24A/N: Hello! Thank you all for reviewing, reading, favoriting, and following :) I really appreciate your support! I'm sorry if the romance is pacing a bit faster, but if you have problems give me some constructive criticism down in the review section. Enjoy the sixth chapter of Melancholy in C Minor!
I showed up the next day with a furious red line on my right cheek and a potential concussion. Mother forced me to school again. And so there I stood, in the Host Club room, setting up my music on a piano, trying hard not to break into a nervous panic. It was inevitable. My entire mind screwed itself up and I breathed heavier. I started to panic and I just sat there at the piano, contemplating life.
I arrived thirty minutes early at 6:40 in the morning. Dark circles sat under my eyes from a huge lack of sleep, and my eyes were still a bit puffy from the night before. When I got ready, my entire body was shaking. After some waiting, I heard the mahogany doors creak open.
"Hey, Kiyomi, you're here already?" A pair of voices asked to me. The Hitachiin Twins, of course. I broke out into a nervous sweat, and I silently begged that they wouldn't notice my head. If they did, I'd need to make up a lie. A white lie. It couldn't hurt them, could it? It's not like they'd notice-
"Kiyomi, what's that bump on your head? That looks bad..." One of them asked.
I sucked some air in, and turning to face them, I smiled. "I fell down the stairs yesterday and I cut my face and hit my head. I don't know if I can even play because it would hurt my head but I wanted to be here," I lied.
"You should go home if even hearing sound hurts! That's not okay," The other twin stated.
"I'm completely fine, though. Except for my head. It's not like anything bad happened," I brushed off my inner pain and rolled my eyes convincingly.
"You're not going to be able to play piano, Kiyomi," One of them said rather harshly. "If you can't even take a note of music or two, you're not going to be able to play an entire piece without fainting. I don't like the fact that you fainted yesterday from nothing."
"Which twin are you?" I asked.
"Guess," The other said.
I sighed. I didn't like guessing at all. It was far too difficult, and a pain in the ass. They were extremely serious about it, though. They stood there side-by-side, smirks of excitement plastered on their faces. "Hmm...is the twin on the right Hikaru?"
"You're a good guesser. How can you tell?" Hikaru inquired.
"It's just instinct," I said. My head rang.
Suddenly, doors pushed open and crashed against the walls. I bit my lip hard and covered my head with my hands. "Jesus Christ, that hurt like Hell. What did you guys do again?!" I yelled.
"Kiyomi-chaaaan! What are you going to play for us today?" Honey jumped up to hug me, which resulted in a fall. I didn't hit my head, but it wasn't particularly fun, considering my ears were ringing and my vision was blurring a bit.
"Kiyomi-chan? Kiyomi-chan? Are you okay?" Honey shook me. I stood up quickly, staggering and shaking.
"I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm just fine," I said loudly, dizziness coming my way. I couldn't walk very well, just like last night. "See, look, I can still walk just fine-" I slurred. I never finished my sentence because of the fact that I crashed straight into Hikaru.
"Hey, you really need to go to the nurse. She'll check what's wrong," He said.
"Shut the fuck up, I just need to sit somewhere," My blood was boiling.
"You're the one who should shut up, you need help and you're ignoring the fact that you can't even walk. Did something happen yesterday?" Hikaru questioned.
"I fell!" I yelled.
"Hikaru? Kiyomi?" I turned back to see a confused Haruhi standing at the door. "Are you two okay?"
"He-"
"She-" we both pointed simultaneously.
"Kiyomi is hurt! She hurt herself and won't even go to the nurse!" Hikaru pouted and blew a raspberry at me. I almost winced. I was going to be fine.
"You should take a trip down to the nurse, Kiyomi. I'll walk you there," Haruhi smiled gently and took my hand and we walked down the hall and everything felt guilty to me and I was hurt and I didn't know why I felt that way because of Hikaru and he just made me feel weird and butterflies fluttered in my stomach when I felt his chest against my head and I didn't know what to do but I liked it and the twins and everything and mostly Hikaru and everything just made me begin to tear up. "Kiyomi? What's wrong?" Haruhi asked.
She was so kind to me. She was so nice. "I don't know. Everything just hurts," I muttered. "But it's okay, I just need to rest for a bit, thank you."
The nurse only gave me some water and checked my heartbeat while I slept in her room.
When I woke up, I was in a daze. Feeling lethargic and tired, the nurse said that I had a very severe concussion and that my mother would come to pick me up. I had hit the back of my head, really hard, and basically she had told me that my brain basically shook in my head and it basically damaged itself and basically, it would take a few weeks to heal.
In the meantime, all I could do was sit in my room and do nothing. Nothing. Not even play piano or talk. Everything. Would. Hurt. And. It. Already. Did. Before. Seeing a bright light would make my head hurt. Hearing a loud noise would make my heart hurt. Moving too much would make my head hurt.
Hell.
I couldn't even read and I hated reading. Dark room and a towel on my forehead and on top of that, mother still screamed at me and Yuto would still get drunk with his friends.
I wouldn't get to see any of the Host Club until a month later.
Especially Hikaru.
A/N: Sorry for the late updating. I'll try to update in about 2 weeks. Thank you for reading, and leave a review below!