Those thoughts plagued Hunny's thoughts the rest of the day, even more so when Hikaru, Kaoru and Vivi didn't turn up for lunch. Tamaki looked depressed by her absence and thus the whole mood of their group was dampened... apart from Kyouya who didn't pay it much thought though Haruhi liked to think he seemed a little gloomier. "Well she didn't say she was going to join us for lunch, so she's no obligation to be present." Kyouya said having nearly finished his meal while Tamaki hadn't started and the others had only eaten a few mouthfuls.
"That's not what I'm worried about. Vivi is a big girl. She can take care of herself... usually." Tamaki said quite seriously. This tone of voice alone caused the others to look at him. When Tamaki was serious it meant he was worried. "The twins?" Haruhi offered when no one else spoke. Tamaki nodded, "Yeah... they can sometimes take their jokes... just a bit too far." he mused. Fortunately their worries weren't proven true as the twins walked in, picked their lunch and came to sat down. "Where have you two been?!" Tamaki demanded, his eyes wide at their nonchalant attitude. "Aww, was Tono worried about us?" Hikaru teased. "We had to stay back because the drama group were practicing. We needed to see if the fabric we chose looked right." Kaoru explained to Haruhi who had rolled her eyes at Hikaru's response. "That's it? That's all there was to it?" Tamaki persisted, leaning over the table and almost spilling his drink in the process, just to put pressure on them.
"Well dur, of course it is." Hikaru said. "What else would we have been doing?" Kaoru added. "We don't always goof off in class unlike you Boss." they said together. Tamaki was a little taken back by this but surprised everyone by not over reacting but slowly sitting down, "There are plenty of other things you two trouble makers could have been up to..." he hissed through gritted teeth. "Well excuuuse us for not doing what you expected boss." Hikaru wafted his hand and started eating in unison with his twin. "...Hika-chan, Kao-chan, did you leave Vivi-chan alone?" Hunny cut to the chase surprising the others at the table a little at his direct approach. "Yeah of course. The boss made such a fuss of her that I figured she doesn't need us messing up her life when she has him." Hikaru said. "I was surprised but she's actually kind of talented for someone who grew up with Tono. I expected her to be kinda thick." Kaoru said honestly, tapping his head slightly as he said 'thick'.
It took a few moments, and Haruhi actually caught Kyouya counting down the seconds, before Tamaki realised what they were saying. "Are you calling me a stupid? Slow? Idiotic?!" He demanded, standing up in anger. "That's what we've been saying for what, three years now? and you're only just hearing us?" the twins replied in their nonchalant way. Tamaki's eye twitched and he screwed up his face. The whole group, bar the twins, were watching him to see what his come-back would be. "YEAH well, if I'm the stupid one then how come you're the ones not getting invited to Vivi's for popcorn and movies tonight!?" he shouted triumphantly. Haruhi let her face meet the table as his come back was too much to lift her hand to her face. "...idiot..." she heard Kyouya sigh under his breath. "Why would we want to do that?" Hikaru asked bluntly. "If we wanna watch movies we rent out a cinema complex on the first day its launched or buy it on the day of it's dvd release and watch it in HD 3D at home in our private cinema on BluRay." Kaoru shrugged. Tamaki slowly sat down, realising that he'd failed.
"Well, whatever, have fun tonight watching trash with that odd-ball crawler friend of yours." Hikaru said as he and Kaoru were about to get up to leave. "That's not on, Hikaru! You can't make fun of people just because they're different to you." Haruhi snapped, finally getting irritated with them for speaking about Vivi like that when she wasn't there and hadn't done anything to provoke this. "But it's true! She is odd." Kaoru said. "She asked if she could sit with us while the rest were practicing lines in stead of joining in with them." Hikaru agreed with his brother. "Did it ever occur to you idiots that maybe she's just trying to make friends? You know, not everyone gives a damn about your money or family!" Haruhi snapped and stormed off.
Tamaki got up, "That's it, run after her boss. Good luck calming her down." Hikaru teased with a shrug. "I'm not going after Haruhi. She's a big girl, capable of taking care of herself." he said firmly and left the table. The others ignored the fight and didn't get involved as they finished eating or just got up and slowly left for their next class. The twins soon found themselves alone at the table even though they had finished first, everyone had left. They'd just made excuses and left. "What just happened there Hikaru?" Kaoru asked, feeling lost as to what had happened. Hikaru looked around slightly, "I have no idea." he admitted.
Later that night the majority of the Host club gathered at the base of their college appartment block and made their way over to Vivi's block. They made their way up to her penthouse suit and knocked at the door. "Accueillir..." her voice floated through the door. "What?" Hunny asked, having not taken French during school. "You should know this one Hunny-senpai... she said 'Welcome...'." Tamaki smiled at him. Hunny beamed broadly, "Oh! I know that one!" he grinned and the door guard let them in. Tamaki showed them down to the large bedroom they'd be watching the movie in. It was set up in a typical western style, with a twist of french nostalgia and looked very cosy. Vivi had brought out a lot of duvets, pillows, cushions and throws and placed them all on a large and comfortable futon that was at the base of her large four-poster bed.
Vivi was already waiting for them, sat on the edge of her bed with the remote in one hand. "Hello everyone, Sorry I missed you at lunch, we were held up with class." she apologised. "It's alright, the twins told us about it." Tamaki said happily and sat down near her as the others filed in and took a seat on the futon. "Did they bother you?" Hunny asked as he started picking at the sweet popcorn. "Not really. They were just teasing some girls in the class but that's a given thing with immature boys." she replied. "Why do you ask?" she added. "Oh... no reason. We just want to make sure you're doing ok, ya know?" Hunny replied with a broad smile. "Fair enough... Well, shall we get this movie fest started?" Vivi smiled and the group agreed with a cheer. With the confirmation, Vivi turned the movie on and they all settled in to watch it.
Half way though the movie, Haruhi glanced back at the bed and, true to his word, Vivienne was lying with her eyes closed beside Tamaki, who also had his eyes closed, just listening to the movie. She smiled to herself as she though about how nice it was that they shared little things like this. Tamaki wanted to share her pain, he wanted to support her and help her how ever he could, even though so far it had been Vivi helping him, so even doing little things like 'seeing' things from her point of view like this clearly helped bring them together.
The evening passed and they watched three films together this way and even had dinner with Vivi as she ordered room service. But finally the evening was over and everyone had to get back to their apartment. "We should do this again sometime." Haruhi found herself saying as she'd enjoyed it a lot more than she'd thought, probably because Vivi had babysat Tamaki for a change. "Yes, we should. I'd really like that." Vivi smiled happily as she stood by the front door to see them out. "We'll come and play again real soon Vivi-chan! And who knows? We might be able to bring Hika-chan and Kao-chan with us too!" Hunny gave her a big hug. "That'd be nice but I won't hold my breath." Vivi chuckled as she shook hands with Mori. "Thank you for inviting me. It was quite enjoyable." Kyouya said, kissing the back of Vivi's hand to say goodbye. "The pleasure is all mine Kyouya." she replied with a broad smile. "You going to be ok getting to bed?" Tamaki asked her, the last to leave. "Oh yeah, no problem." Vivi said, wafting a hand to emphasis it was no problem. Tamaki didn't seem so sure but kissed her cheek like an older brother, "Good Night Onee-chan." he said. "Good night frère aîné." She replied, using the french words for 'older brother' rather than using the Japanese equivalent.
Once everyone had gone, Vivi shut the door and locked it. She stood there a while with her head pressed to the door as the feeling of loneliness and darkness came flooding back to her. She already missed hearing their voices echo through the hall... it was painful and quiet. She quickly took herself off to bed and hid under the coverers on her huge bed with only her green plush rabbit for comfort.