Flashback
Haruhi, age 5
Oka-san, Otou-san and I were walking home from the park. Otou-san had said that every time we go out, all three of us are going, no matter how unneeded it was; it was that night I realized why. Someone had come up in front of us and he had a gun. He looked like he had been drinking away his life to get out of some depression.
"You left me for this gay prick, Kotoko?" his voice was ruff, and it sounded like he wanted to kill someone "And I guess you already had some good-for-nothing kid as well!"
Otou-san got mad. I couldn't hear what he was saying because Oka-san covered my ears. When Otou-san was done, Oka-san took her hands away and started talking.
"You know perfectly well why I left you. You go out to drink every night and you always used to come home smelling like your ex-wife." That was the first time I ever saw Oka-san so mad before. "You have no right to criticize my daughter or my husband!"
The scary man ran over and grabbed me from Oka-san and pulled by head back by my hair "If you don't come back, I'll shoot her head off!" he held the gun to my head. I started crying. With my condition, I started feeling really dizzy.
Otou-san ran over and grabbed me. He started beating up the other man and knocked his gun out of his hand. Oka-san covered my eyes, but I could still hear. Next thing I knew I was back in the hands of the drunk guy and he was running away with me. I could hear Oka-san and Otou-san yelling after me. I bit him as hard as I could that I left a scar on his arm.
"You little brat!" he shrieked at me. He hit me in the head with his gun and I was unconscious after that. When i woke up i was in the hospital. My dad was sitting in a chair next to me. He had his head in his hands and there were tears falling down his cheeks.
"Otou-san?" he looked up at me. He ran over towards my bed and hugged me like I came back from the dead. "Ne ne, Otou-san? Where's Oka-san?"
He completely froze. He kneeled down and took my hand.
"Haruhi, we won't get to see Oka-san ever again." he said quietly, tears still falling from his eyes.
I was taught about death at an early age, so I knew what he meant exactly.
"N-no." My eyes started watering "I don't want Oka-san to be dead!" He hugged me even tighter than before. I jumped out of his grip and ran over to my moms bed. She was covered in bandages, but I could still see her blood dripping from her wounds.
She was wearing an eyepatch, and she had an I.V in her arm. I looked on the monitor that showed her heart rate. Nothing. ''Y-Yada! Oka-san!" I was crying at her side now. I took her hand in mine, trying to wake her up, but her hand was cold, and it slipped away. I tried shaking the bed, nothing. I tried tapping her cheek. Nothing. My last resort was screaming. "OKA-SAN! YADA! OKA-SAN OKA-SAN! OKAAAAAA-SAAAAAAAAN!" People started staring at me in pity. I didn't want their pity, I wanted Oka-san Back. I tried searching for hear heart beat, but when I lifted my hand up from her body, her blodd was dripping down my hand, making its way towards my elbow. I started crying even harder now. "BRING HER BACK! BRING HER BACK NOW!" I started yelling at the doctors and nurses in the room. My cousins had just came into the room, to find me crying so hard it was difficult to breath. "Ryuu-Oniichan, Akane-Oneechan, Oka-san is coming back right?" they didn't know how to answer me. Ryuu-Oniichan just took me in his arms and hugged me really hard.
"Gomendasai. She's not coming back." he tried to say, but I started crying even harder. Akane-Oneechan joined in to stop me crying too, but it didn't help. Nothing would, when you didn't even get to say goodbye to your dead mother.
End of Flashback
Tears started falling from my eyes. Harry put his hand on my shoulder.
"I understand. My parents were murdered too."
Well doesn't that make me feel great? More tears started falling from my eyes. I hadn't even told him my story, and yet he's comforting me like he knew every word. He put his arm around my shoulder. Don't cry Haruhi, he still thinks you're a man. You have to be strong. You've been doing it for 10 years, so why's it so hard now? I looked away to find a birdcage in the corner of the room. Harry saw me staring
"I think she's out hunting. Her name's Hedwig."
"You brought her with you from England?"
"Yea, how'd you know?"
"Lucky guess."
I glance quickly at the clock. My curfew was in ten minutes. Even if Dad's not home, he would squeeze all then information that he can get out of Kyouya-sempai.
"My curfew..." I mumbled
"Can't you stay another ten minutes? Your said your dad's not home and plus your apartment is right next door." he pleaded.
I sighed "Fine. Ten minutes."
I was surprised at how much we had in common when we talked. I mean, a girl from a small town in Japan, and a boy from a completely different side of the world? But still... I could't help but be... a little bit attracted to Harry. Sure, girls would be. Peircing green eyes, that oh-so-suspicious looking scar. Even so, there's more than that; I'm sure of it. A person doesn't just GET a thunderbolt scar from falling down, right?
Ten minutes wasn't enough time. I felt like Renge, absorbing every ounce of detail I found. observing even the tiniest of things he did. It just wasn't enough time...
"Hey, I can walk you home."
"But Potter-san, it's RIGHT THERE." I pointed to my left.
"Fine, fine." he laughed. He opened the door for me and I walked three steps to the front, then turned around.
"Thanks for having me over Potter-san."
"No problem. I'll see you tomorrow?"
"Yea. Bye."
"Bye."
That was when it happened. We kissed each other. Oh god, even thinking about it makes me blush. We both jumped back, and put our hands over our mouth. Both of us were blushing like crazy. He was the first to calm down. He stepped towards me, put his hands on my waist, and kissed me again. He took his head back
"Cherry..." he mumbled.
Then he crushed his lips against my own. For the first few seconds, I couldn't move. But then I melted, and I put my arms around his back. We were playing with each others lips, and our tongues touched each others occasionally. Pretty soon, we ended up just trying to catch each others tongue, and he won. We started moving back into his apartment, and his hands stopped shaking. We took off our shoes, still kissing( i don't remember how we did it) and headed towards the living room. He pinned me to the ground and started kissing my neck. I started feeling dizzy. That was catching up with me. I closed my eyes, hoping that it would pass, but to my surprise, Harry carried me in his arms to someplace else.
He took his head away from mine and said " I don't want to knock anything over." Then went back to playing tongue war with me. We ended up just licking each others tongue, and truth be told, I liked it. It felt like the best thing in the world. His hair was soft and his lips were softer. I never wanted to leave his arms. Then I heard a soft "Ahem" coming from the door. The door? We forgot to close the door? I pushed Harry away and froze. He looked at the door too with a puzzled expression. I thought I was going to have a heart attack. But I managed to get one word out.
"O-Otou-san…"
