Bitter 1: Haruhi's Bitter Days

Chapter 1 - Just the Beginning

Not my story the only reason I'm putting it here is because I can read it offline!

Chapter 1 – Just the Beginning

This was not a good week in school. First Hunny got a cavity and is going through sugar withdrawl and now to top everything off Haruhi just witnessed a girl hitting on her boyfriend. Granted none of the student population knew that she and Mori were dating, but that didn't mean that she wanted to see girls throwing themselves at him. Yet she was powerless to turn away from the scene as it played out in front of her.

Haruhi looked on as the girl spilled her feelings for Mori to him in one of the external hallways of Ouran. She loved him and wanted him to return her love, but he stayed silent. She asked if there was someone else and again Mori stayed silent. Haruhi wanted to run up to them and interrupt the little interlude and say, "Yes there is someone else and it is me!" She stayed hidden and silent though. She watched until the girl turned and fled from Mori with tears in her eyes.

Haruhi wasn't sure where this bout of jealousy came from. She knew that she had nothing to be jealous of. She had never really felt jealously before and she didn't like feeling it now. She knew she could trust Mori, but that didn't mean she could trust the girl. She was already trying to steal away her boyfriend.

The opposite side of the coin had Haruhi guilty for feeling any sort of jealousy. The hosts had girls fawning over them all of the time and this was nothing new. It wasn't as if the hosts returned the feelings or were even remotely interested in the girls at the school. The girl was hurting and cried as she left Mori standing there. The whole situation was awkward. She knew that the girl was a third year, so she didn't have a lot of contact with her, but her boyfriend did and she knew that he was probably feeling a little uncomfortable with the situation even if he didn't outwardly show it.

Mori was a sensitive person. He hated to hurt people, but he also could not tell someone she had a chance when there was a zero chance of him feeling anything for her. He had a girlfriend that he loved very much and that was who was important in his life. As he stood there and listened to the girl spill her guts, he couldn't answer her questions. How did he say that he was involved with one Haruhi Fujioka, fellow host and first year? He couldn't. No one knew that they were dating except for his cousin (and let's face it Kyoya might suspect or know because he knows everything that happens) and the student body thought Haruhi was a boy. No, he could not tell her that the person he felt so strongly about and loved was a little slip of a girl, Haruhi.

The situation that Mori found himself in at the moment was not the kind he ever wanted to be in. He felt bad for not saying anything and keeping silent. He felt horrible that she ran away crying because he could not return her feelings. This had not been the first declaration of love he had received. Being in the host club, one tended to get those on a daily basis, but this one was one of the more serious ones and he felt like he truly hurt someone's feelings. He felt like an appalling person right now.

Mori quickly turned around because he felt someone watching him after the girl ran off, but when he looked behind him, the walkways were empty. It was odd, he knew someone was watching him, and he probably would have started looking, but the clock tower alerted him to the time and he needed to hurry to the host club. He shrugged off the feeling and started walking towards music room three.

It just wasn't his week. His cousin had a cavity and he was blaming himself for it. Maybe if he had paid closer attention to Hunny, this would not have happened. He was the one that was supposed to make sure he was taken care of and no harm came to him, and now he had a cavity. Hunny was hurting and he had to lay down the law with his best friend. He had to lie to said cousin about how Usa-Chan got drenched in tea and actually wanted to kill the ones that caused it because they were harassing his girlfriend. No one should hang all over her except him. He then had to deal with Hunny while Usa-Chan was taken to the cleaners. Hunny hated not having access to his bunny. He had to cancel his date with Haruhi in order to take Hunny to the dentist and deal with him afterwards. Haruhi said she understood, but he hated to cancel on his girlfriend. Now he was feeling bad because a girl confessed her love for him. He was ready for it all to be over.

Haruhi pressed herself up against the pillar. She had to get her feelings under control before she saw Mori in the club room. It would not do for her to barge in and be upset with him when it wasn't his fault. He was a host, a gentleman, and a popular guy at school between hanging around Hunny, being the kendo team captain, and a member of the host club. She couldn't even blame the girl. Mori was a catch and very easy to fall for. Haruhi knew that first hand.

The female host took in several deep breaths. She kept telling herself to breathe in and out. She had to calm herself down and get rid of the jealousy that she was feeling. It would work, it had to work. When she was finally calm enough, she walked towards the club room. She didn't even care if she was late or if Kyoya was going to add to her debt. It would have been worse to enter the room with her frenzied emotions than it would have been to wait it out.

As she entered the club room, she walked in on an emotional bomb that had apparently gone off. Tamaki was yelling for his precious daughter and wanted to know what the twins had done to her. He was instructing Kyoya to send out the troops to find her. The twins swore that they didn't know where Haruhi was and started to tease their king making matters worse. She looked down at her watch, she was thirty minutes late, but she had another fifteen minutes before the club would officially open. Yah, this was not her week.

The door banged shut behind Haruhi and immediately six pairs of eyes turned towards her and she gulped. Kyoya told her that her debt was increasing while the twins and Tamaki stampeded her. She braced herself for impact and was immediately seized by Tamaki's arms and squeezed until she couldn't breathe. The twins tried to pull her out of Tamaki's embrace and finally got him to let go when they accused him of sexual harassment again. Their king was yelling and having a hissy fit. The twins were egging him on, and Haruhi decided to make her escape and head towards the kitchen to prepare tea and coffee for club activities. At least she didn't have to worry about preparing the cakes.

One day, it had only been one day and already everyone was a bit on edge because they could not have sweets. Well, everyone but Kyoya, he was the happiest anyone had ever seen him. No one had ever seen Hunny go without sweets and this was new territory for everyone. Haruhi and Mori were both feeling bad for the short man and knew that he was hurting. The rest of the club just tried to watch themselves around the senior. Haruhi walked around placing tea and coffee at each station and wondering when Hunny would break. She admired Mori for making sure that sweets were not anywhere around his cousin, but she also knew that it was very hard for him to play the bad guy. She and the twins had already been witnesses to Mori confiscating Hunny's stash of candy and knew that it was just going to get harsher and harder for the pair of them before it got better.

Hunny hated not having his sweets. He had to come up with a plan to get his cake and sugar back. He didn't care that he had a cavity, he needed his stuff back. He wondered who he could convince to give him what he wanted. This needed a level of cunning and sneakiness. He knew he could do it and he would win the battle.