AN: So this is the chapter we've all been anxiously waiting for and it is sad.

This chapter is dedicated to Musical cake.

I hope everyone enjoys the chapter.

Happy reading.

Chapter Fifty-One: Maybe Angel, Maybe

Sumi's POV

It had been a week since the cultural exposition. I don't know what it was, but something was telling me it was time to go, to tell everyone the truth and move on. I had a life I had to go back to, someone who needed me, and I had to go back.

"So how have decided how you want to tell him?" Yuki asked me. We were in studying in the club room during lunch.

"Letter to the club?" I replied sheepishly.

She swatted me with her notebook, "You're going to tell him who you really are, and you want to do it in a letter? Not even a letter just to him, but to the whole club?" I looked at the expression on her face; you could tell she thought the idea was stupid. It was all over her face. "Seriously? You chicken! That isn't something you put in the letter and you have to tell him when you two are by yourselves. I can tell the club, if you want, so you can go after you tell him, but that's something you should tell him out loud."

"What if he hates me?"

"Life sucks, you move on." She replied, "You have to move on anyway. You can't pretend to be Natsumi for the rest of your life. You were born Sumi, not Yamazaki Natsumi, you have to go back to being who you really are. You owe that to yourself and to Hana. Takashi possibly hating you, which I don't think he will, I mean it is a possibility, you have lied to him for well over a year-"

"So have you." I pointed out.

"I'm not dating him and I did it in service of a friend. Although, Natsumi basically found you on the street and offered to switch with her so she could run off with her one of her family's employees or something." She replied, and then stressed again, "You have to tell him the whole story."

"And you'll tell everyone else?"

She nodded, "I told you I would."

"I'm gonna miss you."

"I'll miss you too." She replied, hugging me. "Where are you gonna go?"

"I don't know."

"Don't know what?" A couple of voices asked as they came in. We looked up to see Hikaru, Kaoru and Kimi.

"It's not very often we find something you two don't know." Kimi teased.

"I, uh, didn't know where everyone else was."

"At lunch." Hikaru answered.

"Why would you ask that?" Kaoru asked, "You knew we were all going to lunch."

"I needed to talk to Takashi…" I answered, looking at Yuki.

"I needed to talk to you guys, Kyoya, Tamaki, Haruhi, and Hunny." She added.

"I'll go get the others." Kimi told us and went back to the cafeteria.

"I'm gonna go find Takashi…" I stated, getting up, "There's a lot we've got to talk about, or at least I do…"

I left to go find Takashi.

"We have to talk." I quietly told Takashi solemnly when I reached him. He was about to leave the cafeteria, from the looks of it Kimi had told him that I needed to talk to him, and he was about to come and find me. I knew the phrase 'We need to talk' was not a man's favorite phrase to hear, but we had to. I couldn't keep lying to him. "We've still got some free time before class, let's take a walk. There's something I really need to tell you."

He raised an eyebrow and looked at me confused for a moment, but sighed and nodded.

Yuki's POV

"What was that about?" Hikaru and Kaoru asked.

"I'll tell you when the other's get here." I replied, not long after I said that, Kimi came back with Kyoya, Tamaki, Haruhi, and Hunny in tow. "Sumi found Takashi?"

"Yeah." She nodded.

"What's going on?" Kimi asked.

"You guys might wanna sit." I told them. They all found a seat.

"Can you tell us what this is all about, Yuki?" Kyoya asked a little annoyed and confused with the impromptu club meeting.

I nodded, "Just please promise me you guys won't shoot the messenger."

Sumi's POV

We stopped in the gardens. Well, he stopped. I was trying to get my thoughts together on how to tell him, so I hadn't said anything yet.

"Talk." He said gently.

"I don't know where to begin or how to tell you." I replied, "I've been trying to figure this out for a long time, this would have been so much easier to write down, but that wouldn't have been fair to you, none of this is. It's actually not really fair to anyone involved-"

"You're not making any sense." He stated.

I took a deep breath, "I've been lying to you."

The look on his face remained stoic; his eyes hardened though, "Explain."

I looked down; I didn't have enough courage to look him in the eye. "I'm not Yamazaki, Natsumi. My name is Sumi. No last name as far as I know, my name's just Sumi. I'm a commoner, an orphan actually. The day I met Natsumi, I had just literally ran away from an orphanage and even though I had absolutely no intention to stopping, I guess fate had something else in mind because I crashed into her. Literally crashed into her. Seeing Natsumi was like looking in a mirror, but the reflection was real. It's definitely the weirdest thing I've ever experienced. She was ecstatic. I thought she was insane. She asked me if I would like to be an heiress and that she needed me to be her. She wanted to marry this guy who's family worked for hers. At first I told her no. I had to start working; I made a promise that- well that doesn't really matter in regards to you and coming here… Anyway after a lot of convincing, she got me to switch places with her. At first I thought it was kinda cool being her, I didn't get why she'd give everything she had up for that guy. I didn't know anything about her really. I didn't know about you. The day I met you, I thought I was going to a business meeting with her parents. I was told that day that Natsumi was supposed to marry you. Then everything kinda clicked for me. She wanted to marry for love and not for business, but I don't know how anyone could meet you and not fall in love with you. You're kinda perfect…" I looked up at the flowers from the ground. I wouldn't meet his eyes. Call me a coward, fine, but it's easier this way, to look anywhere and everywhere, but at him. "Yuki pieced it together on my first day. She started to talk to me in French and English, and I couldn't understand her. She took me outside and made a deal with me. She would tutor me and teach me everything she could that Natsumi knew how to do and I would one day owe her a favor. Natsumi was never coming back, so decided to take her up on the offer. She got me a job as a maid and you know the rest." I finally looked up at him, "I wanted you to know everything before I left and I wanted to apologize. I never meant to lie to you. If I had known about you, and that she was getting married, I wouldn't have agreed."

I gave him back the ring, looked down and started to leave.

"Where are you going?" He asked after a few moments.

I stopped and turned around, "I don't know, I guess would be the simplest answer. I made a promise to someone I'd come back to get them. I'm kinda late on delivering that promise."

I left.

Yuki's POV

"So Sumi's really not Natsumi?" Kaoru asked.

"No, she's not." I replied as Takashi walked into the room. He did not look too pleased with me.

"Where is she now?" Kyoya asked.

"No idea." I replied.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Tamaki asked.

"I made a promise to a friend that I would keep her secret till she was ready to tell it."

"So you lied to your other friends and your family to keep it?" Hikaru retorted.

"I didn't lie to anyone. It wasn't my secret to tell." I countered, "And who are we to say anything about lying, all us lie every day about Haruhi. Everyone in school thinks she's a dude."

"That's different-" Hikaru started.

"No, it's not." I cut him off.

"Yu-chan's right." Hunny agreed who had been quite the whole time.

"You're not mad?" Kimi asked him.

"I knew who Su-chan is. I caught Yu-chan trying to tutor her in math. There was a lot Yuki couldn't teach her, so I offered to help her."

"You lied to Mori-senapi?" The twins asked shocked.

Hunny looked up at me. He, Sumi, and I were never happy about that part of the situation.

"It wasn't something any of us wanted." I replied. I looked at my watch, and then looked to the twins, Kimi, and Haruhi, "You guys better head to class."

Hikaru and Kaoru left kind of upset about Sumi.

"I don't think she lied really. I think she was herself the whole time, just had a different backstory than we all thought she did. She did tell us her name was Sumi and not to call her Natsumi." Haruhi said, "Maybe that was her way of starting to tell us who she was."

Haruhi left.

"I get it, you know, why she stayed around." Kimi said before she left, "That's what you do when you love someone. Even though things are messy, you stick around because of the person who makes staying in that situation worthwhile." With that said, Kimi left.

Takashi and Hunny went somewhere else to talk, which left me with Kyoya and Tamaki.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Tamaki asked, "We would have helped her."

"It wasn't my secret to tell. She didn't want anyone to know. The only reason Hunny and I knew is because we found out on our own."

"Where'd she go?" Tamaki asked.

"I don't know. She's trying to get as far as from the orphanage as she can without leaving Japan."

"Was that place she was from that bad?" Tamaki asked.

"It sounded like a nightmare." I replied, "Do you remember the movie Annie?"

"Yeah, it was about an orphan girl."

"By the sounds of it the orphanage was like that one, but less sanitary, and the woman was more inventive with her punishments." I replied.

Sumi's POV

I looked back one last time at the school before I left. There were so many things I loved. So many things I was going to miss. Maybe I'll be able to forget all of those things.

'...And maybe I'll forget how kind they were to me and how I was almost his-' I stopped myself from finishing that thought, and shook my head.

Yuki's POV

Tamaki left and I was left with Kyoya, who did not look happy with me.

"You lied to me."

"I didn't lie to you. I-"

"I asked you when Sumi first came if there was something wrong with her. You said no. I asked you several times about her, and every time you denied it. Not only did you deny it, you went back to her and taught her everything I brought up-"

"I'm sorry-"

"If you were sorry, you wouldn't have kept repeating the action."

"It's not like Sumi-"

"This isn't about Sumi, Yuki. It's about you and me. I'm not upset with Sumi, I understand her actions. I'm upset with you." Kyoya replied, "You lied to me for over a year."

"To help a friend!"

"I would have helped if you had said something-"

"No, you wouldn't have." I replied, "You'd have nothing to gain by it."

I left. I didn't want to hear it anymore.

Takashi's POV

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you." Mitsukuni said after a bit as we watched Sumi leave.

"I'm sorry too." Yuki said as she came over to where we were.

I nodded. I understood why they did it. I wasn't very happy about it.

"She was for the most part being herself." Yuki said. "She may have lied about being Natsumi, but the rest of it was the truth. She didn't know anything about her when she entered the deal."

"She explained." I told them.

"Are you upset with her?" Yuki asked.

"No." I replied.

"You're fine with all of this?" Yuki asked.

I remained quiet. I wasn't fine with any of this, but I had to be. She left. I'd miss her, but it'll be fine. There was nothing to fear. Once she gets where she needs to be, she'll be happy as she was here. 'And I know I'll forget how much she meant to me, and how she was almost my-' I couldn't finish that though, I didn't want to think on it too much. "Maybe…"

"You don't want to chase after her or something?" Yuki replied.

"Not in a fairytale." I replied simply.

Yuki looked at the clock; it was time for her to go to class. Mitsukuni looked up at the clock and then said, "You should head to class, Yu-chan."

"You could have a fairytale ending if you wanted one, Takashi." She told me, "There's one I remember quite fondly about a poor orphan maid and a rich, handsome prince called Cinderella. She wasn't quite truthful about who she was when they met and they ended up with a happily ever after…Just something to think about."

She left.

Sumi's POV

I was back in the same clothes I met Natsumi in. I didn't feel right taking any of her things. I knew it wasn't like she was going to come back for them, but I didn't want to steal them. I packed the clothes Yuki, Kimi, and Haruhi had gotten me over the past year in the duffle, Yuki had gotten me while she was at the mall with Kimi a few weeks back. I packed the stuffed animal that Hunny gave me to give to Hana when he found out about her. I packed the presents I had gotten from friends and then looked at the dresser at the one piece of jewelry that was actually mine, the black pearl necklace that Takashi got me. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, so I wouldn't start to cry. I put the necklace on.

I looked around the room. I was going to miss this life. I was going to miss being her. Having a family, having people to look out for me and care for me in a way I could for them. I was going to miss having someone to love who loved me. I turned off the light and left.

Yuki's POV

I couldn't do it anymore. I was in class and too much was on my mind, worry for Sumi, sadness and anger at Kyoya, annoyance with Takashi for not chasing after Sumi, eventually I raised my hand and the professor let me leave.

I promised Tamaki I'd stop skipping school, so instead of going and racing off my feelings, I went to the club room to just think.

"I wish I could have actually helped her." I sighed to myself, sitting at the piano. When Sumi learned how to play the guitar, she only did it if I promised to learn how to play an instrument as well, saying that no one was ever too old to learn something new and that she was living proof of it. It was one of those promises that you make because it makes them happy, but you end up putting emotion into the promise as well.I played with the keys.

I thought about what Benio called Sumi, a fallen angel. That wasn't Sumi at all. Fallen angels were wicked or rebellious angels that had been cast out of was nothing wicked about Sumi. Even her motives for leaving her old life or becoming Natsumi weren't wicked or selfish, in the least. And the whole time she was here she worried and felt guilty. She was an angel, plain and simple, and an angel, and because no one decided to chase after her and since she left with no plan, she could become a concrete angel.

Tamaki's POV

"Where could she have gone?" I asked Kyoya.

"I don't think I'm even quite sure why she left." Kyoya replied dryly.

We had searched practically the whole school for Yuki and we couldn't find her.

"Hey guys." Kimi greeted us, "What's up?"

"Aren't you supposed to be in class?" I asked her confused.

She shook her head, "Nah, Independent study's my last period, I was gonna go start on the food and preparing the tables for the club, but Yuki was in the club room and I think she wants to be alone."

"Yuki was in the club room?" I asked her surprised.

"Yeah, sitting at the piano, playing with the keys, like really deep in thought, I don't think she even noticed me coming in or leaving. Not that I blame her. When I left, whatever she was playing actually started to sound like she was trying to figure out how to play a song."

"How long ago was that?" I asked her.

"I like just left the room a few moments ago, why?"

We left and went to the club room. Kimi was right, she was sitting at the piano, playing a song. We werent't the only ones who found their way in here either, Mori-Senpai and Hani-Senpai were in her as well. Mori-senpai sitting on the bench by the window, and Hani-senpai was sitting next to Yuki watching her play. We sat down on the couch and listened. Neither of us knowing she could play nor when she learned.

Hunny's POV

"What are you playing?" I asked her after a while.

"Concrete Angel." She replied sadly, not taking her eyes off the keyboard.

"I don't know how that song goes." I told her, "Will you sing it?"

She nodded and stated to sing. I listened to the lyrics and I knew who she was thinking about, who she was worried about and why she was sad, it was why we were all sad: Sumi.

Sumi's POV

I shouldn't have come back to this neighborhood, but I had to research all of my options for jobs, apartments, anything and everything, I had to look at.

"Found you." I heard an angry screeching voice behind me. I froze, my breath caught, heart rate accelerated. I turned to see who it was and became even more scared.

Nakamura was standing there with a scowl on her face. I was dead. I was deader than dead. I was worse than dead, I was underage and stuck going back. I was going to die.

Nakamura grabbed me by the collar and dragged me back to the orphanage not caring if I could keep up with her or not.