part two! Hopefully less shitty

Chapter 2: The job of a highschool Host!

Marcie POV

The three hosts led me into a huge cafeteria that was filled with people. The tweeds strolled over to the food cue, and I was considering following them to try some fancy rich people food, but then I looked at the cost of everything on the menu and reluctantly decided against it. I don't have that type of money in my whole bank account, let alone sitting around in my pockets!

Damn these rich people.

I followed Haruhi instead, who took out her packed lunch as I pulled out a bag of crisps I bought this morning from a corner shop I passed on my way to school. Honestly, I'm surprised it didn't pop in this tiny schoolbag. She sat with a group of boys, who I soon noticed to be the host club from my card. I recognised Tamaki sitting on the end of the opposite bench and gave him a little wave as I opened the bag. He looked confused for a sec before realization dawned on his face and he leaned towards me over the table, his dangling tie narrowly missing his food. Meanwhile the lolita just stared at me, and I couldn't help but stare back. What is it about this toddler that I recognise so much? I almost feel like I know him from somewhere.

"You're that girl from earlier! I take it you've met my Haruhi already?" Tamaki chatted excitedly, a little out of character for the 'princely type', if you ask me. I smiled at his childish behavior and replied.

"Yup, that's me! And I've known Haruhi most of my life, we've been best friends since middle school." I informed, then I raised my eyebrow at Haruhi. "And if you dont mind me asking, Tamaki-senpai, what do you mean by your Haruhi?" I questioned, sending a glance to Haruhi that said 'how-dare-you-get-a-boyfriend-and-not-tell-me?' She sighed and dug me in the ribs playfully.

"He doesn't mean it like that, you dork! He's just deluded himself into thinking I'm his daughter or something." She stated, which thoroughly confused me, but hey, at least she didn't get a boyfriend without telling me. I was snapped out of this thought process by Tamaki's offended gasp.

"D-deluded?!...MAMA! Haruhi's using those disrespectful-daughter-words again!" He said, clinging to the boy in glasses who sat next to him, writing in a black notebook. (In case your wondering, the seating is Tamaki, Kyoya, Honey and Mori on one bench, then its Haruhi opposite Kyoya and Marcie is to her right on the other side of the table.)

I looked to Haruhi and raised my eyebrow again. "'Mama'?" I whispered. She gave me a look that said 'dont-ask'.

"Haruhi!" Tamaki suddenly yelled, leaning over the table again and making us jump. "You've been hanging around those shady twins again!" He said, clutching her arm.

"Hey! Who you callin' shady?" I heard two sarcastic voices from behind me as the twins sat down on our bench, one next to me, the other next to Haruhi. I was introduced to everyone and everyone was introduced to me, then I was invited to the host club for free, since I was 'a friend of one of the hosts, therefore a friend to all of the hosts'. Yay?

Break ended all too soon and then I had two more tedious classes before lunch, when I went to the club with Haruhi and the tweeds to help the hosts prepare for club after school.

They all checked their cosplay while I helped set up the tables and sofas; then, since there was nothing else for me to do, I decided to continue my nap on one of the sofas.

3rd person POV

"Marcie." Came a voice, drifting through the air. Marcie grumbled in her sleep. She didn't want to be bothered.

"Marcie?" Came the voice again, this time more insistent.

She turned and groaned a bit before rolling over and falling off the sofa. That woke her up.

"Ow." she whined, sitting up. She looked up to see Haruhi looking concerned while the twins sat on the opposite couch trying to hide their laughter before a cheshire-like smirk. She took Haruhi's outstretched hand and stood up, rubbing her back.

"Have a nice nap?" They chorused between giggles. She ignored them with a glare and turned to Haruhi, noticing that the other hosts had left already. "Where are the others?"

"Lunch is over. Kyoya left as soon as the bell went but the others wanted to stay and watch you sleep"

"...what?" She asked, and she glanced over at the red-headed twins who held their arms up in a 'what?-its-no-big-deal' type way before responding "What? You're a cute sleeper." She raised her eyebrow in a 'what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-you-people' way, though was secretly quite flattered. "I know, Haruhi tells me that whenever we have sleepovers." she stated, matter-of-factly as Haruhi nodded. Then the four friends ran to class before they got a late detention, passing through the doorframe just as the bell went.

Marcie POV

I fell asleep in that class too...I need to sleep more...though saying that, I know I'm just gonna stay up till 4am on my phone like always.

Then came Haruhi's famous 'Marcie-get-up-or-I'll-pull-out-your-chair-from-under-you-and-let-you-hit-the-floor-then-I'll-laugh-at-your-pain' voice that she's used since middle school to wake me up after classes.

I reluctantly opened my eyes to find that, yet again, we were the only four remaining people in the room. "Do you sleep all the time?" The tweeds questioned, packing their things and getting ready to leave.

"Yup" Haruhi answered. "She's almost nocturnal. We'd better get going, we'll never hear the end of it if we're late". I reluctantly got up and followed the trio back to music room 3.

When we got there, the others were already in their 'Balinese Royalty' cosplay. The twins rushed to get onto their own blue flannel shorts and bandannas while Haruhi and I stayed in our uniforms, and this random bird landed on her head. I attempted to stroke it, but it flew away.

"Marcelline, we have a proposition for you" Tamaki said, posing dramatically.

"I'm listening" I replied, raising an eyebrow.

"We would like you to be the host clubs new do-uh...errand girl!" He said this as if he was expecting me to swoon or something. Did this fucker almost call me a dog?

"What's in it for me?" I said, crossing my arms firmly.

"We will count it as assistance towards paying off Haruhi's debt." He replied, smugly. Shit.

Haruhi tugged my sleeve with a face that defined 'puppy dog eyes' and screamed "pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaassssseeee?" Shit. She remembers my weakness to cute things.

I sighed. "Fine"

"What is all this anyway?" Haruhi said, completely changing her posture. "I could be wrong, but my calendar says its still early spring". Where'd she get a calendar from?

Tamaki put on his princely air again. "Sitting under a kotatsu table fearing the cold is nonsense! Besides, the heating system we have is the best!" He struck a pose at the end of his mini-speech.

Haruhi and I just gave each other that look of 'damn-rich-people' and said a simple, yet explanatory "ugh". I feel like we'll be doing this very often.

timeskip~

I walked around the large music room which was now designed to look like some kind of rainforest.

Damn rich people.

I was walking from table to table refilling the guests' tea and bringing Honey senpai more cake every so often. When all that was done, I went and squeezed in with Haruhi who was sat alone on her sofa as all her guests sat opposite on the other sofa. They were quite friendly, though one or two seemed kinda envious.

"Are you new to the host club?" One girl asked with a cute hairstyle that made her look like she had small horns on either side of her head. She had brown hair and grey eyes with a wide smile. "Yup! I'm helping out around the club." I said, smiling back at her. Then another guest spoke up, almost hesitantly.

"Are you two dating?" Haruhi and I laughed at this, and denied it. I guess we couldn't blame them, after all, they didn't know Haruhi was a girl, or that we were child hood friends, so of course they would assume that.

"Nope! Just friends I'm afraid. Though I'm sure he would much rather go out with one of you lovely ladies." I said with a wink as I got up. Some 'kyaa!'d but a few seemed kinda releived, and I gave Haruhi a look that said 'you're-welcome'

Then I was called over by Tamaki to be introduced to his guests.

"Lovely to meet you all!" I said, curtseying slightly. While I was refilling their tea, I overheard them talking about a party.

"Oh yes! I almost forgot to mention to you ladies, next week the ouran host club will be sponsoring a party!" Said tamaki, standing in a dramatic pose.

"A party?" I mumbled before getting up and walking over to the tweeds table. Upon walking closer, I could hear that they were also talking about this party.

"What kind of party is it going to be?" Asked one guest, then the other asked "Is it going to be formal?".

"Yes, infact we've rented the schools largest hall" (Hikaru)

"Its the perfect place for dancing" (Kaoru)

"But I really wanted to spend some alone time with you, Kaoru~" (Hikaru)

"Don't be upset Hikaru, I know exactly how you feel~" (Kaoru)

They clutched each other tightly as more glitter rained dramatically from the air around them.

"Sorry, am I interrupting something?" I said, sarcastically as the tweeds let go of eachother. The guests calmed down from their fangirling and asked who I was, to which the twins answered.

"She's the host clubs newest member." they said together before speaking individually.

"She's the errand girl-" (Hikaru)

"-and our Mum's newest model-" (Kaoru)

"-so she'll be living with us too" They finished in unison again as the fangirls went nuts

"She's so lucky!"

"I wish I could live with the twins!"

The tweeds took this opportunity to start up their "brotherly love" act again.

"Oh Hikaru~ you're not going to forget me with her there, are you?" Said Kaoru, clutching his brothers arm dramatically as he put on a sad face.

Hikaru looked down at him in (fake) alarm. "I would never forget you Kaoru! You're all I need in this world" he said, holding Kaoru's chin up as their guests went bat shit crazy.

They're sparkling again. I said bye to the guests before going to check on Honey-senpai.

I arrived just as he was showing off his red flower garland to the girls at his table.

"Ta-da!" He said, arms out as the guests fussed over him. "Hi ladies! I love these Balinese flowers. We had them flown in!" He told them as More senpai walked over and stood next to me beside Honey. Why is he holding a pineapple?

"Takashi! Marcie-chan!" He said, then he climbed up Takashi and put another red flower garland (pulled out from the amazing world of no where) around his friend's head. "There! We match." he said, before passing me a pale blue one and putting another round my neck. "The other one is for Haru-chan." he explained. I doubted she'd wear it; but this lil toddler seems to have grown on me for some reason, so I made my way back to Haruhi's table after giving Honey the cake he ordered.

I arrived and dropped the garland over her head from where I was standing behind her. She glanced over at me with a questioning look on her face. "Sorry, Honey asked me to, and you know I can't say 'no' to cute things" I said, leaning on her shoulder and ignoring the comments of 'theyre so cute!' And 'I totally ship them' from the guests.

"Aren't you two going to wear tropical outfits like the other hosts?" One guest with bobbed light brown hair asked. "I'd like to see that!" Said the girl with hair horns. (I think her name was Azumi)

"W-well..." We both started, then I let Haruhi explain. Why? Because I'm lazy. (Hi lazy, I'm dad*)

"We prefer to wear early spring attire in early spring" she finished.

"Wow, the two of you are really faithful to the different seasons, aren't you?" Said the brown bobbed girl. (Let's call her Susan, 'brown bobbed girl' feels mean)

"I think that's great, I hope we're lucky enough that the cherry blossoms are in full bloom on the night of the party" Azumi gushed

"You think so? Ya know ladies, I think its so cute when you dream like that" Haruhi said, sparkling. She's getting pretty good at this hosting thing, she can even make glitter appear out of no where! The guests fangirled as she nudged me, wiggling her eyebrows. I nudged her back and it turned into a mini tickle fight. The guests made comments of 'how cute' we were and how we'd make 'such a cute couple'.

"Excuse me" came a voice from beside me. I turned to see a girl with green eyes and chin length brown hair. "I don't mean to disturb, but I believe it's time for the hosts to switch clients." The other 3 guests seemed dissapointing, but got up anyway, and I helped them pick up their things as Haruhi continued talking to the girl.

"Oh, you must be my next appointment. Miss...uh?"

"My name is Koniko. Koniko Kasushleflebdfh" (I know that's not what she said but there's no way in hall I can spell that. Her name with now be substituted with things like *whatever the fuck her name was* or *whats-her-face*. Hope you don't mind) "you're even cuter than I expected," she paused, lifting Haruhi's chin. "I've decided. From now on, you're going to be my new favourite host, Haruhi"

Well damn.

Tamaki popped up again to let out another offended gasp.

Timeskip~

After club ended, Tamaki was sat at one of the tables eating a pot of Ramen. "I can't take this anymore..." He mumbled between mouthfuls. The tweeds called over to him from where we were all stood.

"Hey boss!"

"Why don't you stop eating that commoners ramen and come help us with the party planing?" (Hikaru)

"Does it really bother you that princess *whatever the fuck her name was* has taken a liking to Haruhi?" (Kaoru)

Then I heard kyoya speak for only the third time today. "He shouldn't be surprised. She's had the illness for a while now, hasn't she?"

"Illness?" Haruhi and I spoke in unison.

"She's got the host-hopping disease" Hikaru stated, arms in the 'duh' pose.

"A.K.A, the never-the-same-boy-twice disease" Kaoru finished.

"Usually our guests choose one one host, and see them regularly, however miss *what's-her face* seems to change her favourites on a regular basis." Kyoya said.

"That's right! Cuz before she chose Haruhi-chan, she was with Tama-chan!" Mori-senpai informed, enthusiastically.

Sike! It was Honey.

"Ooh. So he's upset because I took her from him?" Haruhi said, understanding.

"SHUT UP! I COULDN'T CARE LESS!" Tamaki appeared, shrieking in her face as Honey and I covered our ears. "I'm running out of patience; Haruhi! Its time you started acting like a girl!" He paused for breath.

"I just don't understand how you could be so popular with the ladies when you yourself are a lady!"

"Well, Marcie helps a bit-"

"No one in the entire school knows the truth except for those of us here!" He interrupted her again.

"Yeah, she opted out of taking gym classes." (Hikaru)

"And the attendance numbers are all mixed together so nobody can tell" (Kaoru)

Tamaki dashed off as I was hit with a sudden realisation. "WOAH WOAH WOAH! SO THE SCHOOL LET HARUHI OPT OUT JUST BECAUSE, BUT IM NOT ALOUD TO OPT OUT EVEN THOUGH IM A GIRL?!" I yelled, shocked and infuriated.

"What? They're making you take the boys gym class?" Haruhi asked, equally shocked.

"Yeah! I even have to wear the girls gym uniform!" I cried, absolutely dreading whenever my first gym class was. This is totally unreasonable.

"THEYRE MAKING YOU PLAY SPORTS WITH A BUNCH OF GUYS WHILE YOU WEAR NOTHING BUT THAT STUPID PERVERTED GYM UNIFORM?!" Haruhi fumed.

"I KNOW!" I replied.

"Don't worry Haruhi!" The tweeds butted in, both with their thumbs up.

"We'll be there, so we'll ward off any guys who try to talk to her during gym." (Hikaru)

"You better" Haruhi replied, eyebrows narrowed.

"Yeah, it'll get pretty boring if we have to watch all the guys flirt with her" (Kaoru)

"It's annoying enough to watch the girls with Haruhi in class." Hikaru agreed.

"I guess that makes me feel a little better" I said, crossing my arms. Haruhi seemed to have calmed down too, but then Tamaki reappeared with this random treasure chest from god knows where.

He opened it and started rummaging around. "That's enough Haruhi, now you listen to Daddy," he said, pulling out a bigger version of that picture of Haruhi and I in our middle school uniforms that I was talking about before.. "DADDY WANTS YOU TO GO BACK TO THE WAY YOU WEEEEEERE!"

"DONT GO BLOWING UP MY PHOTOS WITHOUT ASKING ME FIRST!" She yelled back at him.

"Awe, you still have that picture?" I gushed.

"Course I do, its a good picture. Why, do you not have it?" Haruhi asked.

"Of course I do, its a good picture" I repeated.

We turned around to see all the hosts gathered around the picture which was now hung up on a wall.

"The more i look at this picture, the more amazed I am." (Hikaru)

"How could this possibly become that?" (Kaoru)

"The day before school started, one the kids from our neighborhood got some gum in my hair." Haruhi explained.

"Yup, those darn kids...heh-heh...heh..." I said in a way that was not suspicious in any way at all. Haruhi gave me a sideways glance to which I looked away and scratched the back of my neck with a guilty smile. I mean, not guilty. Non-guilty? What's the opposite of guilty?

"Its a real pain to get gum out of long hair, so I decided to cut it all off." Haruhi continued. "I didn't care if I looked like a dude, ya know?"

Haruhi and Tamaki kept yelling while Hikaru asked me if Haruhi and I had any dancing experience. I didn't, and I know for a fact that Haruhi doesn't either. Then Tamaki made some deceleration that if she's so desperate to stay in the host club, and if I'm so desperate to help her, then we both have to learn the waltz within one week! It took me two years to master the funky chicken! How am I supposed to learn the waltz in less than a week?

After all that was said and done, it was time to go.

I said my goodbyes to the hosts and followed the tweeds down about fifty-fucking-million stairs. You'd think that such an elite academy would have an elevator or two. Maybe an escalator. They're fun. I mean, seriously though. They can afford a fountain with a statue of a kid peeing in the pond but they can't afford an elevator?

Damn rich people.

We finally got out to see a black stretch limo with two tough looking security guys standing either side of the open back door. Hikaru slid in first, then me, then Kaoru.

The door was closed behind us and the limo started moving almost instantly.

"Woah..." I mused, looking around at all the fancy cupholders and food that was just laying about.

"What are you 'woah'ing at?" Hikaru said, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, its like you've never been in a limo before" Kaoru said, in a 'ha-ha-imagine-that' voice.

Damn rich people.

"That's because I've never been in a limo before, dumbass" I said, irritated. Then they draped their arms round me and Hikaru said in alarm "What!? Commoners don't even have their own limos?! First coffee and now THIS?" meanwhile Kaoru is just chanting "you poor poor thing" over and over, then Hikaru joined in.

"Unhand me tweeds!" I said in a mock angry voice which quickly turned to laughter as they started tickling me instead.

Hope this chapter was a little better, the next one will be about what Marcie gets up to at the twins house :0

*Sorry, I had to