The school bell rang signalling the end of the school day. Stepping out from the building Haruhi felt the cold air hit her face and her hair began to be blown wildly around. Shivering slightly Haruhi gave a small wave to her companions who were quickly leaping into their cars to get out of the ferocious weather.
"Haruhi would you lik-"
"Nope!" Haruhi shouted so Tamaki would hear her over the wind and with that she began to walk quickly out of the school grounds. She was heading towards The Little Blossom Café to start her shift. Haruhi started to run, clutching her arms for warmth until she reached her destination. Running into the small building she sighed in relief as she warm welcoming air hit her, she looked up and smiled at Naoki who smiled back sympathetically.
"Not the best of weather, but still spring is around the corner!" he said optimistically while handing her her new uniform and directing her to a place where she could change.
Haruhi changed into her new uniform to find it fit her perfectly. It was a white blouse with lots of little pattered flowers on it and a short black skirt. Haruhi also found little name tag which she pinned to the top of her blouse and an apron for when she was cooking. Looking in her mirror she quickly ran her fingers thought her hair removing as many knots at she could and then re-entered the main part of the café.
Naoki smiled as he handed her a little note pad so she could jot down orders and a small pink pen. "You look lovely my dear, now if you wouldn't mind taking orders in for the mean time while I work in the kitchen"
Haruhi nodded and approached an elderly couple to start taking in orders.
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Almost an hour had passed and Haruhi was surprised at how full the small café was. No wonder Naoki needed more help! The little bell at the top of the door that rang when ever a costumer came went off practically every 5miniuts and Haruhi was beginning to feel very weary.
She walked over to Naoki who was stood behind the till.
"I can't believe how busy it is!" mused Haruhi out loud.
Naoki laughed "well we are the best Café around!" he said cheerfully "Thought you don't have much work left, after about 5:30ish hardly anyone comes so there's no need to worry" he said looking down at his watch. Haruhi went over to clear table 3's dishes and entered the kitchen to wash them.
"Haruhi, I'll do that, would you mind serving these customers?" asked Naoki as he entered the Kitchen and took the dish cloth of her. Nodding Haruhi entered the main part of the café and her eyes opened wide in pure horror.
"HARUHI!, what are you doing here!" Haruhi closed her eyes and looked down. What am I doing here! more like what are you doing here! She thought. There on table 5 sat all the host members looking at her with confused expressions.
"Hello, I work here Tamaki, what would you like to order?" she said reaching up to her ear where she had tucked the pink pen for safety and bringing it to the paper awaiting their order.
Tamaki stood up and rushed to Haruhi and started to hug her while mumbling about how cute she was.
"my lord…" said Hikaru grinning evilly at Kaoro
"stop harassing Haruhi" finished Kaoro. Tamaki went bright red and sat down again stuttering. Before Tamaki could shout back Hunny looked up at her sweetly with pure excitement in his eyes.
Haruhi turned to look at him as he began to quickly name practically every sugar thing in the shop. Quickly Haruhi did her best to write it down but ended up having to ask him to repeat his order slower.
After finally obtaining their orders Haruhi came back 5miniuts later with there tea and cake's.
"Haruhi, you can go home now thank you, here's your pay for today" he handed her a small brown envelope which she pocketed happily and started towards the door.
"Wait Haruhi, don't leave yet!" should the Twins and next thing is knew they were dragging her over to their table where Takashi had pulled up a chair for her. She sat down and felt slightly relived to finally rest a bit. Working in a café was more tiring than it looked!
"So Haruhi, why are you working here?" asked Takashi looking at her with interest.
"Well the money's good and I decided it wouldn't do any harm doing a bit of work after school and at weekends." She replied. Everyone nodded and Tamaki even looked slightly upset at the idea of his precious daughter having to work.
"humm, that might be so but I thought you felt that nothing was more important than revision and working for your exams" Kyoya smirked at the look of annoyance on her face as everyone turned around and started questioning her again.
"well yes your right, but there can't be any thing wrong with doing a little work as well, after all this may benefit me in the future" Haruhi said quickly. The hosts nodded again and got back to drinking their tea of eating their cake. All apart from Kyoya who was still looking at Haruhi with an exceptionally cocky smile on his face.
"Yes that is quite true, but is it not your ambition to become a Lawyer and so surly working in a café can't benefit you too greatly in the future" Said Kyoya who then took a victory sip of tea as Haruhi frown and decide what her come back should be.
All the hosts turned to question Haruhi again and she gave an exasperated sigh. How does Kyoya know so much? He must be really observant.
Haruhi pulled a fake smile. "Your quite right Kyoya sempai but it is still a valuable experience, now if you don't mind I better be off"
"Haruhi, let me give you a lift home!"
"No it's ok…" Haruhi started until she realised just how tired she was, turning to look at Tamaki she smiled "actually Tamaki Sempai would you mind if I took you up on that offer?"
Tamaki's face lit up with joy as he led Haruhi to his car. Kyoya stared out of the window at them and watched as Haruhi clambered into the car in a very un-lady like fashion. There was defiantly something up and it was actually upsetting him now. And what scared him was it wasn't upsetting him because he always likes to know things, it was upsetting him because he was worried about her. He watched Tamaki close the car door and he felt a distinct pang of jealousy. Was he jealous that she was in the car with Tamaki?? Kyoya shook his head with frustration and decided to put it down to lack of sleep as he pushed the thought out of his mind.
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It was Thursday afternoon and Haruhi was sat in the host room sipping her tea thinking. She was missing her dad. She had done her best to push him out of her mind as she sorted out her other problems but some how he kept finding a way of re-entering her thoughts. There is no feeling worse in the world than the one of complete loneliness. As Haruhi gently rested her head in her hands she began to feel as if she couldn't take it any longer. She looked over to the overly large mirror on the wall. She looked thinner, it was not hugely noticeable but she had defiantly lost some weight. Big black bags where beginning to form under her eyes from lack of sleep. She would get home at about 6:30ish from work and then revise solidly until ten stopping for a quick tea and then she would lie in bed, tossing and turning.
"Haruhi! Come play with us our cute little toy!" chimed the twins who where running towards her. She smiled, yes this will take her mind off things, at least for a while/ she thought as she walked over to the twins who put two arms around her and began to explain some sort of new game they had devised.
Haruhi tried to not show anyone her feelings as she put on her fake smile. There was another problem that started to really worry her. She was going to by kicked out of her apartment tomorrow and she still hadn't found a replacement.
Author note
I hope you liked my new chap! Sorry it took longer, I'm back at school now from my Easter holidays (nooooo) so its going to take me longer to post up new chapters. However I will do my best!