Haruhi had fallen asleep in my arms after another hour of being pleasured. I smiled. I thoroughly enjoyed knowing I could help her get a peaceful night's sleep just by touching her body. At least I knew she'd be well rested for her first day back at school.

I'd heard my phone vibrate every few minutes for the past hour and a half. I knew it was Tamaki before I even looked at my phone. I gently rolled over and grabbed it out of my pants pocket off the floor, and looked at it, quickly turning the brightness down to not disturb Haruhi. I had to pull it close to my face to make out any words at all.

It was a little after ten at this point. I had quite a few text messages from Tamaki, some being different variations of apologies, others just asking me to call him. I decided I'd text him back so he wasn't pacing back and forth through his bedroom all night.

"Can't call right now. But I appreciate the apology. I know you're just worried about Haruhi." I sent him, knowing full well I was going to receive a paragraph back in response.

I was correct.

"I just have this gut feeling there's something she's not telling us! What if something is much more wrong than we think! What if she got caught up with some scary loan shark or something!" Then that message ended, immediately followed by another.

"You were right though. I didn't mean to take my stress out on you. However, I do want to know why you haven't done anything to help Haruhi!-" I glanced down at her, still completely asleep up against me, then back up at my phone. "-I'm pretty sure you at least care about her a little!"

I rolled my eyes. What an idiot.

"Who says I haven't?" I responded, sort of hoping to annoy him a little.

"?" He responded. He was pretty bad at responding to things like that.

"Maybe I quietly checked in with the hospital that treated her. Maybe I already called her and offered to take her to school while it's hard for her to walk since I live the closest. But, I am very sorry I couldn't go shopping with you."

There was a few minutes before he sent his next message.

"I'm sorry for doubting you. Thank you for doing that, it does put me at ease a little."

Then maybe three seconds went by before he sent another.

"WAIT WHY DO YOU GET TO DRIVE HER AROUND!?"

"I asked her first."

"BUT A FATHER SHOULD ALWAYS BE THERE FOR HIS DAUGHTER IN HER TIME OF NEED!"

Yeah. Yeah, they really should, shouldn't they. I pulled her a little closer to me, kissing her forehead.

"I need to go to sleep, Tamaki. I'll see you in the morning."

I then silenced my phone and threw it on the table. I'd charge it in the car in the morning.

I wrapped my other arm around Haruhi. I could lay with her in my arms forever. She somehow made Tamaki feel less annoying. She somehow made my life feel less stressful. She made the work I once drowned myself in feel like actual work and not just a way to pass the time productively. That was time I could be spending with her.

These feelings were still really out of character for me. I never saw myself falling in love. I never saw myself having a family. But now it was all I could think about. Dreams of living alone in a modest mansion far away from anyone had turned into living in an upper middle class suburb with a big beautiful yard and coming home to her each and every day.

It really made me curious about what she wanted for the future. I knew she was going to be a lawyer, a damn good one. But beyond that, I had no idea what her hopes and dreams were for her future. It was too early in our relationship to casually bring up marriage and children obviously, but I did kind of hope she'd bring it up.

Tomorrow was going to be hard for me. I was very happy that she'd be back, both because I knew she wanted to be, and I could spend my time looking at her. But I knew I was really going to internally struggle with wanting to kiss her and hold her hand. Not to mention wanting to throat punch the twins every time they tried to prank her, or trying to keep Tamaki off of her.

I knew Tamaki had feelings for her. I didn't want to hurt him, but I didn't want him drooling all over my girlfriend, either.

My girlfriend. I really enjoyed that statement.

Haruhi nuzzled in closer to me, her bare chest now pressed up against mine. I wish I could grab at her beautiful body a little bit more, but I didn't want to disturb her.

Just feeling her skin against mine made me want her. All of her. But I absolutely didn't want to do anything she didn't want. To be honest, I didn't know how to know if she wanted it or not, so I kind of just decided I wouldn't initiate until she did. I wanted to be 101% sure she was ready.

Even if all I could think about at this point was wanting to be inside her. It felt so inappropriate to think about her that way, even if she was laying in my arms, completely nude right now. I was just a little different to be thinking about someone I respected so much in such a...personal way.

But I adored everything about this girl. And I was about to spend the entirety of tomorrow wanting to kiss every single inch of her body, and at the same time just wanting to talk to her about everything and anything.

I'm still not used to love. But I love it.