Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran High School Host Club. There would have been romance by now and I would have been rolling in money instead of typing a story on FF.

Falling In by Lifehouse

"Every time I see your face
My heart goes off on a high speed chase
Now don't be scared, it's only love
Baby, that we're falling in"

Chapter 15:

"No, math, I don't care about what the value of X is!" Halley screamed that night while doing her homework at the dining room table. She felt the sudden desire to punch someone but settled with slamming her fist on the table. The twins (who were also seated there) jumped at the sudden outburst. Their homework had been fairly easy for them, and they were almost done.

"You need to calm down," commented Hikaru, who received two sharp daggers as a response in the form of a glare. He was seated directly across from Halley, while Kaoru was next to both of them at the head of the table. "Alright, sorry for stating the obvious!"

"Anyway," Kaoru changed the subject. "Why are you having so much trouble? You're great at all the other subjects and have no problems with those!"

"Those are easy. Math is hard. At least, since they started using letters. That's just not right!" She shouted in despair.

Shaking his head, Hikaru merely said, "That's one of the easiest ones!"

Pointing a finger at him in accusation, Halley replied, "Ha! That's easy for you to say, Mr. I'm-So-Smart-And-Always-Get-A's-In-Math!"

"Well, this conversation is great and all," Kaoru interrupted, "but I've got to go." He got up out of his chair and walked toward Hikaru's side of the room.

Confused, Hikaru and Halley looked up at him. "Why?" Halley asked.

The grinning Kaoru merely winked at Halley while leaning on Hikaru's chair, saying, "Research."

She quickly caught on. Lately, The duo have been searching through books in the Hitachiin library and such to see if anything could bring Halley back to where she came from. So far, nothing has turned up, but they are still trying.

"Okay, cool. Let me know if you find anything. I'll probably come upstairs and help you out later when I'm done with this."

Hikaru, on the sidelines, was confused. He was still not clued in on Halley's predicament, but their odd behavior was making him suspicious.

Just as he was about to ask, Kaoru distracted him from his thoughts. "Hey, Hikaru, you're a genius when it comes to math, maybe you can help her out!"

As Kaoru exited, Halley's eyes lit up. "That's right! You're a wiz at math and science! You can help me out!"

20 MINUTES LATER...

After explaining the entire chapter to Halley, she had confidently picked up the pencil and looked at the next question. Hikaru smiled to himself. It felt good to actually be of use to someone. Knowing that he was smarter than Halley in Math was a comforting thought, too. He might actually be pretty good at this…

Halley's smile faltered. "Wait, what?"

Hikaru just started ripping the hair out of his head.

"This is really just sad! You can't possibly be this slow!"

"Hey!" Halley exclaimed. Rather than using her pencil to answer some problems, Halley put it behind her ear so that she could punch him in the shoulder. "Don't be mean to me!"

Hikaru frustration turned into amusement and he grinned. "But it's just way too easy!"

"Tch, no wonder Kaoru is the nicer twin!" She joked.

"I resent that. What's up with you two anyway?" Hikaru wondered.

"What do you mean?" Halley asked while raising an eyebrow.

"Don't act stupid. Something's going on between you two. What project are you guys getting 'research' for?"

Huh, so the guy actually noticed, Halley thought. "Nothing gets passed you, Sherlock."

"Yep."

"I'll spare you the details and just say it's a side project."

"O-kay," the hesitant Hikaru said.

"Let's get back to work," she suggested.

"Alright," Hikaru responded. Without thinking about it, Hikaru lifted his hand and grabbed the pencil from behind Halley's ear just as she was going to grab it, too.

They were frozen for a moment- she with her hand on the pencil and he with his hand on hers. They both looked up into each other's eyes and didn't move. Time stood still. That is, until Hikaru suddenly pulled back, blushing.

After they both quietly muttered sorry, Hikaru and Halley distanced themselves and turned to the side to hide their blush.

Hikaru scolded himself in his head. He normally would not act like that.

Halley was still affected by the weird moment. She was kind of in a daze, but she quickly snapped herself out of it. She reminded herself that the boy had a crush on Haruhi and moved on.