So the long waited chapter. I apologize to all of you for amking you wait for so long. Between school, my preps for a anime convention, my other series (hint. hint. go read. hint. hint;) ) Its been really hard for me to write this. On top of all that I have had so much writing block. But I think I have a grasp of it now.
Click. Click. Click.
I hear as my tall black stilettos hit the stairs as I move forward. I get farther up the stairs to the landing of the tall mansion foyer. I look down at the paper in my hand. Last Room of the West Hall. Upstairs. I place my hand on the door knob and twist it open. Sitting with wine on the bed was a long and lean blond man. He greeted me with a smile that made me melt. Tamaki.
Let me start from the beginning.
"Haru-chan! Were here!" I wake from my sleep. How long have I been asleep? I rub my eyes and look out the window. We were at the airport.
"Where are we?"
"France silly?"
"Why?"
"Long story." Kyoya butted in suddenly trying to usher me out the door.
We stand outside the airport where Kyoya was leaning against a wall while the twins talked to Renge against a column. Mori and Honey were by the car trying to get everything in the trunk. We may need 3 cars for all of us.
"I'm confused." I say getting closer to Kyoya so we were at whisper distance.
"Tamaki came here a year after school because of family issues."
"What?"
"He's an adult now. He can see his mother without restrictions. Think about it Haruhi she's sick and he can see her. What else could he be here for?"
My mind wanders over the thoughts of Tamaki kneeling at his mother's bedside. He must be worried sick. How bad could she be? Dying?
"Come on!" says Hikaru as he crosses over to the bus followed by the others. I watch them get on and Kyoya lowers for a kiss and lead me to the bus. It was large and empty. Mori and Honey sat in the back left while the middle right held the twins. Renge laid in the front leftt. Looking up as Kyoya and I had passed her. I made my way to the back with Kyoya behind the twins.
Kaoru leans over the seat and looks down at us followed by his brother.
"Excited?" He says cocking his head in curiosity.
"You must be!" Hikaru says.
"I suppose" I say laying back looking out the window. The foggy morning rolled by as we made our way down various streets and my eyes grew heavy. Why was I always so tired? I wake up leaning on Kyoya who was also asleep. My eyes try to look for the others on the bus but no one was in my view. I pull out my compact mirror and use to look back at Honey and Mori.
Honey was asleep, head on Mori's lap and Mori was staring at the seat across from his window. My eyes make their way to Kyoya's lap top that was on his lap. My hand runs over the mouse pad and I look at the screen. Boring stuff. Why was it always work with everyone? Have I not accomplished the same things that they have? I feel so stupid now. Why can't I be like them and have a perfectly successful life… ?I try to swat the idea away as we pull into a large parking lot.
I lookup waking Kyoya in the process and we all watch out the window to see a tall luxury hotel. Everything was read in French. I stumbled off the bus feeling a shot of jet lag. Wow this traveling was going to be wearing me away. Kyoya made it into the hotel and checks us in. The bus driver and a couple of hotel workers take our luggage out of the buss. I follow Kyoya to our room along with Mori and Honey following behind. The twins take the elevator after us.
We reach our room. It was floor 12 and room number 1234. The twins had 1235 and Mori and Honey had 1236. Our room was across from the twins and on our left was Mori and Honey. I guess nothing loud will be happening late at night with all of us this close.
Kyoya unlocks the room as the men with our baggage follow and set our stuff down. I take a look around the room as Kyoya gives the bell boys a nice hearty tip. The room had dark blue walls with small powder blue fleur de lis on the paper. Our bed was a large dark wood bed with white and powder blue bed. The look out the window was the beautiful shopping are of Paris.
"So beautiful, what should we do?" Kyoya says picking me up and twirling me around. I watch the room spin in circles and I finally get dizzy and yell "Let me down!" with a laugh or two added in. He finally twirls me onto the bed and lays me down. I see his outline overtop of me. It shadows my body and I feel like the sun during an eclipse.
His face comes down to mine in search of a kiss. I kiss him back gently, then more roughly as her leans against me more. No. I can't get swept up in him again. Must. Find. Tamaki.
"Tamaki. Were here for him, not sex."
"Later?" Kyoya says with raised eyebrows and a hopeful tone.
"Fine."
"Okay." He says pushing him off of the bed and then helped me up. Kyoya picks up the phone located on the bed side table and I begin to unpack our bags. Who knows how long well be here?
"Yes. Yes. Alright, dress up? Costume? Ahh. Okay Tamaki, I will tell the others, 10? Oh, 9? Alright sound good." Kyoya says with a head nod here and there. Tamaki? That was Tamaki? Didn't he want to talk to me?
"Well turns out our dear friend didn't tell us he's throwing a party tonight at his mansion. Looks like the gang will be partying tonight." He says before dialing everyone else and letting them know of the event later tonight.
"Yes, the theme is A Night at the Circus."
Circus? I love the circus. I mentally say to myself with a wide smile before thinking of what to wear. Many ideas run through my mind, I'm not able to choose one and I begin to mentally design many as they swirl through my mind. An acrobat comes through my mind and then a contortionists run through.
"So, what do you plan on going as?" Kyoya says to me as he sits next to me on the bed.
"Not sure."
"How about a…." He whispers the rest into my ear and my eyes brighten. Perfect.
The group was dressed to perfection. The twins were in matching outfits. Black and white vertical striped pants. Black dressed shoes with tightly bound laces. Their shirts were red and puffy with white and red accents here and there. Faces were painted white and thick eyeliner was placed on both of them.
"Mimes!" They both shout as they enter the room doing eccentric stereotypical mime impressions.
"You two being quiet? Maybe the circus really does fulfill dreams." Kyoya says coming in from the bathroom in his black outfit covered in many flames. Fire-eater.
Next to enter was Renge, she was in a black acrobat outfit with hot pink accents covering it. He hair was in a bun and she had pink accents coming from her hair.
"You look like…" Kaoru started.
"A stripper." Hikaru finished as they act out their words.
Her face made a 'Oh no you didn't look' but her laugh said 'unfortunately I know.' They all begin to have a heated discussion over whose costume was better.
The last to come was Mori and Honey. More was dressed as a lion tamer completed with an intricate black and white outfit with light blue accents. He had a whip and a tall black hat. To his right Honey was dressed as, of course, a lion. He had the mane and the tail. It blended with his perfect blonde hair and had the makeup to match. Only Honey could pull off a lion so well. As everyone gets settled in to their conversations, and for a certain person, lion impressions, I continue to get ready. I myself was a magician. A top hat covered my short hair and I had intricate mascara that ran in many shapes and dark red lips. I wore a black suit jacket and a white dress shirt. A bright yellow rose popped out of my jacket. I had a short black skirt and black fishnets that covered my legs. Tall black heeled boots ran to my knee hiding my calves.
Everyone's eyes slowly shift over to me to see my outfit. Hikaru slowly lets out a whistle and Kaoru has drool practically escaping his mouth.
"Well once were all done eying up Haruhi we should probably be getting to that party."
"Welcome! Welcome!" Says a man at the front with a handle bar mustache. The mansion was beautiful at night the stars twinkled over the sky and the moon shone down over the landscape. Everyone was ushered to the back where tents and what not were done in the back. Each tent was a different vibrant color always accented with a stripes vertically. The hedge maze was used as a travel from place to place and many fountains were around the yard for beauty. Concession stands and people on stilts lingered around in corners or were moving through the crowd.
Our group made it to the bright pink tent which had Clowns and the purple tent which held acrobats. Kyoya looks down to his phone in his hand. He stops but our group continues forward until a few notice and turn back. He looks up and around sliding the phone in his pocket.
"Green tent. Tamaki." He says letting few words out as he looks around. Mori finally lets Honey on his shoulders and they look around as a couple others ask people walking by.
"Aha!" Honey says and points to a far right of us and we head in that direction. Honey, still on Mori's' shoulders, guides us there until it is still clearly in front of us. Everyone runs into the tent in excitement.
"I cant." I stop in front of the tent on the gravel path. Kaoru stops next to me as his brother slides past with his caramel apple. Many people move around us going in and out of the tent. Tamaki is in that tent and I can just feel it's wrong. All of this is wrong. It isn't going to be the same, something's, off.
"Haruhi?" Kaoru says with his soft soothing voice rubbing my back gently.
"Kaoru, I don't think I can. This seems wrong."
"What does?"
"This. Seeing Tamaki. It all seems wrong."
"You won't know unless you see for yourself."
"That's what I'm afraid of." I say frozen like a statue. Finally I take a breath and work my way in. The inside was dark black except for a couple lights that lined the walls. They were like stars against the dark night sky. Many tables and chairs were inside the tent with waiters serving on people.
I can locate Renge and her bright pink hair piece across the room on the left side. Two seats are saved for Kaoru and I. I sit between Kyoya and Renge.
"Where's Tamaki?" I ask Kyoya after sitting in the quiet. No one in the room made a sound, not my group or any of the others. Why?
"Shh." Kyoya says to me as he watches the front of the tent, the part of the dark room left unlit. Suddenly lights pop on and a man at the front with wafting blond hair was on the stage. He had deep purple eyes and a woman next to him in an assistants outfit.
She has long blonde-brown icy blue eyes. Her skin's pale and shimmers under the lights of the tent. Without her opera glasses I could barely recognize her. But Lightening Thunder was right in front of me. In the form of…
"Lady Eclaire Tonnere. My fiancé." Tamaki says with a brilliant smile.
Yes, Yes, I know you think I suck, leaving you at such a cliff hanger but I have to keep you interested somehow. :) I promise that the next chapter will be out soon. im thinking in a month? Couple weeks? Well please, please, please review, its what keeps me going.