This is my first Ouran Fanfic. I would appreciate feedback! Enjoy!
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAL!" shouted Amai.
"Happy 15th birthday, little sis!"
"One year! I'm younger than you by one year!"
"Still my little sis!" Erin sang. Callie slammed her head onto the polished granite kitchen counter, her dark brown curls flying out behind her.
"Don't do that, you'll break your glasses and your pretty face." Max said as she passed by and patted Callie on the head. Callie lifted her head slowly off the counter. Her big brown eyes sparkled, but looked tired behind her thick black framed glasses.
"Why am I the annoyed one when it's my birthday? Shouldn't I be annoying all of you?" she asked playfully.
"When have we ever worked that way?" Talia asked laughing.
"One of these days I'm gonna wake up 80 years old with wrinkles and saggy-"
"EW! Too much information!" Amai screamed.
"-and it's gonna be all your fault, guys!" she finished, as if she had never been interrupted. She hopped off the barstool, walked around the counter, and plopped herself into a chair at the kitchen table.
"Bring on the presents losers!" she shouted, raising her arms.
"If I'm a loser, why should I give you your present?" Erin asked cocking an eyebrow. (A/N I've always wanted to learn how to do that!)
"Because we know what'll happen if we don't." Talia said with a shiver. Last time they didn't give Callie her presents on her birthday, she had let Max cook. It was the worst, most revolting two days of their stomachs lives.
"Open mine first." Amai said and dropped a small, fat box onto the table in front of Callie. Callie ripped it open and smiled. Inside laid a Lord of the Rings ring of power on a chain along with a drawstring bracelet with a pentagram in the middle and a leather cord bracelet with a gold deathly hallows symbol. Max got her a new pair of combat boots. Talia handed her a slim, thin package and an even thinner, smaller card. It was a $25 Barnes and Nobles gift card and…
"OHMYGANDALF! Ouran High School Host Club Season One on DVD!" she squealed. Callie threw herself at Talia and latched herself around her waist.
"THANK YOU!" she cried.
"Okay," Talia laughed, "Let go of me squirt. You're sister has a very special present for you."
Callie let go and quickly turned to face Erin. Erin smiled and slowly brought her hands out from behind her back. Callie's eyes widened and started to water.
"Is that Mom's jewelry box?"
"Yeah baby girl, it is," Erin said with a sad smile, "Mom said that if anything ever happened, when I thought you were old enough, let you pick a single piece of jewelry from her box. You've gotten so big and you're not a tiny tot anymore." Callie had silent tears dripping down her face and she jumped into her sister's arms, holding her as tight as she could. The she lifted her head and said, "Okay."
Erin gently placed the box on the table and Callie took deep breath and opened it. The girls stared in silent awe at the beauty of the impressive collection of jewelry lining every available surface of the ornate box. Callie slowly, lovingly, picked through the elegant, tasteful compilation of necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and more. Finally, she stumbled upon the necklace that was her favorite and also connected to one of her most treasured memories with her mother. It was a simple pedant with one heart layered on top of the other. The heart in the front was folded forward slightly to put some space between them. Hanging sturdily in the middle was a tiny rectangular amethyst gem. The pendant itself hung on a thin gold chain.
Flashback
"Mommy, that necklace is weally pwetty." A five-year-old Callie said, staring at the necklace hanging from her mother's neck. Her mother smiled.
"This necklace is special, my little songbird. This necklace will take you anywhere you wish to go." She said.
Then she smiled a dazzling smile and said, "One day it will go to you. That I promise." Callie's eyes got big and she asked, "Weally?" Her mom nodded. Callie let out a loud squeal and launched herself into her mom's arms, burying her face into her stomach. Her mom let out a musical laugh and squeezed Callie close to her.
Flashback End
Callie wiped away her tears while Erin slowly clasped the pendant around her neck.
"She'd be so proud of you baby girl." Erin said.
"Thanks Eri." Callie said her voice shaking slightly. Then she cleared her throat and spoke in a strong voice, "Now, let's stop being so depressing! Let's go to the home theater and watch Ouran!" Callie said.
"Yeah!" Amai agreed.
The girls ran to their rooms, changed into their pajamas, and sprinted to the home movie theater. It wasn't a little room with a fat screen and couches. Oh no. It was a literal movie theater in their house. (A/N *cough* mansion *cough*) It had a movie theater screen and snack bar and everything. Callie raced to the projector booth and popped in the disc and ran back to her row. Each girl had her own row of seats, that's how big the movie theater was. The theme song started up and the girls started singing along as loud as they could, and then burst into a fit of hysterical laughter. That was quickly shushed by Max, whose gold eyes were practically glued to the screen. The beginning of "Starting Today You Are A Host" began to play. They watched Ouran for hours, pigging out on all of the snacks, and quoting the episodes at the weirdest of times. Ever so slowly, they began to fall asleep, one by one, until Callie was the only one left awake. She was struggling to stay that way. Eventually, the lull of the TV, the comforting snores Talia was emitting, and the warmth of her favorite Fairy Tail chibi blanket pulled her toward the familiar and comforting embrace of sleep. Right before she allowed herself to be consumed by the beast that is sleep she spoke, in no more than a whisper.
"I wish we could go to Ouran," slipped past her lips before she succumbed to sleep. Then her head fell backward onto the padded armrest and she fell into a deep sleep. What she didn't notice was after her wish escaped her lips, the amethyst gem in her necklace started to glow brighter and brighter. A thin tendril of the purple light reached out sluggishly toward the screen still playing Ouran High School Host Club. It hesitated, then plunged into the screen and the picture broke up. It rippled for a second like a pond before it became a swirling whirlpool of lavender and salmon pink. The amethyst's light started breaking up into separate, thicker tendrils. Each one gently picked up a girl and pulled them through the screen. Miraculously, none of them woke up. Not even Erin, who was the lightest sleeper in the group of five girls. As the last girls, Max and Amai, were pulled through the whirlpool of color, the screen went black. It was as if they had never been there at all.
Sooooooo? How was it?! Please tell me what you think and who you think ends up with who!
Bye my stars!
~Zstar1