I don't own Ouran!
After an hour I get very impatient. "Don't they know we came here for a reason?"
Haruhi shrugs. "They always manage to get side-tracked." She puts down her pool stick. "To be honest I don't want to see what they want to put me in this time."
I cross my arms almost hitting myself with a pool stick. "They always try to waste my valuable time!" I complain.
"Do you have something important to attend to Sara?" Haruhi asks me.
I sigh. "My siblings and I were planning to spend the day together at the park after this fitting. Now I wonder if we'll have any time to do it at all."
"Don't let Tamaki find out about it. He'll force the rest of us to follow you." Haruhi warns.
"Oh I am fully aware of what he will try to do. The only thing that shocks me is that my siblings have managed to keep our outing a secret for so long." I say honestly.
Haruhi shakes her head. "It amazes me how much you act like him. Only now you're starting to show some emotion."
"I rarely let my emotions get in the way of things. That is why I feel it's better to keep my emotions in check." I explain to her. I decide to take the subject away from the person I know she wants me to talk about. "My Dad had me speaking to very important people at a young age and if I didn't smile correctly or say the right thing I would get yelled at."
Haruhi frowns. "I didn't know that."
"That's because I didn't tell you." I remind her.
She shrugs. "I always thought that rich people didn't do much and acted stuffy because that was the way they were."
I shake my head. "I hope I didn't give you that impression." I try hard not to give off that impression.
"No, that is what I thought when I came to the Host Club. And sometimes when everyone is too extravagant-" She laughs. "I can't help, but wonder what the hell is going through their minds."
I smile. "I've been having that thought recently. My Mom almost spent one million U.S dollars on lotion. Lotion."
Her eyes widen. "Are you serious?"
"Yes, but then again it was for the spa she runs, but it was only one spa. She shouldn't have felt the need to spend more than 100,000 dollars."
"For a second there, I thought you meant for herself." She laughs easily before getting a little serious. "Would she do that?"
I shake my head. "Over my dead body."
"So she would?" Haruhi clarifes sounding disbelieving of what she just heard.
"I wouldn't put it past her."
"Wow." Haruhi says. "Amazing how you didn't pick up some of her genes huh?"
"Not really. She's not my biological mother." I say with a shrug.
Haruhi looks surprised. "She's not?"
I shake my head. "My biological mother died in childbirth." I laugh darkly. "Five kids was a little too much for her I guess."
"Sara…I'm so sorry." Unlike the many people who offer their condolences, Haruhi actually sounds sincere. "My Mother died too. But I got to know her and I want to follow her footsteps and be a lawyer." She sounds resolved to do just that. The way she talks about it make me believe she really respected her Mom.
I smile. "You know that we're halfers right? Half American and half Japanese."
"I was wondering why you had blue eyes." Haruhi mutters.
"Yes, well we've been told that we look like our mother." I tell her. "She was the American. She had the blue and brown hair that we have. We look nothing like our Dad who has brown eyes and almost black hair."
Haruhi smiles sadly. "So I guess he's reminded of your Mom when he sees you all."
"Probably not." I tell her. "I think he's forgotten her to be honest. He's had three wives after her. I like my current Mom right now. She can be a bit loose with her funds, but she's reasonable. I wish she'd come here sooner though." If we remind him of our Mother, I'd be led to believe he didn't care very much for her.
Haruhi frowns. "I'm not sure about your Father at the moment."
"Believe me. You should never be sure about him. Sometimes he can be very reasonable, but other times it seems as if he's trying to ruin our lives." Like now.
Haruhi looks at me with interest. "You know…this is the first time I ever heard you speak openly about anything. Without sounding like you were guarding something."
"I wonder why I trust you so much." I muse outloud.
"I guess it must be because I'm the natural?" Haruhi jokes.
I smile. "Yes, that must be it."
She laughs and I join her laughter this time.
"It's about time you all got here." I say as my siblings come through the door.
Haruhi pops her head over the changing area. "Oh, so are the rest of them here?"
"They're coming." Stephen says turning red.
I smirk. "Embarrassed Ben?"
He shakes his head trying to hide just how red he is. "No…"
"Well, at least it's not horrible." Haruhi steps out from behind the screen. She's wearing a tasteful shirt with a Hawaiian print. I know it must have been really hard to find a print that wasn't too busy or tacky. She looks really good in it and she's also wearing a long wrap that open a little at the bottom. It's a plain white color, but it has very faint designs copying the same print as the shirt she is wearing.
Suzette claps her hand happily. "I told him it would look good!" She goes over to Haruhi armed with a bunch of pins. "Let me fit it a little better."
"Are you going to get changed? Stephen asks me.
I shrug. "I couldn't find mine."
"Those idiots probably stuffed it with Stephen's." Suzette says with a roll of her eyes.
"Oooo! I wanna see Brianna in a tankini!" Susanna says excitedly.
The twins poke their heads in and see Suzette with Haruhi. "You barely started?"
"I didn't see you in here." Suzette says calmly. "Go get dressed or help the others find their outfits."
"My daughter looks so cute!" Tamaki yells as soon as he catches sight of Haruhi.
Haruhi blushes. "Sempai! I'm not your daughter!"
I start feeling sick again. Words could not describe how much I hate this arranged marriage.
Suzette looks over to me to give me a sympathetic smile. "Brianna come over here and I'll help you with your outfit."
Stephen ruffles my hair. "Are you going to get mine?"
"If you would like." I tell him. He smiles sadly and shrugs. His way of comfort, I suppose.
Suzette hands me a package. "Go get changed."
I can hear Tamaki squealing about how cute Haruhi looks in her outfit while she yells at him to stop hugging her so tightly.
I shake my head and try to focus on the matter at hand. I prepare myself for whatever my sister and the Hitachiins are planning to put me in. I smile. It's a soft light blue colored tankini with the same tasteful print as Haruhi's. It's more of a halter top with skinny strings that tie around my neck and behind my back. However…I pick up the short wrap and I'm a little confused as to how I'm supposed to be wearing this. I'll just ask Suzette to help.
I change in the top and then put on the matching bottom piece before calling my sister. "Zee?"
"Coming!" I hear one of the twins yelp and then my sister comes behind the screen with a smile. "Yes? Do you like it?"
I shrug. "I just need help with that." I point to the piece of confusing fabric on the floor.
"Oh. The longer side falls to one side-" Suzette picks it up and holds it against my left leg and wraps it around my waist. "-and the shorter side is on the other side. There, perfect."
I look down at myself and shake my head. "Isn't this a little high?" The short side only covers the upper part of my thigh, luckily it drops lower as it gets to the other side.
"It's asymmetrical." Suzette says as if it solves everything. She pushes me out of the screen and I almost trip over the long side. "Of course I'll put your hair up and style it accordingly."
"I still think it's short." I complain.
She rolls her eyes. "Be a girl, okay?"
"What I don't look like a girl? I look just like you and Stephen." I smirk.
Susanna laughs. "Yeah, you should tell Stephen to look like a boy and Sakura to look like a girl."
Sakura and Stephen blush.
The rest of the people in the room exchange glances.
"And that is the reason I never wear pants." Sakura says with a shudder.
Stephen blushes even more. "HEY! It's not I asked your crush to flirt with me!"
Suzette, Susanna and I all try to keep ourselves from laughing.
Sakura blushes. "But you made me pretend to be you that day! It was your fault!"
"You pissed her off Stephen." I remark in English.
Suzette starts laughing. "It- She –Mon dieu!" She gives up speaking and just laughs.
"Are we the only ones that don't understand?" The twins ask each other.
"That was the most I have ever heard Sakura-chan speak!" Hunny remarks.
Mori looks at Sakura with newfound interest. "Yeah."
"She, well Sakura had this crush who liked her back and he wanted to confess to her so-" Stephen covers Susanna's mouth before she can say anything.
"He went up to who he thought was Sakura, but it was actually Stephen and professed his 'undying love for the prettiest girl in school." I finish with a smirk. "Then that same boy said hi to Sakura and thought she was Stephen and commented on how 'manly' she looked in jeans."
Sakura glares at me. She's so angry that she's stopped speaking. I think that it's funny.
Then she smirks evilly. "How about that boy that you kissed that summer?"
Suzette starts laughing harder. I'm starting to worry about her.
Stephen looks lost. "What boy?" Oh, that's right…it was only my sisters that came with me on that trip.
"There was no boy." I protest weakly. I hide my face in my hands. "Sakura if you say anything I will make sure it will be very hard for you to breathe for the next few minutes." I feel my face heat up and I wish she never mentioned it. I still feel bad after all this time!
Stephen lets go of Susanna. "Susanna you tell."
"Hell no." Susanna says with a shake of her head. "All you need to know was that he was a guy and-" she starts getting starry-eyed. "Oh so dreamy~"
I look at Kaoru and see him get a little jealous. His brother is nudging him; a silent reminder to not react so openly.
"He was quite handsome and four years older than my flirtatious sister." Suzette comments. She grins. "I was so proud and so very jealous." I don't correct her about him being four years older. He was closer to five years older, but I really don't want to talk about it.
Now I actually walk to a wall and smack my head against it. "I hate you all."
"Do you know who he was?" Tamaki asks looking curious.
"I thought the Ice Queen wouldn't like anyone." The Hitachiins comment. I'm so embarrassed can't snap at him. They don't know how close they are to the truth.
Hunny's voice implies that he's smiling at me. "Sara-chan will you stop hitting your head against the wall?"
I continue what I am doing hoping that this is a bad dream. Seconds later I feel two arms pull me away. I turn and see Mori holding me up.
"You shouldn't do that." He tells me.
Suzette and Susanna look at each other. "He was really cute. And he had it bad. Sending her flowers, taking her to dinner, and buying her nice things."
"I returned them all and I never went to dinner with him!" I correct them. "Obviously you all are insane." They are so twisting this story around. I did go dancing with him and…why am I thinking about him. I thought we all agreed never to speak about him ever again.
"But you admitted he was the hottest thing alive." Suzette teases. "And I agreed completely."
Tamaki looks really impatient. "But who was he?"
Kyoya takes a sip of some tea and starts working on some paperwork.
Sakura looks at her nails innocently. "Kyoya's brother."
I had a flash of inspiration! And this chapter came out of it. And I'm almost done with the next chapter so you'll be seeing that one soon. Like maybe in an hour or so.
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