Home for the Holiday
Black Diamond
(A/N: Okay I know, that I always write about none human subjects, but humans are just no fun. I mean I get into a creative spur when I'm talking about the supernatural... Humans are just so boring...Well not all of them, I'll try to write about human characters later... I sure hope you enjoy this story...I'm sure it'll be a twist.)
Summary: Heart-broken, confused, lost, and grieving Sakura Avalon signs up for a home exchange program online in which she'll switch homes with a stranger in the same program. Yukito Tsukishiro- confused about his sexual identity, heart broken, and lost signs up for the same program and ends up trading houses with a girl named Sakura Avalon.
Chapter 3: Girl meets Boy
Sakura tried to see through the snow storm. The huge trees covered in snow on the roadside did not make the process any easier.
The taxi that had picked her up had mentioned how he couldn't go any further because of the snow and now she wished she had bribed him into going further.
She was going to get caught in a snow storm. And considering how the houses were so far apart, no one would hear her die.
Just wonderful.
She was dragging her luggages through the snow when her foot slipped and she went down head first into the snow.
Just great.
Sakura sat up, not at all caring that the snow was going to melt into her clothes and probably chill her to the bones.
She stared around at the winter wonderland, if she hadn't been stuck in the downpour she would have marveled at the mystical feel of it all. But as it was, the view held little importance to her at the moment. She needed to go home.
After a moment on the ground she rose to her feet a wiped the snow off her derriere.
Sakura resumed her walk. She figured eventually she'll come across a house and hopefully find some shelter.
She was just about to give up after what seemed like an hour walking when she spotted a house with fire coming off its chimney.
It looked like one of those fairytale houses, sure the exterior was modern, a one of those red brick houses with white front door and two huge posts on the front. The house was situated high up on a cliff maybe, and the stairs leading up to it were covered in snow. There was a huge tree near the house, the tree was covered in snow much like everything else.
She did not waist any time, she began to walk towards the house immediately. Dragging her bag up the stairs as she walked up. On the front lawn, she buzzed the doorbell.
Nothing.
Frustrated, she began to bang on the door.
When that seemed futile, she turned around, not at all pleased about the idea of going back down to that hellish stretch of road.
The door opened. And she breathed out in relief.
"God, I thought I had to return to that storm again." Sakura stated staring at the auburn haired man who had opened it.
"What do you want?" His voice came out gentle, but the annoyance was clearly evident. Sakura stared sighed and pulled her bag closer to her, the chill beginning to catch up to her.
"Well, some warmth would be awesome. And maybe a way out of this cold hell." He stared at her and sighed, stepping aside to give her access. Sakura did not need any more invitation.
She went right in.
He closed the door behind her before turning to face her with a lethargic look about him.
He did not stop to speak to her, just walked further into the house, he took a left and vanished from sight.
She stood there for a while waiting, when he did not return she dumped her bag on floor near the door and went in after him.
The room he had entered was a kitchen, and he was busy making hot cocoa. She could smell the sweet smell of chocolate.
He brought the hot chocolate up to her, Sakura looked down at the content of the glass and turned her gaze upwards to stare at the man standing in front of his coffee maker.
"No whip cream?" She asked, he raised a brow but went to the fridge and pulled out a container and handed it to her.
Sakura smiled and squirted the whipped cream onto the hot cocoa.
She handed him the container and he went to the fridge again.
"Maybe bring marshmallows and chocolate syrup if you have any." He stopped, turned around to stare at her for a moment before stopping completely. His brows raised, Sakura stared at him grinning widely.
Hot cocoa just wasn't the same without marshmallows, whipped cream, chocolate syrup and shredded chocolate sprinkled on it.
He turned his gaze back to the fridge and finally closed it bringing out chocolate syrup but no marshmallows.
Sakura frowned, but guessed that some was better than none at all.
"Thanks." She murmured before she began to gulp down the drink. She watched the man as he finished the cup of coffee and washed it clean then set it on a stone plate dryer to let it dry.
He left the kitchen, Sakura kept her eyes on him. Watching as he walked out of the room. She was compeled to follow him, what kind of person would leave an absolute stranger in their home without a care.
He came back and was on the phone.
Sakura's eyes followed him as he walked around the kitchen talking to someone in a hushed tone. As hard as she strained to hear, she couldn't.
She was just finishing with her drink when his sharp sand brown eyes turned towards her she stared back at him, unwilling to let his freakishly bright eyes intimidate her into staring away first.
"Yes well, she is sitting in my kitchen. Well you know how the weather here is, couldn't you have had someone else pick her up." He paused waited for a response then began rambling again.
He was obviously upset by her intrusion.
"Yuki…yeah, sure. No its no trouble at all." Sakura nearly burst out laughing when she saw the annoyed look on his face. No trouble, yeah right. It was huge trouble whatever he was talking about, but for some reason he couldn't bring himself to tell that to the other person.
"Yes, I will escort her, when the storm passes." He spoke to the Yuki person over the phone and eventually hung up, taking a seat across from me with a tentative frown on his face.
He took the cup and walked towards the sink where he cleaned up the cup she had used he placed it near his own cup.
He took a towel and wiped around the counter to remove access water, not that there was any that she could see.
"Neat freak." Sakura murmured under her breath.
He turned to stare at her, a frown on his face. Sakura gave him an innocent smile, bashing her lashes and whistling.
When the stranger made a move to leave, Sakura got up.
"You can't just leave me here." He sighed and faced her exasperated.
"What do you suppose I do to entertain my unwanted guest." Well talk about pissed, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
"Don't you have a board came or something." She asked, he walked out of the room and came back a while later with…
"Really." Sakura stated staring at the game he was holding.
"What. I can go back to the work I was doing before you interrupted me." Sakura sighed and shook her head.
"What the hell. I can use the practice." She said when he began to assemble the pieces together.
Its been too long. Sorry. Just lost touch with this story, I was going to delete it, but then I read it and thought…We have potential here.
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