Disclaimer: As all you fanfic reads probably know, I do NOT own Ouran High School Host Club in any way. The only thing that is mine is Ivy-Rose.
Redneck Girl Meets Ouran High School Host Club
Chapter 1: Meet the Redneck Girl, Ivy-Rose
Ivy-Rose McCormick became somewhat of a rural community celebrity in the past 24 hours. She was the only high school student in Springsland County, Virginia, that showed any interest at all in being a foreign exchange student for the past 20 years in the Springsland County School District.
Ivy-Rose was one of few high school students in her school who was taking advanced Japanese in the school's struggling foreign language department. When her teacher learned of her interest in traveling to Japan as well as her high grades, she told Ivy-Rose of a foreign-exchange program in Japan at Ouran High School, a very exclusive private academy, and gave Ivy-Rose the application forms. After much talk with her parents, they allowed her to apply to the program.
When Ivy-Rose got her letter of acceptance, her parents immediately took her to get her passport as well as her very own luggage set. However, as in many small towns, word of Ivy-Rose's acceptance spread like wildfire. The local newspaper even came to her school to have her picture taken with the principal and her Japanese teacher. This caused about 80 of the students at Springsland County High to apply for a foreign language for the next school year.
The only flack she got from anybody about it was a snobby girl named Katey Perkins, someone whom Ivy-Rose and her friends couldn't stand since grade school. They couldn't keep up with how many times they had given Katey a black eye, fat lip, or bloody nose. Ivy-Rose actually learned to defend herself in day care at the age of 2 1/2 , when some of the kids started to bite her. Katey often went on about how she was a black belt in karate; however, Ivy-Rose often wondered how Katey earned it because Ivy-Rose always kicked her butt. Katey was also in Ivy-Rose's Japanese class, and when she learned of Ivy-Rose's big news, she was green with envy.
Well, let's go to the present, which is the day Ivy-Rose leaves for Japan. Ivy-Rose, her parents, and her friends Leanne, Leslie, Amy, and Andy all piled up in Mr. McCormick's Suburban and headed out to the airport in the next town. While they were all in the truck, her friends gave her a gift: a set of stuffed chicks—one in a traditional Japanese kimono, with the other in dressed in shorts and a button shirt with the front shirttails tied in a knot, topped off with a cowboy hat. She noticed the chicks' were holding "wings" as well.
"Thank y'all so much. I'm definitely gonna miss ya while I'm in Japan."
"We'll miss ya too Ivy-Rose. One of us'll email ya everyday!" piped her best friend since day care, Leanne.
"We'll also kick Katey's tail if she gives us trouble or if she talks bad 'bout ya!" quipped Leslie.
Ivy-Rose's friends all heard about Ouran High School. They also heard that because it was such an exclusive place, they were all sure that there would be "a handful of Katey Perkinses" at the place. This is why the advice Amy gave was:
"If any of those snooty rich kids give ya any trouble, give 'em the Katey Perkins remedy!"
"Sure will, Amy!" Ivy-Rose responded laughing.
"Hey Ivy-Rose, do ya think they'll make ya wear one of those stuffy uniforms?" It was Andy who asked the question which they all considered to be totally unthinkable. A few years back Springsland County's School Board considered uniforms in their public schools, but to the relief of Ivy-Rose and her fellow classmates, it didn't go through.
"Sorry to say that I really don't know Andy. I was told by the program director that it would be up to my host family. Keep my fingers crossed though."
Before they all knew it they were all at the airport. After going through the security and baggage checks, the group was at the terminal gate of Ivy-Rose's plane. After a few tearful goodbyes, Ivy-Rose boarded her plane and after she was seated, she pulled her CD player and the stuffed chicks out of her backpack and began listening to Creedence Clearwater Revival.
The whole flight Ivy-Rose wondered what her host family was like, what school life would be like, if she'd have to wear a uniform, and a million other things concerning her foreign exchange experience. When the plane finally did land, Ivy-Rose took a deep breath and proceeded off the plane to the luggage pickup. After picking up her bags she went to find who was picking her up when she saw 2 men dressed as a chauffeurs holding up a sign that said "Ivy-Rose McCormick" written in the English alphabet. She began to approach them.
"Sumimasen ga, shikashi watakushi wa Mukukorumikuku Ibi-Rose desu." (Excuse me, but I'm Ivy-Rose McCormick). Ivy-Rose pulled out her passport to show them proof that she was really the one they were supposed to pick up.
The chauffeurs nodded and one said to her "koo sureba wa kite kudasai" (please come this way) while the other took her luggage. Ivy-Rose's jaw nearly hit the ground when she saw that she was being taken to a black limousine.
Okay people. I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of my story. Please review or PM me concerning errors of any kind. I know that there's no Springsland County in Virginia (I should because I was born there and lived 13 years of my life in the state), but come on, this is a fanfic people.