Dinner and a Song
Chapter 10: I'm sorry. . .Again
The next morning Tomoyo headed out to work at the bar and grill feeling refreshed and happy. She was putting last nights incident in the back of her mind, she promised that she wouldn't waste another thought on Eriol Hiiragizawa, and the bright side was that Tomoyo would get to sing with Rika again.
Tomoyo opened the door seeing a few people getting breakfasts. She waved to Nobu-san who nodded to her. Tomoyo walked to the front and went backstage seeing Rika tuning her guitar. "Hey!" Rika said and put down her guitar and pulled Tomoyo into a tight hug. Tomoyo hugged her friend back and smiled. "Well, what are you doing here?" Rika asked. "I'm working, what are we performing tonight?" Tomoyo asked sitting down in her usual spot in the small couch talking causally. "Singing?" Rika said puzzled. "I thought your still working with Eriol Hiiragizawa."
Tomoyo scoffed. "I quit." She waved her hand. "ARE YOU INSANE!" Rika shouted in shock standing up. Tomoyo rubbed her ears that were slightly ringing. "No, I quit because I wanted to." She sighed. "Oh, and I'm hanging out with Miss Sakura Kinomoto Li on Monday, and I got casted in this play called Blues Lagoon." She smiled excitedly hoping to change the subject.
"Congratz, and can I come with you to hang out with Sakura?" Rika asked sheepishly. Tomoyo laughed and nodded. "I was going to invite you anyway." She said. "And what is your problem? What about the money?" Rika said waving her hands. "Doesn't that mean anything to you?" She asked. "Yes, but I'm not going to working for him." She sneered. "Yesterday I saw Shin, remember the bastard that was supposed to marry me." Tomoyo said. Rika sat back down and nodded.
"He was at the beach and I guess Eriol saw him kiss me," Tomoyo paused. "Why would kiss him?" Rika said surprised. "He kissed me, I never kissed him, he was trying to tell me how sorry he was." Tomoyo rolled her eyes. "Isn't that just like men, always thinks he can have it all not matter what?" Rika sighed. "Then I was walking and I went to the theater to look at the auditions and I ended up auditioning and getting the part myself, and for some dumb reason I wanted to tell Eriol cause I thought he'd be excited too and then I talked with one of the employees at the building- his name is Miyaki, really nice guy- and he congratulated me for getting the part and told me he went to see if with his girlfriend once and he was showing a scene he remember and Eriol saw us and he practically assumed that we were kissing, and then he started acting weird," Tomoyo paused trying to stay calm.
Rika nodded. "I'm still listening." She said. "And I confess the other day I . . ." Tomoyo trailed from finishing the sentence. "No you did not." Rika gasped unbelieving. Tomoyo nodded. "I kissed him and I confess again it was the best kiss I've ever had, He was gentle and his touch was like . . ." Tomoyo sighed stopping herself from going into intimate detail. "Anyway, He was acting strange and then we started arguing, then he started to compare me to all the shallow women he was with, can you believe it? he thought I went around the block with men and he thought what I really am was a false front." She said. "So I told him I quit, and to my dismay I forgot about the script." Tomoyo finished.
"You kissed him back!" Rika shouted with shock standing up again. Tomoyo took Rika's hand and guided her back down in her seat. "Yes, okay. I was being stupid. But now I'm done with him and I want to know what we're singing tonight." Tomoyo said holding back hot tears that were burning her eyes. Rika looked to Tomoyo and nodded.
Eriol fell asleep in his clothes last night still clutching the script that Tomoyo had left behind. He groaned and lifted himself sitting on his bed. Eriol took off his glasses and blinked his eyes and yawned putting his glasses back on. He then looked down to his hand. The script was creased from Tomoyo's grip last night. Eriol recalled what he said to her and he sighed seeing how stupid he was. Eriol's head slightly throbbed for all the drinks he had. Eriol sighed putting the script down and walking to the bathroom getting showered and dressed.
Once Eriol finished cleaning and dressing he walked into the kitchen and had some cereal. Eriol looked to his bedroom door with the nagging feeling about the script. 'Why was I so quick to judge? I'm such a fool.' He thought looking down to his soggy cereal.
Eriol sighed once more and turned his head to the couch and Tomoyo appeared smiling to him. Eriol blinked and she was gone. He groaned knowing his guilt was eating away at him. Eriol stood up and dumped the contents of his breakfast down the sink and went to his room and picked up the script and hurried out the door. Miyaki wasn't working today so he had to push the elevator button himself. He waited anxiously as the doors opened slowly finally getting to the bottom floor. Eriol ran out the building and headed for his car.
Nobu-san came backstage to see how Tomoyo and Rika were doing. "Would you concentrate." Rika said. Tomoyo blinked and nodded. "Sorry." She said. "Okay, what's wrong?" Nobu-san asked sitting down on there make-up chair folding his arms. "It's nothing." Tomoyo answered first. "Bullshit," Rika said. "She just quit working with Eriol Hiiragizawa."
"Well, tell the whole damn world Rika." Tomoyo said annoyed. "WHATISTHEMATTERWITHYOU?" Nobu-san shouted quickly. "Nothing, I'm refuse to work with a prick." Tomoyo said in a matter-a-fact way. "Fine, but why?" He asked. "Because I wanted to." Tomoyo said a little louder then she intended. "Sorry." Tomoyo said softly looking to Rika and Nobu-san.
"Get outta here." Nobu-san said softly. "Huh?" Tomoyo said looking surprised. "But it's Sunday, you can't fire me."
"I'm not firing you, I'm giving you and Rika the day off, I have my other people here today, don't worry have some fun." He smiled. Tomoyo smiled and stood up and hugged Nobu-san. "I'll remember you on Christmas." Tomoyo sighed. "You better because on Monday afternoon I'm cracking the whip on you." He said in his business matter way. Rika reached for Tomoyo's hand and the both ran out. "What are you going to do tonight?" Rika said letting go of Tomoyo's hand and waving to the bar tender she thought was hot. "We could go dancing tonight, we were supposed to before anyway." Tomoyo smiled. Rika sighed. "I love the way you think, the club it is." Rika and Tomoyo ran out the bar and grill and headed to Tomoyo's apartment.
Eriol was there at Tomoyo's apartment, he knocked on Tomoyo's door for a little while. Eriol sighed and put his ear to the door, it was completely silence. Eriol groaned and went back to the elevator he had to get to the restaurant for the lunch hour. Eriol huffed looking to the messanger bag that had the script in it. 'Later.' He thought he'd stop by tonight or something.
By the time Eriol drove off to the restaurant Rika and Tomoyo got into the elevator heading to her room. "We should wear black tonight." Rika suggested. "Rika, it's summer time, black will make us hot." Tomoyo said. "Right, I forgot." She said slowly trying to think of another color.
"White?" Rika said. "No, that'll get dirty, lets try yellows, greens, color like that, I have some stuff you can borrow." Tomoyo said as the elevator door opened to her floor. Tomoyo and Rika walked down the hall to her apartment and started getting ready for there little outing.
Meanwhile Eriol was working the lunch shift with Syaoran watching him. "You look like shit, Eriol." Syaoran said stated watching Eriol cutting the celery faster and harder. "Tell me something I don't know." He sighed and went to another celery stick. Syaoran reached over and picked up a celery stick and bit into it and chewed. "Tomoyo quit last night." He sighed. Syaoran chuckled. "What happened? You treated her like every other girls that go into your crib." Syaoran teased. Eriol turned holding the knife up. "No." He said. Syaoran looked to the knife concerned. "Put the knife down and let's talk about it." Syaoran said nervously. Eriol rolled his eyes.
"I didn't take your advise." Eriol said. "What advise?" Syaoran said puzzled taking another bit of the celery. "About thinking I know everything about women." He sighed annoyed with himself. Syaoran scoffed. "What happened?" He said. Eriol sighed and took the cutting board to the pan a lightly fried them. "I saw Tomoyo kissing some guy early and I got extremely jealous remember and then I thought she was kissing that bellhop kid Miyaki, I totally went off." He said feeling guilty. "Man, Eriol have you ever heard about assuming?" He said. Eriol frowned. "No." He said. "When you Assume you make an ass of yourself." He said.
"Oh, I suppose I get the golden globe for being an ass." He sighed putting the celery in a small bowl. "Why don't you just say sorry?" Syaoran said. "I'm not stubborn. I'm not sure she'll listen to me." He said. Syaoran nodded. "Then beg, grovel if you must." He laughed. Eriol turned around picking up some eggs and cracking them making a spicy omelet. "Once she's at her apartment, I went early to give her script back but she wasn't there." He said.
"Script?"
Eriol nodded. "She's starring in this new production, something Lagoon," he said forgetting the name. "No way, I heard of that play." Syaoran said. Eriol groaned. "How come everyone has heard of it except me?" He said. "Because someone in America wrote it. It's one of my guilty pleasures." He said. "And it's about?" Eriol asked. "Two lovers and they get married and when there about to have there first child things get worse because of the lady's husband blackmail into being apart of some gang and it's putting them in danger and he leaves and all this stuff, it's really interesting." He said.
"Then book me a ticket, all three of us can go see it." Eriol said finishing the eggy delight and putting it on a plate. "Were still going dancing tonight, right?" Eriol sighed trying to find something to get his mind off of his guilt and jackass-ness. "Yeah." Syaoran answered. "Good, I could use a drink, I already have a hangover." He sighed. "You drink too much." Syaoran said finishing the celery stick.
Night fell and Tomoyo and Rika was ready for the night. Rika was wearing a light cotton long skirt with a red wrap top and her hair was down and she wore light natural make-up. Tomoyo was wearing a strapless tube top with hip-hugging Capri's and wedge heals and her pony tail was to the side and she had glitter on her body and light natural make-up as well. Tomoyo and Rika got there early and only had to wait in line for twenty minutes before entering the loud music pumping club. The light flashed and the music screamed in their ears. "C'mon lets dance." Tomoyo shouted as they headed to the dance floor. The techo music blasted as they moved with the music that was being mixed with a salsa song. Eriol, Syaoran and Sakura were already there in the V. I . P area. Eriol was slightly bored looking down on the dancers having fun as he drank his Pina colada. "If you wanna dance just say so." Sakura said before she drank her sloshy margarita.
"Eriol's depressed because his in love with a girl he can't handle." Syaoran sighed with a teasing smile. Sakura raised an eyebrow interested. "Well, that'll be the day." She said. Eriol scoffed. "I am no such thing." Eriol lied to Sakura's face. "Yeah, whatever. You can't get enough of her . . . what do you call it." Syaoran said snapping his fingers trying to think of a proper word. "Uniqueness?" Sakura teased. Syaoran laughed. "Yes, great word, honey." He smiled.
"Whatever Syaoran, you don't want to tell me how many women you dated at once before you decided on Sakura." Eriol said darkly. "Many?" Sakura said surprised looking to her husband. "Saku, it's nothing." He smiled nervously. "I know it's not, but you promised not to keep anything from me." She pouted. Syaoran sighed and gave Eriol a death glare. Eriol rolled his eyes and took a gulp of his drink inflating his cheeks.
Eriol looked to the right seeing Tomoyo and Rika dancing with some hot looking guys. Eriol sprayed his Pina colada all over the nearest waiter. "It's Tomoyo!" He exclaimed in surprise. Sakura and Syaoran looked to each other surprised as the waiter walked out the room cold with Pina colada all over him. "I can't believe I get paid low wages for this." He sighed.
Syaoran and Sakura looked to the window seeing Tomoyo smiling as she was Salsa dancing. Eriol's bit his bottom lip. "It's the green monster of Jealously coming out again." Syaoran said in a singsong voice. Eriol frowned. "I'm not jealous." He said and walked out the V. I. P area to the dance floor. Eriol walked through the people. Tomoyo laughed closing her eyes as she was spun around. Eriol tapped the man on the shoulder and he nodded. Eriol dipped Tomoyo and she opened her eyes meeting Eriol's midnight blue eyes. Tomoyo gasped lightly as he moved her to the music. Tomoyo went along reluctantly but they danced not taking there eyes off each other.
Tomoyo's reluctance slowly faded as the Salsa styled music continued pumping though Eriol and Tomoyo. Eriol spun and spun Tomoyo and dipped her when the song finally ended. Eriol helped her up and Tomoyo sighed catching her breath. Eriol seemed fine. Rika looked to Tomoyo and she looked back to her friend. Rika nodded and continued dancing. Tomoyo walked pass Eriol and he followed after he as she ran. He had to admit she was pretty fast in those shoes.
Tomoyo called a cab and by the time Eriol came out she was down the street. Eriol got to his car and followed her. Tomoyo got to her apartment complex and sighed looking to the elevator that was out of order. Eriol opened the door of the complex. Tomoyo turned seeing him and ran to the stairs. "Tomoyo wait!" He called and ran after her. Tomoyo opened the door and began running up the stairs as quickly as she could with her shoes. Eriol sighed and ran up the stairs three by three.
"Tomoyo please just give me a minute." He called. "No." Tomoyo panted looking to from above the stairs. She was two flights up. "Tomoyo look I'm sorry, I misjudged you." He said.
Tomoyo quickly began walking up the stairs panting a little. "And insulted me, wasted my time and energy, and most of all you kissed me." She shouted from four flights up now. Eriol ran as fast as he could trying to get closer to Tomoyo. "How dare you show your face to me." She stopped. Eriol was at the bottom on the stairs that Tomoyo stood on. "I'm really very sorry Tomoyo, I can't say it enough, I'm a total ass." He paused panted slowly. "A complete ass, you mean." Tomoyo corrected.
"I have this thing in my head where I think most woman are shallow and stupid, I guess it's because of who I attract that makes me think like that."
Tomoyo sighed and folded her arms and walked up the stairs. Eriol jogged up the stairs after her. "Tomoyo please forgive me, I didn't mean to insult you so." He pleaded. Tomoyo continued walking but she couldn't ignore the beating of her heart and she was somewhat dizzy. "Tomoyo." He said as she opened the exit door to her floor. Eriol followed after her. Tomoyo took her keys out and opened her door and shut it in Eriol face again. Eriol sighed. Tomoyo whipped the tears from her eyes that were welling up and sighed. "Well, then at lease let me give you this." He said holding out the script on the other side of the door. "Slip it throw the door." She said. "It's too big." He said. Tomoyo sighed and opened the door. Eriol held out the script to her. Tomoyo took it with her hand brushing against his.
Eriol took that chance to take Tomoyo wrist lightly. "Please say you'll forgive me." He whispered lightly. Tomoyo sighed trying to calm herself. "Fine, I forgive you." Tomoyo said snatching her wrist from him and slamming the door. "Good night." Eriol said softly and left the floor walking slowly down the stairs. Tomoyo looked to the script and sighed knowing she was going to regret this. Tomoyo opened her door and ran down the hall to the stair way. "Eriol, do you want some tea?" She called. Eriol looked up to her and nodded.
Eriol and Tomoyo went back to the apartment and She made some tea and Eriol sat down silently watching her every move. Once Tomoyo was done she turned handing him the tea cup. Tomoyo sighed and looked to him seriously. "Why are you doing this to me?" Tomoyo asked lightly. Eriol looked away. "To see if you were as strong as you act." He answered looking to the swirling contents that was the tea.
"You know you could have asked my friend Rika if I was strong or not." She said. "I'm sorry . . . again." He said. Tomoyo sighed. "But why did you kiss me?" She asked. Eriol looked up to her eyes. "Because I like you, your different and fun and smart there's just something about you that relaxes me, it's like cooking to me." He said not sure why he said that 'cooking' part. Tomoyo chuckled. "I'm apart of your cooking now?" She said confused. Eriol shrugged as Tomoyo got up and went to her freezer opening it and taking out some chocolate ice cream. Tomoyo took out a large serving spoon and dug into the ice cream and then closed it back taking some of the ice cream off. Eriol watched. Tomoyo smiled.
"You have to forgive me for doing this, I'm stuff my face full of ice cream when I'm shocked." She said.
"Sorry." He said looking back down to his tea. "If you say sorry one more time, I think I'll smack you." Tomoyo sighed as she finished the ice cream on the spoon. Eriol drank his tea and Tomoyo slowly set the spoon in the sink. "So you like me huh?" Tomoyo smiled to herself. "Where you planning on this?" She asked. "No." Eriol answered truthfully with a slight chuckle. Tomoyo sighed turning around as Eriol finished his tea. Tomoyo nodded. "So this wasn't a set up because I'm a great singer?" She said. Eriol shook his head as he stood and walked to the kitchen sink by Tomoyo. Eriol looked to her. "It was unexpected." He said. Tomoyo smiled.
Eriol looked to Tomoyo's hand and took it. Tomoyo slowly lifted her head to him and smiled. "What if I might not like you?" She said taking a step back and looking to Eriol. Eriol smiled. "If you didn't I wouldn't be here, I would be back at the club or my apartment mopping about how much of an ass I turned out to be and you would be damning my very existence." He said moving forward. Tomoyo leaned on her counter and chuckled lightly. "Actually I would have pretended you didn't exist." She grinned. "Whatever you want." He said. Tomoyo sighed and looked up to him. "Then I suppose I like you too, but you know my story. I have so much to do." She said. Eriol nodded and his hand slipped around her waist. Tomoyo shivered and looked down feeling weak.
Eriol pushed Tomoyo's soft hair behind her and lifted her head. "You can slap me if you want." He whispered. Tomoyo laughed lightly. "I'll save that for another time." She said looking to him. Eriol caressed her cheek. Tomoyo was glad she was wearing shoes that made her tall enough to took up to him without completely lifting her head. Eriol's lips brushed against her. Tomoyo's hand went to his shoulders and she took a step back. Eriol smiled to himself feeling that Tomoyo was unsure that was he certain of.
He followed her as she took slow steps back. Eriol pulled Tomoyo closer to him. Tomoyo's other hand went to his warm cheek. Tomoyo looked to Eriol and smiled. "Would you stop smiling so I can kiss you." He said. Tomoyo smiled even more. "You have to work for it." She said. Eriol grinned. "Okay, I'll play by your rules." He said. But Tomoyo was the first to kiss him. Eriol's eyes widened in surprise as he kissed her back gently containing the bubbling passion inside him. Tomoyo broke away from Eriol and smiled again. "You just can't stop smiling." He said.
Tomoyo nodded. "I smile because I can, wouldn't it be terrible if people couldn't smile." She said. Eriol thought for a moment. "Well, at least you'll have a good poker face." He said. Tomoyo sighed and her fingers touched his soft hair. "I wanna take you somewhere tomorrow." Eriol said excited. "I can't." Tomoyo said. "Why not?" He asked. "I'm going somewhere with Sakura, and I have my first rehearsal." She said stepping out of Eriol's embrace and headed to the couch. "Oh, right." He said slightly disappointed.
"Tuesday?"
"Tuesday I'm working."
"Thursday?"
"That's a great day, I'm off all day."
Eriol sighed and walked over to her and sat down. "What did you have in mind?" She asked. "Well, I'd like it to be a surprise." He said. Tomoyo nodded. "I'll tell you Wednesday night all the details." He said. Tomoyo sighed and laid on the couch. "You wanna watch a movie?" She asked. Eriol nodded. "My DVD collections is small but I have some great stuff, you pick one." She said sitting back up turning on her TV and then the DVD player. Tomoyo got up and went to her room to change.
It was a hot night so Tomoyo put on her baby tee shirt and short pants. Eriol was forwarding the previews, he put in The Illusionist. Tomoyo sat down next to Eriol and brought her legs to the side and cuddled up to Eriol. Eriol smiled to himself once more and put her arm around her. Eriol wouldn't have thought that he would end up with a girl like her, but he was lying to himself about liking her, he loved her. Eriol looked down to Tomoyo who was impressed by the magic trick that was being played on the screen. He'd wait a little longer, he didn't want to scare her.
Ooh, looks like things are looking up for the new couple but what is going to happen next? I hope everyone enjoyed this sorry for grammar or spelling, I promise I'm working on it. And thanks for everything who reviewed and who are reviewing hope you'll stick with me and I'll update ASAP.
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