The cheer-up-Sakura-hime get-together(-and-eat-cake)

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When; Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009 (That's right, this is backdated to last Sunday. I am so sorry.)
Rating; G/PG territory
Characters; Sakura-hime and friends (Konata as hostess, Doumeki as co-conspirator / friends of Sakura-hime's can generally consider themselves invited)
Summary; An impromptu get-together to cheer Sakura up after Syaoran's departure
Log;

It wasn't really supposed to be a surprise party, as Konata had said to Doumeki. It was an "it sucks that your boyfriend is gone now but we're here for you kinda thing." But there would be people, and there would supposedly be cake, and Konata had gotten drinks (mostly soda) and plates and snacks and really it ended up looking quite a bit like a party after all. And Sakura-hime didn't know about it until Konata called her out into the living room, so maybe it was something of a surprise as well.

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[li-xiao-lang.livejournal.com]

"Um, sure," he answered, taking it from her. He was pretty fond of chocolate, actually. He took a bite. "Thanks."

[mypace-musume.livejournal.com]

Quickest way to a boy's heart... Well, any kid's heart. And maybe her heart too. "You're okay, right? You're pensive today."

[li-xiao-lang.livejournal.com]

"Fine," he answers quickly, but she isn't Tomoyo and she isn't trying to tease him for once. He pauses.

"Just thinking about home," he says finally. In a very abstract way, he was; he was thinking about leaving and about others who had left and what it would be like to go home after being in a place like this.

[mypace-musume.livejournal.com]

"Home?" That wasn't what she had expected. "... Someone you miss?" But Sakura-chan is here, she thought, but left it unsaid.

[li-xiao-lang.livejournal.com]

He flushes at that but tries to ignore his own reaction in hopes that she will too. "Not really." Sakura was here, after all, he thought before he could prevent himself. Of course, she was there too, but maybe he was beginning to have some peace with that. He would wait until he could go back, and then he would do what he had to do. He'd work toward that, but he wouldn't just sit around here until then.

"It's just something to think about. What happens when he leave."

[mypace-musume.livejournal.com]

That reminded me of something... She wasn't sure what it meant, or whether it would help Shaoran, but somehow she liked to talk about it. "... Did I ever mention that there was a 'me' in the City before I was here?"

[li-xiao-lang.livejournal.com]

Syaoran blinked. "I think you did once."

He though that must be a hard thing to know. Who knew what your other self had been up to? If it was 'you,' you would think you could trust 'yourself,' but still...

Definitely worse than having an older double.

[mypace-musume.livejournal.com]

"Oh, okay. That's right, I guess we were talking about timelines before..." Konata remembered. Shaoran and Sakura were from different continuums... And Clow was unexpectedly from Sakura's and not Shaoran's. She wasn't sure what she could do with that information, or if she could ever explain it to Shaoran in a way that would make sense to him, but there it was. Konata fell silent again, not wanting to press on that issue for fear of Shaoran starting to pry.

... Not that it would be a terrible thing in itself, but it wasn't a conversation she wanted to have in the middle of a party.

[li-xiao-lang.livejournal.com]

"Do you know anything about them? Or what they did?" He paused. "Why are you so sure that it wasn't you, and you just don't remember?"

Izumi was the first person who he'd spoken to who had that strange theory. He wondered where it had came from.

[mypace-musume.livejournal.com]

"Huh? Didn't I tell you before? I met her. During a curse where people who were in the City before came back. I was the only person I heard of who had herself come back, though.

"I think she was a bit crazier than me. I'm not sure what that means."

[li-xiao-lang.livejournal.com]

Syaoran blinked. He hadn't encountered a curse like that before. People came back for only a day? Sometimes yourself?

And because he can be polite, Konata, he does not say, It means that you're biased, probably. Instead he says, "That must have been odd."

[mypace-musume.livejournal.com]

"It was like meeting concentrated awesome." Konata nodded sagely.

"I mean, it must have been for her. For me it was pretty weird."

[li-xiao-lang.livejournal.com]

"Concentrated awesome," Syaoran repeats in a dry tone. "I suppose. Does that sort of thing happen often? Where people visit for only a little while?"

[mypace-musume.livejournal.com]

"I think it's about once every three months."

[li-xiao-lang.livejournal.com]

"So it should happen again soon." Syaoran filed away this information for future use. At least, he'd be a little less surprised when it did happen.