Hey guys, thanks to all of you who have come back to read this chapter especially rinpup14 and gem1244 for favoriting my story and rinpup14 and Idek1998 for following my story! Here's the next installment of my story, I hope you all like it!
BUMP! "Hey! Watch where you're going!"
"Sorry." I looked up from my book just long enough to apologize and move around the student before sinking my nose back into my book.
"Hey, Reiko, get your nose out of that book and go pick up the others." I looked up, annoyed at being interrupted, to see an irritated Tadashi standing in front of me.
"Why should I have to do it?"
"Because I have to work tonight."
"Excuses, excuses, excuses," I muttered.
"Come on, we all take turns picking Aika and Sotaru up so just suck it up and do it."
"But I'm reading!"
"You're always reading," Tadashi countered.
I bit my lip then let out a sigh, "fine, I'll do it."
"You better hurry, then. Their club activities ended a few minutes ago."
"I know!" I snapped as I put my book away and quickly grabbed my stuff out of my locker before running out of the school.
Lucky for me, the elementary school was only two blocks from the high school on the other side of a park so I sprinted across the grass till I reached the elementary school's playground where Aika and Sotaru were playing with a group of other students. "Hey, Weirdos, it's time to go," I called.
"But we're playing!" Aika whined.
"Don't care. I have homework to do, dinner to make, and a book to read; we're leaving, now!" Aika muttered a few small protests but came willingly. "Hey, where's Sotaru?" I asked sharply, scanning the playground for the escapee. Soon I spotted him on the highest platform in front of the twisty blue tube slide. "Sotaru! Get down here now!"
"I can't," he responded lying on the platform, "my legs stopped working."
"I don't have time for your nonsense, get down here now!"
"Meep..." Sotaru answered with a ridiculous look on his face.
"I'm coming for you!" I said angrily as I charged the yellow slide. I ran up the slide and across the platforms till I stood towering over Sotaru. "Move, now!" Sotaru shook his head 'no.' I groaned and bent down to pick him up but he was a total dead weight having made his body limp. "You asked for it!" With a grunt, I heaved Sotaru off the platform and shoved him head first down the slide, going in after him, and pushing him out the bottom. When we reached the bottom Sotaru attempted to dart off but I grabbed him by the back of his shirt, then I scooped him up and threw him over my shoulder. "Let's go, Aika," I said leading her by the hand to the nearest metro station while Sotaru struggled on my shoulder the whole way.
Once we made it home, I helped the youngest two get started on their homework before I started dinner. I threw together some chicken fried rice and put the egg rolls in the oven before begging my homework.
I had just finished my homework and was yelling at Chizura and Sotaru to set the table when the doorbell rang. "Can somebody get that?!" I called.
"We're setting the table," Chizura said as she and Sotaru finally started setting the table.
"Yoite?" I asked as I pulled the egg rolls out of the oven.
"Homework," he answered form his computer not even bothering to look up.
"Fine, I'll get it," I snapped angrily as I threw off the oven mitts and headed for the door as the doorbell rang a second time. I ran to the door and threw it open while apologizing, "sorry!"
"Hey, Reiko!" Seven boys chorused when I opened the door. I just stared, not only was I surprised to see the Ouran boys but also to see them carrying bags full of colorful fabric.
"Hey, guys, what are you doing here?"
"You promised to have cake with us so we brought cake, Rei-chan!" Hunny responded holding up a box of gourmet cakes.
"You brought cake, Hunny? That's great!"
"I thought you guys were setting the table and doing homework," I said with an accusing tone as my siblings surged up behind me.
"We finished," they chorused.
"I wasn't doing anything!" Aika pipped up.
"Of course," I said sweat-dropping.
"So can we come in?" The Hitachiin twins asked as they pushed passed me.
"Come on in!" Chizura and Yoite said with a smile.
"Pardon the intrusion," Kyoya said.
"No, please, go ahead," I said defeated as the Ouran boys filed in past me.
"Let's eat cake!" Hunny said happily.
"Wait!" I said pushing past everyone till I was in front of the group. "You guys may not have cake until you've had dinner."
"Don't be such a spoiled sport," Yoite said.
"Yeah, don't be such a stick in the mud," Chizura agreed.
"Come on, just because we have guests over and dad and Tadashi aren't home doesn't mean we get to break the rules," I said, scolding my siblings. Then turning to the Ouran students I said, "have you guys had dinner yet?" They shook their heads 'no.' "Then would you like to eat with us? There's enough food for all of us."
"It would be a great honor," Tamaki said with a dramatic bow.
"It would be rude to turn down such a generous offer," Kyoya said with a charming smile that somehow didn't seem right on him.
Chizura and Sotaru quickly set seven more places while Sotaru and I expanded the table, then we sat down to eat. "So did you make this?" The Hitachiin twins asked.
"Yeah," I answered.
"Wow! It's really good!" Hunny exclaimed.
"Thanks."
"Hey Takashi aren't we lucky to be eating food made by Rei-chan?" Hunny asked cutely, looking up at his friend.
"Yeah," Mori said simply.
"Not bad," Hitachiin one started.
"Yeah, it's pretty good," Hitachiin two continued.
"Not bad, for a commoner," they finished together.
A vein on my forehead bulged at this comment but I swallowed my anger.
"Hey, where's you awesome kendo fighter, Tadashi!" Tamaki asked eagerly, looking around the room.
"At work," Yoite answered between bites. "He should be home soon."
"Where are your parents?" Kyoya asked.
"Dad's on a business trip," Chizura answered reaching across the table for an egg roll.
"Where's your mom?" Hunny asked. My siblings and I stopped eating when he said this. "What, did I say something?" Hunny asked looking at us in concern.
"No, it's nothing you did," I said softly. "It's just that our mother died last year."
Everyone at the table fell silent and stopped eating. "What happened?" Haruhi asked in a soft voice.
"Some idiot ran a red light and hit her, she died instantly," I answered simply and quietly.
"I'm sorry," The boys mumbled.
"It's okay, you didn't know."
We ate in awkward silence for five minutes till Sotaru looked at Haruhi and asked him point blank, "are you gay?" Everyone paused for a split second, eyes widening in shock before my siblings and I burst out laughing; the Ouran boys quickly joined in but I noticed that they had looked slightly worried before we had burst out laughing.
"Sorry, Sotaru had no tact," I said between fits of laughter.
"That's okay, it looks like we needed this," Haruhi answered with tears in the corners of his eyes.
Dinner ended uneventfully after this and as we were cleaning up Tadashi returned. Tadashi was surprised to see the Ouran boys but he was glad that they had come regardless and as he ate dinner we brought out the cakes. To our amazement, Hunny had remembered all the different types of cake my brothers and sisters had requested. As everyone sat down to eat their cake with an excited fervor, I turned towards Tamaki and Kyoya who seemed to be the ringleaders of the group, and said, "I meant to ask earlier but what's in those bags?" As I asked I gestured towards the white lumps filled with a rainbow of luminescent colors.
"I'm actually glad you asked, my dear Princess," Tamaki said standing up and flinging himself dramatically around the room as he said, "the seven of us here are a part of the most wonderful club at Ouran Academy; the Host Club!"
"What's a host club?" Chizura asked.
"It's a place where devilishly handsome men like us who have too much time on our hands entertain beautiful ladies who also have too much time on their hands."
"Talk about modest," Yoite snickered.
"Hey, that sounds like fun! Can I join?" Tadashi asked jokingly.
"If you value your life you won't join," I said seriously, "because if your girlfriend doesn't kill you first I will."
"I was just joking, lighten up Reiko," Tadashi said, playfully slapping me on the back. "Please continue, Tamaki."
"So at our club we sometimes like to shake things up and keep it interesting by cos-playing and this time we're doing Candyland as the theme."
"You mean, like the board game?" The twins asked.
"Exactly!" Tamaki responded snapping his fingers.
"I like Candyland, It's my favorite game," Aika said happily.
"So what does that have to do with us?" I asked, moving the conversation back on track.
"Right, I was getting to that. In order to make things as realistic as possible we need more people so that we can incorporate all the characters, so we were hoping you would help us."
"We'll provide the costumes, the fabric for the costumes are in those bags, all you have to do is be friendly and chat with people. We'll have food so you can eat all you want and we'll provide you with rides home."
"Sounds fine to me," Tadashi said and the others nodded.
"But why us? I'm sure there are others you could have asked," I said.
"Well, we we're hoping to have Tadashi and Mori do a mock fight," Kyoya stated.
"Sounds like fun, I'm in," Tadashi said nonchalantly.
"Still, why us?" I insisted.
"Takashi still feels bad about hurting you and is still a little worried," Hunny said as he climbed from Mor's lap to mine. "He thought you guys would enjoy this and also he thought this could help make up for hurting you while keeping an eye on you!"
"So, will you do it?" Kyoya asked.
"Sure, sounds like fun," I said with a smile as everyone cheered.
So that's the end of this chapter, come back to read the next one! (that's an order)
Plus, here's a little fun fact about Reiko's family, it's loosely based off my own. The fact that there are three boys and girls is the same, the personalities of most of the siblings are based partially off the sibling they represent, the genders and ages are mostly the same as my siblings (I switched the genders of two of my siblings around and made two of my siblings twins), one last thing, the goofball, Sotaru, is basically a reincarnation of my little brother so his lines in this chapter are mostly things I've heard him say in real life.
