Lies And Love (Completed)

Chapter 11: When Problems Arise

Syaoran's mind was spinning but it was still racing with about a hundred thoughts all the same. He felt the wind knocked out of him, as if someone had just delivered a severe blow to his chest, making him unable to breathe properly.

"What's going on here?"

Sakura whipped around and hastily wiped her tears with the back of her hand before running towards the door to Mei Hua's room.

"Shizuki! Mei Hua! How's Mei Hua?" she asked immediately and almost hysterically.

With one last glance in Syaoran's direction- who had now collapsed onto a chair with a distant expression on his face -he looked back down at Sakura with a reassuring smile.

"She's asleep right now. I'm sorry I couldn't come out here earlier, but we had to do some tests on her as soon as we got her vitals stable. We have to resume the testing when she wakes up. She was too exhausted tonight to complete it," he informed them both although unsure if Syaoran was even listening.

Sakura still wasn't convinced. "But if you didn't finish the tests…" she trailed off.

"Don't worry," Shizuki assured her with a reassuring squeeze on the arm. "We immediately did the most necessary tests first to see how she was. Everything is fine so far. Still a little weak compared to her usual results from all those previous times, but nothing to worry about just yet. We'll complete it tomorrow to be sure."

Nodding weakly, Sakura let out a sigh albeit still looking worried and frightened to the core.

"Can I go in and see her?" she asked.

"There are still a few doctors and specialists in there. You can as soon as they clear the room," he said before putting his hands into the pockets of his white lab gown. "I just have to ask though, just what did happen tonight?"

Sakura glanced back at the still blank looking and silent Syaoran before looking back at Shizuki with a pleading look. "We went out for dinner, went to the mall with the kids and left them in the playground there. Syaoran and I g-got into a row, and when I left him to fetch the kids so we can leave, I-I found Mei Hua had already collapsed. That's a-about it," she summarized.

Shizuki nodded before gesturing for Sakura to take a seat on one of the empty lined chairs beside where Syaoran was sitting.

Taking the chair a seat away from Syaoran, Sakura glanced once at him yet again before looking at Shizuki.

"I talked to the boys," he started, running a hand through his hair. "When I left with them to the waiting room with Mona earlier, I asked them what happened. Their version of tonight's events is quite different, or at least, it was more informative."

"What do you mean?" Sakura asked, getting confused.

"By what Xiao Tian and Xiao Hai told me, it seems to me that you two were practically screaming each other's heads off," he said, brows furrowed and a very disapproving look on his face. "Did you even know how close you two were to the playground before you started fighting so loudly?"

"I-I don't understand," Sakura said. Even though he sat a little away from Syaoran, she could feel him stiffen in his seat. She looked at him and noticed that he had gotten considerably paler.

With a regretful look at Syaoran, knowing he had understood what he had meant, Shizuki turned to Sakura. "They, and I mean all three of them, heard you and Li's conversation Sakura. All of it, or at least everything you shouted at each other. The boys told me you and Syaoran were shouting at each other about them. They were really hesitant in telling me and some of it doesn't make sense by how they told me, but I can pretty much assume that you two were fighting over Li's attitude towards Mei Hua. About how much he favors the boys and how much he dislikes Mei Hua," he finished, and by which Sakura was looking just as pale as Syaoran had been. And Syaoran on the other hand- if it were even possible –had gotten even paler than ever.