Hey everyone, chapter 10, that means double digits, yay! I love all of your responses to my Twin chapter, they made me so happy! Also, I noticed I forgot my disclaimer in the last chapter, my bad! ^^' Oh, and I'll try to get a chapter up on Monday, but it's the 4th of July and my birthday is July 3rd, the day before, so it will be plenty busy, I'll fight hard to get a chapter here for everyone! Thanks for all your support!

Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran High School Host Club, if I did the characters would be drawn throughout the show the way they are in the theme song, Haruhi would toss a bucket of water on Tamaki's grandmother and she would begin to melt, and Hikaru and Kaoru would prank Kyoya by hiding his glasses, rendering him blind as a bat, comedy would ensue!

I got up and dressed in my school uniform like every morning, then threw up, then went to eat breakfast. It had been a week and a half since Tamaki and I had told my father.

He hadn't looked at me since.

I sat at the table and he put a plate of breakfast down in front of me, not making eye contact. I watched as he went to the counter to eat his and then I abruptly stood up, fed up with his way of dealing with this.

"Why won't you look at me anymore?" I found that I was already crying and yelling, stupid hormones. "I know I made a mistake, I get that, but you don't have to completely ignore me for a week and a half! I'm still Haruhi, I'm still me, dad! And I need you!" I ignored the hot tears covering my cheeks.

He stood there a moment, not moving, not saying a word, then turned to me, slowly looking up my body to my eyes. "I know…." He said slowly and softly. "I'm sorry… I just-"

I cut him off, "No, you don't know! I am terrified! I don't know what will happen to my future now! Everything is changing so suddenly, my world is shifting so fast it's dizzying! And I can't even sleep well because I am having nightmares of how much I have disappointed mom!" I was screaming as I pointed to mom's small shrine in the corner, my tears blinding.

My father looked away then back at me, I could see the expression of great guilt on his face, he opened his mouth several times then finally answered calmly, "Haruhi… I'm sorry… I'm so sorry… I was handling this immaturely, and I'm sorry. I feel like everything I love is leaving me, and I knew everything was going to change the second I was told you were carrying a child, so I guess not facing you was my way of holding off the inevitable… I'm so sorry, Haruhi, just… just give me some more time, ok? I'm slowly coping with this, it's just so hard… you need me though, and I promise, I'm almost ready to be there for you, I just need to be strong enough to help you, and I don't think I'm there yet." When he finished speaking I just stared at him, then nodded some, then sobbed once involuntarily.

"Come here, hun." I did as dad told me to and he hugged me and wiped away my tears. "I love you." He said soothingly, we hadn't had a moment like this in a long while and I found I needed my daddy. I needed to cry for once and be treated like a child and let out all my tears and sorrows, I loved my dad but since mom had died I'd never acted like a kid, I'd instantly become a responsible grown up for my father and now I truly needed one moment of youth before I really became an adult and parent. I needed to be comforted in the way I rarely had.

"I love you too, dad." I said with another small sob.

We sat there for awhile, him holding me and me sobbing, telling him I was scared and didn't want to do this yet. He nodded and rubbed my back soothingly until I slowly stopped crying.

"You're going to be a wonderful mother, Haruhi." Dad said, breaking the silence.

I smiled gently, wiping away the last of my tears and kissing his cheek. I was about to respond when I heard a honk outside signaling Tamaki was waiting to pick me up for school. "I have to go…" I told him warily.

"Have fun, and tell Tamaki I said hi and if he ever lays another hand on you I'll crush him like a bug!" My father said with some dark fury.

"Right…" I laughed a bit, I guess he hadn't dealt with what Tamaki had done yet, it still wasn't ok with him. I bit down on the edge of a piece of toast from my plate while I slipped on my shoes and picked up my bag. "Bye, love you!" I said as I chewed off the bit in my mouth. My dad said the same back then I ran out to Tamaki who was waiting by his limo.

"What took you so long?" He asked, partly joking and partly concerned.

"Sorry, remember how you said eventually my dad and I would have either a talk or an explosion then everything would be ok?" I asked him, referencing a conversation from earlier this week.

"Yeah," he pulled open the limo door for me and I climbed in with him right behind me.

"Well we had a huge explosion, or, well, I had a huge explosion but he responded to that and now everything will be better!" Tamaki stared at me then laughed a bit, "What?"

"You had the explosion, that's so weird! I like you on pregnancy hormones, you're interesting!" Tamaki said playfully as he buckled himself in.

I felt my cheeks heat up, "Oh, by the way, my father says hi." Tamaki smiled happily, "Also, he says he'll squash you like a bug if you ever lay a hand on me again." he began to freak out as the limo pulled away from my apartment building.

What I didn't see was my father watching Tamaki and I from the railing outside our door the whole time. As the limo left he sighed to himself, "She's gonna be a mother, Kotoko… I wish you were here, this is going to be a rough journey."

I really liked how that chapter went, I think I caught Haruhi's thoughts well, they're usually so over analyzing and deep! Thanks for reading, please review and pass this story around! I love you all so much, have a great weekend! :D

~SakuraHarunoGurl (Martina)