Pretty Girl
A/N okay do I have like no excuse for this being so late but I'll try using the usual excuse with school keeping me busy and stuff like that, the holidays are a busy time for my family so I had like no time to type it up over my Christmas break and my old computer that I had more than half of this chapter typed up on crashed a little while ago so I had to get a new one and lost all my old files and kinda lost my will to write for a while but now it's finally up and all I can hope for is that I still have my loyal reviewers on my side. Anyways happy new year and happy holidays to everyone even though their like over now and I'm really upset about going back to school because that means exams are coming…but oh well!
superelle: I'm glad I introduced you to your favourite song, I agree Pretty Girl is a very good song…who couldn't like it? Anyways here's the update you asked for.
xOxAlicexOx: glad you like the music I put in this fic :P
Disclaimer: I do not own CCS, CLAMP does. I do not own the song Pretty Girl which this fic is based off of, that belongs to Sugarcult. I do own this plot though, and Ritsou and Fumihiko…that's something right?
Recap of chapter 8…
"Your name is from this day, after god himself…next to Chuck Norris, Tommy Lee!"
She was all smiles for the rest of the day.
Chapter 9: And That's What you get 2
The next day at school Sakura was quietly walking down the halls pushing the stroller with the doll which she officially named Tommy Lee last night. She ignored the looks people gave her because they were actually surprised to see she, Sakura Kinomoto, making an actual effort in a class assignment.
She got to her locker and gently lifted Tommy out of his stroller and held him while she, with some difficulty, folded the stroller and shoved it into her locker, which had pretty much nothing in it to begin with(A/n sorta like my brothers locker…-.-'). She grabbed what she needed and headed to her math class with Tommy in her arms.
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He was walking down the hallway with his friends not really paying attention to whatever it was that Fumihiko was saying, he was just enjoying the feeling of not having that stupid doll in his life anymore…well at least for the next few days.
"So I make one mistake by accidentally pulling the dolls arm off and Saiko tells me that she doesn't want me to be a part of the project anymore! Now she's going to tell Yuzuharu-sensei that I didn't participate and now I'm going to fail while she gets all the marks! Can you believe that?!" Fumihiko vented out to them.
"And how did you pull this dolls arm off?" Ritsou raised an eyebrow curiously.
"I was trying to be a good daddy by dancing with my child by doing the airplane disco move. How was I supposed to know that spinning her too fast would make her arm come loose?
"It's a her?" Eriol asked.
"Saiko decided it was going to be a girl," he muttered. "Her name is Sumiko just because that's the name she's 'always' wanted to name her daughter when she had one. Can this project get any lamer?"
"I don't think it's so bad," Syaoran spoke for the first time that whole conversation.
"What? Just the other day you said you hated it," Eriol said while he and the other two looked at him confusedly.
"That was when I was stuck being a single dad, now I'm free of that stupid doll for the next couple of days while Kinomoto takes care of it. I finally got a decent sleep to make up for the last four days," Syaoran told them smiling.
"Ah so now Kinomoto's the one being tortured by that doll so you're happy about the project, right?" Ritsou asked smirking.
"You got it," Syaoran nodded his head.
"You're such a sadist," Eriol shook his head at him.
He only shrugged in response.
"Li you should have been using this project as an excuse to spend time with her," Fumihiko stated.
"What do you mean?" Syaoran looked at him confused.
"Do you not remember our bet that you could get a date with Kinomoto?" Fumihiko questioned.
"Of course I remembered," he avoided eye contact with him," I'm just slowly getting her to trust me before I ask her out is all."
"He forgot," Ritsou commented dryly.
"I said I didn't!" Syaoran exclaimed.
"Whatever you say," Ritsou rolled his eyes.
"I didn't forget about it," Syaoran muttered under his breath trying to convince himself more than his friends.
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It was after school when Syaoran saw Sakura walking home pushing the stroller with the doll inside and decided to talk to her.
"Hey Kinomoto!" he called running over to her.
She looked at him as he came running over to her and stopped walking, but didn't say anything when he stopped beside her.
"So, how are things? He asked trying to make conversation with the quiet girl.
"Fine…" she answered unsurely, "And yourself?"
"Good…good," he replied, "Can I walk you home?"
"I think you should be asking if you could walk 'us' home," she smiled gesturing to the doll in the stroller.
"Right, right, can I walk you 'two' home?" he asked again smirking.
"Well I guess a baby needs to spend time with his daddy…okay, yes you can walk us home," she nodded her head to give her consent.
"Thank you for allowing me to."
"Don't mention it."
"So how was your first night with him?" Syaoran asked as they started to walk.
"Pretty good, I gave him a name," Sakura responded.
"Really?" he sounded interested. "And what name would that be?"
"Tommy Lee."
"Tommy Lee?"
"Yeah, Tommy Lee," she raised an eyebrow at him. "Is that a problem?"
"No… but why Tommy Lee?"
"I was listening to Motley Crue last night and it came to me, you do know who Motley Crue are right?"
"Of course, anyone who doesn't deserves to be shot, Tommy Lee's the drummer to the band, pretty cool idea naming him after a musician."
"I know glad I thought of it," she winked at him.
"My personal favorite by them is Kick start my Heart," Syaoran told her.
"Mine too," she smiled at him. "And the best part about him being named after Tommy is that he has the same last name as you only spelt different." She pointed out.
"True, so true."
"So why did you want to walk me home?" Sakura asked not looking at him.
"Well you know when the new year started I decided I wanted to make my New Years Resolution to be to get more exercise," he lied.
"New Years Resolution?" Sakura asked looking at him with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah you know, the goals you set for yourself when a new year starts," Syaoran explained to her like she was stupid.
"I know what a new years resolution is!" Sakura exclaimed in her defense.
"Okay well now you know what mine is…so what was yours?" he asked her curiously.
"I don't have one," she claimed looking straight ahead.
"What?" Syaoran asked shocked. "Why not?"
"Because if I don't have one, I can't break it," she smirked at him.
"Ah, touché," he replied.
"I thought it was a good excuse."
"It's a very good excuse."
"So are ready to tell me the real reason you wanted to walk me home?"
"What do you mean? I told you my reason," he chuckled nervously.
"Yeah like I'm supposed to believe an excuse like it's your new years resolution, honestly Li, it's February! New Years Resolutions are usually broken by now, so tell me the real reason."
"Do I really need a reason?"
"Yes."
"I just wanted to spend time with you, maybe we could work together on the parenting project for awhile?"
"If you really want to…" she sounded surprised at his answer. "My dad won't be home till late so it'll just be us and Tommy." Sakura looked down at the stroller while she walked not being able to look at him.
"I want to," he told her making her look up.
"What happened to getting me to take care of him for three days alone so you could get pay back for me getting suspended and leaving you for three days alone?" she asked raising an eyebrow at him again.
"I guess I missed the little guy is all," he shrugged.
"Okay then, I guess that's a good enough reason." They were quiet for a bit, "Well, here's my house."
"Okay."
They took Tommy out of the stroller and folded it up, then headed inside. "I have a bed for him upstairs in my room, you can come up if you want," Sakura called over her shoulder as she headed upstairs.
Syaoran followed her until they got to her room. He looked around a bit and noticed that it wasn't anything special, but she did have a very large music collection.
"Enough CD's over there?" he joked while she bent down and put Tommy in the little cradle she had out for him.
"You can never have too much music," was her simple reply.
"I guess you're right about that," he nodded his head, "So what do you want to do now while you've put him to bed?"
"Well…we could watch a movie," Sakura suggested.
"Sure, you pick," Syaoran agreed.
"I have the perfect choice!" Sakura exclaimed happily. She picked the cradle up with the doll still inside and put it in Syaoran's arms. "Bring that downstairs, that's where all the DVD's are," she ran out the door while Syaoran trudged after her carrying the heavy cradle down the stairs.
He found her in the living room looking through their movie collection so he sat on her couch waiting for her to find what she wanted after finding a place to put the cradle. After a little bit of time she found what she was looking for and held it out to him happily, he was beginning to notice that she was acting a lot happier today then usual, she hadn't even gotten detention today.
"What movie is it?" he asked her.
"The Rocky Horror Picture Show! The best movie in the entire world!" she exclaimed. (A/n I'm watching it right now .)
"I've never scene it," he stated.
"Well then you have lived a very sheltered life, you are seeing it now, you can not grow up not watching this movie, it is a classic," she stated.
He found himself smiling at her enthusiasm for the movie and watched her put it in the DVD player so they could watch it.
When they first started watching the movie Syaoran just stared at the screen as the famous lips of the Rocky Horror Picture Show came on screen singing the opening song. "Why am I staring at lips?" he asked.
"It's the famous opening of the movie now just sit back, relax, and watch," Sakura scolded him while she quietly sang along to the song.
He was quiet for awhile more into the movie but he just couldn't hold it in anymore when Dr. Frank n' Furter came into the scene singing Sweet Transvestite. "Oh my god! Why are we watching a movie with a man that goes around wearing lingerie and make up?"
"Shut up! He's what makes this movie, no joke, he's the greatest," Sakura shushed him.
The rest of the time Syaoran stared at the movie and noticing how strange and pointless is was, he realized that there was no point to the movie and as hard as he tried it didn't make sense. The people in the movie were freak shows but for some strange reason, he…couldn't…look…away.
When the movie was over Sakura looked to him smiling, silently asking him what he thought of the movie.
"That was…interesting," he replied.
"Yeah I should have warned you not to try and make sense of the movie before watching it, my bad, sorry Li," she laughed.
Syaoran was shocked, he just couldn't believe this day, this was Sakura Kinomoto, he had never seen her smile so much or laugh, never mind that it was because of him, it was all just unbelievable. And he couldn't help but notice how beautiful she looked when she was happy as well.
He found himself unconsciously moving closer to her, their faces were just centimeters apart. She was staring at him wondering what he was doing. They both closed their eyes and their lips touched. It was soft and gentle; Syaoran was about to deepen it when all of a sudden they heard a mechanical cry. They jumped apart at the sound and blushed not looking at the other.
Sakura got up and headed over to where Syaoran had put the cradle and took Tommy out and used the keys they had for him to take care of what was bothering him. When he stopped crying she put him back down in the cradle and turned to him.
Syaoran stood up from his seat on the couch and walked over to her. "Listen Kinomoto about that I-"
"It's okay Li, you don't have to apologize," she said quietly.
"But I…I mean are you sur…you didn't ev…Arg I don't know what to say!" he exclaimed getting tongue tied for the first time in his life.
"Don't say anything, but I think it's time that you go home, it's almost supper time," she replied.
"Yeah, okay, if you're sure," he looked down and headed for her front door.
"Oh and Li?" she called out to him before he opened the door to leave.
"Yeah Kinomoto?"
"Could you call me Sakura from now on?" she asked sheepishly with a slight blush on her cheeks.
"Sure, but only if you call me Syaoran, Sakura," he smiled at her liking the idea of calling her by her first name instead of her last.
"Okay…deal, Syaoran…" she smiled and left him in the doorway to turn the DVD player off in the other room.
As Syaoran left her house that day, he couldn't help but like the sound of his name coming from her mouth.
TBC
A/n and here is finally the long awaited chapter 9 of Pretty Girl! I hope you all enjoyed and I'll try to update sooner next time I swear! And remember to read and review! Ciao!