Ouran High is for the rich and famous. And that is precisely what I am. My mother is a famous Japanese actress and my father a strong and rich business man. Of course being a daughter of a business man I am very serious. I have no friends, everyone is afraid of me; if I try to approach someone all they do is run away. I have learned that being scary gives you more power, however in my cause that is not true. Sometimes I need someone to go too. Someone to tell all my secrets to, if I have no friends then I must keep everything to myself. And that's exactly what I do. I have a beautiful Portuguese water dog as my best friend of course I also have the upper hand in this relationship as well.
Summer vacation is over and school starts tomorrow, I must keep up my image, if I do not people will think I've become weak. The most popular club in Ouran high is the host club. The members include Mori, Hunny, Haruhi, Tamaki, Kyoya, Hikaru, and Kaoru. It is most popular amidst the women of the school. All the men are quite angry of the fact that there is a host club in their school. I know everything about everyone. I also know where everybody lives and their status.
School has officially started and we already have a great deal of homework. I of course have already finished mine. I had to learn Japanese before I can to Japan. I had originally lived in Canada when I was poor, well when I was a commoner. So it was harder for me not having Japanese as my first language. I now know all the languages of the world.
As lunch begins I head for my private library, which was built for me. I have my food sent to the library. I do my studies and then I sketch my surroundings. I like being enclosed with no one around, it's the only time I can truly be myself. My father looks down on me because I'm the second daughter and because I have a love for drawing. "Drawing is merely a wasteful skill that is worth nothing" is what he always tells me. However even though his hopes to put me down I still draw in secret, I have been taught by some of the best artists. Thanks to my mother who encourages me all the way; that is if she's not in my father's presence.
As I make my way to my next class I see a male student go into the women's bathroom. I swiftly make my way there to tell them off, but as I step inside the elegant room I find Haruhi who is posing as a male but is in fact a female. I approach her and say "If you are posing as a male, you might want to go to the male washroom, or the host club bathroom so that your cover is not shown," I wash my hands to get the lead off of them and leave, just when I thought everything was said things she replied to me, "How did you know I was a girl?"
"I know everything about everyone in this school; I suggest not speaking of this to the host club members. Be more careful next time, otherwise someone could really figure out whom and what gender you are. Goodbye" I say as I walk out of the bathroom. "Wait! What's your name?"
"That's not important, you will never see me or speak to me again." The sad fact is that it is true. I walk through the doors that lead to the host club to tell them to watch over her better. As I open the doors I see six men serving women who are going gaga over them. I approach Kyoya, "You know next time Haruhi skips out in the host club duties you should follow her, I found her in the girls washroom if someone else had found her you would have some explaining to do Kyoya." His eyes widened with shock, he glanced out from under his book and replied "Well then we are truly luckly it was only you who had found her." He doesn't know my name or the amount of power that I hold. I let him be but before I leave the room I glace back to see two very handsome men looking my way, their names Mori, and Tamaki. I turn back around and leave.
School has ended for the day and I go to one of the most beautiful places on the campus. I go to where the cherry blossoms grow. I sit down on the bench and begin to draw. With no care in the world or the fact of anything and the entire buzz happening around me I put my pencil on the paper and begin. As I finish I recognize the time, I have to get changed for my father's meeting. With one of his highly successful clients, I must get ready! So I return to the main building and go into my private library and go to the bathroom to prepare myself. On my way out I snatch the drawings I did earlier that day. I go to put them in my bag only to find that my bag is no where to be found. It has all my drawings in it and I had put my name on them. If someone finds them from my father's staff I could be in big trouble.
I rush out the front doors to the cherry blossom garden to find my drawings only to be found by Tamaki and Haruhi. I see them following me but I can't turn around for if I do I will be late. As I approach the bench I found my bag. Thank god they're still here. I look at my latest drawing. It's of a cherry blossom tree its good, but not good enough. Mother would never like it I must try again it must be perfect. I throw it in the garbage can that is next to the bench and make my way to the car. But before I do; I hide, I hide behind the cherry blossoms close enough to hear what Tamaki is saying. He reaches into the garbage can and unfolds my drawing. He turns to Haruhi and says "The young lady we were following was she the one that found out your gender?"
"Yes, she was. But she never told me her name."
"Her name is Mae, she is a big hit with her new book, she's only 15 and she has written many highly successful books. It is said that she loves to draw and many of the new famous drawings in her family's house are done by her. Her father is against it so she has a pen name for both drawing and writing. She is very rich; her family is very high in status and power. Her mother loves to arrange flowers and they have a huge garden full of flowers. She encourages Mae with her work when her father does not. She also has a dog named Jade. She is a very beautiful young woman, she was offered many modeling contracts but she rejected them because her father does not approve. She meets with people of very high status and is a hit with all the men, but she has never liked a single one of them, nor has she ever had a boyfriend. But I don't know why she would throw away a masterpiece like this."
I step out from be hind the cherry blossoms. "What you say is not true, that is no masterpiece, if it's not perfect my father will suspect it was me and my mother disappointed in my work, only my perfect work is given to my mother or shown in my house."
"But you have your true name signed, were you planning to give it to your mother in secret and have the name hidden, or were you to give it to your older sister whom you hardly see anymore, or were you planning to keep it for yourself?"
"It is simply a sketch; it has no use in my house, or in my bag. It is worth nothing."
"What you say is a lie, this is no mere sketch, this was a full out drawing that you put much care and thought into, it doesn't belong in the garbage."
"If you think so highly of it keep it for yourself, I have no care in the world of what becomes of it." I turn around and walk away. My hair blowing in the wind, I don't dare to look back, for if I do I might just learn to love him.
As I reach the car door I glance behind me, all I see are the cherry blossoms riding the wind. Such grace, such beauty, I wish I could be like that other than being forgetful and clumsy. But all good things have its limits; like a rose its thorns. I turn back, facing the car now only to see Tamaki holding the door for me, I bow and enter, yet he follows he slides into the seat next to me and closes the door. Then his mouth opens and words come out but I don't listen to them I just look at him thinking "what the hell are you doing in my car and why do you have my picture?" he stops. Looks out the window, that's when my gaze breaks. He talks once more "I'm going to escort you to your fathers meeting with one of his clients, after all it is a dance and you have no one to go with. He is being so sudden he don't even ask me if it's ok, he just tells me that's what he will do, I've learned to just listen to what people say too me and if I don't like it to talk back. But I can't look at him in the eye; I'm too scared, too nervous to tell him that maybe it's not the best thing too do. But maybe somewhere in my heart I want him to take me; for once I won't be alone. I'll have someone by my side always ready to smile.
"As long as I can remember I was alone and I never smiled I only had my paper and pencils as company. I never cried; never. I held back everything like I was taught to. I was told to look pretty and stand there and accompany dad to any important meetings. Later did I realized I was for show and once I tried to learn about the business I was told not to worry I'll marry a rich man that will take care of the business and I would only have to walk by his side to get noticed. But in secret I learnt of how the business works. My father was always strict with me I had to know everything but what I really needed to know I wasn't allowed to know." I told him
"My life may seem the same to you but it's completely different. If you show up and my father hadn't arranged it, well it's as if you were never there, he would take my arm and introduce me to another young man who is willing to take over our company" I looked out the window and continued. "You don't know what it's like, so don't even try to say you understand how it is." All he did was look at me and smiled. "You're still going to escort me aren't you?"
"Yup"
The car drove up my driveway and I got out and closed the door, turns out I closed the door really close to his face. He got into this huge riot about it, it was quite funny. No matter how many times I told Tamaki that my father would never allow it, each time I said it the more he would go on about how he will be taking me. He is very kind in that way, but also very annoying in his own way.
I walk up to the front door. Look at the doormen, and they open up the large elegant doors. I am greeted by my maids. The fashion designer walks up at me and asks me to follow her to my room; so that I am able to try on the dress she has made for me, the designer just so happens to be the twins' mother. She has made an elegant dress, it quietly flows to the ground. It has a low back and a low front, showing cleavage is the best way for my father to get more business, if the first son likes what he sees he will beg his father for a business deal. That was always the case for me. I am always to get him more business.
The dress is a light blue that compliments my skin tone and body type. It is tight at the top and slowly loosens as it makes its way to the ground. Tamaki soon barges in with the twins, Hikaru, and Kaoru. Hikaru tends to be the one who is meaner one of the two. His voice is lower. Tamaki yelling at them for being in my house let alone outside my room, which I knew since, the doors were closed behind me.
"How dare you! Being outside of a lovely young maiden's room while she is being fitted! How rude of you!"
"It's not our fault my lord our mother is in here so it's natural that we would be outside her room while she is changing"
"She has a name, and it's Mae. So if you don't mind please leave. You are causing a headache more than anything else. Wait in the main living room if you don't mind. And that means all three of you." I gave them a stern look and they did as they were told. Such obedient young men, I may have use for them yet.
When my fitting had finished I took my way down the stairs of the main living room. In my dress of course, I was made to be elegant and beautiful, which luckily for my father I am. I reach the living room only to find none other but the host club minus Harhui. I get myself into one little meeting with just the one person only to find that every person is now apart of my life. Doing what I do best I continued to walk, walking right past them not even giving them a slight peak at my eyes. I reach the end of the room and say "Those of you who wish to leave feel free to. I am not to be bothered while trying to be introduced to a new client. I am not to be bothered when I am in the presence of my father. And any of you who wish to dance with me will have to have a business deal with my family, if you already do you will have to prove it and I may dance with you once it is proven and my father agrees to it. Follow these terms and you will be safe from my family, however if you disobey the rules set up for you, I am sure you will have trouble in the near future." I said
"Wow, talk about money for the family, she really knows how to pack in the business and dough for her family." Said the Twins
"Naturally a good starting point for a young business woman" said Kyoya.
"Good starting points you say," He doesn't know what's ahead for him and the surprise of his life, "So this young business woman you talk of, does she have two businesses she controls of her own? Which is currently ahead of every business of the world, and the only company that is competing with that company is her other company? Oh and she's also helping her father to try to get ahead of her own company?"
"No." he said.
"Didn't think that someone like me could do something like that? Well get used to it cause I still have the free time." I continue a bit longer to prove my point "Oh and don't tell my father, I know you have let your father find out about your business but I'd prefer it that my father doesn't find out, not yet at least. Okay, back to the party. The limo will arrive in the front shortly my father will be going with my mother in a separate limo. When it arrives you will have the door opened for you. You will let me go in first and then the rest of you will follow. Oh and Hikaru, and Kaoru your mother has asked you two to go with her, you will be using, again one of our limos to get to the party. The rest of you will come to me. Now let's go."
The Limo pulled up at the front of my round about and of course Tamaki being the kingly and gentlemen type open the door for me. At least I know that one of them was paying attention to my lecture. I don't mean to be like this, it's just, it's the only way I've been taught to be like. If it were up to me I'd be partying, drawing, writing books, and hangs out with a friend; that is if I had any. I WANT a boyfriend; I want to have someone care for me. But my father told me he will choose a man for me and I shall take him as my husband. I will break free from him. But not yet; I want to be a rebellious teenager. I just don't know when I'll break free from my father; but I will.
"So Mori, how is you're mother and father doing? I hear you're father has just opened a kendo school, how's the business working out? If you want I can get more costumers I've already studied with both you and your father I could recommend some people to the school."
"Wait! You're telling me you've trained with Mori? But that must mean that you also trained with Hunny, they always train together, well for the most part." Tamaki stated
"Yeah, I've masterd both of the Families own style of kendo." they were shocked big time!