Seeing double?! It's a twin thing!
"Hurry up, Manami…" Kenji muttered as he walked up the sidewalk to the extravagant Ouran High School, strumming his guitar with each step he took. Manami made sure her pace was much slower than his, it was what he got for making her wear the fluffy, yellow princess dress that the female students had to wear, she had been getting away with wearing simple sweaters and such beforehand. Her older brother, Kenji, was a third year class clown and all around amazing musician. Not to mention all the girls loved him… But then again, what girl in her right mind wouldn't want a gorgeous guitar player with a sense of humor? Manami on the other hand was plain looking, well at least to her, and didn't like music like her brother. She was the quiet kid who sat in the corner, her face always buried in a book of some kind to avoid contact with people.
By the time the Manami arrived to her classroom, the lesson had already begun. The teacher gave the girl a puzzled look; she wasn't the type to be late. Manami gave the teacher a smile of apology before taking her seat behind a very cute brunette boy who looked strangely like a girl for some reason. Manami pulled out her notebook and began to doodle across the lined pages. Her latest doodle was a simple logo for an imaginary company she aspired to create one day.
Class seemed much shorter that day than normal. The lunch bell sounded, harshly bringing Manami back to reality. She stood up and slowly walked to the lunch room where her brother would be waiting with her lunch. The school campus was much too large to be a high school with the amount of students it had in Manami thought as she walked the all too familiar path to food. Opening the double doors Manami gazed upon the full lunch room. Students ran around everywhere, getting their five-star lunches and gossiping about other students to pass the time. Kenji wasn't sitting alone, like always, but today it was with an attractive blond boy with bright blue eyes. The girl had seen that boy a few times, he was an upperclassman to her for all she knew, but she was pretty sure he was younger than Kenji. Why would they be sitting together?
Manami approached the table, cautiously of course. The blond flashed a dazzling smile that would make any normal girl melt. Manami shook the shock from her system as she sat down. "You must be Manami…" The blond boy commented. Manami nodded her head.
"If you don't mind me asking…Who are you?" She asked with a hint of curiosity.
"I'm Tamaki, the prince of the H-"Kenji hit Tamaki's shoulder and gave him a 'don't blow it' look. The blond smiled nervously as he stood up from the table. "I hope we meet again, Princess…" The boy smiled getting inches from the girl's face before leaving to sit with a really tall brunette boy and a really short blond who only looked to be about ten years old.
"What was that about…?" Manami asked in a skeptical tone when the boy had gone.
"What do you mean? Tamaki is just a very friendly person…." Kenji gave a small smile, making Manami even more suspicious of their intentions.
"Yah, whatever…" Manami finally muttered as she reached for her food which was sitting in front of Kenji.
"So, Manami… What do you have after school? Nothing? Good, I need you to meet me in the third music room…" Kenji said with a sly smile.
The last of the bells rang, signally the end of the school day, in other words, freedom. Manami slowly walked to the third music room, she always thought it was abandoned or something. Kenji probably wanted to show her a new song or idea; why else would he want to meet in a music room? The girl opened the door quietly, peeking in cautiously. Kenji walked over to the door and pulled her in, trapping her around the neck with his arm and he showed her the 'host club.' Seven incredibly cute guys stood waiting, the blond Tamaki from lunch sat in the middle on a chair while the others stood. "Kenji…What the hell is going on...?" Manami hissed to her brother as the boys welcomed her to the host club. "What do you think you're doing!?" She shouted as she pulled from his grasp.
"This is the host club, Ami… It's their job to entertain girls, and you, my dear sister are a girl who needs to be entertained." Kenji smiled as he adjusted his glasses over his permanently squinted eyes. Manami glared at all the boys.
"No way in hell…" She said through her grinding teeth as Tamaki approached her with a careful stride.
"Welcome, Princess!" he smiled, placing his hand on her cheek and showing her a rose in the other hand. The girl stared.
"I don't know how much Kenji is paying you for this…But I'm really not interested in your gay little club…" She said as she turned around.
"Oh no you don't…" A set of red-headed twins blocked the door way, saying their words in unison.
"Damn…" She hissed as she looked to her brother. Glaring at his smiling face she mouthed, "I will kill you…" Tamaki lead the girl over to the rest of the club, the twins followed him back.
"Now, Princess, what is your type? The loli-sota type? The cool type? Little devils, perhaps? Or maybe you would like to try me?" He smiled getting within inches of her face.
"No…Get off of me…" She pulled back and brushed off her fluffy, yellow dress. "I really would just like to go home…" Manami stared for the door again, but this time the twins themselves stopped her. The red-heads trapped her in a human sandwich as they hugged her tight. Manami tried to struggle, but it was two against one, an unfair fight. A small sigh escaped from her lips as she gave up on the struggle. "Fine, you all win…" The girl muttered through her teeth as she looked away from the boys, pouting about her defeat. The red-heads cheered and hugged her more, her face turning a bright shade of pink at the gesture. Manami pulled away from the boys who now let her go willingly.
Tamaki's face lit up as the words fell from her mouth. "Excellent! Who do you chose, Princess?" His flawless blue eyes glistening as he spoke. Manami looked at all the boys in the room and quickly assessed which ones would and wouldn't work.
"You're a nerd, your too quiet, your too girly looking, your gay-ish and you…You just scare me, what grade are you even in!?" She looked the little boy over as tears welled up in his eyes and he ran to the tall, quiet one. The insensitive girl rolled her eyes. "I guess that leaves you two," She glared as she faced the twins, who looked just a bit scared by her. Kenji walked up to Manami's side and placed his hands on her shoulders.
"Now, now, please don't kill anyone." He gave an assuring smile to the twins as Manami's face looked intent on murder if things didn't go well. They red-headed brothers didn't look convinced as the girl turned her head quickly and walked abruptly to one of the couches, her brown eyes closed and her posture somewhat annoyed. "Okay, well I'll pick you up in an hour, okay, Manami?" Kenji smiled as he ran for the door without waiting for his sister's reply.
The twins looked to each other, this girl who had just asked from them to host her was a lot like themselves, and the fear of death by her was filling the tension in the room. Tamaki was sitting in the corner of the room, pouting of course from being called gay-ish by a girl. The twins looked to him and sighed. "You're helpful, milord…" They sighed in unison. They then looked to the other members of the host club, all of them looked a bit sad about the girl's assessment of them all, all except Haruhi of course. The brothers sighed. "Okay, let's go!" They muttered in unison again.
Manami stayed on the couch, her eyes still closed, her posture very straight and formal. "Now, we have one hour, you'd better make this good…" She hissed as the twins sat down on the couch opposite of her. They looked to each other and then started their act, taking up hands and gazing into each other's eyes. "Oh great, you two are gay too…" She sighed. "Isn't there a normal person here!?" Her hand flew up her to forehand as she rubbed her throbbing temples. The twins looked at each other.
"It didn't work!" They looked shocked; no girl had even thought they were idiots for putting on their act. Manami stood up and turned around towards the double doors, the rest of the host club looked just as shocked as the twins did.
"I'm leaving…You're all just wasting the only free time I have, now if you excuse me…" She started for the door; the twins stood up and caught her by each of her wrists. Manami looked at them, her eyes in a fierce gaze. "Would you stop holding me back?" She pulled her arms free from their grasps. "I'm outta here…" she hissed as she walked dramatically to the doors and opened them, disappearing down the hall before anyone could react. Hikaru and Kaoru stood looking after her. She wasn't like the other girls, she wasn't afraid to speak her mind if she didn't like something, she wasn't afraid to take action to stop things she found detestable.
Now things were getting interesting…