Disclaimer: I don't know Ouran High School Host Club.

Beside you, was always me. Beside me, was always you. So what should I do when you are no longer beside me? Mitsuki looks in the mirror and sees eyes with no shine. Sumire, where did you go? The reflection blurs behind tears. "Where did you go?"

Mitsuki turns the sink on and splashes her face. "Get it together, Mitsuki." She waits minutes for her face to clear up. She takes a deep breath, and leaves the girls' restroom. She meets up with her friend in the hallway.

"Hey, Mitsuki! Karin's been talking about the host club non-stop, you know? It's kind of getting on my nerves."

"Oh, has she been?" Mitsuki is only half listening.

"Yeah, I think she needs to join a club. I'm sick of her talking about Tamaki-Sempai."

"Is that so?"

"Are you really listening, Mitsuki?"

"Yeah, yeah."

"Okay… Well I was wondering if you wanted to go to the Host Club after school. Because I want to know what is so great about this Tamaki guy."

"Tae, where are you headed? We just passed the class." Mitsuki spins Tae around and they walk into their class together. "And there is no way I would be seen in a Host Club."

Tae and Mitsuki sit at their desks, next to each other. "Ah, come on. Everyone goes to the Host Club. Even the popular people.

Karin enters the classroom and sits at her desk in front of Tae, and turns her body to face her and Mitsuki. "I'm going to the host club after school. You promised you'd go with me this time, right, Tae-Chan?

"Yeah, could you explain the hosts to Mitsuki so we can convince her to go?" Tae rolls her eyes and looks at Mitsuki. Mitsuki looks away.

"Sure. My favorite is Tamaki. But I think the best for Mitsuki is…Haruhi, maybe?"

"Alright, describe Haruhi, then."

"He has big brown eyes. And all the girls say he is really sweet. And his mom is dead."

Haruhi, you know what it's like to loose someone? "I'll go." Haruhi, why would you join the Host Club?

"Really? That easily?"

"Karin," Tae says, "Sumire, remember? Haruhi and Mitsuki have something in common." Tae talks quietly, knowing that it's a touchy subject.

"Dead relatives is something in common?"

"Karin! Don't be so insensitive!" Tae is still in her hushed tone. Mitsuki pretends not to be listening. Beside you, was always me. Beside me, was always you. So what should I do when you are no longer beside me?

After school, the three girls make their way to the third music room. "Hey, Tae, did you decide who you're going to designate?" Karin happily walks to the right of Tae. Mitsuki to the left.

"Yeah, I was thinking I was just going to go with Tamaki."

"No way! You might steal him from me! Tamaki and I have this special connection. You might destroy it."

"Aww! Don't be so cruel."

"You know," Mitsuki starts, "you shouldn't fall in love with a host member." Mitsuki is in a quiet voice. Her head low.

"What?" Karin walks in front of Mitsuki and turns around to face her. "Who says I can't?" Karin rolls her eyes.

Mitsuki walks around her. "He's a host. He can't fall in love with anyone. What seems like love to you, it's just pretend. He acts the same way around everyone."

Karin turns back around and begins walking with them again. "Fun sucker." And then with the slow walk to the music room, came an awkward silence. Soon they came to the room.

"Well, we're here now!" Tae says, trying to sound cheerful. Mitsuki and Karin look away.

"Yeah, let's go in," Karin says. "Mitsuki, think twice before entering. You might accidentally fall in love with Haruhi." Karin walks in. Tae turns to face Mitsuki.

"Um…"

"It's alright. I expected this kind of reaction."

"Then why'd you say it? All you've been doing is picking fights since-" Tae doesn't finish her sentence. "Let's just go in."

Tae walks in, and Mitsuki follows.

"We're the first ones in!" Karin says, grabbing onto Tae's arm and dragging her in. Mitsuki follows slowly and quietly.

The host club, simultaneously say, "Welcome!"

Mitsuki looks up. Sumire, there are twins here. With their arms hooked together. With one smile just like the other.

"Oh! Some new faces! There are new guests, Takashi!" Hunny bounced around.

Karin smiles. "Yes, I brought my friend Tae."

The twins tilt their heads. "But you brought two people." Karin shakes her head.

"Just one. The other girl brought herself," Karin rolled her eyes. "Anyway, come on Tamaki, my friend wants to meet you!"

Karin and Tae go to their own table, leaving Mitsuki there. Mitsuki remains looking up at the twins. Sumire, there are twins here. With their arms hooked together. They are no longer smiling, because they are confused.

Mitsuki smiles at them. "Could I designate-" Sumire, I don't know their names. "H-Haruhi."

Haruhi smiles and leads Mitsuki to a table. Mitsuki sits down with her. "Hello," Haruhi says.

"Haruhi, why did you join this club?"

"Eh? Oh, a little mistake, I guess." Mitsuki shifted uncomfortably in her chair.

"So you regret joining?" Mitsuki asks.

"Well, I used to-"

"You don't any more? So then it wasn't a mistake?"

"It was a mistake that led me to joining."

"Do you like being in the host club?"

"Yes," Haruhi smiles, "I like it."

"H-how long ago…did your mother die?"

"E-eh?" Haruhi wasn't expecting that question.

Sumire, I startled him. I probably shouldn't have asked him.

"Sorry," Mitsuki says, standing up. "I should probably go."

"Wait," Haruhi starts, but Mitsuki has already left the room. Sumire, do you think I made him sad? But I wish we could have talked about it.

Mitsuki stands in the hallway. "The twins! I forgot about them, too. Even though they are in a dumb club like that, they're together."

Back in the third music room, Haruhi asks Kyoya, "Who was that? I don't think I've seen her around school."

"Saionji Mitsuki. Her father is the owner of a chain of five star hotels. She had a twin named Sumire who fell out of a window and died."

"So that's why she asked me about my mom."

"Rumors say she pushed her out of the window, herself. Her father is very sick. When he dies, all the money should go to his daughters. Apparently, Mitsuki got greedy and wanted all the money for herself." Kyoya adjusted his glasses.

"But stories like that can't really be true…"

"Who knows?"

Haruhi remembers earlier, Karin acting like Mitsuki wasn't there. "It must be hard on her for her friends to ignore her like that."

Mitsuki hides behind the doors of the Host Club, listening to Kyoya and Haruhi talk. "That's wrong." Mitsuki opens the door. "That's wrong!"

The room's inhabitants are startled and they turn to look at Mitsuki. "Tae has been very nice to me. Even with all the accusations, she's still my friend. And Karin, too. She invited me to go with her. Even though there are suspicions! It's my fault Karin was mad at me earlier."

Tears roll down Mitsuki's cheeks. "Tae and Karin have been very nice to me!" Karin and Tae stand up and run over to Mitsuki.

"Hold on a second, Mitsuki!" Tae says.

"There's no need to start a scene. Although I'm not sure who you're talking to." Karin adds.

Beside you, was always me. Beside me, was always you. So what should I do when you are no longer beside me? And there are the twins. Beside each other.

Mitsuki find herself walking toward the twins, who are sitting at a table in front of girls who designated them. And then she falls on her knees and cries in front of them. "S-Sumire?"

And she falls unconscious.

Sumire sits in her chair beside the window. Outside, is a cherry blossom tree. Mitsuki sits in her chair in front of Sumire. Sumire whispers something that Mitsuki can not hear. And so Mitsuki leans her head closer to Sumire to hear what she said. Sumire speaks again, quieter. What did she say? Mitsuki leans in farther, and then falls out of her chair.

Sumire steps onto the windowsill. Mitsuki calls out to Sumire. Sumire points to the cherry blossom tree and whispers. Mitsuki stands up and looks at the tree. She sees nothing but the blossoms. Sumire falls. Saying nothing, just falling. She falls four stories down. Mitsuki's eyes widen and she looks down out the window. Sumire is dead.

Mitsuki wakes to the host club looking down at her. There is a cloth on her forehead, and a thermometer in her mouth.

"Miki-Chan's awake! Miki-Chan, are you okay?"

The thermometer beeps and Mitsuki removes it from her mouth. She look down at it, but her vision is too blurry. She hands it to Kyoya.

Kyoya reads it. "Don't get to close to her, Hunny. She has a slight fever. We should probably get her home soon. Her parents are probably wondering where she is."

"It's alright," Mitsuki whispers faintly. "They don't want a murderer in the hotel. It'll trouble the guests." She rolls over to where her face meets the back of the couch she is laying on.

"You don't mean-" Kaoru starts.

"Your parents think-"Hikaru continues.

"They think I killed Sumire," Mitsuki finishes. "It's okay. I used to be outraged, but that died down. They loved Sumire the most, you see."

"Where do you sleep then?" Haruhi asks. But Mitsuki has fallen back to sleep.

"Now, it's only a matter of where she shall sleep tonight." Kyoya says.

Says Tamaki, "A child who's parents think she killed her own twin sister and will not allow her in her own home? This problem should not exist!"

"What solution do you have in mind? This is different than the normal problems." Kaoru says.

"We're dealing with an actual murder case. What if she really did kill her sister?" Hikaru adds.

"This isn't our problem. We just need to think of a place for her to sleep tonight." says Kyoya.

"We need to go to the Saionji hotel and give the manager a piece of our minds!" Tamaki proclaims.

Hunny says, "If she needs a place to sleep, maybe Haruhi should take her?"

"Hn," Mori agrees.

"Hold on! I don't have any room for her!" Haruhi disagrees.

"Why don't we just leave her here?" Hikaru asks.

The room is momentarily silent. "Then it's settled, we leave her here!"

"We can't do that!" Tamaki shouts.

"I really have to get home. There are a lot of chores that have to be done," Haruhi says. "I'll be leaving first!" She leaves the room.

"What are we going to do with her, if we can not leave her here?" Kyoya asks.

"I just remembered I had to go eat cake tonight! Takashi and I have to go. Bye!" Hunny and Mori leave the room.

Kyoya adjusts his glasses. "Does anyone have any ideas? My father is having an important meeting that I must attend. I need to leave soon."

"That's why I said we should go to the hotel and tell the manager-"

"Well, I'll be leaving then." Kyoya leaves the room.

"I guess I should leave too." Tamaki says.

"Don't leave her with us!" Kaoru says.

"What are we supposed to do with her?" Hikaru adds.

Tamaki leaves the room.

"Kaoru, should we just leave her?"

Mitsuki wakes up. "Where am I?"

"School," Hikaru says.

"Oh. What time is it?"

"No clue."

"I'm hungry." Mitsuki stands up.

"Hold on, where are you going?" Kaoru asks.

"Cafeteria. Where else?"

"Do you sleep there?" Hikaru asks.

"No, stupid. I eat there. Do you sleep there?" Mitsuki walks slowly, slumped over. She begins to fall, but Kaoru catches her.

"It's after school, the cafeteria is closed." Hikaru sits her down in a chair.

"Hikaru, I'm hungry too. We should get going."

Kaoru walks over to the door, and tries to turn the knob.

"Hikaru…"

"Yes?"

"The door is locked."

Author note: Sorry about the OCs. They're kind of part of the story. This story is mostly about Mitsuki and the twins, though. If you don't like twins or OCs, don't read. I may abandon story at some point, I'm not sure. I will definitely write the next chapter, though. Please review. And I'm working on the second chapter!