Ouran Host Club Hostess (DISCONTINUED)

Feeling Lost

I agreed. Why wouldn't I? Tamaki threw a tantrum though, but that was just him. I was just glad Kaoru hadn't asked Haruhi, or our lord would have thrown an even larger fit. Instead, this one was just a relatively middle-class one.

The only problem that I had was that I didn't have any date clothes. We had come to Karuizawa to work, with a few days off of course, so I'd mostly brought shorts, jeans and normal, everyday shirts. Kaoru told me that he would work everything out, and he did.

The next morning, I woke up to find myself face to face with the twin's evil twin maids. Crap, why are they here?! "Good-morning, Daichi-sama!" They said together. I blinked up at them and tried to gauge the fastest way to escape this situation. "Come, everything is prepared!"

"What the-!? What are you guys doing? ARGH, SOMEONE, HELP ME!"

No one did come to help me, by the way. I don't know where Haruhi was, but she was evidently too far away to hear my cries. In the end, they both shoved me into a strapless, pale blue, empire-waist summer dress. The fabric of the dress came down to my ankles, and the maids had given me a pair of white, heeled gladiator sandals to wear with it.

They had also done my hair, jewellery and makeup. One of them had twisted my hair into a cute, slightly curly side ponytail, while the other had given me a pair of silver earrings and the K necklace that the twins had gotten for me the last time I went out with them. Both of them had tried to come at me with lipstick, but that was when I put my foot down. In the end, they smeared some gloss over my lips and that was it.

All of this, why? I wondered to myself as I waited for Kaoru to show up. I wondered what was taking him so long. Why did he ask me out? What does this have to do with anything that happened yesterday?

"Sorry for making you wait," a familiar voice called to me. I turned around and spotted Hikaru standing behind me and looking a bit awkward.

"Oh, hey Hikaru," I smiled at him. "Where's Kaoru?"

"He isn't feeling too well, so he told me to take you out instead," he replied curtly. I couldn't help feeling a bit disappointed by his manner. Was he still angry with me for slapping him yesterday? Even though he had deserved it, I still wanted to apologise.

I tried not to let my feelings show on my face. "Oh," I looked away. "In that case, what do you want to do? You don't have to walk around with me if you don't want to, you know."

He looked slightly surprised. "No, it's not that I don't want to..." he suddenly seemed to become nervous and his eyes dropped. "That aside, you're dressed differently than usual..."

I blushed and looked down at myself. "Oh, yeah. Kaoru sicced your maids on me this morning," I explained. "It's a pretty nice dress though, isn't it?" The pale blue colour looked good on me, and the loose, flowing material made me feel comfortable and slightly ethereal, like a Roman goddess or something.

"Yeah," he muttered, and then he turned his head away. "Anyway, we should get going." I nodded and we started walking. For a few minutes, neither of us said anything. I was a bit worried. Hikaru always seemed to have plenty to say whenever he and Kaoru were together and talking to me. Now that it was just us, he seemed too nervous to even talk to me.

Maybe he's still angry at me for hitting him? I decided to say something to break the silence. "Um, Hikaru? I'm sorry for hitting you yesterday." He stiffened slightly. "I'm really sorry about that. You know I still care about you a lot, right?"

He didn't reply for a few seconds, and then he nodded. "Yeah, I know." Even with those muttered words, I saw him relax just a tiny bit. I felt a little bit of happiness come back. "So, what do you want to do?"