Ouran High School Host Club Fan Fiction ❯ Its Over: You Wont Stop Me ❯ Chapter 4

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Everybody looked at her in the car. Nobody said anything, they were waiting for her to speak. It was another minute before she turned to them. “You know, it’s funny how you might try to fool yourself into believing something that you know just isn’t true. Because at the end of the day you still know the truth, no matter how much you might try to deny it to yourself.”

Kaoru looked at her. “Haruhi, what are you talking about?” He asked curiously, not accusingly.

She grabbed onto the fabric of her shorts. “A couple weeks ago my dad started acting . . .different. I couldn’t exactly figure out what it was so I just let it go. You know? What’s the point in worrying when I didn’t know if there was actually something wrong. But then suddenly I started noticing that he was at home less and less. I chalked it up to him working more. But he also started distancing himself from me. Then, I over heard . . .”

Flashback

Ranka was in his room on his bed. The digital clock on the table glowed “12:48” midnight. He was in his pajamas. He has his knees to his chest and was holding the telephone up to his ear like a giddy 16 year old girl.

“Hello? Hi, I hoped I didn’t wake you. . .” Ranka started talking over the phone. “You know I love you sweety. You’ve changed me so much. You’ve made me appreciate the world more. I can’t be cooped up here anymore. And you’ll come with me because you love me. Soon my dear soon.”

Haruhi had woken up to some talking. She got up and went to check out what was the noise that woke her up. She was about to go into her dad’s room until she heard him.

“Yea, I’ll leave soon, I’ll make it as painless as possible. She wont know what happened, that will make it a little easier . . . So in two days it will just be you and me. I love you Hina.” He hung up the phone. Haruhi was mortified she almost started shaking. She heard his lamp click off and heard him get into his bed and go to sleep.

Haruhi was frozen in place. If she tried to return to her room she would make too much noise and probably fall. After about ten minutes she regained enough composure to return to her room. The next day she woke up trying to convince herself it was a dream. The day after that though, she couldn’t sleep waiting for confirmation of whether or not it was a dream or reality. Unfortunately, she knew it was true, and she was proven right. It was around 2 in the morning when she heard footsteps, after two more minutes she heard the rumble of a car speed off.

Haruhi stood up and went to her dads room. She found her dads room cleaned out. His clothes, his favorite possessions. He really was gone.

For the next two weeks after that she tried to act as if he was still there. Leaving him notes that she was going to be late. Making dinner for two and leaving his food out for him for when ‘he got home.’

End Flashback

“You trying to pretend like nothings wrong is really tiring. But I knew the truth. It was a total waste of time for me to try to avoid it, it only served as a momentary lapse of insanity.” Haruhi finished.

“Haru-chan, that’s horrible. Is there anything that we can do? We can have Kyoya try to find him-” started Mitsukuni.

“No! Nobody must know. You guys are already too much” interrupted Haruhi not very happy about her business possibly becoming common knowledge.

“Listen Haruhi, there’s no reason for you to drop out of school. Sure everyone will know you’re a girl but that doesn’t mean that they wont forgive you.” Hikaru said.

“It’s not that what I’m worried about. I cannot face them after something like this. I’m not the same person anymore. I can’t return there. I don’t want to see anybody’s looks of pity, I don’t want people to feel sorry for me. I can handle everything on my own.”

“Haruhi,” started Kaoru “you don’t have to be on your own. I know before, you were on your own but now you got friends now that will support you.” The car pulled up to the apartment.

“You guys are sweet” is all she stated before exiting the car and going upstairs to her home. The guys didn’t know whether or not to follow her. Takashi finally spoke after a minute of silence. “You guys can see her tomorrow, I think right now she just needs to take everything in.” Everyone nodded in agreement. Sometimes all anybody ever needs is space.

Haruhi entered her apartment. Yes it was now her apartment. She was now responsible for all of her. All of her. She was responsible for providing her own clothing, food, and up keeping of the apartment. Of course she did all this before her father left. But now she had to get a job to acquire the money to do these things.

‘You know, it wont be too difficult, I mean now that I don’t have to worry about going to school during the day I can work, and I can save up to hold me over when my working will be cut back when I have the baby. . .’ She thought this as she looked at the empty home. She tried to rationalize everything going on around her. ‘If dad has found someone that makes him happy like mom then who am I to stop him. I should be happy for him . . .’ She was really trying to rationalize everything. She stood there for another second and looked at her empty home, she would no longer see her father in drag or feel his hugs. She fell to the ground and started to sob uncontrollably. ‘Was I not good enough!? Did I do something wrong?! Why is this happening to me!?’ She couldn’t hold in her thought anymore.

“WHY!?” she screamed at the top of her lungs. “WHAT DID I DO?! AAAAAAAAAH!” She cried and screamed. She tried to scream out all of her emotions but that would never happen, a part of her will always be damaged by the traumatic events of the preceding weeks. “What did I do wrong?” She whispered to herself, asking herself what she might have done.

She got up barely able to walk due to her pain and made her way over to her bed and past out not being able to tolerate the pain in her heart.

The Next Day

The four boys that had been with her throughout her ordeal showed up at her house to make sure that she was okay at around noon. She opened the door not yet changed from her clothes, only eaten a sandwich that day. They saw her and saw that she was wreck.

“Haru-chan! Have you not eaten yet? Let me make you breakfast!” Screamed Mitsukuni as he ran to the kitchen, she followed him. “You know how to cook Hunny-sempai?” That stopped him dead in his tracks. “Well not really, but you could teach me right!” Haruhi just chuckled at his attempt to make her feel better. “Yea sure. Lets make some rice and vegetables . . .” They got to work in preparing a simple lunch for the five of them while Hikaru, Kaoru sat in the living room waiting and Takashi looming over Mitsukuni as he handled a knife.

After a couple minutes of cooking the rice was done and the vegetables were steamed. “Wow Haruhi, you’re great. You’re going to be a great mother.”

Haruhi was shocked by Mitsukuni’s seriousness and comment. “Thank you Hunny-sempai. I really appreciate that.” He looked up at her. “Listen, you’re about to become a mother, I think that you can stop calling me sempai . . .” He looked at her with a smile. Takashi made a noise in agreement. “Oh okay . . . Hunny-chan?” She said almost as if she were asking for approval.

“Silly! You can call me anything you want!” He said as he bounded, followed by Takashi as always, into the sitting room where they could eat their lunch. Haruhi brought in bowls and plates and distributed them to everyone and set the two main dishes in the center of the table so they could serve themselves as they pleased. “Thank you Haruhi!” the chorused around the table.

“Hey Hunny-chan here did most of the cooking I just directed him.” She said complementing Mistukuni.

He stood up proudly. “That’s right so watch out world! Haninozuka Mitsukuni will soon be making his own cakes!” They all laughed at his comment and started to eat.

“Haruhi, you’re not really going to drop out are you?” asked Hikaru . . .again.

“Listen, I already told you I have new priorities. I’m not dropping out of school just Ouran, I’m going to finish, just online. Now I don’t want to hear anymore about this okay? I’ve made me decision.” She stated calmly, not the least bit angry because she realized that for them to ask so much is because they must really care for her and their bugging her out of concern.

“Okay, well if that’s your final decision then will support you one hundred percent!” Declared Kaoru.

“Thanks guys. You guys are amazing.” She stated simply and looked down at her rice bowl. She stared for a moment later and then her shoulders started to shake and she started to cry. She fisted her hands and was trying to hold it in but she couldn’t. Everyone around her held her tight. “Its okay Haru-chan, let it out.” Mistukuni said. “Yea,” started Hikaru “we’re here” finished Kaoru.

“What am I going to do?! I don’t know how to raise a kid!” She couldn’t lower her voice anything that popped into her head she just screamed. “I can’t do this!” They just kept holding her. “Listen, we’re not just going to leave you all alone. That baby is going to have an uncle Mistukuni, an uncle Takashi, an uncle Hikaru, and an uncle Kaoru. And we’re going to make sure that we help you raising him or her, we’ll be here for you so don’t worry!” Said Mistukuni trying to make her feel better about the situation.

“Wow, thanks guys. I feel a bit better getting that of my chest. Man I’ve been crying way too much.” She said with a smile. “It’s okay Haruhi, you’ve been through something horrible, you’re bound to have all these feelings.” Kaoru stated as she started to sit up straight again. Haruhi chuckled.

“Man this kid is going to be strange. I can’t imagine what his going to turn out like with all you guys influencing him.” They all smiled glad to see that she was looking at the bright side. “So is there anything that you wanted in particular today?” Haruhi asked after an awkward silence.

“Nope, we just wanted to make sure that you were okay.” Hikaru said. “But since we’re here, talking about the baby . . .” Started Kaoru and Hikaru joined him in finishing. “We can go baby shopping!” Haruhi just looked at him.

“Listen I’m thrilled that you want to help me and all but isn’t it a bit early to be thinking about going shopping for the baby? I mean why don’t we wait till later. Besides I don’t have any money and I have to focus on finding a job so I can pay the rent, not buying a cute one-sy that says “Kiss Me I’m Cute.”” She stated very seriously.

“But Harruhhhiiiiiii! It would be so much fun. Once you embrace your baby you’ll feel so much better!” The twins wined in unison.

“Listen, I completely embrace this baby, whether or not it was planned or not, I already love it but there’s nothing that I can do about my finances.” Haruhi stated.

“Haruhi! We could help you if you ever needed it so please don’t use that as an excuse.” Kaoru said.

“Listen I don’t want to rely on any of you guys, this is my baby and I will raise it and nourish it on my own. Out of principal I can’t take charity. I’m sorry.” Haruhi said as she stood up taking all of their plates to the sink. When she came back she told the guys that she had to go out and get a newspaper to look through the want ads.

“I appreciate you guys stopping by but I have things that I need to take care of, so I’ll see you guys later.” She said. Everybody said their good-byes and she got to work.

Flash Forward

In the next month Haruhi found a job as a secretary at a law firm which she was thrilled about because even though she couldn’t be a lawyer she would be able to assist them, though she was no paralegal. During this first month of work she earned much money, she had found that secretaries in law firms do make quite a bit of money. Unfortunately though, Haruhi was finally experiencing morning sickness. That was hell.

She forbade the guys from coming over everyday, they were still in school and she wasn’t going to damage their education. The only reason they agreed was because there was only two months left of school and soon they would be out of school and there to help her. Haruhi really hoped that she would stop getting morning sickness by the time that happened. She had already saved up three months worth of rent and was working saving 9 months worth of rent. At the wage that she was given it was definitely possible, she just couldn’t be frivolous with her money, and she definitely wasn’t.

Haruhi only spent money on the necessities such as food and water.

Another month past and she had about 5 months of rent saved up. She had moved into her fathers room and was going to use her room as the nursery. She already cleaned it out of all of her belongings. She had also decided to clean out the rest of the house. She had found pictures of her father and her mother, she put all of her pictures in a box, sealed it, and labeled it. It was time for a new family. She also found some of her baby stuff. Some of her outfits, and blankets. Haruhi didn’t even know that these things were in her home, Haruhi was starting to get a belly already. Not a BELLY but a belly, nothing to glamorous, everything still fit fine, but it looked as if she definitely had gained some weight. Every time she saw it she sighed knowing that this was only the beginning of something bigger to come, literally.

She was going on three months now and she was starting to realize that she was going to have a baby.

End Flash Forward

One day Haruhi was laying down on her couch watching tv on one of her days off trying to relax, she hadn’t thrown up today and she was very grateful. Then she heard someone knocking on her door. She got up, she still didn’t need help getting up but it sure wasn’t going to take too long before that happened. Haruhi was sure that women didn’t start to show till third month or something!

“Coming!” she yelled as she walked over to the door in her t-shirt and shorts. She opened the door and saw Kaoru standing there, alone. “Hey Kaoru, what are you doing here, without Hikaru any ways?” She asked confused that he wasn’t with what they call “her entourage.”

“Are you not happy to see me Haruhi?” He asked mysteriously, while holding her chin with his fingers. She looked at him with a look that said “who do you take me for? An idiot?” “Kaoru, that isn’t going to work on me anymore. I’ve got way to many things to worry about to be flustered by your antics.” She told him hoping he would stop. “That’s exactly why I’m here Haruhi. You are waayyy too stressed out for a 16 year old you have too many things to worry about. So today I’m going to treat you to . . .”

‘Goodness knows what he planned. Probably something completely over the top and unnecessary. . .’ Haruhi thought dreadfully.

“Ice cream and a day in the park!” He finished with a grin. Haruhi’s eyes were wide opened. “That’s it? No castle tour, no yacht?” He looked her quizzically. He pulled out his cell phone.

“Well if that’s that you want Har-” Haruhi snatched his phone out of his hand before he could finish. “No I’m just surprised you didn’t make such ridiculous plans! I’m happy that its not that! Thank you!” Haruhi said and hugged him right. When she pulled away she bent his knees, got eye level with her stomach and poked it a bit. “Hey little guy, I didn’t know you were poking around yet;” he stood straight again “lets go Haruhi. Hey when’s your next doctors appointment? I mean they should be able to tell the sex of the baby now right?”

Haruhi put on her shoes and followed him out the door after locking up. “Not for another week or two, at my next appointment they said they’ll be able to tell me the sex so that I can start buying things for him or her. You know I’m starting to get a bit more excited about this, more excited than sad. . . “ she said while still looking straight ahead. They walked in silence until they reached some type of restaurant. She looked at it. “Uhh Kaoru what are we doing here? I thought you said we were getting ice cream . . ?” She seamed very confused. “We are, after I get you lunch of course. Now come one!” He grabbed her hand led her inside.

They were seated and given menus. “Kaoru, I can’t believe your taking me here . . . I can’t even read half of the stuff on this menu!” She told him a bit annoyed that he had tricked her like he had. He just grinned. “Don’t worry I’ll order for you. I come here all the time I know what good.” The waiter returned and asked what they would like, Kaoru said some gibberish and the man was off.

“So Haruhi, I was wondering, could I come to your appointment? I really want to see the baby. I want to see you when you see the baby.” Haruhi just stared at him. “Umm, sure I don’t see why not . . . But I’m not going to see the baby just wait, I have to wait like 20/24 weeks before I can see its face. But yea sure, you can give me a ride. It will save me on bus fare.” As she finished speaking their food came out. Haruhi looked down and couldn’t believe what she was seeing.

“I-I-Is is this fancy tuna?” She asked almost drooling over the food. Kaoru just smirked at her and nodded. “I thought you might prefer something along those lines.” All she did was nod and started to dig into it, periodically stopping and daydreaming about the tuna only to return to eating it fervently once more. Kaoru just chuckled at her as he started eating his chicken. Haruhi was done eating it in a flash. Then she started eating something that surprised him. The tuna came with sauerkraut, most people never ate it but she was digging into it. “Eh Haruhi are you okay?” He asked a but surprised that she was so enthusiastic about eating the sauerkraut. She nodded and cleaned off her plate.

“Haruhi let me tell you, I’ve seen pregnant women eat, but you eat more than any I’ve ever known. . .” But she wasn’t paying attention to him. She was just trying to guzzle down as much food as she possibly could. She looked at Kaoru and was a bit embarrassed. “Sorry about that, I just can’t help myself.” She started to blush. He smiled and leaned in towards her. “Don’t worry, as long as you don’t forget about the ice cream.”

They split a banana split and talked about how he was spending his summer and how she had been on her own. “Well its been kinda boring. Boss went to Europe for vacation with his father. Kyoya, well he’s not too social so its really just me and Hikaru . . .and you.” Haruhi blushed. “Oh, I’m sorry.” Haruhi apologized, not really sure why.

“What about you? How are you doing all alone?” He asked her.

She looked at him. “Well I moved my stuff out of my room so that the baby can have that room, I’m in my dads old room. I threw out old things. I got a lot of money saved up to hold me over for when the baby gets here. I think I’m doing a good job of keeping everything flowing. Hey! If I work on school through the summer I can be starting my second year by august with you guys! Isn’t that awesome!?” She said very excited. He nodded, he truly was happy for her.

They left the restaurant and headed for the park. They walked down the trail and kept talking about small things. About things they saw, about things that they were planning to do. After walking through the park for a while Haruhi looked up Kaoru “thanks Kaoru, I really needed this day to relax. I’m really grateful, this was an amazing gift.” She hugged him and they started to walk back to her apartment. ‘Haruhi, you have no idea how much I want to give you. How much you deserve. I’ll make sure that you’re taken care of, whether you want me to or not. . .’ He thought as they walked back to her apartment with the sun setting behind them.

AN: WOW! What was that last thought: hmmm maybe the beginnings of something? Please rmr to review!