TWENTY QUESTIONS
Chapter 7: The Last Question
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A/N: sorry for the rather late update… waahhh… Please don't kill me!! But my tests and project deadlines are done now.. Which means…more updates and more stories for me!!! Hehehhh.. Too bad this would be the last chapter of Twenty Questions..
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"Thanks..." and she then continued, "If we were...if we were the last two people on earth, would you consider doing it with me?"
"Doing what?"
Sakura found herself blushing and said, "You know…."
"What?" He grinned at Sakura, now he was the one teasing her.
Sakura found herself smiling, and said, "Jerk…" she giggled slightly.
"Thank God she finally smiled!" 'Oops. Did I actually say that out loud?! Hopefully she'd be too drunk to notice..'
"So….Would you?"
"What really is it you're talking about? You can't say it, can you? Why can't you say it?" He laughed and continued, "Say it: Sex! Sex! Sex!" He laughed, as he said Sakura's exact same words before.
Sakura hit Syaoran slightly on his arm, "Shut up!" She started to laugh along.
"That's your eighth already, okay?"
Sakura brushed off the question. "I lost count. Answer it."
"Why not?" He smiled at her. Sakura felt MORE than pleased and happy with the answer.
Sakura sucked her cigarette. And rested her head on Syaoran's shoulder.
(End of Chapter 6)
Syaoran looked at the beautiful creature right beside him, inhaling her cherry blossom scent. That's what he always liked about Sakura. Feistiness and sweetness rolled into one. He broke off the intense moment and asked, "If you could be something else, what would you be?"
Still not looking up at him, Sakura answered, "I dunno...maybe...a violin...yeah.A violin."
Curious like a little kid, Syaoran asked, "Why?"
Sakura smiled, "I always saw the relationship of a violin and its player as very intimate. When the violinist plays, I see and hear that he strokes the soul of the instrument and the instrument penetrates the soul of the player. It's like they're making love. Don't you agree? Very sexy, very intimate, and very sublime. Right?"
She looked up at Syaoran, and he nodded. She rested her head again on his shoulder and then continued,
"…They're both sincere with each other. Coz if they weren't sincere, there would be no music played. The violin surrenders her body to her player, her whole body and her whole soul, in full trust and sincerity. Don't you agree that when compared to the sound of any other instruments, the sound of a violin is like a naked woman? A naked woman in surrender? I want to be a violin. I want to be stroked in the soul. I want to make sincere music. I want to experience the sound of love…."
Syaoran looked at this marvelous creature on his shoulder…
Like a bad star, he's falling faster down to her……
"That was deep." He smiled.
"How would you know that you're in-love?" Sakura asked curiously.
"How?" He asked Sakura, and she nodded, smiling.
He thought of it for a while, he didn't really know the answer.
Sakura, impatient as ever, "Well…???"
Syaoran smirked, and just answered, "Well… I don't think there's a formula to that. You would just feel it... I mean, how many times did that just happen to me?" he laughed lightly.
"Come on, tell me... How did you know then that you loved Yumi?"
"You know what, it was funny… corny, actually. I'd return to being corny. You said you don't want corny, right?" He smirked.
"Come on.. tell me… I won't tease you, I swear…" He poked Syaoran's side tummy that made him jump.
"Hey!"
"Okay, okay… now answer my question." She laid her head again over his shoulder as soon as he settled down.
"I heard bells…"
"What?" Sakura looked up, with that 'are-you-out-of-your-friggin-mind' stare.
"Seriously. As in out of nowhere, while we were talking, I heard bells, then music. I don't know if I was imagining it but it happened. It was really funny. It's like the song of the Beatles." He laughed.
"Are you serious?" Sakura looked at him.
"Or maybe it was just coincidental that at that time, there were some people singing in the school... But I really did hear bells. Then I smiled. When I looked at her eyes, I saw something else... I don't see her as a friend anymore. It was as if there was magic. I really can't explain it. Corny but that really was it. Then I just seized the moment. I told her how I felt... A week later, we became a couple…"
"Yup, definitely corny." She laughed so hard for a long time. Then after a while, she can't remember why she was laughing. It must have been the wine. (A/N: -raises eyebrow- Hehehh..)
"It really is corny…" Syaoran agreed, "...But if you're there, if you experience it, you'd think that it isn't."
Sakura smiled. Sakura got up from her seat, and turned around to see the beautiful view of the ocean ahead of her. She leaned on the balcony, then said,
"You know what? There are times when your voice sounds like a violin..." Syaoran looked at her, and she could swear his gorgeous eyes had gotten waaaay bigger, and then continued, "…Or is it just because I'm drunk?" She giggled, and then rested her head again on Syaoran's shoulder.
"I'm into my last question…"
Sakura lifted her head and faced Syaoran. "Shoot me. Better make it good."
Syaoran wore a serious expression on his face and asked, "If you were again to be the next victim of this tradition, if you were to be locked up in this room again...who would you want the next guy to be?"
Sakura kept silent for a while, thinking. Then started, "I want someone whom I could talk to... The one I could sure my secrets with. The one that has sense to talk to. Someone deep. The violin player who'd stroke my strings...not even. The one who could make my string play even without touching them." She paused. "God, I really am drunk. I'm not making any sense." She giggled lightly, avoiding his stare.
Syaoran just stared at Sakura, studying her carefully. Memorizing those shimmers her eyes make everytime she moves, smiles, and laughs. Memorizing such beauty, as this might be the last moment he'd be able to stare at her. For he doesn't know that when they get out of this room, they'd be having such intensity anymore.
"…Of course the one who's fun to talk to…" Sakura continued, still not looking back at Syaoran.
"…As in I won't mind that we'd just talk for the rest of our lives… I think it's better than making love." Sakura turned to look at Syaoran, then her trance traveled down his lips. Oh, those lips.
"Gosh, I want to kiss you so badly…" She held Syaoran's face and touched his lips by her thumb. She paused.
She broke her contact and looked away. "I can't believe I just said that." She looked at him again. He was just looking at her.
"Don't you want to kiss me?"
Still looking at Sakura's eyes, he asked while smiling, "Is that your last question?"
"Yes."
Syaoran held her chin, and was slowly leaning over her. Their faces were now a centimeter from each other, feeling each other's rapid breathing. Then a loud thunder struck. Darkness wrapped the couple as the electicity in the whole resort died.
Sakura jumped at the sound of the lightning, but her lips were caught by Syaoran's. Shocked at the sudden contact, she froze. But when her mind finally started to register what was going on, she relaxed her shoulders and smirked in the kiss.
Syaoran pressed his lips harder, wanting more of her. Sakura could feel that there was something in that kiss – and it certainly isn't lust. This kiss was magical. It was as if she was a teenager again, experiencing first kiss. It gave her shivers down her spine. It was simply magical. Yes… Magical.
They broke the kiss to catch their breath. "I'm…guessing that's a yes?" Sakura grinned.
Syaoran smirked at her, noticing that she's even more beautiful underneath the moonlight. She pulled her over to him, as if making sure that no space could ever be between them. He made butterfly kisses down her neck, causing Sakura to arch her back. "S- Syaoran?" she managed to utter as she snapped back to reality.
He didn't respond, and instead continue on what he's doing, and started to take off Sakura's jacket. "Syaoran!"
Sakura pushed Syaoran and he just looked at her, confused.
"I…uhm…"
"What's wrong?" Syaoran asked, coming over to her.
Sakura stepped back a little and started to utter, "…You're going to regret it…You said that you wanted your uh… first with your wife…." Sakura looked away from him, staring at her bare feet, and brought her right hand towards her chest.
"Well, something tells me I wouldn't." Syaoran smiled sincerely.
Sakura looked up at him with shock, and tears started to fall. Syaoran came closer towards her, held her face and wiped away her tears. "I'd be glad to be that violinist who'd stroke your strings……your soul."
Sakura just stared at him, and felt raindrops touching her skin. She can't help but cry. She doesn't know why. Is it tears of joy? Regret? She really desn't know… But right now, she just feels…Complete.
"I love you." Syaoran suddenly blurted out, his eyes hidden under his bangs. The rain started to pour on them, but both of them just didn't seem to care. They wanted to stay there, and wash away their imperfections.
"W-what..?" Sakura asked, thinking that she just heard wrong because of the hard pouring of the rain and the buzz that the wine gave her.
Syaoran looked up at her, looking at each other's eyes, absorbing each other's love. They stayed like that for a while, as if searching for each other's soul in their eyes.
"...I-love-you, Kinomoto Sakura..." He clearly stated it, and no amount of rain could ever make those words blur. And then continued,
"…I've loved you since that day you came up to me and asked me to join your squad. I've loved you since that day I saw those eyes. I've loved you since that very day that I caught sight of you. And every single day that I see you smile, hear you giggle, I can never stop loving you even more."
Sakura looked into his eyes, as if searching if he says the truth. Should she trust herself to someone again? After all those nonsense relationships she's been through? Would she risk it? Is he worth the risk?
"Would you still love me in the morning..?" She asked, really not knowing his response.
"Forever and ever, babe…" Sakura smiled. And then she definitely knew it - Syaoran stroked her strings even without touching them. He has touched her soul like noone else did.
She wrapped her arms around him, their bodies touching, feeling each other's rapid heartbeat.
And then suddenly, they hear bells….
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This may be the end of the story,
But it is just the start of a new relationship.
He had touched her soul,
And she made him alive again.
They'd make sincere music together,
And experience the sound of love...
YEY!!!!! I finally finished the story!! Gaahh!!! Don't I deserve review? Come on, tell me if you guys liked the ending or was it just plain crappy? Tell me… I'd really appreciate it. ;D
I'm off now to the 2nd chapter of No Boyfriend Since Birth…
Anyway, reviews make me smile… I'll be waiting!!! ;D
"Never doubt someone's love for you...
If you find some imperfections, let it be…
If you survived the pain, the happiness is satisfying.
Never find the perfect love, coz love without pain is
Make-believe…"