Memories

by:

nexa alex

Disclamer: I don't own anything, only the plot. Characters belong to Clamp.

Episode Four

Today Syaoran insisted on walking me home and I was so excited! We have been best friends for six years, ever since he moved to our neighborhood in the third grade. And I love him ever since I remember, but the fear of my feelings ruining our friendship kept me from saying something… so as we walked down the street talking about nothing in particular, skipping different topics I thought nothing when:

"So I heard Tomoyo has a crush on someone…"

"Oh yeah!" I always told him everything, I knew he wouldn't tell anything and that every secret was safe with him. And everyone also knew that I told him everything. "She's into your cousin, Eriol."

"Eriol?" he asked a bit admired, looking at me while walking down the street.

"Yes, why?" I asked him a bit surprised about his reaction, even though they were always bickering with each other I knew they cared about each other a lot.

"Why Eriol?" he was a little confused, as if Eriol wasn't enough for someone like Tomoyo – well, no one was, but he was okay.

"Well, what's not to like? He's handsome, nice, educated," I could feel him starting to get a little annoyed, he always did when I talked about Eriol, I know he always felt a little inferior about his cousin. But when I talked about him, I always felt he got even more upset (or jealous) than with anyone else. "charming, a gentleman, intelligent-"

"Okay, okay I got it…Kami I never thought you were into him too!" he finally exploded.

"I'm not! I don't like him that way!" I said in a rush, gosh! Not Eriol… he was never my type…

"Then who do you like?" he asked a bit calmer and with a hint of curiosity in his voice.

I could feel myself getting all hot and as I fought to find a decent answer I saw him looking at me with those kind of honey kind of chocolate brown eyes, which always made my heart skip a bit and my legs start to shake: "Oh… Some guy that doesn't like me that way." It was the best I could find.

"Well then he is completely missing out!" he said almost immediately.

That answer shot out so easily made my heart swell, and I gathered all my courage and asked the most dreaded question:

"Maybe… And who do you like?"

"I don't like, I love…" it was as if my heart stopped, as if it fell down a hundred stairs, as if I couldn't breathe. Well just imagine the worst pain in the whole world, multiple by ten and you get just the amount of hurt I felt in that moment and I couldn't feel any worse until he stopped, turned to me and staring at me right in the eyes he said "some girl who likes some guy who's totally missing out."

And as those words registered in my brain and it finally made sense I jumped into his open arms and kissed him right in that mouth, the one I had been yearning to kiss ever since the fourth grade...