Complex: Prologue
Author's Note: Hello, this is my first fanfiction, so I would appreciate if you could give me feedback on what you think about it. It's rated T because of cussing. I hope you enjoy reading it and tell me what you think!
Like a scene from a shojo manga, girl stared at boy; boy stared at girl; girl proceeded to chant death threats about said boy in her head. Yumeno Takahashi held grudges and kept said grudges. The grudges she kept were irrational, petty, and plain sad to a bystander's point of view, but that didn't matter to Yumeno. Why you say? Because nobody knew she held grudges.
Growing up in an affluent family that owned their own multi-million dollar corporation thrust Yumeno into the scrutiny of others at a young age and in turn caused her to mature quickly. Yumeno realized that people held different expectations for rich children. That for some unknown reason people thought her parent's money would restrain her from wanting to climb a tree or from screaming out in glee over rain. That her parent's money would morph her into a quiet doll that would behave properly at social events meant for adults and would grace her with a serene smile that seemed sewn to her face. Yumeno soon realized that nobody wanted the rambunctious child who wanted to scream and run around just like everyone else her age, that child was a nuisance, a disturbance. That child was unwanted.
So Poor five year old Yumeno feared abandonment so she did what she saw as the only logical option at the time; she conformed to the wants of others. Yumeno created a façade, a beautiful façade. With her new mask she was practically perfect, she was polite, and well mannered, and level headed, and competent, and intelligent, and kind, and forgiving.
However no matter how beautiful and perfect a façade is it will always be fake, and the stronger her façade grew the farther the contrast between her real personality and her façade grew. In reality Yumeno was blunt, rash, petty, and from years of hiding away her true personality developed a strong distaste for people better than her. Why were people able to surpass her even after she tried so hard to be perfect to the point that she hid away her true personality? With the creation of her façade, Yumeno's world view also became jaded she saw people for what they possessed, what advantages could they bring to her, and whether or not they were even worth her time. This world view developed from her obsessive want to inherit her parent's company, the Takahashi Corporation.
So with this jaded world view and façade Yumeno had on 24/7 she had to resign herself to chanting the death threats inside her head as she glared at Kyoya Ootori because his name was above hers on the class ranking page posted in front of her. And she had to force herself to resist the urge to crush Kyoya's hand as he shook hers as he said to her "better luck next time". Thus began Yumeno's hatred for Kyoya Ootori as she smiled back at him thinking is he trying to provoke me?!
However Yumeno didn't strongly dislike Kyoya Ootori just because he surpassed her in basically every class ranking, there was something else about him that bugged her. Something about him that reminded her too much of herself that the face he showed everyone was fake and what lied underneath was something less than perfect. In addition to Kyoya's sketchiness he was also part of the host club.
The one and only club Yumeno hated with a passion. She couldn't understand the frivolous girls who went there who obviously didn't want to inherit their company if they had the time to waste on fawning over boys, and don't even get Yumeno started on the boys who were members of the host club. In her opinion they were all narcissistic and arrogant and she was pretty sure one of them was a girl. But she couldn't express her disdain for the host club openly. OH NO that would ruin the façade she worked so hard to create. Instead she always said she had some incredibly important event when one of the frivolous girls in her class asked her if she wanted to join them. With this in mind Yumeno wondered how in the world she ended up sipping tea while sitting across the infuriating prick known as Kyoya Ootori in her most hated place in the entire school, the host club's club room.