~Chapter 4~

The sun started to shine into the twins' bedroom as they pulled open the curtains. They were both dressed in their costumes for the festival tonight. They had to be ready early since Tamaki wanted them to finish the clubs costumes for the party tomorrow before going to pick up Haruhi.

They spent last night making their costumes for the festival instead of for the party so they only had the base of the costumes ready for the hosts ready. They weren't too worried. They were good at making the costumes and the boring part was already over, they just had to add things on.

More importantly their costumes for tonight were ready, and they looked pretty good. They were dressed in red suspenders and had on bright red hats with little spinners on top. Since the teacher sent out a message after school yesterday saying that groups should try to coordinate their costumes.

They told Haruhi to "crossdress" as Alice for Alice in wonderland like their old club cosplay since they knew she didn't have the time or money to throw anything together. Mae even said she'd play along when Kyoya was able to email her last night for them. They were going to wear their Cheshire cat costumes but decided they should try something new and put together the twins costumes.

"Hey Kaoru," Hikaru said a little quietly as he sewed red velvet to the inside of Kyoya's vampire cape.

"Yeah?" Kaoru spoke up from the other side of the room where he was adding a few sparkles to Honeys pumpkin costume.

"I was just," Hikaru cut himself up and stopped working.

Kaoru looked up worriedly and walked over to his brother. "What's wrong?"

"Don't hate me for this but, I think I kind of maybe…" He trailed off, mumbling a few more words.

Though they were inaudible, Kaoru was able to grasp what he was trying to say. "You like Haruhi, right?"

Hikaru looked up, shocked. "How did you know?"

"Because," Kaoru chuckled. "I'm your twin. Also because I'm your twin I fully support you no matter what."

Hikaru kept looking at his brother. "But you like her too, don't you."

No it was Kaoru's turn to be shocked. "Well, I used to but I think I just got over it. She'd be much better off with you."

"Really?" Hikaru asked with anticipation.

Kaoru just smiled back at his brother. "Of course, do I ever lie to you?"

They both laughed and slowly went back to work. Hikaru stayed smiling the rest of the time they worked.

He was still smirking when they showed up at Tamaki's house holding the seven costumes.

"Hey Tono!" The said simultaneously.

"Hey! Have you two finally finished the costumes? Let me see what you devious twins made for my little girl!" He riffled through the stack until he came to the second smallest costume. They made Haruhi a classic skeleton costume, it glowed in the dark and would look pretty good on her, not to mention do a perfect job concealing her true gender. "Good, just wanted to make sure you creepy twins didn't do anything bad to her costume."

They gave him a smile and a wave as they turned back to their car; leaving the costumes resting in the arms of a nearby maid. "Sorry to just drop things off but we need to pick up the rest of our group, the festival starts in an hour. Night King!" Kaoru yelled.

"Later boss!" Hikaru quickly followed with.

"Be careful with my Haruhi!" Tamaki yelled to his friends as they drove off. He laughed a little at the thought of the twins cowering from Mae all night instead of harassing Haruhi. Maybe it's a good thing she came.

The twins drove another 30 minutes until they reached Haruhi's house. They walked up to the door and knocked on the pale frame. "Hey Haruhi! You ready? The festival starts in half an hour and we need to pick up Mae, she said that's the only was the will dress up."

"Okay, I'll be out in just a second." A moment later she came out dressed in a light blue dress with a white apron. She had extensions in her hair that went down to her chest, it's a good thing Kaoru sent a stylist to help her with that, the wig would've been much less convincing. She even had on some makeup and a blue bow in her hair. "Let's go!"

Kaoru smiled at her and grabbed her arm to lead her to the car. Hikaru quickly hid his blush and followed suit.

When she got in the car the twins slid in on both sides of her and Hikaru signaled for the driver to head to the next destination.

"Where does Mae live anyways?" Haruhi asked while they pulled away from the curb and took off down the street.

"Surprisingly enough only about five minutes away from you house." Kaoru informed her and Hikaru.

"Oh, okay. Thanks for the ride by the way." She said.

"No problem, oh and you look really nice tonight." Hikaru said quickly as a blush crept up to his face. I gave his a thumb up behind Haruhi which only made him blush more.

"Thanks! You guys look awesome too. How did you get them made so quickly?" She asked.

"Oh it was easy. It only took us a few hours last night." Hikaru said.

"Oh, we're here." Kaoru said, opening the door and stepping out into the sunlight.

They all looked at the house they were in front of, slightly shocked and also slightly amussed that this was exactly the house they had all imagined.

The deep purple and blue hues of the house added to its ominous glow; the lights inside creating shadows on the windows. Kaoru carefully approached the front door and gave it a firm knock.

A short elderly man appeared. He wore a tan jacket and a pair of khaki pants. "Hello young man, are you one of the men in my daughters group? Oh this is quite exciting." He turned to the stairs behind him and gave a faint yell. "Mae! Honey, come down here! There are people waiting for you."

Daughter? You aren't telling me that this short cheerful man is that father of-

Mae came walking down the stairs. She carried her usual glow of death with her but it was slightly different from her usual look. She was dressed at the queen of hearts from Alice in wonderland. Her short knee-length skirt was striped with back and met her black blouse right below her chest. She wore one red and one black long sock that went to her knees and long black gloves. Her hair was clipped in several places so it looked like her hair made one giant red heart on the surface. She dyed the strands of hair that made the heart red and wore a small matching red and black hat on top of her head.

It looked pretty good, all of it fit together well and it went well with her personality. "Night father, I will see you tomorrow morning." She bowed slightly and gave her dad a hug before waking out the door.

"Good bye sweetie! Please take care of her young man! Don't cause trouble, maybe even smile a little!" He kept babbling on as we walked to the car.

"Is he really your father?" Kaoru asked when they were all piling into the car.

She nodded.

"But he's nothing like you, he's happy and short and has light hair and green eyes and-" Hikaru saw Haruhi glaring at him and he stopped talking.

"Where's your mother?" Kaoru asked.

She didn't respond.

They spent the rest of the car ride quietly looking out the window. When they reached the school they saw the entire student body sitting outside in their groups. Of course the costumes were impeccable. Everyone smiled at the twins and Haruhi as they got out of the car and glared at Mae as she followed. Mae didn't even turn her head to look at them.

The group walked to the teacher and checked in.

"Okay, you guys will me group 12. You're group point will be near the old library, good luck!"

They headed in the direction of their starting place.

Here goes nothing.

Aw yeah, two in one day! Okay well, the festival starts next chapter! Are you excited? I hope so! Writing more soon :)

~Micadee123