Tattooed

Summary: "I've lost everything to drugs, do you know that?" Sakura told him with tears in her eyes. "The funny thing is I've never even touched a drug in my life and yet it destroyed me. It took everything." She turned to face him then. "Please, don't let it take you away from me. I won't be able to handle it, not this time, not again." S x S.

Author's Note: xXBlossomofShadowsXx, FashionFairy26, petiteTRINH, deadflo, my ladies you make me so very happy. *big wide grin* I sit on my comp jumping in my favourite chair waiting for your wonderful words. I'm a little high on chocolate milk right now.

This chapter was actually cut into two parts, this and the next. I'll be updating again sometime today.

Disclaimer: Syaoran and I bonded over some addictive substances and had a great night together doing literary things, and still he is NOT mine.

ix.

Doesn't matter when,

Doesn't matter where

- Good Time/Owl City feat. Carly Rae Jepsen

A loud hammering woke Sakura early on a weekend. It probably wasn't even six o' clock in the morning. She groaned as she sat up in bed and heard the main door open. Hushed voices could be heard all the way to her bedroom. So tempting was the act of just lying back to fall asleep. She stood, wore a robe and took the painful walk to the main door.

"It's you," a girl with jet black long hair told her, pointing in her direction, now walking towards her. Sakura frowned, barely having made it outside her bedroom. Where had she seen her before? She wasn't— on Syaoran's wall...

"Who are you?" Sakura asked irritably.

"Uh, Sakura," Syaoran was heard in the background, standing way behind Tomoyo. "Good morning?"

She'd never wanted to physically hurt someone as badly as she did him.

"Hi, Mei Ling," Sakura remembered her name. "Isn't it a bit too early for introductions?"

Mei Ling only looked at her, though, without saying anything. Sakura tied her robe tighter.

"I'll make some coffee," Tomoyo said as she yawned.

"Decaf for me," Mei Ling told Tomoyo without looking back. Syaoran had given up and gone to help Tomoyo.

Mei Ling had yet to stop staring at her... only, it wasn't staring. It was like Mei Ling was looking through her, delving in depths that Sakura herself had yet to discover. It unnerved her. Mei Ling unnerved her.

"Did you see the painting on the wall?" she asked Sakura finally. Sakura nodded slowly.

"Good. You should know he doesn't paint just anyone on his walls." Mei Ling told her before turning around and hopping to the kitchen.

What the fuck?

*.*

Four cups of coffee (one decaf) later, the four of them settled in the living room to watch some TV on mute while discussing things of no real consequence. A plate of biscuits sat on the table, untouched. Sakura yawned so many times in between that flies could have gone in and made nests there. It wasn't that she was bored; on the contrary she was dying to know the cousin who threw around statements that sounded a lot like threats in her opinion.

"So, Mei Ling, what do you do?" Tomoyo asked her as she broke a biscuit and popped it into her mouth.

"I'm a model for Peak,"

"Shut up! You're Mei Ling Rae Li from Hong Kong's Peak?"

"The one and only," Mei Ling said looking smug. Tomoyo had a moment which Sakura could only categorize as groupie behaviour. Syaoran seemed to be looking at the two the same way.

"Oh my God, Sakura, I'm supposed to be working with her for the 'Fall Shoot' this month! Isn't this fantastic?"

"Apparently," Syaoran muttered. Mei Ling smacked his thigh. Syaoran yelped in pain.

"Must you be so violent?" he asked his cousin, clearly in pain.

"You were being a jerk."

Tomoyo then pulled Mei Ling into a series of questions, completely fashion related, while Sakura sat with her legs under her, trying her best to stay awake.

"You might as well go to sleep." Syaoran told her quietly. "These two look like they're just getting started."

Sakura almost stood when Mei Ling's loud voice made it to her.

"Hey! Where do you think you're going?" she asked Sakura. Sakura shrank back into her seat. It was like being in school again, getting caught for drinking water without permission.

"We're going shopping!" Tomoyo exclaimed. At that, Sakura's mood lightened a little.

"I haven't been shopping in months." She told the two girls. Mei Ling nodded enthusiastically.

"Perfect! We leave in an hour. Xiao Lang and I'll get dressed." She said, standing up. Syaoran groaned as he stood.

"Why were you up so early in the morning anyway?" Tomoyo asked.

"Oh, we ran and then practiced our Kung Fu." Mei Ling said, making a pose.

"You can Kung Fu! Sakura, isn't that great?"

Sakura and Syaoran had their faces in their hands.

"One hour!"

It would be a short and quiet one hour.

*.*

Tomoyo and Mei Ling literally Sakura's ass into the tightest jeans possible, not to mention the smallest of dresses, when they'd entered their first store.

A particularly racy green dress caught Mei Ling's eye. On impulse, she pushed Sakura in front of Syaoran to ask how the girl looked.

"Uh, you look nice."

Sakura turned away, red with humiliation.

"Mei Ling!" she exclaimed as she went back to the changing room. Many stared on the walk back. Sakura pretended they were as naked as she was.

"You're pretty hot for a teacher," Mei Ling told her when she came out in a knee length (Thank God!) white dress. "Got all the boys sending you love letters, I'll bet?"

"Ha, Sakura and love letters," Tomoyo told Mei Ling as she zipped up a mini skirt. "That'll be the day."

"Come on, kids dig that whole hot teacher thing." Mei Ling stated.

"Hot teachers, yes, not the teachers who dress up like nuns."

Thanks to that, Sakura even had a change of work clothing. Completely different from what she usually wore, but respectable enough, the clothes were paid for and packed away.

We don't even have try,

It's always a good time

My sister just failed in a math exam. How do you console a sixteen year old about marks?

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