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Chapter 1

As I stepped into the chairman's office, I felt a sudden chill run down my spine. Was I even ready to go to a school such as Ouran? Was I even smart enough? Or the bigger question was…did I even have enough money?

Yes, Ouran is one of the school's that all those stupid rich kids go to. But, I'm not one of them. They just looked through my school records, and told me I was eligible to enter Ouran High. I thought it would be cool to get away from all the stupid kids at my other school; to finally meet some smart people and have something to talk about. But I was wrong!

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The first day at Ouran was somewhat okay, but all I heard in the hallways was "OMG! Look at this expensive ring my father bought me for my birthday!" and "Yeah, I'm throwing this BIG party at my mansion tonight. It's gonna be the greatest party ever, and everybody's gonna be there!" I can't believe all of these people. They have all of this money, and they just throw it all away on parties and needless things. It's so aggravating!

As the 6th period bell rang to dismiss us, I had to hurry to put my stuff in my bag. I was so busy doing my homework that I didn't even think about the time.

As I hurried out the door, I accidentally bumped into a class 1-A student. I've seen him in one of my other classes before, but I just couldn't remember where. But the really creepy thing was, I was staring at him. Not just looking, I was staring! Plus, he was staring back at me! My heart was racing so fast I couldn't even breathe. Then, as I heard the warning bell, I snapped back into reality, grabbed my things, and went on to class. How could I even think about loving one of those stupid rich kids? What was I thinking?! But then again, I never had anyone stare back at me before…

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At the end of 7th period, my teacher had let everyone pack up early; due to it being the first day of school and we don't have any homework.

"Don't forget to stop by Music Room 3! I hear there's a new club that opened today!" my teacher announced.

A new club? The only clubs that I knew of were the Knitting Club, Newspaper Club, Anime Club, so on and so forth. But what other club could there be? This was something that I definitely had to check out.

When the bell rang, all the other students ran out of the door at once like a stampede. It was crazy! It was probably that new club they were so anxious to see.

As I slowly walked to Music Room 3, I noticed there were guys leaving the room. And when I mean guys, I MEAN GUYS! There were no girls leaving at all. Maybe this was a girly-girl type of club. With makeup, dancing, and dresses…I felt like I was going to puke! But I didn't want to judge a book by its cover, so I went in to check it out.

When I went inside, there were tables in every corner. Maybe this was like a Food Club or something. I looked around and saw that every table was full with giggling girls. I sighed and headed for the exit. What a boring club this must be! I already had to deal with squealing girls in my classes and in the hallway, but I didn't want to join something where I'd spend more of my time with them.

When I grabbed the door handle, I felt a hand rest on my shoulder. I turned around, and it was a class 2-A student with blonde hair and blue eyes.

"Why hello there, I do believe we haven't met before. I'm Tamaki Suoh, or you may already know me as the chairman's son," he said with his hand out, smiling at me. I didn't know what to do, I just stared at him. Mainly because I couldn't believe this was the chairman's son. What was I supposed to do, bow? "Don't be shy, take my hand." I snapped back into reality, looked at his hand, and took it. Then he shook it really hard, like he was excited about something. "There we go! You must be very shy! But don't worry my princess, most of the girls that walk into Music Room 3 are always shy, but they do always leave with a smile on their face!"

"Uh…"

"Now of course you're here for a reason, so let me ask you just one question my love. What kind of boys are you into?"

My eyes got big in surprise. "What?!"

"What kind of guys are you-"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah I heard what you said. But why would you ask me a question like that?!"

"You mean you don't know?"

I stared back at him in question. "What?"

"This is a Host Club. Where the handsomest boys with way too much time on their hands, entertain girls who also have way too much time on their hands. You've never heard of it?"

I slowly shook my head. "Nnnnnnoooooo…"

He took my and led me to the tables that were already occupied by other ladies. "Well, then we're gonna have to show you how much fun you can have, being a customer in the Host Club."

"What?"

"Do you like boys who are the cool type?" We passed a table where another class 2-A student with glasses was entertaining a group of girls. "Or the strong, silent type?" I looked over at another table, and I saw a class 3-A student nodding and grunting at everything the girls asked him. The girls seemed to like it, because they kept squealing and their faces were turning red. "The boy-lolita?" The table next to the strong and silent type guy had a boy who looked like he should be in the 3rd grade. He was entertaining the girls at his table by bringing up a conversation about sweets. It was very awkward. "Or even…the mischievous type." When we passed by that table, my heart started racing again, and I could feel my cheeks burning up. I saw that guy again. The one I had bumped into earlier today. I opened up my mouth to breathe, but I ended up speaking.

"He's the one."

"Hmmm?" Tamaki asked.

"He's the one," I repeated.

Tamaki looked over to the table and smiled. "Ah, so you are into the mischievous type."

I gasped. "Well uh, no. Not exactly. See, I don't judge people on what type they are, just on how nice they are."

"I see."

I looked back over to the table. "But uh, I would like to know his name."

"Uh-huh. His name is Hikaru Hitachiin."

My heart fluttered. "Hikaru…"

Without even thinking, I walked over to the table, where Hikaru was laughing about a story he was telling another lady. "Yeah, and then this one time he –"

"Um, Hikaru?" He looked up at me. "I don't know if you remember, but we bumped into each other earlier today and I never got a chance to say I'm sorry. My name is Rachael by the way. It's very nice to meet you."

"It's nice to meet you too but…I never bumped into anyone today."

My eyes widened. "Y-you didn't? But there must be some sort of mistake, because the guy I bumped into looked just like –"

"Hikaru!" I turned around to see who called Hikaru's name, and I saw someone running to him. "Hikaru, I thought I told you not to tell stories like that to the ladies!"

"I'm sorry Kaoru, but it was a funny story that I just had to tell them. I didn't want to have to keep a funny story from the beautiful ladies."

My eyes widened even more. Those two were twins! That's why Hikaru had no idea what I was talking about. It was his brother that I bumped into.

"Oh, Hikaru! You'll never guess what happened to me today! I accidentally bumped into this beautiful girl when I was walking into my 7th period! You should've seen her, she was so hot! But man, I wish I could've came to my senses to ask her what her name was before she ran off."

"Uh, Kaoru?"

"What is it Hikaru?"

"I think the girl you're talking about is standing right behind you."

He pointed over to me, and Kaoru turned around. "That is her! But, how'd you know?"

"She came up to me, and thought I was you. Typical for every girl though, no one can tell us apart."

"Yeah, that's true." He took a couple steps toward me. "Hi, do you remember me? I'm Kaoru Hitachiin, Hikaru's younger twin brother." He held out his hand like Tamaki had done before, but instead of taking his hand to shake it…I fainted.

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When I woke up, I was in the school infirmary. I looked around and saw that there was only one nurse in the room. "Oh good! I'm glad you're awake Ms. Morgan; there are a couple of students outside who want to visit you. They were shocked to see you faint like that. I'll let them know that you're awake now."

As she left to go get the others, I tried to remember why I fainted. When Kaoru and Hikaru walked in, I remembered.

"Oh wow! I'm so glad you're okay Rachael! You nearly gave us heart attacks! You stared off into space and then fainted all of a sudden. What happened?" Kaoru asked.

I rubbed my head. "Sorry, I guess it's the fact that you guys are twins! And I think I was a little embarrassed that I told your brother that I bumped into him later today. But that was actually you, and…whoa! My head hurts!"

"It's alright, I'm just glad you're okay."

"Hey Rae-chan! You wanna share some cake with me when you feel better?"

Rae-chan? "Uh sorry but, who are you?"

"That's Mitsukuni Haninozuka, the boy-lolita I told you about earlier. But we all call him Honey-senpai," Tamaki said.

"Oh right, the one that likes the sweets. Um sure, why not?"

"Yay!" Honey said.

"Hold on a minute, I have a question for you Rachael," the one known as Kyouya asked.

"Hmmm? What is it?"

"You are a student here, aren't you? So where's your school uniform?"

"What school uniform?"

"Well you are a rich kid right? So you should already have your uniform."

"Actually, I'm not rich." Everyone froze and looked at me. "I just got accepted into Ouran because of my school records."

"Oh, I get it! You must be a commoner like Haruhi!" Hikaru said.

"Haruhi?"

"Yeah, Haruhi Fujioka. The other honor student that attends here," Tamaki said. "He's been studying all day today, so he's been missing out on all the action. He should be done by now, so I'll go get him and you two can introduce yourselves more properly."

"O-okay, we'll wait here."

As Tamaki left the infirmary to go get Haruhi, Kaoru looked at me. "But back to the uniform situation. You don't have enough money to afford one?"

"Well, yes…maybe….I don't know. My parents lost their jobs, so we're kind of in a tight situation right now. Heck, they practically put every penny they had to get me into this school. But, I never thought I'd have to purchase a uniform."

"That's okay; we'll just purchase one for you."

"Oh no, that's alright, you don't have to go through all that trouble for me."

"No, it's fine! You've had a rough day, and we don't want to have to put more weight on your shoulders."

"Awww, thanks Kaoru! That's actually sweet of you," I said, my cheeks starting to burn up again.

"Alright, here he is! Rachael, meet Haruhi Fujioka!" Tamaki said, walking through the door.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Ms. Morgan," Haruhi said, stepping in front of Tamaki so I could see him.

"Same here…Ms. Fujioka."

"WHAT?!" everyone yelled at the same time.

"Wait! How did you know Haruhi was a girl?"

"Girl's intuition," I smiled. "I've heard so much about you!"

"Same here."

"Wow boss, I guess you didn't see that one comin' did ya?" the twins said in unison. "Rachael is smarter than she looks."

"But how could that be? All the other girls in this school think Haruhi is a boy, and we've been trying to hide her identity forever!" He sighed. "I guess the jig is up! Now the whole school is going to find out that Haruhi is actually a girl."

"Now wait just one minute!" Kaoru said. Everyone looked at him. "Do you really think Rachael is that kind of person? Do you actually think that she'd ruin someone's reputation like that?"

"Well, I wouldn't call it a 'reputation'," Haruhi jumped in.

"That's just not fair!" Kaoru went on. "You haven't even known her for that long, and you're already judging her?"

"Kaoru's right, I wouldn't do anything like that to anyone. I'm not a snobby person. Plus, if I hurt someone, it'd later on hurt me. I wouldn't want to feel bad for ruining someone's life."

"Actually, I don't care if people think of me as a guy or a girl. And you guys need to get that into your freakin' heads!" she directed to the Host Club, especially Tamaki.

"But ya know? I've actually did a whole lot today." Everyone looked at me in question. "I met the Host Club, taught them not to judge a book by its cover, found out that Kaoru is a twin, and fell in love with him and received his love in return. This may be the start of a new life for me."

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