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Oh, and I have a few words for ANYONE that decides to use death threats to make me update (glares at XoXoMoon TribalXoXo, EternalDreamzofHope, and a great fan). I do NOT appreciate it... you have been warned. I mean it. ONE more death threat (even if it is a joke), and I will disable anonomous reveiws, ban you from giving me a review, and I will also take down my email display. I MEAN IT! I don't care if it is a joke! This stands for everyone, not just those three... You have been warned...

Anyway... here is the chapter you have all been waiting for... OVERNIGHT! (I can't believe I wrote this in three hours... usually takes me about six...) A lot of you guessed what Syaoran was gonna say, and well... the most popular belief was that Syaoran was gonna tell Sakura that he likes her... Well... you'll find out.

Chapter 9

A Day at the Park

"What is it?" Sakura asked. Syaoran took a deep breath.

'Oh my God...' Sakura thought, panicing, 'He's going to tell me he likes me! What am I gonna do? I don't like him! I don't want him to slip into depression again! What am I gonna do?' And other thoughts raced through her head. What came next was a shock.

"I'm leaving at the end of the year. You win our competition. I forefeit." He looked to the floor.

HA! I bet you thought Syaoran was gonna tell her he likes her? ERNG! WRONG! Why would you think that, anyway? Anyway... Sorry for that little interruption... Back to the story!

"What do you mean? I win?" Sakura demanded, "And when did you find out you're leaving?"

"I mean," Syaoran sighed, "I won't see you after this year, so I wanted to call a truce. And I've known for a few months."

"Why didn't you say something before now?" Sakura asked, trying to give a friendy edge to her demanding tone.

"I dunno." Syaoran shrugged. Sakura leaned back on the seat.

"So..." She trailed off, feeling awkward for some reason, "Where are you going?"

"Hong Kong."

"Back to your old home?"

"Yup."

Sakura and Syaoran sat in an awkward silence for a few minutes. Sakura felt some strange feeling that she hadn't felt in a long time. She felt as if her stomach had dropped out from underneath her, and she still hadn't stopped falling. It was like a piece of her had been taken away. She felt tears well up in her eyes, for some reason.

"Excuse me." She choked out, trying not to let on that she was crying. She got up, and ran out the front door. Once she was a block away, she let the tears flow freely. She didn't understand why she was crying. Syaoran didn't mean anything to her... did he? No, she convinced herself, he doesn't.

"Stop crying, idiot." Sakura choked out to herself as she came to the park, and sunk down on a swing, "It's only Syaoran. Come on. Your life would be better with him gone. Then you won't have to tip-toe around him and his problems... If he kills himself, you can't be blamed..."

'But he likes me!' Her mind screamed, 'You know it's true!'

"But he doesn't mean anything to me, other than a pain in the ass." She silenced the voice, "I don't want to deal with it."

After a while, Sakura stopped crying. It seemed, however, that the sky would pick up where Sakura left off. As she stood to leave the park, there was a clap of thunder. Sakura, of course, was terrified of thunder, and screamed. Then, it began to rain. Not light, either. It bucketed down. Within five minutes, Sakura was soaked to the bone.

"Great... Just great..." Sakura muttered, "Just what I needed..."

"Sakura!" She heard a male voice call her name, "Sakura, where are you?"

"Over here!" She called, not really interested.

"Come on!" Syaoran came into view, holding an umbrella up, "We gotta get inside! Now!"

Sakura and Syaoran bolted through the rain, and back to Meiling's place. Luckily enough, it wasn't too far away. They made it to the veranda, but couldn't go in, because they were totally soaking wet. The umbrella did nothing for them. They may as well have just gone without it. They stood on the veranda for a few minutes, banging on the locked door, before the butler opened the door to see them standing there, shivering wet.

He ushered them inside, and got them towels. They stood in the main hall, shivering.

"What on Earth were you two doing outside in this weather? You could have caught pneumonia!" Meiling came flying down the stairs, chastizing them, "Syaoran, I thought you of all people would have known that!"

"Whatever, Meiling." Syaoran rolled his eyes, pretending that nothing had ever happened.

"I'm going to have a hot shower." Sakura decided, then brushed past Meiling as she ascended the stairs, "Then I'm going to bed."

"Me too." Syaoran was right behind her.

MORNING, (about 10am)

"I'm so bored!" Tomoyo complained to everyone sitting around the lounge room, "I want to do something! It's a beautiful day outside!"

It was indeed, a beautiful day. The sky was a clear blue, with no clouds in it. The weather was fine, with no breeze, which was good, considering that it was only early summer. A breeze would bring too much hot air. The temperature was also perfect for a day oudoors.

"How about we go to the park?" Naoko suggested, "We could have a picnic, and maybe even play a few games."

"Sounds good." Chiharu agreed, "Why don't we go for lunch?" There was a chorus of agreement from the group, and it was decided. They would leave the house at eleven thirty, go to the Penguin Park for the afternoon, and maybe go to the movies after, depending on the time.

ELEVEN FOURTY FIVE

"There's good!" Eroil pointed out a cherry blossom tree that had not yet lost all of it's blossoms. In fact, it still had about ninety per cent of them, either scattered around, or on on the tree.

"Perfect!" Tomoyo squeeled, and pulled her video camera out of her handbag. She began to tape everyone setting up the picnic, but didn't do anything herself.

"Tomoyo!" Sakura scowled, "Put the damn camera away, woman!"

"But this place is gorgeous!" Tomoyo protested, "And I won't be allowed to take it into the cinema!"

"Whatever..." Sakura sighed. Tomoyo sighed dreamily as she taped Sakura daydreaming, looking out to the horizon. The way the cherry blossoms spiralled past her, her long hair loose, and falling delicately around her face. It was a beautiful sight. But Tomoyo wasn't the only one that had noticed. She looked over to the side to see Syaoran staring at Sakura, in what looked like awe.

"Looks like Syaoran Li, the ice king, has a crush..." Tomoyo whispered devillishly, making her way over to him. Syaoran heard her, and turned bright red.

"Edit that out. Now!" He demanded, and Tomoyo jumped about a foot in the air with fright.

"Why?" She focused the lens on him. He scowled into the camera.

"Because it's not true." He said coldly, "And I don't care to ever be reminded of this conversation again. Ever."

"Ok..." Tomoyo muttered in defeat. She switched modes on the camera, and rewinded the camera to the point where she had first noticed Syaoran. She then hit 'stop' and set it up to record again.

"Happy now?" She asked, upset.

"Yes, thank you." Syaoran grinned, and ran over to Eroil and Takashi. Tomoyo just sat there and filmed the guys playing a game of frizbee. Basically all they were doing was flinging it to each other. It was rather boring to watch. Tomoyo perked up when she heard Sakura's voice slice through the air.

"Come on, guys! Time for lunch!"

Lunch was full of idle chatter, and no one was really bothered with anything... at least... that's what it seemed.

'Why do I care that Syaoran's moving away? I should just forget about it...' Sakura thought, silently.

'Oh man... I gotta tell Sakura that I like her... But how? ARGH!' Syaoran was close to ripping his hair out.

The meal passed by in no time at all, and soon enough, the guys were playing frizbee again, but the girls were watching this time. Now that they had an audience, they made it a goal situation. Syaoran was the volatile player. That meant that he would play for whoever had the frizbee. If Takashi had the frizbee, than he would play for Takashi. If Eroil had the frizbee, he would play for Eroil.

"Can I play?" Sakura shouted out to the guys. They looked at each other, and Eroil smirked.

"Only if you're on my team!" He called out. Sakura nodded, and took off her sneakers. She ran out onto the bindi-free grass, and the game was about to start again, when...

"I wanna play, too!" Meiling called out.

"Me too!" Chiharu, Rika and Naoko called out.

"Why not?" Syaoran joked, "Do you wanna play, Tomoyo?"

"Nah!" She smiled, "I'll be the Ref. And I'll tape it!" Everyone rolled their eyes.

With the addition of the new players, they had to re-choose teams. It turned out that Sakura, Naoko, Rika, and Eroil were on one team, and Takashi, Chiharu, Meiling and Syaoran were on the other team.

LATER

"Sakura, here!" Naoko called out, and Sakura passed her the frizbee. It was a low pass, but Naoko caught it. She tried to pass it back to Sakura, but Syaoran intercepted it, and passed it to Meiling.

"Meiling! Here!" Takashi called out, but no one listened to him. The poor guy was terrible at frizbee. Instead, Meiling passed the frizbee to Chiharu, who passed it back to Syaoran.

"I'm open!" Meiling called out, over the goal line. Syaoran passed it to her, and she caught it without a problem.

"Nineteen all!" Tomoyo marked down on the ground with a stick, "Next goal wins the game!"

"Ok!" Everyone called out, as Meiling launched the frizbee again. Sakura caught it a bit further back, and almost fell over. She looked frantically around her, but everyone was marked by an opposing team member,

"One..." Syaoran called out, loud enough for everyone to hear, "Two... Three... Four... Five..." Sakura looked frantically around her, and still no one was free, "Six... Seven... Eight... Nine... Te-" He stopped as she flung the frizbee to no one in particular. It soared out to the goal.

Sakura ducked around Syaoran, and raced after it, managing to catch it just over the goal line.

"Whoa." Syaoran whistled in surprise, "I've never seen that before." Sakura grinned.

"I've never done it before." She admitted. Everyone laughed as they decided to go back to the house to clean up for the movie. They were all in need of a shower.

Well? Please don't kill me for not letting Syaoran admit his feelings... I was going to, but it didn't seem to be the right place... I think I'll start a countdown now...

SIX DAYS UNTIL SAKURA'S BIRTHDAY!

Oh, and I need 20 reveiws before I'll update again. That doesn't seem so hard now... does it? That will be it. Every chapter from now on, I'll need 20 reviews. No exceptions.