Disclaimer: Ouran High School Host Club is property of Bisco Hatori. As I am not Bisco Hatori, I do not own it.
A/N: I wrote this because I believe that, even though Tamaki acts like an idiot a lot of the time, he probably has a much deeper, serious, and intelligent side to him. The times during the series when he is acting seriously, I think he comes across as being pretty smart. So, here are some of his reflections about Haruhi during such a time. Somewhat inspired by the movie Lucky Seven (which I also do not own).
Seventh Love
Despite what everyone thinks, I've known how I really felt about her all along. So, why, you ask, did I create the whole father/daughter charade? Why did I continue to act around her, the way I acted around other girls, even though I knew if often annoyed her? The answer to these questions is simple and yet incredibly complex.
I didn't want to be her first love.
Why? It's because of something my mother told me a long time ago. She told me that, in her opinion, a girl's first love stayed with her forever, but it was her seventh love that had the best chance of lasting forever. While it may sound silly, that remark burned itself into my mind, never to be forgotten.
I didn't want to be her first love. I wanted to be her seventh love.
This also presented problems, however. For one thing, I couldn't always keep the act going. There were times when I let it slip. I was afraid that she would notice and fall for me too soon. Or, more likely, given her personality, she would notice and call me on my failure to keep in the character I created for myself. This was really only a minor problem.
The second problem is directly related to Haruhi's personality. For all that she is a brilliant girl, she is absolutely clueless when it comes to relationships. We all learned this when we met that Arai guy in Karuizawa (though I would still like to think of him as guy number 1). So, it could take years for her to actually fall for six other guys before me. Not to mention that most of the guys at school believe that Haruhi is a male.
Still not the biggest flaw in my seventh love plan. This flaw also became apparent to me in Karuizawa. I noticed when Kaoru set up the date between Hikaru and Haruhi. It was such a simple flaw that I should have known all along that it would be my undoing. I simply cannot stand to see Haruhi with another guy. But perhaps with that date, I can count Hikaru as guy number 2.
Four more to go. Can I do it? I don't know. I want to be strong and wait it out. I want to be the perfect seventh love. I guess in the end, it really won't be up to me anyway. This brings me to the final flaw that I have only recently realized. I can't choose when or if she will fall in love with me. No matter what else in this world I can control, in the end, only Haruhi can decide if I get to be her lucky number seven.