They finished up their supper and cleaned up the table. After they put all the leftovers away, Sakura's mother went to go finish up some paper work and Sakura brought her school stuff in to her room. Plunking the bag down on her desk chair, she laid across the bed with the extra science textbook. She got through a couple chapters before getting tired of reading and laid the book on her face. Too much information was crammed in her head and it started to whirl around making her dizzy.

Her mind started to wonder. She thought about her friends again, and about her homework and classes, but her thoughts returned to Sasuke again and again. Every time it did, she'd get frustrated and roll over, gripping her pillow tighter. Finally she decided to get up and do something to distract herself from her own stupid mind.

She shuffled around the stake of book beside her bed, looking for something to read. Pride and Prejudice slipped off the top of the pile and fell to the ground. Sakura picked it up and looked at the inside cover. "To my darling daughter, Happy 16th birthday, Love Dad." Her father a given her this book on her birthday not long before her parents separated. That was over a year ago now, her parents are legally divorced and Sakura is 17. She felt uneasy still, thinking about the divorce. Her birthday is in May, by then there had already been noticeable tension between her mother and father, despite the fact that they tried to hide it. About a month later they told her they would be separating. After being separated for 2 months they started going through the legal process of the divorce. It was long and there were lots of complication in the way. Sakura didn't really understand what was going on and what would happen once all was said and done, because her mother kept most of it quite. She didn't want rumours spreading around the community. Once everything was done, Sakura was to stay with her mother, but she decided to move of the little farm town and into the city. Sakura doesn't see her father all that often. The arrangement that was agreed upon when they moved to the city was that her father would come down once a month and Sakura could go up for half the holidays.

Sakura missed her father, but she's managed to get over the worst pain. Her father is a veterinarian, and works on call for all the local farms in the town. It was her father that inspired her to get in to becomes a doctor, but a people doctor. When she was little she would sit on the floor of his study reading his books about biology and animals.

Sakura flipped through the book and then put it on her night side table. She felt that for some reason Jane Austin wasn't going to distract her from her boy problems. She leaned over and picked up Sophie's World. She read a couple chapters, and learned about Plato and Socratic. Reading about philosophy usually tripped Sakura out. Tired and confused about the meaning of life she put the book down and closed her eyes.

Sakura dozed off and slept for an hour before her mother came in and woke her. "Your father is on the phone."

"Hey dad," Sakura said in to the phone still half asleep.

"Hey sweety, how are you?" a man's voice came from the other end of the line. Sakura woke up a bit and realized what was going on. She shook her head and replied with a little more enthusiasum.

"I'm doing well. How are you?"

"Not bad. It sounds like you were asleep."

"Ya, I guess I dozed off for a bit."

"Ah." There was a pause and the line was silent for a few seconds.

"How was the first day at your new school?"

"It went well."

"Ah, that's good."

"How's work?"

"Ohh it's going well," the line was quite again for a minute.

"I came across the book you gave to me for my birthday 2 years ago."

"Oh is that so? Have you read it?"

"Yes I read it last summer."

"How did you like it?"

"I enjoyed it, I thought the main character was cool, like you know, how she isn't afraid to be strong and independent, even though that it was frowned upon during that time."

"Hum, ya… Well I guess I'll let you go, I've got to get some rest. Early day tomorrow you know."

"Ya ok Dad."

"I love you, sweety."

"I love you too, dad."

"Talk to you next week?"

"Yep."

"Ok, I love you, bye."

"Love you too, bye."

Sakura hung up the phone and lazily tossed it on to her bed. She looked at the time and realized that it was already 10:30. She went to shower and get ready for bed. After she went online and check her email and social network. A couple messages from old friends and friend requests from new friends. The meeting of the old and new in one convenient spot, Sakura thought to herself. She shut off the family computer and said good night to her mother. Her mother was in her bedroom watching TV, eating ice cream out of the tub.

Sakura curled up in bed and felt very sleepy, but she was restless. She rolled around a bit, turned the light on and off, got up, packed her school bag, and looked for her stuffed animal. Finally she laid down and stayed there.

She slipped off in to sleep but continued to be restless while she dreamt.