A/N: Hello again! Soo a few big things have happened recently that both excite and terrify me: 1.) I got my permit 2.) I went to my first interview-which I think went pretty well and 3.) school started again. That pretty much sums up my life the last month or so... Special thanks go to rosemcgee13, VioletRose16, Just2aw3s0me, HalicanDrops, beautifulkittycats2, NerdyNavi, and kittkattt for following and faving!
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Previously:
Kasanoda, red-faced and shocked, stood there frozen. "M-MA!" He yelled, before hurriedly leaving and slamming the door closed.
"Oh Lord..." Lorena face-palmed. This wouldn't be good.
And now:
Lorena sighed. "Well, looks like the cat's out of the bag." She walked over to Haruhi and began tying the tie so she could just slip it on and tighten it.
Haruhi looked up at her from buttoning up her shirt, "It wasn't his fault, it was an accident."
They heard yelling from the main room. "I better go make sure they don't kill him." Lorena laughed. Jogging over, she cracked the door open cautiously to see the twins and Honey cornering him against the other door.
"Red alert. He's on to Haruhi's little secret."
"That's not good."
Tamaki gasped audibly from his position in the middle of the room.
"Don't be so mean, guys. It was an accident and you know it." Lorena chided them.
"No!" The twins argued, "This is serious business!"
They went back to interrogating Kasanoda. "So, let's hear it."
"How much of her maidenly skin did you actually see?"
Kasanoda looked at his feet, ashamed. "Well, she was changing so, I saw her underwear..."
"YOU SAW HARUHI'S UNDERWEAR?!"
Lorena face palmed for the second time that day.
"There's only one thing to do, we have to induce amnesia!" Kaoru held him while Hikaru prepared to swing a baseball bat at Kasanoda's head.
Lorena jumped into the fray, grabbing the bat from a surprised Hikaru. "Are you two clinically insane?! You'll kill him before anything else!"
"That's enough you two." Kyoya held his hand up to stop them. "Leave assault and battery to the professionals." Lorena visibly deflated.
"What are you, made of ice? How can you be so calm? Look, the boss is so deep in shock he's regressing!"
"Well, now that it appears the proverbial cat is out of the bag..." He pushed his glasses up, "Let's talk." Kasanoda looked even more concerned than before. "Haruhi is compelled to hide the fact that she is a girl by certain...midi gating circumstances. While we can't physically force you to cooperate, there is something I would like for you to bear in mind. Coming from the sort of family you do, I'm sure you hear all sorts of juicy little rumors. Enough to know what is true and what is not. Take the Ootori family's private police force for example-the Black Onion Squad. It is said they can be mobilized against our enemies in the blink of an eye." He smiled at him with an obviously fake cheerfulness, "You have heard of them, right?"
Threats? Really, Kyoya?
Haruhi opened the door, "Come on guys, stop scaring Casanova." She looked to him, "Sorry about all this."
"Hey... Fujioka."
"Look, it's alright. It doesn't really matter to me, you can tell whoever you want to." She smiled up at him.
"Well well, Bossa Nova, since you know she's a girl, are you in love?"
Once again, Lorena smacked her forehead, "Really, guys? You think just by knowing someone's gender you'll fall in love with them?" She received no answer. Shrugging, she dropped the bat. "Well, that's enough shenanigans for one day. I'll see you guys tomorrow."
Lorena was chatting with her two guests when something happened to cause a wave of not-so-quiet-whispers to cross the room.
"What's going on?" One of the girls with her, a red-head named Misa asked her. The other girl Lorena was not familiar with, it was their first meeting.
"I don't know." Lorena responded, "But I'll go find out. I have to get us some more tea anyways." She excused herself and took the tea tray, making her way to the back-room by way of the focal point of the commotion.
It turned out, that all of the whispering was caused by Kasanoda requesting Haruhi. Lorena caught his eye as she passed them, and subtly gave him a thumbs-up.
When she came back out of the back room with a full tea pot, she made sure to once again pass by Haruhi's couch. They looked fine, but she did spy two angry twins and one still-dead-inside Tamaki.
Things began calming down after that, well, after everyone was done crying over Kasanoda and promising to be his friend.
Lorena was listening to the girl whose name she didn't know talk about her parents when she noticed that Misa had been silent for a while. "Is something wrong, Misa?"
She blushed and looked down at her fidgeting hands, "W-Well, there's...something that I want to...say to you."
Lorena leaned across the table and grabbed her hands comfortingly, "You can tell me anything, Misa. You know I can keep secrets if you want. You can trust me."
"I do! It's just..."
"Do you want to go somewhere else? Where there aren't so many people?"
"N-No, it's just... I'm... I'm..." The other girl touched her back encouragingly. "I'M IN LOVE WITH YOU, LORENA!"
It took her a few seconds to recover from being yelled a confession of love, but when she did, she noticed that all eyes and ears were on them. The room was so silent that you could hear a pin drop.
Lorena lifted the girl's head, "I'm very flattered, Misa. But I'm afraid that I'm just not ready for a relationship right now. It wouldn't be fair to you or me if I ignored that." Tears welled up in Misa's eyes as she looked down once more. "However..." She looked up again, "if you still feel the same way when that day comes, I promise you'll be the first to know."
Accepting this, Misa smiled at her with hope still intact, "Okay!"
"Starlight kick!"
Giggles filled the air as Lorena ran to go hide, being tugged along by Takashi and Honey. They went around the rose maze instead of through it, and climbed up a tree.
Not ten feet away, the rest of the Hosts were hiding under a table in the gazebo.
"So, Hika-chan may seem oblivious, but deep down he's beginning to understand his feelings? And even though it's clear to the rest of us how Tama-chan feels, he's still completely oblivious to his own feelings?"
"Yeah."
"And what about Kao-chan and Kyo-chan? Between the two of them I bet there's someone even more oblivious then Tama-chan is. Considering that, I wonder if something really big is gonna happen before we graduate."
"You never know."
Lorena adjusted her perch on her tree branch so she was better balanced. "Wow. Nothing gets by you guys, huh?"
Honey giggled, "Nope!"
"I'll keep that in mind..." She mumbled.
From below, they could hear the others bickering among themselves. "Well for starters, why even kick the can?" Kyoya asked as he nudged Hikaru away from him. With all of them packed under that little table, Lorena couldn't blame him.
"Hey! Stop pushing so hard!"
"Get your hands off my Haruhi!"
"She doesn't belong to you!"
"Oh yeah? If not me, then who?"
"I DO NOT BELONG TO ANYBODY!" She sighed, "Where's Rena when you need her?"
A/N: Sorry it was so short, but there wasn't much to this chapter anyways.. Feel free to leave your opinions!
