Card Captor Sakura Fan Fiction ❯ Dreams of Amber ❯ Chapter 8 ( Chapter 8 )

Chapter 8

 

 

 

`Well maybe I should be relieved. After all, I had been telling Tomoyo that I wanted to come back.' Sakura sighed as she zipped up her bag. The thought still didn't lessen the disappointment that she felt. This was her first job after all. And she had lasted for a grand total of six days. `That's going to look so lovely on my resume.'

 

“Umm… have you finished packing?” Dan stood at the door with an apologetic smile on his face. Sakura nodded.

 

“Oh well. Let's get this stuff downstairs then.” He bent down to pick her bag up. “It's a pity you're going so soon. I mean, I didn't even get to show you around Hong Kong…”

 

She smiled. “That's okay. I didn't come here for sight-seeing anyway. Though…” She frowned. “…I should have noted down the way to the airport.”

 

“Boss said we'll drop you at the airport on the way to the Li fashion house.”

 

“Oh. That's… er—nice of him.”

 

Dan snorted. “Fancy you saying that, considering that he fired you in the first week itself.”

 

“I guess I wasn't `disciplined' enough for him. He should think of hiring a robotic nanny.”

 

Dan chuckled. “Try saying that to his face before you leave.”

 

 

~

 

 

“Is there something you would like to say to your nanny before she leaves?” Lu asked the children, giving them pointed looks.

 

Li checked his watch while leaning against the car door. “Well be quick then.”

 

Lien took a tentative step forward and Sakura kneeled down. “Um… you're… different from the others… I think I'll miss you…” She smiled, leaning forward and kissed Sakura on the cheek.

 

Sakura was surprised by the gesture, but before she could react, Lien stepped back.

 

Yuan however, was pouting and looking in the other direction. “Master Yuan, I think you have something to say too, right?” Lu asked him pointedly.

 

“Yeah, I'm… sorry… I was mean to you,” he said, still avoiding looking at Sakura. “You're okay.” He cleared his throat. “AndIalsothinkyouarepretty,” he added in a small voice.

 

Sakura giggled and messed up his hair. “That's really sweet of you, Yuan.” She felt happy that at least she had managed to make him like her, even a little bit, though it was too late now.

 

What took her by surprise was the fact that he blushed to the roots of his hair at her gesture. He sneaked a glance at her and catching her smile, his face went even redder. “Uh—I—umm… bye.” With that, he ran back into the house.

 

Sakura blinked. She stood up and looked at Lu, who looked like she was trying hard to control her laughter. Lien was giggling. Li was looking at her oddly and Dan gave her a thumbs-up.

 

“You realize Sakura, Master Yuan has never said `sorry' to anyone in his life,” Lu finally said.

 

“Oh,” was all she could think of saying.

 

A few more seconds of silence went by before, “Miss Kinomoto, where's the resignation letter I gave you yesterday?”

 

Sakura turned to look at her employer. “Eh?” It took her a moment to figure out what he was asking. “Oh… OH! The letter… wait, I was supposed to preserve it?” She smacked her forehead. “I had no idea! I… it's… umm…wait a minute…” Without waiting for a reaction, she ran into the house and into her former room.

 

A minute and a half later she appeared at the doorway with two crumpled pieces of paper in her hand. “I'm sorry… I—err—tore it in half and threw it in the dustbin… I didn't like to be reminded that I was fired… I'm really sorry…”

 

Sakura didn't know what to think of the expression on Li Syaoran's face. He was looking at the crumpled pieces as though they had been dropped from another planet.

 

He blinked before speaking, “It's alright. I've gotten sick of writing a new letter every time a nanny leaves. So I've got copies with me…” he trailed off, sounding confused.

 

Sakura noticed that behind Li's back, Dan was clutching his stomach with one hand, covering his mouth with the other and shaking with repressed laughter.

 

Li Syaoran suddenly straightened up as though he'd just realized why he had asked her about the letter. He cleared his throat. “Okay, yeah, I wanted to tell you to dispose that letter anyway,” he said, trying to sound authoritative. “But since you've already done that…”

 

Sakura widened her eyes. “You mean to say…?”

 

“You're an odd woman,” Syaoran said as he opened the car door. He looked as though he was talking to himself. He sighed and shook his head. “You confuse me.” And without warning, he looked at her and smiled. “Do make sure the kids eat every meal properly. Tell them I'll be having dinner with them today. It's a promise. No interruptions.”

 

Sakura stared at him dumbstruck as he got into the car. Her gaze traveled to Dan, who gave her a wink before getting on the driver's seat. She continued to stare as the car drove off.

 

Lu snapped her out of her trance. “Shall we go in now? I'll tell the other servants to put your bags back into your room.”

 

Sakura stared some more at Lu when finally what the maid had said hit her. “Oh no! I hate unpacking!”

 

 

~

 

 

Sakura was beginning to realize that Dan had hit it right on the mark when he described Li as a moody man. Just yesterday he had basically told her to shut up and get lost. And this morning he had actually smiled at her and allowed her to continue her job.

 

`He even took my lecture about spending more time with the kids seriously. Wow,' she thought.

 

“Well he's an impulsive man.” Sakura remembered Lu's words. “He likes to take decisions very quickly. I guess, with the kind of work he does, he has to.”

 

Now Sakura didn't know what to think. A few hours back Sakura had easily bracketed Li Syaoran into the `arrogant jerk' category, who by some coincidence had the same eye colour as `Amber-eyes'. Now, she was forced to put him in the `arrogant but can be nice sometime' category. This just confused her feelings for her boss even more.

 

`And he says I am an odd woman and I confuse him!'

 

“You know, you think too much.” Sakura looked up to see Dan grinning down at her.

 

“That's because you always turn up when I'm deep in thought,” she replied. “Actually, you just turn up everywhere, all the time. One would think you're stalking me or something.”

 

Dan's grin widened. “Hey, I've got loads of free-time with nothing better to do, so why not stalk a pretty girl, hmm?”

 

She blushed. “Stop flirting if you don't mean it.”

 

He bent down. “Who says I don't mean it?”

 

“Okay, stop that.”

 

“Fine, if it bothers you,” he said, straightening up and running a hand through his hair. “I actually came to congratulate you.”

 

“Oh. On getting my job back?”

 

“Nope. On successfully managing to confuse Li Syaoran and making him look like an idiot,” he chuckled. “Did you see the expression on his face when you showed him that torn-up letter?”

 

She giggled. “I don't know. I thought he was going to yell at me.”

 

He shook his head. “No, he was actually confused. He doesn't know if you're putting up some kind of act or you really are like this.”

 

Sakura immediately felt offended. “I'm not putting up an act. That's just silly!”

 

“I know, but the nannies who came before you would never dare speak to the boss like you did yesterday. All of them, or at least the ones I've seen, would be on their best behavior in front of him and try to be extra nice. Most of them were also all flirtatious and… well you know. I guess he's gotten so used to all that—so he finds you an oddity.”

 

“Wait… so you mean to say that he expects me to hit on him?” The thought itself sounded ridiculous to Sakura.

 

“Maybe he expects you to. I don't think he wants you to. He doesn't like all that. He just fires anyone who goes overboard with that stuff.” Dan paused to think. “But you, instead of being all nice, try to lecture him. That took him by surprise and probably hurt his ego. So in the midst of all that confusion and anger, he decided the easiest solution would be to fire you.”

 

“Oh. So today when he saw that the kids like me somewhat he decided to let me stay?”

 

“Yeah, probably. And what do you mean `like me somewhat'? Didn't you see Yuan's reaction? I think he has a puppy crush on you.”

 

“Puppy crush?” Sakura giggled.

 

“Yep.”

 

She smiled. “You're quite good at this.”

 

“At what?”

 

“At reading people. Figuring out what's going on in their minds.”

 

Dan sighed. “Yeah, it's such a waste that I'm a driver. People have told me I'm quite good at psychoanalysis.”

 

Sakura raised an eyebrow. “Psychoanalysis?”

 

He grinned. “Just some big word I read somewhere. Don't have a clue what it means.”

 

Sakura laughed.