Haruhi blearily opened her eyes the next morning, and immediately regretted it. Her head was pounding, and the light was incredibly bright, and to her annoyance, she had slept without taking out her contacts, so her eyes felt very dry and irritated. She wondered what had kept her from taking them out. She blinked a couple times and noticed that when she tried to sit herself up, there was an arm there stopping her. An arm that wasn't hers.

She looked to her left and discovered none other than Tamaki Suoh, sleeping soundly on the other side of her bed, one is arms wrapped around her. To say the least she was confused.

She couldn't remember anything beyond dancing with Tamaki the night before, and now he was here, in her bed, and he was naked. And so was she!

Haruhi started to panic. Two people, male and female, wake up in bed together, naked. That usually means that those two people had fallen asleep after having sex the night before. Had she had sex with Tamaki?

She gently unwrapped his arm from her middle, and waited with bated breath for him to wake up. He didn't. She gave a sigh of relief and slowly sat herself up, she felt a slight stiffness to her lower body, as well as a slight soreness. That was the solid evidence she needed, she had lost her virginity to Tamaki Suoh, and she couldn't even clearly remember it.

Haruhi wondered what she should do next. Should she get out of bed, take a shower and get dressed? Should she just get up, and put some clothes on to make breakfast? Should she wake up Tamaki and tell him to get the hell out of her apartment?

Maybe she should pretend to go back to sleep, wait for Tamaki to wake up, and let him worry about how to proceed. Then again, Tamaki wasn't very methodical, it was probably up to her to make this decision. So she decided that maybe a shower would be a good idea. She got up and crossed to the bathroom as quickly as she could, she couldn't even image how awkward it would be if Tamaki woke up and she was standing there naked.

She turned on the water as hot as she could stand it and methodically washed her hair and body. After a while she turned off the water, and stepped out of the shower, grabbing a towel and wrapping herself in it. She brushed her teeth and washed her face, thinking long and hard about what she was supposed to do about the sleeping man in her bedroom.

Before she thought of anything she heard a mumbled voice coming from her bedroom. Was he talking to himself out there? She wrapped the towel around herself more securely and opened the bathroom door, to see him standing by her kitchen table. Talking into a cell phone. Right.

"I understand. I'll be right there. Right. Bye." He hung up his phone and shoved it into his pants pocket.

"Haruhi. I'm sorry that was my Father, he needs me home right away. No one in the house knew where I was, I never came home last night, they were worried something happened to me." He ran a hand through his hair and sighed. "So I should probably get going, we'll talk later?"

She nodded mutely as she watched him walk back into her bedroom to grab a few loose ends. He smiled half heartedly at her as he walked out the door, and shut it behind him with a click.

~.~

"Where the hell were you?" Yuzuru demanded. It was rare that his Father got that angry at him, he sighed again as he realized what deep shit he was in.
"I was-"

"Don't bother with your petty excuses." he interrupted. "I know exactly where you were. I know that you spent the night with Haruhi Fujioka, and it doesn't take a genius to figure out what you two were doing. What do you have to say for yourself?"

"Dad I-"

"I don't even want to hear it. You're just lucky that I have no intention of telling your Grandmother about this, you could lose all the standing that you've built with her, and you would lose your standing as heir to this company." He sighed and gazed down at his 20 year old son. "I can't even stand to look at you right now. Just go and get cleaned up, we have a long day ahead of us."

Tamaki just nodded and turned away, feeling like the lowest life form on earth.

~.~

As Haruhi watched Tamaki leave she realized what she needed to do was forget that the whole thing happened. She remembered more and more of the night as she grew steadily more awake. She remembered that she was drunk, that she had convinced him to stay, and almost every detail of what happened afterward. If he was in trouble, it was all her fault.

What she needed was a distraction, and nothing distracted her more than school. So she packed up her books, and headed to the library for a much needed study session. She was going to get her usual tall glass of coffee, sit at her favorite sunny window in the library, and get ahead in her reading.

Maybe then she would feel better about herself.

~.~

"Tamaki." Kyoya sighed.

"I know. My Father already gave me the responsibility lecture, how about I get a best friend talk?" Tamaki demanded, picking at his breakfast. Kyoya sighed, putting down his phone and gazing at his friend over his glasses.

"The best friend talk? Where I try and convince you what you did wasn't your fault? That sleeping with Haruhi and then running off was a good idea?"

"You suck at the best friend talk."

"Being a friend is telling someone the truth, not what you want to hear. You made a mistake Tamaki, deal with it and move on."

"Deal with it and move on? Shit Kyoya, Haruhi is my-"

"Secret crush?" Tamaki glared.

"My friend, an old and trusted friend. Who I've been pining after for years! I had a plan to impress her with the new mature Tamaki, and then slowly fall in love with me as much as I love her."

"An impossible feat I assure you."

"Again you suck at the best friend talk."

"So then you get drunk, screw it up, and sleep with her. And things are awkward and you don't know what to do, so you come to me, of all people, because for some reason you think I'll be able to help you?"

"Kyoya..."

"Look Tamaki, Haruhi is an intelligent woman. She's not some stupid college girl that you had a fling with and is going to follow you around like a lost puppy. Just call her, tell her what you just told me. She'll understand." Kyoya adjusted his glasses. "And I can almost assure you that she has feelings for you as well, you two are just idiots and keep dancing around each other."

"You really think so?"

"Yes. I really do think you're an idiot." Kyoya smirked at his best friend, who laughing back. "Now can I go back to studying now? Some of us go to school and work. While some of us sleep around, and ride daddy's coat tails."

"You make me sound like such a-"

"Idiot?"

"You just love to use that word to describe me, don't you?"

"Old habits die hard."

~.~

A week had gone by. She was being a coward and she knew it. She knew he was tyring to get a hold of her, her phone had been going off, he had been leaving notes at her apartment, he had even gone so far as to show up, and before he saw her she turned around and hid out at her favorite coffee spot until she was sure he was gone.

She was being immature, she knew that, but she wasn't sure that that she was ready to talk to him about what happened. She knew people did this type of fling and were perfectly fine with it, but she wasn't. She was just going to pretend like it never happened. Then after a while Tamaki would stop wanting to talk to her about it.

"Oh Haruhi!" She turned around to see a classmate, Azusa, waving and calling her name. Azusa was a pretty girl, with long black hair, blue eyes, and an ability to make friends really easily, including Haruhi.

"Azusa, hi! How are you?" Haruhi walked over to where she was sitting in the library, pulling up a chair and setting herself down.

"So you're in Sato's class right?" Haruhi nodded. Sato was one of the more difficult teachers at their school, even she was having a little bit of a harder time understanding his material. She had to spend extra hours reviewing extra just to keep up.

"Right so I am too, and I'm completely swamped and doing absolutely horrible. I feel like I only understand half of the words that guy says. Anyway, you're completely brilliant, so I was wondering if you'd be willing to tutor me?"

"Of course!" She agreed enthusiastically. This was something that Haruhi could use to distract herself from the fact that she couldn't stop thinking about Tamaki. The fact that he kept showing up at her house wasn't helping either.

"That's awesome. I was thinking we could meet at my house, the library just doesn't seem to cut it for me."

"I would be completely willing to help you out with that Azusa." Even better, she could go over to Azusa's house, some place distracting, and some place where Tamaki didn't know where she was.

"Thank you so much Haruhi. I really appreciate it. So I feel like I never talk to you. What's going on with you lately?"

She smiled.

"You know, I'm actually glad I ran into you.I ran into a bit of trouble that I could definatley use some advice on..."

~.~