As always I own nothing but my ideas.
Sorry for the delay – life and trying to finish up my pre-reqs don't leave a lot of time for a lot of things.
I don't know what Jamie found out. And the rat couldn't have told me he was planning on going to Ouran … how did he get through the admittance process so quickly? Quirking an eyebrow I asked, "How did you get admitted so quickly?"
"Who says it was quick?"
Damn it! That means more are coming. With everything that's happened since Ranka died I don't think I can take it if another person that I love were to be injured or killed because of me. Sighing I gave Jamie a look that spoke on many different levels that we were going to be speaking in private and that he wasn't going to like it!
After Jamie was seated three rows ahead of and a row over so that he was seated in front of Hikaru; the lecture started. And in all honesty she could have been speaking an ancient – and dead – language for all that I took from the lecture. The rest of the day seemed to pass in a blur when I finally shook the shock enough I realized Kyoya was sitting across from me in the third music room.
Looking towards the back room and the clock I noticed that club hours were done and the room at a quick glance seemed to be clean and that we were the last ones there. Clearing his voice Kyoya in his matter of fact way simple said, "Tell me everything."
"OK." And over the next hour and a half I spilled about leaving my family and coming to live in Japan with my aunt and uncle. About how Kotoko hadn't died from an illness but instead that she'd been poisoned and how instead of getting the treatment that she needed to survive she chose to die to try and keep me safe for that much longer. And about how when Ranka had started to hear unsettling rumors about me he'd illegally left Japan so noone would have documentation of him leaving the country. How for almost two weeks prior to his death he'd been trying to figure out who was posing the threat against me. Sadly I don't know who was up to it since Ranka died three hours before he was supposed to check in. I didn't know for certain that he had died until almost three days later.
Silently sitting there and blinking as if in shock, Kyoya stood and told me that he was taking me home where I would pack for myself and Ai and at least for now I would be staying at the Ootori compound. It just proves how out of it that I really was that I didn't fight the order that Kyoya laid down. Didn't even bother to think how his siblings or dad would react to Kyoya moving me and my illegitimate daughter in.
Getting up after unloading so much, on someone that I haven't known all that long but someone that I know can handle the strain and pressure about what I've laid on his young shoulders I don't know what I plan on doing about this mess, I leave the third music room and head down to the Ootori limo that I know will be in front of the school. I vaguely recall that Kyoya followed me down and I barely registered when he entered the limo he carried two bags – later learning that he grabbed mine. After pulling up to the apartment complex that I have lived in for years it sinks in that this will be my last visit to a place I called home.
Going straight to my soon to be ex home I unlocked it and grabbed the suit cases out of my closet and packed mine and Ai's clothes and Ai's toys. When I reentered the living room Kyoya stood there with a maid that I remember seeing from the Ootori mansion there playing with Ai. After asking me if I was done and hearing not quite yet Kyoya noticed the hat box looking thing in my left hand and quirks an eyebrow until he saw me kneel in front of the memorial shrine of Kotoko in the corner of the living room. I bowed my head for a minute and then cleared off the pictures and mementos that have collected there over the years and carefully arranged them in the hat box; a box that already held pictures and mementos from a shrine that I had been slowly building for Ranka in the past several weeks.
Frowning at noticing this Kyoya helped me up, grabbed a bag, signaled the maid to collect Ai and a bag and headed towards the front the door. Upon exiting the apartment and once again entering the limo did I get to interact with Ai for the first time since early that morning. A few minutes later the trunk closed and we were all off to the Ootori mansion. At the time I didn't know if I was ready for my life to change to this degree but I did know that my life could no longer function how it had been. Not too long later I realized that we were pulling up in front of our destination and yet more maids were there. Waiting to collect our bags and do anything else that would be required.
Exiting the limo with Ai in my arms and Kyoya exiting on the other side, the maid from earlier was already waiting for the trunk to open to begin collecting the few suit cases and other miscellaneous items up to what at least for the time being would be our home. Suddenly a thought of Jamie popped up into my head and a brief thought of "how am I going to explain?" settled there before rushing away like a leaf caught in winds that mirrored that found with F4 tornado winds. The time for explanations and headache inducing topics will have to wait until the emotionally drained exhaustion has gone away.