Rightio, here is Chapter 37.

Lots n lotsa chappies.

I was actually hoping to get to 258 reviews, but i think 164 is close enough. Wow... i got 14 reviews in the space of 5 hours. I was happy :)

I know Kyouya was a bastard in the last one, but he had to be... it's just the nature of the story... I'm sorry.

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Anyways... I am getting bored of this story now... shoot me, but I'm up to Ch.61 and i CBA AT ALL!! :'(

I might take a break, but then i wouldn't update for a while either...

I dunno... anyways, enjoy for now :)

I'm also thinking of a new number...

I was back in my swimsuit, laying down on a beach chair in hope I'd get a slight tan and stop looking so pale.

Kyouya was sat next to me, scribbling away in his notebook, but I could feel his eyes piercing me every now and then. Then I heard a sigh.

"Kyouya. What's wrong now? Is it Tamaki again?" I muttered, turning to face him.

"No."

"Then what is it?"

"I still feel bad for last night. I'd hoped you would've accepted my apology... I was being genuine you know;" he looked me in the eyes. "I really did feel like a jackass when you walked out."

"So? I really did feel like a jackass when you told everyone I'd gone walking in the rain."

"And I'm sorry I made you feel that way. I honestly am."

I looked at him, and saw the same Kyouya I had last night. The one who was laughing on the beach with me, not the one that made me feel stupid.

"Fine. You're forgiven. Just stop being a jackass all the time." I turned back around, closing my eyes against the sun.

"Excuse me?"

"Well... you act all smiley happy, then you're cold as ice... colder even. It's just like you fake being someone around us all."

"I don't do it intentionally you know. Though sometimes it's easier than ripping off heads when annoyed."

"Point taken. But just try to show some real emotion sometimes, so I know you're not just a mindless drone." He started to chuckle.

"I'll try to behave then." he said.

"Okay. Good."

I turned around again, and started to relax.

Then something cold washed over me.

"Haha! We got you Saori!" I looked to see Hikaru and Kaoru laughing at me, buckets in their hand that most likely held the cold water I had just been doused in.

"I'll kill you guys." I warned.

"What about me?"

I whirled around to the person behind me, only to be doused again by Tamaki.

"I'll kill you all." I yelled.

They started laughing. "On you're own? No chance."

I flicked my hair out of my face, turned and motioned to Mori and Kyouya, who had been sat talking to each other. They saw me drenched, and the three boys laughing, and smug grins came over their faces.

They stood, picked up their own buckets (we all had them that morning, building sandcastles) and walked to my side.

"Of course I'm not on my own. I got these guys."

Once the twins and Tamaki saw Mori and Kyouya by my side, they stopped laughing and more or less bricked it.

"Shit!" they all cried in unison, then bolted to fill their buckets before we could. It was rather funny, and after an hour of running, being soaked, tackling people, diving on people, and generally hurting each other, we all collapsed on the sand.

"That was fun..." I said, breathlessly. I had my head on Mori's stomach, Kaoru had flopped on top of me, and the others were splayed out on the sand. Haruhi and Honey had spent the last hour laughing at us, while eating ice cream.

"Yeah." said Mori, not quite so breathless, but equally as soaked. He patted me on my head, which I took as an indication to get up, so I gave Kaoru a shove and he rolled off me, then I sat up so Mori could stand.

I watched as he walked over to Honey and Haruhi, took some sun cream out of a bag then handed it to them, silently telling them to top up.

"You too Saori~"

I glanced over my shoulder to see the twins holding factor fifty sun lotion, grinning at me.

"You're not putting that on me." I said, but I couldn't help from grinning.

"Aww, but we just wanna help!" they pouted at me, and against my better judgement I sighed and walked over to the sun lounger, laying down.

"If you touch anywhere you know you shouldn't, be prepared to die a slow, painful death."

"Okay~"

After five minutes of them teasing Tamaki about putting sun cream on me, they were finished. And Tamaki was crying.

"Thanks guys."

Tamaki looked at me teary eyed.

"You let those shady twins help you and not daddy?" he muttered.

"Yes." I said it simply as I could. Than the twins butted in.

"Well, after what you did to Haruhi last night, we have to protect any women from you, you pervert!"

I glanced up at them questioningly, and Kaoru muttered in my ear.

"Bondage."

"WHAT?!"

I got up and glared at Tamaki, who shrank away slightly.

"It wasn't what they thought it was..." he mumbled, starting to dig himself a hole in the sand to hide in.

"Really?" I walked towards him, grabbed his upper arm and dragged him to another part of the beach. "what was it then?" he looked at me, and sighed.

"You're not going to believe me." he said, staring me in the eyes.

"Try me." I replied, staring right back.

He sucked in a lungful of air. "Haruhi is afraid of lightning. I blindfolded her so she wouldn't see the lightning, and gave her ear plugs to muffle the thunder."

He then looked away, almost shamefully.

"But alas, the others took it the wrong way and now I'm a banished prince... what to do?"

Dramatics. That's what he was (apparently) to do.

"Look. Did you explain to them that was the case?"

"I tried!"

"Right... come on." I sighed exasperatedly, and walked back to the others with him.

"He's not some freaky pervert guys, it's okay."

The twins snorted and shook their heads, Kyouya smirked from where he was sitting and Mori gave a curt nod. Honey and Haruhi were off finding more crabs since I missed out last night.

"Right. I'm tanning."

I walked off, laid a towel on the beach and lay down on top of it. Then I think I fell asleep.

* * *

"Ohh... what?"

I groaned and sat up, looking around.

I most certainly was not on the beach, in fact, I was laid on my bed. But I could smell something lovely coming from downstairs.

I got a quick shower, used my new strawberry and cream body wash and shampoo that grandma got for me (I love her) and dried off.

I pulled out a calf length red summer skirt (the kind that is really soft and loose, but also stretchy, they're cool!) and a white shirt (three quarter length sleeves, v-neck, so cute) and my white dolly shoes, then I went down for dinner.

I walked through the doors to the dining hall and immediately Honey saw me.

"Wow, you look so cute with you're hair wavy!"

"What?"

"Did you wash it? It went wavy~" he started giggling, then lead me to the table and sat me down. He even did the whole pull my chair out and push it in under me thing. Aww.

Then Mori and Kyouya brought the crabs out.

"I have to thank you again Mori sempai for doing this. Though I really should have called the maids ba-"

He stopped dead when he saw me, mouth agape, but he soon recomposed himself.

"I should have called the maids back. By the way Saori, you look nice."

He flashed a grin at me, a real one (I think... hope?) and set a large plateful of crab in front of me. He then took the seat on my right.

"Thanks Kyouya..." I could feel myself going red, so I put my head down, hiding my face with my hair.

Mori then sat on my left, picked up my napkin and laid it on my lap for me.

"You do look pretty." he whispered, as he leaned forwards. "And you smell like strawberries."

"Thanks Mori." I whispered back, probably going even redder.

I hesitantly reached out for a crab leg, snapped it open and tucked in. Conversation was light and jovial, but I could sense a tension around Mori and Kyouya... which I was in the middle of.

After the meal, and many good nights, I decided I should head off to bed.

* * *

General

After everyone had done eating and had gone to bed, Mori and Kyouya had been left to clear up. The air was so thick that you could cut the tension with a knife. Kyouya was the first to break the silence.

"You like her don't you?"

His senior turned to him and gave him a quizzical look. "Pardon?"

"I don't mean to be rude, but you do like Saori don't you?"

For a moment both boys stared at each other, cold glares aimed across the room. Then the taller spoke.

"Yes. She's a good friend."

Kyouya raised his brow, a smirk on his face.

"I meant, you like her more than a friend." his smirk grew. But it was soon wiped off when Mori snapped back at him.

"No more than you do."

They stood in silence for a moment, before they went their separate ways to bed.

The dishes could always be cleaned in the morning.