Haruhi traced little circles on her stomach as we drove home. "So, any idea on how we'll make this work with school and the Host Club?" She asked me. "This is a little harder to hide than a relationship, and we even messed that up pretty quickly." She chuckled quietly.

"We'll figure something out, Love." I had not a single idea figured out. I naively had never even considered needing a plan for this. Selfishly, I could not stop thinking about my future in the Ootori family. Of course, my love for Haruhi and the fact that I had no intentions of abandoning her stood firm, but I was still admittedly terrified. I was always at least a bit unsure of my place in the Ootori family, but now my future was even less secure. How could I even give a child the support it would need without my family?

"Kyoya?" Haruhi leaned towards me.

I shook my head a bit, as her voice broke me out of my internal spiral. "Sorry, Haruhi. Just thinking."

She put her hand on my thigh. "It's fine that you're terrified, too, Kyoya." She smiled at me. "I'd actually be genuinely concerned if you were one hundred percent calm and okay right now." I could swear that this girl could read minds, sometimes.

"I'm impressed you're still as calm as you are." I smirked at her.

"I grew up with next to no money, juggling school, all the housekeeping and cooking... A baby would be easier to keep in line than my dad, at least." She sighed. "I have no idea how to be a mom, though... Mom died when I was so young, I never really experienced a mom for very long." She smiled an evil smile. "Except for you, of course."

I slowly shook my head side to side, "That was a rather nice sentiment until you ruined it. I empathize, though. While my mother is still alive, I don't think I could even recall the last time I saw her. She does the vast majority of the overseas work for the Ootori group, very rarely home."

"Maids aren't very motherly, huh?"

"Not ones for the Ootori group, no. The closest I've ever had was Fuyumi."

"You know, neither of us have very good frames of reference for dads, either, now that I think about it..." She said, barely loud enough for me to hear.

"I can't say that we do."

"I guess we'll have to... figure THAT out..." Haruhi laughed, looking down at her stomach. "This poor kid."

"At least their mother is someone as resourceful and driven as you. And their father... will try his best, of course."

We spent quite a long time just sitting in the car once we got home. We discussed anything and everything we could think of while we had the time with guaranteed privacy. In a house like this, you never truly know who is listening at any given moment. We talked about Haruhi and her personal health care. Best-case scenarios. Worst-case scenarios.

I was quite impressed at how much more she seemed to know what she was doing right now than myself. I knew she had about as much experience with babies as I did, which was none, yet still she seemed to know what to do, and how this worked. Was this something commoners regularly talked about? Or learned?

"Since, as you said, this is a rather difficult thing to hide for any extended amount of time, do we intend to tell the Hosts? I leave this entirely up to you, Haruhi. It's your body, you should get final say in who does and doesn't know what is growing inside it..."

"I think the rule of telling people is you can tell them at the twelve-week mark."

"That would make sense, given the rate of miscarriage does decrease drastically at that time."

Haruhi paused her thought. "I thought you knew nothing about babies." She smiled. "What happened to that?"

"I do know quite a bit about the medical aspect of pregnancy and childbirth, but once they become their own person, I know practically nothing."

"...Why do you know so much about that?" She asked me. Not judgmentally, but in a very genuinely curious way.

"While hospital management generally requires a fairly small amount of medical knowledge, I find medical texts quite fascinating. The human body is a very intriguing thing."

"That... gives me a weird amount of comfort." She smiled. "I'm the opposite. I at least know a little bit about babies. Nothing intensive, but I at least know I won't be sleeping for months!" She laughed.

I may need to start reading some different books, for a while. I had absolutely no idea what to expect. I'm sure that was something we could discuss with Haruhi's doctor, but I always hated being ignorant in any given subject.

"The Hosts are going to freak, you know." She said, still wearing a smile across her face. "Not bad freak. At least, not for long. But I'm honestly kind go looking forward to seeing the different reactions."

"I think Tamaki may actually die, that day."

Haruhi groaned. "Or be so excited he never leaves me alone again."

"He'll either never talk to me again, or talk to me non-stop until the child goes to college." I sighed. "The twins will become even more insufferable than they already are."

"They'll want the title of "Uncles", no doubt." Haruhi laughed. "Which would actually be kind of cute."

"Honey-Senpai will just be genuinely excited, I believe. I'd expect you to be offered cake and sweets far more often."

Haruhi sat silently in thought for a moment. "I think this might actually get a reaction out of Mori-Senpai..." She whispered.

"What kind of reaction do you suspect?"

"I... have no idea. Not particularly badly, obviously. Maybe he'll just hit the deck. That'd be interesting."

"I don't think I could even imagine Mori-Senpai losing his composure like that. Though, I don't entirely disagree with you."

I was about to make a comment on how the guests might react, but we hadn't really discussed how we intended to tell anyone outside the club, and my father, briefly. I didn't want Haruhi to think I wanted to monopolize her pregnancy and our child.

"I actually am dreading telling Hikaru, though." Haruhi kind of grumbled.

We hadn't actually had a chance to discuss Hikaru's reaction to finding out about our relationship, yet, but I assumed that's what she was alluding to.

"He means well. I know he does. But he's truly exhausting." She paused. "I do think we should tell Kaoru before anyone else, though. Well, maybe excluding your dad... But he really helped us out through everything. I think he deserves first dibs on Uncle status, I guess."

I nodded, "I couldn't agree more. Even if this does mean my getting even more abhorrent questions about our sex life, I'm confident." She laughed.

I still felt like I had no idea what I was doing. But at this moment, along with so many others, I was so glad that I had her. It gave me a sense that, like she said, regardless of what happens... we'll be fine.