Love Unexpected

By: Angelstrawberry

Chapter XV: Raindrops are my tears

It was very early in the morning and Tomoyo was already squealing in excitement. "Ohohoho! I knew it! I knew it!". Her amethyst eyes turns into popping hearts while her auburn haired friend took no notice of this for her emerald eyes, which held so much softness in them, were gazing at a particular someone across the courtyard.

"This is so kawaii!" She squealed again as she watched with her knowing eyes the scene before her.

"Hoe!" Sakura squeaked. She was startled when a pair of small slim hands took her shoulders and started shaking her. Hard.

Tomoyo towered like a giant over the dwarf size girl she was shaking like a mad woman. "Do you know what this means, Sakura? I hear wedding bells! White carriage drawn by twelve white horses! I can see it now, the wedding dress made by the one and only Tomoyo Daidouji! Ohohohoho!"

"Tomoyo stop." Sakura stammered at the force of her friend's shaking.

"Oh no, look at the time?" Tomoyo said worriedly, unexpectedly pulling her hands away from Sakura's shoulder, leaving the spiraled-eyes nauseous girl sprawled on the floor.

"I need to start designing your dress! Sakura! Sakura?" Tomoyo called, looking around for her friend. Her amethyst eyes caught something on the floor.

"What are you doing there, Sakura?" She asked. Her face was innocent of the crime.

"Ugh." Sakura pushed her self slowly from the floor and on to a sitting position. One of her hand flew to her head. Sakura's eyes were shut as she shook her head lightly to take the dizziness away.

"You were killing me." Sakura answered and Tomoyo only rolled her eyes.

"Anyway, as I was saying we have to prepare your wedding."

"My wedding? Who is the groom to be?"

"Why, Prince Li of course." The mentioned name caused a serious flushing on Sakura's face.

"T-Tomoyo, what are you saying?"

Tomoyo snorted. "Don't act innocent with me, young lady, I know that you fell for that stone prince.'

The blush deepens even more, but Sakura kept playing innocent. "Don't be stupid. How could I fall in love with him in such short time?"

"Time sometimes is irrelevant when it comes to love. Let it go, Saku-chan, your feelings can be seen so easily, just by the looks you were shooting at him whenever he wasn't looking was very clear, especially to me."

"Am I that obvious?"

"Mmm… to me you are and to Eriol-kun, and to the Li sisters, and probably Yelan-sama could see it too." Tomoyo smiled when Sakura blushed in embarrassment.

"Do you think Xiao Pao could see it?" Sakura squeaked.

"I don't think so. But he could if only he will take the blinders off his eyes." Tomoyo whispered the last sentence mostly to herself.

"Take the blinds from where?" Sakura asked in confusion at what she heard from the bits of what her friend was saying.

Tomoyo sweat drops, laughing nervously. "I-uh… I mean I forgot to take the blinds of uh… the win… yeah, that's right, windows! I forgot to take the blinds off my windows in my room."

Sakura eyed her friend suspiciously, but shrugged the questions off her mind.

Tomoyo clears her throat and turned to Sakura with a serious face. "When are you going to tell him?"

"Hoe?"

"Do it, Sakura-chan." The dark haired young woman advised.

"I-I c-can't! I don't have any courage to tell him."

"Yes, you have. Tell me the truth, Sakura, do you really love him?"

Sakura sighed before she replied. "Yes, I love him. I finally realized that, but I-" She stopped and shook her head.

"You're scared that he will reject you. So you think its better not to tell him than get yourself hurt by something you're not sure what the result is going to be." Her friend finished the thought that made Sakura feel like a coward in revealing her feelings to the person she had her heart set upon.

"It's only natural for you to feel that way. Every person goes through with such case, even I was in you position once."

This caught Sakura's attention. "What do you mean?"

"Huh?"

"Who is he?"

"Uh… I don't know what you mean." Tomoyo laughed nervously, but Sakura won't let go off the subject. Then suddenly, her eyes widened as a particular thought struck her.

"Oh. My. Heaven! How could I be so dense? How could I not see it before? The disappearance. The giggling. The blushing. The flowers." Sakura smacked her forehead with her palm while Tomoyo blushed.

"You and Eriol." Tomoyo could only nod. Her pale cheeks were painted a beautiful red hue.

"When, where, and how?"

"Sakura! I'm talking about me, we were talking about you."

The auburn haired young woman sweat drops. She thought she could get away with it and change the subject of their discussion.

"Are you going to tell him?" Sakura could only sigh in answer. Tomoyo took her friend's hand and smiled at her.

"It'll be alright, Sakura-chan. I'm sure he feels the same."

"How can you be sure?"

"His eyes."

"His eyes?"

Tomoyo nodded.

"It's better to let that person know you love them than keep them doubting or guessing if they have a place in your heart."

"But—"

"Set aside the 'what ifs' before it's too late." Sakura bit her lip, lost in thought for a moment,

"Do it, Saku-chan." Tomoyo encouraged, looking at her friend's worried emerald eyes.

"How?" Sakura whispered.

At her friend's question, Tomoyo smiled wickedly.

Sakura swallowed hard.

"Ohohohohoho! I have the perfect plan! I call it Sakura-chan's love confession! Ohohohohohoho!"

Sakura laughed nervously.

The sun wasn't fully set from the sky, but with the graying clouds hovering over the sun makes it impossible for the light to go through. The wind from the north blew through the palace garden making the grass on the ground, the leaves and the flowers of the cherry blossom tree sway, and ruffling the golden auburn hair of the young woman who was leaning against the body of the said tree. The young woman had her eyes closed, she looked relaxed, but deep inside she was nervous. She sniffed the cold wind and noted with sure guess that rain will pour down soon upon the earth. The young woman's eyes opened, revealing beautiful emerald orbs, once she heard the sound of footsteps coming closer to where she stood. She whipped her head to the side; a blush tinted her cheeks as her heart started pounding.

"Xiao Lang." Sakura whispered lovingly as she watched the figure stopped in front of her, a scowl was on his face. She said his real name instead of the pet name she so fond of, unable to say it for it might give away the feelings she had for him.

"What is it?" Xiao Lang asked.

"Huh?" She finally uttered after waking from her thoughts.

"Daidouji told me that you have something important to tell me."

"Yes." She stuttered from the nervousness and uncertainty she felt beating rapidly inside her chest. Sakura swallowed the lump lodged in her throat.

"So are you going to tell me or will just just stand there gawking at me?" Xiao Lang asked, grinning inwardly when he saw her blushed.

Sakura quickly took her eyes to the ground. She couldn't help it. He was so handsome, with his messy sexy hair, his hypnotizing amber eyes, his boyish grin, his scent carried to her by the wind, and his hard toned body. However, the real reason she couldn't peal her eyes and caused her to stare like a stupid besotted girl was, she was in love. She loved this man with all her heart and soul. (A/N: Sounds cliché, Ne?)

"I-I I'm sorry, I just wanted to tell you that… Umm…"

"What, Sakura?" Xiao Lang asked patiently with a frustrated sigh.

Sakura took a deep breath.

"IloveyouXiaoLangandIcanunder standifyoudon'tfeelthesamewaywithme." Sakura panted in one breath.

Xiao Pao raised a questionable brow at her. "I don't understand a thing you said."

Sakura could feel the heat rushing to her face. She took another deep breath and exhaled it slowly, trying to calm her self down.

"I-I love you, Xiao Lang." Sakura stammered. When Xiao Lang didn't say anything, she continued.

"That's what I wanted to say and I can understand if you don't feel the same with me." She trailed off to a whisper. Sakura couldn't face him. She was scared and embarrassed to what she might see, but out of the corner of her eyes she could see his shoulders shaking. Sakura looked up to him with a concern look on her face.

"Are you okay, Xiao Lang?"

It took Sakura a minute or two to realize that the young man in front of her wasn't crying like she thought, but chuckling.

"What's so funny?"

Xiao Lang could not contain it any longer, so he bursts out laughing. Sakura frowned, feeling insulted.

"Here I am pouring my heart out and you answer me by laughing? What's so funny?"

"You. You're pathetic." He answered between laughs.

"Me?"

"Love? You are a pathetic pitiful girl. Do you expect me to say those words to you just because you told your useless pathetic feelings for me? You are stupid if you ever think that will happen."

Sakura gasped in shocked at what she was hearing.

The wind picked up its pace, getting colder and stronger as moment passed by. A loud grumble of thunder could be heard growling behind the curtains of dark clouds.

Xiao Lang continued chuckling, finding amusement at Sakura's confessions.

"Love is a deceitful weapon against man. It plays and toys with the heart until one withers and die. I am no such fool to be one."

"B-but, Xiao Lang! Love is not like that!" Sakura protested.

Xiao Lang's amused face turns into a serious cold look.

"Oh? How would you feel if someone fooled you around? Played with your feelings? How would you feel if that person who you envision to be with until time fades you from this world never did love you? How would you feel if you found out that she only used you for her own selfish desire? Do you know how it felt? Do you know how much it hurts? No, of course you don't know! So I suggest you stop this foolishness and forget all what has transpired today."

Sakura shook her head, feeling the sting of tears quickly gathering in her eyes.

"I can't." She said in a broken voice. "I can't change the way I feel. Feelings cannot be cast aside completely. I can't"

"I warned you. I washed my hands from the pain you brought yourself."

Sakura controlled her tears from falling and she for breaking down, so she closed her eyes waiting for the words that would surely shatter her heart like a piece of glass being thrown hard.

"I could never love you." He said in a cold hard voice. Xiao Lang's eyes were heartless and emotionless like the words coming out from his mouth. If it was more possible, Sakura's shattered heart turns into a pile of ashes.

A single drop of water from the sky landed on the side of Sakura's right eye. The raindrop came rolling down against her cheek like a tear from heaven, mourning along with her shattered heart.

"I will never love you. I tolerated your childish behavior for so long. Remember this and don't ever forget you are still our enemy. Don't forget that you are a captive under our mercy. You disgust me." He spat the last three words like venom and left towards the palace without looking back at the forlorn young woman standing alone.

The raindrops began to shower continuously until it was a full rain. This time, Sakura let go of her tears. She dropped on her knees, making a splashed on the wet mushy ground. Her tear stricken face and her sob were muffled under the roaring thunder and hard drops of rain.

"Xiao Lang…" She whispered before welcoming the darkness that would numb all the pain in her heart.

A/N: Xiao Lang is so cruel, don't ya think? Mmm… makes you wonder what will happen next, huh?