HOLY FUHSNIZZLES I'M WRITING AGAIN X0 I know. Shocker. Well, truth be told, I've been writing, only I haven't had time until now to update like legit. So I'll try to update my FMA Advice Column as well…Right after I get back from Cape May D You all probably hate me now. Sorry; no time + I can't get into character SUCKS TO YOUR ASS-MAR. …Lord of the Flies reference DX

So for something completely different…something that relates to the story!! X0 White Houses has always reminded me of OHSHC, in some AU, awkward kind of way. And since the song refuses to leave my goddamn head, I decided to fanfic it. Huzzah! (Yes, fanfic is officially a verb. Fanfic, to fanfic, fanficing? You know). Also, this is the first fanfic I've written that hasn't been written out first; it's directly being typed! It's also my first AU-ish fic (which is ironic, because usually I don't like change and therefore don't like AU's…). And a single song that's divided into chapters, hmm…Well, we'll see what happens D The characters will be similar to how they really are, but you will notice some major diffs.

Warning: There are "feminine issues" (if you know what I mean) at at least three instances in this story. One is in this chapter. I don't know too many guys who like OHSHC enough to read fanfiction (not that there aren't any), but if you're male, consider yourself warned. Also, the rating of this will reach "M" (if you know the song, you know why), and the genres will change to fit the overall story. JUST SO YOU KNOW.

White Houses

Little Bungalow

Crashed on the floor when I moved in
This little bungalow with some strange new friends
Stay up too late, and I'm too thin
We promise each other it's 'til the end
Now we're spinning empty bottles
It's the five of us
With pretty eyed boys girls die to trust
I can't resist the day
No, I can't resist the day

"Ugh. Honestly, a summer house?" a girl mumbled to herself as she walked down the sidewalk. Her hair was chopped short like a boy's, but looking at the feminine clothes she wore and the amount of luggage she was carrying…well, only a girl could pack that much luggage for a five week summer. "'No, really, it'll be fun!' he says. Really. It's just an excuse for him to run off with his friends for five weeks in Switzerland. As if his friends are any better. All dumping off their kids here. Aren't a bunch of them boys? And he's never met them; I could get raped, for all he know-UWAH!" the girl exclaimed as she tripped and fell, her luggage falling everywhere. She groaned, and began collecting the bags and suitcases that were strewn across the sidewalk, mentally cursing the bus company for not making a stop that was closer to her destination.

"I'm sorry, but is this yours?" the girl heard a voice to her left ask. She looked to see a boy that looked to be about her age standing to the side of the road holding one of her bags, even though he had some luggage of his own (though the amount he carried was noticeably less than hers).

"Oh…Yeah, sorry about that, I tripped."

"So then, is this yours, too?" she heard another voice, one that was similar, yet different ask from several feet in front of her. She had to blink a few times to make sure she wasn't hallucinating, because the exact same boy was now standing in front of her.

"Um…oh, well, yeah." Duh, they're obviously twins. Come on, Haruhi, you can't be this brain-dead with a bunch of guys living in the same house as you! Pull yourself together! As the two approached her, however, she noticed that they really weren't the exact same boy. For one thing, even though their clothes were extremely similar with the same color patterns, they differed by one having more pockets or zippers and other small, hardly noticeable things like that. For another, one's reddish hair was parted to the left and the other's was parted to the right. And somehow, there was something else different about them, though Haruhi couldn't place her finger on it.

"Well, judging by all this luggage you're carrying, I guess we're headed for the same place," the first boy she saw, the one with his hair parted to the right, said. "My name is Hikaru Hitachiin-"

"-And I'm Kaoru Hitachiin."

"Nice to meet you both. I'm Haruhi Fujioka," the girl introduced herself.

"Ah, well then, Haruhi-" Hikaru started.

"-would you like us to help you carry something?" Kaoru finished.

"You have way more luggage than us," Hikaru continued, gesturing to the few bags he and his brother carried.

"Oh! No, that's alright, I can carry them myself!" Haruhi protested.

"Really?" Hikaru asked, walking ahead of her, still carrying her bag that he'd picked up.

"Because it seems like you were struggling with all those bags," Kaoru agreed, keeping up with his brother while carrying another one of Haruhi's bags.

"No, really, don't bother yourselves! I told you, I can do it!" Haruhi exclaimed, trying to keep up with them.

"But you obviously can't!" The two called back in unison, ever evading her reach.

The three continued the rest of the short distance to the house like that, running after each other (more like stumbling, with all those bags) while arguing back and forth over who should carry them. Finally, the twins stopped short, their laughing having ceased (they apparently got amusement out of annoying others, despite their initial attitude, Haruhi decided), in front of an enormous white house, surrounded by a white picket fence with a black iron gate in front. The entire house was blindingly white, except for the shutters, which were as black as the gate. From the gate to the three small steps of the stoop in front of the door there was a small pathway made up of large flat stones. Trees filled the yard, along with lilies and other flowers, and two rosebushes stood on either side of the small set of stairs.

"Uhh…"

"Come on, Hikaru, you said you'd hold onto it; don't tell me you've lost it!"

"I didn't loose it! It's right…Uh…here?" Haruhi could hear the two boys arguing as she approached them.

"What are you looking for?" she asked, gazing at the house.

"Ah, well, our mom wrote down the address of the summer house so we wouldn't forget. Hikaru was supposed to hold onto it, but…"

"Ah! Found it! See, I didn't loose it, it was just towards the bottom end of this bag. Anyway, this is the place, alright. Let's go," Hikaru said, pushing open the gate with his free hand, then using it to pick up the bag he'd put on the ground while searching for the lost paper.

Again, the twins led the way up the pathway, past the trees and lilies and finally the rosebushes, up the steps to the door, holding it open like perfect gentlemen to let Haruhi through with her astounding amount of luggage. Yet no sooner had she reached the door than she again tripped, this time over the threshold, and all of her bags (minus the two Hikaru and Kaoru were carrying for her) spilled all over the floor again.

"-And that is why I shall be your King—UWOAH!" a blonde boy standing near the door was saying- that is, until Haruhi tripped into him, knocking him to the ground and landing on top of him.

"Ow," she mumbled, her eyes instinctively closed from the fall. This floor doesn't feel hard at all…But then, it's not quite soft…in fact, it feels more like a…like a… Haruhi's eyes snapped open with the realization that she was, in fact, lying on top of a human being. "Uhh…WAH! I'm so sorry!" Haruhi exclaimed, leaping up as she turned beet red, her strewn luggage forgotten for the moment.

"Ahhh…" The blonde haired boy groaned, getting up, "Oh! No, it's really my fault for standing so close to the door," he apologized, rubbing the back of his neck, embarrassed, "Well, that was sure an awkward way to meet, but at least it's a meeting we'll never forget! By the way, my name is Tamaki. Tamaki Suoh," he said, extending his hand.

"I'm Haruhi. Haruhi Fujioka," she found herself introducing herself again as she took his hands. "I'm sorry, but…your hair…and your eyes…Are you really Japanese?" she blushed as she asked, but she couldn't help herself; he must live in Japan since their parents were friends, but he sure as hell didn't look it!

"Half Japanese," Tamaki answered, but didn't bother to elaborate. (A/N you don't even want to know how long it took me to remember that word…)

"Um, your bags are everywhere. Do you want some help with them?" Haruhi heard a child's voice ask, and looked behind the blonde boy standing in front of her to see three more people, neglected until that moment. There was a boy with glasses and black hair sitting in an armchair reading, though he looked up for just a moment when the child spoke. He looked to be around the age of the other three boys Haruhi had just met, unlike the boy who was sitting in the couch opposite him. He was perhaps a foot shorter than she, who was already several inches shorter than everyone else, with blonde hair and a very happy disposition. There was another boy sitting on his far side but still next to him, who appeared several years older. He had black hair like the one reading, but his expression seemed stoic.

"Well…I suppose, if that's alright with you. But I don't even know your names yet," Haruhi said, feeling guilty.

"I'm Mitsukuni Haninozuka, but most people just call me Hunny, and it's very nice to meet you, Haru-chan! Oh, and this is my cousin, Takashi Morinozuka, but you can call him Mori," the boy who called himself Hunny exclaimed, speaking faster than Haruhi thought humanly possible while his cousin merely grunted after being introduced. He jumped up from the couch, as though someone had given him a jumpstart, grabbing his cousin's hand and leading him to the luggage-strewn area of the floor.

As the two cousins walked towards Haruhi, she looked towards the boy with glasses, and noticed he was staring at her. However, as soon as she looked at him, he pushed up his glasses and went back to reading his book, and as a means of introduction, merely said, "Kyoya Ohtori."

"Are you two staying here as well?" Haruhi heard the boy who had introduced himself as Tamaki ask from behind her as she picked up a suitcase, and presumed he was talking to the twins. "What are your names?"

"Hikaru-"

"-and Kaoru-"

"-Hitachiin," the two finished together.

"Um, excuse me, but have we divided up the bedrooms yet? I'd like to unpack, if that's ok," Haruhi directed the question at any of the four boys who had been there prior to her arrival. Seeing as none of them had any of their bags downstairs with them, she assumed they'd brought them up to their rooms already, so they must have decided on the rooming order.

"Ah, but of course!" Tamaki exclaimed, turning away from the twins to face her, "Since there will be eight of us staying here (or so I've been told) and there are four bedrooms, we've divided up the rooms so that there will be two to a room. Although I don't know who the last person to join us will be, so if it's a girl, she can obviously stay with Haruhi, though if it's a boy, it would only be reasonable for him to stay in one of our rooms. But let's not worry about that just now. If you go upstairs and go to your right, the first two rooms on the left-hand side are empty, so you can pick whichever one you want."

"Alright, thank you," Haruhi said as she carried some of her bags up the stairs, Hunny and Mori following, with the twins behind them.

As they turned down the hallway, Haruhi heard one of the twins call down to her, "Don't forget, we have some of your stuff, too!"

"Alright, then, I'll take the first room so you don't have to carry it as far," Haruhi replied, looking behind her. Though when she did, she saw Hunny carrying her largest suitcase, and cried, "Hunny! What are you doing? A little boy like you shouldn't be carrying something so heavy! Just give it to me, sweetie, and I'll carry it the rest of the way."

"Sorry, what are you talking about?" Hunny asked, obviously confused, "Me and Takashi are the same age. We're both seventeen."

Haruhi almost dropped all of her luggage again when he said this. "R-Really?" she asked, and Mori nodded to confirm it. "Y-You're so small…But you're really older than me? Oh, I'm sorry! I really didn't mean to-!"

"It's alright," Hunny laughed, "I'm really not sensitive about my height or anything, so it's alright!"

"Alright…" Haruhi said reluctantly, then realized that they had reached the room she had chosen. "Oh yeah, you guys can just put the bags down in here. I'll unpack by myself."

"Eh, tono, it's getting late out," the twins, seated on either side of Tamaki, said in unison. Tono was the nickname they'd thought up for him, as they'd heard his self-declaration of "King" when they first arrived.

"I don't think this final eighth person is showing up today," Hikaru said.

"I suppose," Tamaki agreed, "But furthermore, it's been hours since we last saw Haruhi. Do you think she's alright?"

"Don't worry, she's probably just taking her time unpacking. She's a girl, after all," Kaoru said.

While Haruhi had been MIA, the boys hadn't exactly had the most thrilling time. Hunny took Mori by the hand, exploring every inch of the large house, which had actually taken some time, though they ended up getting bored before they got to the back end of the house and decided to join the rest in the living room before long. The twins had unpacked quickly, and after they'd finished, they'd spent their time harassing their new "king". Kyoya had simply spent his time reading his book while ignoring the others (or at least, trying to). However, except for the twins who harassed Tamaki, and Hunny and Mori, who probably interacted only because they knew each other before then, the boys didn't make an effort, such as Tamaki's when Haruhi and the twins had arrived, to open up to the others. Because of this, boredom was just about to overwhelm them, until they heard a voice calling from the top of the stairs.

"Hey, guys! Did you see the pool outside? It's huge! It's not too dark out, and it's still hot, so I'm gonna go for a swim. Come out, if you like," they heard Haruhi's voice call, followed by, "Guess it's a good thing I brought my bathing suit, after all!"

Of course, after the blazing hot day they'd endured to get there (even though it was air-conditioned inside), none were opposed to going for a swim.

"Oh, wow…this is really nice!" Haruhi said in awe as she stood next to the pool. The bathing suit she wore was a one-piece suit, not revealing in the least, and dark blue in color. The pool she looked into appeared to be the same dark blue due to the disappearing sun. It was an in-ground pool, with water levels as shallow as three feet and as deep as six feet. However, it looked as if it hadn't gotten any use in a while, as there were dead leaves floating at the top of the water. Though, Haruhi supposed, the landlord or whoever their parents were renting this house from must have vacuumed the bottom prior to their arrival, as it was nearly spotless, just leaving the top of the water for them to clean themselves. After all, leaves and insects fall into pools everyday, so while it may have been spotless when the landlord had cleaned it, over the week or so that no one had lived there, the amount of debris on top must have just increased. So I guess that means I have to clean it, huh? The girl thought, finding the net propped up against the side of a large white shed that was next to the pool. As she skimmed the leaves and dead bugs off the water's surface, she secretly hoped that the boys would thank her for it and give them all an opportunity to open up to each other a bit more; she was never very good at doing that.

"Woooow, so clean!" she heard a voice that could only be Hunny's exclaim a few feet to her left as she skimmed the last of the debris off of the water. She turned to see the small boy with a pink tube around his middle gazing into the water. Mori stood next to him, wearing his same expressionless mask, though she thought she saw a spark of something in his eyes as he looked at her. Appreciation, perhaps? She didn't have time to think about it, however, as two arms snaked around her shoulders.

"We saw you cleaning up from our window. So you did it all by yourself, eh, Haruhi?" two nearly identical voices whispered into her ear.

"Y-Yes…that's right," Haruhi stammered. Ok, so I wanted us to bond with each other a bit, but this is a little too close…

"Then we give you our thanks. That saved the rest of us a lot of work," Haruhi turned, subtly trying to shake the twins off of her, to see the glasses-wearing boy who had introduced himself as Kyoya walk up to the pool, with Tamaki not far behind.

"You little devils! Step away from Haruhi!" speaking of the taller blonde boy, he was headed straight for Haruhi and the two boys who still had their arms around her.

"Eh, tono, what's your problem?" Hikaru asked innocently.

"We were just thanking her for taking the time to clean the pool," Kaoru finished for him.

"Really, Tamaki, what's wrong?" Haruhi asked, obviously confused.

"Haruhi, believe me, they may seem innocent enough, but they're really devilish tricksters! Why, not ten minutes ago, they locked me in my room!"

"No, they merely tricked you into thinking they did. You were just turning the doorknob the wrong way," Kyoya reminded him, coming out of the shed with a lawn chair.

"Well, either way, just look at them sexually harassing poor Haruhi!" Tamaki continued as Hunny and Mori slipped into the more shallow end of the pool and Kyoya opened up the lawn chair, setting the towel he'd brought with him (not that anyone else did) on it, and his glasses on top of that.

"Really, Tamaki, I think you're exaggerating…"

"Don't, worry, Haruhi, I'll free you from their grasp!"

"Tono!"

"Stop!"

Splash!

After Tamaki's attempted "rescue" of Haruhi, ending up in all four teenagers falling in the pool, the four sat next to each other, letting their legs dangle in the water while the other three swam. Tamaki continued to apologize to Haruhi and the twins.

"Tono. Really. It's fine. Stop apologizing," the brothers said in unison. They hadn't really minded the whole ordeal; in fact, it had been fairly amusing, and wished the stupid blonde would just shut up about the whole thing.

"Kaoru, you're sure you're fine?" Hikaru turned to his twin, lowering his voice, "I mean, if you have water in your ears, you could get an ear infection, and then what would happen…?"

"Hikaru, I'm fine, really. You don't have to worry about me," Kaoru replied, sounding a bit embarrassed. "But…you're sure you're fine? I fell on top of you, after all."

"I'm alright," the other answered, and moved closer to his brother.

"Really, Haruhi," Tamaki was saying to their only female companion, "I am sorry about all of that."

"I told you, Tamaki, it's fine," Haruhi reassured him. "But I think that's enough excitement for tonight. I'm going to go put the net away inside the shed and then head in for the night."

"B-But Haruhi!" Tamaki protested, still probably thinking that she was mad at him.

"It's alright. Night."

But when Haruhi walked into the so-called "shed", she found it to be nothing at all like what she expected. Several lawn chairs like the one Kyoya had taken out were lined against the right wall, along with other pool equipment, including towels and a nail for the net to hang on. However, most of the rest of the area was empty; the floor was carpeted, and when Haruhi turned the lights on, she saw a small refrigerator in the corner and a ping-pong table against the back wall underneath the clock.

"…9:45 is a little early to turn in…"

"Hey, this place is pretty nice."

"Someone could live back here if they wanted to!"

"There's some stuff in the fridge; bottled soda and some snacks. Anyone want anything?"

"They even stocked the fridge for us?"

"Dad did say this place was pretty expensive to rent out; I guess it makes sense."

Once everyone had seen their fill of the mini-house and had mostly dried off, they emptied the fridge and, sitting in a circle, practically devoured everything that had been in it. It was obvious no one had had much to eat that day.

"Haru-chan, aren't you hungry, too?" Hunny asked her, and all eyes turned towards the girl, AKA the only one not eating or drinking.

"No, I'm fine, but thank you."

"Haruhi…when did you get a chance to eat today? You were unpacking all day," one of the twins noted.

"Um…well, I didn't exactly eat here. But I had a real big breakfast before I left home, so I haven't been hungry; something like four pancakes, some eggs-"

"Liar."

Everyone's eyes were now focused on the new speaker. "Uh…K-Kyoya? What do you mean?"

"You're way too thin. There's no way you could have eaten that much food at once. Your body is obviously not accustomed to eating large quantities of food at once, so it would be impossible for you to have eaten so much when it looks like you normally have small meals," Kyoya explained. Everyone was silent for a moment.

"OH, MY POOR HARUHI IS ANOREXIC!!" Tamaki exclaimed, glomping onto the girl sitting next to him. "Don't worry, over this summer, I shall teach you how to have a healthy diet!"

"Tamaki. Let go of me. I'm not anorexic." As Tamaki let go of her, she let out a breath. "Honestly, you're like an over protective father. Look, I don't have an eating problem, alright? I'm just not used to eating a lot. I usually eat pretty small meals, and while my breakfast wasn't actually that big, it was big for me, so I'm just not hungry. That's it, I guess."

"But you're still so thin. You're always gonna be flat-chested if you continue like this."

"Ok, I don't know which one of you said that, but that does it!!" and with that, Haruhi found herself stuffing her face with various sweet snacks.

"You guys suck," Haruhi mumbled later, feeling like she was going to explode. Perhaps having a cute boy- and yes, they were all pretty damn cute, each in his own way, even if they were all weird enough to make up for it- call her flat-chested had pushed her perhaps a little too far, and now she felt slightly nauseated.

"Now what should we do? It's just 10:30," Hunny asked over Tamaki's cries of, "Haruhi hates us all! What shall we do!?".

"Spin The Bottle?" Hikaru openly suggested, his chin resting in his palm, spinning his empty glass soda bottle with his free hand.

"But there's just one girl here," Kyoya pointed out.

"How about instead of kissing, we play it like Truth or Dare?" Kaoru suggested.

"Ah, but that's still boring, my dear brother. How about whoever spins asks a request, or something of the like, of whoever it lands on?"

"Even better, Hikaru. Though I suppose we should keep it to a PG level. Whoever doesn't-"

"-Shall lose their turn."

"Any questions?" The two finished in unison.

"Just one…what's up with you two?" Haruhi mumbled, referring to how oddly close the two seemed, even for twins. And why does it feel as though you planned that…?

The game went on for quite a while. The first questions the first few people who spun asked was whether or not the one answering had a girlfriend (or boyfriend), probably for lack of anything better to ask. But after that, questions were asked and requests were made, from Kyoya being asked if the book he was reading was porn (which he deftly denied), to Mori being asked to say various odd phrases. The room was filled with laughing; everyone was enjoying themselves.

Finally, the bottle landed on Haruhi. Prior to then, everyone had gone easy on her, since she had been feeling sick from all the sweets she'd eaten. However, she appeared much better now, and so the twins (who, as an unwritten rule, acted together) decided to make things a bit more difficult for her.

"Alright…" they said in unison, running their hands through their own and each others' hair until they were completely messy and it was impossible to see which way their hair part. The two left the building for a moment, then came back in, and switched places a few times, just to be safe. "Which one of us is Hikaru?" the two asked in unison.

"Uwah! That's so difficult, though!" Hunny exclaimed, "How's she suppose to-"

"You're Hikaru," Haruhi said simply, pointing to the twin that was on her left.

"Wrong!" the twins said in unison, smiling.

"Haruhi, it's alright-"

"I told you it was too difficult-!"

"I'm not wrong."

"Huh?" everyone looked at Haruhi, confused.

"Y-You said I was Hikaru, right?" the boy Haruhi had pointed to asked. "But I…I'm not. So you lose."

"But you are Hikaru. I can tell," Haruhi pushed.

"Didn't we mess up our hair enough?" the twin who Haruhi had left as Kaoru asked, "Or did your eyes follow us outside and back?"

"Neither," the girl said simply, "You're just different. I don't know what it is, but you are. What? Don't tell me even people you know well have a hard time telling you apart?"

"Well…"

"There aren't really that many people we know very well."

"And absolutely everyone has a hard time telling us apart."

"Even our parents get confused sometimes."

Everyone was silent for a moment after the twins had spoken. They had proven themselves to be the most fun-loving and playful out of the group, and to see them so serious, even for just a minute, seemed to shock everyone into silence to a point where no one even noticed how close the two were sitting next to each other now.

Finally, Hunny broke the silence. "H-Haru-chan, isn't it your turn?"

"Oh…right, it is. Ok, here goes!" Haruhi said as she spun the bottle. As fate would have it, it just so happened to land on the same blonde haired boy that she'd landed on earlier that day.

"Ah, Haruhi. Come now; don't be shy, ask whatever you like!" Tamaki exclaimed boldly.

Haruhi thought for a moment. She really oughtn't…but…

"Um…well…You said before you were only half Japanese. What else…Er…What other nationality-?"

"French," Tamaki answered, not letting her finish. "My mother is French. She and my father met when he was on a business trip to France."

"Oh…" was all Haruhi could think to say. His tone made her regret delving into his family history.

This time, it was Kyoya who dispelled the awkwardness. "Aren't you going to spin? It's your turn."

"Nah, that's alright. We should probably head inside. For one thing, it's beginning to get chilly and we're all still in our bathing suits; for another, it's going on three a.m."

While everyone seemed shocked at the time (apparently, none had been paying much attention to the clock), Haruhi was the most surprised. "T-THREE A.M.!?" she exclaimed, leaping up. "How are we going to get up tomorrow!?"

It had taken some stumbling through the dark, walking into a few trees on Tamaki's part, and another incident involving him actually walking into the side of the house to get to the back door. They all made a vow to leave some of the lights on next time they decided to have a midnight swim, and headed to their respective rooms.

"Ah, this room is so nice! I wish my room at home was like this," Haruhi said as she collapsed on the double bed. There was only one bed per bedroom, but it was large enough for two people to sleep comfortably in. "I know this is selfish of me," she said into the mattress, "But I kind of actually hope that the eighth person is a boy."

She got changed out of her bathing suit and into her pajamas, and laid down on the comfortable bed. But no sooner had she laid down than a feeling hit her. It was a familiar feeling, if one she'd rather forget.

"…Shit."

"It had to be now, didn't it?" Haruhi mumbled to herself as she slammed closed the little doors of her nightstand, the desired solution to her little problem in hand. Though I guess it's a good thing it didn't happen during that game…Boys, at this age especially have no idea what this is like, never mind those boys. The only time they've heard the word "period" has probably been in their writing classes, she thought as she stormed down the hallway, Yeah, a fun goddamn summer indeed. Argh, pull yourself together, this is just PMS. This isn't the last time it's gonna happen this summer, so just learn to deal with it now.

"-ruhi? Haruhi? Hellooo?" She realized someone was saying.

"Ohh…sorry, Tamaki, what was that? I'm…a bit tired."

"You ok? You look a bit out of it. And you were kind of mumbling to yourself."

"Uh…I-I was? Really?" Haruhi asked, a bit embarrassed, and slipped the pad into the back of her pajama shorts before he could see.

"Uh, yeah. Do you have a fever or something? It was kind of chilly out there," Tamaki asked, and laid his hand on her forehead. "You're a little warm…"

Yeah, but it's not due to the reason you're thinking of, Haruhi thought. "Don't worry, I'm fine," she said with a smile, but was inwardly cursing him. I swear, if it gets through to my pajamas…

"Do you want me to walk you to the bathroom? I was just heading back to my room, but I want to make sure you're really ok. It would suck if you got sick at the very beginning of this vacation," Tamaki pushed, and Haruhi could tell from his tone that he was sincerely worried about her.

"Tamaki…I'm sorry," she murmured.

"…Oh my god, Haruhi, you're hallucinating; you really must be sick!" Tamaki exclaimed, but was shushed by the so-called "hallucinating" girl.

"You'll wake everyone up! And anyway…I mean I'm sorry about before. I had no right to bring up your personal family matters."

"Haruhi…" she heard Tamaki say just moments before she felt his arms around her. "There's no need to apologize. Really."

"Tamaki…" the girl breathed out, but then he let go of her as abruptly as he had hugged her.

"Come on," he smiled at her, "Let's go see if there's some medicine in the bathroom."

Suddenly, the purpose for this little expedition hit Haruhi. "…FUCK!" she cried, and raced down the hallway. "Tamaki, really, I'm fine, now go to bed!" she called back to him.

"…Girls," the blonde sighed and decided to honor her request and head back to his own room.

In the bathroom, Haruhi stared at her face in the mirror. Even in the dark, she could tell that she was blushing red. …It's only hormones. It's only hormones.

I hope.

My sister, momoxtoshiro, wrote a hilarious OHSHC oneshot involving a doorknob…Honestly, it had me dying XD Read it!!

I feel like I should do a profile of everyone at the beginning/end of each chapter. Well, they're mostly similar to the real characters, but not exactly so. It's AU, I have freedom. I think I made Haruhi too much like me XD Especially the eating thing. I think what I'm trying to say is that she only eats when she's real hungry. Maybe. Heh. I really want to draw her in these pajamas, though Maybe an end-of-story bonus? ;D Don't worry, they're very boy-ish lol. Except for the shorts. Maybe the bathing suit, too. Just to apologize to all those guys out there who had to put up with this XD

And in the next chapter, we'll see who the eighth person is! No, it's not an OC, but if you know this song, you can probably guess who. No googling to cheat! ;D Also, I made a lovely background inspired by this fic It's in my LiveJournal profile and on my PhotoBucket.

I'd again like to apologize to all you guys who had to suffer through that last bit. Sucks to your ass-mar.

See you soon!