Yes. I'm not dead. I thought I was going to die when I found out my aunt thought a warrant was out for her arrest whilst she was driving to Missouri or Texas or Georgia. I don't know where she lives. She always moves.

Quick little tale for a reason I haven't been updating- My history teacher gave us a test one week, two the next week. I had to write a recollection without adding anything in it, which I failed because I added so much into the memory. I had to write a prediction for everyone in my grade for a grade. Granted, there's only sixteen others in my grade, but I had to think of something for each of them. And I had a test on verbs! Who gives tests on verbs!

Chapter 6

The alarm clock went off, but that wasn't what woke me up. About three hours ago, I woke up to Azami snoring. It wasn't very loud, but it cut through the silence that I was used to.

Despite the fact that she had woken me up three hours early and prevented me from falling back asleep, I smiled when I saw her asleep on the ground in the sleeping bag I lent her. She looked a lot younger and less pained.

So I threw my pillow at her.

She sat up slowly and rubbed her eyes, similarly to the way Honey-senpai did when he woke up from his naps. She turned around and looked at me blankly. Then she threw the pillow back at me.

I got out of bed, grabbed my uniform, and went to take a shower. When I came out of the bathroom, Azami was standing in the kitchen, looking very clueless on what to do.

"Go take a shower."

"What?"

"Take a shower. In the bathroom." That sounded quite idiotic on my part.

"Where else would a shower be?" She has a point. Though, maybe there's a shower house somewhere. I don't know really. Is there such thing as a shower house?

She went into the bathroom and shut the door behind her. I began to make breakfast. Azami was out much faster than I had been and was still wearing what she had been before, but her hair was wet. She looked like she was a drowned cat, the way she stood. Almost like she was pushed into a lake or something.

"You didn't flood the bathroom did you?"

"Do you think I can't work a shower? Might I remind you that before my father died I lived in home quite similar to this?" I did forget that. Too late to take it back.

"You look like you fell into a lake." She scowled and crossed her arms. "Do you want something to eat?"

She nodded. I handed her half of the food, and she scarfed it down hungrily. Then she washed the bowl, which I wasn't really expecting her to do. Not that I thought she was going to throw the bowl on the ground.

"Hey Fujio- Haruhi, how long's it take to get to school from here?" I looked at the clock and realized that had it just have been me, I would have left already.

"We should leave now."

So that's what we did. We were halfway there when I realized that I had forgot my bag.

"Damn it. I'll just go get it. Gives me less time to be threatened by the guy with the glasses." She volunteered to get my bag for me. I feel like she just didn't want to be at school as long as she had to. It kind of made sense though.

"Okay."

She ran off, but I noticed that she stopped a block down to catch her breath. I shrugged my shoulders and began to run to school. I was at the gates when a limo pulled up. I panicked and entered the gates quickly. I have bad experiences with limos. Most of them include me getting kidnapped.

I didn't look back to see who had gotten out of the limo. When I got into class, I was five minutes late and didn't have my bag or anything. So I sat through the first class without it.

Class after class went by, but Azami never showed up. Neither did my bag. By the time the Host Club began, I was nervous. She was gone. I suppose she could've skipped, but with what Kyoya's holding over her head, I doubted it. Something had happened to her.

"Haru-chan, where's Azami-chan?"

I was hoping no one would ask. I was hoping no one would notice. But of course when Honey-senpai asked where Azami was, every guest swarmed around us waiting for an answer. The worst part, they probably all knew I didn't know.

"I don't know."

Squeals from the guests. Tamaki froze with a shocked look on his face. Kyoya on the other hand smiled his weird smile that he always smiles when he knows something. Hikaru looked like he was about to jump up and cheer while Kaoru looked like he would do the opposite. Mori-senpai stood silently. Honey-senpai looked quite downtrodden.

Then Renge's platform rose from the floor. She stood solemnly and didn't say anything until she realized that she was expected to say something.

"Search the grounds!" Her platform sunk back down.

She had left the entire room in chaos. Guests were fighting to get out in order to find Azami. If it wasn't such a nerve-racking moment, it would've been entertaining. I thought back to when Azami said she'd get my bag. She ran off and stopped sporadically to catch her breath. What had happened to her?

I looked at Kyoya nervously, hoping that he would figure out where she was. He seemed to be thinking very hard.

"Haruhi, were there any suspicious vehicles around the last time you saw Azami?"

"I saw a limo when I walked in the gates." He looked at me like I had done something stupid.

"Did you even look to see who was in the limo?"

"No. But I've gotten used to running away from limos! Whenever one comes near me, I get kidnapped!"

He ignored me after I had said no. He was back on his laptop and seemed very entertained by what he saw on it. Tamaki stood behind him, also watching the screen.

"It seems Azami has been taking hostage."

"What do you mean boss?" The twins asked simultaneously.

Tamaki pointed at me. I immediately wanted to leave and hide in my house.

"Benibara and her crones have kidnapped her, most likely to get to Haruhi. And who knows what's happening now. They were the ones in the limo Haruhi saw. They had Azami with them."

"Damn Haruhi, you should've at least looked to see who was in the limo. It would've saved a lot of panic."

"Thanks Hikaru."

"Just think. All those girls are searching for Azami on the grounds when she's at Lobelia. There's no way we're going to find her-" Tamaki interrupted him.

"Unless we use the guests to find her. Benibara and her fanclub will be overrun by the guests and it will distract them long enough for Haruhi to sneak in and get Azami back! Now Haruhi! Go round up the guests and tell them our plan!"

I groaned as I walked out. That plan probably wouldn't work, but most of the guests probably wouldn't stop until they succeed, or in this case, until I get Azami out of that school.