news." Tomoyo smiled putting her hands behind her back. Eriol went over and sat on the couch and Tomoyo went over and sat with him. "No, no, no, let me guess, you found a boyfriend, or better yet you have a new beach kissing buddy." He said standing up and draining the glass and slamming it down on the coffee table. "What? No." Tomoyo said confused. "Mmm, right like your little make-out session with Miyaki wasn't good enough." He spat.
"What?" She said still puzzled. "He was showing me something." She protested. "Ha! I saw you on the beach kissing this . . . guy." Eriol said almost being able to say the word 'guy.' Tomoyo thought back to the beach and remembered Shin. "I can explain that, and it's none of your business anyway." She said standing up.
"Oh it's my business all right especially when your going around in circles with men and then kissing me!" He shouted. "How dare you! You kissed me first I was returning it, but I guess I shouldn't have done that favor for you!" Tomoyo shouted back gripping the script.
"I knew your so called sweetness and politeness was a false front, I should have known, you women are all the same." He said backing away from Tomoyo. Tomoyo stormed over to Eriol and was about to smack him but he caught her wrist. "I should have known that from the beginning, someone as beautiful as you is as vain as the next girl." He said let go of her wrist. Tomoyo unexpectedly slapped Eriol with her other hand and pushed him. "How dare you compare me to trash that you sleep with." Tomoyo shouted. "Why not? your all the same." He said.
Tomoyo slapped him even harder again. "You don't know me and you wouldn't know because your too stupid to listen, you think you know everything. Just because you had shallow women work for you that doesn't mean I'm one of them, and on that note, I quit!" She shouted stormed all the way to the door and then stopped, Eriol was right behind her. "And the only reason why I came over was to tell you that I got casted in a play." Tomoyo said with tears forming in her eyes as she slipped on her sandals. "But you wouldn't give a shit anyway." Tomoyo said and throwing the script at him and opened the door and ran to the elevator that opened with Miyaki looking to Tomoyo concerned. The doors closed and Tomoyo went down the building. Eriol blinked not believing that had happened.
He looked down at the script in his hand now 'Blues Lagoon.' Eriol ran to the door and slammed it shut locking it. Eriol pressed his head to the door and pounded his fist on it. "Stupid," He repeated over and over again until the painful tears went down his cheek. Eriol turned around and walked to his bed and flopped on it. Eriol touched his slightly sting cheek and sighed.
Tomoyo laid on her bed furiously crying thinking about Eriol and what he said to her. She couldn't believe it, and she also couldn't believe that she thought he was a nice guy. Tomoyo sighed trying to stop herself from crying. "Stupid Eriol." Tomoyo sighed turning on the other side and falling asleep.
Oh, looks like were having some problems again, hopefully they can get over it. And I hoped everyone liked this chapter. Sorry for my spelling and grammar, I'm really working on it and thanks to the reviewer who said something about it, I hope the spelling and grammar is a little better in here. Anyway what will happen next? Stick around, people!
Peace.
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