Me: Okay. This is has been really boring lately.

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Me: Yeah. I hope so.

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When I woke, I knew something was wrong. I was still so tired and it was getting harder and harder for me to breathe. I sat up, launching into what had become a regular coughing fit. I gasped for air in between deep throaty coughs. After a few minutes, it finally stopped.

It took all the energy I had. My face was hot and sweaty though I was pretty sure it was freezing in my room. I felt like I was made of mush with a two ton elephant sitting on my chest. Maybe more than one. There was no way I was going to make it to school today, though I'd been steadily getting sicker for the last month. I couldn't remember much.

I dialed Takeshi's number.

"Ah?" he answered.

"Hey, I'm not going to make it to school today," I told him sleepily. I coughed a few times. It was getting kind of difficult to talk.

"Are you okay? You don't sound too good," he said worriedly.

I rubbed my eyes. "Just a little cold," I told him. "I just need to sleep it off."

"I'm coming over."

"No. Go to school. I'll be fine. It's no big deal."

Takeshi didn't say anything.

"I don't want you to catch this. It sucks. Don't worry. I'm fine."

He sighed. "I love you," he said. "I'm coming over-"

"No-"

"After school," he insisted.

I sighed this time. There was no stopping him sometimes. I guessed that he was picking up that from me. "Fine. Whatever but if you get sick, I don't want to hear it."

He chuckled because it was completely insane to think of Takeshi complaining about anything. He was just that quiet and complaisant. I hung up the phone and collapsed face first back into bed. I felt weak and like I was made of jelly. My chest hurt and I could feel the wheezing. I knew that something was desperately wrong but I there wasn't anything I could do about it.

-Karsyn-

It was breakfast time and way too early. I was way too tired and it was way too cold outside. Marx came up to me, flopping into the empty chair that was across from me, a look of worry and fear plastered to his face. Apparently something worse was about to happen to me.

"What's wrong?" I asked, lifting an eyebrow at him.

"Have you heard from Tailyr since Christmas?" he asked me anxiously.

"No. Why?"

He sighed, running his fingers through his hair. "She hasn't called Mom and Dad either. She usually calls at least three times a weeks but she hasn't even updated Facebook since New Years."

"Marx, it's the end of January. It's been an entire month since she's contacted you and you're just now telling me this?" I said, rising to my feet.

"Well, to be honest, I didn't know. Mom asked me this morning."

I growled, like actually growled. I didn't know if Tailyr was going to answer any of my calls. The least I could do was call Lily … if I could remember what I did with her number.

-Lily-

"What do you mean Tailyr's not coming to school today?" I asked Mori. He never said much to anyone, preferring to let his cousin or his girlfriend do all the talking for him but today he walked right up to the host club and announced that Tailyr wasn't going to be coming to school.

"She didn't run off to America too, did she?" Hikaru asked.

I punched him in the head. "Baka. Of course she didn't do that. Do you really think Mori-sempai would be standing here? We'd be on a first class flight to America again. What's wrong with her?"

"She's sick." He didn't offer any explanation. He just walked away, Honey bouncing along behind him.

"Tailyr-sempai is sick?" Tamaki blinked.

"That's what he said, boss," the twins said together.

"Yes. I have noticed that she's been sounding rather," Kyoya paused trying to find the right word.

"She sounds like she's been smoking three packs of cigarettes a day for the last seventeen years of her life," I finished for him. "You know that Tailyr has asthma right?"

"Yeah," Hikaru said.

"So?" Kaoru asked.

I sighed, having to force myself to remember that they probably never saw how bad Tailyr's asthma could get. She was pretty tough and good at hiding it. "It makes it hard for her to breathe and if she gets something like, pneumonia or bronchitis, a sickness that effects the lungs-"

"That would not be good," Haruhi said.

"That would be worse than not good," I said. "A few years ago, there was a kid that had asthma, he was a little elementary school kid, and he got pneumonia. He died from it."

We all shared looks. It was probably way to early to be jumping to such conclusions. We didn't know why Tailyr had stayed home but I had a really bad feeling about it.

-Tailyr-

My phone was ringing. It was really annoying. My head hurt. My chest hurt. I felt worse than I had earlier. How long had I been asleep anyway?

I barely managed to lift my head up to find my phone. I reached out and grabbed it.

"H'llo?" I croaked, trying to find something that told me the date. I looked at my phone. I'd been asleep for nearly twenty four straight hours and I was still tired. I still couldn't breathe.

"Tailyr," Takeshi said. "How do you feel?"

I coughed. "Worse," I said. "I think my fever has gone up. I thought you were coming over yesterday?"

"I did. You were asleep the whole time."

I coughed some more. Harder. Deeper. It made my lungs hurt bad for a brief moment. "Why didn't you wake me?"

"I tried," he said. "You need a doctor."

"No," I told him. "I hate the doctors. If I miss school tomorrow, I'll go then. Just give me another day of rest and I'm sure I'll be fine."

Takeshi sighed. I knew what was going through his head. He was panicking though his face most definitely gave away nothing. I realized it had been forever since I actually spoke to him. It seemed like all I was doing anymore was sleeping and coughing.

"I love you. I'm coming over," he said.

"No-"

"Now."

There wasn't a point in fighting with him. I was way too tired to do it anyway. I just hung up and fell back asleep.

-Lily-

Neither Tailyr or Mori-sempai showed up for school. Honey-sempai said it was because Tailyr was still sick and Mori-sempai went to stay with her. I was guessing that it was really bad. I was about to find out just how bad it was.

It was math class. Hikaru was already asleep. Haruhi was scribbling down notes as fast as she could and it looked like Kaoru might have been playing his Nintendo DS. Our math teacher was really boring. His voice droned on in a simple monotone that could put even the most wired out crack addict to sleep within seconds. I was about to fall asleep myself when the door flew open.

"Hikaru! Kaoru! Haruhi! Lily!" Tamaki yelled causing everyone to jump and jerk straight up.

Hikaru jumped clean out of his seat, spinning around to face the king of the host club.

"This is an emergency! We have to get to the hospital now!" he said.

We all jumped from our seats, knocking chairs over, pushing desks, and kids out of the way. We sprinted down the hall, to his limo and to the hospital.

Something was really wrong and I was scared. Hikaru patted my knee and I looked at him. He looked just as worried as I did.

-Kyoya-

I was pacing across the length of the waiting room. Honey-sempai was already in the room with Mori-sempai and Tailyr-sempai. I was waiting on Tamaki, the twins, and Lily. I was anxious to say the least.

I was also at war with myself. I knew what I needed to do but I didn't want to and I wasn't sure how well it would turn out for either party. The damage would be great whether or not I made the call. I just needed to figure out which option had the least amount of emotional scarring.

Finally, I won out against my desires and pulled my cell phone from the pocket and hit speed dial number two. The phone rang a few times and for a second of agonizing heart wrenching terror, I was afraid that she was going to answer. I knew it was really really late and she wasn't going to appreciate being woken up. Especially not with the news I was about to deliver.

Another ring and I was about to give up. "What?" Karsyn growled into the receiver. "Do you have any idea what time it is here in America? Surprisingly, my life doesn't revolve around-"

"Karsyn. It's Kyoya," I interrupted her tirade. "This is important. You need to come back to Japan."

"I've heard that one before. It's too early to fight with you," she said. "I'm going back to bed."

"No," I said quickly. "This isn't for me. This has nothing to do with me wanting you to come back. This is about Tailyr."

"Tailyr? What's wrong with Tailyr? Why hasn't she been calling Marx's parents?" Karsyn demanded sounding a little more awake than she had been. "What did you do to her, Kyoya?"

"Why would you assume that I did something to her?" I asked, insulted, losing my focus for a second from the matter at hand. "Never mind. That's not important. What is important is that you and Marx get on the next flight here. Immediately."

"Kyoya tell me why," she demanded.

"This isn't the kind of news you want to receive over the phone exactly," I croaked, pulling at the collar of my shirt.

"Kyoya," she growled warningly.

I sighed heavily. "It's Tailyr … she has pneumonia. It's really bad," I explained slowly. "They … They don't know how … if … when …"

"What are you trying to say Kyoya?" Karsyn asked hesitantly.

"You need to get here. This might be your last chance to see your best friend."

With that, I hung up, unable to hear her crying from so far away and be able to do anything. Maybe that was a bad idea but I couldn't take it.

Well, what a chapter. It ends on a sad note. Things are about to get really intense. I'm sorry for everything being so boring up until now but I am trying.