Meeting with a stranger

Chapter 2 - The operation is underway

It was after school hours and all Sammy new was at one point she was eating cake with Hunny while Mori watched, and laughing. And now she was in a dark room with one light shining down on the metal table and the uncomfortable metal chair she was sitting in. She sipped carefully at her glass of water. She felt like she was on a cheesy murder investigation show that was on every day of the week back at home. All the sudden she heard footsteps coming out of the darkness but she didn't know where they were coming from. Then she heard another set, and another, and in total she heard about five sets of foot falls.

"Um, w-who's there?" She asked nervously. then she saw two sets of hands being slammed down on the table.

"So, how do you know Hunny-senpai?" They asked her

"I only just met him today.." She said nervously. Stumbling through her words.

"Tell us how."

"Okay, it was like this." She started taking in a deep breath and letting it out while all the other hosts that were there came out of the darkness except Kyoya. "It was my first day..."

flashback (Sammy's POV)

I was walking down the hall on my first day. Nervous as ever. I was looking out the window, down on the pretty garden and maze when I bumped into someone that was probably half my size.

"Sorry! I'm so sorry!" I said apologetically, I instantly recognized him. Who couldn't? I heard enough about him that single day from the girls in class 3-b who attend the host club. They told me I couldn't miss him if I wanted to. Apparently that part was true. "Hey, you're Mitsukuni Haninozuka right?" I asked, trying to clear up my own curiosity.

"Yes but you can call me Honey. It's fine, I don't mind of you knocked me down. I wasn't paying attention either! I was thinking about cake! So, what's your name?" He asked, the girls warned me he would be very cute.

"I'm Samantha Mckinley. Third year. You can call me Sammy."

"So what do you like to do?"

"Well, I'm fluent in French and I know a few Spanish words. I've been playing the piano since I was in kindergarten. I'm a ballerina, and I used to be homeschooled until my aunt and uncle shipped me off to Japan for my final year of high school at a high recommendation from a friend." I answered honestly. "How about yourself?"

"I'm fluent in cake! I'm a black belt in karate. I like cute things, the host club, and Takashi! I bet you would like Takashi!"

"Well, maybe I'll meet him sometime." I said before the bell rang. I waved goodbye and walked off for the last class of the day before ballet club, my passion.

"And then well here we are." Sammy said snapping everyone out of their own fantasies of how everything played out.

"And...How did you meet Mori-senpai?" Haruhi asked

"I was practicing ballet since I can't in my apartment, and he showed up. That's really all I got. You'll have to ask Mori himself."

"Oh, no problem." The twins said, clapping twice. Then another light lit up and next to Sammy was Mori sitting at an identical metal table.

"So, Mori, how exactly did you meet Sammy here?" Tamaki asked

"Mitsukuni came up to me after class, like he always did, and told me about Samantha. Then he gave me a paper with directions and a time and told me to go to that room after classes and host club. And here we are." He said. Everyone was shocked that he said more than two words. He was like 'Uh-huh' from 'The Little Rascals'

"So how do we know she's safe to be hanging around here?" Tamaki asked.

"Samantha Nicolette Mckinley. From disclosed location for privacy purposes. Her father and mother MIA, and were in the care of her aunt and uncle. It's true that she was homeschooled, since fourth grade, and she's fluent in French and knows a few Spanish phrases/words, she really has been playing piano since kindergarten, and she is a ballerina. She's been in twelve dance competitions since the age of five and has gotten at least a silver metal in each one." Kyoya said calmly popping out from the dark.

"Did you have to tell everyone my full name? And thank you for making me seem like a total over achiever. Yeah, I like playing the piano, speaking French, and dancing. No I don't do anything my guardians tell me except when being shipped off to a different country. I usually don't do what anyone expects and I don't try to break the rules but it usually happens anyway. Like today when I...Modified my school uniform."

"What exactly did you do to it?" Haruhi asked

"Simple, I took out to poof during first period. I hemmed the skirt up to my knee in second and third, it looked real weird while I was walking to change classes. I made the sleeves three quater sleeves during fourth and fifth. I decided what to do to it during lunch, and I took out the turtle neck made it a crew neck during sixth, seventh. That one took a really long time 'cause I did it all by hand. I took the ribbon from the neck line and put it on my white headband to make it prettier. Yeah, the class president got really mad but, I told him I'm either wearing my uniform like this or I'm coming to school naked. I know what you are thinking, no I wouldn't come to school naked but I wasn't gonna let them throw away my uniform after all that work! That took me all school day!"

"So, you ignored the whole class time to modify your uniform because you didn't like it?" Tha twins asked

"No, I sewed to pay attention. If I have nothing to do with my hands, I space out. That's probably why my guardians shipped me off here. Every time they would talk to me I would start drawing and they'd think I wasn't paying attention. The drawings aren't very good but, I could pretty much recite every word they said if I drew when they spoke. I'm working as a seamstress to, partly, pay for my rent, my guardians send the rest, and I bring it here during class. I got special permission. And the customers like it because their stuff gets done in record time, and the owner likes it because he said he doesn't have to listen to me chatter all day. It's almost like the time my youth pastor's wife told us that she wasn't aloud to chew gum at home but they gave her special permission at school because all she did was talk, if she didn't have gun in her mouth she was talking if she did, she was quiet."

"Does this girl every shut up? Maybe she should go hang out with Satoshi." Tamaki whispered to Kyoya (Satoshi, for people who have't read the manga, is Mori's little brother. HE'S SO CUTE!) That's when the twins had an idea. They took out a few pieces of gum and shoved them into Sammy's mouth. She chewed it for a minute or two, softening it up in her mouth and resumed.

"Thanks, I was realy hopin' someone would have gum. They don't have my brand here. That's what sucks. There was a lady at my old church back home her name was Meiko, she was real nice, gave me a piece of bubble gum from Japan but I can't find it anywhere! But it was ten years ago so I doubt they'd have it anymore. I don't know, I'm going shopping tomorrow but I'll have to either go by myself or find a creepy tour guide to take me...Ewwie!"

"Maybe Mori-senpai will take you around?" Haruhi said, looking to the other hosts and winking. They all looked to Mori who was just sitting and listening to Sammy chatter on about her life back in America and smiling.

"How about it Mori-senpai? Show Sammy around tomorrow?" Haruhi asked

"Um, sure. I'll pick her up tomorrow at nine."

"Okay. I live in the apartments on Cherry Blossom St."

"Hey, that's where I live!" Haruhi said (Let's just say that's what street Haruhi lives on since we all have no idea what street she actually lives on...) "What apartment to you live in?"

"In 12-b on the other side where that little 'courtyard' thing is."

"I live in 7-b towards the street. It's so weird I didn't see you move in..."

"Well it was yesterday so, maybe you were out?"

"Oh, I was out yeah."

"Crap! I have to go return these clothes before the customers come!" Sammy yelled rushing out of the room, taking out a flashlight from her bag on the way. "I knew this would come in handy someday." She said laughing and exiting through the door.

"Geez even when she's leaving she still finds time to chatter." Hikaru said

"Takashi? Hello?" Hunny shouted from the door

"Coming Mitsukuni." Mori said. "See you guys." He added while leaving. Tamaki went over and flipped the lights on.

"Yeah! We did it! Haruhi, secret hand shake!" Tamaki yelled excitedly, Haruhi rolled her eyes but complied so she didn't have to hear him complain. Tamaki ran up to Haruhi and they jumped up in the air and did a high five in mid air then when they got back down they put one of their hands in front of them and slapped them together three times and brought it back doing 'spirit fingers' on the way back, like something was exploding. (Okay, it's my secret hand shake with my friend when one of us gets a home run when playing kick ball XD)

"Hey look,"

"Sam left something here." Hikaru and Kaoru noted, pointing to the floor. Kyoya picked it up and looked through it.

"It's just her drawings." He said tossing it on to the table. When everyone else looked at it, their eyes went wide.

"And she said they weren't very good." Haruhi said. There were drawings of trees, people, fruits, flowers, birds, landscapes, fashion, sketches of designs for houses, clothing, color pallets, it was all really good.

As Samantha was walking out the school she bumped into something big.

"Sorry." She said 'Not again.' She thought.

"It's alright." A deep voice said. "Um, I liked that music that was playing while you were practicing." He finally added after an awkward silence.

"Um, yeah, thanks. It's me playing. I recorded it back at home." She finally replied, blushing.

"Well it was really good." He said. "I'll see you tomorrow." He added walking away awkwardly.

"Yeah, bye..." She said "Crap. I left my notebook in the club room. I'll get it Monday." She added running out of the school gates to get to work. 'We'll see how tomorrow goes...It could either be terribly awkward or the best day ever...' She thought to herself awkwardly.

A/N: okay, I've always wanted to be named Samantha. yes I do know French and a few Spanish words and i really have been playing the piano since kindergarten. i was a ballerina but only for six weeks, it would have been eight but i missed two classes. but it's always been something that i've wanted to do. and i really am homeschooled and have been since fourth grade. only, i'm a freshman in highschool, not a senior. and i can sew. oh, and her initials are the same as mine XD you can see now, that she's based off of me. lol The story about my youth pastor's wife is true. And the story about the lady named Meiko is true except for the part about it being ten years ago. It was only like 7.

Anyway, I hope you like it! It only took a few hours to write and it'll probably be my last update on any of my fanfics until after May 3rd. I'll be leaving for florida on friday and will be there until the next sunday. So 1, i won't have my computer on me unless my sister brings it with her when she flies down. 2, we probably wont have internet even if my sister DOES bring the laptop with her. and 3, i won't have time to write before then so, enjoy! and read my other stories if you're suffering a withdrawal from my wonderful works! lol jk.

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