Chapter 13

Deep breaths girl. Deep breaths.

Some time ago her eyes had fluttered shut and their foreheads had met yet to part. His hands moved from the seat cushion to her waist and than linked behind her back.

"You really aren't giving me a good reason not to tease you." her lips curled up, her voice pitched as if others could hear her.

As close as they were she could feel his soft chuckles though there was no sound. "If we end up like this every time you "tease" me, I will have very little objections."

Even with her eyes closed she could feel his smirk.

After Friday's mess, she had admitted her feelings to herself. To realize that she had deluded herself into thinking she wasn't already fully, heartrending, forever in love with her demon lord had been a blow to her pride. She had thought herself fully aware of herself, yet, she had pretended that she still had a chance.

She sighed and opened her eyes, meeting his. "This isn't a good idea for you." she knew if he was set on her this talk would be pointless.

"I refuse to believe there is no way to cure you." he understood her thoughts immediately. "I will find it and than the only worry we will have are the travel expenses when you go home and we visit each other."

He pulled her so she sat right next to him, put her head on his shoulder and held her right hand in his right, his left arm still around her waist.

"You are so sure. I wish I could share that sentimentality, but, my family looked everywhere, there is nothing."

"Your family doesn't involve itself in the medical field as completely as mine. There are places you probably didn't even know to look." he released her hand, lifted his to her face and nudged it up for another kiss. "Leave this to me."

With that almost all her worry disappeared. Almost.

Oddly during class the next day, everyone let her be. They acted as if nothing were out of the ordinary going so far as to ask her if she would be attending club that day.

Maybe they are going to leave us alone. Or maybe they are going to spring a trap on us and interrogate us like the gestapo.

Either way was sadly an option with them.

Sure there were covert looks and not so covet nudges, but, otherwise she could have been playing Parcheesi with them yesterday, not escaping in a limo with their friend.

Haruhi had a mysterious smile on her face whenever she looked at Alexis. Almost, pleased. Alexis toke it in stride, she figured Tamaki would make the most out of her and Kyoya's new "status" and to take whatever relative peace she could get.

When classes ended she found Kyoya outside her classroom, reading his notebook.

"I wasn't going to try and escape club today, you know." She loved the intense look that was on his face when he was deep in thought.

He closed the book as they started to walk side by side. "I actually thought there would be safety in numbers, for the our first encounter with the club as a couple." he pushed his glasses up his nose a determined glint in his eyes. "Just letting them go at you as a whole didn't seem very chivalrous."

She placed her hand in the crock of his elbow. "Aw, don't tell me you feared for my sanity?" she reached up and gave him a peck on the cheek. "Though it does seem as if my new "status" has given me a level of protection even when you are absent."

He turned to look at her. "How so?"

"Well, our friends pretty much left me alone today no comments or questions. I don't know if that is because they don't want to mess with you or because they have bigger plans."

He moved her hand form the crook of his elbow to his hand and laced their fingers. "I suppose they wouldn't be my friends if they didn't try something." They reached the doors to the host club and paused to collect themselves for what was surely going to be a trial. He leaned down and pressed a soft kiss to her lips than straightened up. "Today we will sort through the clubs, friends or not."

He pushed open the door. It seemed quiet, a little too quiet. The lights were dimmed and there appeared to be nobody around. Cautiously they made their way hand in hand around the room. They were almost to their couch when...

"BOOM"

A cage fell from the ceiling and trapped them inside.

"Damn it! Didn't I have this thing removed!" Kyoya's glasses shined in his anger.

"Where the hell did that come from!" Alexis had curled into Kyoya's chest when the cage crashed into the floor.

"Ha! We have finally caught you! There will be no escape this time!" Tamaki who pulled off the dark prince voice very well, was dressed from head to toe in black.

"Is this really necessary. I'm sure that they were expecting to be questioned and they still came to club so they must be ready to answer." Haruhi also in solid black, looked a little embarrassed at the overdone theatrics of her other friends.

"We can't be sure." the twins chorused their arms hooked together in matching black cat suits.

"Kyo-chan and Alexis-chan are very good at escaping." Honey added he also was dressed from head to toe in a black burglar's suit sat on the shoulders of an equally dark clad Mori.

"You. Put. Us. In. A. Cage. To. Ask. Us. Questions." Alexis' eye began to twitch. Kyoya tried unsuccessfully to soothe her by rubbing her back.

"That is a scary look Tama-chan. Maybe we should let them out." Honey began to have second thoughts at the darkness that Alexis began to exude.

"No." Tamaki was unaware of the cross hairs he had just placed himself in. "They need to answer our questions. They have been absent from the club for days and we deserve the truth."

"If you don't let us out the only answers will be from God as he greets you at the pearly gates." Alexis was starting to scare the twins.

"Boss, maybe we should let them out if they promise to talk with us about this last week." Kaoru was not letting go of his brothers hand for the world.

"But, we got these awesome outfits and went through all the trouble of having the cage reinstalled." Tamaki began to pout.

"Do you really want to get both Kyoya and Alexis angry. I don't know about you but that seems like the worst possible idea." Hikaru was starting to inch back dragging Kaoru with him.

"Listen to the twins, they are making sense. If you don't let us out, when we get free there will be more than hell to pay."Kyoya could feel Alexis vibrating in anger, her face was turned toward the others.

The cage began to raise as they turned to look at the switch Mori was making his way from the wall where it was placed. "This has gone far enough."

"Let's go finish what we planned." Alexis turned and began to pull Kyoya toward their couch completely ignoring their friends, situating herself and Kyoya on their couch and pulling out their papers.

Fifteen minutes later, their friends had yet to approach the couch, well everyone except for Haruhi who had delivered some tea to them and than left. The couple could be heard speaking, but, it was as if their was no one else in the room with them.

"What about the garden club. I like plants and aren't you friends with one of the members?"Alexis skimmed over the summary on the paper she was holding.

"Yes, an acquaintance is more like it, but, that would be a interesting for you. How about the music club, of course there are various instrument based clubs if that is more your liking." He held up a paper for her to view and reached for his tea.

"No, I'm not much for music. My mom tried to get me to play the violin once and I broke the stings... twice... in the same day." She looked a little chagrined.

"No music clubs than. How about culinary arts. They did a decent presentation at the school fair."

She looked over his shoulder. "Might not be a bad idea, I would love to be able to make something for my friends without wondering if I did something wrong and poisoned them. Add that to the list."

"How long are you going to ignore the others." He said in a low voice.

"Long enough to get some work done." She smirked, she was picking up some bad habits from him and he didn't know whether to be proud or worried.

"Pretending to be angry was a good touch, they may just leave you alone until the end of the week." Kyoya began to pour another cup of tea for her.

"Never let it be said I am a bad actress." I could get used to this.

I am so sorry about the late update. Please forgive me! The excuse I have is a really good one I swear! I just got a promotion at my job and the training is requiring me to take extra hours and my brain is FRIED. Unfortunatly this means I will have to update only once a week so that I am not to exhausted but rest assured I WILL UPDATE.

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