10

I wake up happy since its first day of school. I have no idea but I feel this is going to be an amazing year, and with this positive mindset, I jump out of bed, with a huge smile plastered on my face.

Now that Rika's gone, it's my responsibility to make breakfast. So I woke up early and made hot-cakes, sided with berries and Greek yogurt. Dad and Misaki walk downstairs just when the table is set, and both sit, smiling, as they both say "good morning".

I'm finishing packing Misaki's lunch, when she gets up from the table, places her dirty dishes on the sink, and says:

"I'm out!"

"Don't you need a ride?" Dad asks, but Misaki hurries to say no.

"Walking is good for my health. See ya!"

She basically snatches her lunch out of my hands, and runs out of the kitchen, out of the house, full speed.

I take my time, but then dad offers to wash the dishes, and so I take my lunch and walk out of the house too. Eriol was waiting for me outside, and thus, we walk together towards our high school. First day is always slowly boring. Classes are basically our teachers giving a talk about what we'll learn during this semester, what are their rules, and how they'll grade us, despite we already being their students for two years and knowing all these by heart.

The rest of the week is just as slow as the first day, until on Thursday, as I'm in PE, I notice something weird.

Mei Lin's with me, we're both running in circles around the football field, where another class of our same grade are doing push-ups. Of all the students, I end up looking at Li Syaoran, and I can see how he's also looking at me.

At first I thought it was my imagination, but after my second lap, I can confirm he's actually looking at me. How weird.

When Mei Lin and I finish our third lap, and finally stop, I notice Li walking towards us.

"Can I talk to you?" He asks as he looks at me. "Alone." He adds, as he looks at Mei Lin.

She sticks out her tongue, and after side eyeing me, hurries to leave.

I look at Li, and wait. Then, as calmly as possible, he says:

"It's not like you need to know this, but I got no STD."

I can't help but snort.

"What?" I say.

"I'm also not the type of person who eats the last dumpling."

"What are you talking about?"

"About your letter." He says, still trying to be calm, although I can see he's slightly annoyed. "Where you tell me I'm a selfish guy that goes around giving STD to the girls. Do you remember I've only had one girlfriend in all my life?"

"What letter are you talking about? I haven't write you any letter!"

But my thoughts immediately tell me I had. I wrote one, some years ago, and I secretly placed it in my hat box. But no, there's no way Li's talking about that particular letter, because that would mean…

He shows it to me.

I could recognize that lilac piece of paper here and in china. The bright neon pink pen. This can't be happening. This isn't real.

I pinch myself to wake up from this nightmare, but besides the pain, nothing changes.

"How… How did you get that?" I stutter.

"It came yersterday in the mail."

"To your house?"

"Yes…" He says, as if he thinks I got no idea how mail works.

"You weren't supposed to get this letter." I say. "I wrote this, many years ago, and I never intended to send it. I got no idea who could've mailed it. I can't even remember what I wrote." I lie. "Can I see it?"

Li smiles, and instead of handing me the letter, he takes it closer to his chest.

"I think I'd like to keep it; you know? I had never received a letter."

Ignoring his words, I jump and snatch it out of his hand. He looks at me, visibly entertained.

"Thanks." I say, as if he actually had given it back.

Li doesn't say no more, and after turning around, he walks away, in such a calm pace. I, on the other hand, although I'm standing there, unable to move, my heart is beating like crazy.

I have no idea how Li got my letter. And then, something else comes to my mind, and an anxiety attack begins. What if it wasn't just Li's letter the one that got mailed? What if all the other letters that were hidden in my hat box got all mailed?

There's Fye D. Flourite's, from the old group, Yukito Tsukishiro's, who shares some classes with me, and Seishirou Sakurasuka's, from summer camp.

And Eriol's.

"Sakura!"

I look up. There he is, with his dark blue hair shinning under the morning sun. I got no idea where he came from, but there he is. Just as Li, Eriol's walking towards me. And just as Li, he's holding something in his hand. No, it can't be my letter. It just can't be.

I don't stare long enough to actually see if he's holding something or is just my imagination, because I can no longer stay there, and holding Li's letter tightly, I run out of the football field, out of school, planning to hide for the rest of my days.

I'm so sorry, but the idea of Seishirou Sakurasuka getting a letter from our sweet Sakura is just to much lmao

Anyway, I needed to fill up some names, ok? He's not relevant to the story anyways, so yeah.

Doing the update quite a bit early today, since I got no idea if Imma be busy later or not, so just enjoy~

See ya

Ribo~