Anime16xoxo: 'hey guys, sorry about the last chapter, I swear I'll try and make them longer'

Saska: 'you better, that last chapter was lame as, I hope you explain yourself better in this one, you dork'

Anime16xoxo: 'I will try my best, and I am not a dork' *sticks tongue out childishly*

Saska: 'D O R K!'

Tamaki: 'my little girl, here you are, you shouldn't scare your daddy like that!' *tries to hug Saska*

Saska: *pushes Tamaki away* 'did you have to let him in here?'

Anime16xoxo: 'Yes, yes I did' *mock serious face*

Tamaki: 'and who is this lovely princess' *holds Anime16xoxo's hand*

Anime16xoxo: 'aww, you're too sweet' *sticks tongue out at Saska*

Saska: 'Ohh, now I see why you just 'had' to let him in here' *rolls eyes*

Tamaki: 'dear lady, don't you think you should tell the very important readers that you do not, in fact, own Ouran high school host club or any of its characters/places, or the three songs mentioned in this chapter?'

Anime16xoxo: 'yeah, well, you just did it for me sooo, I hope you guys like this chapter Jplease review if you can!'

Tamaki: 'you are such a kind hearted lady, I'm sure they'll love anything you create, princess'

Saska: 'oh brother'

Thankyou guys for reading my stories, there fun to write and I'm really glad you like them, feel free to comment and give me pointers, or even just tell me who you think I should bring into this intro next time?

Enjoy!

Chapter 3 – House of horrors

They all walked up to the outside of her house, her father wouldn't be home for a couple hours, Saska unlocked there front door and they all went inside. Saska figured that because they were friends they would want her to come over their houses soon enough, but if she showed them her house then maybe they would be satisfied for a while.

(I know what you're thinking, isn't she afraid of boys? Yes, but the way I figure it is, she would rather have the guys all go to her house where her brother is and where she knows her way around, then go by herself to a guy's house that she has no idea where it is or how to get around! J)

Her brother's music was playing loudly from their shared bedroom.

'My shadows the only one that walks beside me

My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating

Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me

Till then I'll walk alone

Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh

Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh'

Tamaki and the others tilted there heads in confusion, "what is this" Tamaki sounded bewildered.

'I'm walking down the line

That divides me somewhere in my mind

On the border line

of the edge and where I walk alone'

Saska stared at him, shocked, "you've never listened to green day". She smiled and fought the urge to sing along to one of her favourite bands.

'Read between the lines

what's messed up and every thing's all right

Check my vital signs

to know I'm still alive and I walk alone

I walk alone I walk alone

I walk alone I walk a...

Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh

Ah-Ah Ah-Ah

I walk alone I walk a...'

Tamaki nodded his head, "hmm, it's not too bad, I guess".

The twins smiled, "we kind of like it".

'I walk this empty street

On the boulevard of broken dreams

Where the city sleeps

And I'm the only one and I walk a…'

There was a faint 'click' and then the music disappeared, Saska frowned, she liked that song, but then she smiled as her brother slid the door to their room open and walked out. He was wearing a white business shirt unbuttoned to reveal the red basketball singlet underneath and a pair of dark navy coloured slacks, his feet were bare and a black tie hung, undone, around his neck.

"Hey, how was your work meeting, and why did you text so late, you know we finish at three thirty, right?" she asked, he simply stared at the group of boys standing in there house, his ice blue eyes sharpening with suspicions and mistrust.

"Who are they" he turned his razoring gaze on her and she felt herself cower slightly.

"They're, friends, kind of, I mean, I'm stuck with them, so, yeah" she realized she was babbling and stopped, staring at the ground guiltily.

"What do you mean stuck, daddy doesn't understand" Tamaki whined and reached out to her.

Calvin, almost imperceptibly, put his foot in front of Tamaki, causing him to go flying past Saska and into the wall. "That sounded painful" Saska said, staring at the Tamaki shaped dent in the wall.

Calvin came over and wrapped her in his arms, "I got the job, $560 a fortnight" he laughed, but not like his usual laugh, he was restricting it because of the others.

"Hi, I'm Hikaru" Hikaru waved, "and I'm kaoru" kaoru smiled, though it didn't reach their eyes which seemed bored.

"Hello, what's your name, I'm Honey and this is mori" Honey giggled and little pink flowers danced around his head while Mori just stood there like a statue, the usual.

"Oh, this is my brother, Calvin" she avoided the twins knowing smirks as she answered Honey.

"Oh, ok then, well, Calvin, I am Tamaki Suoh" Tamaki reached out to shake his hand and Calvin just glared.

"Why did you talk about our dad like that" he asked, his words edged with razors.

"Um, because, I am Saska's daddy" he smiled and went to hug Saska, and, before her brother could trip him again, she put a hand out in front of her to stop the childish blonde.

"What did I say last time you touched me?" she asked seriously.

"He touched you" Calvin looked really pissed off as he turned to smack Tamaki across the room, "don't you ever touch her".

"Calvin, it's ok, I handled it" she put a reassuring hand on her brothers outstretched arm, he lowered it slowly, still glaring at Tamaki.

"they have to leave, soon" Calvin whispered to her.

"Calvin, I swear there not that-" she started, but Calvin's voice stoped her.

"Dad's coming home soon, he called and said he was coming home early today" Calvin said, and that was all she needed to hear.

"How early" she asked, all serious.

"He'll be home in half an hour" Calvin looked the slightest bit sympathetic, he knew how rare it was for Saska to make friends, "he expects dinner to be on the table, ready for him, he has to go out very soon after he gets home, so, we better get ready".

Fear sparked in Saska's heart, no matter how used to it she was, she could never stop that initial shock that came with knowing what would happen next.

"I'm sorry, you guys have to go" she said to the group who was sitting around her table awkwardly, discussing how small her house was.

"We aren't going anywhere till you give us a tour" the twins smirked cheekily.

"Yeah, Saska-Chan and Calvin-Chan, we can't leave yet" honey declared cutely while mori nodded reluctantly.

"My little girl, you can't kick us out so soon" Tamaki cried dramatically.

"Yes, I can, and I'm not your little girl" Saska informed him angrily.

"Aww, pleaaaaaseeee" the twins widened their eyes and fluttered there eyelashes in a 'puppy dog look'.

"Fine, but only if we're really quick" she said and turned to opened the door to her bedroom.

The whole group rushed in and began to look at all her stuff, Honey stared at a poster of Reece Mastin she had tapped to the wall, and Mori sat on her brother's bed stoically. Tamaki admired her belongings, which consisted of a tiny bedside table with a photo of her mum on it and a small stack of second hand CD's. The twins neared her underwear draw, but her brother intercepted them mid-way, "not gonna happen" he growled and they raised their arms innocently, and backed towards her bed, which was covered with an old blue sheet, thin, worn pillow, and frayed purple blanket, her brothers was the same only he had a green blanket and faded yellow sheet.

Their room was basically split in two, her brothers bed was on the right and hers was on the left, she had her poster and quite a few drawings and photos up on her walls, he had his own poster, it was of a wicked, silver and blue dirt bike crashing into the dirt near the camera, and he also had photo's, there was a selfie, taken by Saska, it showed both of their faces squished together to fit into the tiny camera frame and the other was of their mother and them, grinning at the camera that was being held by their father, she had a replica of both of those photo's on her wall as well. They each had a small bedside table, hers had white paint peeling of the sides and a whole heap of scratch and sniff stickers stuck all over it, his was plain except where he had carved his initials into the thin lacquer C.M. they both had Cd's and a plain white lamp each, in the middle of the room, between the two beds was a chest of draws, it had six draws, three on each side, his clothes were in the right ones ad hers were in the left, on top of the chest of draws was a small CD player and a stack of old, musty library books that they both liked to read, the both kept their homework in their bags and did it at the dining room table so they didn't have any school stuff in there room.

The twins decided it would be a good idea to search, under her bed, where they found an old wooden box, about the size of a 3 litre ice cream tub. She stared, unable to believe that they were about to go through her private box, that box was her mothers, she kept everything that was important to her in there. "Hey, didn't you know it's rude to go through other peoples things" she tried to sound joking, but when she pulled the box out of Hikaru's hands, she tugged a little harder than necessary.

"Ok, it's time to go guys" Calvin called to all of them; they stopped going through her stuff and turned towards them.

"Already" Honey asked sadly.

"Sorry honey-senpie, but if you don't leave my dad will get home and-" she was interrupted mid-sentence by the sound of her front door banging open.

"Honey, I'm home" her dad laughed and then she heard him go into the kitchen, "Is this all, well, I guess it will do for now, but when I get back there better be more".

"please, stay here" she begged the host club, her voice barely above a whisper, she put the box back under her bed, took off her hat and walked out of the room, her brother close behind her.

Xxxxxxxxxx

"Hello father how was work?" she asked politely as she served him some soba noodles with sliced duck breast (Kamo nanban), that Calvin had, luckily, made earlier.

"It was fine, them bloody Asians were everywhere though" he slurped his food up messily, "what's this Asian crap".

She bit her tongue to keep from pointing out his racism, "it's duck meat and noodles Father, Calvin made it especially for you, so you could try some of the traditional Japanese foods" her voice was filled with fake kindness.

"I'm sorry, father, I will make something Australian for us tomorrow" Calvin said calmly, they both sat down and began to slowly eat there dinner, it was delicious.

"bloody right you will, I don't want none of this Asian crap in my house, there better be burgers on the table when I get back from my duties" he said and stood up, knocking the bowl of the table so that it smashed into pieces on the clean floor, Saska couldn't help but flinch at the loud cracking noise it made.

"Saska, come and help me find a new tie for this very important meeting" he said and sneered.

Calvin's jaw tensed, "father, the tie you have on is nice, why change it" he tried to reason.

Their fathers hand jerked out and hit Calvin across the face, leaving behind a red mark, Calvin looked down at his feet, "I decide whether or not my tie is 'nice' enough for what I'm doing" he yelled and Saska winced again.

"Of course, father, I will help you right away" Saska said and followed him to his bedroom.

Xxxxxxxxxx

"Uh, father, I think this red tie suits you well" she said hesitantly as they entered his room and she picked up the first tie she saw.

"Yes yes" he said, obviously ignoring whatever she had said, "you look just like your mother, you know, so beautiful" he reached out to stroke her hair and she jerked her head away from him on instinct.

His slightly dreamy gaze turned angry, "how dare you jerk away from me like I'm some kind of vermin" he yelled, she closed her eyes, fear sparking inside her.

"I I'm sorry, father, I didn't mean to, it's just, shouldn't you be going now" she said desperately.

He then grabbed a handful of her hair and swung her into the wall, then he leaned in close, tears were forming in her eyes as his rancid breath brushed over her cheekbone.

Just as he was reaching for her again a loud crash came from the other side of the house, oh no, please don't let that be the host club, her lips trembled as she held back her tears. Her father stood up abruptly and stomped from the room, she waited a second unable to stand just yet, when she finally did stand up she felt a dull ache surrounding her back and shoulders.

When she got out into the main lounge room/ dinning area, she saw something that chilled her to her very core, all of the host club and her brother were standing in the middle of the room staring at her father, who looked madder than the devil himself.

"Who are these people, Calvin" He said in a scary calm voice.

"There my-" he started, but Saska interrupted, unable to let her brother take the blame for her mess.

"There my friends" she said quietly, her father turned to her, his face a mask of rage and betrayal.

"All of you must get out of my house immediately" he yelled, the host club members all looked at her, she fought the urge to run up to them and beg them to take her and her brother with them and just nodded.

She walked over and opened the door for them, barely registering the slender hand that slipped something thin and square into her pants pocket, when they were all out she shut the door and faced her father.

"You are never to invite boys into my house ever again and you are banned from being 'friends' with those boys, you understand me, If I ever see a single one of them near you again I will not hesitate to crush their necks" he growled the end at her, right in her face, then he hit her, causing her to fall, hard against her right shoulder, onto the cold wood floor.

"I'm going now, I'll be back in two hours, and I'll be hungry" he said calmly, and then he grabbed his thick brown coat and walked out.

Xxxxxxxxxx

"Saska, you ok?" Calvin came over and helped her up off the floor, she nodded her head and tried to hide the fact that her shoulder was throbbing painfully and her back was still aching.

"I'm just gonna go have a bath, ok" she smiled, but knew it wouldn't reach her eyes.

When she got into the bathroom she pulled her clothes off and ran a bath, she checked in the mirror for injuries, and, sure enough, a big, painful looking, purple bruise was swelling up on her right shoulder and her back looked like it had been smacked with a giant hammer, it was all red and bruised.

She climbed into the warm bath and winced, the heat was both relaxing and slightly painful, after she had sat in the bath for a few minutes she let herself go, tears streaming down her face as the music started back up, only this time Calvin had put in one of her CD's and had obviously moved the CD player to the other side of the bathroom door.

'Summer has come and passed

The innocent can never last

Wake me up when September ends'

She cried along to another green day classic, and then she remembered the thing that Hikaru had put into her pocket.

Like my father's come to pass

Seven years has gone so fast

Wake me up when September ends

She pulled her pants toward her and dug around in the right pocket until she found it.

Here comes the rain again

Falling from the stars

Drenched in my pain again

Becoming who we are

It was a note, she unfolded it and read what was inside.

Saska

Meet us outside your house in half an hour!

- The host club

Saska wiped her eyes and re read it, unsure if they were trying to play a trick on her, she decided to wait a bit then decide if she should actually go and see them, if only to tell them that she wasn't allowed to hang out with them anymore.

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How long had she been crying in the bath? She realized that she had drifted off while she was sitting there, and that she could now hear the radio playing 'Bangarang' by 'Skrillex'.

She got up and unplugged the bath. Wrapping an old, frayed towel around her and going to her bedroom to get changed, she had decided, she was going to meet 'the host club' and tell them they weren't her friends anymore.