Author's Note: Please read "Act Naturally" before reading this story.
I needed to write a new story for my Writer's Workshop class, and after 3 failed attempts, I wrote this one. Um... yay for Haruhi and Tamaki!
All characters in the story are from Ouran High School Host Club and are © Bisco Hatori.
Title comes from a song by CHEMISTRY.


Dance With Me
(sequal to "Act Naturally")

By Kusabi

"I only want to dance with you."
Upon hearing his words, Haruhi froze. She may have been a typically oblivious person, but since these words were coming from Taamki, she knew exactly what he meant.
"Senpai… I…"
Before she could say anything, Tamaki cut her off, since he was suddenly nervous. "Oh, look, we're done with the cleaning," he hurriedly spoke. "We should be on our way."
Nodding, Haruhi agreed, slightly upset that she didn't get a chance to say anything back to him. Suddenly realizing that she had no way home, and it also happened to be past midnight, she called out to him, "Ah, senpai… I have no way to get home…"
"I can have my driver take you home as well," he said happily. Then the realization of what he had just done came to him.
Just the two of us… in my limo…
After his inner-mind-theatre vision of him with Haruhi, he mentally slapped himself, realizing that his original reason for heading home was to get out of an awkward situation… and now he was throwing himself into another.
"Thank you, senpai," Haruhi replied, with a small smile on her face.
However, since Haruhi's home was forty minutes away from the school, they both knew that it would be quite an awkward ride.

The first five minutes passed in awkward small talk, and the next five in awkward silence. Haruhi, not being able to stand the quiet tension between them, finally spoke up.
"Senpai, the truth is…" She fumbled in the dark of her mind for words. Haruhi definitely wasn't a romantic person, and everyone knew that. Yet, she didn't want to simply say, 'oh, yeah, I like you too…'. With a mental sigh, just decided to say the first words that came to mind.
"I… I want to dance with you too.."
Quickly looking out the window, Tamaki told the driver to stop the car. As they came to a halt, he pulled Haruhi out of the limo, and over towards a riverbank. It was abandoned at this time of night, since it was nearly one in the morning by this time.
"Um, senpai, what are you doing?"
Smiling down at her, Tamaki put his left arm around her waits, and took her left hand in his right. He began leading her in a waltz, with the moonlight shining down on them. Even without music, the two danced, not breaking eye contact.
After three minutes, they stopped, as Tamaki intentionally froze. "Haruhi…"
"What is it, senpai?"
"…………………………ireallyreallylikeyou." These were the only words he could stumble out, and unfortunately, he said them a bit too fast for his own liking. Way to be, idiot…
Emitting a small, unexpectedly girlish giggle, she replied, "What was that? I couldn't understand you."
Turning slightly red, he sighed. "I… really, really like… you…"
Smiling up at him, Haruhi could feel herself blushing. At the moment, she knew she was acting different from her usual personality, but she didn't care at all. All she cared about was that moment.
"I like you too, senpai…"