It was 11 o'clock, Sunday morning, and the Ootori-family arrived in one of their cars. With a smile plastered on my face I stood in front of the door to greet them, wearing a casual lime green dress and a thin cardigan. "Welcome back," I said cheerfully. Kyouya and his father were quite serious as always, but Fuyumi seemed very happy to see me again. Then another car pulled up by the mansion, and out stepped two young men, and I assumed they were the elder brothers. I hadn't seen them before, just at pictures, but I knew they had been on a business trip and usually lived in the mansion. "Good morning!" I said and bowed when they came up to the door. They were polite and bowed back but, ouch, they were so cold and dead serious!
I followed my classmate up to his room, wondering how he would take the news about the game you held at the host club. After everyone had left, Tamaki had told you that the girl wanted to spend that special afternoon with all three hosts in class 2A. "Kyouya-sama…?" I said in an innocent tone, which I knew would make him suspicious. "When you were gone on Friday, you know auntie had to take care of family business, right?" He slowly moved his gaze to my silly face. "And since we didn't want to let your customers down, we played a game…" the doorbell rang and cut me off. Since I was quite in the mood for teasing your friend, I ran down to see who it was, knowing Kyouya was probably pulling the glasses further up his nose by now.
As I came down to the first floor a maid was about to open the door. "I'll take that," I chuckled and opened the door with a lot of energy. "Welcome!" I smiled, but when I saw who it was I froze. "Rosemary?" the Hitachiin brothers, and the rest of the host club, said in unison. "Ano, what are you doing here?" I asked, a bit bewildered, and they explained that they wanted to welcome Kyouya home. "What are you doing here?" Kaoru asked. "I'm good friends with both Kyouya and Fuyumi, so I just wanted to meet them again," I said smoothly, sounding like it was the most obvious thing in the world. It seemed they believed me, until the daughter of the family came up behind me. "Rosemary, I bought some clothes that could need some refreshing," she beamed and told about how the people they had met on the trip loved her redesigned dress. I was really pleased to hear that, but I wished she hadn't talked more, which she unfortunately did. "I brought them to your room, so when you're free we can do something about them!" With that she nodded politely to my friends and left.
When I looked at the boys and girl standing outside, I felt kind of rotten for keeping it a secret that I lived with the Ootori family. "I'm sorry for not telling you," I said. The silence following was awkward, but then, to everyone's surprise, Mori broke the ice. "You probably had a good reason," he smiled at me, and I felt this jolt of energy through my body as I felt my mood lighten up by the giant's kind gaze. "Please come in, I'll get Kyouya," I said as cheerful as normal, and the tense mood was gone.
Everyone sat in one of the living rooms when I brought in the wanted one. Everyone welcomed him home, and began to chat about how the day without him had been, and told him about the game we had been playing and how much extra merits we got from it. My smart, business-loving friend seemed to like the fact that I had managed to do something like that (he didn't say so, but I read his expression). "And you'll never guess who the girl wanted to spend time with!" Hani squealed. "Probably not." "Tamaki and Rosemary… And you!" I noticed that Kyouya solidified for a second, before turning to me while pushing his glasses. "How come I didn't know I was involved with this?" his cold and scary voice said. It made the others shiver in fright, but I didn't, I just gave him a smirk. "It will be a good experience, Kyouya, trust me."
All of us decided to go outside for a walk in a park nearby since the weather was really nice, no wind or rain, just some autumn clouds far up in the sky. When we got there we all decided to play some commoner games, and among them were 'hide and seek'. Haruhi sighed and didn't get why it was so fun, but I just laughed and told her to enjoy it. Before she could answer she was dragged away by the Prince. I chuckled to myself. He wasn't aware of it yet, but I had beliefs that he had strong feelings for the female host. Kyouya was counting over by a tree, and I ran to the other side of the park and leaped behind some bushes.
Once settled I felt warm breath behind me, and I jumped up in shock and looked behind me, only to see Mori's face, looking like he tried to hold back a laugh. I held a small giggle back and reseated myself seat so I sat beside him. "Sorry, I had no idea you were here" I whispered, and he looked down on me. "I don't mind."
For a while the two of us just sat there, listening to Kyouya's voice: he was at 50 now. "Hey, Mori-senpai, thanks for helping me out back then," I said, still in a whisper. "And for all other times you've saved me. You're almost like a knight in shining armour," I joked and looked through the leaves, seeing if anyone were coming. "You don't have to call me senpai," his strong voice mumbled. His eyes were in the opposite direction of me when I looked at him, but I thought I could see his cheeks getting a brighter colour. It was impossible for me not to smile shyly to myself. I heard someone shout "100!" and the game was on.