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This chapter is in Haruhi's POV and is based on the song An Encounter by The 1975!

Sometimes, I can be incredibly dense. I should have guessed that Hikaru has feelings for me when he passionately kissed me against the wall. But I am notoriously oblivious when it comes to matters of the heart. I just don't tend to notice such occurrences. Especially since they don't happen on a regular basis, I mean most people at school believe that I am a boy.

But I really feel terrible now on behalf of Hikaru. It isn't that I don't reciprocate his feelings; it isn't that at all. It is just at the moment I feel really conflicted about my own feelings towards him.

I realise that I should apologise first and foremost. It isn't fair for me to think that he can read my thoughts. He isn't telepathic as much as I presume the vast majority of the time.

He is my best friend along with Kaoru and I am just nervous that if things don't work out between us, it will be really awkward for a long time to come.

Tamaki-sempai tells me that I should think less and act more. Easy for him to say; he doesn't have to remember that people think you are a guy and you must act so. Of course I have to be on guard while in school lest I let slip that I am of the opposite gender to what I seem.

Hey, I am a tomboy. Just because I dress like a guy, it doesn't mean I have to smell like one.

I need to work off my debt to the club and if it were to get out that I am female, I wouldn't be allowed to be a host anymore and it would take significantly longer to work off my debt. And to be honest, I would just prefer to get it out of the way.

I lower my eyes to the ornate ground to hide my disgrace. I hurt Hikaru unnecessarily. I should act less aloof because he is my best friend after all.

"I am sorry Hika-I didn't realise that I hurt you," I say quietly but firmly while raising my eyes once more to meet his stunning amber eyes that seem to shine with unbridled amusement.

He has no right to find this situation amusing. I am attempting to apologise to him and if he is just going to act like an asshole….whoa, calm down, I tell myself. Looking closer, I realise that I mistook this for amusement, well in actual fact, it may be something completely different. He blinks and the moment is ruined. I could have sworn that I saw his eyes swimming with unshed tears but it may possibly be simply a trick of the light.

"That is perfectly alright Haruhi," he says as he bows in an elaborate sweep, pressing his lips to my still hand. Oh.

He is indisputably the biggest charmer to walk the corridors of Ouran with the possible exception of Tamaki.

I suddenly understand the immense attraction the girls whom gather around him and Kaoru every day feel.

But he couldn't really like me. I mean, I am the 'commoner'. I hear the whispers.

"Do you see that boy there?"

"He is a commoner."

"If he weren't smart, he would have no chance."

And they can't even get my gender right.

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