Disclaimer: Sadly, Emilie and I do not own Ouran High School but boy how we wish we did. Chapter 4 of Cross My Heart and Hope to Love and we apologize because we have not updated in FOREVER. Enjoy!
Chapter Four
The weekend had finally come to an end and Emily and Miley were slowly making their way to the school. Emily was listening to her i-Touch and mouthing the words to each song. A few steps behind her, Miley, was scribbling into a worn, leather notebook.
"Miley, will you come to the art festival Sunday? You know that some of my works are going to be featured, right." Emily asked with a smile because she already knew the answer.
"Emily, do you even need to ask anymore?" Miley replied with a chuckle, "Of course I am going to go! I am guessing you invited the host club?"
"Not yet! Mori knows about the festival and already said he would be going! I have yet to invite the others!" Emily changed the song before she asked, "Miley, you have been writing since you got up this morning! What are you writing about?"
"Nothing of importance." Miley said as she quickly put the notebook away.
"I don't believe you…at all." Emily smiled as she reached for Mile's bag, "Can I read it?" Miley smacked Emily's hand away as she ran ahead towards the school.
"BEATCHA THERE!" Miley shouted back to Emily as she was trying to catch up.
"THIS IS SO UNFAIR! YOU GOT A HEAD START!" Emily yelled to Miley as she tried her best to catch up. She almost managed to beat Miley in the end but by the time they reached the school both girls were completely out of breath.
"You two walk to school?" A pair of redheads said as they began to walk from their limo to the tired girls.
"Yes we do!" Emily said while crossing her arms, "It is good for us to walk to school and get a little exercise in before class. Don't you agree, Miley?" But when Emily turned the dark haired girl was nowhere to be found.
"Hey! Wait a second, when did she even leave!" Emily spun around looking everywhere for her lost sister.
"I think she was heading for class she looked like she was in a hurry." Karou said as he looked towards the entrance of the school building.
"She has been deep in thought since this morning." Emily whispered as her brow furrowed, "Well, we better go meet her! Lets get going!"
The three high school students began to walk towards their classroom when Karou realized he left something back in the car.
"I left my backpack in the limo I will see you guys in class." Karou said as he ran back to the entrance leaving Hikaru and Emily alone in the deserted hallway.
"Oh, Hikaru, didn't you want to tell me something yesterday? I'm sorry I got dragged away and couldn't let you finish! If you want you could tell me now." Emily smiled as she looked up at Hikaru.
"Oh, right…ha-ha. I forgot about that. Well it wasn't important anyway so it doesn't matter." Hikaru quietly spoke while turning away from Emily towards their class. "You're so stupid! Why can't you just man up and tell her!"
"Hikaru." Emily grabbed his arm as she tried to get him to stay, "I think everything you have to say is important." The two teens both blushed as Emily said that. "Can you please tell me? I would like to know." "I hope he didn't see me blush just now! Wait, is he blushing, too?" Emily thought as she tried to control her rosy cheeks.
Before Hikaru could tell Emily, the bell rang and the two blushing teens finally returned to their normal skin tones. With two sheepish grins they started quickly walking towards their class.
Emily turned back to Hikaru and with smile said, "I guess you're going to have to tell me later," and walked into classroom 1A with Hikaru right behind her.
"Miley! There you are! Why did you leave me?" Emily cried to Miley with a fake frown. Miley quickly shut her notebook and stuffed it back into her bag.
"I'm so sorry, my dear sister, but I didn't want to be late to class like two people I know." Miley spoke with a grin as she looked over at Emily and Hikaru. The two teens cheeks proceeded to blush.
"Ha-ha, Miley, you're so funny." Emily said sarcastically as she sat down next to Miley. Karou finally walked into class as the teacher began to speak.
"Students, for today…Oh, nice of you to join us Mr. Hitachiin." The teacher said as Kaoru was trying to get into his seat next to Miley without being noticed. Karou blushed and quickly mumbled an apology as he sat in his seat.
"AS I was saying, it is October and we're going to have a fright festival for the cultural festival, the second years will be having food stands, and finally, the third years will be having costume ball." The teacher kept talking but Hikaru and Karou started to share a mischievous look that obviously screamed "We're planned a prank and we're going to have so much fun watching you guys freak out" Emily shuddered as she poked Miley who was zoned out, staring out the window. She looked over lazily and raised her brow as she watched the two twins snicker away while the teacher explained about the event.
"So we will need to form groups of five." The teacher said, "Choose your groups now, I will write them down. And then we can choose what each group does." The teacher finished, picking up a piece of chalk and writing down the different jobs down.
"We choose Emily and Miley to be in our group!" Hikaru and Kaoru said, somehow managing to stand next to and linking arms with both of us.
"Okay Mr.'s Hitachiin, but you still need one more person." The teacher said, sweat dropping and sighing as he wrote down other students names on the board. Hikaru and Karou's eyes quickly scanned the room for another student to join their group when their eyes landed on Kazukiyo Soga, the class president, sitting in the corner looking pale and worried. Hikaru and Karou quickly made their way over to the frightened boy and pointed to him.
"We choose you to be in our group with us, Soga-san." The twins said in sync to the surprised teen.
"I-I-I don't r-really want to p-p-participate in the f-fright f-f-festival, thank you." Soga managed to stutter back to the redheaded twins.
"Oh, Soga-san, we insist!" Hikaru said with a smile.
"Yes, you must join our group," Karou added, "besides all the other groups are filled." Karou and Hikaru pointed to the board filled with the five other groups already made.
"Alright. I guess I have no choice in the matter anymore." Sago said with a sigh as he glanced over at Karakinos. She looked back smiling and walked up excitedly towards him.
"Isn't this so great? A fright festival, I can't wait!" she said as she looked at Sago expectantly.
"Ah, uh, yeah. Great." He replied nervously, looking down trying to hide his red cheeks. She smiled again, waved happily and walked back over to her group.
"Ahhhhhhh, I see. You like Karakinos." Kaoru smirked as he sauntered over towards Soga, who just blushed more as he tried to deny it. This caused Kaoru to just smirk more and he walked away, leaving Soga blushing in the corner.
"Kaoru, what did you say to him, he looks… all flustered." Miley asks as she looks in his direction with concern.
"Oh, nothing, just having a friendly conversation with our fellow group mate." Kaoru replied in an almost a teasing manner as he just casually walked away to find his twin.
The bell rang which marked the beginning of lunch and the four teens walked out of the classroom quickly talking about the fright festival.
"So I was thinking we could set up a ton of traps that different groups can run into and they'll be running home so our group can win!" Miley said enthusiastically. Karou and Miley continued talking about the plans for the festival while Emily started walking slower. Hikaru noticed this and started to slow his pace as well so he could match Emily's.
"Hikaru, what was it that you wanted to tell me that night on the beach?" Emily looked up at him with a curious look as she spoke.
"Eh…ah…I'll you but not here. Follow me." Hikaru replied hesitantly but grabbed Emily's hand and pulled her into an empty hallway away from all the other students and all you could hear were their footsteps.
"Hikaru? Where are you taking me?" Emily asked quietly, still blushing and looking down at her and Hikaru's intertwined fingers and not wanting to talk to disrupt the silence.
"I don't want anyone else to hear what I have to tell you…" he replied quietly and stopped once he pulled her into an empty classroom.
"I don't think anyone's here, you can tell me now." Emily stuttered a little bit but turned to look at Hikaru in the dim room.
"Well, I want to tell you that I…" he stopped when he saw that Mori was underneath a long black haired girl. Emily looked over his shoulder curiously as to why he stopped talking. She gasped and covered her mouth as tears began to spill out of her sad eyes. The two teens on the ground looked up at Emily's gasp, Mori tried to get up to say something but Emily had ripped off the necklace he gave her and threw it near him. He picked up the necklace gently and looked up to say something, but Emily was already running out of the classroom, leaving Hikaru still there to glare at Mori and scowl at him before running after Emily himself.
"Emily! Wait!" Hikaru called as he tried to catch up to Emily. He chased her all the way to the roof where he found Emily crying on one of the ledges before the edge of the roof. He sat down next to her and tried to think of something to say to comfort her.
"Emily…" Hikaru started, but couldn't finish once Emily took a shaky breath and covered her face with her hands. He bit his lip and contemplated for a little and just wrapped his arms around her and held her as she cried. Unknown to Hikaru, Emily's eyes shot open and she blushed as they sat there together on the roof until she stopped crying.
"Do you feel better?" Hikaru asked with flushed cheeks as he rubbed the back of his neck.
"Uh, yeah… I think so." Emily replied as she wiped her eyes and looked down.
"I… I'm so sorry." Hikaru apologized, trying to make Emily feel better.
"Me too…" Emily said, looking even more depressed, "But thank you for running after me like that."
"Oh, that… Yeah, I thought it wasn't a good idea to leave you alone after seeing…that." Hikaru said, feeling awkward, seeing as he never did much comforting. Emily sighed deeply as she looked up to the blue skies. Hikaru could only watch as Emily stood up from her seat and brushed her skirt off and took a deep breath, and released it in a huff.
"So, for the third, time, what did you want to tell me?" Emily asked with a weak smile, trying to get over what she just saw.
"Erm, well... I sort of…. Erm… I-like-you" Hikaru whispered as he looked down and hid his blush.
"You do?" Emily sounded shocked and blinked a couple times in silence.
"You know, it's really unnerving when you confess your feelings for someone and they don't reply. It's a killer on the nerves…" Hikaru said quietly after another moment of silence with a weak smile, trying to lighten the mood.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm trying to get over the shock still." Emily replied, with wide eyes and her mouth slightly open.
"Was it bad timing?" Hikaru asked, grimacing a little.
"No, no, no." Emily replied waiving her hands, "I'm in shock that you actually like me back." Emily quickly put her hand over her mouth after her last statement and her blush came back.
"So you like me too?" Hikaru asked with a small twitch of his lip that was about to turn into a smirk. Emily could only nod shyly as she dropped her hand to fidget with the bottom of her uniform shirt.
"Then why are you so nervous, we both like each other. There shouldn't be anything too difficult about this… right?" Hikaru asked Emily as he slowly reached out for her hand again but stopped when Emily spoke up.
"I-I-I think I'm so nervous because I like you… and… and…" Emily stuttered horribly as Hikaru regained confidence and finally grabbed her hand and leaned on the ledge next to her.
"And?" Hikaru asked as he bent over to try to see Emily's face. Emily just blushed more and tried to find her voice.
"And I don't know what I'm going to do about Mori, because of… that… and you have the host club to worry about. I mean you need customers so you need to be available, and so that Kyoya won't get mad at you for not getting customers…" Emily said quickly without breathing and starting to panic a little.
"Emily, don't worry about me and the host club. That's my own problem I need to work out. But you are right about Mori." Hikaru replied as he stood up and gently grabbed her hand
"I mean. Oh my gosh, I'm engaged to Mori, but he was cheating on me. But we like each other…" Emily started to talk fast and her breathing sped up and more tears started to form in her eyes again.
"Calm down." Hikaru said softly as he put his hand on Emily's cheek to make her look at him, "We'll figure something out, okay?" Emily nodded again staring into his golden eyes.
"I think…" Before she could finish her sentence Hikaru pulled her in closer and moved his hand down to the small of her back. He used his free hand to move her chin to look up towards him and then brought his lips to her mouth in a sweet kiss. Emily moved her arms up around her neck trying to find ways to pull herself closer to him. They parted their lips but didn't step back from each other.
"You were saying?" Hikaru said with a grin.
"I…think…that was amazing." Emily finally managed to say. Hikaru leaned down and gave her a quick kiss on the nose.
"I think you're amazing." Hikaru laughed and took Emily's hand leading her to the door.
Hikaru smiled and opened the door for Emily while he thought, "I did it."
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