SORRRYY! well, i suppose you don't ant to hear my excuses as for why i couldn't update, so let's get strait down to it:
Disclaimer: *sob* I don't own OHSHC... now lets start the story!
"You're not going to Eat any breakfast?" I could tell that Dad's question was for Haruhi seeing that I just don't eat breakfast at all.
"Uh, uh," My sister shook her head
The morning of the Ouran Fair was gloomy to say the least. Neither of us wanted this day to come, and that made it extremely difficult the get out of bed. The fact that I was up 'til 3 stressing over Haruhi made it even more difficult to stay on my feet as I waited by the door.
"Okay, well we should be off," Haruhi smiled.
The transvestite just sat and stared, he knew something was wrong.
"Is it something that talking to your dad won't help?"
She froze, "Why do you ask?"
He didn't reply.
"Really, I just don't want to eat this morning, that's all"
Dad looked at me and back to Haruhi, "After your mother's funeral," He sighed and I clenched my fists, "It took some time,"
"I'll be outside," I rushed out the door. It doesn't matter what happens, I never want to hear those words again.
The fact that Eclair requested Haruhi was weird enough as I walked around the Salon and waited on people, but who she requested next nearly gave me a heart attack.
"You are going to stay away from him,"
"What? who?" I had no idea what she was talking about.
"Don't play stupid with me," She sneered, "It's obvious something is going on between you and one of the others. With the way he dotes on you two, I know it's with him,"
I could feel the blood drain from my face, then quickly rise back up as I made the realization, "ME? TAMAKI?" I blurted, "I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but I don't like him. At all, to be quite frank,"
"Oh, please." Her voice was still too bitter sweet to ever sound like anything other than horrible, "And, Tamaki won't be coming."
I waited.
"I ordered him not to show his face in the host club again,"
"Great, how does this affect me?" I knew it probably did affect Haruhi, but I'm not her.
"I just thought you should know, but seeing that you don't care, oh well,"
"Will that be all?" I asked.
She held up a finger, "One more question,"
"Yes?"
Lady Eclair folded her hands under her chin and leaned in, " I'm curious," she left the line hang for a moment, "Who is it then?"
This lady may be more settle and controlled, but she was just like all the other girls at Ouran, rich and obsessive, "Who is what?'
This conversation was quickly boring me and my eyes began to wonder. I noticed some of the other hosts standing in a group chatting, finally Kyouya clapped his Hands and I faintly heard Hunny exclaim, "He's right Kao-Chan!" and nearly pushed Kaoru to the ground. He was then followed by Mori wrapping an arm around Hikaru and dragging him like a log.
Kyouya turned around momentarily and met my gaze, and was then greeted by his father with an insult.
Eclair seemed to follow my gaze, "Is it perhaps, Kyouya?'
I was now extremely annoyed, "Why would-" I just wanted to drop the subject, "If I say yes, can I go?"
The look on her face showed that she took my reply as something along the lines of, "NO, can you please go play in traffic now?"
"Very well," She stood up and walked away.
My attention was brought back to the Father and son a short distance away, "When you are young," The father had acid dripping from his words, "You may be under the illusion that there is all the time in the world, but in reality that is not so. Don't go wasting your time in things that are of no value!"
Haruhi marched up, "In this host club... Kyouya-Senpai works as hard as he can to ensure that everyone enjoys themselves. By entertaining everyone we also come to be fulfilled. Is entertaining someone really so worthless? I think that Kyouya-Senpai is outstanding,"
The man left with out a word, heading my way towards the exit, and he was stopped once again, but this time, by me. And I only had one thing to say, "I'm sure you've recognized each of the other hosts. Kyouya-Senpai gets more out of this than you think," I watched him walk out.
The twins sat on either side of Haruhi, "He's not picking up?"
The Ouran parade was about to start and the others still seemed to be expecting Tamaki to stop by. Kyouya stood by the window, tapping his foot while he waited for Tamaki to answer.
"He usually answers at the first ring, I don't think he's going to pick up," I said as I carefully stepped out of the changing room, "And why is this so tight?" When Tamaki said he wanted to use nineteenth century french attire, he went all out. I even had a corset under the dress that made it incredibly difficult to breath.
"And why am I the only host dressed as a girl?" Haruhi inquired. I was about to comment before i made the assumption that she meant host as in not hostess.
"Who cares? This is cosplay so nobody will care if you're dressed like a girl!" Hikaru and Kaoru answered.
"Like a girl?" Haruhi muttered and Hikaru laughed.
"Well," Kyouya snapped his phone shut, "No good, He's not answering,"
i let out a breath, and Haruhi commented, "Tamaki-Senpai really did end up not showing his face at all at the salon, perhaps he's keeping his word," with those words the only movement seen was Kyouya bringing the phone back up to his face.
buttons were pressed, and a midst the silence i could barely make out the rings from the phone, "Ah, hello shima-san..."
"Who's he talking to?" I asked.
Hunny spoke up, "Shima-san is Tamaki-chan's head maid.
"THAT IDIOT!" Kyouya snapped his phone shut, "Tamaki's heading back to France tonight. Follow me," He turned towards the door, "We've got to stop him,"
Out the window I could see a red Lamborghini speeding down the long driveway of the school. 'Could that be them?'
The others began racing towards the garage as i collected my thoughts and figure out what was heppening, and i wouldn't have struggled with keeping up as much as i did, if it weren't for the fricken four inch heals they had me wearing...
Kyouya reached one of the many private cars his family owned and gave immediate orders to the drivers, "We are in a hurry, drive us out of here now-"
"uh, Kyouya-Senpai... my apologies, but i was given strict orders from your father not to drive you anywhere before the fair ended,"
The guards starting to surround us were sending chills up my spine, had Hunny and Mori still been with us, i wouldn't have fretted, but in this case they had disappeared.
"DAMN IT!" his fist made contact with the car, leaving a large dent...How did he do that?
"We are terribly sorry, but we can not allow anyone to leave," the Private police chief said monotonically.
As if out of no where, Hunny and Mori crashed through a line of guards in the Horse drawn carriage, and jumped out. It was almost like they had set it up as the Twin hopped in dragging me along.
Haruhi stood, not knowing what to do, "Go get that idiot," Kyouya pushed her into the carriage behind me. This was all happening so fast, Hikaru called, "HIYAA!" And we spead off, i turned my head to watch Hunny and Mori's fighting fade off in the distance.
The carriage rolled through the gates and down the hills for a shortcut. Hikaru was constantly whipping the horses trying to pick up speed.
Kaoru shouted over the wind, "Hikaru, this speed is reckless to say the least,"
"Whatever it takes-" As Hika lost focus to answer his brother, the carriage hit a large rock in the path and nearly flipped. I watch ed as for the first time, things seemed to slow down, i clutched my arms around Kauru and Haruhi and watched as Hikaru tumbled out of his seat. Before i knew it, the carriage came to a stop, and Kaoru was out of my reach and racing towards his twin. To my Horror, his arm was mangled and bent in odd angles and i couldn't look, nor would i allow my self to listen to his distressed cries.
My gaze met Haruhi's and i could see the determination in her eyes. I ripped off my dress, revealing my khakis and corset from underneath and hopped on the Horse. To say i've never ridden a horse before was a lie. The only reason i wouldnt ride yesterday, was because this was a working horse, nearly twice the size of a riding horse, and lets just say the height terrified me. Haruhi, now clad in her plain under- dress, grabbed the reigns and gave me a nod.
"Just don't crack the reigns!" I shouted and with a kick, had the Horse back and running.
The motions for racing horses were new to me. I knew how it worked, but never in my life had i actually raced on a horse.
The way it works is sort of like pumping air into a bike tire, but to and extreme. I pumped the Horses neck up and down trying to help the legs work faster. Up ahead, we reached a jump and i couldn't even look back to prepare Haruhi, i just held onto the horses neck and waited for the momentary weightlessness.
CRASH! i was brought up with a jolt as the wheels hit the bridge behind me, and now we were a mere few yard away from the cherry red car. The passengers turned their heads, and the blonde immediately stood up.
"HARUHI! KAITLYN! What are you doing? IT"S DANGEROUS, STOP THE CARRIAGE NOW!" He's the one standing in a moving car...
Haruhi called, "Senpai! PLEASE DONT LEAVE!"
The carriage was now about lined up with the car, i had to bury my face in the horse's finely groomed main to keep my focus on the speed. Man, was it getting hard to breath.
Their conversation continued, "NOBODY WANTS YOU TO LEAVE, SENPAI!"
Tamaki's voice replied, "But everyone always talks about how they are put out by the club..."
"YOU REALLY MUST BE A BLITHERING IDIOT! Can't you tell by now when we are joking? EVERYONE ENJOYS BEING IN THE CLUB!" She Hesitated, "I ENJOY BEING IN THE CLUB!"
This corset is really hard to breath in! My breath was coming out in short pants now.
More hesitations, there was some slight mumbling, but it was to far away to be coherent for me. Then, the scariest part of all, The reigns loosened and the carriage hit a bump, 'SENPAI!" My breath hitched, and my head jolted up and around to see Haruhi flying off the carriage and into the open waters below. Would Tamaki get her? I could not tell you how Mortified i was to see Tamaki Hesitate, then As he was about to jump, Eclair's hand reach out to stop him. Luckily in that same split second, Tamaki dove.
Not so luckily, the horse took a sharp turn at the end of the bridge and the carriage snapped off the Wooden bars connecting it to the horse. All at once i seemed to be floating and i was slipping off the horse. Before i knew it, the sharp pain of concrete hitting skin over took my arms, legs, back, stomach, then my back again.
And everything went black.
KAORU'S POV-
Hikaru now had a make-do bandage on his arm, and we were meeting up with everyone at the shore below the bridge. Tamaki was carrying Haruhi back out bridal style, and i was more than relieved to see him away from that Eclair.
"What a reckless thing to do look, you're soaking wet because of it," Tamaki half scolded.
He set her down and Haruhi smiled with a smart remark, "That's alright isn't it? Like they say 'A man dripping with good looks,' right?"
I Gave a big smile as they approached us, as did Hunny, Mori, Hikaru, and Kyouya.
"He really is a moron," Kyouya commented.
"wait," I looked around, and recounted the smiles, "We're missing someone! Where's Kaitlyn?"
"She isn't with you?" Haruhi's brows furrowed.
"No," Hikaru answered, "We never saw her,"
Hunny pointed, "Guys, the Horse is up there!" I followed his point, it was at the very end of the bridge, shaking it's main, and prancing around in a circle, unattached to the carriage.
oh crap...
KAITLYN'S POV-
One blink, two blinks, my vision was coming back into focus, but the lights were to bright, so my eyes clamped back shut.
"Will she be ok?" someone asked.
"Well, she has a few sprangs and bruises, but nothing serious, she should be fine before the fair is over,"
everything was too loud, too bright, what even happened?
I tried making my eyes work again, and things came into focus almost to quickly as the light faded. I leaned forward with a groan, "Oh my god, my back..." I fell back over, but landed on my side, hitting my head on the rail next to me, "Oww..."
"SHE"S AWAKE!"
"I think we figured that out, Milord,"
"Are you okay, my daughter?"
I managed to open my eyes into slits and throw a glare at the blonde, "Just shut up, Senpai"
"Well, she isn't suffering from any brain damage," Kyouya sighed.
Haruhi's hand, i hadn't even realized was holding mine, squeezed my own, "are you all right?"
I tried sitting up once again, this time i stayed up, but my head was spinning, "You how before you make chicken, sometimes you take that hammer thing and smash it?" She nodded, "That's how i feel,"
"Ouch, and i thought my injury was bad," Hikaru claimed from the bed next to me.
His arm was now correctly shaped and in a large cast, "No,no your's is probably worse. Or, atleast, looked worse," I shook my head, as if to shake the memory out, "moving on,"
no one quite seemed to know what to say.
"How long was i out?" I blinked.
"My guess would be about 20 minutes, not to long,"
"Kaitlyn, are you still going to dance tonight?" The king asked.
The things that were running through my head at that moment narrowed down to one thing, "I can't believe i risked an accident to that extreme for an idiot that i don"t even like..."
"Bu-Bu-But-"
"I can't dance, even without the injures!"
"Hikaru's still gonna dance though!"
"Hikaru can stand without falling over," I added.
"But what about all that effort you put into learning how to ballroom dance, Kai-Chan?" Hunny seemed to plead with his big brown eyes.
"Can't I just sleep and use my poor dance skill some other time?"
"How is it, that the athletic one can't dance?" The twins asked.
"How is it, that Kaoru's the reader and Hikaru's the mischievous one?"
"Tusche..."
OF all the things that i had done that day, i was determined not to publicly humiliate myself to that extent. I had been learning how to ballroom dance for the past month and a half from everyone in the host club, and still barely got the routine down.
"C'mon..."
"PLEAASSEEE" The entire group pleaded, (Except for Haruhi and Kyouya)
"NO"
"PLEEAASSEEE"
"No way in Hell"
I guess i must live in Hell because later that night, the managed to force me to dance.
A/N wow, who knew school could keep me from this for sooooo looonnnnggg...
There's still more to come! what did ya think? online cookies for reviewers! :D
