Card Captor Sakura Fan Fiction ❯ Sakura Sushi ❯ Volume One, Chapter Three: Time ( Chapter 3 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
Time
First Obstacle: Meilin
January 25th, 2011. Meilin awoke to a sudden surprise that morning. Boxes. A thud woke her up that fateful morning. She tried to ignore it at first. When the sound didn't stop, the woman mumbled to herself and turned over in bed.
“Mah!” Meilin shouted as she sat up. “What the hell?!?” She leapt out of bed to investigate.
Boxes. Boxes as far as the eye could see. Meilin looked around stumped.
“What is all of this?” she asked. Suddenly, the door opened. She looked up and saw Shaolan and Sakura carrying in more boxes. They looked and saw the other woman.
“Oh hi Meilin,” Sakura said. The Chinese woman was at a loss for words.
“Uh…”she said. “What's all of this?”
“Didn't I tell you?” Shaolan asked. Meilin shook her head.
“No…” she said.
“I told you last night,” he said.
“I must have been asleep,” his cousin said.
“Well anyway,” Shaolan said as he put his arm around Sakura. “Sakura is moving in with us.” Meilin's jaw dropped.
“Why?!?” she yelped. Sakura pressed lips together.
“I'm pregnant,” she admitted. Meilin about collapsed to the floor.
“What?!?” she cried.
“She's moving in so we can raise the baby together,” Shaolan said. His cousin wished she had never gotten out of bed. The woman walked back to her room. Sakura and Shaolan looked perplexed.
“Meilin?” Shaolan asked.
“WHY?!? WHY?!? WHY?!?” she screamed. *Sweat drops on Sakura and Shaolan's heads* Uncomfortable silence.
“Uh… do you want the guest room?” Shaolan asked.
“Sure,” Sakura mumbled.
It kept get awkward from there. Meilin hid in her room while Shaolan helped Sakura unpack in her new room. This was just like New Year's Eve.
Meilin still carried a torch for Shaolan. They were once engaged to marry. But yet, that fell through on eighteenth birthday. Worst year of her life. Meilin didn't hate Sakura. It's that she and Shaolan had been close for years in Hong Kong. Sakura coming along just threw everything off.
For years, Meilin watched Shaolan and Sakura dance around the subject of taking their relationship further. Such a painful thing to watch. She almost wanted to scream, “Kiss or don't date already!” The woman hoped for the latter option. It wasn't looking that way years later. Then, the New Year's Eve came around. Shaolan spent most of the night with Sakura. Meilin ended up along in the kitchen downing sake and punch.
Now, Sakura was pregnant with Shaolan's child and moving in with them. Meilin buried her face in her pillow. Did God hate her or something? The guy she liked knocked up her quasi-rival at the end of last year. That same quasi-rival was moving into her house with an unborn kid on the way. And Meilin was expected to be okay with all of that?
There came a knock on her door.
“Yes?” Meilin asked in her pillow.
“Shaolan and I are going out to lunch now,” Sakura said on the other side of the door. “Want to come?” Meilin sat up, looking like a corpse.
“No,” she said. “I'm good.”
“You sure?” the soon-to-be mother asked.
“I'm not hungry,” Meilin lied. “You and Shaolan go on ahead.” There was a pause.
“Okay,” Sakura said uncertain. Meilin buried her head back into the pillow as she listened to the footsteps disappear down the hall. She let out a muzzled groan. And Sakura was going to live here for nine months and then some?
I can't take this!, she thought. Nine months with her?!? No!
Cousin