Oo, here we go.
About two years ago I was on the bus with my Inuyasha manga supplier, totally hitting her up for manga to borrow cause I was bored. Well, she was probably trying to distract me so she showed me a picture she drew (I didn't know who they were at the time, but it was that picture of Sakura and Syaoran (closeup) when they're pressed against the glass in that chamber from the first few pages of the manga) and I was like, 'Woah, cool! But the art is kinda funny...'
And she was like, "Here, look, isn't it cool?" And being a total weirdo I was like "MANGA" and started reading it. I got into it a little and begged her to let me borrow it, but she hadn't finished and took it home. I never got to read it from her.
About a year or so later, I found CCS fanfiction and fell in love. I bought several of the books (sadly from the Master of Clow arc, so I got majorly confused) and fell in love with Sakura and Syaoran. My collection of CCS grew and my fanfiction attention turned from the sad Inuyasha stories to the slightly more diverse CCS ones.
One day, my bookstore had no CCS books and so I turned around, looking for something to read. Cause I'm an addict. DNAngel? No, I borrowed from my friend. Kamichama Karin? Borrowed it. Inuyasha? Had most of them. I was completely losing it, about to die if I didn't have SOMETHING to get, and then I SAW IT. Right there, the word CLAMP caught my eye and I was on it. When I saw Sakura and Syaoran my interest was hooked.
But I was afraid and didn't buy it, instead leaving the store dejectedly. A few days later, my friend was going to the mall and I was begging her to buy me the first few manga of Tsubasa because the interest and need to read SS was killing me. She brought back 2 and 3 because they didn't have the first one, but I was hooked anyway. I began zooming online, surfing for pictures and stories and the result is what you see before you.
A fanatic.