The Alphabet Notebook

By Meganes Ultimate Fangirl

D – Damn Dog

Stupid Tamaki and his stupid trip to Europe, leaving me with his stupid dog for a stupid week. That sentence may be overusing the word stupid a little too much, but it's necessary. I'm a fourth year college student and he thinks I have the time or the patience to take care of Antoinette for an entire week.

Not to mention, I'm not much of an animal person.

Hell, even if I had to have a pet, it'd probably be one low maintenance like a goldfish. Yes, a goldfish would be better. You feed it once a day and clean it's bowl occasionally and it's happy. End of story.

The doorbell interrupted my study session. Antoinette started barking furiously and ran from where she sat in front of my desk, looking for attention, to the front door in a flurry of fur. I rolled my eyes and stood up to follow her. "Damn rambunctious dog," I growled under my breath as I pushed her out of the way to open the door. She ran out the door, successfully knocking the brunette that was standing outside off balance. "Antoinette!" I yelled after her, repressing the urge to swear.

"Kyoya... sempai?" Haruhi asked shakily. Her knees were wobbling. She had been carrying a stack of papers that were now scattered across the ground, billowing slightly in the wind.

I sighed and knelt down, gathering up said papers. "Damn dog," I muttered again under my breath crossly. I was going to throttle Tamaki when he got back from France. Just throttle him. "Sorry about that Haruhi."

"What's Tamaki-sempai's dog doing here?" she asked, sounding slightly amused. She too knelt down to gather up the great amount of papers she'd been carrying. I made a sour face.

"I'm dog-sittingfor him while he's away in France," I scoffed lightly. She smiled, taking the stack that I had from me and placing it on top of hers. I glanced over her shoulder, scowling at the dog as she started trotting around the garden like it was her own personal territory.

"How'd he convince you to do that?" she replied with a chuckle.

"I have no clue," I answered in a mutter, pushing up my glasses with my forefinger. "DAMMIT ANTOINETTE. NOT THE FLOWERS!" I yelled suddenly, startling Haruhi as I glared furiously at the dog digging up the flowers in my garden. "Excuse me a moment."

I hurried down the front steps toward Antoinette and grabbed her by the collar without much difficulty. Dragging her back into the house was the problem. Haruhi laughed from the porch and stepped inside to set her papers down on a table just inside the door before rushing down to help me pull the golden retriever into the house like she was supposed to.

I finally gave her a final shove and slammed the door shut behind us, glaring daggers at the dog from hell.

My guest was giggling. "What?" I demanded sharply, turning my glare in her direction.

"Nothing," she murmured, "I was just thinking about how much Antoinette acts like Tamaki, yet you don't treat him like that."

I stared at her, straightening my shirt. "That's because, my dear Haruhi, Tamaki is a person. Antoinette is a dog. Tamaki knows better than to go dig up my garden. Antoinette should but she doesn't," I explained, an angered edge to my voice and my jaw set. I drew in a deep breath. I didn't mean to snap at her. She didn't do anything wrong. "What did you come for anyway?"

"Ahh," she mumbled, "Nothing much. Just these contracts for you to sign off on." Right. Business. She was my lawyer. Why else would she be in my house at that current moment? I nodded as she took a small portion of the stack and handed it to me. "I'd summarize it for you if I could remember half of what's on it. I was..." she coughed, "half asleep when I was looking through these."

I nodded in understanding. "I know the feeling," I muttered under my breath, "You really should get more rest than you do, Haruhi. You work too much." I looked up at her with a small smile. She shook her head and made a face.

"I'm fine, Sempai," she said softly, handing me a pen to sign off on the contracts. I did with slight flourish. "I suppose I'll be going now." She took the papers from her.

At that moment, the doorbell rang. Antoinette, like she had been all week, ran excitedly to the door barking her head off.

This time, she actually did knock over Haruhi, causing her to go stumbling into me and her papers to fly everywhere once more. I fell backwards onto the couch that was behind me, bringing Haruhi with me of course.

Our lips met.

Our eyes both widened with shock as the door burst open. "Mother! I'm ba– WHAT? KYOYA WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO HARUHI? INCEST!" Tamaki shrieked, staring bug-eyed at us. Haruhi and I just stared at each other, our lips no longer connected as she had jerked away as soon as she had heard Tamaki's voice. However, we were still in a very... suggestive... position. The blonde idiot was still spluttering about something. I ignored him and wrapped my arms around Haruhi, pushing both of us up off the couch.

"You idiot," I growled under my breath, striding to the kitchen and leaving Haruhi to deal with him for the moment. I returned seconds later with a leash, a dog food bowl, and a bag of dog food in my hands. I shoved them at Tamaki. "Take those and the dog, and get out."

He looked at me funny, shivers visibly going down his spine at my cold nature. Scared for his life, he hooked the leash on Antoinette's collar and fled. I turned back to Haruhi who had, once again, recollected her papers from the ground.

She glanced up at me. Was it just my imagination or was her face slightly red?

That... actually hadn't been that unpleasant. The feel of her lips on mine. I just looked at her for a while, until she coughed uncomfortably under my gaze. "I should get going, Sempai. I've got other people to deal with," she mumbled. I caught her wrist as she moved toward the door.

"Thanks, Haruhi," I murmured, truly grateful that she was my lawyer, "For coming by with the contracts I mean. Dunno what I'd do without you."

This time, I was sure that her face was red as she nodded, embarrassed, and ducked her head. I smirked at her.

That dog, that damn dog, might just have been useful for something.

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A/N: Writing this after 11 PM when I should be asleep. Eheheh?

This little one-shot is thanks to Kuramasredredrose for the dog-sitting idea. I changed it slightly though, as I normally do. And, as normal, it didn't turn out quite the way I expected it to.

Kudos to: Kuramasredredrose, Koharu Veddette, Moonstarr394, and kyouyaootooriandharuhiforever.

Next is the one that started this entire collection! If... I can manage to finish it within a decent time. I might just change it to some other prompt. I have tons of them written down in my notebook. Seems like whenever I think of a simple word that I might be able to turn into something I write it down. By the end of this I'll probably still have enough of them to write through the alphabet AGAIN.