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"You're too lucky. You know that right?" The blond squeezed the redhead in her arms.

"I'm gonna miss you, Lexi. Stay in school, Okay? Mom doesn't need anymore stress" The redhead or "Alex", laughed and patted the blond's back

"Look who's talking."

"Bye Lexi. Call me-" The blond wasn't listening anymore, stuck in her phone. Alex's smile faded but she was then enveloped into two lean, strong arms and she saw a large tuft of longish (for a guy) dark red hair resting on her shoulder. Alex smiled and stroked it softly.

"You're gonna do good, Alex. I'll miss you, let me know if you need me there, because you know I will come." The man lifted his head from its spot in the crook of her neck to look at her. Their dark grey eyes locked before he pulled away.

"I'll be fine, Tony. But I will call as often as I can, or we can Skype, or something." Tony barely had enough time to move out-of-the-way before a large projectile shot to Alex's legs. When it stopped moving it revealed a small boy no older than seven with locks of his caramel-colored hair swept to the back of his head and large, watery, light brown eyes with his arms and legs around a beaten stuffed pig and Alex's legs.

"Don't Leave Alex! I don't want you to go! Lexi's gonna kill me!"

"HEY! Get over here you little brat!" The boy looked at Lexi before Alex pulled him up and into a hug. She patted his weird hair down and kissed the top of his head.

"Don't worry Eli. Lexi wouldn't be able to see her new boyfriend, Eric, if she did that." Lexi stared straight at Alex while a rather fierce blush covered her cheeks. Lexi looked to her left at a clearly disappointed woman with her foot tapping and her arms crossed. "You can still see and talk to me when I'm there, just ask Mom first." Eli let go of Alex's waist and fell back. Alex's storm cloud grey eyes were frozen with a pair of light brown ones. Alex ran to the woman before her and held her in a tight embrace. The woman's light mocha skin contrasted greatly with her pale skin as did the grey versus brown eyes, and dark brown to dark red hair, but the woman hugged Alex back, just as tightly. The woman felt a small wetness on her shoulder, which was where Alex's head rested. The woman stroked her hair and patted her back. "I'm gonna miss you, Mom."

"Aloha 'oe, my hoku. I love you. Remember that and make us proud. Uhh... remember to review your contract before you sign and turn it in! Be good sweety!" (*1) They both broke away and Alex wiped her nose with her shirt sleeve. She waved sheepishly before grabbing her bags and hustling to the almost deserted plane. The blue ocean below her had always seemed big, especially when she surfed it, but now, it seemed endless. Alex fell asleep a small while after she scooted to the window and started playing reggae from her iPhone. The non-stop nine-hour flight would be extremely long, had she not fallen asleep. She woke up much later after one of the flight attendants told her to turn off her iPhone. She nodded yes and shoved it into her backpack as she watched over her new city. She dragged most of her luggage by herself to the airport terminal where a man with a sign saying "Alexa Sterling" stood in a limousine driver outfit and black circle glasses. He walked her to the sleek, black car while carrying only her instruments while she carried the rest. She sat with the air conditioning in the backseat of the car as they headed to Ouran Academy. As she had nothing left to do, she looked over her contract.

Blah blah blah...

performances when needed,

blah blah technical legal terms

actressing and branding freedom, product placement

blah blah blah

use specified producer studios for musical recording

nerd words...

keep grades up and stay in Ouran academy for 2 years... sounds easy enough.

She arrived at Ouran with all of her luggage dumped on the sidewalk.

"HEY! GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE!" Alex ran after the rogue Limousin only to be shot back with dirt and gravel in her face. She tugged everything on top of her rolling luggage cases and chugged forward to the chairman's office. On her way there she kept seeing a flash of dark brown strands. At one point she saw a girl with long, dark brown hair, big, light brown eyes and what looked to her like a sailor's outfit. She walked on and soon found the office.

"Alexxa? Hello, my dear. How has life been since our last meeting?" Yuzuru Suoh, the chairman of Ouran Academy. What a flirt.

"Oh, its been well Mr. Suoh."

"Please, call me Uncle Yu."

"Uh, okay, Uncle Yu."

"How's your mother? Still well paid, right?"

"Oh yes, very much so, sir."

"And I see your japanese lessons paid off, even if it took a while."

"Yes, Uncle Yu."

"Well that's good. Well here's where you'll be staying for the next three years, help out a few companies with advertisements, perform at a few venues, and after that, we'll just see what happens." He handed her a small sheet of paper with her new address and she headed off. She went this way and that, constantly looking around. Not long after she left Ouran she got lost. With everything being in Japanese, she couldn't say she was surprised. She found a small concrete bench and sat. She bent so her head was surrounded by her hands in her lap as she cursed herself for not looking over the area with google maps when her iPhone still had battery.

"Are you Okay?" Alex looked up to see two familiar brown eyes. It's that girl from earlier. She was identical in height, had the silkiest, smoothest, straight, long, brunette hair with the cutest little fringe, and her eyes were so big and round and warm and chocolaty Alex felt like she could smell the sweetness coming off of the girl.

"I'm uh," She looked around and scratched the back of her neck. "I'm a little lost." The girl smiled, causing her eyes to squint and tilted her head.

"I saw you at the school earlier today, didn't I?" Alex sheepishly nodded and looked to the left, avoiding the girl's gaze for reasons she couldn't explain. "But anyways, what's your address?" Alex buried her hand in her pocket, shuffling around her fingers to find the note the chairman of the school.

"Um, here it is. It's uh," Alex squinted her eyes. Why'd I have to forget my contacts? "Looks like, 5476 Hakuno street, apartment 17."

"Oh, that's right by where I live. Do you need any help with your bags? We could help you." The girl looked behind and gestured to a tall man with really long dark auburn hair behind her. Alex shook her head no and smiled in a similar way the girl did not too long ago.

"I'm fine. Thanks for asking. " The girl led her down a few streets before stopping in front of a small apartment complex and putting her fists on her hips. "Thank you. Before I, uh, forget, where is the nearest supermarket around here?"

"Oh. it's down the street and to the right for a few blocks. It's really big so you can't miss it."

"Thank you, again."

"You're welcome. You can ask us any questions any time. We live in that building over there-" She pointed across the street. "Apartment 6. You can ask us questions any time you need to, okay?" After waving goodbye, Alex looked to her new apartment building and searched for the number 17. At least it's on the bottom floor. After hauling all of her things into the main room, she explored it a bit. The chairman said it would have everything she would need, including various items of furniture and kitchen ware.

Alex set to work first setting her iPhone with an upbeat playlist containing various 'punk' bands and preceding to unpack by folding and hanging her clothes, organizing her instruments, an electronic keyboard and an accoustic guitar and a ukulele in an organized manner on the floor of her closet, and putting her books in the shelf in the living room. Last, she unpacked her photos. She set them in stacks on the desk of her room and dug for some tape or thumbtacks. Every few weeks she'd see if she had enough money leftover to buy a frame. She started setting the stacks in the top drawer of the desk when she got to the last stack. The top picture on the stack was of her when she was nine at the beach in her regular clothes, soaked to the bone, next to a boy with platinum blond hair and hazel eyes wearing just swimming shorts. They were both smiling at the camera. She remembered that day, she remembered what he said, she remembered, him.

"I dare you." The boy leaned next to the car and stared at her, a smirk breaking on his face.

"What?" She looked back at him from the bag she was rummaging through, trying to find her swimsuit.

"I said I dare you."

"Dare me what?"

"Go out there in just that-" He gestured to her clothes. " and go where the water is to your shoulders."

"Are you serious?" His smile widened.

"Yep. I triple dog dare you." His smile was replaced by a surprised face when she smiled just as wide and headed to the crowded beach.

"Piece of cake." The girl headed past her mom, still pulling things out of the trunk before she saw her daughter cross the sandy beach.

"Alex! What are you doing?! Get back here and put your swimsuit on!" But she was too late. Alex was already to her waist in the water and she wasn't slowing down, no matter how high the waves in front of her were. Pretty soon she dived under and stayed down there for a good forty seconds before coming up for air and letting the waves help her back to shore.

She had a smug look on her face when the boy's face still showed surprised. Alex's mom, laughing uncontrollably, took out a camera.

"Smile!" Both kids smiled and held each other by the shoulder.

Click!

Alex smiled at the random memory. How long has it been? five, almost six years, where has the time gone, Shawn. She smiled and let a tear fall from one of her eyes. She felt another memory begin to resurface and her face turned cross.

"Dammit! No, no no no no no no no no no, NO!" She slammed her fist on the desk, wrinkling the picture. She straitened herself as her lip's edges turned downwards. The memory's gone, I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm safe. She walked to the bathroom to splash some water on her face. She looked at her reflection in the mirror. The hair around her face was wet and her eyes were puffy. Her eyes found the small, faded scar just below her eye. Her hand brushed over it and she got angry again. Stupid, stupid, STUPID! "Agh!" Her hands knotted themselves into her hair and her eyes snapped shut. She released her hands and opened her eyes again. She looked in the mirror to see just her regular self, albeit really pissed off. She sighed

She walked back to her room and put the rest of the photos away. She laid her folded sheets on the bed before grabbing her acoustic guitar from its place in the closet and sat on an ottoman in the living room. She playfully strummed the chords and took a few deep breaths. Singing and playing, no matter how serious, were met by much passion from Alex, every time she took out her instruments or even sang in the shower.

In the middle of her song, a knock sounded at the door. Shit! I didn't think I was playing that loudly. Please don't be a complaint, please! Alex headed to the door and opened it with a smile. "Hello there! I'm sorry about the noise-."

"Hi again. Your song, it's amazing, did you write all that yourself?" It was the girl from earlier, again. Alex looked at the girl in confusion

"Uh, yea. Were you listening outside my-" The girl cut her off.

"Well again, it's amazing. Uh, this is from me and my dad." She held out a small case of chocolates. "Oh, and sorry for not saying this earlier. I'm Haruhi. Haruhi Fujioka"

"Uh, thanks Haruhi. I'm Alex, Alex Sterling." Alex held her hand out and Haruhi transferred the chocolates from one hand to the other.

"I don't mean to be rude, but why are your living here? I thought only rich people attend Ouran."

"That's usually the case but I was invited on a Music scholarship actually."

"Really? What a coincidence. I'm on an academic scholarship there myself. All antics aside, it was nice meeting you, Alex. Uh here." She set the chocolates in my hand and turned to leave.

"Ditto Haruhi. Uh, see ya later." Haruhi smiled and waved.

"Bye."

"Bye." Alex headed back to her room after setting the chocolate in the kitchen and putting her guitar back away. While she didn't do anything to tire herself out, Alex felt pretty exhausted, enough to make her skip dinner and head straight to bed. She got into her pajamas and crawled into bed. In two days, she'd be going to Ouran academy for her first day of school. Well, at least she already made a friend. The next morning was nice; she woke up by herself and had a nice, relaxing, dreamless sleep. Surprising for the first night away really, if you knew how attached to her family she was.

This chapter starts 2 days before the first day of school! Thank you for reading!

(1*) Aloha 'oe means farewell to you in hawaiian and hoku means star

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