Disclaimer: I do not own Ouran High School Host Club.

Claimer: I own all my O/Cs (Emiko "Raine" Morelli, Han and Taro Maki, Leo and Aoki Morelli, and any future O/Cs)

Rating: Eh…for now it'll be K+ but we'll see where this takes us. Yes, I will warn you if I change the rating.

Pairings: Well, right now I'm leaning towards Tama/Haru and Hika/OC/Kao, but we'll see where this goes. Will most likely change though.

Chapter 18

[RPOV]

Students and parents flooded the corridors. This was because today was the last day of school, and all the third years were finally graduating. The incoming first years were also on campus, taking a tour of the school. I smiled and waved at them, and told them it wasn't so scary being a first year, just watch out for the homework load.

"Can you believe Takashi and I are going to be college students?" Honey asked me excitedly. He was dressed in his graduation robes (1) and was smiling up at me.

I ruffled his hair a bit, "I can't believe a whole year has gone by." I thought about the adventures the host club had brought me. I was really going to miss Honey and Mori while they were at Tokyo U.

"Come on Rae-chan! The ceremony will start soon!" Honey said, suddenly tugging on the hem of my jacket.

I laughed. "Ok Honey, I just need to find Hikaru and Kaoru, okay?"

He nodded. "We reserved seats up front for you guys, but hurry!" And then he scurried off to join Mori.

I turned around and was met with identical pairs of golden eyes. "Missed us?" they asked together.

I scoffed. "I saw you ten minutes ago."

"But we missed you." they said, each of them wrapping an arm around me. I glanced around cautiously and my eyes connected with a girl walking not to far from us. She glared.

I couldn't believe how intimidated I still felt by some of the kids here. But still, this is why we never went public with our relationship. The fan girls scared me (although, some girls thought a threesome relationship between twins and maid was, and I quote, "Kyaaa, so kawaii!" sometimes I didn't know who was scarier).

Hikaru looked around and saw the girl who was glaring now dawning a smile. He only smirked and pulled me tighter in to him. Kaoru grabbed my hand and squeezed it tightly.

"Erm…not that I don't love this, but people are staring." I said, feeling uncomfortable. I didn't want to be the cause of less customers at the club because the twins were taken.

Hikaru and Kaoru exchanged a glance and suddenly stopped walking. Before I could ask them why, Hikaru leaned down and kissed me. Out of instinct, I wrapped my arms around his neck, and then felt a pair of arms wrap around my waist. Kaoru pressed up against me and kissed my neck and cheeks.

Hikaru pulled away, "Let them stare."

I looked over at the girl who was glaring earlier and if she wasn't angry before, she was now. I chuckled. "Look's like the cat's out of the bag."

But, as I was finally able to intertwine my fingers with theirs as we walked the school hallway, I realized it wasn't such a bad thing.

The beginning of the ceremony, I found out, was quite dull. The chairman (who, incidentally, is Tamaki's dad. I find that weird, since he used to know my mom and my aunt, Tamaki and I could have potentially met years ago. But I digress…) made a speech about the accomplishments of the graduating third years and talked about how their lives were going to change.

But since I didn't know many of the older students, I wasn't all that into the ceremony until the name "Haninozuka Mitsukuni" rang through the auditorium.

When I saw Honey walked across the stage, I didn't believe it was him. He looked so mature walking up to get his diploma. He didn't even have Usa-chan! He talked about his life in the host club and how he had learned how to be himself. My eyes had filled with tears, as were Tamaki's.

"He's so grown up!" we wailed together.

And then Mori crossed the stage. When he grabbed his diploma and looked at us, the host club, he gave a small smile. A smile. It made my day (and made me cry harder, but that was besides the point). He didn't talk much about his life at Ouran, but he mentioned how the host club allowed him to branch out a little bit more. (2)

And the rest of M through Z got their diplomas and shook the chairman's hand. And then the chairmen told us we had all graduated into our next year, and that he's looking forward to the next generation of Ouran graduates.

And then, the final bell that alerted us the school year was over rang.

"Honey!" I screamed, picking him up off the floor. "I'm going to miss you and Mori so much! I mean, I'm not gonna come back from the states and see your smiling faces!"

"It's not over yet, Rae-chan. Takashi and I are going to be coming back to the club all the time. And there's the sleepover tomorrow…"

I froze and put Honey down on the ground. "What sleepover?" I asked cautiously, part of me not wanting to find out.

"Oops. I let it slip." He said innocently. "Tama-chan said he wanted to have a sleepover at Haru-chan's house, but she said no, so he said we'd surprise you by coming over to your house."

I groaned. "Ok, ok. Party at my place."

1 DAY LATER

"So, what exactly do commoners do at parties?" Tamaki asked.

I was leading them all to what I deemed the Green Room (3). Right left left left. Here it is! I opened the door. "Well, I didn't have many friends back home, so we only did small scale stuff. Mostly we ate," I threw my sleeping bag on the ground, "and sometimes we played a little truth or-" I looked over to see Haruhi violently shaking her head, "erm…Tamaki! Think fast!" I chucked my pillow at his head.

His shocked face was priceless. "What! But why! Why would my sister do this to m-"

"Tono! Think fast!" Hikaru and Kaoru called, throwing their own pillows.

Thunk! Thunk! Thump.

"Tamaki, don't get any blood on my carpet or Auntie will throw a fit."

Tamaki sat up and looked at Hikaru and Kaoru. "Why would you do such a thing to your daddy!"

I stifled a giggle. "Tamaki, don't worry. It's…er…it's a commoner game. A pillow fight."

"You fight with…pillows?" Tamaki asked, trying to understand the concept. He picked up his own Kuma-chan themed pillow and stared at it confusingly. I quickly explained how a pillow fight worked.

"It sounds like fun!" Honey chirped, "Rae-chan! Can we have a pillow fight!"

I shrugged. The way the host club did things, they'd probably be very elaborate with their couch and blanket forts. "A pillow fight sounds like fun. Ok then, boys vs. girls." I grinned and hooked arms with Haruhi. "Oh, and we're going to need a LOT more pillows."

HALF AN HOUR LATER

We decided to use the first two floors of the mansion as our battlefield. The entire third floor was neutral territory and anything above that was off limits. After laying out the ground rules (no hitting/kicking/pinching/etc., Honey and Mori couldn't be too vicious with the pillows, and neutral territory did NOT mean free for all) we split up - the boys vs. Haruhi and me. Auntie and Uncle decided to join in as well, scoping out enemy territory.

"I can't believe you roped me into this." Haruhi said, clutching two pillows.

"No, I can't believe I roped Kyoya into this." We came to a compromise, he didn't have to play if he held the position of referee. He basically counted how many times a person got hit (although we were trying to play by the honor system, it was nice to have a back up) and the person who got hit most made their team lose.

Which is why I said it would be fair that it was just Haruhi and myself on a team.

Anyways - my earlier assumption was confirmed when my auntie contacted Haruhi and I threw a walkie-talkie. "You should see the fort these guys built…it's a mansion of blankets!"

Haruhi scoffed. "I knew they were going to do this."

I chuckled. "Right then, well, Auntie, do you see any suspicious movement?"

"Not anymore than usu-AH! I've been hit! Retreat!"

"NEVER!" I called. "Come on Haruhi, it's time for revenge!"

She only sighed as I hauled her to the boys' fort.

5 STEPS LATER

"I see my auntie!" I whispered, spotting my aunt's shadow through the blanket wall of the fort. I clutched my pillow tightly. "Ok, so, you know the plan right?"

Haruhi nodded.

"Good. If everything goes smoothly, we'll be able to get in and out without being hit."

"You don't know…well you do know them like I do. This plan isn't going to work." She glanced at the suspiciously quiet fort. "I'll bet you anything that the twins are hiding behind the that mountain of pillows, waiting for you. They won't bother with me because once I get inside, Honey-senpai and Mori-senpai will be at the entrance. Tamaki-senpai…er…"

"Tamaki-kun…" I filled.

"Right. He'll try as hard as he can to resist hitting me but he'll end up slipping and hitting me on accident anyways. That will set off the trigger that it's ok to hit me, and in the end, Kyoya-senpai will be sitting on the sidelines writing in his book, and they'll win this half." She paused, "Besides, if they didn't win they'd throw a fit and we wouldn't hear the end of it until they beat us at something."

"You're a very pessimistic person Haruhi. Have some faith. Besides, it's all in good fun."

"Well, they aren't giving the winners of this game your middle school photos."

I shrugged and snuck over to the entrance of the fort, only to be captured right before I got there.

Needless to say, Haruhi knows the Host Club well.

LATER

"So, do we get a reward for winning?"

Hikaru had asked this question every five minutes since the boys won the pillow fight…6 hours ago.

"You wish."

"Don't be a sore loser." Kaoru said, snaking an arm around me.

"It's a very unattractive quality." Hikaru murmured, mirroring the movement.

"But you're a sore-"

"Don't ruin the moment."

I smiled and stroked his hair softly. I could feel both their hearts beating against my skin and realized how mine easily synced up with theirs. Sighing heavily, I rested my head into Hikaru's neck while Kaoru his rested into mine.

Click!

"This will make a wonderful Christmas card!"

Ah…should have seen that coming. "Uncle!"

My uncle only grinned. "Time for bed. The others are already in their sleeping bags."

We sighed and walked back to the Green Room where, just like Uncle had said, everyone was in their sleeping bags. However, none of them were sleeping. Instead, they were all talking about how they were going to stay up the whole night.

It was barely 11 o'clock and I could see everyone was already half lidded. I gave them another hour before they passed out from exhaustion. Even with a caffeine or sugar rush.

"Why don't we put in a movie…" I suggested. I walked over to the selection of DVDs we had. "Let's see…what does everyone want to see?"

"Horror!"

"Action!"

"Romantic comedy!"

"Documentary."

"Why don't we all just go to sleep?"

"But Haruhi, movies are a part of the commoner sleepover experience! Shouldn't you know this! Or…were you deprived of this experience! We are definitely watching a movie."

I pulled out Tampopo (4) and threw it into the DVD player. I flicked the lights off and went back to my sleeping bag. "Ok. You guys got your movie."

20 minutes in I could hear soft snoring. Honey was already fast asleep. I chuckled to myself. I had a feeling he'd be the first to crash.

25 more minutes past and I glanced over to see Haruhi with the sleeping bag over her head. I also noticed that Tamaki wasn't really watching the movie. I made a note to myself to tease her about it in the morning.

The movie was now halfway over. I took another glance around the room. Kyoya had fallen asleep. And now that I thought about it, he didn't look nearly as intimidating when he was sleeping. I was half tempted to take his picture. But my better judgment told me that I would regret it. So I stored away the memory instead.

Another 10 minutes and Mori is sleeping soundly next to his cousin. Tamaki is barely staying awake. Out of the corner of my eye I could see him pinching his arm.

20 more minutes and I hear a soft thud. I glance over my shoulder. Yup. Tamaki is out. Now it's just Hikaru, Kaoru, and I.

When the movie ended half an hour later, I looked around the room again to see that I was the only one awake. I got up to turn the TV off when suddenly I felt a hand grab mine. I let out a gasp before ramming my elbow into the person's stomach.

"Ow, geez, it's only me!"

I squinted my eyes. Oh. It's Hikaru. Figures he'd scare me. "Sorry," I whispered, but you scared me."

In the dark I could make out a grin. "I thought you were fearless."

I stuck my tongue out at him. "Ok, you startled me then."

He snickered. "Yeah, I could tell by the way you jumped nearly ten feet into the air."

I glared, even though he probably couldn't see it, and punched him in the arm. "Go to bed."

Hikaru only grinned and tugged on my arm, "Only if you sleep with me."

I sighed. "I'm too tired to think of a comeback for that." I walked over to my sleeping bag and pulled it over to where Hikaru and Kaoru had set up theirs. I climbed into mine and mumbled, "G'night…"

I started falling asleep when I felt a body shift closer to mine. When I opened my eyes, Hikaru was facing me, eyes closed and breathing softly. I leaned foreword and kissed his forehead softly. I turned over and saw Kaoru on my other side, sleeping just as soundly. I kissed his forehead as well, and then buried myself into my sleeping bag, unconsciously reaching my hands out for either of theirs.

I fell asleep to the sound of three synchronized heartbeats.

(1): No idea if they do this, but since I'm already on American schedule, might as well give them American graduation. *shrugs*

(2): We never do actually learn why Mori joins the host club O_o I mean, there are people who assume its because Honey decided to but I don't know. I think there's a background story somewhere _ but…sadly, we never learn about it.

(3): A green room, in case you didn't know, is a room usually for celebrities to hang out in before a show. It's usually filled with items (food, drinks, games, etc.) that the guest requests. And no, they are not actually green. I think that's weird O_o I seriously wonder how the name "Green Room" got coined. Meh.

(4) Japanese comedy. Translates to Dandelion. Apparently, it's good (I've yet to see it)

OMGZ! This story is coming to an end! Next chapter shall be the ending, with the big unveil! (T_T) and also (^_^) at the same time. I…really hate it now, so I'm glad to be almost done with it.

BTW: Pyro! I still need your one shot request :D

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