Chapter 4

I Love You

Its not true!~

Tomoyo told herself as she hurriedly ran home. Not caring whether she get wet or catch a cold, all that matter to her now is to know the truth… the very truth… about everything!

"Oh… Tomoyo you're home early!" Sonomi said.

Tomoyo just ignored her mother. She needs to cry all of this… from the bottom of her heart.

"It's been a long time since I cried like this!" She tried to laugh while sobbing. "Am I a jinx or something? Maybe love doesn't agree with me!"

Ring… ring.

"Hello?" She grabbed her cordless phone and tried not to make that person on the phone hear her cry. "Hiragizawa?"

"What?"

"Fine."

Click!

"What's that supposed to mean?" Tomoyo asked herself. "Going to his place, huh?" She stared at the ceiling.

"Wow!" Sakura cried.

"Kinomoto-kun, please have some." Ikari handed a plate of Danish cookies. It was in different sizes, shapes and colors. "Yummy."

"By the way, where is Eriol and Daidouji-san?" Ikari asked.

"Oh, leave those two for a while… they have a score to settle with each other." She grinned evilly.

"(sigh) Those two are such good friends." Ikari smiled

"Huh… oh… yeah." Sakura smiled as she looked outside where Tomoyo and Eriol aren't talking at all.

I got those two alone and look! Sakura thought as she filled her mouth once more with Raspberry cakes.

"So?" Tomoyo asked.

"Anou…" Eriol said his very usual line one more time.

"Don't you have anything to say!" Tomoyo cried. "I thought I could shot Sakura in my brand new video cam!" She grunted.

"Actually, I just asked your friend a favor, because I need to tell you something!" Eriol said straightly without any 'anou's' "Listen to this!"

Tomoyo was surprised. What important thing would Eriol say to me? She thought. Whatever that is, he better make it quick!

"Listen, I… mean we… will going back to England next week, I think its September 9." Eriol said, "and… I just want to tell you that…" Eriol blushed intensely and can't even look at Tomoyo at all!

"That?" Tomoyo raised an eyebrow.

"That… I… I… I am in love…"

SLAP!

"…with you…"

"Very funny, Hiragizawa!" Tomoyo sarcastically laughed. "You're not fooling me, ever!"

"But… I'm saying the truth!" Eriol insisted holding his right cheek which Tomoyo has slapped.

"Yeah, sure!" Tomoyo said walking away. In love, huh? How do you think am I supposed to believe that, when you have a fiancé!

"Fine!" Eriol grabbed Tomoyo's right hand. "I'll just say this to you one last time." He said as he hugged Tomoyo. "I love you…"

"Tomoyo?" Sakura asked her friend who was very quiet since they went from Eriol's house.

"Wonder what you two talked about?" Sakura said hoping that Tomoyo would spill the beans.

"Hello?" Sakura waved her hand in front of Tomoyo? "Yo?"

"Ja!" Tomoyo said as she entered

"Shit!" Tomoyo jumped on her bed while totally blushing. "Why the heck am I blushing!" She said as she slapped herself.

This was he second time she blushed over someone… but she didn't even knew that Eriol could say it to her that… honestly and proudly.

I could answer him but… She thought. Answering him might make things worse, but if she won't tell him that… she might not find anyone who loved her like he did.

"Wah! I'm so confused!" Tomoyo scratched her head. "I can't face him tomorrow!" She said looking at herself… blushing. "But I must!"

It was raining harder than the usual. The air was lighter and colder, it was a perfect day to sleep and daydream in your bed all day, but it was also the kind of day that teacher's would like to give surprise quizzes and every kind of thing that would torment the students.

"Ok class, I have a very nice gift to you all." Their math teacher smiled.

"Argh!" The class sighed. They knew exactly what that is, their teacher is going to give them a very surprising test.

"That's right, it's all about the laws of exponents!"

"Laws?" Sakura looked at Tomoyo. "What are those?"

"Product Rule, you'll add the exponents, Power Rule a, multiply the exponents, b, hmm… I think…." Tomoyo explained although it wasn't quite finished.

"Ok, pass the test papers backwards!"

"Uh…(sigh!)" Sakura picked her pencil up.

As the test went on, Sakura had scratched her head for a dozen times. What the heck are these things on my test paper, its so hard to understand.

"Hmmm…" Sakura sighed as she looked at Tomoyo who was breezing the test just like Eriol and Ikari.

"I envy these people." Sakura sighed and then continued to answer her test paper.

A/N:

Eina: Hey, do you think there'll be more millipedes on the new building.

Jessica: Dunno.

Patty: I hope so!

Eina: What's with you guys?

Patty: I'm flirting with Sesshoumaru, so…

Eina and Jessica: Sure!

Jessica: Hihihihi!

Eina: ?

"Ouch, my head hurts." Sakura massaged her head.

"That's alright." Tomoyo said. "You'll pass for sure"

"So…" Sakura looked at her.

Sakura was hoping that Tomoyo would tell what she and Eriol had talked about the other day. Since that day, Tomoyo's attitude returned to the normal and kind person she was before. It kinda freaked Sakura out. Tomoyo came back to the person that Sakura met when they were on the fourth grade.

"Actually…" Tomoyo blushed.

"What!" Sakura jumped in excitement.

"Come to my house, there's soft tacos, I'm sure you want them." Tomoyo invited her.

Sakura looked at her. Tomoyo might be luring her to a trap that she would forget about her question.

"Don't worry, I'll tell you." Tomoyo ensured her.

I don't know how to tell Sakura that, Tomoyo sighed. Its such a hard task to tell someone that your all-time fan has confessed to you.

"Wow!" Sakura munched the tacos. "Yummy."

"So… about that… Eriol I mean Hiragizawa old me that…" Tomoyo intensely blushed.

"Really!" Sakura cried. She exactly knew what Tomoyo meant. At last, she thought, I never thought that Eriol could say that to her straightly, I'm so amazed. Just then, Sakura noticed Tomoyo's sad face.

"Tomoyo?" Sakura asked. "Daijobu desu ka?"

"Uh… yeah, but he also told me that he would be leaving next week, September 9.' She gulped.

"Hey… that's your…" Sakura looked at Tomoyo, "Argh! I still don't know what to give you for your birthday!"

Oh yeah, that day is my birthday. Tomoyo thought. Did Eriol really wanted to leave that specific day, well that's good!

"It's good that he'll leave that day! I'd be more relieved that no mouse is following me everywhere!" Tomoyo laughed

"Oh, and why are you blushing?" Sakura asked Tomoyo.

Tomoyo rarely blush over someone. Everytime she blushes it only meant that she likes the person that much.

"I don't know, maybe I just felt guilty, nah, why would I, over some dumb boy!" She said clearly and loudly. "I DON'T LIKE HIM!~~~"

"Suit yourself." Sakura said as she continued to eat the taco.

Later that night…

'Dear diary,' Tomoyo wrote on her diary.

I still can't believe that he was that serious! But how can I say mine, straightly like he did. I can't just fall for him like I did for that bastard(ex-boyfriend). I know now that he'll catch me but, I'll just bring trouble to him. So I think… I'll just let him go(Teardrop fell on the book). But… I can't take it when he leaves… I can't find another person like him in this world.

Tomoyo stopped writing for a while.

"(sigh) I'm so stupid! I knew all the time what he wanted, I just ignored it." Tomoyo lied on her bed and pulled her blanket over her.

Yawn!

"Uhm… I'm going to sleep!"

September 9.

Sakura stretched her hands. "I haven't been here for a long time!"

"Yeah." Tomoyo quietly said.

"Daidouji-san! Kinomoto-san!" Ikari called them.

Today was the day when Ikari and Eriol would come back to England, together with Nakuru and Aya. This is also Tomoyo's birthday, and Eriol has prepared for this special occasion a long, long time ago.

"Hey." Eriol smiled at Tomoyo.

"Hi." Tomoyo answered back.

"Here… Happy Birthday." He said as he gave Tomoyo his gift that was gift-wrapped in blue, shiny gift wrap and had a silver ribbon around it tied in the end in a neat bow.

"Uh… thanks." Tomoyo blushed.

"Here… Eriol told us it was your birthday." Aya gave her gift wrapped in the same gift wrap and ribbon.

"I'm sure Eriol would come back, he said that he wants to break the engagement in front of his mom to make it clear." Aya whispered to Tomoyo. "I'll call you!"

"Uh… Hai!" Tomoyo smiled.

I hope that comes true, I hope that Aya isn't making it up to cheer me up."

"Flight 3307 Japan to England plane passengers, please proceed to the boarding area!" The announcer said.

"I'll be going first!" Ikari ran to the escalator going down.

"Come on Nakuru!" Aya dragged Nakuru who was still suffocating Touya. "Eriol, haiyaku!"

"Uh… hai." Eriol smiled. "Goodbye."

"Yeah… don't come back!" Tomoyo grunted.

"Sure, just promise me you won't cry over some stupid guys! I'll come back, I promise." He said as he kissed Tomoyo on the cheek…

"I'll be waiting for that!" Tomoyo smiled.

As the plane 3307 flew into the great big sky, Tomoyo prayed that Eriol would fulfill his promise as she prayed that she could fulfill hers...

Finish!

A/N: Thanks for reading my damn fict! Joke! I'm really sorry if it didn't turn out the way you people wanted it to be. I'm quite lucky that I made this fict a little clear, because I have a huge writer's block on my head!

This fict is dedicated to the Warfrix Gang, that I cherish so much. To the classroom that I may never see again, the way that I saw it before, 6-Aphrodite, na pinaka-mamahal naming lahat. To Mt Mayon a.k.a. Mt. Sinai/ Smokey Mountain, at least ung bulkan namin d sumbrero! Albay Airlines which I have never ever rode on, because I leave my I.D. sooo much. Since my birthday's near I'll treat all the readers to a spoiler… which I think will be posted sometime next 3 months… or next year?

The Sequel(untitled)

Eriol goes back to Japan and looks for Tomoyo. He searches Hokkaido, Osaka, Nagasaki and every island in Japan not knowing that Tomoyo went to England and searched Eriol. Will they ever see each other this time and could Tomoyo confess properly?

Pls. review, if this sequel thingie is alright with you guys.

*Bows*

Thank you for reading.