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Count On My Love Chapter Two: Realizations... Sakura walked through the hallway with a smile on her face. What a change considering how distraught she was the day before. People were whispering and pointing at her, as if she didn't notice. But she didn't care all she cared about in that moment was to see her friend for lunch. She turned on the next corner to where Tomoyo's locker should be. She was there still putting her books away in her locker. Sakura walked over to where she was standing. "Hey!" she said. Tomoyo turned and raised a brow. She was confused. "Hey.." Tomoyo said unsure what to think. Sakura just looked at her and smiled. "Am I missing something?" she asked as she closed her locker. "What do you mean?" as she continued to smile. She was disgustingly happy. Tomoyo began to walk to the cafeteria and Sakura followed. "Well... yesterday you couldn't stand me and now you're all jolly. What's that about?" Sakura didn't say anything. She lifted her shoulders and kept smiling. As if she was silently saying 'I don't know.' Tomoyo stopped as she thought through all the events the other day and finally came up with an answer. "I know!.." Tomoyo said knowingly. "What do you mean? I am just so happy today!" "Yeah okay and pigs can fly. That won't cut it." she said sarcastically. "I really don't know what you mean." Sakura said innocently. "Yesterday, Michael dumped you in front of half the school and you practically run out crying. Not wanting to talk to me. And Li leaves to say sorry or something..and you magically come to school like nothing happened. Explain." Tomoyo stood there crossing her arms. Sakura sighed. "Well I am SO over Michael and me and Li are friends." Sakura began to continue to walk to the cafeteria. Tomoyo stood there astonished. "All this happened in less than two hours, when I'M not there?" Tomoyo snapped out of her short vacation off to Tomoyo land and ran off to catch up Sakura. "You have to tell me everything!" Tomoyo yelled as she ran after her. Li was sitting underneath a tree somewhere on campus. Leaning on the tree his legs bended and his arms were placed on top of his knees. He closed his eyes and couldn't stop thinking about yesterday. What Meiling had talked to him about when he came home. *****FLASHBACK***** Meiling was sitting on the couch reading her Literature assignment. 'A Tale of Two Cities! This book is so boring...' she thought as she gave up and flipped through the pages. She threw the book across the room annoyed with its dullness. Li walked in and looked at her strangely. "What did the book do to you this time?" he asked sarcastically. Meiling gave him a fake smile and laugh. Li replied the same way. She looked over to the clock and saw it was 7:30 PM. "So where have we been?" Li closed the door behind him and took off his shoes. "None of you business.." he said as walked into his room. Meiling followed him into the hallway. "I was there! I know you went after Sakura. So WHAT happened?" she said devilishly. Li slammed the door in front of her. Meiling opened the door and found Li changing out of his uniform into his house clothes. "Do you mind?" he asked annoyed. "SOOORRRRYY." she said as she turned around. "Not like I've never seen you NAKED the whole time we've been living here." As Li finished dressing he sat on his bed. Meiling turned around and smiled at him. She walked over and sat on his bed, back to back with him. "So what happened?" Li didn't respond he just slid off her back and laid down. As he slid off Meiling fell back and was now laying on his stomach, perpendicular to him. "You know I'm not going to leave until you tell me..." He knew she wouldn't and moaned. It was hard for him to open up to Sakura, NOW he has to do the same with Meiling. It would mean he had to tell her he was there to comfort Sakura. That he was...soft? Ruining his whole "macho" type facade. "I...was so...I didn't know what to do...she was there...crying..." he stuttered. "Gee, nice sentence. Could you repeat that? My english is not as GOOD as YOURS." Meiling said sarcastically. "I felt so bad seeing Sakura so hurt over a dumb guy. I thought if she wanted to go that I would go with her." Meiling was a little shock. "You asked her to go to the Valentine's Day Dance?" she said giggling. "Shut up! It's not like that! We're going as friends." Meiling got up and stood kneeling on his bed next o him. "Oh please! The SEXUAL tension has been there all along. You're juss to dumb to notice." Meiling laughed as she pointed at Li. The taunting made Li get upset. "Li has a crush! Li has a crush!" she repeated over and over. "I don't like her that way. To come to think about I can hardly stand her!" "Yeah RIGHT! You're SO in love." she sighed as she said it. "Where do I go from liking to being in love with her?" Continuing to look at the ceiling of his disgustingly clean room. "Oh! So you do like her?" Immediately after what Meiling had said he realized his mistake. 'Liking to being in love? Did I actually say that?' he thought. Li mumbled something and threw a pillow at Meiling. She fell over the bed and hit the hard wood floor in his bedroom. "Oww!" she wailed. She got up from her previous position and got up massaging her back. Trying to remove the pain. "I get it..." she said as she started to walk towards the door. "You want to be ALONE..." She closed the door just in time to dodge the other pillow he had threw at her. "Dumb cousins..." he muttered. *****END OF FLASHBACK***** Li's mind began to wonder off around the campus. Looking at all his fellow classmates. Some eating, some doing homework, some goofing off, and some "together". Li always thought public displays of affection were so disgusting. 'How can they just do that with all these people here?' he thought staring at this one couple. They were all over each other. It amazed him how long they could go without breathing. Meiling walked over to where he was. "If only..." she said sighing. Li knew she was referring to the conversation they had last night. "Buzz off..." he said annoyed. Meiling sat down next to him. "Oh I am just teasing!" she lightly bumped her shoulder against his. "Whatever.." he shrugged. Just then Sakura and Tomoyo walked up to them. Tomoyo kept saying, "Why won't she tell me?" Li looked at both of them. "Hey guys!" Meiling said as she got up. "So how've you been?" Meiling asked winking at Sakura. "Why won't she tell me?!" Tomoyo cried out. Sakura, Li, and Meiling stared at her strangely. "Sorry..." Tomoyo said sweat dropping. "You mean Sakura hasn't told you the good news yet?" she asked. Tomoyo ignored everything else and devoted her full attention to Meiling. "You know!?!?" Meiling nodded. "Tell me, tell me, tell mee!" She wailed. "Whatever just calm down. Let's take a walk to leave these two ALONE..." Li could see how untrusting her gaze was at them. He knew what she meant and wasn't liking it. After Meiling and Tomoyo had left they were well...alone. Li got up and stared at her for a moment. Then began to walk. Sakura felt a little awkward but followed him anyways. "I juss wanted to...you know...say thank you!" Li felt a little uncomfortable around her all of a sudden. He stopped and she stopped also. "For what?" He knew for what but he was a little tongue tied. "You know for being there for me. Being a real...friend." she said softly. She smiled at him and Li just stood there, paralyzed. "Okay.." he finally got out from himself. "He did WHAT?!" Li and Sakura looked over and found Tomoyo going crazy. Sakura giggled a little. "Oh!.." she said looking back to Li. "Umm...I guess I'll see you tomorrow. You KNOW at the dance..." Sakura felt nervous...talking to Li? "Heh...Yeah..." He said scratching the back of his head. "Well..." Sakura smiled and quickly gave him a kiss on his cheek. Li was surprised at her kiss. It sent tingles all through out his body. His heart began to pound faster and faster until the point he thought it was going to explode. As she backed away and smiled he never really noticed how beautiful she was. The way her bangs fell across her forehead, or the way her emerald eyes always sparkled. He stood there still, in awe at her perfect beauty. "Well see you around.." she said as she passed by him. He shuddered at the simple touch of her arm against his. He lifted his hand to where she had kissed and tried to remember the feel of her lips. Tomoyo went up to her friend. "How come you didn't tell me? And why did you kiss him? I saw that!" Sakura got lost in her friend's words. "What? And that was a friendly kissed." Tomoyo looked at her skeptically. "Did you see how HE looked when YOU left?" Sakura began to shake his head. "He would never think of me that way. So STOP trying to put things in my head!" Sakura walked up a flight of stairs to go to her locker. Tomoyo followed her. "That besides being incredibly cute, he's smart and a whole other stuff!" Sakura was a little confused. Sure he was smart, and could do everything she can. But she never really heard her friends or other girls think he was cute. "Whatever.." she said as she took out some books and dropped it in her book bag. "You can't possibly tell me you have no romantic feelings for him what so ever.." "I have to get to class..." Sakura said as she closed her locker and walked to her class. "See, you're just avoiding the subject!" she yelled. Sakura had walked into her Geometry class and took her seat in the second row from the last. Li sat behind her and was already there. She smiled at him as she sat in her seat. Li was a little nervous. Not knowing how to act around her now. But he managed to dismiss his newfound feelings for her as "friendly" feelings. Within minutes in the class Sakura's mind began to wonder off. Thinking about her friends, or what she would do when she got home. She suddenly began to wander about her new friend, Li. 'I wonder what he's thinking about..' she thought. Sakura began to doze off to somewhere else. She found herself in a garden full of flowers. Sakura looked around and she was wearing a pink dress. One that hugged her in all the right places. She walked over to the bench that was under a cherry blossom tree. She sat down and felt the breeze flow across her skin. How amazing it felt against her skin. Just then a young man in a black tuxedo came out of the shadows. 'He looks so handsome!' she thought. He came up to her, it was Li! Her heart began to race as she looked into his eyes. His dark brown hair was the same but somehow different. His devilish grin made her giggle a little. He sat down next to her. But he was so close. His touch made her warm all over. She continued to gaze into his deep drown eyes. She couldn't help but drown in it's intensity. 'His lips..oh his lips.' she thought. They seemed so inviting. How soft and sweet it looked. Sakura moved closer to him as she felt his arm embrace her. She felt so safe and relaxed. There now close enough to touch. She exhaled slowly as they began to move closer and closer. She slightly parted her lips for the anticipated kiss when suddenly... "Ms. Kinomoto!" Sakura jumped up and saw her Geometry teacher. She was so close to her face Sakura could see her moustache. "Sorry to keep you up but, this is a place of learning. Not time for you to sleep. Sakura trying not in hale the teacher's foul breath she nodded. As she left and continued her lessons Sakura exhaled. "Are you alright?" she heard Li whisper in her ear. The warm breeze against her made her hold her breath. She slightly blushed. "Yeah...I'm fine.." she stuttered. For the rest of the class Sakura couldn't stop thinking about him and the'r ALMOST kiss. |