I dont own OHSHC or any of the characters.
I woke suddenly to the noise of my alarm clock and the bitter smell of burnt toast. Sighing I stretched over to turn off the blaring alarm, slumping back down on the bed. I turn to the person lying next to me still deep in sleep.
"Hikaru you need to wake up we've got school" I shook him to get his attention but his only response was a groan.
"Fine then" I proceeded to pull the covers off my twin receiving a louder mumble about how cold it is. Pulling my legs up to my chest and placing them on his back I pushed with all my might. Hearing a loud and seeing the bed empty next to me I peer over the bed to see my brother. His strawberry blonde hair in tangles, he lay face first on the ground. He let out a sigh before rolling over to face me.
"How could you do that to your only twin brother?" Hikaru looked at me with puppy dog eyes a tear starting to appear in the corner of his eye but I ignore him. I give him an evil grin big enough to be worthy of a cheshire cat and reply.
"You should know better, those kind of tricks don't work on me. Anyway I've slept on the floor multiple times 'cause you've done the exact same so quit your complaining" His face twisting into a mischievous smile mirroring mine.
"Ok you win. Lets get ready you go in first as always" He rises to his feet and begins to walk round towards the door for the bathroom as I also stand up but suddenly a tightness rose in my chest. I take a deep breath, standing still for a moment to wait for the feeling to pass. This has happened more than once over the past couple of days and I know exactly what is it - anxiety. Hikaru peers around the corner of the door noticing my sudden silence and stillness, his face begins to scrunch into a deep frown.
"You ok?" Hikaru calls from the bathroom door, I look up at him and reply "Am fine just a bit anxiety I think" My hand reached my chest as I concentrate on my breathing. Hikaru leaves the bathroom and begins to walk towards me.
"You know we don't need to go to school if you don't feel like it" Hikaru grabs my shoulder and gently places a hand on my head. His cool touch begins to relax me however the tightness proceeds to pester me. I take his hand away from my head.
"I'll be fine." I walk away from Hikaru and into the bathroom. After a shower the tightness finally subsides allowing me to relax and forget it. I dress myself in the strict uniform that is required: a blue suit and trousers with a white strip lined the edges of the blazer and a hand sewn golden crest that read Ouran High School on the left side of the blazer. Opening the bedroom door I am hit with an overwhelming smell of bacon, eggs and beans, making my face turn sour. On a normal day the smell would make me bounce and hop down the stair in anticipation for the amazing meal that would be laid out for Hikaru and I. However on this morning the smell made my stomach twist so instead I turn on my heels and slowly walk back to the bed. Lying spread out on the bed I think 'a little more sleep won't hurt'. So I allow my eyes to shut and in what seemed like a split second I feel a light object hit my abdomen. I peel open my eyes to spot Hikaru leaning on the door frame, arms crossed wearing a smug smile and dressed in identical clothes. I pick up the object Hikaru had thrown which I immediately recognise as my inhaler.
"You sound like you needed it. Don't want a repeat of yesterday." Hikaru teased. It was then that I realised how heavy my breathing had gotten and recall the embarrassing events of yesterday when during gym class I nearly fainted. I misplaced my inhaler and was in dire need of it half way through the class. Luckily Hikaru had his at hand and there wasn't a big scene but it was still embarrassing having everyone stare at me. I let a sign leave my mouth as I sit up preparing myself to use the inhaler. I close my eyes, bringing the inhaler to my mouth and take a huge breath, it didn't make much difference so I take another breathe and after waiting for a second I feel my chest become lighter and it feels like I can breath properly again. I look towards Hikaru who's still standing at the door frame waiting patiently.
"It's been getting worse recently. You should think about going to the doctors" He finally speaks.
"Its probably because of yesterday nothing to worry about." Even talking seems to take less effort, I jump up making my way to the wardrobe to grab our bag feeling full of energy "What time is it anyway? Do I have time to grab breakfast?"
"Well its 8:25 so probably not" Hikaru laughed. I spin round mouth dropped. We only have five minutes to get to school!
"WHY DIDNT YOU TELL ME WE NEED TO GO RIGHT NOW" I started panicking, grabbing the bags and running out the door. Hikaru also running at my heels with a huge grin spread across his face.
We arrived at school barely on time.
Hope you enjoyed this quite boring chapter. More will happen in the next chapter and I was trying to keep it in character as much as possible but the twins never met the host club so I thought they would be slightly different. Let me know what you think.
Thanks for reading.