Ouran is out in English now. The bloopers are hilarious~ Go buy it. GO.

Again, sorry for the wait. MangaNEXT and the time around it was super busy…;D –typing this on Thanksgiving wtf- But…it's a holiday present for you all :D Even though this takes place in the summer D:

Aiight, this chapter is a lemon. And if that wasn't obvious, then you obviously haven't paid attention to those lyrics right below…I do realize that some of you aren't comfortable with a sex scene, so if you want to skip over some of it, stop at the first "XXX" and skip down to the next break in the text :) I do it because I care :D

White Houses

Rush of Blood

My first time…

Hard to explain
Rush of blood,

Oh! and a little bit of pain
On a cloudy day,

It's more common than you think.
He's my first mistake.

By the next morning, the "secret" of Tamaki and Haruhi's relationship was no longer a "secret". In other words, everyone was openly talking about it.

"Haru-chan~!! Congratulations!" Hunny hugged her. "See? Didn't we tell you? Didn't we, Mori?"

"Yes," his taller cousin replied, but when Haruhi caught his eye, she saw him smile at her and give a little nod.

"So have you done it yet?" a voice- no, two- whispered in her ear.

"H-Hikaru! Kaoru!" Haruhi jumped and turned around, glaring at them, "That's…Ew, no! And anyway, I wouldn't tell you even if we did. Which we didn't."

The twins laughed. "We were only kidding!" They defended themselves, looking at each other with a hint of mischievousness in their eyes.

"Yeah, well. It wasn't very funny," Haruhi grumbled. She was beginning to get a headache.

Despite the ever-looming time of departure, the entire house seemed to be ablaze with excitement…for the most part.

Hours later, sometime in the early evening, Haruhi was alone again, reading (she'd promised herself she'd finish that book by the end of summer, but now it didn't look like it was going to happen). The others were dispersed around the house; it was a little chilly out, and looked like it was going to rain, so no one was swimming, and they were mostly downstairs, a few in their rooms. But with all the attention she'd been receiving, Haruhi wanted to be alone, even if it was just for a little while, and so told them she would join them all in an hour or so.

She'd only begun to loose herself in an unreal world when she faintly heard a knock on the door. She jolted, awakened from that world, and blinked; the knock came again. She sighed, and went to open the door.

"Uh…K-Kyoya…what are you doing here?"

He was silent for a moment; then, "Let's talk."

She hesitated for a mere moment before stepping aside to let him in. She left the door open, but he closed it nonchalantly, without blinking, swiftly. I-I know I shouldn't be nervous…but last time he was here… "What is it…you need to talk about?" Without answering her, in a flurry of arms and hands, she found herself pinned against the wall without even having a chance to realize what was happening. "K-Kyoya!"

He didn't seem to care, however. "Are you really going out with Tamaki?"

"Well, yeah…Ah! Kyoya, that hurts!"

His hold on her loosened slightly. "Why?" he asked softer.

"W-well…because I l-love him…" She looked into his eyes.

Disgust.

"That's impossible."

Hurt.

Pain.

"Kyoya…" she shook her head. "But what about you and Renge!?"

"She means nothing to me! I-" but before he could continue, the door swung open, and in walked Tamaki, with Renge behind him, almost in tears. Kyoya slowly dropped his hands, letting go of Haruhi.

Fear.

"Kyoya! How could you!? Haruhi, are you alright?"

She nodded, and finally moved towards Tamaki. "Renge…are you okay?"

The other girl didn't move.

Silence.

Finally, Tamaki grabbed Haruhi's hand and led her out of the room.

"…I thought you loved me," Renge whimpered.

"I never said anything of the like." She turned and ran down the hall; he pushed his glasses up on the bridge of his nose, smiled sadly and murmured, "I've lost."

Tears.

They hardly knew where they were going. He held onto her hand, she followed him. Bodies, people, doors, flowers, plants…She realized she was next to his car, held tightly in his arms, and she was holding him close to her as well.

"Sorry…" he held her with all his strength with one arm, while stroking her hair with his opposite hand.

"It's not your fault…"

"…Can I take you somewhere?" she could feel his heart pounding as he asked her this, and felt his nervousness spreading to her body. She nodded, and with a sigh of relief he told her he loved her.

"I…love you too…"

For a moment, they appeared to be heading into town, but soon, Tamaki took one turn and then another that Haruhi didn't know, and was soon unfamiliar with the surrounding area. She was almost afraid that he was taking her somewhere to kill her and dump her body off like in any murder mystery show, but somehow found confidence and trust in his smile.

Though it was faint, she could still detect the scent of gasoline.

She fell asleep thinking about Kyoya.

She awoke just as Tamaki stopped the car. She blinked, rubbed her eyes, and looked out the windshield. The sky was as cloudy as it had been that afternoon, threatening rain; the only difference was that the Sun had sunk and was actually almost visible, and though it wouldn't set for a while longer, Haruhi guessed that was why Tamaki had taken her there: the view was absolutely gorgeous.

"Sorry," he said, turning the car off, "I was planning on taking you here a little later, but…"

"No, it's okay," she insisted, "I've completely forgotten about everything."

He seemed relieved at that.

And before she could figure out what was happening, she was once again in his arms, her lips being devoured by his. Their mouths were only closed for a minute before Tamaki opened his, and Haruhi complied, her arms tightening around his neck, pulling herself even closer. Her chest felt tight; his tongue invaded her mouth and she felt overpowered, so she tried to do what he was doing to her to him, and he let her. Inexperienced as she was, she caught on quick, and moved her tongue as he had done, until he took over again.

He began pressing even harder against her, slowly making her lay down. He lay on top of her, trying not to lay all of his weight against her, still kissing her. Her heart began to beat twice as fast, but she let him.

A moment later, he pulled away from her. "This might be the last time we can be alone for a while…"

He wouldn't…

"Even though we live sort of far away, I'm sure we could see each other sometimes…since our parents know each other," she said.

…Would he?

"Yeah. Maybe."

"Whatever you're thinking," she said, avoiding his eyes, "I don't care. We're here now, so…whatever you want." I don't love Kyoya. I love Tamaki. And I'll prove it. Her head hurt. Her heart pounded.

He looked bewildered. "I…what…?"

"I'm not stupid."

"If you…want…"he kissed her again. "I love you."

"I love you, too," she repeated without hesitation.

She didn't know what to expect after that. He began to kiss her again, and she felt anxious, so she began taking off his shirt. It took her a bit of struggling; as she brought it over his head, they broke apart for a moment, and in that moment, he was able to swiftly pull off her top before meshing their lips together again. Their clothes discarded, he began to caress her instinctively. Before long, his hands found their way to her back, to the back of her bra, which he swiftly undid, lifting her up slightly without letting his lips leave hers, lowering her again as soon as the article of clothing was removed.

XXX

His lips were soon distracted by her small breasts rather than her lips, however, and began sucking and nipping at them, leaving her mouth open to moan gently, basking in that small pleasure. She could already feel need growing inside of her, and briefly wondered if it was alright to be doing this, but pushed the thought out of her mind with determination.

Yet the anxiousness she was somehow able to feel under all of that good was nowhere near enough to get her to take his pants off. She would wait for him. When he began to kiss her lips again, she realized that he was trying to put it off; she kissed him more feverishly.

When he broke away from her, he said, "…You're sure?"

"Go ahead," she encouraged him.

With that permission granted, he unbuttoned, unzipped her pants, sliding them off of her legs as she did the same to him. As she began pulling them down, her fingers accidentally brushed his manhood through his boxers. He gasped and she looked up at his face; the expression etched there led her to finger it carefully again, and the groan he let out led her to continue.

She was uncertain; she'd never done anything remotely like this before, but knew that pretty much anything she did there would pleasure him, so she continued to rub his member through the material, until he moaned, breathing heavily, "H-Haruhi…boxers…off…" She blinked as the phrase registered in her mind, and she tugged his boxers off. Now she was genuinely getting turned on, as she wrapped her fingers around his member and almost teasingly moved her hands up and down, ever so slowly. He was so hard; he found that it was slowly becoming harder to breathe as he continued moaning in pleasure, hardly noticing the sweat that was beginning to build on his skin, despite the relatively cool temperature. And just when he thought he couldn't hold it anymore, just when he thought he was going to come…

She stopped. And she kissed him. Tamaki inwardly groaned, and decided it was time he took control again, and once again pushed her so she was laying down on her back. He kissed her all the while, and as they both calmed down, his fingers traveled down to her underwear, slipping underneath the material and about to go into her when she broke apart from him and pleaded, "No. Just…go on."

"Kay," he replied, and kissed her on the forehead. As he moved his lips down to meet hers, he also removed the last piece of clothing on the girl. He broke apart with her only to say, "I think…this might hurt you a bit." She nodded, and he placed his lips on hers again before slowly sliding into her. At a certain point, she screamed softly into his mouth, digging her short fingernails into his arms in pain, and he kissed her more passionately to distract her from the pain she was feeling. She quieted down before she loosened her grip on him, and when she did that, he slowly released her lips.

He tried to speak, but couldn't, and instead found himself looking into her eyes. What he found there made him begin to slowly rock back and forth into her body. She gritted her teeth and closed her eyes at first; it still hurt, after all. But as she got used to it, the air tight in her chest, she even began to rock her hips against his, slowly gaining speed, momentum. As their lower bodies sped up, matching each other in urgency, so did their breathing, and their moans came more frequently. Their chests rose and fell rapidly as they tried to catch up on breathing. She felt a rush of blood, and all at once was eager, happy, confused, insecure, yearning, angry, satisfied, dissatisfied, sad, pleased, excited, bored, in pleasure and in pain. These emotions and more rushed through her body as she reached her breaking point, screaming Tamaki's name as she felt her limbs go limp and she tried to catch her breath, shaking.

She vaguely remembered him crying out her name before lightly collapsing on top of her.

By the time the sun was setting, they were fully clothed once more, entangled in each others' arms, this time sitting upright, watching the spectacle going on before them in the sky. Haruhi was curled up on Tamaki's lap, her head against his chest, his arms around her, still feeling tired, her head still pounding. She tried not to think about what she'd just done and instead tried to concentrate on the explosion of color in the sky, but her thoughts kept going back to it. What had it even proven? Only that she'd been too rash in her anger and hurt, and made a decision that could potentially affect her for the rest of her life.

She loved him. But if she became pregnant, no amount of love would let her forgive him…or herself.

She was clinging to the end of his shirt. He asked her if she was ok.

"That was…my first time," she whispered.

"I see…" he stroked her hair, twirled his finger around a short lock, then pulled her closer. "Do you regret it?"

Haruhi was taken aback. "N-No…I…it was…it…you…"

Tamaki couldn't help but let out a small laugh, and Haruhi twisted around to glare at him. "Haha…sorry, but you're just so cute…!"

She smiled inwardly and it was silent for a few moments before she murmured, "How did this happen……?"

"Well, it's cloudy and dark today; it was like that even before the Sun set," he answered, "People usually choose night time to do…things like that, but doing them on a cloudy day is more common than you might think."

"Really…I'll keep that in mind."

By the time they returned home, it was well past ten at night. They tried to enter quietly, as to not awaken anyone (or let anyone know how exactly how late they'd returned, in case the subject came up the next morning), but the moment they set foot inside the house, they saw Mori and Hunny sitting on the couch, the glow of the television illuminating their faces.

"Ah. Haruhi. Tamaki."

"You're back!"

"Ah…" the couple froze.

"We were worried about you two!" the smaller boy exclaimed. "I mean, after what happened…"

"You mean with Kyoya?" Tamaki's face expressed a look of anger as he remembered the events of a few hours ago.

"He told you?" Haruhi asked.

Mori shook his head and Hunny answered, "Him? No. But Renge came to us in tears."

"Do the twins know about the situation?"

"Uh~ I don't think so. They've been holed up in their room since you two left. We've heard noises but…no one really wanted to know, so we didn't disturb them."

"Hm. You were right, Tamaki," Haruhi said, and he couldn't help returning her smile. "I'm going to go check on Renge. Night."

"Night!"

Tamaki kissed her on the cheek and she went upstairs.

"Tama-chan…" Hunny said as soon as she was out of sight, "What happened between you and Haru-chan?"

"What do you mean?" he laughed.

"She's different from before. So are you. But I don't know why."

"Really, Hunny, we just went on a date. I think we're all still a little shaken up about before, that's all."

"But, Tama-chan…!"

"I'm tired. I'll see you tomorrow," he interrupted, and headed upstairs.

Hunny and Mori looked at each other and frowned.

"Renge…?" Haruhi knocked on her bedroom door before entering, "Are…are you okay?" She found the other girl lying on her stomach on their bed, face buried in her pillow. "Renge…" she walked over and touched her friend's shoulder.

She turned to Haruhi with a tear-stained face. "Haruhi…I…should hate you for captivating his heart more than I was able to."

"Renge…"

"But I don't. You're…you're my best friend," Renge sniffed, "And…I hate him…but I still love him…Am I making any sense?"

"Yeah," Haruhi smiled and sat at the edge of the bed.

"What should I do?"

"Why are you asking me?"

"Because," Renge smiled faintly, "You're smart, Haruhi. And I trust you."

"I think that…if this is making you so miserable, you should forget about Kyoya completely after we all leave here. There's only a few more days, right? Find someone else who genuinely makes you happy, someone you don't have to control to do what you want, and someone who truly loves you back."

"How am I supposed to know how someone else is feeling?"

Haruhi leaned back, her hands leaning behind her against the bed, and looked at the ceiling. "Well…you can't. But you have to learn how to trust, and learn who to trust. And…just because someone acts friendly towards or smiles at you, that doesn't mean they love you. Love…is something different for each person; that's something you have to figure out for yourself."

"Haruhi," Renge said, sitting up, "Can I…kiss you?"

Haruhi was astonished, "B-b-b-but I…you…I didn't mean-"

"No one has to know," the other girl shrugged.

"…Renge, does that mean…are you a…"

Renge shrugged again. "Women aren't as rigid with their sexuality as men are," she smiled, and kissed the smaller girl. Haruhi found herself being pressed down on a soft surface for the second time that day, and was at first quite rigid and stiff, whimpering against Renge's mouth in disapproval. After a minute or so, however, she gave up all forms of resistance, giving into the kiss, and almost enjoying the feel of that soft mouth on hers again. When Renge pulled away, Haruhi opened her eyes slowly, only then realizing that she'd closed them sometime during the kiss.

"Haruhi…will you…sleep with me tonight?"

"You mean…like…"

Renge nodded.

"I…Renge, I…"

"You can't," Renge finished for her, tilting her head a little to the right, "Because you already slept with Tamaki."

"Uh-! I…How did you-?"

"I can tell," she giggled, "You're so easy to read Haruhi. When you don't watch yourself, that is. …That's been more frequent as of late…just so you know. Anyway," she yawned, "You should go to bed now. I'm gonna go take a walk…but I'll be back soon. Night…"

"Yeah…night…be careful!" Haruhi called as the door slammed shut.

She slowly slipped into her pajamas and lay down under the covers as the first drops of rain hit the window pane. She pulled the blankets over her head and prayed it wouldn't thunder.

The next day she awoke to the house phone ringing; she was alone in the room and picked it up.

"Hello," she grumbled into the receiver, annoyed that she was awake when the Sun had hardly risen, as well as the fact that it had rung four times and no one else had picked up.

"Bonjour~ Est-ce que Tamaki est là?" came the other voice.

"…Huh?"

"Ah…je suis son amie. Je m'appelle Éclair. Est-il là?"

"…Excuse me?" Haruhi tried again.

"Ohh…pardonez-moi. Iz Tamaki zere? My name iz Éclair. I am…how to zay…hiz girlfriend?"

Djf;laks I keep forgetting that Haruhi and Renge are supposed to be sharing a bed D: I think I always catch myself, but if not, I apologize for any inconsistency.

Also, sorry for it being half the length of the past several chapters. Gah D:

This wasn't supposed to have yuri. But then I watched an episode of "Bones" in which an artist was murdered and crushed by one of his car projects, fell in love with a certain quote (can you find it? XD ) and was inspired. Whoops.

Anyway, hope you liked this cliffhanger :D Ooooooh. I'll definitely update faster next time.

Probably.

Happy holidays, everyone!!