Hey, guys. I forgot I even did this story, so now I decided to continue on with it, so yeah… On to the next chapter. ^_^
I hear Hunny and Mori knocking, so I turn and run. As I run out of my room to the front door, I'm thinking there must be such a thing as too much sleep. That wasn't really him… it couldn't have been him. Could it? When I open the door, Hunny gives me a big hug, while Mori just smiles. And I realize how much I have missed my friends. We go to the living room and sit at the table.
"Thanks for coming," I say.
Hunny looks at his watch. "You hungry?"
"I could eat, I guess." I get up and open the pantry door. I don't even know if it's time for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
"What time is it?"
"Eleven o'clock," Mori says.
I stand there, staring at the boxes of crackers and cereal, trying to focus on food and not on what I just saw in the mirror. The cool air surrounds me once again. I get goose bumps. I feel him standing right next to me… it's like he is hungry, too, looking for something to eat.
"Did you feel that?" I ask.
"What?" Hunny and Mori both reply.
"Nothing," I say as I shake my head.
They will both think I'm going crazy. Maybe Hunny was right. Then there's the slightest hint of something brushing against my cheek… but it was not a touch – it was less than a touch. A whisper? No, a feeling. Just a feeling. Or maybe… just my imagination.
I shiver again. Am I going crazy?
"I think you need to get out," says Hunny.
"Let's go to the mall for some yummy food court food, and maybe visit Hikaru and Kaoru if you want."
I shrug. "I guess."
This is good. I'm a normal girl going to the mall with her friends… not crazy. Not a girl who's beginning to think she's being haunted by her dead boyfriend.
Hunny, Mori, and I go outside to get into the limo. I was going to work so I could buy a car when I came back from Boston. Oh well. All the things that used to be so important aren't important anymore.
"We haven't been to the mall together in a long time," Hunny says.
"Yeah. The last time I was here, Tamaki bought me –"
I stop. I look out the window. There's an old man with and old woman, sitting on a bench, waiting for the bus. He's looking at a newspaper. She's looking at him, saying something. He looks at her and smiles and she smiles back. The scene is so simple, so lovely… so perfect.
"It's okay to talk about him," Mori says.
"I know."
"What did he buy you?"
I don't want to say, but he asked.
"That black-and-pink bikini. To wear to the 'school's out' party."
Mori and Hunny nod… they remember. If they had known it would bring up that tragic day, he wouldn't have asked. Mori's cell rings. I guess sometimes it's not okay to talk about him. As Mori kept on talking on the phone, I saw Hunny pick rabbit with the bow tie I made for it – it was red with white polka dots on it. The summer, when I first came to Boston, was mostly rainy, so I began to sew and knit almost every day. Then, when Hunny came to visit us, he would always watch and talk to me when I was making stuff. Soon enough, he kind of got into it too. We loved sitting there talking and making stuff for each other.
"You still have that bow tie I made for your rabbit," I say, thinking how it's so amazing that he still has it even after all this time.
"I love it. Where's the one I made for you?"
"I lost it when I moved back."
"I'll make you another one," he says.
"We can buy some materials at the mall."
I smile. That's Hunny for you; the one who will do anything to cheer someone up. Thank God for Hunny-senpai. I shop, but I don't buy. I eat, but I don't taste. Hunny talks to me, but I don't listen. My mind's drifting, thinking about Tamaki. Wondering if I'll feel that cool air, feel that brush against my cheek, feel Tamaki again, when I get home.
It couldn't have been him… that's being ridiculous. Still, it's not long before I want to go home and find out for sure. I lean my head back on the car seat as we drive home. With my eyes closed, I search for a memory that will make me smile. And then, I remember the day that my life changed forever. The day I met Tamaki and the Host Club. The empty hallways around Music Room 3, with the big windows, and the exotic paintings. It was a nice, sunny day… the best kind of days that I liked. When I opened the door, there he was, along with the others. With the roses flying around me, and him watching my every move, or so he told me later. Him and the Host Club making me laugh and cry with them.
I watch the limo drive away from my apartment. I wave and smile like everything's fine, while inside I'm freaking out because I don't know if he's waiting for me on the other side of that door.
Hope you guys like this chapter until next update~ -Moon ^_^