I sat down in my seat in the classroom just before class started. Tamaki was nowhere to be seen. This surprised me. He wasn't one to be late. Yet, just as I had that thought, Tamaki came running into the classroom, quickly apologizing and sitting down, his seat towards the back.

I could feel him staring at the back of my head the entire class. It was mildly infuriating.

When it was time for lunch, he sped out of his seat and came quickly to mine, grabbing my arm. "I need to talk to you." he said, pulling me to follow him.

We walked out into the hallway. He let go of my arm and immediately got into a classic "panicking Tamaki" stance.

"Kyoya, I am again so sorry, you look incredibly handsome with contacts in, has anyone ever told you that? But seriously I am super sorry I won't do it again I didn't mean it I was just stressed and I'd never want to hurt you or annoy Haruhi or anything. Is Haruhi here? I looked for her this morning but I couldn't find her. But all of the ladies were talking about her and I just-" I interrupted his incredibly long run on thought.

"Yes, I have been told that. I forgive you, you can let it go. Haruhi is here, I brought her here myself, and-"

"You were an absolute gentleman to her right? My little girl should always be treated like a princess and-"

"I'm insulted you'd think otherwise." I smirked, even if I was genuinely a little insulted. And hearing him call her his "little girl" was always irritating, but suddenly it made me want to defenestrate him right here and now. But I wouldn't throw the guy out of a window just for being eccentric and clingy.

"Have the twins gotten to my precious daughter already?" He asked, clearly ready for a classic Suoh versus Hitachiin style battle.

"You realise she's been with them all day, and is probably already in the cafeteria with them by now, correct?" He froze, then quickly turned and ran towards the cafeteria.

"Come on, Mama! We have to save our baby girl!"

Not ours. My baby girl.

Actually, no. She'd hate being called that.

I followed him to the cafeteria. By the time I got there, Haruhi was already sitting at a table, surrounded by every other member of the Host Club, Tamaki looking winded, as well as a few girls standing and chatting with everyone.

"Hi Kyo-Chan!" Hunny chimed as I walked up. "We're just about to listen to Haru-Chan's story about what happened to her leg!" He said excitedly. She must have played off pretty well that she was okay, no one aside from Tamaki and maybe Hikaru seemed particularly worried about her.

"Pretty lame story, if you ask me." Kaoru said to everyone, with a smile on his face.

Haruhi sighed. "Guys, it's not really a story. I slipped and fell while I was bringing in groceries." The girls all started asking each other questions about groceries.

"See? Lame." Kaoru said, looking dead at Haruhi. I gently elbowed him as I passed behind him to sit down next to him at the end of the table.

"You all of all people should know I'm not the most graceful person around." She said, completely seriously.

"Haruhi's right. He did break something mere minutes after meeting us, after all." I said to everyone. She glared at me. I felt like I was going to pay for that later.

Everyone kind of just started loudly talking over each other.

"Kyoya." Kaoru leaned into me, speaking quietly, and only while it was loud so he couldn't be heard. "She told me. Not a lot of detail. But. She told me what happened. Just me, not…" He gestured his head at his brother, who was in a heated argument with Tamaki, not paying the slightest bit of attention. "She got all flustered when I asked how she likes living with you. Is she adjusting okay?"

So from what I could gather, she told him about Ranka, not us. Okay. I can work with that.

"She's doing pretty well, actually. She pretty much just keeps to herself."

"You oughta get her out of the house. I bet she'd appreciate that."

Oh Kaoru. If you'd only knew how much she'd enjoyed herself.

"BACK ME UP HERE KAORU!" Hikaru yelled at Kaoru. Kaoru paused, clearly not knowing what they were fighting about. But played it off and just started harassing Tamaki.

By the end of lunch, Haruhi already looked tired of everyone. Come to think of it, I was oddly tired myself. I had found it difficult to focus in class the whole day. Maybe it was because I was more worried about making sure Haruhi was okay all day, that I hadn't actually eaten anything today yet. I shook it off as Tamaki and I walked back to class.

The day droned on as long as the first half did. At least I couldn't feel eye daggers in my back anymore. He was just smitten to have seen her again. Hikaru was acting strange though. Like he knew something was up. I doubted Kaoru had told him anything, but they aren't great at hiding things from one another.

When class ended, Tamaki and I grabbed our things and headed for the music room.

"Do you think she's going to like her gifts, Kyoya!? What if she hates them!"

"She'll appreciate the thought, I'm sure."

Tamaki and I were the first in the room, as we typically were. Our classroom was the closest. There were a ton of plates of snacks that Hunny must have gotten ready at some point today. I grabbed a cookie and took a big bite as I got my laptop out.

"Kyoya! Are you eating Haruhi's cookies without her even being here!?" Tamaki wailed.

"I'm starving, it's fine."

"But you don't even like cookies!"

"You don't like the twins, yet they're some of your closest friends. Let me eat the damn cookie."

He looked surprised. I didn't normally swear around him. I didn't swear much in front of anyone. But, I actually did like cookies. Just not super sweet ones. And these were pretty good. Some kind of lemon cookie.

The door opened and Hunny and Mori walked in. "Is Haru-Chan here yet?" Hunny chimed. Mori looked around quickly, and replied to him.

"Mm-mm."

"Oh good! I had one more present I wanted to put on the pile!" He ran over and put another box on the modest pile. It was honestly more tame than I thought they'd be. No more than ten boxes including mine.

Hikaru came busting into the room alone. "She'll be here in like a minute! Ish! She's with Kaoru and I'm not a hundred percent sure how fast she can walk. But soon!"

He ran into the changing area here he and Kaoru typically left their things.

"Is there anything else that needs set up!?" Tamaki yelled, being stressed out by Hikaru being excited.

Mori nodded his head no.

"Nope! Everything's great, Tama-Chan!"

The door opened slowly, with Kaoru and Haruhi standing in the door, Kaoru holding Haruhi's bag as well as his own.

"Surprise Haru-Chan!" Hunny yelled happily, grandly gesturing to the snacks.

"Surprise." Mori added.

Hikaru and Tamaki ran over to the table of gifts and gestured together, yelling "Surprise!"

"Guys, you know you didn't have to do anything for me." Haruhi actually half smiled, looking down. "But I'm really happy you did." Everyone looked thrilled with her response. It was way more than any of them were expecting, which is impressive considering she knew it was happening already.

"Grab a snack and open gifts, Haru-Chan!"

"Yeah, club activities don't even start for another half hour." Hikaru and Kaoru said.

"Okay, okay." She said, walking into the room. "Oh man these all look really good.." She started grabbing a few things on a small plate, most everyone else right behind her grabbing snacks too.

Kaoru casually put her bag next to my things and walked over while everyone was getting snacks. "She looked like the bag was getting too hard to carry. I didn't even have to fight her to carry it for her. She seems kind of sore."

"Thank you, Kaoru." He seemed a little taken aback by the genuine gratitude.

"Hey, we love her too. She's not ALL yours now. Now. Snack time." He winked and rubbed his hands together, running over to the snack table.

Had Haruhi told him? Had he just figured it out? Was he only talking about the fact she lived with me? I had no idea. Clearly, me and Haruhi are going to have to exchange notes from the day on the drive home if we were going to stay on the same page of our story. Haruhi set her little plate down and reached into her bag while the others were still arguing about how big a slice of tiramisu should be. She tossed a granola bar in my lap.

"Eat, idiot." She smiled. She even picked my favorite kind. How thoughtful. I set it aside to eat when I was less excited about her opening my gift.

"Come on Haru-Chan! Presents!" Hunny excitedly yelled. Everyone agreed.

"Sit." Mori said, pointed at the most comfortable chair in the room. She kind of laughed, I assumed at Mori, and did as she was instructed.

Mori walked over and grabbed the two big boxes that were tied together. And handed it to her. She read the note from the twins, and opened them. They were filled with different types of clothing from their mothers line. Most of it actually looked like things she'd like. More comfortable and functional pieces than radically fashionable.

She went through every box this way, receiving various packaged snacks marked "from everyone", a bouquet and small "get well soon" bear from Tamaki, a bunch of cute charms and stickers and the like from Hunny, and some very nice stationary and a few DVD's from Mori.

My box was the last one on the table. Mori picked it up and handed it to her.

"No name." He said flatly. She stared at it for a minute before she opened it.

Everyone kind of leaned it to see what the mystery gift was. Haruhi looked visibly shocked. "This is beautiful…" My stomach was more full of butterflies than it had ever been before. It wasn't like me to be this nervous. But I really wanted her to like it.

"What is it Haru-Chan!" Hunny yelled.

"Yeah, what'd you secret admirer get you?" The twins said snidely. Tamaki looked like he was going to kill them at that moment.

"It's a necklace…A rose necklace...It's so pretty." She said, never looking away from it.

"What's the note say?" Kaoru pointed out the paper sticking out.

"Oh! Uh… Read the inscription. Okay." She fumbled around with the pendant to turn it around. She smiled immediately and looked down so her hair fell in her face.

"What's it say, Haru-Chan!" Hunny asked happily, getting up to look at it.

Haruhi just sat there and smiled. I could tell she was using her hair to hide the fact that her face was bright red.

"It says, 'It's Real'". Hunny read aloud for everyone. "What does that mean Haru-Chan?"

She wiped her eye. "It's kind of like...an inside joke." She told everyone, still smiling.

"Are you crying?!" The twins asked loudly in unison, prompting Tamaki to ask the same thing. She was. Not hard. But there were tears there. I was really going to get it later for making her cry in front of everyone.

"Maybe a little. Guys this was all really sweet. I've had a stressful couple of weeks. I needed this." Everyone ran over and hugged her. I sat at my table, even though every bone in my body wanted to get up and kiss her.

Club went on as normal from then. Haruhi had a LOT of requests, so I barely got even a moment to look at her. I mostly just sat and ran some numbers for our next big event, of which I was still deciding a theme. Maybe I'd ask Haruhi's opinion later.

As the night was starting to come to a close, only the last guests of the night were still in the room. I had kind of a headache and was about to grab the granola bar Haruhi had gotten me, but I realised that I'd left it with my bag. I stood up quickly to get it, when I got extremely dizzy all of the sudden.

"Hey, Kyoya, are you alright? Hikaru asked from a seat not too far from me.

I tried to nod yes and sit back down but my vision blurred a little and I felt myself start to fall to the ground.

"Hey, Kyoya!?" I heard Hikaru now yell.

"KYOYA!?" I faintly heard Haruhi's voice, and something further away from me fall.

Then, the world went black.