Prologue

"….right, Kaoru?" Silvana stopped, her hand still on the classroom door. Was that one of the Hitachiin twins?

"Yeah, but I still think the sequel was fairly interesting too, Hikaru."

"I guess, but I think they could have chosen a better actress to play Akemi than Yoko Hasurabe." Silvana arched an eyebrow as she listened in on their conversation.

{Are they talking about the Gunmetal Vampire movies?} she wondered. Sighing, she casually entered. The twins stopped talking immediately and looked out the classroom window, unwilling to acknowledge her presence. As she reached into her desk and grabbed her tote bag, she rolled her eyes.

"You know, if you two don't go outside and get some sun, you're gonna look like lobsters when we back from summer vacation." She commented.

"Summer Vacation doesn't start for another month and a half." That sounded like it was probably Hikaru.

"Why should we worry?" Silvana stopped. Just as she thought, the twins hardly ever spoke individually when addressing other people. The fact that Hikaru; assuming she was correct on that guess; even spoke to her without Kaoru was a surprise. And of course, as soon as they went back to speaking in unison, she couldn't tell Hikaru from Kaoru.

"You know what, forget I said anything." She replied before leaving the room.

Later that Day….

Silvana groaned in frustration and tapped her pencil on her notebook. She racked her brain, trying to figure out if she could distinguish the twins apart. Since she had started going to Ouran Academy, she had developed a certain liking for the Hitachiin brothers, but because they never let on which was which, she never could really say she had a crush on either of them. All through their classes, she could pick up small pieces of their conversation. And though they weren't speaking loud enough for her to distinguish by voice, she picked up enough of an idea of their personalities to decide that she liked Hikaru. Sighing nervously, she opened her notebook to a blank piece of paper and began to write.

After School. . . .

"You're the one who's cold." . . .Kaoru? No, Hikaru.

"By saying you'd be okay with either of us," no, THAT was Hikaru. The other voice was Kaoru's.

"You're REALLY saying you DON'T want either of us." And that was Kaoru again. How could they have deceived her so easily? Hikaru had been alone when he came out. But. .. how did Silvana not realize it? How could she not have seen it? When he said he was Kaoru, she believed him, and, trying to be nice, she had said: "Sure, I guess we could give it a shot" not expecting Hikaru to call Kaoru out from behind the bushes so the two of them could mock her and put her down like they were.

"Now wait just a damn minute! I only said that because. . ." her head was hurting now. Was it from earlier; when she got hit in the head with the baseball during gym class? She couldn't tell.

"Well go on. Humor us." Hikaru? No wait, Kaoru. Damn it. Silvana sighed.

"You know what? Forget it. I'm not going to bother telling you jerks my side of the story. You won't believe me anyway. There's no guarantee you'll even listen. So I'm not going to give you the satisfaction of trying to explain myself." Wait, what the hell? Did she catch a glint of ... sadness in their eyes? No. It was her imagination. Probably caused by the same throbbing pain in the side of her head that made her keep forgetting which voice was Kaoru's and which was Hikaru's. But all the same. . .

"I will, however, say this: I'm. . .sorry that I couldn't tell you two apart. And I vow that one day, I'll play your "Which one is Hikaru?" game, and I'll get it right. I'm going to tell you apart some day, even if it kills me. Don't worry though, I'll spare you the lame ass love letters, because I doubt I'll ever be falling for one of you again." She said, walking away calmly.

-Behind the middle school building. . .-

"Stupid! How could I be so stupid?"

"They're pretty harsh, aren't they? But you know. . .I think they're mostly just lonely. They want to be told apart, but for some reason, at the same time, they don't want to let anyone close enough to do that. I wouldn't worry about it too much if I were you. You're a beautiful, smart young woman, Silvana. You can do much better." Silvana laughed softly and wiped her tears away, looking up at the violet eyed blonde in front of her.

"Thank you. But. . .how did you know my name?"

"Hmm? Oh, Kyoya Otori told me." Silvana sighed.

"I see. And you would be….?" The boy smiled.

"I'm Tamaki Suoh." He said, kissing her hand in a gentlemanly fashion. Silvana sighed again and pulled her hand away.

"It's nice to meet you, but as you can guess, I would appreciate it if you didn't do anything that insinuated that you were flirting with me." She said. Tamaki smiled apologetically.

"Sorry. So, what do you say I show you that not all men are how you're probably assuming they are at the moment? Want to be friends?" Silvana laughed and nodded.

"Sure, Tamaki-senpai."