IT WONT LET ME SAY GURL! (with an I) UGH!


Haruhi jogged toward the main staircase, late again. She was supposed to join them at four, exactly, but she'd been held up. The doors to the third music room burst open.


"Get away!" He ran frantically, his feet yelling out echoes on the marble surface and pivoted to face a that he thought he recognized. Recollection clicked in, half way down the hall. "Haruhi, you've got to help me! That , that behind me just tried to EAT ME! Run, save yourself.." Hikaru paused and stared into her blank face, his eyelids dropping in concern. "Haruhi…" He whispered, trailing his fingers along her jaw. "What did she do to you…?" He forced the words out hoarsely, his lips trembling with fury. He turned to face her and asked, "What have you done?"

"Hikaru…" Yumi looked hurt by his words. "I can't let people see me."

"And why is that? Huh?" He yelled at her, his body shaking with confusion.

"Hikaru… I'm so afraid…" She began again.

"What did you do to me? Why don't I breath? Does time stop for me too? Will I never talk to them again? Why did you try to kill me?"

"We don't breath."

"Who?

"Us."

"Wh…" she cut him off.

"Not for you. I developed this power so I could pause time to feed." She noticed him shudder and gag at the phrase. "Vampires aren't affected by time lapses such as these. And I didn't try to kill you."

Hikaru looked away, as if thinking something through. "So… Why didn't time pause for me? When you "asked" me to "date" you, I mean…"

"Because I thought I could catch the room at an empty occasion when I wouldn't have to stop time. I really did want to date you though."

"You mean eat me?"

"I didn't eat you!"

The sudden change in her calm startled him and he stepped back in shock, once again failing to gasp.

"Hikaru! I thought if I changed you, you would understand my hunger. I wanted to keep you with me! I've watched you with her!" She gestured to the gurl frozen in mid-step and looked down, her lower lip trembling. "I thought you could do the same for me."

She moved her smoldering black eyes back up to his. Lifting her white skinned hand, she extended her fingers for his cheek, but he drew back. She immediately dropped her arm and disappeared out the open window to his left.

Hikaru rushed to the glass only to find nothing but what was there before.

"What are you looking for?"

"Ah!" He whipped around and saw Haruhi looking curiously from him to the window, her neck slightly craned to see past his shoulder. "Sorry, nothing. Just thought I'd…" He stopped and sniffed the air. Still. No breath filling his lungs, but something else. A sweet and alluring smell trickling from the place that Haruhi stood. "Are you wearing perfume…?" He asked awkwardly, lifting his nose to get a better sense of the smell. Haruhi snapped her eyes back to him again, this time holding her gaze. She seemed a little confused and skeptical about his recent activities.

"No." She shook her head and he came to slow realization.

"Oh, god…." He whispered, his eyes looking right past hers and glazing over in dread. His mouth hung open slightly. "I have to go." He carried his gape away from her direction and left, sprinting down the hall.