Best Night Ever

Yumi

Finally the School Festival came. I donned my gift dress fairly early and then spent an entire hour and a half straightening my hair.

Yes, it takes me that long to straighten my hair, since I keep it in braids nearly all the time. But finally, it lay straight to…just past my knees? When had it gotten that long?

Ah, well. It's that long now. Who's worried? I was more concerned with how Kyoya-senpai would react to me in general.

I'd timed it so that I'd get there around the end, when all the dancing took place. I don't know why, I just didn't feel like showing up any earlier. Almost as soon as I got there, I was invited to dance by Tamaki-senpai.

"Not that I'm complaining," I accepted his offer, "but weren't you going to dance with Haruhi?" I already knew that Haruhi was dressed as a girl tonight.

"I figured I'd let Honey-senpai and Mori-senpai have their chances first."

Translation: Honey-senpai got to Haruhi first.

It wasn't long before I got a chance to dance with Honey-senpai. His size and energy level meant there was a lot of spinning involved before he finally sent me spinning off to Mori-senpai.

Dancing with Mori-senpai was less my doing anything and more his directing me around, he was that strong and had that much control.

After Mori-senpai, I got to dance with both twins, one after the other. Hikaru had his arm in a sling for some reason. When I asked him about it, he said that it was because he, Kaoru and Haruhi had had to go chasing after Tamaki-senpai and he'd fallen out of their carriage. Go figure.

Finally, I got to dance with Kyoya-senpai. And I was left at a loss for words. I was in the arms of the one person in the whole entire world that I truly felt I belonged with, something I can say about no people I've ever crossed paths with or seen before, and I couldn't figure out how to tell him that.

Strangely enough, though, I didn't feel too bad about being quiet. At least, not at first; at first, I was just okay with being there with him smiling at me. But after a couple of minutes, I felt like I should say something.

"Um…"

He moved his hand away from my waist and set his finger against my lips. "You don't need to say anything. I know."

That brought me up short. I pulled his hand away from my mouth and cocked my head. "That cryptic statement either makes you a telepath or a ridiculously good guesser. What do you 'know'?"

He cocked an eyebrow at me. "That you have very strong feelings for me. I may not be a telepath, but this isn't a guess; it's a deduction. I've seen your work, and your leading man in the work I helped you publish bore strong resemblance in personality to me."

I tilted my head down while keeping my eyes on his face, blushing. "I…think I was half hoping you would notice, and half hoping you wouldn't."

Kyoya-senpai smiled at me. "It's why I gave it the dedication I did. And before you say a word about my father, I could care less what he thinks about my decision."

"Uh…what?"

"My decision, should you accept, to marry you."

It was as if my world had come to a complete halt. No, not really; but it did feel like I was suddenly having trouble breathing. "You…you have the same…"

He never let me finish the sentence. He chose to kiss me instead, and let that answer my unfinished question.

When we both came up for air, around the time the fireworks started going off, I gave him my answer: yes.