SWEET SIXTEEN

Chapter2

I’m ba-ack.

Okay, I guess you want to read the rest of

the story, huh?

Well, if you reeeeeely want to, I guess you

can, so I guess I better get on with it.

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As you know, these characters aren’t mine.

They are CLAMP’s.

But there’s nothing I can do about it!

(Sobbing uncontrollably)

NNNNOOOOOOOOO! Why couldn’t I come up

With awesome characters like that!?

Sakura: Because you’re not a genius.

Me: Hey! Did I say you could talk?

Sakura: I don’t need your permiss….

ME: Who’s Writing this story, you or me?

Sakura: ……………

Me: That’s what I thought.

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"SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Sakura nearly had a heart attack.

"AAAAAAAAAAAH!" she screamed, jumping three feet off the
ground.

"Whoa, chill out Sakura. A little jumpy today," Zachary said.

"What’s with the knife?" Nikki asked.

"I thought…you guys…I heard…" she stammered.

"She thought we were a monster!" said Kris, the new boy at their
high school, grinning.

Sakura sweat dropped. "Hey, that’s not fair! You guys really
scared me!"

"I knew we shouldn’t have invited that guy," Tomoyo said
jokingly. "As long as

you’ve got a knife with you, we can cut the cake!"

"Look at you, all dressed up. Some people might think you
suspected something,"

Chelsea said playfully.

Sakura blushed, thinking she meant something totally different
than what she did.

It was all starting to sink in. The purple glow of a black light, fog
from a fog making

machine, and a flickering strobe light. It seemed like all the
people she knew were

there, so the hisses were no doubt them telling each other to be quiet. Yep, everyone

was there.

‘Everyone,’ she thought to herself, ‘except the most important
person of all.’

She closed her eyes for a second and remembered that person. A boy with amber

eyes, who blushed easily, and who had probably forgotten all
about her.

Sakura opened her eyes and returned to reality. Zachary was
blaring the music. She

could feel the bass shaking the floor.

‘Well, no use being sad. I may as well enjoy myself.’ She thought,
as she joined in the party.

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It was hours later, and bunches of people were standing outside
the house. It was

getting to be so hot in the basement. They had probably
produced enough body

heat to warm a city block.

Sakura and Tomoyo were sitting on the couch having a drink of
water. ‘M.C.

Zachary’ decided to play a slow song for the first time all night.

Sakura was laughing hysterically at something Nikki told her
when someone

approached them .It was definitely not someone they knew from
school, yet he held

out his hand to Sakura.

"M…May I have this dance?" he asked hesitantly.

Sakura looked at Tomoyo as if to say, ‘Who’s this?’

Tomoyo shrugged her shoulders as if reading her mind.

Sakura looked back at the boy "Sure."

His eyes seemed to sparkle hopefully when she said that.

The boy danced like an angel, and he was definitely ‘on cloud
nine,’ as they say.

The song was almost over when Kris tapped him on the shoulder.

"Mind if I cut in?" It was more like an order than a question. The
happy expression

faded from the boy’s face. Figuring that Sakura and Kris were
dating, He turned

and stormed off, looking sad and hurt. Meanwhile Kris started
dancing with

Sakura.

Once it sunk into her head what had just happened, Sakura
socked Kris in the gut

and went to find the boy. She just caught a glimpse of him as he
slipped out the

door. By the time she reached it, he was long gone.

Sakura tried to forget him for the next hour and a half until the
party was over.

Kris tried to apologize three times before she finally accepted.
Even then it was just

to stop him from bothering her.

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Eventually the party ended and Tomoyo, Rita, Nikki, Chelsea and
Sakura were left

to clean the mess up, but the other four wouldn’t let Sakura do
anything (because it

was her birthday).

"So, Sakura," said Rita "Who was that you were dancing with?"
she asked.

"I…I don’t know," she replied.

"One thing’s for sure, he definitely likes you," Nikki pointed out.

"He seemed kind of familiar to me. Like someone from a dream…
Know what I

mean?" asked Sakura.

The girls all nodded.

"Like déjà vu? Yeah, I know what you mean," said Tomoyo.

"Did you guys see what Kris did?" asked Sakura.

"Some girls get all the good guys," Rita sighed.

Sakura made a face like she was about to throw up.

"Puh-leez! What he did was very rude. I just wish that boy
stayed around. I would

have liked to talk to him."

"Who invited him anyways?" asked Chelsea.

At once they all said "Not me!"

"He probably found out about it from someone around town,"
Nikki said.

"Well, other than that, I think it was a wonderful party!"
exclaimed Sakura.

"Thank you all for having it. It’s the best gift I’ve ever gotten.
Well, except that

stuffed bear I got in grade four."

"You mean the one you keep beside your bed?" Tomoyo asked
her teasingly.

Sakura blushed.

"Come on Sakura, how can you even compare that to this,"
Chelsea asked her, not

meaning any harm, but inflicting it all the same.

"She’s right. You’re sixteen now. You need to get out-and get a
boyfriend," Nikki

added.

"Maybe…Hey! Don’t finish that cake! I have to save a piece for
Ker…" she stopped

herself just in time. "I mean, keeping…for, uh, …Dad." Tomoyo
was still the only

one she had told about Kero-Chan.

"Suit yourself," Chelsea said, replacing the cake on a clean plate.

"Well, looks like we’re about finished," Rita said.

"I’d say we are finished," said Tomoyo.

"Let’s go upstairs and you guys can call to get rides home,"
Sakura said.

"That’s okay. Our parents are probably already on their way. We
already planned

what time to get rides," Tomoyo told her.

"Okay, then let’s wait outside. It’s really hot in here."

The girls all went out the basement door into the front garden
(The back of the

house was in the side of a hill).

Nikki bounded out the door ahead of everyone. Her dad’s car
was already idling in

the driveway.

"Bye guys!" she yelled as she slammed the car door. The car
roared away.

One by one her friends left until only she and Tomoyo were left.

"Oh! I almost forgot!" Tomoyo exclaimed. She searched for a
moment, then pulled

a gift out of her pocket and gave it to Sakura.

"OMYGOD, you actually got them?!"

Out of the package came 2 tickets to a concert of her favorite
band, which was

apparently everyone else’s favorite, judging by how hard it was
to get tickets to see

them.

Tomoyo smiled.

"One for you one for whoever else you want to take. This is just
a suggestion, but

maybe you could ask Kris?"

Sakura turned her face to the stars.

"No. You know I can’t do that. There’s only one per….."

"Oh stop it Sakura! I don’t want to be mean or anything, but
there’s no way he’ll

come back!"

"Yes he will. He promised!" She could feel her eyes brimming
with tears.

"And how long are you going to wait? Ten years? Twenty? All I’m
saying is, you’ve

got a guy right here who’d almost kill to go out with you, and you
still haven’t

gotten over Li. He’s not going to come back. Just face it."

Tomoyo’s mother’s car pulled up then and Sakura was left alone.

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Okay, I lied. I made up a character. Kris isn’t a bad guy. He just
reeeeelllllly likes Sakura, that’s all.

I personally think she should go for him. After all, he is the tall,
dark, handsome type …………………………………

I hope you all like this chapter.

More to come!