"Do you want a ride, Haru-chan?" Mitsu-niichan asked.
"No thanks, Honey-senpai, I think I'll walk." I replied.
Taka-niichan and Mitsu-niichan left with the last car, the others had already left after our little party.
I smiled while thinking back at the funny moments, Hika-niichan and Kao-niichan had been teasing Tama-niichan the whole evening while Mitsu-niichan ate all the sweets while Taka-niichan watched over him.
On the corner of the street, Arata appeared with a gloomy face.
"What's wrong?" I asked as I walked towards him.
I saw him clench his hands into fists. "Haruhi-sama, I'm not worthy to be your bodyguard."
I stopped walking. "Eh?! Wha… You mean what happened at school?"
"Though they were just your friends they were able to kidnap you, they're just a bunch of high school kids on top of that."
"You shouldn't compare them with normal people, they are far from normal." I said. "Especially Tamaki-senpai…" I said, recalling the times he hugged me while calling me his daughter and after been scolded by me he would cry in a corner of the room.
I sighed.
"But still I was so close and…" Arata stopped his sentence. "Tamaki? As in Suoh Tamaki?"
"Yes, Suoh Tamaki. Why?" I asked him.
"Princess, you shouldn't be friends with Suoh-sama, it increases the possibility that Aneko-sama will find you. The Suoh family is one of the families that Princess Aneko wants to destroy!" Arata said in panic. "It's dangerous to be friends with people like him!"
"Arata!" I yelled, a little bit pissed off. "Those people aren't just my friends, they are my niichans! Even if it's dangerous to hang out with them it is my own choice." I said.
" Haruhi-sama…" Arata tried.
I interrupted him. "Arata, I never wanted to be a princess, I never wanted a bodyguard and I don't want to give up my friends because it could be dangerous, all I want is just a normal life."
Arata kept his mouth and he looked a bit hurt by my words.
"But I can't change the fact that I'm a princess nor that I really need a bodyguard and…" I said sighing.
"If it's you, I don't really mind having one. So stop complaining already and let's go to the supermarket, I still have to buy dinner for tomorrow." I said and started walking again but I didn't hear Arata's footsteps following me so I turned around and saw he hadn't moved.
"Aren't you coming along?" I asked.
He turned towards me and to my surprise his face was bright red.
"Are you running a fever?" I asked him.
Shy Arata looked up. "No, I-I was just happy to be praised by Haruhi-sama." He said in a soft voice, his hand rubbing the back of his neck.
"Oh, well, I'm glad our happy." I said. "Now let's go to the supermarket before it closes."
"Sure!" Arata said with a smile.
When I walked into the classroom the next morning, Hika-niichan and Kao-niichan had a depressed look on their faces.
"What's wrong? Why are you guys so gloomy?" I asked.
Kao-niichan sighed but it was Hika-niichan who answered. "It's our mom." He said vaguely.
"She is a fashion designer, right?" I said, remembering the beautiful woman who often came to visit my mother while I played with the boys.
"Indeed, she always used to try her clothes out on us but it are always female clothes!" Kao-niichan complained with a painful look.
The twins sighed in unison.
I had to hold in my laughter when I recalled a memory of the two boys dressed up as girls, with matching wigs, both of them looked so cute.
"And now," Hika-niichan continued. "She wants to use us again! But this time for an international fashion show."
"The whole world will see us dressed as girls!" They said in despair.
"So what?" I asked.
"It's the end of our love life! No girl will want to date us anymore after seeing us like that!"
The twins cried in each other arms.
"Then why don't you look for another model?" I asked. "A female one…" I added.
The twin turned their heads has to me. "That's not a bad idea, isn't it, Hikaru?" Kao-niichan asked his brother.
"It's indeed not bad, Kaoru, but how do we find a girl who wants to do that job?" he asked.
"Just offer her some money." I said.
The brothers glanced at each other, sometimes I suspect them for using telepathy, and they bended towards me.
"Then Haruhi,…"
"…Why don't you do it?" The twin asked.
"Me? Such clothes don't suit me." I said.
Again the twins looked at each other, suddenly I felt really uneasy.
The teacher came in and the twins fell silent but after they sat down they looked at each other again and then back at me.
Why do I feel like something bad is going to happen to me?
"I have an announcement for today," sensei said to the class. "There will be a new student joining our class, he was absent due to illness and will repeat this year in Ouran High School." The teacher turned to the door. "Come on in." he said.
A boy, wearing the uniform of the school, with dark hair and blue eyes was standing in front of the class and greeted us with a bow.
"A-Arata?!" I called out in surprise.
This will be the last chapter for July because I'm going to Spain tomorrow, next update will probably be begin August. It's a short chapter because I didn't found enough time to write a longer one but I will make up for it with the next chapters, they probably will contain more action again and Haruhi is going to meet someone unexpected... who could it be?! (It's an OC by the way so you won't find the person in the anime/manga ^_^)