Chapter 16

Haruhi's POV

Mo-Takashi and I navigated ourselves through the crowd to some seats. Girls giggled and made faces at Takashi every time they saw him. Takashi of course blew them off as if they were nothing more than another grain of sand. I kind of felt bad that I liked that he did that to them. We finally found an empty spot fit for 2 in the bleachers and sat down. Sadly on my side 2 perverts and they were already bussed at 11:30am in the morning.

I could tell they were staring at my boobs. They clearly didn't see my hand laced through Takashi's. But they probably didn't care. A lot of people here didn't care and hit on you tell you got a restraining order on their ass. I cannot tell you how many times I had to get Harley to act like my older brother to scare them off. It would be awkward if I got Takashi to say he was my older brother and to back off. Plus I wouldn't want him to act like my boyfriend, though I wish he was, he wasn't and it would be awkward to ask as well. Plus implying.

I watched the game; I was quite into but not as much as I was Takashi's hand. Which he was totally focused in. His hand was like 7 xs bigger than mine, and warm. I bit my lip and tried to watch the game. But out of the corner of my eyes I would always look at him. Than the guy beside me started making rude noises to the girls passing by and in the game. Takashi noticed them then, his hand got tenser and he pulled me closer to him. We were almost completely pressed together.

I looked around and caught the guy beside me eye. He winked and made a noise at me. I rolled my eyes and looked up to see Takashi giving them a 'back the hell off or I'll kill you' look. I felt my cheeks heat up, he was probably just being nice but I don't think he knew it meant so much to me.

Takashi went back to the volleyball game, so I decided to play jet pack joy ride. I could see the guy beside me slowly inch closer, being in the gang I knew if he decided to come after me I could take him. But it made me feel uneasy I might have another stalker. These romantic feelings towards Takashi I couldn't afford to have them, 3 and half months wasn't a lot of time. I sighed inwardly. I pushed my bangs out of my face and sighed and started playing candy crush.

Suddenly I seen a shadow lean over me and someone whisper "want to do something else?" I looked to see Takashi leaning over whispering in my ear. I tried to contain my blush and said "No if you want to stay we can." Takashi shook his head. I smiled; we got out of the bleachers and started walking along the white beach side.

For some reason I was in a playful mood, I tagged Mori "YOUR IT!" he looked at me funny and I ran down the beach. He just kind of stared at me for a while but then broke into a run behind me. I laughed and just kept on running. It wasn't long before he tapped me on the shoulder. I turned around and tackled him. I had him pinned and I grinned wide "I win!" He looked at me for a bit not sure what to make of me.

He smiled and without any effort what so ever he flipped me over. We repeated our fight for dominance in tell he finally had me on my back and was holding my wrists beside my head. It was nice when he was playful like this. Though I don't think he had been this playful in a long, long time he was always so serious. I wondered if it ever got boring. What it would be like with no fun, well he thought the host club was fun which it was though I acted like it wasn't. But no word of a lie they drive me nuts.

Mori and I just kind of stared back and forth at each other. I grabbed a hand full of wet muddy sand and threw it at him as far as my little flick of my wrist would let me. It just happened to hit him in the face. I laughed as he sat up and wiped it off. I used that as my escape. As soon as he saw me escape he got up and ran after me. Clearly he wanted to get even with me.

He came from behind me and wrapped his big arms around my tiny waist; he pulled off our towels and phones out of our pockets and dragged me out into the water. I kicked him trying to escape, I could feel and hear his low rumble of laughter come from him. Well I will be damned he really could laugh. Then he picked me up and placed me on his shoulders. He eventually walked out deep and the dropped me! He dropped me right into the water!

I got up out of the water faking outrage. I started splashing him and he splashed me back. I tried to escape his splashes when once again he grabbed me. But this time I turned to face him. Our eyes met and the world seemed to slow down around us. Only Takashi and I. Takashi tightened his one arm and pulled my closer, his other hand caressed the side of my face pushing hair out of the way.

I let my hands fall on his chest and I leaned up our eyes never leaving each other's. Takashi started to bend down and we slowly began to lean into each other. I let my hands travel up his chest to his bent down shoulders. Our lips were millimetres apart almost touching. Then the spell was broken by a guy walking by making a wolf whistle.

I watched as Takashi's eyes widened and he shot away from me like I had the plaque. I felt my cheeks heat up and I tried to mask my disappointment. That damn man if he hadn't passed by. We began to walk out of the water when I noticed something. He had to have wanted to kiss me too, right? It wasn't just me. We both leant towards each other. So he wanted me just as much as I wanted him. That meant hope wasn't lost, just rekindling the flame.

When we got to shore we began to dry ourselves off. I noticed people dancing down the beach. I pointed it out "Takashi can we go look at that? It looks fun." Takashi looked over and smiled "never took you for a dancer." I smirked "we will see now wont we." He once again took my hand in his. His hand was warm and strong. As much as it was calloused it was soft in some sense.

We passed other women on the beach and they were practically drooling looking at Takashi. But of course he didn't seem to notice. Maybe that meant them drooling wasn't a big deal? Here I was being swept away in this crush, well love for him when he may not love me back. And I didn't have time for this month of summer was coming to an end. Than we had a month and 2 texting months and I disappear once more. I was conflicted. Should I tell him? Harley and Lawson didn't even know. It was driving me crazy.

As we reached the people Takashi seemed to realize this wasn't the dancing he was used to. He used to refined dances when this was grinding, street dancing and hip hop he didn't understand. I stopped "If you want we can go somewhere else." I offered him but Takashi being Takashi he seemed to want to explore this. I looked up at him "Are you going to dance?" he shook his head. I looked at him skeptically "so you're going to watch me dance?" he nodded "and get drinks."

I sighed "suit yourself." I went into the crowd and began to dance along. The gang taught me how to dance, mixture of hip hop street and a bit of grinding. The grinding they were too eager to help, but in the end Harley taught me, awkward for the longest time but eventually I got over it. As I danced I didn't do much grinding, but in the process I totally forgot Takashi was here. I danced with multiple people, it was fun in tell someone grabbed my ass.

Then I stopped and realized it was the same pervert as earlier. I backed away, I wasn't about to take him down, not here. He grabbed my wrist and pulled me close to him and whispered "wanna dance?" I pulled away "no, let me go." The guy kept a tight grip on my wrist, he tried to yank me to him again, but I pulled back. Unexpectedly he snapped me back forward into him and leaned down "Little tease." He grabbed my other wrist; I started to back away when all of the sudden a hand landed on the guys arm.

"She said let me go," I recognized that voice; it was none other than Takashi. "And if I don't?" "I will remove your arm from her." The guy was not giving in "try me." Anger filled Takashi's eyes and with one move he punched the guy right in the stomach. The guy immediately let me go and fell back into the sand gasping for breath. Oh shit.

Takashi's POV

I watched Haruhi disappear into the crowd as I walked over to the drinks table. I grabbed myself a soda and stared at the people dancing. I scanned around in tell I found Haruhi. She was pretty good at it; I wondered who taught her to dance since Konico had to teach her at Ouran. I'm guessing The Gang even though it was made up of all men. I stared at the beach as well watching people surf. I knew how to surf I just didn't do it often.

I watched for about 10 minutes before looking back at Haruhi who wasn't there? Then I saw people stop dancing to watch. I leaned over and seen Haruhi trying to pull her wrist away from the guy on the bleachers earlier today. Anger built up in my chest as I pushed through the crowd and I heard Haruhi say "No, let me go." I continued to push through people and watch Haruhi and that asshole bicker. I don't know why she wasn't defending herself but I'm guessing she didn't see it necessary.

I finally got to them as he whispered something in her ear. I grabbed his arm "She said let go." I said firmly trying to hold back on the anger I was feeling. The man looked up at me "if I don't?" was he really challenging me? "I will remove your arm from her." The man continued to glare "Try me." Oh so he was trying to challenge me. With one movement I punched him in the stomach. Hard. I watched him fall into the sand and start gasping for breath. The breath I had so clearly knocked out of him.

Haruhi backed up into me, leaning into my chest as if waiting for him to get back up and fight but I didn't think he would be so stupid. I wrapped an arm protectively around Haruhi making sure everyone knew if they laid a hand on her I would kill them. I really wanted to kill the guy who was currently trying to get up out of the sand. "Takashi… Takashi." Finally I registered the person calling my name. Sure enough it was the young woman in my arms.

Her big brown eyes looked up at me "Thank you for saving me." Though you didn't need to be saved I thought to myself. She could clearly fight for herself, why didn't she fight against him? "It's a little past lunch time there is a sausage in a bun stand down there how about we get something to eat?" I nodded and looked at the guy watching him stumble away. I laced my hand through Haruhi's once more.

Her hand was tiny and fragile in mine. I felt better knowing she was there and wouldn't just disappear. Every time she said my name it sent weird vibes through my body. I almost kissed her today. My control was slipping. "Takashi." There was the vibe again "you've been there a lot lately so I really wanted to say Thank You. Yesterday on the beach and while I was sick and today with the bleacher guy, you've done a lot for me. Thank you." I tightened my grip on her hand slightly and smiled down at her.

Our eyes locked and there was that feeling again. I wanted her. Not like a lust want, I just wanted her to be mine. I wanted to wrap her up and never let her go. But for now, her hand in mine was enough.