Haii~ It's the next chapter of Cross My Heart Hope To Love! 3 So, I'm OCD a little and I don't enjoy that this chapter has 1,000 less words than the first two chapters. T.T But I hope that this will suffice for the loss :o - Emilie
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"So you really like her, don't you?" Miley said as she walked onto the patio.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Hikaru said turning away from Miley and resting his head on his hand as he stood next to the stairs.
"I can tell easily, maybe others don't, but you like Emily." Miley replied, leaning back on the railing, looking sideways at him lazily.
"You're delirious, I do not." Hikaru retorted turning away from Miley.
"Okay, okay, believe what you want, you cant deny it much longer. You're going to lose her to Mori" Miley said, looking at him seriously.
"Whatever." Hikaru mumbled as he started walking away and down to the little stretch of beach connected to the beach house.
"If you keep doing that, you'll never get what you want…" Miley sighed at his retreating form.
"As will you, Miley" Kyoya said as he walked out next to Miley.
"Don't talk to me, I'm mad at you remember?" Miley pouted as she turned away from him to watch the sea.
"I'll talk to you if I want to" he replied, putting both hands on either side of Miley to keep her from moving.
"So now you're using force to talk to me?" Miley quietly yelled to make sure that nobody else heard as she turned around, "First we were almost all good then you get all formal with me, and now you're almost using force? Make up your mind!"
"How hard are you trying to make this work between us Miley?" Kyoya asked seriously, a glare forming over his glasses to hide his eyes.
"I did try! Pretty darn hard at first, and I almost got through to you, and one visit from your father and all that I thought I did, gone! And I tried again, but every time you saw your dad, it got worse! Don't even say that I didn't try!" Miley yelled a little louder this time, pushing away Kyoya's arms and running into the house and through random hallways until she got to a door leading to the roof.
"Miley? Are you up here?" A girl quietly asked.
"What is it, Emily?" Miley asked irritated.
"I just wanted to make sure you were okay! You made Kyoya pretty upset." Emily said with concern for her sister.
"Good. He has made me pretty upset a number of times plus now." Miley said turning away from her sister.
"I know you have tried to make it work and maybe it won't and I know you will never marry Kyoya." Emily said but didn't seem to be able to continue.
"No one can make me marry him." Miley said while crossing her arms.
"You like Karou and I am pretty sure he likes you." With Emily saying that Miley stood there in shock but she continued, "Kyoya can't stop you two from being together so why don't you try?"
"Wh-what? No, wait… What?" Miley stuttered, looking abashed at her sister.
"Now you choose the time to become a girl and be all flustered?" Emily asked, exasperated.
"I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. You silly, silly girl." Miley replied, batting away the thought.
"This is ridiculous…" Emily mumbled, staring at the lightly blushing Miley.
"This isn't ridiculous, I can't comprehend why you would think that Kaoru and I like each other, that's all." Miley scoffed, looking at Emily.
"Are you sure? Because I think that's one of the reasons you refuse to like, or make things really work with Kyoya." Emily replied softly, looking at Miley knowingly.
"I know that I don't like him." Miley replied with a determined look on her face, "Besides, you don't know he likes me."
"Fine, just ask him if he does then." Emily said challengingly.
"Fine, I will!" Miley said with a determined look on her face, starting to walk back inside.
"Are you serious?" Emily asked with a surprised look on her face.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I?" Miley questioned.
"I didn't actually say that to be serious…" Emily sweat dropped.
"Well then you shouldn't have said it because I am going to ask him now." Miley asked with the same determined look, starting to walk again.
"Kaoru, I have a question for you," Miley asked looking at Kaoru expectantly.
"Uh, sure? What's up?"
"This way…" Miley said quietly as she motioned for Kaoru to follow her into another room close by.
"Is something wrong?" Kaoru questioned.
"No, no. I just need to know something." Miley said while she walked into one of the hundreds of rooms with Karou.
"Okay, ask away." Karou said wondering what she could want to ask.
"Well I was just wondering. You know stuff. I mean uh…" Miley said while looking at the floor.
"You were just wondering stuff?" Karou said smiling.
"Do you like me!" Miley said quickly.
"W-w-what? I mean its not like I mean. You know?" Karou said blushing.
"Yeah… this came out way more awkward than I thought it would…." Miley replied, rubbing the back of her head.
"How did you expect this to turn out…" Kaoru asked.
"Well, I was kind of hoping that you'll help me prove a point to Emily who thinks we both like each other?" Miley questioned meekly.
"Well…she is kinda right." Karou said looking down at the floor.
"You mean…"
"Well, I guess, but…"
"So you're telling me that…"
"I think so? I'm starting to get lost here." Kaoru admitted.
"So, in short, you like me. You guess." Miley stated.
"Yeah, it seems so…"
"Thanks for not helping me prove a point… I'm going to feel lame telling Emily this now." Miley sighed as she slumped a little.
"Well now I have a question for you, Miley. Do you like me?" Karou asked looking Miley straight in the eye.
"I well, uh… pass?" Miley responded nervously.
"Come on, I answered for you. Now you have to be fair and answer to me." Kaoru smirked, but still was blushing a little.
"Um, I… well… I sortoflikeyoutoo…" Miley mumbled quickly, hoping Kaoru wouldn't be able to tell.
"What was that? I couldn't catch you there." Kaoru replied, regaining confidence to tease Miley.
"I don't like repeating myself, I feel like a tape recorder that broke thank you very much." Miley snapped back, blushing.
"Only to be fair, you have to tell me." He smirked.
"I sort oflikeyoutoo…"
"What?" Kaoru smirked wider as he put a hand next to his ear to "hear" better.
"I sort of… like you too…" Miley said, looking down and covering her face with her fringe.
"Why do you always hide your face?" Kaoru asked, teasing and smirking aside.
"Because I feel like it…" Miley replied, never lifting her face.
"There has to be a reason why. You seem to do that a lot." Kaoru said in a comforting voice.
"It's a silly reason really…" Miley argued weakly.
"That's no reason why I can't hear it." He replied, putting a hand on her arm.
"There was this kid when I was little, you see. He had this crush on Emily since we moved into the neighborhood." Miley said, still not looking up at Kaoru.
"I don't see how that applies to you, Miley." Kaoru said.
"It does. And since we had just moved, we were always together because both of us were each other's best friend, and he never got us when we weren't together." Miley continued, her fists starting to clench, "He never liked that we weren't ever without the other. So one day, he got me alone somehow and asked me to tell Emily that he liked her. I refused because I didn't want to be a messenger. He got mad and from that day on, he would tell me that I had an ugly face every time he saw me, and that's sort of why I do that now, I guess."
"I'm so sorry." Kaoru whispered
"I appreciate that you apologized but it doesn't really help the fact that he never did and was a jerk." Miley whispered back, "I have to go…" She then walked back into the room where Hunny and Mori were and to the down the steps to the private area of beach.
"Mori? Have you seen Kaoru or Miley?" Emily asked as she walked into the nearly empty room.
"I just saw Miley walk out to the beach area, and Kaoru never came back from talking to her in the hallway." Mori replied, pointing to the right door.
"Kaoru? Are you over here?" Emily asked into the semi-darkness.
"Yeah, right here." Kaoru replied sadly.
"Oh my gosh, what did Miley say? Did she hurt your feelings? Should I lecture her on feelings again?" Emily asked worriedly, quickly walking up to him.
"She admitted that she liked me after I admitted that I liked her…"
"And you're sad about this why?" Emily asked with a confused look.
"And then I asked about how she always covered her face with her hair when she has emotions." Kaoru mumbled.
"Really? Oh gees, I'll go talk to her. Don't worry. You didn't do anything bad. It's just a sensitive topic for her." Emily reassured.
"You know all about it then? Is that what really happened to her?" Kaoru asked, looking at Emily.
"Huh? What do you mean? She just doesn't like showing emotions, I think she thinks hiding is the solution." Emily replied, curious to what Kaoru meant. Kaoru's eyes widened slightly as he realized that Emily never found out about this neighbor that was a jerk to Miley.
"Nothing, I'll talk to you in a little bit." Kaoru said quickly as he started walking away before Emily could respond.
Miley was standing on the shoreline, letting the waves roll around her ankles as she walked aimlessly towards nothing, there was a bright flash of light. Soon followed a loud crash of a thundering boom. Miley looked up and saw the dying embers of a firework. There was another as Miley turned to look at the ocean directly, the bright colors fading the frown on her face.
"Look, everyone! Fireworks!" Hunny yelled happily as he hugged Usa-chan atop Mori's shoulders.
"No!" Emily shouted as she ran to the glass door and pressed her face to look at the night sky.
"I forgot that today was when they hold the annual fireworks display here." Kyoya added, coming from a doorway. Emily, Mori, Hunny, and Kyoya could hear the frantic footfalls of Tamaki sprinting down the stairs to reach the patio doors.
"How long have you known this Kyoya?" Tamaki yells as he enters the room.
"I guess it might have slipped my mind."
"Hikaru? What are you doing here?" Miley asked, looking up at Hikaru from his perch on a tall rock ledge.
"I never came back inside after you talked to me." He replied simply.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have pushed the subject…" Miley apologized.
"It's all right, I guess. I can't say I'm not used to it." Hikaru laughed dryly.
"Do you want to talk about it at all?" Miley asked, starting to climb up the rock.
"No, not really I – I have no say in this do I?" Hikaru sweat dropped as he saw her face.
"I'm going to have to say no. Come on, I feel strange having you stay with me when I was bummed out and not help you in return." Miley replied, plopping down next to Hikaru.
"I just think that I –"
"Oh, there you guys are! I was getting worried!" Emily shouted from the bottom of the rock. Miley rolled her eyes.
"Why does this always happen? This is the second time that Emily stopped us from having an almost heartfelt moment here…" Miley sighed as she shook her head.
"It's like she knows that I'm an awkward person when it comes down to this kind of stuff and is saving me from potential embarrassment!" Miley continued. She popped back up and helped Emily up the last bit of rock and huffed lightly, making Hikaru fake a cough to hide his laughter, as the rest of the hosts started arriving at the top of the rock as well.
There was an unmistakable sound of a firework rising a little ways off into the ocean.
"Oh, crap…" Miley said, looking at Emily with wide eyes.
"Wha- oh… crap!" Emily squeaked. Looking at Miley with fearful eyes.
"I'm sorry, I should always carry some with me." Miley chided herself.
"I'm the one that needs them, I should be the one to have them during the summer." Emily said, patting Miley on the shoulder.
"What did you forget?" Hunny asked, smiling in confusion.
"Earplugs, she gets all panicky when she hears fireworks." Miley explained. Right after Miley said that another firework went off making a loud boom and then dying off with loud crackling. Then another one went off. Red and green flashes were everywhere with silver and blue in the mix. Emily began to breath quicker and jumped on top of Hikaru hoping for safety from the loud booms.
"I HATE FIREWORKS. I HATE FIREWORKS. I HATE FIREWORKS." Emily screamed so she could be heard over the noise. Hikaru blushed and pulled her closer and then put his hands over her hands, which were covering her ears. She looked at him and mouthed the words 'thank you.' Mori looked over at Emily to see that she was holding on to Hikaru and frowned.
"Again?" Miley asked to no one in particular as she looked at Hikaru and Emily and laughed.
"Again what?" Kaoru asked as he walked up next to Miley.
"Emily and Hikaru, they always seem to end up in questionable positions." Miley said, leaning over to talk into Kaoru's ear to make sure he heard over the fireworks.
"You're right, I guess so. I wonder if Hikaru knows that he likes her yet." Kaoru yelled over a particularly loud firework, causing Emily to scream in terror.
"I don't want to hear Emily scream more about fireworks, I'm going to find a new place to watch from you want to come with?" Miley asked as she started to slowly and nonchalantly walk away from the rest of the host and Emily. Kaoru just nodded in response as he followed her down the rock and onto the shoreline.
They walked in silence for a while, looking at just the fireworks. There was a small break in the fireworks and there was some time to talk without shouting at people just to hear them.
"So, uh, I'm sorry about earlier, I really should just talk to people more." Miley said, looking down and rubbing the back of her neck.
"I understand, Hikaru does that too so I can handle it." Kaoru smiled at her as she shyly looked up from her dark fringe.
"Um… ahhh…"
"Yes?" Kaoru asked, looking confused.
"Why do I suck at talking to people at times like these!" Miley moaned, "So, yeah. I like you. And you like me. What happens now?" Miley said stuttering a little.
"Do you want something to happen?" Kaoru asked, stopping to look at her.
"Well, kind of. I mean apparently, according to Emily, I've been subconsciously using you as the reason that I'm not trying to keep things working out between Kyoya and I." Miley replied, sounding a little more confident. Kaoru had blushed heavily when she said this, and looked at Miley to have her cheeks blushing too.
"But have you realized this?" Kaoru managed to stutter out before the fireworks continued again. Miley shot her eyes open at the sudden crash of the firework like a deer caught in headlights, and if possible, blushed a little harder.
"I think so." Miley said, hair falling to cover her face as she nodded so that Kaoru could tell what she said. When she didn't see him responding once she peeked through her hair, she sighed and turned to walk away.
"Wait!" Kaoru yelled, as there was a moment of silence and grabbed Miley's hand. There was another big firework that lit up the two teens as Miley stared at Karou with a shocked face.
"So what happens…" Miley asked, yelling the sentence as the biggest firework went off, signaling the end of the firework show, "now?" she whispered.
"Emily?" Hikaru asked, lifting his hands from her ears.
"Yeah?" Emily asked, looking up at Hikaru's face.
"The fireworks are over. But we can repeat what happened at the amusement park, I really don't mind." Hikaru smirked his Cheshire cat smirk.
"I, well. I'll pass this time." Emily stuttered as she quickly unlatched herself from Hikaru, still shaking slightly from the fireworks.
"Emi-chan, are you all right?" Hunny asked, looking at the girl with concern.
"I-I think so." Emily replied, starting to walk back to the beach house. Hikaru quickly got up to follow her.
"Emily, wait up!" Hikaru called as he jogged to catch up with Emily walking to the beach house. Hearing the sound of her name Emily turned around to see Hikaru getting closer to her.
"Hey, Hikaru. What brings you to this neck of the beach." Emily said smiling.
"Oh, well I just wanted to make sure you were okay!" Hikaru said nervously laughing.
"Oh, yeah. I'm fine. I don't like fireworks at all." Emily said. "Holy crap! He's gonna ask about why I glomped him during the fireworks! I don't know how I'm gonna answer that! What do I do!"
"I figured that was the case." He replied catching up and walking next to her. "Crap, crap crap, crap. Why is Emily blushing? And why does she look so cute?"
"Yeah… I'm usually more prepared about this kind of thing, I'm sorry I suddenly jumped on you" Emily mumbled as they walked up the steps to the beach house. "Ohmygod, I'm going to do or say something really stupid, I can tell!"
"Haha it's fine I didn't mind!" Hikaru said while laughing and Emily smiled back at him.
"So, Emily, I have something to say to you." Hikaru said looking down while Emily looked towards him.
"Mhm?" Emily asked looking at Hikaru curiously. "Why is he acting so serious! Is he going to tell me he hates me! Does he not like me!"
"I sort of, kind of…" Hikaru stuttered uneasily. "Crap, Emily looks like she thinks that I hate her or something… I have to just come right out and say this before she thinks the wrong thing!"
"What is it, Hikaru?" Emily asked while looking at his golden eyes.
"Well, I'm trying to say that i-sortoflikeyoualot." Hikaru mumbled.
"What was that? Sorry I couldn't understand the last part." Emily said trying hard to hear him.
"I sort of kindoflikeyoualot!" Hikaru mumbled slightly louder than before.
"You have to stop talking so fast, I really can't understand you." Emily said with her brow furrowed from trying to focus on what Hikaru was trying to tell her.
"I really -!" Hikaru yelled before he was cut off.
"EMILY! There you are! I've been looking all over for you! Don't freak me out like that!" Miley yelled as she tried to drag Emily inside.
"Oh, Miley, Hikaru was just trying to tell me something important." Emily said using her eyes to try and tell Miley to leave.
"Too bad it will have to wait!" Miley said as she dragged Emily away who was sending apologetic looks to Hikaru.
"So close." Hikaru sighed as he walked inside while stuffing his hands into his pockets.
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