She (TakashiMorinozukaxOC)

Chapter 26: Goodbye Kiss

The Ouran Fair ended that way most things for the Host Club did: with lots of flowers, dancing, girls swooning all over the place, and everyone getting everything they wanted. 

Tamaki got his family-- the Host Club, Haruhi, and friends for his whole life. 

Kyoya got his father back for everything. All that time, and he was scheming against his father, getting intel on every person around him who could be used to his own advantage, and it paid off. In the end, he bought and sold his father's failing business and threw it right back into his face. 

Hikaru and Kaoru learned how to let people in. They got their independence, and while it's still uncommon to see one without the other, it's no longer the end of the world if they're alone. 

Mitsukuni's relationship with Yasuchika wasn't as tense as it was before. With that, he was able to define himself as his own person, away from his family's heritage and the expectations that come with it. Overtime, he learned to accept both parts of himself: the cute, blond boy who loves sweets, and the human weapon. 

Takashi, of course, got Jenni. And she got him. They started dating that day on the roof, and they decided that they'd date through college since their universities were so close to one another. On top of that, Takashi learned to stop putting the weight of his loved ones onto his shoulders. 

He had a lot to live up to, but he had his friends and family to guide him, and Takashi realized that that was the most he could ask for in life. 

Jenni was a delightful addition to that, and he was excited that they'd get to go through the foreseeable future together. 

Jenni got a home. A place where she finally felt accepted, and felt like she'd belong. Hekima, Akira, and Satoshi were like her family away from her real family. As time went on, Japan felt more and more like her forever home. Her student visa came in the mail just a few short weeks after her, Takashi, and Honey's graduation. 

That break before college, the Morinozuka's offered to take Jenni on vacation with them. She was insistent, though, that she had to start making her own way, and worked a waitressing job over the summer. 

"You guys have been so generous. And I'm already staying with you well passed my original welcome," she had said, and she smiled at them at the dinner table and added, "I need to work. I don't know what to do if I'm not working, and my art isn't good enough to make me any real money yet."

She saw Takashi off the morning that he left with his family, though. His mother and father had left her with instructions of how to keep the staff running and answers to possible questions from the maids and gardeners. She had told her to please make sure that the maids keep the front living room aired out, stating that it tended to get a little musty in there. 

That day, standing on the front driveway while his family bustled to get their things into the limo, the same place he was standing when he had first seen her. When she had come out of the limo, holding her own door open, with her sweat pants and her messy hair and her stumbling over her words, and he had been so completely enamored by her, he hadn't expected to stand in that spot a year later and cusp her face. 

He had never expected to call her his girlfriend. Or to pull her in for a slow, departing kiss. 

"Don't look through any windows," she muttered onto his lips as he pulled away slowly. 

A light blush painted his face, but it was taken over by his smirk as he pulled her back in and whispered, "Yours is the only window I'll ever look through." 

"Weirdo," she laughed lightly, and like it always was, the laugh was music to his ears, "just be back to help me move into my dormitory." 

"I will."