The next day Torrio walked to school like normal. But she got so many people greeting her it was crazy. There were girls she recognized from the Host club, and people she had never seen before in her life! But she just walked on to class like normal. When she walked in Hikaru, Kaoru, and Haruhi came over to her desk and talked to her. It was the first time it had ever happened so she felt a little embraced because of the stares. Then the class started. Torrio kept doodling on her papers like always. Up until English class.
"Ok everyone! Instead of just collecting your assignments you are all gonna come up to the front of the class and read your out load. Then hand your paper to me after you're done." The teacher instructed. She picked people randomly to go up and read. After a while about half the class had gone. This included Haruhi and Kaoru. Then there were 15 people left. Hikaru went. 10 left.
"Torrio. Why don't you come up now?" The teacher said. Torrio nodded, grabbed her paper, and stood up.
As she was going up she heard whispers. Then she turned to face the class. She looked at her paper and let out a sigh, and continued to stare at it.
"Why don't you just collect his? It's not like he can read it!" One of the other students called.
"At least make him do it during lunch." Called another. "Some of us still have to go!"
Torrio glared at the people who had said this. It was one of those 'just shut up' stares. Once the two were quiet, Torrio cleared her throat.
"I've never been part of your world. And you've never been part of mine." She began. "When you look at me you may see something different from everyone else. But I can tell that you ignore it. I know I'm a freak. I'm not rich at all, and I'm not smart either. No, that's not how I am." Torrio took another breath.
"I am a poor little orphan, born who knows where. Raised on the road, with no real home. I'm not as polite as you because I had no special training. But now I am here. To a stranger I look like just like a student that goes to a rich kid's school. But that will never be me. I'll never be rich. And I'll never erase my past. But I wouldn't trade how I grew up for the world. Cause it is me. Not someone else."
She lowered her paper to look around the class. Then she handed the paper to the teacher and walked back over to her seat. She saw the teacher skim over her paper, checking if Torrio had actually read it or not. "Word for word." The teacher muttered. Torrio smirked before taking out a blank sheet of note book paper and started doodling again. She ignored the stares of the people around her.
When the lunch bell rang Torrio took out her boxed lunch. Right before she opened it the twins walked up to her. "You want to come eat with us?" They asked.
"Sure." Torrio shrugged picked up her lunch, and grabbed a separate bag from her back pack. Then she turned to walk out of the class room.
She fallowed the twins down to the cafeteria and waited for them to order their lunches. Then she followed them to the roof of one of the buildings. They sat down and began to eat. Torrio opened her lunch box to see what was inside.
"Oh cool! He made fried chicken today!" Torrio cheered, taking out her chop sticks.
"Who made it?" Hikaru asked.
"My brother." She said with a mouth full of food. Then she swallowed. "We switch off on who cooks the meals for what days."
"Oh yeah. You have to cook for your selves." Kaoru commented.
"Yep!" Torrio pulled out a travel mug filled with tea. She gulped down some of it. "It's always fun to see what the other made. But on some days we cook it together. That 's usually on the weekends though."
"What about your parents?" Hikaru asked.
"Well now I know who wasn't listening to my presentation, or anything for that matter." She said. She looked at the matching confused faces next to her and sighed. "I'm an orphan. I live with my older brother in an apartment. Well I guess it's a condo, since it is pretty big."
"So your brothers your only family?" Kaoru asked.
"Well he's the only family I live with." Torrio finished the last of her lunch. "I have another brother and 2 sisters. Well one of them is only a figurative sister."
"Are they all older?"
"No, the figurative one is younger. And my other brother is technically my twin." She saw the confused looks again. "We are a week apart in age, and we met each other when we were really young. So we ended up becoming really close."
"To the point where you might as well be related?" Hikaru asked. Torrio nodded, than dug through her other bag.
She pulled out a recorder. She made sure all of the pieces were put together tightly. Then she started playing a tune. It was soft and sweet. And the music was carried through the air like a leaf in the wind. It sounded lovely and graceful. Soon Torrio was taken away into the music. Her eyes closed as she blew out each note that came with the song. At first the twins were confused as to what was happening. But soon they took in the music too. They both leaned back against the tree they were sitting around. Torrio played several songs before he bell rang. Then the three packed up and headed back to class.
Torrio was bored all the way through French. They were just learning something that Tamaki had gone over with her the day before. So she knew what to do, giving her all her all the more reason to zone out. Finally the bell rang for class to end. Torrio stepped out and ran for the music room. She busted through the doors to see everyone else looking over some costumes.
"Hello there Torrio." Tamaki glided over to her. "What do you think of this?" He held up a costume. It looked like some sort of tuxedo or something.
"What is it?" Torrio asked putting down her bag.
"Today's theme is detectives." Kyoya explained. "Go see if this one is your size." Torrio just nodded. She took the clothing from the blonde boy and went into the changing rooms. She quickly changed and looked in the mirror. She laughed when she saw herself.
"Do you really look that funny?" She turned to see the twins behind her.
"I'm just not used to this kind of clothing." She shrugged. "I guess it's just weird."
"Yeah well we made these ones." Hikaru said proudly.
"Like handmade!" Torrio's jaw dropped.
"Yep." Kaoru said. "But hey, it's nothing new." The two walked away. Torrio took one more look at herself before walking out with them.
The second she got out customers started coming in. She quickly took her spot at a table with her sketchbook and pencils.
"No music?" Haruhi asked passing by.
"Nope, not today." Torrio smiled. Haruhi just shrugged and walked over to her own table. Then some girls came over and sat down with Torrio.
"Good evening ladies." Torrio smiled slightly.
"Hello Torrio." The girls said. "So what theme is it today?"
"Sorry ma'am. That's confidential information." Torrio said proudly. She looked at the glum faces. "But if you guess it I'll let you know if it's right." She winked, causing the girl's faces to go red.
"Lawyers?" One of the girls asked which wasn't a bad guess due to the suit and brief case. But Torrio shook her head. "Salesman?" "No." "Hmmmm…." The girls were thinking hard about it. "A detective!"
"Ding ding ding!" Torrio cheered. "We have a winner!" The girls cheered. Torrio grinned and picked up her sketch book. She started drawing.
"So what's the case today?" One of the girls asked.
"A thief." Torrio pulled out an envelope and opened it. She took out papers and pictures which were labeled as clues. "Let's try and solve the case!" Torrio continued to draw in her book while the girls looked over the clues. Torrio helped them whenever they needed it. The point was for them to solve the case.
"You know I have my own case too." Torrio said. The girls looked at her, slightly confused. Torrio smirked at this. Then she looked at her sketch book. "From my witnesses I was able to draw the picture of some thief's." She turned the book around for the girls to see. They gasped when they saw the pictures of themselves on the paper. "These are the thief's who stole my heart." The girls squealed. Some of them looked like they were gonna faint. Then they left and some more girls came up. The day continued like that until time was up.