The next day during lunch the club was all sitting in the music room eating their lunch and having tea. The mood in the room was relaxed and joyful as everyone talked and ate.
"So Rei, how are you enjoying Ouran so far?" Tamaki gave a soft smile. As usual he wanted to make sure people he knew were happy.
"It's a beautiful campus. My old school was a little too crowded so father had me switch. This school has a larger campus yet is not over crowded like other schools have gotten." Rei spoke softly.
"How is your ankle feeling today?" Haruhi looked over at Rei.
"Much better, it doesn't hurt anymore." Rei spoke softly.
"That is good to hear" Haruhi smiled, getting up from the couch. "I'll go make some more tea" Haruhi then walked out back.
The group continued to eat their lunch and Haruhi was finished making the tea and walked over. As she approached the group with the tray of tea cups and she tripped over Hikaru's foot, spilling the tea on Rei who jumped up quickly since the tea was hot. Luckily the tea didn't completely cover her and burn her.
"I-I'm so sorry, Rei are you alright?" Haruhi scrambled to her feet, and collected the tea cups.
"I'm fine, no harm done I just have to change out of this dress." Rei smiled slightly. She may not have been burnt but the dress was stained with tea.
"I believe there is a spare girl's uniform in the dressing room." Kyouya spoke from behind his laptop. "Haruhi, how about you help her find it, you know where it is…"
Rei and Haruhi walked to the back room so they could find a new uniform for her to change. The back room was large and had several dressers filled with clothes, most of which we used for the club meeting that Renge chose a theme for.
"I think it's somewhere around here" Haruhi dug through the closet and pulled out a yellow dress. "Found it."
"Thanks Haruhi." Rei smiled as she was handed the dress which was identical to the one she was wearing minus the tea stain of course.
"I'll be facing the other way in case you need help." Haruhi turned around to give Rei some privacy.
Rei slipped off her stained dress hanging it up on a hanger so she could carry it and get it cleaned and the stain removed, and slipped on the new one. She gently tied the ribbon around her neck and then attempted to button the wrist cuffs but couldn't quite get them herself. "Hey Haruhi can you button the cuffs for me? It is hard to do these single handedly" Rei chuckled softly.
"Sure" Haruhi turned around and walked over, she pulled up the cuff up so she could button it. When she pulled the sleeve up slightly she saw a dark bruise Rei's wrist. "What happened to your wrist? That's a pretty dark bruise." Haruhi asked as she quickly buttoned the right cuff, followed by the left one.
"Oh, i-it's nothing, just a little bruise. I bumped into something walking around my house in the dark this morning." Rei smiled. "Nothing serious."
"Okay" Haruhi smiled as the two walked out of the back room. Haruhi found it strange how it seemed that Rei fell a lot at home. First there was the hurt ankle yesterday and now the bruised wrist. She brushed the thought off as they sat down with the rest of the club.
"Any burns?" Tamaki looked over with his concerned puppy dog eyes.
"No, it's fine Tamaki" Rei spoke softly with a faint smile.
"That's good." Kaoru leaned back on the couch with a yawn. "Today's so boring. We should do something after school"
"Like what?" Hikaru looked at his brother.
"I dunno but something" Kaoru sighed.
"How about the beach!" Honey chimed in with excitement in his voice.
"I suppose we could…we have no guests scheduled for today so we could go out for a bit." Kyouya spoke with his gaze never leaving his computer screen.
"Sounds like fun" The twins smiled in excitement.
"Lunch is ending soon, we should head to class" Kyouya shut his laptop.
"See you guys after school" The twins waved and ran out of the room.
The rest of the club said their goodbyes and went to their classes. Each one of them excited to be going to the beach. Rei on the other hand was somewhat worried. She had never worn a swimsuit with other people before. The last time she even went swimming was before her mother had passed away and that was years ago.
When school finally ended she walked to the music room where the others were already waiting and the twins were going through a bunch of swimsuits that their mother designed. The boys had already gotten changed into their swimsuits. The twins were wearing matching blue swim trunks, Tamaki was wearing red swim trunks, Takashi was in black swim trunks, Kyouya was in black swim trunks with a red line down each side, and Honey was in white swim trunks. Haruhi was in cargo shorts and a white shirt.
"Hey Rei this one will look great on you!" Hikaru held up a small red bikini.
Mori looked over but then turned away.
"Um, thank you but I don't really swim" Rei lied.
"Okay, how about a sundress?" Kaoru held up a long white sundress.
"That's perfect" Rei smiled as Kaoru handed her the dress and she walked into the back. She put on the dress and looked in the mirror seeing her painfully bruised arms. Each arm looked like it had purple and blue sleeves, all resembled hand prints. I can't let them see…She though to herself and found a shawl and draped it over she shoulders before stepping out,
"You look great Rei-chan!" Honey smiled.
"Thanks" Rei smiled softly.
"So which beach are we going to?" Honey asked as he grabbed his float ring and put it around his waist completing his adorable outfit.
Rei looked over at Mori and blushed, turning away to hide it. She was not used to seeing men in anything except uniforms or suits so seeing the hosts in their swimsuits made her blush. For some reason, Mori had more of an impact on her.
"We're going to my parent's beach, hopefully this time we don't have any uninvited guests." Kyouya spoke as he adjusted his glasses with his pointer finger. He was referring to the time where the hosts had an outing with some guests and two guys tried hassling two of the girls and tossed Haruhi into the water making Tamaki jump in to save her.
"Let's go!' Honey smiled and rushed out the door.