"Sorry." Haruhi apologized again as she stepped on my foot for the twentieth time.

"Just remember to follow my lead. You're trying to take the lead and that's why you keep stepping on me." I said calmly, trying to remain patient but it was growing thinner and thinner every time she stepped on my foot. "Also remember it's quick, quick, slow. Not slow, slow, quick. Also put you hand on my upper arm." I moved her hand from my lower arm to my upper arm. "It looks a lot more professional that way."

After our tutoring session we decided to make our way to the courtyard to have more room to practice. I thought i would be best to practice near the hedge maze so we could be hidden from the other students so Haruhi wouldn't embarrass herself with her awful rhythm, and also so we could be alone.

We tried again. I began leading her through the waltz, trying to follow the beat of the classical music that I had playing on my phone and I immediately felt her tense up, which was making her lose the little rhythm she had.

"Don't tense up. You're making your rhythm even worse than it is."

She groaned out of frustration before separating from me. "I can't do this. We've been practicing for almost half an hour and we've made no progress."

I walked over to my phone that was next to my bag and turned off the song before facing back towards her. "It's because you're thinking too much about it which is causing you to mess up. You already know the guy part right? So you can definitely do the female part."

Haruhi sighed defeated. Her irritated expression turned glum as she looked at the grass that she was pushing with the toe of her shoe. I've never seen her like this. She usually was so dedicated with her work, always trying to succeed, but maybe that was just for school work.

"How about this." I smiled, trying to help reassure her. "Think of it like horseback riding. If you can ride English you can ride western but not the other way around."

"I've never been horseback riding before. So that doesn't really help me."

"Alright, uh…" I looked up as I tried to think of another thing that she could relate too. "It's a lot like running. If you can run you can walk?" I shook my head at the shitty example. "What I'm trying to say is that you already know the hard part of the dance which is the male part. So the female part should be a breeze."

"I think both parts are equally as hard." She huffed, her eyes expression defeat as she looked at me. "I'm just ready to give up."

"Don't say that." I walked over to her, a small smile on my lips. I took her hand into mine. My heartbeat quickening when I touched her soft skin. "If I can deal with tutoring for an hour every school day you can handle practicing the waltz for the same amount of time." I brought her hand close to my lips and I gave her a wink. "Come on, just give it another try."

I could tell that she was thinking whether she should agree to try again. I know that she didn't want to give up, but she was just frustrated.

She sighed. "Fine, I'll try one more time."

My smile widened. "Great."

I let go of her hand and went back over to my phone and resumed the music. I then grabbed Haruhi and positioned her correctly for the waltz. I slowly began dancing the steps so Haruhi could follow the best she could. At first she was doing great, we flowed through the music and our feet didn't touch once as we danced but after about a minute I could feel her tense up again, making her start to mess up again. I leaned down and whispered into her ear.

"Don't tense up. You're doing great."

Haruhi took in a deep breath and all the tension left her body. When I felt that she was comfortable enough I began to quicken my pace a bit, which she followed surprisingly well, not stepping on my foot once. Her rhythm still wasn't the best but it was a lot better than before. The song soon ended and Haruhi smiled at me brightly.

"I did it! I can't believe that I actually did it." She beamed.

I chuckled at her reaction. "See, I told you, you could do it if you didn't stress over it." I heard the next start to play and an idea popped into my head. "Hey, before we finish I want to teach you another move."

She looked at me unsure. "Is it going to be hard? I really don't want to feel frustrated again after I finally did the waltz right."

"Don't worry." I winked. "I promise it'll be easy."

"...Alright."

My smile grew bright and held her closer to me. "Ok, so I'm going to spin you and pull you back. All you need to do is not fall down."

"Wait, hold on-"

Before she could finish her sentence I flung her out, causing her to spin until both our arms are straight. She stumbled a bit but caught herself before she could fall.

"Alright, now when I pull you back you spin again."

Haruhi nodded and when I pulled her back towards me she spun, but instead of her facing me she had her back towards me. I smirked, my plan came out perfect. I pulled her flush against my body and used my other hand to grab her free hand, making my arms crossed around her upper torso. I began to sway as I laid my head in the crook of her neck. My lips lightly brushed against her skin. It pained me not to plant at least one kiss on her neck, but being this close to her was definitely worth the pain.

"Uh Hikaru, what does this have to do with the waltz?" Haruhi asked.

"It's a move that a lot of couples do while dancing. I just wanted you to be prepared for when your...boyfriend does it." I answered, sneering at the word boyfriend.

I slowly moved my head from her neck to her head, laying my cheek in her hair. I let out a loving sigh and closed my eyes as I took in the scent of her hair, which was starting to become my favorite scent. Being this close to her, her body pressed up against mine made me feel a way that I've never felt before. All I just wanted to do was spin her around and kiss her before…

"Hikaru?" Haruhi called out my name, breaking me out of my reverie. My eyes shot open and I lifted my head from her hair. "How long are we supposed to stay in this position?"

I blushed slightly from the thoughts in my head and for holding her for so long. I let her go, even though it was against my wishes. Haruhi turned around to face me and didn't seem to notice my blush as she spoke.

"So, is that it today?" She asked.

"Um," I cleared my throat, "yeah we're almost done."

She cocked an eyebrow. "Almost?"

"I just want to give you one tip." I grabbed her chin and tilted her head up to look into my eyes. "You kept looking away from me while we danced. It might've been because you were trying not to mess up but you should always look at you partner." I smiled at her. "It makes the dance more romantic."

"Alright…" She breathed.

My smile fell as we continued to stare into each other eyes. My heart began to beat fast into my chest and it seemed like my body had a mind of its own as my hand moved from her chin to cup her cheek. Our eyes remained locked to each other's and I could feel my breathing start to quicken. I know that she was in a relationship and seemed happy but right now I didn't give fuck. I just wanted to kiss her.

I began to lean down towards her slowly. The gap between us began to get small and smaller. She didn't seem to stop me so I continued to close the gap between us and I closed my eyes, but as our lips were about a breath away…

"Haruhi?"

I growled at the sound of his voice. My eyes opened and I glared as I look towards the direction where the voice was coming from. Why was he here? Didn't Haruhi say he was busy? Why does he have to ruin everything?!

I growled again with more aggression and moved away from Haruhi. Haruhi just stared at me confused as I had my back towards her and my hands in my pockets. She then turned towards the direction where her name was called.

Tamaki walked passed the corner of the maze and spotted us. He smiled and ran over to Haruhi with Kyouya trailing behind him. He grabbed Haruhi's hand and kissed her cheek, which caused my glare to harden at him.

"Haruhi I'm so glad that I found you. I got out of my meeting early. So I can help you with your dancing now."

"Oh, that's alright. Hikaru has already helped me today."

"Hikaru helped you?" He looked over towards me, who still had my back towards them. He scowled at me. "And why would he do that?"

"Because you ditched her three days in a row." I answered before looking at him over my shoulder. "So I decided to help her out."

"I didn't ditch her." He hissed.

I hummed a laugh before smirking. "Yeah, sure."

"Aren't you guys in a fight? You came to sit with us at lunch because he never showed up. Also the way he spoke to you on Friday was unacceptable."

"We talked everything out after our tutoring session and worked it out. Then because he felt bad for how he's been treating me he offered to give me dance lessons because you were busy." Haruhi answered. "I also think that it's a good idea if he continues to give me lessons because you've been so busy lately with your family's company."

"Haruhi…" He then glared back over at me which I just responded with the same smirk on my face. "Haruhi, can you wait for me in the club room. I would like to speak with Hikaru."

"Tamaki senpai what are you planning on doing?" She asked in a serious tone. "I don't want to hear when you come back to the club room that you two got into a fight."

"Don't worry. I'm not planning to do anything like that. I just want to...talk."

Haruhi narrowed her eyes at him, not believing him but she knew that she wouldn't be able to talk him out of it. She sighed and walked over to me, grabbing my arm to get my attention.

"Don't beat him up too bad." She jokingly whispered.

"I can't promise anything." I snickered.

Haruhi smiled and I watched her as she grabbed her bag. I smiled at her as she walked away from us. I was a little sad to see her go, I didn't talk to her all weekend because I was upset so I wanted to try to spend as much time with her possible to make up for how shitty I've been towards her, but of course he had to mess it up!

When Haruhi was out of sight I turned my attention towards Tamaki with a glare, which he gave in return.

"So, what did you want to talk about?" I hissed, finally turning to face him.

"I don't know what you're doing Hitachiin, but I want you to know this," he said as he walked over to me, trying his best to tower over me threateningly. "I don't like you around my Haruhi, but I'm going to put up with it because she's your tutor but I know your reputation with girls." His glare hardened. "If you try anything like that on my darling Haruhi I swear to God I'll beat the shit out of you. You got that?"

I clenched my jaw, trying my hardest not to show him how furious I was. All those rumors of me with girls were mostly false. Yes, there was a time where I did hop from one girl to another but that was it. Some of the girls however started rumors about how we slept together and that I only wanted to fuck them. Which lead a lot of girls to believe that I was easy and try almost anything to get into my pants. Kaoru obviously knew that the rumors weren't true and tried to clear up everything but to no avail. I thought people were finally beginning to forget about the rumors, but by Tamaki threatening me I guess not.

I hid my anger with a smirk, showing him that he wasn't scaring me. "Acting all tough aren't we? Are you afraid that I'm going to try and steal your girl Suoh?"

"I'm not afraid of anything because I know Haruhi would never cheat on me. I just don't want you harassing her because you need someone to please you for a night.'

My eyebrow twitched and I began clenching my fists but I continued to keep the smirk on my face. Even though all I wanted to do was sock him in his fucking pretty boy face. I bit the inside of my cheek so I wouldn't say anything because if I did I knew it I wouldn't be able to hold back my anger and I knew Haruhi wouldn't appreciate if I harshly insulted her boyfriend. So all I responded with was a dark chuckle, causing Tamaki's glare to harden.

"Don't say I didn't warn you." He said as he turned to leave.

"Ohh, scary." I teased, which he didn't respond to as he walked away.

When he turned the corner and was out of sight my smirk fell. I knew Haruhi wouldn't believe him if he tried to warn her about the rumors but I didn't want them in her head, because they weren't who I actually was. I didn't want her just for sex. I wanted her because I loved her as a person. I loved the way she always looked into my eyes when she spoke, I loved her laugh whenever she thought of something funny. Hell I even loved how blunt she was towards everyone, even if it might hurt my feelings a bit, though I wouldn't admit it. I wouldn't change anything about her because in my eyes she was perfect...while I was far from it. I had a short temper, I was rude, selfish, didn't let anyone get too close...was damaged. I rubbed my bruised cheek, really damaged.

I sighed sadly before walking over to my bag. I squatted down to pick up my phone and turned off the music that I forgot that I had playing for our dance lesson. A small smile touched my lips at the thought of us continuing the lessons together. Which meant I got to be with her every day after tutoring and be able to be close to her as I was today, her body almost flush against mine. Her lips just centimeters away from my lips…

My smile immediately fell when I heard someone clear their throat. I looked over towards them and saw that Kyouya was still here, a small smile on his face. I glared at him.

"What the hell are you still doing here?" I growled.

"Oh so you're going to give me an attitude now?" Kyouya asked, the smile never leaving his face. "You know I know that it's an act so there's no point."

I just sighed as I pocketed my phone before grabbing my bag and standing up. "What do you want Kyouya?"

"I've never seen you act that way towards someone before." Kyouya made his way next to me, the smile never leaving his face. "You even offered to give her dance lessons for the upcoming ball in two months. The Hikaru I knew would never do something like that."

"Well, I'm trying something different." I responded nonchalantly. "It's nice to change things up awhile. Being the same thing for a long time gets boring."

"Are you sure that you're not just in love and are trying to impress her?"

My cheeks grew dark scarlet and my heart began pounding in my chest. I faced him and tried to find my words to lie to him by denying that I was in love with her.

"I...don't...I…" I tried to stutter out, which Kyouya responded with a cool chuckle.

"I can see that I'm right."

"I-I don't know what you're talking about. We're just...friends." I said the word friends through clenched teeth, which caused Kyouya to chuckle again.

"Don't worry, having a crush isn't something to be ashamed of." His expression then turned serious and he pushed up his glasses before looking back towards me. "However, if you do try making advances towards her then we'll have a problem."

I glared at him and let out a low growl. "You know that those rumors aren't true."

"I'm not talking about the rumors." He said. "I'm talking about that if you try and interfere with hers and Tamaki's relationship because of your own feelings. I think I know you well enough that you won't do that." He began to walk away but first stop next to me and put a hand on my shoulder. "Call me if things get bad a home, alright?"

I just nodded and Kyouya patted my shoulder before resuming to walk away. I just looked down at the grass, seeing the wind lightly blow the blades of grass while I thought of what Kyouya told me. At first I didn't want to interfere with Haruhi's relationship and I still don't, but after being so close to her today and being so close to her lips…

I bit my lip before shaking my head, trying to get the impure thoughts out of my head. Even if I did try to make an advance towards her she wouldn't make any back because she was happy in her relationship. So there was no point to even try.

Even though I really wanted to...

I walked up to my front door and used my house key to unlock the door. I haven't really eaten all day so I was just going to make a quick dinner and eat it in my room. Hopefully mom wasn't mad that I came home later than usual today. I was in a decent mood right now and I didn't want her ruining it by yelling or hitting me.

I opened the door and entered the house, closing the door on the way in, when I was suddenly greeted by my mother, who actually looked happy to see me.

"Welcome home." She greeted happily as she walked up and hugged me, which I just looked at her confused. She then kissed me on the cheek before looking back at me. "How was my darling son's day at school?"

I just blinked in confusion. I could tell she was still drunk by the stench of alcohol on her, which was actually stronger than usual. This must've been one of the rare occasions where she was nice, which was actually pretty creepy, but it was better than her abusing me.

She gasped and gingerly placed her hand on my left cheek, causing me to flinch. "What happened to your cheek? Did you get hurt at school? Did someone hit you?"

'You hit me, you're the reason why my face is bruised because you're a fucking alcoholic,' was what I wanted to say but I was too scared to. I didn't want her to get angry and hit me again.

"I got hurt during gym class today." I lied. "It's nothing to worry about."

"Nothing to worry about?" She exclaimed, she cupped both of my cheeks. "My baby got hurt under the schools watch. That's unacceptable." She turned away and began marching towards the kitchen. "I'm going to give the chairman a call and give him a piece of my mind."

"Wait mom!" I called out as I chased after her. I didn't want her calling Mr. Suoh and finding out that I couldn't have gotten hurt in gym class because I'm wasn't even taking the class. He might tell her that I probably got into a fight and that might be the reason my face was bruised, which knowing mom she would most likely be furious hearing that her "precious son" would get into a fight.

I grabbed her arm before she could make it to her purse. "It's alright mom really. It's my fault. I was being too careless and ran into a poll."

"Oh honey, you need to be more careful. I don't want you damaging that perfect face of yours." Her face then brightened as the topic changed. "Since you've been working so hard in school lately that Isao and I decided to treat you to a delicious meal."

I bit my lip, trying not to make an expression. Even though I was starving I would rather go hungry then eat mom's cooking, but I knew that if I declined to eat her food again her mood would change drastically like it did last time.

"Uh, so what are we having?" I asked.

"Well, since we've been eating home cook meals for a while now we decided to get some Chinese food." She answered, causing me to let out a small sigh of relief. "It's not the fanciest place but Isao said that it's the best in town. I hope you're ok with that."

"It's fine." I reassured. "I really don't mind where it's from as long as it's good and won't give me food poisoning."

Then as if on cue the front door opened and Isao came in with a bag full of take out in hand. This was actually the first time I was ever happy to see him. My stomach immediately growled as the smell of the food hit my nose.

Isao smiled at us when he closed the door. "I must've come back just in time. I was afraid that I would have gotten back before you got home."

Mom clapped her hands excitedly. "Ooh, we can finally have a family dinner after so long. I always wondered why we suddenly stopped having them."

'Because you forced me to fend for myself.' I said in my head. I would always cook my dinner either before or after they had dinner because usually whenever I would try to eat with them around mom would force me to leave, even if I was in the middle of cooking or eating.

We all sat down at the dining table and Isao began passing out the boxes of take out to each of us. I opened my box and was delighted to see that it was orange chicken with vegetables and rice. I might not like him but at least Isao knew what type of food I actually liked, while mom probably would've gotten the opposite in her drunken state.

I ate in silence as mom and Isao talked about their day. I didn't bother listening as I ate my food, which to my surprise was actually really good. However, even though I was starving I was picking at my food as I began to get lost in thought. I began to think about the dance lesson.

A faint smile touched my lips as I thought about how close our bodies were and how I was literally centimeters away from her lips, almost about to kiss her. I just wonder what would've happened if Tamaki never showed up…

"You seem awfully chipper tonight Hikaru." Isao pointed out. "Did something happen at school today?"

I shrugged my shoulders, but kept the smile on my face. "Yeah, I guess you can say that."

A week has passed surprisingly quickly. After our tutoring sessions Haruhi and I would have dance lessons for about half an hour and I have to say that dancing with her was the best part of my day.

For just a week she has improved quite a lot. She was more on beat with the music and she only stepped on my feet about once or twice a session. She was also beginning to keep up with me when I quicken the pace, only stumbling a few times.

It was Saturday, the night of Kyouya's birthday party. I opened my closet and began looking through the few suits that I had. I wanted to give off a good impression, mostly for Haruhi. I know that I couldn't have her by that doesn't mean that I couldn't look good for her.

"No too dark." I pushed that suit to the side. "No this one is too bright."

I growled as I pushed another suit to the side. Did I really have nothing to wear? I was a son a famous fucking fashion designer for Christ sake!

Maybe Kaoru had some suits I could wear, we are the same size but most of his suits were white and bright while I mostly liked dark colors. I moved another suit to the side and was now looking at the last suit in my closet. It was pretty plain, just a black suit. I could wear a white dress shirt with it and it might actually look good. I grabbed the suit and a white dress shirt and changed into them. I haven't really worn a suit in quite some time so it felt weird to put one on again. I buttoned the button of my suit jacket before walking over to the mirror to look at my appearance. I readjusted the tie that I threw on while getting ready and glared at my reflection. The suit looked nice and clean. The black jacket and pants fit perfectly to my body. The white shirt underneath was buttoned up all the way to the top and held my tie snugly. I looked clean, but too clean. I took my tie off and threw it on my bed before unbuttoning the top button of my dress shirt so the collar was open and unbuttoned my suit jacket.

I took a look at my new appearance and my glare immediately fell. Yeah, I didn't look as clean cut as before but I still looked good and I'd say more my style.

I smiled at my reflection. Hopefully Haruhi would like it.

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