Whoa, where the Hell am I? What the Hell happened? Why is it so FRIGGIN' HOT in here?
I awoke surrounded by a sea of blankets and pillows. My personal maid, Suzette, was sitting by my huge bed, crocheting a blanket. Probably to add to this wonderful collection.
"Suzette." I tried to say, but it came out a hoarse croak. She passed me a glass of icy mint water. I guzzled it down faster than a camel.
"How long have I been out?" I asked again.
"Only 8 hours. Tonight you got a full nights rest for once, Lady Yuki. It is around 9 am right now. Would you like some breakfast?"
I nodded, and when my scrambled eggs and bacon came, I scarfed it down even faster than the water. Not too smart, if you ask me.
Suzette came back to take my dish and said "Lady Yuki. I must apologize. I forgot to tell you that a couple of boys from your new school called to see how you were."
"Who were they?" I asked, a little dumbfounded.
"Two numbers called your cell phone. I'm sorry for answering, but they wouldn't stop. They said to tell you that it was the twins calling." Her voice was a little uneasy when she said twins. She continued " Then Mitsukuni Haninozuka and Takashi Morinozuka called afterwards directly to your honorable brother. Tamaki Suou and Kyouya Ootari called on the home phone, as well as Haruhi Fujioka." She walked out of the room.
Wow, I thought after she had left, I didn't think that everyone would really call. Maybe Hunny and Mori, because they are technically my third cousins or something. I then took a little swim to the edge of my little personal ocean, and touched down on the icy granite floor. My knees shook, but held me up. Yeah!
I went to the bathroom, and got dressed in my workout outfit for my morning exercise routine. I then did 50 pushups, 50 sit-ups, straddle stretch and the flamingo, with a few more loosening exercises. It took me longer than usual to do all this, just because my body still felt weak after that fainting spell. It ends up that I had been suffering from some sort of flu, and I hadn't really noticed any differences because I had been getting colds and migraines frequently now. The fainting was just from overworking my body when it was trying to conserve energy to fight the bug. All this I found out from a doctor's note from my personal physician. I hate that dude so much. I can't just have a freaking normal looking guy. He had to be so hot. And he did my physical therapy after I broke my leg last year. Ugh.
I then headed out from the balcony and onto the back porch where I walked out the steps and into the garden. Sitting by the pond had always been relaxing, and Doc had recommended it. Well, let's say that he told my Sensei (brother in law now) that I needed to relax, so it was now a part of my daily training. Meditation. So I sat for a while, filing through the day's events for yesterday and the ones for today so far.
1) Went to school.
2) Met some new people…Tamaki, Hunny, Takashi, Haruhi, Kaoru, Hikaru, and KYOUYA!
3) Got p. (this means pissed-off where I come from) at Kyouya for… Knowing so much about my personal life, sharing it with others, and not even caring about anything but merits for him.
4) Passed out, practically in Kyouya's arms.
5) Woke up today.
6) Ate
7) Exercised.
8) Meditated.
Okay, that killed all of about 10 seconds. So I just let my mind wander for about 10 minutes, and watched the clouds go by. Then I got up, and did a couple laps around the pond, just to get my blood pumping again. When I remembered how mad I was at Kyouya, I ran to the punching bags and beat the crap out of them.
Since Sensei wasn't at home today, I just finished that, and cleaned my room. The maids were allowed to clean my bathroom, do my laundry, and change my sheets, but I wouldn't let them clean up my stuff. It was mine, and no one was allowed to touch it but me. But since I had cleaned it the day before, there wasn't that much to do. Therefore, I just watched TV like any other 17 year old, and took a shower a couple hours early. Simple, huh?
The day continued like that, and so did Sunday. Monday morning, I woke up refreshed and ready to go. Idiot. You said the same thing the morning that you passed out. Will you ever learn? Nope. Sorry I asked. I know me as well as I do. ^_^
I finished getting dressed in the nasty uniform. I decided to wear the girl's dress, even though I hated it with a passion. You are a freak enough as it is. Don't push your luck. Some kids who have no connection to the family could just trash can me if I came to school in the dude's uniform. Even though I was doing that, I continued to wear jeans under it, and a tank top. And some wicked Vans. No one could see them under my mellow-yellow dress. Then I put my black hair into its normal low on the neck pony tail. I only ever take it out when I am showering, brushing my hair, or sleeping. Never during the day had anyone but Mari, my parents, and Suki ever seen it down. At Sis's wedding I had it the same way, but in a bun.
Suzette came up a few minutes later with some; you guessed it, Crepes Suzette. It was my favorite breakfast, because it had the yumminess of pancakes, but was covered in orange stuff and whipped cream. Once I turn 18, I can try it with the flaming brandy. Mmm… I finished up and lounged around for a while.
Today was my first official day of classes. When I had gone on Friday, it was just for a tour. So I got my jet-black backpack ready, with its individual binders for each subject. I was kind of a neat freak like that. Well, at least Suki was, and since she was gone, I was trying to be a combination of our twiness. If that is a word. In a way, I was keeping her alive by being like her. At the thought of her, I grabbed the locket at swung it back and forth. When I realized that I had to get down to the garage to catch my car, I ran down the stairs at a hundred mph. And almost killed myself in the process. Genius. I stuffed the lunch Suzette passed to me in my pack, and headed for Stefan's car. He greeted me as he usually did: "Good Morning Miss Yuki." "Hi, Stephan." I replied. "Excited about your new school?" He asked. I nodded in reply. Most of the servants around here liked me a lot, and treated me like a normal human being. Figures, you aren't normal in the least. Shut-up. Never.
When we arrived at the school, I saw Tamaki and Kyouya waiting for me diligently. Tamaki was holding a beautiful red rose covered in dew, examining it like it was a precious gem. He is definitely way too easy to please. Weird Romantic. Kyouya had a briefcase in his hand by his side, and was holding onto that elbow with the other hand. Bet that stupid journal of his in there too. But why does he have to look so good? Damn. All the dudes at the host club are so freaking hot! And I'm related to two of them. Why, God? Why torture me like this?
When Stephan pulled into park and wished me a good day at school, Tamaki rushed forward and opened to door. He offered his hand to me, which I took, and he helped me out of the car. When he pulled me close, I stood still as stone as he offered me the rose. "My Dear Yuki, this rose is not nearly as beautiful as you are this fine morning. Kyouya told us how you fainted, and we tried to contact you, but you were not awake. A Miss Suzette told me she would tell you we called as soon as you woke up. She and I had a wonderful conversation about Paris." Tamaki still held me right by his chest, but I had regained enough composure to be able to slip away.
"Thank you for your concern. Suzette told me as soon as I woke up on Saturday, and I apologize for not calling sooner, but I was busy." I lied right through my teeth. To cover it, I held the rose up to the light, and admired it much as Tamaki had done himself. The rose truly was exquisite. Its petals weren't in full bloom, but it wasn't a little bud. I felt the thorns and thought of the cliché emo phrase: "If life is so great, why do roses have thorns?" Because without the thorns as a hindrance, no one would be able to resist the temptation of plucking it. Or you could look at it as you should enjoy the fact that thorns have roses.
Kyouya came from behind us and said, "If we want to get to class early enough to square everything away for Miss Yuki, we might want to leave now." It ended up that I had all of the classes that they had, so I just followed them around all day. I somehow always got snatched into a conversation with Tamaki and some other girls. When they saw that he was showing me around with Kyouya, they gave me piercing glares that I could feel through the back of my head. During a break between classes in Trigonometry, they wanted to mess with my hair and put it into a braid.
"Aw, your hair is so soft, Yuki-san." They all cooed, stroking my hair like I was a cat. "Can't you let us braid it, it would look so nice." At that, I looked around desperately for an empty seat. There, by the window! I thought, and lunged at it before some other person got there. I turned to see who I was sitting beside and saw that it was Kyouya.
Damn! Well, I can't just stay away from him if he is a part of my new group of friends, is in all of my classes, and is guiding me around the whole school. He might be an egotistical jerk, but I might as well get used to him. And I can't blame him for trying to get to know his family's business associates, now can I? Even if he knows too much…
When I actually looked at him, I saw that he was wearing the first genuine smile I had seen from him. It wasn't so sweet that it could charm the birds from their nests. More like a cynical, sideways smirk that a rat would wear when she was about to eat her young.
"You don't like getting your hair messed with, now do you?" he said in the most annoying tone.
"I'd rather be chopped up and fed to feral mountain lions." I replied, exasperated as I turned to see Tamaki looking at me funny and the girls giggling their faces off. Hey, they could giggle it off, with all the makeup they are wearing.
I heard a slight chuckle from Kyouya. He covered it with his hand and tried to turn it into a cough.
"Oh, you think that is funny? I want to see how you react when a bunch of girls come up and ask if they can screw with your hair, pretty boy." I said to him, leaning in closer to his face.
"Hey, it's different. I am a guy, and you don't do that to a guy. But you are a girl, and lots of normal girls have little make over parties. I would know; I have a sister." He retorted. The look on his face told me he wished he didn't know that little tidbit of information.
I snapped back "That junk is for girly-girls who have nothing better to do. Besides, I am not what you call normal, anyway."
"Then why are you wearing a dress, Miss Yuki? You could wear the guy's uniform if you really wanted to."
"I am wearing normal clothes under all this, Genius." I showed him by lightly pulling up the bottom of the dress to show my shoes and jeans. "Besides, I don't want any more attention about the uniforms than I already have with being me. So get over yourself, Mr. Know-it-all." I whispered as class began.
By that time, Tamaki had escaped his fan club and came to sit behind me.
He said quickly into my ear "I don't see why you think it is so bad, Yuki. You look quite splendid in that dress and you pull it off very well. Ask the twins, they would know. Why didn't you let the girl's play with your hair?"
"Because," I drawled, "It is degrading. Moreover, I don't like people messing with my hair. So you can stop touching it, Tamaki. You couldn't do anything secretive even if your life depended on it."
He pulled away from me very quickly, with a guilty cough. I heard another faint snigger from Kyouya, and class continued.
At lunch, we saw that everyone from the host club had saved all three of us a seat. I sat sandwiched between the twins, facing Haruhi.
"How has your first day of classes gone?" Haruhi asked.
"Eh, so-so." I replied as I pulled out my lunch. It was a simple little sub-sandwich, with turkey, lettuce, mayonnaise, and cheese with a hostess cupcake and a Dr. Pepper. I wasn't jealous at all of the big fancy meals surrounding me: I like it simple and good. My manners weren't first-class either, but I just dug into my sammy.
Lunch continued on with normal conversation: although conversation can hardly be that when it seemed like Kyouya wrote down every word you said. God damn it, what is he writing in that confounded thing?
After classes ended, my two-year mates rushed me up the stairs to the third music room and told me to wait. When they said I could come in, I opened the door, and rose petals flew out in a spiral. Then I heard a chorus of "welcomes" as the boys and Haruhi showed up in my line of sight. They were dressed up as characters from Aladdin.
Tamaki: Aladdin
Kyouya: Genie (without the blue skin)
Takashi: Head Guard Guy
Hunny: The Tiger
Haruhi: Jasmine
Twins: Bandits
I laughed my head off at the sight of Haruhi as Jasmine, and Tamaki as Aladdin. Tamaki, you think I can't see that you like Haruhi? I wonder who set up the costumes for that. Hint, hint, wink, wink. Kyouya wrote down my first reaction of their little scene as he asked, "So, what are you laughing at?"
"Nothing, nothing… I just didn't know that you guys dressed up for this." I said, still trying to get through my bouts of laughter.
Hunny jumped me from behind, and as he hung from my neck, he said, "Yuki-chan, do I look like a tiger to you?"
"You want my honest opinion?" I asked, and he nodded. "Well, you look more like a cat, Hunny. I think you need stripes."
Tamaki came up to me eagerly and requested eyes big as saucers, "Do you know any way to fix this, Yuki?"
I pondered over it for a minute and said while pulling the boy off me, "Get me some white, orange, and black face paint, and I'll have all the lady tigers crawling all over him."
As Tamaki ran off to get what I requested, I walked up to Haruhi.
"Haruhi, you look exactly like Jasmine. I like the idea of having one girl in the group, but don't the girls get a little… worried when they have someone dressed up like a girl serving them?" I asked, bothered about what I might get for an answer.
Kyouya answered for her… "You might think that. However, in reality, many girls around here like a more sensitive man who is able to laugh at himself enough that he won't mind if he is in a girl's costume. And frankly, some like more feminine men."
I trembled a bit at the thought, but shook it off as I looked at Kyouya. He didn't look like a genie at all. His costume needs something more mystical. To Tamaki, who was still in a back room, I screamed "TAMAKI! Get me some blue-silver powder glitter while you are at it."
Before he came back, I ran into a back room and shed my dress. So glad that I wore stuff under this. Makes my job a whole lot easier. Then I grabbed a hair clip and clipped the ponytail to my head.
As I came back into the room, everyone looked at me a little odd, but the twins were muttering something about "we can save her yet."
I then plopped out on the couch and said. "Yuki's face paint salon, open for business." Hunny ran up to me and stood right in front of me. I began working on his face, making his eyelids white, and giving him orange and black stripes. I even gave him some whiskers. When I was finished, he looked like an actual tiger.
He jumped up and down after finding a mirror and hugged me. I didn't go rigid like I had with Tamaki, just because he was so cute and small that he reminded me of a 5 year old. Nevertheless, I knew he definitely didn't have the strength of one when he helped me climb to my feet.
Then I motioned for Kyouya to come forward. He glared at me and asked haughtily "What do you want me for?"
"You can't have the Genie without his blue face. At least let me give you a little blue glitter, so you look a little like one. If we made you all blue, your customers might be scared away." Kyouya just shook his head, and stood his ground. I reached up with the glitter, but he pulled back.
He didn't suspect I would pick him up, throw him on a couch, and sit on him. Kyouya gasped for air and struggled until I sat on him even harder. When he did stop, I removed his glasses and put them on top of my head. Then I sprinkled some glitter on my palm and gently blew it on his face, and swirled some on his face's sharper edges, making sure to accentuate his cheekbones. The whole time he was staring at me with his night-black eyes. It was perfect. But those coal-black eyes drilled holes right into my soul with the way he was looking into mine.
I stood up, and as he gasped for air I mumbled "I can't be that heavy. Maybe I have to lose weight? Or he is just a big fat wimp. Yeah, I'll just stick with that. Saves me the trouble of giving up snacks."
By the time I had finished mumbling,Kyouya had came back from the bathroom and walked up to me. I thought he was going to slap me or something by the look on his face, but he grabbed at my hair instead.
"OH NO YOU DIDN'T JUST TOUCH MY HAIR, PRETTY BOY!" I yelled, about to lunge at his sorry-ass and gouge out those eyes.
"YUKI! Calm down. I just want my glasses back." He screamed as Tamaki and Mori tried to hold me back. Kyouya just addressed me by my first name. There's a first time for everything.
"Oh" was all I could say. I had completely forgotten about his glasses on my head.
" 'Oh,' is right Yuki. You just about killed the guy 3 times there." The twins said in unison as I passed Kyouya the glasses.
"How do you figure that?" I asked, oblivious to what I had done.
"One: you almost suffocated him when you slammed him into the couch and sat on him before he could catch his breath." Hikaru said.
"Two: you almost took off his head when the poor guy tried to get his glasses back."
"What's the 3rd one?" Haruhi asked, curious.
"He almost passed out when he realized that a pretty girl like you was straddled on his chest, touching his face." They sang out, once again in perfect unison. I blushed a thousand shades of red when I realized what I had just done to him. I just sat on the most annoying guy in the world and did his face glitter. I grabbed the locket and held it nervously.
This time, before I could get over my little moment, Kyouya beat me to the punch: literally. "Stupid idiots." He muttered through his teeth. When he turned around to walk away, I noticed that I hadn't gotten the back of his neck.
"Hey, Kyouya! Wait a second." I said.
He turned around, bewildered and said, "What?"
"Whoa, calm down dude. I got some glitter on the back of your neck. Sorry about sitting on you and almost killing you for trying to take back your glasses."
"Oh, right. It is no problem at all Yuki-san. Thanks." He was tripped up by my apology. Damn, I thought I got him out of the habit of adding san since he didn't say it when he yelled my name. Oh well.
Tamaki practically had a light bulb over his head when he said, "I have the most brilliant idea ever! Let's see how Mori-senpai looks when he has a scar on his face. Yuki-chan, can you do it?"
"Sure," I replied, eager to get away from Kyouya after that weird moment, "I'd love to. But I need some red face paint and a tissue."
The twins snapped to attention as Tamaki snapped his fingers. "Hai." They said, and ran off to get some more face paint, and Hunny went to get the tissues.
Mori-senpai sat straight down on the couch as I drew a jagged scar from the top of his left eye down to the right side of his chin. This time I didn't sit on the guy, and just stood by the couch instead. Then I smeared it a bit, to make it look older, and he was finished.
The Twins already had scars and junk, so they didn't need anything but thick black eyeliner to accent their eyes.
I went into the bathroom to see Haruhi adding the final additions to her make-up. When she heard me sigh with relief, she turned and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Oh, I'm just glad you can do your own make-up. I can do a clown, tiger, or any other funny or scary face, but I can't do normal make-up to save my life." I said, waiting for her reaction.
"I am surprised, Yuki. I really can't believe that. You can do all of this other stuff, but can't do simple things like this?" I shook my head. Then she turned away before she could say what she was about to because Tamaki had knocked on the door and said "Ladies, sorry to interrupt your alone time, but we need Haruhi out here so we can let our guests in."
She excused herself as I pulled my dress back on over my clothes, and took out the hair clip.
Walking out into the main room, I saw a stream of girls rush through the door and split up immediately into groups.
Tamaki: 8/20 of them
Kyouya: 3/20
Twins: 3/20
Mori and Hunny: 2/20
Haruhi: 4/20
I saw that most went to Tamaki, and surprisingly Haruhi had the second highest amount of people. Kyouya was right. They do like Haruhi. Tamaki was serenading each girl, making them feel like princesses. Kyouya was playing on the 'I am a Genie, and I am here to grant you three wishes' junk. To tell you the truth, he did it pretty well. Haruhi was just sitting there as the four girls around her bombarded her with questions, mostly ones about how 'he' always seemed to get the girl's costumes. Mori was just standing there, being imposing as Hunny lapped up his milk from a dish and crammed food into his mouth. Then, Mori would suddenly lean down and wipe Hunny's lips. The girls would "eek" so loud. Then the twins were entertaining their guests with random outbursts of 'brotherly love.' Eew, incest. Gross. I am glad Suki and I didn't go around doing junk like that.
Standing unnoticed in the corner, I watched as each guy entertained the girls. I decided to be helpful and fixed up some tea. Then I motioned for the Twins to come so I wouldn't have to be noticed by all of the other boy-crazy girls.
"Take the tea guys. I have to go. I will be late for my lessons, and Sensei will be furious." I murmured to them.
"We will only take it from you if you promise to come around again tomorrow." Kaoru said.
Hikaru said for them "Yeah, we might need you to do the make-up again. We think that Kyouya might…" but didn't finish as I glared at him.
Then, just to make my day, they yelled to everyone "HEY GUYS! Yuki has to go now." I barely kept from hitting them as everyone turned to stare. I know where you guys go to school. I'll put itch powder in your costumes and poison in your lunch. Payback is sooo sweet, isn't it?
Takashi bowed his head to me, but it meant just as much as Hunny's hug. Haruhi waved goodbye, because more people had come in and she was too overwhelmed to move. The Twin's just gave me an evil smirk, and Kyouya ignored me completely: adjusting his glasses that totally ruined the genie effect. Tamaki stood up and escorted me to the door. Which was only about ten feet, but what the hay? Who cares anymore?