Hello again everyone! So yes, this was seriously on my mind and bothering the hell out of me. What would happen if Fern didn't go to Ouran? BY GOD THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS!

So without further delay...

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THE STORY BEGINS! ...again...!


"Fern could you go get the mail? I got to finish these dishes."

"Yup sure thing mom!"

Fern skipped outside their small apartment to the mailbox. It took her a minute to find her apartment number, and once she found it she grabbed her mail.

Bill, bill, coupons, bill, letter from Ouran Academy, advertisement, bi- OH MY GOD!

"IT CAME IT CAME IT CAME! What if I didn't get in? Oh my gosh they probably sent this letter to tell me how bad my art skills are and how I should crawl under a rock! Wow these people are mean and I haven't even met them yet!"

"So what's in the mail?"

"My rejection to Ouran."

"What? Really you didn't get in? Oh honey that's terrible I'm so sorry. What else did the letter say?"

"Uhh I haven't opened it yet."

"Oh for goodness sake!" Fern's mom, who is named Akina, grabbed the letter out of her daughter's hand and opened it.

"Well what does it say? Huh huh huh!" Fern was bouncing on her toes, then quietly; mostly to herself she asked, "Does it say anything about rocks?"

Akina didn't respond to her daughter right away as she read over the letter. The woman did her best to not let her face show any emotion. Fern caught on anyways.

"I didn't get in, did I?"

Akina set the letter down and gave a comforting smile to her daughter.

"Now its not the end of the world. Just because they didn't accept you doesn't mean that you can't draw and paint and be artistic anymore. I personally think they're making a huge mistake."

Fern looked down at her feet. She felt rejection piercing her heart. She was so sure she would get in. So sure that she was good enough, but she wasn't. Akina looked at her daughter and walked over to give her a hug.

"Oh sweetheart, don't get so down about it."

Fern struggled in her mother's grip before she was finally released.

"Of course I'm going to get down about it! Now what am I supposed to do? I don't want to go back to my school! I hate it there! I"m all alone!"

"Fern you told me you preferred being alone though."

"Yeah, but not when there's people calling you freak every two minutes or other people throwing balls of paper at you during class! Then there's my pills-"

"Fern please-"

"-every freaking time I go to the bathroom to take my dosage there's always some girl in there who just laughs at me and tells me I should just go join the crazy house because its where I belong! I can't take it anymore!"

"Fern-"

"No! You're not understanding!" Fern now had clenched her fists and started to grind her teeth in efforts to calm herself down. "I'm going for a walk."

"Fern I think you should wait a minute-" Fern slammed the door as she left. "...please come back though."


Fern pulled her sweatshirt tighter around herself and pulled the hood over her rat's nest of black hair. She didn't know where she was going, but she just needed to wander around to cool off. She was out of pills and Fern understood what would happen if she became over emotional. She stopped walking when she heard other kids, her age, laughing and talking among each other. Fern lifted her gaze from the sidewalk and walked over to the tall, black fence that separated her from the others. Fern then realized where she was. Ouran Academy. She gripped the bars of the fence tightly as the remembrance of her rejection came back to mind. She just watched the students laugh and talk. Fern didn't have school today since it was some teacher's meeting that she really didn't care about. Fern was so focused on nothing that she didn't realize the attention she was attracting from two teens. One even walked over to the fence where she stood.

"Hi there! Do you like cake?"

Just at the mention of sweets, Fern's mouth watered. Her hand went over her stomach as she suddenly felt hungry. She looked over and came face to face with a boy. He was tall like herself and had short dark hair. Yet Fern had a hard time believing that higher voice belonged to him.

"Is that a yes?"

Fern blinked a few times when she realized it was a different person and glanced down to see a rather short boy with blonde hair smiling at her.

"Yeah. Cake is pretty good."

"Takashi! This girl likes cake too! Can we share with her?"

As this little boy talked, Fern watched Takashi. She wasn't that big into drooling over boys, but something about him caught her eye. She was so focused on Takashi that the little boy had to repeat her question just to get her attention. Fern blinked and looked down.

"What?"

"What's you name?"

"Oh."

"Well...?"

This little boy's cheerfulness was making Fern's anger spike. The boy was oblivious.

"My name's Honey and this is Takashi, but most people call him Mori. So what's your name?"

"Why do you care?"

"I just want to know what to call you."

"Why? Its not like we're going to start seeing each other every day."

"Can you tell me? Pretty please? I'll give you cake!"

Fern's stomach bubbled and the cake Honey held did look pretty good. Fern sighed in annoyance.

"Its Fern."

"Oooo! That's a pretty name, isn't it Takashi!"

Fern glanced at Takashi only to see him nod his head. Then like Honey promised, he passed Fern a piece of cake through the bars of the fence.

"Thanks."

"You're welcome Fern-chan!"

Fern choked on her bite of cake.

"What did you just call me?"

"Fern-chan?"

"Don't call me that!"

Honey's giggled made Fern roll her eyes in irritation.

"Okay! Sorry Fern!"

"Whatever. Uh thanks for the cake. I'm leaving now."

"Why were you here anyways? Are you going to be a new student soon?"

Fern stopped walking, the piece of cake already gone, and a small frown formed on her face.

"I thought I was, but now I'm not. So bye for now, bye forever."

With that Fern started to walk away. She heard Honey giggle behind her.

"Mmkay! Hope to see you again Fern!"

Just when Fern thought she got her anger under control, a short annoying kid had to get her riled up again.

"Gah! Why am I stuck with all this friggin' stupidity!"


Chapter done!

wellll? What do you all think hmm?

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