Haruhi groaned as the sound of her ringtone woke her up. Seriously not again! She glared at the offensive piece of plastic and metal, as she debated answering it or not. Damn, she thought. If I don't answer it's either never going to stop or I'll have the Host Club at my door again. With one last sight she grabbed her phone to answer it. However, before she could press the answer button her phone fell silent. She waited-half expecting it to ring right away-before checking her missed calls. 9 missed calls…1 each from Honey, Mori, Hikaru, Kaoru, and Kyoya-the rest were from Tamaki. She felt her face flush as she remembered last night. I can't believe he actually kissed me! Her phone started to right again. "Hello Honey-senpai," she said speaking into the mouth piece.
"Haru-chan!" Honey's enthusiastic voice came through. "The Host Club is going to the beach for the weekend. We'll be at your house in about 15 minutes…so hurry and get ready!" As Honey was talking Haruhi could hear Tamaki, Hikaru, and Kaoru asking Honey if they could talk to her next.
"Alright see you soon," she said in a rush, trying to get off the phone before Honey decided to let any of them talk to her. "Bye." She indulged herself by staying in bed for another minute. 14 minutes in which to get ready, she thought finally emerging from the warm bed. She opened her closet doors not paying attention as she grabbed one of the swimsuits and a sun dress to change into-as well as other clothes to pack for the weekend. Finally she was dressed and packed everything she could think of that she'd need. 5 minutes to spare, she thought as she caught sight of a clock.
She eyed her bed wanting to do nothing more than climb in and go back to sleep. Knowing that if she did that it would only encourage the Host Club to come up to her apartment-no doubt Ranka gave Kyoya a key-and drag her out with them anyways. Much like how they dragged Kyoya to the department store with them when he was still sleeping, she remembered with a half-smile. That was the first day I had ever spent any time with Kyoya alone.
The sound of a car honking outside had Haruhi snapping back to the present. With one last look around the apartment to make sure everything was in its place, she sighed before leaving to face the day.
"Haru-chan lets go swimming." Honey said as he quickly dragged Haruhi away before any of the other Hosts could stop him. He had really missed spending time with his self-proclaimed sister and was fed up with everyone trying to keep him away. "Kyo-chan said that the guests would be arriving tomorrow," he informed Haruhi as to what she missed when they were coming to pick her up. "He invited a total of 6. So everyone will have at least 1 guest-except for Kyoya and the twins will have 2." Honey continued to look for the best spot to lay out their towels. They couldn't even see the other Hosts when he finally found a spot. "Haruhi," the small boy said seriously all of a sudden. "This time stay close to one of us, so if you run into trouble we can help you."
Haruhi understood what Honey was trying to convey without actually saying what he wanted. No trying to fight anyone without asking the Hosts to help her. Haruhi smiled as she nodded at Honey to let him know she understood.
His expression brightened as Haruhi agreed. "Come on!" he yelled excitedly as he grabbed her hand, running into the water.
Haruhi couldn't help but get excited too-as Honey's joy was rather infectious. When Honey decided to splash her she allowed herself to get pulled into a splashing war. Before too long they had to call a cease fire for they were laughing too hard and couldn't catch their breath with all the water splashing them. They were having so much fun in fact that they didn't notice the clouds growing darker.
Finally Honey decided that he was hungry and left to go see about dinner. Haruhi had decided to stay out in the water for a while longer; promising Honey she'd come straight to the house at any signs of trouble.
This is nice, Haruhi thought as she watched a crab scuttle around under the water. I'm glad I came. As she looked out across the water she felt a sudden urge to actually go swimming. Thunder rumbled off in the distance making Haruhi halt her progress of wadding further out to sea to swim.
Back up at the house 6 people had also frozen when they heard the thunder. In a flurry of motion all 6 people ran outside towards their 7th companion. "HARUHI!" They screamed getting more worried by the second as the waves continued to grow bigger and became choppy. Honey raced towards where he had last seen Haruhi; Mori was close on his heels-they quickly left the others trailing a ways behind them.
Quickly realizing Haruhi wasn't on land Honey's stomach turned and he searched the water. "There!" He yelled pointing her out to Mori. Haruhi was standing chest deep in the water her eyes squeezed shut, hands over her ears, and a slightly hopeless look on her face. The waves were crashing all around her, slowly dragging her out to sea. Honey and Mori didn't waste any time as they ran through the water trying to get to her.
"Haruhi," they both said once they reached her.
"Haruhi, hold on." Mori spoke to the girl moving closer so he could pick her up.
"Haru-chan," Honey coaxed trying to help Mori. "I know you're scared but you need to hold onto Takashi so he can carry you inside."
Haruhi looked at Honey with a desperate expression as she allowed the boy to pry her hands off her ears and around Mori's neck. Haruhi kept her gaze on Honey-flinching every time she heard the thunder rolling overhead, but refusing to look away from Honey-as Mori picked her up and started moving out of the water.
"That's it; your safe now," Honey continued to try and comfort the girl. His heart felt like it was being shredded apart with each step they took from Haruhi's terrified, hopeless gaze locked on him. I should have made her come back to the house with me, he thought blaming himself. If we had arrived a few seconds later, the waves would have dragged Haruhi's petrified body out to sea. He shuddered.
"Haruhi!" they heard their friends yelling as they neared them.
"Here," Mori said alerting them to the fact they'd found her and also allowing Honey to continue focusing on comforting Haruhi.
Their friends rushed over trying to talk over each other to ascertain if Haruhi was okay, what happened, where she was, etc. Mori just ignored their questions as he and Honey continued to walk towards the house.
"Up the stairs, 2nd door on the left," Kyoya said to Honey and Mori-instructing them on which room was Haruhi's. Kyoya then prevented the rest of their group from following; he figured the 3 of them needed to be alone to deal with whatever had happened. "We'll be in the game room when you feel like joining." Mori nodded towards Kyoya answering for all of them.
As Mori started to lower her down Haruhi dropped her gaze from Honey. "Sorry," she whispered. "Ii made you all worry again."
At Haruhi's apology Honey threw his body towards her, wrapping her into a hug. "D-Don't apologize," He said crying. "It w-was my f-fault. I should have n-noticed the storm a-approaching."
Mori wrapped them both in a hug, not saying anything, letting them draw comfort from each other and from him. When Haruhi stopped trembling and Honey stopped crying he dropped his arms down. "Everyone is in the game room," he passed on Kyoya's message from earlier. Haruhi grinned wearily as she started to recover.
"How much do you want to bet that either Hikaru, Kaoru, and/or Tamaki will rush me right when I walk in, asking if I'm okay." She tried to joke.
Honey and Mori smiled at her but shook their heads not taking her bet.
"I suppose we should go down," Honey said. "Haruhi, you coming with us?"
"Yeah just let me change into some dry clean clothes."
"Oh yeah, we should change as well," Honey said noticing that their clothes were also drenched. "We'll meet outside your room when we're done."
Haruhi gave a half wave to acknowledge she heard them as she located her bag with extra clothes inside.
"HARUHI!" three voices yelled out as she entered the game room with Mori and Honey on either side of her.
Damn! If Mori and Honey had took the bet I could have made some money!
Sorry everyone I know I haven't updated in a long time! These last couple of days have been hectic and I suspect that it'll continue to be hectic until after this Thursday. I will see if I can make some time today after work to write and upload something. Anyways, who does everyone want Haruhi to end up with? I keep changing my mind of who she should pick.