I know its summer, but inspiration is low, so it's hard to update a lot.

But, I hope you enjoy!

I don't own Ouran, cause if I did, the finale would come out sooner!

After two days in the hospital, the doctors finally sent Emi home. They deemed it safe for now and told her she could go back to school in a few more days.

Emi rejoiced at the prospect of seeing Takashi again, but she was going to have to keep of the ruse of mono for a few more weeks. Kyouya would have picked that particular infection for her to have. She was behind on her school work but it wouldn't be a problem to catch up with Kyouya helping her. So she felt pretty guilt free about lying.

Until she saw who was waiting for her at her front porch.

The Host Club was waiting with big smiles on their faces, except Takashi who had a deep frown on his face, and Kyouya who didn't seem to be present.

'Ah, crap.' she thought.

Kanaye got out of the car first, and very gentleman-like offered his arm out for her. She couldn't even smile at her brother, but took his arm. She was going to pretend to be weak so she leaned heavily on him. He gave her an odd look but didn't question her.

Carissa stepped out of the car after her daughter, and saw the tall dark teenager standing in front of the house with a group of other rather handsome teenage boys. She knew that tall dark one from the photos she had recieved anonymously just a few days ago. She didn't know what to feel about this, but she would watch and wait.

Takashi beyond angry. He had been angry at first, but that had passed and now he just furious, 50% with himself, 25% with life in general and 25% with Emi. Life kept getting in the way of him and Emi it seemed; Emi hadn't told him anything of this and he thought that they had trust in each other; and he was furious with himself because he shouldn't have let Emi talk him into keeping their relationship a secret. He wanted to run up to Emi and made sure she was okay, but Emi gave him a pleading look and he couldn't. It wasn't in him to go against what Emi wanted.

He hated himself for that.

When the Host Club surrounded her, she gave them a weak smile, and talked in a quiet voice. Haruhi said that they had come without Kyouya's knowledge and she knew this was a bad idea because people with mono shouldn't be around other people.

"Yes, I have to go and rest." she said, a little over a whisper.

"Tono, didn't you bring Emi-sempai's homework?" Kaoru said.

Carissa stepped in, "That's nice of you, but Emi really must go in now, you can give it to Kanaye." and she carted her daughter away. "I thought you could use some help." she whispered to Emi.

"Thanks mom, but how did you know."

She winked, "Mono, dear."

Emi sat alone in her room working on the homework Tamaki had brought her, when her mother poked her head in, "Busy?" she asked.

"Not really."

Her mother sat on the edge of her bed, "We need to talk honey."

'Ah crap.' she thought for the second time that day. "About what?" Emi asked.

"I'm not sure how to tell you this." she started out and a pit dropped in Emi's stomach, "But I know about the boy."

"Boy, what boy?" the words just came out of her mouth before she had time to think about it.

Her mother seemed surprised, "The tall one."

"Oh, that one. We're just friends. He's a member of the Host Club and I play the piano for them."

Carissa frowned, "Are you going to insist on lying to me?"

"Maybe."

"So there is a boy?"

"There might be a boy."

Her mother paused, mulling it over, "And what might this might be a boy's name be?"

"His name mightbe Morinozuka Takashi."

They played this game of might be until her mother was satisfied with her daughters answers. Carissa was still disapointed in her daughter for lying to her father. Although she couldn't say that she wouldn't have done the same thing Emi had. But there were things that Emi just didn't know.

"Okay, honey. I can't say I approve of this at the moment, because you haven't told your father. I'm not going to help you cover up anymore. But I'm not going to tell your father."

"I hope you don't expect me to."

"I do, because it's the right thing to do. Keeping secrets isn't the right thing to do."

"Mom, right now I don't care about the right thing."

She sighed, "Okay honey, but you will learn sometime." and she kissed her daughter's forehead, "Get some rest."

It was only after her mother left that she wondered how her mother knew about Takashi. But she decided it was of no consequence, how she knew was not important.

But the thought kept nagging at her. Her mother had been in America, she had seen Takashi all of a few seconds, so somebody must have told her. The only people who knew were Kyouya and Hunny. Her mother didn't know Hunny, so it probably wasn't him. Would Kyouya betray her trust again? She wouldn't put it past him, but she didn't really believe that it was him.

So who was it that had told her mother?

The anger and slowly faded from him and now he felt nothing but emptiness. Simple tasks were suddenly hard for him. His family noticed and were concerned for him, but didn't say anything to him. They knew he worked through his own problems.

But here Takashi was, sitting alone, staring at his phone, wondering if she'd call and tell him everything. But he knew she wouldn't; that wasn't what Emi did.

So he finally picked up the phone and called her.

It rang several times, then the voice mail came on, 'Hey this is Emi, leave a message and I'll get back to you.'

Emi had never ever not answered her phone, she slept with it under her pillow in case someone called her and she was asleep. That confirmed that she didn't want to talk to him.

Emi heard the phone ring, but as she was irritated and almost asleep she grabbed the phone and tossed it across the room. It landed with an all too satisfying thud and the ringing stopped. Whoever it was could wait until the morning.

So there you go, I hope you enjoyed! Not a lot happened, it was just a transition chapter really.

Please review!

~Cloudy