To Those It May Confuse: ( Syaroan Eriol Sakura ) for the text messaging

A New Season

Chapter 8

I fell backwards onto my bed. It had been a long time since I had actually stayed in this house. No one was ever here, it was always the same. An empty house decorated to perfection. But nothing else. Maybe a little more bearable when my sisters were around.

I sighed as I went into the shower. After fifteen minutes I came out without a top and a pair of dark navy pyjamas. I sighed. That had been awkward. I towel dried my hair quickly, picked up my cell phone from my night stand. I flipped it open, and went to the photo album. Mei Ling had taken a few pictures on it. The first picture was of us at the movie theatre, the second during the movie and the last one was of me, looking away, with a small frown. The sad thing about the pictures was that it didn't look like I was having fun. Hell, I knew I didn't exactly enjoy myself, I coped.

This was not good, after our first official day, I was already having second thoughts. I knew for sure that I cared for Mei Ling as I did for my sisters, maybe more considering she had never put me though any torment. It didn't feel right to feel that way on our first date. It had felt too unnatural.

I flinched as my phone vibrated in my hands. I clicked to see that it had been a text message for Eriol.

Hey man, when do I get to meet the girl?

I found myself smirk, so the guy was feeling better now. Typical Eriol, that was for certain. My fingers quickly typed in the reply: When you fall in love for real. I pressed send. I could mentally picture what Eriol would reply back, something along the lines of that would be unfair to all the other girls in the world. My phone vibrated again, I clicked the message and didn't recognize the number.

Curiously, I clicked it open to see what it said: Hey Syao-poon! I hope we're cool now.

I blinked twice looking at the text message. There was only person in the world that was careless enough to call me by weird nicknames. I replied with: How did you get my number?

My phone vibrated again, and this time it was Eriol. See man, The Eriol is made for all the pretty ladies in the world.

I replied back with: Don't start Eriol, the innocence is all gone in the world because of you.

Chill out, I got it from your cousin. You know she is very sweet. I winced inwardly, I hadn't thought that Mei Ling would give anyone my number, at least not that freely.

So I replied quickly with: Sensei, that's sexual harassment. I knew it was a blank and a sad attempt at avoiding the question.

Syaroan you suck! was what Eriol said as a goodbye and good night. I sighed, well that was the end of the conversation.

Syaroan, you never did answer my question?

I already did, at the festival. My thumb hovered over the send button. No it didn't feel right to answer that way. I deleted it quickly and typed in: There was nothing for you to apologies for. Again, my thumb hovered over the send button. No, that didn't feel right either. It would make it seem pointless to write that, and she would again question me about it. Finally, I decided to type in: Thanks Sensei, see you in school. Yes, that seemed perfect. A lazy smile tugged on the corners of my lips, as my eyelids closed and my thought drifted into nothing.

"Syaroan?" asked Sensei, about a foot away from me. I swallowed hard as I noted what she was wearing. She had a black 'V' neck sleeveless shirt that she wore with a mini denim skirt. Her hair was wet as if she had just towel dried her hair, and was up, using a clip. Her eyes were big and confused, the green emerald of her eyes were accented with smoky eye shadow. She looked beyond innocent and incredibly enticing. She asked, "Is something wrong?"

I swallowed again, man, she looked hot--no she looked beyond hot, sexy. I tried to take the shock out of my mind.

I opened my mouth to say something when Mei Ling came into view. She looked at us and shook her head. She smiled at us, and said, "Sakura, you're dressed to kill." I turned toward her wondering why she would say that and stopped and raised my eyebrows as I noticed that she was dressed in leather pants and red halter top, with red stilettos.

Sensei looked over to Mei Ling and smiled evilly, "Of course, I want to leave a dying impression." She then turned to gaze at me and stepped closer, "You know, you're incredibly hot for a student." She placed her hand on my chest, right on my heart.

I blinked, was she trying to seduce me?

My confusion must have shown, as she stepped closed enough that I could feel the heat coming from her body. She brought her right hand up behind my neck and pulling my head down and bringer her body closer. "You know one of the most scandalous affairs is that of a teacher and her student." She said as Shun had.

Before I could even breathe, she had brought my lips down to meet with her. It didn't feel like the last one, the breezy and soft kiss, no--this felt something like goodbye, with no feelings. For a second everything slowed down, when all of a sudden a gunshot was heard. I gasped, not in pleasure but in pain. I collapsed. Sakura stepped away from me and grinned down at me. Mei Ling smiled too as she slowly brought down the gun, and looked down on me. "That's what you get for playing with us."

"I told you to choose one, man." Said Shun, as he randomly appeared and wrapped an arm around Mei Ling.

"Now, you'll never hurt Mei Ling again." said a very satisfied Daidouji-san as she looked down upon my from under her nose.

Sakura brought out a switch blade, and flicked it from side to side. "Die, Syao-poon."

"No!" I said painfully, "No….stop-!" But it was too late, the blade came down on me quickly.

NO!! I quickly sat up, and wildly looked around me. I gasped, and felt sweat trickle down my forehead. I closed my eyes but saw the wicked expression on Sensei's face. I let out a deep breath. Stop it! I brought my hands up and placed my head in them. This house was always like this. A place where nightmares came to be true. That's what happened to dad, and to my family. I got up, knowing full well that I wouldn't be able to fall asleep again. I headed towards the shower.

:-:

As I walked through the halls, my head was still in overdrive due to the dream. I knew it had been a dream, but it had felt so real. Could the same person who had given me such a beautiful smile the other day be capable of such an act?

"Syaroan!" greeted Eriol all of a sudden. I replied him with an incline of my head. "You know, even if I was drunk, I don't forget anything about the mention of the opposite sex." He said as he slung his hand over my shoulder.

I looked at him with the corner of my left eye, well he doesn't easily get distracted. "I said that I will, and I meant it. But I didn't say when. So, you have to wait."

"Ahhhhhh, Syaaarroaaan, wwhhyyy?" groaned Eriol.

"Simple, because you did a stupid, stupid thing with my hair." I said as I shrugged his hand off my shoulder.

"Hey, you can't put blame on a drunk." Eriol replied as he stopped.

"You would go to jail if you killed some under the very same influence." I simply stated as I turned back to look at him.

He pouted, and then I heard a squeal come from behind me. Both of us blinked and turned to see Sensei with her hands pressed against her cheeks. "Oh, don't stop" She said, "It's such a cute shonen ai moment!"

Eriol mouth dropped, while I raised an eyebrow. But she continued to gush, "The whole thing with the pout and the arm and the groan! It was so... what's the terms I'm looking for--"

"Fan service." Shun said as he was walking to us. "Is that not right Sensei?"

She agreed fully with Shun. "Sensei... could it be that your interested in... men?" asked Eriol uneasily.

"Of course! And cute girls-- no just Tomoyo-chan! I love her so much, her hair, her eyes..." she sighed softly as if in a trance of 'happy land'.

"Sensei, you're not normal." Eriol and I said at the same time.

Shun just laughed at the expression on Sensei's face as she stuck out her tongue at us. I looked away, thinking back to my dream. 'I told you to choose one, man', those had been Shun's words, and I knew that Shun most likely felt it.

"...right?"

I looked up to see the three pairs of eyes on me. "...What?"

Sensei sighed exasperatedly, "You've been doing that a lot recently, Syaroan."

"I've just been thinking--" I stopped, and blinked. Was I going to tell her about what I really was thinking? I was completely shocked. I would have said what was truly on my mind. That would have been bad. I glanced towards the classes in the hall. My mind was racing to make up an excuse, a safe way to end the sentence. "—we have a game today."

"Eh?"

"With KEAM. Heh, I actually forgot." Eriol said as he scratched the back of his head.

"I won't be able to make your guys game. I have to go look at some things for Otou-san."

"Up to your shady business again?" grinned Eriol as he swung his hand over Shun's shoulder.

"Wouldn't you like to know."

"What school is KEAM?" asked Sensei.

"You don't know the school KEAM?" Eriol asked.

"Well, I did just move here, so cut me some slack."

"KEAM stands for King Edwards Academy of Academics and Music." I answered.

"But that would be ke-aam, not Keam."

Shun shrugged, "It doesn't really matter, besides their name is far too long and boring, straight to the point."

"They have an amazing arts program. They have teachers from around the world and it's a co-ed school." Eriol added. "Lots of hot girls!"

"Hot female teachers!" exclaimed Shun with great passion. "Foreign beauties!"

"Lots of perverts here." Mumbled Sensei.

"But, we'll beat them, right Syaroan?" said Eriol as he raised his hand.

I smirked, "Hell yeah." Eriol and I high five-ed, just as the bell rang for homeroom. We separated with Shun and went to homeroom class.

I noticed that Sensei got pulled out by Yukito-san. I was curious as to why, but I was greeted with cheer. The class was getting hyped up about the game, and so all members of the soccer team would be treated with great respect and team spirit for the day.

Eriol and I were pulled in cheer. Eriol was enthusiastic and cheered along give high fives and punches on the shoulder. I smirked, as I felt myself also getting pulled into the spirit too.

:-:

"Alright you crazy, half sized hooligans, if I don't see a branch of at least five points, you will be running till you die. You will be attending soccer camps during every break, every weekend. You will breath, sleep and eat only soccer. Got it! If I don't see a five point advantage, you will fail all your courses, and will have to repeat high school until you die." Yelled Coach, as he paced in front of each of us in the locker room, stopping dramatically at someone. I swear, even some of the third years were scared as hell of him before a game.

Everyone was frozen on their spot, well what I can say? The Coach really knew how to threaten people. Even I was surprised before my first game, that I had gotten nervous.

"If they win, you would be better to wish for death. Got it, runts! Win this match and you won't have soccer camp in summer!"

Okay now that did it, if everyone was scared two minutes ago, they were definitely were going to win this match. Summer camp is hell. Worse than hell ,like a pit in hell full of poisonous deadly snakes and vipers. Even, I want to try to win this now.

"Li, you take centre first half, and then second half switch to striker. Sakami if any goals go into your net, you are dead! Ikemi, you lead for the first half. Hiigrazawa take Everyone, you know your places. Not GET TO IT!" he yelled.

I stepped foreword as captain. "You guys heard what he said. And I know we all want to have an actual life during summer. We all want to beat the crap out of those guys, don't we?"

"HELL YEAH!" roared the team.

"We all what to win?"

"HELL YEAH!"

"Who's going to win the game?"

"WOLVES!"

"On three, wolves. One. Two. Three!" I said, and place my hand outwards. Everyone on the team place their right hand on mine.

"GO WOLVES!" We all yelled out together throwing our hands into the air.

I noticed Sensei making her way to us. I walked over to her. "Is there something you need?" I asked.

She grinned at me, "No... not really, just came to wish you luck."

For some reason the way she said it made me suspicious. "As I recall Sensei, you are never have just one reason."

"Aww... come on can't you trust me more?" I just raised my eyebrow, "Okay, okay... so I did come to say something else." she said as she raised her hands in the air as a common gesture of surrender. She glanced away, and a light blush came on her cheeks, shocking me entirely. "Ah... you see... well... how should I put this..." she said. Then she looked straight at me, "About last weekend... I've been thinking... and--uh..." she glanced away and noticed someone coming our way. "If you win the game, I'll tell you." she said quickly.

I watched as she shifted her weight from one foot to another. She was nervous? What could it be. "Uh... whatever." I said, before leaving to go onto the field. Suddenly, I had some odd motivation to quickly finish this game and hear what she had said. Her facial expression felt imprinted in my mind. What did she want to tell me?

I turned to my team, "If we don't win, I will personally beat the hell out of all of you, and hang you from the roof, till you piss your pants." I threatened.

Everyone on the team seemed even more frightened. Good. Eriol looked at me confused, "Is something going on? Why do you have to win. In fact, that threat was worse than Coach's."

"Win, Eriol. Nothing else." I simply said. We all walked out onto the soccer field.

The crowd roared with excitement. I could feel my toes and fingertips tingling with excitement, the need to play and win.

.-.-.-.-Last five minutes (sorry guys too lazy to write the full game DL)-.-.-.-.-.

A KEAM player shoulder it over to number 42 on their team, Damn. 42 was their striker. I quickly moved in and went to block when, he tried to pull an Allan Ravn. Shit. I glanced over to our goalie Sakami. He was ready, good. I intercepted quickly and kicked the ball to our runner. We were now part way to their side.

"ERIOL!" I screamed, as he tried to kick the ball out from the opponent's feet. He slipped his foot in the right moment and sent it slamming in my direction.

I took control of the ball immediately, and scored in record time. "WOLVES!!" the whole team cheered in victiory. We had won. Yes, it truly was awesome.

After a quick shower, I found Sensei waiting for me at the door. She grabbed my hand quickly and went to an empty class room. "Okay, the whole game I was preparing myself to say this. But, when it comes down to it, I don't know if I can."

"This almost sounds like a proposal to something."

"Shut up!" she snapped. Then she flailed her arms around, trying to say something with them. "Okay, look... You're a smart guy figure it out."

"Sensei, don't tell me..." I felt myself blush at the possibility.

She just nodded her head vigorously and looked up at me nervously.

"Since when?" I asked, my heart was beating rapidly against my chest. Wow, this was really happening. Wow, I honestly, had not thought of the possibility.

"Do you think someone realizes that they are. They always do when it's too late." she replied as she looked down.

"Is it possible to hold on to the thought until the end of this weekend? I promise to let you know then." I had to make sure that my dream did not come true. I had to make sure that I would start a new with this, a clean start.

"I understand, there's no rush. After all, I'm a teacher, and you may not want to be with someone two years older than you. I uhh... yeah..." she said as she fumbled her words.

I held her shoulders to get her to look at me, "I promise I will let you know as soon as I can." I said, then I gave her a smile, a smile I hadn't given anyone for a long time. Her mouth had dropped slightly and a blush had made its way on her cheeks.

Damn, she really was irresistable.