Disclaimer: I do not own School Rumble. I like the picture of Harima and Eri was holding a baby in last chapter of School Rumble Z. That's how I get the idea of the story.

Harima and Eri walked past the lamp posts that lighted up the street. Eri looked up but the sky was dark. The moon and stars were covered by the clouds. Eri turned to Harima. They have been silent since from the restaurant. She was too nervous to talk maybe because they were alone. She could feel her heart beat so fast she couldn't control it. Oh, please don't betray me at a time like this, Heart. She took a deep breath and exhale slowly, gathered all the courage she had and started to speak.

"Ermm…Hige…." She tried to say that as calm as she could. She didn't want to Harima to know that she was actually nervous.

"Hmm?" Harima said.

"So, how long have you been staying here?" Eri asked.

"A couple of months, sort of," Harima replied.

"Ooo..okay. Looks like you're doing fine here. You have a job and you even have your own place. That's pretty cool,"

"I think so,"

What's wrong with him? Can't he make this into a conversation? This is not going anywhere.

Then she remembered something that she wanted to ask Harima about.

"What actually happen that night?"

Harima gulped. His face started to sweat. He almost thought that Eri already forgot all about it. "What night?" he said.

"You know, at the bar," Eri said.

"Ooooo…That night…Nothing. Nothing important for you to know,"

"It's okay. I still want to know, though,"

"Really, it was nothing. You'll get disappointed if I tell you about it because it really is nothing interesting," Harima tried to convinced her.

"Try to tell me about it. Let me tell by myself if it is interesting or not,"

He was hiding something from me, isn't he?

"Look, we're here already. That's your hotel, right?" Harima pointed to a small red building across the street. He really wanted to avoid answering the question.

"Come on, tell me about it," Eri didn't want to sleep that night without knowing why Harima insist not to tell her about that night at the bar.

"Look, I'm tired, okay. I want to go home and sleep. I'll tell you about it tomorrow, okay?"

"But,…"

"Oh yeah, speaking of tomorrow…" Harima interrupted before Eri got to say something. He took out a flyer from his pocket and gave it to Eri.

Eri read the title of the flyer. HARVEST FESTIVAL.

"Harvest Festival? But I don't see any farms here,"

"It was not really like that. It was meant for all people in the town who had work hard throughout the year. It was also for all people to gather and get to know each other. There will be food and drinks and music so it will be fun. So what do you say?"

"What do I say?"

"Wanna come?"

"Sure. It sounds fun,"

"Great. So I come to pick you up tomorrow,"

He said what?

"You want to come and pick me up? Here?"

"Yeah, where else. You need someone to show you around, right? So I come at seven, is that okay?"

"I guess,"

"Okay, see you tomorrow then. Bye,"

"Bye,"

Then he left.

Eri was still standing there, holding the flyer, smiling. She couldn't stop smiling since Harima left. She was so happy she really couldn't describe it with words. Harima just asked her out. She couldn't believe it herself. She lied on her bed, thinking of what to wear for tomorrow. She really couldn't wait for tomorrow to come.

***

It was almost 7 pm but she still couldn't decide what to wear. She had gone through her luggage since morning. Her room was all messed up with the clothes lying all over the floor and bed. She almost called Nakamura to bring her dress but then she remembered her promise that she didn't want to trouble them. "Why I have to make things difficult over a small thing like this?" she said to herself loudly while browsing her clothes all over again.

Then she heard someone knocking at her door. "Ojou, are you in there?" She could recognize Harima's voice. "Just a minute," she said. She quickly grabbed her red-short-sleeves-collar shirt and black-knee-length skirt and put them on. She managed to apply some make up before she answered the door.

"Sorry for the waiting," she said as she opened the door.

"You better be, blondey." Eri recognize that voice, too. The voice that she didn't want to hear at a time like this.

It was Erina, clinging to Harima's muscular arm.

What is she doing here?

"I forgot to tell you that the three of us are going together since Boss and Serina left early to the festival to help for the preparation," Harima explained like he could read what Eri was thinking.

Erina looked at Eri with a grin and a face like she was telling Eri that I-will-not-let-you-be-alone-with-Kenji. Eri felt like she wanted to slap that cute face of her.

"So, come on. We should get going," Harima said.

"Yeah, let's go!" Erina said while pulling Harima's arm. Eri just followed them from the back, without saying anything where she was actually burning inside and could outburst anytime like an active volcano.

"Hurry up, blondey. Whose fault is it that we're already late?" Erina said.

Now Eri really, really felt like slapping that face.