It's really taking me some time to go over the chapters again and make some changes. Weirdly I'm not so much into this story anymore… Argh happens to me a lot and more when nothing happens in my life.
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"Hikaru… am I… important…?" Haruhi's sleep talking caught him extremely by surprise.
'Why would she ask something like that?' He thought, sitting up on the bed. 'Haruhi…' He reached his hand to caress her cheek, but as soon as he was about to touch her fragile skin, she turned, giving him her back.
He got up the bed and walked out the room. 'I'll show you how important you are.' He called over as much maids as possible giving each one of them two-three orders. He ordered for Flowers and Chocolates, a Dinner to Remember, Music for The Souls, a Beautiful Night Scenario at the Garden and much, much more. He was gonna give her a night to remember, the date of her dreams.
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Chapter 4; A Tough Night Decision
06/25/09 – 08/20/09
Haruhi woke up to the sound of her cell phone. "Hello?" she answered it, still half asleep.
"Haruhi its time to wake up, I have left a gown for you at the bed's edge, change into it and meet me downstairs. I'll be waiting for you at the backyard, so hurry up."
"Hikaru, what's the meaning of this, why am I in your room?" Haruhi soon questioned as she realized where she was and in whose bed she had been sleeping in.
"You fell asleep on your way back from Souh-Kun's. I took you to my room since I didn't want to wake you up. Anyways, just change, I have something special planned for you." Hikaru's tone was both cheerful and hopeful that she wouldn't ask anymore questions.
After a minute of silence between both ends, Haruhi gave in "Fine, just give me a few minutes to change."
"Sure, I'll be waiting." Haruhi closed her phone, yawning before crawling over to the dress, placed beautifully and unwrinkled at the edge of the bed.
'He expects me to wear this just to go out to his backyard?' She thought gazing at the beautiful gown… it was a simple night-gown nothing too extravagant but it was still a beauty. It was a gray-ish/purple-ish color dress; spaghetti strap with a V-shape cut on the back, in the front the silk overlapped each other, creating a look of decent larger breasts. There was a gentle knock on the door and with a 'you may come in' from Haruhi, two maids made their way into the room.
"Haruhi-Sama, we're here to do your hair and make-up, Hikaru-Sama's orders." One of the maids said as the other carried the hair accessories and make-up supplies.
"Oh, uhm, sure…" Not even Haruhi could go against Hikaru's orders now, could she? While one maid did her hair, the other was with her make-up; they were both working in unison and amazingly no mistakes were done.
"Haruhi-Sama, we're all done. Hikaru-Sama is waiting for you, quite impatiently, if I may add." All three of them giggled at the thought of Hikaru's impatient expression.
"Thank you, I'll be down in a minute." The maids left, and as soon as they did, Haruhi walked over to the mirror. She was amazed at her own reflection. 'Is that… really me?' She had never thought of herself as gorgeous, beautiful or even pretty, no, nothing of that sort but as she looked at her other self she had to admit that she resembled a princess. The silky night-gown made her body, look like that of a model's, showing her perfect curves. Her long brown hair had been tied up into a pony-tail, her bangs had been curled and more than a few strands of hair emerging from her pony-tail had also been curled. There wasn't much make-up on her face, the maid had given her a natural look; a bit of eye-shadow and eye-liner was added to make her brown eyes pop-out, her cheeks were a rosy color and she wore a light pink lip-gloss. 'So even I can become beautiful, uh?'
She took a deep breath, finally walking out the room. She had a shocked and amazed expression on her face 'Why… why would he go that far?' The entire wooden floor had been covered with rose petals, directing her to Hikaru's location. The hallway was lighted up by candles that had been place on each one of the side tables. 'Idiot…'
The maids helped Haruhi put on her high-heel, open toes shoes before walking outside, still following the petals to her destination. She gawked at the gorgeous scenario in front of her 'Hikaru, this… you over-did it…' There was an enormous circle of roses; red, white and pink in the middle of the yard. A couple of feet inside that circle, was another circle this time of rose petals, same color; red, white and pink. Inside that circle a couple of feet apart was the table, ornamented with two plates, the center piece was a candlestick holding three already lit candles. Hikaru was already seated; his back was given to Haruhi. There was no sign of him being frustrated or bored as he straightly sat there, but then again Haruhi wasn't able to see the expression on his face.
Haruhi coughed a couple of times as a form of announcing her arrival. Hikaru turned around, staring at Haruhi dumbfounded at her beauty. He shook it off, rapidly standing. "You look, wow, extremely dashing." He took her hand, walking her over to her chair, pulling it out for her and once she was seated, pushing it back in.
"Thank you." She said with a smile
"You're welcome." He walked back to his chair. There was an awkward moment of silence as neither of them knew what to talk about or how to start a conversation.
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Meanwhile a few of Hikaru's closest maids, chefs and helpers were staring out the doors and windows, cheering for their young master and hoping for everything to go well.
"Hikaru-Sama, come on, say something… anything…" Hikaru's best personal chef said to no one in particular, seeing how the atmosphere was going downhill. "Miki-Chan, go turn on the stereo, place the volume not too loud but at the same time no too low." He ordered one of the maids.
"Yes Shibata-San!" Miki-Chan did as told and place in the perfect CD to lighten up the mood for the young master and Haruhi-Sama.
"Now it's all up to you, Hikaru-Sama." Shibata-San said, once again to himself.
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The music began playing and it could clearly be heard by the couple. Haruhi closed her eyes, taking it all in; the sweet aroma of the various roses surrounding them, the cool breeze of the night and now the exquisite melody being played, the moon and the start only adding to the beauty of it all. She slowly opened her eyes, giving a smile to the confused guy sitting in front of her.
"Haruhi, what are you thinking?" Hikaru asked in a somewhat loud whisper.
"I'm thinking… Hikaru, you over-did it. The roses, the petals, the candles and the music, all of it just seem so unreal, like a fairytale."
"It could be a fairytale, but it's not unreal. Beside, we still haven't gotten to the best part."
"Which is?" Haruhi questioned with curiosity written on her face.
He lifted his right arm, snapping his fingers twice and with a corky smile said "Dinner."
Haruhi couldn't help but laugh uncontrollably by his action, his movement and the dorky look on his face. "Sorry, sorry… Hahaha, I didn't mean to… Hahaha, I'm sorry I just can't… Hahaha, help it… Hahaha…"
Hikaru chuckled at Haruhi's burst of laughter. "You know, this is the first time I've seen you laughing so much… It makes me, happy."
Haruhi stopped her laughter as soon as she heard those last words; she coughed a couple of times to get her voice back to normal. "Sorry…"
Silence took over the atmosphere once more; the music still played in the background but was mostly being ignored. The food was delivered a couple of minutes later… "Enjoy your food." Miki-Chan said before leaving.
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"What happened, why'd they stop laughing?" Shibata-San questioned as soon as Miki-Chan walked back into the room.
"I don't know, Shibata-San… something is wrong inside both their minds." Miki-Chan replied with a depress expression on her face.
"Aah and they seemed so well, a couple of minutes ago… it just makes me wonder if those two will finally be able to be happy…"
"Who knows, they were always together as kids… I guess destiny took a wrong turn somewhere and hasn't found its way back." Both Miki-Chan and Shibata-San had been close to Hikaru-Sama ever since he was a little kid and watched over him. They knew about the kid's past and all the horrible things that they went through. Miki-Chan and Shibata-San had been there for Hikaru-Sama when he lost both the love of his life and his little brother, and they are there for him now that they have both come back to his side.
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'Come on Hikaru, be a man and start a conversation!' Hikaru mentally tortured himself as he hated how everything was so, silent. "Uhm, so Haruhi, how's the food?"
"It's really delicious." She simply said, continuing to slowly eat.
"Oh, that's good to hear…" He took a spoon full of soup "Haruhi…" He paused, not knowing what to say next.
"What is it, Hikaru?"
"Uhm, that is… you see… argh, I want to… Haruhi I want to apologize for my behavior of yesterday! I… I don't know what came over me, and for that I'm sorry! I'm sorry for doing those things to you!"
"Hikaru its ok, I've already forgiven you." She finished eating and was now looking at the happy Hikaru sitting in front of her.
"Are you serious? I'm so glad! I promise I won't ever do that again, not until you're 100% ready!" Hikaru cheerfulness made Haruhi feel depress about the decision she had made earlier that day.
"Hikaru, I…"
"Hold that thought, there's something I wanna give you." He took out a long black velvet box from his jacket; in it was the silver necklace he had planned on giving her the day before.
Haruhi unconsciously stood from her seat "Hikaru, I gotta say…"
"Here let me put it on." He wasn't listening; he walked behind her, the necklace at hand. As he was about to place the necklace around her neck, she stopped him, pushing him to the side.
"Hikaru, I'm sorry… I can't accept it!" She leaned her head downwards, her bangs covering her face.
"… Why?" Hikaru's expression showed everything, he was confused, shocked, sad, devastated and more… every emotion one could show when their hearts had just been rejected, was expressed on Hikaru's face.
"… I'm sorry, it's just that…" She turned her sight towards him, their eyes meeting one another. "Hikaru there's a lot going on in my mind. A bunch of different emotions and feelings have exploded inside my heart and I'm just so confused… You and I took things way too fast and because of that my feelings are all scrambled. There's that and the whole incident with Takeuchi-Sensei… right now I need to be focusing on my studies, it should be my number one priority." She paused, allowing Hikaru to react to everything she had just thrown at him.
"S… so, what are you implying?" The tone of his voice said it all; he truly didn't want to hear an answer.
"Hikaru, we… we need to end what we have…" She waited for his reaction but there was nothing. "Look at least until the end of the month… once everything has been settled down inside my heart…" She took in some air, slowly letting it out. "Just one month Hikaru, that's all I'm asking for, in one month I'll be able to make up my mind, please."
Hikaru turned his back towards her, preventing Haruhi from seeing the hurt and devastated expression he showed on his face. "Alright, we'll give each other a one month break…" He turned back around with a weak smile now on his face "Heck, I've waited almost ten-years for you, what's one more month, right?"
"Thank you…" She started to walk away, something had been forming inside her eyes, but she couldn't release that something in front of Hikaru.
"Wait…" She stopped but didn't turn. Hikaru stood close behind her, placing the necklace around her neck "At least please have this…"
Haruhi touched the small silver pendant hanging from the necklace with her fingertips. The accumulated tears were fogging her eye sight. "Thank you, I'll cherish it forever." She continued walking towards her house, trying her best to keep her tears from falling, just till she could get back home and into the protection and peacefulness of her room.
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End of Chapter 4!!
I didn't make many changes on this chapter either. There wasn't much to be change after-all.
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