I do not own ouran highschool host club.

Ch.12

It took a while for Haruhi to compose herself, but finally, she did. She pulled away from her father and went to the bathroom to wipe off the rest of her smeared makeup. In the mirror, her eyes were bloodshot and her skin was blotchy. She still felt buzzed possibly drunk. Haruhi had never had any alcohol in her life and on the worst day of her life she had drank like a fish. That was not good. She couldn't be like Ranka.

Haruhi took a long hot bath and went back into the family room with her dad.

"Are you alright now?"

"You could call it that..."

"Now tell me. Where were you and what happened?"

"I was at this fancy resturant with Hikaru. He took me out for dinner. I didn't expect to be gone so long. Something happened and we had a fight. I left."

"Is he your boyfriend?"

"No he's just a friend."

"But he took you out to dinner. You said..."

"I know what I said. We're... We were friends."

"Where did the alcohol come from and how much have you had?"

"His family owns the resturant so he was able to get whatever he wanted. I think I had three or four full glasses of champagne. Everything's kind of fuzzy."

"Considering how much you've had, you should be feeling the effects soon."

"What eff..."

Suddenly her stomach lurched and everything she had ate rushed to her throat. She raced to the bathroom and emptied the contents of her stomach. Everything tasted much worse coming up than going down. Even after Haruhi's stomach was empty, she kept gagging and heaving. Ranka came in and leaned against the doorframe, holding two asprin and a bottle of water.

"Now comes the splitting headache."

She coughed," yea."

It took a few more minutes to feel steady again, but it came eventually. She was about to go back to the family room, but Ranka stopped her.

"Go to bed Haruhi. You look and probably feel terrible. We can talk more tomorrow. You're not going to school either. You'll have a killer hangover in the morning."

"Thanks dad."

The club room was packed with people. More than normal. Unfortunately, they were leaving in droves. Most were there to see Haruhi.

"Where is Haruhi? Was she not in school today?" Kyoya asked as he moved out of the way of another group of people leaving.

"She wasn't in class at all. Maybe she stayed home. The weather is starting to change. She could have a cold." Karou said.

"That's unfortunate. We're losing a lot of business." Kyoya said while writing on the clipboard.

Kaoru spoke up," Hikaru, weren't you with her last night. You came home grumbling about how bad you messed up, a fight and her not realizing it was a date..."

"SHUT UP KAORU!" Hikaru laughed unnaturally.

Tamaki stood up and walked closer to Hikaru, his fists balled," You took Haruhi out on a date..."

"No. I just bought her dinner. I wanted to give her something for being the newest host."

He got closer "You didn't invite us. We're all hosts too. And did you do anything on this dinner date?"

"Of course not. We're friends. We had a bit to drink and..."

"You got her DRUNK!"

"No. I didnt get her drunk. She got herself drunk."

"Why you..." Tamaki swung.

The few people who were left in the room gasped.

Kaoru jumped in front of Hikaru at the last second. Tamaki's fist clipped his jaw.

"Don't you dare swing at my brother!"

"DID YOU THINK THAT MAYBE SHE'S AT HOME WITH A HANGOVER, SUFFERING BECAUSE OF LAST NIGHT HIKARU. YOU MAY NOT CARE ABOUT HER BUT I DO!"

"Both of you cut it out. Haru-chan is fine. So what if it's a hangover? It'll pass. Tamaki, so what if he went on a date with Haruhi? Clearly his feelings weren't reciprocated. Clearly you two like her. You both should let her choose who she wants. For all we know it could be neither of you. This is ridiculous. We have never fought before and we are not about to start now. Now get over yourselves!" Honey yelled.

Eveything was still. The rest of the onlookers left.

"I shouldn't have swung at you Hikaru. Inwas way out of line." Tamaki apologized.

"It's alright. I shouldn't have just taken Haruhi out like that. She hated it."

"You could do whatever you want with Haruhi. She doesn't belong to any of us"

"Honey's right we should all just let go with trying to be more than friends with her. She can make up her own mind."

The next day during lunch, Haruhi went to the club room and she brought someone with her. There were only the Hosts there. They were so happy to see her. Oddly, none of them greeted her with the usual hug. Kyoya was the first to notice the hirl waiting by the door.

"Hey. Aren't you the girl who ruined Haruhi's dress and planned the water incident?"

"Um..."

"I don't know if you remember, but you're banned for four months."

"I..."

"Get out." he did not raise his voice but it was firm.

"I... I..." The girl's voice quivered.

"Get. Out."

"Kyoya. This is Hana Kuzimaki. Yes she did those things, but I've had a chance to talk to her. I decided that she shouldn't be banned from the Host Club."

"Whatever. You will be her host though. I don't want her." Kyoya shrugged and pushed past Hana, leaving the club room. She was still visibly upset and shrunk back as he went past.

"That was kind of harsh. Don't you think?" Haruhi asked no one in particular.

"I think he's still upset about what she did to you, probably more so than you."

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