Mind Games (Ouran High School Host Club) Ch.22

Author: I AM BACK YOU GUYS! I am sooooooo sorry for not posting this story in the longest time! I feel like crying becuase I feel really guilty! I thank EVERYONE who have motivate me to keep continuing. You guys are the best, and I couldn't have done this without you!

12:00 a.m. that night.

I return to the Suoh Residential Mansion, feeling exhausted as I've ever been before. My tired eyes droops, and flutters back open as I walk up the front steps. My feet shuffling towards the entrance door, twisting the gold doorknob as warm conditioning air blew against my drain face.

"Master Tamaki, where have you been at this late an hour?" Ask the Suoh's 2nd Residence Chief of Staff, Shima Maezono. As usual, she wore her traditional purple kimono tied with a lavender sash around her waste.

"I was at Kyouya's. The time must have flow by without me realizing it." I said tiredly while trudging up the staircase towards the East Wing hallway.

"I see. Did you get something to eat over there, Master Tamaki?" She call from down the front foyer as I was about to disappear from her view.

"Yes, thank you for asking." And before she could say no more, I wisp pass her view and close the door to my room behind me. I restlessly sigh out while leaning all my weight against the door. Feeling famish; I stroll towards the bathroom, grab a plastic cup off the bathroom counter, filling it with faucet water, and drinking it down heartily.

After wiping my mouth clean, my thoughts roam again back to Kyouya's house, and I immediately shook that memory off. Feeling agitated, I turn on the faucet again, and splash cold water to my face to clear my mind. I felt short of breath for a second, and had to lean myself against the counter top. I look down at the sink, and back up and stare at myself in the mirror.

"Why haven't you seen it through, Tamaki?" I ask myself. Sadness filled my eyes, as I blink back the threatening tears. I sigh again, and ran my hand through my golden locks, and exited the bathroom. I walk up to the large expanded glass window and look out into the cold night.

You can barely see the stars, but you can still feel the cold weather even from inside the house. I thought to myself, as I lifted up my right hand and touch the icy glass. I then press my forehead against the glass too, and breathe out till I see hot fog forming.

"Why haven't I seen it through?" I repeated my question to myself. My hands clenched into a tight fist as I thought it frustration."Damn it!"

3 hours ago, 10:00 p.m. that same night at Kyouya's House.

"I haven't told you or anyone else the whole story about Alex." Kyouya said.

I look over at him from the couch I was sitting on. Kyouya seated himself on the high stool by the kitchen counter while looking over some files on his computer repeatedly. He readjusts his glasses when it slides down against the bridge of his nose.

"I don't blame you." I said coolly."It is Alex's life after all, and it really isn't our business to be snooping around in the first place. Though, you're doing these things right now, aren't you, Kyouya?"

Kyouya smirk, "Precisely."

"So what you go that you haven't told anyone else?"

"It's not really about Alex, but a connection to her." He said cautiously."It's about her butler, Sebastian Augustine."

Curiosity struck me."You're saying it as if you detest the guy."

"I do." He said not a second later.

"Why?"

"He has done something unforgivable." Kyouya's frustrated words caught my attention and without knowing, I stood up from the couch and walk over to him. I place my hand on his shoulder, reassuring him that whatever he's about to tell me, I wouldn't say a word about it to the others.

Kyouya sigh out at length when I ask him, "Tell me what happen."

"To get right to the point, Alex had lost someone dear to her at an early age; a very young one at that." Kyouya said. Before I could ask him a more, he stops me when he said, "Alex's father was killed in a car accident. And who is the accuser, you might ask? It was her butler, Sebastian."

My body froze, as my mouth gape open in sudden shock."W-what?"

"Alex's father was called by Nicholas Kinmichi. He died at the age of twenty-nine on December 24, 2003 in a car accident near Lake Lac des Minimes in Paris." Kyouya continues, while his eyes read the file in front of him. "It was all over the news the next day. It seems that Sebastian's family is well known to many people in Paris. A pity for them, but does Alex's family ever receive anyone's sympathy? No, and that is what we call an unjustified wrongdoing."

I was quiet for a moment, while comprehending this truth. I felt dizzy from what was spilling before me. Even after I feel moments, the fact still shocks me. "There must me a mistake."

"A mistake is not an option in this situation, Tamaki." Kyouya said sternly. "You can't call this an accident when you have taken someone's life away from them."

He's right. I thought.

"Then why would Sebastian still stand near Alex, who he has taken the life of her father? Does he have no regrets?" I ask him. I was stubborn to get the truth out.

"At that time, Sebastian was still a minor, so he can't really go to prison. Though Juvie did call his name, but with him living in a very fortunate family, his father had made some term of agreements to come in truce with the laws." Kyouya replies. "It is said that he must be in the service of Alex's family for an amount of time to accommodate the deed that was done to the family."

"That explains why Sebastian is there." I whisper to myself, and realizing the story finally coming together.

"That's half of the story, actually." Kyouya interrupted my inner thought."Remember the first time we've met with Alex's mother, Emily Pectoris?"

I nodded.

"Do you recall her telling us that the boy who had kill her husband went to her and told her that he will serve her family in return for the death he had cause towards Nicholas Kinmichi?"

I nodded again.

"And what did she say?" Kyouya ask.

"She said-" I stop myself short, and my eyes grew wide in surprise."She said that she had refuse his offer."

"Exactly."

"So how did Sebastian have in contact with Alex if it's not because of Ms. Pectoris?" I ask.

"That is what I'm asking myself too." Kyouya said, while he rubs his eyes with his thumb and index finger. "Like I said before, there's a huge gap missing from Alex's life from the age of ten to sixteen years old. Someone must have intervened and cause an affect into Alex's life that made her becomes who she is now today. "

I whisper, "And that question is who."

Kyouya nodded, and sigh out tiredly. He looks at his watch in surprise."Look at the time."

I look at my own watch and was surprise myself."Time flies huh?"

I try to lighten up the mood by chuckling, but it turn out to be a solemn grunt. I stretch my arms, and walk back to the couch and grab my things before heading towards the front door, Kyouya escorting me along the way.

"It looks like there's going to be some havoc in the near future." I said finally, as I turn around to meet eyes with my best friend. I half smile, while extended my hand out to Kyouya."Wish us both the best luck to solve this."

Kyouya look down at my hand, slightly showing his honest smile. He finally took my hand in his and shakes it once before saying, "Yeah. Alex can't do this alone. She's going to need all the friends who'll be there for her."

I nodded."Indeed."