Chapter 13: Morning of Bliss
Mori was aroused with anticipation of the game's end after whatever made Tamaki so happy during dinner last night that he could hardly sleep. Early the next morning, Mori found himself lying awake while everyone else was still asleep. To give himself something to do, Mori dressed into his uniform pants and brought the rest of his uniform out to the living room area and decided to stretch and work out a little while he waited for everyone else to wake up.
Haruhi squinted her eyes open, pulling the covers off over her head. It was morning, and the sun had woken her up for the third day in a row. This annoyed Haruhi to no end. She sighed as she climbed out of bed, glancing at the clock on her way out; it was 8:13AM. Haruhi lazily made her way into the bathroom, grabbing her school uniform on the way. After taking a quick shower, she changed into it, fixed her hair so it didn't look like a rat's nest, and brushed her teeth. In about twenty minutes, Haruhi was ready for the day. Well, until she would have to come back and change that is.
She sighed again and sat herself down on the love seat. Rubbing her head, Haruhi thought, That sure was an interesting dream...it's going to be stuck in my head all day. That won't be good... Haruhi leaned against the seat and hung her head back, making it so she could look up at the ceiling. Quietly to herself, she said, "I--I'll wait a while before I leave. Everyone's probably still sleeping...and I need time to think."
Tamaki thought he could out sleep the rays of light creeping through his window early the next morning; however, he was losing the one-sided battle between him and his lack of ability to sleep with light. Tamaki sighed when he decided to sit up and rolled his head which cracked his neck twice. I really should call for some heavier curtains, he thought to himself as he rubbed his eyes, I was having the most wonderful of dreams.
Last night Tamaki dreamed that he was standing in a lush, wild flower garden, basking in the warm sun, although was a little worried of where Haruhi could be. Then Haruhi came out from the forest that bordered the garden and he brought her into his arms and comforted her. They then sat in the garden together where he could have sworn that they were about to kiss before he woke up but he couldn't really remember.
Tamaki rustled out of bed and shuffled his way into the bathroom to freshen up for the day. After getting dressed into his uniform Tamaki headed for the living room area of their room to try and wake up some more. A little surprised, Tamaki found Mori exercising next to the couch and he said to him, "Ohayo Mori-senpai." and sat down in the arm chair.
Tamaki sat in thought for a minute as his eyes adjusted to being open, You know, If I'm going to take Haruhi on a date, I should probably okay it with Mori since he and Hunny-senpai are in charge of looking after her. "Uhhh Mori," Tamaki started off hesitantly, "Ummm... is it okay if I take Haruhi down to the springs today?"
Mori stopped stretching once Tamaki asked him a question and eyed him curiously as he asked in return, "May I ask why?" Mori was positive that it had something to do with his feelings towards Haruhi
Well..." Tamaki said to stall for time to think, "I-I'm not planning on going into the springs today...so I figured I'd just take the task of ushering her around off your hands so you can relax more."
Mori knew that Tamaki was lying through his teeth but, figuring this would help the game along, Mori nodded and said, "Sure."
A little excited that his plan was working, Tamaki stood up and said, "Cool, Well, I'm going to go check on Haruhi and see if she's alright from last night." Tamaki left the boys room and went across the hall to Haruhi's door. Tamaki took a deep breath as he gathered the courage and composure to talk to Haruhi without looking idiotic and he rapped at Haruhi's door lightly, in case she was still asleep.
Haruhi raised her head back up when she heard a light knocking on the door. She sighed and took a deep breath; she had a feeling about who it was knocking at her door. Slowly, Haruhi stood from the love seat and walked over to the doors. She looked out the peek-hole in the door and sighed. It was exactly who she thought it would be. Haruhi took a deep breath and then opened up the door for Tamaki. "Ohayo, Senpai. ...Why are you up so early? The sun and it's bright annoying rays woke me up again." Haruhi rubbed her eye some as she thought, I really liked that dream too... I can't remember the end too well though...
Tamaki smiled once he saw Haruhi's face and said back, "Ohayo, Haruhi. Yeah the sun woke me up too."
Realizing that she forgot her manners, Haruhi opened the door wider and stepped out of the door way. Barely managing, she said, "Oh, I'm sorry. Would you like to come in? I--I mean, it wouldn't be good if anyone from school saw that we're staying in separate rooms."
Tamaki looked up and down the hallway to make sure no one would see them now and he nodded in agreement and said, "Yeah that would be bad. Thank you." Tamaki cautiously walked into the room, still feeling a little awkward being in Haruhi's room like this. To try and ignore that fact, Tamaki inspected Haruhi's face curiously for the same symptoms that she had last night as he asked, "Are you feeling any better?" He then placed the back of his hand against her forehead to see if there was a change in temperature from last night, although he couldn't remember what her temperature was like the night before.
Haruhi nearly jumped to the sudden touch of Tamaki's hand against her forehead. Pull it together, Haruhi. He's just seeing if you have a temperature. Haruhi nodded with a small grin and answered, "Yeah, I feel a lot better actually. I suppose I just needed a good night's rest. Thanks for asking, Senpai."
Haruhi gently brushed Tamaki's hand off of her forehead and walked over to her nightstand, grabbing her wallet and room key. "I'm getting a little hungry; why don't we go ahead and get some breakfast? Of course, we should probably wait for everyone else..." Haruhi walked back on over to Tamaki and looked up at him as she thought, Yeah, I just asked the man I love if he wanted to go and get breakfast. But then I said that we should wait for everyone...he'll probably go with that. Even if he didn't, he would think of going down together as a "father & daughter" thing. This thought brought Haruhi's slight hopes down. Then again, they weren't all that high to begin with.
Tamaki was a bit surprised yet joyful that Haruhi would even think of asking him to a meal. Before Tamaki could burst out with joy he stopped himself and thought, play it cool Tamaki, you know she doesn't like it when you freak out on her. As he did his best to contain his excitement, Tamaki considered her other option into consideration and said, "Well it would be nice to wait for the other guys before we eat... But do you want to maybe get some coffee or tea in the cafe while we wait? I'll send a text to the twins and they could bring the others down once they're finally awake." Tamaki really wanted a few moments with her alone outside of the awkward air of her room to ask her about taking her around the garden instead of boring her by placing her in the springs.
Haruhi nodded with a smile and answered, "Yeah that sounds fine. Then we can order our actual breakfast when they finally come on down to the cafe." Haruhi made her way past Tamaki and cracked her door open, peeking down the hall both ways, making sure that no one was there. No one could be seen, so Haruhi walked out into the hall, and closed the door behind Tamaki as he walked out. As they began to walk down the hall, Haruhi looked up at Tamaki and said, "Hurry up and text them; so we don't have to wait too long to order our food." She didn't want to rush him, but she was getting hungry.
"Hold on." Tamaki whined as he walked slowly as he attempted to text, "I'm not very good at this." eventually Tamaki got a message typed out
Hikaru
Haruhi & I are in the cafe
bring all the guys down when they wake up 4 breakfast
c u then
-Tamaki
He sent the message to Hikaru's phone and hoped that his phone going off wouldn't wake the twins up. "Wait for me!" Tamaki exclaimed as he noticed Haruhi was farther ahead than him and he ran towards her.
Hikaru sat up groggily when he heard the ring tone on his cell going off, reaching for it without actually opening his eyes. Kaoru, who had heard it as well, reached over his twin, grabbing the phone from the nightstand and pressing a button so it would stop the infernal racket. He didn't want to wake up Kyoya…Again.
They both yawned, and then proceeded to read the text, that was apparently from Tamaki.
"We're supposed to bring everyone down for breakfast . . ." Kaoru said absentmindedly, scratching the back of his head lazily.
Hikaru stretched a bit, before flopping back down on the bed."Dear brother, it says that we need to bring everyone down when they wake up." Hikaru quoted. He felt his brother lay back down beside him and closed his eyes, scootching a bit closer to Kaoru to steal some of his warmth. Clearly as they could both see, Mori and they were the only ones awake. And they were hoping to quickly remedy that. Hopefully, the ringing from Hikaru's phone hadn't woken anyone up.
When Tamaki and Haruhi made it into the internet cafe, Haruhi sat down at one of the computers and gestured for Tamaki to come sit next to her. As the waitress came over to them, Haruhi just asked for a cup of coffee.
After Haruhi gestured for him to sit down next to her, Tamaki stopped and blushed a little but thought to himself, focus Tamaki, focus. He forced his legs to move and then sat don casually next to Haruhi. When the waitress came, Tamaki ordered a large coffee with cream and two sugars.
After she took Tamaki's order, she quickly left. Haruhi then mindlessly logged onto the computer and opened up the internet, wanting to check to see if there were going to be any other thunderstorms. Tamaki just watched as she pulled up the weather on the internet but mostly gazed at the one he loved silently. Luckily to Haruhi, the forecast said the skies should be clear for the rest of the week. Haruhi sighed with relief and looked at Tamaki as she asked, "Did the twins text you back yet?" Good...so far this doesn't seem too awkward. I thought it would've been... This fact pleased Haruhi in a way.
Tamaki checked his cell phone and said, "Naw, not yet." Tamaki then rolled himself over to the keyboard and said, "Well, we might as well do something while we wait." Tamaki pulled up and logged onto his video website. He clicked on his favorites page and then hit the randomize button. A white boarder jumped from one video box to another for a few seconds before stopping at one video and pulling it to full screen and automatically playing it. However, the video the randomize button chose was one of the music videos of the American, pop, love songs he was watching two days ago. Tamaki froze in embarrassment as Accidentally in Love came through the speakers softly and he thought to himself, I totally forgot I favored that...
Haruhi just stared at the computer screen, eyeing Tamaki from time to time. Why would he put this music video on his favorites...? Maybe because he actually...no, that couldn't be it. Come on, Haruhi; you've told yourself this before: Hosts can never fall for just one.
Haruhi watched the video and listened to the lyrics intently, smiling slightly. In her opinion, the lyrics (once she translated them into Japanese) seemed to kind of symbolize her newly discovered love for Tamaki. Accidentally in love, huh? The title of the song says it all...
Tamaki took note on how Haruhi didn't object to the video. So, he followed her example, relaxed and enjoyed the video. Of all songs to start with, he thought to himself it had to be the one that deals with love.
Mori finished working out a few minutes after Tamaki left the room. He was tempted to follow him, knowing that he'd probably go somewhere with Haruhi, but decided it was too early to begin the day's snooping. To occupy himself, He sat down and began to flip through the kendo magazine on the coffee table.
Kyoya was asleep and enjoying every second of it. Suddenly, there was a slight disturbance, but Kyoya shrugged it off and continued sleeping. The disturbance grew, louder and louder and there was more and more beeping. Kyoya sighed and got up, throwing one or two of the alarm clocks on the floor while hastily and roughly turning off the rest of them.
He walked into the bathroom and splashed some water on his face to wake himself up more. He then put on his school uniform and walked out to where Mori was sitting. Kyoya sat down calmly and with no plots to 'ruin' anyone... yet (except his alarm clocks).
Mori looked up after two sets of beeping went off, a boom, crash, bang sounded from down the hall and Kyoya stomped his way to the bathroom. "Let the world now know," he said to himself sarcastically in a monotone voice, "Lord Kyoya is awake." Once he emerged from the bathroom looking more like himself before he violently woke up, Mori put away the magazine he was reading and said in his monotone sarcastic manor, "Ohayo Kyoya, sleep well I take it?"
"Of course," Kyoya said, responding to Mori's question. "Seeing as our 'game' is coming to a tremendous ending, I don't see how I couldn't sleep well at night."
Hunny groaned at he heard the smashing and booming of a couple things hitting the wall. When the noise subsided, Hunny yawned and dosed back to sleep for another ten or twenty minutes. But of course, the damage had been done, and he couldn't fall back asleep.
Lazily, Hunny got himself out of bed with his bun-bun and walked over to the bathroom like a zombie, school uniform in hand. After a couple minutes, Hunny walked out of the bathroom, looking refreshed and ready for the day--other than the fact that his eyes were still closed shut.
Hunny made his way into the main area of their room and rubbed his eyes, forcing them to open a little. Still rubbing, Hunny said, "Ohayo...booming woke me up." Hunny mindlessly walked over to Mori, sat down on the ground next him, and began to play with his bun-bun's ears, too tired to think about anything in particular.
Kyoya smirked at Hunny's statement. He knew exactly what that booming was. Those alarm clocks deserved it.
Hikaru and Kaoru sighed as they heard the throwing of things, knowing that it meant Kyoya was awake. They both sat up groggily, and saw Hunny get up a few moments later. They sighed, looking at each other, knowing that they had to get up now. Grudgingly, the twins got out of bed, dressing in their matching outfits and coming back to the main living area, slumping down on a couch.
Mori nodded and he said to Kyoya as his cousin and the twins came into the room as well, "Oye, so you know, and so we don't all worry again, Tamaki said he would take Haruhi to the springs today. I highly doubt that he's actually going to do that though." Mori thought that at least Kyoya should know that so in case Tamaki would go on another "date" with Haruhi, they all wouldn't be worrying where they were.
"Morning." They said in unison, Hikaru yawning slightly.
"Hey," Kaoru said to Hunny, seeing as Mori and Kyoya were talking. "Tamaki told us to take everyone downstairs when you were awake and . . . now you are!"
"He and Haruhi already went." Both of them explained.
"The two lovebirds just couldn't wait." Hikaru said in mock exasperation, shaking his head.
Mori muffled a single laugh as he heard the twin's story; Tamaki was just too predictable. "Well, we might as well go on down then. No use making them wait." Mori flipped out his cell phone and texted Tamaki
We're coming down now.
"Alright let's go." Mori stated as he stood up and waited for the others to groggily follow him.
Hunny yawned as he stood up from the ground slowly. Still holding his bun-bun, he walked over to open the door and stepped out into the hall. He signaled for everyone to follow
Kyoya got up and followed Hunny and Mori. This was going to be an interesting day, he decided. He would probably just sit on the side lines and watch while doing some behind the scenes work, but that's what he liked to do best.
The twins caught up with everyone, now not so upset that they lost some sleep, knowing that today was going to be very . . . interesting. They looked at each other and smirked. There hadn't been much time for them to interfere or embarrass the two since the game started, and they wanted to catch up.
They were going to give "embarrassing interference" a whole knew meaning.
Once the song was over and the randomized playlist went to the next song, Haruhi sat back in her chair, looking up at Tamaki. I'm still kinda curious as to why he favorited this...It doesn't seem like his type of music. Glancing away from Tamaki slightly, Haruhi said, "I didn't know you liked that kind of music, Senpai. Caught me a little off guard when I heard it coming through those speakers."
Tamaki looked at Haruhi as she spoke to him once the video was finished, rubbed the back of his head and said, "Well...I found it the other day and I thought it was catchy. American music is like that sometimes."
Just then the waitress came and gave each of them their coffee and then walked off to help another customer. "Oh, I see. I can't argue with you there, Senpai." Haruhi replied as the waitress came over with their coffee.
Tamaki took a sip of his bitter, sweet coffee and looked down at the brown liquid as he forced himself to put his plan to confess to Haruhi into action. "Say Haruhi...." Tamaki said unsure of himself as he continued to just look at his coffee, " You said yesterday that you were bored while you were in the springs...Well, instead of going into the springs today...would you rather just hang out with me?" Tamaki chuckled a little as he added sarcastically, "we could look about the garden and not worry about finding a way out."
As Haruhi lifted her cup of coffee and took a drink, she nearly spit it back out after hearing Tamaki's question. It was unexpected and shocking to hear, in Haruhi's opinion. I surely didn't see that coming... It doesn't sound too bad though... Fun even.
Calmly, Haruhi gulped down the coffee that was already in her mouth and set her cup down, still a little dazed from the shock. She turned to Tamaki with a slight smile and said, "Th--that sounds like fun, Senpai. Better than being bored in the springs..." Haruhi laughed slightly towards Tamaki's sarcastic comment, and then added, "But yeah, the garden sounds nice. It should be better knowing that we won't get locked in again."
Tamaki smiled as his plan was going smoothly so far. "Alright, well, we'll wait for the other guys to go into the springs before going I suppose. I told Mori that I would take you down to the springs instead." Just then his cell phone went off and he read Mori's rather short text. "Even when he texts, he doesn't say much," he muttered to himself as he took another swig of his coffee.
"It looks like they're coming down shortly," Tamaki said as he stood up with his coffee in one hand and offered to aid Haruhi up with the other, "We might as well go find a table for breakfast."
"Alright, well, we'll wait for the other guys to go into the springs before going I suppose. I told Mori that I would take you down to the springs instead."
Haruhi raised her eyebrow slightly as she thought, Well he must've planned this ahead quite a bit... But that doesn't really matter now I guess. Haruhi watched as Tamaki pulled his cell phone back out and read his text message. She nodded when he told her that they everyone was on their way down.
Haruhi was slightly caught off guard, again, when Tamaki offered her his hand. She gently took his hand as she nodded in agreement with Tamaki. "Yeah, we should probably go do that."
After he helped her up from her seat and the two of them walked over towards one of the larger tables near the center of the cafe. Haruhi sat herself down, leaving two seats open on her left.
Haruhi then waved for a waitress to come over. Once she did, Haruhi asked of her, "Can you bring us seven menus please?" The waitress nodded as she left and shortly returned with the seven menus. Haruhi smiled at her as she said, "Arigato, Miss." With that, the waitress walked away, possibly blushing.
As Haruhi found a table and received their menus, Tamaki stood around looking for his friends to join them. As he looked he thought to himself, This is good so far, she doesn't seem to object being around me...that's defiantly a good sign.
As Haruhi began to look through the menu, she looked up at Tamaki and asked, "Aren't you going to sit down, Senpai?
Tamaki snapped back to reality and said as he nodded his head, "Yeah, I was just seeing the others were coming." Without really thinking about it, Tamaki casually took the only seat next to Haruhi and glanced through the menu. "So what are you gonna get?" he asked as he took another sip of his coffee to make petty conversation.
Mori Lead the sleepy group down to the internet cafe, seeing how no one else looked really fit to lead them all down. Mori wasn't sure if they went to the breakfast bar yet since he would figured that they would have lost track of time and still be doing something together.
Mori soon realized that he underestimated them and found both of them at one of the larger tables in the cafe, looking through the menu, sitting right next to each other and appeared to be having a general good time together. Mori smirked at the scene, and he walked up to the table and sat across from the couple and said, "Ohayo Haruhi."
Hunny, who was now near most of the way awake, sat down next to Mori and set his bun-bun on his lap. Happily, Hunny grabbed a menu and started to look through it, but still kept an eye on the two love birds. That was a rather good sign; seeing them get along so well together. Neither of them really seemed to care too much about being alone with each other, either. Another good sign.
Just as Haruhi was about to answer Tamaki, she heard Mori. She looked up from her menu and smiled at him and said, "Ohayo, Mori-senpai." Glancing back down at her menu, she then quickly answered Tamaki's question. "Anyway, I don't really know...maybe the French Toast... What about yourself?" Haruhi took a sip of her coffee and let out a relieved sigh; Haruhi was in a rather good mood.
She looked back up from her menu again, and waved for everyone else to come and take a seat at the table.
"Hmmmm..." Tamaki said as he looked at the menu, "The fruit covered pancakes are looking really good this morning in my opinion."
Hunny peeked up from his menu and smiled brightly at Haruhi and Tamaki. Seeing them together like this made him happy. Plus, he was in his usually happy mood, now that he wasn't a tired zombie anymore.
Tamaki placed his menu down and greeted everyone as they sat down, which oddly enough they all looked to be in a rather good mood. not really caring since he was in a good mood himself, Tamaki started to make conversation with everyone at the table. Although it just seemed like the host king was just trying to get some host family bonding time, in reality, Tamaki was just so happy about being with Haruhi like this that he couldn't really keep it to himself today.
As they ate their breakfast Tamaki brought up random, but not too crazy, topics of conversation with the table but mostly with Haruhi. It seemed that everyone at the table was having a good time. Tamaki would start up a topic, Haruhi and hunny would comment, Mori would agree with Hunny, the twins would make their remarks, and Kyoya would sit there and smirk and interject everyonce in awhile.
This went on for the rest of the morning until Tamaki finally looked at his watch and announced, "Oh wow, time sure does fly. We have to go now and go set up for Hosting." Tamaki stood up and stretched a little after sitting down for so long. He offered a hand to Haruhi as the other guys started to get up.
Haruhi ate her meal and talked with everyone at the table--mainly Tamaki, filled with pleasure. This is nice...everyone seems to be enjoying themselves too. After Tamaki spoke, Haruhi was about to get up from her seat, but stopped when she saw Tamaki's hand reaching out for her. She grinned softly at him and gently took his hand so she could be lifted to her feet. Haruhi pushed her chair in and said to Tamaki with a smile, "Thanks for helping me up." She began to head for the exit, signaling Tamaki and everyone else to follow.
The seven hosts made their way to the ballroom, where their hosting had taken place the past two days. She looked around the room, kind of hoping that she would get to sit near Tamaki again. But of course...she was also hoping that any of their customers wouldn't suggest anything like they did yesterday. Haruhi shivered at the memory.
With a slight sigh, Haruhi walked over to the back of the room, opening the doors to the outside air. She took in a deep breath, and let it out with relief. I think I'll settle down near the doors. Looking around, Haruhi spotting a table not too far from the open door and sat herself down. Lucky for her, there was another table close by.
Tamaki followed his friends to the ballroom and went over to the open doors to feel the late spring breeze flowing into the room gently. Tamaki took a deep breath and thought to himself, four hours to go before you tell her. Tamaki glanced over at Haruhi going to go sit down and thought to himself skeptically, can you really do it? Tamaki sighed and took in a few more seconds of the breeze before he brought his chipper attitude back and sat down at the table near Haruhi's.
Hunny followed the group alongside Mori happily. Once they made it inside, Hunny ran to the closest table and settled down with his bun-bun, and signaled for Mori to come sit with him. Once he did so, Hunny followed Haruhi with his eyes and watched her carefully. "She sure seems happy right now. I have an idea why, but no exact reasoning." Hunny shrugged as he turned back around the face forward and began to kick his feet back and forth. Patiently, he waited for either their customers to arrive or for something interesting to happen.
"I think we all know why she and Tamaki are in a good mood today." Mori commented as he sat down next to his cousin, "There's just no need to say it."
Soon after all the Hosts settled down, the first wave of Customers came in and sat at the hosts' tables. After breakfast (In which the twins were in an unusually good mood), and once the twins were seated at their hosting table, they both smiled at the 'princesses' that they were to be taking care of today.
"Good morning ladies, how was your breakfast?" They asked in unison, tilting their heads to the side slightly.
"Wonderful!" One girl said, folding her hands on her lap. "How has your morning been Hikaru, Kaoru?"
"It seems that everyone has been in unusually good moods so far." Hikaru commented, his smile twisting up into more of a smirk. Kaoru nodded as well. "Yes, and I'm really looking forward to this evening Hikaru."
His twin looked over at him. "I agree. I have something very special planned." He said, cupping his brother's cheek gently.
"Hikaru! You're embarrassing me . . ." Kaoru said, forcing a blush to his face.
They stared into each others' eyes for a moment longer, listening to the squeals of the princesses before turning back towards them.
"S-so, do you all have anything in particular you're going to be doing?" Kaoru said, pretending to be flustered. Hikaru snuck a glance over to Tamaki. He seemed to be in an exceptionally good mood, and Hikaru couldn't wait to find out what he was going to do tonight
Tamaki was more than ready to partake in some hosting today. His morning meal with his friends and his new found feelings for Haruhi had put him in such a glorious mood that he felt like he could take on a swarm of 1000 raving fan girls at once. His first batch of 5 customers came in and sat down next to him, they automatically noticed his extra glow of radiance about him
"Good Afternoon Tamaki-kun." one of the girls said as Tamaki's happy attitude relaxed her.
"Yes what an excellent afternoon it is." Tamaki said with his princely smile, "How're all you lovely ladies doing today?"
"Fine, thank you." one of his customers replied, "You seem very happy today Tamaki-kun."
"Much more than usual." another remarked
Tamaki was caught off just a little by their observations and he asked the five of them, "I-is it that obvious?" After they all nodded simultaneously Tamaki rubbed the back of his head and said, "Gomen, I've just been in a wonderful mood this morning."
"Any reason in particular?" of the other girls asked, very interested to what made her host so happy.
Tamaki glanced over at Haruhi and then back at his group and asked them at almost a whisper, "Can you all keep a secret?" they all looked at each other and then leaned in towards Tamaki. Tamaki sighed and leaned in himself and said just above a whisper, "I think I've been struck by one of Cupid's arrows." The girls stared wide eyed at Tamaki for a few moments before the gravity of what he just said sank in. They all bursted out in high pitched squeals that Tamaki was sure disrupted everyone else's hosting.
"Oh, who is it?" the girl sitting next to Tamaki asked eagerly in a soft voice, trying not to spill his secret.
Tamaki put a finger up to his lips as if he was shushing her and said in a soft voice as well, "That I can not say." Tamaki brought his finger down and said in a more relaxed voice "but don't fret my dears. I will still host to all of you lovely ladies. It's just one will hold an extra special place with me."
Haruhi waited patiently as customers began to fill the room, in search for their regular hosts. As Haruhi's first three regulars arrived, they sat down around Haruhi, smiling. As always, they seemed happy to spend time with her. Haruhi smiled brightly at them and said, "Hello, ladies. How are you three doing so far today?"
"Very well, thank you! You seem to be doing rather well yourself, Haruhi-kun," one of Haruhi's customers replied happily.
Haruhi let out a slight sigh and said, "Well, I suppose I am. Today's just been a good day so far, really. I honestly can't remember the last time I've enjoyed myself this much." Haruhi was now leaning back in her seat, reminiscing the wonderful morning she had with her fellow hosts. But of course, she was mainly remembering her time with Tamaki. Haruhi let out another pleased sigh, and looked back up at her customers. They seemed to have crowded Haruhi without her even realizing it.
"Oh, that's so good, Haruhi-kun! Will you tell us all about it?!" one of the customers requested.
"Oh, yes, please do!" another one added.
Haruhi sat up straight again, and shook her head slightly. "It really wasn't much; just a nice time at breakfast is all. Now...why don't you ladies tell me about your weekend? I believe that a host should get to know their customers--especially their regulars like yourselves." Haruhi was now smiling kindly at them. She truly was a natural.
Before any of the girls could answer, them and Haruhi heard a bunch of a squealing from Tamaki's table. They all looked over, and Haruhi cocked her head to the side slightly. I haven't heard that much squealing from any customers for a while... I wonder what he said to them. Haruhi put the thought aside and said, "Well...that was surely something to hear..."
Still looking in Tamaki's direction, the three girls nodded, with one of them replying, "It surely was! I'm kinda curious to know what they're talking about. Aren't you curious, Haruhi-kun?"
Haruhi looked over at Tamaki as he calmed his customers down some and shrugged. "A little, I suppose. But it's none of my business. I'm sure I'll find out about the reasoning for all that squealing eventually."
Mori and Hunny's Hosting was put on a slight pause once the squealing shrieked from Tamaki's table. Mori rubbed the inside of his ear with his finger to try and sooth the pain brought on by Tamaki's customers. "I wonder what's going on at that table." Mori commented quickly before getting back on the subject of cake that they were talking about before. It couldn't possibly have something to do with Haruhi, he thought with nothing else on his mind besides their game, could it?