"Haruhi!" I almost whined. "I can't dance! What am I suppose to do?!"
"I couldn't dance either," she told me calmly. "They had to teach me."
"Can you teach me?" I begged.
"Well, I'm not very good... Why don't I get Hikaru to help you. He's a great dancer," she said.
"Um, I guess that's ok...," I answered a little unsure. Showing Hikaru my laughable dancing skills was not on the top of my to-do list.
"I'll tell him to meet you here at lunch then," she said and hurried out of the music room as the first bell rang.
I blinked after her, then followed her example, heading to my own classroom.
When the lunch bell rang, I headed to the music room. There was nobody there but soon enough I heard arguing in the hall.
"Would you let go! You're wrinkling my blazer!" said an unmistakable voice that sounded annoyed.
"No, because if I do you'll run away," answered another unmistakable voice that was very similar to the first.
"Maybe not if you would just tell me where I'm being dragged to! Do you enjoy treating me like a dog?"
"Dogs are lovely creatures, Kao. You should be flattered if you think I'm treating you like one."
Kaoru grumbled something under his breath that I couldn't understand.
Seconds later they waltzed into the room. Well... Hikaru waltzed in and Kaoru was dragged in behind him.
"Why did you bring me to the club?" Kaoru asked and then, having looked around the room, "Aneko? Why are you here?"
"We're here, dear brother, because YOU are going to teach HER to dance," Hikaru said pushing Kaoru forward.
"You were supposed to do it..." I mumbled.
Showing Kaoru my horrendous dancing talent was even lower in my priorities than showing Hikaru.
"Yeah, well... Haruhi forgot... that we... had plans! Besides, Kaoru is way better at dancing then I am!" Hikaru said. "Have fun kids!"
And he was gone.
"So... I'm supposed to teach you to dance?" Kaoru asked after a few moments of awkward silence.
"Technically, Hikaru is supposed to be the one teaching me, but since he's not here and you are...," I trailed off.
He frowned.
"I thought you weren't mad at me anymore," he said.
"I'm not, it's just that... quite frankly it would be a lot safer for you if you were to never witness me dancing."
He chuckled.
"I think I can handle it," he said, walking over to the club room stereo and turning it on. He walked back over to stand in front of me. "It's not very hard," he said.
I looked at him skeptically and he laughed.
"That's promising. I haven't started and you're already laughing..." I grumbled.
He laughed again and placed my arms in the right position.
"Just follow my lead and don't think to much about it," he instructed.
It was a little awkward at first but soon enough I got the hang of it.
"I think you'll be ok for the party. You probably won't have to dance all that much since you aren't a host," Kaoru said as the song stopped.
I nodded and he stepped away from me, causing me to sigh inwardly. I didn't want to let go.
He went to turn the music off.
"Let's go eat lunch and we can practice a little more after the club if you feel you need it," he said.
"I think I need it," I said, although it wasn't so much that I needed the practice and more that I wanted to be in his arms again. But I wasn't about to tell him that...
We walked out together and went to sit with Haruhi who was unexplainably sitting alone.
oOoOo
Honey and Mori had just happened to go for a walk outside at lunch. They also just happened to walk into the maze in the gardens. And they just happened to stop and look at a rose that seemed particularly pretty that day.
All that to say that Honey and Mori just happened to hear a group of people having a meeting of sorts on the other side of the bush.
"I didn't know Tono was coming," Hikaru said.
"Neither did I but the baka followed me when I didn't go to the lunch room," Kyouya said, perhaps a little too harshly.
"Why are you calling me a baka," Tamaki said sounding hurt.
"Because, you don't have to follow me everywhere I go. What if I didn't want you here?" Kyouya said a little harshly again. He wasn't all that irritated about Tamaki following him this time, but what if he had gone to meet Aneko instead. There were certain things that Kyouya did not want Tamaki to overhear and if Tamaki had secretly followed him... Suffice to say that Tamaki idolized ninjas enough that he could be sneaky enough to stay out of even Kyouya's sight.
"You don't have to get so angry, I don't really mind him here," Hikaru said.
Honey climbed up onto Mori's shoulders so that his head was just above the bushes.
"You guys are planning something to do with Ane-chan and Kao-chan, ne?" he asked excitedly, causing the three other boys to jump in surprise. Well, Kyouya didn't actually jump. He actually seemed to have known Honey and Mori had been there all along.
Kyouya nodded.
"We want to help!" exclaimed Honey. "Right, Takashi?"
"Ah," Mori answered, stoic as ever.
"I love this kind of thing!" Tamaki shouted, and continued talking animatedly while the rest rolled their eyes.
"Alright, all we have to do is come up with a plan..."