Title: The Camera Club

Summary: I am Anna Valentine, feature writer for the Torch. And I am here to expose the secrets of the Camera Club and bring it down, with it, it's President Kai Hiwatari A.K.A royal Jerk.

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Chapter four: flats, rain and sleepovers

Part one


October 13, Saturday, my room's balcony, 7 in the morning

Hello diary!

Sorry if I didn't write here yesterday and the day before that, I didn't feel like writing. Nothing great happened anyway, I was absent for two days, which is so unlike me. I just locked myself up in my room, cried, mourned and ate a lot of thing. I think I'm fat now. Maybe I'll be obese. No!

So, anyway, yesterday, we got a mail from Mr. McGregor, he said that he was already on his way home and he'll arrive on Thursday. Johnny's freaking because of this! Card giving is on Friday, he got really low in all his subjects, and his father would see his card. He'll probably get grounded or something.

Why can't he just concentrate on his studies anyway? Why did he have to love night life, bitches and all that shit.

Speaking of the playboy, he is awake. How did I know? Well, its simple really. The whole mansion is shaking with all his screaming. God, its so early, what is his problem?

I call him VP, short for Volcano Prince since he is so hot-tempered plus his hair is red, it compliments the name.

Uh-oh, VP is knocking on my door. Wait!

Well, he is gone. He thought I was still sleeping, and he decided to wake me up. To his surprise, I'm awake. I just hate it when Johnny wakes me up. I always fall off the bed, because he yells, "ANNA WAKE UP!!" so loud. My peaceful sleep would then be shattered, and I would think the house is on far. THUD. I'm off the bed. And I'm awake. Great.

Anyway, VP is yelling again, "BREAKFAST!!!" DOWN NOW!!!" he is a pain the ass.

Bye!

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I placed my diary under my pillow, and ran downstairs yelling, "I'm coming, sheesh!" As I entered the dinning room, all the glass windows were open—I mean the curtain was pulled to the sides. That has never happened especially when Mr. McGregor isn't here.

I stopped short and glanced at Johnny, who was humming a song reading the newspaper, what is with him today? Did he loose a screw overnight?

I sat on my seat as quiet as I could, that's how Johnny likes it. He always scolds me when I make a lot of noise just sitting down, he says it's not lady like. Like whatever. The maids entered with trays of food. They placed a soup in front of me, then a plate complete with rice, eggs, hotdogs, bacon, meat balls and then a small plate with small slices of apples. She poured me a glass of orange juice, and a cup of coffee.

I raised a brow, which one am I supposed to drink?

Matilda, the old maid who hates me I think, entered holding the book of schedules. What the--? Why is she holding the book of schedules? Johnny never uses that. What is wrong with him today? Is he still freaking out? He is so not himself.

I ate quietly as the two of them talked at the other end of the table. The table was quite long, you need to semi-shout so that you can talk with the person at the other end.

Johnny glanced at me, smiling. I shivered, I feel something bad is going to happen to me. He waved Matilda out, and drank from his glass of orange.

"Anna.." he said, placing the glass back on the table, "I want you to go to the mall and buy Halloween decorations and a pair of ladies shoes—with heels."

I almost vomited the food inside my mouth, "W-what?" I asked, coughing.

"Anna, don't talk with your mouth full." Johnny said, "It's not ladylike."

I glanced out the window, is the world ending? Oh no, I should have gone to church more often! I raised a brow at Johnny, "what's the matter with you today?" I asked.

Johnny picked up the red cloth-napkin from his lap, and wiped the corners of his mouth. "Nothing, why are you asking so stupid questions?" he replied, "If you are done, go and dress up. Wear the gown papa brought you last time."

My eye brow twitched, did he just say "...Wear the gown.."? "What?" I asked, standing up, "Why would I wear a gown?"

"Because after you go and shop, we'll both go directly to a party I need to attend." He simply replied, standing up too.

"What?!" I yelled, "walking around a mall, wearing a gown shopping for decorations, isn't exactly comfortable, Johnny!"

"Don't yell at me!" he yelled back, "I am your elder!"

"In your dreams!!" I yelled, then I walked past him.

He grabbed my arm, "Fine! Go and buy! I'll attend the party on my own!!!" he yelled, then stomped off to his room.

I smiled, "At least the real Johnny is back." I muttered, walking up towards my own room.

I dressed up—hooded black shirt, boot-cut jeans, and black with pink paint chucks—quickly and ran towards the garage when I heard Johnny's car starting.

"Hey!" I called, "Aren't you going to drive me to the mall first?"

He was using his most expensive car—the red Ferrari convertible—now, I know which party he's going to attend in. He only used his Ferrari when he goes to party held at The Camera Club Headquarters, which I don't know where. At first, I didn't know what club, but now I do so I shall laugh evilly, ha ha. Anyway,

"No." Johnny replied, looking at the road if there's any car passing.

"Why?" I asked, walking by the car's side, "You expect me to walk to the mall?"

"Take the bus or cab. Bye." He said, then he zoomed away.

I gritted my teeth, "Stupid brother!" then I bit my lower lip, and yelled again, "Oops! You are not my brother!!"

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Starr Café, 3: 24 pm

I am now here at Starr café, my favorite place in the world. Shopping is finally done. I brought the shoes Johnny said, I picked a green colored flat with a strap so I could ran away in case of embarrassment.

I just love the atmosphere here at Starr café, its so—relaxing, and makes you energetic. Maybe because of the smell of freshly brewed coffee. I always go here to write my articles, and when I feel like I don't want to go home.

Being me isn't easy, nope not at all. People expect so much from me. Aunt Claire expects me to be successful, and help her make a new house for her family. Mr. McGregor expects me to be worth the money he is wasting just to send me to a good school and take care of my needs.

Johnny expects me to keep quiet and not out shine him in his father's eyes. My classmates expect me to know the answer to every question, and to every quiz. I am not Einstein.

I may be valedictorian, but I am not smart. I just concentrate on my studies. Concentration and determination are the key to a good study life, or school life. To others, good school life is about being Ms. Popularity. It is so not.

I think I finally realize why Brookie left me. Maybe because I don't have time for—US. I'm so busy, busy, busy. We never talk on the phone during nights, because I always have to finish a report or an article. During free time, I always have to run because I need to submit something, or help a classmate catch up in her studies.

Maybe that's why. So, I guess its my fault, originally. So, never mind, its over. Think about what went wrong isn't bringing it back. And--------

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I stopped writing and looked up from my diary and saw Rei Kon standing in front of me, holding a tray with a cup of hot cocoa, and fries. He looked pretty good with his long hair cut—like Tyson's (g-rev)--, in his red and black shirt, six pocket jeans, and cool chucks, that made me drool with envy.

"Hey!" He greeting, smiling at me, his eyes almost disappearing, "It's you, Anna. I thought you looked familiar. Care to share a seat and win a friend?"

"Uhmm, yeah, sure." I said, closing my diary, "Sit down."

"Oh, were you doing something?" He asked, setting the tray down on the table, "Am I disturbing you?"

"Uhh, no not at all." I stammered, "What are you doing here?"

Rei sat down and began to place his food on the table—out of the tray. He looked at me, raising his brows, "Sitting." He replied, smirking.

"Rei."

He chuckled, "I didn't want to attend a party." He replied, "You?"

"The stupid Johnny asked---no, ordered—me to buy some decorations and a shoe." I replied, sighing, "But, I feel like I brought something wrong."

Rei chuckled, "uhh---"

I cut him off, "Flats can be considered ladies shoes right?" I asked.

He bit his inner cheek, "Yeah, I guess." He replied, "Johnny asked you to buy ladies shoes? For what?"

"I have no idea." I replied, "He is so weird today! Oh, I forgot you know him."

"Yup, we are in the same club."

"Oh yeah, the Camera Club." I said, then an idea pop inside my head. This could be my one and only chance, I shouldn't let this slip through my hands, "So, Rei, can you tell me about this club of yours?"

As I stated that, the fire alarm went off! The people started to panic, so did I. I grabbed my shopping bags, and my diary. Rei grabbed my hand and led me outside the mall. We had to squeeze with the other people. I rubbed some parts of my body, some people bumped into me. I was so puzzled, there was no smoke, or whatever that would have cause the alarm to go off. The people looked like ants if you look at us from the top, ants running out of their colony because it was being destroyed.

Rei turned to me, "Come, let's go ask a police what happened." He said, pulling me towards a group of police officers talking while constantly glancing towards the mall. I really felt dizzy, everything happened so fast. Rei was still holding my hand, so I couldn't move away. I really wanted to get away from this all. I looked up the skies; it was getting a bit dark. I think its going to rain.

"Oh. Anna.." I heard Rei said, it sent back all my attention to him. "I think we should head home, do you want me to drive you home?" he asked.

"Huh?—oh! No!" I replied, almost screaming. Some people turned to look at me, I smiled. "Its okay, Rei." I said, "What happened anyway?"

"Oh, there's a robbery at the bank inside the mall." He replied, "Are you sure you don't want me to drive you home?"

"yes, positive." I replied, "Plus, you are needed here, being the son of the owner and all."

Rei looked at me amused, "How in the world did you know that?" he asked, "That's supposed to be a secret."

"Well, duh, I'm with the press." I replied, "School press." And I'm writing an article about your club.

"I see." He replied, smiling, "I think its going to rain, are you sure you want to go home alone?"

"Yes." I replied, "Don't worry, it isn't going to rain. Bye, Rei!"

"Bye!" he said, waving at me as I walked away, then he turned his attention to the gun shooting by the entrance.

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I wish I accepted his request. I wiped my wet face, it rained. I am so full of bad luck. I walked looked down at my chucks, I glanced at my watch, 5:15 pm. I sighed, I am totally soaked. The decorations are surely soaked too, and so is my diary. Please, not my diary.

I looked up the sky, "Rain, rain---go away!" I yelled, "Come again another day, Anna Valentine is walking home today!!"

Beep! Beep!

"Anna, get out of the street!!"

I stopped, wasn't that Johnny's voice? I turned around, only to be blinded by a bright light. I covered my face, and walked to the side. I saw Johnny's annoyed face by the passenger's seat, and Kai on the driver's seat.

"Johnny!" I said, happily. I was finally going to arrive home quicker, "Thank God you are here, and it's raining hard. I'm soaked."

"I can see!" he replied, "Hurry on home!" Then he closed his window, and the car speeded off.

"Hey, wait!" I yelled.

I closed my open jaw; did he just leave me here? Did he just? I glared at the car, "JOHNNY!" I yelled, "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU LEFT ME HERE UNDER THE RAIN!!!"

Just then, to my surprise, an umbrella appeared over my head. I turned around, "T-Tala!" He was wearing his normal outfit (g-rev), his soft blue eyes looked amused, and his hair ruffled and uncombed—out of hair gel maybe?

Tala Ivanov A.K.A my childhood bully and friend. He always bullied me in second grade, he never once called me by my name it was always Ms. Geek, Bookworm, Wormie, Cuckoo, Ms. Snotty, Princess of Books and what ever else that comes in his mind. We stopped talked when he broke my doll's head, I was so mad at him that day. Then we just stopped talking.

"Hey, Cuckoo." He greeted.

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I opened our main door, and glanced back at Tala, who was closing his umbrella. "Want to come in and warm up a bit?" I asked. I totally missed Tala. I've wanted to talk to him, I threw the doll at him and yelled that I hated him so much, but I never found courage to say I'm sorry at him. I regretted what I did; it was just a small matter, nothing to be that angry about.

"If you don't mind, cuckoo." He said, smiling a bit. I nodded, "Yeah, sure!" I replied, opening the door wider, "Just drop the umbrella here, come in.."

Archie, the butler, approached us. He took shopping bags, but I told him it was okay, I'm sure Johnny would want to see what I bought.

He turned to Tala, "Mr. Ivanov, how you've grown." He said, smiling, "Do you want something? Tea perhaps? Coffee? Soda? Water? Juice? Hot Cocoa? Shake?"

Tala glanced at me, then back at Archie, "No thanks, I'm fine." He replied, trying to stop himself from laughing.

"How about some biscuits then?" Archie asked, "How about cake? Cookies? Gingerbread man? Gingerbread woman perhaps?"

"Uhh, no thanks, Arch." Tala replied.

I bit my lower lip to stop myself from laughing. As soon as Archie left, Tala walked and watched the pictures hanging up by the wall. I excused myself saying that I was going to call Johnny, and I was going to.

Ring!

Ring!

Ring!

"What?" he yelled into the phone. I rubbed my ears, "Oww!" I said, "Stop yelling every time you answer your phone!"

"What do you want?" He asked, "I'm busy!"

"Tala's here." I said, "When are you coming home?"

"Tala's there?" Johnny repeated, "Is he really there?"

"Yes!"

"Wait!" he said, then I heard some paper being crumpled, I heard Johnny yell, 'Kai! Tala's at my place! Stop calling him!', then a loud thud. I rubbed my ears again; Johnny must have dropped the phone.

"I'm coming home now!" Johnny said, "Take care of dinner!" Then the line went dead. I sighed, as I threw it to the sofa.

Tala glanced at me; he was reading a magazine, where did he get that? Never mind. "What did he say?" He asked, "You look so pissed, cuckoo."

I sank into the couch, I can't make dinner! I can't even cook a simple sunny side up egg. Aunt Claire never taught me how to cook, plus I'm afraid of hot oil. It could burn me. "Can you help me cook?" I asked Tala, all my pride went down the drains when it comes to cooking.

Tala closed the magazine, and nodded at me, "Sure." He said, standing up. Just then my phone started ringing, I ran to my bag. I threw all its insides on the couch, I grabbed my phone.

"Hello?" I answered. No answer. "Hello?"

"I know your secret." Then it was the busy dial tone. I dropped the phone, as Tala ran beside me.

"What? Who was it?" He asked, "Why are you so pale?"

I looked at him, "N-Nothing." I replied, "Tala.. " I blushed, our faces were so near, "Will you help me.. cook now?"

"Uh, yeah, sure, cuckoo."

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"EARTH TO ANNA!!"

I snapped out of it, and glanced at Johnny, who was holding the flats I just brought. Why was he holding it? Oh yeah, he's scolding me.

"Yes, Johnny?" I asked, glancing at Kai and Tala behind him. The two were talking, well, Tala was doing most of the talking.

"Is this ladies shoes?" He asked, he must have asked me 50 times already, sheeesh. He is so annoying.

"I don't know, Johnny.." I replied, sighing. He tossed the shoes at me, "I told you this morning, remember?"

"…and a pair of ladies shoes—with heels." I said, rolling my eyes, I grabbed the shoe, "Look closely, McGregor, it has heels. Problem is its only--------three centimeters!"

"You call that heels?" Johnny yelled.

"YES!" I yelled back.

We were about to hit each other, when Archie entered the room.

"Dinner is served." He said, "Special thanks to Ms. Anna and Mr. Ivanov for cooking tonight's meal."

"Let's go eat." Tala said, leading the way to the kitchen.

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"ANNA!"

I jumped in my seat, "What?" I quickly asked, "Where am I?" Three faces looked at me, and then they glanced at each other. A hand fell on my forehead, I glanced at Tala. "Are you sick, cuckoo?" he said, "You look kindda pale."

"I'm fine.." I replied, "So you were saying, Johnny?"

"I said, I'm glad you can cook now." He repeated, annoyed, "What is wrong with you today?"

What's wrong with me? What's wrong with you? I shook my head, "Oh nothing." I said, "Tala cooked this, I just sliced some veggies."

Johnny sighed, "Tala, why did you help her?" Johnny asked, "She is a girl for heaven's sake. She should know how to cook."

"A girl needs help, Johnny." Tala replied, taking a sip from his wine, "So, Kai.."

I went back to my thoughts--that call back there. What was it? "I know your secret." The caller said. What secret? Is it a threat? Or just a wrong number? Why do I feel nervous? Maybe because..

"Right, Ms. Geek?" Tala suddenly asked, touching my hand; bring me back to the real world.

"…right." I replied, glancing at the three of them, what did I just agree to?

"No, I insist." Johnny said, "My butler just told me that the flood is rising. There's no way you can head home for the night."

I stood up, knocking down my glass thus spilling the wine inside of it unto the table. But that didn't matter now! I ran towards the nearest window that could give me the view of the road. It was really really flooding.

I sank back into my seat, "Oh. My. God." I muttered, "The water is—estimatedly—up to my abdomen!!"

"Told you." Johnny said, referring to Kai and Tala.

Kai took a sip from his glass, and said, "Fine." He placed the glass back on the table, and glanced at Tala.

Tala shrugged, he stretched and placed his hands behind him, "If Kai's sleeping here, then so am I…" he said.

I doubled my glance at Tala, did I hear him right? Did he just say "…Kai's sleeping here, then so am I…"?

"They're sleeping here?" I asked Johnny.

"Yeah, why?" He replied, "Any problem?"

"Uhh, no. None at all." I replied, "So, where are they sleeping?"

Johnny took a long sip from his glass, "How about in your room?" he said, smirking.

"What?!" I yelled.

"No protests!" Johnny yelled, "You still need to buy that shoes I was asking you to buy!"

"But---!"


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"Here are two extra pillows, Kai.." I said, pushing the door open with my butt, I tossed it on the bed. I sighed, stupid Johnny. "Do you want anything else?" I asked, sighing again. No answer.

He isn't here? I listened for any sounds of movements. None. He wasn't. Perfect. This is a perfect time to search through his things, find some info. I ran to his bags by the window, and started to open it.

"What do you think you're doing?" I heard a voice behind me, it was Kai's. Uh-oh. I thought I was alone here. Just my luck. I bit my lower lip , then I turned around, grinning.

"Hello Kai!" I greeted, then I blushed. I quickly grabbed his bag, and threw it at him, yelling, "Dress up, for god's sake!" Then I ran out of his room, slamming the door. I leaned on the door, sweating. Stupid, stupid Kai, didn't he see the extra clothes I gave him earlier?!

"Why are you sweating?"

I looked up at Johnny, holding folders. "Oh, nothing." I replied, chuckling, "What are those?"

Johnny glanced down at the folders he was holding, "None of your business." He snapped.

"Sheesh, I was just ask----!" I said, but the door I was leaning on suddenly opened, making me lose my balance. A pair of hands gripped my shoulders, before I fell on the floor. I blushed again, "K-Kai!" I said.

He rolled his eyes at me, and turned to Johnny, "Where's the folders?" he asked.

Johnny raised them in the air, "I'm still looking for the two other." He said.

Kai let me go, and grabbed the folders. I fell with a hard thud on the floor, "Oww." I muttered.

I stood up, and kicked Kai's ankle. "Oww!" he said, dropping the folders, and bending down to rub his ankle. I ran to my room, grumbling.

"Are you okay?" I heard Johnny ask, "What's her problem? ANNA!"

Oh Johnny---I have no idea what my problem too is.

But it has something to do with Kai.

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