Hello again, it is just me and muse! I seriously have the writing juice in my veins and my earbud in my ears with music blasting...what a writing environment!

Recap: Last chapter a bit of an intro to our two character and a bit of their past now we have to bring it all together and have them meet.

Enough of my babbling, I sure do like to talk. Let get started shall we!

Two weeks later

"Ugh!"

Sakura Kinomoto cried out as she hurried out of the bathroom with a toothbrush jammed in her mouth as she tried to get to out of the door. She should have already been out the door, but she went to feed the cats their breakfast and ending up with a mad dash to the toilet where her morning sickness took over. She grabbed her camera bag along with her press passes as she would need them to get to the hotel where she was supposed be at 10 minutes ago. She ran back into the bathroom spitting out the toothpaste and rinsing her mouth out the best she could to get rid of an evidence of her being sick. She did a quick glance of herself in the mirror to make sure her outfit, a pink sleeveless shirt with white stripe around her middle with a black skirt the fell to his mid thigh complete with black ballet shoes, of her choice was find and had not been another victim of her morning sickness. She looked over at her hamper which was almost spilling over with clothes, she needed to laundry but when she got home from her job she barely had enough energy to move.

She wiped under her eyes to rid of any running mascara and reapplied some more to make herself look refreshed. She glanced down to her wrist at the time and groan as she quickly hurried out of the bathroom throwing her camera bag over her shoulder along with her passes and bid goodbye to her kitties before hurrying out the door. She had made it to the elevator before her phone started ringing, she moved the stuff around in her hands so she could fish it out of her purse swiping at the answer button and held it to her ear.

"Hello," she breathed as she stepped into the elevator smiling politely at the ones already on their way down.

"Sakura, where are you?" asked the worried voice of her best friend, Tomoyo Daidouji. "You were supposed to be here twenty minutes ago."

"I know! I know!" She cried out making the others in the elevator jump out her loud outburst. "I am on my way there, I just had a little bit of a set back this morning."

"Did you get sick again?" asked Tomoyo with more concern lacing her smooth voice.

"Yes," she sighed not wanting to think about it. "I was fine until I opened the damn cat food."

"Are you sure that is normal?" asked her best friend, the only one in the world who knew about her pregnancy because she had called her the next morning after she had taken the test crying her eyes out.

(flashback)

Sakura sat up in her bed as she watched the numbers on her bedside table change until in was decent time to reach over to her cell phone and pressed the number 2 button calling the only person she knew that would help her.

"Hello?"

"Tomoyo," said Sakura weakly into the phone.

"Sakura? What's the matter?" asked Tomoyo as alarm entered her voice.

"Tomoyo I-I," she cried as more tears began to thicken her voice. She couldn't get the words to come out. She heard Tomoyo end the call as she buried her face into her hands as her sobs filled her bedroom.

Twenty minutes later, Sakura laid on her bed in fetal position when she heard her front door open and the patter of feet on her her hardwood floor before Tomoyo appeared at her bedroom door.

"Sakura!" She rushed to her side sitting down on edge of the bed. "What happened? Was it that asshole again?"

"No," said Sakura, her voice hoarse from crying so hard as she got up and walked into the bathroom to come back seconds later holding up the test. "It's positive."

"Oh Sakura," said Tomoyo as she got up from her seat on the bed and wrapped her arms around the young girl's frame pulling her close.

"What am I going to do?" cried Sakura. "I don't know how I am going to raise a baby? I have no family, no money, no house, no nothing."

"Shh," said Tomoyo as she brushed on the auburn locks of hair on her head. "It's going to be okay."

"I don't know how," said Sakura. "I failed my family! If they were alive they would be so ashamed of me."

"I doubt that," said Tomoyo in a small voice. "They would never be disappointed in you you know that."

"I wish my mom was here," Sakura sobbed. "She would know what to do."

"Come sit down," said Tomoyo as she pushed Sakura to the bed and ran to get her a glass of water before going back to her side. "Here drink this."

"Thanks," she smiled gratefully as she took a quick swig of the liquid loving the way the feel of the cool water slid down her stomach.

"What are you going to do?" asked Tomoyo.

"I can't even bring myself to think about having an abortion nor can I imagine someone else raising my child," said Sakura softly. "So I will be keeping it."

"Okay," said Tomoyo nodding as she took Sakura's hand in to hers. "I will be here to help you no matter what okay?"

"You promise?"

"I promise." Tomoyo smiled.

(End of Flashback)

"From what the doctor said," said Sakura as the elevator bell sounded notifying that they were on the bottom floor.

"I should have gone with you," said Tomoyo with guilt lacing her voice.

"Nonsense," said Sakura. "You had to work and besides I am a big girl and can handle one doctor's appointment without you."

"I know," said Tomoyo chuckling before letting out a groan as big annoyed masculine voice sounded in the background.

"When can we get this over with?!"

"Who was that?" asked Sakura as she walked down the stairs hurrying to the right in the direction of the hotel.

"The object of your photo shoot." said Tomoyo. "You better hurry up because he is not happy."

"Great," groaned Sakura as she came to a traffic light where she had to wait to cross. "I will be there in five."

"This getting ridiculous," Syaoran Li ground as he paced the floor waiting for this event to be over with. "If this goes on any longer I will have leave with out this picture being done."

"I am so sorry," bowed the girl with purple hair. "The photographer will be here soon. She just got held up with something."

"You said that twenty minutes ago ma'am," said Meiling as she held an open planner in her arms where she sat at a table with several things laid out in front of her.

"I know," she nodded. "But I just spoke to her personally and she is on her way. I am so so sorry."

"Hmm," Syaoran crossed his arms as his patience was running thin and he needed a dose of caffeine and soon.

"Tomoyo!"

The occupants in the room turned at the sound of a loud feminine voice entering the room and soon her figure came into sight. She was breathing rather heavily as she bent over to catch her breath.

"I am," she huffed with vigor. "So so sorry." She straightened herself up turning to the girl who had come to her side.

"Are you okay?" She asked worriedly as she looked over the new female.

"Yeah," she nodded as she pulled the camera bag from around her neck. "I am just so embarrassed. I hate being late."

This girl what photographer? Syaoran wanted to laugh but withheld from it. She did not look like no photographer, just some girl lost on her way to wonderland. "Let's get to work and send these poor folks on their merry way." She said and he couldn't agree more.

"I agree," said Syaoran annoyance lacing every inch of his voice. The bite of his voice made the small girl jump in her place as she realized they were not they only ones in the room. So much like the rest of the world, thinking they are they only ones the world revolves around.

"I am so sorry," she said as she made his way over to him. "I am so rude. My name is Sakura Kinomoto and I will be taking your picture today." She held out her hand for him to shake. "I should have brought everyone a coffee for it being so early this morning."

Syaoran raised an eyebrow at the comment as he was not expecting such a generous offer, but reached out clasping his fingers around her small hand. He was also not expecting the softness of her skin registering in his brain so rapidly. He struggled as he pushed back the thought out of his mind. "I am Syaoran Li and next please don't be so late as I have other important things to take care of through my day. I almost had to cancel this because of you."

"Oh," she said looking down as her face flushed pink jerking back her hand from his grasp and he almost could say he missed it, but he wouldn't. "I understand, so let get this over with." She said softly and pointed over to the background that had been set up the day before.

Sakura let out a deep breath as guilt flooded her body entirely as she walked over the back drop. She began to arrange a few of the props as she tested out several poses for him in her mind. She could feel his eyes on the back of her neck and made her want to run for cover, but she was not going to let him win. She had a job to do and she was going to get it done.

"Alright, Mr. Li," she said pointing to the middle of the two blocks. "Come stand here."

"Call me Syaoran please," he tossed in to the air.

"Fine," She said before returning her point back to where is was. "Syaoran, come and stand here. Is that better?"

"Much."

Surprisingly, he did as she asked without any more words of complaint. She climbed up on to the block where checked the position of her lighting to be sure they didn't any kind of adjustment. She then turned to her subject who was watching her intently as the scowl had not left his face. "That is good right there."

Sakura carefully stepped down off the block and hurried to her bag where she picked up her camera and held it up to her face as she played around with the focus. "One two three!" She snapped three pictures in this position before walking back over to him when she got a whiff of his cologne making her stop in her tracks closing her eyes as her stomach jerked violently and she thought she was going to lose it right there.

"I don't have all day," said Syaoran tapping his foot and Sakura had to bite back a smart remark as she took several deep breaths before continue her trek over to him, but made sure to stand about a foot away from him.

"I want you to turn around and crouch," she explained and showed up what she meant. "Then I want you to turn head as if you were looking back."

"Easy enough," he said and did as she asked and turned his head. She pursed her lips together as if she was in deep thought before making her way over to him, but something about seemed off as if she was trying to keep some distance between the two of them.

"You know what," she said as she walked backwards to the corner where she raised her camera up and took several shots. She pulled her camera way to study the stills.

"Now I want you to relax your face for the next few shots," she instructed him. "I mean get rid of the scowl completely because I am afraid if you keep it you are going to have wrinkles around your mouth by the age of thirty."

Syaoran could hear Meiling's hacking laugh from her position in the room as he fought to bite back a remark and a grin of his own. He was used to be people being on eggshells around him, but being straight up honest wit him. "Do you know who I am?"

"Not really," She admitted and Syaoran felt his jaw drop opened because it was not something he heard everyday in his line of profession.

"Like seriously?" He asked shocked. "Most of the people would be burning down my door just for a picture with me."

"All I know is that you are some big singer in this part of the world," She said as she took a few more shots before turning her eyes back on to him and boy were they a shockingly shade of green he had never seen before. "But that was because of the info I got from the packet at work. I never really keep up with celebrity news as I don't find it all the interesting."

"You must live under a rock," he grumbled. But he found it refreshing that she was not jumping over him like some crazed fan like other people have in the past. Anything to get something from him like he owe them everything he had to offer.

"Not at all, just busy." She said as if it was nothing.

Thirty minutes later, Sakura took the last shot of the shoot before turning to him. "I think we have enough for today so you can put your shirt back on." She walked over to her things where she began to pack up her things before heading back to the office so she could start touching these up with effects. Nothing to dramatic, just clearing of the eyes or anything that was blurred in any. She never did not like shopping up her photos.

"So I will get these to the office and when I get them ready you can come and pick out the one you would like for the cover," Sakura said as he came over to her. "It will take about week or so."

"What do we have next week?" asked Syaoran turning to Meiling who had her date planner opened.

"The only day you have free next week is Wednesday," she answered.

"That will work," said Sakura nodding smiling. "Say Noon?"

"I'll do and please don't be late," said Syaoran. "Or I will be making a complaint to your boss understood?"

"I promise I will not be late," She said bowing respectfully, her stomach protesting the movement again. She was beginning to get very annoyed with it as she almost lost her guts twice in front of him during the shoot.

"Syaoran we need to get going as you have an appointment with the head of your label to talk about things," said Meiling carefully picking her choice of words while they were around other people.

"Right," he nodded curtly before turning to Tomoyo who was waiting patiently for him to finish. "Tomoyo, I will be in touch to go over those questions again for your article and then we can decide which are gold and which are not."

"Absolutely," She nodded and turned to Meiling. "Thank you for coming out here today. It really means a lot. How about I walk you out?"

"That would lovely," said Meiling smiling nodding her head. "We need to talk about that lunch date."

"Oooh," said Tomoyo with interest turning to Sakura. "Would you like to come?"

"Uh," Sakura blushed as she hated being put on the spot. "That is not my kind of scene."

"Aww c'mon," said Tomoyo shaking her head. "It would be fun."

"I don't want to intrude," said Sakura still feeling uncomfortable looking down to the ground.

"You won't be intruding," said Tomoyo amused. "You need to get out of your apartment more."

"I'll pass," said Sakura passing a stern look as she pulled her bags over her shoulder.

"I won't give up on this," said Tomoyo as her stubborn streak started to show as she began to walk out with Meiling to the hall to the elevators with Sakura and Syaoran following close behind. She made sure to keep enough distance from him as she could as she got another tiny whiff of his scent. Sakura slowed down her pace not wanting to get in another conversation about going to lunch. Tomoyo was always asking her to come along with her when she had a lunch date, but she would always refused. She liked being in behind the scenes, not in them as her family would always says it was never her spot so that is where she stayed and was her comfort zone.

When she got to the elevator she saw that the life was completely full of people so she decided to take the next available one. "I'll get the next one," She told Tomoyo who nodded before returning to her conversation with Meiling which made Sakura smile seeing her friend happy and laughing. She had really been a lifesaver since she found out that she was expecting, helping with finding a doctor, and looking up anything if a new symptom popped up. She backed up as the doors closed as she waited.

"Here," said a voice from behind causing her to jump in her place causing her to turn. It was Syaoran Li, who was wearing a hoodie with the hood over his head with a scarf covering his mouth all you could see was his amber burning eyes, standing inside an empty life holding the door open.

"I'll just wait for the next one," She said pointing to the one next to her that was two floors up.

"That is just crazy," said Syaoran chuckling slightly. "Just get in the damn elevator. What is the worst that can happen?"

Sakura sighed as she was getting tired of waiting for one that seemed to have gotten lost. Feeling her resolve slowly break down as she turned and crossed the threshold making sure to have a safe distance from the man besides here.

"See," He grinned her way. "Good girl."

"Pfff," Sakura scoffed. "You say that like I am five." She crossed her arms tightly around her middle wanting to close herself off.

"You are a stubborn one aren't you?" He noted as he leaned up against the wall as the elevator started its descend and frowned when he didn't received an answer as she looked everywhere but at him. She also looked like she was trying to melt away unnoticed.

She didn't get the chance to answer as an ominous rumbling began to fill the air the ground beneath her feet began to shake violently.

hehehehehe! I feel evil cutting the chapter off like this, but so fun!

Thank you for everyone for reading. Stay tune Chapter two will not be far behind

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