A couple days later I sat outside on a bench, reading. It was a nice day, and the host club was entertaining their clients as usual. After I had shown a hint of dislike for male clients (I wasn't quite socially graceful with the opposite gender like my friends were), they had resumed appealing to the ladies.

If I tried hard enough, I could perhaps pass as a guy. Not as well as Haruhi, but I could. With only slightly long hair, curling around my neck and resting on my shoulders, and none of the makeup and natural beauty all the other girls had, I wasn't too girly. It's not that I'm not pretty; I was gorgeous in other ways. I didn't need to flirt and bat my eyelashes to show my feminine side.

I looked up from my book to see Hikaru sitting on a bench on the other side of the fountain. How long has he been there? Closing my book, I approached him. "Hey."

He glanced at me, and his face turned from one of upset to surprise. "Oh! Miko."

"Something wrong?"

"Nah."

I sat beside him. "Ah, but there is. You can't fool someone who's known you seven years."

Sighing he confessed, "Just a bit upset about Haruhi. Being with Tamaki and all…"

"How come everyone but me became instantly attached to her?" I wondered aloud. "Anyway. Maybe this will be good for him. Maybe he'll stop being such a romantic fool."

"Yeah, but still." He shook his head in a resigned fashion.

"It'll be alright. Trust me." I smiled.

"…You know, I don't think I ever totally loved her. Me and Kaoru were just trying to get to Tamaki. Then we both kinda fell for her… But…"

"But?"

"But I think… I think I love another girl more." His gaze dropped. It was distant, and somewhat worried.

I cocked my head to the side. "Who?"

"Uh…y-you." Somehow he seemed even more nervous than Kaoru. That made two things about them I hadn't really known: that they had these crushes on me I'd have never expected, and how they really seem to be. Either it was something to do with me, or the fact that they were apart.

I blinked. "Really? You've always seemed so casual around me, like I was just any other friend or whatever…"

"W-well, you didn't seem to like me as much as Kaoru, so I kind of just hid it."

"No, that isn't true. I love both of you! But you? Hiding your emotions?" I grinned, despite his heartfelt confessions.

He smiled too. "Yeah." He looked at me for a moment, then kissed me softly.

As an astronaut I had heard of once said… "Houston, we have a problem."