Before I Loved You
Chapter One
Kaoru and Hikaru watched outside their window for anyone interesting they could play with as their limo waited in line to get out of the golden gates of their school. Glancing about they searched the sea of students waiting on the well gardened lawn for something different. Then they saw a rather plain girl in a commoner's outfit hurriedly walked pass their limo on the way home from school. She looked just like any other girl that was at their school, long brown hair, and a skinny figure dressed in a blue and white school uniform. Well, you know, except that she didn't look rich…and they were pretty sure that she wasn't in their grade. Not that they would know. Everyone else in their class wasn't apart of them. Even better, someone else they could tease, except this time they wouldn't have to deal with rich parents chasing after them.
"Hey! Girl!" they shouted as they casually stepped out of their limo, not caring whether or not their driver went home without them. Stepping out onto the well paved sidewalk in front of the many acres of the elite Ouran Academy they started to grin.
After all, what could be more fun than playing a game? Strolling behind the girl they quickly moved to either side of her and put their arms around her shoulders. Jumping, she looked around at both of them with big, thoughtful brown eyes.
Blandly, she said, "What?" The twin's eyes locked as they both took in the girl's appearance. Strangely, there was no blush on her face. Weird.
"Nothing." Kaoru said as the continued to walk alongside her. "Yeah, do we have to ask your permission to hang around you?" echoed Hikaru. "Yeah, actually, you do," spoke the girl as she shrugged their arms off of her shoulders. "Now, of you'll excuse me I have to go and do some shopping." She said as she picked up her pace, obviously annoyed with the boys that were hanging onto her like leeches. "At least tell us your name." spoke the boy on her right. "We'll even tell you our names."
Sighing she stopped in her tracks as she turned around to face these two people that were supposedly already allowed to hang their arms around her. They were twins. Both had golden eyes that glinted in the sun along with their reddish-orange hair. Wearing crisp white uniforms she could already tell that they were cut from a different cloth than she was.
"Haruhi Fujioka. Okay?" she said in not exactly a nice tone of voice. "And you are?" she questioned. On her right she heard a name being called out. "Hikaru, and over there is Kaoru." Grinning, he then put his arm around her. "Now that the introductions have been made we can hang around with you now, right?"
The thoughts swirling around in both of the twin's minds were ones of confusion and curiosity. She wasn't the average girl. Heck, they could tell that when they first laid eyes on her. This was going to be fun. As the twins continued to push their new reluctant "friend" towards what they called commoner's land they heard a voice. No, not any voice, a voice that was much too loud and annoying to even be called a voice.
"Hikaru, Kaoru! Come back. I know which one of you is which! On the left is Hikaru and on the right is Kaoru!" shouted a smiling blonde haired boy. "I got it right, didn't I?" Tamaki smirked as he sauntered up to them. "Huh? Who's this?" he said out loud as he shoved the twins out of the way. Turning around Haruhi looked up at the teen that was now looking at the twins with a frustrated glance. "Have they been bothering you miss?" he whispered smoothly as he took her hand. "Don't worry I'll protect you from those two demons."
"What?" Haruhi thought as she was dragged forwards by this guy who thought that he was a knight or something. "Oh well, at least he got rid of those other two guys. Plus, this is the way to the supermarket."
"Tono! Get back here!" yelled the twins as they ran to catch up to the princely figure that had stolen their new toy.
"No, get away from her! Harassing a poor commoner who obviously just go lost. She's probably only in front of the school because she was so amazed by the beauty of it. Now shoo! Shoo!" Tamaki scolded as he waved his hands for the two other boys to leave as he put himself protectively in front of this girl that was being assaulted by those devils.
Turning around he smiled his oh so charming smile that made girls swoon at school and knelt down in front of the girl. Taking in her appearance into his bright violet eyes he finally introduced himself, "Tamaki Suoh," he said as he grabbed her hand.
"Um, Haruhi Fujioka." she said as she squirmed in her spot on the sidewalk. "What's up with all these rich people? I thought they were supposed to be smarter than normal people." she thought as she wiggled her hand out of Tamaki's.
Suddenly a chorus of laughs burst out from behind them. "Please Tono, all you're doing is making her uncomfortable. Can't you see that?" Kaoru said as he bent over, out of breath from laughing so hard.
"Am I? Am I really?" the blonde boy said from his position on the ground. With eyes close to crying he got up and walked over to a tree. He then put his head on his knees and began to pick at the grass.
"Don't worry about Tono!" Hikaru said as he took his place on Haruhi's right side. "Yeah, don't worry he'll get better soon. Just compliment him or say that he didn't make you feel uncomfortable." whispered Kaoru.
Confused Haruhi did as they told and watched Tamaki get up and regain his confidence rather quickly. Smiling he walked back up to her and started telling Hikaru and Kaoru about how he was right and they were wrong. "Honestly, what grade were these people in?" the girl wondered as she continued to walk along the sidewalk with these three rich boys trailing along beside her. "I had only come to turn in my application and look what happens. Now, I'm going to miss the sale." Haruhi pondered to herself as she heard a car, excuse me, not a car, a limo pull up beside them.
"Mr. Hikaru and Mr. Kaoru, I think you need to get home." The driver said as he spoke through the window.
"Of course," the twins said in unison. Grinning their catlike grin they grabbed Haruhi's arms and threw her into their limo and threw themselves in after her. Quickly, they shut the door and opened the window a crack to wave an evil goodbye to their blonde "friend" that they had left talking to himself on the sidewalk as their driver pulled away from Ouran Academy.