The halls of Ouran high school were bustling with the glamorous teenagers' backs from their summer holidays, chatting, laughing and exchanging gifts. The tutor rooms were filled with sweet scents of rare perfumes brought straight from Egypt, aromatic spices from Venice and pressed flowers from France. Kaoru and hikaru, from class 1-A, ignored the bell warning them to get to the tutors and continued to flirt with the girls in their class.

"everyone get to your desks please" said mrs.shi and started calling out the register, unaware of the fact that nobody had bothered to go back to their desks and that kaoru was doing the 'forbidden brotherly love' scene with his twin hikaru. Everybody however stopped watching them when haruhi burst in murmured 'sorry I'm late' to the teacher and slumped into the farthest desk from everyone. Haruhi sighed and shut her eyes. She wanted to get to bed early last night since she was starting her second year at school but the man who'd moved in over the holidays played music all night keeping her awake. 'Why do I even bother trying to get to sleep?' she thought to herself. A week ago she started having recurring dreams too of the host club abandoning her and this man who's face she can never really see chasing her. Nightmares had never bothered her before, she always had them since her mother died but these new dreams, well, they scared her shitless. She hadn't been able to sleep since. Who was that man...haruhi was interrupted from her thoughts when something soft and light was pushed into her face. She opened her eyes to come face to face with hikaru and koaru.

"We wanted to get you a dog but with your tiny apartment there would be no way you could fit it in, so we got you a scarf instead" haruhi couldn't see how the twins had gone from a dog to a scarf but she accepted it anyways. It really was beautiful; the silk was coral pink with gold embroidery and real pearls sewn on in the shape of stars. Haruhi wrapped it loosely round her shoulders and tossed the longest bit at the back.

"Suits me, dont'cha think?? Which reminds me I got you presents too!!" haruhi produced two scrolls from her bag and handed them to each of them. "I've been taking art classes over the summer holidays and our teacher said we should start a project so I started one on the host club." Hikaru and koaru ignored haruhi's babbling and unfurled the scrolls. Immediately they gasped, the paintings were like mirror images of themselves. For once the hitachin twins were speechless.

"H-haruhi their amazing!" Hikaru stammered (a few girls squealed behind him, they thought it was cute when Hikaru stuttered.) and haruhi blushed with pride. The second bell rang and the twins grinned and linked arms with haruhi. They weren't going to lessons today, today was going to be spent in their favourite place, room 3-A the music room. Opening the doors leading to the room, haruhi was greeted by the smell of fresh roses. She inhaled deeply and smiled. Damn she'd missed this place and the beautiful people it held inside. She went around and handed her presents out, getting crushed by Tamaki while he squealed 'I'm so proud of my daughter!!' and she could've swore that mori blushed when he seen his picture.yep, today was going to be good.



"Haru-chan, Haru-chan!!" hunny's cheery voice filled the room and abandoning the girls he was sitting with, skipped over and grabbed haruhi, twirling her round.

"me and mori have spent the whole summer in the rainforest, isn't that cool? There was lots of spiders and snakes and bamboo and tribesmen and..." haruhi nodded and smiled though she wasn't really listening. Her eyes wandered around the room until they settled onto the giant clock above the fireplace. She panicked when she saw the time. She should've gotten home half an hour ago! 'Stupid club' she thought as she grabbed her stuff and bolted out the door 'why did Tamaki decide that the host club should be an after school club??'

Half an hour later arrived at her estate panting and sweaty. She continued walking but stopped when she heard some jeering from behind. Haruhi tried to run but he, Dan, the next door neighbour grabbed her arm. She squeaked and his mates laughed at her. Ever since he moved in his mates just hung around outside the flats, drinking beers and throwing empty beer cans at her whenever haruhi came out of her flat. He pulled haruhi's face closer to his and she smelled the strong smell of beer. He was drunk, too drunk.

"Well, well, well. What do we have her?? Ickle haruhi out past her bedtime!!" his friends jeered and laughed, and Dan laughed too until he noticed something strange "wait a second, you're wearing a boys uniform!!" he shoved haruhi down to the ground and kicked her in the stomach.

"Tranny!" he screamed "just like your father!" his friends shouted abuse at her and started kicking her too. Haruhi began screaming hoping someone would come. What happened next went so fast. She saw her dad running towards her and wrestled one of the lads of her.

But before he could do anything another guy ran at him.

He pulled out a knife.

And stabbed her dad.

Haruhi watched in horror as her dad fell to the ground, in slow motion and landed with a sickening thump. She couldn't do anything else because she realised she was falling too, something warm was spreading across her back.

She fell to the ground and let the pain engulf her.

Then nothing.

Just blackness.