Kaoru held Caroline close to him as he drove her home. Walking through the front door they saw Hikaru with a big grin on his face, it fell the second he got a glimpse of Caroline. "What happened?" He asked quietly as he came up to her. Kaoru shook his head and put his hand up against his brother, trying to keep him away from her.

"This…here, what happened to her…is your fault. For telling her to go with Kyoya for Haruhi. Haruhi would've gotten the debt paid off by someone…even the king would've been willing to pay for her…" Kaoru said as he shook his head and said, "Kyoya raped her…he got drunk and he raped her, because she wanted nothing to do with him…" Kaoru shook his head again and slowly brought Caroline upstairs to where their shower was. "Here darling, take a shower and get yourself as clean as you want…I'm very sorry that happened to you, and if there was any other way for me to fix it you know I would…I love you still, and I will never hate you for what happened here today." Kaoru slowly walked away, so Caroline walked to their shared room and grabbed some of her clothes.

On her way out of the room she heard, "I didn't want that to happen to her…"

"But it did…you just let him take her away from us and no one was there to protect her…it's your fault she got hurt…"

"I…I just wanted to know Haruhi's debt was gone…Caroline wanted it too…"

"She wanted you happy, no matter the cost of herself…" She then heard Kaoru's voice start breaking up as he said, "She cares so much about the both of us and you couldn't give less of a crap. She got RAPED because of you, and you don't even want to apologize for it. You keep saying that it was Caroline's decision. Yes, it was her decision to help YOU!" She then heard Kaoru start walking away from the situation into the kitchen. She quickly ran upstairs to take a shower, not wanting to hear any more of this fight.

She took a nice, long, burning hot shower to get rid of the pain from Kyoya's touch. She thought back to when she found him nice, or comforting, and it made her sick to her stomach. How can someone like that exist in this world, someone who is so willing to throw away other people's comfort for their own pleasure? Caroline shivered at her own thoughts as she put her clothes on. She ran out into the room to find both of the boys hair tousled and tears pouring down their faces, and Hikaru with a bloody nose and Kaoru with a bloody lip. Caroline instantly ran over to Kaoru and said, "What happened between you two exactly?"

Hikaru stood up and said, "Caroline I'm so sorry for what you had to go through for me…"

"Hikaru?!" Caroline said backing up from Kaoru. She looked back at Kaoru and said, "I'm so sorry honey…I didn't think you'd be the one to come out of it with just a bloody lip…"

"So, you thought you had come over to Hikaru first?" Kaoru asked, his eyes narrowing at her.

"Yes, because I was going to block him from anything else you might try to do to him. He didn't make me go there, I went there by choice. It's my own fault for what happened, not his…" Caroline said turning her face to the ground as the tears finally fell down her face. Kaoru sighed as he was knocked out of his angry stupor as he leaned down and hugged her softly.

"Honey, it's not your fault at all. If nothing else, it's Kyoya's. He shouldn't have come after you like that…it was wrong…hush baby…I love you still…doesn't that matter for anything…" Kaoru asked as he held her close. His brother came over and wrapped his arms around Caroline softly as well.

"I'm so sorry this happened to you…" Caroline heard from Hikaru, his voice broken up by his tears as he wrapped his arms around her tighter and said, "I didn't mean for anything to happen to you…" He started bawling on her shoulder and Caroline started crying out too. Kaoru pulled away from the two of them, as Caroline turned around and held his brother. Kaoru walked into the bedroom and laid face down on the bed as he started talking to himself.

"Why would I have let her do this, if I didn't care about my brother more than her?" Kaoru said and turned around to lie on his back and look up at the ceiling. His hair laying feather across the bed as he said, "If I love her so much, why would I have let her do something that stupid…I can't even remember if I fought for her at all." He sat up as he thought of walking down the isle with Caroline in a bright white dress, his brother in the corner crying and giving him a thumbs up, everything going alright. He opened his eyes and smiled at the thought as he said, "I'm going to ask her to marry me…I know this isn't the best time, but…soon…next weekend with Haruhi, when we go on a double date…I'll ask her…I have to tell Kaoru."

He jumped out of the bed happy as a clam as he walked back into the room of the two of them crying on each others shoulders. He smiled softly and said, "Hey you guys, do you want to pick up some ice cream?" The two of them stopped their tears and looked up at his smile. Caroline nodded as she picked herself up and flung her arms around Kaoru. Hikaru nodded slowly behind her and picked himself up on his knees slowly.

"Thank you…for coming back to me and not being angry love…" Caroline said softly in his ear as a few more tears fell from the incident. She hugged him tightly and then let him go as she walked out to the limo and said, "Come on! Ice cream awaits us!" She ran out to the limo with the two twins following her. As she hopped in she said, "Gregory…I know you're not supposed to, but can you take off without the twins, just for a couple of blocks, and make them catch up…" Before her sentence was even through Gregory took off towards the Ice Cream parlor, Caroline and him laughing as they took off. Caroline looked behind her at the twins and said, "Okay, Gregory, you can stop now…" He stopped suddenly and two out of breath twins climbed into the car.

"You…are…such…a…turd!" Hikaru said as he got in the car completely out of breath.

Caroline smirked and said, "Yeah, but you both still love me!"

Kaoru smiled to her and hugged her around the waist as he said, "You know I do!" Caroline smirked softly as they finally made it to the Ice Cream Parlor and there, inside, was the Host Club. Kaoru pushed Caroline behind him as he asked, "Is Kyoya here?" Tamaki shook his head, his face far from its usually bubbly ness.

Caroline stepped forward and said, "Hey guys…I've missed you…" Honey ran up and wrapped his arms around Caroline's legs as he started sobbing. Mori came up behind him and wrapped his arms around her shoulders.

"This should never have happened." Tamaki said as he came up and hugged Caroline as well. Tears were brimming in his eyes as he pulled away and said, "How could Kyoya do such a thing to our beautiful Princess!?"

Caroline smiled and hugged everyone back as she said, "Because, Kyoya was jealous of Kaoru and Hikaru. He wanted me, because I was pretty and special for him…and Kaoru had devirginized me. He thought of me as disgusting in his presence once he had finally found out." Caroline smiled softly, tears falling down her face as she spoke, because the smile she held was faked.

Tamaki looked shocked at the twins and then back at Caroline as he said, "And this whole time I expected the twins to be the bad for you. I never expected mot…Kyoya to act out in this way. From now on, we will protect you from him dear Caroline. You will never have to even see Kyoya again." Tamaki then leaned in and hugged her softly.

Caroline sighed and pulled out of the group hug as she said, "It was my fault for going over there. I should pay the price for putting myself into that predicament. You guys shouldn't have to solve my problems…I have to face this head on…" Just as she said that Kyoya came out of the back room and looked up at her sorrowfully.

"See, I told you she'd make that decision…" Tamaki said to Honey as Kyoya stepped towards her.

Kaoru stepped in front of her and said, "Back off RAPIST…or I'll make you back off."

"I just wanted to apologize to Caroline. If it has to be over you it will be." He paused as he pushed the glasses up on his nose and said, "Caroline, I'm very sorry for what I did to you. I didn't want to make you feel vulnerable, and I didn't want you to feel in pain. I…I was drunk at the time…and I wasn't thinking. I shouldn't have been drinking at all, but hearing you sing made me sad. I…I started drinking, and was going to come in and tell you how much I love you, but…intoxicated, I…I did that…and I know…how much you must hate me now…"

Caroline pushed Kaoru aside and looked into Kyoya's eyes as she said, "I don't hate you Kyoya, but I do hate what you did. As a good Christian woman I will forgive you for all the pain you've cause me, but…my body will never forgive the pain you've caused it. Because of you, I may never be able to feel that kind of passion again. Kaoru may never be able to love me as he should, because you made me feel broken inside. No amount of apologies or money will ever fix that…" Caroline smiled and lifted her hand to Kyoya's cheek as she kissed his cheek and whispered, "But just so you know…Kaoru was bigger and better in every way."

Caroline then pulled from him and said, "Thank you Host Club, to help me come to my pain and overcome it." She then slowly walked back out to the limo as Kyoya placed his hand up to his face. There were tears in his eyes that stung even his soul as those words came from her lips. Better in Every way. was echoing in his head as Kaoru came up and punched him directly in the face.

Kaoru kicked Kyoya in the groin and then said, "Never touch another female in that way again." He then turned and spat on him as he added, "AND NEVER TOUCH CAROLINE!"

As they went home they automatically went to the bedroom and the phone rang. One of the servants answered it and yelled, "Phone for Miss Caroline JuRin…" Caroline ran down the stairs and took the phone from the servant.

"Hello?" She mumbled into the receiver.

"Caroline…good…I didn't know if I'd be able to get you with everything that was going on…" Caroline heard a female voice say over the phone.

"Haruhi?" Caroline asked softly.

"Yes…sorry…hi it's Haruhi…I…I heard what happened…I wanted to know if you wanted to come over for the weekend…to…get your head straight with a straight thinking female." Haruhi said softly.

"I'd love to…let me tell the boys I'm going to go over to your house for the rest of the weekend, until I feel better about what's going on, and then… Then maybe I'll be able to face Kaoru without feeling sick to my stomach about what I did." Caroline said softly and then said, "Okay…I'll let you go for now…I'll see you in about…30 minutes to an hour…will that be okay?"

"Yeah…see you Carrie…" Haruhi said and then said, "Bye…" The phone clicked off and Caroline hung up the phone, taking back off for their room.

As she ran into her room that she shared with the twins she was wiping the newly formed tears out of her eyes as she said, "Guys…I'm going back to Haruhi's until I…I don't know, feel better about this. I just won't feel right sharing a room with you guys right after…that…you know?" She packed up a bag of clothes that would last her a week or so.

She was walking towards the door and the limo as she heard, "I'll miss you…" She didn't want to hear those words just as she left, but what hurt even worse, was that it came from two separate voices. She turned around to see the twins, tears in their eyes, following her to the door. They look down and grab each other's hand as they say, "We love you Caroline, and we'll miss you." Caroline's tears fell from her face like a waterfall as she ran out of the house. She couldn't deal with that anymore right now, she couldn't deal with the pain she was causing them.

"Gregory please…Haruhi's house…" Caroline said, barely able to get those words out as Gregory took off.

She was set in front of Haruhi's house and was just about to take off as she heard, "Be safe lady Caroline…I care for you a lot."

Caroline came around the car, up to the drivers door, and hugged Gregory tightly as she said, "Take care of my boys Gregory…make sure they don't get in to any trouble…and let them know I do love them very much." Gregory smiled and patted her on the head as she ran up to Haruhi's house with her bags.

Haruhi came to the front door and hugged Caroline tightly as she said, "I'm soo glad you came…I was worried about you…"

"Haruhi, that's all you ever do, is worry…" Caroline said as she hugged her back.

"But this time it was for a good reason!" Haruhi yelled and pulled back from the hug. She looked Caroline over and said, "It doesn't look like he hurt you too much there, did he?" Caroline shook her head as she saw Papa Ranka walk out of his bedroom.

"Well hello there Caroline...Am I hearing that you are having guy troubles?" Ranka asked softly.

"Well…no, dad…Caroline was…well, she had unwanted sexual attention from Kyoya when she went over to his house…" Haruhi said softly as she looked over at Caroline.

"WHAT!?" Ranka shouted. He turned to Caroline and said, "Kyoya raped you!?" Caroline nodded and his eyes went wide as he said, "I can't believe he did that to you…I can't believe he'd be that horrible…"

"He apologized…" Caroline said softly.

"Doesn't matter!" Haruhi and Ranka yelled at the same time.

"He shouldn't have done that to you Caroline…whether he apologized or not. It wouldn't matter if he decided to give you his estate after what he did to you…that wouldn't ever be enough…Don't…don't cut yourself short Carrie…we don't want you to think this is your fault…" Haruhi said as she put her arm over Caroline's shoulder and brought her into their sitting room. They both sit down to watch a movie together as Haruhi says, "It's not your fault Caroline…Kyoya did it to you, you didn't do it to yourself…"

"Yeah, you tell her Haruhi!" Ranka said, but then quickly ran into another room, hiding from the angry eyes of his daughter.

"It's okay Haruhi, you don't have to try and make me feel better. I feel fine now…I faced up to him, made him feel bad. I…I just need a place away from guys for a while. That's why I'm glad to be with you and your dad, since your dad is far from manly." Caroline said and Haruhi giggled slightly. They turned on the SpongeBob movie that Caroline had watched with Kyoya, and she immediately started crying and pulled her knees up to her chest to sit in the fetal position. Haruhi came over to her side and wrapped her arms softly around her shoulders as she rocked back and forth. Within a few moments Haruhi let go of her and turned off the movie. Caroline fell over and started crying on Haruhi's night gown as she said, "Why am I still so torn up over this?"

"Because you thought Kyoya was your friend. You thought he was one of the guys who would always protect you. You even cared about him a little bit, and then he destroyed all of that in one night." Haruhi said conclusively. Caroline nodded and pulled away from Haruhi, wiping the tears from her eyes.

"Can we just go to bed Haru-chan…I'm sorry, but I'd really like to sleep…?" Caroline said softly.

"Sure, Carrie…we'll just sleep for tonight, tomorrow is church anyways…you can go with us…" Haruhi said as she led her friend to her bedroom. Caroline crawled up on her bed and lay on her back as she waited for Haruhi to join her. Haruhi crawled up on the bed next to Caroline and laid her head on her chest. Caroline gently stroked Haruhi's hair as they fell asleep together.

The next morning they went to church, without the boys there it was a lot easier to listen to the preacher's sermon. She was glad that Haruhi had brought her that day because the main information for that day was about how God loves you no matter what he puts you through. That everything happens for a reason and that God would not give you something you could not handle. One of the main quotes for that day was, "God is faithful and He will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing He will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it" from 1st Corinthians Chapter10 verse 13. At the end of the service that day the preacher stood up and said, "If anyone needs someone to pray for them, please, head to the hallway and let our elders pray with you…" He then bowed his head, letting anyone who needed, walk to the back.

Caroline stood up and slowly walked to the back of the church. She spoke to one of the elders about what had happened to her and the older woman smiled. She placed her hand on her shoulder and said, "I was there before…lovely, beautiful, wonderful girl…you will come out of it, and you will love God." She wrapped Caroline in a tight hug and began murmuring a prayer to the Lord Almighty.

When the old woman finally let go Caroline ran back to Haruhi and said, "I feel so much better now…"

"See, I knew church would make you feel better…and I have the guys coming over later for a picnic at my house…" Haruhi said as she grabbed Caroline's hand and walked her back out to her house. Caroline smiled brightly as they made it back to Haruhi's house and she saw a big banner that said WELCOME BACK CAROLINE outside of her house. Haruhi sighed and said, "That's not supposed to be there…they're not supposed to be here yet at all…I wonder what they're doing."

When they walked into Haruhi's house Tamaki, Hikaru and Kaoru were sitting on her floor next to her table. They smile brightly as they saw Caroline come in. They all run up to Caroline and wrap their arms around her as they say, "Welcome back Caroline…we're sorry about what happened."

"God helped me make it through…I was confused, and didn't understand what was going on. However, I met a woman today; she had gone through something like that too. It…it helped, to know I wasn't alone. To know there are women, out there, that come through it and still come out okay." Caroline said as she hugged them all back.

Kaoru pulled back and whispered to Haruhi, "I told you church would work. God has to love her with what an amazing person she is. He had to make her feel better about this." Haruhi nodded and hugged Kaoru, as Caroline looked over. She bit her lip as she looked over at them, and then turned to Haruhi's bedroom. She took a seat on Haruhi's bed and took deep breaths. She knew that Kaoru and Hikaru both cared about Haruhi before she came along, but she never expected to be jealous of Haruhi. The last thing she wanted to do was to be rude in Haruhi's house, so she just took a seat on her bed for a second before coming back out and saying, "So…what kind of food do you guys want…I am a chef after all."

The whole group was looking up at her like she had something funny on her face as she says, "What?"

"Why'd you leave?" Tamaki asked softly as Mori and Honey enter the room. "We're all here for you…" he added softly as his eyes dropped to the ground.

"I…I felt a little funny, so I wanted to sit down, but there's no chairs out here, so I sat on Haruhi's bed…" Caroline said a lie straight through her teeth.

Kaoru smiled and said, "Can you give us a second alone guys? I'd like to talk to Caroline alone…"

"Just go to my room…we'll stay out here…" Haruhi said softly.

Caroline followed Kaoru into Haruhi's room as he said, "you're jealous of Haruhi…" He wasn't asking a question he was stating a fact in that. Caroline shook her head, but Kaoru continued, "Yes you are…you saw me and Haruhi hugging and that bugged you. You think she's already gotten to Hikaru again, and you're afraid you're going to lose me too." Caroline blushed as his words hit the nail on the head. Kaoru hugged her softly and kissed her on the cheek as he said, "I love you…there's no changing that…Haruhi's not going to win my love…but you may lose it if you keep pushing away from me…"

Caroline blushed deeper and felt tears forming in her eyes again as she said, "Kaoru, I'm sorry for…feeling the way I have recently. I love you…and I'm sorry…for what happened with Kyoya. I'm sorry, for everything…"

"Its okay, my love…let's just go out and have a nice picnic with the guys…okay?" Kaoru said as he kissed her forehead softly. She was so used to him being slow, and slightly dorky, that this new forward attitude made her smile. She grabbed his hand and walked back out to the group to see Honey and Mori right outside the door, as if waiting to react to any sounds they heard.

Mori smiled at her and hugged her softly as he mumbled, "you're safe…" Caroline smiled and blushed softly as she nodded to him. He let her go and grabbed Honey's hand as he patted his arm softly.

"Let's go to the picnic and eat CAKE!" Honey said as he ran out the door, Mori following quickly behind him.

The rest of that Sunday Caroline was sitting in the commoner's park with the boys of the Host Club. They were all sharing food and stories and playing games. At one point Caroline had even gotten up to play tag with Honey. As the sun started falling from the sky fireworks were taking off around the park. Caroline leaned over to Kaoru and asked, "Were these especially for me?"

"If I say no, will it make them less important to you?" Kaoru asked quietly and looked away.

"No…I just wanted to know how much of this you set up…" Caroline asked as she scooted closer to him. Kaoru wrapped his arm over her shoulder and Hikaru put his arm around her lower back to get comfortable.

Kaoru then said, "We did…me and Hikaru set up the fireworks, the other guys thought it would be too much…" Hikaru chuckled softly as he thought of how much time and effort it actually took to put the fireworks show together. Caroline laid there in the arms of her twins for the rest of the night until Haruhi said it was time to go. She walked home with Haruhi and went to bed together as they had the night before.

Caroline may have felt better about what had happened to her, but she wasn't ready to just live with the boys again like nothing ever happened. She was going to give it until their date that weekend and then see what all would happen from it. Caroline woke up the next morning with Haruhi and helped to make breakfast and get ready for school. At school it was as it always was, Caroline with Haruhi and Kaoru next to Caroline while Hikaru was next to Haruhi.

Each class they took the same seating arrangements and would sit in the same way with each other. Kaoru and Caroline would pass little notes back and forth every once in a while through out the day. After several classes together Caroline leaned over to Haruhi and asked, "You do remember we have a date with the twins this weekend right?"

"Yeah…I remember…what were the plans?" Haruhi asked softly.

"Well, I don't know if they have plans. I just was telling Kaoru we would be there. I would dress the two of us up and make us look totally awesome before hand." Caroline said softly.

"Am I going to have to separate you two?" The teacher asked suddenly. Both Haruhi and Caroline shake their heads as they go through out the day without talking again.

That night they finished their homework together and watched a movie before they went to bed. But, before they were able to do anything else to get in bed Caroline had told Haruhi that she had to paint their nails. She got out her maroon red nail polish and painted both of their toe nails and finger nails. Ranka then came in and said, "Oh, me too…me too!" He sat down with his daughter and her friend, and she painted Ranka's nails too.

They sat there, letting their nails dry, as they told each other stories about boyfriends and guys they found interesting. Caroline then said, "Guys…I think I'm in love…"

"Which one of the boys?" Ranka asked excitedly.

"It's one of the twins, dad…" Haruhi said, her eyes sparkling just as excited as her dad.

"So, which twin?" Ranka asked again.

"Kaoru…" Caroline mumbled, her cheeks turning bright red. Ranka squealed with delight and Haruhi giggled softly at her answer. "Is that good?" Caroline asked to their responses.

"Well, yeah, of course it's good, but…never mind…" Ranka said and then looked at Haruhi like 'do you know what I know?' Haruhi nodded softly, trying to hide it from Caroline that Haruhi and her dad knew what was going to happen this weekend between Caroline and Kaoru.

The rest of the week went by in a big blur of classes and homework. She and Haruhi made it through their entire week together without causing one another problems of any kind. Caroline and Haruhi were best friends, and it was obvious with the way they now dressed alike and talked alike when they were at school. If you didn't know Haruhi before now you would assume Haruhi and Caroline were twins as well. Plus they were always hanging out with the Hitachiin twins, so many people just assumed Haruhi was Caroline's twin, and no one ever questioned Haruhi's appearance as a girl instead of the boy the girls knew and loved.

That weekend Caroline and Haruhi were running around like crazy trying to pick out their clothes and get their hair to look right. After a few hours of trying to pick out the right dress Mei finally came over to help them pick out their clothes. She handed them two of her very own designs, both of them black slender cut dresses one with a dark brown rose designed into the corner and the other with a dark green rose designed into the corner. They both thanked Mei and Caroline paid 3000 yen for the two designs, making Mei incredibly happy as she ran back to Misuzu's house.

They both wore their hair down, Haruhi's had now grown out long enough to reach her shoulders, and Caroline cut her hair to her shoulders. Caroline curled her and Haruhi's hair, and put small barrettes in the corners of each of their hair to keep their bangs out of their eyes. She then put on Haruhi's make up, a very natural tone, with soft blues put in for a little bit of color. Then, Haruhi suggested doing Caroline's make up and Caroline agreed.

Haruhi did very dark shades for Caroline's make up. It was dark greens, blues and blacks to bring out her eyes and to show of her new tan she had gotten recently. When her make up was done she and Haruhi looked like Hollywood starlets. Haruhi put her arm around Caroline and said, "If I didn't know it myself, I would think we were twins." Caroline giggled softly and put her arm around Haruhi's lower back as they waited outside Haruhi's house for the twin's limo.

The limo showed up at 8pm on the dot and the twins got out in very expensive looking black suits and ties. Each of them had a rose in their pocket, orange for Kaoru and blue for Hikaru. They put their hands out for the girls and said, "My lady…" They guided Haruhi and Caroline slowly into their limo and then sit in the back to talk and goof off.

They came to the restaurant they were going to eat at within a few hours of driving. It was the Choau' De Latté', as the name basically spells out, it's the restaurant famous for its chocolate dinners. It isn't just plain chocolate, put into something; this is full dinners made with a small chocolate flavoring. It had been a place that Caroline had wanted to go, but never had the time to go.

As they made it through the door, the greeter who was going to have them wait in line, bowed low to them and said, "You're table is ready young sirs. It's good to see the children of the famous Yuzuha Hitachiin here and with dates of course. Right this way…" The man guided them all the way through the restaurant to the very back where there was a balcony set up just for them that night. Kaoru stepped back in through the balcony with the man, so that he could speak with him about the set up for tonight.

He walked back out with a huge grin on his face as he asked, "Are you excited my love?"

"Of course I am, I've always wanted to come here…so, what's the plans for tonight?" Caroline said softly.

"It's all a surprise…" Hikaru answer beside her. The table was seated with Hikaru next to Caroline and Kaoru next to Haruhi, but across from Caroline. Haruhi leaned over and whispered to Kaoru about how she was glad to be here for this night, but Caroline wasn't able to hear it. She pouted softly and Kaoru grabbed her hands up in his and smiled brightly. His smile made her stomach fall all the way to her toes and back up. Caroline blushed deeply as she felt the butterflies in her stomach, because she knows she has been with Kaoru for almost a month now, but they haven't gone on an actual date before.

Caroline bit her lip and waited as the food came out slowly. First, it was a salad that actually had chocolate shavings covering it much like small carrots. Each of them ate their salad quietly, Caroline's eyes never leaving Kaoru's. She saw something in his eyes that was making her heart beat faster than she thought it needed to. She could barely catch her breath as she finished off the salad.

The next course was a small chicken dish with potatoes that had cocoa laced through them and some seasoning the chicken. Haruhi was talking now, trying to get rid of the uninteresting silence as she said, "So, what do you guys plan to do when you get out of school?"

"I plan to go on to be a chef like my aunt and uncle…possibly take on their bakery in France…or even better move to a bakery here in Japan to stay close to…" Caroline said, but paused as a bright blush came across her cheeks. She didn't know if she was ready to say how she felt about Kaoru right, now so she said, "my friends here in Japan. It seems I have more here than in France…" Kaoru pouted at her words, so she almost wished she would have said what she was truly thinking.

Hikaru then said, "I'm probably going to take up mom's business with my brother, designing clothes and what not. I just don't think I'd be able to do my father's job. There is just too much technical that has to go on with his job…I wouldn't know where to start."

"I feel the same as Hikaru, I'd love to go behind our mother and take up designing clothes. I don't know if I'll go anywhere else after that, or what my plans will be, but I know that I want to stay close to Caroline. If that means moving to France, or staying here…I'd be happy as long as I'm with her." Caroline could tell that Hikaru was hurt by Kaoru's words, but she also knew that there was no way that he would ever say it out loud.

Caroline decided to change the mood as she said, "What about you Haruhi?"

"I'm going to take up after my mother. I'm going to try to become a great lawyer just like her. I want to be able to help people, even the ones that can't help themselves. I want to become a good lawyer, who looks out for those less fortunate…" Haruhi said as she slowly picked at her chicken. Each of them finished off their chicken as they saw the last course come out.

The last course was a chocolate brownie covered with chocolate ice cream and chocolate shavings for each of them. Caroline slowly cut into hers when she heard something scratch her fork, and she could tell she hadn't cut through the brownie to the plate yet, so she pulled her fork back. When she did she saw a small silver piece of metal inside her brownie. She looked up to see everyone else enjoying their brownies, as she continued to stare at the little piece of metal.

She pulled the metal from the brownie to find it's a 24 karat gold ring with a 5 carat heart cut diamond in the center. Her breath froze and she couldn't move or breath as Kaoru got down on his knee at her side. He took the ring from her hand and took her left hand in his as he looked up at her. She turned to him, her eyes glancing over his form, but not really comprehending what was going on, as he began talking.

"Caroline…I realize that we have only known each other for a very short time. Shorter than most people would decide this is right, but…I love you, with all of my heart. I doubt I will ever find someone as perfect for me as you are. You, bring me out of my shell, as I thought only Hikaru could. You complete me…in a way I've never thought possible. You…take my heart away, and often my words with it. So, Caroline…will you marry me?" Kaoru said, his eyes brimming with tears and his face blotching red, because he is so nervous. He looks up at her, his eyes and his will more determined than Caroline had ever seen him before.

Caroline took a deep breath as she thought about her answer. She didn't want to straight out say yes, because this was a very big decision. However, she didn't want to say no either, because this was everything she had ever been waiting for. She turned her head suddenly to Haruhi who was smiling brightly and gently, awaiting her answer, so Caroline knew what it was now. She turned back to Kaoru, closed her eyes and said, "Yes…forever and ever I want to be yours…"

She couldn't breathe after she answers, as he wrapped his arms around her softly. He pulls from her and looks in her eyes as he said, "Caroline, I promise to protect you and love you for as long as we live together…"

Caroline looked away from him to Hikaru, who was apparently stunned by what had just happened. She bit her lip at the look on his face as she thought to herself Did I just do something horribly wrong?!

___________________Author's Notes________________

Big message, for those of you who actually read this. The first person to get me a banner for Kaoru and Caroline will get a Cameo in my story. It will be a great cameo, and…if I totally love your banner AND you give me the info…I will write a story specifically for you and your dream charrie. If it happens to be Kaoru I will write a new story…if it happens to be Hikaru or anyone else…I will add your story into this one. Thanks you guys for reading…and don't forget…banners=cameo, and possible story of your own!

Also, for those of you who love my stories, I'm on a brain dead. I can't think of anything else to write. If I could get some help or some ideas, that would be great. Just give me a little something and I'll see what I can do. I'd really appreciate it, and you would get a thank you here in my Authors notes!

Again a great thanks to:

Jenna Uchiha

Potopie- also has great stories you should read! (Unless you don't like Yaoi…)

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And new thanks to:

The real Gluttony

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