Sorry for the wait. Short chapter, sorry.

"They've known each other since they were little?" Tamaki asked after honey had gone silent. While waiting for Sada and Mori to return, the group all seemed to be sitting on the edges of their seats when Honey had dropped the bombshell.

The small blond boy nodded, surprisingly not eating his cake and staring down into his lap.

"Mhm. Takashi and Sada were child hood friends but something happened and came between them." He murmured softly, still not raising his gaze from his lap.

Haruhi, Hikaru, Kaoru, and Tamaki all looked up at one another in dismay and shock. They were surprised Mori never spoke of this. Then again, he didn't speak much of anything about too far into his past. It seemed that it even bothered Honey to talk about this. Maybe it had been much bigger deal than they had first thought.

"Then, what happened?" Kaoru asked finally, looking again at him.

Honey didn't answer while Kyouya, with an all knowing tone, stepped in.

"It seems that their two families were connected." The pairs of eyes, minus Honey's, all looked at the shadow king as he sat there staring at them all. Of course he knew the situation. "They had done business together so it wasn't surprising their children played together. Something, however, happened between them. A proposal had gone awry or one had betrayed another. Either way, the families distrusted one another and separated the two shortly after entering junior high school."

"Wait a minute," Hikaru cut in, raising a hand as if waiting to be called on. "But she said Honey was her teacher."

"Well, that is true. He taught her for a while only because he father wanted the best teacher. But, the deal was she was to stay away from Mori, as they knew those families were close as well." Kyouya continued, lifting a hand up to move his glasses higher on his nose.

Softly, Honey nodded to confirm the information. "Takashi had always seemed upset about it and so did Sada-chan. They always try to see one another but it was brief and just enough so they'd never get in trouble."

The room grew silent at this new source of information. So, even now, those two families could have still harbored a hate for one another. Yet Sada was risking a lot to have Mori in her home. What kind of pressure was that? Or did Sada truly not care what her father thought? The mood in the room seemed to drop around them, making the ambiance seem less than the elegance Sada had tried hard to set up. It truly was a waste.

Shortly after this change, two figures came back into the room. Mori and Sada were in the middle of a conversation, both holding smiles that seemed so genuine. Mori was holding a chair under his right arm as they entered and broke from her to set it at the table.

Seeing the change in atmosphere from her happy time with Mori to such a quiet room, she grinned at them all, her hair finally down from her ponytail.

"Hey! What were you all talking about?"