Disclaimer: I do not own CCS.

Phone Calls

By: Rhiannon-harmonica

Chapter 5

First Date

"Oh my goodness gracious this is just so cute!" Tomoyo began her nonstop exclamations once Sakura had presented herself to her after changing her clothes.

This caused the other girl to sweat profusely. "Tomoyo-chan?" she said tentatively as her best friend began flitting all around her, filming her with her signature video camera.

"Oh I am just so happy that my dresses and costumes have gone very far! It has followed you from ten years old to four years later! And the very best part of it is that I have documented every bit of it, from the card-capturing days to the blossoming romance between you and Syaoran-kun!" She stated, clasping her hands and video camera to her chest for a few moments while looking distantly, her eyes twinkling and starry.

Sakura began to sweat more, if that was possible. She took a deep breath and shouted, "ERIOL-KUN!"

"Yes?" Eriol popped his head into the doorway of Sakura's room. He had accompanied Tomoyo to Sakura's house and been waiting outside while the two got Sakura dressed.

"Um, help?" Sakura said sheepishly, pleading with her eyes, glancing at the flitting Tomoyo, who hadn't even taken notice that her best friend had shouted her boyfriend's name aloud, and that the boyfriend had went inside the room.

"Oh." Eriol said, and proceeded to take Tomoyo by the arm and drag her outside.

Sakura breathed a sigh of relief. Yes, she loved her best friend very much, but sometimes, Tomoyo-chan just gets a bit…carried away. She looked at herself in the mirror and saw one of the good results when Tomoyo gets carried away—her dress. It was a long-sleeved red and white jumper dress with ruffles on the collar and sleeves. It is simple, but quite elegant, really, especially the sleeves, she mused. It was perfect for their first date.

Yup! First date! She giggled. She was going out with Syaoran today! She grinned into her reflection and twirled around her room in her dress, obviously happy and excited. Then she heard Tomoyo call, "Sakura-chan! Li-kun is here!"

Sakura bounded down the stairs, all smiles at her waiting boyfriend, who had a scowl in his face, apparently because Eriol was grinning at him. But Syaoran's expression changed when he saw her, and the way he was looking at her, in tongue-tied silence, was enough to let her know that he found her truly beautiful. She smiled radiantly at him when he approached her, still unable to speak, and she replied to his unspoken compliment by whispering, "You're not looking bad yourself!"

And indeed he looked good in a dark green outfit. I wonder if Tomoyo-chan made it for him, too. Sakura wondered. Then she looked at him expectantly, "Well, do you have it?"

Syaoran nodded and replied, "Of course," while producing a paper bag. Delighted, Sakura took it and said, "May I borrow the paper bag? I'm going to put the other one inside, too." With that she went back up the stairs again.

"What other one?" Tomoyo asked and Syaoran belatedly realized that she and Eriol were observing the both of them, and they were highly amused at the sweet exchange between the two of them. Well, Eriol only. Tomoyo had gone twinkly- and starry-eyed once more.

"Well?" Eriol prodded him.

Syaoran sighed and purposely evaded the question, "Has it ever struck the both of you how you are very much alike?"

Tomoyo raised an eyebrow at him while Eriol said, "You're not answering the question."

Syaoran opened his mouth to retort something but he was saved by Sakura, who was now going down the stairs for the second time, carrying the paper bag, now bulkier.

"Let's go!" She said to Syaoran, and whisked him outside her door, saying to the two people left in the house, "Bye guys! Don't forget to lock the door!"

"Sakura-san sure is very energetic today." Eriol commented blandly after they had recovered from staring at the empty air where Sakura and Syaoran had stood before. Tomoyo could only nod.

They walked out of the house and locked the door, checking to see if the windows were closed.

"Well?" Eriol said to Tomyo when they had finished.

"Well what?" she replied innocently.

"Aren't you going to follow them and videotape Sakura-san and Li-kun's first date?"

Tomoyo's eyes twinkled as she whipped out her camera, "You know me very well, Eriol!"

"Well, how wouldn't I? Besides, anyone who could've been with you long enough would have seen through that innocent look you gave me earlier." He mumbled, and she laughed. Taking his arm she pulled him towards the direction where Sakura and Syaoran had headed earlier.

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Meanwhile, Sakura and Syaoran had just finished their lunch, and were now strolling along the penguin park. Their hands had found their way to each other, and in seconds their fingers were now interlocked.

In a bush not so far away Eriol clamped a hand on his girlfriend's mouth to keep her from squealing "KAWAII!!" aloud. Tomoyo looked at him gratefully and he sighed, saying "Why did I ever agree to this, anyway?" Tomoyo smiled radiantly at him and said, "You were the one who suggested it, remember?" Eriol brought a hand to his forehead and said, "Oh yeah." Tomoyo looked at him patronizingly and kept on filming.

From their view, the said couple they were now filming had stopped in front of a bench under the shade of a tree, talking. Then Sakura sat down on the bench abruptly, and by some weird whim, Syaoran sat down on the arm rest of the bench beside Sakura, his right foot supported by the bench seat, and the left leg sprawled on the seat beside Sakura. He was balancing his weight so as not to fall off. Sakura produced the intriguing paper bag earlier and pulled out…two teddy bears! One pink, the other greenish gray, aptly named Sakura-bear and Syaoran-bear, respectively.

Once more, Eriol raised a hand to clamp Tomoyo's mouth but she turned to him and whispered, "Its okay. I can stop myself, I think."

Sakura had handed Syaoran-bear to Syaoran and had placed the pink one on her lap. Apparently, even if she was now fourteen, she was still prone to childlike actions, manifested with her playing with the bears. She began to create dialogues for the bears, even making them move like puppets using her hands. Syaoran began to laugh, and abruptly he stopped, then smiled fondly at her. Abandoning Syaoran-bear, who was left safely ensconced between his leg and Sakura's side, he ever-so-casually draped his left arm over her shoulder, still smiling fondly at her, while she was still continuing her antics with Sakura-bear, also smiling at him.

Tomoyo could barely contain her squeals when…BEEP! Her video camera went dead. She was left speechless with horror as her eyes went from the scene before them to her dead video camera to Eriol. Eriol sighed and gripped her hand reassuringly, producing his camera phone so that at least she could still take pictures. From speechless horror she went to speechless delight and immediately took the phone, beginning to snap pictures after mouthing a quick thank you at him.

When Eriol felt that Tomoyo had taken quite a handful of pictures he commented dryly, "Sometimes I feel so ignored." Her head snapped back at him but his face was unreadable.

Tomoyo blinked, then abandoning her video camera and his phone, she wrapped her arms around his neck and began kissing him.

Eriol was surprised. They didn't kiss often, and this was definitely the first time when Tomoyo was the one who initiated it. Nevertheless, he held her tighter and began to respond.

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"When do you think they will stop?"

"Don't know, they've been at it for a few minutes, now."

"Maybe more, they were already kissing when we discovered them hiding in that bush."

Eriol distinctly heard voices talking, followed by a girl's giggle and reluctantly pulled away from Tomoyo. Sensing his movement, Tomoyo craned her neck to see what he was staring at.

"Hey guys!" Sakura greeted them cheerfully. She was standing on the other side of the bush with Syaoran, who was holding the paper bag, the teddy bears safely deposited inside.

"And what are you doing here?" He regarded Eriol and Tomoyo darkly, his eyes shifting from them to the abandoned camera and phone on the ground.

"Nothing," Tommoyo and Eriol said in unison. Then she added, "Go away," in a dazed voice and returned to embracing Eriol once more.

Eriol gave them both an amused look before returning to Tomoyo.

Sakura began to chuckle, "The day when I see Tomoyo-chan very distracted she tells me to go away. I am so hurt." She joked. She started to pull a dumbfounded Syaoran, and shouted to them, "At least go home or get a bench, guys!"

She began to laugh harder when Tomoyo shouted a muffled reply, "It's much more comfortable here!"

"Oh my gosh!" Sakura began to exclaim, in between shaking fits of mirth.

"Well, if they have the ground we have the trees." Syaoran, who apparently had recovered, commented to her.

"What?" Sakura said, confused.

In response he pulled her into a nearby Sakura tree hidden from public view and kissed her.

Sakura giggled in between kisses.

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AN: I do not know what to say! UM, REVIEW?!?!?!?! Thanks! –rhia.