Chap 2: Stupid Roommate.
Sakura opened her apartment door silently. The atmosphere there sent shivers down her spines. It was cold and quiet deserted. She slightly pulled her luggage inside, wondered where her roommate was. 'Maybe she hasn't come here yet. Well…Should I prepare a welcome party for her?' After a while of considering, Sakura decided to pass it. The first reason was maybe her new roommate wouldn't like it and another one was she was too tired to do anything at that moment so she chose to bring both her and the luggage into her bedroom, which she has been given instruction that it was on the right, and throw herself on the bed. She looked around the room sleepy. It was a totally pink and white room, perfect for a girl. The wall was covered in pink while her desk, chair and windows were covered with pure white and a see-through pink curtain.
'Wow…it's really a beautiful room.' She thought to herself then slowly fell asleep.
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In her dream's land, she heard some one opened and closed the front door then everything went silent. Again.
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Sakura woke up because of the sunlight went through her window and pointed right to her eyes. She sleepy raised her head to look at the clock...:"HOE…It's already quarter past eleven. Oh god…did I sleep that much?" She jumped out of bed, made it and rush to the wardrobe to pick some clothes then storm to the bathroom. Half an hour later, she walked out in a white T-shirt, a black mini short and a pair of knee-length black socks. She put on her black Converse shoes and went out.
Sakura looked at the kitchen, there was a kettle on the stove, some cups have been taken down and near that was a few pack of tea or coffee. It seemed like her roommate has arrived. Sakura then looked into the living room, she saw someone was sitting and drinking – she guessed it according to the smell – coffee. Sakura thought of making her new friend surprise so she went tip-toe to the person was sitting on the couch and ready to welcome her with a big smile and a loud 'hi' but…instead of a loud 'hi', the words came from her mouth were…
"YOU! THE BASTARD ON THE PLANE." Well, let's just say Sakura's dream of a beautiful, intelligent and sweet girlfriend has been shattered into pieces when she saw the person was sitting on the couch and was glaring at her was no other than the handsome guy she met on the plane…Wait a minute... Handsome? Na ah…no way. Okay. Maybe he was a bit handsome, but not enough to help settle down for her dream new sweet room mate and definitely should be a GIRL.
The boy still glared at her then finally spoke out: "Are you crazy? Shouted out loud right in the morning? And I have a name too, so don't call me the bastard on the plane, k?" Sakura trembled in anger and disbelief then pointed right to his face: "You! I thought my new room mate will be a girl. A girl. Not the bastard on the plane." She pressed the phrase harshly that finally made him threw the newspaper aside and stood up, glaring coldly at her:" Who told you that your room mate will be a stupid girl? And beside I said I have a name and the name's Li Syaoran. Li Syaoran. You hear me? Not the bastard on the plane, k?" Now it was his turn to press the phrase hard. Sakura had to raise her head to glare back at him because he was a head taller than her, about 6.4 feet. They both glaring at each other for a while then Sakura sighed and chose to step back a bit, raised her voice: "Fine. Whatever." Then she grabbed her bag and stormed out of the apartment while murmuring to herself: "What a stubborn bastard."
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Sakura decided to go to the bookstore first. She had a day before semester to prepare things for the school work, so she wanted to buy some of the consultation books. After chose some and paying for the money, Sakura headed back to the road when she suddenly saw a car was driving crazy toward a girl was walking on the street. Without a second thought, Sakura jumped over the girl and shouted out loud: "Be careful."
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"Crash"
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The car drove away…
Sakura slowly raised her head, she could felt the hot liquid ran down her cheek, but accorded to the pain, the injuries wasn't so bad. Under her was the girl she was helping. That girl got up, asked her worried: "Are you okay? I'm sorry." She used a handkerchief to wash the blood on Sakura face and gave her a bandage: "It's okay. Don't be worry. I'm happy because I've saved a life." She smiled cheerfully. Now she started to examine the girl before her. She has long purple hair and a pair of deep and caring purple eyes: "My name is Sakura Kinomoto, you?" The girl held out a hand to help her stand up and answered: "I'm Tomoyo Daidouji. Nice to meet you."
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"Where are you going this morning?" Asked Tomoyo.
Sakura shrugged, her face darkened immediately when she remembered the meeting between her and Syaoran that morning. (A/N: Maybe some of you will not like the way I let every one call each other by first name, but I hate the way Sakura/Tomoyo calls Syaoran/Eriol by their last name. It's not so friendly.) She told Tomoyo the story and caused her to laugh: "Hah…You're with a hot guy and you still fight him?" But she shut up right when she received the deathly glare from Sakura: "Okay…he was really mean and rude when he said that to you but from what you described him, I still think of him as a hot guy. Someway, he resembled me to someone I knew. Oh, what is his name, again?" She asked, wondered if she was right. And the reply was no other than what she thought: "Syaoran. Li Syaoran." This caused Tomoyo to giggle: "That's my boyfriend's cousin. You are lucky you know? Many girls would die just to be like you. Syaoran is the hottest guy at The National Science University, where Eriol – my boyfriend – and I are going to attend." Sakura gasped:"What?"That's the university I'm going to attend, too. So, I'll have to face him every single day?" Tomoyo winked at her: "Maybe he'll even be in your class, too. But don't worries, you still have me, right?" She laughed when seeing Sakura face: "God saves me."
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Sakura looked at the notice board. She was in K44 while Tomoyo was in K45. She sighed. Sakura thought that she might be attended the same class at Tomoyo but it seemed like god wasn't on her side this time. But lucky she, the two classes were next to each other, so she could see Tomoyo in every break. That cheered her up but she doesn't know that she was being happy so soon…
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Sakura stepped in the class, a lot of whistle and whispers rang through the air. She could feel the dirty glance the guys gave her. She frowned, not saying a word and went directly to a seat at the back, opened her book, ready for the class. A few minutes later, the professor came in, made the entire dirty glance away from her. Sakura sighed. She hated those glances, whispers and whistles. Shook her head, she chose to concentrate on the lecture when she felt somebody sat right next to her. Sakura turned to the right to see the late person and…: "AHH…Uhmmmm…" A hand quickly covered her mouth before she shouted anything more than "Ah". Luckily, the professor didn't hear her shout, and keep on with the lecture while some students at the back turned and glared at them.
"Shut the hell up or else they'd think that I was doing something to you." Syaoran said through gritted teeth, released his hand. Sakura glared at him: "then why do you have to sit right next to me?" He shrugged: "Because there was no other seat that cause less attention than this one. Beside these seats aren't yours, I can sit any where I want." Then he turned away from her, focus on the lecture, showed her the sign that their conversation ended there. Sakura stuck her tongue out: "Stupid jerk."
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"Okay then, I want you guys to have each one a lecture 1000 words about our project on my desk tomorrow. Class dismisses." The professor said, grabbed his paper and got out. Sakura immediately too, walked to the front door when a guy grabbed her around the waist: "Hey cutie, what's your name? Wanna go for a ride with me?" The blonde hair boy asked rudely, his other hand reach up to her thigh, put up her skirt. Sakura trembled, tears filled her eyes as she started to remember…'Someone help me…please…' her tears poured out as she tried to push the stranger away. But her strength disappeared, she couldn't do anything, lying helpless in his arms. He was totally interesting at her reaction so he lean toward her, breath in her ear then bit it, then he went to her neck, and finally, to her lips. Her lips tightened into a thin line, and turned her head to another way to avoid his. When he tried to pull her head back, he was grabbed and pulled back roughly. She looked at her saver through her tears. It was a tall, muscular guy with midnight hair and a pair of sapphire, crystal clear eyes. The guy said through his gritted teeth: "I swear if you ever get near this girl again, you'll have to pay with your bloody life. Understand?" then he slammed him against the wall and let him slipped off, unconscious. The guy turned back at her, and held out his hand: "You okay?" Sakura looked at him with grateful, but hesitated to take his hand.
"Hey, Eli! What are you doing in here?" Came a familiar voice. "Oh my god. What happened to you, Sakura?" She ran to Sakura, hugged her tight, let her buried her head in her chest and looked up: "Eriol, what happened?" He slowly explained the situation to her and waited for her reaction. Just as he thought, Tomoyo's whole body trembled because of anger, she gritted her teeth: "I swear if I ever see him again, I'll smack his stupid face into pieces." Sakura sweet-dropped, she has never seen Tomoyo talking like that before: "It's alright, Tomoyo. He came just in time." Sakura headed to Eriol and bowed thankfully: "Wait! No, don't bow." He smiled gently: "helping people is a good thing to do so why do you have to bow?" Tomoyo giggled: "You talked like Sakura. Oh…Like I told you before, I have a boyfriend named Eriol is studying in here, too right? This guy is him, Eriol Hiragizawa. Eriol, this is Sakura Kinomoto, the girl saved me from a car crash and my friend." He smiled ( which in Sakura's opinion was way too weird for his reaction when she was in trouble ): "It's my pleasure to meet you." Sakura smiled weakly: "Me too."
Tomoyo smiled at the two when she quickly realized what she was going to do with her Eriol: "Sakura! Wanna go have lunch with us?" Sakura felt her stomach demonstrated: "Yes. Let's go." But little did she know, there weren't just the three of them…
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They entered an Italian restaurant. Sakura gasped: "I heard this restaurant is really hard to get a table here. So how could you..?" She left an unfinished sentence. Tomoyo winked: "It's because we had some one to be in the waiting line for us. If he wants, then in 5 minutes, even the whole restaurant would serve only him." Sakura heard Eriol laughed out loud when he heard Tomoyo's advertisement. She confused: "So may I have the pleasure to know who that powerful person is?" Eriol laughed even harder then he pointed at a handsome guy sitting near a glass window: "If that's who you mean powerful then it's him, my lovely cousin."
Sakura looked at the spot he was pointing and let out a small groan: "Tomoyo." She said in a dangerous tone: "Why did you invite me when you know that…that person would come, too." Tomoyo laughed nervously: "Well…It's because……Oh! I know *stared at the suspicious Sakura* ahem…I mean, I want you to make up with him. You guys can't be enemy forever if you want to live in peace, right?" Sakura sighed: "Guess so." Tomoyo sighed in relief: "Whew…Hope she doesn't suspect me." Eriol chuckled, whispered loud enough for just Tomoyo to hear: "Let me guess. You're thinking that she might get my cute cousin to change into a sweeter guy, right?" She nodded and tip-toe to kiss him and whispered against his lips playfully: "Yup. Now, let's go before they have another fight."