"He cheated on me." Haruhi wispered out to which they all froze, but as one they all moved to embrace her in a group hug. After explaining in detail what had transpired in the rose maze, Haruhi fully expected to hear 'I told you so!' from every one of them.
"It's okay Haruhi. You know we support you no matter what, especially me as your daddy," Tamaki teased, and Haruhi just rolled her eyes with a smile in her face.
"As much as I hated seeing you with him, I can't imagine the pain your feeling now." They all agreed with what Tamaki was saying. But after another big group hug, all traces of any lingering judgement or animosity between them disappeared.
Haruhi was hard at work making tea and talking to her requesters, when a plate shattered on the floor. Then honey started crying, " Nooo my cake! What am I meant to eat now?" He put on his best cutesy cute face. 'Ahh so that's what their doing', Haruhi thought to herself. Just as she expected Mori swooped in and brought another plate of cake in, making Honey smile and hug him. Not two seconds later, all the girls in the area started yelling out 'Moe!' happily.
Haruhi smiled, glad that despite everything, is was all back to normal. Seeing her expression and smile, Mori smirked at her. Haruhi had never been more flustered in her life. Seeing him smile just made him seem even more handsome. She blushed a deep red and turned around. 'Keep it together, keep it together' she chanted to herself. Mori only chuckled lightly seeing her blush. When she looked up, she saw the twins glaring at Mori without him seeing. 'What's their problem?' She thought, she guessed that because they were protective of her, they didn't want guys doing that to her. She just sighed and walked away.
Later, she was in the salon, changing into her new cosplay, when Mori walked in. Regardless of her being only in her bra and underwear, he walked up to her. Haruhi stood in shock as he hugged her from behind while resting his head on her shoulder. "Haruhi, I know it's too early for you to move on from Kasanoda, but I want you to know I love you." He stopped briefly letting that sink in.
"You don't have to reply until your ready, I'm willing to wait, as long as you wish." He slowly turned her around and lifted her head. Softly he placed a kiss on her lips. Unsure what was going on, Haruhi kissed back anyway. They stood like that for a little, then Mori broke off, and smiling, he turned and left. Haruhi lifted her hand to her lips, and blushed. Somehow, in that moment she forgot about Ritsu. All she wanted to do was stay with Mori. But taking what he said to heart, she would wait, just to make sure she wouldn't regret this later.
Later that evening, when she got home, her dad was already there. He took one look at her and saw something was wrong, but something good happened too. Immediately getting up he pushed Haruhi into her room and said " First off, what's wrong, you look like you've been crying. Second, who kissed you?" The last sentence he said with a smirk, to which Haruhi was greatly embarrassed and turned red.
Unwilling to explain everything she bargained, "You only get to hear one. So first or second." Disappointed, but worried that something was wrong, he chose to hear about what was bothering her. After Haruhi explained why she was an emotional wreck today all her dad said was, "I'm glad you sorted things out with your friends. Oh and don't worry honey, it's good to learn how to donate your old toys to petty children."
Haruhi shocked and stunned, bursted out laughing while hugging her dad, thankful she had someone like him. Soon her dad left saying that he would talk to Ritsu's dad about what happened. Haruhi not caring anymore, just agreed and thanked him. Not long later, she warily drifted of to sleep, knowing their would be something scary waiting for her.