Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran, nor do I know exactly how Mori takes his tea. But I wouldn't mind.
It was Saturday.
Morinozuka Takashi was sitting at the table in the living room of the Fujioka household as usual, only on this particular day he was not studying his Property Law. This afternoon he preferred Botany.
He stared at the vase of flowers in front of him.
"Do you know the old saying?" he asked his hostess as she bustled around in the kitchen, making tea.
"Saying?" she echoed.
"'The one who catches the bouquet at a wedding will be the next to be married.'"
She laughed. "Yes, the beautiful bride reminded me just after I caught it."
He was silent as she served the tea, adding milk to his without having to ask. She cracked her textbook with a groan and settled down in front of it with a sigh, wishing she hadn't put her least favorite subject off until her standing study appointment with Mori-sempai. Though she had convinced herself that she could appeal to his experience in the subject should she run into anything she didn't understand, she found now that he was here that she'd rather have been working on something that came easier to her so that she would have more time to just chat with him.
After about five minutes of slogging through the first paragraph of her assigned reading, Mori spoke again.
"Would you like to be?" he asked.
She blinked up at him. "Be… what?"
His eyes went from the flowers on the table between them to the window and back to Haruhi. "Married," he replied.
"Oh, uh…" she mumbled, a little surprised. "I guess I've never really thought seriously about it before. I… I suppose I would. Someday."
She was met with silence from the other side of the table, so she turned back to her textbook.
A longer interval of quiet passed before he spoke again.
"Haruhi."
"Hm?"
"Let's get married."
It wouldn't have taken much to distract Haruhi from studying, but she had never expected him to say something like that.
She found her voice when he reached across the table and took her hand. "Mori-sempai, I didn't know that you felt that way about me..."
He smiled, as if to say, "of course I do."
"I… don't know what to say," she said, a blush covering her face.
"Maybe someday you'll know," he replied, kissing her hand. "Until then, I'll be here."
Author's Note (7.5.14): Thank you for reading and enjoying! Just as a reminder, this oneshot is designed to come after the first little chapter in this collection, and not after Tamaki's chapter (it'd be pretty shabby of Mori to propose to Haruhi after she'd gotten engaged to Tamaki)!