I do not claim to own the wonder that is Ouran High School Host Club. This is the expansion of prompt 48 in my story All Around the Clock Tower. Enjoy.
She knows the answer but asks the question anyway.
Can't we try to make this work?
He won't even look at her. He mumbles his no to the floor.
She nods. Blinks back tears. Don'tcryDon'tcryDon'tcryDon'tcryDon't cry.
Damn.
This will be harder than she thought.
Ranka was thrilled that she was moving back in with him, but kept his joy silent because she was so upset. Of course, he too felt her bastard of a soon-to-be-ex husband deserved to rot in hell for breaking her heart.
But it shocked her how hurt she felt when her father said so.
Of course. She still loved him.
After all this she loved him. Why? How? What gave him the right to own her heart even though he'd smashed it to pieces with four words.
Looking at him now, standing there without even the decency to look him in the eyes as he takes her already broken heart and stomps on it, she wants to scream.
Give it back already!
She should have listened to her own advice. Should've known. She could never be what he wanted. What he needed. She was never meant to be one of these people.
And while she's at it, maybe she should've listened to Beni and transferred to Lobelia when she'd had the chance.
Nothing lasts forever.
But it felt like it could've. She'd walked out onto the wire. It felt strong enough. She jumped on it an pulled and tugged but it felt firm. Of course when she was right in the middle, it broke and left her plummeting into the ravine to the sharp rocks.
How she's managed to keep her composure for this long is beyond her. Maybe she's just in shock. . . .
Haruhi knows all too well that nothing ever lasts forever. She learned that from her mother's death. So when the divorce lawyer slides the innocent, harmless looking paper over to her and points out where she's to sign she wonders why she thought that the two of them could be infallible.
. . . . Because, God knows, she hasn't given up.
She never will.
~ Fin
No I will not tell you who she married nor why they broke up. Why? Cuz it's 11:52 at night and I can't handle a shipping war right now. But it is one of the club members. Now review!
~Angel
