A week later Rei was in her art class painting a picture of a beautiful woman in a rose garden. The woman looked to be reaching for something just out of her reach. The painting was just completed as Rei applied the final brush stroke into the colorful background. The woman in the painting looked beautiful and yet sad at the same time. The roses in the background were carefully painted with such detail. The thin framed pale woman had a porcelain like face. Draped around her frame was a soft red kimono that looked like it was blowing gently in the breeze. Her small eyes looked sad.
"It looks wonderful Rei" The teacher smiled. She admired Rei's skill with a paintbrush. "Could I hang it in the hallway?"
The art teacher was a petite thin woman with short brown hair and smooth complexion. She wore a long purple kimono.
"Thank you Mrs. Kumara and sure" Rei smiled at the teacher and carefully wrote her name Rei Oshiro in the corner of the picture in small font and packed up her painting supplies. Class would be ending soon so she was sure to give herself time to clean up before leaving for her next class. The bell tower chimed in the distance, signaling the end of class. Rei gathered her things and walked out of the room. She walked down the hall and outside the school. She sat down beside the fountain with her bento lunch. She loved how beautiful the campus was and spent the time she could outside.
Meanwhile up in the music room the twins looked down out the window.
"Hey, isn't that Rei down there?" Kaoru pointed out to the group. Honey, Mori and Tamaki walked over to the window and looked out seeing Rei sitting by herself beside the fountain.
"Yea, I wonder why she is sitting by herself" Honey spoke as he looked down out the window.
"You guys it's rude to spy" Haruhi sighed as she sat in her spot on the couch.
"She probably just hasn't gotten close to people here yet" Kyouya spoke as he typed away on his laptop.
Honey walked back over to the couch and continued to eat his cake while Mori sat down beside him and ate his rice ball.
Haruhi heard the sound of a hammer meeting a nail and walked out of the music room. "They are hanging up a new painting" She noted and looked back at the group who too was curious about the noise.
"I wanna see" Honey jumped up and ran over to Haruhi as Mori got up from the couch and walked over.
The three walked out of the music room and over to the door which leads to the art room, to the right of the door hung a beautiful painting.
"Wow…it's beautiful." Haruhi noted.
"I can't see" Honey began and he was then picked up and put on Mori's shoulders so he could see the painting better.
"She looks so sad." Honey added.
"I wonder who painted it." Haruhi wondered aloud.
"Look in the right corner" Kyouya's voice could be heard behind them.
Haruhi looked behind her and saw Tamaki, the twins as well as Kyouya behind them. How is it that all of them can move without making a single sound? Haruhi sighed then looked at the right corner of the painting and saw the name Rei Oshiro.
"Rei painted it…" Haruhi looked back at the club.
"Wow, she's really good" Hikaru looked at the painting again.
"Yes, it looks as though she has quite a skill with art." Kyouya continued to write on his clipboard.
Tamaki smiled "let's get back to our lunch before class starts."
The club walked back to the music room, sitting down and eating their lunches.
The bell rang for the next class. Honey and Mori waved goodbye to the other club members and walked down the hall to their math class.
Rei was already sitting at her desk looking out the window.
"Hi Rei" Honey smiled. "I'm Mitsukuni but everyone calls me Honey."
Rei looked over and smiled weakly "Hello, nice to meet you."
"And this is Takashi but most people call him Mori." Honey smiled brightly.
"Nice to meet you Mori." Rei looked up at the tall boy. He seemed so mysterious and yet cute.
Mori nodded at Rei and took his seat which happened to be next to her while Honey's was right in front of him.
A tall man with thin framed glasses walked into the class room. He stood about 6'1 and had short brown hair and tan skin. He was wearing blue dress pants and a white button up shirt with a blue tie.
"Okay class today we will be working on this worksheet, whatever you do not finish will be homework." He walked around the class room and handed each student a work sheet.
Rei began working on the worksheet the moment she got it. Each student carefully calculated each answer and wrote them down in the spaces on the work sheet. Rei had finished the worksheet with ten minutes to spare.
Honey and Mori finished soon after her.
"Rei we saw your painting outside the art room, it's amazing" Honey smiled.
Rei looked over at Honey and smiled. "Thank you"
"Who is that woman in the painting supposed to be?" Honey asked with his classic child-like wonder.
"My mother." Rei gave a small smile. She was able to talk about her mother now since she no longer cried just thinking about her anymore.
"The painting was beautiful wasn't it Takashi?" Honey looked back at his tall companion.
Mori nodded in agreement.
"Takashi doesn't talk much" Honey smiled widely.
Rei nodded and returned her gaze out the window.
Honey noticed how quiet Rei was and how she seemed so sad. He thought that she just isn't used to the school just yet. He loved helping people so he figured that he would help Rei make friends with the host club since she was so much like Takashi in the way she was fairly quiet. He couldn't figure it out but she seemed like something was bothering her…
