Chapter 4

In Just One Weekend

The weekend had finally rolled around, and the Gengara Twins and the Hitachiin Twins had planned to go over to the sisters' house to work on the research for their projects. The only problem was that the girls' mother's flight had been cancelled, so she had just arrived Saturday morning. Lilly had called the Hitachiin's home number they had given her, but they were too stubborn to change the date. Hikarou's exact words were, "We really don't care. We'll be over at 11." The Hitachiin Twins were truly gentlemen.

After the girls had greeted their mother with choking hugs and received souvenirs, they immediately set to work unpacking boxes of their mother's and her partner's fashions. The girls had expected that since they got to work at 9:30, they could finish up at 10:30 and freshen up before the Hitachiin Twins came over. However, their mother had given them some startling news. "I just couldn't bare giving Yuzuha anymore grief by having her store 50 boxes of clothing with her boys, so I took it upon myself to store her fashions, too."

"Leave it to Mom to be kind, caring, and thoughtful of others," mumbled Rose, carrying a large brown box filled with spring accessories. She was wearing a white tank top with a blue crop jacket, fairly slim gray sweats, and light blue flats.

Lilly grunted as she lifted a box bigger than her filled with prototypes for prom dresses. She told her sister, "It could be worse. Mom could've gone into the brick business." Like her sister, she wore a white tank top and slim gray sweats, but she had on an orange crop jacket and pallid orange flats.

At precisely 11:00, a black stretch limo pulled up to the quaint mansion. Hikarou and Karou stepped out, wearing similar but not identical clothing. They looked around, and once they spotted the sisters, they eyed them strangely.

Rose was the first to spot them. She checked her cell phone. She groaned, "Crap." She looked over at Lilly, who was just about to grab another box. "It's already 11," Rose yelled to her sister, jerking her head towards the impatient boys.

Lilly looked over to her mother. Mrs. Gengara was already running towards the twins. "Oh, you must be Yuzuha's sons!" she exclaimed. She eyed them. "But what are you doing here?"

Hikarou gave her his most charming smile. Secretly, Rose melted a little on the inside. "We're here to work on our science project with Rose and Lilly."

Karou added, " But it looks as though they're busy."

"Not at all!" the sisters' mother yelled. She flashed a smile to her daughters. "You girls can go and work on your projects with Yuzuha's sons, but put something nicer on, first. And show them the snacks." Their mother wanted to make sure they treated the sons of her partner in fashion well.

"Okay," Lilly mumbled as she trotted into the house.

"Follow us," Rose added, following her sister. The boys followed, examining the quaint mansion.

Once they entered the kitchen with snacks on the island and stools around for them to sit on, the Hitachiin Twins asked in unison, "Where are all of your butlers and maids?"

The girls replied in unison, "We have one maid and a driver, but Father likes to give them the weekend off." Hikarou and Karou had never heard of such a thing before. But before they could push it further, the Gengara Twins had disappeared into their room.

After a few minutes of silent snacking, Karou looked up to see Lilly dressed. Her hair was wavy and kept back with an orange hair band. She wore an orange lace tank top, skinny jeans, and the same orange flats. Karou swallowed hard to keep himself from choking. Outside of school, Kaoru had to admit that Lilly looked hot.

Hikarou did and thought the same when Rose joined her twin, looking exactly the same, minus the freckles, and with a blue lace tank top, a blue hair band, and blue flats.

"Let's get this over with," mumbled Lilly, leading the boys out of the kitchen and into a study. It had wooden floors and mocha walls, complete with a view of a garden, one large desk, three leather desk chairs, and three computers. Rose and Hikarou were on the right and Lilly and Karou were on the left. The middle computer was a silent barrier, allowing the partners to work without disturbing each other.

After working peacefully and somehow managing not to argue for an hour, the grandfather clock chimed that it was noon. Hikarou looked over at his brother anxiously. "We better get going. Tono would blow a gasket if we were late." Karou nodded, looking away from the computer screen.

Rose and Lilly asked at the same time, "Late for what?"

Karou rolled his eyes and huffed, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "A meeting about the Host Club's Halloween Party."

Rose raised an eyebrow. "Halloween Party?"

"It's more like a costumed dance," Hikarou explained. "And the Host Club wants to do some special cosplay, too."

Lilly casually threw in, "Are all the female students invited?"

Karou smirked. "Yeah. Do you happen to know any?"

Lilly raised an eyebrow. "That would be willing to dance with you? Not that I could imagine."

"Karou," his twin warned, "We're running late."

"Fine," Karou pouted.

As the twins began to leave, Rose stopped them. "Wait! We should probably give you our numbers so you can call about the project."

The boys stopped in the doorway. They looked at each other and shrugged. "Okay."

Hikarou held out his hand as Rose wrote down her cell phone number, and Karou did the same with Lilly. Once they were done, Hikarou smirked, "You know, technically you just gave us your numbers."

Karou played along. "Yeah, we scored some digits!" They high-fived each other, pretending to be egotistical boys. Lilly and Rose responded by smacking them somewhat hard upside the head.

Before the Hitachiin Twins could scream assault, the Gengara Twins were pushing them out the door, bidding a hasty goodbye. The sisters quickly saved their work and headed back to their room. Lilly immediately pulled out her laptop and opened up Facebook.

"Watcha doing?" Rose asked, plopping down beside her on her vanilla colored bed. She peered closely at the screen. Her eyes widened as she realized what she was doing. "Why are you sending friend requests to the entire Host Club?"

Lilly flashed her a devilish smile as she hit the send button. "A wise human once said, keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."

Rose grinned. "And people call ME the evil one."

Sunday morning, the Hitachiin Twins were woken up by one of their maids bringing them breakfast. As Hikarou and Karou slowly woke up and got ready, Karou checked his phone. He had one new text. Surprisingly, it was from Haruhi. 'so how did your research go?'

Karou looked over at his brother on the laptop. "Hey, I just got a text from Haruhi."

"Really? Why?" Hikarou asked, intrigued and slightly envious. Why hadn't Haruhi texted him?

Karou could sense the tension in Hikarou's voice. He reassured, "She just wanted to know how yesterday with Lilly and Rose went."

"Oh." Now Hikarou was bored, and he went back to the laptop. Karou sent back, 'it was okay.'

'so what do u think of them?'

'same as bfore.'

Karou thought for a moment. His mind flashed back to when he was in the kitchen, and he had just seen Lilly actually looking pretty smokin' in his favorite color. He hesitated, but he decided to send, 'but I think Lilly's pretty hot.' What would Haruhi care, anyway?

'excuse me?!'

Well that was unexpected. Then Karou looked at the sender. Crap, it was Lilly. Which could only mean that the last text he sent was accidentally sent to her instead of Haruhi. As if to confirm, Lilly sent, 'Karou, this is u, right?'

The younger twin started panicking. What was he supposed to do? Hikarou noticed his brother acting jumpy, and asked, "Something wrong?"

Karou bit his lower lip. "Just look at the messages," was all he could say. As Hikarou took the phone from Karou and read, his eyes widened.

He shook his head. "Don't worry, I know what to do." Karou sighed. Maybe Hikarou could help the situation, at least a little bit.

After Hikarou had sent a text, he handed the phone back to Karou, proud of his handiwork. Karou looked at the Sent folder and grimaced as he read Hikarou's message to Lilly: 'Para no hablar Japanese. "Hikarou," he moaned, waiting for Lilly's response.

"Hey, it was the best I could do. And you didn't have any ideas," he argued.

Karou read the new text, with Hikarou reading behind his shoulder. 'is that Hikarou?'

'dang, how'd u guess?'

'Rose tries that all the time. this is Kaoru now, right?'

'yeah. so what's ur point?'

At this time, Hikarou was once again bored and returned to his computer game. Lilly sent, 'whether they like it or not, they're a lot alike.'

'doesn't that mean we're a lot alike?' Karou smirked.

'i can practically imagine u smriking right now. yeah, i guess.'

'i can see u sitting on ur bed txting right now.'

'wrong. wanna try again?'

'kitchen, eating breakfast?'

'yup.'

'whatcha having?'

'my fave: scrambled eggs and bacon.'

'really? that's what im having.'

While this kind of conversation was going on, Hikarou checked his Facebook. Weird, he had two new friend requests. As he opened them up, they were from both the Gengara Sisters. He blinked. Once. Twice. Five times. He looked at his messages to find that the rest of the Host Club had gotten the requests also. Hikarou hesitated, but decided to accept. "Hey Karou?" he asked, not taking his eyes off the screen. Karou mumbled, busy replying to a joke Lilly just made. Hikarou took it as a sign to go on. "Did you get a friend request from the Gengara Twins?"

Karou's head popped up. "Let me check." He dropped the phone on the bed and quickly walked over to the laptop. He signed in, and automatically saw the friend requests. As he opened them up, he raised his eyebrows. "What should I do?" he asked, looking to Hikarou.

Hikarou shrugged. "They're probably planning something. I say we accept it and pull it out from under them at the last minute. The rest of the Host Club got their request, too."

Karou bit his lip, and his eyes darted to the cell phone, beeping with a new message from Lilly. He was starting to click with her, even if it was via text message. He wasn't sure anymore if he wanted to make her a toy. His finger hesitated on the mouse, but he clicked the accept button.

Hikarou looked at him as he walked back to the bed. "So what are you texting Lilly about?"

"Just stuff."

"C'mon Karou, that's not an actual answer."

"Well, we kind of jump from topic to topic."

"So in other words, it's like you're having a real conversation, and you're clicking with her?"

Karou looked at his twin, pleading with his eyes. "Yeah. And I have a sense she has that feeling, too."

Hikarou sighed. He smiled at his brother. "Fine, then we won't make them our toys. But we can at least mess around with them for a bit." His brother's happiness was too important to him to lose.

Karou beamed. "Definitely."

Disclaimer: I don't own OHSHC.

Okay, so it looks like Lilly and Karou are developing feelings... or ARE they? DUHN DUHN DUHN DUUUUUUUHN! (nah, I'm just messing with you, they are)

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