"Sorry about my sister Haruhi...I have never brought a girl home before and the only other person from school that has come here was Tamaki."
"Tamaki came over here?"
"Yes. The first time he came over here I didn't know he was coming over. Fuyumi was standing outside saying that my friend was inside waiting for me. I walked inside and he was playing the piano. It was beautiful to say the least."
"Are you and Tamaki..."
"What? No! I like girls and trust me when I say that he likes girls too."
"Oh well that's good."
"Huh? Why is that good?"
"Hmm, I don't know why...anyways you said I would be going to your room?"
"R-Right. It's this way."
Off in the distance we heard Fuyumi shouting, "Kyoya don't you dare scare her you understand me!? You are like a creepy shadow king so play nice."
"Yea yea lay off Fuyumi."
"I mean it Kyoya!"
"I know, please stop it already though. She is one of my best friends I am not even going to so much as upset her. That is why she is going into my room. It is the only soundproof room in the whole house."
"Fine but what if..."
"Later Fuyumi." We walked upstairs and we reached his bedroom and I really wanted to ask what she was going to say but it was almost like he read my mind. "Don't worry I'm sure she was going to ask what I would do if the power went out."
"And what will happen?"
"I don't know. I guess we'll figure that out when or if the time comes. Come on this is my room."
He grabbed my hand and led me into his room and then he slowly let go and for some reason I was feeling a bit disappointed but then I was curious..."Kyoya - Senpai...Where's your bed?"
"Maybe Fuyumi should have been more worried about you being the little devil rather than me."
"Not like that." I shot him a go to hell look but he just laughed, smiled, and then he pointed upstairs.
"My bed is up there. So is yours but you are across from me. The bed folds out of the closet don't worry."
"Oh okay I guess that's fine then." I smiled up at him and he looked a bit shocked for s second. "Kyoya - Senpai did I say something that bothered you?"
"N-No its not that..."
"Then what is it?"
"OH! I almost forgot. Do you have any clothes to wear at night or for tomorrow because your father said your going to have to stay the week here. He has work to do in another city and the only reason he isn't taking you is because you still have school he did say that it was fine if you just wanted to stay at your house though, and If you don't have clothes for tonight or tomorrow you could borrow mine until we get you some clothes and..." I must have had a worried expression on my face because he put a hand on my shoulder and said, "Don't worry you will be fine here and I have already informed my father and he is a little less than happy but he says its fine. Whatever that means."
"O-Okay...well is it okay if I borrow one of your shirts? I am soaking wet and I'm getting kind of cold..."
"Yes of course let me find you one long enough."
"I don't think that would be a problem. You are a very tall person Kyoya - Senpai."
I looked at him when I said this and it seemed like he stopped looking and his face was getting a dark shade of red, but he seemed to brush it off like it was nothing. "Yes I am a tall person here. This should be a good shirt for you. I'm sorry I have no pants and I just realized that I don't have any pants for you to wear and you don't have any either..."
"That's fine this shirt practically comes to my knees. I usually sleep in just a shirt anyway."
"P-Please don't say that..." His face was really red and he looked like he was breathing heavy.
"Kyoya - Senpai are you sure you're okay?"
"Y-Yea I'm fine...I'm just not comfortable hearing how girls sleep."
"And yet you are letting one sleep in your room."
What I said must have brought him back to the serious Kyoya I know because he looked out the window from where we were standing and said, "I don't want you to be scared." I looked up at him and I was completely shocked. the look of worry was written all over his face like someone put it there with a big black sharpie. "Come on lets get you changed okay?"
"Thanks..." I walk to the bathroom and even the bathroom is huge in this place. I looked in the mirror and I looked at the shirt. It was soft and it smelled like Kyoya -Senpai. I pulled the purple T-shirt over my head and I was right. It did come to my knees. I came out of the bathroom and Kyoya was looking at me but there was something wrong. I rushed towards him and stood next to where he was standing and felt his forehead to see if he was sick. "Kyoya - Senpai your face is warm and you look like you can't breath.
"Well that's probably because there is a girl in my room, wearing my shirt, and sleeping across from me. I am still in high school and I am a man of course I would react this way to a half naked girl in my room."
"But I'm just Haruhi. I'm your friend and you are my friend. there isn't anything special about me and I am staying over because my father said for me to and..."
"He did say that you didn't have to..." I must be hearing things. I thought I heard disappointment in his voice.
"I'm going to stay. It is a sound proof room after all. How many times does that chance come along?"
"What chance?"
"The chance for someone who is afraid of thunder storms to be able to be in a sound proof room and I saw on the news that your sister was watching that there are supposed to be thunder storms all week. Its almost as if my dad saw the news and sent me here for a week..."
"I assure you that is not the truth. I told you the truth already."
"Okay."
We walked up stairs and he pulled my bed out of the closet and it already had the sheet on it but it was missing pillows and a blanket. "Haruhi I have pillows and blankets you can pick out. come over here."
"Really?" I felt a little bit special that he was letting me pick out my own sleeping stuff at his house.
"Here you go. Sorry Tamaki picked out the blankets from a store we went to in Okinawa."
"They all have at least one red rose..."
"Yea I don't know what his obsession was with roses but considering that is your color of rose it works." He smiled at me again. 'If he keeps smiling I'm going to take him to the doctor to have his head checked to see if he's gone crazy I mean this is the same guy that raises my debt even when it's not my fault this is the shadow king! and yet...When he isn't at school or at least in front of me, he is kind and caring. Why is that I wonder...'
I saw a pattern with red and purple roses and for some reason it caught my attention a lot more than the others did. So I picked it up and I took two purple pillows and made my bed. "Thank you Kyoya - Senpai."
"You're welcome. Well now that all that is over and done with would you like to dance?"
"What?"
"Well I did say you would need some dancing experience why not now?"
"Okay if you say so but do you have music?"
"No. No I do not. I don't think you need music in order to dance. Now I will ask you again. Haruhi Fujioka. Will you dance with me?"
Just like in the dream I didn't say anything I just nodded and we started dancing. Then I grew curious. If Kyoya - Senpai had a fear what would it be? "Kyoya - Senpai?"
"Yes Haruhi?"
"Are you afraid of anything?"
"I was when I was a little child."
"What was it?"
"Thunderstorms same as you."
"How did you get over it?"
"Fuyumi would actually dance with me or sing a song to me."
"Why Fuyumi?'
"Well that is because My father was always too busy just as he is now, and my brothers were in middle school doing homework and they couldn't be bothered."
"But wasn't Fuyumi also in school?"
"She always made time for me and still made exceptional grades. In a way she was a better parent than my father was. He scolded me if I made a single B on a report card."
"Really I would think getting that grade would be fine for an elementary student."
"You clearly don't know what my father is like and what being the third son is like."
"You're right!" I smiled. "I don't know what its like. 1 because he isn't my father. 2 I am not the third child of anything I am not even the second I have no siblings, and 3 I am a girl so that makes me a daughter not a son." 'Kyoya - Senpai is laughing? He better stop or the world might...Explode...' Just as I say that the power goes out. I don't know what came over me but when I suddenly heard Thunder once again I clung to Kyoya - Senpai screaming, "KYOYA! KYOYA I'M SCARED!"
I never realized that I took the honorific off of his name until he patted my head and kissed it, and then I almost couldn't believe what I was hearing next. "Oh Haruhi. There is no need to be afraid of thunder while I am here. You needn't worry about loud noises such as thunder or music in order to dance. Will you please dance with me?" Just like in my dream and I took his hand and I started dancing. Then I couldn't hold it in any longer.
"You said the exact same thing when we started dancing in my dream and I heard thunder." He stopped and he squeezed my hands tighter and even though I couldn't see him I could tell this time that he was curious about something.
"What happened next?" He sounded almost scared of what I would say.
"I woke up." and almost as if on cue the lights came on and I saw through Kyoya's glasses his grey eyes were almost like a storm themselves and then I heard him speak.
"Well it seems that this isn't a dream." and he smiled yet again but this time it felt warm and I forgot the sound proof part of the room had stopped but then another thunder crash sounded and echoed through my ears.
"Kyoya I though you said this room was sound proof I thought it stopped because the power went off why do I still here it?"
"Don't worry it will take another minute or so to come back on."
I nodded and we continued to dance until it was time to go to bed.