Me: Hooray for chapter five! I'm just glad four is out of the way.
Karson27: That did take you forever to finish.
Me: It woulda been easier if you woulda helped some!
Karson27: I did help.
Me: After I made you! You're killing me, Kar!
Karson27: Now you know how you make me feel.
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It was Halloween already. I was excited for my favorite time of the year but hesitant as usual. I never knew what to expect with the Host Club handing around. The classes did things separately but I had the sinking suspicion that Tamaki would have something for us to do.
"Look at this!" Tamaki said bouncing into the clubroom. He slammed a piece of paper down in the middle of the table.
Karsyn snatched it up before I could get a hold of it. She read over it silently. "Out of the question Tamaki," she said, putting it back down.
Tamaki's face dropped. "Wh-Why?" he whined. I wished I knew what they were talking about. I tried to take the paper from Karsyn but she was on the other side of the table and easily held it out of my reach.
"Karsyn!" I whined, stretching further, putting my feet in the chair to reach the paper. I was curious.
"Tamaki, as much as I'd love to go to this haunted house, it's just-"
"A haunted house? No way!" I cried, slamming myself back into my seat. I crossed my arms. "There's no way you're going to get me to go!"
"Is Tailyr-sempai a chicken?" the twins taunted smoothly, appearing on either side of me. I yelped and ducked my head.
"NO!" I objected but even I didn't believe me.
"Yes," Marx and Karsyn said flatly.
I puffed my cheeks out at them. "I'm not a chicken. I just have a healthy respect for things that are creepy, supernatural, and can kill me in a horrible slasher film way. I don't have the desire to die anytime soon."
The twins were beside themselves with joy about this tidbit of information. I glared at them.
"It's decided! The host club will attend the haunted house!" Tamaki said.
"I don't see how that was decided!" I objected.
-Karsyn-
This had to be the dumbest idea Tamaki had ever had and Kyoya, as usual, was of absolutely no help at all. I couldn't talk him out of it. I didn't know what to do, so I went. I wasn't afraid.
I was just worried about the broken bones and blood that would surely happen with Tailyr and it wouldn't be her injured. Tailyr had a nasty habit of freaking out and hitting what ever was scaring her. I'd seen her literally deck someone in the face for jumping out and saying 'boo'. It was going to be an interesting night.
We stood in line. Anxious partakers giggled and danced around in line. Tailyr looked like she was going to be sick, clinging close to Mori, her face mostly buried in his chest. Pale faced "survivors" stumbled out, gasping and some were even crying. All were shaking and scared of their own shadows.
"I'm never going to make it," Tailyr groaned. Honey looked pretty freaked out too. Poor Mori. He was in for a night.
"Just keep to the front," I said lazily.
"No way."
I sighed and we continued on. Tailyr was beyond freaking out.
The haunted house, at first, was pretty generic. Dim lighting, strobe lights, and people in hiding spaces and costumes. They'd pop out and Tailyr would steadily get closer to lashing out in fear.
Then, things got hard. The deeper into the place we went, the more confusing and nonexistent the path became. It was a little more hazardous and freaky. Even I became a little frightened. Then I noticed the lack of a little blonde girl screaming.
"Um. Guys, where's Tailyr?" I asked.
Everyone looked around and Mori looked like he was going to die.
"We lost Tailyr?" Lily cried. "This isn't good. We have to split up to find her!"
"Gee, thanks Fred," Marx said sarcastically.
Lily proceeded to scold him. I just kept thinking of the damage that Tailyr was going to do. She was now alone, in the dark, and scared out of her mind. That was a MAJOR problem. Obviously, Mori knew it too and Kyoya and Haruhi were picking up on it.
"This must not continue!" Tamaki said grandly. "One of our own is lost and scared. We'll split up to find Tailyr-sempai. Devil twins. Me and Haruhi. Kyoya and Karsyn. Mori-sempai and Honey-sempai. Then Lily and Marx-sempai."
That was all I needed. I grabbed Kyoya and began searching.
-Tailyr-
I wasn't sure how it happened exactly. One second I was with Takeshi, scared out of my brains, the next, I was all alone in a dark, maze like room with creepy fog that was making me gag.
Things kept jumping out of the darkness and I didn't know what to do. I was about to freak out and punch something or someone. One more time and that was it. No more Misses Nice Scaredy Cat. Then, someone grabbed me by the shoulder.
I slammed my elbow back, colliding with someone's rib cage. Then, I spun around my right fist rocketing into my attackers nose and then a solid left to the same spot. He hit the ground before he knew what hit him. Then, I realized I knew who I hit.
"Marx, ohmigod, I'm so sorry!" I gasped, my hands covering my mouth. Lily was there too. "You scared me!"
"Tailyr!" That was Takeshi.
"Takeshi!" I breathed, relieved. He was by my side in an instant. I grabbed onto his shirt, slightly burying my face into it.
He held me close to him.
"I didn't mean to hit him! He grabbed me and I was scared! I..." I couldn't think of another thing to say. I was just hyperventilating. Takeshi held me tighter.
Everyone else showed up shortly after. Kyoya called the ambulance, the twins helped Marx out, and I pulled my jacket off.
"Here," I said handing it to my brother as we sat on the sidewalk, waiting for the ambulance. "To catch some of the blood."
He took it. "I'm actually more concerned about my sternum that you cracked with that elbow," he teased, lightly. I sat down next to him. "That's intense. I forgot how strong you where."
"Especially on a fear induced adrenaline rush," I chuckled. My left hand was really throbbing but I didn't want to look at it, not that I'd get a whole lot of detail in the dark. If I looked, that would take attention away from Marx's more serious injuries and I would freak out, as would Takeshi. I didn't need another panic attack. My heart just couldn't handle it. "But you asked for it. You could've at least called my name before you just grabbed me. I have no sympathy."
I couldn't tell if Marx stuck his tongue out, not that it mattered, the ambulance pulled up. They got a hold of Marx and hauled him off to the hospital. I, being the only next of kin, got to ride in the ambulance.
"I keep ending up in one of these," I jokingly told Marx. "Second time since we've been here."
Marx laughed. "If you could stop breaking everything, you wouldn't have this problem."
I made a face. We arrived at the hospital and I filled out the necessary information. Everyone showed up shortly after.
"Tailyr, your hand," Honey said sweetly. That kid, his innocence was going to get me killed.
I finally looked at it. Some of the knuckles were out of place and it was black and swollen. Part of it was bleeding from where Marx's teeth had dug in. It had been an awkward but seemingly necessary jab at the time.
"Tailyr!" Lily scolded. Oh, here it came. First her and then Karsyn and then I'd be getting the puppy face from Takeshi all night. Fantastic. "Why are you not getting that checked out? You're in a hospital for god's sake!"
"It doesn't even hurt. I didn't even notice until Honey said something," I lied. Not that it made a difference. I would've gotten scolded just the same no matter what I said about it.
Karsyn hit me on the top of my head. "Idiot," she said flatly. "You need to get your hand looked at to. You obviously have a few knuckles out place and those bite marks probably mean you need to get a rabies shot. Or at least be treated of some disease that Marx has picked up."
"Are you calling my brother infected?" I asked, trying to sound insulted and deflect the conversation.
"Nope. That won't work, Tailyr Marie Mitchell," Lily scolded. "You're checking in. Right now. Mori-sempai if you would be so kind as to force your girlfriend to the admissions desk."
And of course, Takeshi had no problem with that. He picked me right up and carried me over the the admissions desk.
"She needs her hand looked at," Lily said simply.
"Weren't you the one here with the boy with the broken nose and broken ribs?" the woman behind the desk asked.
"Yes. I hurt my hand. It's just a couple dislocations and some band aids. That's all I need. No big deal."
"It'll be a simple in and out thing," the nurse said. "This way."
I gave a grumbling sigh. It hurt worse for dislocated knuckles to be relocated than for them to stay out of place. I jumped, squirmed every time. I had dislocated two and one was barely aligned. The doctor fixed that, and bandaged up the bleeding bite and sent me on my merry little way. All in all, fifteen minutes. Marx was out when I got out too.
"How's your nose?" I asked him.
"Shattered. Something hit me pretty hard," he said. "From an oddly low angle."
I looked away, sheepishly. "And you're ribs?"
He lifted his shirt. A bruise, black in the center and exploding out to purple and finally blue on the edge, covered his whole chest. "You broke my sternum where it's black. The res was just the shock wave. You pack a mean punch sis."
"Remember that the next time you have to tell me no for something."
Everyone laughed. I felt kind of bad for hitting Marx so hard but still believe that he deserved it. He should've said something and not grabbed me. That would've been his salvation. If he wouldn't have touched me, he probably would've gotten a little less damage. Oh well. I happened. Mostly too him.
Mori walked me to the limo. I skimped out before Karsyn tried to make me finish the papers on Marx and I.
"Doesn't matter what county you're in. No much changes," I said lightly, looking at the sky. "Same stars. Same air. Same old song and dance. We get hurt, every time we try to go have fun and then everyone makes fun of you for the next six months. I'm going to miss these days."
"Hm?" Takeshi said, raising his eyebrow at me.
"Well, we're graduating this year. I wonder how much is going to change."
"I know one thing that won't," Takeshi said, pulling me close to him. "I love you now. I'll love you then and I'll love you a million years from now."
"Ew. Even when I'm all old and wrinkly like a soggy leather purse?" I asked.
Takeshi laughed. "Even then," he kissed me deeply. "I love you Tailyr."
"I love you too, Takeshi."
Again, cheezy ending. Things are about to get pretty serious. Lol. I did something similar to this in my Pinky Promises story but it was the school scaring thing not a haunted house. YES! Everyone got to see that I, Tailyr, am the biggest chicken everywhere! I mean it. You'll never find a bigger yellow bellied wimp than me. It's sad really. So, in order to cover up Tailyr's fear, like the first time I nearly gave her a heart attack, you get a little MoriTai!
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