"Where is she?" Li Syaoran glanced at his watch. "She said she'd be right 
here after school so we could walk home together, like we do every 
Thursday!" He sighed, then looked at his watch again. Fifteen minutes. 
Sakura may not have been the most punctual person in the world, but she 
never kept anyone waiting THIS long! Not unless it was an emergency.

Of course, the thought of that only made him worry.

"What if it is an emergency? What if she's hurt really bad, or sick or 
something?" Syaoran wondered aloud. "Maybe I better go inside and see if 
she's still there. Maybe she just forgot." Praying it was nothing too 
serious, Syaoran ran back inside the building in search of his girlfriend.

Ten minutes later, though, he was right back where he'd started and still 
hadn't found her.

"She probably did forget and walk home with her friends or her brother or 
something," he muttered. Just then, he heard a familiar laugh, from the 
direction of a nearby sakura tree.

"Tomoyo?" Maybe she'd seen Sakura. Then he heard a second voice-Sakura!

"Finally!" He ran over to the tree and was about to yell a greeting when 
he stopped dead in his tracks.

There was Sakura, all right.

Kissing Tomoyo.

This wasn't just a mild, 'best friend' kiss either. They had their arms 
wrapped tightly around each other, and didn't look like they would come up 
for air anytime soon.

"...No...!"

He rubbed his eyes, thinking maybe he just wasn't seeing clearly, then 
looked again.

They were still kissing.

"This isn't happening..." He rubbed his eyes several more times. This had 
to be an illusion, it had to!

Still kissing. He dropped his schoolbag and clenched his fists tightly.

"No!" He refused to accept this, to believe it was happening. 'That's 
right, it's all just a bad dream. I'll pinch myself and I'll wake up in my 
own bed, I'll go to school, and Sakura will be waiting there for me as 
usual!' He pinched his arm.

"Ow!" he cried.

It wasn't a dream, or a hallucination.

He'd lost Sakura, and to someone he couldn't even bring himself to be 
angry with. 'After all, who could be angry with Tomoyo Daidouji? She's 
always so sweet and nice to everyone, she's so perfect!'

Syaoran couldn't take this anymore. Forcing back his emotions, he grabbed 
his schoolbag and fled the scene. He managed to get as far as the park 
before he collapsed, tears streaming down his cheeks.

"Damn it! How could you do this to me, Sakura?! You said you figured out 
your feelings for me, and now you're kissing Tomoyo!" he cried. "Why 
didn't you just tell me you wanted to break up, that you liked Tomoyo 
now?"

'I didn't want to hurt your feelings by telling you that.' Her voice 
sounded as clear as a bell in his mind. Of course. Sakura ALWAYS worried 
about hurting people's feelings.

"Hearing her say she wanted to break up wouldn't have hurt as much as what 
I just saw! She lied to me! That hurts much worse than her breaking up 
with me in person would have!" he sobbed. Just then, the sky darkened. A 
low crash of thunder signaled a coming storm.

"Great. Could my luck GET any worse than this?!"

"Don't say that. You'll jinx yourself," a familiar voice said. Syaoran 
whipped his head around to see the person he least wanted to see at that 
moment.

"Meiling?!" He glared at her. "What, did you FOLLOW me here or something? 
Can't you see I want to be left alone?"

"You think I'm going to leave you alone at a time like this?" Meiling sat 
down next to him, looking concerned. "Besides, I heard you screaming all 
the way from the library," she said.

"Great. Who else heard me? Not like it matters, though. It's gonna be all 
over school tomorrow that Sakura and Tomoyo are an item and I got left in 
the dust," he muttered.